Fruity Gordo posted:

'NSW' is a funny way of spelling 'Australia'.

Avshalom posted:

I love Israel

Fruity Gordo posted:

what's the DEAL with auspol? - one of the goofiest posters in existence

open24hours posted:

The whole mortgage you can't afford thing just wreaks of victim blaming. Sure there are people who live far beyond their means, but houses are expensive and not everyone is rich.

Senor Tron posted:

Adelaide.

Serrath posted:

Sorry, I meant for my question to be rhetorical. The system works this way because it's been engineered to work this way. To address the problems raised by this vascular surgeon, you'd need to change the culture and rules governing the profession. Until that happens, the system will remain exactly the same.

hiddenmovement posted:

Lie down in the center lane ty

Serrath posted:

Phonics is the act of teaching someone how to read by teaching the relationship that letter combinations have to the vocal sound they make (e.g., teaching that "ch" in all instances makes the "ch" sounds... actually this is hard to explain in text). The main criticism to this approach is that it divorces the "reading" of words from the meaning of words; you raise a generation of students who can read novel words relatively well but cannot place them in a larger language and grammatical context. The best educational models (as far as I'm aware) advocate for a phonics method to be taught alongside a "whole language" approach which involves teaching word context and definitions alongside novel words.

Interesting tidbit, I learned about the distinction between the two because a return to phonics education was one of the signature aspects of the "no child left behind" educational act in the US which was a major reform of the US education system by Bush II.

TEAYCHES posted:

tony abbott should be shot and killed

Bifauxnen posted:

This was a really good post, I'm glad you made it even if ratbag ignores it completely.

Murodese posted:

You know how we block tiring trolls? Why don't you just block people suggesting you shove cyanide up your rear end?

Kommando posted:

MARCH BRISGOON AUSPOL MEET

Kommando posted:

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Why the gently caress do they keep announcing things only to immediately backpedal? Like, I can buy the idea that they're being forced to backpedal on some of these issues under the weight of basic and obvious scrutiny but why hasn't Credlin or anyone made an effort to have them work through this poo poo in private and then have individual ministers announce things only when they know what the hell they're selling?

Graic Gabtar posted:

The boats were stopped and then the passengers and crew were sent back.

That would count as a boat being stopped.

MC Eating Disorder posted:

Australia's a pretty good place to live in because its not a war torn country with milita gunning down people in the street but its also pretty hosed that we lock people up in indefinite detention if they live in a country where that happens and they just happen to come here on a boat and I can hold these two thoughts in my head together at the same time because I don't run every single thing people on the internet post through some kind of IF x THEN y boolean filter, seeing as human communication doesn't strictly follow the laws of computer logic

Fruity Gordo posted:

its u

MC Eating Disorder posted:

Also I haven't thoroughly skimmed the thread to make sure nobody has posted anything that might contradict me but I'm pretty sure nobody has said Australia is a poo poo country, I think what we have all been trying to say is that Australians are poo poo people and we should all kill ourselves, which I think is fairly uncontentious

katlington posted:

What does this mean? I don't know.

SynthOrange posted:

Idk those Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin guys did pretty well

katlington posted:

Like, on these forums or in australian politics? I don't know what you're referring to. Unless you mean dog pulling some retard which is embarrassing but there was never any possibility for real discussion there.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

FWIW any ASIO employees reading this should probably be aware that you're a poo poo person who directly enables the terrible crimes that australia commits. you're not just "doing your job". you picked it, you stuck with it as it turned out to be spying on (thus enabling worse, illegal harassment of) people trying to make the world a better place, and every day you wake up and decide that you'd rather be a part of the problem. every day you decide that your current short-term comfort is more important than doing the right thing, you're following in the footsteps of every criminal that ever lived. quit your loving job, it's not as hard as you think if you have a single ounce of morality left in you

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

actually the file is empty except for that single goonmeet photo and a crushed dried-out dog turd that the case handler found when he was using his asio powers to stalk and harass his now-married ex-girlfriend

Anidav posted:

I'm been reading up on the recent polls and I now firmly believe that the current spike in Coalition support is in anticipation for Turnbull PM.

CrazyTolradi posted:

What do you think ol' Shazza would think of this?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

The spike was only really noticeable in one poll (the Fairfax / Ipsos one); Newspoll and Essential had a slight increase for the Coalition which disappeared. I think the Ipsos poll was rogue and the rest has been statistical noise.

katlington posted:

The ridiculious camoflage, that's so we can say it wasn't us, right?

The only difference atm between australia and nazi germany is competence.

Pickled Tink posted:

Nice going there with your stigmatisation of mental illness. Person does X that I do not understand and has poor reasoning by my own exacting standards of logic, therefore they must be mentally ill (Because poor reasoning is incredibly rare, as we all know). The implication that gets hammered home by such reasoning is that mentally ill people are dangerous.

There are Australians who seriously believe that asylum seekers are illegal immigrants and should be shot to keep them away. That doesn't make them mentally ill. This thread is full of people who tell others to go kill themselves for disagreements ranging from large to petty, but if the people here are mentally ill it is definitely not the cause of that behaviour.

It is absolutely lazy to disregard this kind of thing as mental illness. It not help in the slightest, because you are not even considering the positions these people start out from and thereby not treating the problems (Disenfranchisement, persecution, etc) that cause radicalisation of these people.

Not only that, but you work further to stigmatise mental illness because you are synonymizing it with it "dangerous people who should be feared" thus preventing people with mental illnesses from seeking help from fear of the stigma. It is also a step towards bringing back the reasoning we managed to, at long last, ditch regarding the mentally ill: "Why should we help people who are dangerous? Why don't we just lock them up where they can't harm us?"

It is lazy thought I would expect from members of the liberal party, not alleged greens.

cpaf posted:

If I watched Sunrise every morning I'd also be comfortable with death

SadisTech posted:

haha yeah leave room for the valuable content such as

starkebn posted:

But can you taste the difference between VB and XXXX?

thatfatkid posted:

XXXX bitter is the best mainstream beer and i will fight anyone irl who disagrees.