This one genuinely hit me.
Since I was a young boy, I've loved Optimus Prime: the leadership, the gravitas, the warmth. Peter Cullen captured all of Prime's qualities with his legendary voice.
He will be remembered as one of the greats.
R.I.P Mr Cullen
Till All Are One
imo you literally get that “spark” all over again. everything is a new experience to your kid. seeing a bug? coolest thing ever. eating ice cream. amazing. going for a car ride. painting a picture. even every day normal activities like grocery shopping are an incredible experience with them. holidays like christmas, easter, halloween etc all feel like how they felt like when you were a kid again. everything is exciting again because you are seeing the world for the first time through their eyes
Greens: “There is no evidence that some migrant communities are overrepresented in violent crime.”
Also Greens: “Noooooo. We shouldn’t publish crime statistics by race and ethnicity.”
Insisting that criticising Jason Arday for his actions was racism and that he should have been given a pass because he was black is to insist that it is racist to judge people by the content of their character and that we should judge them instead by the colour of their skin.
Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."
Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"
Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."
Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."
Activist: "But the land's worth millions."
Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."
Activist: "So sell a corner of it."
Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."
Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."
Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."
Activist: "It's still an asset."
Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."
I like Frank.
I'd vote for Frank.
And I tell you this, I promise you this, after having met the man a couple of times now, he is entirely authentic.
You just can't fake that.
This is a real human being speaking from the heart; from the soul.
Brilliant.
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