Don Tomas
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@dznz Even though I work for a charity, I've long felt that NFPs use private (personal / corporate) philanthropy to provide services that the government should be providing. One of the bigger issues is that our scope is necessarily limited by funding, and can only be helpful to a subset of those in genuine need.
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@kevinmorley Good evening from balmy Sydney. Having a nice homemade dinner of England's national dish: chicken tikka masala.
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@iris@aus.social Oh, that's the so-called "Como Hilton" in the 4th shot.
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@melissadancey Actually it's a "seppoes" (or "seppos" depending on your preferred spelling). From the rhyming slang, "septic tanks" = Yanks. Has a supposed secondary meaning, that they're either empty or they're full of s***.
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@QasimRashid it's bleak, but I've always liked this fake final C&H:
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@luckytran Seems to be stating facts. Can't stop the spread when huge proportions of the population are behaving exactly as pre-pandemic. And don't the authorities have shade cast at them whenever they make bold statements ("we can stop the spread / vaxes will give you immunity") that turn out to be false?
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@gingergeorgiana Pfins? From the slang "pins" = a woman's legs.
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@gingergeorgiana Eh, they're a bunch of fishogynists anyway.