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Blowin started the topic in Friday, 21 Jun 2019 at 8:01am

Have it cunts

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udo Wednesday, 11 May 2022 at 6:36pm
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stunet Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 8:08am

Sixteen day forecast for Plengkung. Pace yourselves, young wave pigs.

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Island Bay Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 8:27am

Faaaark

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udo Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 1:34pm

Up the playback speed to 1:25....

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stunet Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 2:34pm

Billy Morris on Camel:

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goofyfoot Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 3:28pm

Hows the wild quiver

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AndyM Friday, 13 May 2022 at 6:08pm

"Calling a man ‘bald’ is sexual harassment, employment tribunal rules"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/calling-a-man-bald-is-sexu...

Never a dull moment.

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Island Bay Friday, 13 May 2022 at 6:15pm

The West - killing itself with its own stupidity.

It would be hilarious if you weren't smack in the middle of it, and bound to go down the gurgler too.

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AndyM Friday, 13 May 2022 at 6:38pm

Exactly I.B.
Gonna get exponentially sillier and more difficult to navigate too, I reckon.

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Island Bay Friday, 13 May 2022 at 7:13pm

I know that it's become almost a joke, or a reference to gag on, but 1984 does spring to mind again and again - as it has the last two years.

The dystopian bit is deadly serious, but often you just have to half laugh, half cry, at the sheer madness of it. As GO said "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

Everything has been turned upside down, inside out, and we all know it. All the woke loonies know it full well, yet keep coming up with more insane stuff, like the Guardian article above.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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AndyM Friday, 13 May 2022 at 8:34pm

Yeah it’s mad, we’re in a post-truth world where people are free to reject objective facts and ignore definitions for objects and words.
Tribes are choosing their own truth based on ideology alone and it’s already at the point where we have no common ground for discussion.
Fucked up.

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tubeshooter Friday, 13 May 2022 at 9:10pm

Wow ,, sexual harassment for calling someone a 'bald c@#&' .?

I hope my neighbour doesn't read about this. I could be up for quite a bill.

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san Guine Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 8:58am
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Roadkill Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 9:56am
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Another Saudi apologist scumbag
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/greg-norman-slammed-for-jamal-kha...

Hard to understand why he is in bed with the Saudi’s. He doesn’t need the money, maybe the adulation and ego stroking is being missed?
He is gooooone from now. Forever a toxic apologist.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 10:52am
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Fliplid Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 2:12pm

This video is well worth watching

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san Guine Monday, 16 May 2022 at 8:07am

Here's an interview from everyones favourite tech billionaire

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/15/bill-gates-vaccines-read...

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Monday, 16 May 2022 at 8:59am

Bill Gates…..ugghh.

Billionaires should outlawed. He was specifically asked a question about that and he was surprisingly unstoked on the idea.

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AndyM Monday, 16 May 2022 at 9:20am

Although he explicitly said that rich people should pay more tax.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Monday, 16 May 2022 at 9:31am

That’s what he said. Is he then volunteering 49% of his earnings in order to display that his virtue is more than just skin deep?

Or does he employ the imperative of the super rich and decide that his contributions to society are “philanthropy “ and to be disposed at his personal whim?

Wouldn’t we all like to legally evade regular taxation and be loudly praised for spending whatever subsequent amount we chose on whichever pet project we found amusing? Particularly if that expenditure allowed us a controlling I influence on society despite the resultant diminution of democracy which may occur.

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stunet Monday, 16 May 2022 at 9:30am

Billionaires are just like us you know.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Monday, 16 May 2022 at 9:34am

If I was a billionaire I would not be anything like you or I.

I’d have have someone even suggesting as much assassinated by a satellite shooting laser beams with the raising of an eyebrow to one of my subordinates.

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Roadkill Monday, 16 May 2022 at 10:04am

Gates is quite a big douche.....he does a lot of good but...epstein

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AndyM Monday, 16 May 2022 at 12:40pm

"Wouldn’t we all like to legally evade regular taxation and be loudly praised for spending whatever subsequent amount we chose on whichever pet project we found amusing? Particularly if that expenditure allowed us a controlling I influence on society despite the resultant diminution of democracy which may occur."

Yes please.

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Patrick Friday, 20 May 2022 at 6:51pm

Mining for a climate solution: why going renewable means getting our hands dirty. 4 Corners.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 5:39am

“I can’t believe it’s monkey pox season already. I still have my Ukraine decorations up.”

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 6:09am

“I can’t believe it’s global famine season already. I still have my monkey pox decorations up.”

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Supafreak Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 7:12am

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 8:00pm
Patrick wrote:

Mining for a climate solution: why going renewable means getting our hands dirty. 4 Corners.

https://youtu.be/ZXA2ae46nWY

That was a very good link Patrick. Worked in every area mentioned in the program so pretty personal feelings, especially after long treks in the Tarkine.

And yet, the potential for Australia in a carbon 0 world, and geopolitically, is immense. What a time. I'd say go for it, but all Tarkine into World Heritage.

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 8:01pm
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“I can’t believe it’s global famine season already. I still have my monkey pox decorations up.”

nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition...

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seeds Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 9:01pm

I haven’t watched the show but Margaret’s review is gold.
I wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/the-only-byron-baes-review-you-nee...

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Rabbits68 Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 9:47pm
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I haven’t watched the show but Margaret’s review is gold.
I wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/the-only-byron-baes-review-you-nee...

Yeah I saw her review the other day. Brilliant :-)

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 11:29pm

That was a lovely review. I suspect soulless superficial rat humans might be the answer.

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AndyM Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 12:14pm
Rabbits68 wrote:
seeds wrote:

I haven’t watched the show but Margaret’s review is gold.
I wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/the-only-byron-baes-review-you-nee...

Yeah I saw her review the other day. Brilliant :-)

Shows like that must be designed for people to hate watch.
There’s simply no other explanation.

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Robwilliams Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 12:43pm
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What Orwell failed to Predict was that we'd buy the Cameras ourselves

and that our Biggest Fear would be that nobody was watching..

Classic. Just like sand through the hour glass. These are the days of our lives. Fragments of time.

Conspiracies, cults and phones. Onwards we plod waiting to be fed. Simple interest's forgotten, and the endless need to consume, to be and influence. Role models be gone. I and nothing more. Self interest is truth. Did you get it? 1000 likes and forgotten by next week.

Oh the memories of a simpler less self indulgent time gone by. Now all consuming in the need to be remembered, liked and to have the all ready saturated mind filled once more. Like an ever flowing stream, the flow is relentless. just like sands through the hour glass these are the days of our lives.

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 4:18pm

Hey Rob, the simpler time is still here, pick up board, get to surf, go out and surf, the thinking becomes the breathing, the momentum on the energy, it's all still here.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 5:56pm

We would not be hearing this sense of entitlement had the pharmaceutical corporations been enabled in their greed by the ludicrous mandating of vaccination against covid.

Modern fascism is old racism reborn under the imperative of corporate profiteering.

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1527521228688445442?s=20&t=L5jaXgEaLE6C_-8tW3zBLQ

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JQ Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 8:19pm

I assume you're talking about this, which took place in 2018, before the pandemic.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-bourla-vaccine-microchip/

Always pays to be wary of the grievance peddlers.

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Robwilliams Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 8:55pm
velocityjohnno wrote:

Hey Rob, the simpler time is still here, pick up board, get to surf, go out and surf, the thinking becomes the breathing, the momentum on the energy, it's all still here.

Indeed it is. Just harder to find with out reminders of the rat race. I'm just an old romantic reminiscing past loves gone by. Superseded by soulless tech merchants. No hard feelings just beautiful memories. Times a changing it's the devil I know. Take care of paradise where ever you may find it.

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DudeSweetDudeSweet Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 11:18pm
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I assume you're talking about this, which took place in 2018, before the pandemic.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-bourla-vaccine-microchip/

Always pays to be wary of the grievance peddlers.

Nope. This was said last week.

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Rabbits68 Monday, 23 May 2022 at 12:11am

“Take care of paradise where ever you may find it.”

Thanks Rob. You nailed it. It’s that simple. Did it again myself this very day actually. Cheers mate. Love your tunes contributions by the way. Keep them coming….

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udo Monday, 23 May 2022 at 6:15pm

Cape Crusaders - investigating the Surfing Subculture - Cape Naturaliste
https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1511&context=theses
Long read Warning - 300 pages.

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JQ Monday, 23 May 2022 at 6:40pm
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:

Nope. This was said last week.

Ok, fair enough, how ever, this technology was not born of the pandemic it was around before then, its intended purpose was for anti-psychotic medicines, the usefulness of this should be obvious for this purpose.

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seeds Monday, 23 May 2022 at 8:37pm

Another Byron review of sorts

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velocityjohnno Monday, 23 May 2022 at 8:49pm

the horror, the horror...

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Distracted Monday, 23 May 2022 at 9:22pm

How lucky was this prawn trawler trying to cross the bar at Mooloolaba recently.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-18/mooloolaba-sandbank-too-dangerous...

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seeds Monday, 23 May 2022 at 10:01pm

Pretty bad at the moment hey. Ongoing problem. Proposal to extend eastern groyne by 60 metres. Will this fix it? Wonder if it is extended if more sand will build up at Carties eliminating the mushburger effect.
A decade ago had a couple of fun novelty surfs across the mouth dodging the water police that were shooing off surfers. Was so shallow. Take off behind the groyne and race across the river mouth. Was thigh deep in the middle of the mouth.
https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2022/05/11/fears-grow-over-deadly-h...

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tubeshooter Monday, 23 May 2022 at 10:23pm

I heard it was getting pretty ordinary up there on the bar. Haven't seen that clip though, good job getting off the sand in quick time.
I also heard the commercial fishos dumped a shit load of sand in the local Maritime office driveway as a protest. Classic.