marriage breakdown

So Australia and China have a "relationship of mutual respect". It's as though we are a married couple.

We need to file for divorce before the financial and psychological abuse becomes physical.

melangata, evening

I dress for dinner: clean socks, clean underpants, a shirt which has only been worn half a dozen times, and a thermal which... well... is not fresh but is warm. Boots and trousers have not changed since we left home, I don't have others. I dress for dinner because we're eating in company.

We eat dinner, it is good. We join our hosts and the other two guests. Nice people but we prefer to eat by ourselves. Enjoyable but we do not hang round for long after eating.

We are now in our room, reading and writing. It's cold but comfortable.

And that's it, for now. Not much to say... Typing because we have internet.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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bulldust spread thick

On July 30 the local paper has a double-page spread written by Stan "I'm more black than you" Grant. The man whose suntan and stance have become darker since he changed from reporter to indigenous affairs reporter. He provides bulldust responses to various questions:

Q: Why are some BLM protesters vandalising statues?
Response: "The use of the word vandalise has a certain connotation. It suggests a lawlessness... sometimes these acts can be acts against power."

Meaning: You can break any law you like because a law is just an implementation of power. If, for example, I disagree with Grant's use of the power of the press -- the power to print whatever they can get away with -- then I can vandalise any representation of Grant. Can I vandalise his home? Well yes, if you accept that I am acting out of my perceived powerlessness.

Bulldust.

Q: Why are there more Caucasian politicians than Aboriginal politicians in Australia?
Response: "It's about our history, again because Aboriginal people did not have access to power and did not have the opportunities."

Meaning: Forget that there are more Caucasian than Aboriginal people in Australia. The minority needs a majority in government because... well, because they are black, I guess.

Q: How can we move forward...?
Response: "The best way to do that is [by] being involved in these conversations."

At last, some sense. Except that conversation is "interactive communication between two or more people". Grant spouts his nonsense. No-one dares challenge it. That is not a "conversation". It is pure and simple one-sided bulldust.



Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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