That should solve the problem.

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

That said one of my classes was repeatedly doing horrible things to each other in the breaks so we had a "class meeting" that began just before each break to discuss the issue (and given we could back then went on into the break for most of the break) and consisted of me talking at them about the behaviours expected of them and how tolerance and respect for each other was important, I can really drone on. After three "meetings" (each one after they had again been nasty to one another at a break) one raised his hand and said, "These meetings are going to continue until we stop being idiots aren't they?" When I grinned they all groaned and the stupid behaviour stopped. Technically a detention but framed differently and really boring for them. Unfortunately I see most meetings as a detention that rarely have anything interesting in them.

Attacks by Urban Coyotes Have Been Increasing As more and more humans settle into their usual ...

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

While I acknowledge that coyotes are a serious issue when they are in urban settings I saw this years ago and thought of it when I saw your post.

Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Smoke on the water/Thunderstruck/The Fourth Floor [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

This is awesome love the bagpipes. Thanks for putting it up.

America - Sister Golden Hair [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Awesome song awesome band.

Thanks to @Dhiltong for the inspiration. America - Daisy Jane [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Still just as great in real life.

And we lost another one today rest in peace Neil you were an excellent drummer [m.youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

A great drummer such a loss.

[youtu.be] Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (1997 remix)

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Can not go past Smoke on the Water one of the few things I can play on the guitar (well the opening notes at least) Love this song.

Speaking for myself, I can recognize any sensation/feeling/mood/emotion, no matter how complex, as ...

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

If you want to really investigate this I would interview people on the ASD spectrum. While they have feelings they struggle to "read" others feelings or to equate how an action might impact others. If they are injured by another some can become hellbent on revenge or the other person paying for it. So teaching them social skills is paramount in Special Education and we do it with Social Stories ie When I walk into a room I say hello/hi/good morning to my teacher. My teacher may be busy and I have to wait for him/her to reply. My teacher may say good morning and ask me a question. I have to answer the question. We will have lots of conversations around why we do this. Many of them struggle with the "conventions of society" I had one student who would compliment teachers on how they looked (he thought he was being polite) some teachers found it creepy, so big conversation around relationships and how each person has the right to tell you what you can and can not say to them. Very confused student who could not understand that they did not see he was just being polite. Again this is their feelings based on his actions. For me personally I would say if what I am doing is not physically harming someone/ the environment, taking away needs from someone/the environment or interfering overly with their wants (a tough one to judge) then it is okay. If someone is breaking these by harming others or taking needs away then it is okay to break these ideals to deal with them. I am not a pacifist.

Thanks to Agnostic.

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Sorry to hear that health issues meant that you could not continue in the show. Which character were you going to play? I was taken to a production of it when I was about 5 had nightmares for weeks as the only thing I remembered was the ghost of the wife during the wedding scene. Have watched the movie a few times since (mainly with my parents) Loved the music from it.

We come into this world naked and alone.

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

i have always believed people should have the right to choose. My favourite author Sir Pterry (Terry Pratchett) did a documentary about it Choosing to Die he wanted to go out with a glass of wine and his family around him. I heard of a farmer who was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease, the second time he was found wandering around the farm and was brought home by neighbours he knew he did not want to wait until he was completely gone. There were no options other than to check himself into an old people's home and wait for the end. He waited for a day when everyone was out, rang the police to tell them what he was about to do and where he could be found, went into the shed and shot himself. He did not want his famiy to find him and in his note apologized to the police who he knew would be affected by being the ones to first come across his body. It would have been far better for everyone concerned if he had been able to do it peacefully and with them knowing and ready. It is high time we gave people the right to make these choices. Technically there is already assisted deaths, when my mother was dying the nurses kept coming in and turning up the morphine, not enough to kill her but enough to compromise her breathing and slow down her already damaged heart. At least she was not in pain. She may have lasted a few more days without the morphine. My uncle, dying of cancer, was also put on a morphine drip and my aunt said that the nurses kept on coming in and fiddling with the machine (in all probability turning up the dosage) again not to kill him but to dull the pain the side effect was also that it hastened his death.

A belated post to express my pleasure in being a part of this group.

Budgie comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Welcome, I can not begin to imagine what it is like to like in an area where the belief in a deity is something that is expected. I have heard many interesting stories from friends who taught in American schools, one where the reading of the bible happened every morning in the classroom with the previous teacher and when my friend did not do it the parents were in an uproar about it not being done. Here it would almost get you sacked if you did do it. The driver on our bus one day (taking my class on an excursion) turned the radio to a god channel and one of the kids piped up with "Can we turn to a channel that plays good music I don't want to hear god stuff." I was not listening to the channel to be honest as I talking to some of the children. Was so proud of him for being polite but pointed at the same time.

There was a time in the 90's when MTV had their 'unplugged' run.

Budgie comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Last night at quiz this song was in the song round but performed by a group called Bad Wolves (I must look them up) I love this song.

Bryan Sutton, Tommy Emmanuel, Guthrie Trapp, Pat Bergeson & Richard Smith - Folsom Prison Blues...

Budgie comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Reminded me of a concert by Tommy I went to so am going to post a song of his.

A very painful on-line, structured discussion. Can you follow the logic ? [kialo.com]

Budgie comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Altering a child's body without a medical reason is not on. Let them decide for themselves later in life if they want it done.

This song saved my life.

Budgie comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Time does not ease the loss you just find a way to live with it. This is a beautiful song and I am glad that you found something to hang onto in your grief.

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Budgie comments on Jan 6, 2020:

We got our first decent day of rain this wet today. The wet started in October.

I live in a religious area, Alabama.

Budgie comments on Jan 5, 2020:

If asked what you do for a living state you are a Dr if asked what kind then say Ob/gyn. If he specifically asks if you perform abortions I would answer based on the laws where you are. If it is illegal simply say abortions here are illegal. This would only become an issue if you became more than hiking buddies. Wait until you know more about him and his opinions. As a vegatarian I would have a tough time dating someone who kills animals for a living, but a complete deal breaker for me is smoking so things can vary.

I'm sure many people on here have religious friends and family members that get on your nerves.

Budgie comments on Jan 5, 2020:

One of my best friends was catholic (died from cancer) he knew I was atheist and it did not bother him we had a live and let live policy. We focused on all of the other similarities we had. Please note he was not a go to church every Sunday catholic. When his father died and I went to the funeral sitting at the back as I did not know his father very well he told me I could move further forward that I would not go up in flames. I joked back that I was more worried about the church going up in flames. At the end of the service he came up to me and as we hugged he told me that I had survived, he was glad there were no lightning bolts to distract from his father's service. Once when I said "oh my god" near him he pointed out that I could not say that if I did not believe in a god. I forget how the rest of the conversation went but it ended up with him becoming my own personal god to the point that was how I stored his phone number in my phone. If I used the word god around him he replied with a "Yes my child?" Depending on the people maybe using humour could help. I know with a friend (who does get on my nerves) I walk away she does not have a well developed sense of humour and gets offended easily. There are some people I work with that we just do not mention it as we are pretty much diametrically opposed. But as I understand it in America the people tend to be more militant about believing. Good luck with it.

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Budgie comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Was doing poetry with some students and one wrote the first verse out and handed it to me as "his poem" Was a bit shocked when I told him I knew the song and he needed to write his own poem not copy others. Kids seem to think we stop listening to new music. (this was when it had first been released) I love the song.

I'm currently listening to "Darkside" by Tom Stoppard.

Budgie comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Love Dark Side of the Moon spent many a night with friends in the dark listening to it, stone cold sober and straight but it was still an awesome experience.

The Who.

Budgie comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Great band, loved their music.

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Budgie comments on Jan 4, 2020:

OMG I had forgotten about this song. The moment it started memories came flooding back.

Today I put together my first major project all by myself.

Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

I am near the end of a crochet blanket for my aunt. Given myself RSI so have to stop for a while but want to get it finished. I can see all of the mistakes I have made but hopefully she will look past those. Good on you it is the first step that we all have to take.

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Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Love The Doors so many songs to like.

Blinded me with science. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

When ever I hear this song I think of the movie Young Einstein, an Australian made movie that pretty much pokes fun at everything it can.

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Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

It is a beautifully simple song that says so much.

The Mandalorian on Disney + Just started watchin this and so far i am not disappointed by it, I'm ...

Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

I liked it although I am thinking that it is time the found a way to lock a spaceship from the outside. I am assuming the why is for identify purposes and so you never know which Mandalorian you are talking to. Could it have come from knights in battlefields to protect a lord or king (if everyone is wearing the same then how do you know which one to attack) Or any type of mask to hide identify from others.

The Witcher.

Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

I love it, I love the fact you have to do some thinking while watching it to make sense of it and that little things said are important. When you watch it for the third time you pick up on so much.

Time Of The Season.

Budgie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Is it just me or is the bloke at 11 sec also the woman who appears next? Love the Zombies and the song.

Little River Band - Reminiscing (1978) [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 30, 2019:

This screams of my childhood, they were regulars on Countdown which my friends and I watched avidly.

Happy and sad.

Budgie comments on Dec 30, 2019:

Can they be rehomed?

If you can’t get this video.

Budgie comments on Dec 30, 2019:

Love his voice, my favourite song of theirs is still High

Harry Nilsson - Coconut. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I thought that looks like an ape hand and wondered what was going on until it panned out. Love the song as well.

Currently, well actually for the past few years, I have been witnessing - and I use this term ...

Budgie comments on Dec 27, 2019:

When I was a child and before I had heard of cults that peddled door to door, there was a knock at our door. I answered and the person said they were jehovah's witnesses and could they talk to my dad. I call out to Dad who comes to the door, as he is shuttng it behind him he hears me say to mum "Who is Joe and what has he done wrong that he needs a witness." He looked them in the eyes and tried not to laugh at them. The peddlers in our town got a lot of flack, my friend's mum chased them off the property with a wet mop, and another set of parents were interrupted when their children were out and they were enjoying themselves so the Dad (all 6ft of him) grabbed the closest robe and opened the door, it was his wife's robe and she was 5ft it was a bit short and it was obvious what he had been about to do. He looked them in the face and asked if they were lost. They went red and left. I think people spent a lot of time working out how to outdo each other in getting rid of them.

BELIEVE OR NOT - JOEY SCARBURY Beautiful theme song of the show "America's Greatest Hero" that ...

Budgie comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Loved the show as a kid have not watched it lately but I think I might cringe a bit.

Happy Friday! I'm gonna stir up trouble today! 😈 Does the toilet paper roll go over or under,...

Budgie comments on Dec 22, 2019:

On the holder after that I just don't care and when I am putting it on I do not bother to check which way it is going except for at work, when some person decided that 10 minutes of the staff meeting would be taken up with her rant about which way it should go on the holder and then we had to make the meeting longer, so now I deliberately (at work) make it go under just to piss her off.

Racey - Some Girls [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 21, 2019:

OMG I actually saw these guys when they came to a small pub in Darwin Australia, a friend was from Belguim and had grown up listening to them so we went. It was fun and the songs are fun.

My son sent me this saying it was the most cringe worthy thing he had seen in awhile.

Budgie comments on Dec 21, 2019:

His body language is the thing I noticed the most. If I was one of the women then I would be asking him to move further away from me the hands on the hips is busy saying "look at my dick" They were too polite I would be telling him to leave and then would of ignored him and carried on my conversation.

This is a FB link to a video of a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church talking with kids ...

Budgie comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Support the old saying that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. While on here I refer to religions as cults I do not say that to those that are religious in my workplace. I try to be respectful (there are limits) and generally we avoid discussions on belief systems but I do not hold back if asked. She was very honest and brave to have stepped away from her family, I hope she is able to help some of them also realize what they are doing is spiteful and horrible. That said the family will probably now ban members from using Twitter/the evil internet.

Just trying to get a head count here. Who's an atheist and who isn't, and why?

Budgie comments on Dec 20, 2019:

As a child went to church every Sunday complete with white gloves (I loved those gloves) and a special bag with some money in it to put on the church plate when it was past around. Read passages from the bible in church and went to kiddies Sunday school. All I remember from it is that I answered that the festival being celebrated the the Overpass (passover) The family was not hard core religious as I see it, grace was said at meal times but that was about it. Somewhere in my teenage years I thought about all of the praying I had done for the starving in Africa and there was still starving in Africa, the deaths of some wonderful people one a fantastic mother her daughter only 5 years old. The catholic priest who refused to hold a service for a scout leader who committed suicide, (then my mum went at him saying he had failed our friend who did not feel he could go to his spiritual leader for help, we got a service for him) just lots of things that I started to question. I decided bad things just happen (my grandfather died on my birthday before seeing my younger brother who had been born that year) that praying did not change things but doing things did. Gave up on xtian religion (even the gloves too hot in the tropics to wear them) a few battles with my family but more over my obnoxious teenage behaviour and the fact my father disliked my music. Explored other religions and belief systems but got into trouble when I questioned things ie that in older religions it was people trying to explain the world around them ie gods of thunder, the sun etc. I got told, when I raised the issue that all of the older religions had a god/dess of each type of natural element, that I did not know what I was talking about and that the god of thunder (or something ) was the major god of one group but only a minor god of another. Decided that is was all hokum and stopped believing in any of it. Got interested in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and read about Douglas Adams and some of what he believed. Watched a lot of Monty Python and The Goodies, sad that my ideology was formulated by TV shows but I grew up in a tiny remote community there was not much of a library and not a lot of radical information out there. My best friend was not christened which helped me to start looking at life differently.

Been watching Northern Exposure again and this song came on I thought I would share.

Budgie comments on Dec 19, 2019:

It was during season 2 spring break I believe. I found this by Lyndsey Buckingham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIdrbYiUB0 there is almost the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme in the tune.

Yesterday was Paul Rodger's birthday.

Budgie comments on Dec 19, 2019:

Reverting back to my childhood with this one. Remember school dances and bopping around to this.

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Budgie comments on Dec 19, 2019:

Sorry to hear I had never heard of him but you are right he plays the guitar very well. Love the tune you have posted.

[youtu.be] Kansas. - Carry On My Wayward Son (official audio)

Budgie comments on Dec 18, 2019:

I have watched far too much Supernatural, I can not hear this song without wondering which one will die this episode.

Bill Laurance - Aftersun .

Budgie comments on Dec 18, 2019:

When I first heard the opening bars I thought it was the theme for Sense8, but it is different. Scroll forward a bit to the piano start, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZql3oTh0BM

I love this song but it is a bit ironic at the moment with half of Australia battling catastrophic ...

Budgie comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Trying another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHlHOT-IHXI

What are your thoughts on home schooling?

Budgie comments on Dec 18, 2019:

This is not a simple yes/no situation. The reasons for homeschooling vary, I had a friend who was homeschooled due to medical issues. She could not attend as she had to have many surgeries and would at times have open wounds on her legs. She was in primary school and so her parents taught her but she still had contact with her peers as long as none of them had any kind of infection. Another was traveling with her parents they were both teachers, one in English/Science the other Maths/Languages. There are those that do it to prevent interactions with people and hence ideas they do not like. If those ideas are never presented nor talked about it means a massive deficient in the students education. If there is no social interaction then it reduces their ability to engage with a wide variety of people. I think it would be better if schools opened up a bit more and allowed a more flexible learning environment. However, that requires governments to spend money on education and not many of them are willing to do that. Sending you child to a cult based school is just the same as home schooling because of your beliefs they are not getting a wide cross section just those that support the cult's view. I think the reason for it, the quality of the curriculum the students are learning, the skills of the people who are guiding them all come into play.

Well had to do a 5 minute speech this morning for a communications class.

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I hate professional development sessions where we have to do the whole touchy feely thing at the beginning. Once we had to pick a picture to show how we were feeling. I just walked up to the table and grabbed one. Of course I was asked to explain why I had picked it. I told them I didn't think I just collected something because if I didn't then I would be told to do it. They left me alone after that.

What if.

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I once sat with my grandfather watching a sunset. It was a few hours and it was the best time I had with him. We did not speak. It was destroyed when my grandmother and aunt returned from the cult mass they had been at. Both of us sighed as we headed in to the chaos.

16 Signs You’re Not Actually An Introvert, You’re A Highly Sensitive Extrovert | Thought Catalog

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Read this and sat there nodding so many things relate to how I feel about being social and around people.

K C [youtu.be] [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

More seat boogying from me today love the songs.

The HU - Wolf Totem feat.

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Loved the throat singing just amazing.

Here is a little video of famous internet cat Lil Bub, who died Dec.

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

A really cute little guy who while he had a short life had a good one.

Can't remember if I posted this before (or someone else).

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

That is a bit mean to root vegetables, dust mites and lint. Moldy food gave us penicillin which was useful. Nothing useful has come out of this moron.

Cisco Kid - War. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Wish it was colder and I was not on antibiotics so I could have a bevvy or two and bop around my lounge room to this. Will have to limit it to water, with fans on full and sitting on the couch with my leg up (scored a nasty infection so on rest until it starts to go away) bopping my head and shoulders around scaring the cat. (he is looking at me worried)

Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I love this song thanks for the reminder of it.

"Django Belle... " (Earworm warning)

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I could not get it to work but then I was trying to sing the traditional song not the pop one I was trying to work out why the rock was there for jingle all the way.

Earth's Magnetic North Pole Continues Drifting, Crosses Prime Meridian: [livescience.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

In a geology course we looked at layers of magnetic rock that show the poles have changed before.

Sacrifice!

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

Or a highly toxic young one who no one wants to get close to until cleaned up.

Your family too

Budgie comments on Dec 17, 2019:

This is so me at the moment. Not sure where I am going or how I am going to get there. Basically don't know what I want so it is hard to plot a course.

(LINK) "I understand why it’s hard for normal people to believe that white evangelical Christians ...

Budgie comments on Dec 16, 2019:

Mother Teresa was a sadist, she allowed people to suffer saying it was their way to god. There was a "good catholic" nurse who decided to spend a year serving in one of her "homes" in India. She left after three months broken and depressed. They reused hypodermic needles, there was never enough food or blankets for the women, when she complained she was shut down. She described conditions that were unacceptable but the nuns said it was fine. Soon after she left the church (don't know if she stopped believing) Never has any of the money donated to teresa been scrutinized to see where it goes (I would suggest the church) as this woman said enough money was donated but never seemed to get spent on the women. It was eye opening to read, that and the magdelene laundries tell you everything about the mindset of cultists.

ELO - Rock and Roll is King.

Budgie comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Would love to see them in concert. Lucky you.

there seems to me to be way to much animosity towards religion.

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

When the government of my country (run by a cultist) is passing legislation allowing cults to discriminate against those they do not like I will be angry and I will fight for them to be held accountable for their hate and discrimination. We are not allowed to discriminate against them for the same reasons (we are not a cult) but they are allowed to refuse, help (as in medical, emergency care), services (as in selling a wedding cake), resources (as in a homeless shelter), employment, (termination of employment based on sexual orientation, marriage status etc) just because their book of lies says they don't agree with it.

Atheist reaches settlement over religious objection to mandatory AA - BBC News

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

There is a treatment that is starting to take off called The Sinclair Method it involves taking a tablet which locks off the part of the brain that gets pleasure from drinking (or at least that is what I can recall I may have the specifics wrong) The person does not have to stop drinking as long as they take the tablet. Obviously any psychological issues that are driving someone to drink need to be dealt with my trained professionals or they will simply head towards another drug. I do not believe that the tablet works for all addictions.

An artist not well-known in the States but whom I just love... Aynsley Lister. [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Loved it thanks for the share.

Madness - Forever Young [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Madness one of my favourite groups. I went without sleep for 24 hours and traversed across a continent to see them perform. Was not disappointed.

Spill the Wine Before the wine takes over and destroys me totally.

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8eINC7N_E Because the link above did not play for me. Love Eric Burdon and this song I adore.

Dr. Hook - Sylvia's . [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Wow so many years since I have heard this one but can still remember all of the words, not sure if that is a scary thing or not.

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Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

She has an amazing voice. Great artist.

Janis Ian - Society's Child [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

She has recently spoken out in support of Greta, and pointed out that she will not tolerate any abuse of a child of anyone. She was 14 when she wrote this, when I was 14 I was too busy enjoying my life to think about things like this. Makes me feel like a lightweight (albeit that I would always stand up for people/animals that needed it)

The 5th. Dimension - Aquarius Let/The Sunshine In [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Flashback to my childhood this one. Thanks for the reminder.

[youtu.be] Yes. - Owner Of A Lonely Heart. Prog Rock at its best.

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

I knew the song but had never seen the video. Interesting pause in there.

Dexter Christmas?

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Oh my I saw a toe or thumb first as well.

Poor Melania....

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

I can not watch the show I just get so angry that no one fights back. This is scary for me I can see it happening in many countries.

No doubt, for some the struggle is real...

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

As a 5ft 2in person I understand this entirely.

If you are not watching Netflix's Lost in Space' you are missing something great! Especially if you ...

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Not a fan of the show, too many illogical decisions and poor choices, it really bugs me when supposedly smart people make stupid choices in situations where their intelligence is supposed to be the reason why they are there.

Why oh Why, in the name of all things Sci-Fi & Geeky, are there not more episodes of Firefly!!! Damn...

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

They will be going to the special hell reserved for people who talk at the theater. I loved this show.

I'm the "So it begins" guy. But worse than the decorations are the Xmas songs over the loudspeaker.

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

I don't mind if they start it in December but when it starts in October or earlier I can not stand it and become a so it begins person.

It will be now. ROFL

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Would like a groan button for all of the bad jokes that are sort of funny.

A Jebus twofer

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

I had tears running down my face reading this one. Too funny.

Cats = reason for interwebs.

Budgie comments on Dec 13, 2019:

I am guessing the man now has a cat.

Let it sner, let it sner, let it sner. :P

Budgie comments on Dec 12, 2019:

My german shepherd looked like this once, the first time she saw a rabbit then she saw four rabbits which all ran off in different directions and she did not know which one to follow.

Just for fun

Budgie comments on Dec 12, 2019:

If the angle had been a bit different then the sunshine would be coming out of his ....

The Baby's - Every time I Think Of You. [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Used to listen to this with a teenage boyfriend yup that didn't last oh well. Love the song.

Red, red Wine Yes, that's where i am at. UB40 speaks for me. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Love this song and UB40. So many great UB40 songs to choose from.

Mama Talk to Your Daughter [youtube.com]

Budgie comments on Dec 12, 2019:

I used to do Ballroom and Latin American dance as a teenager, this type of song was used for the Jive often so this while I had never heard it before brought back so many memories.

Morning 😳 Irish Rovers. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 11, 2019:

I remember singing this with my mum when I was young I did not have the verse about the captain's daughter but we had one about keelhauling him and mum explained what that was to me. I love singing it loudly.

Do you think that " I have found god" should mean the same as "A get out of Gaol/Jail free" card.

Budgie comments on Dec 11, 2019:

If they have truly found "god" then they will be willing to do their time as they would know the benefits of penitence, showing remorse and making amends for the ills they have done. If they feel they should not be jailed then they do not believe and should be jailed. Quite simple really jail if that is what the law says is the punishment for their crime.

By this time tomorrow I will be listening to these guys live.

Budgie comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Home now it was awesome, they are just as good as ever. Got to go to work and all I want to do is sleep. Oh well I owe I owe so off to work I go.

Every house has one

Budgie comments on Dec 3, 2019:

I would be out there until my nose froze then it would be inside to warm up again. I ran around in the snow in bare feet. (I hate wearing shoes and was sick of having to change from my boots to snowboots) only for a short while.

Madness - Mr. Apples [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Love Madness got to see them a few years ago in WA. The fun part being they were performing at an old insane asylum in Fremantle which has been turned into an Arts Centre and it was a full moon. So awesome.

Australian band Daddy Cool 1971 Eagle Rock their most famous song.

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Sorry that you guys could not watch it and thanks Glenn for fixing it for me.

The Moody Blues. - Your Wildest Dreams. [youtu.be]

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

I first heard them with To Our Children's Children's Children. I loved it.

I post this idea NOT as a 'knee-jerk' response to the push by our Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy Prime ...

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

For number 2 what do you do when someone says that female genital mutilation is part of their religion? The sacrificing of animals etc. It needs very careful wording to make sure that it can not be twisted as in a new law passed in America where a teacher can not mark a students work incorrect if it is their religious belief. ie evolution vs creationism. But have at it and good luck.

Trumper bubble

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

I mean how dare they try to make the world a better place.

Australian band Daddy Cool 1971 Eagle Rock their most famous song.

Budgie comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Ross Wilson then went on to form Mondo Rock and ten years later the scruffy bloke with the beard is singing in this clip Cool World. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRozCdiR6U

What do you think about 'intuition?

Budgie comments on Dec 1, 2019:

One of my friends jokes about me being a skeptical psychic (she believes in that stuff) there are times when I think or dream of something and then it happens or something close enough that it could possibly be what I dreamt/thought. An example neighbour tells me she is pregnant for no reason I think of my cousin who lost a baby at 7months gestation. I don't say anything to the neighbour but she loses her baby (not at 7 months) so was this some sort of psychic event or did my brain rapidly work out that her husband already had a child that was about 10 years old, she and her husband had been together for about 5 years at least (the length of time I had lived next to them) never had she talked about children or having children, (were they trying and it was too painful to talk about) she was not a young woman in terms of child bearing years I would suggest closer to 40 than 30. Did my brain do all of the maths and go there is a high chance she could lose the baby think of your cousin in her 20's perfectly healthy who lost her baby for no known reason. Intuition is simply the brain processing without us realising it. I went to visit family and saw my uncle and thought he is sick. While there were no outward signs there was something off about him something must of been different enough that my brain picked up on it, maybe a smell or the way he was walking/acting. He, in fact, already had the cancer that would kill him but no one, not even he, knew it yet. We also tend to remember the events that happen rather than the ones that don't. I was staying with the above friend and had a dream that her husband was in a car crash. Not an unreasonable dream as he spent most of the day on the road driving from job to job and we were in a big city. When I got up in the morning he had not left for work, do I tell him about my dream, knowing that he and my friend put stock in that stuff, or not? I decided not to. I simply said "take care out there" as he left. He came home and talked of the near miss he had. But he may have had near misses every other day without talking about them or we did not store them in memory as he was home safe and it was a city near misses happen often. Do I remember it because of the link to the dream I had.

Darryl Hall and friends - Sara Smile I’ve liked this song since I was a wee lad with a ...

Budgie comments on Nov 30, 2019:

Was wondering if this was Darryl Hall from Hall and Oates then I the song kicked in and it was unmistakably one of his.

Some dog lol

Budgie comments on Nov 30, 2019:

I like the part in Good Omens when Adam is getting his dog/hellhound and it transforms to his ideas of what a dog should be.

It’s my bedtime again.

Budgie comments on Nov 28, 2019:

A show in Australia called The Money or the Gun had different Artists come on each week to perform this song in their style, some great covers, some silly depends on what people like or dislike in music. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB51C97ADB8ED0B89