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Yeah, I mean doing really well in a relative way.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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https://careers.bhp.com/careers/JobDeta ... aignId=150

This is obviously ok.... imagine an employment offer that said "caucasian only" ....
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This reasonably informative explanation is as close to climbing Mt Everest as sensible people would ever want to get: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-02/ ... t/11162770
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Pies4shaw wrote:This reasonably informative explanation is as close to climbing Mt Everest as sensible people would ever want to get: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-02/ ... t/11162770
Thanks for that, I understand the lure of the climb but standing in a queue at 8km up waiting to maybe summit or succumb to exposure and altitude sickness isn't quite as romantic as it all was in the 90s. Just another thing that millennials have ruined :lol:
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*Cough* boomers *cough*
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Haha, you're both as bad as each other. Gen X is the meat in an arsehole sandwich :P
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^

i prefer not to think of us as the arsehole, but as the rose between 2 thorns. 8)

We got the best of this world, it'll be up to Gen Z to right the ship as the millennials are useless. :P :wink:
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40,000 !

This is very scary stuff.....

https://clarionproject.org/islam-and-pr ... onverting/

What sort of a place is this planet going to be in 20 years?
I can't imagine.
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^

Not a good example of Islam being a problem there, those who do convert have a far lower rate of going back inside, In isolation, you'd take that as a positive.

Black Islam has been around since before Cassius Clay changed his name and hasn't caused any issues in the states.

As far as what kind of society we'll have in 20 years, I have no control and things I can't control I don't stress about. I won't be an active participant hen, it's my kids and grandkids problem to deal with. We all play the cards we're dealt, like them or not.
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Skids wrote:40,000 !

This is very scary stuff.....

https://clarionproject.org/islam-and-pr ... onverting/

What sort of a place is this planet going to be in 20 years?
I can't imagine.
Can you stop the fearmongering, FFS? You see boogeymen everywhere.
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^ yep
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Went to the bathroom at work to take a p155, guy at the other urinal was working one handed while using his mobile in the other. :? Seriously?

I didn't look over to see what he was doing but I assume he wasn't videoing the stream to share on social media.

People, put the phone down.
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Er ... good thing I've never known anyone who would do such a thing! :oops:
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Seeing a tram driver get off the tram and run down the street to berate a woman who apparently did a right turn across the front of the tram in her Porsche 4wd rather than doing a hook turn.

He ran down after she parked and started yelling at her as she got out. He was Indian and she was Asian, I'm not sure she understood a word he was yelling
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