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@Victor-Meldrew said in Royal drama:

Laurence Fox's response when asked about the next Labour leader was epic. He thought for a few seconds and nominated Sir Keir Starmer as someone who could take on Boris.

Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti then asked him "what about the women candidates". She soon wished she hadn't...

Fox replied "It's not about the women.....jeepers creepers" (banging his head on the desk in exasperation and looking at Chakribati)...."OK, sorry, Let me rewind... any of the women then, is that better?.....after all It's really, really important what gender or sex you are. rather that what policies you have or how you approach politics"

It was fucking glorious.

The luvvies are triggered and they only make themselves look even more ridiculous . "Disgrace to industry"? ffs the industry is full of perverts and virtue signalling liars, hard to think of any way they be more of a disgrace
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2020/laurence-fox-labelled-a-disgrace-to-industry-following-question-time-race-row/

@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD said in Canadian Politics:

@jegga said in Canadian Politics:

Decent article about how being sanctimonious cucks towards the US affects Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-if-canadians-didnt-treat-the-united-states-with-such-distaste-ally/

I scanned through your linked article and sat and wondered if Canada had offered anything exceptional to society in my lifetime.

All I could identify was mid 2019, when the Canadians reminded the world how stupid they are by giving Margaret Anybodys and Fidel's son, Jussie Trudeau, another go at being Sultan of Ottawa and the Great Lakes. He then grew a weeny little beard for some reason - probably feels it makes him look seasoned, like a veteran.

I'll be watching with interest - the boy king may well yet appoint new immigrant MeMeMeghan as Governor General.

Your correspondent quotes someone important:

"Perhaps if Canadians didn’t treat the United States with such distaste, we would have a strong and loyal ally. ... You can only crap on a friend so many times before they start to question the effort they put into the relationship. We have used the U.S. for defence and as the foundation of our economy and offered little in return."

which accurately summarises the nothing place Canada is.

That quote was the one that stuck out to me too. Half the Canadians I've met over the years have begun a sanctimonious diatribe whenever the topic of the states has come up, usually they thrown in how stupid and or evil republicans are especially if theres one of them in charge . The current pm is peak Canadian wankerati though .

As for offering anything exceptional they've produced a ton a decent actors and musicians etc over the years though . Obviously Alanis Morrissette isn't one of them.

@Stockcar86 said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

Australians have sunk to a new low

you people disgust me.

@Stockcar86 said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

That camo, really?

I guess the first place they are landing on is the forest moon of Endor

The air force wear camo too, the must get a bulk discount or something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_of_the_United_States_Air_Force#Current_uniforms

Decent article about how being sanctimonious cucks towards the US affects Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-if-canadians-didnt-treat-the-united-states-with-such-distaste-ally/

Jabba the jihadi

https://www.foxnews.com/world/overweight-isis-fanatic-arrested-in-iraq-sparks-steam-of-internet-memes

@antipodean said in internet/streaming:

@RoninWC said in internet/streaming:

@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:

@RoninWC said in TV Serieseseses:

@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:

@RoninWC said in TV Serieseseses:

So I am loath to lose the 100 mbps and unlimited data just to unsubscribe from Foxtel so we are in a bit of a bind as we both really feel the Foxtel is no longer worth it.

Huh, lots of ISPs have 100 mbps down (with unlimited. Plus, 80 down is probably more than good enough for what you want?

So I guess it comes down to the 4K sport?

@Nepia Not sure if they do, or at least most do. I think you will see most offer around 80 mbps because of the real world failure of most NBN installations to hit 100 mbps due to the various connection types - FTTP, FTTN, FTTC, HFC, etc.

In fact, Telstra now only advertises their Premium Speed Service as "85Mbps typical evening speeds on Premium speed boost. FTTP and HFC only", no mention at all of 100 mbps and yes it does include unlimited data. This premium service costs $120 a month.

It does say in the details on another page... "Sometimes we go even faster. From June - Nov 2019, most customers experienced average evening download speeds of 90Mbps"

Where as we get an average of around 95-98 mbps in those times and I've seen speeds exceeding 100 mbps in the middle of the night gaming.

Often on the Aussie based BF4 and V servers I will get a ping of 1, never more than 2 and other gamers always ask what I'm on.

Poor wee things.
1Gig is available here in little old NZ

Yup, Aussie is utterly fucked for internet! Worse than most third world countries all thanks to the worst Government I've seen in the ~30 years I've lived here.

The LNP who've now been in power since 2013 took what was an excellent plan and already being rolled out by Labour and just utterly destroyed it because of partisan politics.

Actually the whole problem started when two inveterate spastics, namely Rudd and Conroy, decided they knew better than Telstra how to roll out a broadband network.

They then decided that a government run monopoly would solve the market problems of a monopoly. They mandated a commercial return and that it had to be sold. The government doesn't own it, they simply run it. because what government department isn't excellent at running commercial ventures? To own it they'd have to buy the bonds, but they don't have the cash because for over a decade we've been running deficits.

Then to fix these appalling fuckups, the Liberals decided to roll it out faster and cheaper, the net effect of which is a combination of the worst possible business model and technology choices.

Actually, the litany of fuck ups goes back to Hawke joining OTC and Telecom. Then the Liberals didn't have the foresight to split the retail and wholesale sides when they sold it.

The worst part is the market was actually slowly resolving the problem as markets fundamentally do through competition. If streaming services had started just five years earlier than they did with Netflix, we'd have better, faster, cheaper internet.

Nice rundown, now do one about the open skies agreement, Laurie Brereton and Ansett

They did intervene in this one and put the lion down