Local Man

I saw that we are paving the "worlds longest shortcut" at a cost of $1.2b. You'll be able to drive from Perth to Cairns on bitumen. Huge effort, they have to truck everything including water way out there. Big issue has been negotiating with land owners/TOs but its getting there. Towns along the way are arguing they arent setup for the influx of people expected. Will be a good drive to do once at least.

I’m meeting Kate’s parents for the first time. Do you think they’ll like me? I’m flying 17 hrs. She’s from Australia and international travel increases aging. But I really love her so it’s worth the cost.

This is not India… this is the Hanuman Statue in Sugar Land, Texas. It’s the 4th tallest statue in America

'DON’T F*CKING PUSH IN ON ME' — GLADIATOR OSCAR-WINNER Russell Crowe lays down STRICT RULES for fans & eBay AUTOGRAPH SCALPERS 'Soon as somebody's a d*ck… I'M OUT!'

kinda weird australia is like the one place that doesn't have little nicknames for certain coins and notes when we have weird nicknames for literally everything else

How many times have they visited Alice Springs?

What will they call this new political party? The Real Housewives of Wealth

Why do we need to subject non white patriots like Joanna Howe to these retarded right wing Maoist struggle sessions? Joanna Howe’s family migrated in the 1980s, when migration numbers were minuscule and didn’t threaten the Australian way of life. She completely assimilated, married an Australian bloke, raised Australian kids. Her ancestry traces to India but she is Australian by way of culture and nationality. She has no real connections to India, no foreign loyalties. She supports a conservative vision of the Australian nation and opposes mass levels of immigration. Subjecting her to a Maoist struggle session is RETARDED. Yes guys, we know Joanna Howe is not white. Who cares? There are basically like 3 non white right wing people in this country, and Joanne Howe is one of them. Do we have to single her out, do we really have to be that retarded? There are ISIS cells in West Sydney, I think we have bigger issues than subjecting the 3 non white right wingers in Australia to infinite Maoist struggle sessions about their commitment to Australia

Fast from start to finish. Kristian Gkolomeev takes the Men’s 100m Freestyle in 46.60. A loaded field featuring pushes the pace all the way. $250K 1st place bonus earned.

Emily Wilson completely changed the meaning of a key word in the Odyssey to make it seem like Helen of Troy didn't blame herself for starting the Trojan War, when in fact the text makes it clear that she did. In 4.145-146, Helen calls herself κυνώπιδος (dog-faced). This is an insult meaning "shameless." It is commonly used to refer to unfaithful lovers. For example, it is used elsewhere in the Odyssey (8.319) to refer to Aphrodite after she cheats on Hephaestus with Ares. Fagles translates 4.145-146 to: "all you Achaeans fought at Troy, launching your headlong battles just for my sake, shameless whore that I was.” Lattimore translates 4.145-146 to: "for the sake of shameless me, the Achaians went beneath Troy, their hearts intent upon reckless warfare." Wilson completely changes the meaning of κυνώπιδος to "hounded" (she is trying to be cute by translating 'dog-faced' to a word that still relates to dogs, even though its actual meaning is completely unrelated). She then applies this word to the Achaeans, saying that they were hounded, not Helen. Her translation is in the image below. This is obviously an ideological change that she made because she personally believes Helen shouldn't be blamed for the Trojan War. She deliberated distorted the meaning of one of the foundational texts of Western literature to conform with her modern beliefs.