Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[LukeSA]

So it sounds like one of the least listened too breakfast radio shows is trying to save glenelg.

 

[finbarr]

RAW PINE BEDSIDES!

You're missing two exclamation marks, and not on the end of that sentence.

 

[chiwigi]

So between dealing with work and smartarse teenager children, and the PAFC selection debacle, I've been transferring the contacts etc to missus's new iPhone and factory reset the old.

Let's just say I've had some less than Christian thoughts about Tim Cook and dead Steve Jobs

Stupid operating system and anyone who thinks otherwise should go look up Stockholm Syndrome

Use icloud, every time I upgrade its all there, every time.

 

[Forzaport]

So according to Trump, Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS.

"Is there something wrong with saying that?" Mr Trump said.

"Are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS?

"All I do is tell the truth. I'm a truth-teller."

I heard the entire interview. It beggars belief the shit he says and gets away with. It's terrifying that people buy into it and they will vote for him.

 

[Grave Danger]

I heard the entire interview. It beggars belief the shit he says and gets away with. It's terrifying that people buy into it and they will vote for him.

I have a number of theories about Mr Trump:

1. He's getting shit scared that he's actually going to win, so he comes out with more and more outlandish statements to make himself unelectable;

2. He's conducting an elaborate social experiment to demonstrate just how gullible the American public is;

3. He's just a businessman;

4. He's a bozo; or

5. He's Beelzebub

 

[Steve Dore]

I heard the entire interview. It beggars belief the shit he says and gets away with. It's terrifying that people buy into it and they will vote for him.

As I have posted previously the American population's propensity for stupidity should not be underestimated. There would be millions of Americans hearing Trump say that and be nodding their heads and going, "yeah, right on, this guy tells the truth."

 

[Dylan8]

I have a number of theories about Mr Trump:

1. He's getting shit scared that he's actually going to win, so he comes out with more and more outlandish statements to make himself unelectable;

2. He's conducting an elaborate social experiment to demonstrate just how gullible the American public is;

3. He's just a businessman;

4. He's a bozo; or

5. He's Beelzebub

6, all of the above

 

[finbarr]

Having Rohan Connolly's beaming face at the top of this page everytime I refresh on my phone is rather unnerving.

 

[chiwigi]

As I have posted previously the American population's propensity for stupidity should not be underestimated. There would be millions of Americans hearing Trump say that and be nodding their heads and going, "yeah, right on, this guy tells the truth."

We are a country that has 3 senators from One Nation, we cannot cast aspersions. Particularly when ours happens with high voting numbers!

 

[raman]

I have a number of theories about Mr Trump:

1. He's getting shit scared that he's actually going to win, so he comes out with more and more outlandish statements to make himself unelectable;

2. He's conducting an elaborate social experiment to demonstrate just how gullible the American public is;

3. He's just a businessman;

4. He's a bozo; or

5. He's Beelzebub

Whenever I get too worried I just look at Nate Silver's poll projections and take a few calming deep breaths.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo#plus

 

[Dylan8]

Use icloud, every time I upgrade its all there, every time.

And risk compromising my expansive library of nudes? I don't think so buddy.

 

[Lagooner]

I feel exhausted just watching water polo.

Trying not to drown-ball.

 

[Steve Dore]

We are a country that has 3 senators from One Nation, we cannot cast aspersions. Particularly when ours happens with high voting numbers!

Having lived in both the USA and QLD I am not surprised by the political success of Trump or One Nation.

I was living in rural QLD in 1996 and actually traveled back to Adelaide on election day. I did an absentee vote in Brisbane on Saturday morning before flying to Adelaide. Saturday night I was out at dinner with a group of friends and they were all going on about what a nut case Pauline Hanson was and how she didn't have a hope. I was telling them that she would be a shoe in and they laughed at me.

There are plenty of senators in the US Senate that make Pauline Hanson look like an intelligent moderate. Being the president is a somewhat higher office than being a senator.

 

[chiwigi]

Having lived in both the USA and QLD I am not surprised by the political success of Trump or One Nation.

I was living in rural QLD in 1996 and actually traveled back to Adelaide on election day. I did an absentee vote in Brisbane on Saturday morning and before flying to Adelaide. Saturday night I was out a dinner with a group of friends and they were all going on about what a nut case Pauline Hanson was and how she didn't have a hope. I was telling them that she would be a shoe in and they laughed at me.

There are plenty of senators in the US Senate that make Pauline Hanson look like an intelligent moderate. Being the president is a somewhat higher office than being a senator.

Abbott.
To be fair to the USA, they have NEVER elected Trump to ANY office.

 

[Steve Dore]

Abbott.

A very embarrassing Prime Minister but, despite what Uncle Tone wanted us to believe, the Prime Minister of Australia is not directly elected and a rank amateur compared with Trump. Fortunately his own party eventually woke up to the huge mistake they had made.

 

[chiwigi]

A very embarrassing Prime Minister but, despite what Uncle Tone wanted us to believe, the Prime Minister of Australia is not directly elected and a rank amateur compared with Trump. Fortunately his own party eventually woke up to the huge mistake they had made.

Not directly elected, haha, this is simply untrue de facto these days, though technically correct.

I edited my earlier post to point out that Trump has never been elected to office in the USA.

Abbott is only an amateur compared to Trump, because he wasn't even as successful in business as Trump, not because he was smarter.

 

[Grave Danger]

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Ask Rohan Anything

 

[manureid]

Not directly elected, haha, this is simply untrue de facto these days, though technically correct.

I edited my earlier post to point out that Trump has never been elected to office in the USA.

Abbott is only an amateur compared to Trump, because he wasn't even as successful in business as Trump, not because he was smarter.

Hasn't Trump actually lost money (started with his Dads money) though. I saw somewhere that if he had just put his Dads money in a bank account with a moderate interest rate he would be much richer. Not sure how factual that is, but it tickled my fancy.

 

[Steve Dore]

Chinese government instigates DDOS attack against ABC website.

 

[chiwigi]

Hasn't Trump actually lost money (started with his Dads money) though. I saw somewhere that if he had just put his Dads money in a bank account with a moderate interest rate he would be much richer. Not sure how factual that is, but it tickled my fancy.

Technically yes (practically no due to inflation) however, it cannot be argued that he isn't more 'successful', I don't remember his Dad being nominated as the republican candidate or being known worldwide beforehand. Money is nothing compared to power.

 

[Steve Dore]

Not directly elected, haha, this is simply untrue de facto these days, though technically correct. ...

Yes, unfortunately it has become a de facto direct election.

I edited my earlier post to point out that Trump has never been elected to office in the USA.

Abbott is only an amateur compared to Trump, because he wasn't even as successful in business as Trump, not because he was smarter.

There was some research done in the US that showed that if Trump had invested his fathers money in cash bonds and sat back and done nothing he would actually be better off financially, and that is without the benefit of a number of bankruptcies designed to shed debt.

 

[RonSon]

Hasn't Trump actually lost money (started with his Dads money) though. I saw somewhere that if he had just put his Dads money in a bank account with a moderate interest rate he would be much richer. Not sure how factual that is, but it tickled my fancy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...this-really-basic-advice-hed-be-a-lot-richer/

 

[Lagooner]

Yes, unfortunately it has become a de facto direct election.

There was some research done in the US that showed that if Trump had invested his fathers money in cash bonds and sat back and done nothing he would actually be better off financially, and that is without the benefit of a number of bankruptcies designed to shed debt.

"My late, great father, Vadge Allenby, gave me $300 million, and I toiled my whole bloody life to turn that into $305 million"

 

[Grave Danger]

Eamonn McEvoy