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» 11/06/2008 12:29:40 PM Well, I started this thread, and it saw some great OLO-style debate, so I guess it's as go.....
» 11/06/2008 11:50:20 AM "So how do we all begin to feel equal, and comfortable in accepting equal responsibil.....
» 11/06/2008 11:19:04 AM Usual Suspect, that was weird and paranoid. I guess what I just said now becomes an &quo.....
» 10/06/2008 8:50:16 PM US I have another question. Is "the gang" me and Romany? Romany and I are frien.....
» 10/06/2008 6:53:25 PM Aren't I allowed to disagree with Steel? If not, why not?.....
» 10/06/2008 4:18:55 PM "BOAZ probably doesn't mean to be hypocritical. He can't help himself because he just.....
» 10/06/2008 3:56:35 PM StG: "Art is all about interpretation, and SO MANY are blinded by whatever history th.....
» 10/06/2008 10:43:41 AM Bronwyn: "Looks like a blatant plug for the third site I'd say." Oh yeah. D'oh!.....
» 9/06/2008 6:25:21 PM cont... Here is a quote from the introduction to the report: "For the Committee me.....
» 9/06/2008 6:24:38 PM Steel: "I said he sounded like a raving lunatic, and i stand by it. his post looks si.....
» 9/06/2008 9:19:19 AM I wasn't going to comment here either, having explained my views JUST A TAD on other threa.....
» 9/06/2008 8:44:27 AM I am not sure what the posters point is, but in answer to your initial question, I use an .....
» 8/06/2008 7:43:38 PM Bronwyn: "He’s using children's images to create a product from which he makes big mo.....
» 7/06/2008 5:58:37 PM cont... "Not only does Henson's work have parallels to the ugly trend of Internet ch.....
» 7/06/2008 5:58:09 PM Bronwyn: "This exhibition was always going to be a news story and Henson would have k.....
» 7/06/2008 11:07:49 AM Even now, state wards often don't make it past primary school. That is, the government, .....
» 6/06/2008 7:03:58 PM Hi Huffnpuff, I read all your posts and understand exactly what you're asking for. The re.....
» 6/06/2008 6:58:17 PM R0bert, Your thoughtfulness continues to impress me. You're exactly right. So much empha.....
» 6/06/2008 12:37:21 AM Excellent, excellent question R0bert. I look forward to responses. I am at a loss myself. .....
» 5/06/2008 8:04:46 PM Oooooooooh, ok, got it now. We actually downed a bottle while you wandered off so I, for o.....
» 5/06/2008 1:42:34 PM Romany: "I think what unsettles those with this mindset is that they do not see that .....
» 5/06/2008 1:40:18 PM Antiseptic: "It seems this was always the case mind you, as my Dad used to say ".....
» 4/06/2008 9:57:08 PM Hey Romany, Celivia, Yvonne and Fractelle. I'm happy for you to pass on my blog address .....
» 4/06/2008 9:41:03 PM Cj: "If there are any negative consequences for the adolescent models involved, it is.....
» 4/06/2008 6:10:56 PM Steel, thanks for clearing that up. We did get mixed up with our messages there. Glad we'v.....
» 4/06/2008 3:12:57 PM Haralambos, do you know what the fight is about?.....
» 4/06/2008 3:11:41 PM Ludwig: "Again I express strong dismay at the lack of concern over Henson's photograp.....
» 4/06/2008 1:22:34 AM Steel, I'm sure other posters will be the judge of my thickness or otherwise, and our resp.....
» 3/06/2008 7:48:46 PM Whitty (who's left now) once said something very wise about women and feminism. He said we.....
» 3/06/2008 7:46:41 PM Steel: "For a start Vanilla you could read the articles on OLO." Sure, I take y.....
» 2/06/2008 6:56:04 PM Fractelle: "What is it with being religious and spreading fear? IS that how they get .....
» 2/06/2008 6:46:22 PM Steel: "feminism teaches women who like the submissive role to think badly of themsel.....
» 2/06/2008 10:57:32 AM StG: "Now don't get me wrong Gibo, I'm not suggesting you're a bigot...ok, I am, I gu.....
» 2/06/2008 10:14:23 AM May I just say that the term "Yetti-esque Lez-bollah" was my first good laugh of.....
» 31/05/2008 10:29:32 AM Brilliant post Yvonne......
» 30/05/2008 5:57:16 PM Fractelle: "Henson's art is stunningly beautiful and we would be poorer without this .....
» 29/05/2008 2:54:16 PM mjpb "My only knowledge of the facts of the case are from the media so I can only go.....
» 29/05/2008 1:56:15 PM Ludwig: I know there's nudity in his previous work — the work that's still hanging downsta.....
» 29/05/2008 1:05:59 PM Gibo, Since 2006, copper wire theft has become common all over Australia because of high .....
» 29/05/2008 11:03:19 AM Can I point out that any poster accusing another poster of being a pedeophile sounds ridic.....
» 29/05/2008 12:29:01 AM Bronwnyn: "I know this response will create as many questions as it gives answers but.....
» 28/05/2008 11:08:15 AM Pelican: "It seems to me that there is not much point in further discussing this exhi.....
» 27/05/2008 11:44:24 PM Bronwyn: "In this environment I think it was either naive or reckless of Henson to pr.....
» 27/05/2008 2:32:13 PM Johnj, What a sensitive and intelligent answer. Johnj: "I have always found Henson'.....
» 27/05/2008 12:44:26 PM 42?.....
» 26/05/2008 7:05:19 PM Mr Right, Perhaps. The law is subjective, and already prosecutors at the DPP are arguing .....
» 26/05/2008 4:27:19 PM Country Gal: "If nude photo's of a child are acceptable as art, then why dont we all .....
» 26/05/2008 12:42:15 PM Usual Suspect (if you're still around) "But do you guys have any idea how conceited y.....
» 26/05/2008 10:44:28 AM Foxy, I believe that last phrase was directed at me. As I have said on the last couple of .....
» 26/05/2008 10:34:51 AM Well said Pericles......
» 26/05/2008 10:33:19 AM Chainsmoker, you are a bastion of excellent sense. Boazy, 1. No one goes in to art photo.....
» 26/05/2008 9:57:07 AM digiwigi: "Could that be shades of 'Les Paterson' type humour?" Well, I am a fa.....
» 25/05/2008 4:39:58 PM Paul: “...why do we feel the need to sexualise 12 year olds, even latently?” But Henson i.....
» 25/05/2008 1:09:11 PM Pelican, I have offended you and I apologise. To clarify, I guess I thought that by sugges.....
» 24/05/2008 11:57:39 PM Foxy: "I've studied Art History for more than five years..." Pelican: "I wo.....
» 24/05/2008 11:04:25 PM Ginx: "I do not; DO NOT!! look at a twelve year olds body and see it as a sexual enti.....
» 24/05/2008 4:18:10 PM Probably my favourite artist is the sixteenth century Cranach the Elder. (There's was a Yo.....
» 24/05/2008 4:04:34 PM That's an interesting perspective Paul, and persuasive. But I disagree with it. For one t.....
» 24/05/2008 3:44:26 PM Feminists prudes? I have talked to a lot of feminists over the past couple of days and hav.....
» 24/05/2008 11:48:05 AM For those who live under the proverbial, in the last couple of days a cause célèbre has em.....
» 24/05/2008 10:27:33 AM Antisecptic: "Erm... Buswell has little in common with me or most of the regular male.....
» 23/05/2008 9:43:18 PM Boazy. Actually, you are not mocking. Mocking is (according to the Cambridge) to "to .....
» 23/05/2008 7:20:40 PM Foxy, You're the only Christian on these boards whose opinion I respect, so I am dismayed.....
» 23/05/2008 6:06:37 PM "Did you see all the minorities howling for more? Demanding this and demanding that? .....
» 23/05/2008 2:58:16 PM cont... Porn can, of course, be problematic. I know men who have felt they've become addi.....
» 23/05/2008 2:57:51 PM T'riffic article — I agree wholeheartedly. Les, I am a woman and a feminist who defends .....
» 23/05/2008 1:26:31 PM Col: "But feel free to criticise a world leader who acomplished changes to a national.....
» 23/05/2008 11:07:46 AM Ah, excuse me runner, but in the past you used to call us "sluts and WHORES" not.....
» 23/05/2008 10:42:37 AM Boazy, as far as I can tell you have only disagreed with me on one count, which is that of.....
» 23/05/2008 10:27:10 AM Ah Antiseptic, I just reread your post and realise you point is that what is at fault is *.....
» 23/05/2008 10:21:02 AM Mr Right: "It might also make a few of you realise that you are not as desirable as y.....
» 22/05/2008 6:39:33 PM US: "She stated 'I had never heard of the possibility in relation to men'. I gave her.....
» 22/05/2008 5:34:09 PM What happens Col? If someone somewhere in cyberspace mentions Thatcher does a little alarm.....
» 22/05/2008 5:05:34 PM People! People! People! Usual Suspect, CJ isn't sucking up to anyone. All he said was th.....
» 22/05/2008 11:39:02 AM "confected indignation" Ah, you have a way with words. Boazy, what CJ said. I'm.....
» 21/05/2008 9:38:57 PM Haralambos, with your last post I entirely concur......
» 21/05/2008 7:25:01 PM Boazy: "...amazing stuff" Why thank you. For the record, I feel just as negativ.....
» 21/05/2008 7:21:49 PM Usual suspect: "...But if you're talking about posters on this topic, I didn't argue .....
» 21/05/2008 2:47:34 PM Thanks to the women who have fought and argued on our behalf, yes, we ARE more than domest.....
» 21/05/2008 2:40:41 PM I was one of those fluffy bunnies who shut my eyes and moaned (and not in a sexy way) when.....
» 21/05/2008 2:04:05 PM CJ: "Personally, I'm more concerned with the casual use of terms like "rape".....
» 21/05/2008 12:07:47 PM Ludwig: Sure, I take your point. We shouldn't damn the guy on one incident. Having said t.....
» 20/05/2008 8:43:59 PM Best ignored? Sorry Foxy, I feel like I'm chasing you round the boards disagreeing with yo.....
» 20/05/2008 12:34:01 PM Foxy: "Then, try to reconcile all of these realities with a basic theory of randomnes.....
» 20/05/2008 12:35:54 AM As a chick, I honestly didn't feel an undercurrent of embarrassment. I honestly just thoug.....
» 16/05/2008 6:24:56 PM I think reporters are generally far better than they're given credit for. I think the publ.....
» 10/05/2008 6:51:23 PM Boazy: "Dear Vanilla.. you are making a lot of sense there.. even to me." Really.....
» 10/05/2008 2:38:47 PM Am I missing something? Surely the fact this article exists proves that this secular democ.....
» 10/05/2008 9:55:13 AM Dan to Pelican: "Can the values of secularism alone, such as reason, rationality, and.....
» 8/05/2008 10:33:44 PM Dan: "Perhaps one of you could try and define what you mean by secular... it seems th.....
» 8/05/2008 5:12:26 PM I'm currently working on a Melinda Tankard Reist game* for tweens. When you sign up, you f.....
» 8/05/2008 4:52:36 PM I literally could not disagree more. Great men and women push culture forward; they are th.....
» 8/05/2008 10:49:51 AM Dan S de Merengue: "The author of this article is herself sending mixed messages. On .....
» 7/05/2008 11:37:25 AM Bugsy: "How Emo." *nearly spurts coffee out of mouth but manages to contain it*.....
» 6/05/2008 10:37:33 PM Sorry, I'm nuts. I thought I read posts from the Queen Elizabeth thread here, then they su.....
» 6/05/2008 10:35:04 PM Um, am I nuts or did some posts get deleted from this thread?.....
» 6/05/2008 8:21:24 PM The New Paternalism — an article from The Chronicle Review. "An economist and a legal.....
» 6/05/2008 5:23:33 PM Vanilla: Cynical dismissal of other people's motives is always the intellectually lazy opt.....
» 6/05/2008 12:10:53 PM Cont... Kids will always want to watch zietgiest stuff like BB. I think that's fine, we a.....
» 6/05/2008 11:57:02 AM In answer to your original question, Gaz, I really don't think that they're going to be ac.....
» 5/05/2008 4:26:54 PM cont... Nevertheless, I'm not so convinced that we should throw out all labels, as others.....
» 5/05/2008 4:26:07 PM R0bert: "It's so easy in these debates to see "the other side" as less cari.....
» 4/05/2008 7:20:09 PM "Jesus spoke very harshly to some groups. Haven't you noticed? Those he spoke most ha.....
» 4/05/2008 5:09:28 PM Cuphandle, I don't like the idea of censoring certain images or finding bland, "acce.....
» 4/05/2008 4:43:00 PM Many political analysts seem to have moved beyond left and right. Sorry to reference Wikip.....
» 3/05/2008 5:48:21 PM Yes, this whole thinking for once in your life thing will be a challenge. What if you just.....
» 2/05/2008 5:22:49 PM Oh, and Romany, yes, I can only back up the previous request, please, THINK! FOR ONCE IN Y.....
» 2/05/2008 5:16:17 PM Boazy: "I won't add more..." Oh good......
» 2/05/2008 5:08:10 PM Boazy: "it remains the case that pretty much all mainstream Muslims refer back to the.....
» 2/05/2008 2:14:16 PM Excellent article — timely and fair. I just can't see how making gender (and indeed age, t.....
» 2/05/2008 1:25:37 PM Boazy, I'm not even sure what your point is. Earlier you said, "It seems that when th.....
» 2/05/2008 1:24:22 PM Romany: "From BDs lack of knowledge of grammar, spelling, syntax, vocabulary and know.....
» 2/05/2008 12:20:14 PM Tough luck Seeker. You're in our gang now......
» 1/05/2008 1:41:20 PM I'm sure I'm as guilty as anyone else, and I unreservedly apologise to anyone I've persona.....
» 1/05/2008 12:33:21 PM Excellent list Foxy. Science is never improved by an addiction to received wisdom and a ho.....
» 1/05/2008 10:09:46 AM What a weird thread. AgScientist, you were immediately hostile to Romany without — as fa.....
» 30/04/2008 10:30:48 AM They started it......
» 28/04/2008 11:13:29 PM Well, I was just going to ignore it, but am happy to lend my voice in support of Romany an.....
» 28/04/2008 7:14:29 PM Graham, I see you deleted that post for me. Thanks very much. Thanks for that, and all yo.....
» 28/04/2008 2:52:46 PM Oh, and now it posted twice. Feel free to delete the reproduction for me — I feel like a.....
» 28/04/2008 2:50:06 PM Hi Graham, Two time outs. Error message: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error .....
» 28/04/2008 2:48:39 PM All very interesting. Graeme Innes: "I often hear the argument against a federal Ch.....
» 28/04/2008 12:54:56 PM Excellent Agronomist. Finally, some sense. I notice there was also some discussion of ho.....
» 28/04/2008 11:55:01 AM Ah, but you see, Usual Suspect, us feminists have embraced the camel toe, so our famous hu.....
» 28/04/2008 12:22:49 AM Jeez. Firstly, R0bert, I didn't ignore your post. I read it and thought about it — it's a.....
» 27/04/2008 4:30:33 PM I know Gibo. Wouldn't it be awful to be sucked in — along with millions of other people — .....
» 27/04/2008 11:25:02 AM Antisceptic: "Are you uncomfortable with the reiteration of the various ways in which.....
» 27/04/2008 1:19:18 AM Sorry to Lazarus-ise a thread that should probably have been left to quietly die, but I fo.....
» 26/04/2008 8:23:49 PM Sure R0bert, I'm sure you're right. I guess my point is more that, even if smacking isn't .....
» 26/04/2008 6:38:54 PM Poor old Boazy. You're copping a real bashing. And here I am to join in. I don't have kid.....
» 26/04/2008 4:45:10 PM Well, for a start they've clearly changed the photo. Here's the story: http://www.abc.net......
» 26/04/2008 11:03:00 AM Holy moly. That story made me put my hands over my eyes and scream "no no no god no!&.....
» 24/04/2008 12:31:05 PM PALE: "What pale said was- I wonder what OLO readers will make of this! No I didnt r.....
» 23/04/2008 7:25:30 PM (Sorry Bugsy, I just wanted to reiterate what you said.) PALE, Questions about the prove.....
» 22/04/2008 1:10:01 PM Usual Suspect. What an awful and heartbreaking situation you stumbled across. While it'.....
» 22/04/2008 11:51:19 AM Or are you saying that parents need to choose between saying no to a child and distracting.....
» 22/04/2008 11:31:40 AM Boazy, you are for some reason connecting smacking a child with saying "no" and .....
» 22/04/2008 9:38:56 AM Excellent point. As a side issue, did you see that they've discovered a tree in Sweden th.....
» 21/04/2008 9:11:17 PM You have a basic right to do whatever the hell you want. Society restricts those rights as.....
» 20/04/2008 10:43:56 PM Sancho: "My gripe is with shop owners who leave their cash registers in plain view, t.....
» 20/04/2008 5:41:47 PM By the way, Gibo, you are getting Richard Dawkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Da.....
» 20/04/2008 5:34:43 PM Gibo: "In this respect trusting little other than Gods Word, which is Confirmed as tr.....
» 20/04/2008 3:10:26 PM "... Or is it a flotilla of muslim lesbian abortionists armed with Richard Dawkins bo.....
» 20/04/2008 12:43:04 PM R0bert, I see your point. I think the whole Irwin thing is appalling parenting — jeez, .....
» 19/04/2008 8:26:59 PM CJ, you must have one of those extendable canes that elongates when you need to put it int.....
» 19/04/2008 6:22:18 PM They could carry canes so they don't bump in to things......
» 19/04/2008 5:42:31 PM Okay. I'm sorry that you feel my first post diverted the conversation. I honestly simply .....
» 19/04/2008 5:03:17 PM Robert: ""The world is a much richer and wonderful place..." That in turn .....
» 19/04/2008 4:10:28 PM Maybe women could wear what they like and men could wear blindfolds?.....
» 19/04/2008 3:04:35 PM Actually, when Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year she had much tha.....
» 19/04/2008 2:22:58 PM My life experience has taught me that gay people are just people. However, my life experie.....
» 19/04/2008 12:53:16 PM Just to be accurate, as I've noted above (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?dis.....
» 19/04/2008 11:59:35 AM Hi Foxy, I just wanted to add one more thing about denial. You can lose body parts and .....
» 18/04/2008 2:58:07 PM cont... “Here is an interview with your friend vanilla before his arrest.” He’s not my fr.....
» 18/04/2008 2:56:06 PM EasyTimes, The problem I have is that you seem to define the word “refugee” not in a lega.....
» 18/04/2008 1:37:11 PM * Ring her/your doctor and talk to him/her about your concerns. (Maybe even make an appoin.....
» 18/04/2008 10:47:14 AM No, we plan to secede......
» 17/04/2008 6:36:05 PM Jolly good article. Also, am I the only person in the world who actually thinks Piss Chri.....
» 17/04/2008 6:08:21 PM Boaz: "it makes me wonder why there is so much polarization on such issues when it co.....
» 17/04/2008 4:54:44 PM Interesting article: http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Article.aspx?id=1194766730150&index=N.....
» 17/04/2008 4:48:05 PM Oh Romany, I guess I mean that I found it interesting that people I met in South East As.....
» 17/04/2008 2:54:15 PM cont... “a number of African coming to Australia then having unprotected sex with people .....
» 17/04/2008 1:19:30 PM "FEAR? :) check this out..and 'be afraid....very afraid'...." That's hilarious!.....
» 17/04/2008 1:07:26 PM Several threads have got caught up in issues of tolerance lately. A friend of mine grew u.....
» 17/04/2008 11:16:40 AM And you know what, Gibo? John Howard really loved voters like you......
» 17/04/2008 10:19:04 AM “Vanilla 5 stars for effort!” I wish I could say the same for you! “You moved from refuge.....
» 16/04/2008 10:27:19 PM "These including driving up the cost of housing" Fairly obviously, it's not ref.....
» 16/04/2008 10:22:48 PM Easytimes: "As I stated in my first post the email is obviously a hoax but the gist o.....
» 16/04/2008 2:30:10 PM For some reason, I just don't want this thread to die. I have one question for those who .....
» 16/04/2008 1:40:17 PM Like CJ and TRTL, Gibo, I find *your* views immoral. Nevertheless, I'd fight for your righ.....
» 15/04/2008 9:59:04 PM "Under Centrelink rules, she is entitled to almost $50,000 a year in welfare while he.....
» 15/04/2008 10:51:02 AM Sorry Romany. It's an old address and doesn't seem to work. My normal address has my real .....
» 15/04/2008 9:45:16 AM I'm for it, but should be optional rather than compulsory. A sixteen year old will reach a.....
» 15/04/2008 9:27:08 AM individual: "btw you're spot-on re the colluding part." Cool. So I can just mak.....
» 15/04/2008 8:41:10 AM If you live near efficient public transport (and don't have kids) sell your car. I have ne.....
» 14/04/2008 10:43:31 PM Maybe eftfnc could get a cow? They've got lovely long eyelashes. This one lives in a cast.....
» 14/04/2008 8:32:26 PM Individual, can I clarify your position? You've looked at the links detailing the differe.....
» 14/04/2008 7:50:38 PM Honesty is a most desirable virtue. (Duh.) I also think it's built in to us — nothing to d.....
» 14/04/2008 2:55:07 PM I know what you mean, Holy Moly. I've got a friend who's Asian Australian, who'll frequent.....
» 14/04/2008 1:51:28 PM Runner: "Sounds like PALE has been caught out just like TRTL with his/her absurd clai.....
» 14/04/2008 11:07:34 AM Just to add some context, this video is ten years old. Even if you discount the deceitful .....
» 14/04/2008 8:46:19 AM Belly: "falling for a racist con job then defending it?" I know. The thing I fi.....
» 13/04/2008 9:27:18 PM Individual" "thanks for the links but they don't get to the entitlements for ref.....
» 13/04/2008 12:50:03 PM Individual, As I pointed out above, refugees don't get a special allowance. Once they for.....
» 13/04/2008 11:17:38 AM Compost. Grow vegies. I've grown proper vegies in pots in tiny little courtyards in my tim.....
» 13/04/2008 11:04:45 AM This is simply hilarious. Individual, until refugees' claims are decided, they get no Ce.....
» 12/04/2008 9:28:21 AM Interesting news for readers of this thread: "Oxford researchers have received a £1......
» 12/04/2008 8:51:39 AM Individual, I cannot help but be impressed by the way you realise that the truth consists.....
» 11/04/2008 10:38:21 PM Col, ok, if you won't take China, how about Vietnam, which has found that executing around.....
» 11/04/2008 2:18:31 PM Cont... As for Rev Lane, you're saying that Justice Kirby was being malicious when he bro.....
» 11/04/2008 2:17:47 PM Re homosexuality: The fact is it doesn't really matter what religious people (particularly.....
» 11/04/2008 12:54:37 PM Paul: "... opinionated old pricks are right at the top of my list." This made m.....
» 11/04/2008 10:48:35 AM Ain't it the truth, individual. Only a real chardonnay-sipping, latte-guzzling, hybrid 4WD.....
» 11/04/2008 10:17:22 AM it's always the people who *want* to believe it... pwnd.....
» 10/04/2008 9:01:30 PM PS: sorry, I wrote the post above very quickly after a glass of wine and did not proofread.....
» 10/04/2008 8:46:13 PM Yvonne and Foxy and Fractelle and everyone, Thinking about compassion reminds me of that.....
» 10/04/2008 8:09:48 PM Oh Pelican, no, I gave the wrong impression. My experiences are all buried deep deep deep .....
» 10/04/2008 10:53:23 AM Pelican, Sorry, I probably shot my mouth off without reading all the posts properly. It .....
» 10/04/2008 10:09:47 AM Col: " I know someone who is turning paranoid, largely due to an over ingestion of ma.....
» 10/04/2008 9:54:22 AM Pelican, Drug users are generally NOT treated like patients. Sure, Australia has a harm mi.....
» 9/04/2008 5:42:12 PM The death penalty? Jeez, what a square. Personally, I think adults should have the right .....
» 9/04/2008 11:15:12 AM As I’ve said about a thousand times, a correlation DOES NOT MEAN religious people are evil.....
» 9/04/2008 11:14:02 AM Boazy! You are cross. Nevertheless, you’re just insulting me and haven’t put forth any rep.....
» 8/04/2008 10:03:00 PM I declare Romany's post 78% more funnier and jargon-freer than the original article! *OF.....
» 8/04/2008 9:12:55 PM Foxy: "if perhaps people actually lived the good principles and not the interpretatio.....
» 8/04/2008 6:58:31 PM Boazy: “My full quote included these words...…’unless it is a religion which specifically .....
» 8/04/2008 6:24:18 PM Considerthis, You're on the bally money far as I reckon. You're only naive if you think i.....
» 8/04/2008 5:55:20 PM The price of a house as a proportion of income has risen dramatically since the 50s. Even .....
» 8/04/2008 1:23:25 PM Yvonne: "I relate the violence to regular experience at work." I do appreciate .....
» 8/04/2008 10:20:51 AM I think it's a successful and hopefully ongoing protest. The Olympics are a international .....
» 8/04/2008 9:13:38 AM Boaz: "My major problem with such studies.. (I scanned the first one at this point) i.....
» 7/04/2008 9:14:44 PM Foxy: "it is too narrow to blame religion for all of society's problems." Of co.....
» 7/04/2008 8:24:43 PM Boazy: "you have an obligation to show exactly what is the direct connection between .....
» 7/04/2008 5:59:22 PM Foxy, I think it's blindingly obvious that the US is more religious than Australia. It's .....
» 7/04/2008 10:19:03 AM Fractelle: "I don't see how this type of porn is enlightening for young males (or gir.....
» 7/04/2008 9:55:03 AM Yvonne, SJF, Pelican, But what about those of us women — feminists even! — who are fine wi.....
» 6/04/2008 3:43:38 PM Pericles, Apologies, I made myself very unclear. In saying "Obviously, we've made .....
» 6/04/2008 10:09:49 AM "Am I missing something or is it virtually impossible to have a home and a family wit.....
» 1/04/2008 11:54:28 AM I'm sorry for steering things into oh-so-familiar waters. I was just a bit gutted that Whi.....
» 31/03/2008 7:06:19 PM Having just defended Whitty against Fractelle in another thread, I'm now vice versing. I.....
» 31/03/2008 6:23:01 PM This is off-topic, but I just wanted to address the Whitty situation. I hope you don't go.....
» 30/03/2008 3:59:41 PM Yabby: "Fractelle, the "equal" has to be based on merit, not dependant on t.....
» 30/03/2008 10:29:25 AM Pericles: "If Vanilla and I weren't such great friends, I'd be tempted to reply that .....
» 30/03/2008 10:20:42 AM cont... In short, porn actors are indeed pretending to enjoy themselves. It's their job t.....
» 30/03/2008 10:19:49 AM Miss Moderate here, embarking on a post that will slightly agree and slightly disagree wit.....
» 27/03/2008 6:13:06 PM rehctub: "...for the record I don't know what the word means nor should I have to&quo.....
» 27/03/2008 9:52:50 AM rehctub, TLTR is right, that's a nonsensical challenge. She wasn't required to know *all* .....
» 27/03/2008 9:12:13 AM SJF. I'm desperately trying to not to get involved, but that was beautifully said, and not.....
» 26/03/2008 4:13:23 PM Is the concealed planning you're thinkin about Tony Abbott's little secret organisation? H.....
» 26/03/2008 3:13:12 PM Jack, if you really want us to take you seriously, stop being coy about your sources. Show.....
» 26/03/2008 3:06:00 PM Yes, what TRTL said. I'd just add a note on being elitist. It's quite a new thing for ci.....
» 24/03/2008 9:34:57 PM ...And what I haven’t heard on this thread is any compelling argument why this ad actually.....
» 24/03/2008 9:32:56 PM Pelican, Absolutely I’d disagree with banning this ad whether MTR or Naomi Wolfe or Nelso.....
» 23/03/2008 7:28:19 PM "...you two have decided to nit pick to score points." I wasn't "...nit pi.....
» 23/03/2008 3:08:45 PM Best line of the thread, from Gibo: "What if one day the HIV/AIDS virus mutates and g.....
» 23/03/2008 12:21:58 PM Jack: "I'm sorry that I can't come up to your expectations of 'sensible'. I suppose t.....
» 23/03/2008 12:16:46 PM Ginx: "Like it or not, Vanilla, I have the right to disagree with your view! I don't .....
» 22/03/2008 10:52:14 PM Whitty, Yes, you’ve noted a few times that I’m thicker and less reasonable than you origin.....
» 22/03/2008 7:54:22 PM Whitty: "Women are pure and virtuous and men are evil by nature." That wasn't —.....
» 22/03/2008 7:07:55 PM Jack: "CJ, why would you defend my right to voice my beliefs when you ridicule me for.....
» 22/03/2008 1:22:09 PM Fractelle, I was posting when you were, but yes, I like that innovative Japanese thinking......
» 22/03/2008 1:14:09 PM CJ, I think it's more complex than you suggest. Straight men go to beats to have sex with .....
» 22/03/2008 12:01:38 PM Whitty, I'm really sorry, I thought I was just joining in a bawdy joke with Fractelle. I c.....
» 22/03/2008 9:20:47 AM I've had sex in quite a few different bathrooms. And the toilet in was there too......
» 22/03/2008 9:16:12 AM Beautifully expressed, as ever, Pericles......
» 21/03/2008 11:07:54 PM Actually, the divorce rate has been falling since 2001, I think it’s sensible to support s.....
» 21/03/2008 4:43:18 PM Firstly, my bad, mea culpa etc etc. I'm sorry James, I read your statement as saying you a.....
» 21/03/2008 9:07:46 AM Re solicitation. Interesting. I've always been of the view that we should be allowed to co.....
» 20/03/2008 10:01:57 PM James: "No I do not beleive that anyone who identifies as feminist is evil, but I res.....
» 20/03/2008 5:41:29 PM Forgot your footies, Runner. C'mon, don't be shy......
» 20/03/2008 4:45:36 PM "I assume that they don't subscribe to the theory of Darwinism..." Ah, yeah, tha.....
» 20/03/2008 3:02:50 PM Mjpb: You misread me, I said fundamentalist USA. I mean the fundamentalists churches in Am.....
» 20/03/2008 2:46:25 PM Whitty, You're quite right, and well done for pointing it out. I will absolutely take your.....
» 20/03/2008 12:25:16 PM mjpb: "I believe science and religious beliefs are generally compatible and without C.....
» 20/03/2008 12:11:29 PM Jack, Hep C? It's rare for Hep C to be spread via sex. It mostly affects injecting drug u.....
» 20/03/2008 9:32:49 AM Boazy, For a start, you've given us bible quotes and a analyis of them. Two quotes advoca.....
» 19/03/2008 5:43:12 PM Ginx: "The 'strange bedfellows' comment was directed at TB (Col Rouge to you), and Va.....
» 19/03/2008 1:17:48 PM Yvonne: Yes, a David Lynch fan, absolutely. “This ad is not an ad for an operal, but for .....
» 19/03/2008 12:12:30 PM "Unfortunately, for those who claim it is from birth or genetic, they are immediately.....
» 18/03/2008 6:03:58 PM Kipp: "You both make out to be moralists, surely even you two must see the immorality.....
» 18/03/2008 4:55:41 PM It was one of the most significant events of twentieth century history, and it impossible .....
» 18/03/2008 3:59:31 PM Homer on feminism: "If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that.....
» 18/03/2008 3:52:34 PM “I don't feel the need to convince you…” Cool. But I don’t think I was out of line to ask .....
» 18/03/2008 3:22:13 PM Re the knife block: Jeez, there’s a plethora of gender-reversed equivilents to this produc.....
» 18/03/2008 11:29:53 AM Same. Next!.....
» 18/03/2008 12:40:54 AM Course I don't hate anyone. My general attitude to the world around me and the people who .....
» 18/03/2008 12:20:13 AM Well, that's the excellent thing about you, Col - you can take it on the chin. Meanwhile,.....
» 17/03/2008 8:10:53 PM And yet your rarely hear HRS use the word "aubergine"......
» 17/03/2008 7:20:37 PM While we're on the topic of Col, "Probably because I was checking out the chicks".....
» 17/03/2008 6:45:52 PM Jeez Gibo, how do you think God's going to feel when he hears you think it's "no big .....
» 17/03/2008 6:31:32 PM Steven: "Let bygones be bygones after 60 years." I think you'll eating your wor.....
» 17/03/2008 5:31:52 PM Boazy: "Phelps and gang are the opposite... now.. which 'other' faith and its practic.....
» 17/03/2008 4:00:52 PM You've got your work cut out for you there, mjpb. Turning people off Christianity is like.....
» 17/03/2008 3:47:11 PM Whitty: “This little OLO world is not the real world.” And my goal was to discover if the.....
» 17/03/2008 3:40:57 PM Oh! I got some: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJYjhvUoKg&feature=related http://www.yo.....
» 17/03/2008 3:12:43 PM To ban this ad is to teach say that human endeavour should have limits around it. That men.....
» 17/03/2008 3:02:24 PM Yvonne, Advertising isn’t art, but that doesn’t mean advertising can’t be art. The idea o.....
» 17/03/2008 12:19:48 PM Here's another poem for you Foxy: *To live is miracle enough* To live at all is miracle.....
» 17/03/2008 8:26:14 AM C'mon though. Wouldn't it be fun for me and Boazy to be on opposite sides of the courtroom.....
» 16/03/2008 11:19:39 PM Boazy: "Do you look at evidence, and then, without actually researching it, draw conc.....
» 16/03/2008 9:35:04 PM I wonder who will have the last word?.....
» 16/03/2008 6:29:12 PM HRS: "The word misogynist is probably one of the words most often used by feminists t.....
» 16/03/2008 5:30:10 PM "It should never be the case that we teach 'hate' of people who practice non normal l.....
» 16/03/2008 2:58:29 PM Whitty: “As does trotting out the term misogynist to any male that disagrees with any femi.....
» 16/03/2008 2:48:50 PM cont... For both men and women, feeling desire and feeling desired is fun and tragic and .....
» 16/03/2008 2:29:56 PM James — I’m so glad you liked this article, and you make many excellent points. “What Si.....
» 16/03/2008 12:01:59 PM Not me. I have an Apple. You guys will all be dominated by your PCs, while us Apple owners.....
» 15/03/2008 7:40:15 PM Whitty, While this doesn't address your larger concerns, can I suggest you put your speci.....
» 15/03/2008 3:59:48 PM With respect, you don't have to rely on memory - all my posts are above, and if the refere.....
» 15/03/2008 2:47:52 PM Hey Whitty, I posted something to you which has got a bit lost in the kerfuffle - my last .....
» 15/03/2008 2:38:37 PM cont... Melinda Tankard Reist may describe herself as a feminist, but I believe she is mo.....
» 15/03/2008 2:13:39 PM "I think I asked a question of Pericles "Are you stubborn or ignorant" and .....
» 15/03/2008 12:54:19 PM The beauty industry, as an organism, works by convincing women that they’re unattractive, .....
» 14/03/2008 5:26:55 PM Fractelle: You will *love* this In Our Time program about the multiverse. http://www.bbc.....
» 14/03/2008 3:29:02 PM Whitty: “I also still wonder how yourself and Bronwyn reconcile your position of attributi.....
» 14/03/2008 1:21:13 PM Dear Melinda, What an absolute load of bollocks. Firstly, what is the problem? I think .....
» 14/03/2008 12:50:05 PM Vanilla: You can keep your "well done". Everything from your first line on, is a.....
» 14/03/2008 11:13:40 AM Despisis: "Here you infer that men and women are different, yet refuse to acknowledge.....
» 14/03/2008 10:42:51 AM Well my first thought is that it's a load of codswallop. Then my second thought is... well.....
» 13/03/2008 6:03:28 PM Ginx, you seem to think you've done something really brave and controversial by asking Fox.....
» 13/03/2008 4:20:25 PM Like the woman in Brisbane who murdered her partner because he wouldn’t let her play a Bru.....
» 13/03/2008 3:18:15 PM Whitty & Yabby, I think you need to dig a bit more deeply in the compost heap that is cul.....
» 13/03/2008 11:57:04 AM cont... Steel, you say that your posts are "insightful," but I honestly believe.....
» 13/03/2008 11:44:04 AM Steel: "Men and women's issues must necessarily be separated according to feminists, .....
» 13/03/2008 10:03:46 AM Hooray!.....
» 13/03/2008 8:53:43 AM "I still do not get how anyone can be 'inspired' by the grandure of a universe which .....
» 12/03/2008 10:02:58 PM Pagans or God-botherers alike can enjoy this link: http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatc.....
» 12/03/2008 9:50:03 PM Steel, Can you direct me to what you mean? I don't know why you think I said, "Mens .....
» 12/03/2008 7:57:45 PM Fractelle: “… a few men.” Spot on. Did you read an earlier post when someone posited that .....
» 12/03/2008 4:24:37 PM Antonios, I know. If he says it one more time before midnight then apparently he turns in.....
» 12/03/2008 4:23:19 PM Boazy: "As I said.. most of what I write is backgrounded on a rather broad survey of .....
» 12/03/2008 4:00:36 PM Poor old Steel. You are the very definition of "knickers in a twist". You attri.....
» 12/03/2008 2:47:21 PM "With so much to gain from scientific inquiry why do people continue to believe in re.....
» 12/03/2008 2:29:28 PM Whitty, Feminists have never tried to stop women wearing heels or shaving their legs and f.....
» 11/03/2008 7:52:19 PM DVD.. Firstly, I did not swear, or write the word “SH.T.” *You* wrote that word, and I qu.....
» 11/03/2008 2:02:12 PM Desipis & Frank. Sorry to be repetitive, but it seems to me that you're blaming feminism, .....
» 11/03/2008 9:16:54 AM "these sad and embittered men, who bleat on incessantly about their apparent gender p.....
» 10/03/2008 7:43:41 PM R0bert, Thanks for that info. You make an excellent point. Everyone: All this talk about.....
» 10/03/2008 7:33:31 PM "So what were you saying about whinging?" I was saying it irritates me. It's no.....
» 10/03/2008 6:13:53 PM I know Steel. You never hear about men are victims, only about how women are victims. Ju.....
» 10/03/2008 3:43:45 PM Given that we rapidly hurtling toward a totalitarian regime of thought police, I thought I.....
» 9/03/2008 6:00:05 PM Indeed CJ. It's the type of boorish der-brainedness that goes hand in hand with the profou.....
» 9/03/2008 5:29:05 PM I'm not a scientist, but the theory of evolution does indeed explain how different species.....
» 9/03/2008 4:02:28 PM "I don't think The Theory of Evolution stands up to scrutiny at all." Why not?.....
» 9/03/2008 2:56:29 PM *High fives Romany*.....
» 9/03/2008 1:53:53 PM Whitty, are you still around? I'd like to invite you to look at the "Fair Go for Wome.....
» 9/03/2008 12:25:42 PM So Jack, what's the contradiction? Do you think anyone who speaks out against ill-informed.....
» 9/03/2008 11:16:04 AM There's a lot of anger and a lot of tosh on this thread - "total wealth possession wo.....
» 9/03/2008 9:02:11 AM Desipis said: "If feminists are seeking equality, should they be pushing to have wome.....
» 8/03/2008 11:00:55 AM Jack, are you serious? Are you trying to "tease" CJ or do you really not underst.....
» 8/03/2008 10:48:00 AM Romany, 1. "Waddya think of the "Woman-as-robot" analogy?" It bambooz.....
» 8/03/2008 8:10:47 AM Article in The Age today: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pain-of-a-lost-childhood.....
» 7/03/2008 7:34:08 PM If I had the capacity, Pericles, I would make a "can you believe this guy?" kind.....
» 7/03/2008 1:20:03 PM Yeah, yeah. I was being over-sensitive. Sorry. Over it now......
» 7/03/2008 1:18:01 PM DVD: "OMG the death of free speech Just shut up & don’t dare to dissagree because any.....
» 7/03/2008 11:47:16 AM Personally, I don't think love exports should ever be stopped. In fact, I've got a load of.....
» 7/03/2008 11:19:38 AM Frank: "those who set themselves up as arbiters of taste and virtue in the English la.....
» 7/03/2008 10:27:53 AM What an excellent article. Thank you. It appalls me how little people read. It appalls me.....
» 7/03/2008 9:55:45 AM Avast there me hearties! There be a sh!tstorm a'comin'!.....
» 7/03/2008 9:35:22 AM Pericles: "ah, islander drivers" Actually, Boazy, what if she'd been an Asian .....
» 6/03/2008 9:27:10 PM Boaz: "I hope none of our female contributors argues with that.. cos if they do I'll .....
» 6/03/2008 5:45:45 PM Danielle. What wisdom. What perspective. I think I love you......
» 6/03/2008 5:39:36 PM "I'm sure my appearance here will be disappointing to vanilla and pelican." Wha.....
» 6/03/2008 12:13:25 PM Hi Jolanda, The case you link to is appalling - and a tragedy for the people who lost the.....
» 5/03/2008 10:27:51 PM "Vanilla, maybe you should be careful you don't stand on the 'grey slodgy thing on th.....
» 5/03/2008 5:17:53 PM Um, I think it was me who brought up the straw woman, Steel. However I left the thread whe.....
» 5/03/2008 5:09:09 PM "If that is a chip on your shoulder (cf. disingenuousness)" It really isn't. Do.....
» 5/03/2008 12:37:34 PM cont... “Next you need to understand what science is.” Lordy be, how you love to patronis.....
» 5/03/2008 12:35:24 PM “What you probably should ask yourself is why the pop culture powers haven't revealed some.....
» 4/03/2008 6:59:36 PM "Such a pity we can't apply SCOTTY's sentiments retrospectively to his mother." .....
» 4/03/2008 5:23:35 PM Steel. Interesting. I think feminism is a massively broad church and your response to i.....
» 4/03/2008 4:11:25 PM Hmm. I am interested in what you belive mjpb, but I'm certainly not convinced yet by your .....
» 4/03/2008 12:57:15 PM There is pretty much nothing funnier than someone claiming that listening to Jeff Rense pr.....
» 4/03/2008 12:46:40 PM "Further, the most obvious products of Christianity seem to work better than most maj.....
» 4/03/2008 12:29:53 PM As for this: "The very nature of 'soceity' involves norms. Anything challenging those.....
» 4/03/2008 11:58:12 AM What an interesting precis of feminism, Boaz. It ranged all the way from the ill-informed .....
» 3/03/2008 8:13:34 PM Ah. I see. When you said "Every pornographic image you see has a willing woman partic.....
» 3/03/2008 5:52:03 PM Philo, I must say I thought that link was very silly too. It seems to assume that all lan.....
» 3/03/2008 1:23:51 PM "Point one: According to the ABS, 58% of undergrads in 2000 were female, up from 44% .....
» 3/03/2008 1:14:12 PM "Those who ran the death camps were completely deprogrammed from their culture.. you .....
» 3/03/2008 12:58:01 PM "Men also know that 50% of marriages end in divorce." No they don't. Not accordi.....
» 3/03/2008 12:52:33 PM Steel. Never suggested they had a gun to the head. I simply disagree that all women who wo.....
» 3/03/2008 9:43:18 AM HRS, I notice you keep asking TRTL for statistics, when you ignored my call for statistics.....
» 2/03/2008 8:02:37 PM You may not think yourself knowledgeable, Danielle, but you are certainly wise. It's the.....
» 2/03/2008 7:07:59 PM Boaz wrote: "It seems that there is a vacuum in many young and old lives, a vacuum of.....
» 2/03/2008 12:27:24 PM Interesting article in The Age today: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/02/28/120378.....
» 1/03/2008 9:37:12 PM "a city of virtue" That's nice......
» 1/03/2008 3:17:42 PM No Foxy! Say it ain't so! You are, without reservation, the nicest person who posts on th.....
» 1/03/2008 2:55:01 PM Boaz, What are you talking about? Who says it's wrong to have girl's stuff and boy's stuf.....
» 1/03/2008 2:27:41 PM HRS? Telling lies and misrepresenting the opinions of others? Well who woulda thunk it? T.....
» 1/03/2008 11:07:37 AM Boazy said: "it's a foregone conclusion, an absolute certainty, and irresistable forc.....
» 1/03/2008 10:54:18 AM Romany, Don't panic, you nearly always stun me into an admiring silence. On my initial po.....
» 29/02/2008 6:32:57 PM What Foxy said......
» 29/02/2008 6:07:16 PM Excellent. Are we going to have an argument about evolution. G'arn Runner, why is Darwinis.....
» 29/02/2008 6:05:18 PM Foxy, I read that story too, and it's awfully, awfully sad. Of course, for the family who.....
» 29/02/2008 5:50:40 PM What Frank said......
» 29/02/2008 5:49:26 PM >>I've actually yet to see anyone challenge my evidence with even the slightest effe.....
» 29/02/2008 2:18:22 PM "When there are alot of people abusing children the last thing that they want is for .....
» 29/02/2008 2:11:23 PM Hi Foxy, sorry for the teasing earlier. I still stand by some of this teasing, however. A.....
» 29/02/2008 11:54:10 AM The universe is way cooler and more amazing than the prudish, thin-lipped bloke who's parc.....
» 28/02/2008 7:13:56 PM Steel: "Every pornographic image you see has a willing woman participant who, gasp IS.....
» 28/02/2008 7:01:53 PM "Here we go again. People focusing on trying to discredit me rather than focusing on .....
» 28/02/2008 3:20:48 PM My apologies if I've misrepresented you Boazy. I stand corrected......
» 28/02/2008 12:43:26 PM Glad to see you too Romany. I was taking trying to take this topic seriously, until I star.....
» 28/02/2008 12:32:28 PM Unless you meant smack as in heroin? Which does tend to keep kids fairly subdued......
» 28/02/2008 12:30:46 PM TRTL: "The thing is, drunk teenagers are nothing new. I bet the Romans had similar pr.....
» 28/02/2008 11:38:22 AM "Some 93% of those polled called themselves "moderate" Muslims The largest .....
» 28/02/2008 11:24:23 AM Sorry, Countryboy, you're right of course. What I meant to say was: RUN FOR THE HILLS PEO.....
» 28/02/2008 10:32:03 AM First, I think we need to establish that there is a current spate of violence. A handful o.....
» 28/02/2008 7:56:24 AM Christians stand with two thousand years of darkness and bafflement and hunger behind them.....
» 27/02/2008 9:22:45 PM Personally, I couldn't give a ha'penny jizz for your internet-assembled philosophies. htt.....
» 27/02/2008 11:51:12 AM "Can I ask those who post to please focus on the issues at hand and that is the compl.....
» 27/02/2008 9:39:06 AM Boazy, You may not like CJ (I love writing CJ - makes me feel like a sundry character in .....
» 26/02/2008 1:39:46 PM Foxy. I'm sorry. I got too involved and a bit hysterical. My sincere apologies.....
» 26/02/2008 11:02:54 AM James - excellent article. Glad you're coming round to Germaine Greer! I agree the author.....
» 26/02/2008 9:02:42 AM Jolanda, I wish that you had taken my post in the spirit of advice rather than as a chall.....
» 25/02/2008 3:31:48 PM “sheilas, poofs, nig..ers, The mentally ill”? As they used to say on Sesame Street, one of.....
» 25/02/2008 12:32:55 PM cont... Thirdly, if you've been labelled a vexatious correspondent, get over it. Stop wri.....
» 25/02/2008 12:32:25 PM Dear Jolanda, I've read your blog and posts here. I know you haven't asked for my advice,.....
» 25/02/2008 10:56:27 AM Tammy Jo - it was a great example and it moved the discussion forward. I appreciated it. I.....
» 24/02/2008 9:28:40 PM Foxy, are you saying you think people who use the term "mentally ill" are being .....
» 24/02/2008 4:49:10 PM Very interesting case Foxy. Kind of thing that makes my blood boil. But it sounds like con.....
» 24/02/2008 2:54:43 PM Passive. I’m sorry you’re bruised. Why Taryn is so upset with you eludes me. But as for me.....
» 24/02/2008 12:24:28 PM TRTL. I'm sure one day you will write something that I disagree with. But until that day a.....
» 24/02/2008 10:02:41 AM Jolanda, What do you mean by "target"?.....
» 23/02/2008 7:18:16 PM Passive, I’m afraid I with TRTL and CJ. It’s all a bit le Carre for me. You’re saying the .....
» 23/02/2008 4:14:54 PM Tammy Jo, I'll bet my bottom dollar that's apocryphal. But, of course, if you've evidence.....
» 23/02/2008 1:46:16 PM Dickie: “Are we to sacrifice truth by adhering to PC or do we speak the truth where we ris.....
» 23/02/2008 12:36:06 PM Tammy Jo, I like that definition. I’d add another. I describe a *fear* of political correc.....
» 23/02/2008 9:20:54 AM I agree with Boazy. Yes, I know, hallelujah. I don't believe anyone has the right not to.....
» 23/02/2008 8:28:27 AM Boazy, I'm sorry that you make Christianity seem icky to me (this isn't a false apology, I.....
» 22/02/2008 10:13:36 PM “A lie told often enough becomes the truth” I agree too. It's both beautiful, and beautif.....
» 22/02/2008 10:03:07 PM It's hard to explain why, but you really turn me off Christianity, Boazy. You're like an a.....
» 22/02/2008 7:10:16 PM "I have refuted that statement in the above. Trying to silence Christians making such.....
» 22/02/2008 3:24:30 PM As someone with a problem gambler in the family, I say ban it. This is not a matter of w.....
» 22/02/2008 2:16:49 PM Jolanda, I just had a look at your website and must say I found it very confusing. I could.....
» 22/02/2008 2:14:48 PM Sorry to butt in, but surely science can prove that female mammals cannot give birth if th.....
» 22/02/2008 1:36:28 PM "1. Allow me to quote some inane comment from FoxNews. 2. Then I'll make up some quo.....
» 22/02/2008 12:57:08 PM "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" You know, I've never agreed with that. Look .....
» 22/02/2008 9:52:43 AM "Freud was a jew." That's right. That's because we're all in it together, Jane......
» 22/02/2008 8:55:41 AM Boazy: "if my remarks about Foxy are 'demonstrably' wrong.. by all means 'demonstrate.....
» 21/02/2008 8:07:43 PM Mule. So open your brain falls out?.....
» 21/02/2008 6:51:50 PM cont… (sorry, went over limit before) The voices who cry "PC!" have less to fea.....
» 21/02/2008 12:28:59 PM I'm still frustrated that people who are posting here aren't *getting* Ginx's orginal poin.....
» 20/02/2008 10:23:48 PM CJ: "I wish Col's mindset had no place in my PC." *splurts red wine all over co.....
» 20/02/2008 10:22:07 PM Graham, I wasn't trying to equate Hansen and Watson. I'd never heard of Hansen, but came a.....
» 20/02/2008 9:06:28 PM Interesting. Boaz, you misunderstood Ginx's post, and mine. While it must be satisfying fo.....
» 20/02/2008 8:46:52 PM GI_Jane. I thought we were engaged with the issue of freedom of speech - Foxy, Antonius, I.....
» 20/02/2008 6:32:12 PM Ginx. Excellent question. I entirely agree. As I understand it, the provenance of "po.....
» 20/02/2008 6:03:46 PM GI Jane: "... certain issues are so politically incorrect that we can't even talk abo.....
» 20/02/2008 5:51:15 PM "Vanilla, I'm sorry you fail to realise that intelligent design principles are alread.....
» 20/02/2008 2:54:14 PM GI Jane and Boazy - a match made in some kind of warped, perverse heaven......
» 20/02/2008 2:50:04 PM "One would 'think'..if such a theory has an microgram of credibility, that at least s.....
» 19/02/2008 4:44:20 PM Boaz: "FOXY... you did a great job of restating the empty rhetoric which used lots of.....
» 19/02/2008 1:01:38 PM Sorry TRTL - did I nasty it up? If so, sorry Col, just jiving with you. I'm sure you're a .....
» 19/02/2008 11:48:30 AM We obviously need chicks. Look what happens when you men get together. And they say girls .....
» 18/02/2008 6:27:43 PM I heard on the BBC the other day that around 95% of the world's Muslims are creationists. .....
» 12/02/2008 10:42:00 PM Foxy embodies everything about Christianity that I love. Boazy embodies everything about .....
» 12/02/2008 10:09:13 PM omigod I just read that post Romany. Boaz. You really are quite creepy and for someone .....
» 12/02/2008 4:45:52 PM It depends on the man. Eddie Maguire, for example, is totally surplus to requirement. So i.....
» 11/02/2008 4:04:43 PM James: "So basically if I am correct, you are saying that you will only engage in con.....
» 11/02/2008 1:31:08 PM She didn't miss the point Whitty. She wanted to comment on the article. Go back and look t.....
» 11/02/2008 12:14:19 PM Philo: "I would say most of your opposition is coming from people who imagine the who.....
» 11/02/2008 10:20:17 AM Philo: "If we are to condone sins against God in the Church then the Church has no ro.....
» 11/02/2008 10:16:14 AM Just a brief google establishes that the "issue" is confined to a handful of inc.....
» 9/02/2008 1:22:11 PM "Maybe we can learn something from it ?" I think so. I think in really investig.....
» 8/02/2008 9:27:09 PM Foxy (and everyone), Do you ever listen to BBC Radio 4 on the internet? You can listen to.....
» 8/02/2008 8:11:06 PM I lived near the Cross (in Darlinghurst) for years in my 20s and never felt scared (or not.....
» 8/02/2008 4:39:01 PM stevenlmeyer wrote: "But who cares? The feminists don't. Most of the media don't. .....
» 8/02/2008 4:17:57 PM Beautiful post, Foxy......
» 8/02/2008 4:17:00 PM The PM won't be apologising on behalf of the people of Australia, he'll be apologising on .....
» 8/02/2008 4:08:42 PM Julie, Because, fundamentally, the Christian church can't get away from "Do not lie.....
» 8/02/2008 1:55:23 PM Boazy, "Yes.. we 'disagree' and thats the point where we need to start grappling wit.....
» 7/02/2008 12:43:24 PM Johnny Rotten, I avoided this debate because I thought the article that sparked it was nei.....
» 7/02/2008 12:04:43 PM I have to add my voices to those who don't quite see the problem here. Wikipedia's always .....
» 7/02/2008 11:56:30 AM Boazy, I apologise if I sounded like I was making this into a cleverclogs competition. I'.....
» 7/02/2008 9:53:27 AM Danielle, what an excellent post. Thanks for those insights......
» 7/02/2008 9:40:58 AM Ha! Is funny. Also: Why do women have periods? Because they deserve them. Why do women w.....
» 6/02/2008 7:17:44 PM Tradie, you forgot to add that men die more than women because we, in out quest for world .....
» 6/02/2008 6:12:00 PM Fester. She wasn't saying it endangers her life, but that she'd give her life to defend Is.....
» 6/02/2008 12:34:59 PM Aw shucks R0bert. You're only saying that because we're secretly the same person......
» 6/02/2008 11:06:46 AM You can post all you like Boazy, but I just don't see anything of interest here beyond, as.....
» 5/02/2008 10:51:30 PM Whitty, it beggars belief that the SMH letters editor should ignore you! I would have thou.....
» 5/02/2008 1:48:23 PM Then why not stop whinging and write something? The Age loves men's issues, but they don't.....
» 5/02/2008 9:02:22 AM Boaz, surely your Children of God example is solved by the fact that sex with underage peo.....
» 4/02/2008 12:46:04 PM StG: I'm a migrant, my first language is english (I'm a kiwi), but I really think there sh.....
» 4/02/2008 11:48:57 AM And out come the attack dogs. Have you guys ever counted the number of men who post on art.....
» 4/02/2008 11:09:54 AM "WHY? which of course raises the question.. 'who' is pulling the strings about all th.....
» 3/02/2008 7:54:52 PM Huffnpuff, I support you absolutely and I've wrote to the previous govt about it. Thanks .....
» 3/02/2008 4:19:56 PM As long as we're picking on EC, I was going to point this out earlier: "It costs tax.....
» 3/02/2008 1:35:10 PM Ranier. I don't know. That's why I asked the question. The stuff you brought up about judg.....
» 2/02/2008 12:09:38 AM R0bert, Thank you. I love you a little bit. I also take it as a compliment we're the same.....
» 1/02/2008 6:39:58 PM What the? This is the first time I've had a chance to check the thread and I find this: &.....
» 31/01/2008 10:43:31 PM Romany. Word, sister. I didn't even open my mouth but you already managed to steal the wor.....
» 31/01/2008 9:27:35 AM Whenever this thread gets bumped to the top I get a fresh rush of hilarity. Is there some.....
» 31/01/2008 9:18:53 AM Arjay said: "I think that the hate and venom by many displayed by many gays on this f.....
» 30/01/2008 10:11:42 PM I entirely agree. In fact, I made this point myself somewhere. Then proceeded to ignore it.....
» 30/01/2008 2:00:01 PM Lord, it's getting hot in here. Let's take off all our clothes.* Whitty, I'm not sure if .....
» 30/01/2008 8:49:09 AM Belly: "I do see one broken child very often, that child cried for help long before b.....
» 30/01/2008 8:39:24 AM David & Stickman, Arjay wrote: "No one on this planet ... should be assured of an ea.....
» 30/01/2008 8:36:04 AM Whoops. Sorry. I know I said I wouldn't post here again, but I just noticed Seeker was her.....
» 29/01/2008 7:41:28 PM Apparently people using hands free have the same amount of accidents as people holding a p.....
» 29/01/2008 3:05:37 PM EC I'm not confused. I just think your definition of elitist is very Daily Telegraph circa.....
» 29/01/2008 9:09:54 AM Belly, I apologise for my dummy spit. I guess I just thought the report itself asked diffi.....
» 28/01/2008 11:22:45 PM Actually, Dawkins clarified this situation on a forum on his website: "1. An Austral.....
» 28/01/2008 10:07:06 PM Hi RObert, Yar, I've read the Forgotten Australians report, although I've never got throu.....
» 28/01/2008 5:38:16 PM "You lot can think all you like." Cheers Arjay. We will. I might suggest you jo.....
» 28/01/2008 3:12:08 PM Robin, So Cardinal Pell was the right-wing Philip Adams all that time? Someone should tel.....
» 28/01/2008 9:31:05 AM James, I know you're not a misogynist. I believe you have the best intentions. Nevertheles.....
» 28/01/2008 8:38:53 AM Mercurius. Poetry. Sheer poetry......
» 27/01/2008 11:18:19 PM James posted this on another thread. He didn't write it - it's a quote - but as I understa.....
» 27/01/2008 10:20:01 PM What do they look like in their high-waisted shorts and tucked-in tank tops? Or do they .....
» 27/01/2008 8:16:09 PM *dummy spit approaching* Bah! Debate punishment all you like. People prefer to talk punis.....
» 27/01/2008 5:21:40 PM Edward Carson, I always found that 90s fashion of using “elite” as an insult rather confu.....
» 27/01/2008 1:32:17 PM In answer to your question, David, no. I read it as another thrust and parry in the long b.....
» 27/01/2008 12:34:08 PM Foxy: "But this trend is consistant with that experienced by many leading weekly news.....
» 26/01/2008 6:25:36 PM Arjay. To refute your arguments: “The reason why the gay/lesbian movement want to assume .....
» 26/01/2008 4:14:24 PM Whitty: "...I then thought about if it was a picture of a man doing the same. I'm sur.....
» 26/01/2008 3:36:44 PM I think it's a cute blog piece. The writing is witty, but it was thrashed out quickly. As .....
» 26/01/2008 3:18:59 PM Col: "The only thing which will help route out pedophiles is to support the authority.....
» 25/01/2008 10:53:05 PM Liam. Hurrah! Reminds me of the famous Rebecca West quote: "I only know that people c.....
» 25/01/2008 5:30:07 PM Believe it or not, Arjay wrote: "Well Stickman,the evolutionery genetic reality is he.....
» 25/01/2008 5:15:23 PM Thanks for your response Foxy. What US education packages have you heard about? I though.....
» 25/01/2008 1:47:36 PM Pericles, "522 sex crimes before being apprehended? On average? That must mean that .....
» 25/01/2008 12:48:53 PM Punishment, of course, is important. But you need to find the perpetrators before you can .....
» 25/01/2008 12:10:14 PM Oh, HRS, I keep meaning to ask you - what do you think of the theory that boys are made of.....
» 25/01/2008 12:05:47 PM Putting aside the fact that I don't believe in the death penalty, and the fact that I have.....
» 25/01/2008 11:30:30 AM Seeker: "It appears there is a real possibility that you are selling your mother shor.....
» 24/01/2008 8:31:15 PM What is ‘sexual consent’? [with dementia] When one partner gets dementia, consent is the m.....
» 24/01/2008 5:48:10 PM Runner: "I see so it was Mr Howard's policies on Iraq, refugees and immigration that .....
» 24/01/2008 5:47:10 PM From Stephen Fry’s autobiography, Moab is My Washpot “There are plenty of other things to .....
» 24/01/2008 4:25:47 PM Runner: Mr Clinton was even more popular after he had been found to lie and cheat on his w.....
» 24/01/2008 4:23:24 PM David, It depends. Do you go on to tell her that you're a Christian? And that's it's onl.....
» 24/01/2008 4:02:32 PM I urge everyone to read "The challenge of protecting boys from sexual abuse" fro.....
» 24/01/2008 3:10:38 PM "Your saying that I'm fog, illogical, self-rightousness and cr@p." No. I'm sayin.....
» 23/01/2008 10:42:04 PM Whitty: "I do have an interest in what you have to say..." Sorry. I sounded whi.....
» 23/01/2008 7:03:00 PM Kipp, I saw that this morning too. Unfortunately your link went spastic. Hopefully this on.....
» 23/01/2008 5:18:48 PM "Take God out if the equation and you always end up with total depravity. God help ou.....
» 23/01/2008 1:04:38 PM Someone mentioned earlier the Australian electorate favours the death penalty. This is ac.....
» 23/01/2008 12:03:43 PM Whitty. I disagree with your analysis. Audrey isn’t telling Zoo to self-censor, unless all.....
» 22/01/2008 1:13:00 PM "The writer gets so hot and bothered by men making fun of feminist complaints, yet wh.....
» 22/01/2008 11:12:30 AM I love that Doris Lessing interview — thanks HRS. I read my first DL when I was 17 — The G.....
» 22/01/2008 10:32:42 AM Horus, That's an excellent challenge, but I wouldn't define your hypotheticals as racism......
» 21/01/2008 2:53:20 PM Whitty, sorry, you've lost me. Which writer are you referring to?.....
» 21/01/2008 12:44:56 PM James. Thanks for the reading tips — exactly what I wanted. I appreciate the bother you we.....
» 21/01/2008 10:55:24 AM Wow. What an excellent piece - a rousing challenge to a lot of fixed assumptions. It's tot.....
» 20/01/2008 10:58:16 PM HRS, I just saw what Audrey wrote on the other thread about the death of her mother. She .....
» 20/01/2008 4:25:35 PM I loved this article, HRS, but commented directly on Audrey's site. To be honest, I found .....
» 20/01/2008 12:15:10 PM HRS: "It is well known that a feminist will malign males, and then say that they like.....
» 19/01/2008 8:40:30 PM Belly: "I take offense at the sling about men, some yes are nasty but it is no more l.....
» 19/01/2008 2:18:00 PM Those that do get frustrated with this site should take a look at New Matilda. http://www......
» 19/01/2008 1:13:30 PM What about respect for the authors on the article comment page? I've never seen such invec.....
» 18/01/2008 8:40:38 PM On another thread (the one about BraBoys): "I would put to you that you have no clue .....
» 18/01/2008 8:32:33 PM HRS. To save Darlene the trouble, and cause I was interested, I looked up the sex discrimi.....
» 18/01/2008 7:43:55 PM SJF, there's something about this exchange... HRS: "I think there has been considera.....
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