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Let the horses organise their own sports
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 05:42 |
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I will fight you over crab races people.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 22:53 |
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Recoome posted:horse racing should be banned, imho Commercial gambling should be banned.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 22:57 |
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Commercial gambling should be banned. Yeah
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:02 |
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I don't know why horse racing is so culturally important to people. I went to country races on the weekend and that night a local band played the Australian national anthem complete with wailing electric guitar while the crowd stood hand on heart.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:14 |
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Recoome posted:horse racing should be banned, imho LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Commercial gambling should be banned. I'm down for both of these results. And TBH not surprised at the horse racing investigation at all. It's always the same - that and the greyhounds always claim to have cleaned up but nope there is always more and it is always worse.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:25 |
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Because without the horse* we never** would've talked this untouched*** land *camels were arguable more important, given how much of Australia is desert **probably shouldn't've ***40,000+ years of indigenous habitation, never ceeded
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:26 |
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are there any socialist groups in this country not rife w sex pests
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:35 |
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swimsuit posted:are there any groups in this country not rife w sex pests
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:37 |
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yeah look fair cop
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:41 |
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swimsuit posted:are there any socialist groups in this country not rife w sex pests Uh... The Australian Workers Party?
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:42 |
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Uluru park ranger reveals ‘craziness’ as climbing ban looms https://www.news.com.au/travel/trav...5e46bd2f2f3b5cb quote:In a week, the dangerous climb up Uluru will be closed to tourists forever, with thousands of them rushing to the red centre to climb the sacred rock. The pictures are nuts. And as always read the comments for instant braindeath
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:43 |
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It's a long bow but it's also time to talk about leadership ambitions. Leadership murmurs begin as election review finds blue-collar workers abandoned Labor The Labor Party’s scathing post-mortem into the 2019 election defeat will be finalised on Sunday amid complaints it’s “a hatchet job” on Bill Shorten and growing concerns about Anthony Albanese’s leadership. The final report will be thrashed out over the weekend in talks to prepare the findings before the next meeting of the ALP national executive. But there are growing fears it could reignite tensions in the party, despite Mr Shorten’s attempts to pre-empt the report by issuing a public mea culpa where he admitted he had too many policies and that the so-called ‘retiree tax’ to reform franking credits had angered seniors. The New Daily understands the ALP review will find blue-collar workers turned on Labor in a dysfunctional campaign devoid of a clear strategy and a $60 million Clive Palmer advertising binge. It will consider calling for caps on election expenditure in the future. Despite former prime minister Paul Keating’s claim that Mr Shorten failed to connect with the middle class, it’s the Labor Party’s working-class base that voted against proposals to slash tax concessions for negative gearing and franking credits. Conversely, voters in inner metropolitan areas and white-collar jobs were more likely to back Mr Shorten’s calls for a crackdown on tax concessions for the rich, and action on climate change. Early drafts of the ALP review, led by former SA Premier Jay Weatherill and former trade minister Craig Emerson, were highly critical of Mr Shorten. Dr Emerson, who was a minister in the Gillard government, has been directly lobbied to soften some of those criticisms in the interest of party unity. Union leader Linda White, former Queensland ALP secretary Senator Anthony Chisholm, former NSW assistant secretary John Graham and Lenda Oshalem have also worked on the components of the final report. Dr Emerson and Mr Weatherill have interviewed Mr Shorten, Mr Keating, MPs, unionists and campaign staff to prepare the final report. The Liberal Party’s own review, led by Australia’s next ambassador to the US Senator Arthur Sinodinos has also found Mr Shorten was a drag on the vote. “What it finds is he was clearly an asset for us, rather than an asset for Labor,” Senator Sinodinos told The New Daily. “His performance reinforced reservations people had about him. For example, appearing not to want to explain the cost of his climate change. In the case of blue-collar workers, economic management was a big issue. “We noticed a spike in support when the budget came out. We were getting the budget back into surplus.” Underlining questions over Mr Albanese’s leadership there is emerging chatter among MPs about a future leadership team of Queensland’s Jim Chalmers and former deputy leader Tanya Plibersek. Mr Albanese has angered unions and some of his own MPs with a “mistake that will not be forgotten” by backing the Coalition on several new free trade deals. The battle over the new deals with Indonesia, Peru and Hong Kong has sparked warnings of an influx of foreign workers that unions say will put pressure on wages. Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O’Neil has slammed the decision as anti-jobs. “They’ve made a mistake that will not be forgotten by Australian workers,’” she said. “The decision by the ALP to side with the government is an abandonment both of their own platform, and of their responsibility to stand up for fair trade deals which deliver jobs for local workers, that protect Australia’s public services, sovereignty and visa workers from exploitation and that ensure international laboir standards in the countries we trade with.” ETU Victoria released a savage new advertisement on social media after the decision, depicting Mr Albanese as a puppet. “13 million working Australians are screaming out for politicians to stand up for them and their families. Sadly, however, Albo has shown it’s just too hard for him,” ETU Victoria secretary Troy Gray said.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:44 |
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Prosecutions 'should' and 'will' occur following ABC report: Racing Australia CEO  Racing Australia chief executive Barry O'Farrell also questioned the actions of activists involved in the investigation, asking why they didn't blow "the whistle earlier". The Barrel is Back
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:56 |
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JBP posted:I don't know why horse racing is so culturally important to people. I went to country races on the weekend and that night a local band played the Australian national anthem complete with wailing electric guitar while the crowd stood hand on heart. it's like the one day a year bogans zip themselves up in Peter Jackson suits and get pissed
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 23:57 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:best not to wear a bow tie to court. Gridlocked posted:I will fight you over crab races people. Also no mods, no masters.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:23 |
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Horses are fuckwits and I give way more of a poo poo about greyhound racing bc of it but both are pretty fuckin stupid and deserve to be outlawed
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:29 |
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The greatest depiction of horseracing "culture" is in Kenny where all the girls are giving him grief about cleaning toilets for a living and then it cuts to them squatting in the car park in their cocktail dresses.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:31 |
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I know that Australia will never give up on horse racing but all I can hope is that it can be a bit like Australia Day where lots of people don't like it and make a fuss about it around Melbourne cup day and make the ghouls involved in the "sport" pissed off and uncomfortable. I want it to be part of the culture wars.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:42 |
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it's the one time that some people feel like they are part of the landed gentry likely the only reason Tarocash and yd. are still trading
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:44 |
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Referring to mod chat beiefly, VG is probably my favourite mod and threads like the PS4 one run nicely with minimal interference (much like this one because most people are good natured) but having VG be able to just smash someone where necessary is good and I think Anidav should possess that power.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:45 |
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EoinCannon posted:I know that Australia will never give up on horse racing but all I can hope is that it can be a bit like Australia Day where lots of people don't like it and make a fuss about it around Melbourne cup day and make the ghouls involved in the "sport" pissed off and uncomfortable. I want it to be part of the culture wars. There was a middling amount of disruption from anti horse racing people around Racecourse Rd and Flemington generally last year so I can't imagine it won't build and build over time. This story coming at the start of spring racing should get some bums off seats.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:47 |
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When it boils down to it, the whole thing is a farce. Bill Shorten was unpopular because the media ran a constant narrative that he was unpopular, refused to allow him to present himself in a relatable way to the public, and actively worked against the ALP from the day Julia Gillard became PM to the present day. Clive Palmer's extravagant ad buy finished them off. Now, the media are using the result to further feed division and the ALP have just eaten it right up. Bill may not have been the best man for the job, but on an even slightly more level playing field, he would be prime minister today. Scomo was a trash candidate and his party had 5 years of being caught criming and loving up behind them. A Bob Hawke or Kevin Rudd shouldn't have been necessary here. Also, on the narrative that the working class abandoned the ALP, I'd like to see the intersection between "Working class people" and people who still actively consume old media - channel 7/9, newspapers, radio. I know a few tradies that do social media and read their news online, but most of them get their information from the telly, the radio on the job site, and the people they work with (which is even worse). There is no way the ALP commitments to the CTR campaign were allowed to filter through to this audience, other than the already mobilised unionists, who were never undecided voters. It's a nice narrative for the coalition that's for sure, but I think the truth is that a wholly captive media won the election for the people they wanted to win.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:47 |
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I doubt horse racing will ever be outlawed but I live in thoroughbred country and this scandal has kind of shaken a lot of people that are the kind of mindless horse idiots that genuinely care about and love the stupid dickheads so I have some hope that at least some decent reform might get passed before I die
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:49 |
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How is anyone surprised that race horses are mistreated and eaten?
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:49 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:How is anyone surprised that race horses are mistreated and eaten? I don't think anyone is really surprised, it's like finding out that a sportsperson was taking performance enhancing drugs. Well duh
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:51 |
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There are absolute sweethearts in society that just want to be told the horsies will be ok and that's enough for them.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:53 |
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There are a growing number of people who boycott our yearly Melbourne cup day drinking excursion at work and that's enheartening.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:55 |
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Don Dongington posted:There are a growing number of people who boycott our yearly Melbourne cup day drinking excursion at work and that's enheartening. That is heartening, being into horse racing should end up like being into MMA*. People look at you funny and assume you're a weirdo *I don't really care that much about MMA or it's fans but I couldn't think of another example
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 00:57 |
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Holy lol MMA is nothing like horse racing or greyhound racing
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:03 |
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MMA is just like vaping. It's relatively harmless in theory but it's rapidly become associated with a certain type of person (fedoras; Joe Rogan fans) and as such it's cancelled.
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Scarecow posted:Holy lol MMA is nothing like horse racing or greyhound racing Agreed, I was using it as an example of a maligned sports fandom
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:08 |
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EoinCannon posted:Agreed, I was using it as an example of a maligned sports fandom Pro Wrestling would probably have been a better example. Insomuch as if you are an adult that says you like professional wrestling, you definitely get a side eye and get asked "you do know it's all fake right?" So hopefully if you are a fan of Horse racing, you would get the same side eye, and the question "you do know what they do to those poor horses, right?" IMO ban the barbaric "sport" entirely. Coz as well as badly mistreating the horses, it badly mistreats the jockeys, glamourizes and normalizes gambling, and the only ones who get rich off it are the already filthy rich horse owners who use the animals and people who work with them as mere dickwaving status symbols to lord over other millionaires. You can keep the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday though. Long weekends are nice.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:18 |
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Build. More. Dams. https://twitter.com/DewarDeanne/status/1184710653845524480?s=19 What drought?
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:21 |
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Rename it RSPCA day and make it National.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:21 |
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Don Dongington posted:MMA is just like vaping. It's relatively harmless in theory but it's rapidly become associated with a certain type of person (fedoras; Joe Rogan fans) and as such it's cancelled. lol if you think watching literal violence under the guise of 'sport' is relatively harmless.
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:42 |
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Laserface posted:lol if you think watching literal violence under the guise of 'sport' is relatively harmless. Is watching violence harmful to the watcher? I want to know where you're coming from with this
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:47 |
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Don Dongington posted:There are a growing number of people who boycott our yearly Melbourne cup day drinking excursion at work and that's enheartening. Yeah it's starting to get noticable there's more than just assholes like me who are getting loud about the Melbourne Cup is barbaric and pathetic. It seemed to have gained momentum after one of the horses rather obviously broke a shoulder in the race (Verema, 2013) and mercy killed on the track itself. And since then... 5 more horse have died due to the Melbourne Cup races? And for what? Gambling? Getting legless drunk and making a spectacle of yourself? gently caress that
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 01:54 |
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EoinCannon posted:Is watching violence harmful to the watcher? I mean we had all those ultra violent quasi-fascist movies in the late 80s and it's not like fascism has taken a foothold now those young people have moved into positions of powe-OH Oh dear
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love to censor the media out of moral panic. i am not a deeply reactionary moron
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