Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Jumbo]

Given that the Coalition won government on a massive No policy (No carbon tax, no mining tax, no university fee regulation, no action on climate change, no support for the underprivileged) this is a really odd comment to make.

But they were saying yes to no

 

[chiwigi]

Yes, who?

I thought you were talking about Abbot.

 

[CharlieKelly]

WTF is Adelaide bite?

baseyball

Adelaide Bite are playing Perth Heat in the ABL Championship Series at Norwood Oval, Adelaide are aiming for the first South Australian national title win, the Claxton Shield, since 1980, best of three series, game one is tonight, is still going and is being livestreamed

get behind 'em!

aaaaand we just scored three home runs in a row! BOOM!

 

[tribey]

gone girl.

what.

 

[I Dont Care]

I thought you were talking about Abbot.

I wrote that he is deluded. Not charismatic...unless you think that is?

 

[I Dont Care]

If you want to vote left of centre you can vote green (which is too extreme for a lot of people, but they are the only party that didn't go to the last election with some pretty disgusting policies in regards to basic human rights), or you can not vote at all. There isn't a lot of choice.

Yes, the Greens. The party that wants to spend hundreds of monies whilst cutting out the sources that create hundreds of monies

 

[Powerstufff]

This photo is from 1955.

Works for me.

 

[Powerstufff]

does anyone else notice a large number of galahs that are migrating into suburbia at the moment?

I heard an ornithologist speak on Radio 891 a few years ago talking about bird species around Adelaide wax and wane. It was to do with Sparrows v Indian Mynahs but the general advice applies to all our inter-related bird species, native and introduced. Complex stuff in the sense that food and water supplies keep changing, advantaging and advantaging one species or another. Birds move where they have to or simply where life is easier. The inter-related changes take years to feed through the ecosystem.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Yes, the Greens. The party that wants to spend hundreds of monies whilst cutting out the sources that create hundreds of monies

One party asks a little more from the rich to support the most desperate and vulnerable in our society.

The other cuts support to those people and adds a lot of public money to the bottom line of private, often foreign companies.

I know which side I'd rather be on

But I don't vote green for economic reasons, I vote green because I can't in good conscience vote for anyone else on the ballot paper

 

[Ant Bear]

I am qualunquismo
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...glish-equivalent/story-fniym874-1227210910737

 

[Doctor Feel]

One party asks a little more from the rich to support the most desperate and vulnerable in our society.

The other cuts support to those people and adds a lot of public money to the bottom line of private, often foreign companies.

I know which side I'd rather be on

But I don't vote green for economic reasons, I vote green because I can't in good conscience vote for anyone else on the ballot paper

 

[NoddyHolder]

Mrs Holder and I just put the sheets back on the bed from being on the line. She notices a little smear of something (probably bird shit) and discretely tries to arrange sheet so smear ends up on my side - and fails. Gave me a little lift.
Might see if she's up for making another smear or two - probably not

 

[Papa G]

Perth crowds, no matter what sport, are made up of Stepford Wives.

 

[Croweater]

To be perfectly honest, we need a leadership change. Desperately.

Here we have a guy who is pathological in his narcissism and is a large-scale sociopath with regards to his self-interest. Knighting people without consultation is just the tip of the iceberg. Significant funding for religion really pissed me off. When families are struggling to get by through no fault of their own, old Tone hands various religious groups a couple hundred million to fund themselves. Here's a bright idea: Help the families struggling. Not the meth addicts and AirMax-wearing derelicts, but genuine hard-working families who have fallen on some hard times. Stop funding churches, or at least significantly cut back. They can raise the funds on their own.

We need someone who will actually lead the country. Who will best represent the twenty-three million people in this country, not just the Catholics, Englishmen and small-business owners. Honestly, pick between my boy Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop, because they would easily do a better job than that pruney, old, budgie smuggler-wearing sad excuse for a human being. Hell, a coked-out cat with its nuts in a vice would have a better grasp on leadership than that moron.

Oh and get rid of the Lord's Prayer before sitting. We live in a multicultural country, not Presbyterian White Australia circa 1927. Parliament should be a place of absolute neutrality concerning issues pertaining to race, ethnicity and religion.

 

[Ant Bear]

To be perfectly honest, we need a leadership change. Desperately.

Here we have a guy who is pathological in his narcissism and is a large-scale sociopath with regards to his self-interest. Knighting people without consultation is just the tip of the iceberg. Significant funding for religion really pissed me off. When families are struggling to get by through no fault of their own, old Tone hands various religious groups a couple hundred million to fund themselves. Here's a bright idea: Help the families struggling. Not the meth addicts and AirMax-wearing derelicts, but genuine hard-working families who have fallen on some hard times. Stop funding churches, or at least significantly cut back. They can raise the funds on their own.

We need someone who will actually lead the country. Who will best represent the twenty-three million people in this country, not just the Catholics, Englishmen and small-business owners. Honestly, pick between my boy Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop, because they would easily do a better job than that pruney, old, bungie smuggler-wearing sad excuse for a human being. Hell, a coked-out cat with its nuts in a vice would have a better grasp on leadership than that moron.

Oh and get rid of the Lord's Prayer before sitting. We live in a multicultural country, not Presbyterian White Australia circa 1927. Parliament should be a place of absolute neutrality concerning issues pertaining to race, ethnicity and religion.

Could someone quote this so I can like it again?

 

[I Dont Care]

Mrs Holder and I just put the sheets back on the bed from being on the line. She notices a little smear of something (probably bird shit) and discretely tries to arrange sheet so smear ends up on my side - and fails. Gave me a little lift.
Might see if she's up for making another smear or two - probably not

She would be if you smiled and said, "Don't worry dear...I'll sleep on the smear"

 

[I Dont Care]

One party asks a little more from the rich to support the most desperate and vulnerable in our society.

The other cuts support to those people and adds a lot of public money to the bottom line of private, often foreign companies.

I know which side I'd rather be on

But I don't vote green for economic reasons, I vote green because I can't in good conscience vote for anyone else on the ballot paper

My good conscience always tells me to put the Greens last

 

[El_Scorcho]

The Coalition will be wise to choose Bishop if they care about the political career of Turnbull at this stage.

Turnbull positions himself as a bit of a populist and a moderate conservative, and relatively socially progressive for a Liberal MP. Trotting him out to defend some of the more heinous current coalition policies (including ones he has actively opposed in the past) will leave him wide open to getting destroyed. It's why he couldn't be leader last time, they needed someone with some **** and balls to conduct the smear campaign that won the government the election (with the help of the ridiculous state of the Labor party).

Unless they are changing tack and winding back a lot of their policies, they'd be better off going with Bishop who has the stones to drive policies like the current Asylum seeker policy and the GP tax

 

[I Dont Care]

To be perfectly honest, we need a leadership change. Desperately.

Here we have a guy who is pathological in his narcissism and is a large-scale sociopath with regards to his self-interest. Knighting people without consultation is just the tip of the iceberg. Significant funding for religion really pissed me off. When families are struggling to get by through no fault of their own, old Tone hands various religious groups a couple hundred million to fund themselves. Here's a bright idea: Help the families struggling. Not the meth addicts and AirMax-wearing derelicts, but genuine hard-working families who have fallen on some hard times. Stop funding churches, or at least significantly cut back. They can raise the funds on their own.

We need someone who will actually lead the country. Who will best represent the twenty-three million people in this country, not just the Catholics, Englishmen and small-business owners. Honestly, pick between my boy Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop, because they would easily do a better job than that pruney, old, bungie smuggler-wearing sad excuse for a human being. Hell, a coked-out cat with its nuts in a vice would have a better grasp on leadership than that moron.

Oh and get rid of the Lord's Prayer before sitting. We live in a multicultural country, not Presbyterian White Australia circa 1927. Parliament should be a place of absolute neutrality concerning issues pertaining to race, ethnicity and religion.

There is no such thing as neutrality in human society. These days whatever is the flavour of media drive is what the 'neutral' is.

 

[El_Scorcho]

My good conscience always tells me to put the Greens last

I don't think that's your conscience mate.

 

[Grave Danger]

I am qualunquismo
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...glish-equivalent/story-fniym874-1227210910737

Kaimkillenbun - the pair of jocks in a packet of six that is one size smaller than the rest.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I'm not sure that I subscribe to the notion that not voting for the greens is an indictment on your conscience. Voting for the greens does not automatically make you a better person and for people who promote tolerance, they are awfully extreme (verbally) toward opposing views.

You never need to ask a greens voter who they vote for, they'll tell you, as for some reason it makes them feel like they are crusaders of social justice and are beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I'm not sure that I subscribe to the notion that not voting for the greens is an indictment on your conscience.

Given that the other parties (bar Palmer United, I guess) were in full support of the flagrant human rights abuse going on on Manus Island, i'm not sure how anybody can consciously vote for any of them. The greens might not have the economic experience to lead in their own right, but that's a lot better than being responsible for the biggest national disgrace since Trevor Chappell bowled underarm to the kiwis.

 

[Moo87]

Unfortunately for Tony and co their default position of blaming everything on Labour is less effective once in Government. It was an effective position in opposition, but their lack of anything resembling a solid policy is starting to catch them out.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Given that the other parties (bar Palmer United, I guess) were in full support of the flagrant human rights abuse going on on Manus Island, i'm not sure how anybody can consciously vote for any of them. The greens might not have the economic experience to lead in their own right, but that's a lot better than being responsible for the biggest national disgrace since Trevor Chappell bowled underarm to the kiwis.

'flagrant human rights abuse' that the higher courts have cleared right? What constitutes human rights is such a blurred line, and how do you separate the criminals from the legitimates? You can't. As there are no records, no way to identify who they are or what their reasons are. We are expected to believe what they say without any evidence. It doesn't work like that anywhere in the world (except for maybe in a relationship where word is sometimes law ). It's far more complex than just a human rights issue, and I really don't think any government in the world has got it right so far. Some have let them all in and it's destroyed parts of their country, others don't let any in (see japan) and they seem to go pretty well, while Australia are doing the right thing and putting it's citizens before any others in an attempt to clear those they can before allowing asylum. (Obviously those from other political spectrum's may feel that it should be asylum seekers first, Australians after.)

It's a very stupid subject, and one i'm not even going to attempt to say I understand the complexities of, but it's not as simple as 'muh human rights.' and it's not as simple as '**** off we're full' I tend to be a little more pragmatic than that, though I don't know what it is about asylum seekers/immigration in particular that tends to make me feel wary. inb4 racism. Shit subject choice though, one which i'll be duly avoiding after this post.

How about that based tone though, he's ****ing hilarious. Viva La Tone.