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Wokko wrote:
What'sinaname wrote:Seems like every new ad on TV is using a same sex couple.
Or black male/white female. It's like every company wants to virtue signal its 'woke' credentials to the twitter mob who doesn't buy their product anyway.
I mean, no doubt there's some cynical "woke" virtue-signalling going on in some of these cases. But think about this another way: are you saying that the only reason a same-sex or interracial couple would be in a TV ad is as a result of political correctness? If so, isn't that kind of $@&^# up, and shouldn't we be encouraging more agenda-free depictions of people who don't fit the white, heterosexual norm (which, let's face it, is still accounting for the vast majority of couples represented on TV)?

Unless the ad is calling attention to itself in some obvious way, I just don't know how anyone can know a given example is a "woke" ad, as opposed to just an ad that happens to feature a same-sex or interracial couple.
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stui magpie wrote: These security men given licence to use whatever force is required to quickly stop anyone becoming violent, and given legal immunity against prosecution or civil action unless they kill someone.
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Was in Ripponlea this afternoon buying some goodies for dinner and for Mum. There's an ecelctic mix of people from ultra orthdox Jews in black garb, trendies going to cafe's and shopping, mums and prams, various schools especially Caulfield Gammar and some other schools, indian food delivery people, all sorts of shapes, colours, genders: a liquorice all sorts if you will.

As I was getting out of the car parking on Station street out comes a woman with fashionable short blonde / bleached white hair, bright red lippy, and a very short bright yellow skirt. It was a Reid like cycle (not a road bike) and the short skirt was quite revealing.

This quite feminine woman (if not a tad on the anorexic side) riding her bicycle wasn't wearing any knickers and (of course I had to look) was showing her hairy balls and c*ock :shock: WTF indeed.

Too much information.
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^ The next line to this story

I went home and poked my eyes out with a fork.

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I went home and, well, I am no longer master of my domain
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watt price tully wrote:Was in Ripponlea this afternoon buying some goodies for dinner and for Mum. There's an ecelctic mix of people from ultra orthdox Jews in black garb, trendies going to cafe's and shopping, mums and prams, various schools especially Caulfield Gammar and some other schools, indian food delivery people, all sorts of shapes, colours, genders: a liquorice all sorts if you will.

As I was getting out of the car parking on Station street out comes a woman with fashionable short blonde / bleached white hair, bright red lippy, and a very short bright yellow skirt. It was a Reid like cycle (not a road bike) and the short skirt was quite revealing.

This quite feminine woman (if not a tad on the anorexic side) riding her bicycle wasn't wearing any knickers and (of course I had to look) was showing her hairy balls and c*ock :shock: WTF indeed.

Too much information.

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What'sinaname wrote:^ The next line to this story

I went home and poked my eyes out with a fork.

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I went home and, well, I am no longer master of my domain
Then don;t come to Thailand. Wouldn;t bat an eyelid here.
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Morrigu must be in Sydney as someone liberated some Baboons .
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swoop42 wrote:Some of you may have come across these before but it's a first for me.

Stare at the 3 dots above the nose for ten seconds then look at a solid white surface (ceiling), and blink your eyes!
I remember this from high school.

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Bloody hell WPT that sounded so good for a while!
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think positive wrote:Bloody hell WPT that sounded so good for a while!
That's surprising.

I always presumed you'd prefer to handle a wrench than plug a socket.
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Hey I like a juicy story as much as the next guy! Probably wouldn’t be on such a make dominant forum otherwise!

Actually I was waiting for the I ride my bike into a tree punchline!
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ronrat wrote:Morrigu must be in Sydney as someone liberated some Baboons .
:lol: No unfortunately I wasn’t - if I had been they would be in a safe decent place not back in cage subjected to “testing” :evil:
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Morrigu wrote:
ronrat wrote:Morrigu must be in Sydney as someone liberated some Baboons .
:lol: No unfortunately I wasn’t - if I had been they would be in a safe decent place not back in cage subjected to “testing” :evil:
yeah WTF I though that was banned here? Bloody disgusting

We got prisons full of more suitable subjects

Well a tad more human anyway
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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