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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Bonk ban'. A term I haven't heard before. [from an Australia political dispute]
' . . . criticize a term used to describe a rule introduced by his predecessor in 2018 that prohibited sexual relations between staff and ministers. The term: bonk ban, which he insisted made light of a serious issue . . . '
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/world/australia/morrison-ruston-bonk-bans-manterruption-sexism.html
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'Bonk ban'. A term I haven't heard before. [from an Australia political dispute] (Original Post)
empedocles
Nov 2020
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czarjak
(11,310 posts)1. Boinking from the where ever?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. Wonder about the correct usage; 'bonk' or 'boink'?
yonder
(9,683 posts)3. It's the southern hemisphere, everything is opposite so
what's "knob" to us is "bonk" to them. I think they're talking about a ban on "knobbers".
Something to do with the Coriolis Effect?
Zambero
(8,978 posts)4. Don't these bonkers know how to spell correctly??