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Late Night Respite Open Thread: SPY QUOKKA

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  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Reposting this from below:

    Putin choose to pursue easy, low cost, and relatively safe strategies to disrupt the US and UK. However, I contend that what Putin did was extraordinarily dangerous and irresponsible of him to help Trump be elected. He essentially put a toddler in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. How did he know Trump couldn’t have started WW3 with China for example?

  4. 4.

    Kropacetic

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): How did he know Trump couldn’t have started WW3 with China for example?

    Lack of personal benefit for Trump. If Putin orders it, however, it will be so.

  5. 5.

    Kropacetic

    @Yutsano:The cuteness quotient of Australian wildlife can be off the charts.

    A truly special place I’ve always wanted to visit.

    At least quokkas don’t necessarily want to kill you.

    Less true, perhaps, of all the animals where the size quotient is off the charts.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Open Thread is open, but:  You do realize you could just keep debating Putin’s crimes in the Putin/Russia-centered thread, right?

    I have to keep working on the daily (nightly) coronavirus update, but I was kinda hoping to give people looking for a respite some kind of break between horrors…

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    @Major Major Major Major: I want to see quokkas replace all American political commentors currently making more than $1million per annum.  They would make every bit as much sense as the Cillizzas and Karls, and yet be much more audience-friendly…

    (gotta go aggregate!)

  13. 13.

    Origuy

    And now, the news for quokkas.
    No quokkas were involved in an accident on the M-1 today when a Lorry carrying High-octane fuel was in collision with a bollard. That’s a BOLLARD and *NOT* a QUOKKA. A spokesman for quokkas said he was glad no quokkas were involved.

  14. 14.

    TS (the original)

    And I just got an add which said “Buy Australian made”

    Google – the all seeing everything

  19. 19.

    opiejeanne

    @Jay: There’s a nasty spiny shrub with toxic secretions that cause real agony that an Aussie friend was telling me about. He said they use them a lot in landscaping, which surprised me because who wants to be working in the garden around something like that?  He said I was silly and that Aussies were smart enough to stay away from them in the landscaping.

  20. 20.

    Jay

    @opiejeanne:

    had a house in YVR where there there was a propensity of POI’s jumping the back fence to elude John Law and use my yard to R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

    a hedge of rugosa roses in the alley, and mixing them into the back greenery, put a stop to that.

  21. 21.

    Pete Downunder

    @opiejeanne:

    The gympie stinging tree. A nettle that grows to a full size tree. The large leaves have little stingers that are painful enough to send you to the hospital. Typical Aussie flora.

  22. 22.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @opiejeanne: There’s a nasty spiny shrub with toxic secretions that cause real agony that an Aussie friend was telling me about. He said they use them a lot in landscaping

    I think he must have been having a lend of you. I’ve never heard of anybody having a stinging tree in their garden. It would certainly be a talking point, especially on the trip to the hospital.

    The tree looks a bit like a ratty mulberry tree with fuzzy leaves and is not exactly photogenic.

    There is no way to safely handle one. Even long dead botanical specimens have been known to sting people.

    Wombats are cute. Way cuter than stinky koalas.

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    Gvg

    @TS (the original): I have been getting Biden ads whilst searching for how to videos for various things like garage door opener troubleshooting.

    i have been sending my mother Biden ads to cheer her up and she keeps saying “why aren’t these on TV?”. I guess I need to tell her I don’t watch much TV so I won’t be able to find that kind of ad, and TV isn’t going to reach all voters like it used to…she is in her 7o’s and to her only TV and newspapers count.

  25. 25.

    blackcatsrule

    @Aleta: I was so sorry to hear that you did not get good news about your dog.  I haven’t been on BJ as much as usual but I was trying to follow your story because my sweet boycat has been going through something so similar the past two months…abscesses that wouldn’t heal, rounds of antibiotics…and last week we got the same bad news, with the same time frame of weeks, months if we’re lucky.  So I know what you’re going through and please give your companion a hug from me.

  27. 27.

    Aleta

    @blackcatsrule: Thanks so much.  I’m sorry you and sweet boycat ‘ve been going through it too.  Is it a fibrosarcoma?   I  guess we just have to keep streaming love at them.  Sending some from here to your cat.

  28. 28.

    satby

    @blackcatsrule:  Sorry to hear your sad news too. Last year my 15 year old cat Wookie had the same thing, but we were able to have a couple of good months together where he was babied and spoiled before we had to say goodbye. Hoping you get that kind of time with your furbaby.

  29. 29.

    satby

    @Aleta: It’s all you can do, loving them and spoiling them until they let you know it’s time. All the best to you and your furbaby too.

  30. 30.

    Aleta

    @WaterGirl: Hi WG, I mentioned my dog’s cancer on John’s thread two nights ago.   Sympathetic comments from so many good people here were like a balm for my hopelessness that night.  Thanks gang, it helped.

  31. 31.

    Aleta

    @satby: Thanks, and for the night before last too.  This dog here has been amazing every minute since he’s been here.

  33. 33.

    blackcatsrule

    @satby: Thank you, I am so hoping he gets the longest amount of time possible and will do everything to make sure he does…love the name Wookie, you can just picture the cat that belonged to that name!

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