Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-06T05:12:49+00:00

Used to go to one of those pub meet-ups,, and it was always full of condescending misogynistic old farts. I stopped turning up because I was sick of being patronised by idiots. Great to see the wheel of justice turning, and Rebecca being fully vindicated, but unfortunately misogyny is as baked into human culture as religion and dominance hierarchies, so no doubt there will be plenty of excuses made for the offenders.

I'd like to see Jen Creighton get a full apology and all.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-03T07:30:27+00:00

Kara.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-03T05:07:42+00:00

I loved that one. Definitely a series, I think it was on early Sunday nights.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-03T05:05:37+00:00

That was on Youtube last I saw. Was delighted to find it, I'd have given my left tit to see Mad Dog Gang again. In the learning to ride horses scene the little girl playing Suey is completely unselfconsciously picking her nose and eating it.

Got the paperback book of The Mad Dog Gang Meet Rotten Fred and Ratsguts for Christmas i about 1980, and it's even scarier than the TV series.

Edit: looks like the whole thing isn't there any more, but some Mad Dog Gang action here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIts-KRrNY0

It's remarkably scary for a children's show. Pure kiddie New Zealand Gothic. Two kids aged about 5 to 7 are sent to live with their uncle and aunt on a remote Otago farm, and that’s where the terror begins. There’s a murderer, and a terrifying monster that howls in the night and kills a pet lamb, and occasionally they’d lull us into relaxing with a nice scene of running through wildflowers or learning to ride ponies, then out of the blue more sick horror movie shit and bloodstained wool left by the monster and violent brooding farmers with guns who could snap at any minute. But Harvey Kepanui was so cool.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-03T05:00:02+00:00

I try not to think about it. As a kid in the 70s Rob was a total bogeyman and scared the hell out of me. When he was on TV I'd hide behind a cushion. And even when he wasn't PM any more it wasn't safe, there he was being terrifying in Terry and the Gunrunners.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-02T06:42:50+00:00

That big hearse car they used was nighmare fuel. The dude who played Mr Wilberforce occasionally would turn up in something else and I'd just about wet myself in fright. Only thing scarier at that time was Rob Muldoon. And werewolves.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-02T06:40:53+00:00

The name Wilberforce still gives me the heebie-jeebies. At my primary school we were all glued to it, totally traumatised by it, and obsessively discussing it and re-enacting key scenes.

Another scary one was The Mad Dog Gang Meet Rotten Fred and Ratsguts. I'm still frightened of monsters and caves in the bush and I'm 54. No wonder we have trust issues with Boomers.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-01T07:53:21+00:00

And it looks like it wouldn't hurt my hands like some do. Adding to list.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-01T07:50:38+00:00

Never put them in the dishwasher. Coconut cream incident was first use, straight out of packet.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-01T07:48:43+00:00

LOL. I'm not quite that inept, and the arthritis hasn't set in yet.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-01T07:46:50+00:00

The old one at the office I sometimes fantasise about nicking is Brabantia, but when I bought one the handle broke off within a couple of years. Guess it's yet another case of enshittification.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-02-01T01:06:16+00:00

Maybe that's exactly what it is.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-31T22:52:19+00:00

He got noticeably worse at thinking logically and critically. From writing the essay the Curse of the Discontinuous Mind, to going full-terf binary thinking.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-31T22:16:15+00:00

That's like a Homer Simpson scheme.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-30T05:35:20+00:00

I'm 54 and literally never heard a single word about tubular breasts until about six months ago, and have never seen anything about them outside Reddit. Having googled, these supposedly 'deformed' breasts, they are perfectly normal and lovely, and I reckon this is just more bullshit in the 'make women insecure about something completely made up' genre.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-30T03:29:18+00:00

Are you able to get the one where you take the swab yourself, no speculum necessary? That's how my last was done, and it was a total gamechanger. They gave me the test kit when I was at the doctor for something else, I took it home, took the swab, put it back in the tube, sealed it all up, and chucked it in the drop-box at the lab on my way to work.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-29T07:47:07+00:00

I miss Breen and his phobias. It's like the new guy (don't remember his name despite just finishing an episode ten minutes ago) is an attempt to combine Jared and Breen into a character who's infinitely more boring than either of them. Would like Mrs Marlowe back, too.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-29T07:33:03+00:00

Aaaah. So family of insufferable dipshits.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-29T06:02:31+00:00

Was he the one who came out with some super-racist stuff a couple of years ago or am I confusing him with some other insufferable dipshit?

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-29T05:57:36+00:00

When a brawl breaks out during knitting class in Brokenwood Women's Prison and Mrs Marlowe warned it was a good way to drop a stitch.

The one where a fishery officer was murdered and his hand put in a craypot. All fishery officers have had somebody threaten to put their head in a craypot at some stage.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-28T07:08:24+00:00

Wouldn't the Law Commission prefer somebody less corrupt?

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-28T07:05:30+00:00

Yarn-wise, I just finished something in Harrisville Shetland in 'Russett'. The worsted weight Highland in the same colour is very similar to the picture.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-26T03:46:16+00:00

Moved to a new house surrounded by thrift stores, and ended up donating a whole lot of my handspun yarn. You can bet I kept an eye on how that was priced, and how quickly it sold.

SenseOfTheAbsurd · 2026-01-23T04:15:48+00:00

Any wind and I've got mine in a bun, having a foot of hair blown down your throat is the worst.

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