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???PLease explain. Never been to a meat raffle, especially in the fly blown country. As for Germaine, her only saving grace is her name which is almost but not quite German. A good try but...

No, He wandered laps with Hannan and Hibberd.

You nastie pastie...

My sister went to Monash where Crosswell was a student. My sister had a chat with him in the caf once. She said he was the most intelligent man she'd ever met.

Then there was Seddon, and Kingsville and St Albans and Braybrook. I played for Sunshine Under 16's. My claim to fame was kicking 2 goals and getting mentioned in the Best in a final against West Footscary (Sic). My opponent was Laurie Sandilands. At one stage in the match, my fellow ruckman - a rather pugnacious, shall we say, wide and squat boy named Garry Ross smacked Sandilands behind play. I was in the vicinity. West Footscary troopers came from everywhere to even up. I was about to yell out It wasn't me It wasn't me, but they ran past me to baste Garry Ross with some forearm pudding.

I tell you guys, playing footy on a wet or frosty Saturday morning in these parts was BRUTAL.

What chooch train are you talking about? I totally missed it. And please remember, Germans respect punctuality. Unlike the British: Punctuality is the virtue of the bored, according to Evelyn Waugh.

Agree about both. Pity they were not what we call 'Mensches.' That's what I look for, players who were skilled and courageous and FAIR. I'd add Royce Hart to that list as well.

I was a wee bit disappointed by the many examples of poor disposal.Turnovers kill ya. I liked the obvious camaraderie, the serious effort, the emphasis on moving the ball. I really liked the work of Gawn, Lewis, Pederson, JKH, Wagner, Brayshaw, Garland, Garlett, Hogan, Weidemann, Hunt, Melksham, Frost, Salem and Oliver. The Bugger was good too. Noticed the lads yelling at JKH for not looking for options when he blazed away. Because I'm not familiar with the new guy's numbers, I missed the contributions of Keilty and Smith. Pederson looks thin, as does Spencer (Street). Both look fit and ready to go. I still worry about poor kicking from the McDonald lads, as much as I love them. Frost seems a very likely option for a key back role to me.

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I agree entirely.

P'rhaps it was/is a combo of the petrol fumes on north Altona and a thousand bong or two too many with Algerians in Paris.

Sound resume indeed for a mass murdering swine and major bullduster.

But he didn't rape you, did he, or shoot your mother and father and brother and sister and grandfather and grandmother like the French did to the Algerians.

Does ya tink, me boy, the hatred by the Algerian might have something to do with the way the French raped Algeria during the Algerian war of Independence, not all dat long ago, mi amigo.

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Interesting article in this morning's Counterpunch: FEBRUARY 9, 2017 Trump’s Truth Bomb: “You Think We’re So Innocent?” by JOHN WIGHT Email “Putin’s a killer.” This was the claim made by Fox News ‘journalist’ Bill O’Reilly during his recent interview with Donald Trump. Trump’s reply came in the form of a simple question. “What, you think our country’s so innocent?” It was a reply that succeeded in puncturing the bubble of exceptionalism in which Mr O’Reilly and those like him have long chosen to cocoon themselves from reality. It was an extraordinary exchange, one that has gone viral on social media since. For liberals in the US and beyond it is being touted as yet more evidence of the fact that Donald Trump is completely unsuited to the rigors of the office of President. Meanwhile for dyed-in-the-wool neocons it suggests a leader of the so-called free world who is yet to realize the difference between ‘us’, the good guys, and ‘them’, the bad guys. “Putin’s a killer.” Just ponder this statement for a moment, consider the ignorance, arrogance, and delusion it describes. Consider, too, the millions of human slaughtered by successive US presidents over the years, going back, say, to the Korean War and working your way forward. That they were killed in the name of democracy and human rights, at least according to Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the gang over at Fox News, is a boast as preposterous as it is grotesque. Firstly, justifying the wholesale slaughter of men, women, and children in the name of democracy renders the word completely meaningless. And secondly, what Mr O’Reilly describes as democracy others would describe as imperialism. But then, you see, this is the problem when you sit at the apex of the most destructive empire the world has ever known. It distorts your sense reality to the point where you become intoxicated with the associated myths used to justify this empire and the vast destruction it has wreaked and continues to wreak across the world. We see this distortion in the way that Barack Obama has been allowed to walk off into the sunset with the highest approval ratings of any US president in living memory, lamented as one of the most progressive leaders ever to occupy the Oval Office. It is a rendering of the legacy country’s first black president that fails to pass even the most tepid scrutiny. Obama’s administration was, to be frank, a veritable killing machine, one comprising almost daily drone strikes, kill lists, and the wholesale destruction of entire countries, as in the case of Libya. In his final year in office the US dropped 27,000 bombs, up from the number dropped in 2015. Yet we are meant to regard the 44th president and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize as the modern incarnation of Dr Martin Luther King, a president who worked tirelessly for peace and justice. etc etc etc

A bit like you rants.

I wish you were Harpo, totally silent.

jaysus you talk excrement, Mr Biff. You are a bogan and a hater. A fear merchant, a bigot who stoops to the lowest craven denominator. In other words, sir, you have been totally BRAINWASHED. A pity because at some stage your brain cells were curable.

You are so right. The biggest irony is that according to Koestler and Schlomo Sand, the Palestinians are the remnants of the Jews who didn't go to Spain and other parts of the Middle east, that in fact, the Ashkenazi Jews are actually descended from the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the 9th Century. Genghis and his hordes wiped them out, they went north, into Russia and Poland, i.E. became the Ashkenazi Jews.

AF, unfortunately I disagree with your notion that Australoids are better at questioning authority, I'll refer you to the Conscription debate during WW1 when the only decent thing that ever came from a cathoic bishop's mouth was mannix adminishing the Australoids for sending our kids to die in another britsh colonial war - eg the dardenelles - and the blind conga line of suckholes into Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan , Iraq and Syria.

You know what, Mr Biff, you should have two identities on Demonland, the weird eccentric lunatic Biffin who is vaguely attractive and funny to fellow lunatics like me, and Bigot who is total anathema.

Yep, they're so good at challenging authority that they went to Vietnam, Gallipoli, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Boer war, all the way with lbj, the full catastrophe. The reason idiot Australia followed was/is because they are so stupid to believe that there would be no consequences for blindly following the USA and Britain into colonial/illegal/ immoral wars.

Yep, man, it 'reformed' itself: where did that 'reform' lead? Mainly to Aushwitz and Hiroshima. And, closer to home, all the abuses by religious clergy.