Everything posted by Gorth
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
Maybe it was chewed on for too long by turbo granny 🤔
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
I usually only chase the venomous ones (like that red back family that started an “occupy Gorth’s shower” movement) with the insecticide can. Jumping spiders are just too cute and the larger huntsman spiders do get caught in a plastic bowl and piece of paper slid under it for eviction 🕷️ I usually spend more times chasing lizards as geckos are just a royal pain to catch. Darn sucker equipped feet make them excellent runners up and down walls and ceilings 😖
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US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
With his resume, not even Murdoch would be able to buy him a resident visa 😝 edit that's assuming the LNP (the center right coalition) stays away from power, after all they were happy to sell freedom to a convicted child rapist and let him breach Covid lockdown so he could go back to his dear papa Pope (who paid the millions of dollars the Morrison government estimated his freedom to be worth), just goes to show everything is for sale if the price is right (except Greenland)
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US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
Good thing Australia has a very strict immigration policy... just in case the US completely crashes, burns and falls apart at the seams 😝
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
Watched third episode of Dandadan. Momo is in denial about her feelings for "Okarun" and we get introduced to her grandmother. Her baseball bad is, if possible, even bigger than her attitude A bit more backstory on grandma as well as "Turbo Granny", who stole Okarun's weenie. Turns out these old ladies, grandma and turbo granny both, are "territorial" and strongest on their home turf.
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
Watched second episode of Dandadan.... 😂 It's back weirder, wilder and wackier. Occult-kun (aka Ken Takakura and now renamed to Okarun because his real name drives Momos nuts) is still missing his weenie, so Momo brings his home to her grandmothers place where he almost got burnt to a crisp by said grandmothers wards and then both of them gets beset by an alien, as they haven't given up their ambitions of seizing bananas (we come on peace, give us your bananas!) 👽 Just a good laugh through and through. No higher brain functions required 😁
- What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
When you turn spreading lies, fear and hatred into your livelihood... not really a surprise?
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Vier
Somewhere between "things you didn't need to know" and "people with too much time on their hands" 😁 Of course, the latter could also explain cricket
- Funny Stuff - Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
Meh, we’ll all get isekaied into some obscenely long titled mess once the dust of the apocalypse settles 😝 I call dibs on the harem!
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Randommer/Interestinglier/Weirder - now more of everything for the same low price!
Maybe eugenics isn’t such a bad idea after all 🤔
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Me & Obsidian
Tl;dr; 20 years is a life time 👍 I still think back to those days in 1983, when fighting my mum over access to the TV. I swear, she never cared watching TV before, until I got that Commodore 64 and didn't have my own screen (yet) 😁 It was the fight of the titans, seeing who was the most stubborn 🤔 In the end, I made enough money to buy a 12" black and white TV to put up in my own room. Peace settled over the land and everyone could back to worry about total nuclear war (the real thing, not the later video game) But it's been a long journey, technologies come and go, concepts come and go, target audiences come and go. VHS won out over Beta MAX, but nobody today knows what the heck either of them are. Tapes were the original medium video games were sold on for home computers, whether they be Acorn BBC model B or Sinclair ZX Spectrums. Floppy disks followed and less floppy, floppy (3.5") followed and eventually cd roms. Even those eventually died out and everyone gets their fix from the internet. Scratching my head and wondering what replaces the current internet some day? All of that in 2x20 years.
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
I watched first episode of Dandadan... that was just awesomeness from start to end! I hope it keeps up like that I'm wondering if they follow Turbo Granny into the tunnel, so Obscure-Kun can get his weenie back and lift the curse, now that they escaped the banana obsessed aliens 🤔
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Randommer/Interestinglier/Weirder - now more of everything for the same low price!
Sabine's assessment of the current state of physics (warning, swearing and profanity with a German accent)
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
First Frieren got its official announcement of a season 2 being in production, today my other favourite Anime got a season 2 announcement 😁 https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2024/10/5/gushing-over-magical-girls-tv-anime-season-2-announcement
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The All Things Political Topic
There really are some weird dictatorships out there... mostly unknown in the west too
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US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
The problem with a guy like Trump is he has no policy, nor does he represent anyone but his own interests. He'll change opinion faster than an A/C current if he thinks it benefits him personally. Which is also why it's hard to quote him sometimes, because he'll champion both sides depending on the audience. As long as they declare their undying love for him... I.e. trying to attribute a particular policy (for or against) to Trump is an exercise in futility.
- Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
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Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
That’s sort of limits their trustworthiness to impacts in the city of Tel Aviv, doesn’t it? Not knowing those media, I would be surprised if they didn’t get most of their information as third hand information, handed down from the people affected to the official Israeli channels and finally the curated version to said media. I would wait 12-24 months for independent media to have fact checked the various claims. Heck, they could all be right, missile defense being no good and the Iranian missiles slaughtering cows and grasshoppers on farmland 🤷♂️ edit: fixed various typos graciously brought to you by my phone
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What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
That's a question I can't answer from top of my head It's quite complicated actually. Some of them are the original states, arranged to show a constellation on the southern hemisphere and the number of "edges/spikes" also means something and the large lonely star symbolizes the commonwealth Edit: kindly provided by google... edit2: The stars on the sky
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What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
It was a busy Monday night for me today, doing the citizenship ceremony at Brisbane City Hall. Lots of pomp, music, military brass, political elite and various other representatives. Music by the Royal Australian Navy, an Aboriginal Group and a sizeable girls choir... and I really just wanted to go home, chafing in my shirt! I really hate wearing shirts! 😂 I stuck with the program, the speeches, the ceremony, the pledges, the singing of a new national anthem (for me) and ended up getting my new citizenship certificate as a reward for two years of paperwork 😖 Now I can add Australian Citizen too on my CV 😎 The girl choir also gave a decent rendition of this old hit!