What astonishes me the most is how Farrell got promoted to head coach despite never doing that job, at any level. Tells me all I need to know about the IRFU.

@Rembrandt Jesus - that's worse than I imagined.

I recall getting it twice in primary school and thinking it was an unreasonable punishment for such minor transgressions. It so angered me as a child that I wished to bump into the teachers as an adult to revisit it on a more even footing. Never got the opportunity and thankfully such practices no longer exist. I would hospitalise a teacher that did the same to my nieces or nephews.

Just want to point out some people seem more upset by the cartoon than the deaths...

Tells us everything about the veracity and worth of their concern.

@Salacious-Crumb said in Jeffrey Epstein:

@Crucial said in Jeffrey Epstein:

I get all that, just don't get why he is being judged as if he has committed a criminal act when (on the face of it) he may have had sex with a young woman of legal age. Can't claim adultery as good reason either (it is hardly uncommon).

So, Her Royal Majesty is overreacting, is she?

Not sure anyone knows how the Queens is reacting. What we can comment on is the media reporting of it and there's a substantial amount of it.

From what I've read the only issue is he maintained a relationship with Epstein, staying at his house for days after his conviction.

@Frank said in US Politics:

@Crucial said in US Politics:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:

@Crucial said in US Politics:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:

@Crucial Except there is nothing extreme about Trumps presidency, his personality is extreme. But his policies are very mainstream.

In the eye of the beholder, of course.

Maybe... So enlighten to which of his policies is extreme?

What I'm saying is that many people may view his policies as extreme given their own political slant.

Do you find them extreme?
If so - which ones?

the topic is US politics, not Crucial's beliefs.

Terrible resource management appears to be the norm. Resignation letter from a state operations director for Harris: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6541-mehlenbacher-harris-resignation-letter/f0475e62906e5d2056f8/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

@jegga said in Twitter:

The Guardian got twitter to ban Shaniqua O'Toole for posting fake Guardian headlines, clearly they think the Streisand effect is her music making them wanting to dress in drag and lip sync to her songs.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TrollingTheGuardian&src=trend_click

Excellent.

I do like these in particular.

It's worth revisiting this ABC special from five years ago. The takeaway is we need increased occurrence of fire activity to reduce the frequency and impact of major fires. But that with climate change, the ability to do this is decreasing.