A photo naked of me in the shower.

[sprintcyclist]

I think all porn is offensive against women.

Just getting a bit weird here, I think porn is a spiritual weapon used against women and men.
It separates men from women, and separates men from men.
Noone has a healthy relationship when porn is around.
It dehumanises women, using their own beauty against themselves.
It isolates men.

Women are really nice, porn ........ perverts that.

[cods]

Someone sent me 3 porn VHS tapes many years ago. I got about 20 minutes in and barely made it that far. Pretty boring. Nurses - doctors, boss - secretary, teachers - students etc

I still have no idea who sent them. I've had some weird stuff show up in my letter box over the years

when I worked in a warehousing industry a truckie brought in a Paygirl mag ... never even heard of it before....

like yourself after the first shock horror boring as hell... have never had any inclination to see another one.

[freediver]

Perverts

I wish to cover off on some topics, several of which have already been cover3d on this board, in a holistic way, given we have an election coming up, and I can see none of the majors doing anything about it. This leaves me feeling disenfranchised and cynical.

1) Water. We have an abundance of water in the north, and serious droughts further south. This was perhaps best illustrated for me by the thousands of dead fish in the Murray-darling basin. I have done some reading on this and the issue is cost. Cant we cut some fat off of foreign aid and help our own people first? And yes, it may take 30years to pay off - so what? The problem is we have no statesmen with vision for our children and grandchildren.

2) China. They are buying up out farms,Ports, and electricity. When there is a global food shortage they will export from our farms, through our ports, and Australians will suffer

3) Retail. I know this has been covered in another thread. BigW, Ed Harry, Myer, David Jones and others all liquified or in trouble. The under 30s in particular shop online and companies and jobs will be lost to Asia

4) Population. Capitalism relies on perpetual growth. Australians are breeding at 1.6 children per couple, so the governments of both stripes are bringing in the hordes. Apart from the fact Australia is a fragile ecology losing many species of birds, bugs and animals due to humans, we are bringing in people with antithetical views to our own and they breed at much higher rates.

5) politicians. Both sides think nothing of stabbing elected PMs in the back. This is not democracy. In addition they lack long term statesmanship, and rather than thinking about future generations send off sound bites that sound good to a money hungry society. They do not think forward to what is best for our children and grandchildren.

6) Economy. IIRC are biggest export is coal. As the world turns to alternative forms of energy, our biggest export is a problem.

These are the things I see as our biggest issues, and the politicians are doing fuck all.

I’ll go get dressed now

Nicole

This is a good list of ill-considered reactionary political stances.

No-one in Australia is dying of thirst. Farms are a business. If they cannot pay for themselves, we should not subsidise them. We are a net food exporter, so already grow far more than we need.

Capitalism does not require perpetual growth. Politicians have latched onto this for some reason. Not sure why. Some industries benefit from it, like housing. But for the most part a growing population is actually a burden on the economy. It costs a lot more to constantly build new infrastructure for a growing future population than to merely maintain it at a level the current population need.

The westminster system is democracy. Fairness to the PM is not a goal of democracy. Being able to get rid of a little Hitler easily is. We do not elect the PM, or a party. If you do not like how your local MP acts, vote for someone else. If there is no-one else more suitable, run yourself. But you will quickly find out that it is the parties themselves who turn this into a big deal, not the voting public. The party structure is their way of creating job stability in an unstable system, so they don't like the boat being rocked.

If demand for coal drops, we will export less.

[Nicole]

Sorry Freediver I’m on an iPad. My responses below in red.

Perverts

I wish to cover off on some topics, several of which have already been cover3d on this board, in a holistic way, given we have an election coming up, and I can see none of the majors doing anything about it. This leaves me feeling disenfranchised and cynical.

1) Water. We have an abundance of water in the north, and serious droughts further south. This was perhaps best illustrated for me by the thousands of dead fish in the Murray-darling basin. I have done some reading on this and the issue is cost. Cant we cut some fat off of foreign aid and help our own people first? And yes, it may take 30years to pay off - so what? The problem is we have no statesmen with vision for our children and grandchildren.

2) China. They are buying up out farms,Ports, and electricity. When there is a global food shortage they will export from our farms, through our ports, and Australians will suffer

3) Retail. I know this has been covered in another thread. BigW, Ed Harry, Myer, David Jones and others all liquified or in trouble. The under 30s in particular shop online and companies and jobs will be lost to Asia

4) Population. Capitalism relies on perpetual growth. Australians are breeding at 1.6 children per couple, so the governments of both stripes are bringing in the hordes. Apart from the fact Australia is a fragile ecology losing many species of birds, bugs and animals due to humans, we are bringing in people with antithetical views to our own and they breed at much higher rates.

5) politicians. Both sides think nothing of stabbing elected PMs in the back. This is not democracy. In addition they lack long term statesmanship, and rather than thinking about future generations send off sound bites that sound good to a money hungry society. They do not think forward to what is best for our children and grandchildren.

6) Economy. IIRC are biggest export is coal. As the world turns to alternative forms of energy, our biggest export is a problem.

These are the things I see as our biggest issues, and the politicians are doing fuck all.

I’ll go get dressed now

Nicole

This is a good list of ill-considered reactionary political stances.

No-one in Australia is dying of thirst. Farms are a business. If they cannot pay for themselves, we should not subsidise them. We are a net food exporter, so already grow far more than we need.

Beef is one of our top ten exports. Farmers need water to grow beef and other commodities. No one may be “dying of thirst” yet but we are killing off our river systems, ecologies, and local flora and fauna. We don’t have the water for more people.

Capitalism does not require perpetual growth. Politicians have latched onto this for some reason. Not sure why. Some industries benefit from it, like housing. But for the most part a growing population is actually a burden on the economy. It costs a lot more to constantly build new infrastructure for a growing future population than to merely maintain it at a level the current population need.

At the core of capitalism is the concept of “perpetual growth”. Look it up and get back to me.

The westminster system is democracy. Fairness to the PM is not a goal of democracy. Being able to get rid of a little Hitler easily is. We do not elect the PM, or a party. If you do not like how your local MP acts, vote for someone else. If there is no-one else more suitable, run yourself. But you will quickly find out that it is the parties themselves who turn this into a big deal, not the voting public. The party structure is their way of creating job stability in an unstable system, so they don't like the boat being rocked.

So you’re in support of back room deals where numerous PMs have been knifed in the back in recent years? I see.

If demand for coal drops, we will export less.

You’re catching on. You’ve already fucked up one of our biggest exporters - farmers - and don’t seem to care less if our second biggest export - coal - bites the dust too.

Stick to running ozpol, freediver. If your management of that is anything to go by, I’d hate to see you run the country.