by Didact | Jan 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Being in my mid-thirties, and therefore a legitimate, card-carrying member of Ye Olde Phartes Clubbe – I have the hip and knee pains to prove it – provides a certain perspective on life that the younger and, shall we say, less world-weary among you...
by Didact | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
To my complete lack of surprise, a major new potential pandemic has reared its ugly head thanks, yet again, to the Chinese. I was there in Singapore in the summer of 2003 when SARS hit. I saw firsthand exactly what that disaster did to the region’s economy in...
by Didact | Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Chaps, remember when, as our friend 1st Sgt Terrence Popp (USArmy, Ret) put it in a truly hilarious video from very nearly a year ago, “Jeff Bezos lost half his pesos”? Turns out that his phone got hacked after he got a “malicious...
by Didact | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recent story in everyone’s favourite daily large-circulation tabloid caught my eye concerning a young woman from Ukraine who decided to sell her virginity for about US$1.4 MILLION, mostly because it serves as both confirmation and warning of some very painful...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The title of this post is a direct reference to a classic missive by our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day, who wrote back at the end of November 2017 – more than two years ago – that he expected that “young” (he’s my...
by Didact | Jan 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
A very charming and earnest white chap has been worrying over that old bone of contention, namely, how to fix Africa’s incessant problems, and comes up with a novel solution – add MORE white people: Possibly the biggest misconception about Africans,...
by Didact | Jan 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
A rather tiresome gay anklebiter going by the handle of Ryu238 has repeatedly stopped by to leave long and quite stupid comments to several posts that criticise homosexuals and their culture here. As I had outlined in a long response to considerable amounts of quite...
by Didact | Dec 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s Monday, and as much as I wish that we could make it a happy one – or at least, not depressing, which I’d be willing to settle for at this point. But unfortunately, we can’t do that. The reason why is very simple. It turns out that just a...
by Didact | Dec 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am not a fan of The Witcher, either the novels or the games, but that is entirely because I have never read the books or played the games. I’ve heard some good things about the series from my former colleagues over at the sadly defunct Reaxxion website, but I...
by Didact | Dec 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
The first critical reviews for The Fall of Skywalker are in, and… holy shit, man: Now, here’s the thing… That screenshot was taken at about 6am EST. This was at least a day after STAR WARS Episode IX: The Fall of Skywalker had debuted to...
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