Don’t heckle. Take photos of all attendees. For future reference.

Same! Arial everything. TNR for headings or formal (printed) docs. Calibri can f* right off. And woe betide the IT guy if the system defaults my settings - I will cut a bish over font settings.

You are making a judgement on someone’s potential professional conduct, based on your previous experiences and the demographics of your local area. I’d say that’s okay, so long as you are able to reverse your judgement given more information. From my own experiences, as a patient and from working in healthcare, I try…

It creates a culture that lets the privileged act without consequences and demonizes the rest if they even try and raise the issue.

Hmmm. Someone still has to do the reporting, if only to document the daily bullshit. Instead of skipping it entirely, send people who irritate and/or enrage by their very existence - minorities, women, people with visible disabilities (bonus points for every time the WH violates the ADA!), actual court stenographers…

(Our major parties were named at a time when trade tariffs was the big thing, so Liberal for open markets, small government and conservatism, Labour for unions, protectionism and collective/social programs. These days they look and act pretty much the same (old white males in blue ties), so our Greens and independents…

Apart from finding a bulkbilling doc you can see in under a hour (what unicorn is this?) I totally agree with you, we are blessed with a really good healthcare system - I’ve worked in it and needed it (hello, appendicitis at 32!) and I happily pay extra so others can benefit too. It really gets me that Americans can’t…

FWIW, Woman’s Day is a trashy weekly gossip mag of very little substance. Most ‘stories’ are heavily emotionally slanted, everything’s a triumph, a tragedy, or a scandal. Since there’s no tragedy, and her proud bogan* stance doesn’t fit the triumph storyline (despite her real successes), WD went with making a scandal…

Major props to these guys. My brother is a major in an armed forces band corps, and outside their official duties, they are available for requests by the public (veterans orgs, charity concerts etc) and get asked to do some incredibly difficult things on utterly ridiculous lead-times and they do not get paid extra…

Aw, dude, :(. FWIW, I don’t down check a guy just because they have kids.

It’s interesting, not because of prurient aspects of picking apart other people’s sexuality, but because of what it tells us about how our brains develop and how that turns into behaviour, and then how that behaviour is modified by experience and culture, which in turn modifies our brains...

I keep telling you guys - independent electoral commission. Seriously, try it. They balance the electoral districts, keep the rolls, count the votes, are beholden to neither side of politics, are funded partly by the federal gov (as public servants), partly by fee for service (for printing the ballots, running the…

Battlefield Earth. (It’s actually a good book, if you like over-the-top space opera, but most of the plot is completely unfilmable, and the rest is problematic.) I re-read it regularly, and almost pissed myself laughing at the movie.

I am so in two minds about this. Part of me says ‘well, he’s a brilliant character actor, maybe he could pull off the portrayal, regardless of the issues of colour and race’ and part of me says ‘HAHAHAHAHAHA NO F- OFF srsly this is so wrong why would you even think this was okay for half a second let alone actually do…

But he’s retired, and as far as i’ve heard, isn’t standing for office again. He’s not a politician (in which case, yes, this would be suspect because corruption, influence, campaign funding etc), he’s a private citizen, getting paid to provide something to people willing to pay for it. (And getting gypped, I might…

Rooo, I’m as white as the driven snow, Anglo-Saxon peasant ancestry back as far as records exist, and if I ever do anything to deserve the label ‘wypipo’, you are free to thump me upside my dumbass head. Holy shit these fucktards - I keep waiting for them to hit bottom, but nooooo, it’s Bret and Becky bitchin’ all the…

I think you can stream Foxtel now (presto is now gone). The best way is to only have one at a time - I watched Netflix for about nine months last year, ran out of stuff to watch, switched to Stan for about three months, had nothing for about four (watched all the shows that had been piling up on my recorder), then…

Not yet announced, but probably Foxtel.

I read a lot of golden age scifi, pulp magazines etc. Roughly 1930's to 1960's, occasionally newer stuff. I’m constantly coming across situations and statements that could be ripped from today’s headlines, or a snarky article on Jez. We ain’t come that far yet, kiddies.

From what I recall, even the most inbred human population known is pretty low on the scale used to measure these things. Ironically that’s why humans have such a ‘dirty’ gene pool and such a high rate of defects in even inbred children - inbreeding identifies and removes deleterious traits. (Biologically speaking.)