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Police Automaton posted:does president trump know about all this When he does find out, there are several undeveloped islands in the Florida Keys that would be suitable.
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Police Automaton posted:does president Clinton know about all this
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Doesn't Australia have an election coming up? Is there hope for these people?
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May 11, 2016 17:43
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As a kid I always saw Alice Springs on a map and thought, hey, it's probably a small town with a gas station and a nice little cafe, grocery store with maybe not the most impressive selection, a truck stop motel thing, some good like... caves or something nearby. Like it's a big truck stop for trucks going cross country, but mostly just a nice quiet little town. Nope, it's a big depressing pile of poo poo.
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May 11, 2016 17:52
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I'm curious how lovely it actually is. There are some really poo poo towns around me (Paterson and Newark NJ for starters), but part of why they're so lovely is because they're immediate suburbs of NYC with all the illegal trade and activities that would entail, versus a tiny city in the middle of a giant desert.
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May 11, 2016 18:02
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Pick posted:Doesn't Australia have an election coming up? Is there hope for these people? Both our major parties are dedicated to being lovely. L-NP (current government) is the worst offender, but Labour isn't much better anymore. They were a fair bit better, but as soon as they got desperate for votes they sold out and have largely been following the liberals lead on refugee policy. The Greens are the only party taking a moral stand on the issue, but unfortunately they will only ever have any influence in the senate.
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May 11, 2016 18:14
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stop making this thread about australian politics you retards, no one gives a poo poo, take it to dd
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I'm curious how lovely it actually is. There are some really poo poo towns around me (Paterson and Newark NJ for starters), but part of why they're so lovely is because they're immediate suburbs of NYC with all the illegal trade and activities that would entail, versus a tiny city in the middle of a giant desert. i spent a few weeks there on an assignment, there's a military base there that's staffed by a joint group of Australians/Brits/Americans. it largely wasn't worth leaving the base since there was an acceptable bar on the base. i remember around the base they were always advertising certain days of the month where you could catch a hop flight off base for like $50 that would take you to sydney for a weekend, but you always had to book way in advance because all the military trying to get the gently caress out of alice springs for a few days guaranteed all the flights were always sold out. i always liked spending time in the SW united states, so i'm a big fan of arid and desert landscapes, which the alice springs is some of the best arid landscape you're ever gonna get.
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May 11, 2016 18:19
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Hogge Wild posted:stop making this thread about australian politics you retards, no one gives a poo poo, take it to dd Seems that Australian politics has a very important and very direct impact on what happens on this island, why this island is the way it is, why this island looks the way it does, and all the other things this thread is about. It's not some meaningless tangent out of nowhere.
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May 11, 2016 18:30
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Has Nauru had a cyclone or hurricane or whatever? I bet that would be fun.
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May 11, 2016 19:24
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Yep its so wiiiieeeerd that an island full of the descendants of deported convicts and murderers would try to solve its problems by shipping people off to an even worse island......
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May 11, 2016 19:36
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8 track betamax posted:Yep its so wiiiieeeerd that an island full of the descendants of deported convicts and murderers would try to solve its problems by shipping people off to an even worse island...... There's an america.gif thread for that.
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May 11, 2016 19:42
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8 track betamax posted:Yep its so wiiiieeeerd that an island full of the descendants of deported convicts and murderers would try to solve its problems by shipping people off to an even worse island...... Where does Nauru ship its would-be immigrants and convicts? 
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May 11, 2016 19:52
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univbee posted:Where does Nauru ship its would-be immigrants and convicts? The convicts stay on Island (seriously). There was a convicted rapist at one of those cover band nights, and danced with a friend of mine. The (wealthy) immigrants go to Australia and set up a future there because they know Nauru is a poo poo hole to bring up their children.
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A failure shithole trashland filled with fatties who ruined everything by touching poop. You guys started goon island without me? 
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wit posted:A failure shithole trashland filled with fatties who ruined everything by touching poop. You guys started goon island without me? Not only was it started but has already been  with poop touching.Good thread op, a glimmering jewel in the sea of dooky known as GBS.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:The convicts stay on Island (seriously). There was a convicted rapist at one of those cover band nights, and danced with a friend of mine. The (wealthy) immigrants go to Australia and set up a future there because they know Nauru is a poo poo hole to bring up their children. Well, it's better than what happened on the Pitcairn Islands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 Quite hard to imprison people on an island with a population of 47; it would ruin their way of life. Of course, as their way of life involves having sex with twelve year olds, one wonders why people think it's worth preserving.
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Plucky Brit posted:Well, it's better than what happened on the Pitcairn Islands: Not to mention mutinying against the Crown
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May 11, 2016 21:41
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Looks exactly like Queensland
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Plucky Brit posted:Well, it's better than what happened on the Pitcairn Islands: quote:The trial was punctuated by legal challenges from island residents, who denied the island's colonial status, and with it the United Kingdom's judicial authority. Defence lawyers for the seven accused men claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended (together with Polynesians), had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing a capital offence in the burning of the Bounty in 1790, they said. In a symbolic rejection of British rule, islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the Bounty, according to Paul Dacre, the Pitcairn public defender. "We burn a toy ship once a year so your laws don't apply to us" sounds like grade A sovcit BS. Also, not saying that it isn't wrong, but I think that 50 people living 1000 miles from nowhere is kind of an unavoidable way for people to go really crazy.
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KiteAuraan posted:That's Alice Springs, Australia's dumbest idea. Coober Pedy runs a close second. Although living underground like that is kinda cool (har har). Hey Lascivious Sloth, if it's not going to result in a visit from ASIO would you happen to have any photos of the detention centres? Or stories from people caught there?
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May 12, 2016 00:53
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glowing-fish posted:
The Pacific is full of Lord of the Flies islands.
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May 12, 2016 00:54
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Lolie posted:The Pacific is full of Lord of the Flies islands. Why did goons pick Hawaii?
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Darth123123 posted:Why did goons pick Hawaii? Also I'm pretty sure Bionicles has offended every last pacific Islander on earth.
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May 12, 2016 01:02
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/11/bangladeshi-refugee-dies-on-nauru-of-suspected-heart-attack
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Plucky Brit posted:Well, it's better than what happened on the Pitcairn Islands: holy poo poo quote:An "entry clearance application" must be made for any child under the age of 16, prior to visiting Pitcairn, while adults visiting the island for periods of less than 14 days are not required to complete any application or visa request prior to arrival.[30] I wonder what the official FCO reasoning for that rule is, because I can't see any government in the world going on the record to say "don't take your kids to our sovereign territory because literally every male adult there is a child molester"
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drunk asian neighbor posted:holy poo poo Why would they send a govt official there?
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May 12, 2016 01:44
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This thread. I haven't had flashbacks to Nothing But Trouble (a movie that traumatized a portion of my childhood) like this in years. It's all Valkenvania.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:holy poo poo Ahahaha, I had a psychology professor in college who upheld this place as a model for healthy, natural sexual mores, as opposed to our awful prudish ~Christian~ sexual morality that kept boobies off the TV and his wife from agreeing to an open marriage (he actually complained about that in class).
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Oh Hell No posted:Ahahaha, I had a psychology professor in college who upheld this place as a model for healthy, natural sexual mores, as opposed to our awful prudish ~Christian~ sexual morality that kept boobies off the TV and his wife from agreeing to an open marriage (he actually complained about that in class). What school was that?
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One thing about small Pacific countries that is kinda striking when you get there is how much influence they are under from other countries. Traditionally it was mostly Australia and in some places the US and NZ but in recent years China is becoming a much bigger player. I've noticed a lot of random roads will have signs saying they were funded by the Chinese government and there are a lot of small businesses run by Chinese expats popping up all over the Pacific. The Japanese also built a few fire stations in Tonga, probably so they can access whales in Vavaʻu. But my personal "favourite" is the Mormons, who like to put these signs out the front of their schools and temples that tell people not to speak their native language. I think I took this photo in Tongatapu, I can't remember exactly:  Also re: obesity in the Pacific, this explains a lot of it:  
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Vladimir Poutine posted:One thing about small Pacific countries that is kinda striking when you get there is how much influence they are under from other countries. At the other end of the spectrum you have the ones which time pretty much forgot, like Palm Island. "Independence" in those places has pretty much meant indifference to how people live on the islands until some scandal shines a media spotlight on them and people who didn't even know those places exist want "somebody" to "do something" to somehow repair decades of neglect and make them functioning societies.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:One thing about small Pacific countries that is kinda striking when you get there is how much influence they are under from other countries. Traditionally it was mostly Australia and in some places the US and NZ but in recent years China is becoming a much bigger player. I've noticed a lot of random roads will have signs saying they were funded by the Chinese government and there are a lot of small businesses run by Chinese expats popping up all over the Pacific. The Japanese also built a few fire stations in Tonga, probably so they can access whales in Vavaʻu. But my personal "favourite" is the Mormons, who like to put these signs out the front of their schools and temples that tell people not to speak their native language. I think I took this photo in Tongatapu, I can't remember exactly: what the gently caress is "dripping" I mean any food whatsoever that comes in a bucket that big can't be good but jesus that sounds both ominous and gluttonous... omingluttonous? gluttonominous?
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drunk asian neighbor posted:what the gently caress is "dripping" I mean any food whatsoever that comes in a bucket that big can't be good but jesus that sounds both ominous and gluttonous... omingluttonous? gluttonominous? it's the fat that drips off meat while it cooks. Hence the name. Food fried in dripping is great if you hate yourself and want to get super gross and die
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boom boom boom posted:it's the fat that drips off meat while it cooks. Hence the name. Food fried in dripping is great if you hate yourself and want to get super gross and die So it's basically lard? Ok so it's a tiny bit less gross because I doubt anyone is just eating it straight from the bucket but yeah, a bucket of animal fat is p. gross no matter what it's called/what animal it's from If reading Discworld has taught me anything it's that the UK/Aus has some great names for food, I've always loved "toast soldiers"
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this thread's makin me huungry
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what are you supposed to do with trash on an island? i'd think that real estate would be in too short supply to use a landfill, so are they supposed to ship it out or what? that'd seem expensive. in nauru, it looks like they just throw it on the ground though
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Kremlin Kremlin posted:what are you supposed to do with trash on an island? i'd think that real estate would be in too short supply to use a landfill, so are they supposed to ship it out or what? that'd seem expensive. I would imagine that a lot of tiny island nations just dump it in the ocean but realistically it probably wouldn't be that hard to implement a pretty comprehensive composting/recycling program on an island that small (that is if anybody gave a gently caress)
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what the gently caress was this thread going to be about if that guy didnt come in and drop like 50 anecdotes about it being hell island
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