#Victorians

It is so eerie watching SA covid outbreak unfold exactly like it did in Victoria. All the contributing factors that were never focused on in Victoria (because Dan bashing) are
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I got called the "extreme left" today. I'm a fat, beer-swilling, chevy pickup-driving redneck from North Carolina with a shotgun leaning up in the corner of the room who just
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I think people need to optimize their clothes. How did we end up with such shitty clothing choices? Cotton shirts, cotton pants as far as the eye can see. What
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I would like everyone to learn how to avoid playing the blame game on here. The blame game - modelled by Federal Libs and Murdoch media - is the worst
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[A thread] Since Dan Andrews' announcement of the lockdown extension and roadmap out, there has been an outpouring of abuse towards him from some elements of the Victorian business community.
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If anybody out there still believes that the Victorians weren't interested in sex, allow me to present...'PEEPING TOM' MAGAZINE!(c. 1850)Thread They opened the first issue with a portrait of
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The main problem I have this evening, folks, is about the use of the word "queer". Buckle your seatbelt, baby, you're about to be offended. I'm growing increasingly tired of
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Well, that made me chortle.On the subject of "chortle"--coined by Charles Dodgson, prolific writer of children's fantasy books and mathematical textbooks--it is an exemplary verb.More about CD/LC ahead;CW for: CSA
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Uno by name, uno by nature.St Beuno is one of the most important saints in North Wales. And though he did lead a solitary life, his name is actually Old
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Standing by for media conference (due 10.15am AEDT) from Premier Daniel Andrews re news on lifting Victoria's snap 5 day lockdown which was set to midnight tonight...signs are good but
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The Victorians screwed up how we talk about geniuses forever. Turned Shakespeare and Mozart from talented and skilled men to freakish, unassailable superhumans so impossible to square with the actual
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Jeffrey Kennett, how many Victorians have committed suicide due to gambling addiction since you have been making money out of gambling and pokies? How many have suffered from debilitating depression
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Victorian Christmas: A THREAD At the dawn of the 19th century, Christmas was hardly celebrated – at least, not in a way we would recognise today. Many businesses didn't
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It’s also odd how people fixate on these general claims Foucault occasionally made about ‘truth’. In his later work, his main claim was that power often *creates* the phenomena we
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This could be an interesting development in terms of the law in the area.https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/mouncey-prepared-for-legal-action-against-the-afl-in-bid-to-play-20210116-p56ulo.html For reference, here is the AFL's policy.
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A thread on a chronological KS3 English curriculum, to spark debate: 1. Nothing wrong with teaching chronology. But why not a timeline on the wall or in student books, adding
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