Marty_d

Why are we surprised? Trump admires dictators and despots. He has stripped the top level of administration of anyone with knowledge and brains, and replaced them with yes-men. The only required attribute is loyalty (and tribute). He has openly said that the American public won't have to vote again, and is actively dismantling democracy. He has used his position to gain him and his equally disgusting family billions - the most corrupt public figure, let alone president, ever. He supports and enables the worst white supremacists in the country, allows and encourages political violence when it's against his adversaries, and is racist himself. And we're surprised when something like this happens?

He's our resident cunning linguist.

No Vegemite?

If they won't take Tony Abbott, not much chance they'll take her.

When I was a kid my Dad raised a few pigs as a side hustle. He used to buy 44 gallon drums of chocolates from Cadbury's - deformed, had fallen on the floor, etc. Pigs loved them. Us kids did too 😄 Not sure how much they cost but he was a tight arse so it would have been cheap.

Pretty good makeup. He's got a chin vagina and all.

Yes. Solid 7/10 from me.

Really?

In similar news, because I was born with brown eyes I've never had a period.

From the Guardian...

I think this article says more about Sam Neill than most I've seen. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/14/sam-neill-new-zealand-remembers-local-star

Great actor. He was great in Jurassic Park, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Apparently a Sir too, and his real first name is Nigel.

We have a fat white goldfish with a red cap which we've named Trump. Bit insulting to the fish, but they share the same hairstyle, IQ, and belly to height ratio. Also, they both open their mouth constantly but nothing intelligible comes out.

Bonnie Tyler has died aged 75. Had some hits in the 70s and 80s, most notably "Total eclipse of the heart".

Welcome back Jerry!

Well, it's positive for them, but negative for you.

Sacre bleu! You are navigues sur mon fleuve sans me payer? C'est intolerable! It is time I close ze Strait of Marty. Pierre! Preparez l'avion automatique!

I thought Peugeot were owned by the same company that produces MG and a raft of other Chinese cars.

I agree Peter - part of a previous job was system testing changes to a large organisation's primary database before they were deployed. For five weeks at a time we'd try to break it by doing the stupidest things humans could do to it. After deployment, when the programmers had applied fixes to any weaknesses we'd found, inevitably some moron still managed to break it.

That's exactly the point. Fossil fuel supporters always bring up the cost of transitioning to renewable as a reason not to do it. Strangely, they never mention the cost of not doing it

Happy birthday USA. The founding fathers would be spinning in their graves to see the greedy, petulant, vindictive, mean and petty man-child the people have elected.

That sounds... spectacle-r.

Is that your Scottish heritage coming out?

Along with the time taken by the apprentice to go buy them from a shop an hour away then individually rewrap them.

I just don't get the whole concept, obviously. To create a bike out of bits, as an engineering challenge - yes, I can see that. But to take a bike in good condition, like I assume that FB one was (and I could be wrong) and make it less comfortable and kind of ugly... I don't get that. Mind you I don't get modern art or discordant music either, so I'm happy to concede it's just that I have something missing, aesthetically.