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gently caress yeah. It's been ages since old white dudes last tried to filter the internet. Edit: dis my dogger Don Dongington fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Don Dongington posted:gently caress yeah. It's been ages since old white dudes last tried to filter the internet. If filtering real life fails then filter Tron land in a desperate effort.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 10:13 |
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Don Dongington posted:gently caress yeah. It's been ages since old white dudes last tried to filter the internet. Good doggo, that rule is out of play now though so I am going to assume you did it just to treat the thread. ---------- The ABC posted:A 12-year-old boy attempting to drive a car from New South Wales across Australia to Perth has been arrested by police at Broken Hill. When I grow up I want to be this kid.
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DancingShade posted:Sure but nothing I'm going to say because of the geographic and metadata identifying nature of my potential comments. You didn't have to mention some in the vicinity of your place of residency. May I suggest you put forward an example that is not in close proximity to you. Like this... http://www.news.com.au/finance/work...d3f63d8724be924
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 10:35 |
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Newspoll tonight?
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 10:43 |
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DancingShade posted:I have a special loathing for the bottom tier of the legislative system. Without fail anywhere in the country they've been the most useless pathetic infighting worthless self interested parasites. It's true but only half the time. People like QM for example get into council because their ambition is to connect with and serve the community in some capacity even if it isn't the wonderful levels of state and federal government, and we shouldn't dump on councils given how they actually do the things often promised and never delivered by higher tiers. Yes, there are useless infighting people, some councils are not so lucky. Maybe do something about your local guys?
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ewe2 posted:It's true but only half the time. People like QM for example get into council because their ambition is to connect with and serve the community in some capacity even if it isn't the wonderful levels of state and federal government, and we shouldn't dump on councils given how they actually do the things often promised and never delivered by higher tiers. Yes, there are useless infighting people, some councils are not so lucky. Maybe do something about your local guys? Alternatively be good like the ACT and just merge State and Local Governments (or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers).
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Ora Tzo posted:You didn't have to mention some in the vicinity of your place of residency. The obvious example would be to just say "Sydney lol" and that would be pretty safe since I haven't lived there in ages. That is the exact example I would have gone to as well. ^A good salary doesn't stop kickbacks for people who are simply greedy. Case in point: federal government.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 11:29 |
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The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. In Victorian cases where councils call in planning applications for a decision rather than leaving the decision delegated to the planning officers, the vast majority are to refuse a permit due to community opposition. Councils approving a development when officers recommended it be refused are vanishingly rare.
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Solemn Sloth posted:The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. In Victorian cases where councils call in planning applications for a decision rather than leaving the decision delegated to the planning officers, the vast majority are to refuse a permit due to community opposition. Councils approving a development when officers recommended it be refused are vanishingly rare. A majority, including the mayor, of my local councillors are developers or agents. They're nominally independent but they're the only fuckers who have money to spend on political campaigns.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 11:54 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f06H_0eGy2c Clarke & Dawe for one last time
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Solemn Sloth posted:The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. This guy is my mayor
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 12:03 |
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SOMEONE SAW A TITTY ONLINE
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Solemn Sloth posted:The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. In Victorian cases where councils call in planning applications for a decision rather than leaving the decision delegated to the planning officers, the vast majority are to refuse a permit due to community opposition. Councils approving a development when officers recommended it be refused are vanishingly rare. It might not be true for all councils but it was sure as poo poo true for Newcastle for a while.
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Kafka Syrup posted:Alternatively be good like the ACT and just merge State and Local Governments (or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers). You're naive if you think the big boys don't bypass councils altogether if they can, merging would make no difference. It's just the lowest hanging fruit on the vine.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It might not be true for all councils but it was sure as poo poo true for Newcastle for a while. Yeah, and he even went down for corruption. gently caress knows what he got away with while he was Mayor.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 12:22 |
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abolish the state at all levels, all power to the soviets
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 12:25 |
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NTRabbit posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f06H_0eGy2c Watch the half-hour special Thanks For Your Time that's on the Youtube channel too. God drat, we lost the best comedian Australia ever had.
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Ettin posted:SOMEONE SAW A TITTY ONLINE I did my own check. It's all furries and overwatch porn, so it is a genuine problem.
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Cleretic posted:Watch the half-hour special Thanks For Your Time that's on the Youtube channel too. God drat, we lost the best comedian Australia ever had. Shaun Micallef's dead?
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 13:50 |
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Starshark posted:Shaun Micallef's dead? The Doug Antony Allstars before they sold out died?
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 13:52 |
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North Korean threats will leave alliance countries little choicequote:Australia doesn't usually need much encouragement to partner with the US in whatever righteous military conflict it deems just. We've done so in every major conflict since WWI. Yikes. quote:Some in Australia will counter that the North Korean bully-boy is merely bluffing. Others will question the DPRK's technical know-how, and therefore its ability to carry out its threat of a nuclear strike. I particularly like the "some may argue the threats are not credible or realistic, but you know what? gently caress you guys, bring on WW3".
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 13:55 |
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What if we got nuked by north Korea and nobody cared
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 14:07 |
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:What if we got nuked by north Korea and nobody cared South Korea might and Samsung makes a lot of poo poo we like to buy, or things that go into poo poo we like to buy. This is important for our Western Consumers. All praise the all seeing eye. *Deus Ex theme music plays*
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since when is north korea 'genocidal', or do words stop having meaning when used to stir up jingoism
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 22:14 |
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The genocidal tax system. The genocidal 18C. The genocidal Safe Schools program.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 22:19 |
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/04/24/budget-crackdown-reportedly-expected-work-dole "The problem at the moment is that people are escaping any financial penalty because of the loopholes Labor created. We are working on fixing this," Human Services Minister Alan Tudge told News, although he would not comment directly on budget measures." Labor's fault. (after several years of LNP rule)
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 22:30 |
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Kafka Syrup posted:(or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers). Yep
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 23:22 |
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Young people: We can't afford a house, please help us. Banks: We made a keyboard app LOL
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 23:24 |
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follow george takei much
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BBJoey posted:since when is north korea 'genocidal', or do words stop having meaning when used to stir up jingoism In fairness, you could absolutely consider their whole prison camp "take three generations of your family" system genocidal. There are scholarly definitions of genocide that don't limit it specifically to ethnic groups and refer instead to classes or groups of people, in which case yeah, it absolutely is genocidal. I mean yeah the idea that North Korea is in any way a serious threat to Australia is laughable, but it isn't a huge stretch to accuse it of being genocidal.
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# ? Apr 23, 2017 23:42 |
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Ettin posted:SOMEONE SAW A TITTY ONLINE link???
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BBJoey posted:follow george takei much I'm pretty sure every one does.
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Whitlam posted:In fairness, you could absolutely consider their whole prison camp "take three generations of your family" system genocidal. There are scholarly definitions of genocide that don't limit it specifically to ethnic groups and refer instead to classes or groups of people, in which case yeah, it absolutely is genocidal. my personal feeling is that 'family members of perceived traitors' is not well-defined enough as a group to really meaningfully use the term genocide; i can't really explain why i feel that way though.
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BBJoey posted:my personal feeling is that 'family members of perceived traitors' is not well-defined enough as a group to really meaningfully use the term genocide; i can't really explain why i feel that way though. hint: because you're a tankie
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Kafka Syrup posted:Alternatively be good like the ACT and just merge State and Local Governments (or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers). I mean, that doesn't actually stop them getting kickbacks, but at least it allows people like Jo Sri to actually Get Stuff Done
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https://twitter.com/Rob_Stott/status/856275100915478528
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# ? Apr 24, 2017 00:45 |
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more disgraced by them using a picture of an F-16, which the RAAF doesn't operate.
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Newspoll: 52(-1)-48(+1) to Labor Well confusing those Visa applicants and beating the drums of nationalism sure got those polls moving Malcolm! lol.
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