Link to the full decision for those interested: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2025/2025fca0669

Pure strategy favourite: Terra Mystica, as long as you are happy with a fairly rules-dense game.

Pure chance favourite: Snakes and Ladders

20 years on my partner and I still quote The End of the World occasionally.

So a whoosh from me it was.

I’m guessing that English is not your first language? To talk shit about someone means to say negative things about them, it doesn’t necessarily mean using any swear words.

That or you were joking, and I just whooshed myself.

Chaining someone to a job sounds more like indenture than strong labour laws.

Actually strong labour laws let employees choose to work for a different employer, while requiring the employer to have a valid reason to dismiss the employee.

Have those workers tried being friends with rich people?

I also lost quite a bit of respect for Penny Wong when she wasn’t willing to condemn this at the outset: Israel’s order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.

Since that’s Charlie Chaplin doing a mocking parody of Hitler, what do you want to stop? People making fun of Nazis?

But the next pope may be far more conservative than Francis, who by Catholic Church standards was unusually liberal.

This made slightly less sense before I remembered that manga is supposed to be read right to left.

“Trust me bro.”

Responding aggressively to a post asking why it appears that American culture has become more aggressive and hateful is not helping as much as you think.

…“the groom did not respond to our request for comment.” It makes it clear that you tried and he was not interested in explaining himself.

For context, it’s standard practice in proceedings under the Family Law Act to use pseudonyms, so it’s not really possible to track this guy down and ask for his comment.

It must not be overlooked that I am not required to accept evidence, even uncontroverted evidence, if that evidence is contrary to the way events are likely to have occurred

Tell that to the High Court in Pell…

My reading of the Pell appeal was that is more or less what the High Court decided, albeit while applying the more stringent criminal burden of beyond reasonable doubt in relation to a jury trial. The Court fundamentally concluded that while the complainant’s evidence was credible, the compounding effect of unchallenged evidence from multiple other witnesses meant that there was “a significant possibility” Pell was not guilty of the charges.

I should mention that I’m not a Pell apologist; it does appear from the Royal Commission on institutional abuse that he was complicit in covering up historical sexual assaults, and that is unforgivable. But for anyone that hasn’t read the full text of the appeal (http://www7.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2020/12.html), I thoroughly recommend it. I am not ashamed to say that I think the Court makes a convincing case for him not being guilty of those particular charges.

Here’s the link to the case should you be interested: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FedCFamC1F/2024/674.html

To be fair to the BBC, most of the questions you raise don’t have good answers. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of the other side of the story to report. The judge mentions at several points that the purported groom gave only vague and incomplete evidence, and that he failed to provide details about key issues.

Next they’re going to tell us that a bird sharpening its beak every thousand years wouldn’t wear out a mountain made of diamond.

It’s more than just being about “stupid” people though. After all, who benefits from deliberately under-funding and attacking the integrity of educational institutions?

I vote the 7 August should hereafter be declared “Succulent Chinese Meal Day” in tribute.

It does seem like an oddly specific denial.

The bananas won’t be fooled, because everyone knows that bananas are straight until they get picked and the banana bender puts the bend in them.