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Captain_Red
Mar 2, 2007
I'm a Captain

Kommando posted:

Lurkers like Captain Red.

Drink up Captain.

:guinness:

I would post more, but by the time I get round to it most of what I'd say has already been covered.

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ASIC v Danny Bro
May 1, 2012

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
CAPTAIN KILL


Just HEAPS of dead Palestinnos for brekkie, mate!
Somewhat academic/general education talk here: Anyone here know some reputable, well researched academic journals that are published quarterly?

Just looking to bone up on my economic knowledge during bus rides; almost finished with Keatings biography (the one he got pissed at).

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

thatfatkid posted:

Are public education and universal healthcare somehow exclusive of the lower class?

Is violent crime rampant in Australia?

Is there a very real chance that you will be shot on any given day that you leave your house?

Do you have running water and electricity?

Australia is a pretty loving good country to live in, if you think otherwise go and visit South Africa.

yeah abodiginies, love it or leave it! (lots of black australians have either no or pissweak access to those things and have a goodly chance of being thrown in jail and beaten for walking down the street after sinking half the number of beers you and your mates neck each at the exservos on a tuesday afternoon)

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Konomex posted:

That's Anidav? It all makes sense now.

Hello friends, I am now employed based on the sporting events calendar of the AFL/Cricket/Brisbane International as well as corporate functions held at The Gabba Sporting grounds.

I would like to thank Avshalom from breaking her part of the curse. Now that the Amulets are split in two; I believe my age of darkness is over.

God help you all.

Elrond Hubbard
Mar 30, 2007

To ERH
*everyone applauds*
As a resident of the Sutherland Shire, I can safely say;

BURN THIS COUNTRY TO THE FUCKEN GROUND.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

ASIC v Danny Bro posted:

Somewhat academic/general education talk here: Anyone here know some reputable, well researched academic journals that are published quarterly?

Just looking to bone up on my economic knowledge during bus rides; almost finished with Keatings biography (the one he got pissed at).

Monthly not quarterly, but :shrug:

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

Anidav posted:

Hello friends, I am now employed based on the sporting events calendar of the AFL/Cricket/Brisbane International as well as corporate functions held at The Gabba Sporting grounds.

I would like to thank Avshalom from breaking her part of the curse. Now that the Amulets are split in two; I believe my age of darkness is over.

God help you all.

grats Anime Dave.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Chris Kenny Strikes again.

quote:



Sydney psychologist banned after he encouraged female patient to have sex with a dog

A Sydney psychologist has been banned from practicing for a decade after he encouraged a female patient to have sex with a dog.

Gareth Michael Dawes, who had practices at Parramatta and Penrith, has been found by the NSW Health Cares Complaint Commission to have "manipulated" his client, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to "fulfil his own sexual fantasies".

The young woman, a university student, who suffered from psychological issues arising from sexual and physical abuse and neglect, was a client of Dawes between January 2011 and April 2012.

During this time Dawes and the patient sent each other about 3000 emails – many of which had images, videos and website links to pornography within them.

The pair began a sexual relationship in September 2011 which took place in his offices and in secluded public places. In December 2011, the HCCC said Dawes began encouraging the woman to engage in bestiality by having sex with dogs by sending her emails and images about the topic.

Three months later Dawes was found to have "facilitated, participated and watched" his client have sex with a dog.

In an explicit email tendered to the HCCC, Dawes wrote to his client saying: "You'll be safe with me ... You can dictate what happens as I will not permit you being forced into anything you do not want to do..."

Emails written by Dawes recounting what had occurred during the incident were also tendered to the commission.

The tribunal was also told Dawes made similar arrangements on another occasion only for it to be stopped when the woman "freaked out" as the dog, a Staffordshire terrier named Vladimir, began scratching at her arms and legs.

The HCCC was made aware of the actions of Dawes when the woman detailed her relationship with him with her next treating psychologist. She said her relationship with Dawes had ended when his wife became aware of what was occurring.

The woman told the HCCC she did not want him to be punished but rather to be "reprimanded and rehabilitated".

"She considers him to be a 'brilliant professional in terms of his experience and insights into personality disorders and abnormal psychology", the HCCC's judgment read. "She did however wish him to prevent the respondent from victimising any other clients".

The HCCC found that Dawes was suffering from a mental impairment or disorder – "namely a complex paraphilia characterised by periods of fetishism, zoophilia and an obsessive compulsive pre-occupation with pornographic material that detrimentally affects the practitioner's capacity to practice the profession".

The commission said it had no evidence that Dawes had undertaken necessary treatment to overcome this disorder.

"The vulnerability of [the woman] would have been patently obvious, not only to a qualified psychologist - but to any right minded person," the HCCC said in its judgment. "She had a history of being the victim of various forms of abuse, or being a drug user and of having an eating disorder."

The tribunal said after gaining the young woman's trust, Dawes then "set about to manipulate her" into sexual acts with him that she initially had indicated she had no interest in.

The HCCC said it would have cancelled Dawes registration if the psychologist had not already done so himself. It ordered that he be disqualified from re-registering for a period of 10 years and that he also be prohibited from providing community health, counselling or mental health services.


http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/sydney-psychologist-banned-after-he-encouraged-female-patient-to-have-sex-with-a-dog-20150227-13r3x0.html

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

While you were feeding the trolls, Joe Hockey had a defamation court date today. It's managed to put the NSW Libs and their Federal friends under a spotlight they definitely don't need. Here's a capsule summary from in-court twitter journalists:

It's the second day of Hockey's cross-examination by the Fairfax silk. Hockey is persisting with the claim that a forum setup to offer access to him and other leaders in his name was nothing to do with him.



That seems pretty obvious to me, but Joe's having none of it. Hockey is a terrible witness for his own prosecution, BTW. He had to be told twice not to interrupt cross-examination, and played a lot of deniability tennis with words and facts relating to the North Shore Forum. First he claimed it was set up because there was no Chamber of Commerce. Then when it was pointed out that he as Treasurer made mention of the Chamber of Commerce, he said it was set up for the North Shore donators. Then when all the non-North Shore members of the forum were pointed out, we got to listen to whether such-and-such a company was a lobbyist. I kid you not. And then we got to the part where he claims it was independent of him:

The Guardian posted:

The forum’s website carries photographs of Hockey and says: “On behalf of Joe Hockey I encourage you to join the North Sydney Forum and to offer your practical support to Joe Hockey.”

However, Hockey told the court the website was inaccurate and the money donated to the forum went to the wider Liberal party, not to him individually.

“My preferred words would be ‘business and community leaders engaging with Joe Hockey’. My understanding is they have not provided any resources to me,’’ he said.

“If I chased down everything that is inaccurate that is written about me … I would be spending a lot of time in court. I would rather it not be there.’’

We'll soon see. Phone records are being sought to back up what the Age editor says about a phone call he had with Hockey this time last year. His former media advisor claims she didn't understand the context of questions put to her about the forum (a former Fairfax journalist. Yeah right.), and was very protective of Joe's diary so we got to hear the excuses about why that wasn't admissible. Tomorrow we'll be hearing from the Fairfax witnesses, particularly chief political correspondent Mark Kenny, the articles writer, Sean Nicholls and Darren Goodsir SMH ed. But fair to say that Hockey hasn't done his cause a great deal of good today.

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!

This is the worst of all kinds of human

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Fruity Gordo posted:

This is the worst of all kinds of human

Please don't sign your posts.

markgreyam
Mar 10, 2008

Talk to the mittens.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

"She considers him to be a 'brilliant professional in terms of his experience and insights into personality disorders and abnormal psychology"

Takes one to know one

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
nooooooooooo

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Fruity Gordo posted:

yeah abodiginies, love it or leave it! (lots of black australians have either no or pissweak access to those things and have a goodly chance of being thrown in jail and beaten for walking down the street after sinking half the number of beers you and your mates neck each at the exservos on a tuesday afternoon)

mate its a drain on the taxpayer to subsidise remote rural communities you can't expect us to pick up the tab on those services and that's why literally nobody in australia lives west of the great dividing range

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

Drugs posted:

Who are the people who don't post but turn up to goon meets? Who are these people?
ASIO

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.


QLD police did rock up to our last venue as we were leaving, but it turned out they just wanted to get some Indian take away.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

CrazyTolradi posted:

QLD police did rock up to our last venue as we were leaving, but it turned out they just wanted to get some Indian take away.

And you believed that? :tinfoil:

cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

ewe2 posted:

[North Sydney forum]

I love it. I cannot wait to see what this case digs up.

ASIC v Danny Bro
May 1, 2012

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
CAPTAIN KILL


Just HEAPS of dead Palestinnos for brekkie, mate!

You card.

Also:

quote:

Indonesia could release 10,000 asylum seekers to Australia if Canberra continues to antagonise the republic over the execution of the Bali nine duo, an Indonesian minister has warned.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/wor...310-140dhn.html

Jibs Monteef
Dec 13, 2009

MC Eating Disorder posted:

mate its a drain on the taxpayer to subsidise remote rural communities you can't expect us to pick up the tab on those services and that's why literally nobody in australia lives west of the great dividing range

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalties_for_Regions_policy

LABOR NATIONALS WASTE

:downsgun:

Jibs Monteef
Dec 13, 2009

poo poo, any way to encourage Tones to keep heading up the diplomatic efforts there?

Also loving hell, 'human tsunami'

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

MC Eating Disorder posted:

mate its a drain on the taxpayer to subsidise remote rural communities you can't expect us to pick up the tab on those services and that's why literally nobody in australia lives west of the great dividing range

This but unironically. Now the mining boom is over Western Australia can be abandoned.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

MC Eating Disorder posted:

Australia's a pretty good place to live in because its not a war torn country with milita gunning down people in the street but its also pretty hosed that we lock people up in indefinite detention if they live in a country where that happens and they just happen to come here on a boat and I can hold these two thoughts in my head together at the same time because I don't run every single thing people on the internet post through some kind of IF x THEN y boolean filter, seeing as human communication doesn't strictly follow the laws of computer logic

a reasonable post. agreed. but you didnt explain who you would like to kill themselves?

Fruity Gordo
Aug 5, 2013

Neurotic, Impotent Rage!
its u

thatfatkid
Feb 20, 2011

by Azathoth

Fruity Gordo posted:

yeah abodiginies, love it or leave it! (lots of black australians have either no or pissweak access to those things and have a goodly chance of being thrown in jail and beaten for walking down the street after sinking half the number of beers you and your mates neck each at the exservos on a tuesday afternoon)

Please don't make personal assumptions about me based on the fact that i don't think that Australia is a poo poo country. I will continue to think so until Australia has an AIDS pandemic, girls are shot in the head for going to school, opposition political parties are banned etc.

Also gently caress you and die.

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Orkin Mang posted:

a reasonable post. agreed. but you didnt explain who you would like to kill themselves?

all of us, for the crime of being white australians, obviously

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

god drat ur bland

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Also I haven't thoroughly skimmed the thread to make sure nobody has posted anything that might contradict me but I'm pretty sure nobody has said Australia is a poo poo country, I think what we have all been trying to say is that Australians are poo poo people and we should all kill ourselves, which I think is fairly uncontentious

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Computer google 'I want to destroy australia but think ISIS is a bad idea who do I join'

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I already have a drug addiction and I like to skateboard on the road so I'm on my way, what are the rest of you leaners doing to help out

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Hi Asio.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

MC Eating Disorder posted:

Also I haven't thoroughly skimmed the thread to make sure nobody has posted anything that might contradict me but I'm pretty sure nobody has said Australia is a poo poo country, I think what we have all been trying to say is that Australians are poo poo people and we should all kill ourselves, which I think is fairly uncontentious

some are good, some are ignorant and mean, some are actually bad people. our policies are plainly evil when it comes to refugees and aboriginals. we have a government that's a highly unpopular bunch of neoliberal blowhards. but there are resources to fix things. lavishly freaking out persuades no one and only makes change harder.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



thatfatkid posted:

Please don't make personal assumptions about me based on the fact that i don't think that Australia is a poo poo country. I will continue to think so until Australia has an AIDS pandemic, girls are shot in the head for going to school, opposition political parties are banned etc.

Also gently caress you and die.

Australia punches so far below its weight. It's pretty poo poo.

Orkin Mang posted:

lavishly freaking out persuades no one and only makes change harder.

What does this mean? I don't know.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

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

SynthOrange posted:

Computer google 'I want to destroy australia but think ISIS is a bad idea who do I join'

Gotcha covered bro

https://lnp.org.au/

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I'm not really trying to say we should all kill ourselves, suicide is actually really bad and ruins lives and genuinely wishing suicide on someone assumes everyone that cares about them also deserves to suffer, this has been a PSA from the organization to point out that criticism of a country is a cool and good thing to do if you love it and its people that genuinely think Australia is 100% great and get riled up by statements like "Australia is poo poo" that are the loving problem with this cuntry

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Also obviously we would all be dead which would mean 0% unemployment which means wages would stagnate and nobody would ever be able to afford a racist set of mudflaps ever again

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

katlington posted:

Australia punches so far below its weight. It's pretty poo poo.

You kinda have to when you're the fattest country in the world

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

katlington posted:

What does this mean? I don't know.

shouting and throwing tantrums instead of actually attempting to persuade. nobody will ever be moved from an opinion through brute force. sticking by your guns but at least trying to show some understanding for people who disagree with you will have them respect you, and once they respect you they'll start listening. calling them evil and bad people rarely achieves anything but greater recalcitrance.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

MC Eating Disorder posted:

Also I haven't thoroughly skimmed the thread to make sure nobody has posted anything that might contradict me but I'm pretty sure nobody has said Australia is a poo poo country, I think what we have all been trying to say is that Australians are poo poo people and we should all kill ourselves, which I think is fairly uncontentious

Gotta be honest, man. If you try to rate a country on the landscape's merits, with no relation whatsoever to the people living in it, Australia would probably come out as a poo poo country.

Admittedly the 'hosed by global warming' thing is our fault, and that's a big part of it, but our land isn't exactly abound in nature's gifts in any categories that aren't 'pain and death'.

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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Orkin Mang posted:

shouting and throwing tantrums instead of actually attempting to persuade. nobody will ever be moved from an opinion through brute force.

Idk those Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin guys did pretty well

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