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Yeah Nah?
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Yeah Nah 122 53.51%
Nah Yeah 64 28.07%
Nah Yee 18 7.89%
No Yes 9 3.95%
Yes No 15 6.58%
Total: 228 votes
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EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I'm resigned to another lockdown. I know how to do it from last time.

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EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I've been half-jokingly saying this since March. So many fuckers get the drat thing and suddenly feel the need to get on a plane or drive halfway across the country.

Sadly, the truth is just that people are inconsiderate fuckstains.

I guess it's people that move around more that are more likely to pick it up as they contact more people and public surfaces
Also there's probably shut-ins getting it and nobody ever knows cos they aren't spreading it and might not have symptoms

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

What do you suggest we do, then?

The default response to new outbreaks cannot be "immediately go to stage 4" because there will inevitably be new cases that pop up until everyone is vaccinated. It isn't sustainable. Instead just introduce reasonable restrictions as circumstances present themselves - like right now.

The problem is nsw didn't introduce reasonable restrictions.
That effects other states with open borders

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

How is it offensive?

I think it's that at 4 weeks it's a cluster of cells vs 6 months or something where it's a foetus.
Idk not an expert

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

I'm saying you're a heartless piece of poo poo.

You're upset that nobody agrees with your views on covid and are arguing in bad faith

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

CelestialScribe posted:

You don't even know what my views on COVID are. No one here does. The only thing people know is that during the end of the lockdown, I took my son to a park that was slightly further away than the 5km travel limit.

If you want an audit of my views for the sake of it, here you go:

- I agree with everything the Vic state government has done except:
- The curfew was completely wrong and should never have been implemented as it wasn't recommended by health experts
- Specialist schools should have remained open during lockdown
- The 5km travel bubble should have been 10km to accommodate people at the edge of metropolitan areas
- The state government should have provided more financial assistance when announcing the harshest lockdowns in the country
- Daniel Andrews should step down for failing to run a competent hotel quarantine program that led to the second wave
- There should have been more exceptions to travel restrictions, like L platers wanting to practice in their car, or whatever
- They should have implemented lockdown plans during the end of the first wave, rather than scrambling around like fools during the second - they had months to prepare roadmaps and they didn't

That's it. I vote Greens, before you say anything.

I think you made most of those views known during lockdown and most people didn't agree with a lot of it. Also there was a sense that everyone agreed to follow the rules (regardless of how they felt about them) but you felt you shouldn't have to. I appreciate that it was a bad time for you, probably worse than most.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

bowmore posted:

I'm not sure what 3 days is supposed to do

Buy time for contact tracing

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

I went to Woolies after work today but some mega-fatties already stripped all the shelves bare so I'll have to try again tomorrow. I hope I don't get a $200 fine for not wearing a mask while trying to buy a mask.

Pharmacy will have masks, if you meant you were intending to get them from Woolies

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

I have lots of older relatives in Ireland, pretty scary

EoinCannon fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jan 9, 2021

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Sulla Faex posted:

Sledging is just "part of the game" according to australian cricket players, famed sportsmanship puritans

to be fair the wikipedia page suggests that its a global phenomenon. must just be a good sport

That kind of thing definitely happens in all sports. The current Australian cricket team is probably the least sledgy version of that team ever, even the fast bowlers don't do much more than glare a bit. Not that I like trash talk but footy, basketball etc are all full of it also

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
It could be that getting into someone's head in cricket actually has more of an effect than other sports. Cricket being a game of millimeters at times and requiring immense concentration for long periods

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
If we want a republic we should just do a brexit thing where you tell lies like it costs us lots of money and drive around in a bus and poo poo

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

bell jar posted:

Unironically though, where else would you rather live? For me it would probably only be New Zealand

All my extended family live in Ireland and I spent a few months there a few years ago with thoughts of moving there or England but the weather is pretty rough if you've grown up in Australia. I'll maybe look into it again in 10 years or so.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

freebooter posted:

Ireland I think is cool. In fact it would appear to outrank us on the HDI index now! You have to pay to see a GP though.

Yeah Irish politics and culture is less dire than ours in many ways, notwithstanding some weird Catholic bits and pieces.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Megillah Gorilla posted:

^^^ Yeah, even an ignorant arse like myself knows that's hella illegal.


God. loving. Dammit.

We shut off the car racing, and the yacht racing. But stupid loving tennis?

I think at one point Andrews or someone kind of implied that if they didn't hold the Australian open this year Melbourne would lose it for good. Personally I don't mind if that happens but they don't want to be the govt that lost the tennis I guess

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

freebooter posted:

Nothing's making me more worried about the Melbourne cluster (and more concerned there's something we haven't been told yet) than the fact that Morrison has said he would support a short-sharp lockdown

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...212-p571tf.html

Maybe they're thinking that the majority support short lockdowns so they're trying to get on the right side of public opinion?

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I lost track of how this one started, was it someone here for the tennis?

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Tomberforce posted:

So does regional vic have the 5km restriction too? Because the nearest shop is 18km from my house hahaha

You'll have to pony express your groceries home with people that live incrementally closer to the shop

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
People gonna be furious that we have to wear masks again

*edit* only when we can't do 1.5m distancing it seems

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Sierra Madre posted:

What is teardrop twitter?

I was just about to ask this, google isn't helping me

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Comstar posted:

Can someone explain this to me:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-01/why-interest-rates-are-soaring-and-what-it-means-for-you/13201602


The Money Markets are all betting that inflation will go up. Central banks are spending taxpayers money on it not. And Wages Will Not Go Up Because That's Government Policy. So inflation hasn't happened, isn't happening and won't happen.

So who exactly is wrong here? I need someone to explain this too me.

I thought the general idea is that large govt spending (pandemic stimulus) creates inflation so the central bank tries to slow down the economy to prevent this by raising interest rates. The article seems to say that interest rates are increasing independent of the reserve bank, I don't really get how that works. If we get inflation we need wage increases cos our wages buy less.

I wanted to buy a house this year and the promise of rising interest rates and house prices shooting up at record levels right now is pretty cool

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I'm amazed you folks can watch this kind of thing, you're stronger or more masochistic than I am

I'll read a transcript or summary but no way could I actually listen to it

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Blair Cottrell just walked past a pub in which I was sitting, in Mornington
I wonder if he lives down here or if he's on a long weekend break like me?
He's really loving large

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

kirbysuperstar posted:

Like a fat gently caress or roids?

Big muscles, probably some fat but the general vibe was yoked as gently caress

It's like seeing a celebrity for real but the poo poo kind that puts you off your food cos you remember he exists

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
The conservative Christians in America got politically organised for the 1980 election, wonder what took them so long over here? Maybe we don't have that tradition of charismatic preaching and evangelism where the preacher gets the congregation fired up. Also we have more Catholics I think. Seems like the Hillsong type megachurches are getting more common so I look forward to this all being terrible.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

freebooter posted:

If you block a road in the Melbourne CBD you are basically only blocking trams and I think we're a tad past the "raising awareness" stage of climate change

They need to lie down on Punt Rd, Kings Way and the Westgate bridge simultaneously for maximum car disruption

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

teacup posted:

Hopefully he’s brought on to just kill him. I’m not sure if Michael Moore is good or bad actually these days either.

I think he was a Bernie guy, heard him a little while back on chapo or something and he seemed OK.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

duck monster posted:

Bad? No. Past his prime, absolutely.

Moore used to do amazing work, with his docos. But that last one on climate just sucked, and he managed to piss basically everybody off about it.

His first few docos made a big impression on me when I was younger but yeah I think his time kind of passed

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

diversity of tough

I know it's wrong of me, but it's hard to treat the document with the seriousness it deserves after I see a typo like that.

It's a problem I need to work on.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I've never come across this debate before, it's pretty interesting.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

spaceblancmange posted:

Just lol if Michael Slater is the one that finally makes the Federal government do something about quarantine facilities

Lol but it makes sense that they would listen to cricketers, if it was Steve Waugh they would have planes going to India by now

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I was in a pub on Southbank when an anti vax March went past. There was some wwg1wga Q anon and save the children placards in there too. Also some kind of local proud boy type fellows. Nobody's making them get vaccinated so I don't know what they're so het up about. It was fun to have real people to shout at instead of a screen for a change though.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
ABC survey - 95% of people think politicians should resign if they tell a lie to the Australian people.
This seems crazy to me, all lies are not equal, and the way politicians speak nowadays almost everything could be construed as lying
Lying by omission, cherry picking, vague language, being asked a question that is confidential or sensitive in some way and addressing it truthfully would be dangerous etc.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
We could have a dictatorship of the fact checkers

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

cohsae posted:

That's nice but what it means in reality is when a politician from a party I didn't vote for lies about anything they should be in front of a firing squad, if a politician from the party I did vote for lies it actually wasn't a lie it's the biased media.

Makes me wonder if people were giving this stupid ABC survey the serious consideration it deserves

I guess my point was every politician lies so almost every Australian wants the entire political body to resign or doesn't think all politicians lie, I can't figure out which one is weirder.

EoinCannon fucked around with this message at 10:13 on May 24, 2021

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

GoldStandardConure posted:

stop licking doorknobs you scrunts

Come down here and make me

You can pry the doorknob out of my cold, dead, unable-to-taste mouth

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

alf_pogs posted:

what's the likelihood of the Vic lockdown being extended again? the multiple variants news isn't great

seems like they're telling the truth and it really is impossible to tell, the situation changes from day to day.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
It's taking jobs that rightfully belong to our trusted, local variant

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
As if the Queenslanders didn't hate us enough already

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EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I've never really watched a jordies video but now I'm on his side in being racist against Italians or whatever this is

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