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The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Charlie's woke ANZAC day is cancelled



Absolutely not what ww1 was about but go off king

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SecretOfSteel
Apr 29, 2007

The secret of steel has always
carried with it a mystery.

Got to get Charlie to the level of Tay...

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mahershalalhashbaz
Jul 22, 2021

drat thing told me that as a chatbot it can't see or sense ghosts, then refused to answer any more of my questions. useless. waste of taxpayer money

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not one soul:

Peter Fitz: https://x.com/peter_fitz/status/1782646299655123142

Everything is so complex my stars

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Also why the gently caress is there an Afrika Korps reunion

Captain Theron
Mar 22, 2010

Solemn Sloth posted:

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not one soul:

Peter Fitz: https://x.com/peter_fitz/status/1782646299655123142

He is such a weird man.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

hambeet posted:

lol, every few years for the past what.. 12.. 13 years, a new mod or admin comes in worrying about decorum and wanting us to clean up our act.

hasn't worked yet.

I like how in the rest of the forums it's like "Don't talk to the Australians, they're all insane." and we're standing behind them, bug-eyed and nodding emphatically.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

Solemn Sloth posted:

the myth of the apolitical nazi general provides cover for those who "are just in it for the aesthetics"

can we get him an invite to the Blaskowitz reunion?

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

The Peccadillo posted:

Also why the gently caress is there an Afrika Korps reunion

unfinished business

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
On my way to the Hrvatski Dom for a catch up with the retired Ustase club.

E: I'm not one of them I'm just a scholar and fan of their work.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
also rommel is such an anodyne choice for 'good german', he didn't do poo poo except have good pr. if you feel you have to like a nazi (and you shouldn't, just to be clear) why not wilhelm canaris? he sabotaged the nazi intelligence apparatus that he was in charge of out of spite and got executed in a concentration camp! he still loving sucked poo poo and was a nazi but at least he helped gently caress up the war effort real good.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!
https://twitter.com/TheIdiotTax/status/1783322072237932664

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

He looks like Andrew Bolt. Is there a mold all of these dumbasses get poured into on the way to becoming economics correspondants?

Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.

thatbastardken posted:

if you feel you have to like a nazi (and you shouldn't, just to be clear) why not wilhelm canaris?
John Rabe is probably a much better choice imo. The right choice is that you don't have to like a nazi.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Budzilla posted:

John Rabe is probably a much better choice imo. The right choice is that you don't have to like a nazi.

I was thinking of him, saved all those Chinese people. He wasn't a nazi politician or armed services though, he was a party member cos he was a business leader and you pretty much had to be a member to be in business. Still a nazi though so gently caress that guy

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
gonna start a conspiracy theory that the push for cashless is a way to get rid of two up

Rougey
Oct 24, 2013

Recoome posted:

Thank you for your service Rigel in defending the ~e-honoure~ of notable rapist Bruce Lehrmann

We still don't know who has been notable rapist Bruce Lehrmann, right? :tinfoil:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Non Compos Mentis posted:

gonna start a conspiracy theory that the push for cashless is a way to get rid of two up

i was thinking it was more to make an innumerate society easier to sustain.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
no its a way for the woke to disparage our anzacs

Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not one soul:

Peter Fitz: https://x.com/peter_fitz/status/1782646299655123142

1 - Why would you go to a Nazi veteran reunion?
2 - Why would you believe anything you were told by the attendees of a Nazi veteran reunion?
3 - Why would you ever, ever admit to this?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Angry Salami posted:

1 - Why would you go to a Nazi veteran reunion?
2 - Why would you believe anything you were told by the attendees of a Nazi veteran reunion?
3 - Why would you ever, ever admit to this?

I feel you're missing the very simple answer to all 3 questions.

Because they're a Nazi.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Fitzsimons is the weirdest bloke.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Saw a printed out A4 sign the other day saying CASH IS KING and it's like, why do these motherfuckers think anyone is going to get rid of hard currency. WHY

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Saw a printed out A4 sign the other day saying CASH IS KING and it's like, why do these motherfuckers think anyone is going to get rid of hard currency. WHY

Because the more they can remove hard currency the more people can insert themselves as middlemen charging fees for transactions.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Cash is good for not paying taxes I suppose, but I still have to pay for a bank account and electronic is cheaper than paying $2 to withdraw cash.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

hooman posted:

Because the more they can remove hard currency the more people can insert themselves as middlemen charging fees for transactions.

Our entire banking system is backed by hard currency/gold/whatever and that's not going away any time soon


JBP posted:

Cash is good for not paying taxes I suppose, but I still have to pay for a bank account and electronic is cheaper than paying $2 to withdraw cash.

For sure

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Saw a printed out A4 sign the other day saying CASH IS KING and it's like, why do these motherfuckers think anyone is going to get rid of hard currency. WHY

to kill the spirit of the anzacs

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Saw a printed out A4 sign the other day saying CASH IS KING and it's like, why do these motherfuckers think anyone is going to get rid of hard currency. WHY

Rampant tax avoidance in small business, plus for larger businesses dealing with cash is in itself an expense (transporting, security, etc) plus what hooman said about businesses realising at some point in the last few years they can just force customers to swallow the EFTPOS surcharge instead of copping it themselves.

I don't think there's any desire for radical overnight change, but from a government perspective I cannot actually think of any reason they should stand in the way of a natural drift towards a cashless society.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Our entire banking system is backed by hard currency/gold/whatever and that's not going away any time soon

We haven't been on the gold standard for more than 100 years and IIRC the figure of money that actually exists as physical cash in any industrialised country is like 10%

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Saw a printed out A4 sign the other day saying CASH IS KING and it's like, why do these motherfuckers think anyone is going to get rid of hard currency. WHY

Cash is doomed. Visa and Mastercard will see to that. Armarguard is also doomed unless the government gives them big sacks of cash in electronic form.


No you won’t escape their middlemen parasite charges either.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Our entire banking system is backed by hard currency/gold/whatever and that's not going away any time soon

Uhhh, I'm not a real bank head so I can be corrected here, but I'm pretty sure it isn't and hasn't been for quite a while. Even the RBA's gold reserves haven't changed since '97.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

freebooter posted:

We haven't been on the gold standard for more than 100 years and IIRC the figure of money that actually exists as physical cash in any industrialised country is like 10%

hooman posted:

Uhhh, I'm not a real bank head so I can be corrected here, but I'm pretty sure it isn't and hasn't been for quite a while. Even the RBA's gold reserves haven't changed since '97.

Wow I'm really out of touch, I thought Die Hard 3 was a documentary, clearly

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Guardian AU posted:

Sydney man Benjamin Cohen, who was wrongly named on air by Seven News as the Bondi Junction killer, has reached a confidential settlement with the network.
The university student engaged defamation lawyers and sent a concerns notice to Seven 10 days ago. The network offered to make amends and Cohen has accepted the terms.
...
“Both Mr Shirvington and Ms McLeod nevertheless wish to offer their own personal apology to you for the hurt and distress caused. Whilst Seven does not suggest that it is relevant to your reaction, we nevertheless note that the staff members involved are deeply remorseful and traumatised by the mistake.”

Always nice to see Channel 7 eating poo poo. Gross to see the crybullying "we were traumatised by this mistake" poo poo.

Guardian AU posted:

In 2022 another man was wrongly identified as Cleo Smith’s alleged kidnapper by the Seven Network. He reached a confidential settlement in the supreme court of Western Australia.

WEIRD HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING!

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺
People panicking about cash disappearing would do well to remember that you can't get a thousand dollar escort or 8 ball of lovely coke on debit card

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

People panicking about cash disappearing would do well to remember that you can't get a thousand dollar escort or 8 ball of lovely coke on debit card

*taps on Bruce Lehrmann*

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/scott-morrison-anxiety-medication-while-prime-minister/103771560

Boohoo.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
i don't hold a ssri mate

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005


I thought his church believed depression and anxiety were the devil?

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Solemn Sloth posted:

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not one soul:

Peter Fitz: https://x.com/peter_fitz/status/1782646299655123142

The "good nazi" myth needs to loving die already. Rommel was a oval office.




edit: I see this was already covered. Good :colbert:

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Apr 26, 2024

GrandMaster
Aug 15, 2004
laidback

It's not anxiety, it's his conscience talking to him

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freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Wow I'm really out of touch, I thought Die Hard 3 was a documentary, clearly

Gold is still valuable and lots of governments still keep a gold reserve, it's just not the basis we use for valuing our currency anymore.

This (fairly old) article is about bitcoin but starts with a really interesting look at what "money" is, exactly.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

People panicking about cash disappearing would do well to remember that you can't get a thousand dollar escort or 8 ball of lovely coke on debit card

Eventually crypto will stop being seen as a speculative asset and will return to what God intended it for: black market transactions.

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