The totally off-topic thread

[Deleted member]

I think you mean “inverted”. The whites are now the oppressed. Or will be.

 

[Pushka]

I think you mean “inverted”. The whites are now the oppressed. Or will be.

Well, reverted back to where it was before colonisation.

 

[Denali]

Fresh Krispy Kreme delivery to the office makes a happy team... followed by quite time due to sugar crash

 

[Deleted member]

Well, reverted back to where it was before colonisation.

Where the various incoming tribes killed off the locals and then fought over the land?

 

[RooFlyer]

Purchaser of my holiday place has asked for deferral of settlement twice, as their own purchaser keeps asking same. I'm reasonably relaxed as I'm not buying anything. In spite of asking for, and getting deferral from Tuesday this week to Tuesday next week, apparently the purchaser's purchaser didn't think to cancel or change the delivery date of all their furniture. The delivery truck apparently arrived early this morning with of, course, no access.

 

[Denali]

Click bait but feel goods: You Will Be Smiling Like An Idiot After Seeing These 20+ Wholesome Pictures

Below reminds me that someone behind us practices piano on the weekend and I enjoy hearing it.

 

[RooFlyer]

Click bait but feel goods: You Will Be Smiling Like An Idiot After Seeing These 20+ Wholesome Pictures
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Yes, I smiled and even teared up a bit. In the running for best post of the year.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I don’t know if anyone has noticed this: ‘It is nothing more than racist theft’

Politics aside , this will make life interesting going forward.
I wonder if we will see the same global condemnation and isolation of South Africa from sporting events etc as we did in the lead up to the fall of apartheid? Me thinks not.

I just wonder how much thought has gone into evaluating the ramifications of this action by the SA Government.
Who will want to visit there now?

After extensive talks with my brother, who as I said earlier is a personal friend of the President Ramaphosa, the whole issue is a disaster. However when you talk about evaluation by the Government, you clearly don't understand Africa! This is not a rational decision, underpinned by economists and the Public Service coming up with discussion papers. This is raw emotion and manipulation by people using their power bases among illiterate, poverty stricken, unemployed masses. Given the Marxist roots of the ANC and the fact that after decades, nothing much has changed. The poor are still abysmally poor and all that has changed is that some of the faces of the wealthy ruling class are now black.

OK that is probably unfair - you now have a level of freedom that didn't exist before and now for Blacks who get an education, there is no longer job reservation for whites only, so a black middle class has developed.

However for millions at the bottom, although there is no longer the same fear of the ruling class and the police, there is still lack of education and health facilities and huge unemployment and violent crime. Instead of laying the blame where it really should be on the shoulders of the corrupt government who has siphoned money into their own luxury living instead of schools and hospitals and job creation, it is much easier for people like Malema to lead chants of "kill the Boers" and manipulate the people into believing if they support him, the whites will be dispossessed and the riches flow to them.

Add to that the Marxist element in the ANC and the rational people like Ramaphosa who know this will be a disaster have no option except to let it go through and hope that they can water it down and contain the damage. With elections on the horizon they have to be able to stand up against Malema's Economic Freedom Fighter's crazy party!

While I think this is a terrible thing to do, it is an action affecting less that 10% of the population, whereas Apartheid which in a similar way stole everything from the Blacks, Indians etc affected 90% of the population. I don't really think you can compare the two, or the world's response.

I was always amazed that power change happened peacefully and that is down to Mandela. Years after, it is hard not to see the disintegration setting in.

As far as visiting South Africa goes, I don't think people will see any difference for some years. Maybe eventually there will be an extra level of violence, but people still visit Kenya even though things can be fragile there as well. e.g all the problems in the Laikipia area last year.

 

[Pushka]

Where the various incoming tribes killed off the locals and then fought over the land?

Business as usual I guess. It had been that way for centuries.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Business as usual I guess. It had been that way for centuries.

And in every country - Norman Conquest, 100 years wars, all through history....

 

[amaroo]

Qld told to brace for floods?

I’m in Townsville and can confirm - it’s wet!



The dam has gone from >15% to <80% (still rising) in a matter of days. The council was spending $35k a day pumpimg water from the Burdekin

 

[Denali]

Yikes! Stay safe! Hope its not as bad as the last one. I still occasionally think about the teenager that was lost in the flood. The teen told the rescuer to take his brother and while securing the brother, he and his mum (and car) was swept away by the water.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I don't eat Thai food.

Ah there's the problem! The chilli and spices in Thai food have been evolved over years to kill off the local germs.

 

[Denali]

Tiffany & Co ad pop up and I note its 2 guys hands with "Believe in Love" in the blue.

Does anyone know what is the significance of the rings being on the forefinger? Why not the typical "ring" finger?

 

[JohnK]

Ah there's the problem! The chilli and spices in Thai food have been evolved over years to kill off the local germs.

And kill off my taste buds in the process. Awful food if you have to use that many spices to enjoy it.

 

[Pushka]

I could live on Thai and Indian food.

 

[TheRealTMA]

And kill off my taste buds in the process. Awful food if you have to use that many spices to enjoy it.

Oh I agree. I don't eat it but then I don't go to Thailand either. (Have been all through the area many years ago through on the original Hippy Trails to Europe in the 70's.)

That's why such chill and spices historically developed in the use in such food to kill off the various bugs in less than optimum quality produce. Personally I don't see the point of using phenols, catechols etc where the basic produce is good and healthy.

 

[JohnK]

Life is one giant seesaw. We lurch from one end to the other end with no middle ground. Years ago it was white abuse of anyone coloured or non white. Now it’s reverted.

And the civil libertarians having done their job are now focusing on other useless things.

 

[GarrettM]

Tiffany & Co ad pop up and I note its 2 guys hands with "Believe in Love" in the blue.

Does anyone know what is the significance of the rings being on the forefinger? Why not the typical "ring" finger?

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Beats me.

 

[JohnK]

Arrive 12:00noon on TG into BNE collect bag and golf clubs and head over to domestic and check in and into QF business lounge before 1:00pm. I allowed 4 hours on separate tickets so very efficient.