TheWitchofThornbury
@TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎄 Wednesday, September 18, 2024 1 day ago:
Bit of a red flag that.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🕊️😺🌼🪻🌹🐕🥰 Tuesday, September 17, 2024 2 days ago:
Nope, just the regular blue ones. Like, so so ordinary. Why would anyone bother to nick them? I’m still scratching my head over that one.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🕊️😺🌼🪻🌹🐕🥰 Tuesday, September 17, 2024 2 days ago:
A woman I used to work with lived in Kew in a very nice street with a lot of very nice neighbours - included politicians and captains of industry. Her agapanthus bed kept getting raided by plant pirates. She tucked a placard at the back of the bed saying Smile! You’re On Candid Camera! Raids stopped. I mean, who nicks agapanthus?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🕊️😺🌼🪻🌹🐕🥰 Tuesday, September 17, 2024 3 days ago:
Could you repeat that?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
That actually sounds like it might be worth calling Nurse on Call or similar - just in case there’s a blood pressure issue.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
Ow. That doesn’t sound good. Cold compress maybe for symptomatic relief?
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- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
Fully agree. Lemon is the bomb for me.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
Thanks. I really liked the egg one.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
Selection of onigiri and a large g&t please bacon.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 4 days ago:
Might be correlation not causation, but you gotta wonder.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 5 days ago:
Pwoah indeed.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 5 days ago:
Looks like the rain is over, and it’s going to be a glorious day. Might have to get out in the garden …
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024 5 days ago:
15/50 - candy - who knew?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏠 🐈⬛🐈⬛ Saturday, September 14, 2024 5 days ago:
I figure he’s actually AI generated. Catch the donald permitting a real person as VP who might possibly upstage him - for all the wrong reasons.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏠 🐈⬛🐈⬛ Saturday, September 14, 2024 5 days ago:
Thank you very kindly. The doughnuts are delicious.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏠 🐈⬛🐈⬛ Saturday, September 14, 2024 6 days ago:
Hot jam doughnut please, and some bananas. I am minded to make choc filled bbq bananas today. To keep the cold out.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏠 🐈⬛🐈⬛ Saturday, September 14, 2024 6 days ago:
Def today will be a do I need to go outside day.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈⬛🕸️🐈⬛🕸️🐈⬛ Friday, September 13, 2024 6 days ago:
True that.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈⬛🕸️🐈⬛🕸️🐈⬛ Friday, September 13, 2024 6 days ago:
Western Special Needs Dentistry might suit you. They’re very very good with people with sensory issues around teeth and in general.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌧️🌨️🌞 Thursday, September 12, 2024 1 week ago:
Excellent! Easy to get to.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐕🐎 Wednesday, September 11, 2024 1 week ago:
Great news! Where gig - please share when you know. I think there’s a few people here who would be happy to come along and cheer you on.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍢🍡🍢 Tuesday, September 10, 2024 1 week ago:
Nothing wrong with observing from a safe place. Disagree about the majority of people, though. I think we all have the potential.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍢🍡🍢 Tuesday, September 10, 2024 1 week ago:
Yep. Fully understand. I did protest publicly during the Franklin campaign way back when, but some of what I saw then chilled me too. And I’m fairly OK with my own personal triggers - I know when I have to back off and keep my cool. I fear those people who get whipped up into a frenzy and lose what little brains they once possessed. Because then there are NO limits to what they will do.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍢🍡🍢 Tuesday, September 10, 2024 1 week ago:
Please don’t go Baku. This has the potential to get out of control. I think the organisers have seriously misread Australia’s reputation as being laid back anti-protest people for the most part. Granted that the post-Port Arthur buyback means that nearly all the gun-toting people here are licensed, identifiable and mostly live up the country, but there’s a huge groundswell of people who really really REALLY don’t like guns and gun culture.
Never underestimate the destructive power of the so-called non-violent people. They usually don’t have many stop triggers - have you read Konrad Lorenz’s research back before WWII about what happened when he confined two nice gentle pigeons in a cage? Its brutal.
Lorenz was making the point that wolves and other social ‘aggressive’ species have stop triggers for aggression - if two individuals are in conflict they have ways of defusing violence and avoiding personal harm.
The pigeons do not - their usual species specific reaction to aggression is to fly away, so when confined in the cage one pecks the other to death and keeps on pecking until the dead pigeon is a bloody splat on the cage floor. Because the pigeons don’t have any practiced or instinctual way to stop being violent. So the violence continues long past any possible definition of ‘winning’.
Lorenz’s work and books have been questioned a lot since he did it, but in this specific area, I think he was dead on the money. My gut instinct for this event to avoid it at all costs. Protests are not a spectator sport.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📖📖📖 Monday, September 9, 2024 1 week ago:
Hsp with spaghetti not chips?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 📖📖📖 Monday, September 9, 2024 1 week ago:
I heard some time back that the news media have a rule of thumb - for every person that rings them up about an issue, there are 10 more that want to but don’t. For every person that writes a letter, there are a hundred more that want to but don’t. So I assume that a message would be somewhere between the two? So there’s probably a lot more people out there that appreciate your work.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 🧀 🚂 Sunday, September 8, 2024 1 week ago:
Decos up on Xmas eve, then down by 6th January. This encompasses the canonical 12 days of Xmas that my true love sent to me. Also by then one is completely sick of the whole thing. Starting in November with the xmas carols on loop in every shop is enough to turn one atheist - a violent bomb-throwing atheist.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 🧀 🚂 Sunday, September 8, 2024 1 week ago:
School reunions - yeah, removing skin with a rusty lid of a tin can would be preferable.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 🧀 🚂 Sunday, September 8, 2024 1 week ago:
Yummy bacon butty please. And coffee (decaf cos late).