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truebluebasher said: Who requested the most despicable reverse hostile cross national sickly song about world's #1 arsehole!
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blackers said: A song fer Sussan.
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lucky-al said: Likewise, freeride76. Will call in next time I'm down your way.
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Oh shit yeah, I’ve been there a couple of times. Once on school camp and once as a adult 25 years younger than now.
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Opti said “Anyone who reads your past comments will easily see why you’re not worth engaging in conversation.”
No numbn
All Things Religion Thread
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Where I live now is perfect…..but I’ve had better in the past.
Where in AUS would you live in you could take your pick?
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You're always going to run the risk of a big flatty busting you or biting you off on light gear and bait hooks.
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This guy has broken his back in 2 places plus other injuries but this horrific fall didn’t break his spirit, such a amaz
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Loved it. Frustrating listening to the kidnap story. Big beard doesn’t mean big balls. Good ending. Amazing landscapes throughout.
ps. Except corporate towers. Irony is that’s where it stemmed from. Lucky dude all round.
Farkin ell.. roller coaster much? If that vid doesn't make you think about, like, 15 big concepts throughout, I don't know what would. Makes Jeremy Wade look (more) like a Mr Men book.
…wtf ? A new re$ource race ;)
Messing with the moon, altering tides
- changing the ocean… shifting the poles.
What could possibly go wrong …
Wow, so maybe the coup was real?
When the news re: Prigozhin broke this morning, first thoughts were false flag. But apparently they've found all of the bodies, and so I suspect they'll soon provide more evidence to confirm he was on board.
I've been following Velina since you linked, and her analyses have been really insightful. But maybe she got this one wrong?
Either way, huge news.
One of the takes I think has some basis is that the ‘coup’ was a petition to Putin - not intended to depose him, but to highlight dissatisfaction with Gerasimov and Shoigu.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/07/prigozhin-as-petitioner-making-sense-…
Still a challenge to Putin that couldn’t go unanswered.
Surovikin, progozhin’s closest ally in the RU military, has been under house arrest since the coup / mutiny / demonstration / ‘thing’ and was formally fired this week.
Who knows…. Intrigue upon intrigue
Hmm, may be premature re: identification of Prigozhin.
Being on the passenger list and actually being on the plane are two very different things ;)
Either way, interesting stuff.
Safe to say it'll never be confirmed one way or another.
Prigozhin will always be out there, living it up with Elvis.
Uh huh huh …
- prigozhin was even reportedly on z toilet in his final moments ;)
…rockstars till the end.
Talking with a mate whose resume includes quite a bit of time as an Intel analyst - reckons court intrigue is a central feature of serious Russia thinking, and that there’s almost an entire discipline of ‘Kremlinologists’ in the enormous US system.
Wagner and Utkin ‘disappearing’ would be quite convenient for everyone…
…and his other plane landed safely ;)
- did prigozhin board the connecting flight back to Africa ?
…a concert with elvis to lift the moral of ppl in Niger maybe ;)
Intrigue indeed.
If you can look past the (always) pumping Sunny Coast surf it’s obvious he’s on holiday with H Holt in his sub
Geez looks like it has picked up!
The moral of this tale is to wash your hands and rinse your veggies.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living…
Activist dies from Heart Attack : Discovers We are All One (Near-Death Experience)
Thanks for posting that.
Find this stuff very interesting as so many similarities between people that have had NDE's. Kind of similar to stories of people who do high doses DMT, all have similar experiences and talk about a feeling of oneness and love and how it feels more real than real life.
Personally have never experienced either, but maybe this life isn't the main event??
Or maybe it's just nothing like before you were born, either way enjoy the ride as Bill Hicks said.
That's a great series Patrick, it's worth watching quite a few of them. Shift of dimensional perspective for the immortal soul, perhaps.
Bout 1.15 mark on… the skill… the knees… fark
https://maritime-executive.com/article/video-chinese-yangtze-bulk-carri…
Well, that's one way to scrape the barnies off the hull I suppose.
He was probably asleep in skipper school too when they mentioned the bit about keeping the pointy end off the hard stuff.
That's a solid boatfail, good effort.
Reminds me of the mad genius of these guys:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/catastrophic-oil-…
A follow up on those vids of Japan's lost generation, the youth giving up, the men giving up on work or dating; here is the current situation for young Chinese graduates:
It must be similar to the situation graduates faced here in the 1990s, only enormously larger as of the number of people involved. I can reflect that at best you go back and study more and emerge more skilled, or work through it despite it feeling like a lost decade, before career things might take off. It's good when they do.
Fark
https://www.9news.com.au/national/former-pro-surfer-encounters-maneater…
That's every other arvo around here. Where's my headline?
"Aging surfer sees Brown snake"
Parko and the one eyed trouser snakes
You need to be more of a dickhead in the waves.
Really?
In that case I’d prefer to be snaked out in the surf!
My brother killed a brown last summer by hitting it with his car as it stood up in the middle of the road waiting to bite his approaching car.
My Canadian born wife is petrified of snakes, but felt comfortable dealing with the baby brown snakes (dugites) that we found all through the yard and house in Perth one spring.
She didn’t realise that they’re born fully fueled up with venom from birth. Once informed she lost a bit of that bravado!
Mainly red-bellied black snakes now we’re back on the east coast. Which are pretty mellow. Was clearing some scrub at my parents place a few weeks back, looked over and saw my kelpie in a face-off with a big fat one. Everyone went their own way in the end…
Snake season now.
Anyway, don’t mess with the wildlife:
That's a real trouser snake
Triumph of the human spirit over those who say you can't do it and common sense:
Or not.
https://blasphemyrottmouth.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/yentering-with-the-…
another so called color 'revolution'?
https://pdf.defence.pk/threads/leaked-cia-front-preparing-color-revolut…
gonna be interesting for all these booming surf resorts etc. and the current crazy land prices around ulu if prabowo gets up...
Makes you wonder about the hidden imperial guidelines that Australians live under. More than Indo by the sound of things.
""Gough was tough til he hit the rough, uncle Sam and John were quite enough.""
Cracker of a real life story "Bloke had a 4 month bender spending 1.6 Million Dollars with magic keycard"
Geez enjoyed that Indo ..Cheers.
Good story. My thoughts shifted when I realised it wasn't so much a magic keycard, just a credit card with no upper limit - whatever he transferred would ultimately be debited from his account.
Hell of a predicament. What would you do at that age with seemingly endless money on tap?
Give it to a worthy charity then laugh from my jail cell when the institution trys to claw it back from the disabled orphans.
Honestly i dont think i would have done what he did.
Id have been to scared to go on a spending spree thinking id have to pay it back and thinking id go to jail for much longer than a year.
If i had kept getting money out, I think i would have just kept it as cash hidden thinking at least if i get caught i can pay it back.
Even then as nice as it would be it would be stressful, even if you had gotten away with it, it would forever fuck with your head, for instance, every time someone knocks on the door your heart would drop, is that the cops.
Ooh nasty. Like your thinking Zen. Hope you are keeping dry and that your house is still in the right place.
All good Blackers, cheers. Back to normal. Sunny, hot and humid.
Btw- I mentioned that my wifes colleagues car got caught in a landslide. I didn't realise it at the time but she was actually in it. Had to be rescued. She's quite traumatised.