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Turn on Sky News if you want to see an hour long Sophie Mirabella meltdown.
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LibertyCat posted:What, exactly, is wrong with riding on the footpath where possible? You're way safer and won't hold up traffic. I'd take a collision between a pedestrian and a bike vs a bike and a truck any day. Because if you are trying to ride with any sort of speed, footpaths are complete rubbish for that. You have to deal with cars at intersections anyway, plus pedestrians and all manner of slow moving users. Half the time the footpath is simply not suitable for more than 1 person wide, either walking or riding, and then you get cases like I had to deal with tonight, where a nice footpath simply stopped. There was no marked way to cross over to the other side, there was no indication it was going to stop, it just did. Or, cyclists who chose to could use the nice wide flat bit of road that is designed for going fast on. All it would take is other drivers to stop being fuckwits, but its Australia, and its full of shitstains like yourself.
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Apr 21, 2016 12:37
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Uber is pretty fantastic in Russia I gotta say.
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Apr 21, 2016 12:38
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Turn on Sky News if you want to see an hour long Sophie Mirabella meltdown. I don't have Sky so feel free to post highlights.
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Apr 21, 2016 12:41
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lol channel 9 directly funding abduction firms and leaving a paper trail of doing so 
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Apr 21, 2016 12:45
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Frogmanv2 posted:Or, cyclists who chose to could use the nice wide flat bit of road that is designed for going fast on. All it would take is other drivers to stop being fuckwits, but its Australia, and its full of shitstains like yourself. If you could keep up with traffic I wouldn't have a problem with it - but you probably are pissing hundreds of people off because you're being a selfish prick and are doing 40ks less than the speed limit. I would gladly accept boat people into the country if it meant we put road-driving cyclists in offshore concentration camps instead.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:00
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a few moments of my time is worth more than someone else's right to use public infrastructure - a selfish prick
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Apr 21, 2016 13:10
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I'll gladly accept road cyclists if it means putting LibertyCat in an offshore concentration camp
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Apr 21, 2016 13:13
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LibertyCat posted:keywords: "designed for going fast on". Yeah so we should be building seperated bicycle lanes and proper bike paths and identifying where suburban roads need traffic calming to discourage rat running to ease traffic flow along main corridors and thereby encourage more people to ride a bicycle in these streets - Greens policy - the only party that has committed to building separate streets for bikes and cars. Don't worry about the helmet thing, we're going to defund the police force so that they can't enforce that law anyway. (Sorry that there's no specific policy about helmets but basically no one gaf about that when we still expect bicycles to share lanes with buses) Re: uber chat. It's not a customer service argument, it's a sharing economy argument. Sharing economy sounds nice to the ears, but there is a danger of putting a price on goods and services that previously didn't have one. Perhaps a *regulated sharing economy* would be the better option, and that's the discussion the government is now having (well, they're trying to put off, so, the current one). Basically: is uber more effective at redistributing wealth downwards than a normal taxi (learning from proudhon that wealth needs be redistributed back downwards for the economy to work)? Sort of, not really, has the potential to.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:20
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cars are an incredibly inefficient but extremely convenient way of moving people around and if anything can be done that reduces the number of single occupant vehicles it is a Good thing
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Apr 21, 2016 13:22
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 Hmm anyone know what happened in this country in the 1890s and 1930s.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:57
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LibertyCat posted:1 bike slows down what, 100 cars? Particularly with the new "you must leave a 1m gap" rule that often makes it impossible to overtake. One extra car won't delay traffic nearly as much as a bike. Less delays means less fossil fuel usage and air pollution. Or just paint bike lines onto some main routes and cyclisrs will mostly use them.
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Apr 21, 2016 14:05
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Hmm anyone know what happened in this country in the 1890s and 1930s. Rhetorical question? Because that's probably the 1890s depression showing up there. http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/1999/pdf/rdp1999-06.pdf
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Apr 21, 2016 14:11
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Rhetorical question? yeah lol
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Apr 21, 2016 14:14
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I used uber to get in and out of the city tonight and it was half the price of the equivalent taxi and a shitload more convenient and comfortable so idk I guess I support them and gently caress off taxi industry.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:yeah lol Heh, sorry. Studying to become a history teacher. No dumb questions and all that.
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Apr 21, 2016 14:26
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the gently caress? https://twitter.com/abc730/status/723086641024237568
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:the gently caress? Makes perfect sense when you think about it.
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Apr 21, 2016 14:33
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Hey Eddie I need some people released from a Lebanese prison I have a bag of cash if that helps.
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Apr 21, 2016 14:41
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But then why doesn't the 1987 crash show on the chart
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LibertyCat posted:I think the big burly transmen in women's bathrooms will be greatly outnumbered by straight male pervs using it as a defense. The nice thing about this is that we have up to 15 years experience in the US of trans people having the legal right to use bathrooms of their identified gender, with almost none of this happening. No, there's unlikely to be too many trans men in women's bathrooms. What there will be is many more cases of physical and sexual assault of trans women. But that's obviously ok, because we can't let the rights of the minority (not to be assaulted, and to be able to participate fully in society) be trumped by the rights of the majority (to be fuckheads about a non-issue that has been shown in practice to be a non-issue).  quote:Call them Penis/Vagina rooms imo. Are you volunteering as genital inspector? How the gently caress are you going to know? DeathMuffin fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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Negligent posted:But then why doesn't the 1987 crash show on the chart Possibly because the US federal reserve told their banks to continue on with lending to each other at a loss as if the crash wasn't happening. Or maybe there were just fewer bank failures in 87? Not sure.  e:Or the gigantic spike in bank credit to GDP just hid the effects of the crash. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Possibly because the US federal reserve told their banks to continue on with lending to each other at a loss as if the crash wasn't happening. Different crashes are caused by different things too. There's hardly a pause on that chart for the 90s recession and there isn't any significant movement through the 70s either.
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Apr 21, 2016 18:58
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Lmao with regards to Obeid being involved in getting attempted kidnappers home
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Apr 21, 2016 21:35
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Whenever I'm in a public toilet I'm doing my damned hardest to just ignore the existence of anyone else in there. Why do we need separate toilets anyway?
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Senor Tron posted:Or just paint bike lines onto some main routes and cyclisrs will mostly use them. I cycle to work and hate riding on the road. Drivers just don't give a gently caress. Luckily I have a shared path for most of the way and where I do have to ride on the road there's at least a painted line for cyclists. And this is using the backroads as much as possible!
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starkebn posted:Whenever I'm in a public toilet I'm doing my damned hardest to just ignore the existence of anyone else in there. Why do we need separate toilets anyway? because you're not everyone, and some people are real shitheels
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Apr 21, 2016 23:13
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tithin posted:because you're not everyone, and some people are real shitheels so what makes a difference to shitheels whether they're in a toilet or out of it? How is having separate gender toilets now stopping someone from being a shitheel?
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Apr 21, 2016 23:32
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Apr 21, 2016 23:34
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They should have separate toilets, one for the clean people and another for those dirty pricks who piss everywhere and never clean it up
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My experience with public toilets will always be that time there was poo poo in the urinal and glass all over the floor.
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Apr 21, 2016 23:39
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Helmets should be mandatory for pooping.
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Anidav posted:My experience with public toilets will always be that time there was poo poo in the urinal and glass all over the floor. I call that "literally the three times I've ever gone clubbing in Brisbane" and it's a fair chunk of the reason I don't go to the clubs anymore. That, and I'm old.
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bigis posted:Helmets should be mandatory for pooping. No sarcasm, This is the best post on the topic in literally hundreds of pages of toilet discussion in multiple forums.
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starkebn posted:so what makes a difference to shitheels whether they're in a toilet or out of it? How is having separate gender toilets now stopping someone from being a shitheel? If a trans person who identifies as female but was born male is forced into using the men's room, those shitheels may assault her.
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I wonder how parents feel taking their kids to those public toilets in parks that are full of spiders and snakes and syringes.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:If a trans person who identifies as female but was born male is forced into using the men's room, those shitheels may assault her. I think he's arguing for gender-neutral bathrooms, not against respecting trans peoples' gender identities.
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Apr 22, 2016 01:21
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Public toilets are gross, just use the bathroom before you leave the house each day.
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BBJoey posted:I think he's arguing for gender-neutral bathrooms, not against respecting trans peoples' gender identities. I was more responding to his "shitheels gonna shitheel" question. Don't forget in Queensland there's still gay panic laws on the books. Gender neutral bathrooms wouldn't hurt anyone - just have nothing but stalls - but there's always going to be people uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with other genders.
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