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Three things that are now overdue:
* Theresa May losing the leadership of the Tory Party
* Trump declaring a National Emergency
* The very sick RBG resigning
I have no confidence in these things happening.
Most of it is pretty sound.
True. But his attacks on people are not always sound. Its not going to be pretty when he sees these posts. Fortunately I am in Portugal.
No one in Portugal has been attacked by anyone. Ever. Safest place on earth.
Jannie is JC’s mum.
Did anybody catch the JC walking on the beach with his wife watching the dolphins. Aaaaahhh. How touching.
I call BS. She obviously left him years ago and now he is reduced to living his life typing in pyjamas insulting total strangers.
Sad.
He does however have a very unusual fixation with making homosexual slurs / comments. Time to come out of the closet JC. It is 2019 and nobody will judge you. You can do it.
LOL JC is harmless. When he goes off about people with his nicknames it’s like he is in some sort of parallel universe. Who knows or cares who Ronery and Rooster and whoever are, or what JC’s whacko beef is. Just scroll on past. Like walking past someone sniffing glue on the street really.
No, that’s egg.
I’m bored. But not bored enough to attempt a record.
I’m more pondering the internal battle within America itself.
My best guess is that America will become isolationist. If the statistics of almost 25% of the prison population being non-US citizens is correct, you can see exactly where this is heading. That is astounding on paper. And the rest of the mismanagement and waste.
You could build ten walls…..
Condolences.
Gee Arma just go for the record. I’m not sure anyone wants to see you pondering the internal battle within America itself tonight. I will check back later and see how you’re faring. So stand back everyone, Arma is going to go gangbusters for 60. Ready, Arma? Set! Go!
I suspect that “Jannie” is a bloke. Probably South African.
I can tell by the accent.
I’m sensing troubled waters. Tuesday might be my best shot.
Like at maybe 4 o’clock or something.
I wouldn’t want to upset Tom, he’s normally here around five. And I’m a bit slow. More like a turtle than an Armadillo.
Hollywood has really lost the plot.
Clint Eastwood used to “shoot em'” in the arse, and the heart.
Was “Brokeback Mountain” was some sort of “inspired” modern day version.? They got it wrong. Really wrong.
Did you just assume someone’s gender?
Triggered!
Hollywood executives must have said we need a movie where blokes get shot in the heart and arse. Successful storyline for 30 odd years.
They decided to let a dickhead director manage it.
My mistake. Jannie, how should I address you? Bloke? Shelia? It?
If you ever hear a bloke address their Sheilah/Missus in the following terms, steer clear……
Hun, honey, baby, sweet cheeks.
Weirdos.
“Ug’s” is the the correct term. In more formal situations, it’s appropriate to just say “ugly”.
Sheliahs love that stuff. Mrs A even uses it in her email address.
Surprisingly, she hates me calling her a “Sheliha”. Go figure.
I miss Arky.
He’s probably pinned under the Model A, desperately reaching for his mobile phone to call Triple 0.
Meh. He’s not our problem now.
We gave him JC’s hotline number. He should have used it.
We tried our best.
No guilt.
Could have been that jogging shit he was on about that “done him in”.
Definitely a bloke Arma, and the name is a Saffa Dutch tag. When I get called mother, its usually followed by the f word.
I narrowly missed a jogger the other day. The missus was driving. I had the passenger side door wide open. She needs to learn how to drive as far as possible to the left.
Boer? I hope your relatives didn’t kill my great great uncle. I might be a bit pissed off about that.
His name was Tom.
Sinc, please check out that Jannie’s relatives didn’t kill my great great Uncle Tom.
It’s not that sort of blog.
[I’ve checked Ancestory.com – more information required – SINC]
[I’ve checked Ancestory.com – more information required – SINC]
He was on a horse and was wearing a slouch hat.
Not Boer, my Dutch quarter was from Batavia post WW2, my other quarters British and Rhodesian. But conversant in Afrikaans and Dutch.
You can leave a message for Rones (AKA Zulu). He speaks Afrikaans. Wealthiest man in Australia to enlist in the Army, apparently. He might buy you a car.
Do you need a car in Portugal?
Ask him for train tickets. He’s loaded.
Must be “sock night”. Traditionally that’s on a Wednesday.
I hate change.
Armadillo, can you finish your thread-wrecking so I can load cartoons? Ta.
Sinc, please don’t change “sock night”. It gets really confusing.
#ineedasafespace
Go ahead, Tom. I was guarding the joint.
Not until you’ve finished.
Everyone’s patiently waiting.
What’s the go? Do you want a count down or something.? Just post them.
Stroke? Heart Attack?
No cartoons today folks. Toms possibly dead.
Sinc, you need to put in an advertisement for a new cartoon bloke/Sheliah.
No great loss. The last one was starting to get snarky.
Possibly incompetent, but let’s run with the “Tom is dead” theory.
I’m not going to his funeral. Won’t even send flowers.
Official Announcement – Tom had his fingers severed in a horrific accident. He’s attempting to post the cartoons using his nose.
One of theses days Tom will post 100 “cartoons in a row
Might as well have a drink for him. Cheers.
One would be a start.
JC, any calls to the hotline?
Someone should call an ambulance. I’m busy.
Update: False alarm. Can someone lend Tom some money for his Telstra bill?
🙂
Why the smile, Bespoke? Are you a beneficiary of his will?
No
Arky’s latest video is a treat.
Roy (Chris “Roy” Taylor, Herald Sun, Melbourne).
Peter Broelman on the Darling River.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley #1.
Steve Kelley #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez #1.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Bob Gorrell.
Gary McCoy.
Robert Ariail.
He lucky to have great grand kids to help.
Agreed, Gab.
Watched it yesterday and even subscribed.
Arky! A picnic tea with your helpful videographer princess. What lovely memories.
Cheers Tom
Roy is funny today; thanks Tom
On the Peter Broelman cartoon. Darling River is not the first.
First came the Anabranch, sacrificed to the climate gods.
It is now dry unless the Darling is in flood.
Who needs Regular TV when we have Arky’s DIY show? Great project.
Pastor Fred Phelps projecting again.
How’s Dot?
Methinks the Pastor has a fixation with Dot’s dot.
The Nonebot never sleeps.
Is dot gay?
not that there’s anything wrong with that….
It’s a great project for Arky’s apprentice. She’ll have fond memories to last a lifetime.
I “helped” Dad build a campervan from scratch (including the trailer it sat on) in the front yard. Those ear plugs are a worry. The only protective gear he ever gave me was when he did the arc welding. 🙂
From Bruce’s Wiki link:
Perhaps “managed” in this context means something different to general English useage.
Also, what part of “ephemeral” don’t people inderstand?
chicom retribution
China hands death penalty to Canadian drug smuggler in retrial
Whenever I’m watching Fox cricket and Neroli Meadows comes on the screen, it reminds me of this:
I think it is more an inconvenient word that conveniently does it get processed by their made up minds. After all, rivers should always be full like their swimming pool.
If I was a cotton grower I would be thinking about suing these pricks for their lies.
Teh Nonebot’s arch enemy, for some reason.
/Pastor Fred Phelps
Also, isn’t it more likely the Darling Anabranch “managed” the local population of indigenous Australians?
What was Fred’s comment about denied latent homo fantasiss a while back when Arky was receiving some brotherly love here?
Tony Burqua out witnessing the fish kill on the Darling.
Tony reckons the fish have survived droughts for decades but not this one.
Indigenous spokesman says they have looked after the River for sixty thousand years and we have stufffed it up in a couple of hundred. Blue Green Algae has existed just a wee bit longer than our super custodians. Algae doesn’t care if fish die.
Talking to truckies, they tell me that kangaroos are perishing in vast numbers in Western NSW. Standing beside the roads, swaying with weakness and waiting for a brief shower so they can lick the tar for moisture.
Not fish I suppose and not as dramatic for the political opportunists.
Building a fish trap is not managing a river. It’s exploiting its resources.
We desperately need some radical geosculpting.
A nice, big mountain range would be perfect.
Off you go then Magical Managers.
A side-effect of virtue signalling is that it actually replaces virtue. It saves having to actually act through your proclaimed convictions.
Funny comment by a teenage daughter of friends of ours from the sub continent.
She was asked what the best thing about about India?
“The airport when you’re going back to Australia.”
Assimilation achieved.
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Today’s revision. Are you commie or a citizen?
More than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers demanding higher pay and smaller class sizes have walked off the job in the second-largest US school system, union officials say, leaving 640,000 students in limbo.
Danger money.
… Look at me! Look at me! (Like a $20 hooker) I only got the job because I have a vagina.
Most annoying virtue signalling hire on sports TV. At least Isa Guha has some class, is good-looking and has played the game.
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/cubbie-station-still-80owned-by-chinese-company-ruyi/news-story/c7393ae7ffa19039cc09a78fa90f53bb
Isn’t it literally toxic Nazi racism to attack the massive chicom owned Cubbie Station for stealing the fish water to grow cotton?.
One road, one belt, one fish.
Comrades.
California says non-whites have lower IQs:
California Bar Should Lower Cut Score To Benefit Students Of Color.
25 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa and the ABC airs a BBC journalist reporting that black support is slowly but steadily shifting from the ANC to the Democratic Alliance, which has its roots in liberal opposition to apartheid going back to the 1950s.
The DA’s slogan is: An Open Opportunity Society For All.
A former leader stated that this was in contrast to “a closed, crony society for some” under the ANC.
Even a worm turns.
Good luck to them they’er going to need it.
Legal advice?
…they’re going to need it.
Necklacing?
Funny comment by clever Indians considering which country to emigrate to (usually out of USA, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ – in that order):
“Trouble with Australia is that the racehorse can only run as fast as the donkey”
Assimilation achieved.
Not an uncommon sentiment in my experience.
Taxing drugs. More revenue! Legal MDMA? Who to sue for responsibility on this?
Mr Newman’s comments have been backed by criminologists, who have linked the surging cost of booze at summer festivals to teens shifting to cheap and potentially deadly party drugs.
Er…why does no politician suggest a reduction in excise on alcohol, particularly beer?
So uncontrolled drugs will be illegal.
As they are now.
Freedom baby!
Yes!
Desalination plants around the world are pumping out far more salt laden brine than previously believed, according to a new study.The salty effluent is a by-product of efforts to extract fresh water from the sea.Researchers found that plants are now producing 50% more of this chemical laden cocktail than expected.The brine raises the level of salinity and poses a major risk to ocean life and marine ecosystems.
More to the point, what happens when Wonthaggi effluent meets Antarctic ice? Has the Hunchback thought this through?
And wine, the whole bloody lot!
Australian wine can be more expensive in Australia than abroad – I can often buy the same bottle of Australian wine at Tesco’s in the UK for less.
Spirits prices in Australia are just stupid. More than twice the USA, 3x Spain.
Sometimes, I’d go out for a quiet whisky or brandy or vodka or cocktail, rather than buckets of beer or wine but it’s more politically acceptable to shoot heroin. They even give you an injecting room.
Ok, declare a national emergency and build the wall. Stop tweeting about it and do it.
MSM say MDMA is a ‘party drug’. How could a ‘party drug’ be dangerous?
How can a “party drug” be anything but?
Let em go for it. The smart ones and the cockroaches will survive.
USA Constitution might be a problem.
And ambulance chasers?
Making the law we live by, one suit at a time.
Stack, we’ve gone over that in previous threads with countless links.
I don’t understand anyone who needs laws to behave sensibly. Probably showing my age.
Trump is now saying:
Spirits prices in Australia are just stupid. More than twice the USA, 3x Spain.
I know, Nob; it’s ridiculous.
USA Constitution might be a problem?
For Male Cats
as Masculinity is attacked
What are the Demographics of Psychologists?
Terry Brennan emailed out a link to the breakdown of women to men at the APA and states: “The zeitgeist is; men are bad, and only look out for themselves (or other men) and are hostile to women. As such, society needs to put women in charge of everything, as women will look out for everyone’s best interest, and won’t attack men.”
“Well, the APA just put out guidelines attacking masculinity. So, what is the gender breakdown of the APA?”
Relax and Watch
“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” Rex Harrison My Fair Lady
and
Stanley Holloway – With A Little Bit Of Luck – – My Fair Lady 1964 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbpDCzac3M
Spirit prices, electricity prices, fuel prices, house prices, and on it goes down to general clothes and , well, generally everything.
We can’t get those spirits anywhere as we are treated like children in all things and banned from decision making and free will.
This place is not only one of the most expensive, back door taxing shitholes on earth but also the most over regulated.
Good Moaning.
Trade Practices Act 1974, Lionel Murphy decided we needed to be regulated.
Feser: Materialism subverts itself
They’re begging us to put them back in the kitchen but can’t say it out loud.
The modern western man does not understand women even more than any head scratching male in history.
Excellent question.
Daily Mail reporting that Sam Dastayari has dumped his wife for a former Gillard staffer.
Why does no politician suggest a reduction in spending?
The fact is Australia’s nine governments want youngsters to use pills.
That is the upshot of ludicrously expensive alcohol.
They also want people to go on smoking cigarettes rather than vape – because revenue.
The state cannot win the war on drugs (including cigarettes).
To quote Harry Reid on Iraq, “this war is lost.”
Should have included above
Get Me To The Church On Time – Stanley Holloway – My Fair Lady 1964
And then there is that.
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World Youth Day Panama 2019
Tuesday, 22 January to Sunday, 27 January.
The Diocese of Parramatta has 171 pilgrims attending. They are flying out this morning. Please pray.
Meegan?
Seriously?
strong>Engineers question strength of Opal Tower support beams
Engineers investigating defects at Sydney’s Opal Tower have raised doubts about errors in the design of key horizontal support beams.
As an interim report into the cracking of concrete panels that triggered two evacuations of the building is expected to be released, investigators disagree as to whether the grade of reinforced concrete used in the support beams was strong enough to withstand the pressure of precast concrete panels installed on top of them.
Several sources close to the investigation have told The Australian that one theory is that the beams lacked sufficient strength, causing pressure on the concrete panels, which cracked and sparked the evacuations.
But another theory is that grouting between the precast panels and the beams contributed to the cracking in the panels.
Investigators’ reports handed to Planning Minister Anthony Roberts last week appear to have found the builder, Icon Co, appeared to have built Opal Tower according to the specifications it was provided with. The Department of Planning had been expected to release an interim report last Friday.
Four separate investigations are under way the defects at Opal Tower, but The Australian understands there has been significant disagreement between the experts on the causes of the problems.
The investigation team comprises WSP, Rincovitch Partners, a third party hired by Icon, and Cardno, an engineering firm hired by the body corporate. The NSW government also appointed two engineers to take part in the investigation: University of NSW dean of engineering Mark Hoffman and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle’s School of Engineering John Carter.
So far, the multi-party investigation team has agreed only on a remediation and reoccupation plan for the building, with the findings submitted by some parties to the Planning Department reportedly sent back to them for reconsideration.
Other sources suggested the precast concrete panel that failed on level 10 had cracked and been patched before its installation in Opal Tower, though its failure was only a symptom, not cause, of the building’s design flaws.
It is understood that patching of precast panels — which do not affect the buildings structural integrity — is a common practice.
Residents began returning to their homes at the weekend after its first evacuation 22 days ago.
The building’s strata committee has told residents not to return to the building until all of the engineers reports from the investigation agree as to the cause of the defects.
WSP, the original design engineering firm hired by Icon to supply the technical plan for the building’s construction, did not respond to request for comment.
The 38-floor building at Sydney Olympic Park gained national attention when 300 residents were evacuated on Christmas Eve and again less than a week later after creaking noises were heard and cracks appeared across different levels.
The APA is medicalizing masculinity:
Don’t let the qualifier ‘toxic’ fool you. They clearly mean masculinity per se. Liberalism is at war with the human. It always has been. But it cannot succeed. The task itself is Sisyphean. But like Camus, liberals will humor themselves with the contention that the absurdity of the task is itself fulfilling.
How many voters will accept a reduction in spending?
It’s all about finding problems to grow government.
And if you know of a problem Australia doesn’t have but other countries do, import it.
And if there is no problem (domestic violence) make it up.
So the problems we have from Aboriginals, mussies, power generation, alcohol consumption, is all caused by government precisely to grow government.
And the Australian taxpayer passes the Indons a cool 360 million dollars a year.
Indeed. The fun part is always when they get squashed by the boulder.
Thanks Tom.
in the attack on Masculinity
Steve Kelley #1
and
Steve Kelley #2
sum it up for me and win today
stackja
#2907656, posted on January 15, 2019 at 10:07 am
C.L.
#2907650, posted on January 15, 2019 at 10:01 am
Why does no politician suggest a reduction in spending?
And then there is that.
How many voters will accept a reduction in spending?
Why do we need a Federal Dept of Education?
Education graduates need to be ‘classroom ready’
Education Minister Dan Tehan’s determination to improve teaching courses to equip graduates to better manage classroom discipline is an important step in redressing Australia’s educational malaise. Like Mr Tehan, teachers, their families, students and parents are appalled by the levels of abuse suffered by teachers at the hands of disruptive students. Too often, teachers feel like part-time police, but without the enforcement powers to pull the problematic minority of serious troublemakers into line. In his five months in the portfolio, Mr Tehan has heard from teachers about their experiences and their strong desire to see respect restored to classrooms. Improving the practical teaching components of education degrees will be vital to addressing the problem.
While reform of teacher training has been under way for several years, universities are divided about the value and composition of teaching performance assessments, known as TPAs, for graduating teachers, as Rebecca Urban reports today. The goal of the TPA tests, as Mr Tehan says, should be to ensure that “when you finish your teaching degree … you have the qualities and capabilities to be able to teach’’. It is important to note, as Australian Council of Deans of Education president Tania Aspland says, that if teachers “can get students engaged in learning and they love learning, then discipline problems tend to be minimised”.
For at least 20 years, The Australian has covered the declining results of Australian students compared with those of students in other nations, especially East Asia, despite the allocation of billions of extra Australian taxpayers’ dollars to turn school performances around.
Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek also raised an important issue last week when she pledged a Labor government would bar low-scoring high school students from entering teaching degrees. Future teachers, she said, would need to be drawn from the top 30 per cent of academic achievers. And unless universities lifted entry requirements towards ATAR scores of 80 or above, a Labor government would cap places in teaching degrees to make them more competitive.
The Australian has warned about that problem for years, from the time the Gillard government introduced the demand-driven university entrance system and removed caps on places. Teaching entry scores plummeted, especially in provincial universities. Last April we reported that several institutions in NSW and Victoria had offered places in education degrees to students with ATARs below 40, 30 and even 20 in the case of Victoria University. Both states have imposed minimum benchmarks for teaching recruits, but some institutions, in order to fill places, offer bonus points for a range of reasons, from mature age entry to social disadvantage.
Australia’s education standards will not improve as long as some teaching courses remain soft options for underachievers. Nor will they improve while graduate teachers are ill prepared for the realities of classrooms.
But he said sexual predation had also been identified as a factor in one-third of all indigenous children who suicided. He said it was notable that the five most recent deaths were of young girls.
Dig deeper Gerry.
I imagine indigenous children are rather reluctant to talk about sexual abuse.
Bullying of teachers out of control
Teachers must be given better training to manage classroom discipline, Education Minister Dan Tehan has said, amid concerns graduates are increasingly unable to control disruptive and abusive students.
Mr Tehan said he had been shocked by the level of abuse experienced by teaching professionals since he took over as minister and called for a sharper focus on making teachers “classroom-ready” by the end of their university degrees.
In an interview with The Australian, Mr Tehan said he had spoken extensively to teachers and there was a strong desire to see respect restored to classrooms and broader school environments.
He said he was left “staggered” after a recent meeting with principals: “When I asked them … if they have ever been verbally or physically abused (doing their job), nearly every single one … put their hand up.”
Research from the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment has revealed that Australian classrooms are among the most disruptive in the world, ranking 63rd out of 68 countries. The report, which analysed what went on in science classrooms and used data from a survey of more than 14,000 students from 760 schools, revealed 40 per cent said there was high levels of noise and disorder in class, that students didn’t listen to the teacher, and “they found it difficult to learn”.
Other reports suggest that when handled effectively, behaviour management programs can boost academic progress by at least three months.
Mr Tehan said teacher training for graduates in the area of classroom management and more broadly remained an issue where work needed to be done.
“The key thing is when you finish your teaching degree that you have the qualities and capabilities to be able to teach,” Mr Tehan said. “What we’re not seeing is (graduates) with enough practical experience and knowledge of how they should operate in the classroom. It’s about making sure that teachers understand the importance of having a clear objective for their lesson, making sure they have got the appropriate classroom management skills and are able to get the required classroom discipline so all students can learn.”
Reform of the initial teacher education (ITE) sector has been under way for several years. It was sparked by the 2014 report of the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG), which revealed a high degree of variability in the quality of courses on offer, including “significant pockets of objectively poor practice”.
New standards for the accreditation of ITE courses were rolled out in 2015 to align course content with the professional standards for good teaching practice. The Education Council agreed in September to more reforms to ensure all courses met the standards, regardless of their jurisdiction, including the rollout of teaching performance assessments (TPAs) for graduates.
The tests have been met with some push-back from parts of the sector. A recent TEMAG forum heard that there was a lack of agreement from the universities as to the value of TPAs.
While Mr Tehan acknowledged there had been some resistance, he said he had confidence in the reform process.
But critics have claimed the ITE course standards are too vague and that the process of accreditation lacks rigour. La Trobe University’s Pamela Snow said: “They are not at all specific and it’s very easy for a program to look like they are meeting the accreditation requirements. It shouldn’t be open to individual universities being free to interpret the standards as they see fit.”
Education policy expert Stephen Dinham, of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, agreed more work was needed to strengthen ITE courses.
“The key thing is having a proper process of accreditation because at the moment it’s very low-level, it’s paper-based, its what the university says,” Professor Dinham said.
“I don’t think any course has been knocked back (for accreditation). Some might have taken a little while but they all get there.”
The federal Education Department confirmed that as of October, all ITE programs met the strengthened accreditation standards. There are 48 initial teacher education providers offering 349 programs and graduating about 18,000 potential teachers every year.
Australian Council of Deans of Education president Tania Aspland said professional experience for teaching students and teachers was the “unfinished business” of the TEMAG reforms. She cautioned against any bid for a “magic solution” to the issue of classroom management. “The focus should be more on learning than discipline — you can’t separate the two,” Professor Aspland said.
“If you can get students engaged in learning and they love learning, then discipline problems tend to be minimised.”
Teacher and author Greg Ashman welcomed Mr Tehan’s comments, given that classroom management was an issue that left many teachers worried.
While the course standards require graduate teachers to be able to identify ways to boost student engagement as well as manage challenging behaviour, Mr Ashman said much of what was taught was not useful, leaving many teachers struggling. “This idea that if you provide an engaging lesson that kids will be engaged and behave, it’s complete nonsense,” he said.
Mr Tehan said teachers also wanted the curriculum decluttered so they could concentrate on teaching the basics well.
Mrs mandela’s favourite party trick
Bullies belong in prison.
I think Struth has it right. This is a cry for help from a bunch of dim females who need their bottoms smacked. Unfortunately for them, they are too unattractive.
Three Rs!
“This idea that if you provide an engaging lesson that kids will be engaged and behave, it’s complete nonsense,” he said.
No, it’s not nonsense, it’s exactly as it should be.
Many generations prior went through 12 years of chalk and talk and learning by riot, the dullest classes imaginable by today’ standards, yet we behaved (largely) and came out equipped for further study or work.
Children today are over stimulated and spoiled, and I suspect it begins in the home with overworked mothers trying to hold it all together in the world politicians have deliberately created through poor policy choices for families.
“learning by riot”, lol – rote!
I remember in the old days when teachers were keen to ban corporal punishment in schools, and were assuring us that without the bad example of violence, children would be sweet and biddable.
Ho ho ho. Anyone who understood human nature could see what was going to happen, and it did. You brought all this on yourselves, educational theorists devoid of sense. Serves you right.
That’s what happens when stupid women are let loose.
I wonder how Dan Tehan would go trying to teach Keats to a room full of thirty young Australians.
But then why would you even try ?
If you leave school knowing SFA about English Literature can you call yourself an educated person ?
Juliar and Roz Ward ‘reforms’.
If you leave school knowing SFA about English Literature can you call yourself an educated person ?
University even…the parchment proves it!
Opposition politicians have accused the Labour-led government of raising expectations during election campaigning only to fall short while in power.
You don’t say.
Meanwhile, has Ardern located those “hundreds of thousands” of starving NZ children she was rabbiting on about during the election campaign?
You’d think that would be a priority.
From the Oz. Welcome to Bill Shorten’s Australia
Gillette addresses ‘toxic masculinity’ in new ad campaign
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/gillette-addresses-toxic-masculinity-in-new-ad-campaign
Welcome to Bill Shorten’s Australia
And big business can’t wait for it, buckling at the knees already.
Old Oakie doing the ol’ tax payer shuffle.
A few posters.
A few social media things.
Non-stop coverage by the ABC.
Gets 20% of the primary & trousers a cool 60-80k.
Maaaate.
If a small boy makes a nuisance of himself in class, a whack across the bum with a cane works well. Trying to convince him he is suffering from toxic masculinity and needs to be cured of it, by chemical castration if necessary, is not the humane option.
On the Persian Dwarf and the Juliar staffer – politics in Australia is creepily incestuous. It’s like a remote little village. One where you can’t pick the Idiot, as there are so many.
Gillette razor blades has now gone woke and runnning ads about toxic masculinity.
Whole world is now insane.
Schick for me from now on.
Maybe Gillette will support the month of no shaving of armpits and mowing of moots.
Just realised after four days of driving around Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas than we haven’t seen one wind farm.
And as I previously reported spirits are one-third of the Aussie price.
I’m not.
I think the western world is suffering from toxic femininity.
Windmills line the entire drive from Albuquerque to Amarillo to the north.
Texas has fallen.
C.L., my 20YO, just back from the BTV festival, tells me that the pill-poppers are not driven to pills by high booze prices – he says they are pill-poppers first and foremost, and would not prefer booze at a festival if it were being given away.
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It’s still hard to go past Tic Tac for pathetic virtue signalling:
But it was a member of the Mongolian community…
We have a Mongolian community?
Who knew?
Thankfully the little fellow came to no harm.
I certainly don’t respect all women. Many of them are fatheads.
Yes. And Tony Windsor?
The FBI is and always been a malignant organization. It should be closed down, or its remit reduced to cleaning toilets.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-sparked-at-least-1-500-california-fires-now-the-utility-faces-collapse-11547410768
The American Psychological Association has issued its first official warning against toxic masculinity. The new “Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men,” marks the first-ever report published by the association aimed at helping practitioners care for their male patients “despite social forces that can harm mental health.”
So American (predominantly female) psychologists have discovered the masculine version of hysteria? Will they call it penisteria?
Gillette can suck my hairy unshaven balls.
Is that link right JC?
That magnificent bastard Trump has served a huge spread of Maccas to the winning Clemson side.
Libs are going insane about it.
Eating Maccas at the Whitehouse would be killer.
Gillette believes that feminism/liberalism distinguishes between chivalry and t0xic masculinity but as I say above and as the APA statement makes clear, they are opposed to masculinity per se. Have people forgotten how feminism rallied against chivalrous conduct?
Presented without comment….
It was cathartic to listen to these four women’s stories; although diverse, the similarities were uncanny. Indiah Money, a Wiradjuri model, described her European features as a blessing and a curse, and spoke of the ways her light skin affords her white privilege.
Pic here.
Trump really is a genius.
Maccas is better than any snooty food.
They even had dipping sauce in silver bowls.
Thanks Leigh. Nope.
Here.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/
There’s also Mark Penn’s piece today. Also very good offering a comparative analysis.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mark-penn-fbi-trump-russia-investigation-shows-deep-state-was-worse-than-we-thought
Indiah Money, a Wiradjuri model…
How do you model a Wiradjuri?
But seriously…these girls need to get over themselves if they want to survive in the real world.
Stack
What happened with that car accident in South Dakota? The driver really hit a fence?
Earlier FIFO posted ‘I joked’. ‘I’m boring and not very nice. Just forget about me.’
Oh, Roger. You are so unreconstructed and charming.
Those girls are surviving just fine.
Grievance pays, and pays well.
Australia’s income earning elite.
The pic goes with the story on the Oz.
Oh, Roger. You are so unreconstructed and charming.
That’s funny, it’s just what my wife often says.
Australia’s income earning elite.
Shorten will tax them into oblivion in the name of fairness…just wait.
Years ago, I did stop buying Gillette for the reason they were gouging us consumers and went to trimmers. They are a diabolical firm and deserve to go broke. They deserve no quarter.
H!: if only the men here would take up waxing pubic hair instead of using a razor, you’d be able to stop buying Gillette and really punish them for their social conscience.
You are confusing Men with Cyclists.
Don’t do it again please.
Gillette can suck my hairy unshaven
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‘Meegan?
Seriously?’
Yep, Meegan Fitzharris, Labor ALP minister for, inter alia, health and transport.
A right little suburban school prefect punisher and straightener but completely hopeless at managing her crumbling portfolios.
Her media interviews are embarrassing, never a single question that she can answer satisfactorily and never a single piece of useful information that she can provide.
Never the less, she’s been touted as the next Chief Minister.
Whoops. Take off the blindfold. Bird Box challenge is over. There are many wind farms in the southern states, including the 3 you named.
Evidenced by their involvement in many (attempted) suicides.
No you silly young bitch.
You are too white to be aboriginal and you aren’t pretty.
They must have some toxic workplace at Gillette to come up with that ad campaign.
Why ever would a man want to shave, let alone wax his mons pubis, unless he was going for an operation in that region?
That’s a rhetorical question, Harken.
FMD
men use it on facial hair which is not pubic.
If you are shaving facial hair that’s pubic, we can diagnose that for you, and indeed we already have.
Is Louisiana in Victoria?
“we haven’t seen one wind farm.
Whoops. Take off the blindfold. Bird Box challenge is over. There are many wind farms in the southern states, including the 3 you named.”
TE said they haven’t seen one. He did not say there are none.
Your comment is a stupid “comment for comment’s sake”.
We will never see his type again:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BarstoolNewsN/status/1084960458900209664
The most aamerican man in history.
Hark – Conservatives may be bald on top and furry down below. But at least they aren’t like progressives who are furry on top and bald down below.
A pal has a theory that nearly all cyclists you see in their ball huggers and other assorted ridiculous attire are dudes who could never play sport at school.
Aboriginal women love our culture, we love our mob, we love our Country, which always was, always will be Aboriginal.
One can only surmise that they know little about the place of women in “their culture”.
All of the freedom of choice and the lifestyle they can now enjoy is the result of European colonisation.
That’s Rae
Really? Including Ilsa Koch and Myra Hindley? What featherbrain came up with that slogan?
It is on a par with the believe all women nonsense, whereby honesty is determined by genitalia.
FFS. These people are liars to the nth.
Infidel Tiger
#2907739, posted on January 15, 2019 at 11:49 am
We will never see his type again:
Thats just awesome, the butler lighting the gold candelabras as the packets of gut-rot sit there awaiting scarfing by the coming horde.
He sold me. I’m heading into town soon for a meeting this arvo and I’m stopping by a Maccas on the way. My mouth watered when I saw that vid . No kidding.
‘“You’re too pretty to be Aboriginal” is not a compliment. ‘
No one’s ever said that to her, what a crock!!
Yawn. The Oz is trying to minimize the Coalition’s coming electoral losses.
They need an updated photo, 2 “F”s in the title now.
Gillette respects all women.
The women who murder.
The women who rape.
The French President’s nanna/wife.
The Bobbits.
Sarah Palin?
Margaret Thatcher probably not so much.
Now considering Gillette is a company and NOT FUCKING HUMAN, prove it?
Gillette products have slashed more women’s wrists in bathtubs than my business has.
Your pal is right.
Weedy, skinny things with sunken chests, dull hair and spotty faces.
I confess to just giving myself a treat coming back from the quacks.
A Maccas Big brekky burger and a flat white.
European settlement. Ask the question of how many arid areas have become viable/more viable because of Euros sinking bores, building dams etc.
Prior to Euros – wasteland.
Add water and the roos (and other indigenous species) gather around the water.
Remove the technology and things will revert to wasteland.
“We have many, many french fries”.
Chuckle.
McDonald’s just makes people so freaking happy.
You people have no mercy.
Here I am driving around in the US convincing myself they are the saviours of the free world and here you go telling me they actually have wind farms.
I am still going to get a Trump hat though.
And I am still reading The Art of the Deal.
No shit, Hun.
Step away from the mirror, Precious.
Did anyone see the Mark Latham tweets about The Drum yesterday?
Volkswagen Announces Additional Plant with 1,000 New Jobs in Chattanooga, Tennessee – $800 Million Investment in New Production Line…
The God-Emperor strikes again!
Jobs that were “never coming back” to quote the lightbringer.
I was going to get one in Vegas, but got mean.
Now I live in perpetual regret. 😐
Nah. My brother is full on…he shaves his legs and has a Lycra line on them. We were comparing thigh muscles on Christmas Day (I’d never be seen dead in Lycra). He’s played comp cricket for a long time, much more than I.
I admit to a slight bare patch, but I blame wear and tear.
Let’s stop there, shall we?