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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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The Rocky Horror comment was tongue in cheek TP. In fact, I never really wanted to go and I'm not a fan of his at all. Kelly likes him.

My point is, look at the reactions I get for being a doubter of their stories.... for believing him, instead of them.
His life is destroyed and I find it deplorable that a bloke can be treated this way.

I'm not allowed to do jury duty :wink:
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
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Celebrity astrophysicist accused by three women of sexual misconduct

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment ... 50jqs.html

'In the report, Bucknell University astronomer Katelyn Allers said Tyson grabbed her arm and reached into her dress while looking at a tattoo of the solar system.

Ashley Watson, a former assistant to Tyson who worked on his latest Cosmos series, said she quit her job after Tyson made inappropriate sexual advances.

Patheos has previously reported allegations by musician Tchiya Amet, who said Tyson drugged and raped her when they were graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin.

On Saturday night, Tyson posted a lengthy response to the allegations on Facebook. He wrote that he hadn't recognised Allers' and Watson's discomfort at the time of the incidents they described. He acknowledged that he had a short relationship with Amet in the 1980s, but rejected her allegation of assault.
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Both Watson and Allers said they shared their accounts in hopes that they would lend credibility to Amet's allegation, which she wrote about on her blog in 2014 and which was first reported by Patheos last year.

"I just feel like Neil needs to answer to these accusations," Watson said. "If we don't talk about these things, they're not going to change."'
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I fail to see the relevance of that allusion.
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Fairfax, ABC have parts of defence struck out in Craig McLachlan defamation case

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"On Monday, Justice Lucy McCallum ruled on several preliminary matters ahead of a jury trial set down for February 2019. The court heard McLachlan will not give evidence in chief during the trial.

Justice McCallum struck out three "insufficiently precise" imputations pleaded as part of a contextual truth defence, which alleged that McLachlan is "calculated, manipulative and a predator", "conducted himself in a manner that warrants the police conducting an investigation of his conduct", and "took advantage of situations in which women were vulnerable, to prey on them sexually".

She also struck out several paragraphs of the truth defence, saying some were "embarrassing in a legal sense, of being impossible to meet or causative of confusion", while others related to McLachlan's "irrelevant" alleged bullying of men.

Justice McCallum allowed the media organisations and Whelan Browne to add information to the defence about another woman, Teagan Wouters, who starred in Rocky Horror in 2014.
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The media organisations' barrister Lyndelle Barnett argued on Monday that her clients should be able to seek information about whether McLachlan was seeing a therapist, to see if he made any admissions which might be able to be tendered in the case.
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McLachlan's barrister Matthew Richardson objected to such an enquiry being made. He indicated last week that he wished to subpoena notes taken by Whelan Browne's therapist to see if her statements about McLachlan had been consistent over time.

Mr Richardson said while Whelan Browne mentioned she was seeing a therapist, there was no evidence his client was doing the same.
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Justice McCallum allowed both sides to put formal questions to each other about the use of therapists."
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