Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: December 07, 2024 05:13AM

Extreme cynicism Quasi, but you've got me stumped as to how true it is, particularly in context of the conversation I just had IRL as to how people behave in a crisis - what types of people behave in what way - and the sop story indemnifying politicians I just read in WAToday:

[www.watoday.com.au]

By the way, I've only ever heard 'alpha male' said by yanks, here it was: "The children of drug using mothers are never alpha earners."

quasi Report This Comment
Date: December 07, 2024 10:59AM

The term Alpha male was originally referred to in animals that live in groups with one dominate male as the leader, a temporary position he attained by being the strongest and best fighter, so it appeals to those with the idea of male machismo in a patriarchal society.

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Date: December 09, 2024 12:49AM

Over here we call it dominant male, or in mobs of goats, it's dominant doe. But Australia doesn't glamorise knuckle draggers.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: December 09, 2024 01:08AM

Really?

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: December 09, 2024 06:43AM

Different definitions of knuckle draggers pulse. I suppose Hopoate could be called one.

This is the only image on plus613 that gives me nightmares (never mind what's actually on the t-shirt):

[www.plus613.net]

I hope that's not you.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: December 09, 2024 09:08AM

Best explain before the flaming starts. We each see things through the lens of ideas and experiences. I grew up in the Anglo Saxon world (in Australia) but was exposed quite young to the Greek: "Stupid Australians, we're the superior breed stock." They were upset Britain had the Empire and they didn't. The people who had the English culture may have had the same income, but they had more things, bigger houses and more land. It's just like saying: Stupid police, they caught me.

Reading the key words in quasi's post made me think of those Greeks.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: December 09, 2024 12:54PM

My daughter-in-law is from North Macedonia (only don't say the North part around her) and she despises Greece because it has stolen her culture. Her son from her first marriage who is now part of the blended family and calls me papa like the rest of the kids is named Aleksander, as in Aleksander the Great of Macedonia.

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Date: December 10, 2024 12:26AM

I met an elderly 'Macedonian' couple in Sydney in 2008. They had horrible stories. That fits perfectly with what they said. And it was a Macedonian empire.

'North' didn't exist then, but I wouldn't use it. It's not our fight and there's no point offending people just for the sake of it. Serbia won the Eurovision the year before and I was thinking over the idiocy of Washington and the Vatican in Europe at the time.

If anyone is gifted at movie style posters, how about a nuclear blast at the top, with a Checkmate fighter flying out of it (they don't carry nukes but anyway), an orthodox priest on the bottom left and, as the West has a strange doctrine about Blondes, Ivana Selakov, as she was at the Eurovision, on the bottom right. If you prefer a close-up of the face, Sanja, another backing singer that year, has an eye condition that makes them really stand out. Put the record winning number of points at the Eurovison that year at the bottom and title it 'The Orthodox World'.

I had the clear belief the pressure would create just that. I still do. You had better believe the imagery in the poster.

Yes, political decisions can make a mess of it, as two British decisions in the late 1800's made a mess of the next century: preventing the German navy from seizing the Philippines from the yanks as they were seizing it from the Spanish, it would have killed Manifest Destiny, as the US Navy would have fallen prey to the German efficiency, with neither able to invade each other's home soil and hold any land, and possibly meant no world wars; and electing Gladstone, with his deliberate, murderous, disaster at Khartoum, that wiped out the Sudanese middle class, who were pro British. Sudan has been more mucked up than not ever since, its vast gold deposits found since enrich only a few and most of the Gold is shipped to Russia, never going through either of the two main gold markets.