Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[I Dont Care]

Well clearly you'll just have to draw a penis on your ballot paper.

That takes even more time than a tick

 

[I Dont Care]

It makes you 57% wrong.

Clearly it leads an informal

 

[mic59]

Did it, put me at 57% likely to vote ALP, but as I swore I never would vote Labor again, it puts me in some sort of conundrum

Did it as well, it's a load of hogwash. It said I agree with the Greens by 35%. The fact that I think they're a load of twats and answered that they were at 0 on the likelihood scale of me voting for them didn't seem to come into it. Seemed odd that when it asked for year of birth you could select any year up to 2016. Wonder what would have happened if I'd selected 2016? At least it got my voting option right.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Did it as well, it's a load of hogwash. It said I agree with the Greens by 35%. The fact that I think they're a load of twats and answered that they were at 0 on the likelihood scale of me voting for them didn't seem to come into it. Seemed odd that when it asked for year of birth you could select any year up to 2016. Wonder what would have happened if I'd selected 2016? At least it got my voting option right.

Richard Di Natale lol

 

[I Dont Care]

Did it as well, it's a load of hogwash. It said I agree with the Greens by 35%. The fact that I think they're a load of twats and answered that they were at 0 on the likelihood scale of me voting for them didn't seem to come into it. Seemed odd that when it asked for year of birth you could select any year up to 2016. Wonder what would have happened if I'd selected 2016? At least it got my voting option right.

It put me at:
Labor 57%
LNP 54%
Greens 43%
That's really stretching 100% I would have thought

 

[Doctor Feel]

It put me at:
Labor 57%
LNP 54%
Greens 43%
That's really stretching 100% I would have thought

It's not meant to add up to 100%, it's meant to give you an idea of who you best identify with. Wrongly most of the time, but still.

 

[Doctor Feel]

For the record - This one is better imo. inb4 same result. The results analysis gives you a bit more info though.

https://australia.isidewith.com/political-quiz

 

[I Dont Care]

It's not meant to add up to 100%, it's meant to give you an idea of who you best identify with. Wrongly most of the time, but still.

Yes I know, I'm just boredly sarcastic. Although it would have been more helpful to a new/swinging voter to break down a 100% of your results into party preferences rather than seeing a percentage of how much you agree with the parties

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I will go against the grain and say Samsung. The series 9's are an incredible piece of kit. However, LG's probably come a little bit cheaper and on paper there may not be a huge difference. I like Samsung for not only the picture etc, but the software and operating system design. As a retailer their warranty claims were one of the easiest processes to go through. Contrarian to what someone else said here, our most returned brand name TV's would have been LG.

Make sure you have a look at the TVs in the shop, and ask for the remote so you can mess around with it and change the contrast levels because obviously displays are always set to Dynamic in order to be unrealistically vibrant for sales purposes. Other things to look for is stuttering (you may not notice it until you've watched it for a bit) and how it depicts moving objects. Moving objects quite often experience a blocky/edgy blur around them which looks awful.

In the end, brand name means very little and it comes down to what you like the most in the shop, but my personal preference is Samsung. I've got a series 8 myself. OLED is great picture wise, but it had some serious reliability concerns on release. This may have changed though, I've been out of the game for two years now.

Seriously - don't be afraid to listen to a salesperson and ask them the hard questions about reliability/returns, which TVs are selling well and what to look out for, 90% are serious about their job 10% are slime. You will know which is which.

Thanks man.

 

[Papa G]

Slightly conservative socially, a bit more economically. Mainly ambivilant to a lot of the hot bed issues, only one I think I had an extreme view on was Sunday penalty rates.

 

[edgie]

I'm pretty middle of the road on everything, it would be hard to be more in the middle than I.

L/NP - 52%
ALP - 52%
GRN - 51%

I guess I at least am consistent in my belief that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

 

[El_Scorcho]

If you actually follow politics and have thought hard about what you believe in and stand for, you don't need something like votecompass.

It's really for the people who claim to not give a shit, who actually when it comes down to it probably do care about some of the key issues, they just don't like politicians and have no interest in doing their homework.

The biggest election issue in this country is that people hate politicians and hate the process and don't really understand what they're voting for, so they vote for who their parents voted for, or donkey vote, or draw a dick on the ballot paper. Give someone a 5 minute guide so they can actually vote for a party that best represents them, and the whole country will be a better place.

 

[Kickpuncher]

Doctor Feel or anyone else that can help.

TV blew up last night.

Looking 60 inch UHD LED LCD Smart narrowed it down to Samsung v LG. Our last LG tv lasted nearly ten years without a hitch despite massive use but all our other shit is Samsung.

Any advice nerds?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Doctor Feel]

If you actually follow politics and have thought hard about what you believe in and stand for, you don't need something like votecompass.

It's really for the people who claim to not give a shit, who actually when it comes down to it probably do care about some of the key issues, they just don't like politicians and have no interest in doing their homework.

The biggest election issue in this country is that people hate politicians and hate the process and don't really understand what they're voting for, so they vote for who their parents voted for, or donkey vote, or draw a dick on the ballot paper. Give someone a 5 minute guide so they can actually vote for a party that best represents them, and the whole country will be a better place.

I put a dick on the ballot paper AND vote correctly.

I also voted for Kodos.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Moo87]

Well clearly you'll just have to draw a penis on your ballot paper.

Does that count as a vote for the sex party?
...or maybe one nation?

 

[Lagooner]

That takes even more time than a tick

Depends on how detailed your dicks are I guess.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I put a dick on the ballot paper AND vote correctly.

I also voted for Kodos.

A dick on the back of the ballot paper is ideal

I'm 81% Green, 64% Labor and 36% LNP after doing the weighting, but the most important thing really is that people vote and vote for someone who adequately represents them. The entire ****ing campaign these days is just scare tactics and very little actual policy campaigning. The major parties don't really care if the average punter knows anything about policy because they try to get elected based on flinging shit. It's boring and it's bad for the country.

If you have lots of friends who don't know, share something like votecompass or that isidewith quiz on social media and encourage people to complete it so they can spend 5 minutes thinking about the election this year and still vote accurately. They'll only continue to use scare campaign politics while they think people care more about that than the issues.

 

[Lagooner]

Does that count as a vote for the sex party?
...or maybe one nation?

Nah that would be your finest illustration of an arseh*le.

 

[Visenfest]

 

[El_Scorcho]

Just to further that point, I have friends who have voted for the Australian Sex Party as a joke, not really having any idea what the party stands for. The Sex Party is fairly socially progressive and my mates who voted for them probably don't even know what socially progressive means.

Family First and the (anti-Vaxx) Australian Health Party are even more insidious with their dodgy party names. The Australian Health Party are probably the worst party it's possible to elect if you care about the health of Australians.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Just to further that point, I have friends who have voted for the Australian Sex Party as a joke, not really having any idea what the party stands for. The Sex Party is fairly socially progressive and my mates who voted for them probably don't even know what socially progressive means.

Family First and the (anti-Vaxx) Australian Health Party are even more insidious with their dodgy party names. The Australian Health Party are probably the worst party it's possible to elect if you care about the health of Australians.

Scorcho, we all know that whatever party bases their whole campaign around #keepplayingbutcher will get your vote.

The Port Adelaide Health Party, aka the Anti-Hinxx party.

 

[LukeSA]

our most returned brand name TV's would have been L..

I know someone who used to manage a betta electrical and they said the same thing, I have had three LG plasmas (I have a 60" plasma in the lounge) and they have never missed a beat, although they do sometimes havehave the candlelight effect when watching the footy or any other program that has a sustained logo but that is systemic to all plasmas.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I know someone who used to manage a betta electrical and they said the same thing, I have had three LG plasmas (I have a 60" plasma in the lounge) and they have never missed a beat, although they do sometimes havehave the candlelight effect when watching the footy or any other program that has a sustained logo but that is systemic to all plasmas.

lol on Betta Electrical, there is one in Renmark. It's the weirdest shop ever. They literally use the Betta Electrical as a front for their marijuana empire.

 

[Far Kern]

lol on Betta Electrical, there is one in Renmark. It's the weirdest shop ever. They literally use the Betta Electrical as a front for their ...

lol. allegedly...

A tech geek mate of mine gave me basically the same advice re Samsung and I couldn't be happier fwiw.