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Phil Niekro
Jun 4, 2005

bell jar posted:

just because they fly an arabic flag does not mean that they are arabic or even muslim

only whites are capable of this.

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Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Bifauxnen posted:

Okay what the gently caress, that front page is bad enough, the back page is probably worse:



The next picture better include a steaming turd.

The channel 10 coverage is amazing. Showing live video, talking about police equipment/tactics, showing police stacked up against a building and then the commentator identifying which street it's on just in case the hostage taker couldn't figure it out.

boy undead
Nov 11, 2006

time to get prolific with
the whiz kid

Bifauxnen posted:

Okay what the gently caress, that front page is bad enough, the back page is probably worse:



Oh god damnit

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Bifauxnen posted:

Okay what the gently caress, that front page is bad enough, the back page is probably worse:



This is really gonna rile up the :tinfoil:

At least wait until the stand-off is over before you write headline like that, jeez.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
DEATH CULT CBD ATTACK

THE INSTANT WE CHANGED FOREVER

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
daily telegraph acting like there's a heated battle going on what the gently caress

Pyramid Scheme
May 21, 2007

Milky Moor posted:

DEATH CULT CBD ATTACK

THE INSTANT WE CHANGED FOREVER

I have not changed.

Does this mean I'm not Team Australia?

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

This makes me feel better about my country.

Pyramid Scheme posted:

Does this mean I'm not Team Australia?

You should always be Team Australia.

They haven't lost a show of Media Circus yet.

Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Dec 15, 2014

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Halo14 posted:

Post pic of the doge. Need something positive today.







To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.

homercles
Feb 14, 2010

Never in my lifetime would I thought Lindt would be behind a terrorist attack. I've always bought my chocolate fair-trade too... :psyduck:

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Rapner posted:

The two major changes were 1) foreign aid cuts and 2) change in software depreciation from 4 to 5 years.

That sounds like pretty lazy loving work.

There's been a bit more announced but it's more an update of predictions and results than policy announcements.

T-1000
Mar 28, 2010

Rapner posted:

Sorry, I should be wringing my hands and saying how horrible the situation is and throwing my support behind the government then. Go Team Australia.
In case I've left you with the wrong impression: I think it's good and important to keep continuing to discuss politics while this is ongoing. The jerks taking hostages want to disrupt our way of life, and they want our full and undivided attention. So releasing MYEFO and discussing it, etc, is a positive thing (plenty of people will disagree on this with fair reasons). I don't think political discussion should be totally shut down, and this hostage taking does have a political dimension (because everything does) which should be discussed (ideally with more information). I think it's pointless to try to place it in some sort of hierarchy of things we should care about, and reduce it to only its political dimension when our neighbours' lives still hang in the balance.

There are a lot of factors as to why this particular event captures so much of our attention, and quite a few of them are because of our suboptimal monkey-brains, and quite a few aren't. One of the few positives of this horrible situation is that right now, people are empathising with total strangers and that is the sort of society we should want to live in.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Anidav posted:







To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.

Yo need to start making better life decisions, for the dog. :3:

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

Anidav posted:







To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.
yes

i would vote for this dog

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

Anidav posted:


To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.

This dog is the victim of Fashion Terrorism.

Halo14
Sep 11, 2001

Anidav posted:

To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.

Awww yisss. Thank you!

Divorced And Curious
Jan 23, 2009

democracy depends on sausage sizzles

Anidav posted:







To counteract that horrible newspaper, I offer my dog with a necktie.

can your dog host an emergency special episode of media watch cos we need one right now

he can take a dump on this front page

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Reports that some hostages have been released.

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
cute dog for pm

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

Bifauxnen posted:

Okay what the gently caress, that front page is bad enough, the back page is probably worse:



i've died, i'm dead

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Rapid statements out from grand mufti of something and the australian council of imams condeming etc too.

Pyramid Scheme
May 21, 2007

katlington posted:

Rapid statements out from grand mufti of something and the australian council of imams condeming etc too.

I'd be surprised if they didn't have this in their top drawer, ready to go.

EDIT: Not suggesting they were pre-warned. Just that you'd have to think there was a strong chance some ISIS wannabe will do something stupid like this at some point.

ColtMcAsskick
Nov 7, 2010
The instant we changed forever

ShoeFly
Dec 28, 2006

Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Apparently a couple of hostages were released out the front door

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Pyramid Scheme posted:

I'd be surprised if they didn't have this in their top drawer, ready to go.

EDIT: Not suggesting they were pre-warned. Just that you'd have to think there was a strong chance some ISIS wannabe will do something stupid like this at some point.

I had the same thought when i saw the telegraph front page.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009
1 guy also escaped from the fire door.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

quote:

ABC reporter Lucy Carter says she can see people, about two or three, coming out of a fire door near the Lindt cafe.

Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

"There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His messenger."

ABC News 24 seem to be awfully obliging to the gunperson(s) in repeating this as often as possible. Pretty successful campaign in that respect.

Rapner
May 7, 2013


Edit: Wrong thread.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Hobo Erotica posted:

"There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His messenger."

ABC News 24 seem to be awfully obliging to the gunperson(s) in repeating this as often as possible. Pretty successful campaign in that respect.

Good catch. I think we just found our inside man.

Phil Niekro
Jun 4, 2005


There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His messenger.

ColtMcAsskick
Nov 7, 2010
lol abc news 24 discussing the ethics of reporting every single movement of the hostage taker while doing exactly that

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Auspol January: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His messenger.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

quote:

"Two came out front door of Lindt cafe. One out fire door. They had hands in the air. Appear to be safe.

Fire door is still open. SWAT police at its opening. Three people freed."

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

TOU, not SWAT but whatever.

T-1000
Mar 28, 2010
The SWAT guys were doing something with the fire door around the side of the building, then two people run out the door of the cafe and around the corner, to the SWAT guys who look almost surprised. The SWAT guys get their guns and shields up, then one more hostage comes out the door with a SWAT guy.

Gridlocked posted:

TOU, not SWAT but whatever.
That acronym won't cut it, how do you even pronounce it? Too? Toe?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Probably encouraged the guy to eat all the choc while waiting, rushed out while he's in a sugar coma.

Rapner
May 7, 2013


There is no god but chocolate, and Lindt is his messenger.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

T-1000 posted:

The SWAT guys were doing something with the fire door around the side of the building, then two people run out the door of the cafe and around the corner, to the SWAT guys who look almost surprised. The SWAT guys get their guns and shields up, then one more hostage comes out the door with a SWAT guy.
That acronym won't cut it, how do you even pronounce it? Too? Toe?

Tao. :china:

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ColtMcAsskick
Nov 7, 2010

Rapner posted:

There is no god but chocolate, and Lindt is his messenger.

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