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Is it possible that COVID-19 has an unreported side effect of causing mass mental illness in people without other symptoms? Would account for a lot of the truly weird shit going on right now.
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Perth MichaelB
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Perth MichaelB
@Perthbadgeman
English by birth, (Romford, not my fault), Australian by choice. Husband, father, grandfather in no particular order. Becoming a little cynical with age. Happy.
Perth, Western Australia Beigetreten Ağustos 2015
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@RoadknightThe Is it only when they discover they are aboriginal the suffering starts?
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"So Mum was first generation Stolen Generation, I’m second generation Stolen Generation, my children are third generation and the reason they say that is when I hear stories of my mum in the home, that affects me and I feel that."
One could also say the same about trauma from WWI and WWII being passed down.
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Today is National Sorry Day.
I'm sorry that a non-verbal five-year-old, who'd been the subject of child welfare reports, was not removed from abuse, neglect and, ultimately, the danger that saw her sexually molested and murdered.
I'm sorry that there are thousands more like her.
But most of all I'm sorry that Aboriginal people, including those elders, past, present and emerging, fail to take responsibility for their, and their communities', failings but, instead, simply call for more billions of dollars to 'fix' that problem that, instead, sees it going backwards.
It's now past time for non-Aboriginal Australians to cease saying sorry for rescuing in-danger children from abuse and neglect.
#RescuedNotStolen and always was, always will be.
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@CharmianNeary @idiocracy310 @PaddyBriggs Regent Seven Seas are pretty competitive on costs and include lots of shore excursions. Small ships and excellent reputation. Worth checking!
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Thank you. I never heard of Seaborne so I'm going to research the line today and see if I can afford it. My friend I went with last Summer has more money than I do so she'd have no problem, but if I went with my son I'd have to pay for both fares. My son would be very interested in a cruise to European cities. He wouldn't be interested in an islands cruise. He finds beaches boring.
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@idiocracy310 @CharmianNeary @PaddyBriggs Seabourn are a sister line to HAL and are awesome. We’ve sailed HAL 8 times and they’re great, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas and Crystal are a step up again with much smaller ships. Under 1000 mostly and virtually no kids. Heavenly!
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@CharmianNeary @PaddyBriggs Not hiding it. Frankly I’ve only been on one and became loyal to it. Someone just said that Viking and Seaborn are good. Mine is Holland America. They are owned by Carnival but is nothing like it. I started on carnival and came to hate it
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Vale Neale 🤍
We are devastated by the passing of AFL legend Neale Daniher and extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.
Daniher was General Manager of Football at the West Coast Eagles when he was diagnosed in 2013.
westcoasteagles.com.au/news/2033531/v…
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@WestCoastEagles Scared them, but we could have won that with a bit better skill. Please stop bombing it in, so much better when you play the ball in.
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@SouthamptonFC I can’t believe everyone is so aghast about this. Must be an English soccer thing, everywhere else in the world I’ve ever heard of teams are always watched by other teams when practicing. Weird!
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Name the best-tasting chocolate in the world.
And don't even think about posting "Hershey's." That stuff tastes like vomit-flavored wax.
For me? Cadburys Dairy Milk and Milka.
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Another Australian woman being dragged through legal proceedings for stating the truth.
Via HRLA: -
Jasmine Sussex is being taken to court for criticising men who say they can breastfeed.
She is an Australian breastfeeding expert with 15 years of experience in the field.
This is the absurd situation our country finds itself in today.
You can have your life upended, simply for saying what you believe.
It doesn’t matter who you are.
Jasmine has now been stood down from her role as a breastfeeding counsellor, dragged through the media, and stands accused by a male complainant (who identifies as a woman) of inciting “hatred”.
Just for confronting trans activists with a simple truth: men cannot breastfeed.
It’s time to stand with Jasmine and free speech – or we’re all next.
Show Jasmine you’re with her – add your name to the open letter today.
hrla.org.au/biology-not-id…
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@SamaHoole 77 now and the recipient of our morning milk. In the winter expanded up with bird pecked holes in the foil too. And yes, wasn’t the best but we have been pretty healthy and are still ticking and taking pills too. All good!
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Every British primary school child between 1946 and 1968 had a small ritual at morning break.
Eleven o'clock. The crate had been sitting on the back step since seven, where the headmaster had been told to leave it by the council, on the grounds that the milk was supposed to come up to drinking temperature before the bell. Whether this was a kindness to the children or a kindness to the cleaners has never been satisfactorily explained.
By July the milk was warm. By September it was on the turn. A whole generation of British adults can still describe, with uncomfortable precision, the taste of a glass bottle of full-cream milk that has been standing in the sun for four hours next to a brick wall.
You drank it anyway. You put a paper straw through the foil, stood by the radiator, and got it down in two minutes flat because the milk monitor was watching and the bell was about to go. The cream stuck to the inside of the foil cap and ended up on your nose if you were impatient. The empties went back in the crate. You ran outside.
The 1946 School Milk Act, pushed through by Ellen Wilkinson, the first female Minister of Education, gave every child under 18 a third of a pint a day. Infant mortality fell by close to 90% over the post-war decades. Rickets, a routine paediatric diagnosis in industrial towns in the 1930s, more or less disappeared from British wards within a generation. The milk was not the only reason. The milk was a substantial part of the reason.
The programme was withdrawn in two stages.
In 1968, Harold Wilson's Labour government cut free milk for secondary schools. The headline never quite stuck because Wilson, Wilson, Milk Snatcher does not scan. In 1971, Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary under Edward Heath, cut it for primary schoolchildren over seven. The headline stuck to her for the rest of her career.
The under-sevens kept their third of a pint. Everyone else lost it. A piece of national nutritional infrastructure built brick by brick between 1906 and 1946, that had survived two world wars, was dismantled in two parliamentary acts inside three years on grounds of cost.
The kids who got the warm September milk are in their seventies now. They will still tell you, given half a chance, that it was disgusting. They will also tell you, in the same breath, that nothing tastes quite the way it used to, that they walked four miles to school in the snow, and that they are not on any tablets.
The cream is still rising. Just not in any school in the country.
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@spottedreptile @HazelAppleyard I call fake news! No one in the history of the world ever didn’t use up their bacon!
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@HazelAppleyard My mother in law swore by this decree, but she went further. She would wait till it was at the use by stage, and then dump it in the freezer. She never used it after that, just bought fresh stuff 🙄🙄🙄 I counted 11 packets of frozen bacon one time.
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We don’t throw away perfectly good food in this house.
We put it in a Tupperware box, put it in the fridge, wait for it to go bad, and THEN throw it out.
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@WestCoastEagles It would be really nice if they stopped just bombing it and hoping!
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@RoadknightThe If only they let artists go for The Archibald.
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@WestCoastEagles A team that is feared by no one. 4 points for every team they face it seems. Disgraceful how the club has lost its way and don’t seem to have any idea of how to change. Gutted.
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@travelingsushi1 @GriftReport Here you are, The Prince, his son, Princess Shirley, me with my medal after knighting and my wife. October 2011.
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Self-declared King of Switzerland Jonas Lauwiner, 31, is living his best medieval fantasy by claiming 148 scraps of "ownerless" land and building himself a 117,000 square metre empire,
the IT specialist has been quietly snapping up abandoned plots and even stretches of road that homeowners casually drive on every day using a cheeky Swiss legal loophole,
he then charges the poor sods maintenance fees or passage rights like some 21st-century toll baron who forgot it's not 1200 anymore,
local politicians are absolutely fuming and rushing to slam the loophole shut, with one councillor branding the whole thing "scandalous" and an "excessive thirst for power",
meanwhile King Jonas is posing in royal gear, running his "imperial bank" and calling it all "more than just a joke" while insisting he does it "digitally and without bloodshed",
you really couldn't make this up in one of the world's most boringly bureaucratic countries,
at this rate he'll soon own more random bits of Switzerland than the actual Swiss government,
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@travelingsushi1 @GriftReport Agh! The old web site had the photos but it’s gone! Darn! We actually had egg sandwiches, party pies and sausage rolls. Very bush Australian. It was a great day, and PL was great fun and very interesting.
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@Perthbadgeman @GriftReport I shall bow down to Sir MichaelB! 🙇♀️
Have you got pictures?!
Enquiring minds want to see!
I hope they served tea and cucumber sandwiches … and then you went jousting!
☕️🥪👑
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@travelingsushi1 @GriftReport I was the last person to be knighted by the Prince at Hutt River. Happened on the weekend that HM the Queen was in Perth for CHOGM. He was very interesting and he and Princess Shirley were quite charming when hosting lunch after. Happy memory!
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@GriftReport Sounds familiar x.com/doctorlemma/st…
Lemma the Optimist@DoctorLemma
In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer got into a dispute with his government over how much wheat he could sell. So he declared his farm an independent country. The government ignored him. He ruled it as a prince for the next 50 years. His name was Leonard Casley. He owned a 75 square kilometre property in Western Australia, several hours north of the city of Perth. The Australian government had set new wheat quotas that would let him sell only about one percent of his crop. When he protested, he claimed officials threatened to forcibly take his land. So he found an obscure British law from 1495 called the Treason Act, which said a “de facto king” of any territory could not be charged with treason. He declared his farm a sovereign nation, named himself Prince Leonard, and notified Australia. Under Australian law at the time, the government had two years to formally object. They didn’t. Leonard took the silence as legal recognition. He went all in. He printed his own currency. He printed his own stamps. He issued his own passports. He gave his wife and seven children royal titles. He built a tiny stone palace. He set up embassies in nine countries. In 1977, when the Australian Tax Office kept demanding taxes, he formally declared war on Australia. A few days later, having received no military response, he declared a ceasefire and announced victory. The tax demands stopped. Tourists started showing up. At its peak, his “country” had 40,000 visitors a year. He stamped their passports for them. He sold them his stamps and coins. In 2016, on the principality’s 46th anniversary, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom personally sent him a letter wishing his country a happy birthday. Leonard ruled for 47 years. He passed away in 2019 at 93. His son Graeme took over, but the tax bill had grown to over three million Australian dollars and Covid had stopped the tourists. In August 2020, the Principality of Hutt River formally rejoined Australia.
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@Paddy41162926 @elonmusk What do you mean, 'lefty'? Are you out of your mind? I'm a prominent One Nation conservative and have been from the start.
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.@elonmusk what is happening?
I was just hit with a $621 fee for X.
This is world's away from what I signed up to originally. That is DOUBLE what I thought I was paying.
I don't have that sort of money.
Wtf
It's impossible to get anywhere in this financial environment. I feel like giving up sometimes.
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