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Anidav posted:Scott Morrison confirms I will be drinking at this goonmeet. Good. Let the hate flow through you.
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This bottle of whiskey is half empty already and it's not even 10pm. I've just been reading New Matilda and giggling at how bad Australia treats everyone. National Union of Students with falling support and members, Cops kicking down tent embassies and just Joe Hockey in general.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:37
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Unity and NLS are the ones who are completely destroying NUS, not sure why you find your friends being disgusting losers funny.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:39
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Anidav posted:This bottle of whiskey is half empty already and it's not even 10pm. I've just been reading New Matilda and giggling at how bad Australia treats everyone. National Union of Students with falling support and members, Cops kicking down tent embassies and just Joe Hockey in general. Try egg nog instead! Then you've got the thrill of salmonella roulette AND alcohol. 'Tis the season, after all.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:40
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Also false alarm on the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy being raided tonight, but everyone is on their guard for poo poo happening over the next few days at least.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:41
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Matthew Beet posted:gently caress da poors
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Dec 22, 2014 12:42
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I skull Pauls Egg Nog like a goddamned oil rig drinks the Earth.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:47
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God bless us, everyone
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Mithranderp posted:Try egg nog instead! Then you've got the thrill of salmonella roulette AND alcohol. 'Tis the season, after all. But I though hard alcohol killed salmonella. Same reason why raw chicken in a pint glass of vodka is such a popular (and delicious) family Christmas dinner.
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Dec 22, 2014 12:48
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Lol so I just found out that Ralph Cerminara and some other boneheads from the ADL went to Lakemba this evening to pick a fight and roundly got their arses kicked. Poor old Ralph had his arm broken. 
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Dec 22, 2014 12:52
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Matthew Beet posted:Word via work channels says that homelessness peak bodies have all had their funding cut (Homelessness Australia, National Shelter, Community Housing Federation Australia, and Financial Counselling Australia.) in addition to some direct service providers such as Highlands and National Shelter. If you do it between ministers, then no one is to blame 
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Dec 22, 2014 12:55
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But according to economics, billionaires who donate to charity will fix homelessness. 
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Gorilla Salad posted:If you do it between ministers, then no one is to blame Plus no one follows the news over the holidays. Abbotts pretty much got two weeks to do what he wants before anyone sobers up enough to care/notice. Anidav posted:But according to economics, billionaires who donate to charity will fix homelessness. Fingers crossed that ghost of Christmas, past, present and future break into Rineharts estate, steal everything and donate it to charity while she's asleep. Or redeem her into an actual ethical human being, but was trying to be realistic. dr_rat fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Dec 22, 2014 12:59
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best venue for goonmeet
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Dec 22, 2014 13:05
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Dec 22, 2014 13:08
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Anidav posted:Well it looks like NSW Labor is hosed forever. Is this a big thing. From an article I read earlier it basically seems like he'll send a signed letter from his office to other goverment institutions on behalf of any of his constituents if they request it. Doesn't seem particularly bad, although from what I understand there not actually releasing the letter (or at least haven't yet) so possibly there's something not great in it. Other then this literally know nothing about the guy, so maybe he deserves to be tossed for other reasons, but at the moment this sort of seems like a a bit of a bit up. Anyone from Sydney know if the guys decent (for sydney ALP at least)?
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Dec 22, 2014 13:20
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Looks like NSW Labor forwarded everything including the letter to some inquiry. It doesn't matter though since NSW ALP was going to lose the election anyway despite and god knows how - that corrupt fuckhead resigning over a bottle of grog.
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Dec 22, 2014 13:25
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The best gig I ever did was 1:30am at the Rocket Room, 10 bucks entry everyone was maggot. The problem is is that venues take the cheap option of "bring all your mates/family" which doesn't translate into a good venue. The Rosemount works because it is a place where you go to see good bands, so people go there to see good bands, so good bands go there to play. Perth is pretty much choked by Champion Music, who do gently caress all and basically ruin the whole thing
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Dec 22, 2014 13:37
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Brisbane is about to turn 50% of its land into a giant fuckoff casino posted:
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Dec 22, 2014 13:39
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Matthew Beet posted:gently caress da poors Well that was quick.
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Dec 22, 2014 13:50
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I actually unironically hope that Scott Morrison has his throat slit on the street by someone driven to desperation by his governments policies.
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Dec 22, 2014 13:51
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Anidav posted:
Paul Keating probably has a guilty smirk on right now.
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dr_rat posted:Is this a big thing. From an article I read earlier it basically seems like he'll send a signed letter from his office to other goverment institutions on behalf of any of his constituents if they request it. Doesn't seem particularly bad, although from what I understand there not actually releasing the letter (or at least haven't yet) so possibly there's something not great in it. My opinion: the ALP are gonna be total weathervanes on this and if there is strong media opposition they'll freak out and dump him. Kind of like they did Rudd. Everything wrong with Labor has its genesis in NSW because we're the first state. If the Daily Tele have any sense, they'll let this one slide so that Robertson stays in and Labor loses harder. Cash money says this story goes nowhere and Robertson stays in because it's Christmas and nobody (Labor party or general public) cares. Anidav posted:Looks like NSW Labor forwarded everything including the letter to some inquiry. It doesn't matter though since NSW ALP was going to lose the election anyway despite and god knows how - that corrupt fuckhead resigning over a bottle of grog. If that wasn't what you meant, read the articles again. Or if that's too much work: Executive Summary 1. Dude shows up at his local MP's office. Dude has a grievance with The System. Dude wants his local MP's help in working through/fighting against The System. 2. Dude's specific grievance is that he is having a custody battle with his ex wife and he can't see his kids. Dude has an AVO against him. Dude wants a supervised visitation with his kids on fathers' day. Dude writes a note about all this. Dude has written a lot of letters in the past and the one he wrote was no doubt very interesting in the worst sense of the word. 3. His local MP adds a letter summarising Dude's grievances, including describing Dude's estrangement & AVO, and forwards it to the Department of Family and Community Services with his signature on the cover letter. Because that is what local MP's do. They have to help their constituents navigate The System. 4. Years later, his local MP becomes Opposition Leader. Turns out he's not a very good Opposition Leader. Paul Keating once wrote a mean letter about him. 5. Years later, Dude later allegedly murders his estranged wife, and murders two other people in a siege in a Lindt shop in Sydney. 6. Opposition Leader's party is corrupt, utterly incompetent and riven by internal factions. Their political opponents are nearly as corrupt but slightly more competent. Opposition Leader is guaranteed to lose the next election in three months' time. 7. Bored Opposition spear-carriers and backbenchers latch onto the revelation that Years Ago The Opposition Leader Did Not Do A Background Check On Every One Of Their Constituents That Asked Them For Help And One Of Those Constituents Killed People A Few Years Later as an excuse to stir up internal strife. 8. This is where it gets complicated: alternatively, the whole thing is a false flag by the Opposition Leader himself to make internal rivals appear disloyal. Seven dimensional chess! We are through the looking glass. 9. The media is thrilled for any opportunity to make midrash on the one story they know how to tell well: leadership speculation. 10. Butts. Executive^2 Summary A Sydney man got his local member to forward an innocuous letter through bureaucracy to no avail; years later that Sydney man murdered some people; NSW Labor sucks; political journalism sucks; slow news day. That is the story, taken from articles here and here. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Anidav posted:I am in Sunnybank there are so many Mormons here. I am in Utah, same. Matthew Beet posted:Word via work channels says that homelessness peak bodies have all had their funding cut (Homelessness Australia, National Shelter, Community Housing Federation Australia, and Financial Counselling Australia.) in addition to some direct service providers such as Highlands and National Shelter. In Salt Lake City there are dozens, perhaps a hundred people just milling around outside a homeless shelter near Central TRAX station on any given day. This is in a city of about 200, 000 (1 million metro). You would expect Mormons to be more charitable than most but I guess not; it is a solidly Republican state after all. In California it was even worse. We went to a Carl's Junior on Market Street in San Francisco and the restaurant was literally segregated into 'homeless' and 'non-homeless' sections with black rope and security guards separating the two. By far the homelessness situation was the most jarring thing about moving to America. Good luck with those cuts I guess. Edit: Oh and good luck finding public toilets here outside of shopping centres and the like. There aren't even any at the train stations because god forbid a homeless person try and maintain good hygiene I suppose.
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Matthew Beet posted:gently caress da poors Having grown up in the Southern Highlands, and with my mum working in a community support role there until a month or two ago, gently caress this government.
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ABC News posted:Three men have been arrested after a brawl in Sydney's south-western suburb of Lakemba.
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CheGayvara posted:We went to a Carl's Junior on Market Street in San Francisco and the restaurant was literally segregated into 'homeless' and 'non-homeless' sections with black rope and security guards separating the two. By far the homelessness situation was the most jarring thing about moving to America.
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Yes but Sunnybank has Asian Mormons and Caucasian Mormans who stalk Chinese women with their Mandarin skills. If it weren't religion related, they would be arrested for stalking and harassment.
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T-1000 posted:He has zero media presence, took forever to expel the most corrupt members of the party despite the writing being on the wall for literal years, and has made some questionable moral judgements himself. He's not a total monster, he's held a job outside politics, but he's a party animal and despite the government being nearly as corrupt as Labor is/was, and the Premier resigning, he has failed to deliver any sort of attack. Maybe he's playing the ultra long game where he lets the Liberals win a few elections, long enough to become ultra-corrupt and be purged. Cheers. You know I always hope when labor go into opposition after a big defeat they might take a moment of reflection and do a good purge of the deadwood, get out any of the corruption scandals they know are going to come out in the next few years anyway, and just clean ship, but yeah that never seems to happen. I think both sides have gotten so used to governments going to and fro between each other, changing pretty much when the electorate gets bored enough of the current lot, that both parties realises there's no reason they need to change. Can just keep doing what their doing and no matter how much they screw up, powers eventually going to come back to them when the public's forgotten, and become bored with the other guy. At least that may be starting to change with the rise of the Greens and the minor parties, but their really is a poo poo load of inertia between the major twos in their back and forth swings.
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Fruity Gordo posted:Lol so I just found out that Ralph Cerminara and some other boneheads from the ADL went to Lakemba this evening to pick a fight and roundly got their arses kicked. Poor old Ralph had his arm broken. The ADL page is a gas at the moment.. old mate has started posting angsty poetry. Though I came across this genius solution for boycotting mussos:  GENIUS edit: haha, footage of their last heroic trip to Lakemba... FMD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNG4rUaxniM Adnar fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Adnar posted:The ADL page is a gas at the moment.. old mate has started posting angsty poetry. Yeah, let's ignore that most people don't drive diesel cars so that won't work. Even then I'm not sure how good used cooking oil is in a diesel engine, you'd have to filter the hell out of it to get all the crap out.
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Holy poo poo can we actually trick conservatives into a green revolution by getting them to boycott oil?
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Turks posted:Holy poo poo can we actually trick conservatives into a green revolution by getting them to boycott oil? Oil is poo poo mate. The future is about coal, haven't you heard?
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Shanakin posted:Oil is poo poo mate. The future is about coal, haven't you heard? Everyone will want a kid now so they have someone to fit in the boot and shovel coal into the burner.
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Adnar posted:The ADL page is a gas at the moment.. old mate has started posting angsty poetry. I thought initially someone had lampooned the video by adding the soul stirring "Frodo goes to Mordor" music, but nope it's on the official ADL you tube page. That's loving hilarious.
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It also begs the question, is Brisbane really big enough for two casinos?
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Anidav posted:It also begs the question, is Brisbane really big enough for two casinos? It's probably more about tourism, domestic and international.
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redweird posted:The best gig I ever did was 1:30am at the Rocket Room, 10 bucks entry everyone was maggot. The problem is is that venues take the cheap option of "bring all your mates/family" which doesn't translate into a good venue. The Rosemount works because it is a place where you go to see good bands, so people go there to see good bands, so good bands go there to play. Perth is pretty much choked by Champion Music, who do gently caress all and basically ruin the whole thing Rockets is great because you can pack it out and pocket an easy grand with maybe 100 people, plus it's nice and central. Pity the stage is the size of a postage stamp, and, also, they don't do anything that isn't either strippers or cover bands any more. The live music scene in Perth is getting dire lately, apparently show attendances are down across the board and with club nights like Last Night and all the others, it's very hard to even book a decent venue yourself. apparently the people that own metro's freo are losing money hand over fist on it, and since they also own a couple of other venues they've told the venue managers to tighten the belt and not take any risks
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