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Yeah Nah 122 53.51%
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Total: 228 votes
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Senor Tron
May 26, 2006


CelestialScribe posted:

Who smokes in the year of our lord 2020

I know it's bad for him and others but my son really likes it so you know.

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Feb 3, 2006

hambeet posted:

Yeah I’m iPhone too. :shrug:

Speaking of iPhones:

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018


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Senor Tron posted:

I know it's bad for him and others but my son really likes it so you know.

Look whatever stops them waking up crying in the middle of the night is worth it imo.

To clarify we are talking about an adult right?

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Remember when Philip Morris moved their headquarters to Hong Kong so they could sue Australia for the gross Packaging?

Christ I'm glad the TPP got binned, we'd have had weird American Corporation v Australia lawsuits like every day forever because they could just do that poo poo without moving

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

hambeet posted:

Yeah less and less do I see people smoking. I wonder if numbers have dropped dramatically or am I always in places where people can’t smoke

When I quit, a pack of Winfield Blue 25s was about $15. Now they're almost $60.

I don't even know how anyone who isn't rich can afford to smoke Answer: They can't

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

Megillah Gorilla posted:

When I quit, a pack of Winfield Blue 25s was about $15. Now they're almost $60.

I don't even know how anyone who isn't rich can afford to smoke Answer: They can't

Rum rebellion 2

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Megillah Gorilla posted:

When I quit, a pack of Winfield Blue 25s was about $15. Now they're almost $60.

I don't even know how anyone who isn't rich can afford to smoke Answer: They can't

As someone who works in a supermarket; all the regular bogans are still smoking. The main change is that although you still get people who are buying their daily $60 pack of Benson and hedges (one guy buys them by the carton several times a week); most people now ask what the cheapest 20 pack is (currently Holiday at 27.50) and just buy that. I guess though the fact that people are buying a 20 pack when the same people would have been buying larger packs several years ago is promising.

Also for the longest time the tax was applied oddly to pouches which made them much cheaper vs smoking tailors, then last year it seemed to change and they leaped up in price. Now most 50g pouches are well over $100 and the cheapest 25g is $49.95.

The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jan 6, 2021

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!

Senor Tron posted:

I know it's bad for him and others but my son really likes it so you know.

loving hilarious to me you idiots can't get over this

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.
I still smoke some darts but not many these days. $40 is a lot of money so it makes it easy to just walk away and buy a videogame or a steak dinner. Also on that front people I used to work with that smoked a pack of 30 a day have all dropped to less than 10 just on the price. For rational actors the system works but they're still insanely addictive which is going to own people forever.

As someone that will relish a coffee and a ciggie I say just ban them who cares.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
I can't believe Dan Andrews killed this woman's baby.

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1346359197449895936

realbez
Mar 23, 2005

Fun Shoe

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I can't believe Dan Andrews killed this woman's baby.

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1346359197449895936

Ok I have never heard someone refer to themselves as four weeks pregnant before. This is pretty offensive to people who have suffered pregnancy loss.

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
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realbez posted:

Ok I have never heard someone refer to themselves as four weeks pregnant before. This is pretty offensive to people who have suffered pregnancy loss.

How is it offensive?

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

How is it offensive?

I think it's that at 4 weeks it's a cluster of cells vs 6 months or something where it's a foetus.
Idk not an expert

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.
It's still a miscarriage but most people that experience them before six weeks understand it's a dice game you will lose often. I can't be hosed reading whatever drivel they've churned out for this individual's unfortunate situation.

The Artificial Kid
Feb 22, 2002
Plibble

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I can't believe Dan Andrews killed this woman's baby.

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1346359197449895936
That's not Dandrews' fault, but it's a pretty loving bad day.

JBP posted:

It's still a miscarriage but most people that experience them before six weeks understand it's a dice game you will lose often. I can't be hosed reading whatever drivel they've churned out for this individual's unfortunate situation.
If she was actually four weeks then she almost certainly had what's called a "pregnancy of unknown location", and one of the sides on that die is ectopic pregnancy. In a car on a backroad at the corner of NSW, VIC and SA is definitely a suboptimal place to be a woman in confirmed-but-not-visualised early pregnancy with severe pelvic pain and vaginal bleeding. Of course the article doesn't mention it, so the couple may never have realised that possibility.

The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 6, 2021

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

The Lord Bude posted:

As someone who works in a supermarket; all the regular bogans are still smoking. The main change is that although you still get people who are buying their daily $60 pack of Benson and hedges (one guy buys them by the carton several times a week); most people now ask what the cheapest 20 pack is (currently Holiday at 27.50) and just buy that. I guess though the fact that people are buying a 20 pack when the same people would have been buying larger packs several years ago is promising.

Also for the longest time the tax was applied oddly to pouches which made them much cheaper vs smoking tailors, then last year it seemed to change and they leaped up in price. Now most 50g pouches are well over $100 and the cheapest 25g is $49.95.

Jesus Christ just let a person have a smoke it's like a thousand percent markup

The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jan 6, 2021

realbez
Mar 23, 2005

Fun Shoe
It sounds heartless (which is what the author of that article is going for), and she has every right to be sad because I’m sure she was excited and happy to be pregnant, but at 4 weeks it isn’t much more than a period, so writing that article to demonise the border closures is a huge stretch and pulling on heart strings that don’t need to be pulled on basically

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CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
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JBP posted:

It's still a miscarriage but most people that experience them before six weeks understand it's a dice game you will lose often. I can't be hosed reading whatever drivel they've churned out for this individual's unfortunate situation.

realbez posted:

It sounds heartless (which is what the author of that article is going for), and she has every right to be sad because I’m sure she was excited and happy to be pregnant, but at 4 weeks it isn’t much more than a period, so writing that article to demonise the border closures is a huge stretch and pulling on heart strings that don’t need to be pulled on basically

...and I'm the bad guy for going to a loving park.

Jesus Christ, you two are loving evil. I'd love to see you say this to the face of any woman who has experienced a miscarriage at any time, and I don't give a poo poo if either of you are women and have experienced it yourself. that's loving heartless. gently caress you both.

realbez
Mar 23, 2005

Fun Shoe
Eat poo poo fuckwit

Yeast
Dec 25, 2006

$1900 Grande Latte
nah, they're right.

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.

CelestialScribe posted:

...and I'm the bad guy for going to a loving park.

Jesus Christ, you two are loving evil. I'd love to see you say this to the face of any woman who has experienced a miscarriage at any time, and I don't give a poo poo if either of you are women and have experienced it yourself. that's loving heartless. gently caress you both.

Yeah it's evil to clarify the question over what a miscarriage is and then choose not to read a garbage article. You really are a saint, now I see it.

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
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realbez posted:

Eat poo poo fuckwit

gently caress off and literally die in a loving fire.

JBP posted:

Yeah it's evil to clarify the question over what a miscarriage is and then choose not to read a garbage article. You really are a saint, now I see it.

"It's still a miscarriage but most people that experience them before six weeks understand it's a dice game you will lose often"

You're a loving idiot, eat poo poo and die.

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kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

CelestialScribe posted:

...and I'm the bad guy for going to a loving park.

Jesus Christ, you two are loving evil. I'd love to see you say this to the face of any woman who has experienced a miscarriage at any time, and I don't give a poo poo if either of you are women and have experienced it yourself. that's loving heartless. gently caress you both.

Shut the gently caress up

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.

CelestialScribe posted:


"It's still a miscarriage but most people that experience them before six weeks understand it's a dice game you will lose often"

You're a loving idiot, eat poo poo and die.

Are you saying people (in particular people clearly trying to get pregnant) aren't given the odds by doctors and told to hold off on telling their friends and family until 13+ weeks?

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009

:yikes:

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!

JBP posted:

Are you saying people (in particular people clearly trying to get pregnant) aren't given the odds by doctors and told to hold off on telling their friends and family until 13+ weeks?

I'm saying you're a heartless piece of poo poo.

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.

CelestialScribe posted:

I'm saying you're a heartless piece of poo poo.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
pretty much

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

I'm saying you're a heartless piece of poo poo.

You're upset that nobody agrees with your views on covid and are arguing in bad faith

Yeast
Dec 25, 2006

$1900 Grande Latte
Weird thing to get banned for

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!

EoinCannon posted:

You're upset that nobody agrees with your views on covid and are arguing in bad faith

You don't even know what my views on COVID are. No one here does. The only thing people know is that during the end of the lockdown, I took my son to a park that was slightly further away than the 5km travel limit.

If you want an audit of my views for the sake of it, here you go:

- I agree with everything the Vic state government has done except:
- The curfew was completely wrong and should never have been implemented as it wasn't recommended by health experts
- Specialist schools should have remained open during lockdown
- The 5km travel bubble should have been 10km to accommodate people at the edge of metropolitan areas
- The state government should have provided more financial assistance when announcing the harshest lockdowns in the country
- Daniel Andrews should step down for failing to run a competent hotel quarantine program that led to the second wave
- There should have been more exceptions to travel restrictions, like L platers wanting to practice in their car, or whatever
- They should have implemented lockdown plans during the end of the first wave, rather than scrambling around like fools during the second - they had months to prepare roadmaps and they didn't

That's it. I vote Greens, before you say anything.

CelestialScribe fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jan 6, 2021

Nanpa
Apr 24, 2007
Nap Ghost
Lol gently caress you all, CS is right.

The last set of border restrictions (with respect to the land borders) have been incredibly poorly thought out and ramped up with little to no warning.

There's a clear example of how poorly they've been applied to regions closer to Melbourne than the actual Sydney hotspots and you've all taken it as a fantastic opportunity to engage in a group game of well actually.

Seriously, have a look at the route on a map.

Nanpa fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jan 6, 2021

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/theage/status/1346401161050521601

You don't even need that womans sad story to mock this farcical nonsense

go_banana
Oct 13, 2010

EoinCannon posted:

You're upset that nobody agrees with your views on covid and are arguing in bad faith

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.
I was just meaning to have an aside with EoinCannon to say it's a legit miscarriage but it's also common and I wrongly assumed no repercussions.

The Artificial Kid
Feb 22, 2002
Plibble

CelestialScribe posted:

- Daniel Andrews should step down for failing to run a competent hotel quarantine program that led to the second wave
Daniel Andrews should step up onto a little podium and be given medals and champagne for not being the Liberals, and for doing what needed to be done in spite of constant sledging from the federal government. The states should never have had to run a quarantine program, returning citizens/residents should have been quarantined in a properly organised centre away from major cities.

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!

The Artificial Kid posted:

Daniel Andrews should step up onto a little podium and be given medals and champagne for not being the Liberals, and for doing what needed to be done in spite of constant sledging from the federal government. The states should never have had to run a quarantine program, returning citizens/residents should have been quarantined in a properly organised centre away from major cities.

I don't deny his conviction was exactly what was needed to be done and he remained strong in the face of enormous pressure. That doesn't change the fact that both hotel quarantine and contact tracing were an absolute joke. The resignations clearly show that, and Andrews himself said that he would have fired both women responsible if they were still in their roles.

The fact no one knows who was responsible is the worst part of all. It's a shamble and he should take responsibility for it.

I'm also not going to engage with anyone on this who hasn't read the report.

CelestialScribe fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jan 6, 2021

slorb
May 14, 2002
Six months from now when most people have been vaccinated I'll agree that Andrews should probably have resigned for the quarantine hotel fiasco, but he's a massive asset to the entire country right now because we're still in an emergency and he's willing to run a lockdown as long as it takes.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Miscarriages are often harder on the Dan.

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Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018


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