Well if that's the type who frequent uni cafes, we should ban them forth with.

I wonder what they served in the place4 that led top such rat bager developing.

Cop that Clem!
The most fixed minded immovable poster takes a shot at you, for his sin!
Well we need to think about that,how would we get to the sleazy but enjoyable place?
We could all join double face book, and tell the world every thing, even what hand we used as we left the little house.
Or we can stay right here enjoy the good with the better, even the bad.
Did you notice in those far gone days strangers did not get a start?
My age lets me remember such places and the Domain speakers forums, enjoyable but not ever day.

Belly>>and the Domain speakers forums,<<

Belly do you remember "Webster" from the Domain?
God the old Domain, every Sunday I would be down there listening to the speakers, and some seasoned hecklers. That was defiately old Australia compared to the new Australia I now see before me.

Intellectual, a person who primarily uses intelligence in either a professional or an individual capacity, they often have an academic background.

Intellect refers to the ability of the mind to come to correct conclusions about what is true or real.

Either way these intelligent, intellectual elites are often associated with such beliefs as CAGW when they are not studying Arts, Politics or Sociology. They have departed from the café scene to take up university tenures.

They have been replaced with Internet Café’s where one can change the world with just a click on their iPad’s. It’s so much easier nowadays to be a publicly funded waste of space.

Where on earth would we be as a society without debates about Germaine Greer and Bob Ellis?

Yes SOG and he was fun.
I should not surprise you, was as much a heckler than any thing .
But not with Webster!
Spindoc, I think the intellectuals came from all sides.
I never shared the Communist view they should be the first to die.
Abbott in his DLP days was, in my view one, you need not agree but the ability to think is classless.

Dear Clem,

It would be great to be a time-traveller
and sit, listen and observe the greats
that you refer to - In Paris - Simone de Beauvoir,
Jean Paul Sartre, in New York at the Algonquin -
Dorothy Parker and her literary crowd, and in
Melbourne Mirka Mora et al.

However, there are "Meetup Groups" in Melbourne
that may be interesting as well. One never knows.

I imagine it would be difficult to replicate
the days gone past. They were different times.
Times of struggle - which I imagine stimulated
thought and discussion. It's hard to do that
when one has an enviable life-style and has
so many choices to make as to what to wear (kidding).
The mind then tends to focus on unimportant things.
A. Solzhenitsyn - lost his passion, and his writing
suffered when he left the Soviet Union. He admitted
that when he only had one shirt to wear - he could
concentrate on what was important. When he had to
make the choice between many shirts - what was
important - was misplaced.

I guess things have to be taken in context - and the
times we live in and other such considerations.
Perhaps there's a reason for the old adage of -
"suffering for one's art.?" The passion needs to be
there.