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Spoiled Girls Want Everything for Nothing

Spoiled Girls Want Everything for Nothing

Anyone who’s ever done a group project at school or worked in a team environment would be grimly familiar with the types of skiver who consistently refuse to pull their weight, sits on their clacker or is just plain useless; yet expects to lap up the rewards of everyone

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wisdom

Wisdom

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi This piece of wisdom was brought to you by The Whale Meat Company.

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Crybaby of the Week

Crybaby of the Week

This weeks crybaby thought that it was okay to put on his plate only the meat from the black bean stir fry on offer at a smorgasbord restaurant. When he was told that was not acceptable etiquette he asked for his money back and was refunded the $15 he had

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Here Come the Allahu Ack-Bananas!

Here Come the Allahu Ack-Bananas!

Apologists and head-in-sand ninnies who wish to hand-wave away the horrors of terrorism commonly resort to silly arguments like “Oh, you have more chance of being killed by a refrigerator than a terrorist”. The stupidity of this argument is to pretend that there is any sort of moral equivalence between

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Read the Top Five Posts from Yesterday

This post is to provide you with the links to the top five most read posts as the vast majority of our readership do not comment and the post with the most comments is not always the most popular post. Our What’s Hot post and Must Read posts up

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Why Gold is Money

Why Gold is Money

Fascinating visualization from the clever folk at Visual Capitalist The economist John Maynard Keynes famously called gold a “barbarous relic”, suggesting that its usefulness as money is an artifact of the past. In an era filled with cashless transactions and hundreds of cryptocurrencies, this statement seems truer today than in

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You Can Lead a Child to Learning But You Can’t Make Them Think

You Can Lead a Child to Learning But You Can’t Make Them Think

After lagging for many years, Tasmanian students have only recently begun to improve their school results in comparison to their Mainland peers. There are several reasons for this: for instance, an economy that had long prioritised low-skilled rural jobs. But what hasn’t helped has been recent decades in which

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Humourless Twat of the Week

Humourless Twat of the Week

Having wandered into a community FB page one day I saw what I thought was a humorous way to get a certain message across. Now that clearly was not taken in the locality of the community page as there are no snowy mountains within sight, it actually doesn’t even

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Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Reject Peace at any Price

Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Reject Peace at any Price

As reported on Whaleoil recently, the Trump administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” conference in Bahrain attracted the patronage of no less than seven Arab states. The Trump plan is simple: rather than try and enforce peace, build up the prosperity of the Palestinian territories and peace will naturally follow. Unfortunately,

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Pass the Buck

Pass the Buck

I have written a series of articles that have been light-hearted, nostalgic and often a small attempt at humour. They do not seem to do well. I wonder… is it because life is so serious, so terribly concerning, so very, very troubling that we nudge levity aside and simply say,

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