Yeah, we're literally seeing that right now with the stabbing of the priest and bishop, where the NSW government (and the media, in turn) is blaming the victim, and actively claiming the attacker was "incited by social media posts", and that they will punish the rioters who tried to lynch him "with the full force of the law"...
No comment about punishment for the attacker himself, though. But the Christian victims..? Yeah, "we'll" make sure they're punished for wrongthink, of course...
It is, yes. Though I thought he at least opposed it..? :-(
That's... Disappointing.
Laughs in Sweden
This is just their extremely long-term revenge for Old Alvsborg (see this Polanball - https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/2lynuc/the_fort_of_%C3%A4lvsborg_not_our_proudest_moment/) 400 years later...
Ok, fair, but my point was more that if that is the case, why don't they have extra precautions in place in case of fire. Like, if it is that easy for this to happen again, why wasn't there a fuck-tonne of extra preventative measures in place..?
And then there's the question of them leaving all the valuable art inside, during the restoration. Like sure, they obviously didn't plan for this, but I can assure you that would never happen, with an art collection that valuable, in Australia. It just wouldn't. This is why we have temperature and humidity-controlled archives, for precisely this reason...
I'm mostly just appalled at the lack of preventative measures taken once again, more than I am thinking this is some sort of conspiracy...
So for me, while yes the roof thing is obviously the same as Notre Dame, the better comparison would be with the National Museum in Rio, which didn't even have a working sprinkler system (cost), thus resulting in the greatest loss of scientific and historical artifacts this century...
Notre Dame is more iconic than either of the others, but in terms of "cultural loss", it's probably the least important of the three, depending how much art was still in the Stock Exchange building at the time...
He doesn't look very happy in literally any of the pictures from this event, that's for sure...
And I agree. Very much.
Apparently his father (Liev Schreiber) opposed all of this, so of course Watts got a divorce, cut him out of the kids' lives, and shacked up with some new beta who would go along with it, lol...
Sad.
Even if, as you say, he grows out of it, he'll still have to deal with all these photos and stories existing on the internet for the rest of his life... Just look at like (much though i dislike him and think he's still a freak) Oli London, or any similar "detransitioner"...
I can't imagine living with that.
Sad, because in the 2015 photo there (before this “transition”), he just looked like a normal kid…
I really hate to think all the things that have happened to him, in those nine years…
Honestly, it's such a huge block of concrete (mostly) that the only possible way to effectively destroy it would be to demolish it, or like, nuke the city lol. Neither of which seem overly likely...
It's mostly hideous, on the inside (although I haven't been in since the latest "restoration" work), but I will admit that the exteriors are stunning, and the lounge areas at the top of the sails have probably the coolest views in the whole country (you're literally floating/hanging out over the harbour - one of the coolest experiences I've had there). The tradeoff being that the acoustics are shit, which is, again, mostly because the NSW Government of the time sacked Utzon before he could finish it, due to the unbelievably massive cost blowouts...
Anyway, thanks, yeah, I hope so too, lol. It and the Coathanger are two of my favourite things this country has ever built. Though if this -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Coffee_Palace or this -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_Building,_Melbourne still existed, it would bump them down my list somewhat.
Saint Mary's Cathedral and the QVB Building, and The Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, are also pretty iconic, but far less recognized...
Interiors-wise, I think this one - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymocks_Building,Sydney.jpg and this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Theatre(Sydney) are my favourites. Although the former BankSA building in Adelaide (now a restaurant) is right up there, too.
Walking around the Sydney city centre at dawn, several times, when there was almost no one else around, and just marveling at the architecture, is an experience I won't soon forget.
So it turns out it's a Huguenot surname. Which doesn't change anything about the rest of my comment...
If that's her real surname, she's definitely more (extremely upper class) British than she is Iranian, lol...
Lol, from Instagram: “Attorney, activist, artist, & other such labels that belie the illimitable dimensions of human existence.”
Tell me again how you’re not a parody of a spoiled rich, upper-class heiress..?
I dated a girl who used words like that, once. She was annoying as fuck. Literally didn’t know how to use a washing machine (because she was that spoiled), lol…
Adding to this, I think photos of pre-Soviet Invasion Afghanistan might be the saddest…
It’s literally like… They’ve devolved 300 years or something.
You couldn’t get more of a contrast if you tried…
And having met Afghan women in the West, I’m actually not surprised by that at all.
We shouldn’t blame a populace (at least, not all of them) for the regime ruling them…
Not a huge fan of the Afghan men who I’ve met, though, so…
Both things can be true at the same time, I guess.
It’s the same for Afghanistan (mostly) and also Pakistan… And Egypt. And Algeria.
There’s an argument to be made for Lebanon and Jordan, too, but that also relates back to Israeli fuckery, so…
Oh, and Turkey, which is… More complicated. But kind of similar to the Iranian situation, if less extreme.
In general, the non-Gulf Islamic world has, at least in the cities, regressed hugely since the 70s…
As for why..? Well, that’s a thesis-worthy topic in itself.
Yeah, she might be “ethnically Iranian” (which is fairly meaningless anyway. It’s like saying “ethnically American”), but she sure as hell ain’t culturally Iranian…
I’ve seen enough of pre-1979 Iran to know that even the most decadent of the elites, who admittedly did look extremely Western, weren’t this level of THOT, lol…
But then again, THOTS in general were almost certainly considerably rarer, at that point, even in the West…
But also, Elica Le Bon..? Ok, I admit that Elica is a weird name, but Le Bon is, I believe Anglo-Norman French. The most notable person with that name is Simon Le Bon, from Duran Duran.
You don’t get a much more upper class British name than that, lol…
Being Denmark, I bet they don’t even rebuild it properly (unlike Notre Dame)…
Seriously, the articles about this couldn’t get more apathetic if they tried. And that is the problem. People no longer care about “irreplaceable cultural heritage”, they just say “Fuck it, it’s old and white people built/painted it. Let it burn.”
At least (some of) the French have national pride…
The Danes? Not so much. From experience...
Funny how this shit always during “on roof restoration work”, when the fucking building is already surrounded in scaffolding, though…
But yeah, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence, I suppose…
It’ll be the Menin Gate in Belgium (also surrounded by scaffolding), next, I imagine…
Fortunately the Sydney Opera House and Bridge can’t really burn down, so at least those icons of my country are safe, lol…
I can definitely imagine this happening to Flinders Street Station (already did, to Central Station in Sydney), however…
I unironically do that, sometimes…
Like when I’m staying somewhere with people I dislike (family, housemates, dorms, whatever), this is how I stay sane…
Either do my stuff after they go to sleep, or before they wake up, lol.
It’s a surprisingly effective avoidance technique, tbh…
“But don’t you want to sit and watch ___”
“Nah, I’m tired. Bye.”
Works like a charm.
Yeah. First time I ran into him in person was in the baggage collection area at Sydney (domestic) airport, where he was in the line in front of me to get takeaway...
He was so incredibly obnoxious to the person serving him, it was very clear that it was a "Don't you know who I am?" type situation, lol. And they were just doing their job.
I think he ended up walking away without even buying anything, and I just stared at the fat (at that point), short fuck, as he walked off, lol...
And then I think I said to the cashier, "Was that Russell Crowe?", and they sheepishly said "Yep". No one present was terribly impressed.
Bear in mind that this was some time after his phone smashing incident (was that before, or after his divorce? Idk), so none of wanted to confront the guy, lol...
Side note: ran into Barry Humphries and Billy Thorpe (if people know who either of those were) in the exact same place, but both of them were perfectly normal and polite, lol. Just not Rusty, unfortunately...
A couple of less accurate details would probably be the hairstyles and the accents (hon hon hon baguette), but I think they can probably be let off on that, given how fucking awesome this scene is.
The movie in general is pretty good, too. Bleak, but good. Dope scenery, too.
Pity they never made a sequel while CRusty was still at his prime.
He's now a fat, annoying, "politically active", grumpy old fart, who I've had the "fortune" to come across in person more than once, lol.
If you weren't already deeply skeptical of things (which I know pretty much all of us here would be, lol), just look at the coverage of the two different events this week, both from how police handled the perp (in this case, they actively protected him from the wrath of the worshippers), to the victim blaming of the priest, vis a vis the mostly female victims of the Bondi nutter...
Or the fact that this one is "terrorism", but the other one wasn't...
Hypocrisy, double standards and clown world at its finest...
Yeah, Australia is arguably, in many ways, almost as authoritarian as Canada, but I think you can even withdraw up to $2000AUD (~$1500US) from your bank’s normal ATM, no questions asked…
The main problem, however, is ATM/branch access, because the amount of “cutting back” there, these last few years, has been insane…
I fully expect that the main banks in this country will completely remove access to personal (i.e. non-business) banking, in-person, by 2030.
You might still have access to a few ATMS, but they won’t be owned or maintained by your own bank, and they certainly won’t let you withdraw $2000 at once…
Both of those things are already the case in Sweden, which is appalling for even accessing banking, let alone accessing physical cash itself. Seriously, if you want to see the dystopian, cashless future, spend some time in Scandinavia…
In Australia, it’s been trending that way for at least a decade (largely since they abolished ATM fees, under the guise of “increasing access”, and then used that as an excuse to massively decrease ATM availability). And Australians being apathetic, conformist slugs means that there has been remarkably little pushback…
Close enough to be “Very soon, but also not”, while also given the illusion of “That’s next decade, so I don’t have to worry about it right now”, I suspect…
Honestly, I think (young) people also underestimate quite how fast a time length like that goes by.
The last four years have absolutely flown, for me, and that’s despite my rarely “having fun”, and largely hating most of it…
So it must be even more dramatic, I imagine, for people whose lives are a bit more… “On track”.
Aaand they swear they’re not perverts, lol…
“Worsen ‘her’ experience” because she wouldn’t be able to LARP AND be a voyeur, perhaps..?
Or a Muslim attacking conservative Christians, as has evidently also just happened in Sydney (y'know, that other post)...
Then the cops protect the perp, while victim-blaming and then blaming the community for "rioting" in response...
Insane. Utterly bonkers clown world...
Laughs in Australia, where banks plan to entirely eliminate cheques by 2030...
We are so screwed.
If you watch the video, this is specifically why he is only trying to withdraw under the limit, which would appear to be C$3000. She doesn't justify why she can't do it - just "Not today".
I have no idea why she decided to fuck with him, but I don't think it's because of the rule you specify there...
Of course it's a first-gen Chinese immigrant as the bank teller, too. Of course it is...
Grow up in a literal authoritarian regime? Of course you're gonna be more than happy to comply with very much the same ideas after you fuck off to the West...
I bet it's Vancouver or somewhere on the West Coast (absolutely full of these types of immigrants), too...
I was wondering when this might appear here, lol...
Absolutely insane. Apparently the individual in question is one of the top posters in the futa-fetish sub on Reddit, too...
Surgery that is being paid for is only available in Austin, though, lol, so that's... Relevant. They have to pay for out of state "treatment", because that's the only place that will agree to do it.
Gotta love that you can't get dental care paid for by the state, but this, you can.