I would blow Dane Cook posted:

comic shop that's cool

The Before Times posted:

not possible

I can't believe it's not satire posted:

Coastal towns would benefit from an oil spill in the pristine Great Australian Bight because the clean up would boost their economies, energy giant BP has claimed as part of its controversial bid to drill in the sensitive marine zone.

Anidav posted:

I live right next to the taco bell

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Right next door to bell
Why don't you write a letter to me yeah
I said I'm right next door to bell
An so many eyes are on me
Right next door to bell
I got nowhere else to be
Right next door to bell
Feels like the tacos closing in on me

Gridlocked posted:

God love you Tash. One day I promise I will find you a munchy box in this country. Also in your honour I actually tried Buckfast s few weeks ago cause of all the times you'd talk about it. It was nasty.

CrazyTolradi posted:

I guess at least it's not a Games Workshop, that's the real rock bottom of trash nerddom.

Starshark posted:

GSC control your birb

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Betoota?

NPR Journalizard posted:

There is a games workshop near where I work and I walk past it probably 10-15 times a week for the last few months and I am yet to see a woman inside the shop.

NPR Journalizard posted:

There is a games workshop near where I work and I walk past it probably 10-15 times a week for the last few months and I am yet to see a woman inside the shop.

CrazyTolradi posted:

When I worked at Telstra in Brisbane, there was one in one of the arcades I'd go through each day to go grab lunch. It was situated right across from a hairdressing academy place and I'm fairly certain they put it there so the r/incel types could stare across at the women.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Real life

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Real life

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Real life

tithin posted:

As with so many cool things, they're ruined by association with their shithouse fanbase

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Asked what she thought of Wednesday's spectacular, Senator Hanson said the "20 minutes" devoted to Indigenous culture was "absolutely disgusting".

"Here we have an Aboriginal who was doing a rap song which I couldn't understand," she told Sky News.

"I'm not used to Aboriginals who sing rap, although fair enough."

She also didn't have much time for Mr Barton's performance either, arguing the majority of Australians don't watch didgeridoo music.

"Our country is not based on the Aboriginals. Our country is what it is because of the migrants that have become here," Senator Hanson said.

"It was over the top. There was a lot of aspects of our country that should have been in the opening ceremony of the games. Not watching didgeridoos."

Senator Hanson also attacked the levels of taxpayer money being spent on Indigenous welfare.

"I'm sick and tired of hearing this pushing about reconciliation and the gap, and yet outside the Games we had people that were protesting," she said.

"How many billions of dollars have we poured into the Aboriginal industry?"

She accused people of falsely "claiming aboriginality" to claim welfare before taking a shot at Indigenous land rights.

Senator Hanson hit back at claims her comments were racist, arguing her One Nation party wanted equality for all Australians.

"I'm sick and tired of people having a go at me because it's racism," she said.

"Don't call me a racist when people don't know what the hell I'm talking about."

quote:

Monash Forum trick leaves conservatives divided

To some, this was merely a new name for an old social group whose membership included Tony Abbott, Eric Abetz and Kevin Andrews – the AAA club who bear a grudge against Turnbull. The group has been around in one form or another for almost three years, ever since they started having lunch in the “monkey pod” room in the ministerial wing of Parliament House.

Turning the monkey pod into the Monash Forum obviously looked like brilliant branding to Andrews, the former defence minister who came up with the new name. It is telling that none of the AAA club could see anything phoney about taking the name of a national hero, admired on all sides, for a small and highly partisan group on one side of politics.

All they created was a Potemkin village of coal power agitators – all facade, no substance. It is hard to be sure which of them looks like the biggest Potemkin village idiot.

Members of the Monash Forum include Craig Kelly, Eric Abetz, Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce and Kevin Andrews.
Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

It is telling that so few of the Monash members within the Liberal Party have been willing to declare their status. Abbott, Abetz and Andrews are joined by two definite signatories: Goodenough from Western Australia and Craig Kelly from Sydney's south. The Nationals members include Barnaby Joyce and George Christensen.

Other names have been aired but the MPs have not confirmed their membership, so they will not be named here. (Several declined to return phone calls.) Speculating about names is just one of the ways this puff of smoke is made out to be a steam train of dissent.

The tally amounts to just five confirmed Liberal MPs out of a party room of 85 Liberals. If there are more, it is time they outed themselves. Most of them may never do so now that the flimsiness of the whole exercise is so obvious.

It is also revealing that conservative Liberals shunned the group when they were approached. Those who did not sign in the Senate included Slade Brockman, Jonathon Duniam, James Paterson and Amanda Stoker. Conservatives in the lower house, such as Andrew Hastie, also declined to sign.

The naming of the group was an exercise in the most dismal cynicism. Monash is about to be celebrated with the opening of a museum built in his honour outside Villers-Bretonneux, where he led Australian and other troops to victories that helped end World War I.

Turnbull will open the centre on Anzac Day, but Abbott made the key decisions to get it funded and built. The contest to “own” Monash is just another aspect of a squabble that poisons the Liberal Party. No wonder the RSL and the Monash family want Andrews to drop the name.

The Monash Forum letter.
Photo: Supplied

None of this would have mattered so much without Peta Credlin stepping in to run the insurrection. Word of the forum reached some journalists over the Easter weekend but it was Credlin’s program on Sky News on Monday night that really intensified the sense of leadership drama for Turnbull.

Credlin was agent and observer all at once. It is a dual role that nobody dares to call out when they go on her show. In one moment she was urging the conservatives forward, in another she was pretending to be a journalist asking questions.

Who does this fool any more? Credlin and Andrew Bolt were encouraged last November to “spread the word” about an anonymous MP who would quit the Coalition over Turnbull’s leadership

The pantomime only lasted until Nationals MP George Christensen confirmed he was the MP – and then declared he would not quit after all.

Julius Caesar had a way to describe this charade: men willingly believe what they wish. There is no end to the breathless encouragement of a backbench rebellion that Credlin and others so badly want to be true.

The reality is that this latest escapade has divided the conservatives rather than brought them together. Younger Liberals are angry at the way their names have been tossed around. Some have complained directly to Abbott, Abetz or Andrews.

“Some are feeling very aggrieved that their names have been taken in vain and they’ve been verballed,” says one Liberal, diplomatically. “It doesn’t engender goodwill.”

Older conservatives are still consumed by hatred over the leadership spill of 2015, but younger ones do not carry that baggage.

Yes, Turnbull is in trouble. Yes, he lacks a compelling answer to why he should escape the “30 Newspolls in a row” benchmark that he applied to Abbott. Yes, there are moderate and conservative MPs who sound resigned to defeat. But that is very different to dreaming that Abbott can lead a rebellion.

The younger conservatives are learning to avoid the old club. They know that linking a debate to Abbott is a sure way to set up a leadership test they do not want. It makes a genuine policy discussion impossible. Some feel tricked by the tactics of the past week.

Anyone who tries the same trick again will need something better than a picture of Monash.

ewe2 posted:

Lady, you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you dumb gently caress.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Asked what she thought of Wednesday's spectacular, Senator Hanson said the "20 minutes" devoted to Indigenous culture was "absolutely disgusting".

bandaid.friend posted:

Hahaha. Surely this is a copy-paste from a joke news website. It cannot possibly be real

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/benraue/status/982091704122589184

https://twitter.com/samanthamaiden/status/982120907530317824

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"Our country is not based on the Aboriginals. Our country is what it is because of the migrants that have become here," Senator Hanson said.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Right next door to bell
Why don't you write a letter to me yeah
I said I'm right next door to bell
An so many eyes are on me
Right next door to bell
I got nowhere else to be
Right next door to bell
Feels like the tacos closing in on me

fiery_valkyrie posted:

So immigrants are good again???

Also, get hosed Pauline Hanson, you small minded ignorant racist.

AgentF posted:

Also if she's upset at people calling her racist then the answer isn't to have a big whinge about it, but instead to stop being such a horrible racist. She wants people to believe she is some sort of an aggrieved victim because people call her out on her bullshit whenever she says something atrocious.

Also, get hosed Pauline Hanson, you small minded ignorant racist.

Mad Katter posted:

Prime Minister P. Dutty when?

Starshark posted:

I don't mind Amethyst's posts because they're conveniently cancered and I don't have to read them. It's when ratbag criag or careless whisper post that I get the shits.

quote:

An Australian Federal Police (AFP) internal document obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals that the agency believes that investigating the "liking" of a porn tweet by the Twitter account of health minister Greg Hunt is an "essential" priority.

...

From two to five AFP officers have been assigned to the case, and it has been classified as an "essential" priority. This is above a "routine" priority and according to the AFP "must be acted upon due to key policy, organisation accountability, strategic, legal or other issues".
The guide suggests the matters should be acted upon within one week. The CCPM suggests this investigation would take from one to three months. The investigation has been running for three months.
The case has also been ranked as of "high value" to the AFP. The guide states this means it could require considerable investigative skill, or relate to a strategic target involved with other activity of interest to the AFP.