Jerry_Atrick

Why? The word escort with respect to people is not the preserve of sex workers. Escort is a general term and can mean someone/people accompanying other/s in any context. The correct term you are referring to is prostitutes if you want to be specific. Apparently, prostitures are also referred to as models (according to Google), so would we stop calling models models because prostitutes are also referred to as models? In this context there is no derogatory or slang calling a security escort and escort in the same was a a flight attendant a galley slave, trolley dolly or other term.. Sorry to be pedantic.

As is usual, there is more than one casually hears in a passing conversation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/trump-iran-israel-us.html

I have no idea of US family, succession, nor immigration law, but my guess would be if she finds out she is in fact a product of his loins, she will want soem form of compensation for geneitically polluting her bloodlines. Maybe she would be recognised as her daughter, and a bona-fide claim on his estate as well as citizenship to the USA, without ICE. That would mean a) some dilution of hs corruptly acquired gains since office at least, and someone who could stare down ICE and tell them to eff off as she is the offsping of the president - just before they shoot her. Not only that, but aghast be those evangelical types at their lord and saviour violating yet another sacrosanct rule of theirs. But, hey, he sells them glittery bibles, so all will be forgiven. This post is as crazy as the world has become.

TACO Chump has gone all quiet on Iran.. First he encourages Iranians to demonstrate and that Americ has their back.. and after the Iranian government kills anywhere between a couple of thousand and, by CNN estimates 12,000 of its own civilians, he says, well, y'know, they told me there would be no more beheadings or hangings, so I guess it's OK. Hang on, can't blame el Chumpo.. the Republicans do have a history of that. I recall double-yer Bush encouraging the Kurds and others to uprise against Sadam's forces and he would have their backs, too. Yep. bullets straight into them. Also, not to worry, the world seems to have gone more or less silent on the murderous regime killing its people. Not too many human rights people calling for much.. No complaints in general. Amnest, Not even a mention of it on the front page of the UN Human Rights Office web page: At least Amnesty International calls fo people to sign a petition to call on the international community to end the massacre of protestors in Iran..

Sadly, I can't edit my post now. I try not to visualise Pauline or Gina, I guess. But yes, either would be more appropriate.

Imagine being genuinely excited about receiving an award that's not yours? Wow. Seen it all. I guess Susan Ley will be sifting through the spare room to find that u/13 most improved netball player to bestow on el Chumpo in return for some platitude of some sort. [edit] that's a bit harsh on Ley, I admit.

Hopefully, in a general sense, the majority - and the majoirity of Australians. I get people are aghast at some of the brutality at the moment, but why do you not ask many Aussie Palestinians are ardent supporters of what Hamas does? After all, it is Hamas who targeted civilians well demarcated from the military and then went on hiding behind their own when they knew they would be attacked. Take a look at the videos that are readily available as to their acts, and think about what must have happened to withhold other videos from all but the darker corners of the internet. And they would have no problem doing it again, and will do it again and agian until all the Jews are killed. I haven't heard nor seen the Israeli government constantly bombarding Gaza before October 7 and afterwards there has been infractions, but not on a scale to sipe out an entire population. Has it stopped, yet? Lots of anti-semetism since then through how many centuries, and is still about because of this belief. I can't speak to the Moors as I don't know about them.. but that is someething else I will have research. Of course not. As to the amount radicalised? Who knows? But how many sympathise, which is thhe gist of the subequent questions you ask? I would guess quite a lot.

There goes my next flight to Apollo Bay airfield (one needed to be approved to fly into there).

I agree that with Nev and Onetrack - We criticise the condemn the right-wing nut jobs - no excuses - and rightly so. The problem is there doesn't seem to be the no excuses approach when Muslims/Islamists do it. Oh, they are only in a minority of Muslims/Islamists, etc etc. I am not saying we don’t condemn nor criticise - that is not my point, but there always seems to be some downplaying of it. Or that's how it comes across. For the record, radicals are radicals no matter what ideology or race or religion they come from. They equally have no logic, are usually consumed with control, and no tolerance of others. I am not saying Islamists are better, worse, or different than the right wing nutjobs; the only difference is that of ideology and the superior race (let's face it, if you kill infidels and apostasies just for being them, you are sort of saying your race, religion, ideology is the supreme one). And my point - as I have made in other posts - is this apparent toning down and accommodating for Islamist extremism is fanning the flames of right wing shite supremacy hate. They see it as they are getting a raw deal, I guess. I will give you an example in the UK. The Rotheram grooming gangs were gangs of Pakistani Muslims that groomed infidel mainly white and mainly teenage girls for sex - both under and over the legal age. When news broke about this, it turned out the police knew about it and did nothing - not even investigate the claims. They denied it initially, but finally indirectly admitted it was because of the fear of being seen as racist - by investigating a crime that was alleged to have been committed by Pakistani Muslim gangs. Guess who stepped in to fill the void? Tommy Robinson. Look him up, but a leader, if not founder of one of the right wing nutjob anti-Islamist groups, but his relentless pursuit of this has put him in the spotlight as a defender of the rights of British - and of course Farage has bought into it as well. The last right wing anti-islam immigration protest in the UK attracted well over 150,000 people. The problem is, it has moved the more pernicious elements of racism into the norm - normal people who probably wouldn't care too much are now behind him.. and you only have to see the rise of Reform UK to see the effects. And, of course, the right-wing media have picked up on it and run with it, too. Adding more fuel to the fire is the government has also accepted the whole thing warrants a parliamentary inquiry - sort of a judicial review - and they still can't settle on a Chair for it.. when they are appointed, they almost immediately resign citing threats and political pressure. And the vicious circle continues. I certainly don't oppose immigration, from any country or religion. But the issue is that there is a perception that immigrants from certain countries or religions refuse to integrate and want to impose their culture on the host country. And the above is an illustration of why we can have problems if there is a perception on group is being unfairly given a pass. Let's not forget - it is likely most of the population don't want immigration from non-western/non-white countries anyway, if at all.

True, but I can't ever recall it ever resulting in cars being washed out to sea before..

Although I agree with OME, the issue with Chump is what Nev says. Chump has shown disdain to anyone that is not a sycophant to him. And even when one does, nothing is guaranteed.

Making light of things is how humans deal with things. I wouldn't begrudge anyone for making light of a discussion or as long as it's not done maliciously.

Average weekly earnings... Ok back to chump.. or TACO Chump Was encouraging Iranians to protest and stating he would come to their assistance. This comes out: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-15/from-inside-iran-protester-asks-donald-trump-to-help/106228502?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other Yet roughly at the same time Chump says the violence has stopped because Iran told him so: Donald Trump says he has received assurances ‘killing in Iran is stopping’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/01ea28e0-f36c-40e3-9c8a-7d91b520b3d2 Though admittedly, he has not ruled out military action

The Otways have gone from being on fire to intense flooding all within a week: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/car-swept-out-to-sea-in-wye-river-flash-flooding-20260115-p5nucc.html

I thought I pointed to that buy asking how many people earn the AWE in my original post