surprising to see we didn't get all the most idiotic politicians in the world. 

The Coogee pool dates from that time and is still segregated today. Some here are happy to debate Aboriginal policy from 200 years ago when and if it suits their cause.

And they're the same old Churches today as 1920.

My grandma 1950 was head to toe, boys in shorts.

chimera wrote on Feb 26^th, 2020 at 3:54pm:


While all the young women where in sexy one pieces.

rhino wrote on Feb 26^th, 2020 at 5:14pm:


I do recall my daughter when she went to Malaysia, to a friend's wedding over there, she had been informed she had to have her arms covered etc.

What she saw and was shocked, the women on the beach covered head to toe, while the men were beside them in swim shorts, soaking up the sun.
I do wonder, do the women of Islam with head to feet covering, suffer from lack of Vitamin D" Or do they take it in a vitamin pill to counteract that?

Anyway, it's hard to know who's who, when they are covered so much with just their eyes peering at you....for instance, last year, we did a cruise to South East Asia, one fave place we went to was Langkawi sky bridge.

Amazing construction.

So, whilst in line for something, there was a elite more pricey line (supposedly faster) and then the rest of us line (supposedly slower).
We started a conversation with a young muslim male and his wife, she was covered totally, they were lovely and spoke English well.
I joked, how it seems paying a bit extra for fast didn't work out today for them as we passed them (and they had a chuckle)….
some time later, I was getting an icypole, and saw another muslim female covered from head to feet, and she looked at me, and her eyes, I was puzzled, was she smiling at me or not?
I sort of smiled not knowing who she was.
Then I saw, she went back with her husband, it was the young couple we were talking to earlier in that 'fast' and 'slow' lane.

I felt awful, I did not recognize it was her, and there, is a problem I think, not being able to see their whole face and expressions.

I don't understand why their faces have to be covered.
It needs to be changed, just to have their faces uncovered, is that too much to ask for?

I have been travelling to Malaysia and Indonesia for over 30 years, both these countries have become increasingly fundamentalist Muslim in that time and in my opinion backward. This corresponds with increasing Middle Eastern cultural and religious influence in these countries.And yes the face thing, this is why I am so against these expansive head coverings. Western cultural values require that we see a persons face or we automatically distrust them, for good reason and as we should know that 80 percent of communication is by body language and most of that body language is made up of facial expression. So, they migrate here demanding that we adapt to their cultural values , not the other way round, basically they want to live here but dont like us. They insist on regressive and barbaric cultural practises, fgm is routine amongst Muslim communities here as is forced marriage. They build their own communities and isolate themselves from the general population. Some people just have their heads in the sand, Australia is a prosperous politically stable country, that wasnt built on Niqabs and female circumcision or segregation of the sexes, it was built on Western values, some people want us to embrace these alien values to take us backward. Not on my watch. Studies have shown that by the second generation other cultures start to assimilate, but not Muslims, in fact the opposite. Muslim terrorists are more likely to be 2nd generation.

rhino wrote on Feb 26^th, 2020 at 5:46pm:


Rhino, I've also worked in Malaysia and I've never actually spoken to a woman in a Niqabs about business/work because they're never ever in a professional position.

The more covered up, the more they're relegated to being livestock.