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Welcome to supposedly a better year than last year. Let's get the details done: The Liberal Party  A sad little king of a sad little hill. There are no good replacements and altogether too much time in the new term to prevent the contradictions of his leadership from slowly destroying him. The Labor Party  While it is not a bad strategy to let the Government become the story, Bill has to do much much better than the Beazley Small Target Strategy he's been employing for so long. He probably thinks he's doing well. He isn't. The National Party  Speaking of being slowly crushed in a vice. Their main goal is to take over the government, one department at a time. And it would have worked if it wasn't for those pesky seats they keep losing. The Greens  Other than being the ALP's GUARDIAN (see what i did there), what have the Greens ever done for us? One Nation  Other than being Vegemite's bane, what have One Nation ever done for us? NXP  Other than being a star vehicle, what will Nick do for anyone who isn't a South Australian? LDP  Apparently it is very naughty to display this picture because 18e paragraph eleventy-nine. Tee hee. The Cory Bernardi Really Truly Dinky-Di Liberals  That's Tony Abbott on the left, he thinks Cory's weird. Tony loving Abbott. A political slogan looking for someone else to start a party. --------------------------------------------------------//------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some political commentary just like reel journalisms!    Australia australia australia we love you amen. There is no future because you're not included. --------------------------------------------------------//------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ranty bit inserted later in a transparent attempt to look better in archives: Australian politics is a generalization of whatever is going on somewhere else, that somewhere else being either the US or the UK because we genuinely think they're the only politics worth understanding. We started out taking the good bits of both systems and actually improving on them slightly but after that we got a bit lost as to what we were supposed to do once we had a federation and a capital and a couple of wars. Such is our belief in bicameralism that we had to throw together a motely bunch of ALP-haters to get there and even then they didn't know what to do after that. By the time the 1980's came by we were governing for all Australians (except indigenous people even if they had the vote), when a couple of enterprising fellas decided we needed to kickstart our economy before other economies did it for us first. This wasn't a bad idea in itself but unfortunately we then made a couple of mistakes: we we didn't actually modernise the production side of the economy, and we decided to borrow the UK's idea of what a modern economy was. So instead of improving our chances of value-added production we simply slapped a parasitical finance market on top of whatever we had. And then we imported UK neoliberalism, itself a child of the US variety but more attuned to our cultural biases. Once both "sides" had grasped the implications they went on a policy spree that did not explain itself other than in trickle-down terms. The implications of course, was now that politicians governed only for a special selection of Australians, especially that selection who weren't keen to share the new parasitical bounty with the rest of society because as Thatcher observed, there wasn't one. That overview explains a lot about our current environment except for two things: demographics, and nationalism. The nationalism came in as a cultural war prop for the non-ALP side once it got its mitts on power in the mid-90s, as one of many distractions from the process of sewing up the goodies for rich friends and their general political class. This is why Anzac Day is a grotesque passion play now, like Australia Day. But it's in the negative forms of nationalism that we have really excelled, chiefly for locking up brown people at astonishing cost so we can claim we "stopped the boats" which is an obvious lie. It's so obvious a lie, we've created a raft of Acts and Regulations to hide it. We have a mile-wide strip of bastardry as applied to poor and indigenous people throughout our history so this is only a veneer-layer of progress on that. But the real kicker is what Australian governments are doing about population demographics. Again, its nothing original, the UK and US have been applying algorithms to demographics to justify doing all sorts of dumb and bad things to them for quite some time, but we're catching up. Being basically computer illiterate, the one thing our politicians understand is the absence of responsibility and standards modelling applied to actual people is a doozy for reduced guilt. So far it's only really been noticed with a variety of Centrelink horrors but most people are blissfully unaware of what's being done with their supperannuation for instance. The fix is in, whether it be by HR department, insurance, or education. The haves are determined to shut out the have-nots in a Darwinian belief that they'll outlive them, and the ageing boomer population is their cover for implementing it. If Millenials feel bad enough by being shut out of the property market, it is the least of their worries. Fighting systems is always much much harder than the humans running them. And all for what? Because Australians dislike thinking for themselves and avoiding the mistakes of other countries perhaps. Well, nothing original about that. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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I demand more libertarian insert quarter jokes
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Jan 1, 2017 22:35
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Anidav posted:I demand more libertarian insert quarter jokes Don't give your landlord any ideas
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Jan 1, 2017 22:40
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Ameteur. Should have had the coin slot attached to the seat.
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Jan 1, 2017 22:43
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The really shocking thing about that coin-operated toilet was that it wasn't shocking at all. Almost as if landlords aren't making enough money.
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Jan 1, 2017 22:54
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and yet you can take the top off the toilet and activate the flush directly. it's got plenty of workarounds but the correct action would be to just leave and let them try to explain it to prospective tenants. No tenants for a few months would change their mind.
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Kommando posted:and yet you can take the top off the toilet I thought that sentence was going in another way (which I'm sure considered by tenants).
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Jan 1, 2017 23:12
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Maybe we should be a bit more skeptical about that toilet.
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Jan 1, 2017 23:25
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open24hours posted:Maybe we should be a bit more skeptical about that toilet. In many ways an expensive dinner with an LNP pollie works just like that coin operated toilet toilet. You have to insert a larger amount of cash to make it work how you want but the outcome is still a steaming pile of poo poo.
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Jan 1, 2017 23:28
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open24hours posted:Maybe we should be a bit more skeptical about that toilet. Yeah, nah. Instead embrace any story that spins a good narrative about how lovely the system is regardless of truth. Might as well at this point.
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open24hours posted:Maybe we should be a bit more skeptical about that toilet. Yeah, it seems full of poo poo, I don't know if I'd pay it.
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Jan 1, 2017 23:32
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Privatise your privates! gently caress You all. I hate you and have indeed already got mine. Boomer kick toy reporting in for bullying.
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People on the Reddit thread have been looking closely at it and finding signs of photoshop. In any case we will have to wait for the inevitable today tonight story to see if it's real or not  Also Tony Abbott has been on one of those free trips to Israel that all politicians get and now he wants Australia to stop sending aid to Palestine. Which means it will probably happen in like a week or two.
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Jan 2, 2017 00:18
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Anyone can get a free trip to Israel if you're willing to say you're Jewish. A friend of mine managed to get one despite having no (known) Jewish heritage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel
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View it not necessarily as a factual account, but as a parable that speaks to a deeper truth of the rental situation in Australia.
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Jan 2, 2017 00:24
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Or, you know, poo poo happens..
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Jan 2, 2017 00:31
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 Between this and the toilet, Melbourne real estate is starting to get weird.
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Jan 2, 2017 00:53
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Comes with floating kitchen bench
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Jan 2, 2017 01:14
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If I'm paying more than a million dollars I expect better decorations than a lovely metal panel with place names on it that costs 35 dollars at a soon-to-close market stall.
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Jan 2, 2017 01:25
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Good News Everyone, you can stop buying bread at Baker's Delightquote:Bakers Delight workers, some on $8 an hour, are being kept on an outdated contract from the unpopular WorkChoices era that drastically reduces weekend penalty rates.
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open24hours posted:Anyone can get a free trip to Israel if you're willing to say you're Jewish. A friend of mine managed to get one despite having no (known) Jewish heritage. your friend is a massive fuckhead, hth Recoome fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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First thread of the year and its all toilet talk - seems about right. I didn't need another reason, but yes.
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What's the first reason?
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quote:Mr Abbott also flagged that Australia could demonstrate "unswerving support for Israel" by joining any move by the incoming Trump administration to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. looking forward to the third intifada 
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AgentF posted:What's the first reason?
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AgentF posted:What's the first reason? it's overpriced and not very good?
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Yeah there's a Vietnamese bakery at my local that does the same quality of bread for lower prices. Not sure on their labour practices though.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Also Tony Abbott has been on one of those free trips to Israel that all politicians get and now he wants Australia to stop sending aid to Palestine. Which means it will probably happen in like a week or two. Tony Abbott, in Israel, wishing you were here  Perhaps they're plotting Turnbull's downfall.
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Jan 2, 2017 02:20
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Never a suicide (photo) bomber when you really need one.
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Tokamak posted:it's overpriced and not very good? Cheesymite scroll 
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Halaal Cheesymite
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Their turkish rolls are pretty nice.
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All cheesymite scrolls must from today forward use pig's milk cheese.
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Is iSnack 2.0 halaal?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Is iSnack 2.0 halaal? Abomination unto the lord iirc
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:
Developers realised they could fit more apartments in the block if they started using non-euclidian geometry.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Developers realised they could fit more apartments in the block if they started using non-euclidian geometry. Cthulhu worshipping real estate devs, a step above Randians and Islamists. Malcolm oughta try these guys for a security scare.
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Zenithe posted:Abomination unto the lord iirc Don't sign your posts.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:
holy poo poo it's "Downie Street" http://www.bradyresidential.com.au/index.cfm?pagecall=property&propertyID=3124180  Smart spatial design
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Recoome posted:holy poo poo it's "Downie Street" Awesome. So when your washing machine vibrates it's way through your glass shower wall during a spin cycle you can leap away from the breaking shards to break your knees on your sink then catch your face on the seat of your toilet during the fall. Basically one of those impossible machine games only it's your bathroom. That is a smart design. I wonder how the washing machine electrics will hold up to being exposed to shower steam daily.
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