Fifty shades of crap clichés we should leave in 2012

scubasteve says:

07:10am | 02/01/13

yawn. worst hijack attempt ever.

ZSRenn says:

07:37am | 02/01/13

Another Abbott distraction acotrel. You guys will anything to lead us away, from our understanding,  that this is the worst government in Australian history.

Remember the words of Bob Brown. “Australians are smarter than this and they do not like to be patronised!”

Christine says:

07:41am | 02/01/13

Acotrel, why are you a labor supporter so desperate to remove the Leader of the Opposition.  Why should it bother you? Perhaps he has done too good a job for the Coalition.
Why else would you be so obsessively concerned about the Leader of a party you don’t vote for.

maria says:

08:07am | 02/01/13

Nothing will change for as long as direct democracy a la Switzerland in which only the people are sovereign will be denied to the Australian people.
You don’t have to be an Einstein to understand it ...you are irrelevant under the rules of the jerks in power.

craig2 says:

08:10am | 02/01/13

Aco: your ranting is very tiresome.

Hartz says:

08:51am | 02/01/13

Acotrel - you are the cliche I’d like to leave in 2012, although I do enjoy your constant confirmation of the Labor loony stereotype… Wooop wooop here comes Acotrel in his propeller hat…

PJ says:

09:40am | 02/01/13

In Europe, some 27 of the States there have elected centre political parties, dropping the reckless spending Socialist Parties, of which only 5 remain.

Since we are losing our Mining boom and the only solution offered is to pack our cities beyond toleration and sprawl them into the precious farmland, per haps we should take a heads up and get shot of our Socialist Lefties?

After all, just like some of their European counterparts, our Socialist Government have delivered record Budget deficits and record debt ceilings, which we cannot afford to expand on.

We are entering a phase where we need to conserve and build, rather than follow the suggestions from Acotrel.

George says:

10:03am | 02/01/13

Speak for yourself. It would be an advantage for a lot of us if all these countries quit printing money. Remember the old days when you’d be considered a nut job who should be running Zimbabwe if you suggested printing money? So what’s changed?

Christian Real says:

11:46am | 02/01/13

Tea Party = extreme far right wing Conservatives = Liberal/National party.
Abbott is a weak Leader, relying and resorting to smear campaigns and muck-raking to make up for and substitute for his lack of good,genuine policies.
Abbott is a liabillity and not an assett to our great country and would become a total disaster and embarrassment to our Country if he ever did get lucky enough to become Prime Minister.
Mark Riley exposed Abbott’s weakness in answering questions during an interview when Abbott became speechless and was unable to talk.
Imagine if Abbott had been Prime Minister at the time and he froze up and became speechless when asked questions from World Press journalists and reporters,he would become an embarrassment and laughing stock of our great Country.
It does appear that Abbott is not a Leader but the Court Jester of the Liberal/National party

goaway says:

02:26pm | 02/01/13

Can we have a downvote button? alcotrel tries to hijack every post with his idiocy and then I have to scroll past screens of retorts to get to comments on the actual article.

NoelT says:

02:36pm | 02/01/13

Christian Real says:
“Abbott is a weak Leader, relying and resorting to smear campaigns and muck-raking to make up for and substitute for his lack of good, genuine policies.”
Get real Christian! You are taking the piss aren’t you? The Gillard is the biggest, dirtiest, muck raking politician Australia has ever had, aided by her imported shitdigger McTernan. The Gillard can’t run the country, except into the ground, so she has to rely totally on trying to run the opposition into the ground, which she can’t do either. If the Australian people knew even the smallest truth of this corrupt Gillard regime they would be doing an Egyptian and marching in the streets in their thousands, let Albanese then say, “This is a “Convoy of No Consequence”......dirty little grub; mocking the concerned citizens who were exercising their democratic right to voice their opposition to the lie of a Carbon Tax. This ALP minority government is rotten to the core and The Gillard is the worm. Tony Abbott will be the next true PM and he will bring Australia back from the brink, then all you little GetUp/ ALPers can crawl away and hatch your next plot to erode the Australian economy, but don’t hold your breath waiting for that opportunity because you are going to be in the wilderness for a very, very, very long time. Remember the lie, “There will be no Carbon Tax under a government I lead.” Liar!

Christine says:

02:55pm | 02/01/13

Christian Real,
Are you for real with your comments.
Abbott is very much a strong leader who has pulled the Coalition together under difficult circumstances. He is a leader who put the party and policies first ahead of himself. 
Almost since day 1 of the Gillard/labour party taking government, Labour and their supporters have been screaming for the Coalition to release their policies for the next election.  What rubbish and why so desperate for Coalition policies when the Coalition was not in power and therefore could not implement policies.  Something smelt with these labour calls and still does.

As for your reference to the Mark Riley standoff by Abbott, perhaps you lack the knowledge to understand that when someone steps over the line, quite often a good tactical response is to respond with silence and a good stare.  Abbott wasn’t lost for words, he was deliberately holding back with decency.
Why are some labour supporters so desperate to smear this man?

As for your tea party nonsense, in every political party including labour there are degrees of conservative and radical, left or right leaning whatever you wish to call it.  Labour has more than its share of left, right wings, or middle road supporters.  This is the same for all.  Your generalisations are unworthy. Each party or group of supporters is made up of diverse views and in a democratic party, they are open to discuss same. Name calling and lobbing everyone into the same basket is nonsense.

Christian Real says:

03:43pm | 02/01/13

Noel T
You have the audacity to bag and run down the current government,they cannot be doing as bad as your Liberal party branch brainwashes you into believing.
Three credit rating agencies, Standard & Poor’s,Moody’s and Fitches have all given the Federal ALP Government a Triple AAA rating and Australia is one of six other countries to have a Triple AAA rating from these three top credit rating agencies.
The only lie about a carbon tax is the one that you and others are echoing on behalf of Liberal party headquarters.
The Prime Minister Promised before the last federal election to legislate a Price on Carbon,and she has kept that promise by legislating a Price on Carbon.
Misconstruing the truth will not make it become the truth for you and your Liberal colleagues.

nihonin says:

07:24am | 02/01/13

Or Jenny stating she could live on $35 a day, I’d like to see her do it and longer than just the usual bullshit of a week.  Be a bit of a challenge after leeching $900 a day off the tax payer teat.

Troy Flynn says:

09:30am | 02/01/13

Yep! Three FULL months on Newstart. No car, driver, paid lunches in the ministerial dining room, electorate allowance etc. Has to live in the only accommodation she can find and afford (we’ll assume she has paid bond already) and then also find three months worth of electricity, gas and water rates. Oh, and she has to apply for the minimum number of job applications per fortnight and get to interviews with only the help (bus & train tickets) that centrelink provides.

NoelT says:

02:45pm | 02/01/13

Geron….........The Gillard’s preferred oxymoron is, “Moving forward.” as the whole country goes backward into billions of dollars of debt! Campbell Newman removed the Bligh’s introduced policy that ALP politicians can legally lie in parliament…......howzat? The mighty Bligh condoning lying. The Gillard is also a compulsive liar…..must be in the ALP DNA. Tony Abbott will be the next PM of Australia and there’s nothing that you or The Gillard or any GetUp/ Union loudmouth can do to stop it. 2013 the year of the healing, the year of the recovery, the year Australia really begins to move forward and that ain’t no oxymoron.

Murray says:

07:12am | 02/01/13

Yep. Plus responsibility, possibility, and any other word ending in “ity”.  Especially when uttered relentlessly by Gillard - who doesn’t understand there is no ‘d’ in them (communidy, possibilidy, responsibilidy etc). Drives me nuts

Sundress In Sydney says:

07:39am | 02/01/13

Normally tied in with “Aussie Battlers”  or “Brave Single Mum”  ‘The Community has seen this Brave Single Mum, a true Aussie Battler, being treated in a most un-Australian manner by a misogynist.  But moving forward, the brave men and women of the police force are struggling to cope as shock sets in the community.’  This could actually be used for any news piece.

nihonin says:

07:57am | 02/01/13

Murray, she most likely believes ‘g’ should be pronounced as a ‘k’ as well.  As in thin(k)g, somethin(k)g or anythin(k)g. 

Seano says:

08:11am | 02/01/13

Yes because the budget being in surplus is far more important than doing what is economically sensible at the time.

PJ says:

09:44am | 02/01/13

** Quotes over the 2010 to 2012 period Promising of a Surplus**
1 “Today, I can assure every Australian that their Budget will be in Surplus in 2013.” - Julia Gillard
2 “Moving Forward means bringing the Budget into Surplus by 2013.”
3 “Brining us back to Surplus 3 years earlier.” - Swan
4 “(a Surplus is) important to our future and economic strength.”  - Swan
5 ..“it is achievable,” - Swan
6 “The Australian economy is in great shape and we are on track for a Surplus.
Outside of the Asia Pac those economies are in bad shape.” - Swan
7 “We are on track for a Surplus in 2013, on time and as promised.” - Swan
8 “We will bring the Budget to Surplus in 2013 exactly as promised.”
- Gillard
9 “It is in the interests of the Australian people to bring the Budget to Surplus.” - Gillard
10 ..“the Surplus is a buffer against Global uncertainty.” - Swan
11 “This 2012 Budget delivers a Surplus this coming year, on time.” - Swan Budget Speech May 2012.
12 “It is a modest Surplus, but one that is easily achievable given the economy we’ve got.” - Swan
13 “THE FOUR (4) YEARS OF SURPLUS I ANNOUNCED TONIGHT….”
- Swan Budget Speech May 2012.

Are you not astonished, that even as we all realised that a Surplus was impossible, this Government would not admit that also?

We need to ask the question, how much of a grasp does this Government have of our economy, that it could not see ages ago a surplus was impossible?

TimB says:

12:11pm | 02/01/13

‘Yes because the budget being in surplus is far more important than doing what is economically sensible at the time.’

I’d buy that argument had the ALP been saying that all along. Unfortunately for you, it’s a pretty recent line. It’s not even a month old yet.

The ALP aren’t leaving the budget in deficit because it’s economically sensible. They’re leaving it in deficit because after three years of moronic promises, they finally admitted to themselves that they couldn’t get to a surplus.

Their position is simply a result of their own stupidity, not any sudden burst of fisical responsibility.

Seano says:

02:17pm | 02/01/13

@PJ - My point wasn’t that Swan had planed and worked towards a surplus but that a surplus considering the current economic circumstances would be the irresponsible and wrong thing to do. But hey you keep ranting on mate. Meanwhile Abbott has promised a surplus, less taxes, more services, a carbon tax roll back, nannies for the rich, new roads and defense spending at the same percentage level of GDP as CHINA and lets not mention the economically disastrous paid parental leave scheme which will slug 3000 businesses regardless as opposed the carbon taxes 500 on a user pays basis.

But hey let’s just ignore Abbott/Hockeys promises of anything and everything to everyone that cannot possibly be delivered. Let’s make the focus on the government working towards a surplus but changing tact because of changing economic circumstances. Makes sense.

PS. As an obvious fan of history you’ll note that Peter Costello promised a budget surplus in 2001 but it ended up a deficit.

@trollb - I’m not interested in discussions with trolls.

craig2 says:

03:48pm | 02/01/13

Seano: TrollB (timb) is correct about his comments. If you haven’t got the nous to work out where this government is at, then you’ve just fallen for the spin BS you just wrote. With due respect, this government couldn’t pull a surplus in the biggest mining boom ever, so Seano, how is your “economic sensibility” line working out right now?

Christine says:

04:03pm | 02/01/13

Seano says
The difference is it has been common knowledge for sometime that the economic conditions were not so great and that the budget surplus was a figment. The writing was on the wall for all to see,  but the Gillard/Swan crowd failed to accept reality until it was absolutely forced on them and ridiculous to continue with the dream. Over estimating income in these times was fanciful.  In Swanny’s usual negative manner., he derided anyone who suggested otherwise. 

The goal of any government would admirably be to work towards a surplus, however the goal needs to be balanced against the economic conditions of the time.

Seano says:

08:10am | 02/01/13

Do *Something Stupid

Oh well YOLO

Audra Blue says:

01:07pm | 02/01/13

I’ve been seeing the YOLO thing around for a while but had no idea what it meant.

I couldn’t even summon the energy to find out.  I’m glad I know now but I could quite happily have continued on if I’d never found out at all.

Wow.  Two days into the new year and I’m already “meh”.

Seano says:

02:19pm | 02/01/13

Ha. Same here. Didn’t know what it was, just figured it was those wacky Gen Y kiddies.

PsychoHyena says:

03:31pm | 02/01/13

@Seano, please don’t lump all of Gen Y in with the idiots that do that stuff…

*sigh* it’s difficult being at the older end of a generation bracket. Though it’s probably the same with being at the younger end.

Markus says:

09:20am | 02/01/13

My only argument against the term is that it makes anybody who says it out loud look like a bigger knob than the person they are trying to ridicule.

I prefer to stick with pointing out the person’s princess complex or lack of testicles as a response to their inane whining.
Or to get them fervently riled up about something even more trivial, only to finally realise that I was actually taking the piss. That one is always fun.

Tubesteak says:

09:50am | 02/01/13

Markus
Depends on how much time you have and how fun it might be to rile them up. Sometimes I prefer “fwp” because it would be a waste of time pointing out the stupidity and pointlessness of their argument or my comment would be too offensive to post

Everything is a cost-benefit analysis

Null and Void says:

08:44am | 02/01/13

Yeah, I never want to hear Un-Australian again, either. Or hero.

paul says:

10:18am | 02/01/13

Garn , you forgot to mention Sliced Bread.

Markus says:

09:24am | 02/01/13

Still waiting for a scandal involving a major city water supply to be labelled ‘Watergate’ by the Aus media, without even a single hint of irony.

Troy Flynn says:

10:23am | 02/01/13

Agreed. Watergate was the name of the Hotel. It’s not like every scandal involves a hotel. Even if there was a hotel involved, it’s name is unlikely to include “gate” in the name.

Christine says:

10:23am | 02/01/13

Phantom with a name like that , who is the phoney one?.
Besides are you just parroting one of the PMs name calling tactics.
Name calling is for kindy kids.not adults.

core or non core of Labour government
-  Budget surplus - failed. (naive promise)
- Batts in Ceiling - failed
- No carbon tax - failed
- Education revolution - what happened?
- Boat policy - failed - ( unless of course the plan was to increase numbers)
Remember the Hawke promise ‘no child will be living in poverty’
intention is worthy but promise naive .

We need experienced politicians leading this country, yes they may make the occasional error, but one would think a lot less.

Sundress in Sydney says:

09:43am | 02/01/13

See, my computer hates me.  That was meant to be under Chris L at 8:47.  Then it might have been a mildly amusing post (to some anyway).  Now it just looks silly.  **sighs**

Philosopher says:

10:09am | 02/01/13

what gate? Why should we shut it? Oh Sundress, your comment so puzzled me it threw me into a depression.

Chris L says:

10:34am | 02/01/13

I knew what you meant Sundress

Rose says:

10:53am | 02/01/13

That one will be around until we achieve it!!

dougo says:

10:59am | 02/01/13

or until ‘we’ realise it’s a meaningless phrase. next.

Loz says:

01:34pm | 02/01/13

“Defs” is right up there too. Can that one!

Beck says:

11:38am | 02/01/13

P.S: specially by the master of the liars in the nasty Labor government. you know who I’m talking about! Everyone in Australia dose! :D

Chris L says:

10:37am | 02/01/13

That’s an old expression Bear. It’s meant to give us some variety so we’re not just repeating “when all is said and done” constantly.

Bear says:

10:54am | 02/01/13

Why would it be replaced with another cliche? How about just saying what you mean? It’s mostly superfluous. Its constant use is not old.

Rose says:

10:55am | 02/01/13

Where do you work, a sex shop?

Troy Flynn says:

11:50am | 02/01/13

The only problem with more books coming out is that a high percentage of them will likely be read on a Kindle or similar. Unless your sales are online you may find it hard to repeat that 84%.

pa_kelvin says:

11:30am | 02/01/13

Nice fix…

David T. says:

11:10am | 02/01/13

Happy New Year!  I could not exist on $38 a day even though my wife is an excellent housekeeper (and marvellous cook). We don’t run a car but it still costs more than $38 a day to live.
I really would like to see Ms Macklin be forced to do this for an extended period.
Look forward to sparring with you this year Robert!

Christine says:

11:12am | 02/01/13

In this technological era, it was pretty naive to try and cover up the comment re ‘I could’ referring to living on $38 per day. 
Why not straight honesty. We all get caught out from time to time with saying the wrong thing.  The question was clear as was the answer.
Cover up was unnecessary but probably part of damage control..
It would be a big struggle for anyone with hopefully lots of assistance from friends, relatives or charities if they were in a position to assist.  .

encee says:

12:46pm | 02/01/13

I couldn’t agree more PW.

Another one - embattled.

mattkas says:

02:45pm | 02/01/13

PW, what about, in news reporting: ” 23 people were killed, including women and children.”
- risk assessment (for everything).
- man up.

Troy Flynn says:

12:11pm | 02/01/13

Or in my case, the internet. I sincerely doubt I will be watching much commercial FTATV.

Robert S McCormick says:

01:36pm | 02/01/13

“Another Michael”,
I could not agree more! It’s not just those ersatz reality shows it is all those eternal repeats of repeats of repeats which the ABC, SBS, 7, 9 & 10 put on. When all those new Tv Sations came on-line the Free-to-Air people twittered on about how exciting all these new stations were, how we would be getting masses of Brand New Shows, a whole New World of Entertainment, you name it the FTA people were going to do it.
Reality?
ABCNews24? More self-advertising for the ABC than content
ABC1 Repeats of old shows which they have shown us numerous times during the last 15 years. (Midsommer Murders, Poirot, Miss Marple, the list goes on & on.
ABC2 Repeats of what has already been repeated numerous times on ABC1
Ch 7. This is the best of the lot. Yes, we get the repeats repeated repeatedly then on 72 really old stuff being churned out yet again
Ch 9. This is the Station which seems to have only one series & that is on all the bloody time: The Big Bang Theory. Yes, it was funny but it’s now tired & boring. Switch to 9s 99? More Bloody Great Big Bang Theory
Then, of course, there are their Reality Shows. Absolute garbage.
Ch 10. Does anyone actually even bother to switch to 10? They are now reduced to sending out repeats of their super-flop Lara Bingle, SUV, Masterchef.
If these commercial channels & the ABC are wondering why they are losing business & viewers then they only have to look in their mirrors for, just like their programmes, they will see nothing more than a repeat!
SBS is not quite so bad but I do wish in SA they would do something about their sound transmission for they do have some great shows on both SBS1 & 2. but the sound is appalling & no, it is not my set for all the other channels are fine so far as sound is concerned,
NITV (SBS34) is new &, at present, it is very interesting but for how long?

Blackadder says:

01:12pm | 02/01/13

Add to that ‘LOL’, Amac. It’s astounding how many douches say ‘LOL’ instead of actually laughing if something was funny…

And don’t get me started on, like, the multiple use of the word ‘like’, in every, like, sentence. It’s like, so brainlessly, like, stupid.

I hate pies says:

02:03pm | 02/01/13

And bloody “smart” phones. How many of us sat around at a gathering over christmas waiting for people to stop playing with their bloody phones. At one stage I counted 6 out of the 9 present playing with their phones. “Social” media my arse.

PW says:

02:31pm | 02/01/13

Sundress- Your young friend at work might be interested to know the use of “like” in this context goes back to Cheech and Chong in the early 1970’s and most probably well before, like the 50’s beatnik movement?