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Beating Portugal in the rugby world cup.

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I will be going to a K-pop concert in early Feb and saw A1 in November

But went to see Thrice in Sept playing the Artist in the Ambulance in full (20th anniversary), my god they were good.

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You must have missed the neo nazi groups in the news and the recent laws that they felt the need to bring in to prevent its promotion. There was a school in Melbourne who was successfully sued for not preventing anti semitism against students. The protest groups that were yelling death to jews. The...

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Palestinian poll shows a rise in Hamas support and close to 90% wanting US-backed Abbas to resign https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-palestinians-opinion-poll-wartime-views-a0baade915619cd070b5393844bc4514 Yes. Big surprise there. Or not. Yah no, most arguments have been “undertaking a scorche...

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But violent suppression of the Palestinian people is not going to allow for a long term solution, its discussed in some of the articles I posted. To “destroy” Hamas will require severing the support it receives from organisations such as Hezbollah, and from Iran. But it will also require a long-term...

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So you learnt some lessons about the Iraq war and now retain the moral high ground because some lessons were learnt? Your hands are bloody like mine. We helped fund that war with taxes, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of women and children - and ruined lives for generations. But it's ok to ...

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I find it a bit hypocritical for Australians to criticise Israel for their self defence when Australia went to war in Iraq for 6 years. The estimated deaths in Iraq are any where from 100k to 1 million. 55% of which were women and children - mostly children. Australia went half way around the world...

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I find it a bit hypocritical for Australians to criticise Israel for their self defence when Australia went to war in Iraq for 6 years. The estimated deaths in Iraq are any where from 100k to 1 million. 55% of which were women and children - mostly children. Australia went half way around the world...

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if you believe Israel can claim to 'just be defending itself' by killing between 10 and 20 times the amount of civilians.... It might be worth considering whether we should all be doing more to defend Palestinian's from Israel given the onslaught they routinely find themselves under. Hamas is attac...

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Deputy mayor of Jerusalem has some interesting words to say about the fake surrender pics. "If it were up to me, I would have dispatched D-9 bulldozers and put them behind the mounds of dirt and would have given the order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they're still alive. They aren't h...

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Biden finally grows a pair of tiny testicles and suggests regime change in Israel. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-israel-starting-lose-support-over-indiscriminate-bombing-gaza-2023-12-12/ Only about 20 years too late. Im fairly confident that that is not what he said, and reading t...

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Spinbad seems to have merged with Mightyreds as a weirdo cooker.

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One of my favourite Alan Jones recent clips. Legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he1LXs0pvos Did you upload that yourself, mate? 40 views and 2 likes. Bit desperate :lol: Not at all. I trust the science in it - as should we all! :D You trust the science? Great, so you appreciate that increasing...

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The fake surrendering pics and videos are probably indicators of how tightly the narrative is being controlled within Israel itself. Although i still think it's strange that they'd go so far as to expect people there to believe a man who'd already been stripped to his underwear would still be holdi...

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Eugenes question....my thinking explained and admittedly there is a possibility I am wrong. The IDF has been using AI assisted counter battery and targeting software. Every Hamas launch shot is tracked and basically recorded. The Palestinians do not have storages and missile sites out in fields som...

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Rodney.....using the ISW interactive map can you show me how the IDF is blocking aid to South Gaza specifically ? I see no troop activity remotely near the Egypt border. https://arcg.is/11uru40 I have a concern with this line of thinking. And before we start, no, I dont give Egypt a free pass, I th...

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“Counter battery strikes and bombs on missile launch sites are unfortunate for civilians who do not or can not leave the area. That is where most causualties come from and once again Hamas surrendering and quitting that shit would be most helpful. Israel is not expected to simply absorb launches no...

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"Well, if it isn't my old friend, Mr. McGreg! With a leg for an arm, and an arm for a leg!"

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A reminder: what spurred this was Barnes disallowing a try to Aaron Smith consequent to the TMO finding a knock-on and bringing it to Barnes' attention. The most recent online version of the TMO protocol I could locate was the May 2022 update that took effect in July 2022 . This relevantly states r...

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Yeah that point is always conveniently ignored. In terms of Australian generation mix, I don’t think there’s a silver bullet. I wouldn’t invest in utility scale solar given rooftop solar (households) is cheaper. The South Australian market is really interesting. If you look at their average 24hr ge...

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But what you won't find with the instances in the Congo, or Myanmar etc is a sickening level of public support for the aggressors akin to what we've seen here. Exactly. The primary difference being the aggressors were killing Jews in this case. When the apologists claim I am dehuminizing .....I sim...

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Sorry, to clarify, who is supporting the aggressor? Who is supporting Hamas?
No-one on this thread has?
I made this point before. Hamas and the Palestinian people are not interchangeable. They are different.

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I do find this poll quite interesting. Prior to the Oct 7 attacks there was support in Gaza for a peaceful solution. Unsurprisingly as the Israeli response intensified, support for the Oct 7 attacks has increased. Did we doubt that? Around 50% of Gazians have experienced damage to their home. 10% h...

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I think it's more the fact that even now so many people still deny the severity of cruelty and violence used in the attacks, or in some cases that they even happened at all. Bollocks , who here deny anything such thing . Let alone that they didn’t happen ? @ Jackal, He has a point. They don't deny ...

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Did the other thread get nuked? Ill say here what I said there. Rassie and Henry have a lot to answer for. Head coaches of tier one nations should not be empowering the abuse of refs. Those two did. That filters down to community games. I expect leadership from two of the most powerful men in rugby....

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I do find this poll quite interesting. Prior to the Oct 7 attacks there was support in Gaza for a peaceful solution. Unsurprisingly as the Israeli response intensified, support for the Oct 7 attacks has increased. Did we doubt that? Around 50% of Gazians have experienced damage to their home. 10% ha...

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johnuknow wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:10 pm Most of you don't know him but I was shocked to hear Chuck Feeney had passed.

I was sure he went years ago

A truely remarkable man. Made billions and gave it all away. I read his biography, the Billionaire the Wasn’t.
He was the inspiration behind the giving pledge.

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Don’t forget about health insurance wherever you go, you won’t be covered by the local insurances if they exist and not sure if your own personal circumstances but likely not covered by your home system. That can rack up a bit of cost but the other option (and it does happen) is you get sick / injur...

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What is with the accusations of anti semitism thrown out here?

That’s pretty extreme accusations and I hope backed by more than just “they disagree with me” but I am concerned they don’t.

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blindcider wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:50 am 1. Blackpink

No other artists listened to

Long story but I have learned more about K-pop in the last few months than any man should.

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Plastic Sarrie wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:26 pm Alkaline Trio
Frenzal Rhomb
Public Service Broadcasting
Sabaton
Vandals

for me.

Spectacular taste in music.

1. Millencolin
2. Rebelution
3. Tribal Seeds
4. Michael Franti and Spearhead
5. Dirty Heads

Ive mellowed in my old age.

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I was talking with a guy about cellphone plans having free nights and weekends and he reminded me that the late 1900s was actually the time of beepers. Nah, we were using them in the mid 1980s and they were quite common then I got my first mobile in 2000 (Nokia 5110) but that was unusual. The 1990s...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:58 am What a grand time we had in the late 1900s. Windows 95 and then holy of all technological holies, dial-up internet. When the entire house couldn’t use the phone until you got off the internet.

And that dial up sound as you tried to connect...

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historically there has been huge migrations of people. the jews to israel being one! but india to pakistan post partition etc. The reality is this conflict is never going to end until there is a permanent long term solution. israel is not going anywhere-especially not when its backed by the west an...

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I still think your words are suggestive of the argument that hamas had a right to do this,that it is the fault of israel that hamas did this? if only israel did this or that,caved in here or there, hamas would be happy. That totally ignores who and what Hamas are.you can not negotiate with them.the...

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This is all minor. The big problems for most people are inflation, cost of living, affordable housing and climate change. The current policies aren't helpful for any of these issues. What policies do you think the ALP should be implementing to Make Australia Great Again? Australia is already great....

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bimboman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:56 pm And the final results in IfR are in.

Pre vaccine rates.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 201982X?ut

We,shut the world down for this.

Farva should be interested these are lower than the ones even I reported.

Why arent we considering those over 69?

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Man, they just don't get it do they? Conservative politicians in Australia appear to be the dumbest and most stubborn people around. Yes but they know there are dumbest and stubborn voters that will vote for them. I see Dutton & co clutching their election manifesto for the next election now, same ...

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It might just be me but if I was in that situation I would have tried to make that piece of land the best piece of land ever. What, if you were a mother with 3 malnourished kids and limited access to drinking water? Well done, you! Bit specious don't you think. They didn't start like that and have ...

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Beloved BBC ? I barely watch the BBC. Mate you be scrambling . Reframing the biggest victim in this shitfest is the act of a desperate exaggerator . If the current Israeli leadership is so dedicated and hopeful for peace , why then did both Netanyahu and Itamar Ben-Gvir call for Rabins death and th...

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