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TheMightyHandful
Dec 8, 2008

abc posted:

Car yards a 'waste of space'

Hobart City Council Alderman Philip Cocker said one way of creating space in the city would be to kick out all the car yards, which he described as a "waste of space".

Mr Cocker said moving more people into the city would have many benefits.

"It would bring life to the city and it would also reduce traffic, because instead of going out to greenfield sites in Kingston and Sorell we can people bring to live in the city," he said.

RMIT planning expert Michael Buxton said he believed the new statewide planning scheme provided two pathways to the construction of multi-unit dwellings, which could lead to overdevelopment.

"What seems to be a measure that controls multi-unit dwellings really allows developers open up massive development opportunities," he said.

Melbourne high rise buildings disappear into fog
Melbourne University planning expert Dr Kate Shaw said examples of how not to increase densification could be found in Melbourne's Dockland and Southbank.

"Two classic examples, in fact, even the CBD is now full of ad hoc high rise developments that have really been determined by the financiers and developers, not any planning guidelines from the city or the state," she said.

Instead, she said, Hobart should look to European cities for inspiration.

"Cities like Berlin, Paris and Barcelona all have a medium density quality that accommodates a lot of people but maintains a certain historic and very liveable quality," she said.

A State Government spokesman said the Government was confident the statewide planning scheme would not lead to overdevelopment.

The Hobart City Council said it was important to protection measures for heritage sensitive areas and maintaining a reasonable level of residential amenity.

Better than Hobart Mayor Sue Hickey's comments about the bestiality crap with the bull.

TheMightyHandful fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 24, 2017

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starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
Simpson joined the merchant navy in England, then after one trip he (and 14 others on the crew, must have been a rough trip) jumped ship - making him a defector. He travelled around Australia for a few years, doing all sorts of jobs and sending pay back to his mum the whole time. When Australia got involved in WW1 he volunteered pretty quickly, thinking he was going to get a free boat trip back to England. Unfortunately for him he ended up in Egypt to train for Gallipoli. When he got to Gallipoli he "found" some donkey and started using it to bring in wounded. People say he must have used it to get the easier, closer fellas because a heavily wounded bloke way up the front couldn't get on to a donkey. He went through about half a dozen donkeys in 3 weeks then was shot and killed. There were other people doing basically the same thing as him at the time, and the real heroes doing stretcher carrying like they were supposed to.

There was an investigation a while ago into whether Simpson and others should get VC medals but all the evidence showed he was basically just doing about the average of what a stretcher bearer should be doing. Figures like 300 men saved, he would have to have done 12 a day, are impossible due to how long it took to bring the wounded back from the lines to the medical areas.



One of the paintings by Horace Moore depicting a man and a donkey, formerly thought to be a portrait of Simpson, now known to portray Henderson.


http://www.smh.com.au/national/taken-for-a-ride-20130306-2fli4.html

http://www.smh.com.au/national/behind-the-anzac-myth-of-john-simpson-kirkpatrick-and-his-donkey-at-gallipoli-20150505-ggu8rz.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_Kirkpatrick

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
sigh, Why do we never get the cool Communists anymore like they have in Europe.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
The guy from Hacksaw ridge was legit amazing though.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Having known a few women who were actually in the armed forces, I'm guessing that if you asked them how offended they were by those posters, they'd say, "It depends on how nice their dicks are."

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Secondary Reminder: Simpson survived 24 days of the 8 months Australians were at Gallipoli.

~10% of the campaign there.

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Having known a few women who were actually in the armed forces, I'm guessing that if you asked them how offended they were by those posters, they'd say, "It depends on how nice their dicks are."

That really isn't the target audience for this sort of thing.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Whitlam posted:

I live in Williamstown; can confirm. For a while there was a sign out the front of the old Port Phillip Woollen Mills site (now being turned into apartments) proudly boasting that the prices were starting from $1.1 mil. They're building around 500 of them.

Out of curiosity JBP, are you around Williamstown? I figured I was the only goon in the suburb.

I live in Footscray because I'm hard as nails.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Remember the guy who I posted about yesterday who joined one nation and kidnapped those aboriginal kids, well he joined twitter and it is going about as well as you would imagine (Click on the tweet):

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856366256781279232

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
He abducted them and stole their shoes, then one of his justice companions threatened to rape one of them if I remember correctly cut their fingers off.

Let's open a dialogue.

e: I have corrected an error in my memory (maybe).

JBP fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Apr 24, 2017

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
It's like that joke about Chris Kenny but instead the punchline is "but you kidnap one aboriginal child and dump them in the bush".

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856400629639520256

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856401625920884736

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856402120169340928

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856402371810689024

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856402676954693632

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
:lol:

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Contact Name:
Mark Ellis
Servicing:
Brisbane, Queensland
Phone:
Phone:07 3806 4666
Mobile:
Mobile:0414 514 045

https://twitter.com/ellipsii/status/856403190933094400

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Remember the guy who I posted about yesterday who joined one nation and kidnapped those aboriginal kids, well he joined twitter and it is going about as well as you would imagine (Click on the tweet):

https://twitter.com/OneNationMark/status/856366256781279232

:magical:

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.
By the time you're saying it technically wasn't kidnapping you're really not going to come off looking as good as you think you do in your head.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Bogan King posted:

By the time you're saying it technically wasn't kidnapping you're really not going to come off looking as good as you think you do in your head.

I've learned a lot since then. But you have to understand in Queensland in the 90's it was just the done thing to kidnap aboriginal kids and dump them in the bush with no clothes or shoes.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/856404141295325184

awwww

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Lol he's even got @cooksuck involved laying down some stingers.

https://twitter.com/CookSuck/status/856376573041061888

E: for fucks sake. Good on the account operator for keeping it real or for Mark thinking fast enough to go "ahhhhh no that's not MY account good lord"

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Just came to post that. Was fun while it lasted.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
The tweets will be soon be forgotten but those jeans will be fresh in our memories forever.

TheMightyHandful
Dec 8, 2008

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

The tweets will be soon be forgotten but those jeans will be fresh in our memories forever.

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
Farkin Woolworths.

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
I hope this helps mend some broken hearts

https://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/856063126877474816

Cirofren
Jun 13, 2005


Pillbug

Checks out

https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/852198668795076613

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
I don't think that's the biggest takeaway from that graph. Please tell me that's a joke graph. Please don't tell me one in five to one in four people think dog loving should be legal.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

G-Spot Run posted:

I don't think that's the biggest takeaway from that graph. Please tell me that's a joke graph. Please don't tell me one in five to one in four people think dog loving should be legal.
If they weren't up for it they shouldn't have worn those skimpy collars.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
'animal' is a broad term. the UKIP voters are actually 74% in favor of making interracial sex illegal, which is surprisingly progressive.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

dishonest media

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012


c'mon this is a really lazy loss edit, it doesn't match up at all

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Kurtofan posted:

dishonest media

:sad:

Aesculus
Mar 22, 2013

Greens status: Literally paralysed and unable to make any significant progress on unfucking themselves for 2019 out of... fear of potential media backlash :negative:

Is this the beginning of New Labor New Greens

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

Aesculus posted:

Greens status: Literally paralysed and unable to make any significant progress on unfucking themselves for 2019 out of... fear of potential media backlash :negative:

Is this the beginning of New Labor New Greens

i neither know of nor care of what you're talking about

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Aesculus posted:

Is this the beginning of New Labor New Greens

no

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




Greens should accept how much they have in common, join the Liberals, and change their social policies from within

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Jeremy Corbyn joined the Greens?

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Tokamak posted:

Jeremy Corbyn joined the Greens?

Corbyn would probably be an improvement. Even he polls over 10%.

Aesculus
Mar 22, 2013

Birdstrike posted:

i neither know of nor care of what you're talking about

Jeremy Buckingham is that you

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Aesculus posted:

Jeremy Buckingham is that you

:rimshot:

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birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

Aesculus posted:

Jeremy Buckingham is that you

whoooooaaaa!!!!

I actually don't know what this refer to so... yes?

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