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Urcher posted:Is that the abhorrent "australian memes page" or the "abhorrent australian memes page". The latter
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https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/844334501438271488
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:20 |
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Here I made this to help some of you understand the PHON > ALP > LNP preference flow:
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:23 |
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https://twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio/status/844373631937396736
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:23 |
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I thought you needed a heartbeat to suffer a stroke.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:26 |
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Was Reith the one that went on that sbs show that took a bunch of racists to war zones and asked if they still supported turning back the boats?
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:31 |
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That diagram is great but implies lnp are unionists.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:31 |
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Good.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:32 |
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norp posted:Was Reith the one that went on that sbs show that took a bunch of racists to war zones and asked if they still supported turning back the boats? Yes, and when confronted with one of the people from The Tampa (I think...) who was returned to Afghanistan by Reith and has to spend years in hiding to avoid being killed, and all his friends and family have been killed, Reith said "yeah but returning him was still the right thing to do".
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:33 |
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Bogan King posted:So the dude who got hit by a croc the other day jumping in the creek on a dare So there is video of him talking about the attack The Idiot posted:About 10 cups of goon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnLyt6v59_o ftfy
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:36 |
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Zenithe posted:That diagram is great but implies lnp are unionists. I don't understand how but I suspect that may be the problem.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:40 |
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iajanus posted:Wait professional referee spotted, you dog
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:39 |
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Jesus Christ don't gently caress with Michael Kroger.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:46 |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-22/peter-reith-hospitalised-after-serious-medical-emergency/8376596 My favourite part about this article is the last line: abc posted:More to come.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:48 |
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Be still, our beating hearts.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 03:53 |
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So is he going to become even more right wing now?
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:18 |
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malcolm roberts is illiterate
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:20 |
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The Sydney Morning Homosexual posted:A Sydney man has been awarded $3000 for being stopped by police for four minutes at Liverpool train station, after a court ruled this amounted to false imprisonment.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:24 |
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CLEIV https://twitter.com/CliveFPalmer/status/842461339851210752
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:38 |
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drowned in pussy juice posted:professional referee spotted, you dog Well, I do have pretty poor eyesight...
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:38 |
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We are at the dawn of a new era - and like the dinosaurs who just thought they were having an off day - many Aussie retailers aren’t going to know what’s hit them. In the coming months Amazon will start opening its online doors in Australia. And already locals are seeing an impact. Australia’s favourite retail curmudgeon, Gerry Harvey, has seen $100M disappear from his personal balance sheet as the likelihood of his prediction that the internet would never amount to much for retail is slowly being shown to have been somewhat less than correct. As we recently reported, it has been speculated that Myer could lose anywhere up to 55 per cent of its earnings over the next five years. The old Myer cafeteria is going to need to sell a lot of bad coffee and “Frog in a Ponds” to cover those kids of losses. Credit Suisse says Myer could be just the tip of the iceberg with Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Supercheap Auto, Rebel and Amart Sports, BigW, Kmart and Target all tipped to see revenues smashed. Officially, Amazon hasn’t made any announcements concerning its retail presence here. But recruiting for hundreds of workers suggests they’ll be here sooner rather than later. An article at The Financial Review [subscription required] reported Watermark Funds Investment chief investment officer Justin Braitling as saying Amazon was planning to undercut locals by around 30%. Braitling used the word “destroy” to describe Amazon’s Australian ambitions. It will be interesting to see what the retail industry does when Amazon arrives - I think we can dispense with the “if they’ll arrive”. Past form suggests we’ll hear a lot of bleating and whining. Just like the brouhaha over forcing customers to pay GST on products that are purchased from overseas, I suspect we’ll see Gerry Harvey and his mates buying new megaphones so we can listen to them complain about how they’re battling. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos as been quoted has saying “your margin is our opportunity” when undercutting prices in new markets the company expands into. And when you look at the Credit Suisse report, it's pretty obvious who the potential victims of amazon's expansion are. According to the report: "Almost anything that can be put in a small box is likely to be vulnerable to Amazon". I wonder if the local retail establishment will get into the ACCC’s ear and try to push for a predatory pricing argument, saying Amazon’s purpose is not to compete but to eliminate or damage a competitor. The ACCC has some specific guidelines regarding predatory pricing. The argument is that predatory pricing will force competitors out of business, leaving the “winner” to scoop up the market and then raise prices as there’s no competition to keep them honest. I’m not a lawyer but given Amazon is a new entrant to the Australian market, it would be tough to make a case that a multi-billion dollar empire like Myer or Harvey Norman would be a victim of predatory pricing. The reality is online retail has been a thing for close to 20 years. I suspect major retailers are looking at the bookshop business and see a model for what could happen to them. My local shopping centre - which was recently expanded and is now pretty huge has just three bookstores - a Dymocks, a QBD with cut-price books and a niche store with some less commercial titles and a decent selection of graphic novels. A decade ago, when the centre was much smaller, there were at least six I can remember. Having many years to prepare for this inevitable storm hasn’t been enough for them to prepare their operation for a lower-margin world. Amazon is coming. Local retailers can do their best King Canute but they aren’t going to stop the flow of customers rushing like a rising tide to Amazon and other overseas retailers that see the opportunities here. Anyone who travels to the US will know we pay a premium for many goods here. Those days are coming to an end.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:40 |
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I didn't know JB was under the gun, I buy lots of dvds from them. E: Online, that is. Haven't been in a store in months.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:49 |
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quote:I’m unemployed and ashamed. The idea that people don’t want to work is a ridiculous myth My unemployed stigma story: Kid living next door to me in a shed in someone's back yard, is 18, no skills because dad's a drunk and he's had an unstable home life, at risk of being even more homeless because dad's a drunk and keeps loving it up for everyone, lives in a town (Newcastle) with a youth unemployment often at 20% and sometimes is as high as 32% (can't find up to date figures but I'm banking it's around 20% or 15% at least)... ... Called 'too lazy to work'.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 04:59 |
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Anidav posted:Anyone who travels to the US will know we pay a premium for many goods here. Those days are coming to an end. I moved to the US a year ago to work (for Amazon - just for full disclosure). Having access to fast (2 day in most cases) free delivery means that pretty much everything that's not groceries and clothes comes from them. And even clothes, I'll often go try something on in a shop, and then come home and order it online for 20% less. I'd be very concerned being a retailer in Australia right now - the price is one thing, but the attraction of its convenience is probably underestimated.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:00 |
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Don Dongington posted:Here I made this to help some of you understand the PHON > ALP > LNP preference flow: CFMEU are racists?
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:07 |
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Starshark posted:I didn't know JB was under the gun, I buy lots of dvds from them. JB are purposefully moving away from small item sales which used to be their bread and butter in preparation for the Amazon attack. They bought Good Guys and JB Home is starting to take the lead as far as money coming in goes. You Am I posted:CFMEU are racists? Yeah what the gently caress... may as well write bikies or some other Herald Sun poo poo in there.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:11 |
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You Am I posted:CFMEU are racists? Yeah this is bullshit, CFMEU regularly provides big burly support to anti racist rallies. People who think the CFMEU are one of the bad unions are fuckwits
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:16 |
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B b b but they broke the laws I just assume it's some idiotic blue-green thing about a time they said gently caress foreign investment or something because you can be racist against the NIKKEI and Shanghai Composite these days. JBP fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Mar 22, 2017 |
# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:17 |
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Well there was that ChAFTA campaign they did a few years back..
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:19 |
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Oh it was rofl
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:22 |
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jfc
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:24 |
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CFMEU is pretty racist in Brisbane. When the Asian FTAs with China and South Korea went through there were marches onto City Hall for about a week and you would often see dudes dress as samurai holding "HAHA FOOLISH AUSTRALIAN!" signs and other recycled WWII Zap a Jap/Yellow Peril tropes. Made walking to QUT kind of concerning because you'd have to drift through CFMEU dudes dressed as asian stereotypes with loving dumb signs about how the Asians are coming.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:26 |
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You'd have to live in QLD to see the madness logic that'd allow for Unionists to vote for ONP.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:30 |
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Keep your pants on Auspol. The CFMEU as an institution are cool and good. Are all of their members are ideologically pure? Sweet Jesus No... but I respect the institution and what it has and continues to do for us. But for the purpose of a venn diagram that aims to explain how someone's going to preference the ALP above LNP but after PHON... Okay maybe for the sake of accuracy, that segment should have said "Racist Tradies". edit: "From QLD" is redundant.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:32 |
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Anidav posted:CFMEU is pretty racist in Brisbane. When the Asian FTAs with China and South Korea went through there were marches onto City Hall for about a week and you would often see dudes dress as samurai holding "HAHA FOOLISH AUSTRALIAN!" signs and other recycled WWII Zap a Jap/Yellow Peril tropes. Yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and say the determining factor in racism here is not in fact union membership but rather the fact that they're in Queensland you dumb jock
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:40 |
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Supercheap auto are fine. Their bread and butter is either physically large items (e.g batteries, 5 liters of oil), or stuff that you need today when you have the free time to replace that part. Having someone assure you that the sw4636784-nb is definitively only for the commodore made before July 2012 doesn't hurt either
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:47 |
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Qld itself is fine. The smart state.
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# ? Mar 22, 2017 05:51 |
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hiddenmovement posted:Supercheap auto are fine. Their bread and butter is either physically large items (e.g batteries, 5 liters of oil), or stuff that you need today when you have the free time to replace that part. Yeah I was scratching my head at this one too. I buy a tonne of stuff online, but the poo poo I buy from SCA is typically heavy or bulky, and given Australia's god awful postage, it's way more convenient to just jet up the road to the local than wait a up to a week for something to make it 12km from the local warehouse, or 2+ weeks from the Eastern States, even for small stuff. Cheap car poo poo has been available from Ebay forever, and SCA don't seem to be failing en masse, so this smells a bit of scare campaign to me Even Harvey Norman - JB/Ebay/AliExpress/DX etc have been undercutting them for small box stuff like small electronics for years, and I don't think Amazon coming in is going to devastate them overnight. Add to that the fact that pretty much every US based online retailer (take Steam for example) marks up Aus sales just because, and it might not be the end for local retail yet.
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hiddenmovement posted:Having someone assure you that the sw4636784-nb is definitively only for the commodore made before July 2012 doesn't hurt either
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The ABC posted:An independent report into all of Liberal MP Sussan Ley's work travel expenses has found she breached the rules once over a three-and-a-half year period. The use of the car for 5 minutes isn't the problem with all of this. The fact that going to donor parties isn't against the rules and nor is the purchasing of a house from donors like you did is the problem. Shame that poo poo is perfectly fine though.
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