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

  1.  @Diana-yn2ho  Were you in Scotland?
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  2.  @linejumper8204  Eunuchs are surgically altered males, not a separate sex. Hermaphrodism is a natural condition, affecting around 0.018% of Earth's human population. It is not a sex.
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  3. With parents like that, I would have withdrawn & become depressed as well.
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  4. That's odd. Usually you neos are replying to these sites more quickly than you have.
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  5. If Kamala Harris is not 'running for perfect' then she has certainly managed that.
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  6. Unfair! A sad little creature longing to be fourteen again, heartbroken that she is no longer relevant, and willing to jump on to any passing bandwaggon in increasingly forlorn attempts to recreate what she sees as her glory years.
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  7. His carers really need to stop him talking at all.
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  8. In Britain, the extreme left long ago realised that it would never win power through the ballot box but, as it works to very long time scales, it took the view that 'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man,” a maxim attributed to a variety of sources, including Aristotle & the Jesuits. Accordingly, they have been steadily infiltrating the British education system since, at least, the 1980s. Consequently, the UK is now dominated by people brought up to have a blinkered view of the world, reinforced by the ability of the same 'cancel culture' to dictate what may, or more importantly, may not be said. In short, you pay at least, lip service to this received wisdom, or you pay the price. Within the education system of today, alleged academics can happily issue threats that, unless certain statues are removed, they will refuse to lecture students attending those colleges, and the supposed management of those colleges generally accede to their demands. It would appear that the United States is proceeding steadily down the same path. As George Orwell (hardly a screaming right-winger, by the way) wrote so presciently, 'The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.'
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  9. Do you seriously advocate nuclear war?
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  10. Breaking news. James Anderson has always hoped to take 1000 test wickets. In order to achieve this, after the upcoming Ashes series, he intends to change his name to Ethel. Please don't tell him I posted this, as he doesn't live far from me, and can run faster than I can!
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  11.  @NordieJ  I believe that Shapps is sending Britain's remaining Challenger 2 battle tanks as part of the exercise. That means both, one of which has a working engine.
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  12. Professor Andrews. A professor in an invented subject, and a professional race grifter. I imagine he gets on well with the BBC's pet race propagandist, David Olusoga, of 'Beachy Head Lady' infamy.
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  13. What branch of Christianity would consider Sharpton suitable for ordination?
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  14. Frankly, what remains of the Tory Party is still squabbling among themselves like rats in a sack. I do apologise, as that is totally unfair. To the rats, that is.
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  15. Why is the word 'progressive' used in this context? By & large, 'progress' benefits society, whereas this does rather the reverse.
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  16. I wonder if anyone even believes that Joe Biden knows that there is an election taking place?
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  17. I believe the boats are to be nuclear powered but not nuclear armed. If they are anything like the Astutes, they could expect to carry something like Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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  18.  @pindapoy214  'My country?' What makes you think I am Australian? The nearest I have ever been to Australia is, as an opening bat, facing a couple of their fast bowlers who were proing for opposing teams, and doing it rather well, dammit! Read the post to which I referred earlier.
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  19.  @pindapoy214  View this :- 'Australia in ‘a terrible lot of trouble’ with $90b ‘con-job’ submarine program' from June, 2021. This shows firstly that the Australians were having increasing misgivings about the contract, and also the President Macron knew all about those misgivings, but doesn't seem to have shown any inclination to act.
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  20. What persuaded the Australian government to conclude an agreement with France which would have provided them with such outdated boats in the first place?
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  21. Rather like going to watch a Test Match, and instead having to listen to the opening bowler's political opinions for the whole of the pre-lunch session.
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  22. 'Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.' Friedrich Schiller ·
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  23.  @501sqn3  True. The 1980s version, even so, was vastly superior to the current drivel,
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  24.  @ElledieWildAndFree  Certainly the two new ones.
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  25. Didn't she, at the age of three, advise FDR and Churchill about strategy in WW2? I am sure I heard somewhere that she thinks she did.
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  26.  @kiranholt3296  Except that the monarchy in the UK achieves approval ratings that politicians could only dream about. Two words immediately silence any support for a Republic here. 'President Blair.'
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  27. Forgive me for whinging! You do not refer to a Royal Navy warship as 'The HMS' as this means that you are saying 'The Her Majesty's Ship Astute.' A similar comment would apply, equally, to an Australian warship. As USS is short for 'United States' Ship' you can say 'the USS,' of course. Grumble over!!
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  28.  @thehighlander959  The RN never tells anyone where any of the nuclear boats actually are. I suppose, however, that one docking in Perth might be something of a clue!
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  29. She has a job. It involves being 21 years old and desperately trying to look 14 in order, at least in her mind, to recall her glory years.
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  30. Alas, given the stranglehold these people seem to have over Britain at the moment, the Report will be trashed, and the author cancelled, very quickly. Expect to hear cries of 'Heresy!' followed by 'Burn the witch!' in the very near future.
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  31.  @Chris.Davidson99836  Elgin had been a Lord since the deathn of his older brother, in 1771. Always a pleasure to educate an ignoramus.
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  32.  @FLORA43899  Perhaps you need to do a little reading yourself? There was no 'Greece' at the time, and there had not been one for over 350 years. Elgin purchased the marbles from the accepted government of the Ottoman province, which had no interest in pre-Islamic art and which had allowed them to decay, even using some of them as roadfill. Indeed, the arrival of such wonders in the west resulted in an upsurge in Philhellenism, and thus to the Anglo-French-Russian military expedition which expelled the Ottomans from Greece after they had defeated a Greek revolt. Battle of Navarino, 1827, anyone?
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  33.  @byJessCh  Elgin paid the administration which had governed Greece for over 350 years, and had de facto control of the items. Perhaps it would have been better had he left them to be broken up by an administration which had no interest in them?
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  34.  @Ancaruin  Correct. He paid the administration which had been in situ for over 350 years.
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  35.  @douglasmegson3739  If Slaves may be considered 'part of our heritage' then the Romans certainly did take some. You could add to thhat raw materials from Roman mining, of course.
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  36.  @tomfav5540  'where exactly I did insult you?' You didn't insult me. I don't recall ever suggesting that you did. You did, however, insult someone else.
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  37. ​ @tomfav5540  Insults in Greek are still a poor substitute for answers. Οι προσβολές στα ελληνικά εξακολουθούν να είναι φτωχό υποκατάστατο των απαντήσεων.
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  38. It is, however, an insult to every ex serviceman and woman in the UK.
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  39.  @erlitacollison7253  You mean apart from the fact that it insults every ex serviceman & woman in the UK, none of whom are permitted a similar privilege?
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  40.  @jeremyharrington8310  It is a matter of the law. The Uniforms Act states that no ex serviceman or woman may wear uniform. Simple as that.
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  41. I hope that the Dear Leader doesn't let Lammy out on his own. He might well agree to anything.
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  42. Is there anything in the Constitution of the United States which actually states that a President is not permitted to hold office and lie in a Sarcophagus at the same time?
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  43. Just as 99% of North Koreans always vot for Kin Jong Un? Do you believe that, as well?
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  44. Didn't you know that Joe Biden led the attack on the Japanese carriers at Midway, before being Allied Supreme Commander on 6 June 1944? What, he hasn't told you yet? Don't worry, I expect he soon will.
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  45. Don't blame him for walking out. The local McDonald's closes in fifteen minutes.
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  46. You have more faith in the gang of extremists and chancers who comprise the current UN than most people do.
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  47.  @sp6450  Was giving money to France to supply, or at least to claim an eventual intention to supply, outdated boats of this type a better use of money? Incidentally, the word on the streets is that the Australian government had become increasingly disillusioned with French performance, and approached the US/UK. Not, as you suggest, the reverse.
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  48. 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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  49. Why does Nikki Haley feel the need to hide the fact that she is actually a Sikh?
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  50. Unfair. Harris has already demonstrated that she can climb the steps into an aircraft without falling over. How much more do Americans expect of their President?
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