Marty_d

Australia. 1 letter back.

3rd August

Whisked away I think.

I've got a 17yo son and a 15yo son. Neither of them are "brainless", in fact I think they may be smarter than me. Look at the general population. There's 40yo's out there that you wouldn't trust to mop a floor. Old folks who don't know what century it is. People with ideas so weird you don't know how they manage to feed themselves. But all these people get to vote. I don't have a problem lowering the voting age, but it's not on the agenda here, as far as I know.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/16-year-olds-vote-countries-turnout-political-change?CMP=share_btn_url

If you take replace "16 year-old" with "punter" in your first paragraph, the answer would be the same. 16yo's are probably more aware of political impacts on their future than current voters.

I was discussing that this morning. My view is that civics, ethics and comparative government systems should be in the grade 9 curriculum, and if you pass you can vote from 16. (I'd also like to see it rolled out to the rest of the population but that may be a bridge too far).

Black dress, blue lanyard?

Well, you can either have them on the street, or you can properly fund a health system that has enough mental health professionals and rebates that people can afford to see them regularly and still eat.

Anything with Sky News on the label is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong. Actually, I'll go one step further and say I'm damn proud of Albo at the moment. He's doing a great job in China, and the Trump administration is like a tanty-throwing spoiled baby.

Look me in the eye shadow

CTRL+ALT+delete to bring up Task Manager, then End Task for anything McAffee. I hate the buggers. It's malware.

Drizzled honey?

I don't much care. Apparently he has an extensive real estate portfolio so I think he'll be fine.

I want to say "cheapskate" but it confuses me that an A is already out, so if it was that both A's should be showing.

Tuck Donald Frump too, I say

Lost in translation

"Read The Question".

Is that located anywhere near the arse end of England?

One?

10

Trump's idea of making America great is the same as Hitler's for Germany.

In some respects you're impressive, GON. Takes some real stubbornness to steadfastly ignore reality and double down on your viewpoint in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

I think they're both going to emerge from this election with less seats than they started with. I'm hoping for an increase in Green and sensible independents. I'd really like to see the bloody stadium dropped and that billion going to Health. Talking to our neighbours today, their daughter has epilepsy. They took her into hospital last night during her eighth seizure. Her father said it's horrible, but he prefers she's still fitting when they arrive because that way she gets taken straight in and bypasses the multi hour wait in the crowded waiting room.

I know it's bad form to quote yourself, but I just saw this... https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jul/09/australian-cook-behind-recipetin-eats-beef-wellington-recipe-in-patterson-case-asks-for-privacy-from-tragic-situation-ntwnfb