Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1. Why is this 20 years old seemingly desperate to look 14 years old?
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  2. That is a dangerous attitude. Have you never heard the maxim, 'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man,' attributed to Aristotle? Books containing such drivel are routinely used to indoctrinate children at nursery and primary schools by teachers who themselves have been indoctrinated.
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  3.  @amialal4510  That is a vile calumny shamefully spread by we disgusting white RAYCISTS!!! Actually, when David Livingstone began exploring the Dark Continent, he found Africans living in zero carbon mansions, using anti-gravity vehicles to move around, and curing every known disease and ailment within days of identifying it. Disgracefully, his diaries and notes confirming all this were, of course, entirely destroyed when they were returned to Britain. Furthermore, don't forget that the Laws of Cricket were originally drawn up in Nairobi.
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  4. Be fair to him. Being a Markle lackey is his only source of income. He might as well milk it for as long as it lasts.
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  5. I hope Mr. Trump has sufficient maturity to judge people on their current ability rather than their past behaviour. Unfortunately, if he takes this approach to Mr. Lammy, we British are totally done for.
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  6. Don't you people know how the British system of governance works? A back bench MP cannot simply become a Minister. He or she is required to undertake a complex IQ test first. Anyone who exceeds a certain level is, of course, barred from a Ministerial post. Fortunately, this was never a danger where Mr. Lammy was concerned.
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  7. Perhaps Biden's carers wrote the speech to protect him. 'If you get rid of poor Joe, look what you get instead.' I thought we British had problems, but ours pale into insignificance!
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  8. I have some sympathy with the airhead at 4.45 as I felt the same when I heard that James Anderson was being retired. However, I doubt that Joe Biden was ever that good a bowler.
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  9. Don't be cruel. David Lammy is convincing proof of the theory that, in politics, wisdom & intelligence only hold you back.
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  10. Eat your heart out, Demosthenes! A Phillipic had nothing on that for inspired eloquence. Oh dear, is that really the standard of oratory in the United States?
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  11. Phew! What a relief to see that uncontrolled insanity is not exclusive to GB.
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  12. Good to see that many Australian politicians are just as intellectually lacking as most of the ones we have in Britanistan.
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  13. Only nine corrections? Was it a very short speech?
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  14. Apparently, Greta graciously allowed some of her disciples to touch the hem of her gown, and even laid hands on the heads of those who begged a blessing!
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  15. In Britain my wife is showing her support by only wearing her left shoe as a protest against right-wing politics. She keeps falling over.
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  16. Breaking news. A box containing 7,000,000 uncounted votes has just been found under a desk in Philadelphia.
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  17.  @baraskparas9559  I had hoped for better, but you clearly aren't educated enough to grasp the way a constitutional monarchy works.
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  18. Australia became a 'Commonwealth' with control over her government and internal policies in 1901.
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  19.  @AITrademarket  You don't know much about the history of the slave trade, clearly. Perhaps you are unaware that slavery in Africa preceded the arrival of Europeans by at least 1500 years? The typical slave ship had a crew of 30 to 40 men. The slaves were handed over to these crews in exchange for trade goods shipped out from Britain. There was rarely any force involved, because the chieftains and Arab slavers were eager to do deals, and the small crews could not possibly have used force, because if they did the source of the slaves would cease. As for 'strongest and most viable assets,' the slaves were generally excess population, or individuals captured in inter-tribal conflicts. Do you really believe that hoards of evil westerners rampaged across Africa kidnapping noble Africans? Either you are poorly educated, or simply a victim of the current enthusiasm for indoctrination instead of education.
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  20. She wasn't making an argument, she was simply stating facts. Without the enthusiastic co-operation of African rulers and Arab traders, the trade as it evolved would simply not have been possible.
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  21. I blame the Beaker People, who arrived in the British Isles around 4500 years ago, and brought their damned silly pots with them.
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  22. Clearly, you don't like the facts about the origins of the slave trade.
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  23.  @mastere2460  It is always fascinating to read the comments of a fantasist who personal prejudice prevents him from accepting the facts of the slave trade, and the important roll that Africans and Arabs played in it. Indeed, the role they had been playing for over 1500 years before westerners arrived, and benefitted from African & Arab greed.
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  24.  @mastere2460  Firstly, the western traders did not enslave anyone. They simply purchased existing slaves from their owners, who were African chiefs of Arab slavers. The Triangular Trade itself only developed because of the easy market made available by co-operative Africans and Arabs. Had they chosen not to co-operate, the trade could not have grown as it did. Sorry if historical facts annoy you, but they are, nevertheless, facts.
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  25. African rulers didn't 'help to keep it going,' they largely created it. They, and Arab slavers, had been heavily involved in slavery for at least 1500 years when the first westerners arrived.
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  26. No, it wasn't. There are around 45 million slaves in the world today. Actually, the historian merely responded, with accurate facts, to a ludicrous comment by a poorly educated reporter.
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  27.  @kanyamajaja2583  You don't actually seem to know any of the facts of the slave trade, or indeed of the history of slavery. Or, possibly, your personal prejudices prevent you from accepting these facts?
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  28. Perhaps you don't know, or lack the integrity to admit, that slavery in Africa, and many other places, pre-dated the arrival of Europeans by at least 1500 years?
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  29. Correct. But be careful about expressing this fact. Since indoctrination replaced education, these programmed people get very angry very easily.
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  30. The lady is entirely accurate in her comments. Without the co-operation of African rulers and Arab traders, the trade would not have been possible. A typical slave ship had a crew of 30 - 40. It arrived with trade goods, which were enthusiastically accepted in exchange for slaves, generally either the excess population, or prisoners from local wars. Moreover, slavery in Africa pre-dated western involvement by at least 1500 years. As the discussion was about British involvement, by the way, how are the excesses of Belgium and Germany relevant? I don't hear any criticism of any other country than Britain.
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  31. Perhaps you didn't listen, or simply blanked her comments? The slave trade only flourished because African tribal rulers and Arab slavers were eager to profit from it. Indeed, it pre-dated western involvement by at least 1500 years. Latin writers from the time of the Roman Empire sometimes referred to slaves as 'Aurum Arabicum' or Aurum Infelix.' - Arab gold, or wretched gold. The typical slave ship had a crew of 30 - 40. The ships transported trade goods from Britain to Africa, where they were exchanged for either prisoners taken in tribal wars, or members of the excess population. It simply could not have happened without the complicity of African rulers, and the indoctrinated myth that it was entirely the product of vast numbers of evil Britons rampaging across Africa kidnapping innocent and peaceful locals is ludicrous.
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  32. You don't consider that African rulers and Arab traders were involved then? Without them, the trade (which pre-dated European involvement by at least 1500 years) would not have been possible.
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  33. Nice? He hadn't got a credible response to her facts. Actually, the source of the slave supply has been known for centuries. Short answer, Yes Africans did sell off their own people in exchange for profit, and really didn't care in the slightest what happened to them.
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  34. What 'slaving raids?' A typical slaving ship had a crew of 30 to 40. Are you really daft enough to believe that these rampaged across Africa?
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  35. It seems that getting arrested is this little girl's increasingly desperate attempt to appear relevant. I write 'little girl' because, even though she is twenty, she tries to look fourteen at the most.
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  36. Perhaps I am being unfair, but President Biden reminds me more and more of the Peter Sellers character in the 1979 movie 'Being There.'
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  37. Is there any point in sending so long a letter to Mr. Biden? Won't he have forgotten most of it by the time he reaches the end?
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  38. Is there anything in the US constitution which requires that the President must still be alive? If not, I nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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  39. Aren't 80 years old pop stars so absolutely sure that they know everything about everything?
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  40. I liked the supposed expression of 'shock' on Oprah's face. Not exactly a natural actor, is she?
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  41. This news is personally worrying to me. As Charles is spineless enough to welcome Harry back into the bosom of his family, I am deeply concerned for my future. Can you offer me any reassurance? Yours anxiously, The Fatted Calf.
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  42. The difference, which the woman in the middle refuses to see, is that the demand has not been for a public apology, but for a public National apology. If a very wealthy upper middle class family choose to virtue-signal, that is their right, but please do not try to impose such a requirement on ordinary people as part of state policy.
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  43. Harry Markle's frustration is understandable. No matter how many lies he tells about his family, either directly or through acolytes, no matter how many insults he throws at them, they still refuse to apologise.
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  44. Why are you people so vindictive towards a war hero who clearly remembers leading the air strike which sank four Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway, and then acting as Supreme Commander for the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944?
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  45. In the UK, a pre-school teacher promoting something similar could expect promotion.
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  46.  @BornFree6664  I did refer to 'postal votes.'
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  47. Clearly I need to have a DNA test as soon as possible. If I can find a bit of African ancestry, It could be a nice little earner for me.
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  48. I asked my son, who would be of conscription age, of his opinion. He said that he had no intention of sacrificing himself for the lads in the four star hotels, and that his view was more or less universal among his mates.
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  49. Ever read 'The Marching Morons?' It was a science fiction short story, published in 1951, about a future world populated almost entirely by total idiots. Amazing how, less than 75 years later, it has become fact.
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  50.  @nicholasadams3894  Johnson is seeking to protect the interests of the United Kingdom (whether some people agree with his policies or not is not the issue) and clearly understands that saying what he probably has long realised about President Biden is not the way to achieve do this. Quite probably, Scott Morrison ( 'that guy from Down Under') and other leaders are fully aware of the reality as well, but as long as Biden is, at least nominally, the man in charge, nothing would be gained by annoying those behind him who are pulling the strings by rocking the boat.
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