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Manly Pride – Should Rugby Players Be Forced to Wear Rainbow Jerseys?
In an upcoming match, the Manly rugby league club are going to make their players wear a gay pride jersey with rainbow stripes and trim. Unsurprisingly, seven current players and an undisclosed number of potential new recruits have refused to wear it and therefore will be forced to sit out of Thursday’s match.
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
~ Voltaire (1694–1778), French Philosopher
If you know me, you know that I’m all for people living their life as they see fit. I don’t care what people do as long as they don’t harm others. Live and let live, right? If somebody wants to dress up in a gorilla costume handing out free balloons, go right ahead. If you want to put on makeup, wear a top hat, and prance around the street, be my guest. You should have the freedom to do so, but equally, I should have the freedom not to.
The official narrative is that the Manly players’ refusal is based on religious and cultural grounds. You know what, it doesn’t matter what their reasons are – If they don’t want to wear it, they shouldn’t have to. Just because Brad Pitt wants to wear a skirt, doesn’t mean that we should all be forced to wear one.
Actually, a couple of years ago, the university I work for had a rainbow day or whatever to celebrate the LGBT community, and they were asking everyone to wear a rainbow armband. I just told my supervisor, “Nah, I’m right mate” and went on my way. So did a lot of other people. It doesn’t mean I’m against the LGBT community, it just means I don’t want to wear a rainbow armband. The same thing happened during NAIDOC Week. They were asking us to wear an Aboriginal flag wristband. I just said, “Nah, I’m good thanks mate”. That doesn’t mean I’m against Aboriginal people. It just means I don’t want to wear the wristband. Actually, me wearing the wristband might even be confusing. People might mistakenly think that I’m claiming to be Aboriginal. To be fair to Aboriginal people, it wasn’t even Aboriginal people handing these out. It was a white lady from human resources.
When I was working in Japan as an ambassador (no, not THE ambassador – I was a sister city ambassador for a small town), I was asked to attend a German Oktoberfest celebration, which I was happy to attend. But just before the festivities began, the organisers asked me to don some lederhosen. I just said, “Nah, I’m good mate”, went on my way and enjoyed the festivities. Does that mean I hate Germany or hate the German people because I refused to wear some lederhosen? No! It just means I didn’t want to wear lederhosen. The same thing happened at the Australia Day march. They asked me if I could drape the Australian flag over my shoulders, and in typically Aussie fashion I just said, “Nah, I’m good mate”. Does that mean I hate Australia? Does that mean I am less of an Australian? No, it just means that I don’t want to wear the Australia flag around my shoulders. There was also that time that I marched in the New York AIDS walk, but I refused to wear the AIDS ribbon and consequently got beaten up because of it. Oh hang on, that was an episode of Seinfeld.
The point is, if a few big Manly rugby players don’t want to wear a rainbow jersey, they damn well shouldn’t have to. It doesn’t matter what their reasoning is. After all, they’re there to play football, not to be pressured into supporting all these other causes. If they want to support these causes in their own time, so be it, but the football field should be for playing football, not politics. However, a few members in society have decided that if you don’t do what they tell you, then you’re the enemy! That’s the unfortunate thing about society, especially of late. People are being browbeaten by their peers to do something that they don’t even want to do. It’s very much a dark side of human nature. A number of people have unleashed a level of anger and hostility against those who choose to follow their own conscience instead of the decrees of the collective. “Do what we say, or else!”. Extremism can take many forms, but it’s important to understand that the people who tried to force Kramer in Seinfeld to wear a ribbon, or the people trying to force rugby players to wear a gay pride jersey, they share a common trait. Both groups are absolutely convinced that what they are doing is good. Wanting to do good is a noble human instinct, but the instinct ceases to be noble and good when the perpetrators begin to use aggression and coercion to make others do what they think is right. There’s only one way to deal with these people. Simply stand your ground and say “No!”.
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
~ Voltaire (1694–1778), French Philosopher
If you know me, you know that I’m all for people living their life as they see fit. I don’t care what people do as long as they don’t harm others. Live and let live, right? If somebody wants to dress up in a gorilla costume handing out free balloons, go right ahead. If you want to put on makeup, wear a top hat, and prance around the street, be my guest. You should have the freedom to do so, but equally, I should have the freedom not to.
The official narrative is that the Manly players’ refusal is based on religious and cultural grounds. You know what, it doesn’t matter what their reasons are – If they don’t want to wear it, they shouldn’t have to. Just because Brad Pitt wants to wear a skirt, doesn’t mean that we should all be forced to wear one.
Actually, a couple of years ago, the university I work for had a rainbow day or whatever to celebrate the LGBT community, and they were asking everyone to wear a rainbow armband. I just told my supervisor, “Nah, I’m right mate” and went on my way. So did a lot of other people. It doesn’t mean I’m against the LGBT community, it just means I don’t want to wear a rainbow armband. The same thing happened during NAIDOC Week. They were asking us to wear an Aboriginal flag wristband. I just said, “Nah, I’m good thanks mate”. That doesn’t mean I’m against Aboriginal people. It just means I don’t want to wear the wristband. Actually, me wearing the wristband might even be confusing. People might mistakenly think that I’m claiming to be Aboriginal. To be fair to Aboriginal people, it wasn’t even Aboriginal people handing these out. It was a white lady from human resources.
When I was working in Japan as an ambassador (no, not THE ambassador – I was a sister city ambassador for a small town), I was asked to attend a German Oktoberfest celebration, which I was happy to attend. But just before the festivities began, the organisers asked me to don some lederhosen. I just said, “Nah, I’m good mate”, went on my way and enjoyed the festivities. Does that mean I hate Germany or hate the German people because I refused to wear some lederhosen? No! It just means I didn’t want to wear lederhosen. The same thing happened at the Australia Day march. They asked me if I could drape the Australian flag over my shoulders, and in typically Aussie fashion I just said, “Nah, I’m good mate”. Does that mean I hate Australia? Does that mean I am less of an Australian? No, it just means that I don’t want to wear the Australia flag around my shoulders. There was also that time that I marched in the New York AIDS walk, but I refused to wear the AIDS ribbon and consequently got beaten up because of it. Oh hang on, that was an episode of Seinfeld.
The point is, if a few big Manly rugby players don’t want to wear a rainbow jersey, they damn well shouldn’t have to. It doesn’t matter what their reasoning is. After all, they’re there to play football, not to be pressured into supporting all these other causes. If they want to support these causes in their own time, so be it, but the football field should be for playing football, not politics. However, a few members in society have decided that if you don’t do what they tell you, then you’re the enemy! That’s the unfortunate thing about society, especially of late. People are being browbeaten by their peers to do something that they don’t even want to do. It’s very much a dark side of human nature. A number of people have unleashed a level of anger and hostility against those who choose to follow their own conscience instead of the decrees of the collective. “Do what we say, or else!”. Extremism can take many forms, but it’s important to understand that the people who tried to force Kramer in Seinfeld to wear a ribbon, or the people trying to force rugby players to wear a gay pride jersey, they share a common trait. Both groups are absolutely convinced that what they are doing is good. Wanting to do good is a noble human instinct, but the instinct ceases to be noble and good when the perpetrators begin to use aggression and coercion to make others do what they think is right. There’s only one way to deal with these people. Simply stand your ground and say “No!”.
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Eddie from Australia tells us all about Australian food! Meat pies, Chiko rolls, Vegemite. Tim Tams… He covers it all! Grab yourself a bottle of dead horse, break out the Dagwood Dogs, and prepare yourself for a gastronomical adventure!
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For most of us, food is something that we pick up at the supermarket, or the fast food drive-trough (although some might argue that fast food barely counts as food). Mass production of food has become common and has allowed most of us to eat like kings of the past. For example, for $5.00 I can pick up a large vegetarian pizza at most of the major chains. Just say I make $35 per hour working as a tutor. In order to pay for the $5.00 pizza, I only have to work for approximately 9 minutes! A Garlic Aioli & Cheese pizza contains 4546 kJ (1087 cal.), which is over half my recommended daily intake! So for just 18 minutes of work per day, I can get all of my daily food requirement. What a time we live in, hey? Of course, we shouldn’t just eat pizza everyday (although having worked for one of the major chains, I know that some people do). But even if I went and bought all the food I need from the supermarket, I could easily live on $5 to 10 a day (for just food, not including other expenses of course). If I really pushed it and bought large bags of rice, beans, and canned vegetables, I could probably live on $2 a day. What if, though, there were no supermarkets? What if some major world-wide disaster happened that wiped out most of humanity? How hard is it to grow our own food? In 2010, I tried just that at the local organic gardens.
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If you’ve been to the airport recently, you may have seen signs alternating between Australian city names and their Indigenous equivalent, while also alternating between different flight codes, confusing the s**t out of everybody. It’s the same plane, but with different flight codes and different place names displayed. Personally, I found it quite confusing. I’m not the only one: “‘Bloody confusing’: Indigenous names on departure signs at airport”. If Aussies are have trouble understanding this, well how can we expect international travellers to know what the hell is going on? Nobody has ever taught me these names, so to just suddenly thrust them on the population is just a recipe for disaster. Not only will people not understand, they’ll probably resent you for it. From years of language teaching and learning myself, forcing languages on people just doesn’t work, unless your goal is to piss off the entire population.
According to their website, Tourism Australia have adopted Aboriginal dual naming.
Our favourite tax-payer funded broadcaster, the ABC, has now started to slip in Indigenous place names in their articles. “Phoebe Paradise's art explores the relationship between the housing crisis and climate change in Meanjin/Brisbane.” “What does Meanjin look like?” “Two-time defending Women's World Cup champions USA have been knocked out in Melbourne/Naarm.” “I've lived in nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania, for large sections of my adult life.” “Inside Dunstan Playhouse by the River Torrens in Tarndanya/Adelaide” “It was an average Thursday night in Naarm/Melbourne” I’m sure that’s how people speak in Melbourne, right? “Maggie Zhou is a Naarm/Melbourne based writer who makes friends online.” Good for Maggie. Actually, the ABC inadvertently wrote what I was thinking: “ABC Everyday (DO NOT USE)”. “Chris lives in inner-city Naarm with one of his two partners” – Isn’t that illegal?
Anyway, you get the idea. You never requested this, they just started doing it.
But I know why the Government and others are forcing this on us, and I think you probably do too. If they put this up to a vote, we already know the result. Australians would vote No. Their only option is to force it upon us. So we either just accept it and let the government do whatever they want, or we speak up. I guess, that’s what I’m doing now.
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Whatever you think of Australia’s corporate watchdog, ASIC, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, there’s one thing that you can’t accuse them of — wasting taxpayers’ money. Unless you think that spending a wad of taxpayer cash on updating their logo is a waste of money?
Let’s take a look at their old logo. Yeah it looks okay. The Australian coat of arms. A black diamond with blue rectangles inside it. ASIC written in bold with its full name written below. It’s a work of art! Apparently, this logo has been in use for over 20 years.
Now let’s take a look at their new logo. The Australian coat of arms. A black diamond with blue rectangles inside. ASIC written in bold with the full name written below. It’s pretty much the same thing, isn’t it? Only two minor changes really. The name has been moved to the right of the diamond, and the font has been changed to sans serif. It’s a work of art as well!
Yeah, the new logo looks a little bit nicer. Yeah, it will fit better at the top of web pages. But this little piece of artistic genius has cost the Australian taxpayer about $100,000.
How was that money spent? Let’s break it down.
ASIC told the designers that it wanted a bold new look. It wanted to be seen as “respected” and having its “finger on the pulse”. It also told the designers that it didn’t want to be seen as having its finger up its arse (apparently, having your finger up your arse interferes with efficiency).
According to ASIC’s website, its vision is to have “A fair, strong and efficient financial system for all Australians”. That’s a bold statement that needs a bold logo to back it up.
So how was the $100,000 spent?
ASIC worked with inner-Sydney design firm Folk. The “creative development” of the logo came in at a touch over $43,000, excluding GST. “Design and asset development” cost almost $60,000, which included new stationery templates, banners, and its online homepage. A “web design update” cost just under $3,000.
Man, I should get into logo design!
Should ASIC, our corporate regulator, be spending $100,000 on a new logo, when instead it could have used that money to employ a new investigator to focus on our rotten banking system, or go after corrupt mortgage brokers?
ASIC’s Matthew Abbott, Senior Executive Leader of Corporate Affairs, stated:
“We are introducing the changes gradually as stationery is exhausted and other materials [such as signs and banners] are replaced. The existing brand and font had not been changed in over 20 years and was not always suitable for use in digital channels such as social media and online.”
ASIC insisted it was trying to save taxpayers' money during the logo-changing process.
I tell you what, I could have saved them a lot
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I really do try hard to get on with the other humans, but somehow, things usually go awry. Does this mean I’m not a misanthrope? I don’t know. But I often find myself fighting my inner self. I don’t want to hate people, but more often than not, that’s what I end up doing. Logically I know I can’t exist in this world without having some sort of interaction with other people. If I go to buy a pizza, I have to interact with people. Even if I make a pizza myself, I still have to rely on people to mill the flour, grow the vegetables, and milk the cows to produce the cheese. Unless I produce everything myself, and have my own electrical grid and water source, I just have to accept that I need other people. It would be foolish of me to hate the people that grow my vegetables, or supply my electricity. Or at least, it would be foolish of me to publicly hate them. Actually, the whole idea of money and trade purely exists because of people. If I want to earn some money and live a comfortable life, I have to appease the other humans. If I want people to watch this YouTube channel, it’s no good me just saying, “Watch my f***ing videos you ungrateful c**ts!”. I mean, most people would just be offended and tune out. Basically, even though I call myself a misanthrope, I recognise that if I want to be happy in this world, I have to get on with at least some of the other humans. Whether it be you guys watching these videos, or my family members, or my work colleagues, or even the cashier at the supermarket. If I want anything nice to happen in my life, I have to treat these people with a certain level of respect, even if half of them don’t respond in kind. As I’ve gotten older (and perhaps wiser), I’ve realised a couple of things. First of all, the overwhelming reason I get upset with people is not because of them, but because of my expectations not matching reality. Secondly, I’m highly sensitive. Where most people aren’t offended by minor remarks or encounters, I often get overly upset. It’s a real thing apparently. It’s called Sensory Processing Sensitivity. It’s not a condition, but a personality trait, with about 15–20% of the population having it. A person with this trait is considered to be a highly sensitive person. They tend to have increased emotional reactivity and empathy, to both positive and negative influences. They tend to have higher stress levels. They’re more easily overwhelmed. They have increased rates of depression, anxiety, and symptoms of autism. I mean, that’s me in a nutshell. When I interact with people and expect them to behave a certain way and they don’t, I get upset. I feel like they should know better. But they don’t, and they never will. And I think I’m starting to realise it’s more to do
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I’m sure you’ve heard of Just Stop Oil, the environmental activist group who intends on doing away with oil at breakneck speed. In April 2022, they blocked UK oil refineries and terminals by gluing themselves to roads and climbing on to tankers, with the intention of cutting off the supply of automotive fuel to South East England. Many were arrested, but that didn’t stop them. They vowed to continue blockading oil terminals until they were all jailed, despite almost a thousand of them being arrested. Their message was very clear – it’s in their name – Just Stop Oil.
Later that month, the protesters sabotaged petrol pumps at two M25 motorway service stations surrounding London, smashing the display glass with hammers and defacing them with spray paint in what they described as a “significant escalation” in their campaign against fossil fuel distribution in England.
According to their website, Just Stop Oil are a nonviolent civil resistance group. I don’t know, would you consider smashing up petrol pumps nonviolent behaviour? Perhaps it isn’t technically, but it certainly isn’t very peaceful – quite the opposite.
So what do you think about their message, a rapid transition away from oil to save the planet? Well, I know what I think, and it’s not very pretty. I’ll explain why soon. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for protecting the environment and all that, but will the immediate halt of oil usage save us? Well, I can answer that for you right now. No, it would be a disaster. It would be catastrophic to humanity as we know it.
According to S&P Global, world oil demand is growing in 2023 as China factory economic output rebounds. The world demand for oil is still going up. To say that we can just turn off oil and everything will be hunky-dory, well it’s simply not realistic. It’s probably even delusional. And this is not me saying that I love oil, but I’m not stupid enough to say that we should just get rid of it, which is bordering on the ramblings of a mad person. Our modern society exists because of oil and it will take many decades before we can transition fully to a low, or no-oil economy. It can’t be done quickly without destroying society in the process.
So based on all of this, what’s my conclusions regarding Just Stop Oil?
Well, 1. They’re annoying. In general, their tactics are annoying people. People don’t like to be interrupted going about their lives, and quite frankly, you don’t win any supporters by upsetting people.
2. Their goal is not realistic. You can’t Just Stop Oil like their name implies. The modern world currently requires oil. It can’t be turned off, well, not quickly at least.
And number 3. If Just Stop Oil got their way, humanity as we know it would end. If you stop oil, you stop hospitals from getting medical supplies. If you stop oil, you stop international travel and shipping. We can’t just stop delivering food. We can’t just stop making electronic devices from plastic. If we did, the world economy would collapse as would the livelihoods of billions of people. This is not my opinion. This is what would happen if we just stopped oil.
The only benefit of Just Stop Oil that I can think of, is that the world would have much less pollution, but at what cost to humanity?
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/28/sport/just-stop-oil-ashes-test-spt-intl/index.html
JUST STOP OIL PROTESTERS DISRUPT LONDON PRIDE OVER ‘POLLUTING’ SPONSORS
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Dr Norman Swan, ABC, Mar 4, 2020 – “Masks are pointless. Your chances of walking past a person with the illness, or being on the same train or bus as them, are not much higher than winning the lottery.” Dr Norman Swan, ABC, July 20, 2020 – “Masks work. They can reduce transmission by around 70%, and have been underutilised in Australia.” “Masks are pointless. Masks work. Masks are pointless. Masks work. Staying apart keeps us together. It’s as easy as that.” It’s as easy as that! Just listen to the conflicting information coming out of experts’ mouths for say the next year or two, maybe more, and everything will be A-OK. It’s a bit of an information war, isn’t it? How do masks go from being “pointless” and “ineffective” in March, but then just four short months later, they’ve suddenly become a mandatory item? One must question the motives of the good doctor. Dr Norman Swan, December 21, 2020, ABC Radio National Breakfast – “I think there's no question that [the Premier of New South Wales] should place NSW in an immediate lockdown and they need to mandate masks. It’s just breathtaking that they are still pleading with people to wear masks.” He seems to have doubled down on his mask-wearing diatribe. Also back in March, the experts were saying that coronavirus was 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu. Well since then, some actual research has been conducted being published only a few days ago by the Lancet medical journal saying that the virus is now only three times as deadly as the flu. So in March, it was 10 times as deadly as the flu and masks were pointless and ineffective, but now the virus is only three times as deadly, but masks are mandatory (well, in some parts of Australia). It seems to defy logic!
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These spears shown onscreen are known as the “Gweagal spears”. They’re a collection made up of three fishing spears and one hunting spear. They look like any other spear, I suppose, except according to the Australian media, these are the proceeds of crime! Not in that they killed animals, but rather they were stolen, by Captain Cook! “We used them as back scratchers.”
But as I said, they were stolen! “Ancient spears handed back”. I think they’re misusing the word ‘ancient’, but let’s run with it. “More than 250 years after they were first taken, four spears, stolen by Captain James Cook and his crew after they arrived at Botany Bay, have been repatriated to their traditional owners.”
“'Emotional moment' as spears taken by Captain Cook are returned to Indigenous community. Four spears stolen by Captain James Cook!” Even Kids News got in on the action, although they used the more euphemistic term “taken without permission”. Perhaps we should change his name to Captain James Crook. “I’m nought but a petty thief!” Of course, I jest.
The spears were presented to Cambridge University’s Trinity College in 1771 by Lord Sandwich, the British naval chief at the time, with the spears being held at the college’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology since the early 20th century. Last year, the museum agreed to return the spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, who are apparently the direct descendants of the Gweagal who crafted the spears 254 years ago.
I find it deeply ironic that if these spears weren’t “stolen”, and I use that term loosely, in the 18th century, these objects wouldn’t be around today. If these spears hadn’t been taken, they wouldn’t exist anymore. Unlike many artefacts, these were just regular tools that would have been used and then discarded when they broke. It was only once they were removed from Australia that they became somewhat precious. Am I wrong in that assessment?
Cook, a British naval lieutenant at the time, travelled to New Holland (Australia) on the HMB Endeavour (His Majesty’s Bark). He was accompanied by botanist Joseph Banks, who kept a journal. This journal can be viewed online. After arriving at Botany Bay on 28 April 1770, he described the animosity between the local inhabitants and the landing party.
After reading the journal, in my reckoning, the British essentially confiscated the spears that were being thrown at them. If you wish to call that stealing, I suppose you could, but clearly the locals were not exactly friendly towards the landing party. I’m not saying they had to be, but of course, if you’re aggressive towards others, expect them to be aggressive back. And that’s pretty much what happened, although the landing party did still try to be friendly by giving the people some gifts.
Captain Cook also kept a journal, which you can view online as well. He described how after giving the local people cloth, they “left it carelessly upon the Sea beach and in the Woods, as a thing they had no manner of use for; in short, they seem’d to set no Value upon anything we gave them, nor would they ever part with anything of their own for any one Article we could offer them.”
Look, I don’t know if what Captain Cook wrote is 100% accurate, I’m just reading it. But this is the evidence we have. The media play up the idea of stolen spears, but to me it sounds like the Europeans were trying to be nice, but the local people were not having it, and consequently their spears were confiscated. The gifts the Europeans did give, weren’t welcome and were just left to lie on the beach.
There are lots of people acting like these spears were significant cultural artefacts that were heartlessly stolen. But that’s glorifying, or romanticising what they actually were. These were hunting tools and had no significance beyond their purpose at that time. What happened to virtually all the other spears from that same time period? They were probably used and then burnt. The preservation is what has given these spears value and cultural significance. Some might argue that the people who preserved them are the rightful owners.
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