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by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:18 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global
Replies: 71
Views: 9804

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Most poor people aren't poor because they're lazy. Most poor people are poor because the system is stacked against them, making bootstrapping themselves out of poverty almost impossible. You need money in order to make money.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:16 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Aussie v NZ
Replies: 57
Views: 12585

Re: Aussie v NZ

Are you sure you're Greens Art? Sounding a lot saner than most of them. Well that's the thing. When you actually look into what most of them are saying, and into the party platform in general, they're not that outrageous. Sure, there's definitely a lunatic fringe, but most of the mainstream Greens ...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Life's better moments.
Replies: 209
Views: 50336

Re: Life's better moments.

I like peanut butter. I like it on sandwiches with Vegemite. Cheese also works pretty well.
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:50 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: The Drowning Thread
Replies: 25
Views: 4170

Re: The Drowning Thread

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare. They're common in Aussie rivers, and I'm pretty the only reason there aren't more attacks is only insane people go swimming in Aussie rivers. Years ago ...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 899
Views: 280194

Re: Planet America

Also, that looks like a Catholic bishop, who aren't the ones strongly advocating for 2nd amendment solutions to perceived problems. But evangelical pastors are harder to identify on sight than Catholic bishops, so I guess it's understandable. And though a Catholic bishop is quite rightly depicted as...
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 17, 2023 4:46 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 358
Views: 85250

Re: Weather

Probably.
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 17, 2023 4:45 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Aussie v NZ
Replies: 57
Views: 12585

Re: Aussie v NZ

...although I do have some nagging worries about the speed of this 'shutting everything down' with no backups in place to take the load. That just doesn't make sense to me at all. Well yeah, that's because it doesn't make sense. Nobody who knows anything about the subject thinks that coal fired pow...
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Aussie v NZ
Replies: 57
Views: 12585

Re: Aussie v NZ

Makes sense to you to ban all fossil fuel development and eventually all exports of same? Illuminate me. How the hell is that not going to turn this Country into Venezuela?? Not going to respond to the whole rant obviously, but the answer to this question is that it would be done - and in fact is b...
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:22 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Rooster screwing a duck
Replies: 38
Views: 14099

Re: Rooster screwing a duck

I like white chocolate. A lot.
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:21 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 358
Views: 85250

Re: Weather

Yes. I do swords.