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I'm planning an 8 course meal for my parents for New Years Day. I'm looking for a small fish course that isn't too fishy, as they aren't huge fish eaters. Anyone got good fish taster recipes?

Brive in his new home:

I didn’t say if. I said when. But no fixed timings. My daughter has just now finished school so I feel my indentured job is done. Looking for options. In a perfect world I’d teach history for a few years in a nice private school in a nice country town. Just like PZ, but without the tumble weeds. Bu...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:50 am

Keating wrote: ↑We have a moat.
I’d pay a fence surcharge to put one around Sydney.

Once I completed my tree change.

You're moving? Aren't Sydney property prices collapsing?

We have a moat.

How come there isn’t a word like ‘culturalism’? Discrimination based on someone’s culture.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/17/tocqueville-in-america Movingly, Tocqueville is always trying to negotiate a contract between his élitism and his populism, his anxiety about equality and his love of freedom: his great book is really its fine print. The intellectual power of the book is...

Tim Cook accepting a “courage against hate” award from the ADL is fucking embarrassing and concerning in equal measure. As is the attempted radicalisation of Sargon by the fascist liberals. Strange times. Seriously listen to the ADL speech as Cook invokes Apple’s (literally) religious mission again...

Which again raises the question as to why all major interwebs functions are solidly left-wing. Decidedly to the far-left in most cases. Why no right-wing companies? I wonder if the same reasoning for women and minorities apply to why right-wing are underrepresented in STEM...? I suppose that depend...

I’ve now seen two people get upset at God fucking Mary without her noticing. The first was a liberal trying to shit on Western tradition because of nihilistic self destructiveness. The second is a riddle. Or maybe the motivation is to point out how religious thinking gets people to accept moral lap...

Serious query from the Pit: who the fuck are you? Long time (several years) lurker, starting sporadically reading the 'Pit after seeing Peezus's hypocrisy and Becky's ascendence to martyrdom in The Elevator. Never a member of the Horde though, and only a very occasional reader of FTB and whatever t...

McWhorter is really impressive in this debate:

I thought this was a pretty interesting interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqE13B_JAsU An archive of the since removed article: https://archive.is/RJCqO A lot of people I thought were good, were celebrating the Twitter ban of Meghan Murphy. I remember her from my early days on the internet a...

The Drum is a pretty terrible talk show. It's my primary reason for supporting privatising the ABC.

Declare war on Spain over Gibraltar.

The only thing that you could hope for, I think, is that some of the Remain people actually wake up after seeing what the EU is doing here, and vote to leave in a second referendum. If not, I predict riots like the country has never seen. Perhaps they could import some of the Froggies from Paris to...

Well, if I'm going to double post, that is the one to do it on.

Hunt wrote: ↑Count your blessings. At least he's not wearing a Speedo.

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Hunt wrote: ↑Count your blessings. At least he's not wearing a Speedo.

http://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/up ... abbott.jpg

Hey Phil, have you been fitted with a yellow vest yet? And are you ready for the glorious Sixth Republic?

I look forward to hearing Becky's take on the NdT (her friend) accusations, after all she was so sure that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser was being truthful because a woman must be believed on such things right? I expect tumble weed. Some one with access to her - should alert her of the plight of the co...

The main problem with the Republic debate in Australia is that while there probably is agreement to become one, there isn’t on the model. A large chunk want a directly elected president, an equally large chunk want the Governor General renamed to president and no other changes. That’s why it’s a can...

Sorry, I absolutely couldn't resist.

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑My ancestors used to sail their boats up to foreign countries and deprive people of property, life and liberty, but that would be frowned on today.

Only if white people do it.

Glad to see you didn't drown today.

So I had a hard disk problem I've never encountered before. On my old desktop machine, I still use a spinning hard disk for the boot disk (it's an old computer, and I've got tonnes of old disks lying around). Anyway, the computer was exhibiting strange behaviour - frequent crashes. What seems to be ...

It is our wedding anniversary today. We are going to Julius Caesar at the Opera House. I made the mistake of only just reading the reviews. The only thing this production has going for it is the genuine embrace of colour- and gender-blind casting. Such diversity should be an unremarkable commonplac...

Hunt wrote: ↑If only SJWs could figure out a way to bring back blackface. I'm sure they'd love being part time black people as well.

Rachel Dolezal, Shaun King?

Apparently it's "No Nut November" where not jerking off is an gateway drug to the alt-right.... MWSnap005 2018-11-20, 17_06_20.jpg Site has limited free visits then the wall hits but you can usually bypass in an incognito window to read articles. https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-med...

So, Elizabeth Hurley attended a Thanksgiving function at the US Ambassador’s residence and is being criticized for showing too much of what we’re thankful for. The ambassador’s name is Woody Johnson. Perfect storm of humor: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elizabeth-hurleys-thanksgiving-attire-dinne...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑ The more I see what Macron and his pal Merkel are doing, the more I'm favorably inclined towards Brexit. And Frexit, Itaxit, and other -xits.

Seems to me that's baked into the pie now, and the EU's days are numbered.

I know. I know. But what we actually have here is an interesting, secretly recorded, conversation with a major NGO (Advocates Abroad) based out of Lesbos. 380 staff, they have “assisted” 15,000 refugee claimants in Greece with legal aid. This is hardly uncommon, certainly well known within Australi...

Jeesus H. Christ , I confess I voted for the fucker simply to get rid of Harper. Am I now to wish Harper back? Would we have our very own anti-Lebanese-donair-shop Krystallnacht by now, with gangs of tartan/fleur-de-lys/union jack clad youths smashing the shops they usually eat at? They won't be we...

Oh dear god.

Also, most experts at least concede that the video was changed to make Acosta look bad. As Trump attacks more journalists. He's learned a lot from Putin. https://youtu.be/0NxYxibGCx0 From the Trump-leaning WSJ. And the Trump unfriendly Buzzfeed concedes it’s likely only due to the change in format ...

This actually wasn't too bad for the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... balisation

Trump might not have become president if the woke never existed, but you could also argue that the wokes would not be as politically prominent as they are now if Trump had lost. A boring, milquetoast Clinton administration wouldn't have created any call for a "resistance", and the non-woke leftists...

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Tucker Carlson's house and car was vandalised while his wife was home.

Trump ennobled their bullshit, though. They can portray themselves as "the resistance" thanks to him. I'm not saying that clickbait and political hot takes didn't exist before Trump. But he has definitely made things worse. "They started it " is an excuse that kids use in playground scuffles. Hell,...

Pitizens defend woman who lies about a man assaulting another woman in clear defiance of video evidence. Wouldn't have called that a year ago. Who's defending Sanders? The point is everyone is now talking about this shit, rather than the Republican losses in the House or Sessions resigning. That wo...

You have cause and effect backwards. Trump is capitalising on the existing horribleness of the media. That’s a problem that predated him, as all of us who saw it with the “atheists have a misogyny problem” articles. Trump wouldnt be president if that problem wasn’t already present. Clickbaiters got...

Pitizens defend woman who lies about a man assaulting another woman in clear defiance of video evidence. Wouldn't have called that a year ago. Who's defending Sanders? The point is everyone is now talking about this shit, rather than the Republican losses in the House or Sessions resigning. That wo...

I’d even argue that it’s part of the culture problem Brive has been trying to articulate in a way you can understand.

You have cause and effect backwards. Trump is capitalising on the existing horribleness of the media. That’s a problem that predated him, as all of us who saw it with the “atheists have a misogyny problem” articles. Trump wouldnt be president if that problem wasn’t already present.

I don't actually support jury trials. I don't think it is the best way to find the truth. I think a panel of judges would be a better solution.

https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1060335251682222085?s=21 Forming a circle with the waggons begins... Trump has an amazing ability to get the media to talk about unimportant things. If the media was actually competent, they'd ignore this shit and actually do their jobs. Of course, if the media w...

When I was called for jury duty, I didn't actually get put on a jury. My number never even got called, so it was a big waste of time for me. There were three cases I could have been selected for: One was a time sheet fraud case. It's unusual for something like this to go to court. Neither lawyer rej...

His wife's name is Incontinentia.

So this is what Lauren Southern has been up to? https://dailystormer.name/according-to-african-news-sites-a-far-right-french-girl-has-had-sex-with-hundreds-of-illegals-to-deliberately-infect-them-with-hiv/ And to think the alt-right called her a mudshark when it was all for a noble cause. God, you ...

Maajid, Eric and Douglas basically makes Brive's points.

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:03 am
I think yesterday was the slowest Pit day ever :-(

I believe in the Pit. I believe we can do better. If we all work together, we can achieve an even slower day tomorrow.

So, there's Kiwi Farms if you want to laugh at lolcows. Are there other forums were you can actually have interesting discussions?

If Brive's rhetoric was less Australian, I think his position is very similar to Tucker Carlson:

The Killstream has been censored off YouTube. It was the only drama livestream channel I enjoyed listening to occasionally. I’ve never listened to KS. This dude though places it alongside Frau Koch. This seems inconsistent with your take. Is this a simple misunderstanding? Eh, it's pretty much ever...

I don’t mean to imply I consider myself right wing. I’d still put myself as very libertarian. I just think that the kind of politics I favour is only possible in a fairly homogeneous cultural milieu.

The Killstream has been censored off YouTube. It was the only drama livestream channel I enjoyed listening to occasionally.

As someone in the industry, I'm fascinated with what precipitated this political shift among software developers, which managed to pass by right under my nose. Back in the '90s, software developers were stereotypically right of center libertarian and conservative. My personal experience in software...

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