Punch on: Open thread 04/01/2012

Rick of the Dustbowl says:

07:47am | 04/01/12

Where,s the meeting?

James1 says:

07:36am | 04/01/12

I see what you did there.

Seth Brundle says:

01:09pm | 05/01/12

I don’t.

iMitchy says:

12:16pm | 04/01/12

That reads like a ninemsn news article.

Sigh says:

05:18pm | 04/01/12

It’s not a spelling error though, it’s a punctuation error. However, it was a nice try and because of that we’ll even let you stay on the planet.

Meh says:

08:56am | 04/01/12

I bet you would be tremendously disappointed that you can’t see a glacier move while you are watching it. Bet you would think it doesn’t move as well.

Hi Five’s all around for nonoggin

Dieter Moeckel says:

09:14am | 04/01/12

Watching a glacier is like watching the grass grow during the summer cricket.

nihonin says:

09:50am | 04/01/12

I’ve been to a glacier in new Zealand, the Fox Glacier Mch, you know you can actually see it move.  Thanks for the cheap insult too, then again shouldn’t consider much from someone who doesn’t have a clue.

marley says:

07:29am | 04/01/12

In other words, someone over the age of 60.  (Just kidding!)

James says:

04:34pm | 04/01/12

Oh dear, could you be anymore condescending? Was your comment rhetorical or did you genuinely mean this comment KH?  Furthermore, speaking of grammar, it is a space three (3) dots, space then continue the thought or trail off into silence, it’s called an ellipsis and should always be used correctly. I have to admit, the incorrect use of it drives me batty.

nihonin says:

07:32am | 04/01/12

Initiate a group consensus on developing a forward movement towards scaling back possible negative outcomes that may deflect a positive solution.

Wickerman says:

07:53am | 04/01/12

Leverage inter-team synergies to produce a win-win situation going forward. Also initiate the socialisation of the plan to the stakeholders.

jay-ded says:

07:55am | 04/01/12

Yous both must works for the guverment.

Fiddler says:

08:43am | 04/01/12

needs some synergy. Make sure you are really proactive, it’s a whole new paradigm

Mahhrat says:

08:50am | 04/01/12

I can translate these:

@Nihonin - “Talk about what might go wrong”

@Wickerman - “Build teamwork, and have a party with the contractors invited.”

@jay-ded - Pretty much.

Bob Higgs says:

08:57am | 04/01/12

@nihonin @Wickerman you both sent me into a death cringe.  It reminded me that there are people that copy-talk like that, and even worse, think it is impressive.

nihonin says:

09:53am | 04/01/12

I don’t work for the government, learnt gobbledy gook from watching from watching politicians (especially the wiz ol’ Kev) on the news.

old fart says:

10:34am | 04/01/12

@jayded
I wonder if I might crave your momentary indulgence in order to discharge a by-no-means disagreeable obligation which has, over the years, become more or less established practice within government circles as we approach the terminal period of the calendar year, of course, not financial. In fact, not to put too fine a point on it, Week Fifty-One and submit to you, with all appropriate deference, for your consideration at a convenient juncture, a sincere and sanguine expectation—indeed confidence, indeed one might go so far as to say hope—that the aforementioned period may be, at the end of the day, when all relevant factors have been taken into consideration, susceptible to being deemed to be such as to merit a final verdict of having been by no means unsatisfactory in its overall outcome and, in the final analysis, to give grounds for being judged, on mature reflection, to have been conducive to generating a degree of gratification which will be seen in retrospect to have been significantly higher than the general average.

Thats government, Sir Humphrey the master

Wickerman says:

10:37am | 04/01/12

@Bob - agreed. But that’s a big paradigm shift, Bob. Clearly what we need is some cutting edge solutions to facilitate deliverable outcomes, leveraged against a sound SWOT analysis before we can safely say we have hit a home run. I’d like to touch base with you on the Australian management brand ASAP but I’m afraid I’m time poor at the moment.

Fiddler says:

11:18am | 04/01/12

That Guy: OK, let’s work on your execu-speak. I’m worried about “blank”.
Fry: Don’t you worry about “blank”. Let me worry about “blank”.
That Guy: Good. I also would have accepted, “Blank? Blank? You’re not looking at the big picture!”
[Mom coughs from behind Fry and he and That Guy look up.]
Fry: (weakly) What a pleasant surprise!
Mom: Shut up, booger blaster! It’s time the three of us had a talk.
That Guy: I’ll handle this, Fry. You get back to the farm, shift some paradigms, revolutionize outside the box.

jay-ded says:

11:36am | 04/01/12

@ Old Fart.

Classic.  Loved it. 

Bob Higgs says:

03:21pm | 04/01/12

I started thinking inside the box, as it was nice and quiet there.

fairsfair says:

10:55am | 04/01/12

Lol - hopefully they can incorporate Joe the Cameraman’s recent segway stack into that new campaign.

James says:

04:43pm | 04/01/12

*sigh* it’s segue not “segway”. Some people always miss the point in what they are reading.

fairsfair says:

08:50am | 05/01/12

http://www.segway.com/

Oh no.

RJB says:

07:54am | 04/01/12

You need to include “rediculous,” an often used favourite on this site.

Aitch B says:

08:15am | 04/01/12

Yeah….. and “burgandy”

Markus says:

08:48am | 04/01/12

@RJB, one would only use that if your a looser.

KM says:

09:00am | 04/01/12

Markus
Are you calling fairs a loser?
Stop it immediately or you’ll scare her off again. She’s a delicate flower.

Yuri says:

09:48am | 04/01/12

@KM
Nah, she won’t leave, she’ll just use a different moniker. Maybe her initials?

fairsfair says:

10:52am | 04/01/12

Ah - this place just never changes.

Why you don’t like me Badger I will never know.

jay-ded says:

11:37am | 04/01/12

@ fairs.  Can’t be Badger Fairs.  At least Badger can spell “Loser”. hehehe

TimB says:

11:50am | 04/01/12

Nah Jay-ded, Badger is KM.

Standard MO of his alias’s making veiled references to other Punchers. (Plus he’s used it before )

The Badger says:

12:09pm | 04/01/12

Never said I didn’t like you fairsfair.
You have a refreshing take on life and some old school wisdom in your posts.
You do tend to spell some words wrong consistently though.

PS. Tell timmie to stop leaving his scent all over your hedges. It’s putting the other dogs off.

fairsfair says:

03:03pm | 04/01/12

It’s just bad habits from when I was learning to touch type at age 15. I don’t proofread my comments, so I don’t pick up my slack errors and minor dyslexia attacks.

I find it physically impossible to put two spaces afer a full stop, I always spell agreement agreeemnt and I often get my e and i around the wrong way. Unco I may be, but delicate flower I am not and that is about the fifth time you have called me that Badger. Funny thing is, I respect your opinion most of the time too, but then you have to go and get personal - which I’m sorry, I find a bit odd. I just don’t converse with people who speak to me like I am a piece of crap. Like our old friend Seano – when he was still contributing under that name I decided that I would never join in on any conversation that he was a part of. Why, because he was downright nasty and impossible to have a discussion with. He spends most of his time telling you what he thinks you were saying and taking offence to it and never listened to what you actually were saying. Life is too short to associate with such people, in real life and online.  I think we would all be happier if we just ignored idiots and only engaged with people who respected other people’s views – even if they don’t agree with them. Actually, if that makes me a delicate flower – I’ll wear that.
Keep the jokes and quotes coming though Badge - I always enjoy them and they are always very apt.

The Badger says:

03:24pm | 04/01/12

Fairsfair
This ones or you.
Promise - no clowns at the end of this tinyurl.
I’m sure it will make you laugh

http://tinyurl.com/6twudq

AdamC says:

03:57pm | 04/01/12

The question, Badge, is do we believe Mrs Harrington? I mean, that would be a mighty big shovel that she’s selling!

fairsfair says:

04:32pm | 04/01/12

Harrington is an exotic dancing liar!

Oldie but a goodie This one is my favourite (I have shared it more than once).

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule2

Sneakin Sally says:

04:35pm | 04/01/12

Mrs. Harrington looks quite hot!
and she’s a ranga!

James says:

04:55pm | 04/01/12

... “stupider” anyone? A blogger in the Herald Sun commenting on a uni student’s thesis, claimed (sic) “that unis were producing stupider people all the time”

jay-ded says:

07:57am | 04/01/12

Where’s your apostrophe mick e?

AdamC says:

08:11am | 04/01/12

The NBN idea was hatched to solve a political problem for the ALP when they realised no private sector partners were going to materialise for their preferred, lower-cost public/private partnership plan. People forget that. To me, it is no surprise that a poorly-conceived Plan B approach to broadband rollout isn’t working especially well. (Not to mention, government monopolies don’t have am illustrious history of meeting their targets!)

What is surprising is that this cynical cock-up gets so little attention in the press. Oh, wait, silly me, this is the Australian media we are talking about - of course it doesn’t!

Mr Mustela says:

09:19am | 04/01/12

Good work you get two gold stars, one for each.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais,

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful… Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain

AdamC says:

09:37am | 04/01/12

Mr Mustela, so, I take it that your point is that you don’t have a point. Or, at least, not a sensible point.

Or did you just want to show us that you can do cut and paste?

SimonFromLakemba says:

09:39am | 04/01/12

‘What is surprising is that this cynical cock-up gets so little attention in the press. Oh, wait, silly me, this is the Australian media we are talking about - of course it doesn’t! ‘

News LTD have been running a massive campaign against it since day one!

Hamish says:

09:40am | 04/01/12

AdamC, I’m pretty sure it will have no trouble making its targeted budget of…what is it? $12 billion, no $28 billion, no $36 billion…oh no that’s right $42 billion. Biggest white elephant of all time. I wonder if it will ever actually be finished.

TimB says:

09:58am | 04/01/12

Adam, Mustela is Badger. Cut and paste is about his only hope of even attempting to convey a valid point- He sure as hell can’t come up with his own.

Hamish says:

10:08am | 04/01/12

Simon, you mean The Australian not News Ltd. Anyway, why on earth would they care about the gov spending $40 billion being spent with no business case (or plan really) to create a monopoly all so that farmers on outstations 200km from Katherine can get super fast porn.

AdamC says:

10:20am | 04/01/12

@Simon from Lakemba, I must say I hadn’t noticed it. Maybe the Tele in Sydney is into the NBN. I have seen some coverage in the Australian, but very little anywhere else.

@Hamish, indeed. And, as the head of NBN Co noted, take up rates don’t really matter because, once Conroy and JuLiar have ripped out the existing copper network, everyone will need to sign up with the NBN to get basic telephony and internet services anyway! Now that’s some not-so creative destruction!

@TimB, oh, the Badge. I stand corrected. No doubt our old mate forgot cut and paste and wrote out the quotations instead!

SimonFromLakemba says:

10:39am | 04/01/12

I read the Telegraph everyday, and for a paper its pretty school yard journalism when it comes to the NBN. I don’t mind if they are against it, free right to do whatever you want, but the articles are rarely backed up, things taken out of context, LeftRightOut wrote some good stuff on here the other day about it.

Whether the NBN will be good for Australia, who knows? I’m not an IT guru to comment, same reason why I don’t comment on Climate Change. But from some reports that I have seen, people in the industry seem to say its good.

SimonFromLakemba says:

11:06am | 04/01/12

@AdamC

I think I posted something but not sure if it went through!

I read the Telegraph everyday, and its so lop sided its embarrassing. Obviously the NBN is going to have its faults along the way and they should be reported as such, but they have already been caught out lying 3 times about it and the problem is people will believe it.

Whether the NBN will be good, I’m not to tell as I’m not an IT guru, same reason I don’t comment on Climate Change, but the majority of IT nerds seem to think it will be great.

But what I find funny is the Liberal members representing their constituency whinge about the NBN, and then whinge again when they will only be getting the wireless component of it.

I just wish we had more broad journalists in Australia that were smart across a lot of topics instead of being one sided hacks, from whichever side.

John Smythe says:

11:24am | 04/01/12

....I just wish we had more broad journalists in Australia that were smart across a lot of topics instead of being one sided hacks, from whichever side.

Here here!

/waitsforthe..buthisisanopinionsiteresponse.

Just spent the New Year in Singers….nice and warm down there!

James1 says:

09:02am | 04/01/12

What are you, a communist?

TChong says:

09:41am | 04/01/12

geez cracked has changed.
When I was a young’un cracked was always consided the less funny rival of Mad.
Now it appears to have become a very staid news mag.

chuck says:

08:21am | 04/01/12

Says a bit about our lovely subsidised Indonesian neighbours who of course have no reason to destabilize Australia or deflect internal public opinion unless of course they are serious about attracting wealthy tourists from Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India or Bangladesh.
Some of the Myer models/dummies must be an example of our recent failure to protect our borders ha, ha.

KH says:

09:28am | 04/01/12

We could put up a sign at the border - ‘Early Boat Get’s The Visa’.  If they can’t pick the mistake, they are rejected.

James1 says:

11:51am | 04/01/12

On the other hand, the Indonesians are, for the first time, pursuing legislation that makes people smuggling out of the country illegal.  It’s not all bad news.

TimB says:

09:34am | 04/01/12

Buladelah? Really? We flew through there. Usually do. Unlucky for you Dash.

Kempsey is our usual bottleneck although we managed to get through in about 15 minutes this year. Macksville though…ergh. Every year a new set of lights goes in. The traffic was backed up all the way to Warrell Creek. Awful.

TChong says:

09:55am | 04/01/12

TimB
next time yur stuck at Warrel creek, head up to Mt yarrahapini.
Pretty spectacular views

TimB says:

10:29am | 04/01/12

Did that about 10-15 years back Chongy. You’re right it’s spectacular. As I recall you can see all the way to Kempsey at least, if not further.

On the traffic jam front, thankfully Macksville is home turf for my parents. Sneaking in the back way avoids the worst of the traffic .

SimonFromLakemba says:

11:21am | 04/01/12

Macksville: Greg Inglis territory?

fairsfair says:

11:33am | 04/01/12

Happy New Year Dash! and all

Resignation has not happened yet. I have a few irons in the fire so here is hoping something comes from one of those and I can end this nightmare of nobody talking to anyone etc. It is rather childish and I am tired of trying to take the mature road, so I have just joined them.

We went nowhere for Christmas (just to the homestead, so it was pretty standard) and it wasn’t really all that hot (even though for some reason there were heaps of flies). I heard every fly joke known to man over that period and needless to say we are now screening the joint. Farcical. My bonbon produced an eye patch and it was well teamed with the moustache that came from the sister’s. The jokes were horrific and UK based, so we had to research them to see if they were even funny. “How do you get two whales in a car? Down the M4 and across the Bridge”. Those crazy Welchmen! 

So no traffic woes from me, even though a man was killed in the creek up the road from my parent’s house on Christmas night - which was rather sad. There is no worse feeling than watching a dodgy Christmas movie with your loved ones and hearing the ambulance go past. Very sad.

TimB says:

11:45am | 04/01/12

@ Simon, yep. Dad used to play for the same local club as Inglis back in the day, the mighty Bowraville Tigers.

Extra little knife twist when we see the local boy run out for QLD. Grr.

Dash says:

12:23pm | 04/01/12

@Fairs - good luck with the irons!!

I’m thinking of packing this gig in too. I’ve decided I want a life that doesn’t involve heading to work at 6am and leaving work at 7pm daily. I had a great time at the beach last week surfing with my boys. And lots of cuddles with my little girl who’s 2. I should see more of them before they start asking for the keys to the car.

Here - money’s great, but the place is miserable and half of any bonus I earn for working those hours goes anyway. What’s the point?

Going to the homestead for Christmas is not nowhere Fairs! Family is what Christmas is all about.

SimonFromLakemba says:

12:51pm | 04/01/12

@TimB

SOO eligibility is a farce, soon all you will have to do is visit Brisbane’s airport to be considered to play for them.

fairsfair says:

03:44pm | 04/01/12

Dash, money is lovely, but earning enough to pay off stuff you don’t really need isn’t worth it when you are either missing out on enjoying those things or bitterly unhappy about having to do it. My father worked away at the mines and we had a big flash house, a fast car, the other one was a mercedes, any kind of toy we wanted, my brother had a full Snap On tool kit at age 12 and the our loungeroom housed the biggest TV in the street. We never wanted for anything, except to spend time with our father. He then went and had a stroke at age 56 and it was hardly worth all of his hard work. 

I’m glad I have realised this at a young(ish) age, but at the same time, I can see how people want to strive for more (particularly if they have kids) and work hard to get it, but I think you must reach a point where you realise that what you have is enough and taking a hit to the pay packet is worth being home and in your comfortable pants by 6:00pm. In 2012 I am not going to allow myself to be dazzled by the extra dollars (they have made my life harder, not better) and I am going to seek a position that pays my bills and allows me to go home at a decent hour, feeling like I have done a good days work that was not filled with sullen faced fools who wouldn’t know easy going it if bit them in the a*se.

TimB says:

09:39am | 04/01/12

I remember back in the early 90’s when 15+ was touted as the ultimate in sunscreen.

Kebabpete says:

09:42am | 04/01/12

Australia has an upper advertised limit of SPF30+ but many (specifically those that claim to offer all day protection) actually have much higher ratings.

Apparently its meant to stop companies from misleading consumers but I can’e see how.

fairsfair says:

09:55am | 04/01/12

I used to work in a pharmacy and the way it was presented to us by the company reps seemed to make sense… because this was a fairly common question from overseas tourists who came in wanting to buy products.

The + indicates that it is above and given just how harsh the Australian sun is some great holy power advised that if you went selling 100+ sunscreen Aussies would think that they would only need to apply it once a day or only a little bit, or that it was some how three times better than 30+ - which is not actually the case. In Australia 30+ is the max and some (most) sunscreens are actually rated at 100+, but are required to only declare themselves as 30+.

The restriction made sense to me when you would get English tourists coming in for advice. They were usually out to the reef the next day and wanted to get a “cracking tan”. Still take the 30+ I would say - you will still burn. They were not going to have any of that and always took the LeTan 4+... they then usually returned the next day to visit the medical centre or to get some of that Lanacane gel… They just didn’ listen and did not at all understand how harsh the sun was or how the + system worked.

So after all my blabbing, if I recall correctly - we are stuck with 30+ (even though most of them are 100+) because the authorities don’t want to give a false sense of “security” to people as you are still going to fry with 100+ on your skin.

bella starkey says:

10:05am | 04/01/12

The reason is SPF 100 means nothing. In America there is no standard for the manufacturers to what they can claim, here there is. It is the same product, different label.

Here and in other countries the government doesn’t want people to have false hope in the ability of a sunscreen to protect you from the sun, so they say 30+ which in essence means the product has the ability to provide 30 times (or more) protection from the sun than bare skin. A product that claims 100+ is most likely the same exact ingredients, same amount of protection but with an extra psychological marketing element that makes you think that it means 100% protection not 100 times more.

Dash says:

10:40am | 04/01/12

@Fairs - Happy New Year! How did the resignation go?

Rowdy says:

02:56pm | 04/01/12

However, the second mouse gets the cheese….

KH says:

09:29am | 04/01/12

Its bad news for worms.  Good news for the birds…...........

Aitch B says:

10:38am | 04/01/12

@Lyndon

Shouldn’t that read “dummy’s”?

nihonin says:

09:55am | 04/01/12

“Hornbags”, condoms perhaps?

AdamC says:

09:50am | 04/01/12

Godiva, I think the government’s current border protection policy is not to have any policy that may be perceived as equiavlent to Coalition border protection policy. The problem with that, of course, is that the other policy options either don’t work or have been stymied by the High Court.

Whatever happened to Bowen and Morrison having Christmas dinner together and sorting this whole thing out?

SimonFromLakemba says:

11:14am | 04/01/12

@AdamC

Agree there. Howard created his own little piece of paradise in Nauru that wasn’t covered under the UN or by Australian law, the only saving grace was that Australia was helping run it.

So Labor come in, promise to make it more humane and have completely stuffed it. Every week it goes on it becomes more and more embarrassing for the Government as they have no solid policy, and the one they did have ( Malaysia ), how can you put a number on refugees? the 800 mark wasn’t going to last long

But then you had the Liberals at one point with Dr No and his boat phone dragging the boats back to Indonesia!, oh the irony.

Honestly Labor should of left it how it was with Nauru, made them sign the UN refugee convention and all would of been sorted.

AdamC says:

12:16pm | 04/01/12

Simon, I agree. It was a strategic error by the government.

Shane From Melbourne says:

02:56pm | 04/01/12

Australia should just withdraw from the UCHR and then jail any person without a valid visa (including visa overstayers). Also abolish the informal migration arrangement with New Zealand.
Problem solved. Next.

Rick of the Dustbowl says:

03:41pm | 04/01/12

99% of the refugee’s sent to Naru ended up in Australia anyway. Howard may have stopped the boats but did not stop the people on the boats. WAFWOM

mick e mause says:

05:18pm | 04/01/12

rick 99% of the people deemed to be genuine asylum seekers came to Aus but that was only 45% of the people sent to Naru!

Godiva says:

06:37pm | 04/01/12

Here we go again! My post was about PM Ulia and her government not having a border protection policy and our nation having no say in who comes here! I repeat the Coalition have a policy - give it a go! It seemed that AdamC was the only one that read and understood what I was talking about.

Yes Punch whatever happened to Bowen wanting to not only have turkey with Morrison but talk turkey on Xmas day! Oh well something like that!

That Nossy blogger mentioned something about the flag being flown upside down in Canberra! What a start for the infamous Ulia and for the nation she is trying desperately to govern so as to remain PM. It spells bad karma all over! Let’s hope and pray Clarke & Ponting’s tons are not wasted and another win in Sydney.

nihonin says:

10:29am | 04/01/12

What do you reckon TChong, will we win the series, I think we’re in with a good chance.  Go Punter, he’s looking good with the bat and it’s good to see Clarke up there as well.  C’mon Aussie C’mon.

TChong says:

11:45am | 04/01/12

nihonin
Lunch - Clarkey 100+, Ponting 97
Its been pretty lean post Ashes.
Clarkeys setting a great example with the bat ,  ably assisted by The Venerable Punter.
The Skip and Punter are the backbone of the team.
20s,50s or Traditional,  cant get enough.
More than a game,its a way of life

nihonin says:

12:10pm | 04/01/12

‘More than a game,its a way of life’.

No argument here, TChong.  Thank god for holidays to sit back and enjoy some quality sport.

TChong says:

12:30pm | 04/01/12

13:25. 
Has to be one of Punters finest centuries!!!
( spose they all are when you get to see em !)

Dash says:

12:31pm | 04/01/12

100 up for Punter - Yay!

Where are all the fools who were calling for his head now?? 12,800 runs at 53! Best Australian batsman I’ve ever seen play.

I’ll never forget that World Cup final where he destroyed India on his own. Just brilliant.

Dot says:

12:37pm | 04/01/12

Dash
Is Ponting 53 already?

I would have put him at 36 or so.

nihonin says:

12:57pm | 04/01/12

Where are all the fools who were calling for his head now??

In hiding, as it is befits their unsubstantiated calls.

AFR says:

01:00pm | 04/01/12

Thank God for the TV in my office!
Dash - I’d say the naysayers are in the same place as the constant Clarke-haters.

Dash says:

03:02pm | 04/01/12

@Dot OMG - Ponting has scored those runs at an average of 53!

TimB says:

03:17pm | 04/01/12

Dash don’t point out Badger’s ignorance. He may bite. And then you don’t know what you’ll catch.

And do my eyes decieve me or is Clark on the verge of a double century? By the time this comment is posted he’ll either have reached it or India will have gotten him out. Hopefully the former.

Semi Concerned Citizen says:

03:30pm | 04/01/12

Clarkey 200, well done bucko. It hurt me to say that, I have been a big detractor of old clarkey but if the shoes appropriately spiced, one must consume it.

SimonFromLakemba says:

12:55pm | 04/01/12

haha how good was that!!

It was most probably a staffer in the Liberals policy room

jay-ded says:

02:17pm | 04/01/12

@nossy.  mwhahahahaha - Parliament in distress -  some of the comments are pure gold! 

nossy says:

03:24pm | 04/01/12

@SimonFromLakemba couldnt be from there Simon - theres no policies bar “NO”

SimonFromLakemba says:

01:00pm | 04/01/12

The lift rant I have is when people are waiting for the lift they wait so close to the doors so when the people walk out they run straight into them, honestly makes we wonder how stupid people can be sometimes.

                            -OR-

When idiots, especially on George St ( Sydney ) think its a great idea to walk into the middle of the road while the lights are green to somehow get to the other side of the road quicker, only to be left standing there potentially creating an accident only to save themselves a meager 1 minute?

fairsfair says:

01:27pm | 04/01/12

There are two lifts in our building. I love it when you arrive to press the button as someone else with one going up, one headed downstairs… one lift arrives (them having hit the button first) and they seem to think that you are going to kill and/or maim them, to beat them and hijack their transporation. They get overly protective and then do as Simon says (no pun) and crowd out the doors.

I sometimes do falsies in the step forward department just to mess with their heads That coupled with the often full lift travelling to the floor - hilarity ensues. In a four storey building, it is not that long a wait - which is why I use the stairs 99.9% of the time.

jay-ded says:

02:21pm | 04/01/12

*groan* that’s so bad it’s good

SimonFromLakemba says:

01:53pm | 04/01/12

Most probably as an Australian born citizen has an age of consent at 16?

The refugee has no family AT ALL here in Australia, so bringing his family is the logical thing to do.

PS: I’m not in agreement with kicking the kid out at 16, I have always believed that a kid in foster care should stay as long as they want provided they are deserving.

AdamC says:

02:11pm | 04/01/12

Has this actually happened? It seems a little unlikely to me.

Arturo says:

02:13pm | 04/01/12

I agree, this Australian government cares more about refugees and asylum seekers than it does about its own people and I for one am bloody sick of it.

This government can go get bloody lost as far as I’m concerned.

SimonFromLakemba says:

02:25pm | 04/01/12

That was the big argument in USA, whether or not to let the banks fall.

Problem there is the Banks/Investment firms have their hands in everything so it would of brought down a lot more then it it.

Ireland should never have done it personally.

Rick of the Dustbowl says:

03:28pm | 04/01/12

Good spelling should be made a priority?.........because there are so many other things in life that we can neglect, like good maners…...sorry for any spelling errors.

SimonFromLakemba says:

03:55pm | 04/01/12

hahaha yes! Don’t think they’ll ever change.

Rick of the Dustbowl says:

02:19pm | 05/01/12

That’s pure gold

Shane From Melbourne says:

03:49pm | 04/01/12

Tony Abbott and policies is like handing a kid some matches. You just know it’s going to end badly…...

nihonin says:

03:53pm | 04/01/12

nossy, Julia (let’s not forget Bob) has NO policy too unpalatable to push through the lower house.  Time for the hose nossy ol’ mate mwahaha.

student says:

03:58pm | 04/01/12

politics is a game of slogans.
political slogans like most slogans, are designed to be empty containers that we can fill with whatever we want.
The conservatives have settled on three very simple slogans and they all start with one of the following”
stop the
great big new tax on
NO

Empty minds love this stuff, because it doesn’t make their head hurt.
Abbott wouldn’t kNOw good policy if it jumped up on his shoulder and smacked him about the head shouting I am good policy.

TheRealDave says:

09:09pm | 04/01/12

Just keep raiding the bastards club houses over and over and over again. Pull them over every time they pull their noses out of their houses. Defect their bikes. Pinch them for jaywalking.

In essence, run the feral maggots out of town.

Annette says:

11:09pm | 04/01/12

LJ Dots, that is a winner in my opinion!