“Apparently it was my turn”

Not who what, time is uncontrollable, and water is beautiful at all times. Hard to compete.

During the Civil War Americans were on different pages of the same book, today there’s no book and no shared reality

Very impressive, but it wasn't going
to happen to us...... in 1969

Definitely airborne, east to west Pacific Trades

There must be a level of achievement beyond the Peter Principle 101 that those mentioned have already demonstrated

He’s just a fully formed toxic ambition in search of public legitimacy.

Australian political debate reminds me of an amateur choir of mice trilling blindly on the outskirts while the centre of Rome burns to the ground.

The Last of the Just by Andre Schwartz-Bart would probably be no. 1. Sorry to be late to the sequence

It’s difficult to to grasp the why/reality of Babet, perhaps he’s just an expensive diversion, illustrating Clive Palmer’s taste for chaos humour

And, today’s flurry……..

Go back 250yrs and you will find endless similar moments in France, often much worse. No doubt the cobble stones will be called into revolutionary service again soon.

There have been many moments and flagging incidents in the last 1000yrs that are comparable

I discovered after my 1st wife left for greener pastures that my parents loathed her onion dips, who knew……

Who’s old…..however I do have a conscious memory of attending the opening ceremony of the 1956 Olympic’s

Onion dip, sourced from the packet……

This discussion should end but one last, when did Oz discover rare meat, heavily charcoaled lamb chop was weekend fine dining at home. Fortunately we have mostly moved on. Except in 2024 many pub meals are reverting

Also the revelation of Heinz canned spaghetti, not forgetting of course packeted chicken noodle soup……

It’s miazmic

Simple, Joe loves his family and has nothing to lose otherwise.

Few cooking at home in Oz prior to the 70’s knew what a herb or spice was, except for Keens mustard powder and Worcestershire sauce of course.

Optimistic, if you subscribe to the late Lee Kwan Yew’s view we are all bogans in Oz by now.

Trailer trash might be close

Yes +

Possibly from the banks for the Jordan River, praise be.......

Independent thinking from more journalists, hard I know with the current funding structure of the big few.

I imagine QL Cabnet meetings are leavened by selected readings from Dickens

Easy, just carefully

Not blaming at all, just looking at history

1948 Who did the stealing, maybe world guilt for allowing the Holocaust and 2000yrs of progrom