Play Nice Random Chat Thread: Episode III

[Groin guru]

And after said regime of situps and pushups, I hope you finally found that same magpie and wreaked vengeance upon them and theirs.

They had gotten quite territorial by grade 3 (we'd play cricket and no one was brave enough to field on one side. When you'd bat you'd smash it to that side, chalk up about 50 runs until someone was brave enough to get it, then we'd all laugh as he got swooped). Over the 3rd term break, we got a newsletter from the school saying the local ranger moved the birds to a different area. I later found that just meant shoot them.

Going on my morning walk with my woofer I come across this snake opposite a primary school at a school crossing. I know the lollipop guy and he said yeah it’s been there for a while, I questioned is anyone getting someone to get it moved. Response was I mentioned it to the ranger and school principal (as the land belongs to the school) but they were more concerned who was responsible for it as it was in an area that had foliage and a run off .
I was mortified and said I hope a little kid waiting at the crossing (snake probably 3-4 meters from crossing) doesn’t go there f they lose their footy.
So when I got home I rang the council and after been put through to about four different people the person said he would follow it up .
Seriously I think some people should take responsibility when situations require itView attachment 623665

Don't report it. Seems like a handy way to get rid of some of the riff-raff at the primary school/surrounding area. Teachers will be kicking footies in there and selecting one at "random" to go fetch. It's not cruel because in other cultures you send your children away and hope they come back as a man/woman. What school is it? Might take my son down there and see if he rises to the occasion. There are a few tigers supporters I'd like to throw in there too. Now I know how King Ælla felt.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Eligible for parole when he’s 73 FFS.

What does someone need to do in order to be sentenced to life without any chance of parole around here? Mowing down and murdering 6 innocent people plus injuring countless others obviously isn’t bad enough.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Eligible for parole when he’s 73 FFS.

What does someone need to do in order to be sentenced to life without any chance of parole around here? Mowing down and murdering 6 innocent people plus injuring countless others obviously isn’t bad enough.

You have to be Julian Knight.

 

[Groin guru]

Eligible for parole when he’s 73 FFS.

What does someone need to do in order to be sentenced to life without any chance of parole around here? Mowing down and murdering 6 innocent people plus injuring countless others obviously isn’t bad enough.

It's pathetic. Always have to add that element of compassion to make it seem like prison rehabilitates. Where was that scums compassion? Joke.

 

[Firestarter]

Don't forget he can always get a shortened stint even if he doesn't win an appeal outright...

 

[Sopwiths North]

Wasps vs spiders are fun...

Again, just reinforces how terrifying the insect world is. Honestly, if bugs were the same size as us....

 

[Twinkletoes]

Don't forget he can always get a shortened stint even if he doesn't win an appeal outright...

Yep and we’ll be relying on politicians to enforce a “never to be released” stance with the parole board. He should have zero hope of release.

 

[Val Keating]

Eligible for parole when he’s 73 FFS.

What does someone need to do in order to be sentenced to life without any chance of parole around here? Mowing down and murdering 6 innocent people plus injuring countless others obviously isn’t bad enough.

He’ll never get out. They’ll change laws if they have to, like they did with Knight. Way too high profile.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Eligible for parole when he’s 73 FFS.

What does someone need to do in order to be sentenced to life without any chance of parole around here? Mowing down and murdering 6 innocent people plus injuring countless others obviously isn’t bad enough.

Okay, I can reveal this now.

He should never have even been in the state.

Put in an application to the parole board to go and work with his father in a fairly remote interstate coal mine, and the parole board knocked him back. He was sent home to his alcoholic mother and nutcase brother and he spiraled out of control again.

The other thing people haven't been told is that the cops chased him in up Swanston Street and he diverted in to Bourke Street to escape them. They are somewhat negligent themselves.

 

[Val Keating]

Thinking about people who should never get out, Paul Denyer (who now identifies himself as a woman Paula Denyer) is up for parole soon. That sicko can’t be released.

 

[gokangas]

Going on my morning walk with my woofer I come across this snake opposite a primary school at a school crossing. I know the lollipop guy and he said yeah it’s been there for a while, I questioned is anyone getting someone to get it moved. Response was I mentioned it to the ranger and school principal (as the land belongs to the school) but they were more concerned who was responsible for it as it was in an area that had foliage and a run off .
I was mortified and said I hope a little kid waiting at the crossing (snake probably 3-4 meters from crossing) doesn’t go there f they lose their footy.
So when I got home I rang the council and after been put through to about four different people the person said he would follow it up .
Seriously I think some people should take responsibility when situations require itView attachment 623665

You will find that the snake has rights that transcend the rights of your kids. This sort of interaction with Councils is what gives them such a bad name.!

 

[Twinkletoes]

Okay, I can reveal this now.

He should never have even been in the state.

Put in an application to the parole board to go and work with his father in a fairly remote interstate coal mine, and the parole board knocked him back. He was sent home to his alcoholic mother and nutcase brother and he spiraled out of control again.

The other thing people haven't been told is that the cops chased him in up Swanston Street and he diverted in to Bourke Street to escape them. They are somewhat negligent themselves.

He was also stopped earlier in South Melbourne, if I recall correctly, and could have been apprehended but for a softly softly avoid confrontation direction from Vic Pol management.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He was also stopped earlier in South Melbourne, if I recall correctly, and could have been apprehended but for a softly softly avoid confrontation direction from Vic Pol management.

Then they chased him in to the most populated area of the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cops were outrageously negligent in this case.

They should have broken off the moment he entered a highly built up area, and allowed him to escape back out to the burbs where they could initiate a low risk planned capture of him at a later date.

They knew who was at the wheel, they knew he was unstable, and they knew he was aware of their presence. This was no resourceful criminal mastermind. They would have picked him up relatively safely within a week.

 

[Val Keating]

Then they chased him in to the most populated area of the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cops were outrageously negligent in this case.

They should have broken off the moment he entered a highly built up area, and allowed him to escape back out to the burbs where they could initiate a low risk planned capture of him at a later date.

They knew who was at the wheel, they knew he was unstable, and they knew he was aware of their presence. This was no resourceful criminal mastermind. They would have picked him up relatively safely within a week.

No one forced him to do what he did. Could the cops have handled it better? Probably. Doesn’t change the fact this scumbag chose to run over random people as some kind of last **** you to the world. He’s a peice of shit. If the parole board allowed him go live with his dad he would’ve found the ice community and done some ****ed up shit anyways.

 

[gokangas]

I’m a big supporter of Police in general but this whole event stinks of Police leadership being too scared to be Police. They made the calls not to intercept even whenthis POS was doing doughnuts outside Flinders Street Station. This whole softly softly approach will cost more innocent lives.

 

[Val Keating]

I’m a big supporter of Police in general but this whole event stinks of Police leadership being too scared to be Police. They made the calls not to intercept even whenthis POS was doing doughnuts outside Flinders Street Station. This whole softly softly approach will cost more innocent lives.

I spose the police can only blame their colleagues for their abuse of power & corruption.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Thinking about people who should never get out, Paul Denyer (who now identifies himself as a woman Paula Denyer) is up for parole soon. That sicko can’t be released.

Denyer is literally batshit crazy. They won't let him out.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Could the cops have handled it better? Probably. .

This is my point mate.

Doesn’t change the fact this scumbag chose to run over random people as some kind of last **** you to the world. He’s a peice of shit. If the parole board allowed him go live with his dad he would’ve found the ice community and done some ****** up shit anyways.

You have to be careful when assigning judgements in the context a rational person like yourself might do a good or bad thing. Gargasoulus is nuts. He's simply not capable of formulating ethical rationalizations in the same sense as your self, so judging him by that criteria is missing the mark.

If I had been the cop sitting at the lights of Swanston & Flinders street in pursuit of Gargasoulus whilst he was ranting like a lunatic and doing circle work behind the wheel of a car in the intersection, then my first duty MUST be for the safety of the immediate pedestrian public. I would have stepped out of the car with my empty hands held high, stopped the traffick, called out to the nutter that "I am breaking off pursuit, leave the city" and waved him south up Swanston street to exit the city. He most likely would have ditched the car once he was out of sight and taken off on foot in to a crowded area to conceal himself.

You let the bloke GO in that situation.

 

[Val Keating]

This is my point mate.



You have to be careful when assigning judgements in the context a rational person like yourself might do a good or bad thing. Gargasoulus is nuts. He's simply not capable of formulating ethical rationalizations in the same sense as your self, so judging him by that criteria is missing the mark.

If I had been the cop sitting at the lights of Swanston & Flinders street in pursuit of Gargasoulus whilst he was ranting like a lunatic and doing circle work behind the wheel of a car in the intersection, then my first duty MUST be for the safety of the immediate pedestrian public. I would have stepped out of the car with my empty hands held high, stopped the traffick, called out to the nutter that "I am breaking off pursuit, leave the city" and waved him south up Swanston street to exit the city. He most likely would have ditched the car once he was out of sight and taken off on foot in to a crowded area to conceal himself.

You let the bloke GO in that situation.

****en he’ll snake, you’ve got me sticking up for the jacks now.

All that shit aside, you know as well as I do that if people think all they need to do to escape the cops is head to a populated area. They can’t send that message out. This nutcase wasn’t the first to do doughnuts in the city, the jacks didn’t know he was about to mow down civies.

 

[Snake_Baker]

****en he’ll snake, you’ve got me sticking up for the jacks now.

All that shit aside, you know as well as I do that if people think all they need to do to escape the cops is head to a populated area. They can’t send that message out. This nutcase wasn’t the first to do doughnuts in the city, the jacks didn’t know he was about to mow down civies.

You are looking at this from the perspective of a rational offender.

 

[Val Keating]

You are looking at this from the perspective of a rational offender.

I was trying to put myself in the cops position, but I get your point.

 

[kangaspurs]

I find it interesting that Jordan Peterson extols the virtue of individuality and castigates categorising people by their identity, while ignoring that historically, particularly in post-colonial countries, swathes of people have been institutionally oppressed and denied rights simply because they belonged to certain identity groups, while also being told that it was their individuality that mattered. There's a cruel dissonance in those ideas.

I mean, think of apartheid South Africa, women's suffrage, civil rights, etc. These things were only addressed when people collectively mobilised along identity lines and demanded cultural, political and societal change, so that it was possible for them to express their individuality, that it was possible that the individuality of the people that belonged to those identity groups could be recognised.

I find it hard to accept this idea that group identity and individuality are these two mutually exclusive intrinsically defining characteristics. When he talks about the individuality of ideas as being the most important, surely he recognises that, among a host of other things, identity is crucial in influencing the individual that formed them.

Anyway, that's the direction of my thoughts after watching Q&A tonight. It's the first time I've seen him speak for an extended period, and what's clear is that he's charismatic and a great orator. I can see why so many people have been drawn to the almost cult of personality that surrounds him.

On another note, Terri Butler is always the most impressive of the Labor politicians whenever I see her imo. I'd be willing to bet that she's a future PM. She's very considered, and I think she held her own, particularly regarding the nature of representative democracy, to which Peterson replied with lazy whataboutisms, which was intellectually disingenuous.

 

[Gasometer]

That Golden ticket on seller above has good prices to Medallion Club above

$100 for a Wing seat on Good Friday is worth thinking about; could go close to sell out that game

As a one off experience I am saying

 

[Gasometer]

I find it interesting that Jordan Peterson extols the virtue of individuality and castigates categorising people by their identity, while ignoring that historically, particularly in post-colonial countries, swathes of people have been institutionally oppressed and denied rights simply because they belonged to certain identity groups, while also being told that it was their individuality that mattered. There's a cruel dissonance in those ideas.

I mean, think of apartheid South Africa, women's suffrage, civil rights, etc. These things were only addressed when people collectively mobilised along identity lines and demanded cultural, political and societal change, so that it was possible for them to express their individuality, that it was possible that the individuality of the people that belonged to those identity groups could be recognised.

I find it hard to accept this idea that group identity and individuality are these two mutually exclusive intrinsically defining characteristics. When he talks about the individuality of ideas as being the most important, surely he recognises that, among a host of other things, identity is crucial in influencing the individual that formed them.

Anyway, that's the direction of my thoughts after watching Q&A tonight. It's the first time I've seen him speak for an extended period, and what's clear is that he's charismatic and a great orator. I can see why so many people have been drawn to the almost cult of personality that surrounds him.

On another note, Terri Butler is always the most impressive of the Labor politicians whenever I see her imo. I'd be willing to bet that she's a future PM. She's very considered, and I think she held her own, particularly regarding the nature of representative democracy, to which Peterson replied with lazy whataboutisms, which was intellectually disingenuous.

Never paid much attention til last night and then Googled him for an hour or so during/after

Interesting premise this concept of toughen up in this day and age

Charismatic and great orator are a concern though....

 

[Snake_Baker]

Charismatic and great orator are a concern though....

He stands out because he's actually intelligent.

If last night was representative of his stay here then he'll leave this country concluding that Australians are a bunch of stupid people.