Ah, I see. Fair.
I do miss talar svenska, lol…
I remember when I was in Stockholm I want to a “mini Spelen” for Olympics day last year, so that does make sense!
Congratulations by proxy for Mondo and Sjoestrom’s achievements then, ha.
Is the Turkey shooter the one who came out in his civvies and somehow won silver - is that who you mean?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Olympics called the OS before, lol…
This is the Daily Mail take on it:
Fuck absolutely everything about this, lol.
I like to think I have a fairly high disgust threshold these days, but man, what an absolute freak…
*Ex-Muslim, I believe.
I think that’s her whole grift - the ex part…
You should see the leftists on Reddit talking about this - they don’t even want us to discuss it, lol.
“Muh culture war” is the only argument they have left, at this point.
Of note, while this sounds somewhat like a happy pop song, it's actually a not-too-thinly veiled metaphor for death (which is fairly obvious from the video), and was originally titled "Die", lol:
She was partly inspired to write this by a friend's suicide, in High School. And then it was used in promos for Ansett Australia, which was our second-biggest airline at the time, just as it was collapsing (think Delta or American Airlines collapsing in the US)...
And the success of her Olympics and Paralympics performances ended up seriously messing up her mental health, and she... Kind of spiralled, for more than a decade (poor girl has been through a lot).
So you could argue that it is cursed.
But hey, it sounds inspirational and semi-chipper, so there's that, lol.
I'm still gonna claim Sydney as the best Olympics of this century (if we're counting 2000 as C21), too.
As an Aussie, that was basically the peak of our entire civilization, lol. It's been a mostly downward-trajectory (especially for Sydney and NSW) ever since...
To focus on one positive, though, the bit with the Olympic flag on the mechanized horse/Pegasus (?) on a hydrofoil, down the Seine, while the Parade of Nations (flags) was taking place under the Eiffel Tower, interspersed with a montage from each previous Olympics - that was pretty cool at least.
My personal highlight so far, I think.
They’ve also got kids in there with the drag queens, sadly but unsurprisingly. I’ve just noticed that… 😑
Watching the replay of it right now. The drag “fashion show” thing has gone on for over an hour, in between the athletes’ parade.
And the Christ figure drag queen is the DJ. But of course…
Eugh.
There was also headless Marie Antoinettes (plural), fireworks to symbolize blood, and a ménage a trois (with two vageuely non-binary looking males and one girl) in a library while “reading” classics of French literature…
It was… A lot.
Very (current year) French. Though whether that is a good thing in this case, I’m not sure…
Yeah, no you’re right. Field hockey in Aus is professional (i.e. we have a pro league), but their is no free-to-air tv rights, which is where the money is, so pay would be… Less than Women’s netball, or maybe even women’s rugby union, which is only semi-pro, lol…
Hockey is definitely still fairly niche here, and we’re like, world number 3 or 4…
Also regarding his “star” status, I had never even heard of him, and I technically went to school with our hockey captain (he would have been finishing up when I started, but still), and grew up playing it… So he’s not that big a name, imho, lol.
You’re first sentence is the correct one. We do have an NHS equivalent (called Medicare), but this was likely done by a private surgeon, if indeed it was done in Australia at all, given how many of these athletes live overseas anyway…
I can think of maybe six or seven large private health insurers off the top of my head, but I imagine there’s more than that… It tends to be a state-by-state thing, though, so I know that two of the insurers where I am only operate here…
We have private healthcare, it’s just more expensive.
He most definitely could have gone to a private surgeon, and in all likelihood did, because, much though Medicare (equivalent of the NHS) has its problems, I don’t think very many public doctors would endorse this decision…
I realise it’s not quite the same, but I can’t help thinking that it’s no surprise that a medical “industry” that believes it’s okay to chop off normal tits and dicks, etc., because teenagers feel that they are “in the wrong body”, only for them to regret it later, would also feel that this is “an acceptable sacrifice”, for the sake of sportsball…
Yeesh.
“Ava Kris”… Lol.
In the words of Austin Powers, “That’s a man, man.”
Was Britain at that point merely Iron Age? It was pretty much the early modern period (Australia was only colonized just after US independence, remember)…
Not that your point is invalid, but I would say that massively downplays the gap, tbh…
My mother falls into this category. It was mandatory reading for her MTeach (which she never finished) and she fully took the rhetoric onboard…
Though my father is actually worse on matters such as that, apparently because his Abo colleague has “taught him truth and empathy”…
It’s rather depressing, tbh.
Similarly, the Australian oceanic research vessel has recently been studying deep ocean canyons off the east coast (we’re talking dozens of kilometers off shore, here) and they have, onboard, an Aboriginal adviser, because they (utterly anachronistically) claim it as their “water country”, and it’s important she sees all the deep water creatures, so they know how to “protect country and cultural knowledge better”, apparently…
Which is truly an impressive gift.
Meanwhile the state leader where I am just announced increased funding for childcare surrounded by children playing on top of an “Indigenous designed play mat”, next to a doll’s house draped in the Abo flag, with not a single Aussie flag in sight…
I hate what this country has become.
Nah, this whale is definitely already dead. I believe it was dead when it washed ashore.
But in general yes, your point stands.
You don’t even want to know about the Abos and rare sea turtles… shivers
I hate to specifically call out an ethnic group in particular, but isn’t it funny that the fucking Romani (not Romanians) manage to start shit wherever they go..?
Is it any wonder, then, that most countries had a tendency to umm, chase them out at some point…
Admittedly the Gypsy-Muslim coalition wasn’t really on my bingo card, however…
Lol, it’s so much worse than that…
From experience, you can get fucked by the University’s thoughtcrime squad, as a white male, without ever having broken any sort of law.
And, in general, I would say female students are much more… Inclined to use that “power”, than most women out in public.
I would put them second only to “activists” as the group most likely to falsely accuse you of something, lol. Again, from experience…
Also, my Uni specifically has just introduced a whole bunch of new modules that you must complete each semester, before you can even enrol. Not necessarily on “sexual harassment”, but still incredibly invasive and irritating…
Man do I ever hate the university bureaucracy…
Can she still move her face tho? That's the only question I have about it.
Given, erm, this was presumably filmed after Moriarty fucked up her looks completely, lol...
She already looked like a different person in Season 3...
I mean, yeah, but, even with everything Scotland Yard have done, I would still rather a copper than a Snackbar, any day…
Snackbars should be deported en masse, imho…
Given what I’ve heard of Muslim parents in the UK (FGM, child marriages, etc), I would say that abuse is probably more likely than not, in many of those households…
Same anywhere where “this type” of migrant forms a plurality…
Yeah, I think she nearly got banned for the doping-test-avoiding thing, but then played the “muh victimhood” card and got off. Much like Peter Bol, the South Sudanese Australian 800m runner…
But also, I personally don’t think that wearing an identity-hiding mask and sunglasses throughout your competition is particularly appropriate (at Olympic level). There’s doing something to put your opponents off (like the crazy hair many of them have), and then there’s… That.