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Thread up on time? Well I never! Today, the courts will decide whether Cardinal George Pell will face trial for his alleged laundry list of sex crimes. It’s May, which means a flurry of state budgets, plus the FEDERAL BUDGET which is set to be good for the middle class and businesses but really poo poo for probably everyone else. There’s also the Melbourne Lord Mayoral election which could possibly potentially result in a Greens Lord Mayor! I’m sure other poo poo will happen, the world is hosed and we’re all going to die. MysticalMachineGun posted:Don't forget the ongoing Banking Royal Commission, which is doing a great job and claiming heads of neoliberal fuckos left and right The Before Times fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 1, 2018 |
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May 1, 2018 00:42
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I mean it's right there in the phrase 'fat people'
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May 1, 2018 00:49
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yeah, read a pack of tim tams and the serving size is one tim tam--heck, even some of the smaller 25-30g choco bars say 2 serves (I think kit kat chunkys are 3?)
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May 1, 2018 01:25
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Just to call back to an SBS article from last year: why fat shaming doesn't help anyonequote:Mental health issues like depression and anxiety can make it harder for an individual to lose weight. Research has found that people who experience weight-based discrimination are more likely to gain more weight than lose it. (the article contains a link to more info about the research)
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May 1, 2018 01:43
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I drink coke zero, and don't put sugar in my tea or coffee and I'm still fat af I just have an eating disorder and crippling anxiety!
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May 1, 2018 02:26
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affordable smashed avo, that's what I can get behind
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May 1, 2018 02:29
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lol health insurance, even at the top premium cover levels, would leave you like $4-6k out of pocket for any gastric surgery depending on surgeon and procedure.
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May 1, 2018 03:06
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JBP posted:I wasn't. I never said insurance, I meant he literally paid out of pocket due to years of rewards for lifting. yeah true, he's probably got the requisite $15k lying around from that sweet sweet parliamentary money
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May 1, 2018 03:12
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look at all these hypocrites ITT who hate landlords but still pay one money for their lodgings
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May 1, 2018 05:28
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Konomex posted:I hated landlords so much I became my own landlord. Free yourself from the yolk of landlord oppression and take up the yolk of bank oppression. where's that gif of homer simpson being unshackled from the stone of shame and then shackled to the stone of triumph
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May 1, 2018 05:58
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snoremac posted:Bolt saw the writing on the wall a while ago and declared it unjournalistic to comment on a case in progress. not a terrible decision given the profile of the case (a broken clock is right twice a day etc etc)
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May 1, 2018 06:46
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Lid posted:less gatekeeping more medically accepted terminology I mean, the article that sparked it all was about how more than 80% of aussies are going to be overweight or obese by 20whatever, so it's much of a muchness
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May 1, 2018 09:33
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Sued by who? And what for? Defamation, he implied (well, not just implied but flat-out claimed) that some family business/businessman in Qld was responsible for the deaths of a few people in the 2011 floods.
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May 2, 2018 01:03
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is this the one that was just charged by the CCC as well?
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May 3, 2018 00:46
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Anidav posted:Yes. Queensland govt is announcing right now it's dissolving Ipswich city council.
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May 3, 2018 00:53
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Doctor Spaceman posted:You can easily pay less than that if you live in Sydney's western suburbs, you're just a fair drive away from any of the major hubs. Commuting from the Central Coast might be easier. is that like, for a room in a sharehouse? I can't imagine $200 per week renting you anything more than that
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May 3, 2018 02:20
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you can get a shoebox studio place for upwards of 260/w in Melbourne, there's probably stuff on gumtree for cheaper but that'd be dodgier places
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May 3, 2018 02:42
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norp posted:In an ideal world the dole would be reset to a percentage of the current average full time wage every year. IMO it should, at the very least, be at the poverty line. That would almost double the single newstart rate.
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May 4, 2018 00:00
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Solemn Sloth posted:But if nobody is poor then everyone is The system needs a bunch of poor people to act as a deterrent so nobody wants to be poor!!
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May 4, 2018 00:12
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Not the corroboree frog! I love those little guys 
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May 4, 2018 01:54
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https://twitter.com/AboutTheHouse/status/992196750055161857 Looks like the nerds have taken over both the house of reps and senate twitter
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May 4, 2018 02:48
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is there a by-election?
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drunkill posted:no, but there will be a federal election very soon Hopefully not before 2019; my workload can't deal with a state AND fed election in one year
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May 4, 2018 04:51
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Solemn Sloth posted:The ETU is funding the socialist campaign for a seat in Victoria’s upper house, if successful they’d knock of Fiona patten which be loving fantastic Good.
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May 4, 2018 05:01
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Wouldn't that come under rent assistance, which is separate from the basic Newstart payment? rent assistance is pitiful though. You hit the maximum of $89 assistance if you are paying $240 per fortnight (for sharing. if you're renting outright then it's $189 maximum assistance at $289 per fortnight rent).
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May 4, 2018 05:22
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Yeah. You get a bit more if you're in a couple with kids etc but even then it's nowhere near enough.
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May 4, 2018 05:44
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lol 'good people'.
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May 7, 2018 00:34
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speaking of wage theft, hope everyone goes to their local Change The Rules rally!
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May 7, 2018 01:11
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but what else will we do with all this inner city retail frontage? we couldn't *possibly* turn it into affordable housing
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May 7, 2018 01:28
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Por que no los dos? Mixed use is good. Oh definitely; I've just seen a few mixed use apartment blocks go up where the retail part is chronically empty.
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May 7, 2018 02:35
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no you see as a *job creator* I am entitled to make a profit from my small business which is almost exactly the same as 500 other small businesses in the same area 
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May 7, 2018 02:46
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Nice! I'm hoping to get the morning off on Wednesday (seeing as I'll be at work til 10pm reacting to the commonwealth budget I think it's a fair trade) to go to the rally with a few gewns
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May 7, 2018 04:19
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BBJoey posted:what’s the over/under on how much a graphics designer charged for that logo the firm charged $20000 and paid their intern $0 to do it alternatively, the logo was done up by someone's mate in Word
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May 7, 2018 05:00
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gently caress I just realised what that is
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May 7, 2018 06:07
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actually it's a ring. where's the glowing mordor script also they apparently don't understand what the word 'abbreviation' means The Before Times fucked around with this message at 06:13 on May 7, 2018 |
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May 7, 2018 06:10
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e: ableist slur sorry folks
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May 7, 2018 07:21
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Dude McAwesome posted:Man who created structural deficit talks about budget and is listened to by people. I mean, all he did was gently caress up telecommunications in Australia and sell everything that wasn't nailed down
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hooman posted:I like that corporal punishment guy proposes a death sentence for any crime more serious that stealing a car. what about downloading a car
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gently caress yes
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