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Getting my booster shot tomorrow. Moderna this time (my first two shots were BioNTech/Pfizer). It's a matter of convenience to be honest, as I can get Moderna 15 minutes from where I live. If I wanted Pfizer, I would have to travel to the other side of Brisbane, across the river and spending hours in transit. I do like joking about mixing shots makes the effects more pronounced though. As for side effects, the only vaccine to almost kill me was the smallpox vaccine I got as a small kid, which ended me up in ICU in hospital. Never had anything even remotely like it since (actually, didn't really have much in the way of vaccinations after the age of 7 come to think of it). Whooping cough (a combo shot, combined with diphtheria and tetanus) last year, together with covid are about the only vaccines received as an adult Edit: The whooping cough because friends of mine had a newborn last year and I wanted to hang out with them. Edit2: If I'm not around tomorrow afternoon, I want my ashes spread over the ocean

Yeah, no netflix here, so I'll look at crunchyroll. I don't mind spending like $15 to actually purchase a season on Amazon like I did with Mieruko-chan (which I quite liked), but free is definitely preferably So Stardust Crusaders / Battle in Egypt it is for me, I suppose

Thanks for the clarifications Yes, bits and pieces of that probably disappeared into black holes in my mind, as it might have happened rather fast in passing It is generally overly dramatic and stylistic, but I liked it. I might not be able to binge watch a second season immediately after finishing the first, but give it a week or two and I'll look for seasons 2. I couldn't find anything explicitly labeled season 2 though. Just as season 1 wasn't actually labeled season 1 as far as I know. Which one is the next one to look for (once I'm done with Drop kick on my Devil)?

Sometimes a side effect of "paragraphs" can be beneficial for the bystanders, even if wasted on the original poster. So, even if not hitting where it's needed the most, can still be beneficial to others. Edit: Bystanders being a better word than onlookers.

I don't know if I got such a thing as a favourite strip club in Brisbane... the only one I ever visited was on the Gold Coast (near Surfers Paradise). The lap dances are nice https://www.hollywoodshowgirls.com.au/ As for food... hmm... Too many different ones to mention. Traditional Danish food is not amongst it. Indian Curry (Lababdar, Vindaloo), Tikka Masala, Thai Curry (Green and Yellow), Japanese food (various fish, seaweed, tofu, tsashimi, stuff with soy sauce and miso in it...), Chinese too sometimes, preferably a mix of all kinds of stuff in a communal Wok, like lotus roots and pig belly, roast duck with orange sauce... Good old dead cow on the BBQ here in Australia... and oven baked salmon (being a personal favourite of mine) Edit: Disclaimer, no idea if any of those dishes are "authentic" to the places I give credit for them...

Why would I do that? War is never a solution. It always creates more problems than it solves. Even if the problems don't pop up immediately. Edit: How about asking me some easier questions, like do I like pain, do I like water in my whisky, do I think Scott Morrison is a great PM...? Edit2: Doesn't mean I would hold Russia responsible for the conflict alone either. That is entirely on Russia + the UK and USA in equal measures, and in part Ukraine too for failing to action the points agreed in the Minsk Accords

How about starting at the beginning? Chronologically? The Minsk Accord? The one that was supposed to guarantee the minority rights in eastern Ukraine and establish peace? (was one of those things Ms. Truss completely turned a deaf ear towards, peace is not interesting, only her ultimatums dictating what Russia can and can't do within it's borders). How about some constructive ideas that could've put Russia's mind at ease regarding western aggression (both militarily, economically and culturally)? Not worth mentioning at all, Russia has to move its troops elsewhere, where WE, the mighty UK are satisfied and they have to stay put there as long as we say... you get the gist. I'm mostly very, very disappointed in the performance of western diplomacy, the UK in particular, sending probably the single most inept individual they had to do a grown up's work. For heavens sake, if they don't have any skilled politicians, send a professional, like a career diplomat as a representative. What happened was a woman completely out of depth wasting hours of everybody's time, and worse, proving to the Russians, that the UK has no interest in peace or diplomacy at all.

If you go into a diplomatic engagement and one part prepares detailed explanations and suggestions and the other part has a shopping list of threats and ultimatums which just got repeated over and over, completely unwilling to acknowledge that, their counterpart may actually have something to say, failed. Badly. Yes, she did fail rather badly (hence my remarks about her lack of ability). Dressing up as a Maggie Doll (which is what Zor was referring to) doesn't give her the respect Margaret Thatcher earned through a life of hard work and *skill*. Way to give Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson a run for their money... Feel free to watch all two hours of the conversation if you feel like it. The way western leaders deal with the disagreement pretty much divides them up into two camps. Those who are "safe", with no scandals or looming elections/votes of no confidence ahead of them (Germany and France) and those who could very much use something to take peoples minds of such things (UK and USA). Boris Johnson might not even be around for the next election (being deposed by his own party) and Biden has an economy, that seems headed for a free fall, which wont help domestic social stability.

And that is relevant to her arrogance, incompetence and embarrassing her country repeatedly in public with her gaffes because...?

You know it wasn’t a test done at the Beijing Olympics, right (where according to the BBC she’s returned two negative tests so far) ? It was a test from another competition last year. Makes for a better story conflating things I guess.

Which again is linked to poverty, income inequality and food insecurity... https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2018/18_0217.htm

All the best for your dad

He did give a great performance in the Sydney Opera House a few years ago (I was there), with Jan Vogler and friends. A journey through classical US literature and writers as well as some excellent cello music https://9now.nine.com.au/today/bill-murray-and-friends-tour/ff73da53-4dd3-470d-846f-2161c4e7805f

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Maybe too many families use physical punishment as a matter of convenience rather than "educational" reasons? A good beating will sure improve their reading comprehension and math skills, I'm sure. Too many times, children have been beat up to a degree, that would send people to jail if it hadn't been their own kids. Part because it was easy, part because it was legal to do so. Considering the almost borderline sociopaths, people send to schools these days, maybe it's not the children and their behavior that is a problem, but the parents who fail at parenting? As somebody he didn't get beaten/spanked/whatever as a kid, I'm not convinced it made me a bad adult.

Finished the season of JoJo I started. Some things didn't make sense to me I know, it's all bizarre and nobody talks normally int he universe (everybody always screaming in most dramatic ways) and Bram Stokers Dracula is unrecognizable... but there were a few things where the internal logic either failed or explained things in ways that went over my head. So the "men in the pillar" were an ancient race having been around for more than 10000 years. Basically a race of vampires predating human civilization. Always few in numbers, few kids as a result of few deaths. An internal power struggle killed off most of them except two adults and two babies. Cars presumably being one of the adults. Appearing to be the victor as well as the instigator of the infighting. Wanting to "conquer the sun", so his people were not condemned to seek shelter in daylight. What is not properly explained is, who created the stone masks? The "men in the pillar"? If so, why didn't they create them so they could use them themselves? The human vampires created by the masks had no immunity to sunshine, why would the "men in the pillar" gain immunity then? Were Wham and AC/DC the two babies? If so, who was the other adult? Where did Santana enter the picture? He got labeled and some kind of lowly "slave" almost to the "men in the pillar". Who put the men in the pillar? What is/was the pillar? In the meantime, watching Dropkick my Devil episode 2... the downside to not being able to afford an airconditioner

It is an awesome trailer indeed I think it garnered universal praise from just about every youtuber and gaming site that watched it.

Let's stick to discussing good news and leave political debates in the politics thread... aka the bad news thread.

Just because its Friday afternoon, I had a few beers and is am in a whimsical mood... spanking explained:

Of course, Japan being so Japanese turns it into a team sport!

Say hello to the new ultimate martial art contest!

One of my favourites... The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Edit: It just appeals to my inner anarchist for some reason

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