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Jumpingmanjim posted:First post Ground floor on this heezy.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:This whole mess started because Australia was occupied by a foreign power. A few years of being the West Island of New Zealand wouldn't hurt
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Dec 4, 2015 00:48
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I don't like Howard but he came across as caring about something, it might have been his idea of what Australia should be, or his legacy or something as trivial as what people thought about him. But this was the key difference between him and Abbott. Abbott didn't give a gently caress about the outcomes of any of his policies
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Dec 7, 2015 10:55
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Put it this way: imagine Abbott's response to the Port Arthur massacre
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Dec 7, 2015 11:01
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Unless you're allergic to nuance it's pretty easy to simultaneously think Howard was human garbage and acknowledge that Abbott was worse (or at least would have been had he not been destroyed by his own incompetence)
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Dec 7, 2015 12:14
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I can't really agree because had he had a couple of extra senate seats we'd all be completely hosed following his government's first budget but guess this is all moot because that didn't happen and Turnbull will probably do the same thing anyway
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Dec 7, 2015 12:18
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Solemn Sloth posted:The first chance Howard got he loving burnt down the entire structure of industrial relations in this country. Yeah, I guess that's true. I don't have much interest in defending Howard or the conservative purgatory that infected every western nation in the early 00's so 
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Dec 7, 2015 12:28
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Actually I'm inclined to view Howard and Costello not investing any of the money from the mining boom/relative prosperity of that era into infrastructure and into developing new industries as one of the larger economic fuckups in Australian history
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Dec 7, 2015 12:33
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Doctor Cave posted:I like nerding out about the weather so I looked this up, so far this month Adelaide has had both it's lowest and highest December minimum on record Yeah, climate change will mean this kind of thing will just happen more and more in places like Adelaide that have no natural barriers between the hot deserts of central Australia and the freezing winds circling Antarctica and are therefore already subject to comical amounts of variation. See also : Melbourne.
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Dec 8, 2015 10:19
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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-alleged-to-be-australian-academic?CMP=soc_567quote:The creator of the digital currency bitcoin, known only by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, is probably an Australian academic and entrepreneur, according to a new investigation.
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Dec 9, 2015 02:32
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http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/townsville-home-vandalised-over-arabic-welcome-sig/2870192/#/0quote:A TOWNSVILLE family has been left devastated after their home was vandalised and even set alight, causing an estimated $50,000 in damage.    
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Dec 11, 2015 06:11
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Recoome posted:NSW, QLD, and WA confirmed as the Axis of Evil There are racist hicks everywhere but to be honest I wonder if the North-East (QLD/NSW) didn't exist or was a separate country if half of Australia's bad post-1996 policies would have happened. The pacific solution, stop the boats, Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer, Howard refusing to apologise for the stolen generations, Labor Right, etc can all pretty much be blamed on the North-Eastern mentality. Hell, I saw a survey recently that said that Muslims in Sydney experienced racism at 3 times the national average.
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Dec 12, 2015 02:38
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http://www.couriermail.com.au/trave...e1bf-1449918255quote:Backpacker barred from renting room by landlord who brands Aussies ‘drunk and racist’
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Dec 12, 2015 12:16
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If you tweeted that at J.K. Rowling she'd probably own that dude with a snappy one-liner. Almost worth it, but these guys are like that episode of The Simpsons where advertising comes to life and goes on a rampage and the best thing to do is not give them any attention.
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Dec 13, 2015 23:19
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http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/graffiti-vandals-could-face-jail-for-illshaped-swastika-at-midland-gate-shops-20151215-gloas3.htmlquote:Graffiti vandals could face jail for ill-shaped swastika at Midland Gate shops  
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Dec 16, 2015 01:58
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SynthOrange posted:help Already 40 here  This month Adelaide has already had the coldest December night on record (7C), hottest December minimum on record (30C), and if today's forecast is accurate we'll have the hottest December max on record too (44C).
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Dec 19, 2015 01:54
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I remember there being frost everywhere on that 7 degree night (nights in the Adelaide hills are slightly colder than where they take the measurements) and then it was 41 the same week, which was a bit jarring. I have faint childhood memories of the weather being normal, but my brain has classified them with things from the same era, like Commander Keen and those Nike shoes with the pump button on the tongue.Mr Chips posted:Or Perth. Perth summers are actually hotter than Adel/Melb on average.
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Dec 19, 2015 02:21
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The listing isn't up any more, does anyone know if someone paid 90K for that weed hat?
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Dec 21, 2015 09:37
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Can anyone explain to me the controversy about lyme disease in Australia? It doesn't officially exist here in the medical literature but a whole lot of people have apparently contracted an infectious disease with borderline identical symptoms. When I was doing honours in microbio my supervisor implied that there's basically an unspoken widespread belief in microbiology (maybe not in medicine because it's way more conservative) that the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that cause Lyme disease do exist in Australia, or a very closely related species does.There's not really much published to say this though. There's also an unrelated controversy about whether or not it causes a long-term illness called "chronic Lyme disease" that has similar symptoms to fibromyalgia. Thus far there's not that much reliable evidence that Lyme disease actually causes these symptoms in the long term. Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes stay in the body long after infection so some people think that this causes the possibly-existent chronic illness. Anyway, long-term antibiotic treatment would clear them from the body, but that's fairly dangerous so there's a controversy about that too.
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Dec 23, 2015 14:07
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Didn't it snow in Tasmania and Victoria a couple of days ago?
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Dec 24, 2015 16:02
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ewe2 posted:Ahahaha merry xmas to you too. *random Islam promotion with a side of climate change and inane mollifying slogans* Say happy holidays instead, that really riles them up
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Dec 25, 2015 00:29
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Ha... the search function actually works and I found this ancient thread. Click here for  The GridGoes for several pages, is amazing.
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Dec 31, 2015 02:38
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Anidav posted:Auspol was once an eternal battleground with Count Chocula and IWC kings of the battleground. Does anyone have a link to that YouTube video that Webdog made of Count Chocula and IWC as Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck?
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Dec 31, 2015 04:14
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Thanks! This owns. The auspol of 2012/13 was so amazingly bad but it was occasionally quite funny.
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Graic Gabtar posted:Unfortunately yes. 2016 a profound letdown thus far.
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You're supposed to link it noob http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758331
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