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The BFD View From Your Window

Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s

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The BFD Face of the Day

The BFD Face of the Day

President Trump announced Wednesday that he will be suspending all travel from Europe to the U.S. for 30 days starting Friday at midnight in an effort to quell the spread of coronavirus. His address from the Oval Office comes hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global

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The BFD View From Your Window

Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz The photo

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Coronavirus Exposes Weakness of Chinese Authoritarianism

Coronavirus Exposes Weakness of Chinese Authoritarianism

Before he noticed that China was staging a Silent Invasion of Australia, academic Clive Hamilton was claiming that the communist nation might well be the model state to tackle climate change. While democracies are hamstrung, supposedly, by the stupid ‘denying’ masses, authoritarian states like China can just snap their fingers

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The BFD View From Your Window
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The BFD View From Your Window

Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz The photo

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Never Saw That Coming …

Never Saw That Coming …

A High School in the USA has closed its gender-neutral bathroom after a student was arrested for sexually assaulting another student. Who woulda thunk it? An 18-year-old student from Rhinelander High School, Wisconsin, was arrested late February on charges of child enticement, fourth-degree sexual assault, and exposing genitals to a

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Covid-19 From Its First Appearance in 2012 with a 50%+ Fatality Rate

Covid-19 From Its First Appearance in 2012 with a 50%+ Fatality Rate

Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown virus

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The BFD View From Your Window: The Winner is…*Updated
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The BFD View From Your Window: The Winner is…*Updated

The winner this week is Friel Lane. 1. The first person to get the correct answer was the person who sent me the photo in the first place so was disqualified. 2. The second person to get the correct answer has already won the competition three times in a row

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Teaching Boys That ‘No’ Means ‘Yes’

Teaching Boys That ‘No’ Means ‘Yes’

We keep thinking that the world cannot get any more stupidly ‘woke’ but, as Einstein reportedly said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” The latest idiocy comes from the USA (naturally) where a poor petal might be upset if

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Fake News of the Day

Fake News of the Day

The stupidity of the mainstream media, who appear to feed endlessly off the troll farm that is Twitter, seems to be growing exponentially. Take this tweet: The stupid is strong in this one. The math is pretty basic. It is 327,000,000 x $1,000,000 = 327,000,000,

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The BFD View From Your Window: The Winner gets a PRIZE
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The BFD View From Your Window: The Winner gets a PRIZE

The BFD has a few small boxes of brand new books to give away as prizes once a week on View From Your Window. The prize day will be once a week on random days. Today’s winner can choose a book from the three titles below. * I’ve Been

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