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Quote:Her Diary:
Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it.
Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk. He agreed, but he didn't say much. I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.' I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.
On the way home, I told him that I loved him. He smiled slightly, and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.'
When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there quietly, and watched TV. He continued to seem distant and absent. Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed.
About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep - I cried. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.
His Diary:
Motorcycle won’t start…can't figure out why.
Quote:TODAY host Karl Stefanovic has been slammed as “sexist” by angry viewers after suggesting Australian Ninja Warrior use a different course for men and women.
His controversial comments come off the back of Andrea Hah’s failure to quality for the grand final despite making Ninja history as the first woman in Australia to make it up the Warped Wall.
It took six years for a woman in the US to achieve the same feat.
Disgruntled viewers have challenged Stefanovic to take on the course himself to see how he would fare if pitted against Hah.
Quote:Although Hah admitted her failure to make the grand final was “disappointing”, she believes the course isn’t gender discriminatory.
“The course is equal for men and women,” she told News Corporation Australia.
“It’s about bodyweight so you’re actually at an advantage if you’re lighter. A female would have an advantage if anything.
(07-23-2017 11:31 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote: ^
Can't say I saw much of the American Ninja Warrior show, yet I imagine it was a similar situation to this Aus. Ninja Warrior show.
Yet it is amusing to see & hear the production / announcing staff involved do everything they can to mask the obvious.
Men are more physically fit / stronger than women, therefore the equality notion goes out the window.
Mental gymnastics to the nth degree on their part, pun intended.
As you say, even if an individual female competitor is somewhat capable, they are never as agile, athletic nor accomplished at finishing the course in comparison to the top males.
When Olympic level female gymnasts are struggling while random Joe blow's can breaze through the course...
It will be interesting to see if the ratings for this show hold up.
Once the kids & the chicks begrudgingly resent the show cause it's "not fair".
They may well tune out on mass.
(07-24-2017 02:55 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: I'm going to bump this thread a few times over the next week.
The reason being that I have some limited degree of evidence that the public sector CEOs are somewhat secretly ramping up protections for future terrorist attacks (at what will be a "spare no cost" exercise).
Furthermore in at least the specific case I know of the preparations are what I've decided to term SOS-AFEE (save our-selves and fuck everyone else).
I can't go into details immediately without breaking a promise but I can at least warn the Australian membership that the public sector is starting to take the threat of an "active shooter" situation extremely seriously, but don't expect their preparations to involve your personal safety. You will be on your own.
Moreover I'll be looking for any members that work in or around the public sector to privately corroborate what I've caught wind of.
(07-24-2017 02:55 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: I'm going to bump this thread a few times over the next week.
The reason being that I have some limited degree of evidence that the public sector CEOs are somewhat secretly ramping up protections for future terrorist attacks (at what will be a "spare no cost" exercise).
Furthermore in at least the specific case I know of the preparations are what I've decided to term SOS-AFEE (save our-selves and fuck everyone else).
I can't go into details immediately without breaking a promise but I can at least warn the Australian membership that the public sector is starting to take the threat of an "active shooter" situation extremely seriously, but don't expect their preparations to involve your personal safety. You will be on your own.
Moreover I'll be looking for any members that work in or around the public sector to privately corroborate what I've caught wind of.
Quote:HEAVILY armed police have raided properties in four Sydney suburbs and arrested four men over an alleged terror plot that reportedly involved blowing up an aircraft.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the counter-terrorism raids on Saturday afternoon were designed to stop “terrorist attacks in Australia”. Australian Federal Police, NSW Police and the domestic spy agency ASIO jointly carried out the operation on Saturday afternoon in Surry Hills, Lakemba, Wiley Park and Punchbowl.
“Four men have been taken into custody and are assisting police with their inquiries,” the AFP and NSW Police said in a joint statement following the raids.
Fairfax Media, News Corp and the ABC said the terror raids were in relation to a bomb plot involving aircraft.
Quote:White Australians will be extinct within 40 years because Australian men are too busy smoking, drinking beer and taking drugs to procreate, a Muslim businessman has warned.
Halal certification chief Mohamed Elmouelhy told his Facebook followers the solution to this perceived demographic crisis for Australian women is for Muslim men to “fertilise them” and “keep them surrounded by Muslim babies” as part of what he foresees as the gradual Islamisation of Australia.
His observation was in response to a study by researchers from the Hebrew University, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, which found declining fertility rates among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
“Your men are a dying breed, Australian women need us to fertilise them and keep them surrounded by Muslim babies while beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting can only dream of what Muslim men are capable of,” he said.
“Muslims have a duty to make your women happy.”
In an email to news.com.au, Mr. Elmouelhy said the now-deleted post was intended to “stir the bigots” who had allegedly attacked his Facebook page “using all manner of expletives and attacks possible including promises of physical attacks etc.”
“Last night Facelessbook deleted the post, yet venomous messages devoid of any humour addressed to me about Islam remain published,” he wrote. “You can see other messages from the bigots on other posts I have.”
In a longer version of the first Facebook post, Mr. Elmouelhy warmed to his theme that the future of Australia was tied to Islam.
“It will [sic] mandatory for all women to wear hijab or burka if they prefer, bikinis will be displayed in Museums but not on nubile bodies anymore,” he wrote.
“When that happens everything in Australia will be Halal certified. Bigots and pigs will be declared Haram and must not be approached or touched, they can live together in reserves. There will be a Halal butcher on every corner, all other butchers will be offered to convert to Halal or given [sic] a passage back to where their ancestors came from.”
The 2016 Census revealed that Muslims made up 2.6 per cent of the Australian population, up from 2.2 per cent in 2011.
Quote:Security fears at Australian airports lead to delays
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Travellers have been warned to arrive two hours before their domestic flight because of “additional scrutiny”. Those flying internationally will need to arrive three hours before their flight is scheduled, with security experts expecting the arrangements will be in place for the foreseeable future.
Travellers are also being urged to limit the amount of baggage they take on flights to help speed up the screening process.
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Quote:University sexual assault report is a fraud of a study
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
August 2, 2017 8:00pm
Subscriber only
“WE should all be shocked,” groaned Australian National University boss Brian Schmidt, who reporters said was “emotional” and “visibly upset”.
Schmidt was tearing up over a Human Rights Commission report, released on Tuesday, which claimed 51 per cent of Australian university students were sexually harassed last year.
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And, yes, we should be shocked and visibly upset — shocked and upset that the commission perpetrated such a hoax. We should be shocked and upset that not one university boss had the brains or guts to call out this fraud of a study.
We should also be furious that Education Minister Simon Birmingham treated these joke findings as serious, demanding universities take action when he should instead demand the HRC apologise for smearing and damaging the universities that earn us $20 billion a year from foreign students.
Ask yourself: is it remotely likely that 51 per cent of all university students, male and female, were sexually harassed last year?
Is it likely that 6.9 per cent of our university students were sexually assaulted over the past two years — nearly 30 times the reported rate of violent South Africa?
Half of Australian university students experienced sexual assault in 2016
UNIS FAIL ON HANDLING OF SEX ASSAULTS
HALF OF ALL UNI STUDENTS ‘HARASSED’
There’s only one real scandal exposed by this study — that our universities must lack academics with the most basic research skills to spot how the taxpayer-funded HRC cooked the books. Yes, the HRC has once more invented a scandal that’s been lapped up by an unquestioning media, producing headlines such as, “Alarming rate of university sexual assaults revealed”.
Here’s how it did it. First the HRC, universities and activists spent more than a year on an emotional publicity campaign to hype the alleged threat of sexual assault on campus. Then, having primed students for outrage, our 39 universities asked them to fill in an online survey to report how often they’d allegedly been harassed or assaulted.
I say “allegedly” because none of the claims was tested.
But here is the real problem with this survey: fewer than 10 per cent of students responded. As the HRC admits: “The survey data has been derived from a sample of the target population who were motivated to respond and made an autonomous decision to do so. It may not necessarily be representative of the entire student population.”
They’re not kidding.
Only one in four of the alleged sexual assaults actually occurred on campus.
Only the most motivated students responded, which presumably includes activist students, ideologues and identity warriors, as well as women and men who have indeed been harassed or abused. But 90 per cent of students couldn’t be bothered responding, perhaps because most didn’t think there was a problem that needed fixing.
That means the results could be exaggerated as much as tenfold.
Nor does the fraud stop there. The researchers also defined sexual harassment so broadly that the most trivial or accidental behaviour was included. Even “inappropriate staring or leering” was counted as harassment and, bingo, it worked. Mere stares or leers generated a third of all the complaints.
What exactly is “inappropriate staring”, anyway? Does it include gawking at an angry female student with a purple mohawk and a “F--- Abbott” T-shirt? Or checking out a male with a peroxide do and bared abs? Almost 20 per cent of the complaints were about “sexually suggestive jokes” and another 14 per cent about “intrusive questions” about the student’s private life. Even “inappropriate displays of the body” qualified as harassment.
So this is the crisis? Seriously?
Universities Australia calls for 'zero tolerance' on sexual assault
WOMEN FACE RAMPANT SEXUAL VIOLENCE
The survey’s definition of sexual assaults is also broad and includes being “tricked into sexual acts against their will or without their consent, including when they have withdrawn their consent”.
No wonder that 40 per cent of students who said they’d been sexually assaulted also said they thought it wasn’t serious enough to tell the university, and another 40 per cent said they hadn’t needed help.
And still that’s not the full con.
Only one in four of the alleged sexual assaults — 1.6 per cent of students over two years — actually occurred on campus or going to and from university. Doesn’t that suggest that students are actually safer at university than anywhere else?
And why are assaults on students travelling to and from campus blamed on universities? Why not blame the public transport system?
Why? Because this is one more way the HRC could inflate the statistics to paint universities as cesspits of rape and sexual predators.
This survey is a disgrace. The failure of universities to call it out shows that reason no longer rules and the victim culture is king.
Scrap the Human Rights Commission. And buy some backbones for our university bosses.
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