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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

DancingShade posted:

The parts of Brisbane in the background look a bit like a distant favela. Maybe a hint of South American slum with a rich/poor divide illuminated in lurid purple?

That's just Logan.

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 13:05

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Tremor is detected in North Korea, raising fears it has conducted another nuclear test

# ¿ Sep 3, 2017 05:00

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/904306279996243969

# ¿ Sep 3, 2017 12:55

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Within margin of error = meaningless.

Meanwhile in the Australian - big article about the Turnbull comeback.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2017 13:23

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

“What I can recall at the end of the flight were some words where Turnbull berated Abbott in front of three of Abbott’s staffers to the words to the effect of, ‘You’re the most disloyal c ... I’ve ever met’,” the source said. “He was affected by alcohol. He castigated the prime minister in front of his staff. He castigated George.”

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 00:02

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

"Hope hotel five star - let them know I don't stay in trash."

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 03:06

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

DancingShade posted:

Combat Corps in the army mind you. Not some support role where he doesn't need to regularly pass a CFT. DEFINITELY not Navy or RAAF. We want him to sweat a bit.

Load his pack up with rocks and see how long he lasts before his spine fucks up.

Also make his home unit remote bush where the internet is more of a concept than a reality.

Caleb receives a medical exemption from serving due to acne.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 08:42

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/TheCalebBond/status/904601160257961984

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 10:07

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Just lol if you don't listen to all your music on limited edition cassette tapes as god intended.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 11:41

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Anyone watching four corners, how hosed is it?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 12:08

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Just lol if you don't listen to music on your cassette stacker.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 13:03

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

But I like to sponke the monkey.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 13:26

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Media watch had a go at Caleb Bond

quote:

And that very same day The Advertiser�s columnist, Caleb Bond, who looks like he should still be at school, was complaining

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 13:30

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 13:51

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 00:22

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Makes you think eh?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 00:24

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Excuse me stewardess, I think my seatbelt is gay.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 00:25

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 00:26

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Ahem

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 07:40

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Tantalus in Melbourne worked on the Twilight Princess HD port.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 08:01

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

norp posted:

I prefer games about australia like "Papers, Please"

Escape from Woomera?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 10:37

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Outspoken right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt has been chased through the streets of Melbourne this afternoon by a gang of anti-fascist thugs hell bent on glitter-bombing him again.

But Bolt wouldn�t have a bar of it.

Rather than let the gutter-dwelling communists catch him unawares, the barrel-chested South Australian tried his level best to outrun his assailants.

After a running gun battle through Richmond and Hawthorn in Melbourne�s lawless east, during which Bolt is said to have shot up to six of the left-wing goons chasing him, they caught up with him a short time ago at the Maroondah Reservoir Park in the capital�s far east.

�What is it you want?!� screamed the 57-year-old as he stood on the edge of the dam wall.

�I�m merely exercising my right to free speech, much the same as you are! If you kill me now, you�re no better than the forces you say you�re fighting!�

Given the option to surrender himself and be glitter-bombed or jump to his death, Bolt punched one last activist in the throat before throwing himself from the dam into the churning spillway below.

The Sun-Herald columnist was last seen on the banks of the Watts River about a kilometre from the reservoir coughing up water and cursing softly under his breath.

More to come.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 12:12

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

A large number of Australians clearly give greater allegiance to the LGBTI than they give to their country. Their demands for SSM have split this country brother against brother and heterosexual against homosexual and that division will continue for a lifetime.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2017 13:05

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Zenithe posted:

As someone who is entering a health profession in ~a year, I have had two separate deadly serious lectures about how boomers are going to have extremely high expectations and how to deal with that from a healthy perspective.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 00:35

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https://twitter.com/forager_gareth/status/905203350127362048

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 02:44

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buzzfeed news posted:

Early on, Donaghue pointed out that even if the legal challenges win on the arguments around spending money, it may not stop the survey: “Nothing put on the financial side of the case deals with the question of whether the survey can proceed.”

The ABS could technically dip into its regular budget to fund the survey — depriving the agency of funds to carry out other things. Donaghue’s statement doesn’t mean this will definitely happen, but the mere suggestion had the LGBTI advocates watching on rattled.

Lol a 122$ million plebiscite is like 1/4 of the ABS's annual budget.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 09:15

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https://twitter.com/rpy/status/905272848373207042

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 12:49

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Zenithe posted:

Didn't someone say this was a third of their budget or something insane?

122 million $ plebiscite, ABS total budget for 2015-2016 $562,622,000

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 01:17

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Make ABS fund plebiscite out of existing budget, then give ABS 122 million from the advance to the finance minister as an urgent and unforeseen expenditure.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 01:20

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# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 04:08

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Should I pay 20$ to see a Tom Tilley DJ set?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 05:30

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Even my dealer is supporting marriage equality, get on board with it guys.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 08:43

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Also they are counting by electorates so individual MPs can have a fig leaf to vote no.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 10:03

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

# ¿ Sep 7, 2017 14:14

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Is Amazon going to crash the retailers' Christmas party?
By business reporter, Stephen Letts

As if retailers weren't having a tough enough time already, now it looks likely the global giant Amazon is going to crash their Christmas party.

All the signs are Amazon could mobilise its Australian operations in the next 60 days, perhaps even as early next month, according to Citi retail analyst Brian Raymond.

"Buying terms have been set and first orders have been placed with suppliers in recent weeks," Mr Raymond said.

Amazon has also already announced it has secured a large fulfillment centre � a digital term for packaging warehouse � on the outskirts of Melbourne and staff recruitment has started.

A decision has yet to be made on a larger distribution centre in Sydney, but it is doubtful it would be up and running before the Christmas rush.

"Launch timing remains uncertain and subject to website and logistics testing, but we would expect a formal launch to occur sometime in October, ahead of Black Friday on 24 November," Mr Raymond wrote in a research note to clients.

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is regarded as the start of the pre-Christmas consumer binge in the US, a one-day, discount-fuelled buying frenzy.

Mr Raymond said Amazon was unlikely to have its full sales arsenal available in Australia immediately and therefore would compete aggressively on price alone.

"Amazon will not have a meaningful advantage in two of their three key pillars in the short term � range and delivery, which will evolve over time," he said.

"As a result, we expect prices to be competitive in order to drive volume."

That margin crunching approach will do nothing to lift the festive spirits of local retailers affected by a customer base weighed down by low wage growth, high debt and shrinking savings.
Amazon's Australian retail raid

The most recent retail figures showed sales largely stalled in July and went backwards in a number of states including New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.

Department stores, the sector most likely to be immediately and seriously impacted by Amazon, resumed their downward march, with sales declining 1.6 per cent in July, the tenth monthly fall in the past year.

Mr Raymond said the worry for the bricks-and-mortar retailers would be Amazon's strategy of matching or being the lowest price in the market at all times.

"This could spark a response from incumbent retailers who are intent on not being beaten by Amazon on price during the key pre-Christmas sales event," he said.

On Citi's figures, the sales impact in the three months leading up to New Years Day could be in the order of $200 million � or roughly 0.2 per cent of total Australian retail sales � with the bulk of the damage done by price competition, rather than the loss of market share.

As the initial target is likely to be the gift market, Citi argued the retailers likely to be hit first were department stores and those selling electronics, leisure goods, clothing and footwear.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/amazon-to-crash-australian-retail-christmas-party/8885062

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# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 03:33

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Meanwhile on gumtree:

# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 11:03

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Cartoon posted:

In my industry a bunch of distributors are putting in no selling via Amazon (and other online resellers) clauses into their supply agreements. Interesting times.

is that even legal?

# ¿ Sep 8, 2017 12:23