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.
Guy Fawkes night was part of my childhood as were the annual eye and hand injuries, house fires and fear maddened dogs - I think we used to have a bonfire every year until I was about 10. Roman candles and Catherine wheels and penny bungers. Somewhere around the 80s fireworks were totally banned for private consumption here. Yet crazily I see some member of parliament is trying to get them permitted again. Guy Fawkes is scarcely relevant here in Oz, is he? What a grizzly end he and other plotters came to!
43 'Gendered' murders this year so far in Australia. 90%+ are by male partner, family, or acquaintance. Intentional killing of women. @OP you try to trivialise a serious problem. Not related to Gender equality you might assert? Male attitude domination and stereotyping not a Gender Equality issue you say?
@OP differences of opinion between couples must just about be daily events, but rarely have significant impact on the relationship itself. Granted, this is not exactly your everyday event, but surely it does not need to result in any falling out. Just accept the fact of differing opinion.
Another issue that is understood but not given the emphasis it deserves is that of Trump's mental decline - something he time and again claims about Biden. Yet this article make interesting reading on thisd exact topic:
At the moment, as things stand, USA is doomed to Trump as the next R-candidate. To me, from half the globe away, that is simply horrifying. Yet not much more horrifying than having Biden as his opposition. Choice of leader candidates by Americans seems just dreadful. How is it Americans cannot choose suitable presidential candidates? Trapped by your much vaunted constitution it seems?
Your reading comprehension is lacking. What your Afrikaaner chum claims, was just never written, never read and ipso facto never deleted, it simply is not in any database except for a database of his imaginings. Is it not utterly silly to claim the deletions can be found given that is true?
There was a thread of mine deleted by CS because the Luke galah and I had heated exchanges, and both of us were cautioned by CS. Nothing of the kind he imagines or invents was written there by me.
Everyone knows something(s) that no one else knows. It is possible but unlikely you know someting deep in Computer science that I do not. I still teach and study in several fields of computer science, and struggle away in ProjectEuler.
The thread you have written here as a joke is sexist in high degree.
Silly-billy, I have 50+ years in computing and 48 years in Arpanet/Internet. It will be difficult to locate messages on CS which never existed other than in the mind of the liar who issued the invitation. The three clowns chastising you here give you an opportunity to rethink and even revise your original blog. You might even consider a thread delete.
@OP you took the time to put this shallow thoughtless 'garbage' blog about 'equality' here. Surprised about the response? Well not a deep thinker, perhaps. I am surprised you have not had other females blasting you for your facile jest... Now you too try the paternal condescension on someone clearly more literate and intelligent. Get a boyfriend? What, someone like you? Accomplice? Jeez chum - how do you say paranoia in Afrikaans? aaah dieselfde woord dasselbe Wort.
@merlot Well no, and if you look back you might note I raised other questions earlier. This is NOT A DEBATE. It is a blog thread on a certain topic. I am not privy to the reasoning behind the prosecution, but am mildly interested in knowing something about it. You on the other hand may be perfectly cognisant with all the background by virtue of your deep research... And no, my purpose is not to ridicule you, but you should at least recognise your own tone, and your bluster when it is so evident to others. Perhaps you can find a more suitable word than condescension and bluster?
I worked in finance and banking systems for 30 years, in mortgage, high net worth and portfolio management, but never encountered shady business of this ilk, so I may be ingenuous in this area too...
@OP and @Triumvirate=OP/Luke/Grand reducing the issue of gender equality to opening doors and other () of polite behaviour is so male prepubescent. Opening doors in another sense is in part however what it is about - opportunity and power and status. Anyone who equates gender equality with doors has a serious lack of understanding.
@OP and as to homosexual, racial, immigrant, minority rights and equality, whether you like it or not, if you raise equality you will almost certainly find that coloured women, immigrant women are at the very bottom of the prejudice heap. Poor you, stealing your thread you think?
@merlot that was a cringingly condescending reply of yours claiming masterly knowledge and understanding of big business ... creepy in high degree.
The bank(s) almost certainly accepted the applications (knowing the valuations were fake) after considerable discussion. I don't know what the basis of these charges is, it all seems rather strange. Trump is and has for all this millennium been, a crook. A word he applies daily, even hourly to Potus46. I suggest the banks knowingly accepted the risk, seeing something in it beside the mere interest margin. It is difficult to see the crime in the victimless deceit/fraud, but the DOJ seems to think it worthwhile.
Other ongoing cases against Robus45 seem to have much much much more merit.
The Western media lean strongly to the West, and the American even more strongly to the American, and by your reasoning equally or more untrustworthy. Biased or not, the likes of Murdoch have enough influence and affect to act as king-makers at the margin. As to the likes of BLM or other movements for other underprivileged, anything that can swing the scales more evenly is important. To right the balance even fractionally is a small victory.
Americans tend to avoid anything outside continental America like the plague. Yet a huge number 'trust' Fox News, and swallow Donald Trump's absurd claims. Rejection by them says nothing about the actual credibility of Al Jazeera. Alternative views of the world are useful to those willing to think.
What input or spoken word can a law clerk have to justify a claim of bias? Yet Trump insists that Greenfield is biased/partisanSo what has Greenfield said or done?
@grand after the struggles of the 70s when new laws had been introduced and segregation largely removed, racism was more or less swept under the rug in America, everyone seemingly assuming it was a dead issue, but it has always bubbled along under the surface. In 1994 US ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and UN later reviewed and reported: UN Review of US Record on Racial Justice Should Prompt White House Action
Your blog heading language makes BLM a mere example - only now do you actually say the topic is murder. However ethnically directed murder is a prime reason for BLM with the police execution of blacks per 100,000 being 6 times as great as the rate for whites. Despite @tenof claiming this is a passe issue of 200 years or so ago, it is a present day fact. Racism runs in the veins of Americans, whether that notion irritates you or not. Racism is still an everyday fact in America, in Australia too, though to a much lesser extent. 14% black and 18% hispanic Americans live that fact.
What then is the 'real' problem? Race, Gender, Colour, are not cards to play in Texas Holdem, but they are facts and issues and problems that affect millions, whilst they merely irritate you. What you say in your topic opener is pretty vapid, people speaking about these issues annoy you. What do you contribute to resolution of the underlying issues, however? You appear to want the sufferers to shut up. Or is there something less shallow in your words? As to whether MLK would be content, he would know how much he achieved but also how much remained to be done. Same for women, for homosexuals, to a lesser extent too the indigenous peoples of the world. Annoy you, do they?
No it is not, and it has greatly improved. So has the lot of women and of the first inhabitants, of the deprived and downtrodden, but it is far from ideal. Life expectancy has stretched from 40 years to 80 years, and not via silence and acquiescence. The strident voices create the chance of more and more improvement, but they need to ring out, silence is submission.
@op so people with strong strident views on whatever topic get your goat do they? You wish they'd just shutup and remain silent do you? The dozens of Gays murdered in Australia in the late 20th century, well no one should speak up about them, right, because it irritates you? The millions of women harassed accosted sexually abused diminished in the workplaces and universities, say nothing, right? Stumm, that's the word, right? The black or indigenous people throughout the world, underprivilege is just, and none should complain, right? Laws and education can improve these things, and laws and education come to be precisely because people speak up, loudly.
Al jazeera (by and large) give an even-handed alternative view on global events, and your out-of-hand dismissal merely reflects your own bias and stereotypes. Who has more credibility, do you think, Al jazeera or Fox and other Murdoch media? hmmm? You almost certainly don't know, but your prejudice will no doubt see you blurt out anti statements, without any of the research you claim. You just expressed a strong opinion based on zero research and zero thought.
you (plural) seem to be putting 1B1R all down to financial self interest. That is a mistaken and simplistic view, and ignores the dimensions of diplomacy and influence. Diplomacy and international influence are strong factors and motives both for the Chinese and for America in particular in opposition. The opposition is a driving force too in the Western media rumour mills which assert 'crumbling'
With fading eyesight, and even with the little threading tool I'd probably stick the thread in the finger - threading the needle to sew on buttons is a problem - particularly when travelling. Not few of my shirts and trousers are in consequence missing buttons. Cuffs though ... cannot remember wearing trousers with cuffs. Come to think of it, cannot remember last time I stitched anything. Oh yes I can, in Jakarta, 10 years ago - trousers, but I found a tailor next day, and he ripped me off (pun intended). I think it was a zip in fact.
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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.