Interesting stuff
Jelly Flater wrote:
Sure thing inspector numb nuts ;)
There are varying possibilities.
Nobody knows ;)
You are guessing and your posts are inconclusive - yet you wanna try call others out on that same premise ;);)
Theatre of the absurd…
?? all i'm saying is no one knows and your post confirms that.
the only absurdity is you contradicting yourself.
The language of love:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11285207/Brittany-Hockley…
all these years I have been blind to this powerful information...
"Supermarket 'sex signals' explained
An upright bunch of bananas: You're a man looking for a woman or man
A pineapple the right way around: You're a woman interested in finding a man
An upside-down pineapple: You're a swinger looking for another couple
Putting a peach in a man's trolley: You're showing interest in a male shopper
Bananas with the tips down: You're not looking for sex on this occasion "
What in God’s name is going on with yuppie tourists and boat shoes?
I thought those hideous things died an ugly fashion death years ago.
Uggghh.
haha VJ , now I know why women shun me in the Supermarket , it's the bloody bananas.
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Perhaps try hanging an eggplant out of your shopping trolley and see if results improve?
Another astonishing clip from the Cato Institute event today, this one from the influential Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute. He says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.” pic.twitter.com/ii4F0ssAjY
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 6, 2022
As the American Conservative's Rod Dreher opines, "When Adam Posen's BMW breaks down on the side of the road, I hope none of the working class people he so despises stops to fix it. Maybe he can call a fellow Harvard-educated economist."
Continued...
As much as Ronald Reagan loved capitalism, it is impossible to imagine him saying something so hateful and so despicable. As someone I follow on Twitter put it, what's amazing is that this spokesman for ultra-capitalists (see the Peterson Institute's board of directors) dresses up his utter contempt for the working class in the language of social justice.
I have a friend who devoutly believes that Woke Capitalism is a plot by the super-rich to buy off the Left, to dissuade them from pursuing socialist policies that would affect the rich's bottom line. That is, if you go all in for "social justice," today's Left will leave you alone about "economic justice."
To be clear, I'm not a socialist, and I think capitalism is on balance a good thing. But the arrogance of someone like Adam Posen reveals the hatred many in his class have for working-class Americans -- especially white males. Sooner or later, someone will arise to speak for that despised class -- someone with more courage and common sense than Donald Trump. And when he does, the Adam Posens among us had better take to their yachts and sail to the Caymans.
It's baffling that Posen doesn't seem to know that black and brown people work industrial jobs too. Still, it is worth reflecting that the same contempt for the white working class exhibited by Posen exists in more veiled versions throughout the elites. In my years in newspaper journalism, I worked with liberals almost exclusively. They were usually nice people, and mostly nice white people, all with college degrees. But many of them had real fear and loathing of the white working class. My guess is that few of them actually knew any working-class people. They generally regarded the white working class as a cesspool of bigotry and backwardness -- even as they regarded the black and brown working class (none of whom they knew) as victims in need of white liberal attention.
Of course none of this reflected on the actual vices and virtues of the working class of any race; this was entirely about liberal psychological projection. I don't believe that any economic class, or racial demographic, should be valorized or demonized as a group. To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn, the line between good and evil passes not between social classes or races, but down the middle of every human heart. Still, it often struck me, listening to newsroom discussions, and participating in newsroom debates, that post-1970, American liberalism had gone from championing the working class to despising it. A parallel truth is that American conservatism has come to speak for the working class, but mostly to give it lip service.
hehe insert horror movie script about defence black projects on the bombing range, mutilated kangaroos, and evolved super-cats terrorising a town
If I had a $ for every story I heard in the SW about big cats stalking crew... I'd have a few $$
udo wrote:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-08/giant-black-cat-spotted-near-lan…
I love this stuff..
They out there or not?
I thought these guys sounded convincing or at least convinced. Story from last December. 6 minute audio
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/south-queensland-drive/yowies/136…
Just watched the cat footage again. There’s a few low shrubs close to it in the foreground. Especially when it stops and looks at old mate on the verandah. Be good to do some measurements of the bush. Feral cats have grown huge over the decades. I’d think it would be rare as it’s all black so it’s striking to the eye.
Wish they had had a Drone handy to follow it..very Majestic looking animal.
How’s the photo of the “panther” in the related stories section at the bottom of that Lancelin Panther ABC article. Check it compared to profiles of domestic cat and panther. So dangerous!
Am I allowed to say shoot feral's?
Seen some beasts over the years but they are illusive as much as they are invasive. Far from cute and cuddly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat.
Where as I can handle the Nullarbor nymph on the other hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_Nymph
Ha I’d rather run into her on a dark road than whatever the Jimna boys came across
flamin' yowies. they are out there lurking too. Been referred to occasionally as a yowie myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
Stunet getting quoted in the herald sun today. - there’s a fella suing urban surf for a spinal injury.
I hope he pulls through ok but everyone knows the risks.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for something like a broken neck to happen.
Was only a matter of time.
Hope the guy recovers quickly and fully.
I actually overheard the guy talking about it 6 months ago. From his words the were negligent on calling an ambulance straightaway. From memory they didn’t even eventually call one. It was nye.
Some more cryptozoology.
Came up on my feed. I’m curious as it definitely has the gait of how they were historically claimed to walk. Not bad footage.
Edit probably not really crypto but….
indo-dreaming wrote:
Speaking of Yowies or Sasquatch
Seeds. Hmm. A animal that’s normally crepuscular by nature but did feed randomly during the day. I would think by the normal rates of biological attrition that by now we’d of found remains somewhere. I totally need way more convincing evidence. I see foxes regularly and they have at times a gait very similar to that animal in the footage. I’m just saying.
I agree totally but it makes you wonder what they are describing. Rational people as you or I.
BTW you quoted the Conservative above not me.
seeds wrote:
I agree totally but it makes you wonder what they are describing. Rational people as you or I.
I can’t believe the footage they put up at the 5 min 30 mark. It’s up there with some of the Otway panther footage* that gets thrown around
Yes that’s Adelaide Hills stuff that I think is crap. I’m not a believer by the way. Just a wondering mind. I wonder?
seeds wrote:
I agree totally but it makes you wonder what they are describing. Rational people as you or I.
BTW you quoted the Conservative above not me.
Seeds. My apologies, typo. Good to chat. I’d never use one of his quotes for any topic. i agree it does make you wonder as the folk didn’t sound like they were akin to those in the movie, Deliverance. Thylacine had a very rounded pronounced muscular rump/tail, very powerful animal, coupled with very strong upper leg muscle’s especially at the rear. Their jaw dislocation point is somewhat further back than normal and i don’t t see any of those features on show in that footage. But, thanks for the story. Maybe is it true, i just don’t know.
if you thought social media is destroying ya daughters or trashing surf culture...
how's this...
drill
gangsta's dobbing themselves in for five minutes of fame
dumbfucks
It’s a sad state of affairs Syppo. I gotta say I think my sons are rising above it all at 17 and 19 years of age.
17 year old appears to be impervious to negativity and my 19 year old son has been troubled by it for years with mental health has realised after 10 months of working at his apprenticeship that he doesn’t need to look at his socials. Recently up at Agnes for 2 weeks working and could not get a hold of him. Finally told me fuck the phone I’m looking at nature when I’m not working. Good boy.
I can't remember the last time I heard any good news come out of western Sydney. Another reason not to go there. $1 million for a 3 bedroom apartment in Parramatta. Why would you?
flollo wrote:
I love Western Sydney, a lot of good stuff is happening there.
Example?
I did a stint there when young for work, every single aspect sucked except one thing, the girls so many girls of all ethnicities and i found being a surfer from elsewhere and not a born and breed westie made me a novelty to them which i didn't mind and made the most of :D
If Joe Biden were a song. Whoever made this is good🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/lIOUGAOBKd
— • Mischief ™ • (@kingojungle) October 7, 2022
Ms Rinehart's $15 million lifeline over the next four years — to a sport that is in around $7 million debt — is in a holding pattern as the Diamonds team support First Nations squad member Donnell Wallam who expressed an objection to wearing a uniform with the Hancock logo on it.
It is not hard to understand why she found it objectionable.
Wallam's parents would have been young adults in 1984 when Lang Hancock, founder of Hancock Prospecting and father of Gina, suggested a plan that would kill off troublesome Indigenous people.
"Those that have been assimilated into society and are earning a good living, and earning wages amongst the civilised areas, that have been accepted into society and accept society and can handle society, I'd leave them well alone," Lang Hancock said.
"The ones who are no good to themselves and can't accept things, the half-castes — and this is where most of the trouble comes — I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future, and that would solve the problem." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/pressure-building-for-diamonds-n…
Stumbled across this article. The same could be written for Australia.
“Canada is a lucky country. We create wealth by digging holes into the ground and selling what comes out, or by letting well-educated young people into our country. We are shielded by great oceans, and we have no intractable enemies on our borders. Such easy prosperity and safety have blinded us to the fact that they came in large part through luck and inheritance, and not the intrinsic wisdom of our rulers and people. If we do not up our national game, we might as well not bother playing.“
The (other) Lucky Country
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/yuan-yi-zhu-no-more-mr-nice-guy-canada…
That moment when you realise Swellnet forums are at the higher end of the nation's literary ability:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/australian-students-punctuation-…
https://www.smh.com.au/education/we-can-use-the-word-illiterate-the-wri…
All we need now is Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator.
velocityjohnno wrote:
That moment when you realise Swellnet forums are at the higher end of the nation's literary ability:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/australian-students-punctuation-…
https://www.smh.com.au/education/we-can-use-the-word-illiterate-the-wri…
All we need now is Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator.
This was on ABC radio today and they were saying how all levels have gone down except spelling, and they are acting confused on why this is, and im thinking okay they are going to tell us the obvious any minute and they never did???
Is it just me or isn't it obvious why?
Spell check is on PC's and phones we are always getting taught the correct spelling, you type in how you think the word is spelt and you either get it right or spellcheck says no its wrong and corrects it, you see it and your learn the correct spelling, next time you spell it correctly or eventually or if its not instantly changed and comes up wrong you go okay i know what it is now or you click on it and find out.
It basically teaches you to spell, hence why spelling would have improved.
On the flip side the down grade in writing skills and punctation you would expect would be explained by kids reading less books where things are constructed in a proper manner, opposed to kids reading crap online, social media etc that teaches you bad habits.
Honestly I'm still a terrible speller, still terrible at grammar and sentence construction the whole lot, but scarily since the internet I've still improved more than i did at school, and i now see mistake in others writing which makes me feel good knowing there is those worse than me.
The Bureau of Meteorology goes through Kong's "just call me Gary" phase.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/18/bureau-of-meteor…
velocityjohnno wrote:
That moment when you realise Swellnet forums are at the higher end of the nation's literary ability:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/australian-students-punctuation-…
https://www.smh.com.au/education/we-can-use-the-word-illiterate-the-wri…
All we need now is Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator.
When I was at uni only a few years ago, it blew me away that so many young people could barely construct a sentence.
It seemed like every third person was semi-literate.
Have it cunts