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Have a great day @juliang , hope ya get wet .
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@andy mac
Yeah this was in Kuta.
Sate Babe Bli Ketut.
Best I’ve had
seeds wrote:indo-dreaming wrote:seeds wrote:All hot chips are like that. Yuk!
No dinner tonight for me. Dreaming of this.Looks good but i much prefer with satay sauce than sambal.
Twas Babi and the sambal was the best I’d tasted
Babi, Indonesian for pig. FWIW, I’ve surfed 4ft Babi and bird observed on that island ( Babi Island, Banyaks Group) .Some very special monarchs and other birds that have speciated due to island isolation. Must go back soon. AW
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Had a mate and his wife’s name was Barbie . Komang asked me why my mate always called his wife pig ? Had a another friend called Marty and that really cracked them up .
Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:I’d suggest Tim Tam,, Exxotixjerk ( whoever you are ) if you don’t like the rules of engagement, just fuck right off, plain and simple and I’m referring to you.
What’s with the different names. What, are trying to trick us ?
You can have as many names as you like, but, you simply can’t hide because if you’re smart enough, you’d soon realise everyone writes with a personal style , it’s very easy to discern,
Carry on Swellnetters, we often get the odd fly in the ointment. AW
Listen Einstein Tim Tam and me are different people,
Do you look like a fucking fool ?
Yes
In fact to prove my point famous botanist,
I quite like Tim Bonythons videos and Tim tam doesn’t , not that I’m going to hate on him for that, so go figure brainwave .‘“Its a great real-time adventure in free speech. My friend, lol, was banned for bitching about Bonython’s vids. You can’t do that!,”
Juliang.
Stunet and others who run Swellnet can do what they bloody well like.
If you don’t like the rules don’t play. AWDude that was Tim tams opinion not mine, once again you make a total fool out of yourself,
Last bit of oxygen to waste on you.
For your information , Alfred Russel Wallace was not a famous botanist.
Again, you’re highlighting you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, you’re just the tool. AWAnd Tim tam is probably going to laugh at you to if he reads your reactive assumptions,
It's HILARIOUS! What a bunch of jokers. Anyway I've had enuf of this pointless exercise... arguing with numbskull fools who'd lick trumps arse if they could. And all i ever said about Bonython is that for a very privileged rich kid he unfortunately lacks imagination for surfvids. I just get the feeling he gets all coked up and pretends he's a famous rave dj'er when editing. Anyway. All the best exoticjeff. Its is all about writing styles ... ... ... May stunet rule over his pathetic little kingdom with his fascist mentality. If i get bored enuf I'll come back as exoticgene!! So long suckers.
Supafreak wrote:Had a mate and his wife’s name was Barbie . Komang asked me why my mate always called his wife pig ? Had an another friend called Marty and that really cracked them up .
Hahaha that’s funny
I don’t get the Marty bit though. Please explain
Mati is dead in Indonesian .
Marty would be sleeping in his hammock and old ibu would look at me and say Marty and smile and say mati . The pronunciation is similar .
Supafreak wrote:Marty would be sleeping in his hammock and old ibu would look at me and say Marty and smile and say mati . The pronunciation is similar .
ha, that is gorgeous, @Supa.. I can picture her smiling and saying it.
Hehehe funny stuff
TimTam wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:I’d suggest Tim Tam,, Exxotixjerk ( whoever you are ) if you don’t like the rules of engagement, just fuck right off, plain and simple and I’m referring to you.
What’s with the different names. What, are trying to trick us ?
You can have as many names as you like, but, you simply can’t hide because if you’re smart enough, you’d soon realise everyone writes with a personal style , it’s very easy to discern,
Carry on Swellnetters, we often get the odd fly in the ointment. AW
Listen Einstein Tim Tam and me are different people,
Do you look like a fucking fool ?
Yes
In fact to prove my point famous botanist,
I quite like Tim Bonythons videos and Tim tam doesn’t , not that I’m going to hate on him for that, so go figure brainwave .‘“Its a great real-time adventure in free speech. My friend, lol, was banned for bitching about Bonython’s vids. You can’t do that!,”
Juliang.
Stunet and others who run Swellnet can do what they bloody well like.
If you don’t like the rules don’t play. AWDude that was Tim tams opinion not mine, once again you make a total fool out of yourself,
Last bit of oxygen to waste on you.
For your information , Alfred Russel Wallace was not a famous botanist.
Again, you’re highlighting you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, you’re just the tool. AWAnd Tim tam is probably going to laugh at you to if he reads your reactive assumptions,
It's HILARIOUS! What a bunch of jokers. Anyway I've had enuf of this pointless exercise... arguing with numbskull fools who'd lick trumps arse if they could. And all i ever said about Bonython is that for a very privileged rich kid he unfortunately lacks imagination for surfvids. I just get the feeling he gets all coked up and pretends he's a famous rave dj'er when editing. Anyway. All the best exoticjeff. Its is all about writing styles ... ... ... May stunet rule over his pathetic little kingdom with his fascist mentality. If i get bored enuf I'll come back as exoticgene!! So long suckers.
No arse licking here pal, when you subscribe, you get a pair of plastic undies.
Didn’t yours arrive in the post ?
We all look forward to seeing all of your Surf Videos in the future. That’s if you can ever get out of your tea infused bedroom.
I’d be pretty cautious with those personal accusations of Tim Bonython.
For your sake I hope he reads them. Ta Ta. . AW
TimTam wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:I’d suggest Tim Tam,, Exxotixjerk ( whoever you are ) if you don’t like the rules of engagement, just fuck right off, plain and simple and I’m referring to you.
What’s with the different names. What, are trying to trick us ?
You can have as many names as you like, but, you simply can’t hide because if you’re smart enough, you’d soon realise everyone writes with a personal style , it’s very easy to discern,
Carry on Swellnetters, we often get the odd fly in the ointment. AW
Listen Einstein Tim Tam and me are different people,
Do you look like a fucking fool ?
Yes
In fact to prove my point famous botanist,
I quite like Tim Bonythons videos and Tim tam doesn’t , not that I’m going to hate on him for that, so go figure brainwave .‘“Its a great real-time adventure in free speech. My friend, lol, was banned for bitching about Bonython’s vids. You can’t do that!,”
Juliang.
Stunet and others who run Swellnet can do what they bloody well like.
If you don’t like the rules don’t play. AWDude that was Tim tams opinion not mine, once again you make a total fool out of yourself,
Last bit of oxygen to waste on you.
For your information , Alfred Russel Wallace was not a famous botanist.
Again, you’re highlighting you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, you’re just the tool. AWAnd Tim tam is probably going to laugh at you to if he reads your reactive assumptions,
It's HILARIOUS! What a bunch of jokers. Anyway I've had enuf of this pointless exercise... arguing with numbskull fools who'd lick trumps arse if they could. And all i ever said about Bonython is that for a very privileged rich kid he unfortunately lacks imagination for surfvids. I just get the feeling he gets all coked up and pretends he's a famous rave dj'er when editing. Anyway. All the best exoticjeff. Its is all about writing styles ... ... ... May stunet rule over his pathetic little kingdom with his fascist mentality. If i get bored enuf I'll come back as exoticgene!! So long suckers.
You won’t go far juliang , tim tam , exxoticjeff , how about just being you ? or do you find that boring ?
Juliang.
What I find odd about you, is that, everyone else seems to be able to function on here with little to no dramas using their chosen name.
It’s not that hard to participate.
Look at guys like IndoDreaming, Zenagain, VelocityJohnno, TrueBlueBasher, they’ve had their same names for a decade and a half in some cases. We know how they operate and behave etc.
Someone changing it up all the time in my opinion is either trying to hide themselves from who knows what.
Or, you are simply role playing all different things going through your head, albeit you’ve got various alter egos.
See, you remind of a blow fly hovering over a turd, you know you want to land, but ultimately it’ll be a shit decision. All the best. AW
seeds wrote:indo-dreaming wrote:seeds wrote:All hot chips are like that. Yuk!
No dinner tonight for me. Dreaming of this.Looks good but i much prefer with satay sauce than sambal.
Twas Babi and the sambal was the best I’d tasted
Argh okay no peanut sauce makes sense then, i love it when it had a little bit of fat on it.
Found the place by accident. Could see the smoke from the grill pouring onto the street. Are there 3 nights in a row.
Perfection with meat fat ratio
dang, making me hungeee for smokey bbq bamboo meat and rice @seeds.. and Warung suka/kafe Suka Suka doesn't open on Tuesdays : (
..might have to give HELLO INDO on Gouger St a go for tea..
Going to step in to the sambal here, great topic btw, mouthhwatering.
Been reticent to post here lately, young @Juliang was a bit off putting and I've been very busy the last few months so no time really, today I have and apparently the many faces of @Juliang have taken their bat and ball to play elsewhere, so here's few of today's thoughts on the topic at hand, scroll on if you think I'm full of it or "boring" as I get accused of a lot.
So DJT was going to stop the wars in one day after his election victory, in one phone call.
So it's day 14 and...checks notes...wars are still going.
Trump announced he had spoken to Putin in the days after Nov 5. WAPO and Reuters were fed the story, widely reported in the US, saying Putin had praised Trump and that Trump told him not to escalate the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin then announced that was bullshit, they had not spoken, and that there were no plans to speak. When put to them that Trump had in fact not spoken to Putin, Trump's spokesman said they don't comment on such calls, less than a week after they just had.
Russian TV then screened nude photos of Melania.
Trump then announced Tulsi Gabbard as head of Intelligence overseeing 18 intelligence departments including the CIA, the FBI and the NSA.
Tulsi Gabbard is accused of being a Russian asset, has no intelligence experience and has amplified pro Russian propaganda in the US.
Since that phone call which didn't happen Russian state TV and the Kremlin have again openly threatened the use of nuclear weapons.
Trump is owned by Putin, has been since before 2016. Putin will decide when the war ends in Ukraine, when the time comes to negotiate, not Trump, and he has kompromat on Trump. It's obvious. No American President in modern history has been so owned by the Russians.
The nude pics of Melania on Russian TV was a subtle reminder.
Trump did make a call to Zelensky, Kyiv has confirmed it took place. Half way through the call, Trump handed the phone over to Elon Musk.
I would have thought Elon was busy with his businesses and putting man on Mars during Trump's four years as was promised, but it appears there is nothing this man can't do.
He fucked twitter pretty well, I'll give him that. Maybe he is a global peace maker as well.
(the fall out between these two bros, and it's coming, just watch and wait, is going to be spectacular.)
On the other war, looks like Trump's man Huckabee has gone down well with Smotrich and Ben Gvir, the guys actually calling the shots in Netanyahu's government, so expanding settlements and giving more land to Israel, and killing more Palestinians, looks to be the strategy for peace. That'll do it.
Bibi will bomb the shit out of Lebanon and shortly after Trump's inauguration will announce a cease fire to make Trump look good, like he is a war stopper and much will be made of it. Bibi will keep on killing Arabs though.
Back in the US, 11 million immigrants are going to be rounded up and deported.
Trump's only got four years...unless....
In the entire eight years of the Second World War the Nazis only managed to round up 6 million Jews and others to send to the camps, and they didn't have to worry about things like due process and the rule of law, so it's going to be a tough ask ...unless...
And the Nazis had the Einsatzgruppen, and the camps were built already, and they used trains, you can fit more on a train than a bus or plane, and they were starving and killing most of their detainees, so Trump's got double the number to round up and half the time and America still has due process and the rule of law and no where to house 11 million "vermin"...unless...
And Trump's plan will be seeing a lot of planes full of "animals and criminals" and the odd fictional cannibalistic serial killing doctor apparently, flying around endlessly looking for some "third world shithole" to give a landing clearance to unload it's "filthy" cargo. Might need planes that can refuel mid air for that one.
So a few hiccups with the mass deportation policy, but I'm sure Elon has a few ideas.
And that's even before we discuss his pick for Attorney General, or the mad Kennedy.
This "golden age" of Trump is going to be fun to watch.
Over two hundred years to build the greatest (debatable) democracy the world has ever seen, the beacon of democracy, liberty, equality and justice, the City on the Hill from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount the defender of freedom and democracy the world over and all the rest of the bullshit they have rammed down the world's throat since Washington crossed the Delaware, all to be hollowed out and dismantled and turned into some half arsed (or should it be "half assed") neo fascist, 21st century new authoritarian basket case like Lukashenko's Belarus or Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey or Trump's boss and hero Putin's Russia. The new fascists, the one's that conquer from within rather than crush and destroy from without.
All of it, from the Revolutionary Wars, the Star Spangled Banner, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution with it's Bill of Rights, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Civil War, Pearl Harbor and storming Normandy, (even Stormin' Norman), the civil rights movements, the women's rights movements, the cold and hot wars, on and on, all of it, American democracy, founded on the great pillars, two hundred years of pillar filler, democratic law and machinery, that many brave Americans died for...in the shitter for a lunatic egomaniac con artist who promised to avenge their grievance and give them a golden age of greatness if he just had the power.
The Germans tried that once, so did the Italians around the same time. Didn't end too well.
The Americans tried it before with Trump in 2016, it ended with an insurrection and nearly got the Vice President hung from gallows.
Last time Trump and his people were just winging it, this time they appear more organised and ready, and Trump owns Congress and the Supreme Court. The founding fathers did put in checks and balances when they drafted their Constitution, but I doubt they anticipated a Trump, who could really?
It will be interesting to see if the great American experiment, that has endured civil war and world war and depression and civil unrest that saw it's cities burn, and been tested before, many times, does endure four more years of Trump, and what it looks like at the end, because they are trying a new experiment now, one that seems to bear little resemblance to the 200 odd years old one, the one they built from scratch, American democracy.
Replaced it with a Clown Show Experiment.
Some reading for those interested...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-russian-state-204400985.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0endd8qj01o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vnx8zn440o
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-will-discuss-with-trump-top-us-pr...
https://theconversation.com/is-donald-trump-a-fascist-no-hes-a-new-brand...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/is-trump-a-fascist
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/09/madeleine-albright/mad...
https://fpif.org/the-ugly-origins-of-trumps-america-first-policy/
^ good to have you back @adam12.
Julian, if you want to continue this charade as 'Jeff' you'll have to drop your old peccadilloes.[/quote
Please explain, how is that a charade when you blocked Juliang , and how come AW can change his name with no issues, but god forbid if anyone else does, ?
And please explain to the rabid crowd that Tim tam is indeed someone else.
So basically everyone with a pseudonym, is continuing an ongoing charade .
I get it now.
Thanks Base,
further to my little rant above, should have probably mentioned it.
They tried this direction before, the Americans, this isn't the first "America First" movement that took hold, and power, in the US.
Back around the time of the first fascist explosion across the world, Hitler and Mussolini had many "friends" in America, who heaped praise on the dictators and paid visits to inspect their war machines and held remarkably similar rallies at MSG to the one Trump just conducted.
The "America First" movement also had the backing of the biggest media baron at the time, Randolph Hearst, and the world's greatest car maker, Henry Ford. Today we have Murdoch and Musk.
It was isolationist, and it was pro fascist and it controlled Congress and was quite prepared to see Europe, including Britain, fall.
Roosevelt had to supply the Brits with what he could under the table, without Congressional approval.
Then American soil got attacked, and America First died literally overnight.
https://fpif.org/the-ugly-origins-of-trumps-america-first-policy/
History repeats.
No one can answer why, human nature perhaps, but it does.
But it rarely throws a mirror. It tends to repeat in echoes, amalgams, by throwing arcs or sounding bells or planting seeds that land or resound or grow in other places and times.
Same same but different.
History is throwing a lot of arcs at the moment, ringing a lot of bells, some of them from times of great darkness and instability and that came with much death and destruction and war.
It's a worry.
And it's not just the Dems. and never Trumpers that are noticing it, objective historians and political scientists and commentators are pointing things out.
Who knows how the pages will unfold this time.
Trump just adds to the uncertainty of it all.
But if it repeats like the last time, the world looks headed for war.
I hope not.
Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank