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

  1. Expecting the Scouserlopithicenes to behave with any dignity is as optimistic a hope as is trying to persuade dung beetles to stop rolling dung.
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  2. Perhaps heroically and single-handedly saving a helpless child from an approaching Lion? With only 35 cameramen to record the incident?
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  3. Don't knock the Cycling Proficiency Certificate! I got one of those when I was twelve or so. Proudest moment of my life! I must have led a very boring life, however.
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  4.  @phillipaclemons7261  You don't perhaps consider that, when the British arrived, they brought huge advances in science, medicine, technology, education, and governance? Would you really suggest that she would have preferred to have been part of a hunter-gatherer culture with a life expectancy of 45-50 at best? She accepts all the benefits of European civilisation, whilst claiming to despise it. There is a term for that attitude. Hypocrisy.
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  5. Don't worry. The elites will continue holding referenda until fatigue produces the result they require. At which point they will cry exultantly 'The people have spoken!' It tends to work for the EU.
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  6. There is a rather different approach in what used to be Britain. A veteran who obeyed orders in Northern Ireland has just been charged with murder, 50 years after the event.
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  7.  @secondchance6603  I know a number of members of these ethnic minorities from my connections through league cricket. The general view most of them express is not that they feel the countryside is 'colonialist' but that they are simply not that interested in it. Perhaps this organisation of entitled white, middle class people would suggest the forcible transportation of diverse people into the countryside, with instructions that they may not go home until they learn to enjoy it?
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  8. Who writes the scripts to which these poor indoctrinated people refer on their phones?
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  9. Hold on a minute! we British don't want the sods here either.
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  10. You are wrong. Ex servicemen are not permitted to wear uniform, according to the Uniforms Act of 1894. If Charles has buckled because the Markles shouted and sulked, then he has diminished his credibility, and insulted every ex serviceman and woman in the United Kingdom. It seems that 'whatever Harry wants, Harry gets.' If this represents the level of respect the new King has for the feelings of his subjects, then it truly is time for Cromwell's return and a new Republic.
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  11. How dare anyone disagree with this living saint? After all, didn't she tell FDR & Churchill how to conduct WW2, as well as being the real commander of the US Navy at Midway?
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  12. My last visit was to watch Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon,' two weeks ago. It was, from start to finish, irredeemably awful. Best described as 'Carry On Boney,' although it would have benefitted from Sid James, and Kenneth Williams, with Barbara Windsor as Josephine. Still, at least Lenny Henry wasn't chosen to play Wellington.
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  13. It is the 'Peter Principle', so called from a 1969 book. The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
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  14.  @CanabisWhiskeyAnanas  Perhaps the concept of 'balance' in broadcasting passed you by?
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  15. As the late great Spike Milligan once said, 'Being rich doesn't bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.'
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  16. Unfortunately, in Britain, the old principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' no longer applies. In certain areas, it has been replaced by 'guilty until proven innocent, but still assumed to be guilty anyway.' The BBC, of course, insists on absolute impartiality from staff and presenters. Of course, to paraphrase a famous author, in their world, some forms of impartiality are more impartial than others.
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  17. Surely, it has been accepted for some time that being non-Muslim in a third world city like Londonabad is unwise?
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  18.  @f554uv1  Do your carers know that you have got hold of the laptop again?
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  19.  @IssieLauren  Or, she was scared that he would flee back to the Abbey and claim sanctuary?
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  20.  @coling3957  Unfair. I bought a copy of Meghan's book in a local charity shop and it was wonderful. It fitted exactly under one of the legs of my dining table, which no longer wobbles. Best 20 pence I ever spent.
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  21.  @canadianjaneoriginal  As a historian pointed out to an annoyed US interviewer a week or so ago, the British Empire abolished slavery thirty years before the US did, and didn't need to kill 600,000 of their citizens to do it.
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  22. With Meghan Markle as Vice Presidential candidate, perhaps?
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  23. 'The most important thing is honesty. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.'
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  24.  @williamhudson3366  Good for you. Just don't send the tedious self satisfied twerp back to us!
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  25. Presumably, no-one ever told you that insults are a poor substitute for argument?
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  26. We know. We are being trained to accept our new betters, or face the inevitable consequences.
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  27. You really should not forget the 10 million last minute postal votes which will undoubtedly arrive. Remember, it is not how people vote, but who counts the votes, that matters.
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  28.  @lancehobbs8012  According to Harvard's newspaper The Crimson, Dr. Gay's estimated base salary as president was approximately $900,000 annually. Prior to her presidency, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, earning $879,079 in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020.
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  29. Actually, she was accused of 'racist slurs' by one Marlene Headley, who has made considerable profit from (mis)managing a charity which works solely and exclusively for women of black African origin.
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  30.  @f554uv1  'Talked about' indeed. Much as people in the 14th century talked a lot about the Black Death. I, and my friends & family, am a British person, and my only feelings about the malignant Markles are of unlimited contempt. Indeed, I know no-one who regards them as anything other than contemptible. By the way. Last time I looked, Harry Markle's mother was also the Prince of Wales' mother.
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  31. Simply look at the staff who work for the organisation who produced this 'report.' 100% white, middle-class, & entitled.
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  32. The problem is that she has been unchallenged for so long, and seems to control the media in Scotland so absolutely, that she has not had to handle any questions other than fawningly supportive ones. This is what happens to dictators. They come to believe that they no longer need to justify their behaviour.
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  33. South Africa is rapidly heading down the road pioneered by Zimbabwe. As was, of course, entirely predictable.
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  34. Alas, what will probably actually happen is that the teacher will be lionised and promoted to a very senior position within the Education system. This is what seems to happen in what used to be Britain.
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  35. Unfair. She simply said that he 'answered every question' not that the answers made the slightest sense.
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  36. Alas, the bar is set rather low. I suspect that my daughter's pet Gerbil is also smarter than the President of the United States. As for our Cat. There really is no contest.
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  37.  @rightlyso8507  'Nobody cares?' Are you sure about that?
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  38. In what used to be Britain, Christmas Day is seen as offensive to non-Christians. Oddly, Ramadan is not seen as offensive to non-Moslems. Odd, that.
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  39. Perhaps Putin hasn't read Machiavelli, who warned about the dire risks involved with the use of mercenaries?
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  40. Indeed.Letting the inmates out of Bedlam was, and is, never a wise decision.
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  41. Sorry, Angela, but this investigation must be stopped at once. If it proceeds, there is a serious danger that Harry Markle will come back to the UK, and we really don't want that. We already have enough problems without importing another one.
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  42. There is an old saying in Britain ' Them as can, do. Them as can't, teach.' Clearest example I have come across for a while.
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  43.  @drse2546  No, but it is a good idea. After that we can start on the Vikings and the Normans. Should be nice little earners.
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  44. Isn't the reality more mundane? These 'commentators' and 'academics' cocooned in their conviction that they are the leaders of popular thought, have been horrified to observe the outpouring of grief, or at least respect, emanating from the vast majority of ordinary people, and the subsequent realisation that they are, in reality, a tiny, self-regarding, minority has alarmed them. Hence, the need to comfort themselves by making increasingly bizarre and extreme commernts.
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  45. Isn't this somewhat akin to White Star line announcing on 17 April, 1912 that Titanic's condition had 'stabilised.'
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  46.  @9eleven1877  Indeed. Didn't something similar happen at the Battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.? Brutus was doing quite well against Octavian and Antony, until Cassius offered him a plate of Steak Pudding and chips, thus distracting him at a critical moment. Sorry, I appreciate that some people actually take tennis seriously, however odd the concept might be to many of us.
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  47. I wouldn't be so sure about Keir Starmer, still less about David Lammy.
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  48. Grossly unfair to describe her as a 'lightweight.' Many real lightweights will take offence at being compared to her.
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  49.  @diannemorris8690  Many years ago, the writer George Orwell wrote this of 1930s Britain. It certainly still applies, and now seems to have extended to the great nation formerly known as the United States of America :- ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British’.
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  50.  @junescoular292  Apparently the book will include at least 20 pages of pictures. And a pack of felt-tip pens with which to colour (color?) them in.
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