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This latest shooting was barely a blip anyway.

We in the rest of the world hear news of a shooting in America and our reaction is "huh, must be Tuesday".

It sounds awful to say that, but there it is.

Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:48 pmJust when there's talk of making it legal (and thus taxable) in Oz this bovver breaks out.

Bring it on. I've long said that if I could smoke dope legally I wouldn't have a drinking problem.

I wasn't offered any of those books in school. I was in school in a time and place where pedagogical theory was pretty casual. I remember getting a little bit (a very little bit) of Shakespeare, Evelyn Waught's The Loved One , Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and something called Doctor Wooreddy's...

A blowgun makes a better ambush weapon than a defensive one.

Admin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:34 pmCertainly the first time I can recall a national emergency being declared.

Apparently it's only the third time in New Zealand's history.

He is. Well, indirectly, through the Catholic Church's aid charity, Caritas. Salvation on faith alone is a Protestant ideal. Catholics are and always have been about faith and charity. I stand corrected. I spent five years working in the international aid industry. There are a lot of misconceptions...

$200 eh? At todays exchange rate that's about $2275 in dollarydoos.

I never got exposed to Vonnegut. I think I was too busy with Tolkein.

Fuck yes. A lot of dead people, and I see Turkey appealing for help. I'd be keen to help, on the stipulation Erdogan stops being a cunt and they stop bombing Kurdish villages. And stay the fuck out of Greece's face. I do not agree with imposing conditions on the provision of humanitarian aid. Help ...

I've been thinking of getting a decent cheap electric. I've got an old acoustic neglected in my spare room, but I've never played much with an actual electric guitar. Not that I'm all that good. I can bang out chords pretty well, but that's about it.