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DancingShade posted: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. also thats probably the best angle for that room, so like the photo is taken from the doorway.
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quote:The crossbench senator wants the payment to be viewed as welfare — not an entitlement for taxpayers once they reach a certain age. Yeah, let's kick the pensioners. Kick the fuckers to the dirt.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 10:00 |
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Starshark posted:Yeah, let's kick the pensioners. Kick the fuckers to the dirt. Somehow I doubt that notion extends to his parliamentary pension.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 10:22 |
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I have a feeling voters are going to be reminded of this winning attitude.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 10:31 |
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Starshark posted:Yeah, let's kick the pensioners. Kick the fuckers to the dirt. I agree with him. gently caress old people
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 10:40 |
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gay picnic defence posted:I agree with him. gently caress old people I mean sure, if that's what you're into
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 10:55 |
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Night Shade posted:Somehow I doubt that notion extends to his parliamentary pension. quote:Finally, before anyone complains about hypocrisy from a politician, I should point out that the scheme giving retired federal politicians a generous life pension was closed in 2004. New politicians like me contribute to a superannuation fund, the same as everyone else who has a job. And, like everyone else, whether we will need welfare in the form of a pension depends on how much super we manage to save, not how much or how long we have paid tax.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 11:01 |
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Starshark posted:Yeah, let's kick the pensioners. Kick the fuckers to the dirt. when otto von bismarck was more socially progressive than you that might be a sign to reconsider your positions
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 11:09 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Leyonhjelm is still a hypocrite. A superannuation fund miraculously free from restrictions and paying a far higher rate than allocated to plebs, and also taxed less. What a brave brave little man.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 11:21 |
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Fair enough, my 30 second google for parliamentary pension didn't tell me that, not that I looked very hard. He's still getting efb
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 11:23 |
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Pensioners are bad and so are their opinions and voting habits
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 11:49 |
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From my reading if he stays 8 years he also gets an additional allowance. From here: http://www.aph.gov.au/about_parliament/parliamentary_departments/parliamentary_library/pubs/bn/1011/superannuationbenefits
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 12:21 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Pensioners are bad and so are their opinions and voting habits Agreed. Drop the voting age to 16, ban anyone over 55 from voting.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 12:54 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Pensioners are bad and so are their opinions and voting habits Apparently it's nothing to do with their age and everything to do with that generation being fuckwits, so hopefully things will improve when they die off. I'd say 'it'd be nice to have a pension when I get to their age' but otoh lol I should live so long.
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Word cloud for December: Bonus word cloud for all of 2016: 2016: JFMAMJJASOND 2015: JFMAMJJASOND 2014: JFMAMJJASOND 2013: AMJJASOND Highlights from last month's thread: Starshark posted:I also seem to remember someone screeching 'budget emergency' in between mouthfuls of cigars and ben & jerrys and proposing austerity. Went down a treat with the voting public. Not sure why the Libs don't want to go with him to midnight mass to 'make fun of the Christians', but when we got there he took it super-seriously and knew all the words to hymns I'd never heard of... I think... I think of when I think of Tony Abbott is 'left appeaser'. You Am I posted:Of course Lie Lyle Shelton wont back down to his earlier comments that the Government has done this week is amazing. First with Frydenberg with emissions trading, then Kelly O'Dwyer being smacked down by Turnbull over the Banks Tribunal. hooman posted:"Controversial conservative politicians Cory Bernardi and George Christensen have agreed to help an anti-Islam organisation raise funds to defend a defamation case brought by a friend of mine from uni. I followed the link and thought wait a second I know that website.
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Starshark posted:Apparently it's nothing to do with their age and everything to do with that generation being fuckwits, so hopefully things will improve when they die off. I'd say 'it'd be nice to have a pension when I get to their age' but otoh lol I should live so long. I don't understand it. Isn't it the same generation that were hippies and cared a lot about social change? How did they go from that to FYGM?
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:39 |
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They're no worse (or better) than any other generation. If the people who are young now were young then we'd be in exactly the same situation.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:45 |
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AgentF posted:I don't understand it. Isn't it the same generation that were hippies and cared a lot about social change? How did they go from that to FYGM? For content: New dog whistle out with changes to make immigration test tougher on terror.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:46 |
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Cartoon posted:Not all of us did but the poo poo smears that didn't 'fight the man' really got fully entrenched in the capitalist dream and a decent proportion of the hippie movement were just following fashion anyway. Add a pack of free love brats and suddenly you are embedded in a suburban brick venereal and view the world as a zero sum game. On a bit of a positive, I just got back after ten sweltering days at Woodford Folk Festival and it was inspiring to see so many progressive and radical older folk. The hippy dream is obviously still alive out there, but it's drowned out by the sort that Cartoon is talking about. Less good (something I noticed at a few of the talks there and Cr Jono Sri pointed out in his talk): there seems to be a concerning shift toward isolationism and anti-immigration among notionally Left people, couched in the language of sustainability and environmentalism.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:57 |
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LOOKING, WAITING, COULDN'T: F35. Catchy advertising.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 01:59 |
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didn't see this posted last year, another asylum seeker died of prolonged illness on 24 december
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 02:02 |
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BBJoey posted:didn't see this posted last year, another asylum seeker died of prolonged illness on 24 december It was
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 02:12 |
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quote:http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...103-gtl6m5.html I always wonder about the poor public servants tasked with finding the magic set of questions that will convince terrorists/dole bludgers to turn themselves in.
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open24hours posted:"Applicants are also subjected to a character test, which prevents them attaining citizenship if they have a criminal conviction against their name. " I can't think of anything more Unaustralian than this.
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quote:Mr Dutton said he wants a debate on the test to weed out "a minority who are on a pathway to citizenship that we need to have a closer look at", including people involved in gang activity, crime and terrorism. quote:Applicants are also subjected to a character test, which prevents them attaining citizenship if they have a criminal conviction against their name. uhhh...
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of all the piss weak things that have been called Unaustralian, and my dislike if the word, if something were to be Unaustralian lack of criminality would be a defining feature.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 05:46 |
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They already check on people's criminal history, what Dutton wants is a test where applicants rule themselves out or can be caught in a lie to make rejecting them without review a simple rubber-stamp.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 05:49 |
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ewe2 posted:They already check on people's criminal history, what Dutton wants is a test where applicants rule themselves out or can be caught in a lie to make rejecting them without review a simple rubber-stamp. Are you a terrorist? No [ ] Lol [ ]
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 05:52 |
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open24hours posted:They're no worse (or better) than any other generation. If the people who are young now were young then we'd be in exactly the same situation. I've never seen you put up a source in your life and I'm not about to waste my time by asking now, so here's my source (there are others, it's just the first one I picked up). http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-do-we-become-more-conservative-with-age-47910
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ewe2 posted:They already check on people's criminal history, what Dutton wants is a test where applicants rule themselves out or can be caught in a lie to make rejecting them without review a simple rubber-stamp. Looks like it. quote:A draft cabinet document obtained by Fairfax Media last year proposed changes to "create stronger controls over access to permanent residency and citizenship" and a renewed citizenship test (and pledge) to "strengthen accountability for commitments made at citizenship conferral
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 06:36 |
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Starshark posted:I've never seen you put up a source in your life and I'm not about to waste my time by asking now, so here's my source (there are others, it's just the first one I picked up). quote:This means that the Conservatives probably shouldn’t be too worried about their support base thinning out and being replaced by younger, less conservative generations. If history repeats itself, then as people get older they will turn to the Conservatives. Our evidence suggests that this is probably not due to “social ageing” (getting married, having children or an increasing income), but rather to the direct psychological processes of ageing that tend to make people more resistant to change. This, in turn, makes people gravitate towards parties that defend the status quo.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 06:49 |
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We will see a "Strip Dole Bludgers Citizenship" headline at some point this year in the Daily Telegraph.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 06:51 |
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Zenithe posted:Are you a terrorist?
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 06:55 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:We will see a "Strip Dole Bludgers Citizenship" headline at some point this year in the Daily Telegraph. I'm all for welfare bludging former parliamentarians to be stripped of benefits and citizenship. Also "guest speaker", "undefined consultant" and "industry spokesperson" are no longer valid jobs in DancingShade's Utopian Australia and will count as "unemployed expel immediately".
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 07:07 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:We will see a "Strip Dole Bludgers Citizenship" headline at some point this year in the Daily Telegraph. They've already done articles about how many DSP recipients living overseas, so if I'd put money on that being targeted first.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 07:09 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They've already done articles about how many DSP recipients living overseas, so if I'd put money on that being targeted first. On one hand we live in a global economy and people should move to wherever the jobs are. On the other hand peasants should only move with express permission from their local landed Lordship and should otherwise stick to mucking out the pigs and fruit picking, grateful for any scraps thrown out from the Lord's table after he has eaten his fill and exercised his right of the first night with your bridge/groom.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 07:19 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They've already done articles about how many DSP recipients living overseas, so if I'd put money on that being targeted first. You get kicked off DSP if you stay overseas longer than a couple of months. So technically you can't actually do that.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 07:22 |
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Tokamak posted:You get kicked off DSP if you stay overseas longer than a couple of months. So technically you can't actually do that. Hey now let's not let facts get in the way of good rhetoric or claiming something already in place as a new "achievement".
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 07:23 |
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open24hours posted:That seems to contradict the point you were trying to make? AgentF posted:I don't understand it. Isn't it the same generation that were hippies and cared a lot about social change? How did they go from that to FYGM? I think that there is some unique Western phenomena going on here, because I've read (somewhat a while ago, I can't quite find the soure right now) that younger people in the Russian Federation are growing up more conservative on several points (I remember something about sexuality, and maybe womens rights or something) then the older generation who grew up under the Soviet Union. This isn't excusing or condoning the USSR, but it is somewhat of a counterpoint to the observation that everyone becomes relatively more conservative as they age. It's probably all relative, and we can't do a whole "what if" because everything about our current worldview is shaped by what's already happened. Also I mean there were hippies and poo poo but lol you should check out some of the older waves of feminism and how they viewed WoC, or the whole disunity within the original Lesbian/Gay rights thing and how they didn't want to be polluted by transgender people. These attitudes may or may not have changed in the intervening years.
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Also, in a feel good story, I've managed to convince my friend who normally votes ALP to preference the Greens first, as she thought she was throwing her vote away by voting for a minor party. I ended up explaining how the system worked (thanks to that amazing comic that exists on it), and she wishes the ALP would change it's focus and she agreed which much of the Greens policy so I'll take a win where I can. Too be fair, most of it stemmed from not understanding how voting works in Australia, which seems to be reaaaaaaaally common.
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