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factotum started the topic in Thursday, 27 Aug 2020 at 11:12am

Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank

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basesix Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 7:52pm

haha. klingon to it! from now on, the shortcomings of BD/SR is a severe lack of opinions!

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southernraw Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:01pm

haha. I'm just a vanilla icecream pretty much circling the SN drain.
The end is nigh!

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basesix Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:04pm

ha! fuck you've been good. I thought you were gonna implode at the end of whatever you had due at the end of that far off time... 2024, I think.. was that what it was called..?

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southernraw Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:07pm

Alcohol.

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basesix Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:19pm

mm. it's our particular overseer-condoned lubricant, we all hafta drink much more water, have a full belly, and make a time of day that deviantism is civil. and have hobbies and the sea. if we can't manage it, @burleigh and the Muslims win.
(and perhaps they should win. I've long though FNP Islamicism should be encouraged, Jesus having failed them, health-wise. And the non-religious couldn't give a rat's, as we've seen).

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southernraw Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:18pm

haha nailed it! Hilarious.
Yeah shit happens. Would be boring if we were perfect.
Live and learn.

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Supafreak Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 8:54pm
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Was meant to be a compliment.

you dance with a klingon, you shatner the bed..

I'm just aghast that i've been labelled opinionless!!
My opinions are the thing that have caused me so much grief on this website!! hahaha. Opinionless. Pah!! I'm off Jeffy now.

I knew you had a soft spot for jeffy and when he attacked you like he has everyone else , even those that bag the shit out of trump , I thought, fark it must be a tough gig, hating the whole world and everyone in it , all because of a orange man in a country far far away .

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southernraw Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 9:35pm

Yep, can't recall ever saying a bad word to Jeffy actually Supa.
Hope you're well legend.

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indo-dreaming Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 9:57pm

It's honestly so bizare to watch.

SR was rooting for Kamala hating on Trump before the election.

SR gives Jeffy a bit of friendly encouragement

But Jeffy still turns around and attacks SR saying he has no opinion's (such a weird call)

Jeffy is a very strange boy.

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southernraw Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 10:37pm

The forums are funny places indeed Indo.

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sypkan Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 at 11:16pm
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5 days and the western worlds wokeness will begin to be corrected.

Can’t wait

labor had to squeeze one more in

https://x.com/KobieThatcher/status/1879471165342941356

(I wish that's all it was...)

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andy-mac Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 6:07am
sypkan wrote:
burleigh wrote:

5 days and the western worlds wokeness will begin to be corrected.

Can’t wait

labor had to squeeze one more in

https://x.com/KobieThatcher/status/1879471165342941356

(I wish that's all it was...)

That'll will Albo the election! :/

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stunet Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 7:36am
sypkan wrote:
burleigh wrote:

5 days and the western worlds wokeness will begin to be corrected.

Can’t wait

labor had to squeeze one more in

https://x.com/KobieThatcher/status/1879471165342941356

(I wish that's all it was...)

One more daily outrage from you, eh Sypkan? For a self-identified clever commenter you're one hell of a patsy.

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andy-mac Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 7:56am

If Trump can see this through, that's a great start to his presidency.
Shows how impotent the Biden admin were... blood on their hands.

Edit: and would add Profeessor Jeffery Sachs to whom Trump tweeted his speech for helping the process.
May the cease fire hold and peace achieved....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/a-stern-message-how-return...

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goofyfoot Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 8:27am
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If Trump can see this through, that's a great start to his presidency.
Shows how impotent the Biden admin were... blood on their hands.

Edit: and would add Profeessor Jeffery Sachs to whom Trump tweeted his speech for helping the process.
May the cease fire hold and peace achieved....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/a-stern-message-how-return...

It’s incredible isn’t it.
Going to be interesting into watch what happens once he’s in.

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andy-mac Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 8:58am
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andy-mac wrote:

If Trump can see this through, that's a great start to his presidency.
Shows how impotent the Biden admin were... blood on their hands.

Edit: and would add Profeessor Jeffery Sachs to whom Trump tweeted his speech for helping the process.
May the cease fire hold and peace achieved....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/a-stern-message-how-return...

It’s incredible isn’t it.
Going to be interesting into watch what happens once he’s in.

Yep indeed.
Maybe he is going to be more concerned with keeping his house in order.
This clip has some interesting points.
Don't know much about speaker, but seems to simplify what many are saying what is going on in the USA and to a lesser extent Australia.
Title a little melodramatic.

https://m.

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wiseowl Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 9:01am

Thank-you stu for getting rid (I think) of juliang at long last. Why it took this long is a question only you can answer (family member?).

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burleigh Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 10:41am

Where is everyone that called me out when I said trump will stop the wars? 1 down, 1 to go,

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indo-dreaming Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 11:06am

I haven't listened to the dozen reports and media opinions needed yet to get a proper view and understanding of the deal

But from what ive seen it sounds like a terrible deal

33 hostages released but 9 or 10 are dead bodies so really it's only 23-24 hostages released.

And two are women IDF soldiers in exchange for releasing over 120 Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad prisoners

I guess it's all politics though, im sure Bibi has done deals with Trump behind the scenes, (hopefully in support of dealing with Iran) Trump get's to look good coming into power, Bibi keeps Israeli public a bit more happy seeing some progress on hostages released.

Going to be interesting, i cant see how Israel can ever give up a certain amount of control of the Egypt/Gaza border or even just a degree of presence in Gaza and definitely cant allow Hamas to govern again.

Even if the war stops in Gaza its really just a pause until Hamas break the ceasefire, and the focus will probably shift to Iran and the Houthi's.

Any ceasefire really means little in the long term scheme of things, it's not going to change Iran and it's proxies goal of destroying Israel and turning the land back to Islamic control, sadly that desire will never end, the best we can hope for is a regime change in Iran and a change of government in Gaza one that focusses on the people's future and needs rather than tunnels and rockets and destroying Israel.

BTW. something to note if the Biba's baby taken at 9 months as a hostage now 2 years old isn't released in this group, then that will mean he is sadly dead.

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flollo Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 11:29am

Truce in Gaza, crypto is booming, US CPI data came better than expected last night...What a time to be alive!

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stunet Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 12:03pm

...not to mention a week of south and east swell incoming.

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garyg1412 Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 12:31pm
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You're overwhelmed and overly obsessed by "woke", whatever "woke" may be.

Good question Salty
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seeds Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 12:49pm

I must admit I’ve never taken much notice of what this woke phenomenon is. I’m pretty anti woke, I guess, regularly using “what a load of shit” but can’t understand why anyone would get upset by all the wokeness. Live and let live.
If it doesn’t affect me I don’t give a rat’s other than an eye roll maybe.

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flollo Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 12:44pm
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...not to mention a week of south and east swell incoming.

Jeez, that's true. I haven't surfed in ages. Just some small sessions here and there. On the other hand, wingfoiling is going strong. We had some good winds this season.

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 1:51pm

people care because it's repugnant

and aside from all the non productive resources it chews up, as the institutionalised grift it has become...

its a vote loser

almost undoubtedly... and yet, certain strange forces soldier on with it...

which was my main point here

totally tone deaf, dumb, and defiant

in this particular case, decidedly autistic...

in that it undermines the original acknowledgement of country purpose

and essentially means nothing... an acknowledgement of autistic people... in a document about autistic people?

errr... ok...

absolute mindless gibberish

isolating and stupid whichever angle you come at it

labor clearly literally need an advisor to point out such ridiculous own goals

which is the real problem here...

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seeds Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 1:56pm

Well it’s all a matter of perspective I guess. Your railing as opposed to my eye rolling achieves exactly the same. Applies to the Labor party also.

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stunet Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 2:32pm
sypkan wrote:

people care because it's repugnant

and aside from all the non productive resources it chews up, as the institutionalised grift it has become...

its a vote loser

almost undoubtedly... and yet, certain strange forces soldier on with it...

which was my main point here

totally tone deaf, dumb, and defiant

in this particular case, decidedly autistic...

in that it undermines the original acknowledgement of country purpose

and essentially means nothing... an acknowledgement of autistic people... in a document about autistic people?

errr... ok...

absolute mindless gibberish

isolating and stupid whichever angle you come at it

labor clearly literally need an advisor to point out such ridiculous own goals

which is the real problem here...

Nah mate, it's just a hysterical non-story that you, the so-called media shaman, have fallen for.

Again!

You've said before how the conservative media doesn't set the agenda anymore, yet here you are perpetuating a story that is so pathetically pissant that it has only been run in the Daily Mail. And did you notice the DM's logical inconsistencies in slamming the acknowledgement? No, in your haste to cut and paste and echo a controversy that you so want to be true, I'll bet you missed that.

That acknowledgement...or thank you, or dedication, or whatever you want to call it, to the people who assisted is standard fare. It's not govt protocol across all the departments, you're not about to hear it in RSL clubs, it's just the written gratitude of a bunch of people who've worked on a detailed report.

I note they've worked on it for two years, so one hell of a project, yet the MSM and its associated agenda-following idiots haven't said anything about the actual content of the report. Is it good, is it bad? No, the only mention is to damn the pleasantries written as an afterthought to the whole thing.

But carry on. Tomorrow there'll be a whole other outrage.

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A Salty Dog Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 2:58pm
stunet wrote:
sypkan wrote:

people care because it's repugnant

and aside from all the non productive resources it chews up, as the institutionalised grift it has become...

its a vote loser

almost undoubtedly... and yet, certain strange forces soldier on with it...

which was my main point here

totally tone deaf, dumb, and defiant

in this particular case, decidedly autistic...

in that it undermines the original acknowledgement of country purpose

and essentially means nothing... an acknowledgement of autistic people... in a document about autistic people?

errr... ok...

absolute mindless gibberish

isolating and stupid whichever angle you come at it

labor clearly literally need an advisor to point out such ridiculous own goals

which is the real problem here...

Nah mate, it's just a hysterical non-story that you, the so-called media shaman, have fallen for.

Again!

You've said before how the conservative media doesn't set the agenda anymore, yet here you are perpetuating a story that is so pathetically pissant that it has only been run in the Daily Mail. And did you notice the DM's logical inconsistencies in slamming the acknowledgement? No, in your haste to cut and paste and echo a controversy that you so want to be true, I'll bet you missed that.

That acknowledgement...or thank you, or dedication, or whatever you want to call it, to the people who assisted is standard fare. It's not govt protocol across all the departments, you're not about to hear it in RSL clubs, it's just the written gratitude of a bunch of people who've worked on a detailed report.

I note they've worked on it for two years, so one hell of a project, yet the MSM and its associated agenda-following idiots haven't said anything about the actual content of the report. Is it good, is it bad? No, the only mention is to damn the pleasantries written as an afterthought to the whole thing.

But carry on. Tomorrow there'll be a whole other outrage.

Brilliantly expressed Stu.

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seeds Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 3:02pm

Just had a read. Acknowledging Austistic people in a report about autistic people seems legit.
It’s the governments way of trying to cut NDIS cost. Basically change in assessments of disability and one would assume the cutting of services and therapies.
There are already well established assessments and therapies that work. New assessments skewed towards knocking legitimate people off the scheme is repugnant in my view.
Cost cutting should be focused on catching those that rort the system.

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A Salty Dog Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 3:05pm

sypkan,

How would you categorise this:

https://ipa.org.au/about

Woke?

Virtue Signalling??

Or just plain unadulterated Vanity?

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andy-mac Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 3:28pm
A Salty Dog wrote:

sypkan,

How would you categorise this:

https://ipa.org.au/about

Woke?

Virtue Signalling??

Or just plain unadulterated Vanity?

I like an IPA, but not Gina's .....

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 3:39pm

well that's one take

another one is the autistic comedian guy in the article that saw it like I did...

it's the language, placement, and formatting that's a bit curious and seemingly thoughtless

which make it comedic fodder to make a point...

it's a laugh

as the whole thing has become...

no railing really seeds

lotsa eye rolling...

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 3:55pm

I'd call it nauseating propaganda saltydog

the labor party has it's own friendly and supposedly 'independent' think tanks, that do exactly the same...

just in an equal and opposite direction

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GuySmiley Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 4:04pm

^^ the first thing I do before deciding the veracity … or not … of the latest outrage that @sypkan posts is to check the bona fides of the person that he presents as his proof that things are as he suggests. Invariably his expert, like today’s, posts on X and has a long online presence triggered by the imaginary threats from the left mixed with a routine and flagrant disregard of the truth … now that is repugnant behaviour in any person’s book.

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Hiccups Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 4:49pm
sypkan wrote:

well that's one take

another one is the autistic comedian guy in the article that saw it like I did...

it's the language, placement, and formatting that's a bit curious and seemingly thoughtless

which make it comedic fodder to make a point...

it's a laugh

as the whole thing has become...

no railing really seeds

lotsa eye rolling...

Take the L

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 4:54pm

you keep doing you frownyman...

the article is there if you want to read it, sure dismiss the mail too... (I do... I literally never look at it unless directed to it...) but it doesn't change the context and content...

dismiss all you like...

and make assumptions of my motivations all you like...

but none of that 'fixes' anything

clearly you guys think there's nothing to fix...

but here's my prediction for the next election

- labor is going to reflexively make it all about climate change (...again... sigh...)

because they've got nothing else to spruik really...

- and dutto's gonna consciously make it all about cost of living, energy, possibly immigration, and woke stuff...

everything labor desperately don't wanna talk about!

so ignore it all you want, but labor have a pending problem...

and a glaringly obvious ideological blind spot

they display it seemingly proudly

as do you...

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Hiccups Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 4:51pm
GuySmiley wrote:

^^ the first thing I do before deciding the veracity … or not … of the latest outrage that @sypkan posts is to check the bona fides of the person that he presents as his proof that things are as he suggests. Invariably his expert, like today’s, posts on X and has a long online presence triggered by the imaginary threats from the left mixed with a routine and flagrant disregard of the truth … now that is repugnant behaviour in any person’s book.

sypkan's twitter reposts are the best, cos not only do you know they'll be complete dross, they'll also give you a good chuckle, even on the grimmest of days.

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 4:59pm

^^^

so we do all see the humour...

cool

(you all come across a bit hostile, considering the frivolity...)

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sypkan Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 5:21pm

anyway...

this is all a bit derailing and 'dross'

how is it with that trump guy?

the guy that was supposedly gonna give israel free reign...

reined em in like a bitch

a better question maybe is...

what is it with that biden guy?

it's almost like he was an impotent fool that no one was taking seriously...

a band of impotent fools...

that seem to get just about every big call wrong

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Supafreak Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 5:28pm

Biden-Trump teamwork advanced Gaza ceasefire, says outgoing US ambassador to Israel …………… Summary
Bipartisan cooperation began after Trump's election
Jack Lew emphasizes importance of Saudi-Israel normalization
Urges Israeli security, Palestinian self-governance for peace https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-trump-teamwork-advanced-gaza-ceasefi...

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Supafreak Thursday, 16 Jan 2025 at 6:48pm

Hegseth embarrassing himself badly . Needs to do more than just homework .