If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I always liked Tourniquet

Craig was a terrible casting choice. I like most of the Bonds prior to his run, particularly the campiness of Moore. The Spy Who Loved Me is probably my favourite.

Like Mrs Robinson?

It's weird not being able to see the sky for weeks and everything looking orange. The smell takes a lot of getting used to as well. Never seen anything like this, not even the 2003 Canberra bushfires. The day before those, my mum and I were canoeing on the lake. The sky was a beautiful blue, and the...

I didn't notice any real difference on keto, except that pooping became really painful.

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Yeah I'm in favour of proportional representation, like in New Zealand. Local character is most definitely not flattened, as long as your preferred reps/party can get 5% of the vote. Under 5% and you weed out the fringe loonies while representing the position of a greater proportion of your citizen...

He seemed to become a libertarian awfully quickly and seemed to spout all of the basic libertarian talking points without much evidence that he had though about them or really understood them. I think he is influenced by whoever he is talking to at the time. That's been a common point about Dave fo...

3. I didn't know voting is compulsory in Australia. What an interesting idea. It seems to have resulted in a remarkably high percentage of jokers being sent to Canberra. I am in favour of having a very simple and basic course in civics mandatory in high school, and available online at any time of l...

Congrats, Brive. At least you didn't miss out on the smokey air by being in Canberra for graduation.

My cousin is a professor at UNSW.

Clinton should have been impeached for bombing the pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan as a distraction. Bush should have been impeached for normalising torture. Obama should have been impeached for executing an American citizen without trial. Reagan should have been impeached for rewarding Iranian...

Clinton should have been impeached for bombing the pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan as a distraction.
Bush should have been impeached for normalising torture.
Obama should have been impeached for executing an American citizen without trial.

This is perfect ground for a misanthrope to come out and say they'll just nuke the middle east indiscriminately.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ SMH economics writer succinctly documents what I have been complaining about for the past year or so.

Not just you.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... ht-brigade

So does anyone have a favourite poem? I'm thinking of something off the beaten track - so probably not Kipling or 'The Ballard of Ned Kelly'. If you have a link to a youtube recital of it, or an alternate downloadable audio file that would be good too. I quoted Dante's Inferno in the comments of th...

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ https://411mania.com/movies/nicolas-cag ... ve-talent/
NO! Not he BEES!!!

This was true? I thought it was parody.

My grandmother came from Danzig. Krakow is still nice though. I love the castle.

I lived in Warsaw for 3 years in the early 90s. I went back to Warsaw in 2012 to visit. I didn't like it as much as I did as a young teenager.

Just finished watching Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old documentary. Very moving. 'Enjoy' is the wrong word, but it did hold your attention.

Imagine a new gay rights group having to hold its inaugural meeting in secret, and not in 1960, nor in Tehran, but in present day London: https://quillette.com/2019/11/04/meet-the-gay-activists-whove-had-enough-of-britains-ultra-woke-homophobes/ The trouble is that there aren't enough tall building...

Speaking of Madonna, I thought this video was interesting:

Far be it from me to point to the Trump thread when this place is already deader than a doornail… Also, my country recently returned a tired, incompetent government who spent the first half of the year laying mines because they so expected to lose. It just so happened the opposition managed to be so...

Scott's take on the collapse of New Atheism. PZ is mentioned a fair bit.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/n ... at-failed/

I can't believe how bad the transphobia is in Canada.

Crap. That was meant to be about broccoli man. I hit the wrong reply button apparently.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ It’s the thought that counts.

Broccoli is surprisingly hard to grow. The tiny bunches I get are almost immediately set upon by caterpillars.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑Could this be the answer?

Dear god no. Many of the worst takes of this administration have been Ivanka's brainchilds, and less said about Owens the better.

It's polarising because it is very inconvenient for a lot of people if true. The two poles are equally idiotic. It's just as illogical to draw conclusions about a scientific issue from the behaviour of degenerate moralising scolds as it is to think that being a moralising scold is constructive. For...

Jerry and the denizens of WEIT are bemoaning the fact that Trump has abandoned the Kurds in Syria to their fate. Hundreds may die and rape may be rampant: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/trump-does-the-dumbest-thing-ever/ I remember being in the army when Jerry and his friends d...

AndrewV69 wrote: ↑ :o :o :o

:lol: :lol: :lol:

And ThreeFlangedJavis wonders why the issue has become polarising.

No sane place wants to be a mini California, this is true, at least in terms of social policy. Wanting to do something about climate is not so crazy. I'm a bit concerned about the state of the discussion about the issue in Australia. Perhaps it's better than I think, but if the relentless stupidity...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ And "the movement"? Get a fucking clue, there is no movement.

There is a movement. PZ leads it. It just so happens to be a bowel movement.

I switched to a cheaper barber when my last one raised their price to $35.

Has there ever been any doubt that big-Australia mass migration (hidden behind multiculti) was anything other than a profit based ponzi scheme? I direct this query to non-Kirbites. No. Even lefties like Eric Weinstein are clear that this is been the case and the architects of mass migration were ha...

What bugs me about the current story is that the whistleblower who revealed that the CIA was engaged in waterboarding, while the Bush DOJ cleared him of wrongdoing, the Obama DOJ reopened the case against him and bankrupted him. Seems to me you yanks need to clean house at the CIA and their media wa...

Saw Joker. I went in thinking that of all the comic book villains, Joker was the one that needed an origin story least, so I wasn't expecting much. It's not a feel good movie, but very well made and enjoyable. If you liked Logan, you'll like Joker. Most of the woke takes were wrong. And Phoenix is a...

I was literally just going to post that. Can't tell if it is a poe or not. These days, it could be a deep cover troll or a true believer.

Right into the eye.

I don't have much time for children bitching about previous generations either. That's the entire point. Children aren't supposed to tell adults they're abject failures. Exactly why Thunberg has gotten attention and a thousand cerebral lectures have garnered a collective yawn. Adults talk down to c...

I'm tending to agree with you on this. Like Brian, she actively claims not to be the Messiah and doesn't want to be the face of anything. I doubt that her parents have forced her to do anything, but of course she has been influenced by the discussions they have had. Why don't they get a scientist o...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑I know a woman who has a designer vagina (no, seriously) and will often get it out for inspection. Apparently her "hanging ham" was repulsive to look at (her words, not mine) and was crimping her relationship(s).

Weird indeed...

Like men wouldn't all have 10 metre dicks if that surgery worked.

I don’t necessarily object to climate action protests, but given the age of most of the kids I’m seeing, this feels much more like that old Jesuit line: “Give me the child and I’ll give you the man”. The fairy story is that these kids just spontaneously organized a global protest on their own, cuz ...

I don’t necessarily object to climate action protests, but given the age of most of the kids I’m seeing, this feels much more like that old Jesuit line: “Give me the child and I’ll give you the man”.

Only weird thing is that they were driving well under the speed limit.

Saw a P Plater with a giant Trump 2020 flag flying off the back of their car on the way home today.

Eh, I don't mind flat-chested, as it tends to go with super petite and that tends to work for me. Never been to a stripper bar, though.

]Rather, almost everyone gets the majority of their information from the major media unskeptically signal boosting press releases from climate change activist organizations,whose claims are falsely presented as science-based. Eh, this is true, but I think the media manipulations. The Amazon rainfor...

Eh, debates about whether god exists, however cordial, aren’t very interesting, and ultimately pointless because it isn’t a position you reason your way into (and probably out of either, if I’m honest). But, going into the underlying meaning crisis that’s at the heart of the Western malaise, is fasc...

Perhaps one of the weirdest things about the current era, is that some of the more interesting conversations are happening between atheists and the religious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFL3xwEEG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKDm10S8As Paul VanderKlay's videos can be fascinating too. That...

I don't want to be a member of any club that would accept me.

Service Dog wrote: ↑ I just learned that the Video Music Awards statue-- and the MTV logo character-- is no longer referred to as a "Moon Man"

My beer googles aren't quite enough for that yet.

I'm just waiting for last call.

It's like the short horror story:

The last human on earth sat in a locked room. There's a knock at the door.

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ Sometime I wonder if I am the only sane one in this sanatorium.
Best to check. Ask yourself for a second opinion.

At some point you have to look at the numbers. It seems far more likely that you're the crazy one, rather than everyone else being crazy and you being the only sane one.

Kill everyone at birth. This satisfies the pro-abortionists, and the pro-death penalty. If it's mandatory across the board, then we don't have to take the risk that they might be guilty. Guaranteed to completely solve the problem in a generation.

So it's finally happened in real life. A person I unfortunately just met, with clear socialisation problems, is getting others to refer to them as "they". I'd give a clear pronoun myself, but I honestly can't tell. What pronoun does the "they" use to refer to theyselves? "We"? According to me, anyo...

So it's finally happened in real life. A person I unfortunately just met, with clear socialisation problems, is getting others to refer to them as "they". I'd give a clear pronoun myself, but I honestly can't tell.

Hunt wrote: ↑ We just found our first female president.

What a bitch.

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