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Give me another few days.
since Tim has left the floor open, I have a question for anyone on an Aussie campus at the moment.
This is the first calendar year without compulsory student unionism. I’m curious: have you noticed any changes? What was “orientation week” like? Has there been a decrease in rabid moonbattery? Are there still extreme left groups going around plastering advertising on every flat surface they can find?Posted by daddy dave on 2007 04 21 at 02:31 PM • permalink#2: haven’t noticed much if any change on campus, although i don’t spend much time there. the basal level of retarded moonbattery is still evident through their advertising
my overall opinion judging by my campus is that moonbattery has trended down over the past few years due to the student body not giving a shit. no-one really cares, e.g. I haven’t seen any bozos selling green left weekly for a few years, whereas they were much more common in say 2002 or so.
anyway, that’s just my campus and my observations of it, i could be wrong
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2007 04 21 at 02:48 PM • permalinkFrom a speech (in PDF format) by a Professor at the University of South Australia:
Australia’s treatment of asylum-seekers in mandatory detention camps in remote outposts or Pacific Islands pending determination of refugee status is a form of ‘ethnic caging’, a morally repugnant form of othering, that has nothing to do with justice or with security or with peaceful intercultural relationships.
(pg. 8 - bold added)
Ethnic caging? Nothing to do with security?
Not so sure…
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 04 21 at 03:34 PM • permalinkOnce again, reflecting on the horrors of wanton toilet paper use and its effects on gerbil worming has caused a greenie, this time Sheryl Crow, to propose a solution:
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 21 at 04:13 PM • permalinkRight Tim.
The answer is 42. You can stop searching now.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 04 21 at 04:33 PM • permalink#9 - that link is hilarious. “Dining sleeve”, FFS.
Clueless faux greenies who can’t do a lick of math are an endless source of entertainment.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 04 21 at 04:36 PM • permalinkHe may be checking into John Edward’s proposal for Universal Hair Care.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 04 21 at 04:54 PM • permalink#2 - I’ve noticed a good deal of change. Prior to VSU, we had a few union-run businesses (cafeteria, post office, newsagency, bookstore) and a bank branch. Since then, we now have another bank branch, another cafe, a juice bar, a coffee shop and a Subway. I don’t eat on campus, but friends have said that the union-run cafe has had to raise prices, but quality has improved.
I haven’t seen any detrimental effects so far - the unionists are as active as ever, and seem to be working pretty hard to attract people to join by trying to supply services students find useful, and by reducing the union fee to $17/year (down from the compulsory $350).
Campus life has improved immeasurably, and I haven’t spoken to anyone who would rather go back to the old system.
J.M.—it probably won’t take him as much time as it takes Edwards…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 21 at 05:08 PM • permalinkHow’s this?
“Reject Howard, says top medical journal
“The medical journal The Lancet has denounced the Prime Minister and urged its Australian readers to vote against him in the election.
“In an editorial titled ‘Australia: the politics of fear and neglect’, the journal says John Howard has jeopardised Australia’s enviable reputation in medical science ...”
PS: Isn’t The Lancet the journal that has a bit of trouble with statistics?
A news item on one of the commercial channels last night showed pictures of Murdoch being all friendly with KRudd in New York.
It was claimed that Murdoch had endorsed KRudd as Australia’s next Prime Minister.
I am having trouble believing this.
Maybe Murdoch meant that Krudd would win when Howard retires in 2037.And this? (Extract from an article in The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 April:
“The NSW Government has launched a prison crackdown on a group of the state’s most dangerous criminals who have converted to Islam.
“The targets are held in the highest security jail in Australia, the Super Max facility inside the walls of Goulburn jail, where one in three of the inmates is a Muslim fundamentalist or a convert.
“Attorney-General John Hatzistergos is introducing sweeping changes to the prison regulations so the Super Max Muslims are monitored 24/7 because of safety and security fears.
“Called the ‘Super Max Jihadists’, they are easily identifiable, with shaven heads, long beards, carrying prayer beads and conducting prayers at least three times a day in their cells.
“Their ringleader and powerbroker is Bassam Hamzy, jailed for 21 years for the cold-blooded shooting murder of an 18-year-old man outside the Mr Goodbar nightclub in Oxford Street in 1998.
“Prison officers have confiscated pictures of Osama bin Laden from the walls of Hamzy’s cell. Prisoners have been captured on surveillance tapes kneeling in front of Hamzy and kissing his hands.
“…
“The crackdown will stop money being sent by sympathisers on the outside to influence inmates to convert to Islam.
“…
“‘We don’t have a difficulty with people taking up a religion per se in jail,’ Mr Hatzistergos said. ‘A lot of people do and that can be beneficial. Where we do draw the line is where religion is really a camouflage for other activities. If any person thinks that by taking up religion, that somehow it is going to lead to them being treated differently on a day-to-day basis, they will be sadly mistaken.’
“He was supported by Mr Woodham, who said: ‘We’re concerned about real heavy criminals who have had no interest in religion at all during their lives but, on coming to jail, then convert to Islam. A number of Aboriginal prisoners, unfortunately, doing impossible sentences, have converted to Islam. They denounce their Aboriginality for Islam…’
“Mr Hatzistergos, who is also Justice Minister, said the Department of Corrective Services would face justifiable criticism if it didn’t act in response to the safety and security of the prison system being compromised. ‘We make no apologies for it,’ he said. ‘We are dealing here with, religion or no religion, some of the worst of the worst offenders who have no respect for authority’.
“‘The thought that somehow religion has acted as a catharsis for them and made them see the light is, quite frankly, ludicrous’.”
We are having fun in Oz these days. But I am surprised that this appeared as an exclusive in the Herald.
All this ``busy’’ has me wondering if there isn’t a big wedding in the offing.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 04 21 at 05:32 PM • permalink#2 - The head of the UWA student union was quoted recently in the papers. He was bragging that membership numbers hadn’t fallen away there like everywhere else.
What the article failed to mention is that membership in the student union has been thrown wide open. The student union is no longer exclusively for students - the academic staff are welcome too. Ha! I think they’d give you a card if you were the guy who delivered the milk or one of the old ladies who walks the dog around the oval.
The rewards are mostly discounts on your lunches and coffee which are conveniently overpriced for non-members. I’d rather walk over to the shops where the quality of both is better.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 21 at 05:57 PM • permalink#2 - the UTAS student association is for some reason blanket TV advertising for students to join their (free) association!
Bizarre!Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 21 at 06:46 PM • permalinkMike_W—the trouble started when he lent it to those meddling kids and their dog who had to solve a mystery…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 21 at 06:55 PM • permalink“Ethnic caging” Absolutely brilliant - both as a concept and a term.
I wish I’d thought of it!
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 04 21 at 08:18 PM • permalinkNot if he’s got a good batch of mash.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 04 21 at 08:19 PM • permalink#9’s link to Ms. Crow, I thought it was a joke until I read the comments, she is serious.
What is it about the greens who come up with these whacky ideas that ‘others’ have to implement? A prize she is offering is a recording contract. How much electricity and paper from wasted advertising and packaging would that generate?
Cripes they are dumb.
In other news, have people caught up with sensitive, caring liberal Alec (“I’ll move to Canada if Bush gets re-elected”) Baldwin cursing out his 11-year old daughter on the phone? Such lovely people.
In case you need your fix of Tim, here’s his column in yesterday’s Tele:
(hopefully I’m not stealing Tim’s thunder here. If he posts it tomorrow, just pretend you didn’t see this.)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 21 at 09:14 PM • permalinkDeliver us from evil
According to the AP. Iraqi insurgents are now fighting each other, as “moderate” Sunni terrorists tangle with “extremist” al-Qaeda whose brand of Islam is so radical that it prohibits placing cucumbers beside tomatoes because these vegetables have different genders.
Fucking cucumbers…even their name spells trouble cucumbers.
Oh and these fucking Islamists are going off the deepest end. First they came for the cucumbers, I wasn’t a cucumber, I stayed silent, the they came for the….well you know the rest.
#8 RebeccaH -
I see the other thread was starting to sag from the weight of all the comments, so Tim had to start another one. Very wise. Otherwise, we might have torn a hole in the fabric of the universe.
You mean, Tim’s blog did that, not the reaching Warp 9.9 in transwarp mode in the Romulan warbird while shooting disruptor beams at Sgt. Mom’s Bird of Prey? Well, that’s a load off my shoulders.
MarkL, unload the big needle and thread. It’s Blair’s problem to mend.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 21 at 09:24 PM • permalinkGive me another few days.
Days??? ::gulp::
=^0
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 21 at 09:32 PM • permalinkrichard mcenroe wrote:
Tim Blair, Andrew Bolt and unidentified coconspirator (“Wronwriiiiiiight!!!”)formulate scheme to recover the VW Crafter impounded from the parking lot of the Sydney Hooters…
Is the (“Wronwriiiiiiiight!!!”) shouted like “KHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!” ?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 04 21 at 09:34 PM • permalink#16 ann j
PS: Isn’t The Lancet the journal that has a bit of trouble with statistics?
It’s a political tract that pretends to be a “respected peer-reviewed journal”, yes.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 21 at 09:35 PM • permalink#25
1.618 posted a link to (Murdoch’s) The Autralian’s article on it in the previous KRudd thread.Patrick: More like “GILLIGAAAAAAAN!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 21 at 09:41 PM • permalinkNic—Has it been confirmed it was the wife yet?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 21 at 09:42 PM • permalinkThis, from Melanie Phillips, is a bit of a worry.
Saddam’s nuclear research, scientists and equipment, he says, have all been relocated to Syria, where US satellite intelligence confirms that uranium centrifuges are now operating — in a country which is not supposed to have any nuclear programme. There is now a nuclear axis, he says, between Iran, Syria and North Korea — with Russia and China helping to build an Islamic bomb against the West. And of course, with assistance from American negligence.
Via John Ray.
Have no fear, Timbo and Bolt are on a mission to save the world.
The Crafter is perfect cover in moonbat land - it reminds moonbats of a VW Combi. Bolt spent last week spraypainting the sides with murals of dolphins and whales (without any Japs in sight) and seagulls, and they are now on the north coast experimenting with rapid mind control conversion techniques. No one will miss any of the locals around Nimbin if the experiments go pear shaped, and they certain won’t notice the odd fried brain.
Their modus operandi is simple - the van attracts moonbats (because Tim fashioned an enormous paper mache turd out of stolen copies of the SMH and stuck it on the roof), and they simply wait until a moonbat is within reach, whip open the side doors and rip the tinfoil hats off the moonbats.
I’m told they run around in circles for a few minutes, wailing and gnashing and frothing into their beards and tearing at their hemp shirts, then they calm down, have a shower, get a haircut and signup here as a member.
Welcome to the new commenters! I hope you don’t get sunburnt on that patch on your head where the tinfoil used to be.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 04 21 at 10:15 PM • permalinkEMBATTLED Muslim leader Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly flew back into Sydney yesterday, vowing to clear his name and sue anyone who alleged he supported terrorism and gave charity money to a terrorist group.
What? The same racist,Kaffir legal system that picked on the innocent Skaff brothers? Surely his arseholiness doesn’t want to lower himself by using British created jurispudence?
I am also interested in stories of life without compulsory unionism at Australian universities. Please do share a story if you have one. It sounded like those people at the top of the heap had been coddled for so long and grown so used to being handed a pile of money they could spend on any useless thing they wanted (especially if it served their own interests) that they really couldn’t imagine life any other way. The change might be a disaster for them, but I doubt it’s a disaster for the university system as a whole.
#43, wronwright: Well, I thought it was Tim’s blog. Now you tell me you’ve been zipping around in warbirds at well over the warp limit and shooting off disruptor beams, just like some kid in daddy’s boat. Seems to me you might have some things to answer for.
MarkL, just hang on to that needle and thread for the moment.
#51, Nic, why do you always have to spoil my moments of RWDB gloating with your justice, fairplay and commonsense? Yes, it was a low blow. The funny thing is just how childish Baldwin sounds: he’s the one who sounds 11 years old. Maybe having kids does that to you. Or maybe it’s just the liberal mindset.
Maybe Miranda from the Cho thread is one of these teachers.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 21 at 10:30 PM • permalinkWhile Tim is sipping mead from the skull of William Randolph Hearst in Murdoch’s boardroom, I have a very unserious question for the collective wisdom of the Blair-pedia. What’s with those ‘courier’ stickers I see on cars around Melbourne? And why are they usually on some clapped-out wreck being driven by a guy with no front teeth, a greasy ponytail, and a ‘born to lose’ tattoo? Do ‘courier’ stickers make your car invisible to speed cameras, or somethin’?
Thanks for the link Dean, that made amazing reading as did this:
What’s the English Department’s official frontpage reaction to the murder of thirty-two students just a few days ago? Here it is.
“We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it
But neither does a child in Africa
Dying of AIDS
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
Be devastated for ivory
... Neither does the Mexican child looking
For fresh water
... Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
DislodgedBecause the land was destabilized”
#63
The funny thing is just how childish Baldwin sounds: he’s the one who sounds 11 years old. Maybe having kids does that to you.I think you’ll find that’s just Baldwin.
IME it matures (males) and also keeps one in touch with social & technological trends of youth.
Whilst I sympathise with Baldwin, celebrity has prolly made him very insular & protected from the (sometimes harsh) real world ...If Aborigines are converting to Islam, does that mean that the muslims are “destroying aboriginal culture”, or is the whole thing being taken out of context?
After all, I doubt that the tennets of Islam are compatible with most aboriginal culture - a strict muslim would probably see an aboriginal sacred site as idolatory, and immediately destroy it.
Believing that the earth was created by the Wagal would probably ensure you would be lined up for a quick stoning.
I am going to hold my breath until I hear a strident outburst from the aborginal industry.
/passes out from lack of oxygen.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 04 21 at 10:47 PM • permalinkYou’re welcome, Nic. College campi can be dangerous places, in more ways than one. #66 I think they’re to protect against parking tickets while they run in and pick up/deliver their packages.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 21 at 11:18 PM • permalinkSydney today
Huge protest here again, and then after this they’re off to a concert “Rockin for Your Rights” The stadium should be packed
A CROWD of several hundred people have gathered at Sydney’s Hyde Park to protest against the Federal Government’s industrial relations laws.
Union members made up a heavy contingent of the crowd, many of which carried protest signs, flags and balloons.Union NSW secretary John Robertson said the protest would send a clear message to Canberra.
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 21 at 11:25 PM • permalinkIf so-called Blair really has gone off to get married, it is shocking that he is neglecting us at this time.
Andrea - I am ready to take over this here electronic bag o’ spuds any time you’re ready. Of course, there will have to be a few changes.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 21 at 11:41 PM • permalinkCuckoo (#66)
The “Courier” stickers are alleged to protect you from the ravages of Bracksie’s tax collectors if you park in a loading zone in the CBD.
It doesn’t work, of course. A seagull swooping on a hot chip is slow compared a Bracks revenuer sighting a car in a No Parking zone.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 04 21 at 11:43 PM • permalinkThere was much talk on this morning’s Insiders about Kevin Rudd’s manufactured bout with, and triumph over, Jock McSporran.
But did anybody notice the Tradmeister criticising Rudd the other day - claiming he’d rather see John Howard stay on than Rudd becoming Prime Minister?
Do you think the A.L.P. paid him a six or a seven figure sum to anoint Pixie the official No Fundies candidate. Or is there a job in a government authority waiting on Labor’s accession to power.
For an encore, will Sussex Street get the North Shore granny killer to attack Rudd/endorse Howard?
My flatmate is playing the Beach Boys. I think I’m going to have to hurl.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 21 at 11:54 PM • permalink#75 A few episodes ago, My Name is Earl tackled global warming - a real travesty for what is an otherwise exemplary show.
BTW An artist’s impression of the Minister at Tim’s wedding and 1.6 when he asks if anyone objects.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 21 at 11:56 PM • permalinkTI All together now! “Bombbombbomb, bombbomb Iran…”
Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 21 at 11:57 PM • permalinkNooooo! Make it stop! Soon enough they’ll both be playing it in stereo. My head may explode.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 21 at 11:59 PM • permalink#80 TattooedIntellectual
Barb Barb Barb… Barbara Ann…...Barb Barb Barb…. Barbara Ann
C’mon now - it’s Sunday arvo so relax
Just think - your flatmate could be playing Kylie’s Greatest Hits
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 22 at 12:07 AM • permalink#82 I think I could handle Kylie. I have a serious aversion to the Beach boys! We’ve changed to something else at the moment. When it gets bad enough I just turn up the classical :)
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 12:09 AM • permalink#81 A real toe-tapper. I wonder if they have that in party-remix.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 22 at 12:09 AM • permalink#60 - Further to my comment at 23, kcom, it may be just my imagination but the Socialist Alliance haven’t been putting up quite so many posters this year. Perhaps they finally got tired of phone booth-sized attendances at their meetings, eh?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 22 at 12:10 AM • permalink#66 - cuckoo, over here in Perth the courier firms are screaming for drivers. Anyone with a licence and one good eye has a job waiting for them, and they can probably scrape in without the licence at a pinch.
Same problem as we’re having with bus drivers. People are going north for the big money in the mines.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 22 at 12:14 AM • permalink#81 That might have them calling to cops :)
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 12:22 AM • permalinkHang on. What’s this about?
DEPUTY Prime Minister Mark Vaile has warned that any retailers attempting to profiteer from drought-driven higher food prices will be prosecuted.
Describing the drought as “unprecedented”, Mr Vaile said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would monitor price increases to ensure they were fair.
Mr Vaile also told The Sunday Mail the Federal Government would consider direct aid to townships reliant on irrigation in the Murray-Darling basin.So let’s get this straight. A ready willing and able buyer purchases goods, at her own free will, from a ready and willing seller, not under duress, at a price acceptable to both parties. There is no evidence of market manipulation. Someone in authority who is not a party to the tranaction decides one side (always the seller) is “profiteering”. Therefore the seller gets prosecuted.
Fair dinkum. I had seriously thought this country had outgrown these silly, even sinister, notions.
Mark Vaille should be told to pull his bloody stupid head in. Dickhead.
Give me another few days.
Damn, 1.618 is going to be sore.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 12:37 AM • permalinkBTW, I had whale bacon last night. It was like eating an oily condom.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 12:41 AM • permalinkThat’s why I never buy generic edible condoms
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 22 at 12:53 AM • permalinkOh dear
A SHOW crocodile in a Chinese amusement park has been shot to death after it dragged a nine-year-old schoolboy into its pond and devoured him.
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 22 at 01:30 AM • permalink#81
That was a nasty experience. Must play some soothing music.#98
Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen as the lead song?#81
Next time I believe I’ll start w/ this.Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 01:57 AM • permalinkMeantime, the SMH is bravely trying to spin up a union protest picnic in Sydney which attracted - wait for it - “hundreds” of people. Oooh, hundreds. Howard better start packing his bags.
#106
Most of their music I just ignore considering I’ve got some odd tastes as well. But when the Beach Boys come out I get nauseous.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 02:07 AM • permalink#104
I have seen the future of rock and roll.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 22 at 02:15 AM • permalink#93 Geoff.
Remember that the three paragraphs you have quoted were in Glenn Milne’s words, not Vaile’s.
I watched the interview and came away with a very different perception.
Vaile was asked how the Government intended to make sure that some of the expected high prices would be fed back to the growers.
Vaile’s off-the-cuff response to that question was that any price increases would be monitored to ensure that they were fair.
I don’t recall any mention of “prosecutions” or “gougers” by Vaile.
But I agree with you that the market should determine pricing and this will surely be what happens.
Sadly, what determines the price at retail is what the buyer is prepared to pay, not the price that is paid to the grower.
As a grower, I have been paid 50c a kilo for fruit I have delivered to a retailer. (No middle-men or transport costs involved.) The retailer then charged his customers $6/kg for the fruit I had taken a year to grow.#111
The thing that most amazes me about Youtube is the amount of stupid/embarrassing stuff people post about themselves.Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 02:41 AM • permalinkFake soldiers marching on Anzac Day.
This is timely, in view of Anzac Day coming up on Wednesday next.
I hope some of the old Diggers catch out some of these pathetic impostors, and dish out a bit of barrack room justice.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 04 22 at 03:29 AM • permalinkAs a grower, I have been paid 50c a kilo for fruit I have delivered to a retailer. (No middle-men or transport costs involved.) The retailer then charged his customers $6/kg for the fruit I had taken a year to grow.
Why is it that they only ever talk about prosecuting “profiteering” sellers? Not “profiteering” buyers?
Why is it that in NSW and Qld (at least), buyers of residential real estate are provided with a statutory “cooling off” period during which they can void the contract, irrespective of the consequences for the (contract-bound) seller? But not the seller?
#99 Rafe
when did you last eat an oily condom?
Never have, but prove that it wasn’t like eating an oily condom.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 03:36 AM • permalinkIf anyone is stuck at work, this probably isn’t safe.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 03:43 AM • permalink#124
Yeah, he doesn’t post all that often but it keeps me semi-connected to home (sorta) :) I’ve got a bunch of sites like that bookmarked.That cartoon should be on TV, not that Sponge-crap!
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 04:40 AM • permalink#127 I can only imagine. Been in Wellington New Zealand since late Jan. Haven’t seen TV since I got down here. To be honest, not sure I miss it.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 04:56 AM • permalinkSome more stuff from YouTube, this time via Jack’s Place or Kerplunk - Common Sense from Down Under. His Sunday night Aussie rock this weekend features Hunters and Collectors. An excellent choice.
I have to hang my head in shame and admit that Earth Day was started in Nebraska City, Nebraska. I grew up in NE, approx 30 miles from NE City. Unless things have changed, Earth Day at home was just a day where you picked up trash and planted a tree.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:00 AM • permalinkOMG! Bigbrother’s secret is his actual identity!!
Big Brother is apparently Tim Flannery!
Posted by Admonkeystrator on 2007 04 22 at 05:12 AM • permalinkMark Steyn about the infantilisation of students and society in general.
Melanie Phillips has seriously good info on WMD in Iraq.
Caroline Glick on Syria’s War Preparations.Yeah, well when you’re from NE, you’ll do what you can to make things sound grand :)
On a positive note, Reuben sandwiches, 911 (not sure if that translates to Oz well), Kool-Aid (the actual stuff not the loony lefty drink), and frozen dinners were all “invented” in NE.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:15 AM • permalink#128 TattooedIntellectual
Been in Wellington New Zealand since late Jan. Haven’t seen TV since I got down here. To be honest, not sure I miss it.
So it is true what people say about NZ.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 05:17 AM • permalink#132 - The first series was played in Oz. Fantastic stuff.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 04 22 at 05:21 AM • permalink#137
People talk about NZ? Wow, I didn’t they rated a footnote :)
I have this to say about the country. 1. I haven’t seen any sheep inside Wellington city limits. 2. The countryside is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. 3. Stuff here is EXPENSIVE. 4. I’m ready to head to Aus :)
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:22 AM • permalink#139, there’s s’posed to be a think in that second sentence.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:27 AM • permalinkIncreased ice caps? I thought the polar bears were drowning due to loss of ice caps. And I though sea levels were going to rise due to the loss of ice caps. Gah, now I’m confused.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:50 AM • permalinkTook about an hour of waiting with my slow broadband connection, TI, but it was definitely worth the wait. What a laugh!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 22 at 05:52 AM • permalinkAn hour! Don’t know if it was worth an hour’s wait, but glad you liked it.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 05:53 AM • permalink#149 Sharks stop algae on reefs? Huh? And unless you live in an atoll then reefs aren’t coastlines. You made my head hurt. I think I’m going to bed.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 06:02 AM • permalinkBTW that quote at 150 is pure and utter bullshit. We don’t know how many species are out there, much less how many go extinct every day. It’s a makebelieve number and depending on which scientist you talk to, depends on the support for that number. TV presenters are morons that were too stupid to get a real job.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 06:09 AM • permalinkYou never know w/ Nat’l Geographic. Used to be fairly scientific and balanced. Lately you’ll see some loony slipped in as well. Very odd.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 06:10 AM • permalinkDid Paco ever drop back by here?
I am missing his sabre like wit and humor.
Posted by curious george on 2007 04 22 at 06:10 AM • permalink#155 Haven’t seen him since he said he was going to be out for a few months.
Ash, don’t stay up too late and watch that stuff, it’ll rot your brains out.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 04 22 at 06:12 AM • permalinkAnyone see the news tonight? Channel Nine showed footage from the Rock Against Work Choices concert featuring Screaming jets frontman urging concertgoers to get involved in politics, “cos if you don’t we get a prick of a Prime Minister like John Howard”.
ABC and SBS both omitted this gem from their coverage although other footage was common to all three.
#160 Ash_
“Breathing in the air within 5 kilometres of a nuclear plant is the equivalent of smoking 2 and a half packs of cigarettes a day.”
It’s more healthful than the alternative.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 06:37 AM • permalinkHow many species are we gaining every 20 minutes? I would have thought that evolution would be throwing up tonnes of new species each year.
The environment is not a constant, fixed thing. It changes. Things die out. Other things take their place.
If the place is warming up, expect lots of new species to move in and colonise places as they change.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 04 22 at 06:48 AM • permalinkOT even for an open thread: why do some Americans say “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”. If you could care less then you must care a least a little. Strange.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 07:29 AM • permalink#59 Nic
Sheik Hilarious was interviewed by someone on SBS tonight.
He has suddenly gained the skill of speaking English. It will be interesting to see how he survives without histranslatorfilter, Kayser Trad.
The interviewer asked him some searching questions but she accepted whatever he answered without disputing any of his crazy responses.
It confirmed that Trad’s role has been not to translate to English, but to save his master from making a dickhead of himself.
I give it a week before Trad is back in a job.Japanese have trouble pronouncing ‘l’ and ‘v’, instead saying something closer to ‘r’ and ‘b’. McDonald’s “I’m lovin’ it” slogan doesn’t sound too good over here…
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 07:39 AM • permalink“We’re losing one species every twenty minutes due to climate change.”
#150, Lomborg has completely debunked claims like this (link). The scale of dishonesty within the environmental movement is breathtaking.
Hundreds protest in Hyde Park
#71, speaking of that union concert against workchoices, it’s interesting how the crowd estimates have grown throughout the day. After this report of “hundreds”, channel 10 showed an overhead view of the crowd which seemed to confirm this estimate. Later SBS reported a crowd of 20,000 and Peter Garrett said it was 40,000.
Yeah right. The moral of both these stories, eco-mentalists can’t count.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 22 at 07:55 AM • permalinkNews for Mr Stern et al, the Buick Park Avenue (read: Holden Statesman) is to be assembled in China with engines exported from Oz, he he
Speaking of dodgy statistics, check out this story in today’s Telegraph about gun ownership.
Ms Lee said National Coalition for Gun Control figures showed ... “Since 1997, 74 per cent of massacres in Australia and New Zealand have been committed by licensed gun owners.”
hmmm, I wonder what happened in 1996 that might affect this result? (not to mention that ‘massacres’ in Australia and NZ are so infrequent that it would be very difficult to draw any serious conclusions from this data)
Tim was obviously too busy to stop this idiocy..
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 22 at 08:36 AM • permalinkAnd to quickly clarify, the last sentence in #173 was meant light-heartedly!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 22 at 08:43 AM • permalinkSo 74% of massacres were commited by licensed gun owners hey?
Where did the other 26% get their guns from then? The tooth fairy?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 04 22 at 09:24 AM • permalink#175, and I bet they’ve only measured ‘massacres’ because the stats on other gun crime (eg, armed hold-ups, drive-bys in Lakemba and mafia killings in Melbourne) don’t give them the results they’re looking for.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 22 at 09:51 AM • permalinkWas looking at this video about Mykhaylo Zubkov being assaulted by her father at a swimming competition. ROFLed at this comment:
when the girls dress nothing OR nearly nothing. that what will happend. but in islam that is forbaden. even if its her father or brother, she must dress not short clothes . ISLAM IS THE GREATEST.
Posted Mar-28-2007 by “le888on”These muzzies are obsessed with the uncovered meat angle.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 22 at 10:12 AM • permalinkMuzzie, I saw and liked this response to the post you copied.
Quoted comment by le888on: when the girls dress nothing OR nearly nothing. that what will happend. but in islam that is forbaden. even if its her father or brother, she must dress not short clothes . ISLAM IS THE GREATEST.
I like seeing girls in short clothing…Mohammed must of been a fag making up rules like that.
Posted Mar-28-2007 by “Englishman82”Or this.
Quoted comment by le888on: when the girls dress nothing OR nearly nothing. that what will happend. but in islam that is forbaden. even if its her father or brother, she must dress not short clothes . ISLAM IS THE GREATEST.
Dont most of you guys marry your first cousins??..I bet the abuse that goes on “behind doors” in Islamic countries is something to behold..Anyhow that wasn’t so bad she’s 19 not like she is a kid..
Posted Mar-28-2007 by “Wonderwall”#106 Skeets
I live in the Lockyer Valley, Qld.
I hear the farmers complaining about the price charged at the large grocery chains and how that translates to what they get for their produce per tonne (?). Then I hear what they really get.It stinks.
Same with meat.
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I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Sure, why don’t you take several years, there’s no rush.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 04 22 at 06:57 PM • permalinkThat’s our Miranda. She’s so quick off the mark, have you noticed?
Although…kae reappears, so does Miranda - kae, be honest now: are you a Jekyll and Hyde type?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 22 at 07:43 PM • permalink
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