Just did squiggle and we can* still finish sixth, so we still await St Essington’s Day.
Edit: Further research says it will be Sunday if three of Geelong, Gold Coast, Hawthorn or Fremantle win, otherwise it will be on Friday when we lose to the Bulldogs
I think that degustation menu is having a menu with a lot of small servings, maybe 10 courses instead of 3, for example. Antipasto AFAIK is a serving of various cold meats as a entre.
Now I have a question. I know there is a salary ( not celery, we’ve moved on from food ) cap. but why can’t we go out a get the best available players ( free agents, etc ) with a cheque book. We gut those middle range players that have been around since 2016-2021. So we have some really good proven champs, plus up and coming players. Why not. ?
Curious mixture of cuisine and list management. In that context asking to “gut” players is at least a triple entendre.
I’m not sure you are technically correct there
ahem
I’m feeling a tad overlooked here.
I think we all (maybe except DJR as a mod) share the greatest contempt for perceived ■■■■■■■■
Do any accountant blitzers know if you pay less income tax as a sole trader or in a partnership over a PAYG employee?
Just for services rendered.
Just curious as to what the difference is at tax time?(if any)
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I figured this bastard out!
One for the Boomers here.
Did you know, in 1980, how seriously gay the Village People were?
I was nine at the time, and I really feel like they were being pushed as the family friendly alternative to the Knights In Satan’s Service.
I’m talking about…parentally.
Did you not know?
Or did you know and not think it was a big deal?
Or…what was going on there?
Those who knew did not care, and why should they; those who listened to them and didn’t know probably had no idea what a gay person was.
I’m waiting for you to post again before I respond.
This is a really dumb question .
Why do the esteemed Mods on BBlitz close down any thread that discusses the Middle East ? There are plenty of disagreements on all sorts of things, and some get banned for even telling truths, that some Mods do not want to hear, but closing down a thread seems a bit extreme.
If BBlitz cannot solve the No 5’s ability to kick a footy, there is no hope with the Middle East. Still doesn’t stop the No 5 severe sledging.
Oh.
It wasn’t about that. So I’ll pursue that next.
I don’t Like the Gaza ban…but generally I’m in favour of it.
Because there’s nothing to be done about it. All it does is angry up the blood. There is no possible consensus. There is no meeting in-between. There is no ‘good point.’ There is only hurt and angst.
We don’t Have to get every thought we have validated in this particular place. There are plenty of other formats/venues.
I don’t like it, but I understand and accept it.
So, back to this.
I find your answer unsatisfying. It feels like a 2025 answer and not a 1980 answer.
I know boomers, even the most closeted, were aware of gay people.
First Mardi Gras was 1978, and I really feel like they knew Liberace was gay and were kind of okay with that (pretty sure the code word was ‘flamboyant’) and…y’know…swingers parties were a very seventies thing, so…
I’m not suggesting complete ignorance, but I Am interested in that original question in that particular context.
Was there no…concern about your pre-teens dressing up as the construction worker?
Because I feel like ten years later, if The Village People were as big as they were then, there would have been.
I’m just trying to get my head around the attitude at the time, because it feels very confusing to me.
I feel like if the Village People were transported 45 years into the future, a lot of people would still have…issues. And there seemed to be None at the time. Quite the opposite.
Edit: It was a confusing time. I genuinely had no idea George Michael was gay, or Freddie Mercury, or Pete Burns, or all of Frankie, Elton John just married a woman, I thought Boy George was genuinely just flamboyant…but I knew Marilyn was gay…don’t ask me how.
I’d have bet my life that Annie Lennox was gay, and she wasn’t/isnt.
Of course. It was pretty obvious.
The bigger issue was how crap their music was and WTF did Australian radio push it over better Australian music at the time. (Of course, that is a perennial issue).
The 70’s was a time when — surprisingly — there was a lot more individual freedom than there is in what most people think are more enlightened times now.
Maybe the best analogy for BBers to think of it is to compare EFC in the 70s vs now. There are issues in both eras, but there was a lot more excitement and real reasons for hope back then.
I think it shows, that in reality, in most part, people (individuals) don’t really care what others do, as long as no one gets hurt.
Then there’s a few weirdos and ■■■■■■ churches that don’t like it, and try to ruin it for everyone else by telling everyone else how to think or how to be.
I am not a 2025 person. As the song goes,I still live in the seventies, and actually the Bombers remind me of the direction of the Club in that decade now.
So back in the 1970s and 1980s, while most knew what a “poofter” was, very few knew one. They hid because they would get bashed by all sorts of thugs, and police did not care, and families also disowned them. Not always but mostly.
The Village People were entertainers and seen as harmless fun and it was not seen as “homosexual “ at all, because homosexual people were accepted in show business.
Even at Melbourne University in the early 1970s, when war protests, free love and smoking pot was rampant, things were hidden and gay sex happened in weirdest of places, mostly toilets. I lived in a Uni house in FarkCarlton for nearly a year, ten bedrooms, 10 female, two male, one who was gay, very privately . He would never bring another boy back to his room.
True fact that people I know who came out as gay in the last ten years were mostly blokes over 60 with a heterosexual marriage with kids. There are many fragmented families because of this. Mostly they divorced, usually amicably, and it is their kids that refused to have anything to do with Dad. These blokes hid their sexually for over 40 years.
I didn’t even know any at Melbourne Uni from ‘71-’74 inclusive.
Menswear stores and some bookshops, maybe.
But Nespresso wasn’t around then. The gayest shop I’ve even been to (Collins St near Wales Corner), every bloke there was extremely light on the loafers, and the girls were stunners.