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My first summer in Australia was after moving from Wellington (NZ) to Adelaide (South Australia). Say hello to 5 weeks of 44C-46C degrees (111F-115F) 😅 Queensland has better balanced weather though (IMHO). Less excessive heat in summer (very humid though) and less frigid in winter. Adelaide was close to 0C C(32F) at night every now and then in winter, I suppose that's part of having effectively desert climate. Where I live now it's more like 10C-22C (50F-72F) in the winter and 20C-32C (68F-90F) in the summer (typical night and day values, extremes happens of course). It's like a little "Garden of Eden" here with the subtropical climate ☺️

I seem to have acquired a spontaneous case of dyslexia... I keep treading that title as Penitent 😖

Drummers are a bit... different?

Could you make an "executive summary" for those of us blocked by the pay wall? Not cutting pasting it all of course (they need to make a living too), but just some key points?

Drums and bagpipes... what's not to love?

Welcome to the time machine... aka retro tech. When the compact disc was new and revolutionary (1982)

Hehe, yeah. Playback Denied: Location Error Code: PLAYER_ERR_GEO_RESTRICTED I'll save it for later. I do have VPN on my desktop PC

Which frankly makes perfect sense when you're the one doing all the dying on the ground...

Can anyone really understand what communist China has against democracy? It works well for Taiwan... Or even "Western Style" democracies like the UK and Australia... Representing your voters... indeed! South Africa too... just for Bruce 😇 I think democracies have more fun than totalitarian countries 😁 Edit: There are better Australian Parliament MMA videos on Youtube, but they were age restricted 😢

I was slightly wrong about one minor detail... it wasn't *all* paid by the tax payers, as one party invitation was "bring your own booze" (per written testimony by witnesses). Still, I'm sure they can get tax and duty free booze somehow in their jobs

He never did it himself. It took all the first hand witnesses summoned by the inquiry to build a case against him (and found him guilty of lying). But then, what would you expect from a PM that would lie to the Queens face, to get democracy suspended for 5 weeks before a Brexit vote 😛

1) Both. Either is reason for me enough to want him sacked (an allegation is only an allegation until it's proven) From The Guardian... "He (former aide Dominic Cummings) said he personally told Reynolds (Boris' private secretary) that the invitation broke the rules and claimed Reynolds replied: “So long as it’s socially distanced I think it’s OK, I’ll check with the PM if he’s happy for it to go ahead.” Cummings said in his blogpost: “Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened.” We're not talking about one party... once could be an 'oops, that was a mistake'. "No 10 staff had hoped that the inquiry, which is examining more than 15 separate allegations of illegal gatherings in Downing Street, would conclude this week. Because of the constant drip of new parties and developments, officials believe it may now report next week." I.e. we're talking about a serial offender. 2) If he had fessed up, taken his hat (and responsibility for his actions) and resigned, the world would probably just remember him as a bad human being with human weaknesses (pride, arrogance, conceit etc.). Lying, once you get to a certain scale to cover up your shortcomings, means he'll also be remembered as a bad Prime Minister. But, let the English voters sort their own mess out. They collectively lie in the proverbial bed of their own making.

I'm not really sure how this is relevant... to anything? 🤔 You saying it's Ok for politicians to be above the law and break it when they feel like partying on the tax payers dollar? Or not? And knowingly lie about it, trying to deceive said tax payers? His party colleagues may not be concerned at all about the ethics involved, but have some real concern about how it affects marginal seats in coming local and nationwide elections. The voters will punish the party as they see fit in coming elections, but... Would the conservative members be right in doing what is best for Boris or the best for the covid conservative party? edit: For comparison, an ordinary Australian doing the same stunt as Boris can (or could in 2020 & 2021) face up to 6 months behind bars and a $13000 fine, which is for many people like a fifth of their gross annual income. No, not feeling sorry for politicians being held accountable for criminal behaviour.

Maybe because those politicians partied, celebrated, got drunk and broke the laws knowingly while the majority of citizens were paying their wages? If an employee of mine were that untrustworthy, I would get rid of him. Remember PM's are there not to rule the people but to serve the people (a fact often forgotten)

I think it might have been this one... Shuna and Shion loves dressing him up in girls clothes because of his androgynous looks finding him just soooo "Kawaii!" 😂 (it's part of slime diaries, i.e. the series of side stories happening in parallel with season 1, season 2 is about Rimuru's ascension to Demon Lord as far as I understand it, I haven't watched season 2 yet) Edit: The whole side story is a bit of a paradox as Rimuru got the ability to take on human form because of Shizu's death. I.e. they could not have met each other in human form in the streets

The first movie is not available in my country (Australia), so no idea what it was, but the Resident Evil movie has too little Milla Jovovich in it Can't really say I know The Addams family other than I recognize the names, like Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia etc. from various Youtube clips 🤔 Edit: Finally got started on my big boxed set of Gladiator. Lots of gore and nudity. Expecting nothing less from HBO 😇

Disciples II Rise of the Elves 🥰 Now I suddenly feel like playing through all the D2 campaigns again

It's no more than a couple of years ago the Pope paid the Morrison government $2million to get their head pedophile and former treasurer of The Vatican, Cardinal Pell, out of jail and put on a chartered plane to Rome... during the strictest phase of covid lock down, where people couldn't visit their dying closest relatives because of travel prohibitions. So yes, I consider him the head of that ring, still protecting the "priests", regardless of how many corpses of raped kids and destroyed lives they walk over in the process.

Well, depends on who you ask. For me, he's the leader of the worlds largest and best organized pedophile organization, so I wouldn't shed any tears if a bit of collateral damage happened. His importance may be overrated.

Russia isn't Catholic, so they would probably just not give a damn. If the Orthodox Patriarch were to show up... a very religious man like Putin may have second thoughts and shell the area around him instead?

Time for a new sequel...

Haven't heard about this game yet... cinematic trailer is well made though. I wish GW would create feature movies for us (well, me!) to consume. Continued from the original series...

Tensura Nikki... just watching a few of those "unessential" side story episodes, that takes place in parallel with season 1. Somebody points out The Emperor (Rimuru) isn't wearing any clothes 😂

While I'm not generally in favour of testing drugs on animals, these tests were non lethal and somewhat amusing... Seems like humans are no the only species where the male prefer to drown their sorrow in alcohol if rejected by females 🙄

In the 584th year of the war in Ukraine, Putin declared victory for the 173th time at Mariupol (although the 68th “capture” of the city is still disputed, we’re the defenders actually driven out before they returned?)