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The banjo is unfairly maligned, in my opinion.

You're in Bubbleburg, so is Bandt seen around much on an "end is nigh" soap box in the big roundabouts often? Or does he just rant lunacy for the cameras?? He's not exactly a local, so we only really hear from him when he's in town or when he's on a soapbox. That said I am an unrepentant ...

Saw a Q and A via YouTube with Hitch, Pell and some other guests who were mostly idiots. Hitch was a fucking legend. Man, I miss that guy. Me too. Along with Sagan. I'd love to hear what they both think of the shit that's going on today. Hitch was heading down the right wing path when he died. I wo...

Profit over safety: https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/ The inevitable result of late stage capitalism. I hold out hope that eventually someone will notice that the profit motive isn't the sole desirable trait that they once thought it was. Probably...

Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:35 amhark! is that Arty I hear galloping in?

Fear not! I have arrived to bring help to the helpless, faith to the faithless, hope to the hopeless, er... gorm to the gormless?

But she did say "it's a different kind of cold".. whatever the hell that means to Canadians. It's the wind. I had a sister lived in Alberta for 40 years. She said that even in -20 the cold wasn't a problem, because it was almost always calm. When it wasn't they stayed inside and their liv...

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Ummm. It's summer in Oz Art, it's supposed to be hot. Beware what you wish for. La Nina is finally abating and we're going to enter a neutral phase this year. Whether the next year brings the next El Nino, it'll happen sooner or later, then you'll see some heat. Yep. Can't say I'm looking forward t...

Don't hold back on our account.

George Hayter was an artist who worked in the 19th Century, producing many famous portraits, including several of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. She was so enamoured of him in fact that she knighted him and named him her Principle Painter. But when she asked him what inspired him to paint, he replied ...