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Lolie posted:Those are caskets, not coffins. My step father makes them (or did till the silicosis hosed his lungs). The money that some families spend on housing corpses is obscene.
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Bill Posters posted:My step father makes them (or did till the silicosis hosed his lungs). The money that some families spend on housing corpses is obscene. Some people would build pyramids to house their dead if it was allowed. New bird bath assembled and first hanging basket planted. I'm a bit bummed about the forecast rain but I can't do anything about it so I'll just have to delay some garden jobs for a few days.
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Bill Posters posted:A loving oval office then. I don't care about the monarchy but I've always thought of the Queen as an ornament, mostly. It was her governments that were cunts. If you want to heap poo poo on her then I won't stop you, but save some for the shitheels beneath her that actually wrote and implemented the policies.
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Clugg posted:I don't care about the monarchy but I've always thought of the Queen as an ornament, mostly. It was her governments that were cunts. If you want to heap poo poo on her then I won't stop you, but save some for the shitheels beneath her that actually wrote and implemented the policies. She was the head of state. You cant have all the good poo poo that comes with being an obscenely wealthy public servant, with none of the responsibility. She takes ultimate responsibility for all the poo poo that goes on under her watch. If she didnt want shitheels implementing hosed policies, she should have done something about it.
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NPR Journalizard posted:She takes ultimate responsibility for all the poo poo that goes on under her watch. If she didnt want shitheels implementing hosed policies, she should have done something about it. True enough, but don't lose sight of the fact that all that lovely stuff was enacted by elected politicians. Actually, apparently the republican debate is restarting next week. I wonder if it will get up this time. Clugg fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Clugg posted:True enough, but don't lose sight of the fact that all that lovely stuff was enacted by elected politicians. Oh dont worry, I have more than enough contempt to go round.
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Clugg posted:Actually, apparently the republican debate is restarting next week. I wonder if it will get up this time.
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Lolie posted:It might get up if a model that the public actually wants is among the proposals. I don't think that there's a presidential model that a supermajority of votes actually want. I don't know how the voting works if you split the question into republic yes/no model a/b. The first question could have the yes vote quite easily meet the majority rules and the second neither model wins.
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Lolie posted:It might get up if a model that the public actually wants is among the proposals. The public wants a directly elected head of state which is a complete disaster of an idea. So is having a generic question like 'do you want a republic and we'll figure out the details later'. Just look at how the UK hosed themselves into Brexit hell after the far right seized control of the debate. Party Ape fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Aside from the fact the original alternative to a directly elected president was a complete loving piss take there is also a serious failure of the ARM to market the vastly superior alternative. A lot of anti republic messaging was that we cant trust pollies to elect a president when in reality the idea that politicians are untrustworthy cunts skews in favour of a parlimentarily elected head of state because why the gently caress should we trust them to completely rewrite our constitution to delegate more concentrated power into the hands of an individual in a way that wont be completely hosed? Allowing parliament to elect a president is mitigating the unrelenting cuntery they pull on us, not exacerbating it. One politician with no parliamentary oversight is begging for another clap happy fuckwit like morrison to take their election as a mandate to pull whatever bonkers poo poo they believe at the expense of australian citizens. At the very least if we aren't going to allow parliament to elect a head of state I suggest a schooner necking contest to determine it.
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This might be a dumb question but couldn't we just remove the monarchy/GG and call it a day? PM becomes "head of state" which they essentially are anyway. No need for presidents or any of that malarkey.
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Beardcrumb posted:This might be a dumb question but couldn't we just remove the monarchy/GG and call it a day? PM becomes "head of state" which they essentially are anyway. No need for presidents or any of that malarkey. The Head of State is meant to play a role in ensuring the conventions of Government aren't being undermined. For examine, by setting up a secret Shadow Government where the PM has the power of all of his Ministers. They're also the nominal head of the ADF and the public service.
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Carlos Lantana posted:imagine being such an accomplished snob that you're closely acquainted with Jeff Epstein and Jim Saville New word for nonce just dropped
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birdstrike posted:we should have made warnie our monarch when we had the chance Lord Warnie did not know his mother put drugs in his beans
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Sad news. Playschool John has left us.
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Party Ape posted:The Head of State is meant to play a role in ensuring the conventions of Government aren't being undermined. For examine, by setting up a secret Shadow Government where the PM has the power of all of his Ministers. Oh that worked so well too. GG, GG.
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KING EGG posted:Sad news. Playschool John has left us. Here's my week of mourning 
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KING EGG posted:Sad news. Playschool John has left us. Aw man
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Can't believe the sport best known for booing an indigenous player until he quit while the administration did absolutely nothing to help him turns out to be an absolute haven for racists.
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KING EGG posted:Sad news. Playschool John has left us.  that sucks, at least it sounds like he had a really good run
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ili posted:Can't believe the sport best known for booing an indigenous player until he quit while the administration did absolutely nothing to help him turns out to be an absolute haven for racists.
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Stoner Sloth posted:
At least we still have Noni who (I have it on good authority) will live forever.
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SuddenCactus posted:everyone knows that big ted covered up little teds crimes little ted island
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:New beer dropped at work and as much as i loathe marketers i have to admit whoever came up with this was doing exactly the right amount of cocaine Dude that's been out for a few years. I was at an event with Steve marketing it himself and he was pissed as a nit.
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ili posted:Can't believe the sport best known for booing an indigenous player until he quit while the administration did absolutely nothing to help him turns out to be an absolute haven for racists.
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KING EGG posted:Sad news. Playschool John has left us. He was my favourite RIP legend
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Proud teacher moment today when I found out one of my Major projects got nominated for the industrial arts equivalent of art express. It's moments like these that keep me teaching
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Funky See Funky Do posted:At least we still have Noni who (I have it on good authority) will live forever. My mum knew her reasonably well cause she was a professor at Flinders and got to know Noni cause she came back to help out with the whole famous alumni thing a few times. She's apparently just as nice in person, has a great sense of humor and a lot of interesting stories.
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