Hi Cats,
As you can see I have created a copy of the Cat for you to continue to bicker, argue and occasionally make a reasonable point.
I do hope a solution is found with the original Cat but just in case Sinc doesn’t want to transfer the site to a new generation I have built a replica before the closure so we can migrate as many of the community across as possible.
Programming Note: I rushed out the site so there will be bugs. I can get them fixed but did not want perfection to get in the way for progress.
Community Note: Please let as many cats know of the new blog as soon as possible so we can capture the magic of the original. In particular would love for the original posters to continue their great work here.
Ideological Note: I am an infrequent poster but long time reader of the Cat. The discussions there have been a huge part of my own ideological growth on many issues. In particular free speech is key for me so will have a very similar light touch to the original Cat, potentially adopting my one policy on an earlier forum I built: “No D***heads” which is subjective but surprisingly easy to implement.
Website Note: I will run the Cat as close to possible as the original because I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel. However if the community so wants I am happy to make changes to improve the experience so if you have any ideas let me know. For anything specific hit me up at the contact form, else go nuts in the comments.
“Too many cars on the road.
That’ll do me.
🤦♂️”
I am going off this afternoon to add to them. Rescue mission to Surrey Hills for my son with the internet problem; he can hotspot off my phone fo a few hours while I go for a walk. We will chat socially distanced outside his apartment block.
We cannot do anything about his internet situation until 9th August.
He is going spare about it. Muchos calming will be needed by me.
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Just attempted to post the following at the paywalled Courier Mail. Will be surprised if it gets published.
Perhaps the Govt might be more believable if they told us how many cases have arisen from last week’s protests. After all, Delta is boogie-man bad with transmission in seconds according to Dr Young.
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Funny thing about druids and Stonehenge.
They weren’t around until a few thousand years after it was built.
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Don’t forget people – Census night coming up.
I am going to be a 150kg black lesbian living in a caravan.
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As a follow up to the story I posted from RT:
Pelosi roasted by Democrats after claiming she led ‘relentless’ campaign to extend Covid eviction ban, blaming ‘cruel’ Republicans
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received backlash from fellow members of the Democratic Party after she refused to take any responsibility for the House’s failure to extend the eviction moratorium, placing the blame on the Republicans.
The House failed on Friday to obtain enough support to extend the moratorium, which protects renters from eviction during the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving many Americans vulnerable to homelessness and in limbo, as the House is adjourning for nearly two months.
On Saturday, Pelosi blamed the “pure cruelty” of the Republicans for the extension’s failure and claimed that “ensuring every American has a roof overhead is a value that unites the Democratic Party” – despite the fact that the moratorium couldn’t get enough votes partially due to a sizable faction of Democrats who opposed an extension.
https://www.rt.com/usa/530844-pelosi-relentless-campaign-eviction-moratorium/
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TE – if you really want to hit the intersectionality jackpot, you need to be disabled. So, a 150kg black lesbian with a limp.
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TE – that’s racist. You should be living in a palace.
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I just posted the CDC letter + some of the comments on my Faecesbook page – two alerts already.
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Reported that 16 patients had died of Covid in NSW.
Truth – One man in his 90’s and had one AZ shot.”
The 90 year old is the 16th COVID death in the current NSW breakout of the Delta variant.
232 now in hospital in NSW. 54 in ICU.
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What census?
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People are being paid to be social media influence rs.
It’s not hard to find a bunch of close to the ABC lefties playing silly buggers for cash with their mates in on it.
Unfortunately Lizzie, that will sound far fetched to you.
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I’d like to have an in-depth discussion.
On Vietnam.
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Good point Speedbox.
I might go for a reduced IQ as well, and a sleeve of tattoos.
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“I’d like to have an in-depth discussion.
On Vietnam.”
No!
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The list of people that need to be put in the dock for aiding and abetting this CRIME OF THE CENTURY continues to grow.
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“I’d like to have an in-depth discussion.
On Vietnam.”
A war where the North Vietnamese proved masters of propaganda, and saw the anti war movement as useful allies?
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Lefties will justify their lies and bullshit by claiming it’s for the greater good.
Believe nothing without proof and always try to follow the money.
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Had fun once, was sharing a house with 4 other Christian guys, we were mainly tech and uni students. Census night happened, so we all did our forms. Then a bird from the ABS or somewhere turned up to interview us.
She asked “in the “religious denomination” question why did you all put “Christian” and not Anglican, Catholic or whatnot?”
Whereupon she got told the Gospel five times…
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Where does that info come from
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Shush, KD, lest you raise the Kracken.
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To disparage a BA(Hons) because Wayne Swan has one strikes me as churlish. There are any number of better and more valid reasons.
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“TE – if you really want to hit the intersectionality jackpot, you need to be disabled. So, a 150kg black lesbian with a limp.”
A limp what?
Or is it an L-I-M-P — pronounced “limp”?? (H/T Spike Milligoon)
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When you can find the time ladies and gents, check this out. 28:17
I’ll censor the title.
Inside Unbelievable Hasidic J****h Torah Celebration 🇺🇸
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Lizzie:
“Sinc, we’ve taken out the heart and other vital organs immediately, and you can see the result here.”
It looks like we have the balls here, Lizzie.
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Bruce in WA says:
August 2, 2021 at 1:34 pm
That opens up a range of potential comments but I’m not sure we should sully Adam’s work so quickly. He is going to be the primary moderator and we don’t want to scare him off too soon. (or incur his wrath)
Hi Adam! 🙂
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Coming on through to the other side. Hi, all.
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“People are being paid to be social media influence rs.”
Paid & paid well. Not only in money.
The best of ‘Whisper Marketers’, though they may have a huge Social Media profile, don’t even let their nearest & dearest know what they really do, so streaks of ‘good luck’ ‘happen to them’ to explain away their improved finances/lifestyles, like ‘suddenly going viral’ on Social Media … while countless hugely talented people continue to be buried in the Internet basement.
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Steve trickler says:
August 2, 2021 at 1:35 pm
May no longer have to do that. 🙂
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“That opens up a range of potential comments but I’m not sure we should sully Adam’s work so quickly. He is going to be the primary moderator and we don’t want to scare him off too soon. (or incur his wrath)”
Teacher’s pet!
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At this early stage, 2.0 appears to be far more scrofulous than the original.
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I’ve been unable to get to change my gravatar. Trying to get to gravatar.com gets me instantly redirected to the webhosting site with no obvious way out. So can you please imagine a black hole made from a cigar when I post anything.
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Bruce of WA
😝
Sticks and stones mate, sticks and stones.
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Zk2a wrong blog spud has one running from underground tunnel in Twoomba not to be confused with a Roonba but they both suck.
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/080/851/065/original/587d63b902629752.png
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Did you change your nominated email, DrBG?
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DrB – If you go here you should be able to login if you click “sign in” on the RHS. Your gravatar account appears to exist since I can see your account name (via gravatar fu).
The gravatar icon appears automatically if you use the email address that your gravatar account is linked to.
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BG:
https://wordpress.com/log-in
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Dot, some feedback from pro-vax bloggers on another site re CDC statement:
The main thing with this is that they want labs testing for both COVID and influenza because flu season is approaching in the US. This test only tests for COVID.</em)
So they are denying the stuff up in counting flu as Covid since testing began.
I guess that will be a common reaction.
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Lizzie, the story itself contains information which shows that “hospitalised” was a misnomer. Sure, literally they went to hospital, but the husband got some asthma medication he could easily have had from the doctor and the wife would have been told to go home and rest if not for the surrounding panic.
I’ve been as bad or worse as they describe at least twice in my life – just from normal viruses like glandular fever.
Many people don’t realise how bad actual flu is, because they’ve never had it.
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“Sticks and stones mate, sticks and stones.”
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But whips and chains excite me …
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Arky – That url sort of gets you there eventually. But I tried a login to my account that way and got a whole bunch of useless guff WP wanted me to know about. Whereas the url I gave gets there directly.
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Steve trickler says:
August 2, 2021 at 1:35 pm
When you can find the time ladies and gents, check this out. 28:17
Thanks for that Steve. I saw another video where Peter Santenello went to a Hasidic Shabbat dinner with the same guys. Unaware that they turn on the lights before Sabbath begins, and keep them on till it concludes on Saturday evening, he went to the toilet and turned off the bathroom light when he went out. They had to ask him to turn it on again.
If I was Jooish I’d be Hasidic, I love their big furry hats.
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“Nanny Neil Mitchell spreading bullshit.”
I’m ashamed of myself for thinking Mitchell was a moderately balanced journo. Until he tried to sell the story that Biden had a stutter. Haven’t had 3AW on since.
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Bruce of Newcastle says:
August 2, 2021 at 2:10 pm
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We don’t want to make it too easy for the old bugger.
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But whips and chains excite me …
Sinc will be here shortly.
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Some tech fun.
Afterpay, which is a sort of loan shark company, is up twenty bucks per share today after a takeover bid lobbed by Jack Dorsey. The Jack Dorsey. Comes to about $39 billion worth of takeover goodness.
Nice that an Oz unicorn, however disreputable, can attract such attention. I hope my younger brother gets around to floating his internet company: he’s a serious possibility of being the first billionaire in my family.
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I can login. I can go to /me. I can click on my avatar image and go to my gallery of images. Then I choose an image and get a black rectangle with no image. I can flip it and rotate it, but my image isn’t there.
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Gravatar test c
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Why couldn’t we post Jew on the old site? Am I supposed to be doing more smiting?
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Yay! The Cat is back 🙂
I can continue to Lurk – thank you.
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Am I supposed to be doing more smiting?
..
Yes.
Sort your shit out and execute someone.
Also tell me if the e-mails I sent arrived.
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Looks like I failed html 101.
However, from every setback comes feedback and I see where I went wrong.
Will try harder.
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@ John Brumble
I second that, I have had the flu once and felt like death. No other illness has been remotely close for me personally. Irks me when someone has a cold and calls it the flu.
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Adam – Sinc had a whole bunch of keywords flagged to go to moderation. Because ASIO or something. If you find yourself in a 3 x 2 cell lit by a single low wattage Turnbull twisty bulb you’ll know why.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
August 2, 2021 at 12:30 pm
TBH Lizzie, I don’t think the general public realise that they ARE paying for the renewables.
It’s crazy, but all too often electricity consumers don’t actually realise why their charges keep going up, nor that the subsidies propping up renewables have to be milked from the public before they can be handed out to carpetbagging entities.
Also, I don’t think the average person understands where “government money” actually comes from, that it’s either taken from them in GST, tax on their wages or borrowed.
Kerry Packer was right.
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“Why couldn’t we post Jew on the old site? Am I supposed to be doing more smiting?”
Please no. Half my family are Jewish and the old rules made it impossible to share any positive news about Israel or Jews and God knows there are countless positive stories to share about Jews & Christians that too rarely make it out of first hand experience.
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Interesting, the web we weave.
The Future Fund – the public service’s nice little risk-free private hedge fund and treasure chest, has 2.5 billion dollars of investment in pharma companies, 400 million in Google and 300 million dollars invested in Facebook.
I bet if I spend five seconds looking I can find find probity issues all over the place within the ‘board’ of that ‘fund’.
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I assume auto moderation was to stop Bird from posting anti-Semitic remarks without Sinc having to read every single post.
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Adam, the word jew, along with a lot of others, led straight to moderation as an attempt by Sinc to prevent Bird’s loony antisemitism from manifesting. It didn’t work.
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“Struth says:
August 2, 2021 at 1:27 pm
Lefties will justify their lies and bullshit by claiming it’s for the greater good.
Believe nothing without proof and always try to follow the money.”
A great deal of evil has been done in the name of “The Greater Good”.
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”Adam D says:
August 2, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Why couldn’t we post Jew on the old site? Am I supposed to be doing more smiting?”
Because Graeme Bird and his many iterations, used to post defamatory stuff about the Jews. So to protect the blog (and us) Sinclair banned the word.
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DrB – It’s still on your ex-Cat comments on Trove. Which link to your gravatar account. Like this. That’s from here, with a right-click on your icon.
All I can suggest is you reload a new icon of the same image.
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My comments are delayed after posting. Is that the same for everyone else?
And does everyone have to fill in their name and email address each time before commenting?
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COVID-19 Injection Campaign Violates Bioethics Laws –
https://ussanews.com/News1/2021/07/31/covid-19-injection-campaign-violates-bioethics-laws/
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Adam – Sinc had a whole bunch of keywords flagged to go to moderation
I thought excessive usage can also cause perfectly fine words to be moderated. Must have been a helluva debate that locked up the word masturbate on the old Cat.
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Old bloke says:
August 2, 2021 at 2:10 pm
“Unaware that they turn on the lights before Sabbath begins, and keep them on till it concludes on Saturday evening”
In laws visited for a special occasion, brought all their own Kosher food to feed us all.
The only pepper in the house was all in the grinder, an electric grinder. We gentiles had to do all their peppering for them.
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Yes, Nelson, I changed my email address. And WordPress won’t let me put up any image at all. I can get my old gravatar back by using the old e-mail address. But it’s longer, and I have to retype it every time.
So sod it.
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UH-Oh
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/06/11/vaccination-campaign-unsettled-by-18-year-olds-death_1100ebcf-33b8-415e-8a0a-f36639f70877.html
What a waste.
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Arky:
I just watched your video.
Now if I was writing a really bad novel, the next step is to release another ‘virus’.
One that hasn’t been around yet – the Epsilon Variant. With a 10/20% fatality rate.
Watch the peasants go nuts standing in line for the ‘vaccine’ then!
(They will need to have a tattoo on their right hands or something.)
It’s the only way out for the Lords and Masters of Creation.
Thank God I’m not writing a really bad novel!
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Shy Ted@9:57:
I larfed. Gross!
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I always thought it would work if certain commenters that have been around forever and seem sensible like could be allowed to be notified of auto-moderated comments and be allowed to simply yay or nay them based on the level of optical retardedness.
I’m sure there’s wordpress plugins that allow it and some people would volunteer.
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DrB – If you are using a PC or laptop Brave neatly lets you click the email field and pick your email address. Ditto the name field. At the moment the new Cat can’t remember such things, but using Brave I can do so easily anyway.
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Aviation fans, enjoy the show.
Mintox!
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 – Saturday Warbird Air Show
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Thanks BoN. I’m using a phone, but I’ll try brave and see if it works. I’m currently on firefox.
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I got nothing to say; I just like looking at my gravatar of Bessie Love.
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Regarding the 18 year old girl in Italy:
” Canepa’s organs, meanwhile, were removed from her body on Friday so they can be use for transplants, sources said.”
WOW, just wow.
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Test. No luck.
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This sucks. Where are the new threads? Boooo!
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That wasn’t rickw in the last post that was me, Eyrie.
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The Ivermectin situation is still problematic, as we only have vet product (for application to skin) available
Vicki, Flyingduk addressed this issue back on the old Cat.
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2021/06/11/indian-bar-association-vs-who-re-disinformation-about-invermectin/#comment-3883191
I’m not sure if this response has been snapshotted by Trove, so I’ll link to the product that Flyingduk indicated.
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As i posted I saw rickw’s handle and email address but was too quick posting to stop it.
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Bruce in WA says:
August 2, 2021 at 2:09 pm
Remember your heart ol’ fella. Take a breath, calm down.
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Submit something, Monster. Even if we all disagree with your position, it would be statement of faith in what Adam has set up. Momentum will be the key to bringing the old regulars back in, I guess.
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Go away, monty and eat another donut.
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“This sucks. Where are the new threads? Boooo!”
We’re trying to get rid of you, m0nty.
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Italians and Uighurs all look alike on the inside.
The Larry Niven “Gil the Arm” organlegger novels are all coming true. I shall have to read them again.
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Can anyone answer my questions, pease, to my comment at 2:40 pm?
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Gravitar Test
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I’ll never look at guacamole dip the same again, b@stard!
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YES! Gravitar works!
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Utter scumbags:
National cabinet is also considering whether vaccinated people can have greater freedoms during any future lockdowns to avoid stay at home orders.
What they’re saying is leaving your house is a privilege that the government grants you, and the vaccine ‘passport’ is actually a licence to be out in public.
The real reason for all of this nonsense emerges from the mist.
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Why are there no peanut butter Krispy Kremes?
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Yes Gab.
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Can anyone answer my questions, pease, to my comment at 2:40 pm?
Gab: it seems everyone has the same issues at this stage.
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Has KRuddy tried Nestle’s new Milky Bar hot chocolate?
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Gab – my comments appear within a second or maybe two. That is probably more an issue with my internet at the moment with 3 kids at home (due to the lockdown) all of whom are using the ‘net.
The name/email facility does not currently hold your details due to an issue which meant the prior posters email address was disclosed. Caused much hilarity, and some concern, on Friday night. (Tailgunner and I are now blood brothers with a secret handshake).
So, you have to re-type your details for each post. I’m sure Adam is working on that aspect. Ditto with, probably, several dozen other issues to be addressed.
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As i posted I saw rickw’s handle and email address but was too quick posting to stop it.
Accidental socking!
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How about a 150 kg black trannie self identifying as a lesbian?
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Gravitar test to see if my pet submarine is there.
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