An intriguing question facing China, the Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama, is that of selection of the successor to the current 14th Dalai Lama - sure to be a source of conflict. With his 90th birthday approaching he says he will nominate a successor by then, but any such a choice is unlikely to be acceptable to the CCP - we'll see soon enough! DL14 has suggested Reincarnation may not be involved this time around (as I understand). USA is sure to intrude in there but fun and games are guaranteed!
the topic of toast by a twist inevitably brings one to a simple anagram: stoat, just as that of cats, cast the die, turns to scat. But stoats are a major pest in New Zealand it seems, and could be as well in up country Queensland as an agricultural biosecurity project concluded recently. Well did you ever!? Not that there are any stoats in Queensland, but it seems they would flourish if there were - unless they happened to develop a taste for cane toads. It seems that we introduce the most fiendish of 'gods' creatures into our country thinking they will eradicate a scourge rather than xreate yet another. In 14 years in NZ I never happened to see a stoat, but yes lots of gorse brought in to make the homesick poms feel more at home.
When I replaced my previous computer chair (at a cost of $700+) I insisted they supply a set of 5 replacement casters. The previous chair of perhaps 10 years the casters broke and there were no identically sized casters available, Apparently the spindle part is called a stern.
@gonelikeThose students have made an investment to be there in America. They don't have to swallow all the jingoistic crap that is spouted there. They benefit your economy and contribute culture and variety. They don't have to accept or enthuse about the religious bigotry and racism they hear and experience. But by and large they have chosen to be there and study there and stay there. Your imagined disrespect just reflects your bias or xenophobia or bigotry (take your pick). Who are these foreign 'vermin' (to quote a potential potus47) you want to eradicate?
@merlot that is not what he saidMaybe he meant to say that, but it was incoherent gibberish. The words just gush out like vomit, but he accuses his vanquisher of being unable to string words together. As to what it says about the followers you know what it says to me, I have used ample adjectives to answer that question, but what does it tell you?
I assert there is no substance, and no meaning. And you are right, I don't speak his language, because I stopped speaking at that level well before I was 10 Huh? what would the women in the audience think about his substance and meaning. And he says Biden exhibits cognitive decline?
@jac entertainer? Maybe Johnson was an entertainer too. And Zelenskyy was a comedian after all, but then circumstances have taken the amusement out of it haven't they?
Entertaining you think. I find it horrifying. 80 million or so Americans are so mindless as to think this 'clown' is fit to govern them. They cheer his sexist and s*xual remarks, and as you were, are entertained by the absence of policy wit intelligence.
So what is it that is rotten in the state of (your pick) you ask? Well the fact that there is applause, loud, and cheers. 'Demeaning to women' - loud cheers. Head-shakingly cringe-worthy.
... and that freakish performance was followed up with yet another. A miraculous fielding/bowling performance in the first half of the final. Amazing stuff, you don't see that kind of fielding winning a match very often, and holding an India expecting to make 300+++ to a mere 240. The fielding was pure joy to watch, but the batting was initially the stuff of despair, until, until Head. One's heart goes out to India who were rightfully expecting to walk over the Aussies and walk away with the cup and 11 wins straight.
Totally untrue! Ever more witless baseless misinformation, lies, from the anti-vaxxers.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/msu-economics-professor-mark-skidmore-exonerated-over-his-retracted-paper-claiming-that-covid-vaccines-killed-278000/
Homeless in China abound - as they do anywhere I suspect, including Sydney. In China those wintering in the underpasses I saw were particularly destitute, having at most a cardboard box shell to sleep on. Here they might also have a shopping trolley full of bits and pieces, and there would be Vinnies or Homelessness services providing evening meals, and no ice to chill the marrow. The China homeless were somewhat hidden, probably harassed by the local police.
As to Potus45 and Potus46, both show significant cognitive decline, Trump no less than Biden, and Trump started from a lower point. China is a meritocracy, and at least you can be sure that the leader/dictator has cognitive power too. There is something to be said for selection based on merit, and not subject to the changing whim of the deplorables!
By a big coincidence I am watching For all mankind - S4E1 - in which Gore beats Bush (I wish!)/ It's the wrong episode, I am still in S1 E4! Interesting series!
The second quote was that of the Afrikaner OP in that thread. The other Afrikaner leaves frequent personal jibes and nothing else of substance or relevance, and in consequence gets deleted. Neither of those two worthies says anything sociable or of merit in my experience, which may well be different to yours. I do not normally converse with other commenters, as I said, because doing so brings down abuse, as (and I repeat) Aussies trolls and Stooges testifies. This is not a conversation.
I won't respond to you in that thread I can recall no notable or remarkable comments by you. I do not praise or 'pat pat comments' on principal, since thread bystanders note and thereafter lump responders together - as we see in that thread OP's labelling of troll Aussies, and Three stooges (I had the full count of the Three Stooges on this blog). The implication seems to be those who disagree are in collusion. I might as well reply in like vein about the claque of Afrikaners but will not.
It was a freakish performance on the night when everyone must have given the game up for dead.
Logic and reason are anathema to you. You do not have them, and are threatened and 'poisoned' (to quote your word) when confronted with them. Your assertion in this blog is utter nonsense, more so even than one has come to expect.
Much of the Western world, outside USA that is, consider Trump as absurd, laughable, preposterous, an anomaly that reflects something of the American decline. I am one of them. I thought Bush Jnr was a doozy, but Trump dwarfs him for incomprehension. Turn back the clock and give us Al Gore!
Of course using words like 'poison' when you in the title use 'traitors' and 'deserters' does not support your case, if we could call it a case at all. Nor do you reply to the idea of seeking education for female children as a genuine and even admirable reason for emigrating. Emigration, particularly to a country where one's first language is not spoken and qualifications are not recognised, is largely a sacrifice undertaken for the sake of a future generation. Your label of traitor and deserter is just absurd, and you are the one dishing out 'poison'
So the parents who merely seek a better life for their children, like the right to an education for a daughter, they are traitors and cowards? You have a very narrow view. The Chinese who emigrate for a better life for their children, possibly not born, also traitors and deserters. Strange limits you place. You want to discuss people who emigrate for trivial reasons then do you? Like the right to youtube and google perhaps. Of course I totally disagree with you. Those of Afrikaner background (over 200,000) who came to Australia, they are likewise traitors? They didn't want the de Klerk government or apartheid or non-apartheid, whichever reason, all traitors were/are they?
Basic principles tell one: (1) Never believe anyone who says 'believe me' (2) Never trust anyone who says 'trust me'
Now it's not that I distrust you, I implicitly trust you to find the wrong end of the stick. I trust you to cling blindly to preposterous lies issuing from the mouth of a certain DT Potus45. 2024 will not be stolen. 2020 was not stolen. The people who tried and to a significant extent succeeded, to destroy the reputation and market of a large organisation - Dominion - will get their just deserts, and be bankrupted. Dominion will never get back what lies took from them. Similarly the people of America will never recover what lies and deception stole from them. Respect, credibility, reputation.
@gran what? listen to the moron ranting as he did today: 'We ran twice, we won twice... better the second time than the first ... we won all 50 states... Oil Gas and guns!' (he forgot right to life it seems). Probably the least intelligent least educated and least literate Potus of all time - beats Bush Jnr hands down, and ranks just higher than Buchanan for worst Potus of all time (not in my books, since I wasn't around in Buchanan's day)
I used to drive an Australian made V8, 5+ litres, until my then wife saw fit to drive it up the rear end of a line waiting at traffic lights (it wasn't the only car she wrote off). How I miss the burble of that lovely engine, driving mere cars is so ho-hum.
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An intriguing question facing China, the Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama, is that of selection of the successor to the current 14th Dalai Lama - sure to be a source of conflict. With his 90th birthday approaching he says he will nominate a successor by then, but any such a choice is unlikely to be acceptable to the CCP - we'll see soon enough! DL14 has suggested Reincarnation may not be involved this time around (as I understand). USA is sure to intrude in there but fun and games are guaranteed!