WTFLOL

Probably lots of places in Europe where English is not the first language but an English speaker would still do great (Amsterdam comes to mind).

I thought you said English-speaking... Have you met anyone from Ireland?

Yeah I know that, but was going for official language.

Met a girl from Ireland in Barcelona, and had a tougher time understanding her than people speaking Spanish (I do speak a little Spanish, though).

I met some Scottish guys on a Stag/Bachelor party in Munich during Oktoberfest. Mostly understood them when they were drunk as ****, so hopefully Ireland wouldn't be too foreign.

English is one of the official languages of Singapore. Unless that's a very popular myth.

That's exactly what I was saying, lack of quoting might have made that unclear.

I didn't mean language, I meant why flee Gilead for a place where they cane people and ****.

Describing Morrison as the architect of offshore detention (which is currently bipartisan policy, by the way) doesn't seem right. He's definitely a right-wing freak though. He listed "church" as one of his "interests" in his Who's Who profile. Only 7% of Australians regularly attend church.

I think they're going to get thoroughly done over at the next election though. They hold government by a very slim margin already and there was a 9% swing against them at a by-election in July, which was a much worse result than expected. Turnbull actually won the first party room vote like 4 days ago, 43-38, against another Right candidate Peter Dutton, then they had another one 2 days later at which Morrison won. The public have been extremely unimpressed with this party room bickering. Although Turnbull wasn't particularly popular he still had majority (59%) support of Coalition voters and I think it's obvious even to normies that he got undermined and ended up with a knife in the back. Here was a Coalition minister trying to explain their actions on a nightly current affairs program:

The answer is "to get the Coalition under the control of the hard Right" but he can't say that. The "hard Right", by the way, is still born-to-rule types of the McConnell and Ryan variety, Trumpist Right-populism is a fringe thing. The hard Right here are energized, as you might expect, but remember, we have compulsory voting. It's not possible to win an election by being more enthusiastic than your opponents. Labor leader Bill Shorten, who is this sort of dull walking Ambien tablet of the John Kerry type, has to be looking at this and thinking "marioparty.gif".

Australians are sending people to an offshore detention colony?

I haven't been to all the English speaking countries, but my impression is that Canada and New Zealand are #1 and #2.

If you have cash, Singapore's nice enough to maybe make you turn a blind eye to all the caning and executions.

Immigrants, IIRC they pay some island nation to take the immigrants off their hands.

Nauru. What has gone on with Australia and immigrants there and what has happened there before that is very disgusting.

wtf ?

english literacy among Singaporeans is probably close to 100%.

I’ve been watching this documentary called The Rover, and Australia seems even more bleak than the Midwest.

Don't they have the highest minimum wage in the world at like $18.50 and only like 5.4% unemployment?

Saw Blackkklansman last night. I almost never go to the movies unless it is a kids flick—in fact it turns out last night was the first time my wife and I had ever gone on a movie date in our entire 12 plus year relationship. I rarely am interested is seeing one in the theater and rarely like them when I do. This one was not an exception.

The movie I really wanted to see was Sorry to Bother You directed by Boots Riley from east bay rap group The Coup who I have been a fan of for decades. It had a limited release and I took too long to go—it was not playing anywhere near me as of yesterday. After the reviews here of Spike Lee’s new one I thought it would be a good second choice but interestingly, when I searched for showtimes, I saw there was a back and forth between Lee and Riley based on a 3 page critique Riley made of the movie. I will admit even knowing that criticism existed probably poisoned the well for me a bit before seeing BK, but I did not read it at all to avoid spoilers. I still ended up with some of the same feeling as Riley and that was before the fact checking aspect. Basically, and surprisingly, I felt like there were scenes that served to sanitize the police in an unbelievable way.

That said, there were some powerful scenes for sure-well crafted—and it made some pretty important points but stopped very short of it's potential and traded some value for entertainment and borderline propaganda once you know what was embellished or left out. If you watched it I recommend reading Riley’s critique. If you haven’t but will you may want to wait to avoid spoilers.

Trolly was taking the piss, but the minimum (adult) wage is $A18.93 which is $13.87 USD.

If you are worried your employees will be upset you make too much money, you do.

I don't know enough about american handegg, but if there is any interest in like $100 politard fantasy NBA league I'm in.

Much higher than the 19% in Texas.