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Yes, God was on our side.

Hi DD. Yep, in essence there's not much difference. My brother is a convinced Anti Vaxer. He says he doesn't trust Big Pharm because he doesn't know what's in them vaccines. He told me he simply takes Magnesium, Vitamin D, Fish Oil etc, each of which he buys from Little Pharma. And, what's worse, he makes his Kartoffelpuffer from imported packets of white powder to which he adds water. I asked him if he'd ever heard of a real potato, an onion and a grater. He said he couldn't be sure that the potato wasn't genetically modifed, same as the onion. Then he lit up a [censored]. I guess it takes all types.

That made me laugh.

Mates rates and bulk billing and talking gibberish about the mighty demons is not gonna fix any medical issue you might have, especially a thing called Covid.🙄🤗😆😛

According to some representatives of Christ, singing and dancing are forbidden anyhow. And, I leave you with another fact which no doubt, you will claim ascended from my posterior nether regions, namely that there is not one mention in any 4 Gospels of Christ singing or dancing. WE could infer from this two possibilities. One is that he would have hated Jingle Bells, and the fact that he never danced proves he was a German.😍😛🥰😁

All I can say is lucky Dr Gonzo is not my GP. As for you, FD, well, what can one say about a man who believes keeping everything open will make a virus disappear.?????

Whether they were in their last seasons or not, they were great Melbourne players, both represented Victoria, both played in Premiership and Graeme Osborne was not worth one of their bootlaces.

Interesting that you don't rate Frank Davis - Premiership player, captain and one of the most reliable defenders the Demons ever fielded. To not rate Barry Burke is even weirder. Once again, premiership player, Victorian player - on a wing - a man who gave his heart and soul, who finished his career as a very distinguished Backman. Ya can't win em all, I suppose. Also, I never rated Graeme Osborne: yep he was quick, he could get the ball, but inevitably - like Do Tyson - he'd pass it directly to an opposition player: a Turnover King, if you like. It is an interesting exercise though, the kind of thing a seventy year old with insomnia because he's had an AFD does...For example, I read max's book last night.

Poetic License, Leonard would have understood...

Leonardo Da Cohen, famous Canadian Crooner who wrote poems and 'sang' them. He was born like this, he had no choice, he was blessed with the gift of a golden voice...

The spoiled brats who have 5000 toys too many, you mean? Another way of putting it, F.D, Christmas is the day when families who mostly dislike each other gather around a table, eat too much, drink too much and listen to mental midgets crooning Jingle Bells. Late in the afternoon, some blokes fall asleep, others continue to argue about who got the smallest piece of pav and the homicidal bitchin, to quote Leonardo Cohen, continues. In the meantime, the floor is littered with wrapping paper, presents are opened and taken home to be collected by the next dumpster in the neighborhood. In the meantime, Santa keeps floggin his reindeers and I'm still waiting for my electric train set 65 years later.

Jesus who?

During the pandemic, I've read and heard the most, shall we say, idiotic and plain ridiculous commentary I've read or heard in my life. Most of it has come from the anti-vaxxers, next in line is the rubbish from a man called Scomo and his band of merry men and women, and the various commentators on Sky News, and the Murdoch Press are not far behind. The bottom line, is that there is not one person on the planet who knows exactly what's going on with this virus, let alone one person who knows for sure how to deal with it. We are in the midst of a very dark unknown, and it just makes me so sick and tired and angry that it now seems to be reduced to the phoney baloney called Christmas and the urgent need to 'have a holiday'. I guess this is the sum of how spoiled rotten first world countries respond to any inconvenience to their pampered sense of entitlement. In the meantime, and for the record, my arm is till sore from my Monday booster jab, I get very tired very quickly, but so frigginvillia what? In the meantime, the 'Free Marketers' still feel affronted by the notion of compulsory mask wearing and so it goes, the demented ramblings of a so-called democtaric system which has so many echoes of the fall of Rome.

So you don't like Bach or Beethoven. Poor you.

Who is the MC?

Yeah, says the same thing all the time. Poker faced, uses cliches from the movies. I've had enough already.😂😎

Our 23 year old daughter graduated at La Trobe yesterday. She has a hyphenated Polish German name. I remarked to my beautiful wife during the proceedings that the percentage of Anglo names in the hundred graduates was possibly 10%. That's why I truly loved Christian's comment that 2 out of the 5 winners were wogs. Fantastic stuff, us wogs and other derogatory names are our future.

I knew a woman who owned a store in High Street Windsor called 'Everything but the girl."

They were also lamenting Petty, Bowey was a totally unknown quantity, Fritsch was written ill of, Hibberd was over the hill, May was a dud, Lever was a dud once - I'm simply quoting the Thomas' on this site - Viney was useless, Mc Donald could no longer get a kick, Ben Brown was a dud, and on it went. The bottom line is that with athletes it can sometimes take a while, and there are/were the coaches who don't expect to see the best from a player until he's played 80 games etc. Then there are the freaks like Ablett, Oliver, Flower, Hardeman and Alves... That's what's great about human potential: most of us can achieve many things if we really put our heart and soul into the effort.

If you seen dem Demons flying after they was 19 points down, you'd swear dey didn't need no wings to fly anyhow. Man, dey were Rockets!!!

Sweethearts, this is about 'Waiting in the Wings'. For once, I erred on the side of brevity. There are many well-credentialed vultures waiting to take the places of - Hibberd, Harmes, McDonald etc... Does youse get my drift?

There is now such a queue of talent waiting in the wings: Hunt J.Smith Tomlinson Weideman Daw Dunstan Baker Bedford Chandler Melksham Laurie Rosman S. Smith plus the 4 new recruits. If we are blessed by the Injury Gods again, the fight for positions should be intense.

In Fourth Form English Class I was picked up by Brother Maloney - now the famous Father Maloney, Expert on the Johannine Gospel - for using 'desperation' as an adjective. I said jack Dyer used it. He said, jack Dyer is not a an authority on the English Language.

To quote Lou Reed in a song from 'New York': Those I-tallians need a lesson to be taught.

Yes: Franks were Germans who ruled France and gave it it's name. Charlemagne was Carl Der Grosse, who ruled France from Aachen.