Club Troppo

Now be honest ! Who amongst you hasn't had a full blown, boots'n'all sexual fantasy about some one, depending upon your preference, male or female, depending upon your age, older or younger than you ? I want a lover with an easy touch I want somebody who will spend some time N...

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My son's IQ exceeds 150. Consequently I am of the view that IQ is hereditary,and further that boys inherit their IQ from their father (I made up that last bit). I read an article in the AFR a couple of days ago about how the traditional concepts of IQ were being supplanted by...

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Lots of Rugby news over at RWC Round Up but I can't agree with the list of posers (def; drink in lounge bars and sit down to piss) so I've decided to show you some of the players I admire most. Sure they may have faces only a mother could love but they are the one's that, at t...

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The RWC game France v Fiji was extremely disappointing for me, apart from the score, it's sad to see one of the most exciting rugby teams in the world having to recycle Serevi, a player whose most trenchant supporters would admit, has passed his peak, added to the likelihood t...

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Two articles in Friday's AFR, John Hewson's "Reaping the whirlwind" and Laura Tingle's "Full of promise but short on substance" (only available online to those prepared to pay) make interesting reading, partly because they are about the same subject, looked at from different p...

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A 24 - 8 win against Argentina first up. Scratchy but promising. A solid performance by the forwards, especially Baxter at prop, David Lyons in place of Toutai Kefu, and David Giffin before the sickening collision of his head with the ground. At least it's apparently only conc...

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Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee's novel Disgrace is, as its title hints, about an ageing humanities academic forced to resign in disgrace after his callous seduction of a female student is uncovered. As the Amazon.com review encapsulates: David Lurie is hardly the hero of his ow...

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My mum always told me I had 'big bones', I'm not really fat, just 'cuddly' according to my wife and so I've always had a reasonably positive self image, but I was doing some research on Metabolic , a company involved in finding drugs to reduce obesity, in preparation for buyin...

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Following on from my post about the Defence Symposium held in Darwin, some of the papers are now available. If you are interested in obtaining some background, the details of the economics of the defence forces in the NT 2000/1 are here . The (very heavily censored?? edited) p...

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George Williams attempts to broaden the debate about constitutional reform in an opinion piece in today's SMH. He opposes, as I do, John Howard's proposal effectively to remove the Senate's power to block legislation by providing that there could be a joint sitting of both Hou...

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Uncle at ABC Watch posts an item taking a passing sideswipe at retired American Anglican Bishop John Shelby Spong for misusing his clerical office to promote personal opinions arguably intrinsically inconsistent with Christian ministry . Uncle probably has a point, because as...

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The worst thing about failing to post anything on the blog for a week or more is that just about the only messages I now get in my home email inbox are Nigerian business proposals and marginally premature attempts to persuade me to buy some Viagra. Meanwhile, Sam "Yobbo" Ward...

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Oh what a feeling ! (perhaps Toyota have trade-marked that, never mind)..... Lovely to know that somebody makes the effort to trek on over to TA every day to read the musings of the post-moral majority. I thought I'd better post something to assuage Mork and those readers of h...

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Chris Sheil reckons I'm having a "post-50 funk/sulk-out ". He might be right, although there's stuff going on in my life at present that's a bit more significant than that (at least from my subjective viewpoint) and arguably not related per se to being 50. However they're even...

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Ken Parish alluded to the Charles Darwin Symposium titled "The Eye of the Storm: Northern Australia's Location in an Arc of Instability " in which several speakers explore[d] ... the regional security issues that have arisen since the commencement of the 'War on Terror' and th...

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Congratulations to J.M. Coetzee for winning the 2003 Nob(el)le Prize of literature. Of course, being a Nostradamus-like figure that I am, he was one of the four writers I highlighted for the Noble gong last year, (even if I couldn't spell his name.) When I have a spare moment,...

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UnAustralian Ken Miles has a reflexive whinge about an article in yesterday's Australian newspaper by noted geologist Professor Ian Plimer. Why? Well, I can't be sure because I didn't buy yesterday's Oz, and the article isn't online (at least not for free). But it's a fair bet...

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I'll be in one from tomorrow: New Zullind to be precise - until October 12. I won't be posting until I'm back but I'm sure I'll find the opportunity to comment from time to time.

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Nigeria has just launched it's first satellite - from a missile base in Russia. The Washington Post reports Nigerian space agency spokesman, Solomon Olaniyi, saying that the government plans to use the $13 million satellite to monitor water resources, soil erosion, deforestati...

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Out go Richard Alston and Wilson Tuckey - they'll be hoping there's no ambassadorial vacancy in Chad. Vanstone to Immigration, Ruddock to Attorney-General, Abbott picks up Health, Patterson gets Family and Community Services, Daryl Williams goes to Communications and De-anne K...

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