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  1. 1st November 2019, 08:28 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by 16PMark View Post
    What a hoot!
    This thread has already become the case in point!
    Indeed. 😁
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  2. 1st November 2019, 09:23 PM #12
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    This works on so many levels.

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    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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    Or, we could stress about this one.

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    or not.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    So your outrage here is aimed at Leunig overall as you don’t like his work? Each to their own, and that’s fine by me👍. I don’t agree with some of his views but I won’t go condemning him or others for their views - hardly extreme by today’s standards. As I said in my last post, life’s too short to be angry at everyone all the time.
    Who said I was outraged? Or angry at everyone all the time? Don't put words in my mouth - I was providing examples that Leunig has form in anti-female rhetoric, which I'd referred to in the earlier post. I think that, like a lot of the posters on here, you're seeing the splinter in my eye and missing the log in your own.

    And I used to think that Leunig was one of Australia's treasures, but why harass women about childcare?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Or, we could stress about this one.

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    or not.
    No, that's political commentary - it's fine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arapiles View Post
    No, that's political commentary - it's fine.
    I think so too. Did you read the full article , it's prefaced by the statement "Aiming to stir the possum, I got engulfed in free floating hate. " I think he explains himself quite well, bearing in mind the aim of satire should always be the moral reform of society. Unless , of course, the satirist falls victim of the usual delusion of the aging joker, the desire to be taken seriously.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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    He does take quite the micky out of men too. It's not just one way traffic. I don't agree with everything he prints, but he does make me think, and laugh of course.
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    I don't agree with everything he prints, but he does make me think, and laugh of course.[/QUOTE]

    And that I believe is the point of it all. Thinking is the intention, the laughter is a bonus.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

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    So how would the Pickering calendar cartoons from the mid eighties play to today’s audience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    Why can’t people just get a laugh out of some observational humour. If he’d used a fat middle aged white guy with glasses I wouldn’t have been offended...
    Look, Gav, I consider myself a modern day thinker so, I'd be quite prepared to be offended for you, even though it has nothing to do with me.
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