David Rafferty

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Roman historian in South Australia. Current project: “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other.

Winnie the Pooh in a tux, looking smug af
The final score: Carlton 24.10.154 to Brisbane 11.12.78
Rachel Weisz in Agora.
Blair Christmas Card. Tony looks like he’s picking a fight in a pub.
Jonah and his friends in trouble for bullying a redhead. Summer Heights High.
Anthony Koutoufides in his Carlton guernsey looking ripped af.
WORSE ON PURPOSE Debt extraction Borrow against the company you just bought, pay yourself the loan as a dividend, and leave the debt on the books of the thing you intend to sell. George Akerlof and Paul Romer named this one in 1993: under the right conditions it becomes rational to bankrupt a company for profit, looting it on the way out the door. It is why the Instant Pot, a genuinely great product with a devoted following, ended up bankrupt in 2023 after a private-equity owner loaded it with debt.
Gonzalez - the only realistic out-ball, given the Spanish pressure - while even centre-back Pau Cubarsi is involved to pick up the loose ball. He plays it back to fellow central defender Aymeric Laporte, and as the camera pans, it becomes clear just how many players Spain commit to the pressure, happy to take risks and leave only two players back if that helps to squash the time and space the other team have on the ball. المدف
Lord of the Rings meme: Legolas: That is a volvo sedan, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell. Gandalf: The 200 series is the lord of all volvos, and has been my friend through many dangers
Film poster “The Dogs”
A badge from Vision Australia saying “I have low vision.”
Small tanker truck with the label “MANNUM & BRIDGE Septic Pumping”
Fixtures and results Fri 10 July 06:00 AEST France Sat 11 July 05:00 AEST Spain Sun 12 July 07:00 AEST 11:00 AEST Norway Argentina V V V V Morocco Belgium England Switzerland
USA striker Balogun's one-game ban suspended by Fifa USA
Duck cake recipe and photo
Michael Jordan: “and I took that personally”
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From memory (and its position in my camera roll) this is in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii.
Ryan Rosenblatt, Bac... @ryanro... • 17m I believe Australia has three players who came to their country as refugees and at least one other whose parent did. Lovely to see the Soceroos embrace the full range of Australians. 2 4 16 ... & Reposted by Judith A. Miller Mayor Zohran Kwame... • HISTORY. • 304 ฿ 2.5K 15K @mayo... • 1h • • •
Downfall meme stillshot
Comical Ali
Tweet. Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do
“Jesaulenko, you beauty!”
Screenshot from episode 17 of The World At War: "Morning" against a fire background. This is the episode dealing with the Normandy landings.
Billy Madison screenshot with text: "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it."
Frinkiac. Skinner. “IM A SMALL MAN IN SOME WAYS, BARt. J A SMALL, PETTY MAN.”
Michael Sheen as aristocratic vampire, looking haughty af.
Matt Walsh O @MattWalshBlog I would kill every ape in the world to save one human, because humans are more important. This is a very simple concept, folks. 4:36 AM • May 30, 2016 • Twitter Web Client 188 Retweets 472 Quote Tweets 736 Likes Tweet your reply Reply K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen • Jun 5, 2019 Replying to @MattWalshBlog would you suck every ape's dick to save one human 162 LY 745 9,005 •••
Pearl Jam’s self titled album that I’ve only ever called Avocado.
March 30, Thursday Yesterday evening at the Blumenfelds with the Dembers. Mood as before a pogrom in the depths of the Middle Ages or in deepest Czarist Russia. During the day the National Socialist boycott call had been announced. We are hostages. The dominant feeling (especially as the Stahlhelm revolt in Brunswick has just been played out and immediately hushed up) is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us. Fantastic Middle Ages: "We"-threatened Jewry. In fact I feel shame more than fear, shame for Germany. I have truly always felt a German. I have always imagined: The twentieth century and Mitteleuropa was different from the fourteenth century and Romania. Mistake.-Dember describes the effects on business: Stock Exchange,
Noni Hazlehurst in a chair with a Play School book.
Promo picture for Drop The Dead Donkey.
"Fully Automated Luxury Communism is Good, Actually" but it’s an episode title for Star Trek: TNG
Or consider public opinion polls about who is going to win the next presidential election. These always come hedged about with warnings that the "margin of error is 2% plus or minus." So is the claim that prediction of a presidential election six months before it happens is only 2% off? Can that be reasonable?. What is being reported is the sampling error (and only at conventional levels of significance, themselves arbitrary). An error caused, say, by the revelation two months down the road that one of the candidates is an active child molester is not reckoned as part of "the error." You can see that a game is being performed here. The
Scarf sitting on a table. The scarf says “Highbury”, “Arsenal FC” and “gunners”. It has the old Arsenal crest.
Il. The Dark Years, 1940-1945 J.-L.M. - And daily life in London? R.A. - After the blitz that I mentioned earlier, and from the moment Hitler attacked Russia, bombings of London became rare. Life in London was considerably different from usual because the city was, for the first and last time, the capital of continental Europe. One met Czechs, Poles, Bel-gians, Dutch, etc. All the European problems were discussed endlessly. There was a kind of European society within greater London.
For instance, the partisans of the extreme economic liberalism associated with J. B. Say, who regarded trade crises as being simply the economic organism's self-healing process, can be seen as the closest soul-mates of the adherents of so-called natural homeopathy.
Falling dominos meme. The first domino is “BTS interned after halftime show” and the last is “Army burn the Capitol, liberating the USA”.
complex process of integration into a competitive democratic system. The Fascist parties in interwar Europe and the Communists in the limited competitive democracies of Eastern Europe after World War Il are prime examples of disloyal oppositions that protested against accusations of disloyalty while advocating destruction of the system as rightfully legal participants. And certain Socialist parties in the late nineteenth century and pre-World War I Europe were perceived at the time as disloyal oppositions because of their Marxist ideology, while they were in fact being slowly integrated into democratic politics."Similarly, some of the political movements identified with the Catholic church and inspired by the fulminations against the liberal democratic state of the Syllabus were to become the strongest supporters of various democratic political systems in the second half of the twentieth century. What would be an effective litmus test" of loyalty to a democratic re-gime? An obvious possibility is public commitment to legal means for gaining power, and rejection of the use of force. Ambiguities in such public commitment are certainly prima facie evidence of semiloyalty, but not always, as we shall sec, of disloyalty. Under certain circumstances, when the authority of the state is unable to JUAN J. LINZ impose the disarmament of all participants in the political process and to defend all parties against the violence of any other, it becomes easy to claim that paramilitary organizations and threats of force are purely defensive or preventive measures. In societies in which the armed forces traditionally act as the moderating power and intervene in the political process, parties may claim that some of their mobilizational measures are only defensive and supportive of the regime. Again, this blurs the distinction between disloyalty and semiloyalty, as various participants define the actions of the parties quite differently. Another basic test might be rejection of any "k…
But Grattan Institute economist Erin-Lea Brown says the Australian tax system is "falling down a bit" in terms of equity. "Income earned through one way is taxed in a very different way from the same amount of income earned through a different way," she said.
A photo of a Coles shopping trolley where the little key metal thing that connects to the other trolleys has, instead, been (somehow) connected to the slot on the same trolley. Oh, and it’s a screenshot from Reddit and the post title is “Someone has managed what I have been trying my whole life.” Same, dude, same.
The Res Gestae inscription on the wall of the building housing the Ara Pacis.
The Prima Porta Augustus.
Andy Serkis's Maus: Talking mice? Great. Talking mice and cats? Even better! Does so much of it have to be set in Europe in the past, though? Let's move it to the present day so kids can relate!