Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[Ligma]

That's why iam a tradesman and not a photographer

What type of tradesmen?

 

[Val Keating]

Glad your avoiding the topic of it bothers you. Let someone else worry about them. That's the good thing about us moving out of town. Couldn't give a toss about these w***ers.

They’re bloody annoying as ****. Was going to head into the city with the family tomorrow but the last thing I want is to put my kids in that environment. Finally things are going back to normal but because of these tossers we still have to stay local.

 

[Themanbun]

Had to google wainscoting. Good idea. Iam going to do my bar in this style. Just didn't know it had a name. . Last house we had I did tounge and groove up to 1100mm in the mancave then a shelf to sit drinks and snacks on.

That'll look great. Adds a touch of elegance.

My DIY life got a lot easier once I learnt the name of certain things/processes. Certainly makes youtubing things much more relevant!

Had the same issue with a 're-saw cut' recently. I knew what I wanted but had no idea what it was called!

 

[koshari]

What type of tradesmen?

Electrician.

 

[Themanbun]

Electrician.

Good stuff. Electrics and plumbing fixtures (other than taps and Flexi hoses) are the two things I won't touch myself.

 

[Ligma]

Electrician.

Oh nice, I was keeping my options open in school since I took up carpentry as a subject, my mum told me it was too dangerous to be an electrician

 

[ferball]

THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING WE ARE IN AUSTRALIA IF U LOVE TRUMP SO MUCH JUST MOVE TO AMERICA WE DONT WANT YOU ANYWAY

Its not really surprising that they don't know what country they are in tho.

Our medical system is being Americanised. Our labor relations have gone down the same route. We go to war for the US at the drop of a hat. Let their companies take our resources and buy up our properties for a song. Let their IP laws have jurisdiction in Australia and copy their stupid GWoT bullshit. Everything in this country is a franchise these days, there are **** all small local businesses left and all of our fast food and most of out entertainment comes from the US.

Are you sure we're a separate country?

 

[Ligma]

Its not really surprising that they don't know what country they are in tho.

Our medical system is being Americanised. Our labor relations have gone down the same route. We go to war for the US at the drop of a hat. Let their companies take our resources and buy up our properties for a song. Let their IP laws have jurisdiction in Australia and copy their stupid GWoT bullshit. Everything in this country is a franchise these days, there are fu** all small local businesses left and all of our fast food and most of out entertainment comes from the US.

Are you sure we're a separate country?

OK OK I GET IT.

I feel like screaming now.

 

[koshari]

Good stuff. Electrics and plumbing fixtures (other than taps and Flexi hoses) are the two things I won't touch myself.

Push fitting make hot and cold plumbing pretty easy. Still get a mate in to do roofing and drainage.

 

[koshari]

Oh nice, I was keeping my options open in school since I took up carpentry as a subject, my mum told me it was too dangerous to be an electrician

Only dangerous if you don't know what your doing.

 

[ferball]

I've said before that unfortunately I went through a period of my life where I was into some pretty sh*t politics.

This covid situation, and the rhetoric I'm seeing across social media, and even among some of my friends who were never involved in that side of politics, is ****ing terrifying. It is 100 per cent reminiscent of the psychotic sh*t that the worst of the far-right were spouting back in the day, and it is multiplying quickly. I have no doubt those scumbags would have been there recruiting today.

I've been avoiding the topic because it genuinely gives me anxiety, but these people legitimately need to be on watchlists.

Dunno about watchlists but I generally agree with what you are saying.

I think you'll find there are alot more far right people in the establishment/ruling class than let on their real politics. If they think they have enough support things could get really ugly.

When i was about 12 or 13 (so about 40 years ago) we were talking about germany before ww2 and my old man said wtte of you won't believe how easily that will happen here. I thought he was nuts to think that, and maybe in 1982 i was right.

 

[ferball]

OK OK I GET IT.

I feel like screaming now.

 

[Ligma]

 

[koshari]

Its not really surprising that they don't know what country they are in tho.

Our medical system is being Americanised. Our labor relations have gone down the same route. We go to war for the US at the drop of a hat. Let their companies take our resources and buy up our properties for a song. Let their IP laws have jurisdiction in Australia and copy their stupid GWoT bullshit. Everything in this country is a franchise these days, there are fu** all small local businesses left and all of our fast food and most of out entertainment comes from the US.

Are you sure we're a separate country?

Not all our food is franchised "yet" but you are right in that it's heading that way. It's more due to the crap people are prepared to eat imo. Dirty bird and that clowns burger chain are not getting rich on my pocket. Any place that sells brioche rolls I ain't going into.

 

[Ligma]

got moved just for today up into kids wear and toys from menswear how am I supposed to flirt with dilfs how

 

[Del191229]

Lol, I was pointing this out the other day and you called me crazy…

No, you were saying the dude with the bow and arrow was a cop plant and the cops deliberately walked Sutton and Weimar past the protesters.

It is shit like that happening organically that's (hopefully) waking the cops up.

 

[koshari]

got moved just for today up into kids wear and toys from menswear how am I supposed to flirt with dilfs how

first world problems.

 

[Del191229]

They’re bloody annoying as fu**. Was going to head into the city with the family tomorrow but the last thing I want is to put my kids in that environment. Finally things are going back to normal but because of these tossers we still have to stay local.

We're going to end up 95 double vaxxed.

Yet a bunch people half the size of the crowd we get against Gold Coast on a Sunday 440PM game is bring the centre of the city to a halt every weekend.

And getting breathless media coverage.

 

[Del191229]

A classic.

 

[koshari]

No, you were saying the dude with the bow and arrow was a cop plant and the cops deliberately walked Sutton and Weimar past the protesters.

It is sh*t like that happening organically that's (hopefully) waking the cops up.

At the very least that was being implied, serious question DR, how many hours a day do you dedicate the trawling the web for all the stories you copy and paste believing they support your opinions? has to be in excess of 2 hours surely? that multiplied by say 400 days since the pandemic began is some serious time wasting.

 

[koshari]

We're going to end up 95 double vaxxed.

Yet a bunch people half the size of the crowd we get against Gold Coast on a Sunday 440PM game is bring the centre of the city to a halt every weekend.

And getting breathless media coverage.

those idiots will be back occupying boatramps again before you know it.

 

[Ligma]

first world problems.

It is a very big problem today I can’t help it but burst out laughing if a kid is crying over a toy lol

 

[Del191229]

A classic.

 

[koshari]

interesting times when john cleese is the voice of reason....

Don’t mention the war: why John Cleese pre-emptively cancelled himself

Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
November 14, 2021 — 5.00am



There are many more important things going on in the world, but it is worth noting that we seem to have moved to a post-cancellation phase, best described as pre-emptive self-cancellation.
John Cleese, a comedy god whose surname was originally “Cheese” (his father changed it because he deemed it embarrassing), withdrew from a speaking event last week, saying he wanted to “cancel” himself before someone did it for him.

John Cleese cancelled a planned appearance at Cambridge University.
Cleese was referring to the contemporary version of cancellation, where a person – usually with a public profile – is the subject of a social media pile-on for a transgression of morality or taste. They may be dropped by their publisher, network or advertisers. Their reputation may be badly damaged and they may lose work.
The man who gave us Basil Fawlty had been invited to speak at his alma mater, Cambridge University, but pulled out after the student union decided to “blacklist” the art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon. The historian had offended students when he performed a Hitler impersonation during a debate on the question of whether good taste exists.

Illustration by Reg Lynch.Credit:
Cleese pointed out that he had done a Hitler impression, too (you could say his career was made on it). The actor tweeted: “I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply.”
Graham-Dixon had debated the affirmative case. He was trying to make the point that good taste exists because bad taste does, and bad taste is rooted in bad morals. Being an art historian, he made interesting points about how Hitler hated modern art, and the Nazis ripped Cubist and abstract works off gallery walls. The Nazis saw those forms of art as connected with gay, Jewish and African people, according to Graham-Dixon, so they annihilated the art before moving on to annihilating the people themselves.

John Cleese as Basil Fawlty famously mocked Hitler in the Fawlty Towers episode, The Germans.Credit:BBC
I watched the speech. I struggle to see how anyone could have seen anything he said as endorsing Hitler, but the point failed to land. Graham-Dixon has since apologised, and said that he was trying “to underline the utterly evil nature of Hitler and his regime”.

For anyone who has ever attended a university debate, where precocity so often outweighs poise, it is hardly surprising that one of the speeches was a bit rubbish. But afterwards, the backlash began.
Cambridge Union president Keir Bradwell – who, it is worth noting, is only 21 – issued an apology, saying he should have intervened at the time.
“We will create a blacklist of speakers never to be invited back, and we will share it with other unions, too. Andrew will be on that list,” Bradwell said.

The whole exercise underlines how hard it is, even for the younger generation, to navigate the etiquette they have helped create.

But then, perhaps realising what a massive own-goal it was to put potential speakers in fear of a blacklisting, Bradwell did a U-turn. He scrapped the blacklist, and said: “If there is a dichotomy between free speech and offence, I would defend free speech. I don’t want to create an impression that the union is against free speech.” It may be too late for that.

But the whole exercise underlines how hard it is, even for the younger generation, to navigate the etiquette they have helped create. If you elevate the taking of offence to the ultimate guiding principle, people will begin to operate out of fear of censure. That fear can impede creativity, especially in those who lack cultural power (which Cleese obviously does not).
It also makes it difficult to test your ideas in opposition to others’, something a university debating society should probably adopt as a priority.
There is an argument over whether “cancellation” really exists. Some people say the term is a right-wing fiction that mischaracterises legitimate criticism as punishment, resulting in real harm.

Alan Jones’ broadcasting career is over, not because he was cancelled but because he was irrelevant.Credit:Brendan Esposito, Nick Moir, Sky News Australia
This debate recalls American author Jonathan Franzen, who was cancelled way before it was fashionable, when he sneered at Oprah Winfrey’s book club, after his 2001 book, The Corrections, was endorsed by Oprah’s bookworms. Americans are a divided people, but they all agree on one thing: it’s uncool to be mean to Oprah.

Since he dissed O, many have condemned Franzen as too white, too male, too aloof and too snobby to be relevant. This is a shame if it turns anyone away from his latest book, Crossroads, because it is one of the best depictions of intergenerational conflict I’ve read (maybe since Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, where the young nihilists fight the old liberals).
Crossroads is set in the ’70s, a time of great cultural change. The paterfamilias of the book is a miserably married, middle-aged white guy, a wannabe-hip pastor who uses his prior involvement in the civil rights movement, his collection of classic blues records, and his friendship with a Navajo community to virtue-signal to his children and pastoral flock.

 

[koshari]

It is a very big problem today I can’t help it but burst out laughing if a kid is crying over a toy lol

i heard on the radio there is a shortage of "santas helpers " this season, might be another opening for you?