Play Nice Random Chat Thread VII

[ferball]

I watch the vfl. Never pay attention to the commonwealth games.

I used to. A mate of mine won a medal once but I haven't watched for ... maybe decades.

 

[Chadwiko]

A bunch of insurance companies in the United States have announced they'll no longer be offering natural disaster coverage in Florida due to the worsening impacts/frequency of climate change.

In response, DeSantis' campaign has called insurance 'woke'.

They're really just using that word to describe anything they don't like these days, aren't they.

 

[Lomas]

I used to. A mate of mine won a medal once but I haven't watched for ... maybe decades.

I’m only there for the lawn Bowles

 

[ferball]

A bunch of insurance companies in the United States have announced they'll no longer be offering natural disaster coverage in Florida due to the worsening impacts/frequency of climate change.

In response, DeSantis' campaign has called insurance 'woke'.

They're really just using that word to describe anything they don't like these days, aren't they.

These days?

That's been the case since some idiot white person described herself as woke while wearing an outfit worth more than most black people make in a month on some tv show they never have access to.

 

[gokangas]

Comm Games is just a total cluster fugg. I suspect Dan will resign next few months so good time for him to take the flack - rumours are strong. That would mean next leader can do the old 'wipe hands'. Wasn't my fault etc etc. Should not have chased the games in the first place but once committed a renege is just pathetic. Bit of a can't win here. The accusations will fly from all sides but at the end of the day - they ain't happening.

 

[Hojuman]

Breaking news;

" Biden, Putin, Xi Jinping & United Nations holding joint press conference as the fallout continues world-wide re. Vic.Govt. cancellation of the Commonwealth Games "

 

[Del191229]

A bunch of insurance companies in the United States have announced they'll no longer be offering natural disaster coverage in Florida due to the worsening impacts/frequency of climate change.

In response, DeSantis' campaign has called insurance 'woke'.

They're really just using that word to describe anything they don't like these days, aren't they.

The most important political trend of the last ten years is the moving away of right wing politics from big business/corporates.

Its happening across the Anglosphere - US example you provide here. In the UK the Tories broke with business consensus over Brexit - "**** Brexit" as per Boris Johnson.

Here the NO campaign is targeting business support for YES as woke elites etc.

The really interesting element will be the response of business - in the UK they're warming to Sir Kid Starver's authoritarian centrism.

 

[Del191229]

Comm Games is just a total cluster fugg. I suspect Dan will resign next few months so good time for him to take the flack - rumours are strong.

All hail the 1000 year Andrews rein lol.

He's not going within a year of the election ffs.

He'll wait until they strart opening metro stations then go.

Also, nobody outside a few cake shops in Bendigo cares about the Comm Games.

As if the likes of Moderna are factoring it in when deciding whether to keep investing vast sums here lololololololol.

 

[Chadwiko]

Comm Games is just a total cluster fugg. I suspect Dan will resign next few months so good time for him to take the flack - rumours are strong. That would mean next leader can do the old 'wipe hands'. Wasn't my fault etc etc. Should not have chased the games in the first place but once committed a renege is just pathetic. Bit of a can't win here. The accusations will fly from all sides but at the end of the day - they ain't happening.

To be fair, we didn't "chase the games".

The circumstances around the 2026 Commonwealth games are a series of missteps and stuff-ups from all over the world.

Also, lol.

 

[Del191229]

 

[gokangas]

To be fair, we didn't "chase the games".

The circumstances around the 2026 Commonwealth games are a series of missteps and stuff-ups from all over the world.

Also, lol.

If all reports are right - we chased. We approached the Games folk - they didn't approach us.

 

[Nate7]

For the idiots that say this is the poor olympics, just remember there are a few sports that are Comm Games only.

Also, of the sports that are Olympic and Comm Games, I know of 1 sport where the Comm Games opponents are more consistent.

Beyond that, I think that window licking government set this up to fail.

 

[Val Keating]

I used to. A mate of mine won a medal once but I haven't watched for ... maybe decades.

My cousin Mark won a gold medal for lawn bowls back in 98 and it’s the only interest I’ve ever had in the commonwealth games or lawn bowls.

 

[Val Keating]

This guy is fun

 

[Del191229]

If all reports are right - we chased. We approached the Games folk - they didn't approach us.

I'm not sure you can call taking on a charity case "chasing".

 

[gokangas]

I'm not sure you can call taking on a charity case "chasing".

We went to them - they didn't come to us. Unless the reports are not correct and nobody seems to be denying that fact.

 

[ferball]

My cousin Mark won a gold medal for lawn bowls back in 98 and it’s the only interest I’ve ever had in the commonwealth games or lawn bowls.

Good on him. I'm gonna look him up now.

 

[Del191229]

We went to them - they didn't come to us. Unless the reports are not correct and nobody seems to be denying that fact.

Victoria went to them and said oh, so you know how nobody wants to host this thing, well we reckon we can make it work if we do it a new way.

Then there was a giant inflation surge and the sums didn't add up anymore, so they walked away from it.

 

[koshari]

My cousin Mark won a gold medal for lawn bowls back in 98 and it’s the only interest I’ve ever had in the commonwealth games or lawn bowls.

enough of the name dropping VK ;-)

 

[Del191229]

This stuff is fascinating but also deeply simple when you realise the girls also have OnlyFans.

$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be ‘non-playable characters’

There are anarchic, erotic undertones to ‘NPC streaming’, the trend in which ordinary people play video-game characters

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chadwiko]

 

[Del191229]

69 per cent - nice.

 

[Val Keating]

No one who goes against the grain has a chance, not saying that RFK would be good, just that he isn’t a follower of how the Dems play

 

[Del191229]

No one who goes against the grain has a chance, not saying that RFK would be good, just that he isn’t a follower of how the Dems play

Remember how they rat****ed Bernie in the primaries?

 

[Val Keating]

I mean look at how they white anted Sanders