42 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Why do you care?

It's not as if anyone in the world cares what happens in Australia.

Australians care what happens in Australia. It's also been a refuge for Brits looking for decent weather. Not that you guys are much of an asset, always bitching.

 

At least we can say our migration happens in a controlled way.

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Not that you guys are much of an asset, always bitching.

 

 

 

Boom....LOL....I think that might be your second or even third day running

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/florida-new-book-bans

Yep. The ignoramuses are at it again.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Australians care what happens in Australia. It's also been a refuge for Brits looking for decent weather. Not that you guys are much of an asset, always bitching.

 

At least we can say our migration happens in a controlled way.

Was,

Now it's a poop hole where nobody wants to live, after years of leftie misrule.

They don't even want to pay your pension if you leave the country.

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Was,

Now it's a poop hole where nobody wants to live, after years of leftie misrule.

They don't even want to pay your pension if you leave the country.

The lefties in Australia have given us affordable health care and medications. Every time the right-wing nutters try to mess with it, they get a bloody nose at the ballot box.

 

There are Australians living in Thailand who have been on the age pension for years. We only lose the supplements, such as rent assistance and energy subsidy. Which isn't much.

 

We also get any cost of living adjustments every six months, which is more than you can say for Brits with their frozen pensions.

 

You really should do some research, so you can avoid posting nonsense.

Vance the miracle worker 🙏 - a single comment of his prompted the blue haired, nose ringed, keffiyeh wearing brigade to miraculously rediscover their love for the UK military after a few decades of open contempt.  But I get how normal Brits would despise him.

2 hours ago, Purdey said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/florida-new-book-bans

Yep. The ignoramuses are at it again.

Except that the state is not banning books.  

 

The books are freely available to anyone who wants to buy them and read them. What IS happening is that school districts are making decisions on what books should be made available to students in school libraries. Nothing is stopping anyone from reading them, just can't get them at school. So if a parent wants their child to read "Susan Has Two Daddies" or "Flamer", they can go on Amazon and buy them. 

On 8/16/2025 at 12:13 AM, bannork said:

JD Vance was barred from a British pub after furious staff threatened to walk out if its management told them to serve the vice president.

 

The mutiny was even more stinging for Vance as former Vice President Kamala Harris dined at the same venue just weeks earlier during a pre-wedding celebration for Steve Jobs' daughter Eve.

 

Vance's hostile reception extended beyond the pub walls. Local residents staged a colourful "Dance Against Vance" protest Tuesday, brandishing placards calling him a "war criminal" alongside mocking memes of the vice president.

 

JD Vance barred from English pub as staff mutinies over visit

 

Poor old JD, he wasn't too popular in Greenland either. He should stay in the USA, going for long walks in the midday sun in Death Valley.

Apparently the locals were miffed because Vance's Secret Service detail had allegedly demanded social media information from area residents, though Thames Valley Police denied these claims, stating: "Residents were under no obligation to answer any questions and were not asked about social media."

Steve Akers, deputy mayor of the Cotswolds town Chipping Norton, captured the community's sentiment: "We've had a curtailment of our freedoms here, just by his mere presence."

 

It just verifies how stupid some people are.

1 hour ago, Hanaguma said:

Except that the state is not banning books.  

 

The books are freely available to anyone who wants to buy them and read them. What IS happening is that school districts are making decisions on what books should be made available to students in school libraries. Nothing is stopping anyone from reading them, just can't get them at school. So if a parent wants their child to read "Susan Has Two Daddies" or "Flamer", they can go on Amazon and buy them. 

What you're saying is that the education system is censoring.

2 minutes ago, Purdey said:

What you're saying is that the education system is censoring.

Yes, of course they are.  Just like every other school board in the world does. School libraries choosing what materials to make available to students is nothing new.

 

But it is NOT "the state banning books". That is hysterical and inaccurate. 

Vance has made so many gaffs his education must be an  illusion

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed his Clarkson’s Farm co-star Kaleb Cooper told US Vice President JD Vance’s security to “f**k off” during the politician’s visit to the Cotswolds.

 

He wrote: “[Vance] arrived in a cavalcade of 27 massive black American SUVs and this was escorted by a shoal of British police remoras on motorcycles whose job was to shoo everyone out of the way.

 

“One of the people who they ordered to pull over was Kaleb Cooper, my tractor driver, but it was starting to rain and he urgently needed to get his load of wheat into the shed, so he invited his tormentor to eff off. And carried on regardless.”

 

Jeremy Clarkson reveals foul-mouthed clash with JD Vance’s security during Cotswolds farm chaos

16 hours ago, Purdey said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/florida-new-book-bans

Yep. The ignoramuses are at it again.

Even if this article is true the books named are not banned. If parents want to groom their kids for perverted lifestyles or to hate America, they can check books out at the PUBLIC library.

Last month, in west London, I passed King Charles III driving himself and Queen Camilla in his blue Audi car. He had two motorcycle outriders in front, a Range Rover SUV (security) following and a further two motorcycle outriders. No motorcade of 27 vehicles. Was same for Queen Elizabeth 2nd when she was being driven in the marroon limo about 2010 when she passed within 6 feet of my vehicle in traffic. WHY? The eff does JD Vance need 27 vehicle motorcade in the tranquil Cotswolds?  Good on Kaleb for his actions. Shame on the pub staff for their disrespect of a potential customer though. 

On 8/15/2025 at 10:13 AM, bannork said:

JD Vance was barred from a British pub after furious staff threatened to walk out if its management told them to serve the vice president.

 

The mutiny was even more stinging for Vance as former Vice President Kamala Harris dined at the same venue just weeks earlier during a pre-wedding celebration for Steve Jobs' daughter Eve.

 

Vance's hostile reception extended beyond the pub walls. Local residents staged a colourful "Dance Against Vance" protest Tuesday, brandishing placards calling him a "war criminal" alongside mocking memes of the vice president.

 

JD Vance barred from English pub as staff mutinies over visit

 

Poor old JD, he wasn't too popular in Greenland either. He should stay in the USA, going for long walks in the midday sun in Death Valley.

Apparently the locals were miffed because Vance's Secret Service detail had allegedly demanded social media information from area residents, though Thames Valley Police denied these claims, stating: "Residents were under no obligation to answer any questions and were not asked about social media."

Steve Akers, deputy mayor of the Cotswolds town Chipping Norton, captured the community's sentiment: "We've had a curtailment of our freedoms here, just by his mere presence."

 

Pity 

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2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Even if this article is true the books named are not banned. If parents want to groom their kids for perverted lifestyles or to hate America, they can check books out at the PUBLIC library.

 

Some can't tell the difference between actually banning books and choosing what is appropriate for a grade school library.  In their twisted minds it's book banning.  Says volumes about them.

16 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

Vance has made so many gaffs his education must be an  illusion

Can you point out the gaffs with proof?

 

I can for our terminated President Biden. Granted he’s history.  But his academic credentials are lies.

 

Can you do the same for Vance?  Of course you can’t.  If you could, you would.