Punch on: Open thread 01/10/2010

Andy D says:

07:36am | 01/10/10

The voters spoke, Labor lost. But then the independents spoke…

T.Chong says:

07:55am | 01/10/10

acotrel- havent you read Sophies Friday funny - the LNP didnt lose, they just got 2nd place, but the voters really wnted them, just didnt actually vote for them, so therefore the Libs still won.
Just ask Sophie, Bronny, Scotty etc they’ll tell you so.

Aitch B says:

08:14am | 01/10/10

@acotrel

So Arbib, his cronies and the AWU are big mining companies, are they?

Gee…... who’d have thunk!

Oxnard says:

01:42pm | 01/10/10

It was a draw. WA Nationals refuse to be part of the Coalition. So 72-72.

Anyway, can’t we just outsource the leadership to someone who can do it without it sounding like a pre-school where the children have had too much red cordial and refuse to share there toys.
I would say outsource to our traditional outsource partners (India) but I’d rather not be attacked by monkeys and snakes while using public transport.

acotrel says:

08:54am | 01/10/10

Aitch B. Tony Abbott knew exactly what he was doing when he sided with the mining companies to oppose a law which would have meant them paying fair taxes on money earnt in Australia. That the ALP got nervous and deposed Rudd was their own business. It was a reaction to a highly financed corporate campaign with potential to damage the party.

Aitch B says:

12:03pm | 01/10/10

@Alcotrel

Do you have any facts to back up your assertion that Abbott and the mining companies were acting together?

Facts….. not your ALP biased musings.

acotrel says:

09:34am | 01/10/10

The Libs have been given some unusual nicknames - ‘Poodle’ for Christopher Pyne, ‘Fascist Barbie’ and ‘Devil Eyes’ for somebody else, and of course there’s Shrek! Did you hear the one about Julia being chucked out of Maccas?  They said ‘we don’t want any more read headed clowns in here’

acotrel says:

01:12pm | 01/10/10

AitchB, The mining companies complained bitterly, and Abbott responded immediately.  There was no doubt about what the agenda would be for the upcoming election!  Rudd has paid for an error of judgement.  If he’d kept his mouth shut until after the election, the mining companies and Abbott would have been worn down over three years, and Australians would receive just returns for the exploiation of their resources. And Rudd would still be PM!

stephen says:

10:43am | 01/10/10

Calibre’s fer rifles.
Nicely put acotrel.

acotrel says:

01:19pm | 01/10/10

Stephen, If Abbott had decent policies which demonstrated a vision for the future of Australian industry. And if he wasn’t a dangerous neofascist ratbag, the Coalition would have romped home by a mile.  They had the field all to themselves, and still couldn’t get there!
  So who empowered the independents? - TONY ABBOTT
WELL DONE TONY ABBOTT - they’re all nice guys and Australia will do very well with them calling the shots!

hot tub political machine says:

12:10pm | 01/10/10

A touch of Keating

acotrel says:

04:09pm | 01/10/10

Santa is a commie?  That probably explains his silly caring & sharing ways!

TimB says:

01:47pm | 01/10/10

*raises hand*

Credit where credit is due, that’s my thinking.

But feel free to go on assuming I’m related to every article writer I agree with if you like.

fairsfair says:

02:04pm | 01/10/10

Yep, and there is not enough of it.

I am so sick of people only focussing on the negatives. I got a new mobile the other day and went out of my way to email the manager of the store to commend the young girl who sold it to me. She was lovely and lovelyness goes unnoticed these days.

As a society we are all so cynical and ready to pounce on someone who makes a simple mistake. Like spelling loveliness incorrectly.

fairsfair says:

12:56pm | 01/10/10

I am sick of “social commentators”. What a tooley term. They are popping up everywhere though - tis a slight worry!

hot tub political machine says:

01:26pm | 01/10/10

You don’t have to listen to them. Or anyone who follows them either.

hot tub political machine says:

02:21pm | 01/10/10

I remember hearing an MP say he got death threats once over daylight savings. I like his response, basically said he could have understood if he got death threats over something significant like say abortion or euthanasia…but daylight savings?

acotrel says:

04:20pm | 01/10/10

Daylight saving is like this baseload thing with renewable energy!  You can’t turn the sun off and on, so how can you save daylight?  Perhaps the Queenslanders could build a hydro scheme, and use the extra daylight for solar cells to pump water up to a higher level, then use it to generate electricity when demand sets the price higher? Anyway when we have daylight saving, the extra hour of daylight makes the paint on my house fade quicker, so where’s the real saving?

fairsfair says:

05:28pm | 01/10/10

Acotrel, you offer nothing to the argument and it is stupid sarcastic comments like that that immediately get those with a genuine wish to actually debate the topic’s hackles up.

If people state faded curtains etc etc as a joke they are sh*tstirrers. If they genuinely believe it they literally are an idiot.

I am not quite sure what you are just yet, but I am fast reaching a decision.

Oh and your task over the weekend - please learn the difference between replying to a comment and starting a new thread. And also replying to the right comment. Far out!

TimB says:

04:30pm | 01/10/10

My sympathies Nicole. I went through the same thing last year when I was flat hunting.

Most of the agents I rang about properties never called me back. 95% of the properties I ended up seeing (including the one I eventually bought) were via weekend open inspections.

acotrel says:

04:30pm | 01/10/10

What I like about real estate agents is that, if they’re selling your house for you, they beat your price down for the buyer, even though you’re the one paying them.  A quick sale is important to them, not YOUR interests.  Similarly, if you are buying, they show you property way outside your price range, then try to screw you for the extra.  I realise they have the problem of getting the seller, and the buyer to meet in the middle on price, but the seller is the one who hires the agent, and pays his fee. It’s about time final price negotiations happened face to face between seller and buyer, with the agent arbitrating?

Nicole says:

05:26pm | 01/10/10

@acotrel, agreed wholeheartedly. They’re supposed to work for the vendor not the buyer. Unfortunately the work only for themselves.

@TimB, that’s precisely what’s going to happen to me. I’ve got about for opens I’m going to tomorrow and that’s more than likely how we’ll end up buying. As I said, fakken real estate agents!