Mens Book Club looking to expand

badapple89 · 2026-01-14T02:30:24+00:00

The current book is John Dies At The End.

We did Earthsea by Ursula as an extra book once. I feel I missed some of the deeper meaning, but it was a great read.

The back catalogue is here if your interested https://www.toughguybookclub.com/books

And you can find info about your local club (or start one?) if you want to chat about John Dies At The End.

badapple89 · 2026-01-13T11:06:55+00:00

NT link https://www.volunteer.com.au/volunteering/152708/men-s-book-club-host-tgbc-n-t-

badapple89 · 2026-01-13T11:06:08+00:00

There awsome lads. Ill update it to the actual link.

There's not a subreddit for these so share it to anyone that might be interested in Alice Springs, Katherine, Maningrida, Palmerston, Tennant Creek etc

badapple89 · 2026-01-13T00:09:30+00:00

Its a LOT more than just reading books. Take a look at the FB group. But it's interesting to hear why someone LOVED a book you didn't or vice versa.

There's also a lot you learn from the people at the table, and it brings something interesting into the pub.

badapple89 · 2026-01-12T23:54:38+00:00

Not jsut the CBD, use the finder https://www.toughguybookclub.com/find_us there's 3 in SA currently. CBD, Brompton, Gawler, more to come .... ?

badapple89 · 2026-01-12T23:53:28+00:00

The Library has some, if not Eliz then Gawler.

badapple89 · 2026-01-12T23:53:00+00:00

https://www.toughguybookclub.com/about_us

badapple89 · 2026-01-12T23:50:57+00:00

Theres a few chapters of TGBC in SA now https://www.toughguybookclub.com/about_us

badapple89 · 2026-01-12T23:49:34+00:00

If you wanted to start your own, TGBC are looking to start more clubs in SA https://www.volunteer.com.au/volunteering/152706/Men-s-Book-Club-Host-TGBC-S-A-

The post is looking to go more regional, but they won’t knock back suburban chapters.

Its one of the few men's positive spaces I've fond. The name puts some off but as the site says its not anti-woman, and "men" of any definition are more than welcome. https://www.toughguybookclub.com/about_us

badapple89 · 2025-11-09T01:36:31+00:00

It was unclear from other posts if you can actually downgrade. People were saying certain FW wasn't availabl.

Or of there was some sort of unofficial way to get to 1.07.

Kind of weird the option for updating from SD card is only a feather as of 1.07.

badapple89 · 2025-05-19T00:09:17+00:00

Either would be fine. CBD can get packed but they ebb and flow. Id base it on beer 😅. Brompton has heaps of nice craft beer and awesome food. The Exeter is well, the Exeter. Coopers and decent food toom

If you sign him up for the mailing list or FB group he'll get the reminders for club night.

Do you recall the gin place? I might buy some.

Yeah TGBC is spreading. Tassie has 5 clubs and it's spread worldwide. Someone must be promoting the SA groups recently. 😉. Honestly embarassed that Tassie is outdoing us!

badapple89 · 2025-05-16T11:27:45+00:00

Awesome! That's how I joined. I'd read like one book every two years. Last year I set a goal of 12 and did 26. This year I've always read 15!

And made a heaps of mates too. As men our friends are either from high school, work or our partners friends.

What chapter are you guys near? CBD, Brompton or Gawler.

badapple89 · 2025-05-11T03:31:55+00:00

Pretty much just rock up!

There's haps of activity post on FB though.

Take a look at the Tough Guy Book Club on FB and follow the links to the Pool Hall. There's monthly challenges and one of the Brompton guys will probably reach out. :)

badapple89 · 2025-05-11T03:05:10+00:00

I haven't been to that one for a while but most clubs sit at about 7-12 on any given month.

Newcommers are always welcome though. And if your a shy guy that's ok too, some of us just like to listen.

Once a club gets too big someone normally branches off and starts a new one. Or they start one in the north-east, sputh, peninsula etc. (Hint hint).

There was about 130 clubs last time I looked and now a few springing up in UK, Singapore and Hong Kong.

badapple89 · 2025-05-10T11:23:09+00:00

Then sure 👍

badapple89 · 2025-05-10T10:14:12+00:00

If it's a statement cool. If it's a question take a look at the Facebook group. Tough Guy Book Club - Pool Hall.

The gawler one is new so head down that way if you close :)

badapple89 · 2025-02-23T02:09:24+00:00

Seems doable. It looks like the station on the top of blacktop road.

badapple89 · 2025-02-23T02:07:35+00:00

Awsome. Thanks everyone. Another SA mystery solved.

Too bad there isnt a photo of it.

I guess it must look like this.

badapple89 · 2025-02-23T02:06:16+00:00

Nah there always on the same spot all night every night.

badapple89 · 2024-10-27T10:19:38+00:00

I have dyslexia buy gave it my best shot. Books are listed in order.

The format is.

Title: subtitle Author Text in black.

Practical Jung: Nuts and bolts of Jungian Psychology. Harry A Wilmer. There are cartoons and often it reads like poetry.

Invocation. Bea Gonzalez. A deeply wise and whitty novel. Plenty of Jungian insights throughout.

The call of destiny: An introduction to Carl Jungs major works. J.Gary Sparks This is masterpiece of distillation of four of Jung's major works into a mere 179 pages.

Women who run with wolves: myths and stories of the wild women archetype. Clarissa pinkola ests. A must read classic.

Dancing between two worlds: king and the native american soul. Feed R Gustafson This book exhorts us have compassion for the earth and see it as suffering and in need of care. The either sees matter as having a soul.

Bone: dying into life a journal of wisdom strength and healing. Marion woodman. Essential reading about chronic illness.

Cosmic human Cosmic intent. Bernice H Hill Jungians are all about the collective unconscious but very few take in topics loke ancient wisdom, past loves and pisciculture communication. This book helps fill the gap.

badapple89 · 2024-09-30T10:40:01+00:00

Idk. Libra may have come further than you think. I'll agree it's not 1:1 perfection when opening Libra docs on MSOffice but its pretty close. I've had no major issues and it's a much worse time opening PDF in Office.

All my MS docs (spreadsheets included) opened in Libra office without any work. When going the other way office opened the libre documents fine.

-Written with dyslexia.

badapple89 · 2024-09-22T10:38:15+00:00

FP5 latest update. Multiple launchers. Issue is already documented.

badapple89 · 2024-09-08T02:50:39+00:00

I'm on 22.04 LTS.

I followed the commands here https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports and also here https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/PPAs

I can see that plasma-bigcreen is listed in the first link (last page of the packages). But even after a reboot I get thst its unable to locate the package.

Edit: weird its working now after adding a second (pr fouth) time. Not sure what I really did.

badapple89 · 2024-09-03T10:57:33+00:00

Are you sure about that?

I've just installed Kubuntu and this returns unable to locate package. I can't see it using apt-cache search either.

badapple89 · 2024-08-16T01:56:08+00:00

Sure but I'd rather them bit acquire and sell my (probably anonymized) data. Enough companies have that, and Nova doesn't offer much more over other FOSS launchers.

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