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…
Wikipedia is unfortunately pretty much unusable now, for almost anything that can possibly be politicized…
Which is funny because we were always told “you can’t trust it as a source”, even if academia quickly changed its tune on that, after the left completely took it over, lol…
Regardless of the veracity of the allegations, Schaeffer is a creepy weirdo, as is Jack… Whatever his name is. So I have no complaints that she helped take them down.
Honestly, they both seemed quite unhinged, to say the least…
Anna Paulina Luna (fake Hispanic “conservative” repping Florida, who changed her name to grift that minority vote) has entered the chat…
She’s attractive, but she’s also very fake, lol.
Ah, fair. Yeah, I guess it's still "the evening of/after", for you guys.
Here, that's been on the news since the early hours, but it's mid-afternoon, so we've all sort of gone "well that happened", and gone on with our lives...
Obviously the media has not, but they're not offering any new perspectives or anything, so I've sort of just... Tuned it out, I guess.
Personally I'm just so very over thinking about politics, so I would rather distractions (such as what should be light, fluffy, largely apolitical tv) than following the breaking news cycle, i guess, ha.
I mean yeah, I know about that, but there's more going on than just that, lol.
I guess I just wanted to discuss something else, rather than just feeding into that cycle, tbh.
Everyone will talk at length about that anyway - I didn't really feel the need to weigh in myself.
And yeah, it's obviously huge, but, he seems to be fine, so there's that.
For those who aren't familiar with Kommisar/Commisario Rex, it's about a German Shepherd who helps solve major crimes (generally, but not always, murder). The Austrian series is excellent, and was also very entertaining. The Italian series, about a decade later, verges more into comedy, but is also very good.
And then we have... The Canuck/Newfie version. Which sucks most of the humour and "fun" out of the concept, and brings in huge amounts of wokeness.
I could tolerate the BLM/racial profiling/"cops bad" schtick, and the "muh women are all victims" crap, but the tranny shit is just too much. But this interview makes it pretty clear that all of that was always the intention with this series - they just waited until they had a loyal audience, after the first season or so, before starting to beat said audience over the head with "the message"...
Here's one such "gem" of a quote from the interview:
Q) What is new this season on “Hudson & Rex?”
A) All I can say is it is more. More of what people love, but we push the limits even further. Diesel, our star, is learning all kinds of new behaviors and things that are wowing audiences. I think our familiarity with him and especially his relationship with Johnny is fantastic. It just gets deeper and allows us to take the stories even further. We tackle bigger and broader issues; some that are a little more topical and timelier with things that are happening in the headlines. I think we have an episode coming up on human trafficking. We just had an episode dealing with transgender issues. Now that we have our feet sort of firmly planted, we know what type of show we have and are able to push the envelope even more and reach into peoples’ hearts and tug on their heartstrings a little more. At least that’s the hope.
If you can handle subtitles, The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark), Homeground (Norway) and Midnight Sun (Sweden/France) are all good value.
Especially The Bridge. And Borgen, which is somewhat similar, and also Danish.
Yeah, I was similar. Gave up around the same time, too, lol.
I don’t think either of us missed much with Jodie, from the little I saw while visiting my parents!
Yeah, the Pertwee through Davison era is mostly pretty great. It gets increasingly shit after that (the 80s, unfortunately) though, sadly… To the point of being almost as bad as NuWho got, imho.
The Movie (1996) is worth hunting down, if you feel like exploring that period of Who, too!
Seen Babylon 5? It’s a bit… Much, for me, but my mother is a sci fi nut and that’s her favourite.
Good choice with those three! All pretty good value, I believe!
Of course, it gets even weirder and more complex with like, Albania, Macedonia or Bosnia (Islamicized Europeans), and then the second-generation emigrants from those places, or the whole Armenia/Azerbaijan thing…
In general though with Germany I think there’s a massive difference between mostly-assimilated Turks, and more recent Muslim immigrants…
A bit like with the enmity between “Assyrian” Orthodox Christians and recent Muslim immigrants, both in Sweden and Aus, lol… Even though they theoretically come from the same part of the world originally…
Persians absolutely hate being conflated with Arabs. In fact, I’m pretty sure their distinctive cultural identity is one of the reasons why Islam there didn’t manage to, erm, extinguish the language, among other things…
There’s much more commonality between Turkey and Persia/Iran, culturally and historically, than there is between, say, Iran and Saudi, or Turkey and, idk, Yemen…
It’s just that they all have Islam in common, and two out of three have oil. Beyond that…? Not much.
Black Normans would at least fit with the whole “hurr durr Black Vikings” shit, that has been in vogue lately, inc. with Google’s Gemini “experiment”, lol…
It would still be a massive stretch, but at least it would play into that… Weirdness, I guess.
Tbf, I’ve been rewatching a bit of (earlier) Nu Who and Merlin lately, and, while Nu Who does have some excellent, stand-out episodes (mostly where they go into historical periods, imo), the majority of it is so much worse than I realized on first or second watch…
Like man, Rose Tyler was just… Manic pixie dream Mary Sue-cum-selfish-hoe?
As for Merlin, man, it’s almost unwatchable, at this point… It’s so very bad. And already “diverse”, back in 2010, lol…
Having spent a fair bit of time around Gare du Nord and La Villette recently, all I can say is… Oui.
Man, that’s… Deeply unsettling.
Eldritch, even.
The one in Cali? I didn’t even know that existed until you mentioned it, lol…
But that’s cool!
I know St Helena is an island in the Caribbean, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge on things of that name… Though we do also have a town called St Helens down here. We usually call it Snellens though, lol. Most interesting thing about it is that most of the streets are named after Greek gods, for some reason…
Is Mount Saint Helens still active? I actually don’t know that, surprisingly…
“Ava Kris”… Lol.
In the words of Austin Powers, “That’s a man, man.”