goodog posted:

The LNP will be saved by the next generation of savvy young politicos.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/yo...e023c793422e601

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Isn't this like asking the fox to evaluate why henhouse security failed?

JBP posted:

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Isn't this like asking the fox to evaluate why henhouse security failed?

goodog posted:

The LNP will be saved by the next generation of savvy young politicos.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/yo...e023c793422e601

Laserface posted:

Legal advice requested. TL;DR at the bottom


Details:
A few weeks ago I attended a BBQ at my friends parents house. He was house sitting for them while they were on holiday.

I got there late and everyone was already eating. I sat down, got a beer and grabbed a snag and some grilled halloumi. I felt something get caught in my throat and coughed a bit to try and dislodge it. Thought it was a bit of bread crust or a piece of char or gristle, kept eating. Noticed a jabbing pain so I stopped eating and tried every method under the sun to dislodge it - eating bread, gargling cola, drinking honey, spewing. Nothing worked. Ended up leaving after an hour of trying to have a good time and went to the local ER as I was staying at my parents house for the night.

Usual 2hr wait at the ER for a Saturday night. Finally see a doctor who gets me to say AHHHH and shines torch in my mouth. Orders an x-ray which comes up blank. Tells me it's simply organic material and it'll break down overnight. I go home and sleep.

Next day it's still there. Go about my business but pain is getting worse, every time I swallow it's a 50/50 chance of stabbing pain or nothing. My throat is swelling up like it would from tonsillitis. I go to my ER. Another 2 hour wait and I get seen to by a nurse. He actually takes the time to look into my throats and sees something. Comes back with an ice cold metal tongue depressor and some long tweezers and removes a 1" metal wire from my throat.

The wire is from a BBQ cleaning brush. It was lodged in end-first like a needle. I get a paddle pop and I'm OK to go home. No pain after.

Anyway, the dad comes back from holidays and he hears the story and calls me. Assures me he is sorry and wants to help seek compensation from the manufacturer.

TL;DR: woolies has taken their lovely BBQ brushes off the market and I'm now at the stage they are asking me for a figure to make this go away. I have zero experience on this matter so no idea what Would be considered fair. This isn't in court yet and I don't really want it to be, but I have some expensive unrelated medical stuff I could really use the money for. Thoughts?

Laserface posted:

Legal advice requested. TL;DR at the bottom

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

As your attorney I advise you to post pics. Also talk to a real lawyer.

ewe2 posted:

Get a lawyer, get assessment for damages, nail them to the wall. They're up poo poo creek and they hope you won't do your homework.

G-Spot Run posted:

Better get a lawyer son. You're gonna need a good one



to get you out of this one

Periphery posted:

This. Make duplicates of the video tape and any documentation you have.

Mr Chips posted:

yeah the AEMO's reports tends not to be very critical of the AEMO.

Dunning-Kruger victim Rowan Dean posted:

The world of political depression was rocked to its core this week by news that former prime minister Julia Gillard has been appointed chairperson of mental health organisation Beyondblueties.

"Oi am deloyted to accept moi friend Jiff Kunnut's koind offer to reploice him as the moin person in Orstraya in charge of mental health," said a clearly deloyted, er, delighted Ms Gillard to an enrapt press conference of mental health experts. "Normally Oi don't loik men in blue tois but in Jiff's case Oi am prepared to moik an exception."

Ms Gillard is believed to have been hand-picked for the job due to her lengthy experience diagnosing imaginary mental disorders such as sexism and misogyny during her three-year stint as head nurse at the notorious Lakeside Lunatic Asylum in Canberra. The asylum, which is buried deep underground and can house up to several hundred patients at a time in its notorious "Green" and "Red" twin chambers, is known scathingly as Capital Punishment Hill.

Critics of the institution claim that Nurse Gillard was responsible for inflicting a series of highly dubious and extremely costly research programmes upon not only unsuspecting inmates but the nation as a whole. "The sums involved were mind-blowing," complained a former colleague, Dr Wayne Springsteen of 4 Surplus Row, Nambour. "They did my head in."

Wandering daze

"It was like the lunatics had taken over my asylum," complained a former inmate, Kevin, a drifter of no fixed abode. "Which is exactly what she did. I've been wandering around in a daze ever since and I'm incapable of landing even the most menial of jobs. They won't even let me scrub the dunnies at the UN."

But Nurse Ratshit remains unapologetic:

"Moi good friend Kevin was a dangerous psoichopath suffering from severe narcissism with delusions of being the Proim Minister of Orstraya which was of course moi job. Oi had no choice other than to get Little Sammy, Smurky Burky and Fat Howzie to pin him down so Oi could perform an emergency lobotomy on his spoinal chord with the sharpest knoife Oi could foind."

Nurse Gillard remains convinced that her controversial approach to mind control allowed an entire generation of women and young girls to discover they were inflicted with severe bouts of non-existent male oppression. "These girls are now so oppressed they feel they have no choice other than to go and jump off the Wage Gap," explained one expert.

"Oi clearly established through moi extensive research programme that when a man in a blue toi looks at his watch when Oi am spoiking then he is clearly suffering from acute misogyny," explained Ms Gillard to a jubilant crowd of nutcases at the Sydney Opera House. "And Oi will not be lectured to about sexism and misogyny boi this man, Oi will not. And Oi sincereloi hope that Mr Rabbit has a poice of paper and is wroiting out his own job prescription," she added, to thunderous applause from a group of wailing, hysterical feminists.

Moi Story

However, other experts believe that evidence published in her autobiography Moi Story suggests that Nurse Gillard herself suffered from repeat bouts of paranoia and self-delusion, indulging in extreme flights of fancy where she imagined herself to be a happily married woman living in a quaint cottage in Canberra charmingly called "The Lodge" with her own private hairdresser/boyfriend ensconced in a man shed at the bottom of the garden. "It was all part of the fantasy," claims one psychologist. "She even imagined she would be Headmistress of the Entire World if she gave enough taxpayers' dollars to the Clinton Foundation."

CT scans are believed to indicate that the Left side of Nurse Gillard's brain is abnormally enlarged, likely to have been brought on through years of unhealthy exposure to student undergraduate politics and hardcore union affiliations. "On occasions, those close to Nurse Gillard could be spotted in the middle of the night hiding her medication in a brown paper bag and burying it in the garden," admitted her former boyfriend.

Beyondblueties was established by former Victorian premier Jiff Kunnut after he lost his marbles thanks to an intercepted phone call with fellow Victorian Andrew P. Cock in 1987.

In a clear case of Munchowards-by-Proxy, an audibly deranged Mr Kunnut can be heard accusing another man identified only as Little Johnny of "going off his brain". Mr Kunnut then accuses the man of being an unprintable four-letter word, before admitting that he himself is "going berserk".

Mr Kunnut explained that he was standing down from Beyondblueties for mental health reasons and to spend more time with his id. "This whole thing with Channel Seven and that Amber sheila is driving me bonkers," he admitted.

KennyTheFish posted:

Who is responsible for the settings for disconnecting the wind farms based? was it a from AEMO for bringing the farms into service, or a manufacturer recommendation?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Rowan Dean takes back his crown for Idiot Righty Not-Funny Person.

Laserface posted:

ewe2 posted:

Let that be a lesson unto you, Daisy.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

quote:

KENNETT: He got on the phone and said are you happy with the result, and I said “No I’m not”, and he said “Why?” and I said “Without your front pages and total disunity I’d have had ten percent swing. I would have got myself another four and you’ve hosed it up for me and he went off his brain.
PEACOCK: Oh did he?
KENNETT: And he went off his brain trying to (inaudible)
PEACOCK: He went off his brain?
KENNETT: And I said…
PEACOCK: And HE went off his brain?
KENNETT: He said to me, “I didn’t like the way you kept me out of the campaign”. I said, “Wouldn’t have you in it, and I didn’t have any federal people in it.”
PEACOCK: Well you didn’t have me. Didn’t have anyone.
KENNETT: And I said to him, “Tomorrow, I’m going to bucket the whole lot of you”.
PEACOCK: No! Don’t do that Jeffrey.
KENNETT: Hold your flow. I said, “Tomorrow John” and he said, “I know where your sympathies lie”, and I said, “I couldn’t give a gently caress. I have no sympathies any more. You’re all a pack of shits and tomorrow I’m going berserk”. Well he went off his brain and in the end I said to him, I said, “Howard. You’re a oval office. You haven’t got my support, you never will have and I’m not going to rubbish you or the party tomorrow but I feel a lot better having told you you’re a oval office.”
PEACOCK: Oh poo poo!
KENNETT: And the poor little fellow didn’t know whether he was Arthur or Martha.
PEACOCK: Oh poo poo!
KENNETT: (laughing) I just thought I should let you know.
PEACOCK: Well, tomorrow you are humble. You do feel better. And I am getting out of that car. I’ve told you. I told Margaret, I said “Tomorrow I’m just gonna get out of that fuckin’ car and say this is not Howard’s day, it’s not my day, it’s not Carla’s day, it’s not anyone’s day, not Richie’s day. This is a day for Jeffrey Kennett”. And I was thinking that I’d go in even earlier, and even if only a third of the bastards were there I was gonna go and grab the mic and say this is unprecedented. This in the midst of the most horrific difficulties and I faced ’em when I was the leader in by-elections, we haven’t had ’em for some years. We had a great win yesterday, and the only person who is deserving. Not just earnt it, but deserving of support is Jeffrey Kennett and if you don’t give him everything then you’re letting down the Liberal Party.
KENNETT: Well, all I can say. I thought I should let you know where I ended up with your little mate…
PEACOCK: Well, gently caress him. I’m not worried. I just.. I almost bloody cried. I was terribly worried. I was terribly worried. My fuckin’ anger yesterday as Margaret knows. First thing I came in last night I said “Oh, fuckin’ oval office! I said the whole fuckin’ thing could upset tomorrow” I was really… And she was saying “What’s Jeffrey done?” and I was saying “It’s not what Jeffrey’s done. It’s what everyone’s loving done to Jeffrey”.
KENNETT: Well. I think we came out of it alright and certainly…
PEACOCK: Alright? The news reports. Have you seen them on the television?
KENNETT: No.
PEACOCK: They’re saying “Labor down 7%”. Cain is claiming on a two party preferred vote – and don’t you let that oval office get away with that – it’s only 2%. They’re saying the Joh campaign has stopped in it’s tracks. In one part of the three state electorates it’s something like 2 to 3% down on the last vote and the Liberal Party will walk in.
KENNETT: Well. We won on primaries in every lower house seat. And even in the National Party seats. So it’s a fantastic…
PEACOCK: Well, exactly. That’s what I interpreted from it. Mate I didn’t have the details, I was just going to talk you. And don’t you (inaudible) me. You can all go and get stuffed. This is Jeff Kennett’s day.
KENNETT: Well. It’s been a good result. But anyway. Howard won’t know whether he’s Arthur or Martha.
PEACOCK: I know. But you feel better?
KENNETT: Oh yes.
PEACOCK: Be humble. Everyone’s gonna say “You are the greatest leader” since sliced bread mate.
KENNETT: It’s a good all-rounder.
PEACOCK: Where are you?
KENNETT: I’m on the way home. I’m going home and having a reasonably early night and I will see you tomorrow.
PEACOCK: I’ve got to sit in the chair about four or five rows back from the front. And I’ll allow Howard, after he’s had his tumultuous reception to come down and sit next to me and be photographed together smiling.
KENNETT: Oh, how pathetic.
PEACOCK: I would do that.
KENNETT: How pathetic!
PEACOCK: Yeah but I’m doing it on the basis of when I get out, and when I talk because they’ll be chasing me because of the federal issues, I’m just gonna talk Kennett. I knew it was gonna happen, and it should have been fuckin’ better but it would have been better despite those difficulties.
KENNETT: Well there’s two points. One is the federal difficulties. The other point is the way Cain tried to bloody deceive the electorate on this price control thing.
PEACOCK: That’s right.
KENNETT: And the good thing about it….
PEACOCK: Be humble mate.
KENNETT: Oh, I know.
PEACOCK: They’re behind you. So you don’t have to…
KENNETT: The thing is we didn’t (inaudible) like Cain and the National Party did to try and win political support. We might have lost some votes on that price control thing but we’ve kept very firmly to our philosophies. That’s an important part of this whole win I think.
PEACOCK: Well make those points. But just tell them, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this state who are going to support you. And you’re right. And that’s it. Just be humble.
KENNETT: I will see you tomorrow.
PEACOCK: I look forward to it. And I am just so thrilled.
KENNETT: Alright mate.
PEACOCK: See you then.
KENNETT: Give my regards to your good lady.
PEACOCK: Ok. Ta. Bye.
KENNETT: Bye.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Rowan Dean is Daisy Cousens' editor, which explains how she gets published.

Mr Chips posted:

Probably whoever set them up in the first place. The AEMO report also mentions that they didn't know the ride through settings for any of the generators on the network. It makes sense for the grid regulator to specify ride through settings, and they've already moved to fix that.

(The report is 271 pages long, and I haven't read all of it.)

KennyTheFish posted:

Who is responsible for the settings for disconnecting the wind farms based? was it a from AEMO for bringing the farms into service, or a manufacturer recommendation?

You Am I posted:

The head of the AMA has come out in support for coal fired power stations over the health of people who live near them.

What the gently caress.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...health-benefits

Oh, he's a Liberal stooge, that's why.