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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022
1,485 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022”
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Here this….
I will own a lot
I will NOT exist in a pod
I will NOT eat bugs, I will eat lots of lamb, beef, chicken, duck, goose, goat and whatever
If I can’t do and eat the above I will be very unhappy, and I will make sure those smug elites who are trying to enforce their totalitarian ways on me will be made to pay for their totalitarian crimes so I’ll sit, knit and watch, like the tricoteuses during the French Revolution, the blades of the guillotine fall on these putrid totalitarians….and I’ll enjoy it. -
Granga – you are not a true romantic – I thought you were referring to “breathy” womanages, e.g. the Monroe, who made it one of her trademarks.
Eddles is never elevated in my consciousness, unless he’s spectacularly beclowned himself (again).
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Had a look for abalone this morn in my super super secret spot, ie right under the noses of a billion tourists but only logical in a very very low summer king tide. Nice haul, I’ll pull some more out tomoz.
Then to Margaret River, that magnetic hub of Best Buy affluence. Ugliness has spread to very man, woman, child and dog. “Stitch” tattoos have spread like monkeypox, grimy children’s drawings in dashed lines, Southern Penitentiary green.
Perth is full of scary types of all stripes KD, just get yer Uber driver to get you 5k out on an urban arterial and stop at a red light. I’m seriously never taking my kids there again, not until after a Resident Evil-style purge of the walking dead wastrels which fill every crack. It’s heading to be the San Angeles of the eastern hemisphere. -
Classic Roger. ?
I’m a railway buff, but I’ll readily concede it’s not as attractive as the original.
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MR has also lost its last record shop, which was the real deal, new releases for two Reibys type. Now there’s only a premium shack in Witchcliffe run by the obligatory knowall pom where everything is from the last century and also a rare pressing at $75, and a FIFO-soaker in Busselona where everything is from the last decade of the last century and a limited release for $9o.
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…and yet another seemingly healthy male in his 40s drops dead.
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Breathy pom femme to lay the Saturday night disco beat…
Dua Lipa – Levitating. Hypnotic falling cadence, barely controlled friskiness- I remember an RN Music Show program where Andrew Ford was demonstrating the sexual charge of a falling cadence, everywhere from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Puccini to Roy Orbison.
Get the album. The last song is rubbbbbisssh, but it’s 11/12 killer cerebral dancefloor filler. -
This whole “Twitter thing” is really confusing in the following sense.
Elon Musk has basically admitted that his company (he owns it) has been up to “no good”. In fact, some really bad shit. Lying, cheating and stealing plus more.
There are so many people that have been affected by this, that the list is endless. People have had their earning capacity diminished, their businesses bankrupted, they have been slandered and labeled “conspiracy theorists”, advertisers mislead, voters have been disenfranchised, political parties have been smothered (just to name a few of the ramifications). I’m only scratching the surface here.
They will all be seeking redress via the courts. The number of claimants will stretch from DC to the Texas border. And who are they going to sue? Well, the obvious answer is “Twitter”. And who owns Twitter? Yeah, I already covered that.
So here is the big question. So why the hell would Elon Musk go and open himself up to massive litigation after paying a record $42 billion for the company. That’s insane. A smart man would just shut his mouth.
I think everyone would agree that the bloke isn’t an idiot. He’s a genius.
The only conclusion I can reach is that he “has the goods”. He now has EVERYTHING on these people.
Elon will likely end with a $42 billion business for FREE with zero liability.
Unfortunately, the American taxpayers will be picking up the tab for a Democrat (and RINO) Government that is corrupt to the core. But in the long run, it will be worth every last penny.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to be homeless’: Canadian man, 65, has a doctor’s approval for euthanasia despite admitting becoming POOR is a main reason he’s applying to die
Anyone remember when Lefties liked to quote Pearl Buck to Righties, saying a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable?
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2022 12 09 Unconditional Surrender Is Now Russia’s Goal
That headline is about as believable as this headline, which I saw today:
Vladimir Putin ‘securing Venezuela escape route’ if Russia losses war in Ukraine (8 Dec)
I love the reporting going on right now, it’s wonderfully silly. Something is happening in between and underneath all of this guff, but you will be doing well to find out what the reality really is.
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The next logical step in this is for Elon to release how Twitter was actually being run by the Whitehouse, DNC, FBI and CIA.
He knew nothing of this when he handed over the $42 billion big ones.
No wonder these people are shitting themselves. But it’s just the beginning. There are going to be plenty of other big fish yet to fry. Big tech and Fake News are next in line.
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‘I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to be homeless’: Canadian man, 65, has a doctor’s approval for euthanasia despite admitting becoming POOR is a main reason he’s applying to die
Give big stupid government an inch and they’ll be hastily attempting to bring your life to an end in any way they might be able to (at somebody else’s expense, of course).
We are sliding inevitably into a tyrannical state that will make 1984 look like a toddlers’ picnic, Cats.
I’d like to go all St Ruth on their house sized backsides, but I’m just one man. 😕
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Makka, if it’s any consolation, I’ve never intended visiting Indo”bluddee”nesia unless it was guiding a B52.
I lived and worked there for nearly a decade all up since the 80’s. A couple in Bali.You aren’t missing anything. Yes Tom I know the appeal but in this woke world of the cancel culture, Indo holidays should be top of all young Aussie lists, no? Or is it just vanilla hypocrisy?
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People within big tech, fake news and Government will eventually start to squeal.
Look at the FBI whistleblowers. The snowball has only just started.
Musk now has access to the medias “preferred communication tool”. Not just their “tweets”, but their DM’s as well. He knows exactly what’s been going on (and can prove it).
There is no way in the world Elon would be exposing himself to litigation without a rock solid backup plan.
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Better watch out for the skin deep, Cats …
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DIY bloke almost caused a disaster today.
He replaced the exhaust and muffler on his truck with a second hand unit. His first trip with the repair to pick up grain for a farmer out our way resulted in twenty spot fires over a fifteen kilometre stretch.
Thankfully the sides of the roads are still a half green and today was mid twenties and calm.
Two weeks later with a warm northerly blowing you would have had a fifteen kilometre fire front.
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Ed Casesays:
December 10, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Trash like Hunt are essentially foreign agents acting for foreign interests on their instructions.He’s a Spook, is that what you’re trying to say?
Only if (Ho, ho) he is working in the interests of Australia. If he is working in the interests of another nation or organisation, then he is a traitor, a quite different matter.
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Makkasays:
December 10, 2022 at 6:14 pm
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen said, “there’s one form of energy which Vladimir Putin cannot disrupt” at a media conference on Saturday.I didn’t know Putin had disrupted our domestic coal, gas and oil resources.
Putin doesn’t have to, our Slime, Liars and Lieborals do that quite effectively without his help.
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Makka, if it’s any consolation, I’ve never intended visiting Indo”bluddee”nesia unless it was guiding a B52.
There is an apocryphal story that I once read somewhere, back when Indonesia liked to buzz Darwin with Ilyushins from time to time, that a Mirage was once allegedly scrambled from Tindal in response to ‘something,’ and came back with empty gun bays.
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Indolent:
Neil Oliver – ‘…it’s anti-human & evil, and I think it’s heading your way’They’re offering the same old promise the elites always come up with. Sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. But after all the sacrifices, only the elites get to a better tomorrow. The promise of more carrots ahead of the sacrificial donkey that is always just beyond reach of the ones doing all the work. We’ve been promised that better world every generation, and it always turns out to be a pile of crap.
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We’ve been promised that better world every generation, and it always turns out to be a pile of crap
Was explaining to Miss Emily last week how we were all at the mercy of the UN/WEF when I suddenly realised that I sounded like some bizarre conspiracy hypothesis crackpot (again). 😕
The subject was quickly changed to back to more comfortable topics.
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‘New Cold War’?: House Forms Committee on China Threat; US House Approves Bill w/ Military Spending
01:00 ‘New Cold War?’: House Forms Committee on China Threat
03:12 U.S. House Approves Bill with Record Military Spending
04:56 Australian, Japanese Ministers Hold Defense Talks
06:27 Canada Suspends Contract with China-Tied Firm
08:17 EU Takes China to WTO Over Patents, Lithuania
10:28 Chinese Residents’ Fear Grows After Curbs Drop
13:22 ‘Wuhan Whistleblower’ Remembered as China Reopens
14:55 Expert: Global Downturn Due to China’s Economic Collapse Is Possible -
I love the reporting going on right now, it’s wonderfully silly. Something is happening in between and underneath all of this guff, but you will be doing well to find out what the reality really is.
The one I posted was from Gonzalo Lira who’s in Kharkiv. His point was mainly about the useless suffering being endured by the Ukrainians in the field, particularly now that it’s getting seriously cold there.
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The rim of her mouth was golden …
But that’s not her
It’s only an image of her
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Covid has taken over all of our lives in one way or another. Whether that’s because of higher prices for everything, the loss of school time for the kids or business slowing and jobs being lost, life is a lot different from where we all were in 2019. And everyone knows it.
Cassie wrote a great post about the way young women of her business acquaintance think and react to current events. It was a really good thread with many contributors noting that they, too, feel overwhelmed – you might say, had it – with where the world is headed, especially when such hairbrained ideas inhabit the minds of the next couple of generations. So how to fix it?
I don’t think that making climate change the issue will change minds. I’m not suggesting that we should give up on the subject altogether. But because it’s one of the areas that has been taken over completely by the left, and so much so that among the young viewpoints are now firmly in place that Gaia is dying from CO2 emissions.
Yes, higher electricity prices may help to dislodge the chaff inside the brains of some of these climate warriors. Yet after years of school indoctrination, even out in the suburbs there are many young people who think the same way as their inner city cousins: “the west is bad and is screwing over the environment and the government must spend more to fix it.”
One thing that’s happened because of covid and the jabs is that there are a lot more sceptical people. Maybe that’s because covid proved not to be as dangerous as the authorities asserted. Or maybe it was because the jabs have not been the successful health intervention that was originally promised, and in fact have caused too many serious side effects. And then there’s the group who were dismayed if not completely p1ssed off that they were forced to take something that they didn’t want just to keep their jobs.
The opening up of what really happened over these last three years, imho is the only way to break the left’s hold. As with the revelations now coming out of Twitter, because of Musk’s takeover, the covid agenda, which used the CCP playbook to control whole populations and stymie any alternative discussion is what could fully bring down the totalitarians. If covid is fully revealed, only then will climate change be realised as the bulldust story it always was.
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Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilvCensored SNL clip from 1998.
This aired one time … then was banned from ever being used again.
Do NOT retweet. NBC does not allow this to be shared.
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coming to australia. the fascist left must confiscate all guns as they fear the people
Ejected from House of Commons for telling the truth on Bill C-21 (Raquel Dancho)
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There is an apocryphal story that I once read somewhere, back when Indonesia liked to buzz Darwin with Ilyushins from time to time, that a Mirage was once allegedly scrambled from Tindal in response to ‘something,’ and came back with empty gun bays.
Story goes that, when East Timor kicked off, the Indons were making bellicose noises about targets in Australia, two squadrons of F 111’s were deployed to the Territory, and the message was “Your move,”
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 10, 2022 at 10:40 pm
There is an apocryphal story that I once read somewhere, back when Indonesia liked to buzz Darwin with Ilyushins from time to time, that a Mirage was once allegedly scrambled from Tindal in response to ‘something,’ and came back with empty gun bays.Story goes that, when East Timor kicked off, the Indons were making bellicose noises about targets in Australia, two squadrons of F 111’s were deployed to the Territory, and the message was “Your move,”
Reminds me of the story I heard that the F111’s were capable of reaching Jakarta. Message understood by the Indonesians.
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Robert Sewellsays:
December 10, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Indolent:
Neil Oliver – ‘…it’s anti-human & evil, and I think it’s heading your way’They’re offering the same old promise the elites always come up with. Sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. But after all the sacrifices, only the elites get to a better tomorrow. The promise of more carrots ahead of the sacrificial donkey that is always just beyond reach of the ones doing all the work. We’ve been promised that better world every generation, and it always turns out to be a pile of crap.
So you don’t believe in trickle down economics? So cynical, surely all those politicians weren’t lying to us.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
December 10, 2022 at 10:14 pmOne thing that’s happened because of covid and the jabs is that there are a lot more sceptical people. Maybe that’s because covid proved not to be as dangerous as the authorities asserted. Or maybe it was because the jabs have not been the successful health intervention that was originally promised, and in fact have caused too many serious side effects.
Hope you are right, but even on this blog there are staunch supporters of that failed policy.
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Bar Beach Swimmersays:
December 10, 2022 at 10:14 pm
Covid has taken over all of our lives in one way or another. Whether that’s because of higher prices for everything, the loss of school time for the kids or business slowing and jobs being lost, life is a lot different from where we all were in 2019. And everyone knows it.Cassie wrote a great post about the way young women of her business acquaintance think and react to current events. It was a really good thread with many contributors noting that they, too, feel overwhelmed – you might say, had it – with where the world is headed, especially when such hairbrained ideas inhabit the minds of the next couple of generations. So how to fix it?
I don’t think that making climate change the issue will change minds. I’m not suggesting that we should give up on the subject altogether. But because it’s one of the areas that has been taken over completely by the left, and so much so that among the young viewpoints are now firmly in place that Gaia is dying from CO2 emissions.
Earlier tonight I watched a speech by Freeman Dyson. He has a somewhat paradoxical position because he acknowledges the models do a good job in certain respects and a bad job in others. He raised the issue of soil carbon sequestration as a possible strategy. That’s not new, many years ago a French Ag. scientist was pushing it. Dyson thinks the current strategies are misguided, unlikely to work, and the risk is overstated. I like his approach because instead of the screeching and raging he puts forward alternative approaches.
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Putin Says Russia Could Adopt “Preemptive Strike” Concept Of US
Vladimir Putin said Russia was considering whether to adopt what he called Washington’s concept of a pre-emptive strike.
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“First of all, the United States has the concept of a preemptive strike. Second, it is developing a disarming strike system,” Putin told reporters in Kyrgyzstan.Putin said Moscow might need to think about adopting US “ideas for ensuring their own security.”
“We’re just thinking about it,” he said.
“If a potential adversary believes that it is possible to use the concept of a preemptive strike, but we do not, then nevertheless this makes us think about the threats that such ideas pose to us.”
Putin claimed that Russia’s cruise missiles and hypersonic systems were “more modern and even more efficient” than those in the United States.
On Wednesday, Putin warned that nuclear tensions were rising, although he insisted that Moscow would not be the first to deploy atomic weapons.
At the same he said: “If we aren’t the first to use them under any circumstances, then we will not be the second to use them either.”
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Reminds me of the story I heard that the F111’s were capable of reaching Jakarta. Message understood by the Indonesians.
Supposed to have been a top level meeting of Indonesian ministers at the time of the East Timor intervention. They were speculating as to the Australian reaction. A senior minister is said to have walked to the window, and claimed that “an Australian F 111 is capable of putting a guided bomb through this window, as we speak?” Disclaimer – may, or may not be true.
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“Trickle down” economics would work but people have NFI how much tax they pay.
A minimum wage earner’s value of labour is taxed at a far higher rate than the simple income tax rate that may apply.
You have to look at payroll tax, taxes on superannuation, GST on worker related insurances, tax components of allocated overhead, income tax, tariffs, GST, excise taxes, stamp duties, direct or indirect rates and land taxes, charges such as registration and government licensing, import charges and the overzealous imposition of fines.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 10, 2022 at 11:02 pm
Reminds me of the story I heard that the F111’s were capable of reaching Jakarta. Message understood by the Indonesians.Supposed to have been a top level meeting of Indonesian ministers at the time of the East Timor intervention. They were speculating as to the Australian reaction. A senior minister is said to have walked to the window, and claimed that “an Australian F 111 is capable of putting a guided bomb through this window, as we speak?” Disclaimer – may, or may not be true.
Didn’t an F111 crew photograph in their Canberra office the 2 defense bods who questioned the utility of the F111?
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Went to Scarborough Beach for a feed and whatever and a look around. Wally at 7.21:
Perth is full of scary types of all stripes KD
I was wondering where all the white trash was, and I found it there. Everywhere. Scrawny hayper-alert druggies with worn-out trackies and roided-out cockheads with designer singlets and matching tribal ink.
Plus, something I’d never seen before in Perth. Loads and loads of fat dressed-up chicks all in the same place – so much so that my previous complimentary attitude towards WA ladeees has now been set on fire and thrown into the Indian Ocean. Bear at 8.25:
Sea breeze is a bit too strong
A bit of an understatement. Straight from the Antarctic, and almost blew the cellulite off the fat women.
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we know a recession is baked in as the money supply is in reverse
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Lol Maison and his goils , existing as they are on Heartache Avenue …
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MatrixTransformsays:
December 10, 2022 at 11:03 pm
he puts forward alternative approaches.like what ?
Soil carbon sequestration.
Geo engineering.
Genetic engineering of plants to increase growth. This has already been done but only a few months ago and the results aren’t that spectacular; on a broad scale could be significant.He didn’t mention this but may have had it in mind. What I would like to see is a genetically engineered rubisco alternative. It is the most abundant protein on earth. Rubisco is the key enzyme for fixing carbon. It is very, very inefficient which is why any increase in CO2 concentration helps plants. That is botany 101. That it hasn’t been done suggests it might not be possible.
Slow and Steady
In spite of its central role, rubisco is remarkably inefficient. As enzymes go, it is painfully slow. Typical enzymes can process a thousand molecules per second, but rubisco fixes only about three carbon dioxide molecules per second. Plant cells compensate for this slow rate by building lots of the enzyme. Chloroplasts are filled with rubisco, which comprises half of the protein. This makes rubisco the most plentiful single enzyme on the Earth. -
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Boambee Johnsays:
December 10, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Indolentsays:
December 10, 2022 at 7:42 pm
BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms US political candidates were blacklisted while running for officeIs this why we haven’t seen m0nty=fa here today? Or did I miss him?
MontyPox Virus and Head Case are having a ‘Love In’. Steer well clear.
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An interview with the Kiwi parents that rosie believes were rightfully stomped on by The State:
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An interview with the Kiwi parents that rosie believes were rightfully stomped on by The State:
Gaslighting.
I never said anything supportive of the state.
The only person in this fiasco I’m concerned about is the baby.
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I never said anything supportive of the state.
You implied that the parents had gone to far and that they basically got what they deserved. Being trampled by the state. (Not your first instance of this either).
The only person in this fiasco I’m concerned about is the baby.
Did you watch the interview? Are the parents not concerned about the child? It’s not a zero sum game, they have the blood available, a number of Doctors agree with their position. If you are having a huge surgery, why use blood that may have an increased risk of clotting?
Keep digging that hole rosie.
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There is no evidence whatsoever that there is an increased risk of clotting from vaxxed blood transfusions.
My only comment re the parents was they apparently claimed they would abide by the court order and wanted to spend time with their baby then tried to prevent pre operation work being done.
I don’t know why the NZ government refused to let them use unvaxxed blood, though apparently there were limits re plasma as some needed to be sent to Australia for processing
Now stop making up lies about me because I don’t think mrna vaccines are the devil’s work.
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I’m guessing hundreds, possibly thousands of surgeries have been performed on babies and small children in the last eighteen months involving blood produces from people who have had covid/been vaccinated.
Is there any evidence from anywhere that blood clots are on the rise post surgery?
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No whistling.
Catcalling to Become Illegal in Britain with Up to Two Years in Prison (10 Dec)
Catcalling or wolf-whistling is set to become a criminal offence in England with sentences of up to two years in prison, Home Secretary Suella Braverman says.
This is what happens when you take a nation and suck all the common sense out of it.
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Catcalling or wolf-whistling is set to become a criminal offence in England with sentences of up to two years in prison, Home Secretary Suella Braverman says.
Can’t say I’ve ever done that sort of thing. Never like it when women do the same either.
However,
Get fucked. Really don’t want to visit our old lordly relatives now.
England was coveted for centuries.
Now it is repellant.
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The algorithm assumes I’m a troll.
This masterpiece comes up next.
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What is striking about the ‘anti-catcalling’ laws and other trivia like ‘financial abuse’ is that they are a distraction from very real problems that the Uniparties refuse to address, or even acknowledge.
In the UK, thousands of young girls were sexually abused by mostly Muslim men. Here, little kids in remote communities have venereal diseases, and children of all stripes are left in filthy households with the druggo/alky ‘parent(s)’ by useless so-called child protection agencies.
Oooh, look! Squirrel!
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One of the great joys in life was walking past a building site and having a bunch of guys giving the big whistle!
There was the occasional slime who was disgusting, but the other guys usually sorted them. Plus, in those days, we aussie chicks could give as good as we got. No “me-tooing” then.A great buzz I received was when I was eight months pregnant, feeling really bloated and I am whistled at as I walked past a building site. I was startled and pointed to my belly and mimed huh? Every single bloke on that site yelled out, “that’s beautiful”. Really made my day.
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