loudmouth2
Appreciate your acceptance of constructive criticism. Hopefully, your example might catch on here at OLO!
Regarding the origins of Coronavirus, I wonder whether we'll ever know the truth. At this point, I'm less inclined to blame animals than I am the human factor! I'm not yet persuaded that any possibility of links to biological warfare research can be categorically discounted. There was some compelling information on this linkage early on in the piece, but it appears to have been shut down. I doubt there'll ever be a full, fair and open inquiry ... more likely all we'll end up with is a pin-the-tail-on-China whitewash. But hopefully I'm wrong.

Canem Malum
Yes, refreshing to see someone "attacking the idea not the wielder"!
I agree, it's natural to want to see your own nation and culture flourish and strengthen. But why should this entail conjuring up imaginary threats and demonising other nations, which is what we're currently doing. Surely, we can still stand proudly and strongly as an independent nation and at the same time co-operate and trade respectfully and fairly with other nations, irrespective of whether or not they have different belief and governance systems to our own. And yes, I agree, Capitalism as currently practised by the West is indeed a greedy 'gathering' (or exploiting and stealing) of others' resources. But many, myself included, would argue it doesn't have to be this way.

Foul-Mouth,

This is not the first time you have invited visitors to Adelaide to "come around and kiss my hairy arse" as you put it abouve.

Is this a South Australian custom or something you picked up from you buddies in the CCP when you were last in Beijing getting briefed by Xi?

Mr. Opinion,

I think that he should at least shave for you.

ttbn,

Foul-Mouth made specific reference to his HAIRY arse.

So I don't know where you get this SHAVED bit from unless you and him have some prior arrangement between yourselves that you are not telling the rest of us about.

Take me as I am, Misop, or don't take me.

We're hospitable people in Adelaide, like most country bumpkins - so think of it as a sort of mustache.

But no tongue !

Joe