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Heijera. It was very popular in the bar at Scott Base with the cool guys, which is where I first heard it. It's a bit depressing though with all that loneliness of the road and such. I haven't listened to it for years though. I'll have to have a listen again soon, if I can find the CD.

Agreed. It's like the language that kindy kids use. I wonder if they speak like that to real people- I don't of course- they'd be too gutless to say stuff like that to a real Trump supporter.

IMO they see Biden as weak and approaching senility. They probably want the US to degenerate into chaos and he's guy to cause that. IMO it's already broken, and just needs a final push.

Who else has ever stood up and said he wants to destroy the "swamp". Bernie sort of did, and look what happened to him. In the absence of good men wanting to reform Washington, those that despise Washington will grasp at straws and Trump is the only straw out there. I think those that reject Trump underestimate the hatred the unprivileged of America have for Washington. IMO Washington needs to be "destroyed" to save America from it. Completely reformed from top to bottom. Putting a time and age limit on ALL politicians would be a good start, as would sacking half the bureaucrats.

Who is "she"?

A "promise to continue negotiations with the aim of creating an ultimate two-state solution" is IMO a waste of time. They've been "negotiating" that for decades, and never passing GO. It has to be reality or it'll never happen. Those "negotiators" could talk forever and never reach a two state solution. It's what they want, IMO. I don't trust the Americans to be impartial or unbiased when it comes to israel and IMO are bad actors, and should be excluded from any negotiations.

The thread seems to be veering off in unexpected directions. Vaccination and now happiness. It did make me think about being happy though. I'm happy at the end of a day when I woke up and didn't hurt anywhere, no <deleted> harassed me, there was a beautiful sunset and I got to watch a nice movie without falling asleep in the middle of it. That seems simple enough but rarely happens. Looking back on my life, I was happiest when I was walking on a nice Thai beach at sunset with my GF. All was well with my world. Sadly the good times never last and there was always a goodbye to the beach, my GF and LOS. The photo was on the beach at Kho Tao in 1999. Bliss.

Hmmm. By your point of view, perhaps we'd have been better off if they never invented antibiotics then. For sure we would not have an overpopulated planet, so that might be a good thing.

People don't normally greet others they don't know in an elevator, or say hi to strangers in public. Perhaps it's the OP that is making a problem out of nothing. Perhaps the OP lives in a more friendly country where such things happen, but not in any country I've lived in.

Just for the heck of it, the photo is of a badly trained nurse, but I doubt any non nurses will realise why. It's because she is wearing a bracelet or watch on her left wrist, which is a big no no as it's contaminated. Nurses should not wear anything below the elbow, which is why they have watches that pin to their upper body area. Nurses have to wash their hands dozens of times a working day to prevent transferring nasties from one patient to another, and that includes above the wrist- not possible to do properly if wearing a watch or bracelet.

Nurses are never paid what they are worth because they are mainly female and reluctant to go on strike. As one for decades, I know too well how they are exploited and abused by management, and underpaid. Why do they ( I ) do it- because we wanted to do something useful to society, rather than a shop assistant or factory worker etc, but we are never valued or rewarded financially for it. Would I do it again? Not in a million years. I'd do something that paid a decent wage for a day's work. I'd have been better off driving a London Tube train, but I was too old to be accepted for that when I arrived in London.

It would be helpful if you quoted something so the rest of us know whom you are referring to.

I'm also sure she would, but I doubt she's a Trump supporter anyway. I'm surprised you don't mention Biden. Do you know something the rest of us don't?

I read it while at school. It was in the school library, so a popular book, and as you say hardly specialist reading material.

The truth about Trump will come out about the same time as the truth about Biden. Let's hope you live long enough to read it.

Must be millions and millions of bored bigots out there then. His show was very popular.

and yet you apparently just had to watch the show. Are you aware that you can change the channel?

One wonders just how much opposition the US has to get before it wakes up and realises that just about all the world is against them on this situation. Seems that they are willing to go down with the SS Israel as it sinks in a sea of opprobrium. I half way feel sorry for the American on the Security Council as she vetoes yet another resolution, as she must know the disdain the other members ( less their poodle Britain ) have for her. Only half way though as she could decline to be spokesperson.

As long as you fail to post any proof it's all just your opinion. You post as though the sole source of CO2 is from human activity which is a nonsense. The planet has had climate change for almost it's entire existence without any human input, yet now it's all about us, LOL IMO humans are just a passing species anyway. Whether we depart a millennia sooner or later is of little significance on a cosmic level.

No bias in evidence then? IMO it's normally the left wing that seeks to control every aspect of life, and the right wing that emphasises individual rights.

It's called deflecting. Look at this here while I mess up your lives over there.

Let's be clear about it, it's killing an unborn human being, not disposing of a tumour, no matter how they term it. Not that I'm opposed to it at all. I see no difference in killing an unborn human being as against sending them to die in war after they grow up a bit, I just don't like the attempt to describe an unborn human as disposable waste tissue.

I wasn't aware that Top Gear post Clarkson was successful. It certainly wasn't the same show and was dire. The BBC apparently lost millions of viewers after they sacked him- self inflicted injury. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/16/bbc-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-suspension BBC loses 4m viewers after Jeremy Clarkson's suspension from Top Gear

Thanks for the explanation. We didn't have such terms in NZ when I was young as pretty much everyone in NZ was "working class" as almost everyone did a real job. I went to boarding school myself, but most pupils were sons of farmers.

I read the OP and didn't see any mention of the one sided assault on Gaza with the resulting thousands of Palestinian deaths. It's like the antisemitism just happened out of nowhere, for no reason. I'm at a loss to find the words to describe such IMO deliberate misreporting.