
Civilisation is in the process of collapse
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“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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god, we do love to pretend the fate of the world hangs on the outcome of the issues we're most involved with don't we?
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Yep. The fucking price of marine diesel, for example. Somebody needs to DO something about it, or else ISIS will take over the country and we'll all have to eat camel meat every day. I saw it on Breitbart so it's gotta be true.
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Yeah, sure, but first we need to cut the funding streams to ISIS, the dope smokers, the potheads, the more we lock up the weaker ISIS becomes. --fact
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And Hillary - we need to lock her up first.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 8:45 pmYeah, sure, but first we need to cut the funding streams to ISIS, the dope smokers, the potheads, the more we lock up the weaker ISIS becomes. --fact
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Well, we're still quite civilised in Melbourne...
(in comparison to the barbarians in other parts of Oz, at least...)
(in comparison to the barbarians in other parts of Oz, at least...)
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Totally off topic, but with the new requirements on low sulfur fuel many cargo ships wont be able to use cheap bunker oil and the demand for marine diesel will increase. Price too I'm afraid.
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Splice the mainbrace lak - and double your HRT!! 

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Isn't that crooked woman in jail yet??!Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 8:52 pmAnd Hillary - we need to lock her up first.Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 8:45 pmYeah, sure, but first we need to cut the funding streams to ISIS, the dope smokers, the potheads, the more we lock up the weaker ISIS becomes. --fact
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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Just letting off a little steam, before another round of ballet, opera and literary criticism... 

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Those were the good old days. Now if that happened, we'd have to have a parliamentary enquiry, the Police commissioner would have to be sacked, the Human Rights Commission called in, and the AFL would institute yet another retarded rule in a long line of retarded rules that have wrecked the once great game.

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Don't fret, mate. Parliamentary enquiries, commissioner sackings and whatnot will not stop Melbournians, or any other Aussie Rules fans for that matter, from punching the living daylights out of each other.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 1:55 amThose were the good old days. Now if that happened, we'd have to have a parliamentary enquiry, the Police commissioner would have to be sacked, the Human Rights Commission called in, and the AFL would institute yet another retarded rule in a long line of retarded rules that have wrecked the once great game.![]()
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They've got to keep up with the soccer fans down there. Although, since they disassociated the local soccer clubs from their ethnic roots, the fighting has been a little less violent. I remember when I was at school in Victoria during the 80's and you'd regularly hear of knife fights and molotov cocktails being thrown after games. It was always the fucking Yugoslavs who were the most over the top.
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