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wamberal

Bah. It's time we moved to a user-pays model in any case. We are moving towards the End Times according to the Evangelicals.

wamberal

I genuinely don’t think there’s too many undecided voters left around to be wooed. I mean, you either think it’s OK to storm the Capitol and lynch the VP. …Or you don’t. And the white evangelicals think it is all G*d's will. The handful of squillionaires who will benefit from the destruction of the...

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I’m hopeful the Rebels have a massive season that allows something new to be built quickly. If they go well early, perhaps it will spur decision makers to take action not to lose a Melbourne team. The players are fighting for their future, whether with the Rebels, or in Europe or Japan. Plenty of i...

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Bindi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:26 am HMP will be the new 10 by 2025. I am on the hype train (again). Likely starting for the Reds next weekend, which is enough for me.

He looks the goods. Seems to have it all.

wamberal

Thais the assertion of a sore loser. Its bullshit you old windbag. The bored's least popular poster lashes out again. :lol:

wamberal

Really dumb take if rugby is to get back on its feet. Tahs need to be winning. Coleman did some great things with Gordon in Shute Sheild, just cant bring it for Super rugby. Hes got 4 games. Coleman had a comparatively big cheque book in the SS. He bought a premiership? Gee who did Gordon beat in t...

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Pietch and Jorgensen have been in Wallaby squads as well. It’s the Tards curse. Long may it continue. Really dumb take if rugby is to get back on its feet. Tahs need to be winning. Coleman did some great things with Gordon in Shute Sheild, just cant bring it for Super rugby. Hes got 4 games. Colema...

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I worked for a while with an English chap (in Hong Kong) who had huge thick fingered hands, and what I can only describe as a "Neanderthal" skull. He did not last very long before he was sacked and sent back whence he came. As for me, I have 4% African blood. Doesn't everyone have a percentage of A...

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I'm being facetious... as we'd all have African ancestry... as we as a species originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago... so kinda unavoidable. But I assume you mean from more recent generations... do you know where in Africa you can trace it back to? My African blood is probably from a slave ...

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Do they test for Neanderthal? How far back does it go? Australopithecus? I worked for a while with an English chap (in Hong Kong) who had huge thick fingered hands, and what I can only describe as a "Neanderthal" skull. He did not last very long before he was sacked and sent back whence he came. As...

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Do they test for Neanderthal? How far back does it go? Australopithecus? I worked for a while with an English chap (in Hong Kong) who had huge thick fingered hands, and what I can only describe as a "Neanderthal" skull. He did not last very long before he was sacked and sent back whence he came. As...

wamberal

Personally whilst I enjoyed it I don’t quite share the hysterical reaction over Slow Horses . I am STUNNED!! Almost hysterical!!

wamberal

TheFrog wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:55 am
wamberal wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:36 am One thing about France that I have observed over many years is that we do not know which France is going to play on any given Saturday.

The world-beaters or the easybeats.
That wasn't the case over the last 4 years.

True.

wamberal

One thing about France that I have observed over many years is that we do not know which France is going to play on any given Saturday.

The world-beaters or the easybeats.

wamberal

Feel for the others suffering on here. Im 41 and have a very bad chronic nerve pain condition that leaves me in continual pain. its destroyed the life I once had and taken a terrible toll on my mental health. living in pain all day every day is brutal. of course there are lots of others out there s...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:21 am Argies tearing the normally competent Irish defence to pieces

Great to see. The Argies used to play 10 man rugby way back when, now they are producing dynamic ball runners.

wamberal

Any opinion on Ancestry.com? I just got my results back but I am careful with the info I share etc. FYI I am devestated by my results. Turns out I am 50% English 41% Irish and 9% Scottish. Dodged a bullet with Welsh though (0%) so there is that. From that I estimate that I am more British than 60% ...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:44 pm
TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:33 pm Good start by Australia.

Is Michael Hooper in the squad?
Not yet. Still training. I’d expect to see him by the time Vancouver rolls around though.

He has picked up an injury.

wamberal

"Masters of the Air" is being hyped enormously. Apparently huge money has been spent on it, not to mention direction by Spielberg, no less.

wamberal

Sure, if you're a complete idiot it would be confusing why there would be a desire to have a team in one of the biggest markets in the competition that's a sport mad town with an extensive rugby history, and a big PI rugby playing populace that has seen a lot of players rise through the professiona...

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Feel for the others suffering on here. Im 41 and have a very bad chronic nerve pain condition that leaves me in continual pain. its destroyed the life I once had and taken a terrible toll on my mental health. living in pain all day every day is brutal. of course there are lots of others out there s...

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There must have been a big fight behind the scenes. That's why Albo had to get the whole caucus together and win the day. If it had just been a cabinet decision maybe he would have lost?

wamberal

Albo will need to lift his game if he wants to be a winning Prime Minister. He doesn't seem able to sell any policies.

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Bindi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:02 am It's sickening that Albo is giving more people greater tax cuts, while the rich will still get a tax cut.

That's politics.

wamberal

The Hurled gives RR's career a lot of coverage today. Worth reading.

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jono45 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:20 am
wamberal wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:03 am We should never forget how corrupt the NSW Police used to be.
Lol....just the NSW police force.....?

I was born in NSW, and worked in the courts for a few years. Illegal gambling dens, sly grog shops, etc etc were just taken for granted. Sydney was absolutely riddled with corruption.

wamberal

We should never forget how corrupt the NSW Police used to be.

wamberal

I have a similar worry with my daughter with downs who just turned 1. 90% of the time everything is fine apart from the usual young kids thing, then you get the fear about what happens in 30 years, do I have enough time to set her up (unlikely except for our house), will her older sister do a Eug a...

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I hate my 40s with a passion. Having said that recently I started dating again and I have met someone I really like, so things are starting to look up again. I did not take any notice of this fred, being in my 80's!! I just stumbled over it and was struck by the depth of feeling being expressed. Th...

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wasnt non -white immigration mostly banned until the 1970s in australia? We had what was known as "The White Australia Policy" until about 1949. It was progressively dismantled until the advent of the Whitlam Labor government in 1972, at which point it was done away with. Our indigenous brothers an...

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I think wambers is the only other one here who can share your experience of 1950's Australia... I remember that my mother used to walk a long way to patronise a fruit shop that was run by two Chinese couples: the Lings. They were just like us (we assumed) just looked a bit different. At High School...

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Let's not wet our pants just yet. Iowa was always going to pick Drump. There's a long way to go until he wins the nomination. Haley could win New Hampshire.

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JPNZ wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:38 pm Have heard some great things about this Australian series on NF

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/boy_s ... iverse/s01

"Boy swallows universe" is a highly regarded novel, if anybody still reads these days.

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Spinbad wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:01 am

It was telling, I thought, that the President mentioned during closing arguments Engeron's nauseating incapacity to attentively listen (throughout the abortive proceedings).

Drump is not the President. He is the former President.

wamberal

grievous wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:59 am Its looking serious, nowhere to buy our Oz flag thongs and wifebeaters for OZ day.

Is there a chance these same retailers could also ban hot cross buns and xmas sales?

They'll sell whatever they can make money from. Obviously the Australia Day stuff is not profitable.

wamberal

7,305 days ago, on 11 January 2004, I woke soaked in sweat from a brutal nightmare involving alcohol. I took our dog for her morning walk and when I sat down for breakfast, my wife passed me the contact information for the local sobriety support group, with a gentle "maybe it is time to give them a...

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He would be in my all time XV. Fabulous player.

wamberal

On the general subject of scrums and idiocy, how about the shambles that follows when a hooker gets a card.

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A neighbour of ours flies for Qantas. He loves Boeing. Or at least he prefers Boeing to Airbus, thanks.

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Admittedly, Brunswick Heads is more doable when there's only two of you. Those donga-equivalents in the camping ground are not too bad out of high season. Used to love the pub at Brunswick Heads, but have not been down there for a fair while, due to Covid and also we had friends who lived there and...

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