Gorth

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I mentioned elsewhere, federal election is going to happen this year. @Guard Dogmight appreciate this bit about independent mp's

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Stealing setting and plot from wiki... Setting The Great Cataclysm is an event that happened two hundred and fifty years ago, 50 years before the Solar year 0. During it, the world was set on fire, and many nations were wiped out with very few habitable areas left in the aftermath. The survivors took refuge in the Tokyo Empire, which remained mostly stable during the period despite losing some of its landmass. The Tokyo Emperor Raffles I establishes the faith of the Holy Sol Temple as it and Haijima Industries developed the perpetual thermal energy plant Amaterasu to power the country. In Year 198 of Tokyo's Solar Era, special fire brigades called the Fire Force fight increasing incidents of spontaneous human combustion where human beings are turned into living infernos called "Infernals".[Jp. 3] While the Infernals are first generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, with more powerful horned variations known as Demons, later generations possess pyrokinesis while retaining human form. The Fire Force was formed by combining people with these powers from the Holy Sol Temple, The Tokyo Armed Forces, and the Fire Defense Agency, and is composed of eight independent companies. Plot Shinra Kusakabe is a third generation pyrokinetic youth who gained the nickname "Devil's Footprints" for his ability to ignite his feet at will, and was ostracized as a child for the fire that killed his mother and younger brother Sho twelve years ago. He joins Special Fire Force Company 8, which features other pyrokinetics who dedicated themselves to ending the Infernal attacks for good while investigating Companies 1 through 7 for potential corruption in their ranks. Shinra begins to learn that the fire that killed his mother was a cover for Sho to be taken by the White Clad, a doomsday cult behind the Infernal attacks with agents within the facets of the Tokyo Empire. Company 8 and their allies oppose the White Clad while learning of their goal to gather eight individuals like Shinra and Sho to repeat the Great Cataclysm for an ancient being who manipulated humanity for that very purpose.

Found something new to watch... first season of Fire Force (Enen no Shouboutai). Looks like this thing's hot! 24 Episodes though. Completion is going to depend on the quality of the first half dozen episodes.

Happy Birthday @KP on top of ZA WARUDO... dang, to be that young again Thread continued here

Continued from old thread...

As petty as it may sound, I firmly believe domestic politics and a mid year federal election plays a major role too. The federal government is the rotten to the core, corrupt Liberal Party with known serial liar as a PM. Victoria is governed by the opposition party, and the two has had a go at each other throughout the pandemic, being at odds constantly (a bit of a mirror of Trump and Demoract governors in the US, where the federal government threatened to withhold vaccine supply from those states), Our beloved (/sarcasm) federal PM, Scott Morrison, who has pretty much bungled everything beyond even the wildest expectations, since disgracing himself with the mishandling of the bush fires (just before covid was a thing), is under a lot of fire for letting rich and famous people travel to and from Australia at will, while Australians are prohibited from doing the same. He's looking to score some brown nosing points with the disgruntled masses at the moment by cherry picking something where he thinks he can do "the right thing" at the expense of the opposition party in Victoria. Edit: Never mind that this train departed a long time ago and covid is all over Australia, including remote outback villages

You need new friends then Genital Jousting on Steam is just hilarious when played with the right friends. Sorry, can’t link to it. Search for it on the Steam site

[hint]Australia could use a regime change![/hint]

Bruce... I believe in one set of rules that has to apply to everybody equally. That people are celebrities (including porn stars) doesn't change my opinion. You want to visit a country, follow the local rules. End of story. I know the liberal party made a lot of exceptions the past two years, bending over backwards for celebrities when they thought it profitable. But Morrison being a piece of lying filth, doesn't change my own values (i.e. all being equal in the eyes of the law, rules, regulations, whatever)

"Borat" is probably the extent of the majority of the forum members knowledge of Kazakhstan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443453/ edit: Yes, I expect there to be exceptions to this, but, the majority? Nah

I care when people use their celebrity status to grandstand against vaccination. In case you missed it, Djokovic is against anyone being vaccinated and it’s a personal campaign against vaccinations on some twisted ideological grounds. He’s mocking the people who died from or lost loved ones to covid. The piece of **** can take a hike as far as I care.

It sounds nice… until you think about it. See my comment about chaos. Kazakhstan had no democratic culture. They wouldn’t know what to do with democracy no matter how many bombs you drop on them. We’re talking about mobs that are angry at the previous ruler because of fuel prices, not the current president (who is new in office, relatively, and kicked out the previous guy from his self appointed security chief position). Like it or not, the best and lasting changes happens gradually when a society “matures” (imho). Until then, failed states doesn’t benefit anyone. Not the Russians, not The West and least of all the Kazakh people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59880166 Russian-led military troops will be deployed to help "stabilise" Kazakhstan amid anti-government demonstrations. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for support from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as nationwide unrest escalates. The protests were first sparked by rising fuel prices, but have broadened to include other political grievances. ... President Tokayev is only the second person to lead Kazakhstan since it declared independence in 1991. His election, in 2019, was condemned by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as showing scant respect for democratic standards. Much of the anger on the streets, however, seems to have been aimed at his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has held a powerful national security role since stepping down. On Wednesday, he was fired in a bid to subdue the growing unrest. Not really much of an opinion on that one to be honest, except possibly, that chaos is something that should be avoided in everyone's best interest. Too many opportunities for extremist groups (ISIS, AQ etc.) to find a new home in inaccessible parts of the world, if Kazakhstan disintegrates.

Should I stay or should I go now... (insert Clash tune) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59889522 "Tennis star Novak Djokovic has had his visa to enter Australia dramatically revoked on his arrival in Melbourne. The world number one was held in the city's airport for several hours before border forces announced he had not met entry rules and would be deported. He has reportedly now been taken to a government detention hotel pending his departure on an outbound flight." Who would have thought a federal government could be useful when state authorities fails badly?... Such a rare sight, that's worth it alone to mark a red circle around the date 2022 in the calendar. Edit: He somehow managed to convince the Australian Open organizers it would be worth it to let him flaunt the rules and **** over the average Australian, because he's someone "special", but immigration (and visas) is run by the federal government, and he didn't meet the visa requirements, even if eligible to play. Edit2: I suspect it has something to do with massive public outrage and the federal elections coming up this year. The government was already under heavy fire for selling out to the rich and famous the past two years, where Hollywood and sports stars could come and go as they please (with the federal governments blessing), whereas ordinary Australians couldn't even say last goodbyes to dying kids living just across a state border and tens of thousands of Australians stranded abroad who couldn't return home.

My brothers and my dad are... not quite bald, but very, very thin haired by now. I seem to have inherited all the hair in the family Leaving it uncut for 3 months makes me look like a 70's hippie with "microphone hair" (it's also very curly)

More TV and Streaming in the sequel:

Cutting off episodes from previous thread to sell at new, improved (and inflated) prices in a new thread! Old thread:

Death Parade 12... just goes to show, that death is not the end (bad pun). Now where is my season 2??? The dark haired woman (whose name I looked up on a wiki: Chiyuki) is given a special treat by Decim (the bartender). Taken down into the off limits basement and shown how her mother is heart broken by her death and the pain she is causing others. Because the supervisor arbitor, Nona, tampered with Decim when he was created, he's able to feel Chiyuki's pain and emotions. Rather than a logical sentence, she gets an emotional sentence instead and gets sent to the elevator with reincarnation as destination. A bit of disagreement between Nona and her own boss, Occulus (which is some kind of big boss arbiter) about the folly of adding emotions to arbiters and influencing their sentencing. Mieruko-chan was a "non-ending". Now checking if there are going to be a second season. The manga continues for quite a bit after where the 12th anime episode ends, so I suppose there is a possibility. Looks like the temp teacher wasn't the psychopath cat killer, brutally eviscerating the cats in the neighbourhood. In fact, he catches the cat killer and gives him a taste of his own medicine. Come to think of it, maybe he is a psychopath killer, just not of cats Miko starts thinking about how to seek help against the visions and Godmother is flexing her muscles, getting out of retirement, in order to help Miko (although the latter doesn't know that yet) Edit:... which leaves me to consider what to watch next. The Promised Neverland was suggested, I'll see what it's about.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59848160 I guess Covid is now just as widespread as Metallica, having performed on all seven continents. Since 14 December, at least 16 of the 25 workers at the Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught the virus. Officials say cases remain mild so far. "The situation isn't dramatic," Joseph Cheek, a project manager for the International Polar Foundation, told the BBC.

There dammit! THERE !!! Stop the violence against the Aussie language

Happy New Year everyone. At this point in time, 2022 is already old down here and I'm sober again

A blast from the past... was 1994 really that long ago?

From Gorth's young years... she was hot and she had *that* voice