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Brendan Commins
@brendancommins
Lawyer, golfer, cricket fan, THFC, #COYS
Cape Town, South AfricaJoined April 2011
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"I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."
—Thomas Sowell
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A perfect example of a perfect twitter line - a comparison entrancing, irrelevant and utterly misleading. Iranian theocracy is a powerful present horror for millions - Bishops in the House of Lords are not.
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There are only two countries in the world where representatives of the state religion automatically get seats in Parliament. They are the UK and Iran. #BishopsOut change.org/BishopsOut
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Hey can you give a hand getting this lot on and off the tube please? I’m sure you’ll have no problem getting it up and down the steps, and along the streets to your destination. You absolute nincompoop 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣🤣
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Replying to @TexanGhost @DaveAtherton20 and 5 others
Ask him if he’ll give me a hand with this lot
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You couldn’t make this shit up…because she got such a great track record in covid
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ANC wants Dlamini-Zuma in charge of load-shedding state of disaster mybroadband.co.za/news/governmen
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unRenewable power—we have totally lost the plot. #Nuclear Power produces orders of magnitude more energy, while consuming orders of magnitude fewer natural resources (including space) than any energy engine ever devised by humans.
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This isn't #green
This isn't #renewable
It is environmental vandalism and a waste of the earth's limited resources.
Can’t have it both ways … it’s either hundreds of acres solar panels and windmills or oil and gas … PICK ONE!
China needs to be replace every 15 —20yrs
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• Transgender is not a sexuality
• Trans is not a “type of gay”
• No child is born in the wrong body
• Sex is observed, not assigned
• You cannot change your sex
• Lesbians do not have penises
• Gay men do not have vaginas
• Women don’t have to justify single sex spaces.
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You're making 💩 up.
People smuggling has NEVER been legal.
In or out of the EU.
No migrants were ever returned in any numbers.
The EU's porous external and internal borders and stupid associated courts are the problem flea brain.
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Funny how that 3rd rate power is the 5th biggest economy in the world.
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You should have said; tsek! It is funny how 3rd rate powers that are under the protection of America prat kak.
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Socialist extremists are extremely good at lying 👇
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The people interrupting were anti vaxxers conspiracy cranks. They do not speak for ordinary people. twitter.com/sophielouisecc…
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Oh my😳 is woke waking up?
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R1bn would be able to sponsor every SA Sports team that competes Internationally with a Visit SA on the strip and help all South Africans! Are you listening Themba Khimalo
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"If, per chance, I should be killed, would I not thereby bequeath to my students an example worth far more than all the teaching I could give?"
#OTD 3 February 1944 the 3 Jewish boys that Father Jacques had hidden in his school were deported to Auschwitz
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Peak bigoted misogyny 👇
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May I present the gruesome foursome. Is there any such thing as a pleasant Tory woman?
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Dear - do you really want to be associated with a deal that was done at the expense of millions of South Africans, many of them losing jobs as we speak because our government literally can't keep the lights on?
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Tottenham Hotspur have secured a three-year £42.5 million shirt-sleeve sponsorship deal with the South African government — despite the country considering a state of disaster due to record power cuts thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-
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Another Day
…Another Reminder!
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What happened to being in control of your own business on property you own/rent/lease. Ask them to leave, if they don’t have police serve a trespass notice? If they return, have them ticketed/arrested? That how every other type of business property works, why not for bakers?
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GO TO ANOTHER BAKERY
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This is a man who made R1 Billion available to small businesses in the Covid pandemic. A true patriot
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Billionaire businessman Johann Rupert slated the government’s plan to spend nearly R1 billion to sponsor Tottenham Hotspur, adding that there is a better way to attract tourists.
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They’ve banned singing of Delilah at the Principality stadium.
Why? Why? Why?
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The police in a western country telling the public what music is to be permitted.
It's like the second half of the 20th century never happened.
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Violent crime went up by 17% in this police chief's area (Dyfed Powys) last year. I'm guessing that none of that increase was attributable to the lyrics of 'Delilah'.
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There’s been a lot of misplaced criticism of this decision to stop singing ‘Delilah’
The song depicts the murder of a woman by a jealous partner
For context, approx 2 women a week are murdered by a partner or ex-partner
It’s time to sing something else bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-
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You do know Bob Marley and the Wailers didn’t actually shoot a sheriff?
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Weird how a company trading in a high priced commodity has seen an increase in turnover. Whatever next?
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Shell has just reported its highest profits in its 115 year history.
They made £32.2 billion in profit in 2022.
Your gas bill has doubled in a year. Shell’s wholesale costs are lower today than this time last year.
A rip off.
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WMC is a racist slogan dreamed up by the now discredited and defunct Bell Pottinger company. Only cretins and marxists (is there a difference?) believe such nonsense.
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That's one of the BEE outcomes - a policy that was agreed upon between late Mandela and his ANC inner circle of leaders, and late de Klerk's racist white supremacist NP.
The main influencers were WMC and the neo-liberal West.
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'It's insane!' SA sports federation heads fume over R-billion Spurs sponsorship proposal. The tourism dept’s proposed decision to sponsor English Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur has been met with unhappiness by 3 federations. (Remember the GIANT flag saga) More sheer lunacy!
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We aren’t struggling with tourists because no one knows we’re here. It’s because of poor governance. Crime, bad roads, loadshedding, collapsing public infrastructure. An expensive deal with an English club won’t solve those problems. Effective, clean gov will.
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If Spurs sign a deal with anyone involved with the South African government, their board is beyond redemption.
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This woman is completely off her rocker. Wants to spend R1 billion on a UK soccer team. Why?
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Shut up Caz, you want to ban fossils fuels & turn the economy back to the stone ages. We will all be weaving baskets, drinking green tea & taking holidays in Brighton in sandals with tofu salads, if you have your way ..
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Yep, #Brexit going swimmingly thanks bbc.co.uk/news/business-
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"Public schools are great because they unify community. Also, rich people—and only rich people—should be able to opt out of that community."
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I paid for it. I didn’t ask taxpayers to pay for my private choice.
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On a serious note , if you read only one thing today, make it this.
“We - the women - we want our fucking stuff back. We want our women’s prisons, our women’s sports, our women’s refuges, our women’s bogs, our right to same-sex care, our fucking WORDS”
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Every aspiring journalist or news presenter should watch this masterclass by she is undoubtedly one of the best in the business at political interviews
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Perhaps my memory is faulty but I seem to recall living through a series of deep recessions, at least one currency crisis, and a huge economic crash during our membership of the EU.
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This man is out of his depth. He's like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat. Joburg is in trouble
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Democrats haven’t been this angry since Lincoln freed the slaves.
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