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

  1. If a 'reliable source' aka Omid Scobie, says so, then it must be true. Mustn't it??
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  2.  @Tayl-top  Perhaps you confuse 'drama' with 'comedy'?
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  3.  @user-mv9tt4st9k  Freudian slip, perhaps?
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  4.  @AV-fo5de  Oh for the old days. Superfluous Royal princes were encased in armour, placed on a large horse, and sent off to get killed by the French.
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  5. I think Americans should be more concerned about the fact that someone in his condition claims to own shotguns.
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  6. Indeed, and she will be punished for it.
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  7. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  8.  @stephenveltman9474  Thanks! We openers didn't bother with helmets in those days. We were tough. Correction : for 'Tough' read 'Stupid.'
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  9.  @jasperhorace7147  I don't doubt that many of these young men would indeed be willing to fight. My concern would be who for?
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  10.  @danieledmunds588  'I was being polite.' Then I would respectfully submit that you concept of 'politeness' is not the commonly held one.
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  11.  @shezza2191  Precisely. Thank you for making my point for me, even if I rather led you into it. By writing in English, you are able to communicate with a large per centage of the world's population. Had you had the courage of your supposed convictions, you would have been restricted to a few thousand in one part of the planet. Of course it is your opinion. You have my deepest sympathy.
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  12. Perhaps only people with Maori ancestry will be permitted to vote?
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  13. Is Charles Saxe Coburg Gotha a closet republican? His every word and action seems intended to overthrow the monarchy.
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  14. Difficult to do in a six minute interview, I suggest.
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  15. Perhaps for money, until the reality became intolerable?
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  16. Harris & Markle. The Dream Ticket!!!
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  17.  @TheWhitehawker  She isn't, but she may well be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
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  18. @1JohnnyUTAH Perhaps the obvious has escaped you? Contempt for Harry Markle does not in itself equate to adoration of other members of the Royal Family.
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  19. @Blue You do realise that, alone of any imperial or former imperial power, Britain alone gave independence to former colonies, and retains to this day friendly relations with them. Tell mev any other power which has accomplished this. At the same time, you might perhaps explain what the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Africa would have been like without the arrival of western settlers. Are you a fan of the stone age way of life?
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  20.  @scorpionking4012  For an example look at the recent by-election in what used to be Britain. In Rochdale, a constituency with a large, immigrant, population, some 50% of the votes cast were postal ones, and almost all were for the same individual. Odd, that, wasn't it?
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  21. Yet large numbers of veterans who took greater risks during their period of service are not, by law, permitted to wear their own uniforms? You consider this fair?
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  22.  @kermitthehermit9588  In what way has the Industrial Revolution been a disaster? It's true that we don't share the benefits very well with poor people, especially poor people in Third World countries. But societies were no more equal or caring before industrialization, so why is it the fault of the Industrial Revolution?
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  23.  @craignelson3361  You saw a white family in a TV commercial? Congratulations!
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  24.  @WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT  How does that explain why she dresses like a fourteen years old?
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  25. In what used to be Britain, she would probably be employed as CEO of an NHS Trust.
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  26.  @wuper2270  Isn't an Australian channel broadcasting facts to the people of the USA, given the attitude of much of the media there, akin to the BBC of 1940-1945 broadcasting to the poor oppressed peoples of Western Europe?
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  27. I remember seeing that 'revelation' and Winfrey's reaction to it. This Oprah person is not really much use at acting, is she?
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  28.  @josefhotahi  As I am now past my best as a batsman (sorry, batter, as I must now apparently say) I asked our club's head coach if I might be permitted to self-identify as a thirteen year old girl, in order to open the batting for the under 15's girl's team. I am not as light on my feet as I used to be, but I hope that the bruises will fade with time.
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  29.  @paulmccloud9395  Ah, but modern slavery is needed, to produce the smartphones, cheap clothes, and trainers these people like. Far easier to virtue-signal relentlessly about something which ended around 200 years ago, and which can't possible inconvenience them.
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  30. You mean he shouldn't express an opinion because you don't like it?
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  31. No. Most of us would never have been born, after our parents had been either exterminated or deported for short, unpleasant, lives as slave labour in the fatherland.
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  32. A 4th term for hubby! Isn't she wealthy enough already?
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  33. Her comment, on fleeing her office, that she wanted to be remembered as someone who was 'kind' was comparable in unconscious irony with hitler, in his bunker in April. 1945, telling his staff that he hoped to go down in history as 'ein pacifist'.
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  34.  @paulsara9694  'We people' didn't vote for him. Only less than one in five of the UK electorate, 19%, actually voted Labour. The last election was the result of our outdated first past the post system. This worked when there were two major parties, initially Tory/Liberal and then Tory/Labour, but it cannot cope when there are four or five parties, as there are now. What was in essence a protest vote ended up putting the equivalent of a high school debating society into power. In addition, I wonder how many of those who voted Labour would have done so if they had known that the Labour Election Manifesto was a complete pack of lies?
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  35. I must confess I haven't been paying much attention recently. How are you colonists faring on your own? Best regards, Lord North.
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  36. Please don't refer to 'Rhodes.' There is a Rhodes in Greece, and one near Manchester, England. She might get confused.
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  37. 'Disaffected Tory Voters?' After Sunak's antics, isn't that every one of them?
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  38.  @RedWaveGraphics  Actually, it was. 'The monarch broke with centuries-old tradition following the 9/11 attacks, directing the Coldstream Guards to play the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace as a show of solidarity.'
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  39.  @robnunurbiznezz7618  Thank you for, as we say over here, 'Explainin' the bleedin' obvious!!!' Sarcasm does seem to have evaded the grasp of some people, alas.
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  40.  @simongross3122  'I don't like your opinion. Therefore it should not be permitted.' Is that really what you are saying? Musk did not create the disturbances in Britain.
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  41.  @Malik16-mk6ty  Have you ever heard of metaphor? Looks like I'm going to give you a lesson about metaphor.' Had you actually used a metaphor, you post would perhaps have made some slight sense. As you didn't, then alas it doesn't. If it helps, this is what a metaphor actually is :- 'A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.' You should really stop digging, as the hole you have made for yourself is already rather deep.
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  42. Of course they are 'bothered' about the Queen. She is a woman in her mid 90s, and there might be something for them in her will.
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  43. @Blue Your ignorance is astounding. Where were cultures destroyed, other perhaps than human sacrifice in places like Benin, and Suttee in India? What makes you think that a country with a population of 10.1 million (1801 Census) already at war with the largest military power in Europe, was able, militarily, to invade and conquer a place like India, with a population of around 150 million? By the time of the Raj, around 25,000 British administrators administerered an Indian population which had grown to almost 200 million. How did the evil British manage that without the support of a vast, Indian, civil service and the consent of the existing Indian States? As to the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Africa, as western settlers in the 17-19th centuries found them in the same sort of condition that Europe had been in in around 4000 B.C., the peoples there hadn't made much progress on their own. What makes you believe that they would have made sudden startling advances? The fact is, the progress they made is due almost entirely to western science, philosophy, engineering, education, and law. Are you actually a troll? You really cannot be as stupid as you pretend?
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  44. There's bin a muhder!
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  45. Lord Debden? In an earlier life, wasn't he the celebrated John Seldom-Glummer? I recall that, during the 'Mad Cow Disease' scare of a few years ago, he rammed a burger down the throat of his young daughter in front of cameras. Good to see him still coining it in the House of the Living Dead.
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  46.  @BeautifullyMixed72  Please promise me that you will keep the pair of them, together with their progeny. Believe me, they are not wanted back in Britain.
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  47.  @artstocker60  I'm sure that I read that, in the early years of the United States, the vice-president was actually the losing candidate in the Presidential election. Now wouldn't that have been entertaining?
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  48. I remember Dylan when he played second row forward for London Irish. Oh, wait. I must be thinking of someone else.
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  49. Perhaps the Chinese will retaliate by concluding a mutual defence pact with their New Zealand friends?
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  50. Quite why two prominent politicians feel the need to shove their respective oars in is a mystery. It rather reminds me of a cartoon in a UK newspaper after the 2005 Ashes, which has Cherie Blair saying to Andrew Flintoff ' My Tony is a great fan of yours. He has a video of every one of your goals.' The reality is that, within the laws, Carey was quite entitled to do what he did. The argument, which really serves no purpose, is whether this idea of the 'Spirit of Cricket' applies. People who debate that should experience a grudge match in local league cricket!
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