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http://www.nodaylightsavingqld.com/index.html
Did someone say daylight savings?
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Tony & Margie wish you a very unhappy Xmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocRTP4PGuY
Ler fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Dec 6, 2014
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Dec 6, 2014 14:36
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- Murodese
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Think you've got what it takes?
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That Galaxy poll is going to scare the poo poo out of the LNP. -5 primary.
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That's so sad about the reef. I dived there a few times in 2010, and it was definitely one of the greatest things I've ever experienced. It blew diving in Hawaii completely out of the water.
One of the only parts of Australia worth saving IMO.
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- i got banned
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lol abbottwon
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I feel like I can just do whatever I want to whoever I want because Australia doesn't believe in (making sure) justice (is rained down upon) rich white people.
i got banned fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Dec 6, 2014
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Dec 6, 2014 17:23
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- Nibbles!
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TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
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quote: the annoying imposition of having to change up to twenty household time pieces twice a year; the utter uselessness of having to defer summer sunsets to 10 pm and beyond; fatigue at having to cope with the twice-a-year disruptions to body clocks; the relief in finding out how many others hate daylight saving too; outrage at all the 'daylight bias' in the media (which seems to be near universal); and the tedium of having to endure ridicule, taunts and accusations of anti-progress.
Gonna try and work 'daylight bias' into a few conversations this week.
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Dec 6, 2014 17:56
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- drowned in pussy juice
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Daylight savings is completely pointless in QLD but its really hard not to support it when you look at the kind of people that are actively campaigning against it
e: this site is incredible and I'm certain if I dig deep enough I'll find some kind of QLD secessionist movement buried in there somewhere
drowned in pussy juice fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Dec 6, 2014
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Dec 6, 2014 21:28
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- Lid
- Feb 18, 2005
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And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
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Lets have some niceness for a moment
quote:The closing credits: Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review each other
David Stratton on Margaret Pomeranz
This has to be the most challenging review I've ever had to write. How do you describe, in a few words, the character and personality of a friend and professional collaborator with whom you've worked for 30 years? When I review a film, I usually break it down into different elements – screenplay, direction, performance, visual style, and, above all, whether this was a story told with passion and conviction. I'll try to do the same in reviewing Margaret.
Farewell: Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton on the set of <i>At the Movies</i>.
Farewell: Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton on the set of At the Movies. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Screenplay. First and foremost, Margaret is a terrific writer. She doesn't think she is, but she writes well and perceptively. She entered television as a writer, and I hope that after she leaves it she'll continue writing. I want to see that autobiography ("Sylvester Stallone loved the colour of my eyes", or something along those lines.)
Direction. When I first met Margaret back in the early 1980s at SBS, she was a producer, and when The Movie Show began in 1986, she was executive producer as well as co-host. Not necessarily a good idea. Can you imagine what happened on the relatively rare occasions that we had a major disagreement? Margaret, wearing her producer hat, would prevail. Mercifully, when we moved to the ABC, she was just a co-star and we were on an equal footing. Don't get me wrong – Margaret's a great producer, and there's little about free-to-air television she doesn't know. But she can be – how shall I put it? – a control freak.
Performance. That's easy, because every viewer of The Movie Show/At the Movies has been able to admire Margaret's performances every week. She's great because she only says what she genuinely believes.
Once upon a time: Before moving to the ABC, Pomeranz and Stratton presented <i>The Movie Show</i> on SBS.
Once upon a time: Before moving to the ABC, Pomeranz and Stratton presented The Movie Show on SBS. Photo: Supplied
Visual Style. Margaret has a keen sense of style, something I admit that I lack (or, at least, I'm not obsessed with). She spends a great deal of time shopping for things to wear on camera. On a pretty regular basis she'll ask, "Is this all right?" or "How do I look in this?" There will follow a struggle as the audio person endeavours to attach a microphone to her latest outfit without ruining the line of it. This can take some time. Margaret is also famous for her earrings. Many years ago, when I was away somewhere and in a rare mood to shop, I spotted a pair of earrings and purchased them for her. This was a failed gesture because (and here I offer a Great Revelation!), Margaret's ears are NOT pierced. Few people know this intimate detail about her. Sometimes her choice of on camera outfit is a little weird, at least to my taste. Back in the SBS days there was that hairy black thing that made her look like an extra from Planet of the Apes, but mostly she looks great both on and off camera.
Passion and conviction. These things Margaret has in large amounts. She's passionate about so many things, starting with the Australian film industry and continuing with free-to-air television, freedom of speech, cigarettes, family, friends, and enjoying life. Margaret is a passionate woman, and that's why she comes across so powerfully on television.
What will we miss most? I'll miss Margaret's laugh, that strange chortle that sounds as though she might have just laid an egg. It's just one of the things I love about her.
★★★★★
Margaret Pomeranz on David Stratton
Do you know that David Stratton has been wearing the same boring shoes for more than 30 years? Much as I've tried to convince him to branch out a little, he remains firm on the comfortable nature of his slip-ons and insists on stocking up on pairs for the future whenever the opportunity arises. That says a lot about the man. He is not a fashionista – as a matter of fact, if there is an antonym to that word, David personifies it.
He doesn't care about the things he doesn't care about. But the things he does care about, like film, food and family, he puts an enormous amount of effort into.
David can be a bit scary on first acquaintance, at least he was with me – very stand-offish. He doesn't like people too close and the most you will get is a peck on the cheek. Once recently I said to him, "Come on, get over it", and gave him a hug. I don't think he liked it much. But once you breach the barricades, you are embraced – not literally of course – into his world of knowledge and love of cinema.
That is actually how The Movie Show started. I became his producer at SBS and, in the glorious early-1980s, we had long lunches and talked and talked about film. He's much funnier in real life than he is on screen. I always thought he felt he had an image to uphold, a rather respectable, august one, and so he censored his rather naughty, funny, lascivious nature. He is a relentless punster, sometimes more successfully than others. He's mischievous and there's nothing better than the sound of his laugh.
During the course of our 28-year run on television, we have both had some rather tough times personally. Both our parents have died during that time, my husband was critically ill in hospital at one time and I had to leave him to go back to the studio to do a show. David was kindness itself. He's a very decent man and, to those within the "circle", an incredibly generous one.
He's a foodie, in that he loves to eat. He eats out a lot, mainly because when he's in Sydney he stays at a hotel. He loves to eat specific things, like rabbit and duck confit. If there's rabbit on the menu, that's what he'll go for.
He is anal by nature. Imagine keeping notes on all the films you've seen over the years, meticulously filed. He began when he was nine years of age. He plans his life the same way. His diary is sacrosanct; he plans months in advance. There is little that is spontaneous. When we were invited to the 30-year celebration of SBS, a lovely gesture on the part of the network that gave us both our present careers, he was giving a lecture that particular night and refused to abandon it, or even postpone it until the following week. It was a commitment and he was going to keep it. I argued that even lecturers get sick, have family crises, whatever, and the world wasn't going to fall in if he delayed the lecture, but no, he wouldn't budge. Frustrating!
But that, in fact, is his strength: that dogged commitment to the things he loves. He is by nature a pedagogue, liking nothing more than to share his passion for and knowledge of cinema with others. I feel very blessed that I've been one of the many recipients of his generosity in that area and many others.
He's a mate. If I were ever to be in trouble, he would be one of the first people I would turn to and I hope he feels the same way about me.
Easily a five-star national treasure.
★★★★★
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...l#ixzz3L9cUIzMA
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- MaxwellsEquations
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He achieved greatness unequalled
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Looks like PPL is going to be heavily restructured over the break to be watered down to nothing. Abbott is giving a press conference atm, appears to be insinuating that PPL needs to be linked with superannuation somehow and childcare. Probably allow people to use super (god no) to help cover costs and some childcare coverage as well.
Watch as PPL does not pay maternity leave, redirects a tiny fraction into childcare, Abbott will kiss some babies, 'no broken promises'.
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- Gough Suppressant
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Christopher Pyne to Andrew Bolt:
"Present company excluded, the media hasn't been trying to help the government"
ITS NOT THEIR JOB TO HELP YOU YOU INCOMPETENT INSUFFERABLE gently caress
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- Amethyst
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I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
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What a couple of miserable puppet people
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Dec 7, 2014 00:39
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Does Morrison have any economic credentials?
That didn't get in the way of Sloppy Joe.
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That didn't get in the way of Sloppy Joe.
I'll have you know his wife is a banker.
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Dec 7, 2014 00:58
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Does Morrison have any economic credentials?
He was in charge of tourism australia.
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Dec 7, 2014 01:00
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- Gough Suppressant
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Yes but Treasury shouldn't be a position on who can handle the media better. It should be about economic experience and financial expertise.
Joe Hockey: B.Arts/Law
Chris Bowen: B.Economics
Wayne Swan: B.Arts
Peter Costello: B.Arts/Law
Ralph Willis: B.Commerce
John Dawnins: B.Economics
John Kerin: B.Arts
Bob Hawke: B.Arts/Law
Paul Keating: left school at 15, no formal higher education
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Just watching this Murray report press conference and Joe Hockey or any other Liberal having a cry about obstructionist opposition is still hilariously absurd, as are any categorical denials that the federal government is interested in changing the GST
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You forgot to mention that reading the comments is actually the good part.
Yes but Treasury shouldn't be a position on who can handle the media better. It should be about economic experience and financial expertise.
You're sort of naively cute sometimes.
While the rest of the country contemplates just how far down the latrine we have fallen after serial poo poo stain Morrison's latest atrocity, The Tele keeps us on track with the important stories:
6 Dec 2014 The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) BRUCE McDOUGALL posted:
TOUGH BREAK
School crackdown on mid-term holidays
PARENTS who take their children out of school for holidays to receive the benefit of cheaper flights and accommodation are risking their kids’ future employment prospects. I do understand the lure of going early but you have got to think of your child Mum Jennifer Hill on daughter Maggie.
Schools are demanding medical certificates from students amid a crackdown on parents who take kids out of school for weeks at a time. Some schools are advising parents not to book flights and holidays until they have discussed it with the principal. Researchers have found there is no “safe” level of absence and all absence affects academic performance. Parents pulling their children out of school to take early holidays when flights and accommodation are cheaper are risking their kids’ future job prospects. Schools are now demanding medical certificates from absent students amid a crackdown on parents with principals so worried about the withdrawal of children from classes that at least one family who took their children on a five-week holiday during term time has been asked to leave the school.
Another parent has been refused permission to take his child on an extended cycling holiday as schools warn students are legally required to be at school until the end of term unless they have a compelling reason to be absent. Some schools are advising parents not to book flights and holidays until they have discussed it with the principal. Principals have the power to refuse an exemption for leave, meaning the child’s absence is documented on their school attendance record and may later affect their chances of success when applying for a job (LOL). Absenteeism is most acute during the final few weeks of term four as families try to book less expensive flights and accommodation ahead of Christmas and New Year holidays. But one principal, Santo Passarello of Patrician Brothers’ College Blacktown is leading an educators’ fightback by acting as a travel agent for parents who attempt to leave early. Mr Passarello said he looked on his computer to find cheaper flights for those families on dates that allowed their children to see out the school term. Patrician Brothers requests a doctor’s certificate “immediately” if a student’s absence affects an assessment task and after three days for normal absences. “You cannot pull your child out of school for 20 days to go on holiday. It is in breach of the law and when we tell them that some (parents) are surprised,” Mr Passarello said.
“People need a very good reason to pull children out of school — they need to explain the reasons why they want to be considered for early departure. I explain that they have ten or 11 weeks of holidays and they should confine their absence to that time.” Researchers have found there is no “safe” level of absence and all absence affects students’ academic performance.
A study by the University of Western Australia comparing 400,000 students’ attendance records with their Naplan results found any absence from school led to a decline in performance.
Professor Stephen Zubrick said: “A 10-day period of unauthorised absence in a year is sufficient to drop a child about a band in the Naplan testing.” At Patrician Brothers Mr Passarello said “anyone who suggests that broken attendance does not impact adversely on children’s learning is deluding themselves. “I am more open if the absence is for family reunion reasons or for mourning. In those circumstances then yes I am more likely to approve it, but not for a two-week cruise of the Caribbean or a holiday in Tahiti.
“I have written to parents saying I cannot approve it so the child is marked absent.” Formal letters are triggered to families and to education authorities over student absences at three days, five days, seven days, 12 days and at 20 days. President of the Primary Principals’ Association Geoff Scott said increasing numbers of parents were approaching schools to take their children out of class — and not just towards the end of the year. “It puts the principal in a difficult position. There are 10 weeks of school holidays to do this. “Some parents suggest that the school could give them work for the student and they will supervise it during travel but that is a second-rate choice for the kids.” Mr Scott said exemptions were granted only for “legitimate and unavoidable” absences. Executive director of schools for the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta Greg Whitby said learning had to be compulsory. “If parents think that the last few weeks of school are a waste of time then that is a sad indictment on our schooling system,” he said.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Education and Communities said all students from kindergarten to Year 11 were required to attend school until the last day of term, December 17. Headmistress of St Catherine’s School, Waverley, Dr Julie Townsend said students were expected to attend every day “unless there are significant mitigating circumstances”. With two weeks left until the state school break, mum Samara Williams gave son Michael, a grade one student, an early start to the summer break with his younger brother Joseph. The trio was getting ready to board their flight to South Australia at Sydney Airport yesterday for their holiday in Glenelg. “They love it, they love travelling,” said Ms Williams, who added that Michael’s school, Ulladulla Public School, was lenient with time-of. However, fellow mum Jennifer Hill said she would be ensuring her 17year-old daughter Maggie would be seeing through the end of the school year given the crucial stage of her daughter’s schooling at St Catherine’s School in Waverley. “I do understand the lure of going (away on holiday) early but you have got to think of your child. They need to be there all of the time,” she said. About 33,000 teenagers are absent from school every day in NSW, according to NSW Education Department data and in extreme cases parents are taken to court and prosecuted. Parents or carers can be fined up to $11,000 for allowing or helping their children to stay away.
Not enough fascism in our schools Madame speaker!
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- adamantium|wang
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Missing you
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At least you didn't wish him happy birthday.
Fawlty7 got a jabber broadcast earlier.
As an ex-EVE player please do not trigger me.
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Is that green screened? Furthermore, something about the timing and how they look at each other is making me wonder if not only is it green screened, but they weren't even in the same room. Like it was filmed separately and then just mashed together digitally. Or maybe that's just how plastic they seem, individually and with each other.
Mainly Tones though, that smile just gets creepier all the time. It was so fixed when he was looking at Margie that I actually thought the video had paused for a second.
Honestly, it's not just disliking him for his policies, he really just has one of the most awful, insincere smiles I've ever seen. Never reaches the eyes.
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Antony Green reckons Labor has probably won with 52.1% current 2pp in Fisher, swing of 9% lol
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- adamantium|wang
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More fuel for the leadershit fire.
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"In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom."
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Antony Green reckons Labor has probably won with 52.1% current 2pp in Fisher, swing of 9% lol
I had a chat to Tony Piccolo, minister for police, while I was volunteering for the Greens. He reckoned that a loss in Fisher could trigger a leadership spill in the SA Liberals, so I guess we'll see if he's right.
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Does Morrison have any economic credentials?
Do any of them have economic credentials? They're all corporate lawyers right?
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It's not like you need a degree in economics to be treasurer anyway. You have a whole public service to do the analysis for you.
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Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?
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Antony Green reckons Labor has probably won with 52.1% current 2pp in Fisher, swing of 9% lol
Cook's 2pp has jumped up quite a lot with the votes counted today, at end of counting lsat night it was 50.5%. Seems like there's still 10k ballots to be counted though.
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Dec 7, 2014 03:49
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Cook's 2pp has jumped up quite a lot with the votes counted today, at end of counting lsat night it was 50.5%. Seems like there's still 10k ballots to be counted though.
There was an error corrected overnight too.
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Dec 7, 2014 03:53
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It's not like you need a degree in economics to be treasurer anyway. You have a whole public service to do the analysis for you.
Yeah, the minister system doesn't require expertise in your portfolio, it just requires some basic level of competence, intelligence and open-mindedness, which is why the coalition is struggling so much.
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Think you've got what it takes?
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Is that green screened? Furthermore, something about the timing and how they look at each other is making me wonder if not only is it green screened, but they weren't even in the same room. Like it was filmed separately and then just mashed together digitally. Or maybe that's just how plastic they seem, individually and with each other.
Mainly Tones though, that smile just gets creepier all the time. It was so fixed when he was looking at Margie that I actually thought the video had paused for a second.
Honestly, it's not just disliking him for his policies, he really just has one of the most awful, insincere smiles I've ever seen. Never reaches the eyes.
I think that is possibly a green screen, but I'm pretty sure they're in the same room - there are some movements that Abbott makes that are reflected in Margie's jacket, for instance.
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TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
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They've already launched a slew of unpopular policies that weren't part of their election platform as well as going back on the ones they did present. They've proven themselves to be a government only interested in pushing their idealogical agenda, I doubt they put that much thought into anything else.
A cabinet reshuffle may get certain people worried enough that they let others know they'd support them in a leadership spill, and the closer it gets to an election the more of a problem Abbott's numbers will be. I think from what we know about him too there's little chance he'll ever step aside short of losing the election and his seat, if they want to remove him it will be a fight.
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The 'funny' thing about this is that if they hadn't jumped off the 'do nothing*' play book (The standard Tory play book) and just kept the ship 'steady as she goes' they would probably have sailed into a second term promising to deliver all of these unpopular things. Self accelerationalists, or indeed Muppet Government.
* Repealing the Carbon Tax, Mining Tax and 'stopping' the boats not withstanding.
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