grandpa_lash

@grandpa_lash (5225)

Australia • Age 80

Joined myLot 16 years ago

GrandpaLash

Discussions (215)

grandpa_lash's Discussions

I'm in rapture ......

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 21 Dec 12

The world din't end yesterday. ROFLMAO at the paranoid religious fringe. Lash

idiots

millenialism

religious mania

revelations of stupidity

9 responses

Gender confusion?

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 12 Dec 12

I'm not really here, but while I'm ghosting around talking about our new house I'll haunt a couple of topics. I have noticed over the years a number of mostly Asian members, male, who use profile pics of women, usually...

fake profile pics

obfuscation

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5 people

The best laid plans of mice and men ....

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 11 Dec 12

No, I'm not back lol, just visiting briefly. For those of my friends who might be interested, I thought I might update the interstate move. Our intention was to rent for six months and have a good look around, but had an...

changing address

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5 people

The Party's over ......

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 15 Nov 12

At least until the next party starts lol. I find I can only cope with MyLot for a limited time, since I tend to create and enter into discussions with "heavy" subjects and hopefully a lot of intelligent responses. Unfortunately...

farewell

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3 people

Political Posturing

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 8 Nov 12

I have long felt that limiting the terms of politicians is a good idea, but I have begun to realise, now that I'm getting a better idea of how America's system works, that there may be some drawbacks I hadn't previously...

partisan politics

political posturing

the myth of democracy

the role of government

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1 person

Perception and Reality

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 8 Nov 12

When I was involved in the HIV/AIDS movement, and the Pagan movement, it seemed that everybody in the world was involved, and we felt immense optimism about the things that concerned us. Of course we later discovered that the only...

boycott

irrelevancy

zealotry

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2 people

Insane left-wing predictions

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 6 Nov 12

In light of the voting machine "glitches" I have posted about this morning, perhaps a return to last week's Politics board might be useful. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2713312.aspx Obviously Ladybugmagic must be mad...

2 responses

Glitch or fraud?

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 6 Nov 12

This item appeared on the 9MSN website in Austalia a little earler today. [b]A voter in the US state of Pennsylvania has filmed a polling machine that altered his vote for Barack Obama to a vote for Mitt Romney. The voter...

election fraud

us elections

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3 people

What are the odds?

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 6 Nov 12

The voters rae at the polls in the US, and people around the world have been inundated with news programs on what the likely result will be. The consensus seems to be a slight edge to Obama, but what does that mean? No matter how...

bookmaker objectivity

election betting

go obama

sure things

1 response

Voting Processes in the US election

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 2 Nov 12

I heard a report on radio this morning from the widow of an Australian former cabinet minister who is touring Ohio on a "political tour" in which she and some American friends are talking to voters about the upcoming...

political processes

voting processes

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1 person

Hell is in the here and now

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 28 Oct 12

Humans have always believed in Gods in one form or another, and some of our organised belief systems have been around for a long time: Hinduism has at least 3,500 years, Judaism around the same, Buddhism about 2600, Christianity...

evangelical bounty

religious satire

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4 people

Steady State economics

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 28 Oct 12

A few days ago I started a discussion on the dangers of downsizing/austerity measures/small government, and this could almost be a second part to that discussion. The first job I had when I left school was with a medium sized...

economic rationalism

steady state economics

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2 people

The Myth of the American Dream

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 26 Oct 12

Like clichés, political, religious and ideological slogans are, at their best, a distillation of experience and knowledge and a useful tool. The problem with them is that if you stop applying critical analysis to them from time to...

critical analysis

mantras and myths

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3 people

Bushfire Alert

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Oct 12

We have been living in this small rural community for 7 years now, and for the first time we're facing the possibility of having to evacuate our home because of a bushfire. Actually that's a little bit of an exaggeration, the part...

bushfire

evacuation

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4 people

The Dangers of Downsizing

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Oct 12

My qualifications are in Economic Anthropology, so I am not actually an economist and may be overdoing some things in the following analysis, but it seems to make sense to me and is in line with the recent IMF rhetoric that...

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1 person

Trolls

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Oct 12

I have found myself the subject of organised downgrading by other members. How do I go about bringing this to the attention of the administration? Lash

trolls

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9 people

Geronimo!!!!

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Oct 12

I'm curious. I grew up, like probably every kid in the Western world in the 1950s, with cowboy and Indian movies, where the Indian was almost always (a) bad, and (b) the loser, various versions of Custer's Last Stand aside....

police brutality

racism

1 response