I suspect the upcoming Labour government in Britain will have the same basic problem our Labor government has in Australia – that it's far too timid for its own good.
Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps’ might get him into Downing Street. But there is danger ahead
@timrichards Preaching to the choir I know, but that's why we need five or more parties that are roughly on par. Not this two party nonsense.
The worst thing is, there's nothing in our country stopping parties like the Greens and Democratics and (god help us) One Nation from stepping up, except momentum. At least the UK and US have wonky democracies to blame.
“I'm a shooting star, leaping through the sky like a tiger
Defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go, go, go, there's no stopping me”
I have to take a bunch of teens down to Elixir Music House in Cairns to watch some bands. I've never heard of the place, but I was ready to be the one old guy in a crowd of children.
I just looked at their Facebook page, I now think I'll be on the young side.
@timrichards Hahaha if only they knew the dark truth. Libraries discard books constantly, often large sections of the collection. I personally destroyed many thousand books in my former career. Often, I enjoyed it.
@timrichards I didn't know we had H&M in this country. I bought a selection of very nice undies from H&M when on holiday in a AirBNB that didn't have a washing machine.
Travel. It's all about the memories we make.
@TarkabarkaHolgy The thing about Bandit is in the first season he was competent, a caregiver, all that stuff that gave the show a good reputation. But later he became more and more like the stereotype, beside his hyper-competent ultimate authority stereotype Mum. He even picked up a weight problem, which is weird because they're all identical rectangles. But the reputation remained.
I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.
I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?
@futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy its security.
Just finished this, a fun read about a largely forgotten war between Britain and Spain. Lots of larger than life characters and awkward mishaps involved, which the author brings to the fore. The ebook version is overpriced, but it is entertaining.
Remember before the internet when you’d have a disagreement on the actual lyrics to a song, you could only win the argument if you had the album sleeve with the lyrics written in it?
@dgar These days you can just look up what some stranger thinks they heard, and verify it by looking at over 500 different sources that all use the same incorrect lyrics they pinched off each other.