AnonymousNarcotics posted:

Can't not laugh at this guy's expression.

Birb Katter posted:

In Australia you don't vote for your PM, you vote for a representative in your area. The party that is able to get enough seats to hold the votes is the one that forms government. Quite often this involves dealing with 3rd parties (or cross benchers). The party that forms government elects a leader internally who becomes PM.

Internal machinations of late have meant that we're now on our 5th prime minister in 5 years. Kevin Rudd was well liked by the people but loathed internally, Julia Gillard was slaughtered in the press because Rupert Murdoch has a boner for right wing men rather than capable women and so she got replaced before an election with Kevin Rudd again but too late.

Then we got the onion eater (Tony Abbott, look it up. Raw onion, skin and all) who, will not loving a dead pig yet, managed to let his own hard right ideology get in the way of looking like an idiot 24 / 7. For 2 years he promised great things and spectacularly managed to choose the thing that most Australians find abhorrent, daft, pointless, damaging or all of the above. Abbott survived one spill 6 odd months ago ~60/40 to literally no one. 40 people in his own team would rather have had no one in charge (not quite how it works but still) than have him.

After making himself look worse at every step the hard right in the party decided they'd make the socially liberal, fiscally conservative guy eat a bunch of crow on everything he stood for and most of what the people liked him for they knifed the onion eater and put Turnbull in charge.

tl:dr The spill in this case is when there is a contest for leadership in the party that controls the government at that point in time, which happens to get us a new prime minister fairly frequently these days.

ninja edit: That smarmy grin for an avatar some kind soul bought me is our current pm.

caligulamprey posted:

BONUS PIC :

Say Nothing posted:

Humerus posted:

Is Florida cheating? Whatever.

Angry Key West woman really had to pee. Now she is charged with her second felony in a month.

Phimosissy posted:

I mean, they might be. Bowser seems like the sort of monarch that might have a few children he is unaware of. They never were in any official way, though, as far as I know.

Here's where some goon posts a piece of fanart sent in to Nintendo Power to prove me wrong though, probably.

ReidRansom posted:

Not many though. I know there's one in DC next to Woodley Park station, but I think they're only in a couple of cities. Like, DC and some other place.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Psst! Look earlier in this very page!

quote:

The painting was stolen from the Pacific Crest Gallery, 1001 Heavenly Village Way in South Lake Tahoe, on Dec. 9. The painting, which is valued at $1,195, was taken from the store’s front sidewalk display.

Samuringa posted:

Splicer posted:

While comforting in the long term, short and mid term our already hosed water system is going to lose a lot of biodiversity.

Samuringa posted:

Happy Easter!

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/980459398584729601

Samuringa posted:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/12/obese-century-old-crocodile-died-from-overeating-after-worshippers-threw-it-chickens-and-goats-5060753/

quote:

While visitors to the Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali Shrine in south-western Bangladesh believed feeding the crocodile would bring them good fortune, it brought the crocodile bad fortune, because it died from an obesity-related condition.

chitoryu12 posted:

22-year-old substitute teacher for a high school ran a fight club in his classroom.

The Kins posted:

https://in.news.yahoo.com/internet-times-mahabharata-tripura-cm-205623970.html
(Wikipedia tells me that the events depicted in Mahabharata's exact date are unknown, but that 3102 BCE is a pretty popular guess)

quote:

Meanwhile, PM Narendra Modi himself said in October 2014 that Lord Ganesha had undergone plastic surgery via technology that Indians possessed at the time.

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

You must have been out of town, the park has been burned down. Repeatedly.

ultrafilter posted:

Andrew Frey, Man 'High On Meth, Fights Off 15 Police Officers While Masturbating'

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1020396362234564608

Cythereal posted:

Can't be us this time, we don't have fireflies this far south.

Say Nothing posted:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

The Devil just has really bad publicity.

Wikipedia posted:

In 2005 Arthur Mijares from the neighboring town of Oakley, petitioned the federal government to change the name of the mountain, claiming it offended his Christian beliefs. Additionally, he claimed that Diablo is a living person, and so is banned under federal law. He initially suggested renaming the mountain Mount Kawukum, and later, Mount Yahweh. Other renaming suggestions by other individuals included Mount Miwok and Mount Ohlone, after local Indian tribal names. Finally he proposed Mount Reagan, but the board rejected it on the grounds that a person must be deceased for five years to have a geographic landmark named after them. Eventually, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names rejected the petitions, saying there was no compelling reason to change the name.

In summer of 2009 Mijares again proposed the name Mount Reagan to the United States Board of Geographic Names because Reagan was now an eligible recipient of a place name. The board gave the Contra Costa County Supervisor's Committee until March 31 to file an opinion. Individual members of the committee have responded that although they respect Reagan, Mount Reagan is not an appropriate name for the historic mountain. Later, the board unanimously voted against renaming the mountain, citing its historical significance.

Samuringa posted:

https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/988418237367975936

quote:

"We got sick and tired of people bringing their urine containers,” Patel told the station. “They're just random people walking and it's happening every day.”

He says a woman became aggressive a few months ago when he asked her not to warm urine. She asked to see a sign that says it's not for that purpose. So he made one.