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News tonight on arrivals by plane who, once here, went on to claim refugee status.
28,000 last year.
64,000 over the last four years.
No info on which countries they come from and the most common reasons they give.
Ok but it all on you.
A Paris Metro passenger was left critically injured on Friday morning after liquid, believed to be a type of acid, was thrown in their face. It comes after two other people suffered acid burns in a separate incident on the Metro.
‘I’d take the wall down,’ says Beta O’Rourke of current border barriers
Happens still – my co-worker has quite a bright 9 yr old whom I met in the tea-room recently, I ended up loaning her some age-appropriate paperbacks to fill the hot summer days. Co-worker however only allows the kid one book at a time, and herself never reads a book, and owns none.
Arky, so pleased to hear you will do more great work teaching maths, I think of you every time I share an episode of Wheeler Dealers with hubby. They made suspension springs in a workshop the other day. From scratch. The old-fashioned way ! You would have loved it !
Franking credits inquiry will continue despite Labor tantie
‘A disgrace’: Green heads explode after Coles releases new plastic collectables
Just like hamburgers and sausages made out of vegetables.
bespoke
#2935124, posted on February 15, 2019 at 10:48 pm
not quite what i had in mind
walled
Want to hook up Elle?
LOL!!
But the French do have their priorities all tickty-boo- No more mum’, it’s Parent 1: French ban ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from school paperwork
No wonder Ancestry.com is advertising DNA testing at such a rapid rate, the old family tree is a bit passe now. Welcome to the brotherhood of man. Which means, actually, no stolen generations. My my, this could be fun !
Black Ball
#2935134, posted on February 15, 2019 at 11:02 pm
ermagerd
15 years ago I had a falling out with a lesbian couple over IVF.
I was asked the question whether or not I though they had a ‘right’ to the procedure (presumably state funded)
my response was along the lines of …ah…not giving a flying fuck either way.
didn’t go over well at the time
given all that I’ve learned since then, I have to say, that my opinion hasn’t changed in the slightest
deplorable me
The advance of liberalism has always depended upon the state.
Is Tim Blair aware of this?
Black Ball, I read here you are Aboriginal. As a kiwi (pakeha), I grew up learning about the Maori culture. I learned to respect it. I can even speak the language. I came to Australia in the late 1980s and was shocked to see how Aboriginal people were treated. At the time I had never seen an Aboriginal person in real. I wanted to. A friend drove me to the Block in Redfern, where there were Aborigines sitting in a gutter, drunk. He said ” that’s what an Aborigine looks like”. WTF, I said. I asked if he knew about their culture. He said, they have no culture. I have since educated myself, and not through leftist propaganda. There is a deep and profound culture. Pity it is being ruined by white leftard activists.
India has said it will ensure the “complete isolation” of Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 46 soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir.
no I don’t think the climate will listen….
BBC: Climate strike: Why are students striking and will it have an impact?
Apparently it’s the 30 year anniversary of the Rushdie fatwa by that inbred c..t khomeini.
Boy, the West has really stood up to the muslim reavers, hasn’t it?
trying to put my finger on what’s missing…
what on earth could it be?
Tell us about it, spare no detail including the Moon bases.
ur virtues shine.
so good, so proper
ffs
..
Kiwis always incorporated more native culture into the mainstream.
Dunno why.
Probably because they would kill and eat us if we didn’t.
Also because some of the Maori stuff is pretty damn cool. Greenstone clubs, face tatts , carvings and eating people.
my business partner’s wife is NZ,
she’s a complete biatch but like eating people… yr scaring me Arky
Still, 10 yrs and not even a nibble
it will be ok
..
I don’t think there gave been any incidents since the 1880’s. You’re safe.
Probably.
Maori girls are lovely. Mate married one. Top bird. Hasn’t eaten him or anything.
Would enforcement of the ban involve the possession or use of firearms?
Tintarella di Luna
#2935141, posted on February 15, 2019 at 11:20 pm
only if his subscribers could be bothered
The native Taiwanese, I think, are related to the maori.
I think I will mention it to him when I see him next week.
A culture that never discovered how to boil water, let alone develop a written language?
My comment was directed at Black Ball because he mentioned me.
Do tell?
Tintarella di Luna
#2935159, posted on February 15, 2019 at 11:43 pm
thanks tints. let him know i wouldnt mind reading his reader comments too can ya?
He!
He! *2
The missus and I were walking through a Taiwanese native strip in a resort.
I asked her: whats with the shop full of wooden dicks we just wandered in and out of.
What?!!!! She asked.
Didn’t you notice that the shop we just came out of was stocked entirely with carved wooden dicks? I asked
She didn’t believe me. Had to take her back to prove it.
How do you walk into a wooden cock shop and not notice all the wooden cocks, and you being part native Taiwanese how come you know nothing about the apparently rampent wooden cock carving going on?
Well, she explains, the nationalists supressed native culture and language for a long time, and so did the Japanese before that.
Which explains the not knowing, but not the ability to ignore an entire wall of giant dongs.
bespoke
#2935162, posted on February 15, 2019 at 11:47 pm
those who tell dont know. those who know dont tell.
Arky
#2935166, posted on February 15, 2019 at 11:53 pm
time to swap er out bro
This live feed of the moon last night, allows you to see ancient alien structures.
Just joking. 😉
It is light and shadow playing games with your ….. hang on. What the fuck is that! Center screen at 18:42? Look at the shadow it casts. Wow.
Nice work from these blokes. I remember my first viewing of the moon from a telescope in the front yard. It was neat. But nothing like this. Up close and personal.
It is something you’d expect a space agency to do every night with their equipment.
Then I asked: What did you think they were?
“Saucepans”.
Saucepans?!
Ah, Bunyip. So many rumours, so little time.
So many pleasant hours with wine and verse, camping with thee beside yon billabong, Hairy lurking anxiously behind a tree. Or down on the moorings, unsettling the faint ghost of Joan.
Titania, Titania, would I were thee and not just simply Lizzie B.
Hairy now playing me Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (Solti 1958).
I am looking forward very much to reading and hearing more of Titania McGrath and visiting her truly inspiring website.
Your people, Black Ball, have a rich culture. Why don’t some understand it?
I thought it was only the leftist activists that encourage the victimhood mentality. It appears that some on the right do too.
I have appeared before the anti-discrimination tribunal (at work), accused, by an Aboriginal man of discrimination. I won’t go into detail, as I don’t want to out myself. It was a horrendous time.
I get there is a industry – a lucrative industry.
I don’t get the fanning of it by both sides though.
Worse than the time we were driving to Bendigo and she asked me: “What’s a caution horse”?
I was asked to join but turned them down.
New fred 🙂
Women can be very selective in what they see. Why, I could walk through such a display and see only some carved faggots. Wood, I could say airily, wood. You might get my drift. 🙂
And now the midnight hour.
I have heard the chimes of midnight? No. Not yet.
Tolls not the bell.
Three glasses of red wine tonight; more than I’ve had in ages in one go.
And a very good idea too. I shall appear, then disappear. ‘Tis bedtime betimes.
Sleep tight, Elle.
Sure thing urb, will let you know
I’m not Bunyip bespoke.
Though as soon as I read some of the writings, I knew who was.
Or was it the other one?
TFM:
Yep.
Considering the area this dill lives in, it would be very wise for him to move to Alaska, like yesterday.