Frogmanv2 posted:

Its not to me.

tithin posted:

I've always understood a Dandy to mean a well dressed (male) fool or charlatan

asio posted:

"I don't understand why that word can hurt people so I'll keep using it" - an internet person of colour

quote:

A summer marred by ministerial crises and the prospect of a higher GST has taken the shine off the Turnbull government, sending the Coalition's share of the vote below that achieved by Tony Abbott at the 2013 election.

A four point two-party preferred slump to 52-48 still has the government winning but is set to dispel any lingering early election barracking from within the government. Just one in five voters (22 per cent) would look favourably on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull running to the polls before his full term is served. Mr Turnbull has told his party to be on guard for a snap poll should key legislation be blocked in the Senate.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

What about Space Dandy?

gay picnic defence posted:

Have some poll results before this thread turns into a loving tumblr or something


http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...214-gmtnd1.html

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

You forgot queer. Now do you want to continue to lecture me about the hurtfulness of words? Because I can tell you from >personal< experience that there are shades of grey in this poo poo. Getting called a human being is way less hurtful than getting called a friend of the family. I've been called both of those words in a threatening manner, have you? Why are you even talking about this again, asio?

Laserface posted:

Before I interact with anyone I check with Auspol what is an acceptable word to use.

Laserface posted:

Before I interact with anyone I check with Auspol what is an acceptable word to use.

gay picnic defence posted:

Have some poll results before this thread turns into a loving tumblr or something


http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...214-gmtnd1.html

Recoome posted:

Please tell me more about how you think "PC" is ruining Australian culture

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Freedom is dead.

https://twitter.com/latikambourke/status/698833750780743680?s=09

Redcordial posted:

Laserface aka MajorDisgrace is just trying to find someone to entertain him on this here day, don't be too harsh!

EvilElmo posted:

Wasn't Latika off to some cushy overseas job?

Laserface posted:

you're really bad at the posting.

Gorilla Salad posted:

I try to avoid the Herald Sun in the break room, but it was open to page three and I was greeted with this poo poo which made me so made I tore the page out.

Negligent posted:

historically if people called you a foppish dandy it was code for poofter, hth

Definition of fop in English:
noun

A man who is concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
SYNONYMS
dandy, beau, poseur, glamour boy, man about town, bright young thing, rake;
French boulevardier, petit-maître
informal swell, toff, snappy dresser, sharp dresser, natty dresser, trendy, pretty boy
archaic coxcomb, popinjay, peacock, buck

Recoome posted:

Can't say Malcolm without saying "cum, Mal".

Negligent posted:

historically if people called you a foppish dandy it was code for poofter, hth

Definition of fop in English:
noun

A man who is concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
SYNONYMS
dandy, beau, poseur, glamour boy, man about town, bright young thing, rake;
French boulevardier, petit-maître
informal swell, toff, snappy dresser, sharp dresser, natty dresser, trendy, pretty boy
archaic coxcomb, popinjay, peacock, buck

katlington posted:

The effete dandy postured histrionically

Recoome posted:

that is some horrifying poo poo right there

i mean it's on the level of "heh, primitive savages. we are exterminating them for their own good" level

quote:

Cunneen puts committee on notice over leaked transcripts THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 15, 2016 12:00AM Chris Merritt Legal Affairs Editor Sydney

Lawyers for prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC, above, have issued warnings.

Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC has warned every member of a committee of the NSW parliament that they risk criminal penalti­es if they release details of her taped telephone calls, which she says have been unlawfully supplied to the committee. Her lawyers issued the warning after an extract from a transcript of the phone taps was leaked to Sydney newspapers on Friday soon after it was given to the committee­ by the Independ­ent Commission Against Corruption. “Every member of the parliamentary committee has both a responsibility and a statutory duty not to disseminate or leak any transcript or audio recording of the taped conversation provided to him or her by ICAC,” the letter says. “It is a criminal offence.”

The letter, which has also been sent to NSW Premier Mike Baird, accuses ICAC of committing a criminal breach of the ICAC Act by providing the material to the committee. It gives notice that the incident is being referred to federal and state police for a possible criminal investigation. This is sharply at odds with statements by ICAC commissioner Megan Latham and is set to complicate the task confronting the committee, which is seeking advice of its own on whether it is legally entitled to receive and publici­se the telephone intercepts. The committee, which meets today, is also expected to consider calls from ICAC’s independent inspector­ David Levine for an investiga­tion of the leak, which he has described as appalling.

Soon after it came to light, committee chairman Damien Tudehope said: “On the face of it, it is my belief that it is a contempt of parliament.” The day before, Mr Tudehope had told a public hearing of his committee that had been presented with the telephone intercepts: “I would urge those members of the media not to publish material that is the subject of the direction that the material not be publicly released at this time.” Ms Latham gave the committee her legal advice and said ICAC was entitled to hand over the telephone intercepts, which she referred to as “TI product”, because it would not breach the Telecommunications Interception Act. “These proceedings qualify as exempt proceedings under the TI Act and that is the basis upon which we seek to make this materi­al available to the committee,” Ms Latham said. In written submissions, she urged the committee to make the intercepts public because it was in the public interest and “failure to do so will unfairly damage and undermine public confidence in the commission”.

However, the letter from Ms Cunneen’s lawyers, Cockburn & Co, takes a different view of the law. It says protecting public confidence in ICAC or the reputation of its officers is not a proper purpose for the publication of materia­l, which includes phone conversations of private citizens, and is not a proper exercise of the agency’s functions or powers. It says section 111 of the ICAC Act imposes criminal penalties on ICAC officers who divulge inform­ation obtained during their duties for purposes that are not connected with the functions of the statute. “There are limited exceptions to the general secrecy restraint under s. 111 of ICAC Act ... None of those exceptions can legitimately have any application to the inform­ation which has been provided to the parliamentary committee and now leaked to the press,” the letter says. “You are hereby on notice of our client’s contention that the officer or officers of ICAC who provided this material to the parliame­ntary committee has contravened section 111 of the ICAC Act and has thus committed a criminal offence.”

The telephone intercepts were one of the key elements in ICAC’s failed inquiry into what Ms Cunneen was alleged to have said after a traffic accident involving Sophia Tilley, her son’s girlfriend. That inquiry, known as Operation Hale, was terminated after the High Court ruled that the allegat­ion against Ms Cunneen, if proved, would not amount to corruption and was therefore outside ICAC’s jurisdiction. The intercepts have already been considered by NSW Solicitor-General Michael Sexton SC and Victoria’s Chief Crown Prosecutor, Gavin Silbert QC, who concluded there was no basis for criminal proceedings. In an article said to be based on a leaked transcript of the intercepts, The Sydney Morning Herald has quoted Ms Cunneen as telling a smash repairer she had advised Ms Tilley to fake chest pains. “My only reservation, between you and me, is that that naughty girl had alcohol had, oh no that’s all right, I can cover that ... But she had drunk, she’s on her P plates. But it had been some time ago which is why I sent her the message to start having chest pains and get the ambulance because it’s bought her a few more hours,” the article says.

ICAC had refused to provide the intercepts to Mr Levine, a former judge of the NSW Supreme Court, who obtained them independently from the Australian Crime Commission. He produced a report in December on ICAC’s handling of Operation Hale, in which he accused it of abuse of power and maladministration. After the High Court found ICAC had exceeded its jurisdiction, parliament changed the ICAC Act. The agency’s jurisdiction is now smaller than Ms ­Latham believed when she launched the Cunneen inquiry. The letter from Ms Cunneen’s lawyers notes that Ms Cunneen is acutely aware that the majority of the members of the parliament­ary committee understand their responsibilities and she regrets the need to write to them because most would be entirely innocent and would be “sufficiently decent and fair minded not to be complicit” in the leak. “Nevertheless, it is necessary for our client to demand, and she hereby does demand, that each member of the parliamentary committee refrain from directly or indirectly providing any audio or transcript of the taped conversation, or the substance of it, to any journalist or any other person­,” the letter says. It says disclosure of the telephone intercepts has caused prejudice against the prosecutor that cannot be remedied. “The imputation deliberately put forward by the ICAC is that, after all, despite the High Court confirming that ICAC did not have the jurisdiction to conduct Operation Hale and despite our client being cleared of unlawful conduct by the Solicitor-General on advice from an independent and eminent Victorian criminal lawyer, that somehow she is nevertheless guilty of corrupt conduct or some other offence. There is an apprehension that Ms Latham has released information about Ms Cunneen in what appears to be in retribution for the fact that a complaint was lodged with the Inspector which led to an adverse report against the ICAC. Such conduct has the tendency to undermine the confid­ence in any member of the public lodging a complaint.”

Lizard Combatant posted: