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Anidav posted:Bill Shorten: I can hear this in his Zinger Voice 
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I demand the image of Shorten firing KFC Zingers out of his sleeves be posted again.
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Jun 20, 2016 06:17
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The guy in the poo poo liberal ad is apparently a real tradie, I have a friend in Sydeny saying she knows him and that hes done work on her house
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Jun 20, 2016 06:23
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He lost his other tag heuer down her toilet
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Jun 20, 2016 06:26
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:If journalist's reactions to the #faketradie thing goes to show anything, it's that I should put my time in the SC thread on my CV.
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Jun 20, 2016 06:36
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SynthOrange posted:He lost his other tag heuer down her toilet His other tag heuer is a rolex
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Jun 20, 2016 06:42
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Stumbled across this paper today http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11538-015-0126-0 quote:Abstract http://russgeorge.net/2016/06/17/plankton-will-stop-making-oxygen-by-end-of-century/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/global-warming-could-choke-every-6933261 quote:“By 2100, the earth at sea level could have atmospheric oxygen levels comparable to the top of Mount Everest today. And as far as I know, people cannot normally stay on Everest without oxygen masks for more than a few minutes,” Petrovskii said. Welp, nice knowing you all. Lol at the poll in the Mirror article though  
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Jun 20, 2016 07:02
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33% optimistic
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Stumbled across this paper today
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Jun 20, 2016 07:10
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Does anyone actually listen to AM radio? Asking for a friend
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Jun 20, 2016 07:15
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I used to listen to RN on am but i got led lights and they interfere with reception:v
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Jun 20, 2016 07:18
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Snod. posted:Does anyone actually listen to AM radio? Asking for a friend I do. I was at a party, just chatting to some random and it turns out she worked for the ABC newsradio, and I was the first person she had met who admitted to listening to it.
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Jun 20, 2016 07:20
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#StayUnder Eddie.
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Jun 20, 2016 07:21
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This is already more listeners than I expected
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Jun 20, 2016 07:21
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can someone put the helpful candidate/party in your area info links in the OP or relink them here or something? cheers
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Jun 20, 2016 07:23
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I have heard the phytoplankton thing a few times and thought it was pretty common knowledge?
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Jun 20, 2016 07:27
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Anidav posted:80 Ann St Brisbane. The Greens people were great but the NXT people were poo poo so lmao
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Jun 20, 2016 07:30
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We should go ice skating in King George Square
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Jun 20, 2016 07:34
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Rant time. So here's a contrast between podcasts out today, the mainstream media and the internet-journos: Two Grumpy Hacks and the Wonky boys Wonk The Vote both examined the ALP campaign launch and in particular Bill Who's slog on Medicare. On the one hand you have supposedly objective journalists with decades of experience at the coal face of politics, and a couple of lefties doing it for the love of it in their spare time. No, it's not David and Goliath. You get from the Hacks a tirade about how Medicare is so sacred you can't make it efficient or the whingers will cry out and make it worse for "the rest of us" and then some kind of equivalence about how Peter Walsh lost the ALP the 1980 election because he wanted to make property tax efficient and was attack-ad'ed to death by the subsequently victorious Libs. Apparently that's the same thing as saying "privatising the Medicare payment system is just being efficient". And I thought it was pretty lazy to not even examine what the issue is and just write it off as a beat-up, but perhaps if you're a white well-off journalist, you can afford to write everything off because you're ok Jack, given how awful this government's every single idea has been and what a colossal failure of policy they are. The Wonks, who are openly lefty and pro-Greens and ALP-sceptic point out that most of Medicare IS the payments system, and what effects based on past experience do you think privatising the main thing that Medicare does will have on costs and universal care? Well the profit has to come from somewhere. So of course such suggestions would be couched in "efficiency" talk, and once the sale is made, there's no fixing it. This isn't something either Hacks or Wonks needed specialist knowledge about, anyone who looks squarely at the proposal and understands what Medicare does would cry foul too. My screed is not so much to champion a lefty viewpoint over whatever the Hacks think theirs is. But it's not hard to imagine people being fooled into accepting something that would gut Medicare because the mainstream media simply isn't interested in explaining it. Going by the Hacks who seem to imagine their attitude is a cheerful cynicism, you begin to understand how and why poo poo like the NBN just slides through yet you can get a cheap shot with "pink batts". And just to remind you, the ALP launched two weeks out and will be paying for their campaign from now, the Libs are only doing it one week out despite having far more money and also likely to time it with the media blackout to avoid ALP attack ads. It's the Aussie way.
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Jun 20, 2016 07:50
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I don't get the outrage over #faketradie b/c I trust actors way more than manual laborers & don't get the Aussie 'tradie' fetish
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Jun 20, 2016 08:03
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Also Victorians, Jeremy Sear's done a spreadsheet for the Victorian Senate ticket and his rationale is:quote:progressive parties first, then single-issue parties whose single issue isn’t so bad, then unknowns like “ungrouped” and the “ask the internet” party, then the rest is right-wingers, from least-awful to bigoted fundamentalists to flat-out xenophobes Hope that's of some use to someone, just passing it on.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:08
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Anyone know anything about the veterans party? I'm near Enogerra Barracks so they're running a candidate and she seems really switched on and all my army mates are going on about how good she is. They're a single issue party with a platform that isn't complete garbage so they're probably going below the greens and above the majors/FF/LDs but I guess I've seen Lambies name attached to enough press about them that I'm concerned there's something I'm missing
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Jun 20, 2016 08:09
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Count Chocula posted:I don't get the outrage over #faketradie b/c I trust actors way more than manual laborers & don't get the Aussie 'tradie' fetish It's not outrage, it's amusement at how naked and lazy the pandering is.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:13
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Count Chocula posted:I don't get the outrage over #faketradie b/c I trust actors way more than manual laborers & don't get the Aussie 'tradie' fetish holy poo poo it's count chocula
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Jun 20, 2016 08:16
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also if that bloke is actually a tradie I hope he told the director it was dumb to be using a porcelin mug and wearing a giant thick wrist chain on a work-site but was ignored for stylistic purposes in an elaborate metaphor for class and politics in australia
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Jun 20, 2016 08:17
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ewe2 posted:Also Victorians, Jeremy Sear's done a spreadsheet for the Victorian Senate ticket and his rationale is: Thanks, was going to start looking for some good Senate voting material, Sear always seems to be a switched on guy
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Jun 20, 2016 08:22
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I thought the gold watch and other assorted jewelry chains in conjunction with the generic office mug, plus the workbench nowhere near an actual worksite, was very thoughtful of the LNP. I mean sometimes it take effort to pull their lies apart. This one was basically on a silver platter. Literally a silver platter if they took that bling to a cashies I imagine.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:23
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's not outrage, it's amusement at how naked and lazy the pandering is. Yeah but the real problem isn't that there was an actor in a political job, it's that we think having a poo poo job makes somebody wise. See also: Joe the Plumber. Like actors probably are more likely to have political views this thread agrees with. But the whole 'tradie wants a lady' thing and giving various types of handymen cute Pokémon nicknames like 'sparky' and 'fiery ' is just weird to me.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:26
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You name electricians a sparky because they electrocute themselves and firemen are known to burn to death. It has nothing to do with being cute. it's how people deal with death and serious injury in the workplace of dangerous occupations 
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Jun 20, 2016 08:32
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Plus you get white collar jobs with nicknames like chalkie and sawbones.Count Chocula posted:Yeah but the real problem isn't that there was an actor in a political job, it's that we think having a poo poo job makes somebody wise.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:33
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DancingShade posted:You name electricians a sparky because they electrocute themselves and firemen are known to burn to death. It has nothing to do with being cute. it's how people deal with death and serious injury in the workplace of dangerous occupations and we call carpenters "chippies" because of their high likelihood they'll be thrown into a woodchipper in their lives
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Jun 20, 2016 08:34
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Ambo's because they risk getting run over by one.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:37
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CC please don't let anyone tell you tradie naming conventions aren't dumb cutesy australian poo poo, you're wrong and dumb as dogshit on every other point but you've hit the nail on the head and I cant' stop laughing at the dumb idea that trade names are to reflect and cope with dangerous work environments loving hell anyone who thinks that is even more out of touch than CC on this
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Jun 20, 2016 08:37
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MC Eating Disorder posted:CC please don't let anyone tell you tradie naming conventions aren't dumb cutesy australian poo poo, you're wrong and dumb as dogshit on every other point but you've hit the nail on the head and I cant' stop laughing at the dumb idea that trade names are to reflect and cope with dangerous work environments loving hell anyone who thinks that is even more out of touch than CC on this Spoken like a true shiny bum.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:44
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Senor Tron posted:Ambo's because they risk getting run over by one. nah its coz of their fuckin unions bargaining tactics mate
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Jun 20, 2016 08:49
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:If journalist's reactions to the #faketradie thing goes to show anything, it's that I should put my time in the SC thread on my CV. I dont like this
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Jun 20, 2016 08:49
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DancingShade posted:Spoken like a true shiny bum. if you want pictures of my trenchfoot to prove you're an rear end in a top hat feel free to ask
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Jun 20, 2016 08:54
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And for Choc's information and to the best of my knowledge, the reason tradies are so commonly gone to as a 'trustworthy average joe' figure in Australia generally seems to be down to Howard. I'm going off memory of somebody else's explanation, but Howard started that whole 'Aussie Battler' image and character as sort of a figure to reinvent the LNP's voting base around, and tradies definitely embody the more urban manifestation of it. An honest, working-class blokey bloke (because we're Australia and we cannot as a nation fathom an inspiring everyday figure that doesn't belong in a Victoria Bitter ad) just trying to live life and provide for his family. Now that's gotten thrown into weird places over time, because if the archetypal Aussie Battler ever existed outside of Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson characters, the LNP have sure as gently caress never actually met them. So their idea of this character has gone through a weird game of telephone, where this simple yet relatable image of the average voter has become bloated and confused because it's only ever been updated by what the LNP either want to be true about them, or think is true about them. So the end result is you've got this clearly inaccurate depiction of the Aussie Battler that's almost a caricature, spruiking policies that both wouldn't benefit that theoretical voter and wouldn't engage them in the first place. They aren't just going 'look, we're just like you' in poor attempts to relate to the voter base, the figure they're pandering to probably doesn't actually exist in the first place.
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Jun 20, 2016 08:55
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electricians are called sparkies because of sparks and also because who the hosed can be bothered saying "el-ec-trici-an" when it can be shortened ya bloody drongos
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MC Eating Disorder posted:if you want pictures of my trenchfoot to prove you're an rear end in a top hat feel free to ask I already know I'm an rear end in a top hat but thank you for offering to show pictures of your waterlogged feet as proof of your debating prowess and superior wordplay 
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