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I am not even going to try to find a picture of “wearing socks with thongs”, because that means something completely different outside Australia.
To American eyes, that reads as “I wear socks with bum floss, come at me”. Which is ever so much more entertaining, but also, ewww.
Calling flip-flops thongs isn't a strictly Australian thing though. That's what we called them when I was growing up. As best I can tell, they only really switched to being exclusively called flip-flops when the underwear became popular.
To American eyes, that reads as “I wear socks with bum floss, come at me”. Which is ever so much more entertaining, but also, ewww.
I don't want cold toes, regardless of what skivvies I'm rocking, so yeah.
What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
LarryC wrote:What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
Yes they are. That's why you put the socks on.
This really isn't complicated.
LarryC wrote:What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
I think the desirability of a short skirt with a long jacket is well established.
LeapingGnome wrote:LarryC wrote:What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
I think the desirability of a short skirt with a long jacket is well established.
In that case, one wants a girl with the right allocations
Who's fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack
Although she will have "shoes that cut."
LarryC wrote:What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
I live in a tropical country. My feet are never cold. That doesn't even come up in the calculation of whether I wear socks or not.
LarryC wrote:What's so wrong about wearing socks with sandals?
Are your feet cold, or not? It is like wearing a coat with shorts.
Canada has entered the chat
There is a picture I have where I am wearing socks with croc sandals that I put as my Facebook profile pic every time my wife is out of town.
Yes, this upsets her, and yes, that is why I do it.
There is a picture I have where I am wearing socks with croc sandals that I put as my Facebook profile pic every time my wife is out of town.
Yes, this upsets her, and yes, that is why I do it.
You’re a monster.
Someone wants be banned real bad.
Have you considered getting those toe-socks and then sandals?
#InstigationIsAnArtForm
Have you considered getting those toe-socks and then sandals?
#InstigationIsAnArtForm
I now know what I must do the next time my wife is on a work trip... assuming those are things we will ever be able to do again.
Calling flip-flops thongs isn't a strictly Australian thing though. That's what we called them when I was growing up. As best I can tell, they only really switched to being exclusively called flip-flops when the underwear became popular.
Now I got the thong song stuck in my head.
I think the toe socks would bother her more, you know... if a Stanta is listening.
A ‘Historic Event’: First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.
The world has gained a new weapon in the war on malaria, among the oldest known and deadliest of infectious diseases: the first vaccine shown to help prevent the disease. By one estimate, it will save tens of thousands of children each year.
Malaria kills about half a million people each year, nearly all of them in sub-Saharan Africa — including 260,000 children under 5. The new vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, rouses a child’s immune system to thwart Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of five malaria pathogens and the most prevalent in Africa.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the vaccine, the first step in a process that should lead to wide distribution in poor countries. To have a malaria vaccine that is safe, moderately effective and ready for distribution is “a historic event,” said Dr. Pedro Alonso, director of the W.H.O.’s global malaria program.
Malaria is rare in the developed world. There are just 2,000 cases in the United States each year, mostly among travelers returning from countries in which the disease is endemic.
The vaccine, called Mosquirix, is not just a first for malaria — it is the first developed for any parasitic disease. Parasites are much more complex than viruses or bacteria, and the quest for a malaria vaccine has been underway for a hundred years.
“It’s a huge jump from the science perspective to have a first-generation vaccine against a human parasite,” Dr. Alonso said.
In clinical trials, the vaccine had an efficacy of about 50 percent against severe malaria in the first year, but the figure dropped close to zero by the fourth year. And the trials did not directly measure the vaccine’s impact on deaths, which has led some experts to question whether it is a worthwhile investment in countries with countless other intractable problems.
But severe malaria accounts for up to half of malaria deaths and is considered “a reliable proximal indicator of mortality,” said Dr. Mary Hamel, who leads the W.H.O.’s malaria vaccine implementation program. “I do expect we will see that impact.”
A modeling study last year estimated that if the vaccine were rolled out to countries with the highest incidence of malaria, it could prevent 5.4 million cases and 23,000 deaths in children younger than 5 each year.
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The next step is for Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, to determine that the vaccine is a worthwhile investment. If the organization’s board approves the vaccine — not guaranteed, given the vaccine’s moderate efficacy and the many competing priorities — Gavi will purchase the vaccine for countries that request it, a process that is expected to take at least a year.
But as with Covid-19, problems with vaccine production and supply could considerably delay progress. And the pandemic has also diverted resources and attention from other diseases, said Deepali Patel, who leads malaria vaccine programs at Gavi.
Conversion Therapy is now a crime in Canada
Bill C-4, a ban on conversion therapy, passes in the House with unanimous consent
Conservative MP Rob Moore rose on Wednesday in the House of Commons to ask for unanimous consent to pass Bill C-4, a ban on conversion therapy. The legislation would make it a crime to cause someone to undergo conversion therapy, taking a minor out of the country in order to get conversion therapy abroad, profiting from the practice, or either advertising or promoting it.
Pred... dude, all respect, but I don't think your social credit score is high enough to criticize Comrade Xi.
Pred... dude, all respect, but I don't think your social credit score is high enough to criticize Comrade Xi.
mine, however
CW - Child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, child emotional abuse, EXTREME racism, child rape, attempted genocide
More information about the abuses at Canadian Residential schools is coming out. Last week the Williams Lake First Nation announced the findings of their investigation at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. What they shared was a lot more than a number of children’s bodies found by ground radar. It includes evidence of other ways bodies were disposed of never to be found. Ever. Evidence of what our people have known all along. Some of the evidence shared:
again - CW CW CW CW
I AM NOT KIDDING
-rape was a common every day occurrence
-priests and staff raped the children and got them pregnant
-newborn babies were thrown into the incinerator
-children’s bodies were thrown into the incinerator
-children’s bodies were thrown into the river
-children were forced to eat rotting food, sleep in bed bugs, live among rodents, consume contaminated water, live with untreated head lice/infections/diseases
-some children died by Suicide (the one referenced was 8 yrs old)
-children were routinely beaten for speaking their language and other “reasons”
-authorities said there was no need to investigate because the child was “just an Indian”
-they never bothered to tell the parents after they killed their child…these are some of the things they shared. Not just the number of 93 bodies in the ground, but a story of the suffering they endured. Who can even begin to imagine our children being tortured this way?!? It’s horrifying, disgusting.
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