About StrictlyGenteel
I come from a small Island that is, like the rest of the world, is perceived as somewhere off the coast of America. It's called New Zealand and I live near Christchurch.
Christchurch rocks, and it's not just the earthquakes.
My primary form of communication is sarcasm.
(My original comment here was, "I just wish this fucking thing (Sott) would work so I can get signed up. This signup is a pile of seriously flawed shit.")
I should really delete it, but now that I'm finally signed up I decided to keep it as a reminder about how I conquered the beast. I notice that the site is regularly upgraded; maybe it's fixed by now. One hopes so.
I'm a vegetarian and still not talked out of being so. After 40 years of not eating red meat, the sight and smell of the stuff makes me puke.
Latest News
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- Senators oppose new Bill: Dreams of a gender-neutral O Canada are over - for now
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- German FM states the obvious: It's impossible to resolve international conflicts without Russia
- Macron's government launches campaign to dismantle workers' rights
- Sovereign Debt Jubilee: How Japan wrote off nearly half its national debt
- The alt-right now has its own Wikipedia
- US boosts spy plane presence off Syria amid WMD accusations, aircraft carrier to visit Israel
- CNN retracted Scaramucci story over possibility of $100 million libel suit
- Unintended consequences: Western sanctions have strengthened Crimea's ties with Russia
- Kiev regime brutally tortures prisoners of war - violates international law
- The latest US threat to Syria is like Iraqi WMDs all over again
- Assad's 'chemical weapons': US has long record of starting wars on false pretexts
- German FM states the obvious: It's impossible to resolve international conflicts without Russia
- Macron's government launches campaign to dismantle workers' rights
- Sovereign Debt Jubilee: How Japan wrote off nearly half its national debt
- US boosts spy plane presence off Syria amid WMD accusations, aircraft carrier to visit Israel
- CNN retracted Scaramucci story over possibility of $100 million libel suit
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- 'Time for a change': Corbyn demands end to public sector pay cap & budget cuts
- Tory-DUP deal promises British soldiers won't be prosecuted for N. Ireland 'Troubles' killings
- 'Wake-up call': US Pacific Command admiral warns of ISIS danger in Pacific
- IDF targets Syrian positions in response to projectile hitting Golan Heights again
- Duterte orders army to retake Marawi 'by any means necessary'
- NATO chief Stoltenberg claims cyber attacks could trigger a 'call to arms'
- Silencing Dissent: Torture, Whistleblowers & the 'Dangerous Apathy' of US Politics
- Seymour Hersh challenges US version of events surrounding Assad 'chemical attack'
- Truth will out! CNN commentator caught on camera admitting Russiagate is a big 'nothing-burger'
- Facing The Ever Greater Depression
- Environmental victory: Ireland becomes fourth EU member state to ban fracking
- New policing tool: Twitter can be used to detect 'disruptive events' before they are reported to police
- Planting a Fascist anti-smoking seed? Forbes asks: should smoking be a tort?
- Social media app Telegram messenger to be registered in Russia, insists it won't share user data with anyone
- Flashback: Great exodus: Thousands of Ukrainians fleeing their country seek safe haven in Russia
- Senators oppose new Bill: Dreams of a gender-neutral O Canada are over - for now
- The alt-right now has its own Wikipedia
- Young American Jews growing in awareness of Israel's barbaric treatment of Palestine
- Life in the USA: Cops randomly stop, assault and search an innocent man before letting him go
- Millions of Ukrainian migrants set to drain Ukraine, flood Europe under visa-free deal
- Trump calls emergency meeting with GOP senators as vote is delayed on Obamacare repeal
- 3 Chicago cops indicted by grand jury for alleged cover-up in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald
- Land of the "free": Americans' satisfaction with their freedom is dropping
- FBI Agent Indicted for Lying About the Killing of Lavoy Finicum
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- Muslim women visiting Holocaust memorial in Poland report racial abuse by locals
- Video shows teens pummeling pregnant woman at high school graduation
- Lockdown: Possible active shooter at Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
- North Carolina man given life sentence for ISIS-inspired plot
- The five biggest meteor crashes of all time
- Dead heads: Turkish site reveals more evidence of neolithic 'skull cult'
- 7,000-year-old high altitude ancient site discovered in Peru
- US-backed coup of Iran in 1953 reveals true colors of so-called "indispensable nation"
- 3rd century ruins compared to Pompeii discovered under Rome
- Adrift at sea: 11-yo Terry Jo Duperrault's escape from 1961 murder plot
- Soviet censorship: How the USSR controlled culture
- The cyclic catastrophism hypothesis - What Juno is telling us
- Discovery of previously unknown rock scripts in Egypt reveals development of hieroglyphic writing
- Rosemary Kennedy's sad and dreadful life
- Russian intel agent reveals how NATO planned to tear Russia apart
- Documentary evidence confirms Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland's grandfather was a Nazi
- "The Hotel Tacloban": The depravity of war as told to Douglas Valentine by his father
- Revisiting the 1941 murders triggered by meteor shower on Canada's Belcher Islands
- The World's Most Catastrophic Floods
- Mysterious Bronze Age 'sun altar' discovered in northwest China
- Predynastic hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Egypt
- Russian MoD declassifies documents on Soviet Union's preparedness for 1941 Nazi invasion
- Volcano-shaped pyramid in Peru has experts stumped
- 128-year-old German immigrant claims he's Hitler, authorities find Nazi trove in Salta, Argentina
- Multiple regions deep within the brain collaborate in empathetic and moral decision-making
- Do asteroids present the 'greatest challenge' to humanity?
- Nobel Laureate physicist Brian Josephson "80%" confident in intelligent design
- World's brightest laser sparks new behavior in light
- NASA's Opportunity rover may have uncovered an ancient Martian lake
- New form of liquid water discovered
- Researchers hunt for clues linking epigenetics and stress
- Thunderbolts Space News: Tornadoes - The Electric Model
- Forgetting actually makes you smarter
- Researchers use sugar-coated nanoparticles to regenerate bone
- Dogs cloned from ears arrive in Russia for genetic research
- 'We made history': NASA launches world's lightest & first 3D-printed satellite, designed by Indian teen
- Unknown, unseen object signalled by warped Kuiper Belt
- 65ft tall and 125 million years old: Scientists unearth fossils of enormous dinosaur
- Experts at Queen's University in Ireland warn Earth is overdue for catastrophic asteroid strike
- European Space Agency approves search for habitable planets
- Hawking: Go to other worlds, 'Earth is becoming too small for us.' Aldrin: 'Get your ass to Mars.'
- Founder of Alibaba Jack Ma warns about dangers of artificial intelligence
- Cougars fear humans, run away from recorded voices
- Russia will deliver test batch of nuclear fuel to US reactor in 2019
- Large sinkhole opens at Wickiup Reservoir in Oregon
- Brilliant display of light pillars surprises trekking Malaysian photographers
- Crews fight lightning-caused wildfires across Southern Idaho
- Record cold in USA during Summer in Dakotas and Great Lakes, media ignores
- Summer snowfall in two regions of Russia
- There have been four earthquakes in Maine so far this week
- Mysterious boom rattles St. Helens, Oregon
- Five killed by lightning bolt in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, India
- Mandatory evacuations ordered for wildfire in San Luis Obispo County, CA
- The U.S. has had more record lows since 1937 than record highs
- Sleeping woman swallowed by sinkhole in Lianyuan, China
- Arizona's 18,000 acre Goodwin fire forces Mayer to evacuate, closes major road to Prescott
- Lightning bolt kills man in Pembroke Pines, Florida
- The Utah Wildfire has grown to become the largest active fire in the U.S.
- Wildfire closes interstate highway at Rockledge, Florida
- Seismic swarm in process west of Reno, Nevada
- China's massive landslide site hit by secondary slides
- Lightning bolt kills 2 farmers in Antique, Philippines
- Massive increase in dog attacks on children in Surrey and Sussex, UK; up from 187 to 511 in a year
- Alaska's Bogoslof volcano sends ash cloud up 9,100 metres (30,000 ft.)
- Meteor streaks over Columbia County, Georgia
- 'Spectacular' fireball spotted in Whanganui, New Zealand
- Meteor fireball caught on CCTV over Singapore
- Meteor fireball seen across Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana skies
- Scientists identify rock that crashed through shed roof in a Dutch village as meteorite
- Meteorite 'size of a small car' hits Sudan, fragments found
- Stargazers left baffled after 'red fireball' seen over Perth, Western Australia
- Two-month countdown to total solar eclipse that will darken U.S. skies from Oregon to South Carolina
- Potential new meteor shower from Comet Borisov
- Meteor seen in Roodepoort, South Africa
- Las Vegas Allsky camera captures slow moving meteor
- Bright meteor fireball explodes over Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Meteor fireball streaks over Florida
- Flaming meteor fireball seen exploding in South Africa
- Possible meteorite impact in Jaipur, India
- Meteor fireball filmed across Washington DC sky
- Greek photographer captures meteor fireball over Corfu
- Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball exploding over Arizona
- Meteor fireball lights up southern English coast
- Meteor fireball explodes over southern Switzerland
- Illegal GE bacteria resistant to antibiotics has been found in animal feed
- Official push to hide drug & vaccine side effects; reduce informed consent
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- A secret natural insect repellent is hidden in your kitchen
- 2 plague cases confirmed in New Mexico's Santa Fe County
- Fecal bacteria found in drinks sold by UK's three major coffee chains
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- Sunless tanning sprays are a recipe for cancer
- A diet of Cokes and Oreos: Do poor people eat more junk food than the rich?
- Dirty money: DNA, drugs and bacteria found on dollar bills
- Sickeningly sweet: More than half of foods marketed to kids are junk - obesity research
- Study shows how high fat diets can alter gut bacteria to combat harmful inflammation
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- New claims against Monsanto in consumer lawsuit over Roundup herbicide
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- Study: Nearly three-quarters of sunscreens don't work as advertised
- Sun's rays could be a cure for eczema: Nitric oxide released while sunbathing can reduce inflammation that causes the itches
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- Under the influence of power - does it cause brain damage?
- Five simple techniques to help you retain more from the books you read
- Beginner's mind: You cannot learn what you think you already know
- Helping girls heal from trauma with yoga
- Oxytocin turns on a mother's protective instinct
- An anthropologist's theory on shamanism and the origins of knowledge completely rewrites our understanding of DNA
- Why skeptics will never accept the existence of psi
- Do we all need a little time simply to sit and think?
- The understated nature of fatherly affection
- How brain circuits govern hunger and cravings
- SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: UFO Secrecy and JFK - Interview with Dr. Michael Salla
- NASA poised to announce discovery of aliens, says Anonymous
- Possible UFO seen over New York suburb
- David Paulides releases 'Missing 411' documentary
- Mysterious disappearances of UFO researchers
- Giant crop circles appear overnight in French field
- 'Missing 411' documentary explores disappearance of Idaho toddler, other children
- Bristol, UK couple film mysterious lights flashing above their home
- Robert Bigelow says he is 'absolutely convinced' aliens are currently living on Earth
- Nottingham, UK residents woken by strange 'whooshing' noise
- Seen a Bigfoot? Call Bigfoot 911 and this North Carolina group may investigate
- 'Banging sounds from the sky' recorded in Staten Island, New York
- Strange 'drum-like' booms heard in the sky over southwest Louisiana
- Mothman? Chupacabras? Or something else entirely?
- Bus driver films triangle UFO over Exmouth, UK
- Unacknowledged: Documentary aims to blow the lid off the biggest cover-up in human history
- US military's declassified files: Instructions on how to photograph UFO's
- Contractors claim bizarre events at home where killer Ted Bundy grew up
- Kansas Pastor was assessing woman for demonic possession days before she decapitated ex-boyfriend's mother
- Meet some of India's most serious UFO researchers
- TSA workers find gaint lobster in packed luggage -- Twitter users are not amused
- 'Out of town passenger' spotted in speeding car
- Always read the label! New Zealand parents mistakenly feed their kids Scooby Snacks
- I was offended! Comedian Steve Hughes on the absurdity of political correctness
- Bye Bye Chinglish: No more 'roasted husband' and 'fried Wikipedia' as China clamps down on mangled foreign-language translations
- Elephants spring into action to save drowning calf at South Korea zoo
- Jonathan Pie: Papering over poverty in austerity Britain
- Californian man sets underpants on fire, prompts Walgreens evacuation
- Satire - Study: AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell' more theologically accurate than 96% of modern worship songs
- Mark Steel: Wondering what the Tory-DUP deal will actually look like?
- Flock of geese 'bombed' Disneyland
- NYC Subway System Has Banned Dogs... Until People Got Creative
- Lord Buckethead stands against Theresa May; releases his manifesto
- Theresa May hoping for 'constructive relationship' with creationist homophobes who think Pope is Satan
- Horror movie-watching dog tries to warn characters of danger
- British enjoy final day of having human rights
- Cringe factor! The 10 most awkward moments of #GE2017
- Jonathan Pie: UK General Election 2017
- Russian supermarket staff & customers unfazed by armed robber; send him away without a fuss
- Potty paper...what it reveals about your personality
Quote of the Day
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
- Aldous Huxley
Recent Comments
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