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Have you tried beer goggles? Apparently they make everyone look attractive. Allegedly, as Knuckles would say.
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Damn our leaders for letting these monsters into our societies. Damn them to Hell.
Isn’t it Vicki?
I was just wondering how you got to the preposterous suggestion that now is the age where the only acceptable way to feed a new baby in public was via a bottle.
Not to mention the fake premise that women everywhere are making spectacles of themselves which started this discussion.
Lots of doing and no believing.
The Protestant Coronation through Catholic Eyes
Victorian Bar vice president called to resign over Indigenous voice to parliament stance
Victorian Bar Council vice-president Elizabeth Bennett SC is facing mounting pressure to resign, following revelations she signed a motion urging the association to publicly back the Indigenous voice to parliament.
Ms Bennett and two other council members, Colin Mandy SC and Fiona Livingston-Clark, signed their names to a motion proposing the Bar issue its public and unwavering support for Anthony Albanese’s proposed voice model.
The motion called for a special general meeting of all 2200 state Bar members, at which they would vote on a motion that stated: “The Victorian Bar considered that the amendment proposed by the Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution is sound, appropriate and compatible with Australia’s system of representative and responsible government which would be enhanced by addition of the voice.”
But senior Bar members told The Australian that by attaching her name to the motion, Ms Bennett had “undermined her independence” as Bar Council vice-president, and should therefore resign immediately.
“It’s deeply concerning that somebody who has adopted a certain ideological position remains as vice-president of the Bar,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous.
“People like Elizabeth Bennett have a view of supporting equality and diversity, but only if it is people who agree with them. This is not the Bar I joined. She should step down.”
As vice-president of the Bar Council, Ms Bennett automatically holds a position on the silk selection committee, referring applicants to the Chief Justice to become senior counsel.
Some Bar members said her decision to publicly back the voice could inhibit anyone applying for silk from giving their view on the issue, fearing that it may clash with hers.
“It’s extremely concerning for anybody applying for silk, and would have a chilling effect on applicants expressing their view, if that doesn’t reinforce her view,” the same member said. “It shows a lack of understanding or respect for the Bar Council process.”
Another Bar member, who also said Ms Bennett should resign, added: “By attaching her name to a petition essentially advocating a yes vote, she has lost any sense of impartiality.”
But Ms Bennett told The Australian she respected “the right of all members of the Victorian Bar to take a position on the voice”.
Oz, with interestingly comments open – overwhelmingly negative towards Ms B
Steven Trickler
I apologise for the spelling of your name – auto correct.
What hit me about the coronation I was comparing Queen Elizabeth to King Charles.
To me there is no comparison.
Queen Elizabeth was corrinated as queen in her 20s. Big responsibility and she kept her head down and was a great role model.
What occurred to me was successful people I know started out in the 70 and 80s did the following- got married early under 25 , children before 30, went out to start their own business in their 20s.
Responsibility, confidence in one’s self and a adventurous outlook, nothing is perfect which stops you from having a go.
And I bet there’s no objection from the same cohort to deliberate exposure of substantial cleavage.
If people are going to say public breastfeeding is unacceptable then perhaps they should also demand an end to the bikini and low cut clothing, all sorts.
Music and theft news (the Hun):
That’s a whole pile of other people’s power tools flogged off at the Smith Street Cash Converters.
On the issue of breast feeding – some years ago, in Perth, three generations were sitting at a table in a food court. Junior was very quietly, and discreetly being fed. The bogans at the next table realized what was going on, and were leering and nudging each other…Grandmother said very clearly and calmly “What do you think a woman’s breasts are for, in the first place ?”
Yeah, I proposed this in 2006. I actually asked and received approval from the company legal advisor.
It’s cheap and effective, far more than anything else. But then I read up on global warming and found the whole thing was garbage. So I didn’t bother doing anything more about it.
I’m sort of amused that nearly two decades later they’re pushing what I proposed to fix something which isn’t happening. I’d appreciate the black humour, except there’s so much money and so many lives at stake. We’re governed by idiots.
Grumpy old men rule – “Don’t kill, him, Pug, just don’t kill him!”
Roger mentioned earlier that he had underestimated the stupidity of Drumgold.
Something which is almost impossible to avoid.
It wasn’t the possibility of scrutiny by normal people which bothered him because he never thought that would happen.
He thought the club would protect him.
How’s that working out?
Well, maybe.
It seems a couple of likely types reckoned it was worth $6 meg.
They claimed to have $3 meg and wanted to raise the remaining $3 meg via crowd funding.
They did this via a platform called “Pozsible”(?) which seems to run on pledges rather than hard donations (like GoFundMe).
The pub supposedly then goes into a trust to be kept as a “live music venue”.
Not sure how cast iron that is.
Could we trot out a Truckie Troubadour to belt out “Convoy” every Saturday arvo to satisfy the live music requirement?
Last I heard (on 3AW) the owner wanted $6.5 meg.
BTW I think this is the third time this century The Tote has been saved.
It is a shithole.
An extraordinary marital shitfight on Succession tonight between Shiv and Tom. Worthy of Bergman in Scenes from a Marriage, or Taylor and Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe. Disturbing but compelling watching. I’m glad that this is the last series. I can’t take too much more of it.
Had some pretty good times at the Tote in the nineties. More correctly, some pretty bad times that were enjoyable.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
We are waiting for the latest round of test results for Mme Zulu, and I’m punishing the single malt.
Night, all.
Looks like things not going so well for Drumhold.
Good.
My dance friends’ gatherings seem to be my equivalent of Calli’s ‘Stitch and Bitch’. That’s likely not well understood here. What is important there is being accepted simply for oneself. Over years.
From the Courier Mail
The NRL will become Australia’s first major footy code to back the “yes” campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum, with officials to confirm their position ahead of the league’s Indigenous round.
It can be exclusively revealed the NRL is preparing to announce its support for the Voice on Tuesday, following the Australian Olympic Committee and Tennis Australia as the latest sporting body to throw its support behind the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait advisory body in the constitution.
It is understood player groups were due to be briefed ahead of the announcement, which comes two weeks before the NRL’s Indigenous round.
The king was both humble and reverential, participating fully in custom and tradition going back well over a thousand years. Service to his country was the essence of it at all times. He is not a Roman Catholic and the communion is symbolic, not transubstantiation as in the Roman Catholic mass. People have given their lives over that difference; respect it.
The affinal relationships (the Middletons and Spensers) are just that, relationships drawn by marriage and while each side makes a contribution to the children and perhaps their upbringing the central element is the Crown inherited by patrilineal descent. Females may inherit it but the House line stays the same. The Gospel Singers were African (Christianity is growing strongly there) and other singers included some beautiful individually sung pieces, as well as the choir (one of Britain’s best) singing from a repertoire that ranged across the full tradition of Western church music. The poetry of the bible and the protestant book of common prayer will do me.
There is a lot of nark in the sort of commentary in these quotes. Unworthy.
The orchestral support was excellent. A buoyant Pomp and Circumstance march saw the Royals out.
Sir Humphrey’s golden rule …
“Never start an enquiry if you don’t know the outcome.”
rights?
if breast-feeding has to become chest-feeding to satisfy a million idiots
then flyingduk can drive as fast as he wants
and chuck rocks as fancy takes him
non secateur
sorry … a million and one