Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian. An eminent representative of the liberal political tradition.
Karl Kruszelnicki is a brilliant scientist who holds doctorates in just about everything. His ability to talk about scientific matters in layman's terms gives great joy to his listeners.
Tradition is what we call trying to hang on to those things from the past that we value most. To lose touch with that can make out lives meaningless.
Meaningless is sex without love. However as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty bloody good.
Good for you, Dutchy, I think that previous sententious sentiment of yours is entirely subjective - anything has meaning if you want it to. "Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so".
"So far, so good", as the captain of the Titanic said, snuggling into his cosy bunk.
"Bunk off", meaning 'skive' is a relatively new term to me. I don't think I heard it until coming back to England in 1997.
1997 was the year I decided enough was enough. My weakness was costing me a fortune and getting me nowhere.
Nowhere in Australia is there a more urgent need than to restore the entire river Murray system, which presently is in a very, very sorry state. Instead of immediate action, which is urgently required to save the river, every State is at loggerheads over water allocations for its farmers, whilst the Federal Government is to frighten to do something for fear of upsetting the people on the land, and engages in an endless lot of utter useless rhetorics.
Rhetorics Collegians, our local pensioners' football team, has not won a game since 1887. Some of the original players have had to give the game up, though, new blood and all that.
That story sounds incredibly interesting. I'll believe it, when you believe, pigs can fly.
Fly - that seems the only option for getting to Dubai. I was hoping to go by ship, at least from Athens.
Athens is a place somewhere near the Mediteranean Sea. I met someone once who had been there and he said it was a dump.
Dump any type of oil in the sea downunder and you'll be fined heavily. A fisherman who ignored the rule for a second time last week, had his vessel confiscated by the authorities.
Authorities are often a bit of a nuisance. The ones who have the wesaysoes in Pakistani cricket have deprived us of the pleasure of watching their two best bowlers perform over some technicality about a substance known as nandralone.
Nandralone is a prohibited drug under the rules of cricket. I do not agree it is some form of a technicality they committed. Both took drugs to enhance their performance against the opposition, or in other words an unfair advantage against clean players.
Players don't always know when they have taken it. Isn't it in certain cough remedies and Hay Fever preparations?
Preparations in all top class sport involve forms of artificial performance enhancement. It is simply a question of dodging the bureaucracies who have created these ridiculous rules to expand their control freakery and their power.
Power was the surname of a Manchester City player way back when, in the late 1970s I think. Nowadays football players are liabe to have surnames (when the have a surname) which are a good deal more esoteric.
