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shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#406New Post! Mar 28, 2017 @ 03:23:32
Debbie already bringing winds of up to 270kph. Up to 500mm expected within the next 24 hrs in some places.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#407New Post! Mar 28, 2017 @ 03:25:20
Cyclone Debbie has the potential to wipe out fruit, vegetable and sugar cane crops worth more than one billion dollars, devastating regional communities and sending prices soaring at the green grocers.

The Bowen area, between Mackay and Townsville, produces most of Australia's winter vegetable crop, including capsicum, tomato, eggplant, pumpkin, cucumber, beans and corn.

It also supplies tropical fruits such as mango, rockmelon, pineapples and lychee.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#408New Post! Apr 19, 2017 @ 13:37:11
The current government have hardly done much (if anything) to inspire any sort of confidence. That said, at least the changes to the 457 visas are a step in the right direction.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#409New Post! Apr 24, 2017 @ 10:43:29
ANZAC Day

I saw a kid marchin’ with medals on his chest.
He marched alongside Diggers marching six abreast.
He knew that it was ANZAC Day - he walked along with pride.
He did his best to keep in step with the Diggers by his side.

And when the march was over the kid was rather tired.
A Digger said “Whose medals, son?” to which the kid replied:
“They belong to daddy, but he did not come back.
He died up in New Guinea on a lonely jungle track”.

The kid looked rather sad then and a tear came to his eye.
The Digger said “Don’t cry my son and I will tell you why.
Your daddy marched with us today - all the blooming way.
We Diggers know that he was there - it’s like that on ANZAC Day”.

The kid looked rather puzzled and didn’t understand,
But the Digger went on talking and started to wave his hand.
“For this great land we live in, there’s a price we have to pay
For we all love fun and merriment in this country where we live.
The price was that some soldier his precious life must give.

For you to go to school my lad and worship God at will,
Someone had to pay the price so the Diggers paid the bill.
Your daddy died for us my son - for all things good and true.
I wonder if you understand the things I’ve said to you”.

The kid looked up at the Digger - just for a little while
And with a changed expression, said, with a lovely smile:
“I know my dad marched here today - this is ANZAC Day.
I know he did. I know he did, all the bloomin’ way”.

- D. Hunter
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#410New Post! Apr 25, 2017 @ 12:51:24
Big day started with the Dawn Service. Was impressed by how many people turned out in the pouring rain. Hughie sure was sending it down.
last_wave_of_summer On May 06, 2023




Canberra, Australia
#411New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 14:10:16
So Melb Uni are holding "Male Privilege" classes..... recent workshops on “how privilege manifests itself in tutorials”, recommendations were given to university staff last week.

A report from the sessions, tabled with the union’s student council, reveals female and coloured students complaints about “gaslighting” — a term commonly used to describe how victims of domestic violence are manipulated by perpetrators — describing how white, male students talk over them in class, “making us question whether we know anything”.

“Ways for men not to dominate tutorials: acknowledging the race and gender problem in order to fix it,” the report says. “Questioning yourself, when you want to speak in a tutorial, as to why you want to speak. Is it to self-aggrandise or to learn and contribute.”

The report also advises female students against the tendency of some women to cushion opinions with qualifying statements like “this is probably stupid but ...”.

“Women should stop second-guessing their intelligence,” it says.

“But men should learn how to speak like women (and) not speak with absolute confidence when they are in fact not sure or expressing an opinion.”

So in other words women should speak with confidence and men should just shut up.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#412New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 14:16:17
Yeah, typical left wing BS. So sick of it. It's like when some people (women mainly) were saying that it's a problem re the development of boys that there are so few male teachers esp in primary school. The feminist reply was that boys having so few male role models was a good thing and that they should simply learn to think and behave like girls!
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#413New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 14:24:50
Over the past 30 years or so there has been a concerted push to create teaching syllabuses, teaching styles and environments that are best suited to female learning...and to this end they have been hugely successful. The problem is that boys and girls often don't function best, don't learn best, in the same environment etc. The result has been that over the past 30 odd years the number of boys not completing year 12 has significantly increased. At the same time the number of boys going on to undertake tertiary education has also fallen away quite noticeably. So we now have an education system where girls are flourishing and boys are clearly not. And yet whenever anyone dares suggest we need to do something about helping boys perform better the feminists are quick to shout them down saying boys simply have to be more like girls. By the way we are talking about suggestions to improve the performance of boys without adversely effecting the performance of girls.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#414New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 14:29:33
On slightly different matters, not surprised in the slightest by the total hypocritical and abusive BS being directed at Margaret Court for daring to hold an opinion that is at odds with that held by the LL. Funny how the LL always hold themselves up to be intellectually and morally superior to others. How they hold themselves up to being more enlightened and tolerant than others and yet time after time whenever anyone dares express an opinion to which they do not subscribe they show themselves to be anything but tolerant etc etc etc.

It's been many years since just about anyone in Australia has been allowed to freely express an opinion that is at odds with the LL without coping a mountain of pathetic, hypocritical, uneducated, abusive BS.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#415New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 14:33:34
“...men should learn how to speak like women (and) not speak with absolute confidence when they are in fact not sure or expressing an opinion.”

Of course the people saying this s***e are expressing an opinion rather than disseminating facts, so it's a pity they don't take their own advice...but of course when they do it it's a good thing, yet when men do it it's a BAD thing! UFB
last_wave_of_summer On May 06, 2023




Canberra, Australia
#416New Post! Jun 05, 2017 @ 15:02:58
Teaching no life skills either, "the way they speak makes us feel like we know nothing"what? your going to have to learn how to deal with all different personalities at some stage in life. These days kids seem to be taught that the world should be moulded on their feelings and that can't be challenged.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#417New Post! Jun 12, 2017 @ 14:12:37
Pretty pish poor effort by the Saudis in choosing not to respect the minutes silence for those killed (including two Aussies) in the latest London terror attack.
OrangeSky On July 28, 2017




Brisbane, Australia
#418New Post! Jul 26, 2017 @ 13:59:01
Hello, fellow Aussies.
shadowen On March 22, 2024




Bunyip Bend, Australia
#419New Post! Jul 26, 2017 @ 15:16:31
G'day, nice to have another Aussie on-board. How's tricks in cane-toad country?
OrangeSky On July 28, 2017




Brisbane, Australia
#420New Post! Jul 27, 2017 @ 03:57:50
@shadowen Said

G'day, nice to have another Aussie on-board. How's tricks in cane-toad country?



All's well up here, thanks. How are things with you?
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