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TG-Chrono posted:Oh cool, I started work at 6 this morning and on Sunrise they're interviewing a kid named Anzac who is the 5th in his extended family to be named such after their grandfather who was an indigenous Australian soldier and this makes my skin crawl as a returned serviceman this is the toughest time of the year for me and yes I've had 4 coffees already Ooh Rah
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Orkin Mang posted:i worked int he serviec industry too, whats ur opinion on tipping? Made my own mate #jobcreator
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:12 |
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Anidav posted:In the mail box today, in a golden envelope was a giant folded up Anzac poster. Why do you hate the diggers? They died for our freedom mate.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:12 |
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Quick thread, find the most tasteless Anzac crap you can.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:35 |
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Somewhere in a Modern History classroom, teenagers are being told they can be Anzac heroes.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:37 |
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Guess We Forgot
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:39 |
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:41 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Quick thread, find the most tasteless Anzac crap you can. The RACQ magazine had a full-page ad for some mail order "Lest We Forget" gold ring and I don't care if it's for the Anzacs, it was one of the most American things I'd ever seen.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:43 |
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Bifauxnen posted:The RACQ magazine had a full-page ad for some mail order "Lest We Forget" gold ring and I don't care if it's for the Anzacs, it was one of the most American things I'd ever seen.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:45 |
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I didn't watch it, but I heard that it rated poorly because it didn't show the ANZACs kicking arse and was closer to reality. The same way that pearl harbour the movie flopped because it showed the Americans getting the poo poo kicked out of them.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:46 |
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Freudian Slip posted:I didn't watch it, but I heard that it rated poorly because it didn't show the ANZACs kicking arse and was closer to reality. The same way that pearl harbour the movie flopped because it showed the Americans getting the poo poo kicked out of them. It didn't rate well because there was no reality TV element to it
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:51 |
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Freudian Slip posted:I didn't watch it, but I heard that it rated poorly because it didn't show the ANZACs kicking arse and was closer to reality. The same way that pearl harbour the movie flopped because it showed the Americans getting the poo poo kicked out of them. Bloody lefties rewriting history, everyone knows we conquered gallipoli that's why they call it anzac cove ffs
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:56 |
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The mood of this thread seems to oscillate wildly from 'gently caress the ANZACs' to 'people don't respect the ANZACs properly'.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 01:57 |
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open24hours posted:The mood of this thread seems to oscillate wildly from 'gently caress the ANZACs' to 'people don't respect the ANZACs properly'. You're not very bright
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:00 |
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open24hours posted:The mood of this thread seems to oscillate wildly from 'gently caress the ANZACs' to 'people don't respect the ANZACs properly'. Apart from BB, I don't think anyone really is in the "gently caress the ANZAC" camp, most people are reacting violently to the chest thumping jingoism that is being built up around their "legend". I believe that reaction is part of the "people don't respect the ANZACs properly" mindset.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:01 |
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Freudian Slip posted:I didn't watch it, but I heard that it rated poorly because it didn't show the ANZACs kicking arse and was closer to reality. The same way that pearl harbour the movie flopped because it showed the Americans getting the poo poo kicked out of them. Pearl Harbour flopped because it focused on a terrible love story and was badly written and acted. I would love a movie called Pozieres which is 90 minutes of Australians being murdered, no heroes. So many bad ANZAC profiteering shills, at least some of it goes to (bad) charities.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:05 |
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lol how is it 100 years in the making when Gallipoli was like one event?
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:09 |
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Freudian Slip posted:Apart from BB, I don't think anyone really is in the "gently caress the ANZAC" camp, most people are reacting violently to the chest thumping jingoism that is being built up around their "legend". I believe that reaction is part of the "people don't respect the ANZACs properly" mindset. Yeah if anything, the ANZACs themselves tend to have way better attitudes about the whole thing. It's the twits ignoring the more solemn memorial aspect of Anzac Day and the whole "war is bad" message to drape themselves in Australia flags and poo poo that can go get hosed.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:17 |
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Laserface posted:lol how is it 100 years in the making when Gallipoli was like one event? Celebrating the centenary is 100 years in the making.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:18 |
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Tomberforce posted:Hah small world, I'm mate's irl with one of the authors of that paper. He's left Australia now though. Kevin? He's my old MSci supervisor and is still my 10% PhD supervisor.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:22 |
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I'll be much happier once this ANZAC centenary is behind us. The "message" we should take from Gallipoli is different to people but the way that it is being overdone is making GBS threads me.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:31 |
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Anidav posted:
The Young Greens got on it last night. It's taken down now, and AFAIK the person who put it up is leaving.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:32 |
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Maybe that person can make their own Political Party.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:43 |
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The message Australians should take from Gallipoli is "Don't gently caress with the turkish". Drunk Australians make it very clearly how poorly we've internalised this lesson every time they start hurling abuse at a kebab shop owner. In the words of someone wiser than me: "Guess we forgot."
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:43 |
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I'm probably just gonna rewatch the old Peter Weir film which I recall as being an actually good movie.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:49 |
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quote:The former Queensland premier Campbell Newman has revealed he twice offered to stand down in the months before the 2015 election for fear of being an “electoral liability”. Lmao and then they picked Springborg again.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:50 |
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Anidav posted:Lmao and then they picked Springborg again. Calling bullshit, he hung on for dear life.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:53 |
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Anidav posted:Lmao and then they picked Springborg again. quote:An open letter alleging abuse of detainees on Nauru and government inaction could have far reaching legal consequences, and strengthens the hand of any victim who wants to sue the Commonwealth, writes Greg Barns.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 02:54 |
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Anidav posted:Maybe that person can make their own Political Party.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:02 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Calling bullshit, he hung on for dear life. Who cares, he's going to write a book....with Gavin King.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:07 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Quick thread, find the most tasteless Anzac crap you can. As someone that owes their education and pretty much the only good parts of my life from 10 to 18 to legacy, go gently caress yourself.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:10 |
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Lawyers. Barely containing their excitement that the rivers of gold might start to flow again.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:11 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:Lawyers. How? How do you go from "These people who have a duty of care and are wilfully ignoring it and causing harm, Here is how they are liable" to "Lawyers loving picknik"? Did a Lawyer murder your mother? Are you a card carrying member of the "SHoot the messenger" club?
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:27 |
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KennyTheFish posted:How? How do you go from "These people who have a duty of care and are wilfully ignoring it and causing harm, Here is how they are liable" to "Lawyers loving picknik"? Did a Lawyer murder your mother? Are you a card carrying member of the "SHoot the messenger" club? What?! A lawyer murdered his mother? GOD, that just means even more lawyers are gonna cash in, ugh, for gently caress's sake...
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:34 |
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It's awfully similar to the 'climate change was invented to enrich climate scientists' argument.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:40 |
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KennyTheFish posted:How? How do you go from "These people who have a duty of care and are wilfully ignoring it and causing harm, Here is how they are liable" to "Lawyers loving picknik"? Did a Lawyer murder your mother? Are you a card carrying member of the "SHoot the messenger" club? It's the stock standard response you see on news site comments from geriatrics who think they're being clever. Craig is just emulating his betters
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:43 |
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open24hours posted:It's awfully similar to the 'climate change was invented to enrich climate scientists' argument. Well hey, let's be fair here, I always gotta admire when someone has a questioning attitude of who's out to just make a profit! Like the people in mining and energy and fracking- WAIT NO, NOT THEM, THESE ARE JOB CREATORS AND CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY, COAL IS GOOD FOR HUMANITY YOU drat HIPPIES Okay, how about employers in general who want to erode workplace rights and entitlements to lower average workers' standards of living- QUIT LEANING AND START LIFTING, WE GOTTA LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:48 |
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I just assumed that they're so motivated by money/greed that they assume that everyone else must be too.
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# ? Apr 9, 2015 03:54 |
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Hello friends, I'm an Anzac. My glorious self shines with sexy sweat. I put a beer bottle up my arse. I'm one of our boys. I'm Christopher Pyne. I'm a revelation. Hello - I'm here to say gently caress you, thank you, good luck, well done. I'm Christopher Pyne and I'm here to educate. I'm in a trench. I am a trench. I am a school.
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open24hours posted:It's awfully similar to the 'climate change was invented to enrich climate scientists' argument. They simply cannot wait to get an opportunity to get back into court and embrace all that free advertising that money simply cannot buy. As well as a fat percentage.
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