Posted: 1 May 2009, 11:27amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:rofl:
Got my hopes up :E
Got my hopes up :E
2007The SMF boardIn The News Today (page 6)
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
Yeah, it's the international airport code for Brisbane airport...strange.
Yeah, it's the international airport code for Brisbane airport...strange.
Well he sure gets around judging by the sheer number of these stickers around Bangkok. All different flavours of them too - some with just BNE, some with BNE WAS HERE, others with BNE and Asian characters underneath etc. The local crews seemed to have picked up on it too because there are tags with BNE everywhere as well, some with a crown painted above the lettering.
I'll take a pic when I can and post it up.
Well he sure gets around judging by the sheer number of these stickers around Bangkok. All different flavours of them too - some with just BNE, some with BNE WAS HERE, others with BNE and Asian characters underneath etc. The local crews seemed to have picked up on it too because there are tags with BNE everywhere as well, some with a crown painted above the lettering.
I'll take a pic when I can and post it up.
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people? 
that is some good news!
just had one and it was the bizniss...
just had one and it was the bizniss...
:drool:
Far from it actually! I am intelligent enough to look beyond all the bullshit and make a decision for myself, marketing aside. My point was that if things were advertised 'realistically' how boring and shit would it be around the place.
Take that show The Gruen Transfer for instance, there's some really clever ads out there that make you think, make you laugh and they simply wouldn't exist if it was all about 'truth in advertising.'
And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that most people would rather see some smoking hot girl (airbrushed or not) advertising lingerie than a 'real' woman! Or from a woman's perspective - an ad for men's underwear - do you think they would prefer a hairy chest, pasty white beer gut on the billboard over the current Adonis'. I think not!
From an art perspective advertising can be great and really jazz up urban landscapes, I'd hate to think how bad everything would look with plain messages and truthful images.
PS. In these harsh economic times all this extra unnecessary Photoshop work is creating jobs for graphic designers so there!
Bubble O' Bills
I may not know know the difference between Shazzan and Shazzam, but I sure as hell know that Bubble O' Bills aren't Buffalo Bills
Far from it actually! I am intelligent enough to look beyond all the bullshit and make a decision for myself, marketing aside. My point was that if things were advertised 'realistically' how boring and shit would it be around the place.
Take that show The Gruen Transfer for instance, there's some really clever ads out there that make you think, make you laugh and they simply wouldn't exist if it was all about 'truth in advertising.'
And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that most people would rather see some smoking hot girl (airbrushed or not) advertising lingerie than a 'real' woman! Or from a woman's perspective - an ad for men's underwear - do you think they would prefer a hairy chest, pasty white beer gut on the billboard over the current Adonis'. I think not! :lol:
From an art perspective advertising can be great and really jazz up urban landscapes, I'd hate to think how bad everything would look with plain messages and truthful images.
PS. In these harsh economic times all this extra unnecessary Photoshop work is creating jobs for graphic designers so there! :E I hate them too!
But only boring mums and dads like a giant twin! What's wrong with a golden gaytime?
Bubble O' Bills :brow2:
I may not know know the difference between Shazzan and Shazzam, but I sure as hell know that Bubble O' Bills aren't Buffalo Bills :scold:
A BARNEY BANANA?!?!?!
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity! ( @ Klute ) http://www.4shared.com/audio/aXcSm8L-/bennieraw_4_6_10_1.html
NEW! >> ( @ Subsects) http://www.mediafire.com/?n9a83wz900uf5b1
don't think about it, just feel it...
Me and a mate made a smokebomb so big out of potassium nitrate that when we lit it in the year 12 toilets on muck up day, we managed to evacuate the school. Neither of us had anticipated exactly how well the smoke bomb was going to work. It looked like there was a bushfire cranking in there.
Yeah, we had a few that big that they ended up spilling out onto the road and stopping traffic. Main road too btw. Remember one guy coming in looking for someone over a 'deal' of some sorts that had gone bad and when a teacher got involved, teacher got knocked the fuck out. Saw a dude (fkn wanker he was too) get bashed severely by 2 chicks. Once while in Japanese, the same wanker who got bashed by the two chicks was making heaps of noise. He pissed off the wrong person next door who ended up coming in and knocking him, and a few of his teeth out. The reaction of the 4'2 70 year old Japanese lady was priceless. Then there was the dude who used to keep a shotgun in his car (teachers didn't know about this one).
Pretty lively school I suppose.
Me and a mate made a smokebomb so big out of potassium nitrate that when we lit it in the year 12 toilets on muck up day, we managed to evacuate the school. Neither of us had anticipated exactly how well the smoke bomb was going to work. It looked like there was a bushfire cranking in there :lol:.
Yeah, we had a few that big that they ended up spilling out onto the road and stopping traffic. Main road too btw. Remember one guy coming in looking for someone over a 'deal' of some sorts that had gone bad and when a teacher got involved, teacher got knocked the fuck out. Saw a dude (fkn wanker he was too) get bashed severely by 2 chicks :lol:. Once while in Japanese, the same wanker who got bashed by the two chicks was making heaps of noise. He pissed off the wrong person next door who ended up coming in and knocking him, and a few of his teeth out. The reaction of the 4'2 70 year old Japanese lady was priceless. Then there was the dude who used to keep a shotgun in his car (teachers didn't know about this one).
Pretty lively school I suppose :lol:.
( @ Klute ) http://www.4shared.com/audio/aXcSm8L-/bennieraw_4_6_10_1.html
NEW! >> ( @ Subsects) http://www.mediafire.com/?n9a83wz900uf5b1
don't think about it, just feel it...
Far out our road toll is terrible this year!
This.
This.
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething.
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them
*calm*
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething. :angry:
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them :cry: *calm*
Agreed. Just sensless.
Agreed. Just sensless.
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
nah i'm pretty sure that the girl and guy got hit by one of the 2 cars drag racing. they were innocent. but yeah their family would be gutted.
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
nah i'm pretty sure that the girl and guy got hit by one of the 2 cars drag racing. they were innocent. but yeah their family would be gutted.
Drunk woman caught horsing around
AN allegedly drunken woman on a horse has been arrested by police for directing traffic in the northern suburbs.
Members of the public phoned police after the Salisbury North woman, 25, started directing traffic out the front of a Bolivar Rd, Paralowie, service station about 4am yesterday.
Police spokesman Senior Constable Paul Noble said she was arrested and charged with "riding a horse under the influence of alcohol."
She was bailed to appear in court at a later date.
The horse was picked up by a member of the public and taken to a stable.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25495748-2682,00.html
or at least force them to drag down the southern expressway while people on the overpasses thrown stones at them
or at least force them to drag down the southern expressway while people on the overpasses thrown stones at them
oh shit
oh shit :rofl:
:lol:
Well allowing two different kinds of beans into your muff around the time of ovulation definitely increases your chances love.
cough *slut*
Statement retracted, I misread the caption on the front of the paper. Christ there are some dickheads out there.
:lol:
Imagine being the original boyfriend and hearing that not only have you got your 20 year old girlfriend pregnant, so has some other guy.
Agreed, but knowing when to stop drilling is another matter...
Two words; Aron fucking Ralston.
The Amputation
While he was on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder dislodged, crushing his right forearm and pinning it against the canyon wall. Ralston had not told anyone of his hiking plans and knew no one would be searching for him. Assuming that he would die, he spent five days slowly sipping his small amount of remaining water while trying to extricate his arm. He eventually ran out of water and began to drink his own urine, carved his name, date of birth and presumed date of death into the sandstone canyon wall, and videotaped his last goodbyes to his family.
After five days of trying to lift and break the boulder, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston prepared to cut off his already-dead arm by levering it against a chockstone, which snapped the radius and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons. Although he never named the make of the tool other than to say it was not Leatherman, he did describe it as "what you'd get if you bought a $15 flashlight and got a free multi-use tool". [1] After freeing himself, he was still eight miles from his stick shift truck, and he had no cellular phone. He had to rappel down a 65-foot sheer wall, then hike out of the canyon in the hot midday sun. While hiking out, he encountered a family of three on vacation from the Netherlands, who gave him water, two Oreo cookies, and all the food that they had. They then alerted the authorities. He was ultimately rescued by a helicopter search team. His arm was retrieved by park authorities and removed from under the boulder. It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to the boulder and left the ashes there.
Fuck yeah. :slayer:
Bear Grylls has nothing on this dude.
Yeah what a tool. All the boycott comments on news.com.au are retarded as well, if you go to Australia and steal something you'll be treating like a criminal just the same! Why is it any different here?
They were for sale separately too!
Bear Grylls would not have allowed such a thing to happen.
Well obviously. The hidden wires and on hand stunt crew would have prevented it.
Or he would have found a surgeon and operating table earlier in the show which he would have held onto just in case he needed it later.
Plus he would have eaten the amputated arm. Good protein!
Blasphemy!
Whilst I agree wholeheartedly, some of these countries need to step out of the dark ages and realise that if they allow Westerners into their country we are going to rape and pillage the same as they do in ours!
5 yrs for a pretty harmless crime is just retarded, don't see them arguing to stop us from spending millions of dollars to help their economy every year.
Still with all the media around these countries laws over the past few years you're pretty stupid to steal something.
There is a slight difference in each countries prescribed punishment theories though. I imagine people would throw a fit if someone was facing five years for an offence of that magnitude here as well. It isn't xenophobia(well it probably is for some people), it really is two entirely different cultural outlooks.
I still think the boycott comments are ridiculous by the way.
might be vision impaired. you could head over for conjugal visits.
Isn't that what all female Australians do?
Or the "Why did she just bribe the police like everyone else does' card!
Pfff I think shes an idiot for going to an Aussie Bar in Thailand in the first place.
Then again, I think everyones an idiot.
If it's the same one I'm not sure but there is a big Aussie bar in Phuket that is quite an attraction to go and drink at. It has all these crazy (fake/molded) wood carved walls with twisty tree trunks etc. that make up the decor and bar.
Why isn't she divorced then?
might be vision impaired. you could head over for conjugal visits.
Totally. Fuck all those shitty ass backwards countries.
As I climb out the window of your mums room.
Totally. Fuck all those shitty ass backwards countries.
As I climb out the window of your mums room.
Yes please!
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
Bluray is yet to drop in price enough to make it attractive to the regular family/home user. Same as DVD was for a long time.
Anyway they say the technology is atleast 5 years away so I'd say we'll be aching for something to replace Bluray by then.
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
Bluray is yet to drop in price enough to make it attractive to the regular family/home user. Same as DVD was for a long time.
Anyway they say the technology is atleast 5 years away so I'd say we'll be aching for something to replace Bluray by then.
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
bring it back? i never got rid of it!
Yes, i might start using dial up again too
bring it back? i never got rid of it!
Yes, i might start using dial up again too :E
I usually assume with an article like that they quote a number with the average consumer in mind, so probably DVD quality/sizes as opposed to 'enthusiasts' who may think in terms of compressed files.
As long as this future format can support long filenames it would be awesome to burn off single backup discs of whole hard drives or music collections etc. So convenient.
I shudder to think at how long it would take to burn something to full capacity though. You'd need some serious cache on your hard drive too.
I usually assume with an article like that they quote a number with the average consumer in mind, so probably DVD quality/sizes as opposed to 'enthusiasts' who may think in terms of compressed files.
As long as this future format can support long filenames it would be awesome to burn off single backup discs of whole hard drives or music collections etc. So convenient.
I shudder to think at how long it would take to burn something to full capacity though. You'd need some serious cache on your hard drive too.
Teenager Alina Percea to lose half virgin auction payment to tax bill
A TEENAGE student who auctioned off her virginity in Germany is set to lose half the money to the tax office, with authorities claiming the act was "tantamount to prostitution".
Romanian-born Alina Percea, who studies in Mannheim, was paid $17,900 in cash for a weekend of sex with an Italian businessman after auctioning her virginity online.
But tax officials in Berlin regard the 18-year-old's act as prostitution, which is not illegal in Germany but is heavily taxed.
"It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one," an official said.
"Consequently we are assessing her case and it looks likely she will have to pay around half of the sum she gained."
The computer studies student's visa allows her to work in Germany for 90 days even as a prostitute.
But one tax expert admitted: "Prostitution is merely a means for the bureaucrats to pin her down for a claim.
"She would have been better off keeping quiet about this strange transaction."
Because Percea earned so much in a short time, she may also be liable for a hefty GST bill.
GST in Germany works out to 19 per cent, meaning the sale of her virginity could land her with around $6100 in the end.
Percea had told how the 45-year-old businessman took her virginity with unprotected sex at a luxury Venetian hotel.
"I liked the man and got on with him well . . . and next time I won't make him pay" she said.
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
Exactly.
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
No matter what you think of it, growing weed is illegal, the cop is simply doing his job, whether he agrees with it or not. He can't exactly stand there looking sad about it.
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD?
Maybe you need to lay off the ganja?
What I want to know is, when since did Weed get weighed/measured in Kilos?? lol
Exactly.
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
No matter what you think of it, growing weed is illegal, the cop is simply doing his job, whether he agrees with it or not. He can't exactly stand there looking sad about it.
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD????
Maybe you need to lay off the ganja?
What I want to know is, when since did Weed get weighed/measured in Kilos?? lol
Germany has the right idea... again.
Germany has the right idea... again.
keeping us safe from all those X-box playing, pizza ordering stoners at home on the couch
keeping us safe from all those X-box playing, pizza ordering stoners at home on the couch :E
police are paid by the government - i.e. governement money (tax payers)
the less money that is in their budget the more money the government has to spend on other things - and feeding and clothing the poor of the world should be pretty high on their agenda!
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD????
police are paid by the government - i.e. governement money (tax payers)
the less money that is in their budget the more money the government has to spend on other things - and feeding and clothing the poor of the world should be pretty high on their agenda!
If only we had some way to affect change, regarding the poor, without the assistance of oligarchs, who take money off you so they can ineffectively redistribute it. We could create some sort of system, whereby you give some of your own property to a representative of a cause, who enters in to a contract to assign aforementioned property to beneficiaries of your choice. I'd like to put forth my own neologism for it; I'd call it "charity"(I created this word from an old French term, that itself has origins in Latin). See the advantage, in my estimation, to this vehicle for benevolent change is that, as you have alluded to, you could do it more efficiently via these private channels than government could.
Now some people would say that a central authority having a monopoly on coercion and law enforcement can in fact be viewed as a good thing, as private "mutual protection associations" may in fact look after their contributors better, and there is a possibility that private channels would in fact do a poor job of providing fair protection under the eyes of the law, when compared to a well paid central police force. These people may also say that if you do not pay these police officers well you will get less skilled workers, who are even more prone to bribery and malicious activity.
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
The government don't pay the police force anywhere near enough in any country, and further the police force, itself being a bloated bureaucracy, is completely corruptible on multiple levels.
So it is better the government focus on eliminating the causes of crime, which mostly lie in poverty, the unequal distribution of wealth, and from the notions of greed that arise out of competition and consumption.
So in saying that, where do you think there could be improvements :)
In this year's state budget the only 2 departments which are not being cut back are health & SA Police.
Oh dear.
Our discussion in future will be lively to say the least. :lol:
Perhaps cut back on staff so that those left are busy and can't browse forums online? You probably think I am making a joke at your expense (you work in the public service if I recall correctly).
I am not joking though, the reports from the Adelaide Massive hosting account prove that the public service has too many people who have too much time. This tells me it is a bloated bureaucracy which can't keep it's own "staff" busy! This is where my tax money goes! :shake:
Here's proof (from April). This isn't unique, I just checked the reports since the start of this year. httpgate.sa.gov.au is either the 1st or 2nd biggest traffic generator before or after Google's "crawling bots":
(http://users.on.net/~ransom/am.png)
Oh, I dont doubt that isnt true. I have my window open most of the day and just minimise it whilst I am working. Also, you have to remember that the SA Gov is one of the biggest employers in the state. ;)
Regarding work levels (this is just me on a personal level- I cant speak for everyone) but I have found the more crap I have to do, the more I tend to procrastinate. Bad, I know. I have also found in the Pub. Service that there are so so many stupid processes which are just unnecessary.
Even though I have shitloads of work, I come on here and post. I dunno. But then on the other hand, I dont really go out for lunch or have breaks either. I sit on my computer the whole day. I would go bananas if I sat at my desk silent without communicating all day.
I would love to get a job where I am outside and move about alot more. I took on this job hoping to do more field trips/assessments of properties & land but it just hasnt happened that way. I am finding that if I need to go and assess a property, I am doing it in my own spare time. My boss is a bit of a wanker however and of the Old School public service mentality and doesnt like us leaving our desks.... and thats even though being out in the field would help us make better decisions if we actually visually saw what we were asssessing!
I am starting to be of the opinion that I need to get out of the public service. I want to be in a job where results happen fast. I hate being in a position where I need to brief the Minister or Senior management every time we try to make things happen. We spend hours and hours on writing up these formal documents in order for the Minister to approve or note something. Fucking days sometimes. And the Minister usually just quickly skims over the document anyway and signs off whatever. Thats where the cut backs need to be. Reduce the amount of memos & approvals that need to occur. If a private organisation makes a decision to do something, they get out there and do it! They dont have to be accountable to every man under the sun.
Rah! Rant over.
Great
now get back to work: more of the servant and less public, thanks
:E
:rofl:
Not going there.
well if they stopped cracking down on weed, they would save money...as they wouldn't have to allocate police officers to arrest people growing plants in their backyard.
BUT, abolishing poverty and educating the poor (in addition to lowering the cost of abortions) you will in fact lower the crime rate - meaning less police work.
So I think maybe a bit more prevention and less curing could be a bit of help.
I believe in the legalisation of all drugs, but that is nowhere near your original argument.
As intuitive as it sounds, abortion doesn't lower crime. Steve Sailer absolutely slaughtered Steven Levitt's famous Freakonomics essay. Levitt as much as admitted it at the end of the debate. I've lost a lot of respect for Levitt in the aftermath of that debate, as he still supports the argument in public arenas that are unlikely to be populated by those versed in Sailer's refutation.
Since the meaning of poverty was changed to a relative term it has been rendered impossible to abolish, short of a situation where everybody is thrown in to a state of real poverty; but I agree that improving the economic conditions of the poorest people will lessen crime numbers. This does not necessitate the measures you are implying though.
Steve Sailer absolutely slaughtered Steven Levitt's famous Freakonomics essay.
Oh really? I too had a lot of respect for him as did my economics lecturer. But that might all come to an end.
Will have to see what Steve Sailer has to say.
Cheers
The couple who ran away with the money - Surely the joke is on them.
It was a loan, so despite the bank making a mistake surely they can charge them interest for all the money they spend, whether the bank made a mistake or not?
Its almost like they are upset that she is getting all this free attention and they aren't getting any credit for it, so lets bring her on and try to make her look like an idiot to Australia. IMO they failed!
IMO she made herself look like an idiot.
so i watched the clip, so she gave a false report?
How? She is 19 - It is the media that are sensationalising the whole thing (as always)
I know stacks of chicks who do stupid stuff like this every week! What is the big deal?
Ninemsn clearly don't check their sources integrity before publishing information and it has made them look like fools.
haha, good on her.
pays to be pretty hey
Plus she's hot so 90% of males would instantly forgive her anyway.
Either way im glad that ninemsn look like the fools they truely are. Commercial TV news loses a bit more of its credibility (not that they have much left).
I totally agree here, I think she was out partying and thought it was funny to speak a bit of gibber to the camera man and it has all totally been blown out of proportion.
WHO isn't guilty of talking a bit of gibber trash? Thats the real question! Except this time its been taken to the public! respekt
Jake isn't. He usually gets yelled at then taken home before he's seen too much.
From time to time, I watch German/English > Jim Lehrer U.S > Ch.10 @ 5 > Ch. 9 @ 6 > .5 of SBS World News > then the ABC news to gauge what isn't reported, and if so, how it is reported. Ahh... the power of discursive language. Similarly I do the same on occasion with the Sunday reports; Ch. 7 @ 6.30 > ch. 9 @ 7.30 > Dateline @ 8.30.
No wonder we have a burgeoning international rep as the 'stupid country'. edit: considering the statistics on what % of people rely on ch. 7/9/10 for news and information.
Its certainly been pointed out in the international media, something i read was comparing to Australias media to the 'race to the bottom' culture dominating of the US media. perhaps not so bad but certainly a concern.
next thing anyone educated will be termed 'elitists' as happens so regularly there. *sighs*
Shoving your head in a pile of dirt is a more effective way of gathering credible information than watching network news IMO.
Where's some proof of us gaining this reputation? I find it hard to believe that the number of people who rely on trashy commercial TV networks for "news" is significantly different in any other Western country.
Already are in my experience...
Fuck yes. For some time now.
Yes, but you hardly help your cause with your polysyllabic diatribes ;)
Well played, indeed :lol:
Dirty dancing blamed for broken penises
AN erotic dance craze is thought to be the cause of a recent spate of broken penises in Jamaica, and now faces a government crackdown.
"Daggering", a lewd dance style where couples simulate dry sex in various positions to the beat of the music, is characterised by over-the-top gyrating, heavy pelvis-thrusting and daredevil leaps.
Many couples have taken the âroughâ daggering dance from the club to the bedroom, with disastrous consequences.
Jamaican doctors were prompted to issue a warning on the dangers of daggering when presented with a range of fractured penises caused by rough intercourse.
The number of cases tripled in the last year, the UKâs Sun reports.
The rising popularity of the new dance - and subsequent public protests - have prompted the Jamaican government to ban songs and videos with blatantly sexual content.
Jamaicaâs Broadcasting Commission, which defines daggering as a "colloquial term used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry sex' or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions", enforced the ban in February.
âThere shall not be transmitted through radio or television or cable services, any recording, live song or music video which promotes the act of âdaggeringâ, or which makes reference to, or is otherwise suggestive of âdaggeringâ,â the Jamaican Broadcasting Commissionâs official statement said.
Daggering is a newly accepted name for an activity that has been present in Jamaicaâs dancehalls for many years. It is roughly the equivalent of the Caribbeanâs âcabin stabbingâ, another crude style of music and dance.
âDaggering is a dance that makes you unleash the beast! If you ainât know what I mean think about every sex position and put it in a dance,â commenter Driva said of the dance.
A series of YouTube videos depict daggering as a rough, and sometimes violent, act which can be demeaning to women. One video shows popular group RDX performing its song Daggering live, with one member simulating extremely rough dry sex on the floor with a woman.
The community is divided over the dance, with singers up in arms over the ban, saying it stifles their right to free speech, but others welcome the ban.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25581202-5006301,00.html
:pimp:
:lol:
:fire:
Those stilnox pilz would of done it. I remember JackieO from trippleJ/M or what ever said in an interview that she was on them and nearly burnt her house down cause she unconsciously started cooking someting on her stove in her sleep.
That or she took some wikid acid! :lol:
Try having really good acid, then taking Stilnox to try to get to sleep.. Not the best idea I have ever had but funny for the onlookers.
Yeah, that was quite speculative on my part. I think that there is a cause-effect correlation between statistics on ratings for commercial tv news reports and the andedoctal (sp?) evidence I have come across here and overseas.
:crazy:
I wonder where the hooker he was probably with went...most luxury hotels will take their ID cards so if he wasn't 'flying solo' on this sex act she can be traced possibly.
Shocking news though!
well, we've all been THERE
Loved this comment on the news site
'Invisible bikies - they're the worst kind..'
Posted by: Alf, in pog form of Bendigo 4:20pm today
nice one 
Dear Mark, Lex and Renee,
I'd like another story where bikie gangs can be made to look evil.
A cheque has been included with this letter.
Written on behalf of all State Premiers.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Rann
Dear Mark, Lex and Renee,
I'd like another story where bikie gangs can be made to look evil.
A cheque has been included with this letter.
Written on behalf of all State Premiers.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Rann
Look how gleeful that guy on the right is!
Edit: And a followup:
Fucking cunts!
Ah damn sorry dude! I thought it would be common knowledge by now - it's been a couple of days almost.
Ah damn sorry dude! I thought it would be common knowledge by now - it's been a couple of days almost. The free market works again!
I like the last sentence of that story.
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Yeah a lot of them are having great success and selling out tours based on the old fanbase they have still got and new ones who have discovered them since. No surprise really for giving it a crack, it could be a nice earner.
I think it's a great move really...there's plenty of artists I never got to see in their heyday due to being either too young or unaware of their quality at the time. RATM and The Police are two recent ones I can think of who made comeback tours that I would've love to have been at, but still didn't get the chance.
Yeah a lot of them are having great success and selling out tours based on the old fanbase they have still got and new ones who have discovered them since. No surprise really for giving it a crack, it could be a nice earner.
I think it's a great move really...there's plenty of artists I never got to see in their heyday due to being either too young or unaware of their quality at the time. RATM and The Police are two recent ones I can think of who made comeback tours that I would've love to have been at, but still didn't get the chance. :( :bash:
Devo, RATM, Stranglers, Madness, Human League, Happy Mondays, New Order, Pixies...
When their performances are still top notch, getting a chance to see some of these bands play is priceless.
And seriously, who cares if it's about money.
Name me one artist who wants to make "art" and not money and I'll show you a fucking hypocrite who's probably shit at making art.
Devo, RATM, Stranglers, Madness, Human League, Happy Mondays, New Order, Pixies...
When their performances are still top notch, getting a chance to see some of these bands play is priceless.
And seriously, who cares if it's about money.
Name me one artist who wants to make "art" and not money and I'll show you a fucking hypocrite who's probably shit at making art.
These days I entirely agree with you, but when a lot of these bands did make it big, having a record deal did indicate you that you had some talent. There was a time when the music that filled the hit charts was actually pretty good.
These days I entirely agree with you, but when a lot of these bands did make it big, having a record deal did indicate you that you had some talent. There was a time when the music that filled the hit charts was actually pretty good.
and Faith No More-they headlined the Down Load festival
and Faith No More-they headlined the Down Load festival
That's the spirit.
:lol: That's the spirit.
Fucking oath! I can't wait. Rock Lobster! Down Down etc.
yeah! i wanna go! B52's, the Proclaimers & Mental As Anything!! wooo!
Fucking oath! I can't wait. Rock Lobster! Down Down etc.
yeah! i wanna go! B52's, the Proclaimers & Mental As Anything!! wooo! :lol:
And in further news regarding the Mysterious rapist. All charges have been dropped after victims are shown photograph of perpetrator.
And in further news regarding the Mysterious rapist. All charges have been dropped after victims are shown photograph of perpetrator.
:lol:
But seriously, how can you rape a guy who is flaccid?
“It was great,” the unnamed man said.
“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't used the clonidine on me.”
âIt was great,â the unnamed man said.
âI like hot women. I only wish she hadn't used the clonidine on me.â
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
But that one actually makes sense...
Not too mention it was a huge scandal. I mean are the media really comparing some car dealer being helped out by the government to one of the biggest political scandals of all time?
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
Finally, something we can agree upon Julian.
But that one actually makes sense...
Not too mention it was a huge scandal. I mean are the media really comparing some car dealer being helped out by the government to one of the biggest political scandals of all time?
Finally, something we can agree upon Julian.
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
dont get me wrong, im in Alanas
unless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
:lol:
Our two major party system is not entirely incompetent, we're lucky to live in a kind of 'secular' country. However, both the two major parties are equally terrible! Don't waste anymore votes on the major parties (unless for necessary protest votes); independents & the greens FTW!
I don't understand why anyone would ask someone to stand down without firm evidence of wrong doing.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if that email came into my possession, I'd get it checked out before calling for heads to roll.
Voting for independents and the Greens isn't going to do anything. Those people are still politicians. Just not competent enough to be in the Liberals or Labor.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
dont get me wrong, im in Alanas
unless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
No it doesn't.
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I don't know what you're getting at here, but feel free to elaborate further.
As for the political parties; although the right/left divide still exists on many issues (as it does worldwide), many political parties have had to change and redefine themselves over the course of time to remain relevant and to keep people voting for them. An element of politics will always be reactionary. Instead of encouraging people to give up, I would encourage them to do their best to get political parties to react and respond.
I am by no means suggesting that we have a perfect or unflawed system, but despite the rubbish that goes on in the media I am grateful to live in such a great country where my vote is counted at the very least.
I don't understand why anyone would ask someone to stand down without firm evidence of wrong doing.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if that email came into my possession, I'd get it checked out before calling for heads to roll.
Voting for independents and the Greens isn't going to do anything. Those people are still politicians. Just not competent enough to be in the Liberals or Labor.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
No it doesn't.
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I don't know what you're getting at here, but feel free to elaborate further.
As for the political parties; although the right/left divide still exists on many issues (as it does worldwide), many political parties have had to change and redefine themselves over the course of time to remain relevant and to keep people voting for them. An element of politics will always be reactionary. Instead of encouraging people to give up, I would encourage them to do their best to get political parties to react and respond.
I am by no means suggesting that we have a perfect or unflawed system, but despite the rubbish that goes on in the media I am grateful to live in such a great country where my vote is counted at the very least.
I'm not defeatist.
I know exactly how to change the system.
I just need to source some digging supplies, "fireworks", gain the confidence and support of senior army and senior police officials, and tie up a few loose ends, and you'll be celebrating "Funky J Day" before you know it!
I'm not defeatist.
I know exactly how to change the system.
I just need to source some digging supplies, "fireworks", gain the confidence and support of senior army and senior police officials, and tie up a few loose ends, and you'll be celebrating "Funky J Day" before you know it! ;)
First time, of the matters I'm referring to, that they had a dodgy e-mail. Even with the dodgy e-mail there appears to be plenty of evidence of wrong doing. My comment on Liberal impotency and incompetency was to do with fucking things up, like the e-mail.
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
First time, of the matters I'm referring to, that they had a dodgy e-mail. Even with the dodgy e-mail there appears to be plenty of evidence of wrong doing. My comment on Liberal impotency and incompetency was to do with fucking things up, like the e-mail.
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
See, we agree on another thing...
Except we have different ideas on how to deal with it. I want the people to take charge and smash everything, and you want the market to take charge and smash everything.
I'm sure with our intellects we could come up with a mid-way solution to smash everything.
We could even call it something cool like FunkyJAZism.
After all, it's only the theories with cool names which get written about...
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
See, we agree on another thing...
Except we have different ideas on how to deal with it. I want the people to take charge and smash everything, and you want the market to take charge and smash everything.
I'm sure with our intellects we could come up with a mid-way solution to smash everything.
We could even call it something cool like FunkyJAZism.
After all, it's only the theories with cool names which get written about...
So what you are saying is that change should come via violent revolt by the frustrated minority? You and J may be in complete agreement on that point.
Things don't change because democracy cannot be "by the people, for the people". It is naturally oligarchic in nature, and this is a problem at its very core. If the oligarchs are deposed, the people will create new oligarchs, who will also expand bureaucracy, as has been done throughout history. There is no cure for its central malady, outside of a non-democratic state.
To make things worse, democracy breeds apathy toward drastic change, as people are bad at math, and think their power to vote actually means something, and that they have anything like a real stake in their government. The more people involved, the less their vote and say means, the more this is true.
The only time this stops being true, is in the case of pure democracy/perfected communism, which, short of being impossible, asks nothing less than the death of the mind, and the individual.
To paraphrase a particular writers, only a little, tongue-in-cheek comment: if you have a bad king, you can hang the bastard; with democracy, the bastard is the mass.
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
While I agree with you on some of your frustrations, I don't agree with your categorically nihilistic view on all politicians. My vote for Xenophon was not wasted, granted he has made bold moves to either block or amend bad policy.
This is bringing about a subtle, yet telling shift in Austn politics. Although this isn't satisfactory outcome-wise, change is a tedious, slow process that we all have to contend with. Let us take better, progressive steps in the right future with our votes, feet and minds rather than reject the system altogether. I reckon it is better to pragmatically access or manipulate within and outside the system to build political, social and/or economic reform.
So what you are saying is that change should come via violent revolt by the frustrated minority? You and J may be in complete agreement on that point.
Things don't change because democracy cannot be "by the people, for the people". It is naturally oligarchic in nature, and this is a problem at its very core. If the oligarchs are deposed, the people will create new oligarchs, who will also expand bureaucracy, as has been done throughout history. There is no cure for its central malady, outside of a non-democratic state.
To make things worse, democracy breeds apathy toward drastic change, as people are bad at math, and think their power to vote actually means something, and that they have anything like a real stake in their government. The more people involved, the less their vote and say means, the more this is true.
The only time this stops being true, is in the case of pure democracy/perfected communism, which, short of being impossible, asks nothing less than the death of the mind, and the individual.
To paraphrase a particular writers, only a little, tongue-in-cheek comment: if you have a bad king, you can hang the bastard; with democracy, the bastard is the mass.
And what creates the mass in relation to apathy etc? Some minority and/or barstard/s. You would find barstards in any kind of political and/or economic structure.
x2
compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution!
Sweet more beheading videos to watch.
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compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
Sweet more beheading videos to watch.
lol. I know my tattoo sluts
lol. I know my tattoo sluts
What an outstanding record of positive change they have as well. They replaced a somewhat incompetent king with years of senseless violence, and Napoleon. Cut to today and the same conservative leader that wanted to pass workplace reform is entertaining the possibility of passing anti-burqa reform.
Further proof, I might add, that with a King you can affect massive change with one act, but with a democracy, you have the same cunt in power, doing the same things, next week.
:rofl:
Sounds like Buddhism is the way to go. Become one and you can get a free holiday to Tibet. Easily the coolest place to visit out of the 4.
:lol:
I always wondered where the term porking came from.
:lol:
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands
Bwahahahaha
I don't know...you might not necessarily be that happy having to push and motivate semi-unwilling clients all day. Surely that would get really annoying.
I had no idea. What is a 'private school type' over there then?
A Chav :E
Nah, it was just a swingers party.
If it were a future PM or Judge, it would involve livestock and chains.
Anyone catch Media Watch last night?
This is a phony report that was commissioned by the Meat Industry peak body LOL.
Thought about you as soon as I heard about this.
One of the coolest things I've heard in ages.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Olga! sounds like a freakin wildebeest!
Olga! sounds like a freakin wildebeest! :lol:
Victim is a bit rich isn't it?
:rofl:
Victim is a bit rich isn't it? :lol:
To be fair sounds like the horse wants it.
Also is it a male or female horse? Big difference imo.
Step ladder/bucket I believe.
There was a special ed dude at my high school who was caught banging a horse in a paddock. So wrong.
having sex with the same horse
To be fair sounds like the horse wants it.
Also is it a male or female horse? Big difference imo.
Step ladder/bucket I believe.
There was a special ed dude at my high school who was caught banging a horse in a paddock. So wrong.
suprised you havent tried searching for the cctv video of the incident tbh
:lol:
suprised you havent tried searching for the cctv video of the incident tbh
:E
So..., it's not veal obviously.
This was actually the first thing that crossed my mind after reading as well.
We seem to think alike, should I be worried?
This was actually the first thing that crossed my mind after reading as well. :lol:
We seem to think alike, should I be worried?
haha now thats wrong. surely you would die from engaging in sex with a male horse?
haha now thats wrong. surely you would die from engaging in sex with a male horse?
You're supporting a Fox News commentator on the basis that Obama called the actions of the police "stupid"?
I thought you were meant to be smart...
It's a media blowout of "utegate" proportions, designed to do nothing but sell newspapers and advertisements.
You're supporting a Fox News commentator on the basis that Obama called the actions of the police "stupid"?
I thought you were meant to be smart...
It's a media blowout of "utegate" proportions, designed to do nothing but sell newspapers and advertisements.
1) feed it some sugar cubes
2) ?
3) sex
1) feed it some sugar cubes
2) ????
3) sex
So, that's your evidence that Obama is racist, is it?
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away.
So, that's your evidence that Obama is racist, is it?
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
Correct.
No, but if you made a statement of some certainty to the entire Australian nation, in which you denigrated the actions of the cops, I'd expect you to be hammered for it. You could quite easily word a response which lets Oli know you have faith, but in which you say you will leave further comment until you know more, as the story certainly makes no sense so far.
I'm a huge fan of statistics. I am also completely on board with the latest findings of Human Bio-Diversity studies, which show a genetic difference in races and the effect this has on aptitudes and traits; in fact I don't believe it is possible to hold any other view logically.This makes me a constant defender of seemingly racist positions, so maybe I should be more sensitive to minor slip ups by others. But it is in the movement from probability to certainty, that things bother me.
To take the Oli example as a way of not involving race I have a problem with the logic of:
Oli is mostly good
Many cops have power issues
Therefore the cops acted stupidly in arresting Oli
You can not make that definitive leap rationally without unfair bias, and as the leader of Australia J, you should know better and hold your tongue for a few days.
I must admit, in trying to create a stir on a quiet message board, I have both muddled my message a little and been a little harsh, but I still believe to make a rash statement and then instantly back up certainty with stat is a huge mistake to make when you are insulting a few cops you have never met in front of the world. I guess my message is more about inherent hidden racism in society, than Obama in particular though, and the fact that this elicits response only from crackpots on Fox, or white nationalist blogs.
Utegate may be a useful analogue. Although both are tiny Turnbull gets lynched by all sides, whereas Obama doesn't have to deal with the media much at all after his slip up. The disparity in reactions between issues, and what it says for peoples personally held beliefs makes a far larger difference to me than the actual story.
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away. :confused:
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
Correct.
No, but if you made a statement of some certainty to the entire Australian nation, in which you denigrated the actions of the cops, I'd expect you to be hammered for it. You could quite easily word a response which lets Oli know you have faith, but in which you say you will leave further comment until you know more, as the story certainly makes no sense so far.
I'm a huge fan of statistics. I am also completely on board with the latest findings of Human Bio-Diversity studies, which show a genetic difference in races and the effect this has on aptitudes and traits; in fact I don't believe it is possible to hold any other view logically.This makes me a constant defender of seemingly racist positions, so maybe I should be more sensitive to minor slip ups by others. But it is in the movement from probability to certainty, that things bother me.
To take the Oli example as a way of not involving race I have a problem with the logic of:
Oli is mostly good
Many cops have power issues
Therefore the cops acted stupidly in arresting Oli
You can not make that definitive leap rationally without unfair bias, and as the leader of Australia J, you should know better and hold your tongue for a few days.
I must admit, in trying to create a stir on a quiet message board, I have both muddled my message a little and been a little harsh, but I still believe to make a rash statement and then instantly back up certainty with stat is a huge mistake to make when you are insulting a few cops you have never met in front of the world. I guess my message is more about inherent hidden racism in society, than Obama in particular though, and the fact that this elicits response only from crackpots on Fox, or white nationalist blogs.
Utegate may be a useful analogue. Although both are tiny Turnbull gets lynched by all sides, whereas Obama doesn't have to deal with the media much at all after his slip up. The disparity in reactions between issues, and what it says for peoples personally held beliefs makes a far larger difference to me than the actual story.
:orly:
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
NO I AM THE PRESIDENT. :E
My Mumsie told me recently that Obama and I share the same birthday ha! Going by the freaky accuracy of the 'Birthday Book', Aug 4 people, (and generally those born on the 4th), have a deep-seeded hatred and/or resistance towards any authoritative structures, people and systems; particularly those which cause systemic social and economic inequalities.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
That's even more obvious than my attempted Jew-bait.
That's even more obvious than my attempted Jew-bait.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo spooky!
Awesome! :rofl:
(http://www.concertlive.co.uk/userfiles/djshadow.jpg) > (http://www.leosden.co.uk/graphics/Disky%20The%20Shadows%202007.jpg)
Shadow > The Shadows
I think Apache is the only track I know by those jokers.
Haven't been to a concert since Pink Floyd or U2 but those ticket prices seem pretty steep @_@
Haha look at that thing...that's great! Good on him!
(http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/08/Chinese-farmer-wooden-helicopter-thumb-550x355-21956.jpg)
Student: Hey man I just had sex with that teacher!
Mates: Sweet! You gonna do it again?
Student: Dunno man, my ass is still a bit sore....
boom boom tish!
Man arrested for drive-by faeces attack
A 39-year-old construction worker has been arrested for throwing his own faeces at women passers-by from a motorcycle in two separate attacks in western Japan, police said today.
The man turned himself in yesterday after making the second drive-by attack in Settsu, a satellite city near Osaka, and was detained on suspicion of assault, a municipal police spokesman said.
The worker, identified as Tatsuya Moriguchi, committed a similar assault in the same city on August 3, the police official said.
"The suspect has told investigators he did it because he felt frustrated when his work didn't go well,'' the official said.
"I have no idea what kind of penalty he may face. I have not heard about such a case before.''
In the first incident, Moriguchi relieved himself outdoors just before getting on his moped and throwing the faeces at the head of a woman in her 20s, the official said.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25943308-5005962,00.html
:poop: :cuckoo:
Seriously, he could even use the blood to write shitty love poems about his ex-girlfriend.
:lol:
Decent line up... but crap venue in Melbourne
i was thinking exactly the same thing. vote 1 for groove
Nope they have combined
Looks like I'll be having a pretty boring New Years Day then.
dilated people and ugly duckling would be cool, but not for $100... where is the dnb?, sounds like its just going to be another house music listenin, salmon coloured and fluro shirt wearing crap, footy player party.
lol nah man. He's got some SERIOUS hip hop in the works
Same. Was so good having a chilled NYE and avoiding what is generally an over hyped night that turns out to be shit and having Groove to go to the next day. Capped off what was an awesome holiday season
that is a fucking mission!
ah the days.... though still cant get mental imagery out my head of a story of someones mate doing it one time and a shard of the pierced metal cap got lodged in his lungs, requiring major chest surgery to have it removed.
fark
Live 3-deck mix @ HEAVY INNIT, Melbs
THE BASSBIN: Dubstep radio with Jayar & Desh, Fresh92.7 Thurs nights 10-12
thats a lot of whipped cream
A few people I know/live with were on first name basis with the Nostex attendant for ages. They kept asking him round for bulbs but sadly he never showed.
normally i'd totally agree, but from what i recall, the connection was somewhat closer.
cant remember for the life of me who anymore though, so let it be an urban myth
Live 3-deck mix @ HEAVY INNIT, Melbs
THE BASSBIN: Dubstep radio with Jayar & Desh, Fresh92.7 Thurs nights 10-12
That Caltex purchases a create & half of the shit prior to big parties / raves.
Been doing it for years and they always sell out...
was a good guy. didn't mind telling a story that's for sure.
Yeah I dunno wtf is wrong with people, have seen some strange opinions on this one. I highly doubt that 'he' had no idea.
What about the legit female competitior that missed actually winning the race and enjoying it?
So the verdict is in and he is more man than woman. Has plenty of testosterone, and produces sperm from his internal testes; has no eggs or estrogen. This hasn't stopped people from crying racism, sexism, or just plain unfairness.
KILL IT!!!
I can't see how he couldn't have known he was not exactly female.
I'd like to see the legit competitor sue for her prize money and glory, but in reality she'd probably be hounded for her venal self-interest. People are stupid.
In more important news, my favourite leader has been talking again. It has no effect on anything really, I just enjoy his alpha male style.
Berlusconi the Modest
When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi goes on the offensive, great things happen for bloggers. He got worked up after a Spanish reporter asked whether he should resign for the rising scandal over his womanizing, including an escort who says she was paid to spend the night with him. Reuters reports Berlusconi's stunningly candid explanation for why he thinks he should stay:
"I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150 year history (since unification in 1861)," Berlusconi said in televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Now, though struggling with corruption, Italy is a democracy, but I'm pretty sure that's what Robert Mugabe says too. But back to Berlusconi, it gets better. He has never denied sleeping with the woman accusing him, but forcefully explained why he would never pay for sex:
"Never in my life, not even once, have I had to pay for a sexual encounter," Berlusconi said. "And I'll tell you why: for someone who loves to conquer, the greatest joy is the conquest, so I ask, 'if you pay, what joy can there be?'"
That must make his wife feel even better about her decision to start divorce proceedings. But the press conference still gets better:
When Berlusconi apologized to Zapatero for his lengthy answer, the Spanish leader said there was no need and it was "very interesting."
Bravo Silvio.
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images
KILL IT!!!
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OMG HE WAS AT THE CELTICS GAME TOO!!!!!!!!
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OMG HE WAS AT THE CELTICS GAME TOO!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 4 May 2009, 7:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I guess millions will have to get their tattoos altered...
Beast’s real mark devalued to ‘616′
Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil’s prime number.
“This is a very nice piece to find,” Dr. Aitken said. “Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast.”
The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation.
Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the “number of the beast,” or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book’s apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.
“This is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text we’ve found of that passage,” Dr. Aitken said. “It’s probably about 100 years before any other version.”
The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques.
Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666.
“Otherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten,” he said with a laugh. “There’s always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it.
“It just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation there’s an almost unlimited number of interpretations.”
The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. “When we’re talking about the early biblical texts, we’re always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written,” she said.
“They can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons … it’s like a detective story piecing it all together.”
Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone’s name, she said.
“It’s a number puzzle — the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero.”
Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. “It’s a very political document,” Dr. Aitken said. “It’s a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it’s written in coded language and riddles.”
Beast’s real mark devalued to ‘616′
Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil’s prime number.
“This is a very nice piece to find,” Dr. Aitken said. “Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast.”
The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation.
Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the “number of the beast,” or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book’s apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.
“This is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text we’ve found of that passage,” Dr. Aitken said. “It’s probably about 100 years before any other version.”
The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques.
Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666.
“Otherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten,” he said with a laugh. “There’s always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it.
“It just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation there’s an almost unlimited number of interpretations.”
The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. “When we’re talking about the early biblical texts, we’re always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written,” she said.
“They can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons … it’s like a detective story piecing it all together.”
Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone’s name, she said.
“It’s a number puzzle — the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero.”
Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. “It’s a very political document,” Dr. Aitken said. “It’s a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it’s written in coded language and riddles.”
Posted: 4 May 2009, 8:39amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I guess millions will have to get their tattoos altered... :E
Beastâs real mark devalued to â616′
Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devilâs prime number.
âThis is a very nice piece to find,â Dr. Aitken said. âScholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast.â
The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation.
Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the ânumber of the beast,â or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the bookâs apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.
âThis is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text weâve found of that passage,â Dr. Aitken said. âItâs probably about 100 years before any other version.â
The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques.
Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666.
âOtherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten,â he said with a laugh. âThereâs always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it.
âIt just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation thereâs an almost unlimited number of interpretations.â
The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: âLet him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.â
But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. âWhen weâre talking about the early biblical texts, weâre always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written,â she said.
âThey can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons ⦠itâs like a detective story piecing it all together.â
Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someoneâs name, she said.
âItâs a number puzzle â the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero.â
Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. âItâs a very political document,â Dr. Aitken said. âItâs a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but itâs written in coded language and riddles.â
Beastâs real mark devalued to â616′
Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devilâs prime number.
âThis is a very nice piece to find,â Dr. Aitken said. âScholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast.â
The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation.
Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the ânumber of the beast,â or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the bookâs apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.
âThis is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text weâve found of that passage,â Dr. Aitken said. âItâs probably about 100 years before any other version.â
The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques.
Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666.
âOtherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten,â he said with a laugh. âThereâs always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it.
âIt just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation thereâs an almost unlimited number of interpretations.â
The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: âLet him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.â
But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. âWhen weâre talking about the early biblical texts, weâre always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written,â she said.
âThey can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons ⦠itâs like a detective story piecing it all together.â
Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someoneâs name, she said.
âItâs a number puzzle â the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero.â
Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. âItâs a very political document,â Dr. Aitken said. âItâs a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but itâs written in coded language and riddles.â
Posted: 4 May 2009, 11:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Anyone know what the hell this is all about?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html
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I see them absolutely everywhere in Bangkok and I have been meaning to look it up on the net to find out what it was. I thought it was some Bangkok gang because I also see large tags with BNE and a crown symbol above the lettering around on telephone boxes and walls too!
Thanks to this article I have now found out is some global movement. Weird.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html
image not archived: 0,,6610233,00.jpg
I see them absolutely everywhere in Bangkok and I have been meaning to look it up on the net to find out what it was. I thought it was some Bangkok gang because I also see large tags with BNE and a crown symbol above the lettering around on telephone boxes and walls too!
Thanks to this article I have now found out is some global movement. Weird.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 5 May 2009, 8:06amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Anyone know what the hell this is all about?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html
image not archived: 0,,6610233,00.jpg
I see them absolutely everywhere in Bangkok and I have been meaning to look it up on the net to find out what it was. I thought it was some Bangkok gang because I also see large tags with BNE and a crown symbol above the lettering around on telephone boxes and walls too!
Thanks to this article I have now found out is some global movement. Weird.
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
Posted: 5 May 2009, 9:06amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Anyone know what the hell this is all about?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html)
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6610233,00.jpg)
I see them absolutely everywhere in Bangkok and I have been meaning to look it up on the net to find out what it was. I thought it was some Bangkok gang because I also see large tags with BNE and a crown symbol above the lettering around on telephone boxes and walls too!
Thanks to this article I have now found out is some global movement. Weird.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25430858-13762,00.html)
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6610233,00.jpg)
I see them absolutely everywhere in Bangkok and I have been meaning to look it up on the net to find out what it was. I thought it was some Bangkok gang because I also see large tags with BNE and a crown symbol above the lettering around on telephone boxes and walls too!
Thanks to this article I have now found out is some global movement. Weird.
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
Posted: 5 May 2009, 6:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
Yeah, it's the international airport code for Brisbane airport...strange.
Posted: 5 May 2009, 7:52pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I though some crew from Brisbane came down and did it... *shrug*
Yeah, it's the international airport code for Brisbane airport...strange.
Posted: 6 May 2009, 3:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Probs just one of the many writers from Brissy going on a world tour.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 6 May 2009, 3:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Apparently it is Benet, from San Francisco, going on a world tour.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 6 May 2009, 6:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Apparently it is Benet, from San Francisco, going on a world tour.
Well he sure gets around judging by the sheer number of these stickers around Bangkok. All different flavours of them too - some with just BNE, some with BNE WAS HERE, others with BNE and Asian characters underneath etc. The local crews seemed to have picked up on it too because there are tags with BNE everywhere as well, some with a crown painted above the lettering.
I'll take a pic when I can and post it up.
Posted: 6 May 2009, 7:00pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Apparently it is Benet, from San Francisco, going on a world tour.
Well he sure gets around judging by the sheer number of these stickers around Bangkok. All different flavours of them too - some with just BNE, some with BNE WAS HERE, others with BNE and Asian characters underneath etc. The local crews seemed to have picked up on it too because there are tags with BNE everywhere as well, some with a crown painted above the lettering.
I'll take a pic when I can and post it up.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 8 May 2009, 7:45amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Speaking of stickers...
Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this "Photoshopping" of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with stickers. This is pitch-perfect adbusting right here.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130163/photoshopped-subway-ads-get-exposed-in-berlin
Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this "Photoshopping" of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with stickers. This is pitch-perfect adbusting right here.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130163/photoshopped-subway-ads-get-exposed-in-berlin
Posted: 8 May 2009, 8:45amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Speaking of stickers...
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/pshopad.jpg)
Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this "Photoshopping" of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with stickers. This is pitch-perfect adbusting right here.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130163/photoshopped-subway-ads-get-exposed-in-berlin
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/pshopad.jpg)
Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this "Photoshopping" of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with stickers. This is pitch-perfect adbusting right here.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130163/photoshopped-subway-ads-get-exposed-in-berlin
Posted: 8 May 2009, 3:58pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haha!
I see nothing wrong with it, advertising has always been about creativity and marketing things in the best light possible. All that retouching hate is stupid. If you believe the product has that effect you are a moron anyway.
How boring would the ad world be if it just did everything plainly!
I see nothing wrong with it, advertising has always been about creativity and marketing things in the best light possible. All that retouching hate is stupid. If you believe the product has that effect you are a moron anyway.
How boring would the ad world be if it just did everything plainly!
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 11 May 2009, 9:37amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haha!
I see nothing wrong with it, advertising has always been about creativity and marketing things in the best light possible. All that retouching hate is stupid. If you believe the product has that effect you are a moron anyway.
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
Posted: 11 May 2009, 10:37amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haha!
I see nothing wrong with it, advertising has always been about creativity and marketing things in the best light possible. All that retouching hate is stupid. If you believe the product has that effect you are a moron anyway.
I see nothing wrong with it, advertising has always been about creativity and marketing things in the best light possible. All that retouching hate is stupid. If you believe the product has that effect you are a moron anyway.
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 11 May 2009, 2:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
what i am about to say is possibly the most important piece of news ever to be posted in this thread... brace yourselves...
BILLABONG ARE DOING BARNEY BANANA ICE CREAMS AGAIN!!
BILLABONG ARE DOING BARNEY BANANA ICE CREAMS AGAIN!! 
Posted: 11 May 2009, 2:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
that is some good news!
~the grass might be greener but it's just as hard to mow ~
Posted: 11 May 2009, 2:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they don't end up being a huge disappointment like Buffalo Bills were when they returned.
Some things are just meant to remain childhood memories.
Some things are just meant to remain childhood memories.
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YakPosts: 1,772
Posted: 11 May 2009, 2:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Blerh, I hate banana flavoured treats. I thought the news was gonna be way better than that!
"You'd be surprised how quickly you forget what's important when you've suddenly got everything you'd never thought you'd have" - Slash
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 11 May 2009, 2:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they don't end up being a huge disappointment like Buffalo Bills were when they returned.
Some things are just meant to remain childhood memories.
just had one and it was the bizniss...
Posted: 11 May 2009, 3:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:foc:
that is some good news!
:music:
that is some good news!
:music:
Posted: 11 May 2009, 3:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they don't end up being a huge disappointment like Buffalo Bills were when they returned.
Some things are just meant to remain childhood memories.
Some things are just meant to remain childhood memories.
just had one and it was the bizniss...
:drool:
Posted: 11 May 2009, 4:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
barney bananas were the shit
Sneaky Sundays @ Shotz, Sunday 20 Nov
Rumour pres. Kid Kenobi @ HQ, Friday 25th Nov
Kobra Kai @ RocketBar, Friday 25th Nov
The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
1994-2006 D&B vinyl sale - classics, well looked after and priced to sell!
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Rumour pres. Kid Kenobi @ HQ, Friday 25th Nov
Kobra Kai @ RocketBar, Friday 25th Nov
The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
1994-2006 D&B vinyl sale - classics, well looked after and priced to sell!
THE BASSBIN: Dubstep radio with Jayar & Desh, Fresh 92.7, 10pm Thu
Posted: 11 May 2009, 6:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
Far from it actually! I am intelligent enough to look beyond all the bullshit and make a decision for myself, marketing aside. My point was that if things were advertised 'realistically' how boring and shit would it be around the place.
Take that show The Gruen Transfer for instance, there's some really clever ads out there that make you think, make you laugh and they simply wouldn't exist if it was all about 'truth in advertising.'
And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that most people would rather see some smoking hot girl (airbrushed or not) advertising lingerie than a 'real' woman! Or from a woman's perspective - an ad for men's underwear - do you think they would prefer a hairy chest, pasty white beer gut on the billboard over the current Adonis'. I think not!
From an art perspective advertising can be great and really jazz up urban landscapes, I'd hate to think how bad everything would look with plain messages and truthful images.
PS. In these harsh economic times all this extra unnecessary Photoshop work is creating jobs for graphic designers so there!
deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they don't end up being a huge disappointment like Buffalo Bills were when they returned.
Bubble O' Bills
I may not know know the difference between Shazzan and Shazzam, but I sure as hell know that Bubble O' Bills aren't Buffalo Bills
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Look, I've been awake for 3 days.
Fuck ya.
Fuck ya.
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deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
nawww sorry... you need a barney banana 
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:29pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You've been sucked into the marketing bullshit big time!
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
Explain to me why advertisers need to airbrush women who are pretty in the first place? Why do they brush over moles and freckles, something every single person has? Why do they airbrush skinny girls even skinnier? Why do they change the colour of clothes?
Why waste time and money on photoshopping a photo if aftertouching it should have no effect on non-stupid people?
Far from it actually! I am intelligent enough to look beyond all the bullshit and make a decision for myself, marketing aside. My point was that if things were advertised 'realistically' how boring and shit would it be around the place.
Take that show The Gruen Transfer for instance, there's some really clever ads out there that make you think, make you laugh and they simply wouldn't exist if it was all about 'truth in advertising.'
And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that most people would rather see some smoking hot girl (airbrushed or not) advertising lingerie than a 'real' woman! Or from a woman's perspective - an ad for men's underwear - do you think they would prefer a hairy chest, pasty white beer gut on the billboard over the current Adonis'. I think not! :lol:
From an art perspective advertising can be great and really jazz up urban landscapes, I'd hate to think how bad everything would look with plain messages and truthful images.
PS. In these harsh economic times all this extra unnecessary Photoshop work is creating jobs for graphic designers so there! :E
Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:31pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fuck no, I hate those things. If I want that flavour I'll just eat a banana.
It's a Giant Twin or its nothing.
It's a Giant Twin or its nothing.
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deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 11 May 2009, 7:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I hate them too!But only boring mums and dads like a giant twin! What's wrong with a golden gaytime?
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 8:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they don't end up being a huge disappointment like Buffalo Bills were when they returned.
Bubble O' Bills :brow2:
I may not know know the difference between Shazzan and Shazzam, but I sure as hell know that Bubble O' Bills aren't Buffalo Bills :scold:
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 11 May 2009, 8:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 11 May 2009, 8:27pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
nawww sorry... you need a barney banana :icecream:
Posted: 11 May 2009, 8:36pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: I hate them too!
But only boring mums and dads like a giant twin! What's wrong with a golden gaytime?
But only boring mums and dads like a giant twin! What's wrong with a golden gaytime?
Posted: 11 May 2009, 9:19pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 11 May 2009, 10:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 10:40amSubject: Re: In The News Today
definitely the shard.
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 11:40amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
definitely the shard. :lol:
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 3:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
FIRST PICS: A TEENAGER has been charged by police over an alleged stabbing at a northern suburbs school this morning.
A student at the the Fremont-Elizabeth City High School was allegedly stabbed on the school grounds by another student around 11.30am.
Police and ambulance officers attended the Philip Hwy school, where they found the student with a minor stab wound to their shoulder.
It is believed the student was attacked with a small pen or pocket knife. The injury is not life threatening.
An Elizabeth Downs youth, 16, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault causing harm and was bailed to appear in the Elizabeth Youth Court at a later date.
AdelaideNow cannot publish comment for legal reasons.
This made me laugh, I went to this school eight years ago and worse things happened then people getting stabbed and it never made National news.
A student at the the Fremont-Elizabeth City High School was allegedly stabbed on the school grounds by another student around 11.30am.
Police and ambulance officers attended the Philip Hwy school, where they found the student with a minor stab wound to their shoulder.
It is believed the student was attacked with a small pen or pocket knife. The injury is not life threatening.
An Elizabeth Downs youth, 16, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault causing harm and was bailed to appear in the Elizabeth Youth Court at a later date.
AdelaideNow cannot publish comment for legal reasons.
This made me laugh, I went to this school eight years ago and worse things happened then people getting stabbed and it never made National news.
Posted: 12 May 2009, 3:50pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
apparently it was over a banana...
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 4:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 4:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
HAHA
Now thats worth fighting for!!!!
And Salami.
Now thats worth fighting for!!!!
And Salami.
Posted: 12 May 2009, 5:04pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
apparently it was over a banana...
A BARNEY BANANA?!?!?!
Erk
Posted: 12 May 2009, 5:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
HAHA
Now thats worth fighting for!!!!
And Salami.
Now thats worth fighting for!!!!
And Salami.
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 5:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
"Innn the Ghettooooooo"
Posted: 12 May 2009, 5:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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"Innn the Ghettooooooo"
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 6:36pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 6:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
well played 
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 7:44pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
well played :clap:
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 9:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This made me laugh, I went to this school eight years ago and worse things happened then people getting stabbed and it never made National news.
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
Posted: 12 May 2009, 10:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
This made me laugh, I went to this school eight years ago and worse things happened then people getting stabbed and it never made National news.
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
Posted: 13 May 2009, 12:43amSubject: Re: In The News Today
We had people paint our Ag. sheep into easter eggs. Monthly burnouts on the oval. A dude on a revenge attack, walking through the school with a loaded crossbow during recess. Fights on the bus with other schools daily. Knives, surgical-rubber slingshots (marbles as the projectile of course), bats, air rifles, martial arts weapons and people setting fire to the library and other temp. class buildings. Yep that's the high school we went to. That's just a few of the things that happened. Someone squishing a banana on someone's back is exactly what used to go on. We all used to hate when someone would say " i was only joking ". ( Yeah ? well joke this muthaf$%kr , *shank shank shank* )
It is a bit terrible though. Sad even
It is a bit terrible though. Sad even
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Posted: 13 May 2009, 11:03amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
Me and a mate made a smokebomb so big out of potassium nitrate that when we lit it in the year 12 toilets on muck up day, we managed to evacuate the school. Neither of us had anticipated exactly how well the smoke bomb was going to work. It looked like there was a bushfire cranking in there
.Fights
Yeah, we had a few that big that they ended up spilling out onto the road and stopping traffic. Main road too btw. Remember one guy coming in looking for someone over a 'deal' of some sorts that had gone bad and when a teacher got involved, teacher got knocked the fuck out. Saw a dude (fkn wanker he was too) get bashed severely by 2 chicks
. Once while in Japanese, the same wanker who got bashed by the two chicks was making heaps of noise. He pissed off the wrong person next door who ended up coming in and knocking him, and a few of his teeth out. The reaction of the 4'2 70 year old Japanese lady was priceless. Then there was the dude who used to keep a shotgun in his car (teachers didn't know about this one).Pretty lively school I suppose
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Posted: 13 May 2009, 11:21amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Stupid Japanese teachers!
My Japanese teacher was so scared of this one kid in class that instead of doing anything to him, I got a weeks detention when he threw a fucking chair at me! Fuuuuck!
My Japanese teacher was so scared of this one kid in class that instead of doing anything to him, I got a weeks detention when he threw a fucking chair at me! Fuuuuck!
Posted: 13 May 2009, 12:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Shit, when I went to Fremont some kids called in a bomb threat, and even went to the trouble of making a fake bomb with wires and toilet paper rolls.
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
The teachers weren't upset, more amazed at their skills and creativity!
Me and a mate made a smokebomb so big out of potassium nitrate that when we lit it in the year 12 toilets on muck up day, we managed to evacuate the school. Neither of us had anticipated exactly how well the smoke bomb was going to work. It looked like there was a bushfire cranking in there :lol:.
Fights
Yeah, we had a few that big that they ended up spilling out onto the road and stopping traffic. Main road too btw. Remember one guy coming in looking for someone over a 'deal' of some sorts that had gone bad and when a teacher got involved, teacher got knocked the fuck out. Saw a dude (fkn wanker he was too) get bashed severely by 2 chicks :lol:. Once while in Japanese, the same wanker who got bashed by the two chicks was making heaps of noise. He pissed off the wrong person next door who ended up coming in and knocking him, and a few of his teeth out. The reaction of the 4'2 70 year old Japanese lady was priceless. Then there was the dude who used to keep a shotgun in his car (teachers didn't know about this one).
Pretty lively school I suppose :lol:.
Posted: 13 May 2009, 12:50pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Pretty lively school I suppose
We may have went to the same school ? Redward Avenue ring a bell ?
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Posted: 13 May 2009, 1:50pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Pretty lively school I suppose
We may have went to the same school ? Redward Avenue ring a bell ?Posted: 15 May 2009, 8:04amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Far out our road toll is terrible this year!
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 8:51amSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah, that one on torrens road was about 2 minutes from our place.
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 9:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah, that one on torrens road was about 2 minutes from our place. :(
Posted: 15 May 2009, 11:31amSubject: Re: In The News Today
how about the 15 year old girl hit and killed by a semi on marion road this morning....
it sounds like the truck didnt stop/know it had hit her.
so so so horrible
it sounds like the truck didnt stop/know it had hit her.
so so so horrible
Posted: 15 May 2009, 12:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 12:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
This.
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 12:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It won't happen though because our legal system is pathetic.
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 12:58pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Only just heard about the one on Torrens Rd - Apparently the cousin of someone quite a few of us know.
What a fucked thing to happen, some people are so fucking stupid. You would think after the "drag race" that went wrong on Magill Rd only a month or so ago people would be a little smarter on the roads.
Cunt should be charged with murder.
Another big WTF - The WRX driver had 3 passengers of his own!!
What a fucked thing to happen, some people are so fucking stupid. You would think after the "drag race" that went wrong on Magill Rd only a month or so ago people would be a little smarter on the roads.
Cunt should be charged with murder.
Another big WTF - The WRX driver had 3 passengers of his own!!
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 1:48pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
This.
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 3:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Only just heard about the one on Torrens Rd - Apparently the cousin of someone quite a few of us know.
What a fucked thing to happen, some people are so fucking stupid. You would think after the "drag race" that went wrong on Magill Rd only a month or so ago people would be a little smarter on the roads.
Cunt should be charged with murder.
Another big WTF - The WRX driver had 3 passengers of his own!!
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething.
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them
*calm* Posted: 15 May 2009, 4:00pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Only just heard about the one on Torrens Rd - Apparently the cousin of someone quite a few of us know.
What a fucked thing to happen, some people are so fucking stupid. You would think after the "drag race" that went wrong on Magill Rd only a month or so ago people would be a little smarter on the roads.
Cunt should be charged with murder.
Another big WTF - The WRX driver had 3 passengers of his own!!
What a fucked thing to happen, some people are so fucking stupid. You would think after the "drag race" that went wrong on Magill Rd only a month or so ago people would be a little smarter on the roads.
Cunt should be charged with murder.
Another big WTF - The WRX driver had 3 passengers of his own!!
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething. :angry:
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them :cry: *calm*
Posted: 15 May 2009, 10:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
Agreed. Just sensless.
Posted: 15 May 2009, 11:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
Agreed. Just sensless.
Posted: 16 May 2009, 6:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Man tried to hire prostitute for his son, 14
LONDON (Reuters) - A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday.
The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham.
But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child, the Press Association reported.
The court heard that the father, who came to Britain eight years ago, was arrested last July during an undercover operation by the city's vice squad.
Prosecutor Adrian Harris said the man and his son had approached the undercover officer whose code name was Sarah and beckoned her over .
He asked "Sarah" how much it would cost for her to have sex with his son and they agreed on a 20 pound fee. However, when the car pulled over, the man was arrested by plainclothes police officers.
"The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said 'will she do?'" Harris said.
"He said 'yes' and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."
Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.
"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.
The court was told the boy would continue to live with his father.
LONDON (Reuters) - A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday.
The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham.
But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child, the Press Association reported.
The court heard that the father, who came to Britain eight years ago, was arrested last July during an undercover operation by the city's vice squad.
Prosecutor Adrian Harris said the man and his son had approached the undercover officer whose code name was Sarah and beckoned her over .
He asked "Sarah" how much it would cost for her to have sex with his son and they agreed on a 20 pound fee. However, when the car pulled over, the man was arrested by plainclothes police officers.
"The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said 'will she do?'" Harris said.
"He said 'yes' and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."
Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.
"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.
The court was told the boy would continue to live with his father.
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Posted: 16 May 2009, 7:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
front runner for dad of the year imo
Posted: 16 May 2009, 8:05pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
front runner for dad of the year imo
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Posted: 16 May 2009, 8:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
A freight train derailed at Nuri today. Most excitement the Barossa has seen in years.
Kids thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Kids thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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Posted: 16 May 2009, 8:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not a nice feeling reading the front page of The Advertiser and realising you know the person who passed away.
Seriously messed up, I hope they get super tough on the idiots drag racing.
Seriously messed up, I hope they get super tough on the idiots drag racing.
Posted: 16 May 2009, 11:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething.
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
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Posted: 16 May 2009, 11:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
nah i'm pretty sure that the girl and guy got hit by one of the 2 cars drag racing. they were innocent. but yeah their family would be gutted.
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 12:00amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I only just heard about this and I am seething. Absolutely seething. :angry:
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them :cry: *calm*
Some pretty shattered families around at the moment, my heart is going out to them :cry: *calm*
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
Posted: 17 May 2009, 12:15amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't know anybody involved, but fuck... think of the mother whose son has just been killed through no fault of his own on the anniversary of his fathers death. Honestly, how the fuck could you even think of getting into a drag race whilst driving your boyfriend home from his fathers grave. Stupid bitch.
nah i'm pretty sure that the girl and guy got hit by one of the 2 cars drag racing. they were innocent. but yeah their family would be gutted.
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 3:47amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wrong place, wrong time. No fault of hers.
Sal and I were driving on Ascot Ave around the same time this happened and had a 200SX come screaming up behind us, then started fishtailing across the entire road. I don't reckon he was actually in control at the time, but he nearly smashed into the back of us at whatever speed he was doing (around 100kph). We were just minding our own business, driving at the speed limit, yet we could have easily been wiped out the same as this couple.
Would you fucking dickheads please get the fuck off our roads if you're going to do this shit?!?
Sal and I were driving on Ascot Ave around the same time this happened and had a 200SX come screaming up behind us, then started fishtailing across the entire road. I don't reckon he was actually in control at the time, but he nearly smashed into the back of us at whatever speed he was doing (around 100kph). We were just minding our own business, driving at the speed limit, yet we could have easily been wiped out the same as this couple.
Would you fucking dickheads please get the fuck off our roads if you're going to do this shit?!?
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 9:14amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Just found out who it was
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 10:14amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Just found out who it was :confused:
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 12:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Drunk woman caught horsing around
AN allegedly drunken woman on a horse has been arrested by police for directing traffic in the northern suburbs.
Members of the public phoned police after the Salisbury North woman, 25, started directing traffic out the front of a Bolivar Rd, Paralowie, service station about 4am yesterday.
Police spokesman Senior Constable Paul Noble said she was arrested and charged with "riding a horse under the influence of alcohol."
She was bailed to appear in court at a later date.
The horse was picked up by a member of the public and taken to a stable.
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Posted: 18 May 2009, 5:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
or at least force them to drag down the southern expressway while people on the overpasses thrown stones at them
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Posted: 18 May 2009, 6:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hopefully they throw the book at the 2 dudes drag racing. I'm sick of the courts throwing suspended sentences or 2 years in jail for people who kill via dangerous driving.
or at least force them to drag down the southern expressway while people on the overpasses thrown stones at them
Posted: 18 May 2009, 8:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Texas mum Mia Washington has 'twins' to different dads
ASTONISHED US medics say there's "an overwhelming 99.999 per cent chance" that a set of 11-month-old Texan twins have been born to different fathers.
Babies Justin and Jordan Washington arrived just seven minutes apart, UK tabloid The Sun reports, but were conceived separately because their mother Mia was cheating on partner James Harrison.
A disbelieving Mia, 20, told The Sun: “Out of all the people in America and all the people in the world, this had to happen to me.”
The Texas mum admitted having the affair at the time she conceived, and submitted to a paternity test because the two boys looked so unalike.
The double pregnancy is known technically as “heteropaternal superfecundation”.
It can occur when a woman woman releases multiple eggs during ovulation, which can be fertilised individually by sperm cells from separate partners.
Genny Thibodeaux, from Clear Diagnostics DNA Lab which did the test, said: “It’s crazy. Most people don’t believe it can happen but it really can.”
The test result means the boys will now be officially referred to as half-brothers.
ASTONISHED US medics say there's "an overwhelming 99.999 per cent chance" that a set of 11-month-old Texan twins have been born to different fathers.
Babies Justin and Jordan Washington arrived just seven minutes apart, UK tabloid The Sun reports, but were conceived separately because their mother Mia was cheating on partner James Harrison.
A disbelieving Mia, 20, told The Sun: “Out of all the people in America and all the people in the world, this had to happen to me.”
The Texas mum admitted having the affair at the time she conceived, and submitted to a paternity test because the two boys looked so unalike.
The double pregnancy is known technically as “heteropaternal superfecundation”.
It can occur when a woman woman releases multiple eggs during ovulation, which can be fertilised individually by sperm cells from separate partners.
Genny Thibodeaux, from Clear Diagnostics DNA Lab which did the test, said: “It’s crazy. Most people don’t believe it can happen but it really can.”
The test result means the boys will now be officially referred to as half-brothers.
Posted: 18 May 2009, 8:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mia Washington sounds like a porn star name.
Love those sluts.
Love those sluts.
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Posted: 18 May 2009, 9:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mia Washington sounds like a porn star name.
Love those sluts.
oh shit
Posted: 18 May 2009, 10:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mia Washington sounds like a porn star name.
Love those sluts.
Love those sluts.
oh shit :rofl:
Posted: 19 May 2009, 8:01amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Texas mum Mia Washington has 'twins' to different dads
A disbelieving Mia, 20, told The Sun: âOut of all the people in America and all the people in the world, this had to happen to me.â
A disbelieving Mia, 20, told The Sun: âOut of all the people in America and all the people in the world, this had to happen to me.â
:lol:
Well allowing two different kinds of beans into your muff around the time of ovulation definitely increases your chances love.
cough *slut*
Posted: 19 May 2009, 10:15amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So that's why four bean mix tastes so disgusting!
Posted: 19 May 2009, 12:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
OMG I thought that only happened to cats.
Posted: 19 May 2009, 12:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wrong place, wrong time. No fault of hers.
Statement retracted, I misread the caption on the front of the paper. Christ there are some dickheads out there.
Posted: 19 May 2009, 7:13pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Well allowing two different kinds of beans into your muff around the time of ovulation definitely increases your chances love.
cough *slut*
Well allowing two different kinds of beans into your muff around the time of ovulation definitely increases your chances love.
cough *slut*
:lol:
Imagine being the original boyfriend and hearing that not only have you got your 20 year old girlfriend pregnant, so has some other guy.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 7:03amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh and also that 13 year old kid Alfie from a UK council estate who claimed to have fathered his 15 year old gf's child is not the father! apparently he is gutted, I say he's a lucky lucky little man.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 10:09amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Lucky kid!!!
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Doctor Rob Carson saves Nicholas Rossi's life by drilling into his brain
By Cameron Stewart
The Australian
May 20, 2009 12:01am
A COUNTRY doctor has saved the life of a dying 12-year-old boy by using a household drill to bore into his brain after the boy had a bike accident.
The emergency "operation", by local GP Rob Carson in the Victorian country town of Maryborough, was yesterday hailed by a leading neurosurgeon as "one of the gutsiest life-saving efforts imaginable".
The drama happened late last Friday when Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike while riding in a quiet cul de sac outside a friend's house.
Nicholas was not wearing a helmet and the impact of his head hitting the pavement knocked him momentarily unconscious.
"He was a bit delirious at first, but then he stood up and said he was fine," his father, Michael Rossi, told The Australian yesterday. When he got home, Nicholas kept complaining of a headache and his mother, Karen, a trained nurse, took him to the district hospital where Dr Carson, a local GP, was on duty.
The doctor kept him for observation, but an hour later Nicholas began to drift in and out of consciousness and have spasms.
Dr Carson recognised it as a sign of internal bleeding in the skull that places acute pressure on the brain - the same deadly condition that recently claimed the life of actress Natasha Richardson, wife of Hollywood actor Liam Neeson. He also noticed that one of the boy's pupils was larger than the other - another sign of the internal bleeding.
The boy had fractured his skull and torn a tiny artery between the bone and the brain just above his ear. This created internal bleeding that became trapped between his skull and brain and formed into a huge blood clot, placing pressure on the brain.
If Dr Carson did not act within minutes, the boy would die.
"Dr Carson came over to us and said, 'I am going to have to drill into (Nicholas) to relieve the pressure on the brain - we've got one shot at this and one shot only'," Mr Rossi recalled.
The small hospital was not equipped with neurological drills, so Dr Carson obtained a household De Walt drill, used for boring holes in wood, from a hospital maintenance room.
He telephoned leading Melbourne neurosurgeon David Wallace to help talk him through the procedure, which he had never tried before.
"He drilled into my son's head and we heard the suction," Mr Rossi said.
Dr Carson drilled until a blood clot fell out and continued to treat Nicholas until he could be airlifted an hour later to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
"If you are in that situation you just do those things," he said.
"It is not a personal achievement, it is just a part of the job and I had a very good team of people helping me."
By Cameron Stewart
The Australian
May 20, 2009 12:01am
A COUNTRY doctor has saved the life of a dying 12-year-old boy by using a household drill to bore into his brain after the boy had a bike accident.
The emergency "operation", by local GP Rob Carson in the Victorian country town of Maryborough, was yesterday hailed by a leading neurosurgeon as "one of the gutsiest life-saving efforts imaginable".
The drama happened late last Friday when Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike while riding in a quiet cul de sac outside a friend's house.
Nicholas was not wearing a helmet and the impact of his head hitting the pavement knocked him momentarily unconscious.
"He was a bit delirious at first, but then he stood up and said he was fine," his father, Michael Rossi, told The Australian yesterday. When he got home, Nicholas kept complaining of a headache and his mother, Karen, a trained nurse, took him to the district hospital where Dr Carson, a local GP, was on duty.
The doctor kept him for observation, but an hour later Nicholas began to drift in and out of consciousness and have spasms.
Dr Carson recognised it as a sign of internal bleeding in the skull that places acute pressure on the brain - the same deadly condition that recently claimed the life of actress Natasha Richardson, wife of Hollywood actor Liam Neeson. He also noticed that one of the boy's pupils was larger than the other - another sign of the internal bleeding.
The boy had fractured his skull and torn a tiny artery between the bone and the brain just above his ear. This created internal bleeding that became trapped between his skull and brain and formed into a huge blood clot, placing pressure on the brain.
If Dr Carson did not act within minutes, the boy would die.
"Dr Carson came over to us and said, 'I am going to have to drill into (Nicholas) to relieve the pressure on the brain - we've got one shot at this and one shot only'," Mr Rossi recalled.
The small hospital was not equipped with neurological drills, so Dr Carson obtained a household De Walt drill, used for boring holes in wood, from a hospital maintenance room.
He telephoned leading Melbourne neurosurgeon David Wallace to help talk him through the procedure, which he had never tried before.
"He drilled into my son's head and we heard the suction," Mr Rossi said.
Dr Carson drilled until a blood clot fell out and continued to treat Nicholas until he could be airlifted an hour later to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
"If you are in that situation you just do those things," he said.
"It is not a personal achievement, it is just a part of the job and I had a very good team of people helping me."
Posted: 20 May 2009, 11:59amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Meh, anyone can drill a hole into someones head... I'm more impressed with the guy who amputated his own leg with guidance from a doctor on the phone!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 12:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Meh, anyone can drill a hole into someones head...
Agreed, but knowing when to stop drilling is another matter...
Posted: 20 May 2009, 12:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Meh, anyone can drill a hole into someones head... I'm more impressed with the guy who amputated his own leg with guidance from a doctor on the phone!
Two words; Aron fucking Ralston.
The Amputation
While he was on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder dislodged, crushing his right forearm and pinning it against the canyon wall. Ralston had not told anyone of his hiking plans and knew no one would be searching for him. Assuming that he would die, he spent five days slowly sipping his small amount of remaining water while trying to extricate his arm. He eventually ran out of water and began to drink his own urine, carved his name, date of birth and presumed date of death into the sandstone canyon wall, and videotaped his last goodbyes to his family.
After five days of trying to lift and break the boulder, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston prepared to cut off his already-dead arm by levering it against a chockstone, which snapped the radius and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons. Although he never named the make of the tool other than to say it was not Leatherman, he did describe it as "what you'd get if you bought a $15 flashlight and got a free multi-use tool". [1] After freeing himself, he was still eight miles from his stick shift truck, and he had no cellular phone. He had to rappel down a 65-foot sheer wall, then hike out of the canyon in the hot midday sun. While hiking out, he encountered a family of three on vacation from the Netherlands, who gave him water, two Oreo cookies, and all the food that they had. They then alerted the authorities. He was ultimately rescued by a helicopter search team. His arm was retrieved by park authorities and removed from under the boulder. It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to the boulder and left the ashes there.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 2:50pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
How's the woman who stole a bar mat in Thailand and is now being threatened with 5 years prison...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5350092/Australian-woman-facing-jail-in-Thailand-for-stealing-bar-mat.html
Stupid bitch...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5350092/Australian-woman-facing-jail-in-Thailand-for-stealing-bar-mat.html
Stupid bitch...
Posted: 20 May 2009, 2:53pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Two words; Aron fucking Ralston.
Fuck yeah. :slayer:
Bear Grylls has nothing on this dude.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
How's the woman who stole a bar mat in Thailand and is now being threatened with 5 years prison...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5350092/Australian-woman-facing-jail-in-Thailand-for-stealing-bar-mat.html
Stupid bitch...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5350092/Australian-woman-facing-jail-in-Thailand-for-stealing-bar-mat.html
Stupid bitch...
Yeah what a tool. All the boycott comments on news.com.au are retarded as well, if you go to Australia and steal something you'll be treating like a criminal just the same! Why is it any different here?
They were for sale separately too!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Jesus.
If you are anyone, (besides Grooverider), you do something stupid in a foreign country - stiff titties.
If you are anyone, (besides Grooverider), you do something stupid in a foreign country - stiff titties.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fuck yeah. :slayer:
Bear Grylls has nothing on this dude.
Bear Grylls has nothing on this dude.
Bear Grylls would not have allowed such a thing to happen.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bear Grylls would not have allowed such a thing to happen.
Well obviously. The hidden wires and on hand stunt crew would have prevented it.
Or he would have found a surgeon and operating table earlier in the show which he would have held onto just in case he needed it later.
Plus he would have eaten the amputated arm. Good protein!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Well obviously. The hidden wires and on hand stunt crew would have prevented it.
Blasphemy!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I love Bear Grylls but I'm not naive enough to think half the show isn't scripted or set up.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 4:51pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Well... nor am I, but a man can dream can't he? :lol:
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:06pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Here's a quote from the lawyer of the woman facing jail in Thailand...
Are you for real? Is this guy even qualified to practice law?
Souveniring? It's called stealing whatever way you look at it...I've smuggled fancy glasses out of Adelaide pubs before and if I was ever caught I wouldn't expect to be charged for anything less!
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It's a really important test for the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Minister, Mr Stephen Smith, to take steps to fix this problem. We call on him to do so," he said. "(It's) a piece of drunken souveniring. It is not the way an Australian citizen should be treated.
Are you for real? Is this guy even qualified to practice law?
Souveniring? It's called stealing whatever way you look at it...I've smuggled fancy glasses out of Adelaide pubs before and if I was ever caught I wouldn't expect to be charged for anything less!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Here's a quote from the lawyer of the woman facing jail in Thailand...
Are you for real? Is this guy even qualified to practice law?
Souveniring? It's called stealing whatever way you look at it...I've smuggled fancy glasses out of Adelaide pubs before and if I was ever caught I wouldn't expect to be charged for anything less!
Are you for real? Is this guy even qualified to practice law?
Souveniring? It's called stealing whatever way you look at it...I've smuggled fancy glasses out of Adelaide pubs before and if I was ever caught I wouldn't expect to be charged for anything less!
Whilst I agree wholeheartedly, some of these countries need to step out of the dark ages and realise that if they allow Westerners into their country we are going to rape and pillage the same as they do in ours!
5 yrs for a pretty harmless crime is just retarded, don't see them arguing to stop us from spending millions of dollars to help their economy every year.
Still with all the media around these countries laws over the past few years you're pretty stupid to steal something.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah what a tool. All the boycott comments on news.com.au are retarded as well, if you go to Australia and steal something you'll be treating like a criminal just the same! Why is it any different here?
They were for sale separately too!
They were for sale separately too!
There is a slight difference in each countries prescribed punishment theories though. I imagine people would throw a fit if someone was facing five years for an offence of that magnitude here as well. It isn't xenophobia(well it probably is for some people), it really is two entirely different cultural outlooks.
I still think the boycott comments are ridiculous by the way.
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Why isn't she divorced then?
might be vision impaired. you could head over for conjugal visits.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:26pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
News crews are playing that "what about her poor children" card at the moment.
Pfft.
Pfft.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
If her story is true, they should be playing the 'how fucking retarded are her friends' card at the moment.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:32pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Or the 'why did she fire up at the police & make things so much worse' card!
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:33pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Or the 'why did she fire up at the police & make things so much worse' card!
Isn't that what all female Australians do?
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:34pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
her husband looks like noddy.
edit - cant find a pic on the net, watch the 6 o'clock news for a laugh.
edit - cant find a pic on the net, watch the 6 o'clock news for a laugh.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
She's had 4 kids. Her vagina would surely be broken.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Erk
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:49pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Or the 'why did she fire up at the police & make things so much worse' card!
Or the "Why did she just bribe the police like everyone else does' card!
Pfff I think shes an idiot for going to an Aussie Bar in Thailand in the first place.
Then again, I think everyones an idiot.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 5:59pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Or the "Why did she just bribe the police like everyone else does' card!
Pfff I think shes an idiot for going to an Aussie Bar in Thailand in the first place.
Then again, I think everyones an idiot.
Pfff I think shes an idiot for going to an Aussie Bar in Thailand in the first place.
Then again, I think everyones an idiot.
If it's the same one I'm not sure but there is a big Aussie bar in Phuket that is quite an attraction to go and drink at. It has all these crazy (fake/molded) wood carved walls with twisty tree trunks etc. that make up the decor and bar.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 6:19pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
her husband looks like noddy.
Why isn't she divorced then?
Posted: 20 May 2009, 6:23pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Why isn't she divorced then?
might be vision impaired. you could head over for conjugal visits.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 20 May 2009, 7:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
"Who would go to Thailand for a holiday if you could get arrested for having fun in a bar?"
Says the man responsible for trying to bring in 2am lockouts...
Says the man responsible for trying to bring in 2am lockouts...
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
She has been released and is on her way home.
Where is the fun in that?
Where is the fun in that?
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Whilst I agree wholeheartedly, some of these countries need to step out of the dark ages
Totally. Fuck all those shitty ass backwards countries.
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
this is the only pic i could find of the noddy look alike
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edit - looked more like him on the news
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edit - looked more like him on the news
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Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
And here I was thinking you actually knew what I looked like.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
usually only see the back of your head.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
usually only see the back of your head.
As I climb out the window of your mums room.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 20 May 2009, 8:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 20 May 2009, 9:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 9:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Whilst I agree wholeheartedly, some of these countries need to step out of the dark ages
Totally. Fuck all those shitty ass backwards countries.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 9:25pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
this is the only pic i could find of the noddy look alike :lol:
(http://www.livenews.com.au/static/view/11365_annice-smoel_640.jpg)
edit - looked more like him on the news
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6634863,00.jpg)
(http://www.livenews.com.au/static/view/11365_annice-smoel_640.jpg)
edit - looked more like him on the news
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6634863,00.jpg)
Posted: 20 May 2009, 9:33pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
usually only see the back of your head.
As I climb out the window of your mums room.
Posted: 20 May 2009, 9:34pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Posted: 20 May 2009, 10:14pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Posted: 21 May 2009, 12:03amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yes please!
Swinburne University research leads to DVD that will store 2000 movies
SCIENTISTS have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2000 movies onto a single disc.
A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
"We were able to show how nanostructured material can be incorporated onto a disc in order to increase data capacity, without increasing the physical size of the disc,'' said Min Gu, who led the team.
Discs currently have three spatial dimensions. By using gold nanorods Gu and colleagues were able to add two additional dimensions, one based on the colour spectrum, and the other on polarisation.
Because nanoparticles react to light depending on their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour's wavelengths at the same physical location on the disc.
Current DVDs record in a single colour wavelength using a laser.
The fifth dimension was made possible by polarisation. When light waves were projected onto the disc, the direction of the electric field within the waves aligned with the gold nanorods.
"The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees,'' explained co-author James Chon.
"We were, for example, able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other,'' he said in a statement.
The researchers are still working out the speed at which the discs can be written on, and say that commercial production is at least five years off.
They have signed an agreement with Korea-based Samsung, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers.
Last month, US technology giant General Electric said its researchers had developed a holographic disc which can store the equivalent of 100 standard DVDs.
Posted: 21 May 2009, 1:03amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:jawdrop:
Yes please!
Yes please!
Quote from: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25515541-5014239,00.html
Swinburne University research leads to DVD that will store 2000 movies
SCIENTISTS have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2000 movies onto a single disc.
A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
"We were able to show how nanostructured material can be incorporated onto a disc in order to increase data capacity, without increasing the physical size of the disc,'' said Min Gu, who led the team.
Discs currently have three spatial dimensions. By using gold nanorods Gu and colleagues were able to add two additional dimensions, one based on the colour spectrum, and the other on polarisation.
Because nanoparticles react to light depending on their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour's wavelengths at the same physical location on the disc.
Current DVDs record in a single colour wavelength using a laser.
The fifth dimension was made possible by polarisation. When light waves were projected onto the disc, the direction of the electric field within the waves aligned with the gold nanorods.
"The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees,'' explained co-author James Chon.
"We were, for example, able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other,'' he said in a statement.
The researchers are still working out the speed at which the discs can be written on, and say that commercial production is at least five years off.
They have signed an agreement with Korea-based Samsung, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers.
Last month, US technology giant General Electric said its researchers had developed a holographic disc which can store the equivalent of 100 standard DVDs.
SCIENTISTS have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2000 movies onto a single disc.
A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
"We were able to show how nanostructured material can be incorporated onto a disc in order to increase data capacity, without increasing the physical size of the disc,'' said Min Gu, who led the team.
Discs currently have three spatial dimensions. By using gold nanorods Gu and colleagues were able to add two additional dimensions, one based on the colour spectrum, and the other on polarisation.
Because nanoparticles react to light depending on their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour's wavelengths at the same physical location on the disc.
Current DVDs record in a single colour wavelength using a laser.
The fifth dimension was made possible by polarisation. When light waves were projected onto the disc, the direction of the electric field within the waves aligned with the gold nanorods.
"The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees,'' explained co-author James Chon.
"We were, for example, able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other,'' he said in a statement.
The researchers are still working out the speed at which the discs can be written on, and say that commercial production is at least five years off.
They have signed an agreement with Korea-based Samsung, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers.
Last month, US technology giant General Electric said its researchers had developed a holographic disc which can store the equivalent of 100 standard DVDs.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 21 May 2009, 7:48amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yes please!
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
John LPosts: 3,007
Posted: 21 May 2009, 7:51amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
Bluray is yet to drop in price enough to make it attractive to the regular family/home user. Same as DVD was for a long time.
Anyway they say the technology is atleast 5 years away so I'd say we'll be aching for something to replace Bluray by then.
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
Get off my lawn.
Posted: 21 May 2009, 8:48amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:jawdrop:
Yes please!
Yes please!
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
Posted: 21 May 2009, 8:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Of course utterly useless if it involves buying another new kind of player... most people haven't even bothered with Bluray yet...
Bluray is yet to drop in price enough to make it attractive to the regular family/home user. Same as DVD was for a long time.
Anyway they say the technology is atleast 5 years away so I'd say we'll be aching for something to replace Bluray by then.
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
EzPosts: 4,532
Posted: 21 May 2009, 9:14amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
I will never forget when the VHS came out! It was an amazing feeling of technological wonder. Didnt have one of them old Betamaxs
I will never forget when the VHS came out! It was an amazing feeling of technological wonder. Didnt have one of them old Betamaxs
Posted: 21 May 2009, 9:26amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
bring it back? i never got rid of it!
~the grass might be greener but it's just as hard to mow ~
roostR/evolution massive
Posts: 3,801
Posts: 3,801
Posted: 21 May 2009, 9:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
Yes, i might start using dial up again too
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Posted: 21 May 2009, 10:14amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
I will never forget when the VHS came out! It was an amazing feeling of technological wonder. Didnt have one of them old Betamaxs
I will never forget when the VHS came out! It was an amazing feeling of technological wonder. Didnt have one of them old Betamaxs
Posted: 21 May 2009, 10:26amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
bring it back? i never got rid of it!
Posted: 21 May 2009, 10:33amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bring back VHS I say!
Yes, i might start using dial up again too :E
Posted: 21 May 2009, 5:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
I usually assume with an article like that they quote a number with the average consumer in mind, so probably DVD quality/sizes as opposed to 'enthusiasts' who may think in terms of compressed files.
As long as this future format can support long filenames it would be awesome to burn off single backup discs of whole hard drives or music collections etc. So convenient.
I shudder to think at how long it would take to burn something to full capacity though. You'd need some serious cache on your hard drive too.
Posted: 21 May 2009, 6:04pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
When they say 2000 movies though I always wonder about the compression/video/audio quality. I'd prefer to see a figure in Gb's.
I usually assume with an article like that they quote a number with the average consumer in mind, so probably DVD quality/sizes as opposed to 'enthusiasts' who may think in terms of compressed files.
As long as this future format can support long filenames it would be awesome to burn off single backup discs of whole hard drives or music collections etc. So convenient.
I shudder to think at how long it would take to burn something to full capacity though. You'd need some serious cache on your hard drive too.
asylumSUBVERTED BASSCAST Drum and Bass n Dubstep 24/7
Posts: 900
Posts: 900
Posted: 22 May 2009, 3:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Teenager Alina Percea to lose half virgin auction payment to tax bill
A TEENAGE student who auctioned off her virginity in Germany is set to lose half the money to the tax office, with authorities claiming the act was "tantamount to prostitution".
Romanian-born Alina Percea, who studies in Mannheim, was paid $17,900 in cash for a weekend of sex with an Italian businessman after auctioning her virginity online.
But tax officials in Berlin regard the 18-year-old's act as prostitution, which is not illegal in Germany but is heavily taxed.
"It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one," an official said.
"Consequently we are assessing her case and it looks likely she will have to pay around half of the sum she gained."
The computer studies student's visa allows her to work in Germany for 90 days even as a prostitute.
But one tax expert admitted: "Prostitution is merely a means for the bureaucrats to pin her down for a claim.
"She would have been better off keeping quiet about this strange transaction."
Because Percea earned so much in a short time, she may also be liable for a hefty GST bill.
GST in Germany works out to 19 per cent, meaning the sale of her virginity could land her with around $6100 in the end.
Percea had told how the 45-year-old businessman took her virginity with unprotected sex at a luxury Venetian hotel.
"I liked the man and got on with him well . . . and next time I won't make him pay" she said.
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Posted: 22 May 2009, 5:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Article is useless with footage IMO.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 22 May 2009, 8:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
saw some cop in the paper with kilos of weed found at some guys place in holden hill (saw it in the advertisor today) . He had a smug look on his face like 'oh yeah! doin' my job!'
I thought ' thanks a lot you cock smoker, thanks for taking all that sweet weed off the streets. I'm so glad that they are paying you the big bucks instead of using it to feed and clothe the poor of the world! good job, here is a bag of dicks for you to smoke!'
pisses me off no end!
I thought ' thanks a lot you cock smoker, thanks for taking all that sweet weed off the streets. I'm so glad that they are paying you the big bucks instead of using it to feed and clothe the poor of the world! good job, here is a bag of dicks for you to smoke!'
pisses me off no end!Posted: 22 May 2009, 11:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Weed is the devil and don't you forget it. It's a gateway drug you know...
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 23 May 2009, 12:36amSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's a gateway drug you know...
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
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Posted: 23 May 2009, 1:36amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's a gateway drug you know...
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
Posted: 23 May 2009, 11:38amSubject: Re: In The News Today
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
Exactly.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
John LPosts: 3,007
Posted: 23 May 2009, 11:43amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm so glad that they are paying you the big bucks instead of using it to feed and clothe the poor of the world! good job, here is a bag of dicks for you to smoke!'
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
No matter what you think of it, growing weed is illegal, the cop is simply doing his job, whether he agrees with it or not. He can't exactly stand there looking sad about it.
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD?
Maybe you need to lay off the ganja?
Get off my lawn.
Posted: 23 May 2009, 12:01pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Like... whatever NARC! 
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EzPosts: 4,532
Posted: 23 May 2009, 12:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
saw some cop in the paper with kilos of weed
What I want to know is, when since did Weed get weighed/measured in Kilos?? lol
Posted: 23 May 2009, 12:38pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
And for that reason I will always love it.
To think what I would have missed out on.......
To think what I would have missed out on.......
Exactly.
Posted: 23 May 2009, 12:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm so glad that they are paying you the big bucks instead of using it to feed and clothe the poor of the world! good job, here is a bag of dicks for you to smoke!'
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
No matter what you think of it, growing weed is illegal, the cop is simply doing his job, whether he agrees with it or not. He can't exactly stand there looking sad about it.
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD????
Maybe you need to lay off the ganja?
Posted: 23 May 2009, 1:01pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Like... whatever NARC! :E :bong2:
Erk
Posted: 23 May 2009, 1:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
saw some cop in the paper with kilos of weed
What I want to know is, when since did Weed get weighed/measured in Kilos?? lol
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 23 May 2009, 10:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
"It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one," an official said.
Germany has the right idea... again.
Posted: 23 May 2009, 11:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
"It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one," an official said.
Germany has the right idea... again.
Posted: 24 May 2009, 5:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
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Posted: 24 May 2009, 6:35pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You do know that Police aren't actually paid that much considering the risks they take every day to protect your family, friends and yourself?
keeping us safe from all those X-box playing, pizza ordering stoners at home on the couch :E
Posted: 24 May 2009, 8:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD?
police are paid by the government - i.e. governement money (tax payers)
the less money that is in their budget the more money the government has to spend on other things - and feeding and clothing the poor of the world should be pretty high on their agenda!
Posted: 24 May 2009, 9:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
And.. SINCE WHEN WAS IT THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FEED AND CLOTHE THE POOR OF THE WORLD????
police are paid by the government - i.e. governement money (tax payers)
the less money that is in their budget the more money the government has to spend on other things - and feeding and clothing the poor of the world should be pretty high on their agenda!
Posted: 24 May 2009, 10:18pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
the less money that is in their budget the more money the government has to spend on other things - and feeding and clothing the poor of the world should be pretty high on their agenda!
If only we had some way to affect change, regarding the poor, without the assistance of oligarchs, who take money off you so they can ineffectively redistribute it. We could create some sort of system, whereby you give some of your own property to a representative of a cause, who enters in to a contract to assign aforementioned property to beneficiaries of your choice. I'd like to put forth my own neologism for it; I'd call it "charity"(I created this word from an old French term, that itself has origins in Latin). See the advantage, in my estimation, to this vehicle for benevolent change is that, as you have alluded to, you could do it more efficiently via these private channels than government could.
Now some people would say that a central authority having a monopoly on coercion and law enforcement can in fact be viewed as a good thing, as private "mutual protection associations" may in fact look after their contributors better, and there is a possibility that private channels would in fact do a poor job of providing fair protection under the eyes of the law, when compared to a well paid central police force. These people may also say that if you do not pay these police officers well you will get less skilled workers, who are even more prone to bribery and malicious activity.
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 9:26amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
The government don't pay the police force anywhere near enough in any country, and further the police force, itself being a bloated bureaucracy, is completely corruptible on multiple levels.
So it is better the government focus on eliminating the causes of crime, which mostly lie in poverty, the unequal distribution of wealth, and from the notions of greed that arise out of competition and consumption.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 10:11amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The police force being a bloated bureaucracy is hardly something that makes it any different to any other part of the public service. ;)
Erk
Posted: 25 May 2009, 10:38amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The police force being a bloated bureaucracy is hardly something that makes it any different to any other part of the public service. ;)
So in saying that, where do you think there could be improvements :)
In this year's state budget the only 2 departments which are not being cut back are health & SA Police.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 1:17pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
If only we had some way to affect change, regarding the poor, without the assistance of oligarchs, who take money off you so they can ineffectively redistribute it. We could create some sort of system, whereby you give some of your own property to a representative of a cause, who enters in to a contract to assign aforementioned property to beneficiaries of your choice. I'd like to put forth my own neologism for it; I'd call it "charity"(I created this word from an old French term, that itself has origins in Latin). See the advantage, in my estimation, to this vehicle for benevolent change is that, as you have alluded to, you could do it more efficiently via these private channels than government could.
Now some people would say that a central authority having a monopoly on coercion and law enforcement can in fact be viewed as a good thing, as private "mutual protection associations" may in fact look after their contributors better, and there is a possibility that private channels would in fact do a poor job of providing fair protection under the eyes of the law, when compared to a well paid central police force. These people may also say that if you do not pay these police officers well you will get less skilled workers, who are even more prone to bribery and malicious activity.
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
Now some people would say that a central authority having a monopoly on coercion and law enforcement can in fact be viewed as a good thing, as private "mutual protection associations" may in fact look after their contributors better, and there is a possibility that private channels would in fact do a poor job of providing fair protection under the eyes of the law, when compared to a well paid central police force. These people may also say that if you do not pay these police officers well you will get less skilled workers, who are even more prone to bribery and malicious activity.
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
Oh dear.
Our discussion in future will be lively to say the least. :lol:
Posted: 25 May 2009, 4:35pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So in saying that, where do you think there could be improvements :)
In this year's state budget the only 2 departments which are not being cut back are health & SA Police.
In this year's state budget the only 2 departments which are not being cut back are health & SA Police.
Perhaps cut back on staff so that those left are busy and can't browse forums online? You probably think I am making a joke at your expense (you work in the public service if I recall correctly).
I am not joking though, the reports from the Adelaide Massive hosting account prove that the public service has too many people who have too much time. This tells me it is a bloated bureaucracy which can't keep it's own "staff" busy! This is where my tax money goes! :shake:
Here's proof (from April). This isn't unique, I just checked the reports since the start of this year. httpgate.sa.gov.au is either the 1st or 2nd biggest traffic generator before or after Google's "crawling bots":
(http://users.on.net/~ransom/am.png)
Erk
Posted: 25 May 2009, 5:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Perhaps cut back on staff so that those left are busy and can't browse forums online? You probably think I am making a joke at your expense (you work in the public service if I recall correctly).
I am not joking though, the reports from the Adelaide Massive hosting account prove that the public service has too many people who have too much time. This tells me it is a bloated bureaucracy which can't keep it's own "staff" busy! This is where my tax money goes! :shake:
Here's proof (from April). This isn't unique, I just checked the reports since the start of this year. httpgate.sa.gov.au is either the 1st or 2nd biggest traffic generator before or after Google's "crawling bots":
(http://users.on.net/~ransom/am.png)
I am not joking though, the reports from the Adelaide Massive hosting account prove that the public service has too many people who have too much time. This tells me it is a bloated bureaucracy which can't keep it's own "staff" busy! This is where my tax money goes! :shake:
Here's proof (from April). This isn't unique, I just checked the reports since the start of this year. httpgate.sa.gov.au is either the 1st or 2nd biggest traffic generator before or after Google's "crawling bots":
(http://users.on.net/~ransom/am.png)
Oh, I dont doubt that isnt true. I have my window open most of the day and just minimise it whilst I am working. Also, you have to remember that the SA Gov is one of the biggest employers in the state. ;)
Regarding work levels (this is just me on a personal level- I cant speak for everyone) but I have found the more crap I have to do, the more I tend to procrastinate. Bad, I know. I have also found in the Pub. Service that there are so so many stupid processes which are just unnecessary.
Even though I have shitloads of work, I come on here and post. I dunno. But then on the other hand, I dont really go out for lunch or have breaks either. I sit on my computer the whole day. I would go bananas if I sat at my desk silent without communicating all day.
I would love to get a job where I am outside and move about alot more. I took on this job hoping to do more field trips/assessments of properties & land but it just hasnt happened that way. I am finding that if I need to go and assess a property, I am doing it in my own spare time. My boss is a bit of a wanker however and of the Old School public service mentality and doesnt like us leaving our desks.... and thats even though being out in the field would help us make better decisions if we actually visually saw what we were asssessing!
I am starting to be of the opinion that I need to get out of the public service. I want to be in a job where results happen fast. I hate being in a position where I need to brief the Minister or Senior management every time we try to make things happen. We spend hours and hours on writing up these formal documents in order for the Minister to approve or note something. Fucking days sometimes. And the Minister usually just quickly skims over the document anyway and signs off whatever. Thats where the cut backs need to be. Reduce the amount of memos & approvals that need to occur. If a private organisation makes a decision to do something, they get out there and do it! They dont have to be accountable to every man under the sun.
Rah! Rant over.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 5:10pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Rah! Rant over.
Great
now get back to work: more of the servant and less public, thanks
:E
Erk
Posted: 25 May 2009, 5:32pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Posted: 25 May 2009, 5:40pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
nice work on the list Oli, can you post the top 30? Been hitting AM a bit at work lately, wanna see how i rate.
:lol:
:lol:
Posted: 25 May 2009, 6:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
nice work on the list Oli, can you post the top 30? Been hitting AM a bit at work lately, wanna see how i rate.
:lol:
:lol:
:rofl:
Not going there.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 9:51pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So, in conclusion, it could be easily argued that government contribution to police is more important than government involvement in "charity" work.
well if they stopped cracking down on weed, they would save money...as they wouldn't have to allocate police officers to arrest people growing plants in their backyard.
BUT, abolishing poverty and educating the poor (in addition to lowering the cost of abortions) you will in fact lower the crime rate - meaning less police work.
So I think maybe a bit more prevention and less curing could be a bit of help.
Posted: 25 May 2009, 10:29pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
well if they stopped cracking down on weed, they would save money
I believe in the legalisation of all drugs, but that is nowhere near your original argument.
(in addition to lowering the cost of abortions) you will in fact lower the crime rate
As intuitive as it sounds, abortion doesn't lower crime. Steve Sailer absolutely slaughtered Steven Levitt's famous Freakonomics essay. Levitt as much as admitted it at the end of the debate. I've lost a lot of respect for Levitt in the aftermath of that debate, as he still supports the argument in public arenas that are unlikely to be populated by those versed in Sailer's refutation.
BUT, abolishing poverty and educating the poor you will in fact lower the crime rate - meaning less police work.
Since the meaning of poverty was changed to a relative term it has been rendered impossible to abolish, short of a situation where everybody is thrown in to a state of real poverty; but I agree that improving the economic conditions of the poorest people will lessen crime numbers. This does not necessitate the measures you are implying though.
Posted: 26 May 2009, 10:26amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Steve Sailer absolutely slaughtered Steven Levitt's famous Freakonomics essay.
Oh really? I too had a lot of respect for him as did my economics lecturer. But that might all come to an end.
Will have to see what Steve Sailer has to say.
Cheers
Posted: 26 May 2009, 11:01amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Be aware that you will probably hate Steve Sailer outside of that debate; almost everybody hates Steve. He has a brilliant mind though.
Posted: 26 May 2009, 4:25pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Two things, the Chk Chk Boom girl, and the people who ran away with the banks money.
Fuck I love trashy news! *hugs news.com*
Fuck I love trashy news! *hugs news.com*
Posted: 26 May 2009, 4:32pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Two things, the Chk Chk Boom girl, and the people who ran away with the banks money.
Fuck I love trashy news! *hugs news.com*
Fuck I love trashy news! *hugs news.com*
The couple who ran away with the money - Surely the joke is on them.
It was a loan, so despite the bank making a mistake surely they can charge them interest for all the money they spend, whether the bank made a mistake or not?
Posted: 26 May 2009, 4:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Well, even with the matter of interest aside, it's theft.
That's what makes it so awesome! They just got this massive stroke of luck, and instead of doing the right thing and continuing their shitty existence, they made a run for it! Fucking cool, in a way.
That's what makes it so awesome! They just got this massive stroke of luck, and instead of doing the right thing and continuing their shitty existence, they made a run for it! Fucking cool, in a way.
Posted: 26 May 2009, 5:27pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Especially when you consider how bigger cunts banks are...
Erk
Posted: 26 May 2009, 5:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeh- I kinda hope they make it!
Thems Kiwis, they seriously rock.
I dont see it as theft... more than anything the bank should pay for its mistakes! It wasnt just one mistake that occured.... it was a series of oversights at every checking level.
Thems Kiwis, they seriously rock.
I dont see it as theft... more than anything the bank should pay for its mistakes! It wasnt just one mistake that occured.... it was a series of oversights at every checking level.
Posted: 28 May 2009, 7:36amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ok so someone just sent me this link, to ACA's interview with Clare Werbeloff (Chk chk boom girl). Is it just me, or does it seem like ACA brought her on to try and get back at her for giving them a false report?
Its almost like they are upset that she is getting all this free attention and they aren't getting any credit for it, so lets bring her on and try to make her look like an idiot to Australia. IMO they failed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTw9zk0RmA
Its almost like they are upset that she is getting all this free attention and they aren't getting any credit for it, so lets bring her on and try to make her look like an idiot to Australia. IMO they failed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTw9zk0RmA
Posted: 28 May 2009, 8:35amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
looks like ACA are gonna offer her a job
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25549827-10229,00.html
:lol:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25549827-10229,00.html
:lol:
Posted: 28 May 2009, 8:54amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
who the hell is this chick and why is she called chk chk boom girl?
Posted: 28 May 2009, 8:58amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdEOf6bXx5E
watch this, it will explain everything
:lol:
watch this, it will explain everything
:lol:
Posted: 28 May 2009, 9:05amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Its almost like they are upset that she is getting all this free attention and they aren't getting any credit for it, so lets bring her on and try to make her look like an idiot to Australia. IMO they failed!
IMO she made herself look like an idiot.
so i watched the clip, so she gave a false report?
Posted: 28 May 2009, 9:13amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah, she saw a camera, went up and told the story, it got on the net and got posted everywhere then the police went and had a chat to her and said 'if you saw the shooting you may need to give a statement' she said 'nah i just made it all up' and then went on a current affair and got offered a job and a bikini shoot in zoo
there was an actual shooting and the guy who got shot was pissed she was getting all the attention when he was the one with a bullet in him
:lol:
there was an actual shooting and the guy who got shot was pissed she was getting all the attention when he was the one with a bullet in him
:lol:
Posted: 28 May 2009, 9:19amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
IMO she made herself look like an idiot.
How? She is 19 - It is the media that are sensationalising the whole thing (as always)
I know stacks of chicks who do stupid stuff like this every week! What is the big deal?
Ninemsn clearly don't check their sources integrity before publishing information and it has made them look like fools.
Posted: 28 May 2009, 9:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah, she saw a camera, went up and told the story, it got on the net and got posted everywhere then the police went and had a chat to her and said 'if you saw the shooting you may need to give a statement' she said 'nah i just made it all up' and then went on a current affair and got offered a job and a bikini shoot in zoo
there was an actual shooting and the guy who got shot was pissed she was getting all the attention when he was the one with a bullet in him
:lol:
there was an actual shooting and the guy who got shot was pissed she was getting all the attention when he was the one with a bullet in him
:lol:
haha, good on her.
pays to be pretty hey
Posted: 28 May 2009, 9:52amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I know stacks of chicks who do stupid stuff like this every week! What is the big deal?
Plus she's hot so 90% of males would instantly forgive her anyway.
Either way im glad that ninemsn look like the fools they truely are. Commercial TV news loses a bit more of its credibility (not that they have much left).
Erk
Posted: 28 May 2009, 10:41amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
How? She is 19 - It is the media that are sensationalising the whole thing (as always)
I know stacks of chicks who do stupid stuff like this every week! What is the big deal?
I know stacks of chicks who do stupid stuff like this every week! What is the big deal?
I totally agree here, I think she was out partying and thought it was funny to speak a bit of gibber to the camera man and it has all totally been blown out of proportion.
WHO isn't guilty of talking a bit of gibber trash? Thats the real question! Except this time its been taken to the public! respekt
Posted: 28 May 2009, 11:20amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
ok, i more so meant idiot in a haha funny idiot kinda way.
i too know a lot of people who would do what she did, meh.
i too know a lot of people who would do what she did, meh.
Posted: 31 May 2009, 7:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
WHO isn't guilty of talking a bit of gibber trash?
Jake isn't. He usually gets yelled at then taken home before he's seen too much.
Posted: 31 May 2009, 8:56pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
god
i watched the channel 9 news tonight and then SBS
lol, if this thread was renamed "what wasnt in the news today" id be able to go to town on the shit that wasnt channel 9 news
i watched the channel 9 news tonight and then SBS
lol, if this thread was renamed "what wasnt in the news today" id be able to go to town on the shit that wasnt channel 9 news
Posted: 2 Jun 2009, 11:32amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
id give her the chk chk BOOM!
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 12:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
god
i watched the channel 9 news tonight and then SBS
lol, if this thread was renamed "what wasnt in the news today" id be able to go to town on the shit that wasnt channel 9 news
i watched the channel 9 news tonight and then SBS
lol, if this thread was renamed "what wasnt in the news today" id be able to go to town on the shit that wasnt channel 9 news
From time to time, I watch German/English > Jim Lehrer U.S > Ch.10 @ 5 > Ch. 9 @ 6 > .5 of SBS World News > then the ABC news to gauge what isn't reported, and if so, how it is reported. Ahh... the power of discursive language. Similarly I do the same on occasion with the Sunday reports; Ch. 7 @ 6.30 > ch. 9 @ 7.30 > Dateline @ 8.30.
No wonder we have a burgeoning international rep as the 'stupid country'. edit: considering the statistics on what % of people rely on ch. 7/9/10 for news and information.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 12:48pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
No wonder we have a burgeoning international rep as the 'stupid country'. edit: considering the statistics on what % of people rely on ch. 7/9/10 for news and information.
Its certainly been pointed out in the international media, something i read was comparing to Australias media to the 'race to the bottom' culture dominating of the US media. perhaps not so bad but certainly a concern.
next thing anyone educated will be termed 'elitists' as happens so regularly there. *sighs*
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 12:56pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Speaking of journalism, I came across this photo journalism shin-dig on soon:
A focus on Palestine
Current exhibition presented by the Hawke Centre
Kerry Packer Civic Gallery
UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building - Level 3, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace)
Docmentaries
A series of 24 photo essays completed during Wend Lear's placement as a photographer and photography teacher in Palestine during 2007. Each week Wend produced a series of five photographs documenting events and encounters. Each is a small narrative relating to the human condition and life in Palestine itself. These essays document the everyday events and occurrences of a displaced people in an occupied land and examines the nature of how documentary as a visual record on an ongoing basis gives a different basis for understanding, showing the reality of the situation through the 'ordinary' rather than sensational highlights.
Open from Monday 1 June - Tuesday 30 June and celebrating SA Refugee Week 14-20 June 2009
Supported community event presented by the Australian Friends of Palestine
Paul McGeough to speak at the Adelaide launch of his new book:
âKill Khalid: Mossadâs failed hit ⦠and the rise of Hamasâ
Tuesday 23 June 2009, 6.00pm for 6.15pm start
Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, Level 5, UniSA City West campus, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide
Presented by The Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA)
Supported by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.
REGISTRATION VIA secretary@friendsofpalestine.org.au or phone 0414 773918
âKill Khalidâ tells the story of the dramatic attempt in1997 to assassinate Khalid Mishal by Israelâs spy agency Mossad. A series of tense, high level negotiations, including with Binyamin Netanyahu, Israelâs prime minister then, as now, saved Mishalâs life. Subsequently, Mishal became, and remains, an important player in the rise of the Hamas organisation in the decade and more since then. Paul McGeough tells the story with pace and accuracy. He draws on information from key persons and observers of Middle-East conflicts in Amman, Jerusalem and Washington, together with exclusive interviews with Mishal himself. He documents how Israel encouraged the development of Hamas by allowing it to establish schools, health clinics and other social services. In so doing, McGeough carefully reconstructs the history of Hamas. He details crises that were narrowly averted, and reports the missed signals and lost opportunities for peace in the Middle-East. The book has been described as a riveting tour de force of investigative journalism. It is the definitive insiderâs history of Hamas and its notorious leader.
Paul McGeough is an award-winning Australian foreign correspondent specialising in frontline reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. A former managing editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, he has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year and in 2002, was awarded the Johns Hopkins University-based SAID Novartis Prize for excellence in international journalism. McGeough has also won numerous Walkley Awards and regularly appears as a world affairs commentator on radio and television. He is the author of three books on the Middle-East. He lives in Sydney.
A focus on Palestine
Current exhibition presented by the Hawke Centre
Kerry Packer Civic Gallery
UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building - Level 3, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace)
Docmentaries
A series of 24 photo essays completed during Wend Lear's placement as a photographer and photography teacher in Palestine during 2007. Each week Wend produced a series of five photographs documenting events and encounters. Each is a small narrative relating to the human condition and life in Palestine itself. These essays document the everyday events and occurrences of a displaced people in an occupied land and examines the nature of how documentary as a visual record on an ongoing basis gives a different basis for understanding, showing the reality of the situation through the 'ordinary' rather than sensational highlights.
Open from Monday 1 June - Tuesday 30 June and celebrating SA Refugee Week 14-20 June 2009
Supported community event presented by the Australian Friends of Palestine
Paul McGeough to speak at the Adelaide launch of his new book:
âKill Khalid: Mossadâs failed hit ⦠and the rise of Hamasâ
Tuesday 23 June 2009, 6.00pm for 6.15pm start
Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, Level 5, UniSA City West campus, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide
Presented by The Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA)
Supported by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.
REGISTRATION VIA secretary@friendsofpalestine.org.au or phone 0414 773918
âKill Khalidâ tells the story of the dramatic attempt in1997 to assassinate Khalid Mishal by Israelâs spy agency Mossad. A series of tense, high level negotiations, including with Binyamin Netanyahu, Israelâs prime minister then, as now, saved Mishalâs life. Subsequently, Mishal became, and remains, an important player in the rise of the Hamas organisation in the decade and more since then. Paul McGeough tells the story with pace and accuracy. He draws on information from key persons and observers of Middle-East conflicts in Amman, Jerusalem and Washington, together with exclusive interviews with Mishal himself. He documents how Israel encouraged the development of Hamas by allowing it to establish schools, health clinics and other social services. In so doing, McGeough carefully reconstructs the history of Hamas. He details crises that were narrowly averted, and reports the missed signals and lost opportunities for peace in the Middle-East. The book has been described as a riveting tour de force of investigative journalism. It is the definitive insiderâs history of Hamas and its notorious leader.
Paul McGeough is an award-winning Australian foreign correspondent specialising in frontline reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. A former managing editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, he has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year and in 2002, was awarded the Johns Hopkins University-based SAID Novartis Prize for excellence in international journalism. McGeough has also won numerous Walkley Awards and regularly appears as a world affairs commentator on radio and television. He is the author of three books on the Middle-East. He lives in Sydney.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 2:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
No wonder we have a burgeoning international rep as the 'stupid country'. edit: considering the statistics on what % of people rely on ch. 7/9/10 for news and information.
Shoving your head in a pile of dirt is a more effective way of gathering credible information than watching network news IMO.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 3:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
No wonder we have a burgeoning international rep as the 'stupid country'. edit: considering the statistics on what % of people rely on ch. 7/9/10 for news and information.
Where's some proof of us gaining this reputation? I find it hard to believe that the number of people who rely on trashy commercial TV networks for "news" is significantly different in any other Western country.
next thing anyone educated will be termed 'elitists' as happens so regularly there. *sighs*
Already are in my experience...
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 4:33pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Already are in my experience...
Fuck yes. For some time now.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 4:35pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fuck yes. For some time now.
Yes, but you hardly help your cause with your polysyllabic diatribes ;)
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 4:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's not my fault I'm surrounded by philistines.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 4:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
By choice?
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 4:50pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Trapped me in my own semantics. Well played sir.
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 6:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's not my fault I'm surrounded by philistines.
By choice?
Trapped me in my own semantics. Well played sir.
Well played, indeed :lol:
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 9:25pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Dirty dancing blamed for broken penises
AN erotic dance craze is thought to be the cause of a recent spate of broken penises in Jamaica, and now faces a government crackdown.
"Daggering", a lewd dance style where couples simulate dry sex in various positions to the beat of the music, is characterised by over-the-top gyrating, heavy pelvis-thrusting and daredevil leaps.
Many couples have taken the âroughâ daggering dance from the club to the bedroom, with disastrous consequences.
Jamaican doctors were prompted to issue a warning on the dangers of daggering when presented with a range of fractured penises caused by rough intercourse.
The number of cases tripled in the last year, the UKâs Sun reports.
The rising popularity of the new dance - and subsequent public protests - have prompted the Jamaican government to ban songs and videos with blatantly sexual content.
Jamaicaâs Broadcasting Commission, which defines daggering as a "colloquial term used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry sex' or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions", enforced the ban in February.
âThere shall not be transmitted through radio or television or cable services, any recording, live song or music video which promotes the act of âdaggeringâ, or which makes reference to, or is otherwise suggestive of âdaggeringâ,â the Jamaican Broadcasting Commissionâs official statement said.
Daggering is a newly accepted name for an activity that has been present in Jamaicaâs dancehalls for many years. It is roughly the equivalent of the Caribbeanâs âcabin stabbingâ, another crude style of music and dance.
âDaggering is a dance that makes you unleash the beast! If you ainât know what I mean think about every sex position and put it in a dance,â commenter Driva said of the dance.
A series of YouTube videos depict daggering as a rough, and sometimes violent, act which can be demeaning to women. One video shows popular group RDX performing its song Daggering live, with one member simulating extremely rough dry sex on the floor with a woman.
The community is divided over the dance, with singers up in arms over the ban, saying it stifles their right to free speech, but others welcome the ban.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25581202-5006301,00.html
:pimp:
Posted: 3 Jun 2009, 10:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: 'Daggering'
Posted: 4 Jun 2009, 6:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Didn't this dance pop up in some crazy video posted on AM awhile back and everyone was like WTF is that?
Well now we know... :lol:
Well now we know... :lol:
Posted: 4 Jun 2009, 6:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 4 Jun 2009, 11:44pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Missing Jodi Gordon found in suspected bikie's home (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25589659-10229,00.html)
By Kara Lawrence and Holly Byrnes
HOME And Away starlet Jodi Gordon was found cowering in the bedroom of a suspected bikie's home after reports armed gunmen were trying to break in.
The bizarre episode came days after she was reported missing and ended with police rushing to the Bellevue Hill unit.
The Logie winner was interviewed but not charged over the incident after she was found cowering in the unit's bedroom, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Gordon, 24, who is in a high-profile relationship with Channel 7 heir Ryan Stokes, had been reported missing from the Kings Cross area days before the incident.
Police were called to an apartment in Birriga Rd, Bellevue Hill, about 5.30pm on Wednesday after the unit's resident reported that five men - at least two of them with guns - were in his back yard and trying to scale his balcony.
The report sparked a massive police response in the wake of recent Sydney bikie violence.
Armed police responded in force, wearing bullet-proof vests, cordoning off the area while a search was launched.
Gordon and the male resident, 29, were found hiding in a bedroom. She told police she had seen the gunmen on CCTV on the cameras that surround the unit.
However, when police viewed the footage they found no sign that the incident had occurred. They could only see the male resident in the backyard and no one else.
The man declined to be interviewed but Gordon agreed to accompany police officers to Paddington police station, where she allegedly disclosed that cocaine had been consumed that day.
When confronted with CCTV proof that nothing had occurred, the man allegedly conceded he could have been hallucinating and said he had also consumed the sleeping tablet Stilnox.
The search was called off more than an hour after it started. It is believed the pair would not be charged with public mischief.
Detective Inspector John Maricic said he could only confirm that police had dismissed the possibility the incident had occurred.
"Police responded to reports of an incident. Subsequent inquiries revealed no such incident took place," he said.
Gordon, who lives with Mr Stokes in a harbourfront development at Dawes Point, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Gordon's father Ray Gordon last night told The Daily Telegraph he received a call from Kings Cross police on Wednesday to say that Ryan Stokes had reported her missing after a night out with friends.
He said he and his wife Bronwyn rushed to the city to search for her. On the way, they received a call from Rose Bay police telling them she had been found.
"She didn't say much to me, she just said she couldn't say anything more because of what was going on with the police," he said.
Mr Gordon said he knew nothing about any suggestion of drug use or Jodi's involvement with a motorcycle gang.
"I can't believe that she would ever get into drugs. I know my girl, she's travelled the world since she was 13 years old," he said.
"We've talked about this, about drugs, and I just know she's never been into them."
He said Jodi moved out of the family home at Castle Hill a couple of years ago to move in with Mr Stokes.
Seven programming director Tim Worner said the network spoke to Gordon yesterday afternoon.
"At this point, our main concern is for her safety and health and she is resting with family. We will make sure that Jodi gets whatever support and understanding she needs at this time," he said.
By Kara Lawrence and Holly Byrnes
HOME And Away starlet Jodi Gordon was found cowering in the bedroom of a suspected bikie's home after reports armed gunmen were trying to break in.
The bizarre episode came days after she was reported missing and ended with police rushing to the Bellevue Hill unit.
The Logie winner was interviewed but not charged over the incident after she was found cowering in the unit's bedroom, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Gordon, 24, who is in a high-profile relationship with Channel 7 heir Ryan Stokes, had been reported missing from the Kings Cross area days before the incident.
Police were called to an apartment in Birriga Rd, Bellevue Hill, about 5.30pm on Wednesday after the unit's resident reported that five men - at least two of them with guns - were in his back yard and trying to scale his balcony.
The report sparked a massive police response in the wake of recent Sydney bikie violence.
Armed police responded in force, wearing bullet-proof vests, cordoning off the area while a search was launched.
Gordon and the male resident, 29, were found hiding in a bedroom. She told police she had seen the gunmen on CCTV on the cameras that surround the unit.
However, when police viewed the footage they found no sign that the incident had occurred. They could only see the male resident in the backyard and no one else.
The man declined to be interviewed but Gordon agreed to accompany police officers to Paddington police station, where she allegedly disclosed that cocaine had been consumed that day.
When confronted with CCTV proof that nothing had occurred, the man allegedly conceded he could have been hallucinating and said he had also consumed the sleeping tablet Stilnox.
The search was called off more than an hour after it started. It is believed the pair would not be charged with public mischief.
Detective Inspector John Maricic said he could only confirm that police had dismissed the possibility the incident had occurred.
"Police responded to reports of an incident. Subsequent inquiries revealed no such incident took place," he said.
Gordon, who lives with Mr Stokes in a harbourfront development at Dawes Point, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Gordon's father Ray Gordon last night told The Daily Telegraph he received a call from Kings Cross police on Wednesday to say that Ryan Stokes had reported her missing after a night out with friends.
He said he and his wife Bronwyn rushed to the city to search for her. On the way, they received a call from Rose Bay police telling them she had been found.
"She didn't say much to me, she just said she couldn't say anything more because of what was going on with the police," he said.
Mr Gordon said he knew nothing about any suggestion of drug use or Jodi's involvement with a motorcycle gang.
"I can't believe that she would ever get into drugs. I know my girl, she's travelled the world since she was 13 years old," he said.
"We've talked about this, about drugs, and I just know she's never been into them."
He said Jodi moved out of the family home at Castle Hill a couple of years ago to move in with Mr Stokes.
Seven programming director Tim Worner said the network spoke to Gordon yesterday afternoon.
"At this point, our main concern is for her safety and health and she is resting with family. We will make sure that Jodi gets whatever support and understanding she needs at this time," he said.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 12:59amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sounds like great coke, no wonder she went missing for a few days!
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 1:23amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Kill Bill, Kung Fu actor David Carradine dies in Bangkok (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590240-23109,00.html)
June 05, 2009 01:27am
ACTOR David Carradine, who starred as a wandering monk in the 1970s television series Kung Fu, was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.
Police were investigating the cause of death, said Lori Binder, a representative for Carradine's Los Angeles-based talent manager Chuck Binder.
Binder said Carradine, a member of a family of performers and son of well-known character actor John Carradine, was in Thailand to shoot a film called Stretch. She declined to give further details of his death while it was under investigation.
US embassy officials in Bangkok also said Carradine had died but did not have any details.
"I can confirm that David Carradine passed away in Bangkok. We extend our condolences to his family," one official said.
Carradine began his career in TV westerns such as Wagon Train and The Virginian in the 1960s but it was the role of Caine, the wandering monk in Kung Fu, that earned the actor his greatest fame.
The series aired on US television starting in 1972 and immediately won a large fan base among those who marveled at the action spawned by the martial arts expert as he traveled through America's Old West.
The show spawned a movie and numerous other offshoots.
Although Carradine starred in numerous TV shows and movies in subsequent years - including director Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - it was the role of Caine in Kung Fu for which he was always best known.
June 05, 2009 01:27am
ACTOR David Carradine, who starred as a wandering monk in the 1970s television series Kung Fu, was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.
Police were investigating the cause of death, said Lori Binder, a representative for Carradine's Los Angeles-based talent manager Chuck Binder.
Binder said Carradine, a member of a family of performers and son of well-known character actor John Carradine, was in Thailand to shoot a film called Stretch. She declined to give further details of his death while it was under investigation.
US embassy officials in Bangkok also said Carradine had died but did not have any details.
"I can confirm that David Carradine passed away in Bangkok. We extend our condolences to his family," one official said.
Carradine began his career in TV westerns such as Wagon Train and The Virginian in the 1960s but it was the role of Caine, the wandering monk in Kung Fu, that earned the actor his greatest fame.
The series aired on US television starting in 1972 and immediately won a large fan base among those who marveled at the action spawned by the martial arts expert as he traveled through America's Old West.
The show spawned a movie and numerous other offshoots.
Although Carradine starred in numerous TV shows and movies in subsequent years - including director Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - it was the role of Caine in Kung Fu for which he was always best known.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 2:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
When confronted with CCTV proof that nothing had occurred, the man allegedly conceded he could have been hallucinating and said he had also consumed the sleeping tablet Stilnox.
:lol:
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 7:34amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Kill Bill, Kung Fu actor David Carradine dies in Bangkok (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590240-23109,00.html)
:fire:
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 7:54amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
David Carradine 'found hanged' in Bangkok hotel room
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25590228-2902,00.html
ACTOR David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu has been found dead in Bangkok, reports said.
A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide, according to AP.
The US Embassy confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor.
It said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.
The website of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found on Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room, AP said.
The press agency reported that a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.
Carradine was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the 1970s series Kung Fu.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25590228-2902,00.html
ACTOR David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu has been found dead in Bangkok, reports said.
A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide, according to AP.
The US Embassy confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor.
It said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.
The website of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found on Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room, AP said.
The press agency reported that a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.
Carradine was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the 1970s series Kung Fu.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 8:02amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:whut: jebus...
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 9:42amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
sounds more like he's done a michael hutchence
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 11:27amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yup, its a hutchence...
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 1:15pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sounds like great coke, no wonder she went missing for a few days!
Those stilnox pilz would of done it. I remember JackieO from trippleJ/M or what ever said in an interview that she was on them and nearly burnt her house down cause she unconsciously started cooking someting on her stove in her sleep.
That or she took some wikid acid! :lol:
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 1:22pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Those stilnox pilz would of done it. I remember JackieO from trippleJ/M or what ever said in an interview that she was on them and nearly burnt her house down cause she unconsciously started cooking someting on her stove in her sleep.
That or she took some wikid acid! :lol:
That or she took some wikid acid! :lol:
Try having really good acid, then taking Stilnox to try to get to sleep.. Not the best idea I have ever had but funny for the onlookers.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 2:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Where's some proof of us gaining this reputation? I find it hard to believe that the number of people who rely on trashy commercial TV networks for "news" is significantly different in any other Western country.
Yeah, that was quite speculative on my part. I think that there is a cause-effect correlation between statistics on ratings for commercial tv news reports and the andedoctal (sp?) evidence I have come across here and overseas.
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 3:54pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yup, its a hutchence...
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
:crazy:
I wonder where the hooker he was probably with went...most luxury hotels will take their ID cards so if he wasn't 'flying solo' on this sex act she can be traced possibly.
Shocking news though!
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 7:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 7:31pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
yup, its a hutchence...
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
Kill Bill star died 'during sex act'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590812-23109,00.html
THE death of actor David Carradine appears to have been caused by a sex act gone wrong, with police saying he was found hanged with a rope tied around his neck and genitals.
well, we've all been THERE
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 7:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Missing Jodi Gordon found in suspected bikie's home (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25589659-10229,00.html)
By Kara Lawrence and Holly Byrnes
By Kara Lawrence and Holly Byrnes
Loved this comment on the news site
'Invisible bikies - they're the worst kind..'
Posted by: Alf, in pog form of Bendigo 4:20pm today
Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 8:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
roostR/evolution massive
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Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 8:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
coke
stilnox
nice one
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Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 9:41pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 10 Jun 2009, 3:03amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Kevin Rudd learning (Australian) English!
"fair shake of the sauce bottle mate"
What a loser. First he did the usual pollie 'talk a lot and say nothing', or that plus a verbal diatribe most people can't understand, and now he overdoes it and becomes a wannabe 'Aussie' speaking bloke.
"fair shake of the sauce bottle mate"
What a loser. First he did the usual pollie 'talk a lot and say nothing', or that plus a verbal diatribe most people can't understand, and now he overdoes it and becomes a wannabe 'Aussie' speaking bloke.
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 7:49amSubject: Re: In The News Today
To prove himself he needs to beat Bob Hawkes yard glass record IMO.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 8:49amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
To prove himself he needs to beat Bob Hawkes yard glass record IMO. :E
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 5:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 6:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: :nod:
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 11:31pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Cocaine use on the rise in Australia
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
SEIZURES of cocaine, amphetamines and anabolic steroids are the highest on record while cocaine use continues to rise, the Australian Crime Commission reports.
The number of arrests for amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) are currently "the highest on record", the ACC says in its latest report on illicit drug use, released yesterday.
ACC chief executive John Lawler said: "Cocaine dealers are resilient, well resourced and multi-national. These are not school yard kids we're dealing with."
More than 80 per cent of the total weight of cocaine detected at the border occurred in sea cargo shipments.
Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia and was the most commonly seized drug during 2007-08, accounting for the highest number of drug arrests nationally, while the nation boasts the highest per capita use of ecstasy in the world.
The ACC report says the Australian ATS market, excluding MDMA, appears to be predominantly supplied through domestic production.
Queensland was revealed as having the highest appetite for drugs in the nation, fuelling demand for dangerous do-it-yourself amphetamine laboratories.
Mr Lawler said intelligence operations had revealed drug pushers had infiltrated the nation's ports.
"Intelligence from these operations revealed criminal activity at the majority of ports in Australia," Mr Lawler said.
"Criminal infiltration in the maritime sector was shown to be involved with the importation of illicit commodities, including illicit drugs in Australia.
"We have also identified the presence of organised criminal networks and outlaw motorcycle gangs in the maritime sector."
The report showed 24,162 people were arrested in Queensland for drug use and supply in 2007-2008.
The second highest number was in NSW, which recorded 15,933 arrests.
Cocaine use and detection was on the rise, Mr Lawler said.
"Contrary to popular understanding of the cocaine market, several studies have shown that cocaine is used more frequently amongst those of lower socio-economic status who usually inject cocaine," he said.
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton hit out at the Rudd Government for stripping almost $25 million over four years from the National Illicit Drug Strategy in May's Budget, and taking money from the ACC.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Nicola Roxon said $816 million over five years would be directed at key frontline services and education campaigns.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said money would always be needed for drug awareness.
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
SEIZURES of cocaine, amphetamines and anabolic steroids are the highest on record while cocaine use continues to rise, the Australian Crime Commission reports.
The number of arrests for amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) are currently "the highest on record", the ACC says in its latest report on illicit drug use, released yesterday.
ACC chief executive John Lawler said: "Cocaine dealers are resilient, well resourced and multi-national. These are not school yard kids we're dealing with."
More than 80 per cent of the total weight of cocaine detected at the border occurred in sea cargo shipments.
Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia and was the most commonly seized drug during 2007-08, accounting for the highest number of drug arrests nationally, while the nation boasts the highest per capita use of ecstasy in the world.
The ACC report says the Australian ATS market, excluding MDMA, appears to be predominantly supplied through domestic production.
Queensland was revealed as having the highest appetite for drugs in the nation, fuelling demand for dangerous do-it-yourself amphetamine laboratories.
Mr Lawler said intelligence operations had revealed drug pushers had infiltrated the nation's ports.
"Intelligence from these operations revealed criminal activity at the majority of ports in Australia," Mr Lawler said.
"Criminal infiltration in the maritime sector was shown to be involved with the importation of illicit commodities, including illicit drugs in Australia.
"We have also identified the presence of organised criminal networks and outlaw motorcycle gangs in the maritime sector."
The report showed 24,162 people were arrested in Queensland for drug use and supply in 2007-2008.
The second highest number was in NSW, which recorded 15,933 arrests.
Cocaine use and detection was on the rise, Mr Lawler said.
"Contrary to popular understanding of the cocaine market, several studies have shown that cocaine is used more frequently amongst those of lower socio-economic status who usually inject cocaine," he said.
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton hit out at the Rudd Government for stripping almost $25 million over four years from the National Illicit Drug Strategy in May's Budget, and taking money from the ACC.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Nicola Roxon said $816 million over five years would be directed at key frontline services and education campaigns.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said money would always be needed for drug awareness.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 12:31amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Cocaine use on the rise in Australia (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25624256-421,00.html)
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
SEIZURES of cocaine, amphetamines and anabolic steroids are the highest on record while cocaine use continues to rise, the Australian Crime Commission reports.
The number of arrests for amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) are currently "the highest on record", the ACC says in its latest report on illicit drug use, released yesterday.
ACC chief executive John Lawler said: "Cocaine dealers are resilient, well resourced and multi-national. These are not school yard kids we're dealing with."
More than 80 per cent of the total weight of cocaine detected at the border occurred in sea cargo shipments.
Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia and was the most commonly seized drug during 2007-08, accounting for the highest number of drug arrests nationally, while the nation boasts the highest per capita use of ecstasy in the world.
The ACC report says the Australian ATS market, excluding MDMA, appears to be predominantly supplied through domestic production.
Queensland was revealed as having the highest appetite for drugs in the nation, fuelling demand for dangerous do-it-yourself amphetamine laboratories.
Mr Lawler said intelligence operations had revealed drug pushers had infiltrated the nation's ports.
"Intelligence from these operations revealed criminal activity at the majority of ports in Australia," Mr Lawler said.
"Criminal infiltration in the maritime sector was shown to be involved with the importation of illicit commodities, including illicit drugs in Australia.
"We have also identified the presence of organised criminal networks and outlaw motorcycle gangs in the maritime sector."
The report showed 24,162 people were arrested in Queensland for drug use and supply in 2007-2008.
The second highest number was in NSW, which recorded 15,933 arrests.
Cocaine use and detection was on the rise, Mr Lawler said.
"Contrary to popular understanding of the cocaine market, several studies have shown that cocaine is used more frequently amongst those of lower socio-economic status who usually inject cocaine," he said.
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton hit out at the Rudd Government for stripping almost $25 million over four years from the National Illicit Drug Strategy in May's Budget, and taking money from the ACC.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Nicola Roxon said $816 million over five years would be directed at key frontline services and education campaigns.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said money would always be needed for drug awareness.
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
SEIZURES of cocaine, amphetamines and anabolic steroids are the highest on record while cocaine use continues to rise, the Australian Crime Commission reports.
The number of arrests for amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) are currently "the highest on record", the ACC says in its latest report on illicit drug use, released yesterday.
ACC chief executive John Lawler said: "Cocaine dealers are resilient, well resourced and multi-national. These are not school yard kids we're dealing with."
More than 80 per cent of the total weight of cocaine detected at the border occurred in sea cargo shipments.
Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia and was the most commonly seized drug during 2007-08, accounting for the highest number of drug arrests nationally, while the nation boasts the highest per capita use of ecstasy in the world.
The ACC report says the Australian ATS market, excluding MDMA, appears to be predominantly supplied through domestic production.
Queensland was revealed as having the highest appetite for drugs in the nation, fuelling demand for dangerous do-it-yourself amphetamine laboratories.
Mr Lawler said intelligence operations had revealed drug pushers had infiltrated the nation's ports.
"Intelligence from these operations revealed criminal activity at the majority of ports in Australia," Mr Lawler said.
"Criminal infiltration in the maritime sector was shown to be involved with the importation of illicit commodities, including illicit drugs in Australia.
"We have also identified the presence of organised criminal networks and outlaw motorcycle gangs in the maritime sector."
The report showed 24,162 people were arrested in Queensland for drug use and supply in 2007-2008.
The second highest number was in NSW, which recorded 15,933 arrests.
Cocaine use and detection was on the rise, Mr Lawler said.
"Contrary to popular understanding of the cocaine market, several studies have shown that cocaine is used more frequently amongst those of lower socio-economic status who usually inject cocaine," he said.
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton hit out at the Rudd Government for stripping almost $25 million over four years from the National Illicit Drug Strategy in May's Budget, and taking money from the ACC.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Nicola Roxon said $816 million over five years would be directed at key frontline services and education campaigns.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said money would always be needed for drug awareness.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 3:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
Dear Mark, Lex and Renee,
I'd like another story where bikie gangs can be made to look evil.
A cheque has been included with this letter.
Written on behalf of all State Premiers.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Rann
Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 4:50amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
By Mark Dodd, Lex Hall and Renee Viellaris
Dear Mark, Lex and Renee,
I'd like another story where bikie gangs can be made to look evil.
A cheque has been included with this letter.
Written on behalf of all State Premiers.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Rann
Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 8:24amSubject: Re: In The News Today
NERD ALERT!
ok so it aint gonna get as much coverage as chk chk boom beyatch, but given my love of nuclear physics its pretty interesting news to me
New element for periodic table
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/11/2594952.htm
Scientists around the world are celebrating the latest entry to the periodic table.
It has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised.
Now the scientific world is eager to find out who will have the honour of having the newest element named after them.
John Kalman, a senior lecturer in chemistry at Sydney's University of Technology, says the periodic table can now be redrawn with an extra name.
"So the joint working party has now accepted the proof that this element does exist and now people have the opportunity to actually name it," he said.
He says it has taken a decade for a scientific team based in Germany to get element 112 approved by authorities.
"They first detected this element in the late 1990s and it's only now that sufficient evidence has been accumulated by repeating experiments and so on, and doing new experiments, that it's become totally convincing," he said.
This man-made element muscles in at 227 times the atomic weight of hydrogen, making it the heaviest addition to the periodic table.
Dr Michael Hotchkis, a nuclear scientist with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) says the advanced technology used to make element 112 is of real practical interest.
"We use accelerators at ANSTO for the detection of signatures of nuclear activities," he said.
"We use accelerators as dating tools for geology and environmental sciences and it's using technology which is not so far removed from the technology that's used for the discovery of these new elements."
Dr Hotchkis suggests the discoverers delve deep for name inspiration.
"I would like to nominate the ancient Greek philosopher, Empepedocles," he said.
"He suggested fire, water, earth, and air, but it was the beginnings of science as we know it now, and the beginnings of chemistry of understanding the constituents of matter.
"In the last few years, with the discovery of 10 or 12 elements since the 1940s, the people and places have already been acknowledged; for example, Einsteinium, Californium, Darmstadtium, so maybe we could look further back to ancient Greece."
Scientists will have to wait until the end of the year to find out who has been bestowed the honour of ending up on the wall chart of every science classroom.
And as the song goes, who knows when more elements will be uncovered?
"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard; and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered."
ok so it aint gonna get as much coverage as chk chk boom beyatch, but given my love of nuclear physics its pretty interesting news to me
New element for periodic table
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/11/2594952.htm
Scientists around the world are celebrating the latest entry to the periodic table.
It has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised.
Now the scientific world is eager to find out who will have the honour of having the newest element named after them.
John Kalman, a senior lecturer in chemistry at Sydney's University of Technology, says the periodic table can now be redrawn with an extra name.
"So the joint working party has now accepted the proof that this element does exist and now people have the opportunity to actually name it," he said.
He says it has taken a decade for a scientific team based in Germany to get element 112 approved by authorities.
"They first detected this element in the late 1990s and it's only now that sufficient evidence has been accumulated by repeating experiments and so on, and doing new experiments, that it's become totally convincing," he said.
This man-made element muscles in at 227 times the atomic weight of hydrogen, making it the heaviest addition to the periodic table.
Dr Michael Hotchkis, a nuclear scientist with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) says the advanced technology used to make element 112 is of real practical interest.
"We use accelerators at ANSTO for the detection of signatures of nuclear activities," he said.
"We use accelerators as dating tools for geology and environmental sciences and it's using technology which is not so far removed from the technology that's used for the discovery of these new elements."
Dr Hotchkis suggests the discoverers delve deep for name inspiration.
"I would like to nominate the ancient Greek philosopher, Empepedocles," he said.
"He suggested fire, water, earth, and air, but it was the beginnings of science as we know it now, and the beginnings of chemistry of understanding the constituents of matter.
"In the last few years, with the discovery of 10 or 12 elements since the 1940s, the people and places have already been acknowledged; for example, Einsteinium, Californium, Darmstadtium, so maybe we could look further back to ancient Greece."
Scientists will have to wait until the end of the year to find out who has been bestowed the honour of ending up on the wall chart of every science classroom.
And as the song goes, who knows when more elements will be uncovered?
"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard; and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered."
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The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
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Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 8:59amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ffft, it was probably present for 1 microsecond before it decayed into smaller particles. I don't really see the point to be honest.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 9:24amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
NERD ALERT! :E
ok so it aint gonna get as much coverage as chk chk boom beyatch, but given my love of nuclear physics its pretty interesting news to me
:mrgreen:
New element for periodic table
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/11/2594952.htm
Scientists around the world are celebrating the latest entry to the periodic table.
It has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised.
Now the scientific world is eager to find out who will have the honour of having the newest element named after them.
John Kalman, a senior lecturer in chemistry at Sydney's University of Technology, says the periodic table can now be redrawn with an extra name.
"So the joint working party has now accepted the proof that this element does exist and now people have the opportunity to actually name it," he said.
He says it has taken a decade for a scientific team based in Germany to get element 112 approved by authorities.
"They first detected this element in the late 1990s and it's only now that sufficient evidence has been accumulated by repeating experiments and so on, and doing new experiments, that it's become totally convincing," he said.
This man-made element muscles in at 227 times the atomic weight of hydrogen, making it the heaviest addition to the periodic table.
Dr Michael Hotchkis, a nuclear scientist with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) says the advanced technology used to make element 112 is of real practical interest.
"We use accelerators at ANSTO for the detection of signatures of nuclear activities," he said.
"We use accelerators as dating tools for geology and environmental sciences and it's using technology which is not so far removed from the technology that's used for the discovery of these new elements."
Dr Hotchkis suggests the discoverers delve deep for name inspiration.
"I would like to nominate the ancient Greek philosopher, Empepedocles," he said.
"He suggested fire, water, earth, and air, but it was the beginnings of science as we know it now, and the beginnings of chemistry of understanding the constituents of matter.
"In the last few years, with the discovery of 10 or 12 elements since the 1940s, the people and places have already been acknowledged; for example, Einsteinium, Californium, Darmstadtium, so maybe we could look further back to ancient Greece."
Scientists will have to wait until the end of the year to find out who has been bestowed the honour of ending up on the wall chart of every science classroom.
And as the song goes, who knows when more elements will be uncovered?
"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard; and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered."
ok so it aint gonna get as much coverage as chk chk boom beyatch, but given my love of nuclear physics its pretty interesting news to me
:mrgreen:
New element for periodic table
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/11/2594952.htm
Scientists around the world are celebrating the latest entry to the periodic table.
It has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised.
Now the scientific world is eager to find out who will have the honour of having the newest element named after them.
John Kalman, a senior lecturer in chemistry at Sydney's University of Technology, says the periodic table can now be redrawn with an extra name.
"So the joint working party has now accepted the proof that this element does exist and now people have the opportunity to actually name it," he said.
He says it has taken a decade for a scientific team based in Germany to get element 112 approved by authorities.
"They first detected this element in the late 1990s and it's only now that sufficient evidence has been accumulated by repeating experiments and so on, and doing new experiments, that it's become totally convincing," he said.
This man-made element muscles in at 227 times the atomic weight of hydrogen, making it the heaviest addition to the periodic table.
Dr Michael Hotchkis, a nuclear scientist with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) says the advanced technology used to make element 112 is of real practical interest.
"We use accelerators at ANSTO for the detection of signatures of nuclear activities," he said.
"We use accelerators as dating tools for geology and environmental sciences and it's using technology which is not so far removed from the technology that's used for the discovery of these new elements."
Dr Hotchkis suggests the discoverers delve deep for name inspiration.
"I would like to nominate the ancient Greek philosopher, Empepedocles," he said.
"He suggested fire, water, earth, and air, but it was the beginnings of science as we know it now, and the beginnings of chemistry of understanding the constituents of matter.
"In the last few years, with the discovery of 10 or 12 elements since the 1940s, the people and places have already been acknowledged; for example, Einsteinium, Californium, Darmstadtium, so maybe we could look further back to ancient Greece."
Scientists will have to wait until the end of the year to find out who has been bestowed the honour of ending up on the wall chart of every science classroom.
And as the song goes, who knows when more elements will be uncovered?
"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard; and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered."
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 8:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Quote
After the Los Angeles Lakers won the 2009 NBA Championship last night in Orlando, riots broke near Staples Center. A shoe store called The Holy Grail was looted (robbed) during these riots. The saddest part of this specific story is that the shoe store stocks sneakers though consignment; meaning the real victims of this crime will likely be the individual consignees who (depending on insurance policies) may be burned for a knot of cash.
Look how gleeful that guy on the right is!
Edit: And a followup:
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Earlier today we touched on the Holy Grail, a shoe store that was looted after the Los Angeles Lakers conquered the NBA Finals in Orlando. Richard Torres, owner of the Holy Grail, arrived on scene less than an hour after the game ended to find fewer than 20 pairs of shoes out of the 800 he had in stock. Neighbors told Torres and authorities that the celebrants broke down the door to the store yelling, “We want shoes, we want shoes.” Many of the vintage kicks are irreplaceable and the damage to the store’s innards is extensive; glass display cases are shattered, two computers, money, and accessories were looted. Torres estimated the damage at nearly $140,000 but expects to be covered by insurance. He hopes to reopen the Holy Grail by the end of the week.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 8:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fucking cunts!
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 9:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The looters and Glock!
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 9:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The looters and Glock!
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Ah damn sorry dude! I thought it would be common knowledge by now - it's been a couple of days almost.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 9:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yea, all good mate, was bound to happen
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 10:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The looters and Glock! :E
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 10:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The looters and Glock! :E
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Been away for a little while and had only seen up until the second game - now I know the result. Guess it was just a matter of time anyway.
Ah damn sorry dude! I thought it would be common knowledge by now - it's been a couple of days almost.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 10:57pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yea, all good mate, was bound to happen ;)
Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 6:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Lol, New Kids On The Block had to cancel their Australian comeback tour due to insufficient ticket sales.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html
125 clams hahahahaha! No wonder!
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html
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“Yes, I’m a teenybopper down to my core,” said Neesha Crebbin, 28, who bought tickets for the Adelaide show.
"I was in love with all of them," Ms Crebbin said.
She thinks most girls of her generation were similarly besotted with the group's five young male heartthrobs.
"I had all albums, merchandise and videos," Ms Crebbin said.
“I was too young to see them when they toured Australia last time, so this was going to be my turn.”
Ms Creebin did admit, however, that the ticket price of $125 would have put many off, especially as the group was threatening to sing “new stuff”.
125 clams hahahahaha! No wonder!
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Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 11:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The free market works again! I like the last sentence of that story.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 12:33amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: The free market works again!
I like the last sentence of that story.
I like the last sentence of that story.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 2:56pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Lol, New Kids On The Block had to cancel their Australian comeback tour due to insufficient ticket sales. :lol:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html)
125 clams hahahahaha! No wonder!
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25655362-7484,00.html)
125 clams hahahahaha! No wonder!
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 3:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Yeah a lot of them are having great success and selling out tours based on the old fanbase they have still got and new ones who have discovered them since. No surprise really for giving it a crack, it could be a nice earner.
I think it's a great move really...there's plenty of artists I never got to see in their heyday due to being either too young or unaware of their quality at the time. RATM and The Police are two recent ones I can think of who made comeback tours that I would've love to have been at, but still didn't get the chance.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 4:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Yeah a lot of them are having great success and selling out tours based on the old fanbase they have still got and new ones who have discovered them since. No surprise really for giving it a crack, it could be a nice earner.
I think it's a great move really...there's plenty of artists I never got to see in their heyday due to being either too young or unaware of their quality at the time. RATM and The Police are two recent ones I can think of who made comeback tours that I would've love to have been at, but still didn't get the chance. :( :bash:
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 6:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not quite as old as New Kids On The Block, but Take That were performing in Dublin when I was there at the weekend - 75,000 were going apparantly.
One of my happiest musical experiences was getting to see them. Never thought I'd get the chance.
RATM and The Police are two recent ones I can think of who made comeback tours that I would've love to have been at, but still didn't get the chance.
One of my happiest musical experiences was getting to see them. Never thought I'd get the chance.
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Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 10:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Devo, RATM, Stranglers, Madness, Human League, Happy Mondays, New Order, Pixies...
When their performances are still top notch, getting a chance to see some of these bands play is priceless.
And seriously, who cares if it's about money.
Name me one artist who wants to make "art" and not money and I'll show you a fucking hypocrite who's probably shit at making art.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 11:26pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
All these greedy, vain and pathetic bands are getting back together left, right and centre atm. I suspect it's due to their cash flow or stocks drying up. Suckers.
Devo, RATM, Stranglers, Madness, Human League, Happy Mondays, New Order, Pixies...
When their performances are still top notch, getting a chance to see some of these bands play is priceless.
And seriously, who cares if it's about money.
Name me one artist who wants to make "art" and not money and I'll show you a fucking hypocrite who's probably shit at making art.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 11:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Add Jane's Addiction & Blur to that list.
I say it's a good thing as these bands are so much better than most of the rubbish groups around today. Plus I get to see some of my faves who I missed back in the day.
All I need now is The Smiths to reform but I know that ain't going to happen.
I say it's a good thing as these bands are so much better than most of the rubbish groups around today. Plus I get to see some of my faves who I missed back in the day.
All I need now is The Smiths to reform but I know that ain't going to happen.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 12:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I was referring to all those shitty one-hit wonder or simply shitty bands.
Totally agree on the opportunity to see all your favourites you didn't anticipate catching. btw, Julian, there are artists out there who can make great music but no money. I don't see how a record deal entirely validates who is a good artist or not.
Totally agree on the opportunity to see all your favourites you didn't anticipate catching. btw, Julian, there are artists out there who can make great music but no money. I don't see how a record deal entirely validates who is a good artist or not.
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 9:27amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't see how a record deal entirely validates who is a good artist or not.
These days I entirely agree with you, but when a lot of these bands did make it big, having a record deal did indicate you that you had some talent. There was a time when the music that filled the hit charts was actually pretty good.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 10:27amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't see how a record deal entirely validates who is a good artist or not.
These days I entirely agree with you, but when a lot of these bands did make it big, having a record deal did indicate you that you had some talent. There was a time when the music that filled the hit charts was actually pretty good.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 8:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Add Jane's Addiction & Blur to that list.
and Faith No More-they headlined the Down Load festival
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Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 8:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare
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Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 9:37pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Add Jane's Addiction & Blur to that list.
and Faith No More-they headlined the Down Load festival
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 9:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare :lol:
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Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 10:13pmSubject: 'Blackwidow' Woman Rapes 10 Men.
A YOUNG Russian woman, a devoted collector of horror films and spiders, is on trial for sedating and raping 10 men.
The police were shocked that 32-year-old Valeria K., a quiet good-looking woman from the city of Tambov, was the mysterious rapist who abused 10 local men after poisoning them with clonidine, Life.ru reports.
Valeria, who has already been nicknamed the Black Widow for her love of spiders, would get acquainted with men and invite them to her place.
She gave them drinks with clonidine, which almost immediately sent them to sleep for almost 24 hours.
After that, she undressed her victims and raped them, tightening a rope on their male organs to keep them erect.
Waking up in hospital with clonidine poisoning and penis trauma, all the victims could remember was a friendly brunette who gave them drinks.
Finally, local police identified the offender and arrested her.
At present, the police know about ten of Valeria’s victims, although one of them refused to file a complaint against her.
“It was great,” the unnamed man said.
“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.”
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25658928-948,00.html
The police were shocked that 32-year-old Valeria K., a quiet good-looking woman from the city of Tambov, was the mysterious rapist who abused 10 local men after poisoning them with clonidine, Life.ru reports.
Valeria, who has already been nicknamed the Black Widow for her love of spiders, would get acquainted with men and invite them to her place.
She gave them drinks with clonidine, which almost immediately sent them to sleep for almost 24 hours.
After that, she undressed her victims and raped them, tightening a rope on their male organs to keep them erect.
Waking up in hospital with clonidine poisoning and penis trauma, all the victims could remember was a friendly brunette who gave them drinks.
Finally, local police identified the offender and arrested her.
At present, the police know about ten of Valeria’s victims, although one of them refused to file a complaint against her.
“It was great,” the unnamed man said.
“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.”
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25658928-948,00.html
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Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 10:19pmSubject: Re: 'Blackwidow' Woman Rapes 10 Men.
“It was great,” the unnamed man said.
“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.”
That's the spirit."There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 11:19pmrecoveredSubject: Re: 'Blackwidow' Woman Rapes 10 Men.
âIt was great,â the unnamed man said.
âI like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.â
âI like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.â
:lol: That's the spirit.
Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 11:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 12:47amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
nathoPosts: 3,572
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 6:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare
Fucking oath! I can't wait. Rock Lobster! Down Down etc.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 6:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare
yeah! i wanna go! B52's, the Proclaimers & Mental As Anything!! wooo!
~the grass might be greener but it's just as hard to mow ~
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 7:29amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare :lol:
Fucking oath! I can't wait. Rock Lobster! Down Down etc.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 7:50amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I see the b52s are doing a day on the green this yeare :lol:
yeah! i wanna go! B52's, the Proclaimers & Mental As Anything!! wooo! :lol:
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 10:14amSubject: Re: In The News Today
And in further news regarding the Mysterious rapist. All charges have been dropped after victims are shown photograph of perpetrator.
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 11:14amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: That's the spirit.
And in further news regarding the Mysterious rapist. All charges have been dropped after victims are shown photograph of perpetrator.
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 1:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
"...tightening a rope on their male organs to keep them erect."
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 1:14pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
And in further news regarding the Mysterious rapist. All charges have been dropped after victims are shown photograph of perpetrator.
:lol:
But seriously, how can you rape a guy who is flaccid?
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 5:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Don't know if you should have highlighted that Az, that may have been a serious question - I could see Alana exacting some feminist revenge on the Adelaide populous...
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 11:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Don't know if you should have highlighted that Az, that may have been a serious question - I could see Alana exacting some feminist revenge on the Adelaide populous...
“It was great,” the unnamed man said.
“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't used the clonidine on me.”
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 12:30amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Don't know if you should have highlighted that Az, that may have been a serious question - I could see Alana exacting some feminist revenge on the Adelaide populous...
âIt was great,â the unnamed man said.
âI like hot women. I only wish she hadn't used the clonidine on me.â
nathoPosts: 3,572
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 9:18amSubject: Re: In The News Today
This whole car thing is an absolute joke. Just turned into a schoolyard argument, "You resign", "No, you resign!". All the time letting important issues slide by.
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 9:31amSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's the second time in the last 12 months that a few people in the Labor party have looked in real trouble, but the Liberals have been too impotent to do any damage.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
John LPosts: 3,007
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 9:46amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Who comes up for the names of these "scandals" ?
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
Get off my lawn.
Rob FrostPosts: 2,683
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 9:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Who comes up for the names of these "scandals" ?
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
John LPosts: 3,007
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 9:55amSubject: Re: In The News Today
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
But that one actually makes sense...
Get off my lawn.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:34amSubject: Re: In The News Today
But that one actually makes sense...
Not too mention it was a huge scandal. I mean are the media really comparing some car dealer being helped out by the government to one of the biggest political scandals of all time?
more kicks than Daniel-san and Mr Miyagi
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:46amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Who comes up for the names of these "scandals" ?
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
:lol:
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
:lol:
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:49amSubject: Re: In The News Today
They should all be sacked and Military Rule should be imposed.
Peachy for Dictator!
Peachy for Dictator!
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm not sure I find Wayne Swan's argument, that it isn't a problem, because they have helped other individual car dealers before, to be any better than just admitting it. What I also don't get, is that it looks pretty fucking clear that Swan did it, and being that the guy is friends with Rudd, he must have known, yet Rudd wants a police inquiry. If you start a police inquiry, and they find out that you are guilty, doesn't that suppose jail time for wasting police resources on something you know you did beforehand?
It seems like they are doing their best to make it a bigger scandal, and the Liberal party are still too incompetent to assist them.
I actually somewhat understand the "scandal" here. Seriously though, Iguanagate? Some drunken tramp, who also happens to be a Labor backbencher, gets drunk and obnoxious, and makes empty threats to abuse the power she doesn't have. Who gives a shit? One of the staff should have backhanded the tart and continued about their business.
Edit: because I mixed names somehow.
It seems like they are doing their best to make it a bigger scandal, and the Liberal party are still too incompetent to assist them.
Not too mention it was a huge scandal. I mean are the media really comparing some car dealer being helped out by the government to one of the biggest political scandals of all time?
I actually somewhat understand the "scandal" here. Seriously though, Iguanagate? Some drunken tramp, who also happens to be a Labor backbencher, gets drunk and obnoxious, and makes empty threats to abuse the power she doesn't have. Who gives a shit? One of the staff should have backhanded the tart and continued about their business.
Edit: because I mixed names somehow.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:50amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Who comes up for the names of these "scandals" ?
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
:lol:
Iguanagate?
Utegate?
:lol:
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:53amSubject: Re: In The News Today
They should all be sacked and Military Rule should be imposed.
Peachy for Dictator!
Finally, something we can agree upon Julian.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 10:55amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You can send your thanks addressed Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel.
But that one actually makes sense...
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 11:34amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
But that one actually makes sense...
Not too mention it was a huge scandal. I mean are the media really comparing some car dealer being helped out by the government to one of the biggest political scandals of all time?
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 11:53amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They should all be sacked and Military Rule should be imposed.
Peachy for Dictator!
Peachy for Dictator!
Finally, something we can agree upon Julian.
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 2:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't vote anyway. I voted once, but that was on a whole lot of opiates, and it was to counteract Jut's vote for Labor.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's the second time in the last 12 months that a few people in the Labor party have looked in real trouble
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
dont get me wrong, im in Alanas
Quote
independents & the greens FTW!
thing generally
unless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
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Rob FrostPosts: 2,683
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
unless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
"...tightening a rope on their male organs to keep them erect."
:lol:
I'm not sure I find Wayne Swan's argument, that it isn't a problem, because they have helped other individual car dealers before, to be any better than just admitting it. What I also don't get, is that it looks pretty fucking clear that Swan did it, and being that the guy is friends with Rudd, he must have known, yet Rudd wants a police inquiry. If you start a police inquiry, and they find out that you are guilty, doesn't that suppose jail time for wasting police resources on something you know you did beforehand?
It seems like they are doing their best to make it a bigger scandal, and the Liberal party are still too incompetent to assist them.
It seems like they are doing their best to make it a bigger scandal, and the Liberal party are still too incompetent to assist them.
Our two major party system is not entirely incompetent, we're lucky to live in a kind of 'secular' country. However, both the two major parties are equally terrible! Don't waste anymore votes on the major parties (unless for necessary protest votes); independents & the greens FTW!
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
I don't understand why anyone would ask someone to stand down without firm evidence of wrong doing.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if that email came into my possession, I'd get it checked out before calling for heads to roll.
Don't waste anymore votes on the major parties (unless for necessary protest votes); independents & the greens FTW!
Voting for independents and the Greens isn't going to do anything. Those people are still politicians. Just not competent enough to be in the Liberals or Labor.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
TV station airs Lost as Air France crash footage
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25679077-401,00.html
A BOLIVIAN television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a hoax that saw it claim pictures from the hit TV show Lost were actually the last moment of Air France flight AF447 before it plunged into the ocean on June 1.
Internet footage shows a Periodistas Asociados de Televisión (PAT) newsreader describing several shots from inside the plane as it broke in half.
The shots show passengers being sucked out of the back of the plane into midair.
The team said the "exclusive pictures" were from a recovered Casio Z750.
They claimed camera was traced via the serial number to its owner "Paulo G Muller, an actor from a well-known children's theatre on the outskirts of Porto Alegre".
The footage of the news report itself has become an internet sensation, mainly due to the presence of Lost actress Evangeline Lilly in the photos and the fact the plane has clearly broken up in daylight.
The Air France crash occurred at night.
The hoax also caught out Dutch radio station BNR and Poland TV station TVN24.
It's not the first time news crews have been caught out. The same images did the internet rounds in 2006 after a Gol Airlines flight collided mid-air with a private jet over the Amazon jungle.
PAT's news director yesterday apologised for the mistake.
"On Thursday, two photographs were aired on our prime-time news report and on Friday we apologised," he said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25679077-401,00.html
A BOLIVIAN television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a hoax that saw it claim pictures from the hit TV show Lost were actually the last moment of Air France flight AF447 before it plunged into the ocean on June 1.
Internet footage shows a Periodistas Asociados de Televisión (PAT) newsreader describing several shots from inside the plane as it broke in half.
The shots show passengers being sucked out of the back of the plane into midair.
The team said the "exclusive pictures" were from a recovered Casio Z750.
They claimed camera was traced via the serial number to its owner "Paulo G Muller, an actor from a well-known children's theatre on the outskirts of Porto Alegre".
The footage of the news report itself has become an internet sensation, mainly due to the presence of Lost actress Evangeline Lilly in the photos and the fact the plane has clearly broken up in daylight.
The Air France crash occurred at night.
The hoax also caught out Dutch radio station BNR and Poland TV station TVN24.
It's not the first time news crews have been caught out. The same images did the internet rounds in 2006 after a Gol Airlines flight collided mid-air with a private jet over the Amazon jungle.
PAT's news director yesterday apologised for the mistake.
"On Thursday, two photographs were aired on our prime-time news report and on Friday we apologised," he said.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 3:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Although democracy has a lot of inherent flaws, Australia does happen to have one of the better political systems around. I think time would be better spent teaching people about the current system which would empower them to make the best use of the freedoms they have. An educated and informed public will assist in making democracy more effective and efficient.
Another issue is apathy in Australia. I know a lot of Australians have strong views and opinions, but even then it is usually the minority which will actually act upon them.
Another issue is apathy in Australia. I know a lot of Australians have strong views and opinions, but even then it is usually the minority which will actually act upon them.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 4:14pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's the second time in the last 12 months that a few people in the Labor party have looked in real trouble
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
dont get me wrong, im in Alanas
Quote
independents & the greens FTW!
thing generallyunless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 4:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
unless its sarah hanson youngs poor senate child care minding stunt etc
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 4:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Although democracy has a lot of inherent flaws, Australia does happen to have one of the better political systems around.
No it doesn't.
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
I think time would be better spent teaching people about the current system which would empower them to make the best use of the freedoms they have. An educated and informed public will assist in making democracy more effective and efficient.
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 4:31pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out
I don't know what you're getting at here, but feel free to elaborate further.
As for the political parties; although the right/left divide still exists on many issues (as it does worldwide), many political parties have had to change and redefine themselves over the course of time to remain relevant and to keep people voting for them. An element of politics will always be reactionary. Instead of encouraging people to give up, I would encourage them to do their best to get political parties to react and respond.
I am by no means suggesting that we have a perfect or unflawed system, but despite the rubbish that goes on in the media I am grateful to live in such a great country where my vote is counted at the very least.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 4:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
That was the height of stupidity, wasn't it.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
I have been trying to keep up with UteGate. I think Turnbull has badly miscalculated this one.
I don't understand why anyone would ask someone to stand down without firm evidence of wrong doing.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but if that email came into my possession, I'd get it checked out before calling for heads to roll.
Don't waste anymore votes on the major parties (unless for necessary protest votes); independents & the greens FTW!
Voting for independents and the Greens isn't going to do anything. Those people are still politicians. Just not competent enough to be in the Liberals or Labor.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 5:19pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Although democracy has a lot of inherent flaws, Australia does happen to have one of the better political systems around.
No it doesn't.
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
I think time would be better spent teaching people about the current system which would empower them to make the best use of the freedoms they have. An educated and informed public will assist in making democracy more effective and efficient.
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 5:31pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's based on the Westminster system, which is so terrible the Americans tore themselves into two halves over it and had one of the bloodiest wars in history over.
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out
I don't know what you're getting at here, but feel free to elaborate further.
As for the political parties; although the right/left divide still exists on many issues (as it does worldwide), many political parties have had to change and redefine themselves over the course of time to remain relevant and to keep people voting for them. An element of politics will always be reactionary. Instead of encouraging people to give up, I would encourage them to do their best to get political parties to react and respond.
I am by no means suggesting that we have a perfect or unflawed system, but despite the rubbish that goes on in the media I am grateful to live in such a great country where my vote is counted at the very least.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 6:01pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I'm not defeatist.
I know exactly how to change the system.
I just need to source some digging supplies, "fireworks", gain the confidence and support of senior army and senior police officials, and tie up a few loose ends, and you'll be celebrating "Funky J Day" before you know it!
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 7:01pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's also based on the Washington system.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I'm not defeatist.
I know exactly how to change the system.
I just need to source some digging supplies, "fireworks", gain the confidence and support of senior army and senior police officials, and tie up a few loose ends, and you'll be celebrating "Funky J Day" before you know it! ;)
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 11:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
First time, of the matters I'm referring to, that they had a dodgy e-mail. Even with the dodgy e-mail there appears to be plenty of evidence of wrong doing. My comment on Liberal impotency and incompetency was to do with fucking things up, like the e-mail.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 12:35amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
or is it the second time in several months that a liberal has relied of falsified emails?
First time, of the matters I'm referring to, that they had a dodgy e-mail. Even with the dodgy e-mail there appears to be plenty of evidence of wrong doing. My comment on Liberal impotency and incompetency was to do with fucking things up, like the e-mail.
I can understand your frustration, but your defeatist attitude is *part* of the problem with democracy in Australia and abroad.
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 10:32amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
See, we agree on another thing...
Except we have different ideas on how to deal with it. I want the people to take charge and smash everything, and you want the market to take charge and smash everything.
I'm sure with our intellects we could come up with a mid-way solution to smash everything.
We could even call it something cool like FunkyJAZism.
After all, it's only the theories with cool names which get written about...
Rob FrostPosts: 2,683
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 10:43amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 11:32amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm happy to debate it if somebody starts up a thread. I may even do so myself when I have enough energy to knock out a solid opening post. Democracy is unfixable. It has the mitigating factor of not being as horrible as some other systems; but it is the oppression of the mass, and it feeds itself.
See, we agree on another thing...
Except we have different ideas on how to deal with it. I want the people to take charge and smash everything, and you want the market to take charge and smash everything.
I'm sure with our intellects we could come up with a mid-way solution to smash everything.
We could even call it something cool like FunkyJAZism.
After all, it's only the theories with cool names which get written about...
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 11:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
So what you are saying is that change should come via violent revolt by the frustrated minority? You and J may be in complete agreement on that point.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
Things don't change because democracy cannot be "by the people, for the people". It is naturally oligarchic in nature, and this is a problem at its very core. If the oligarchs are deposed, the people will create new oligarchs, who will also expand bureaucracy, as has been done throughout history. There is no cure for its central malady, outside of a non-democratic state.
To make things worse, democracy breeds apathy toward drastic change, as people are bad at math, and think their power to vote actually means something, and that they have anything like a real stake in their government. The more people involved, the less their vote and say means, the more this is true.
The only time this stops being true, is in the case of pure democracy/perfected communism, which, short of being impossible, asks nothing less than the death of the mind, and the individual.
To paraphrase a particular writers, only a little, tongue-in-cheek comment: if you have a bad king, you can hang the bastard; with democracy, the bastard is the mass.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 11:43amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I challenge anyone here to get involved in Liberals, Labor or Greens and actually change it in any fundamental way.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
You won't make even the mildest impact on the machine.
Too many people make too much money and wield too much power with the way things are now.
When you've seen the most powerful woman you've ever known reduced to a shell of illness and incompetence when she tried to change the South Australian Labor party, you know true change cannot come from within.
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 12:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Voting for independents and the Greens isn't going to do anything. Those people are still politicians. Just not competent enough to be in the Liberals or Labor.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
For real change to happen, we need a fundamental change to our political system from the inside out, one which bans political parties outright. People fit for power should be selected from the main population by the main population in a 1:1 vote, not a small pool of political pundits in political parties via preferences.
While I agree with you on some of your frustrations, I don't agree with your categorically nihilistic view on all politicians. My vote for Xenophon was not wasted, granted he has made bold moves to either block or amend bad policy.
This is bringing about a subtle, yet telling shift in Austn politics. Although this isn't satisfactory outcome-wise, change is a tedious, slow process that we all have to contend with. Let us take better, progressive steps in the right future with our votes, feet and minds rather than reject the system altogether. I reckon it is better to pragmatically access or manipulate within and outside the system to build political, social and/or economic reform.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 12:33pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Things can change if people decide they want change. Take what is happening in Tehran as an example.
So what you are saying is that change should come via violent revolt by the frustrated minority? You and J may be in complete agreement on that point.
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
The Government should be working for the people, not the other way around.
Things don't change because democracy cannot be "by the people, for the people". It is naturally oligarchic in nature, and this is a problem at its very core. If the oligarchs are deposed, the people will create new oligarchs, who will also expand bureaucracy, as has been done throughout history. There is no cure for its central malady, outside of a non-democratic state.
To make things worse, democracy breeds apathy toward drastic change, as people are bad at math, and think their power to vote actually means something, and that they have anything like a real stake in their government. The more people involved, the less their vote and say means, the more this is true.
The only time this stops being true, is in the case of pure democracy/perfected communism, which, short of being impossible, asks nothing less than the death of the mind, and the individual.
To paraphrase a particular writers, only a little, tongue-in-cheek comment: if you have a bad king, you can hang the bastard; with democracy, the bastard is the mass.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 1:31pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
To paraphrase a particular writers, only a little, tongue-in-cheek comment: if you have a bad king, you can hang the bastard; with democracy, the bastard is the mass.
And what creates the mass in relation to apathy etc? Some minority and/or barstard/s. You would find barstards in any kind of political and/or economic structure.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 3:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Take it to the politics thread!
Here's some real news!
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof.
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
Here's some real news!
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof.
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 4:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
x2
compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution!
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Kobra Kai @ RocketBar, Friday 25th Nov
The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
1994-2006 D&B vinyl sale - classics, well looked after and priced to sell!
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Rumour pres. Kid Kenobi @ HQ, Friday 25th Nov
Kobra Kai @ RocketBar, Friday 25th Nov
The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
1994-2006 D&B vinyl sale - classics, well looked after and priced to sell!
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Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 4:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Take it to the politics thread! :E
Here's some real news! :lol:
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof. :rofl:
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25676214-401,00.html)
Here's some real news! :lol:
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof. :rofl:
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25676214-401,00.html)
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 4:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution!
Sweet more beheading videos to watch.
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 5:25pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Things don't change here because the level of apathy is just too high.
x2
compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 5:40pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
Sweet more beheading videos to watch.
QuazzaPosts: 13,628
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 6:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Take it to the politics thread!
Here's some real news!
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof.
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
lol. I know my tattoo sluts
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 7:18pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Take it to the politics thread! :E
Here's some real news! :lol:
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof. :rofl:
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25676214-401,00.html)
Here's some real news! :lol:
Quazza's theory was spot on; that girl with the 56 stars tattooed on her face meant to get them done but changed her story when her dad hit the roof. :rofl:
Girl with tattooed face admits she wanted all 56 stars
(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25676214-401,00.html)
lol. I know my tattoo sluts
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 10:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Pensioners torture financial adviser
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25683738-401,00.html
A FINANCIAL adviser has barely escaped with his life after being beaten and held hostage for four days … by a gang of old-age pensioners.
American James Amburn was beaten until his ribs broke, burnt with cigarettes and hit with a Zimmer frame by the gang of five pensioners furious that he’d lost their £2 million ($4.1 million) savings.
Living in Germany, Mr Amburn was ambushed as he left a café and driven in the boot of an Audi to a house, where he was dumped in a cellar.
“I was jumped from the rear and struck,” he told UK tabloid The Sun.
“Then they bound me like a mummy with masking tape. It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath.”
In four days, the pensioners fed him just two bowls of soup, burned him with cigarettes and threatened to kill him “again and again”, angry that he had invested their money in a failed Florida property scheme.
He escaped once but was recaptured and beaten until his ribs broke.
Mr Amburn was eventually rescued after convincing his captors to let him fax a Swiss bank in an attempt to get their money.
He left a note for police at the bottom of the fax and armed cops stormed the house in Bavaria on Saturday.
The “Furious Five” as they have been dubbed, face 15-year sentences for hostage-taking and torture.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25683738-401,00.html
A FINANCIAL adviser has barely escaped with his life after being beaten and held hostage for four days … by a gang of old-age pensioners.
American James Amburn was beaten until his ribs broke, burnt with cigarettes and hit with a Zimmer frame by the gang of five pensioners furious that he’d lost their £2 million ($4.1 million) savings.
Living in Germany, Mr Amburn was ambushed as he left a café and driven in the boot of an Audi to a house, where he was dumped in a cellar.
“I was jumped from the rear and struck,” he told UK tabloid The Sun.
“Then they bound me like a mummy with masking tape. It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath.”
In four days, the pensioners fed him just two bowls of soup, burned him with cigarettes and threatened to kill him “again and again”, angry that he had invested their money in a failed Florida property scheme.
He escaped once but was recaptured and beaten until his ribs broke.
Mr Amburn was eventually rescued after convincing his captors to let him fax a Swiss bank in an attempt to get their money.
He left a note for police at the bottom of the fax and armed cops stormed the house in Bavaria on Saturday.
The “Furious Five” as they have been dubbed, face 15-year sentences for hostage-taking and torture.
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“Then they bound me like a mummy with masking tape. It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath.”
LexyPosts: 6,599
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 10:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 11:40pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:rofl:
Posted: 25 Jun 2009, 12:11amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
x2
compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
compare the French response to the rather regressive proposals to their labour laws occurring at a similar time to the 'work choices' changes. from what i remember, those laws were far less across the board (aimed at younger workers?) and somewhat less dramatic, yet people took to the streets and rioted.
the frenchies are always itching for a revolution! :biggrin:
What an outstanding record of positive change they have as well. They replaced a somewhat incompetent king with years of senseless violence, and Napoleon. Cut to today and the same conservative leader that wanted to pass workplace reform is entertaining the possibility of passing anti-burqa reform.
Further proof, I might add, that with a King you can affect massive change with one act, but with a democracy, you have the same cunt in power, doing the same things, next week.
Pensioners torture financial adviser
:rofl:
Posted: 25 Jun 2009, 4:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever
By Jesus Diaz on June 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Oldest Instrument in the World...
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/flute.jpg)
This flute is the first musical instrument in the history of humankindâone of the first examples of technologyâwhich has surprised everyone demonstrating that music already existed 35,000 years ago.
It was made from the bone of a giant vulture during the Upper Paleolithic. Found in Ach Valley, in the south of Germany, the 8.7-inch long, one-inch diameter instrument has five holes, with two V-shaped notches carved on one side of it. This was the part in which the musician put the lips to blow, according to University of Tubingenâs professor Nicholas Conard, the lead author of the discovery. The other end is broken just on the fifth hole.
Also according to the study, it was capable of producing a note range similar to those of modern flutes. Conard also points that while music probably didnât have much to do in the success of the first modern humans, it could have given them an advantage against the Neanderthals:
"Upper Palaeolithic music could have contributed to the maintenance of large social networks, and thereby have helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans compared to the more culturally conservative and isolated Neanderthals"
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/06/35000-year-old-flute-is-first-instrument-ever/#more-339439
By Jesus Diaz on June 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Oldest Instrument in the World...
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/flute.jpg)
This flute is the first musical instrument in the history of humankindâone of the first examples of technologyâwhich has surprised everyone demonstrating that music already existed 35,000 years ago.
It was made from the bone of a giant vulture during the Upper Paleolithic. Found in Ach Valley, in the south of Germany, the 8.7-inch long, one-inch diameter instrument has five holes, with two V-shaped notches carved on one side of it. This was the part in which the musician put the lips to blow, according to University of Tubingenâs professor Nicholas Conard, the lead author of the discovery. The other end is broken just on the fifth hole.
Also according to the study, it was capable of producing a note range similar to those of modern flutes. Conard also points that while music probably didnât have much to do in the success of the first modern humans, it could have given them an advantage against the Neanderthals:
"Upper Palaeolithic music could have contributed to the maintenance of large social networks, and thereby have helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans compared to the more culturally conservative and isolated Neanderthals"
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/06/35000-year-old-flute-is-first-instrument-ever/#more-339439
Posted: 26 Jun 2009, 12:30pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I :lol: 'd at this
Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(06-24) 13:20 PDT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said today.
Jason Everett Keller, 40, allegedly accosted another homeless man, Stephan Fava, on the 200 block of Grand Avenue in South San Francisco at about 1:45 p.m. March 30.
At the time, Fava was chatting with an acquaintance, who is also homeless, about "quantum physics and the splitting of atoms," according to prosecutors.
Keller joined in the conversation and, for reasons unknown, got upset, authorities said. He picked up his skateboard and hit Fava in the face with it, splitting his lip, prosecutors said.
Fava also fell and broke his ankle, although how this happened wasn't exactly known, authorities said.
The attack was witnessed by two other people who told police that Fava had done nothing to provoke Keller, authorities said.
Keller is expected to take the stand at his jury trial in the Redwood City courtroom of Superior Court Judge James Ellis.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/24/BAH118D37E.DTL&type=newsbayarea
Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(06-24) 13:20 PDT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said today.
Jason Everett Keller, 40, allegedly accosted another homeless man, Stephan Fava, on the 200 block of Grand Avenue in South San Francisco at about 1:45 p.m. March 30.
At the time, Fava was chatting with an acquaintance, who is also homeless, about "quantum physics and the splitting of atoms," according to prosecutors.
Keller joined in the conversation and, for reasons unknown, got upset, authorities said. He picked up his skateboard and hit Fava in the face with it, splitting his lip, prosecutors said.
Fava also fell and broke his ankle, although how this happened wasn't exactly known, authorities said.
The attack was witnessed by two other people who told police that Fava had done nothing to provoke Keller, authorities said.
Keller is expected to take the stand at his jury trial in the Redwood City courtroom of Superior Court Judge James Ellis.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/24/BAH118D37E.DTL&type=newsbayarea
Posted: 5 Jul 2009, 8:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Beware the MILF!
MILF blamed for Catholic church attack
Catholic church blast kills five
FIVE people were killed and at least 34 wounded in a suspected Muslim rebel bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines today.
...
"The special operations group of the MILF is behind this," Lt Col Ponce said, adding that the MILF had carried out similar attacks in recent weeks.
He said a bomb also allegedly planted by MILF rebels exploded in the nearby town of Datu Piang late yesterday, wounding three people.
"They are getting desperate because of the military operations," Lt Col Ponce said, stressing that the attacks were apparently meant to divert military attention.
The military said it had received intelligence reports earlier indicating that the MILF was to carry out bomb attacks in major cities in Mindanao, the main southern island where they have been fighting for an independent Islamic state over the past three decades.
MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu however denied the accusation, saying attacking civilians was against Islamic principles.
The 12,000-strong MILF broke a five-year-old ceasefire in August 2008, launching deadly attacks across several towns and provinces in Mindanao after a court rejected a proposed deal with the Government that would have given them control over vast lands they considered as their "ancestral domain".
:lol: when the Moro Islamic Liberation Front came up with a name they really should have considered their acronym a little more!
MILF blamed for Catholic church attack
Catholic church blast kills five
FIVE people were killed and at least 34 wounded in a suspected Muslim rebel bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines today.
...
"The special operations group of the MILF is behind this," Lt Col Ponce said, adding that the MILF had carried out similar attacks in recent weeks.
He said a bomb also allegedly planted by MILF rebels exploded in the nearby town of Datu Piang late yesterday, wounding three people.
"They are getting desperate because of the military operations," Lt Col Ponce said, stressing that the attacks were apparently meant to divert military attention.
The military said it had received intelligence reports earlier indicating that the MILF was to carry out bomb attacks in major cities in Mindanao, the main southern island where they have been fighting for an independent Islamic state over the past three decades.
MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu however denied the accusation, saying attacking civilians was against Islamic principles.
The 12,000-strong MILF broke a five-year-old ceasefire in August 2008, launching deadly attacks across several towns and provinces in Mindanao after a court rejected a proposed deal with the Government that would have given them control over vast lands they considered as their "ancestral domain".
:lol: when the Moro Islamic Liberation Front came up with a name they really should have considered their acronym a little more!
Posted: 5 Jul 2009, 8:15pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Posted: 6 Jul 2009, 8:46amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Turkish TV gameshow looks to convert atheists
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.
The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion -- Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists.
But religious authorities in Muslim but secular Turkey are not amused by the twist on the popular reality game show format and the Religious Affairs Directorate is refusing to provide an imam for the show.
"Doing something like this for the sake of ratings is disrespectful to all religions. Religion should not be a subject for entertainment programs," High Board of Religious Affairs Chairman Hamza Aktan told state news agency Anatolian after news of the planned program emerged.
The makers of "Penitents Compete" are unrepentant and reject claims that the show, scheduled to begin broadcasting in September, will cheapen religion.
"We are giving the biggest prize in the world, the gift of belief in God," Kanal T chief executive Seyhan Soylu told Reuters.
"We don't approve of anyone being an atheist. God is great and it doesn't matter which religion you believe in. The important thing is to believe," Soylu said.
The project focuses attention on the issue of religious identity in European Union-candidate Turkey, where rights groups have raised concerns over freedom of religion for non-Muslim minorities.
Detractors of the ruling AK Party government, which is rooted in political Islam but officially secular, accuse it of having a hidden Islamist agenda, a charge it denies.
Some 200 people have so far applied to take part in the show and the 10 contestants will be chosen next month.
A team of theologians will ensure that the atheists are truly non-believers and are not just seeking fame or a free holiday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5622D020090703?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Turkish TV gameshow looks to convert atheists
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.
The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion -- Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists.
But religious authorities in Muslim but secular Turkey are not amused by the twist on the popular reality game show format and the Religious Affairs Directorate is refusing to provide an imam for the show.
"Doing something like this for the sake of ratings is disrespectful to all religions. Religion should not be a subject for entertainment programs," High Board of Religious Affairs Chairman Hamza Aktan told state news agency Anatolian after news of the planned program emerged.
The makers of "Penitents Compete" are unrepentant and reject claims that the show, scheduled to begin broadcasting in September, will cheapen religion.
"We are giving the biggest prize in the world, the gift of belief in God," Kanal T chief executive Seyhan Soylu told Reuters.
"We don't approve of anyone being an atheist. God is great and it doesn't matter which religion you believe in. The important thing is to believe," Soylu said.
The project focuses attention on the issue of religious identity in European Union-candidate Turkey, where rights groups have raised concerns over freedom of religion for non-Muslim minorities.
Detractors of the ruling AK Party government, which is rooted in political Islam but officially secular, accuse it of having a hidden Islamist agenda, a charge it denies.
Some 200 people have so far applied to take part in the show and the 10 contestants will be chosen next month.
A team of theologians will ensure that the atheists are truly non-believers and are not just seeking fame or a free holiday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5622D020090703?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Posted: 6 Jul 2009, 8:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Tibet for Buddhists.
Sounds like Buddhism is the way to go. Become one and you can get a free holiday to Tibet. Easily the coolest place to visit out of the 4.
Posted: 7 Jul 2009, 3:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They should send me on that show.
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 4:36pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
More sex for happy butchers
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Happy meat ... A survey of Australian workers has revealed butchers are the happiest and have the most sex
AS SEXY workers go, the humble butcher doesn't immediately jump to mind.
But a recent survey of Australian workers has revealed that butchers are the happiest employees in the workforce - and they're having the most sex, The Daily Telegraph reports.
A Galaxy poll of consumers, which rated the perceived happiness and job satisfaction of a range of professionals, ranked butchers as the most friendly and contented.
Thirty per cent of consumers perceived butchers as happy with their jobs - a figure confirmed by 76 per cent of butchers surveyed who reported feeling healthier, laughing more at work and having more sex than other workers interviewed.
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands featured at the lower end of the survey, with less than 10 per cent of consumers perceiving them as happy at work.
Butchers are having 60 per cent more sex than other workers.
More than half the 295 butchers surveyed had no sick leave last year and 60 per cent described their work as fun.
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Happy meat ... A survey of Australian workers has revealed butchers are the happiest and have the most sex
AS SEXY workers go, the humble butcher doesn't immediately jump to mind.
But a recent survey of Australian workers has revealed that butchers are the happiest employees in the workforce - and they're having the most sex, The Daily Telegraph reports.
A Galaxy poll of consumers, which rated the perceived happiness and job satisfaction of a range of professionals, ranked butchers as the most friendly and contented.
Thirty per cent of consumers perceived butchers as happy with their jobs - a figure confirmed by 76 per cent of butchers surveyed who reported feeling healthier, laughing more at work and having more sex than other workers interviewed.
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands featured at the lower end of the survey, with less than 10 per cent of consumers perceiving them as happy at work.
Butchers are having 60 per cent more sex than other workers.
More than half the 295 butchers surveyed had no sick leave last year and 60 per cent described their work as fun.
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 4:54pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
As providers of all things meat, butchers truly are gods amongst men!
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 9:52pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They may be having 60 percent more sex, but I did notice the article didn't mention what with.
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 10:49pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They may be having 60 percent more sex, but I did notice the article didn't mention what with.
:lol:
I always wondered where the term porking came from.
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 10:57pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They may be having 60 percent more sex, but I did notice the article didn't mention what with.
:lol:
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 4:34amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands
Bwahahahaha
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 12:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
now I know how Steak and blow job day originated :lol:
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 3:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Classic.
I would have thought personal trainers are up there too!
I would have thought personal trainers are up there too!
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 5:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Classic.
I would have thought personal trainers are up there too!
I would have thought personal trainers are up there too!
I don't know...you might not necessarily be that happy having to push and motivate semi-unwilling clients all day. Surely that would get really annoying.
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 1:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
"Eyes Wide Shut" type orgy at Halswell House in Somerset
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2534855/Orgy-at-17th-century-mansion-Halswell-House-in-Somerset.html
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RANDY partygoers enjoyed an orgy at a masked ball inside an upmarket 17th century hall.
A company paid £9,000 to hire picturesque Halswell House, in Goathurst, for the swingers romp involving 350 well-off guests.
Women wore corsets and suspenders and everyone was in masks and capes for the sexy get-together at the Somerset pile.
Owner Grahame Bond said couples were "having sex over the banisters and beneath the chandeliers" at the 17-bedroom house.
He said he was "disgusted" by the sleazy shindig, where all the guests were "public-school types".
Ex-estate agent Mr Bond, who has spent £2million doing up the house, said the well-heeled guests swept up the drive to the house in a succession of Porsches, BMWs and Aston Martins.
But at midnight, Mr Bond said one of the organisers announced: "The moment has come. The spell has begun."
He said: "Within minutes, the entire assembly began kissing and shortly afterwards having sex.
"To say I was shocked was an understatement. It was as if a switch had been flicked on.
"One of my staff came up to me and said, 'you have to see this', and I couldn't believe my eyes.
"I realised it was a swingers party. Everywhere there were couples having sex. Over the banisters alone I counted four couples at it.
"I was very worried for my staff and told them they could go home if they wanted, and two of them, who were only 19-years-old, did so.
"The guests were all public-school types and I jokingly said to one: 'I suppose you are a High Court judge'. He replied: 'You're not far off the mark'.
"Afterwards, I called the police, but they said that as it was a private party, there was nothing illegal about it."
On its website, Halswell House is billed as a "glorious grade 1-listed house" and says it hosts parties, weddings and corporate events.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2534855/Orgy-at-17th-century-mansion-Halswell-House-in-Somerset.html
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RANDY partygoers enjoyed an orgy at a masked ball inside an upmarket 17th century hall.
A company paid £9,000 to hire picturesque Halswell House, in Goathurst, for the swingers romp involving 350 well-off guests.
Women wore corsets and suspenders and everyone was in masks and capes for the sexy get-together at the Somerset pile.
Owner Grahame Bond said couples were "having sex over the banisters and beneath the chandeliers" at the 17-bedroom house.
He said he was "disgusted" by the sleazy shindig, where all the guests were "public-school types".
Ex-estate agent Mr Bond, who has spent £2million doing up the house, said the well-heeled guests swept up the drive to the house in a succession of Porsches, BMWs and Aston Martins.
But at midnight, Mr Bond said one of the organisers announced: "The moment has come. The spell has begun."
He said: "Within minutes, the entire assembly began kissing and shortly afterwards having sex.
"To say I was shocked was an understatement. It was as if a switch had been flicked on.
"One of my staff came up to me and said, 'you have to see this', and I couldn't believe my eyes.
"I realised it was a swingers party. Everywhere there were couples having sex. Over the banisters alone I counted four couples at it.
"I was very worried for my staff and told them they could go home if they wanted, and two of them, who were only 19-years-old, did so.
"The guests were all public-school types and I jokingly said to one: 'I suppose you are a High Court judge'. He replied: 'You're not far off the mark'.
"Afterwards, I called the police, but they said that as it was a private party, there was nothing illegal about it."
On its website, Halswell House is billed as a "glorious grade 1-listed house" and says it hosts parties, weddings and corporate events.
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 2:12pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
haha
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 4:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sucked in to that toffy wanker!
I can just see his nose curling up as he speaks of those 'public school types'. Haha. Clearly they are doing well enough despite this...
I can just see his nose curling up as he speaks of those 'public school types'. Haha. Clearly they are doing well enough despite this...
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 4:59pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You are aware that 'public-school types' means 'rich kids' in England aren't you Glock? Places like Westminster and Eton are public schools. All the estate owner is stating is that these kids are future Ox-Bridge graduates.
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 5:31pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You are aware that 'public-school types' means 'rich kids' in England aren't you Glock? Places like Westminster and Eton are public schools. All the estate owner is stating is that these kids are future Ox-Bridge graduates.
I had no idea. What is a 'private school type' over there then?
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 5:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I had no idea. What is a 'private school type' over there then?
A Chav :E
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 5:46pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Not sure if there is one. It has something to do with the schools effected by a piece of legislation with 'public schools' in the title; which is basically all privately funded schools. It is quite possible that a future British Prime Minister, or high court judge were somewhere amongst that cluster fuck though.
Not sure if there is one. It has something to do with the schools effected by a piece of legislation with 'public schools' in the title; which is basically all privately funded schools. It is quite possible that a future British Prime Minister, or high court judge were somewhere amongst that cluster fuck though.
Posted: 17 Jul 2009, 9:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
It is quite possible that a future British Prime Minister, or high court judge were somewhere amongst that cluster fuck though.
Nah, it was just a swingers party.
If it were a future PM or Judge, it would involve livestock and chains.
Posted: 17 Jul 2009, 10:29amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
I'm sure if he checked the closet the future Conservative Party leader was having an aggressive asphyxiation wank in women's lingerie.
I'm sure if he checked the closet the future Conservative Party leader was having an aggressive asphyxiation wank in women's lingerie.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009, 2:37pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ronald Mitchell in flames after Taser strike
* Man engulfed in flames after Taser used
* Had been petrol-sniffing, says family
* Suffers burns to 20 per cent of body
A MAN from a remote western desert community was last night being airlifted to a Perth hospital after he was shot by police with a Taser gun and engulfed in flames.
The incident happened about midday yesterday at the West Australian community of Warburton after police went to a house where Ronald Mitchell and others were sniffing petrol.
* Man engulfed in flames after Taser used
* Had been petrol-sniffing, says family
* Suffers burns to 20 per cent of body
A MAN from a remote western desert community was last night being airlifted to a Perth hospital after he was shot by police with a Taser gun and engulfed in flames.
The incident happened about midday yesterday at the West Australian community of Warburton after police went to a house where Ronald Mitchell and others were sniffing petrol.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009, 4:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
More sex for happy butchers
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Happy meat ... A survey of Australian workers has revealed butchers are the happiest and have the most sex
AS SEXY workers go, the humble butcher doesn't immediately jump to mind.
But a recent survey of Australian workers has revealed that butchers are the happiest employees in the workforce - and they're having the most sex, The Daily Telegraph reports.
A Galaxy poll of consumers, which rated the perceived happiness and job satisfaction of a range of professionals, ranked butchers as the most friendly and contented.
Thirty per cent of consumers perceived butchers as happy with their jobs - a figure confirmed by 76 per cent of butchers surveyed who reported feeling healthier, laughing more at work and having more sex than other workers interviewed.
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands featured at the lower end of the survey, with less than 10 per cent of consumers perceiving them as happy at work.
Butchers are having 60 per cent more sex than other workers.
More than half the 295 butchers surveyed had no sick leave last year and 60 per cent described their work as fun.
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Happy meat ... A survey of Australian workers has revealed butchers are the happiest and have the most sex
AS SEXY workers go, the humble butcher doesn't immediately jump to mind.
But a recent survey of Australian workers has revealed that butchers are the happiest employees in the workforce - and they're having the most sex, The Daily Telegraph reports.
A Galaxy poll of consumers, which rated the perceived happiness and job satisfaction of a range of professionals, ranked butchers as the most friendly and contented.
Thirty per cent of consumers perceived butchers as happy with their jobs - a figure confirmed by 76 per cent of butchers surveyed who reported feeling healthier, laughing more at work and having more sex than other workers interviewed.
Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands featured at the lower end of the survey, with less than 10 per cent of consumers perceiving them as happy at work.
Butchers are having 60 per cent more sex than other workers.
More than half the 295 butchers surveyed had no sick leave last year and 60 per cent described their work as fun.
Anyone catch Media Watch last night?
This is a phony report that was commissioned by the Meat Industry peak body LOL.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009, 5:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ronald Mitchell in flames after Taser strike
Thought about you as soon as I heard about this.
One of the coolest things I've heard in ages.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009, 6:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Anyone catch Media Watch last night?
This is a phony report that was commissioned by the Meat Industry peak body LOL.
This is a phony report that was commissioned by the Meat Industry peak body LOL.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 11:00amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah no shit!
Aren't prostitutes, purveyors of the 'oldest profession' the ones who get the most? Hmmm? :E
Aren't prostitutes, purveyors of the 'oldest profession' the ones who get the most? Hmmm? :E
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Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 1:15pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Robber gets torn frenulum, Viagra hangover
NEWS.com.au
July 22, 2009 01:33pm
* Robber takes on hairdresser
* Hairdresser a karate expert
* Robber mugged, cuffed, raped
THE attempted armed robbery of a Russian hairdresser became a three-day sex ordeal for the would-be thief, leaving him with torn genitals and a Viagra hangover.
IT website The Register reports the man, known as Viktor, tried to rob the hairdresser in the town of Meshchovsk.
The owner, 28-year-old Olga, agreed to hand over the takings but as she was giving him the money, used her karate skills to knock him to the ground and tie him up with a hairdryer cord.
She then locked him in the storeroom and told colleagues sheâd call the police.
However, she instead stripped him and cuffed him to a heater with a pair of fluffy pink handcuffs. She then fed him Viagra and raped him several times over the next four days.
When finally released, Viktor went first to hospital for treatment for his torn frenulum, and then reported Olga to the police. When she was arrested, Olga reported him for robbery.
âWhat a b**tard,â shecomplained.
âYes, we had sex a couple of times. But Iâve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1000 roubles when he left.â
Viktor admitted she had fed him well.
NEWS.com.au
July 22, 2009 01:33pm
* Robber takes on hairdresser
* Hairdresser a karate expert
* Robber mugged, cuffed, raped
THE attempted armed robbery of a Russian hairdresser became a three-day sex ordeal for the would-be thief, leaving him with torn genitals and a Viagra hangover.
IT website The Register reports the man, known as Viktor, tried to rob the hairdresser in the town of Meshchovsk.
The owner, 28-year-old Olga, agreed to hand over the takings but as she was giving him the money, used her karate skills to knock him to the ground and tie him up with a hairdryer cord.
She then locked him in the storeroom and told colleagues sheâd call the police.
However, she instead stripped him and cuffed him to a heater with a pair of fluffy pink handcuffs. She then fed him Viagra and raped him several times over the next four days.
When finally released, Viktor went first to hospital for treatment for his torn frenulum, and then reported Olga to the police. When she was arrested, Olga reported him for robbery.
âWhat a b**tard,â shecomplained.
âYes, we had sex a couple of times. But Iâve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1000 roubles when he left.â
Viktor admitted she had fed him well.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 1:53pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hahahaha
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Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 1:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wicked! Cops should charge him with prostitution.
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Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 2:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The owner, 28-year-old Olga
Olga! sounds like a freakin wildebeest!
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Posted: 22 Jul 2009, 3:03pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The owner, 28-year-old Olga
Olga! sounds like a freakin wildebeest! :lol:
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Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 10:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Man charged with having sex with horse
A South Carolina man has been arrested for having sex with a horse after police say the animal's owner caught him on a surveillance camera.
Police say this isn't the first time 50-year-old Rodell Vereen has been charged; last year he pleaded guilty to having sex with the same horse and was placed on the state's sex offender list.
Police arrested Vereen on Monday, when he returned to the stable 32 kilometres northeast of Myrtle Beach where owner Barbara Kenley says a camera caught him having sex with her horse earlier this month. This time she was waiting for him with a shotgun and says she thought about shooting him but didn't want to go to prison.
Vereen is in jail. His brother says he has mental problems and may not have been taking his medicine.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5761803/man-charged-with-having-sex-with-horse/
A South Carolina man has been arrested for having sex with a horse after police say the animal's owner caught him on a surveillance camera.
Police say this isn't the first time 50-year-old Rodell Vereen has been charged; last year he pleaded guilty to having sex with the same horse and was placed on the state's sex offender list.
Police arrested Vereen on Monday, when he returned to the stable 32 kilometres northeast of Myrtle Beach where owner Barbara Kenley says a camera caught him having sex with her horse earlier this month. This time she was waiting for him with a shotgun and says she thought about shooting him but didn't want to go to prison.
Vereen is in jail. His brother says he has mental problems and may not have been taking his medicine.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5761803/man-charged-with-having-sex-with-horse/
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Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 1:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mugger beaten up as victim fights back
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25857437-5006301,00.html
Bwahahha
The victim was a dude I work with, good on him!
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25857437-5006301,00.html
Bwahahha
The victim was a dude I work with, good on him!
Get off my lawn.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 1:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mugger beaten up as victim fights back
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25857437-5006301,00.html
Bwahahha
The victim was a dude I work with, good on him!
Victim is a bit rich isn't it?
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Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 2:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mugger beaten up as victim fights back
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25857437-5006301,00.html
Bwahahha
The victim was a dude I work with, good on him!
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25857437-5006301,00.html
Bwahahha
The victim was a dude I work with, good on him!
:rofl:
Victim is a bit rich isn't it? :lol:
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 4:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
having sex with the same horse
To be fair sounds like the horse wants it.
Also is it a male or female horse? Big difference imo.
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Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 5:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters, but how does a dude actually fuck a horse.
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
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Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 5:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters, but how does a dude actually fuck a horse.
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
Step ladder/bucket I believe.
There was a special ed dude at my high school who was caught banging a horse in a paddock. So wrong.
Get off my lawn.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 5:40pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
having sex with the same horse
To be fair sounds like the horse wants it.
Also is it a male or female horse? Big difference imo.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 6:29pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters, but how does a dude actually fuck a horse.
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
Step ladder/bucket I believe.
There was a special ed dude at my high school who was caught banging a horse in a paddock. So wrong.
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 7:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters
suprised you havent tried searching for the cctv video of the incident tbh
Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 8:13pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters
:lol:
suprised you havent tried searching for the cctv video of the incident tbh
:E
Posted: 31 Jul 2009, 10:52amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Quote
Decapitated baby's mum heard on 911 call
A mother accused of decapitating her three-week-old son screamed "I didn't mean to do it. He told me to" while her sister pleaded for an ambulance to bring help in a desperate four-minute emergency call released on Wednesday.
Otty Sanchez, who police say told them the devil made her kill and mutilate her only child, screams "I love him" and says she's stabbed herself in the heart and stomach while her sister Priscilla tries calming down the 33-year-old mother.
After a dispatcher tells Garcia that an ambulance is on the way, the sister moans, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God."
Sanchez is charged with capital murder in the slaying of Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, who authorities found decapitated and grossly mutilated in a bedroom of her sister's house early Sunday. Police say Sanchez chewed off three of her infant's toes and ate parts of the brain.
Garcia tells the dispatcher that her sister has stabbed her child and that blood is all over the bed.
"She's gone crazy last night. She was hearing voices," Garcia said. "She kept bringing me the baby. Finally she calmed down and I took her back the baby. And now I just woke up to hear screaming.
"The baby is dead. The baby's dead. Please, somebody come."
Sanchez is being held on $1 million bond. It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether she had an attorney.
Scott W. Buchholz, the infant's father, said Sanchez suffered from postpartum depression and that she told him she was schizophrenic a week before the slaying. Buchholz, who said he is also schizophrenic, said he wants her to receive the death penalty.
A family member has said Sanchez had been undergoing psychiatric treatment and that a hospital called looking for her several months ago. Gloria Sanchez, the mother's aunt, said her niece had been "in and out of a psychiatric ward."
In May 2008, Otty Sanchez's mother, Manuela Sanchez, called police after her daughter didn't return from a trip to Austin, saying she was concerned about her daughter's safety. Manuela Sanchez told police she suspected her daughter was into drugs and specifically told police she wasn't suffering from any mental issues
So..., it's not veal obviously.
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Posted: 31 Jul 2009, 11:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters, but how does a dude actually fuck a horse.
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
This was actually the first thing that crossed my mind after reading as well.
We seem to think alike, should I be worried?
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Posted: 31 Jul 2009, 12:29pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I may be a tad naive in these matters, but how does a dude actually fuck a horse.
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
I'm assuming it was either a rather small horse or a step ladder would be required would it not?
Is it a crime if the horse pushes back?
This was actually the first thing that crossed my mind after reading as well. :lol:
We seem to think alike, should I be worried?
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Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 11:23amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Maybe the horse fucked him?
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Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 7:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Maybe the horse fucked him?
haha now thats wrong. surely you would die from engaging in sex with a male horse?
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Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 8:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Maybe the horse fucked him?
haha now thats wrong. surely you would die from engaging in sex with a male horse?
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Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 8:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not sure. Might have to ask Josh.
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Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:11amSubject: Re: In The News Today
So for anyone who has been following the Obama and Henry Louis Gates story......Anyone? Now that Obama has been thumped by Crowley, and finished off by Lashley (the black officer at the scene), why are the media failing to take Obama to task? Or is it too controversial to bring up that Obama is a racist? Because there is no doubt in my mind that he is.
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Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:14amSubject: Re: In The News Today
is he racist or does he just hate cops (like every other black person in america)?
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 8:00amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I think you guys are missing the bigger issue here.
How does a dude fuck a horse?
How does a dude fuck a horse?
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Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 11:47amSubject: Re: In The News Today
So for anyone who has been following the Obama and Henry Louis Gates story......Anyone? Now that Obama has been thumped by Crowley, and finished off by Lashley (the black officer at the scene), why are the media failing to take Obama to task? Or is it too controversial to bring up that Obama is a racist? Because there is no doubt in my mind that he is.
You're supporting a Fox News commentator on the basis that Obama called the actions of the police "stupid"?
I thought you were meant to be smart...
It's a media blowout of "utegate" proportions, designed to do nothing but sell newspapers and advertisements.
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 12:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So for anyone who has been following the Obama and Henry Louis Gates story......Anyone? Now that Obama has been thumped by Crowley, and finished off by Lashley (the black officer at the scene), why are the media failing to take Obama to task? Or is it too controversial to bring up that Obama is a racist? Because there is no doubt in my mind that he is.
You're supporting a Fox News commentator on the basis that Obama called the actions of the police "stupid"?
I thought you were meant to be smart...
It's a media blowout of "utegate" proportions, designed to do nothing but sell newspapers and advertisements.
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Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 3:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
How the fuck am I supporting a Fox News commentator?
If you haven't followed the story, don't comment. It isn't a difficult concept.
Obama didn't simply call their actions stupid, he said that (and I am aware that I am paraphrasing here) it was a clear sign that racial profiling was still a problem. He claimed mid interview, with very little information known, that this was a sign that equality had a long way to go.
Turns out he was wrong about this specific situation. But to instantly be sure that the cops actions must have been because of racism says something about the mind of Obama. Turns out if you have the cops called on you for trying to jimmy a window open in Cambridge MS, and when they rock up the first thing you do is start yelling at them, they are likely to arrest you. Turns out that making racist claims about the officer employed for years to give courses to new officers about indoctrinated racism in the police force, the one hired by his black boss to do so, will bite you in the ass.
Henry Louis Gates has always been a racist asshole anyway. Seems fitting that he is the director of the WEB Du Bois institute really.
I haven't heard one Fox News report about it yet (although I am aware that Glenn Beck has made some comments), as I don't regard Fox News to be a proper news channel.
You may note that Obama has already made a piddling apology about it. He has since been drilled for racism in a letter from Lashley (the black officer on the scene). Lashley making special mention of the fact that HLG's stance has meant that Lashley has copped the ignominious title of Uncle Tom from many a black racist lately. I'm waiting for the proper apology from both of them; it will never happen. I'm sure David Axelrod wont let Obama forget it soon though.
I honestly have no idea.
If you haven't followed the story, don't comment. It isn't a difficult concept.
Obama didn't simply call their actions stupid, he said that (and I am aware that I am paraphrasing here) it was a clear sign that racial profiling was still a problem. He claimed mid interview, with very little information known, that this was a sign that equality had a long way to go.
Turns out he was wrong about this specific situation. But to instantly be sure that the cops actions must have been because of racism says something about the mind of Obama. Turns out if you have the cops called on you for trying to jimmy a window open in Cambridge MS, and when they rock up the first thing you do is start yelling at them, they are likely to arrest you. Turns out that making racist claims about the officer employed for years to give courses to new officers about indoctrinated racism in the police force, the one hired by his black boss to do so, will bite you in the ass.
Henry Louis Gates has always been a racist asshole anyway. Seems fitting that he is the director of the WEB Du Bois institute really.
I haven't heard one Fox News report about it yet (although I am aware that Glenn Beck has made some comments), as I don't regard Fox News to be a proper news channel.
You may note that Obama has already made a piddling apology about it. He has since been drilled for racism in a letter from Lashley (the black officer on the scene). Lashley making special mention of the fact that HLG's stance has meant that Lashley has copped the ignominious title of Uncle Tom from many a black racist lately. I'm waiting for the proper apology from both of them; it will never happen. I'm sure David Axelrod wont let Obama forget it soon though.
I think you guys are missing the bigger issue here.
How does a dude fuck a horse?
I honestly have no idea."There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 3:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I think you guys are missing the bigger issue here.
How does a dude fuck a horse?
1) feed it some sugar cubes
2) ?
3) sex
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 4:17pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I think you guys are missing the bigger issue here.
How does a dude fuck a horse?
How does a dude fuck a horse?
1) feed it some sugar cubes
2) ????
3) sex
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 5:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Obama didn't simply call their actions stupid, he said that (and I am aware that I am paraphrasing here) it was a clear sign that racial profiling was still a problem. He claimed mid interview, with very little information known, that this was a sign that equality had a long way to go.
So, that's your evidence that Obama is racist, is it?
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 5:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Racial profiling is still a problem. The fact that he sided with Skip's story, especially as an arrest for disorderly conduct, not for possible theft, at an event he wasn't at, makes me at least heavily concerned that he assumes the worst.
He worded it terribly. He did protect himself many times by admission that he didn't know much, but from there it was unfair to say that they acted stupidly. I'm happy for him to talk about the issues of racial profiling, but not have it be the first thing he opines when asked about an event he had no info about.
I may be biased as I feel there is some evidence for his racism in parts of his earlier writing. In his close friendships for multiple known pan-Africanists and racists. I think it builds an image over time, and I think for a politician of his talents to speak way too soon about a subject, to make a slip up like that specifically involving race is not a positive thing.
Certainly I am not claiming that this is a Farrakhan, or Stormfront level of racism. It is certainly tiny on a relative basis, but I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable. For example, if he had said "HL Gates acted stupidly; I mean, blacks have a greater history of verbal and physical assault, especially of authority, that is just a fact." everybody would be crying racist. But because he said "the cops acted stupidly; I mean, there is a long history of racial profiling problems, that is just a fact." it is perfectly fine. Both are facts, he chose one. I would refer to what he did as racial profiling as well; statistics are on his side, but that doesn't mean he should have the authority to say they acted stupidly prior to knowing more.
To be honest, I'd have shut up on this issue if he had just said "I spoke rashly, I am incredibly sorry to the officers and the department." a few days later, but he didn't.
He worded it terribly. He did protect himself many times by admission that he didn't know much, but from there it was unfair to say that they acted stupidly. I'm happy for him to talk about the issues of racial profiling, but not have it be the first thing he opines when asked about an event he had no info about.
I may be biased as I feel there is some evidence for his racism in parts of his earlier writing. In his close friendships for multiple known pan-Africanists and racists. I think it builds an image over time, and I think for a politician of his talents to speak way too soon about a subject, to make a slip up like that specifically involving race is not a positive thing.
Certainly I am not claiming that this is a Farrakhan, or Stormfront level of racism. It is certainly tiny on a relative basis, but I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable. For example, if he had said "HL Gates acted stupidly; I mean, blacks have a greater history of verbal and physical assault, especially of authority, that is just a fact." everybody would be crying racist. But because he said "the cops acted stupidly; I mean, there is a long history of racial profiling problems, that is just a fact." it is perfectly fine. Both are facts, he chose one. I would refer to what he did as racial profiling as well; statistics are on his side, but that doesn't mean he should have the authority to say they acted stupidly prior to knowing more.
To be honest, I'd have shut up on this issue if he had just said "I spoke rashly, I am incredibly sorry to the officers and the department." a few days later, but he didn't.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 6:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable.
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away.
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 6:18pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Obama didn't simply call their actions stupid, he said that (and I am aware that I am paraphrasing here) it was a clear sign that racial profiling was still a problem. He claimed mid interview, with very little information known, that this was a sign that equality had a long way to go.
So, that's your evidence that Obama is racist, is it?
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 6:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Racial profiling is still a problem. The fact that he sided with Skip's story, especially as an arrest for disorderly conduct, not for possible theft, at an event he wasn't at, makes me at least heavily concerned that he assumes the worst.
He worded it terribly. He did protect himself many times by admission that he didn't know much, but from there it was unfair to say that they acted stupidly. I'm happy for him to talk about the issues of racial profiling, but not have it be the first thing he opines when asked about an event he had no info about.
I may be biased as I feel there is some evidence for his racism in parts of his earlier writing. In his close friendships for multiple known pan-Africanists and racists. I think it builds an image over time, and I think for a politician of his talents to speak way too soon about a subject, to make a slip up like that specifically involving race is not a positive thing.
Certainly I am not claiming that this is a Farrakhan, or Stormfront level of racism. It is certainly tiny on a relative basis, but I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable. For example, if he had said "HL Gates acted stupidly; I mean, blacks have a greater history of verbal and physical assault, especially of authority, that is just a fact." everybody would be crying racist. But because he said "the cops acted stupidly; I mean, there is a long history of racial profiling problems, that is just a fact." it is perfectly fine. Both are facts, he chose one. I would refer to what he did as racial profiling as well; statistics are on his side, but that doesn't mean he should have the authority to say they acted stupidly prior to knowing more.
To be honest, I'd have shut up on this issue if he had just said "I spoke rashly, I am incredibly sorry to the officers and the department." a few days later, but he didn't.
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 6:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away.
Correct.
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
No, but if you made a statement of some certainty to the entire Australian nation, in which you denigrated the actions of the cops, I'd expect you to be hammered for it. You could quite easily word a response which lets Oli know you have faith, but in which you say you will leave further comment until you know more, as the story certainly makes no sense so far.
I'm a huge fan of statistics. I am also completely on board with the latest findings of Human Bio-Diversity studies, which show a genetic difference in races and the effect this has on aptitudes and traits; in fact I don't believe it is possible to hold any other view logically.This makes me a constant defender of seemingly racist positions, so maybe I should be more sensitive to minor slip ups by others. But it is in the movement from probability to certainty, that things bother me.
To take the Oli example as a way of not involving race I have a problem with the logic of:
Oli is mostly good
Many cops have power issues
Therefore the cops acted stupidly in arresting Oli
You can not make that definitive leap rationally without unfair bias, and as the leader of Australia J, you should know better and hold your tongue for a few days.
I must admit, in trying to create a stir on a quiet message board, I have both muddled my message a little and been a little harsh, but I still believe to make a rash statement and then instantly back up certainty with stat is a huge mistake to make when you are insulting a few cops you have never met in front of the world. I guess my message is more about inherent hidden racism in society, than Obama in particular though, and the fact that this elicits response only from crackpots on Fox, or white nationalist blogs.
Utegate may be a useful analogue. Although both are tiny Turnbull gets lynched by all sides, whereas Obama doesn't have to deal with the media much at all after his slip up. The disparity in reactions between issues, and what it says for peoples personally held beliefs makes a far larger difference to me than the actual story.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 6:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know)
Oli is mostly good
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:18pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable.
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away. :confused:
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Racial profiling is still a problem. The fact that he sided with Skip's story, especially as an arrest for disorderly conduct, not for possible theft, at an event he wasn't at, makes me at least heavily concerned that he assumes the worst.
He worded it terribly. He did protect himself many times by admission that he didn't know much, but from there it was unfair to say that they acted stupidly. I'm happy for him to talk about the issues of racial profiling, but not have it be the first thing he opines when asked about an event he had no info about.
I may be biased as I feel there is some evidence for his racism in parts of his earlier writing. In his close friendships for multiple known pan-Africanists and racists. I think it builds an image over time, and I think for a politician of his talents to speak way too soon about a subject, to make a slip up like that specifically involving race is not a positive thing.
Certainly I am not claiming that this is a Farrakhan, or Stormfront level of racism. It is certainly tiny on a relative basis, but I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable. For example, if he had said "HL Gates acted stupidly; I mean, blacks have a greater history of verbal and physical assault, especially of authority, that is just a fact." everybody would be crying racist. But because he said "the cops acted stupidly; I mean, there is a long history of racial profiling problems, that is just a fact." it is perfectly fine. Both are facts, he chose one. I would refer to what he did as racial profiling as well; statistics are on his side, but that doesn't mean he should have the authority to say they acted stupidly prior to knowing more.
To be honest, I'd have shut up on this issue if he had just said "I spoke rashly, I am incredibly sorry to the officers and the department." a few days later, but he didn't.
He worded it terribly. He did protect himself many times by admission that he didn't know much, but from there it was unfair to say that they acted stupidly. I'm happy for him to talk about the issues of racial profiling, but not have it be the first thing he opines when asked about an event he had no info about.
I may be biased as I feel there is some evidence for his racism in parts of his earlier writing. In his close friendships for multiple known pan-Africanists and racists. I think it builds an image over time, and I think for a politician of his talents to speak way too soon about a subject, to make a slip up like that specifically involving race is not a positive thing.
Certainly I am not claiming that this is a Farrakhan, or Stormfront level of racism. It is certainly tiny on a relative basis, but I am sick of socially-concious sounding reverse racism being perfectly acceptable. For example, if he had said "HL Gates acted stupidly; I mean, blacks have a greater history of verbal and physical assault, especially of authority, that is just a fact." everybody would be crying racist. But because he said "the cops acted stupidly; I mean, there is a long history of racial profiling problems, that is just a fact." it is perfectly fine. Both are facts, he chose one. I would refer to what he did as racial profiling as well; statistics are on his side, but that doesn't mean he should have the authority to say they acted stupidly prior to knowing more.
To be honest, I'd have shut up on this issue if he had just said "I spoke rashly, I am incredibly sorry to the officers and the department." a few days later, but he didn't.
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:52pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Deal with it, it isn't going to go away. :confused:
Correct.
Obama was personal friends with Gates, and if some cop arrested someone I knew, let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know) and I didn't have all the facts, I'd side with Oli, too. Does that make me racist, because we're both white?
No, but if you made a statement of some certainty to the entire Australian nation, in which you denigrated the actions of the cops, I'd expect you to be hammered for it. You could quite easily word a response which lets Oli know you have faith, but in which you say you will leave further comment until you know more, as the story certainly makes no sense so far.
I'm a huge fan of statistics. I am also completely on board with the latest findings of Human Bio-Diversity studies, which show a genetic difference in races and the effect this has on aptitudes and traits; in fact I don't believe it is possible to hold any other view logically.This makes me a constant defender of seemingly racist positions, so maybe I should be more sensitive to minor slip ups by others. But it is in the movement from probability to certainty, that things bother me.
To take the Oli example as a way of not involving race I have a problem with the logic of:
Oli is mostly good
Many cops have power issues
Therefore the cops acted stupidly in arresting Oli
You can not make that definitive leap rationally without unfair bias, and as the leader of Australia J, you should know better and hold your tongue for a few days.
I must admit, in trying to create a stir on a quiet message board, I have both muddled my message a little and been a little harsh, but I still believe to make a rash statement and then instantly back up certainty with stat is a huge mistake to make when you are insulting a few cops you have never met in front of the world. I guess my message is more about inherent hidden racism in society, than Obama in particular though, and the fact that this elicits response only from crackpots on Fox, or white nationalist blogs.
Utegate may be a useful analogue. Although both are tiny Turnbull gets lynched by all sides, whereas Obama doesn't have to deal with the media much at all after his slip up. The disparity in reactions between issues, and what it says for peoples personally held beliefs makes a far larger difference to me than the actual story.
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 7:57pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
let's say Oli (he's the nicest guy I know)
Oli is mostly good
:orly:
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 9:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 4 Aug 2009, 10:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 2:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:orly:
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
I don't like being used in this example as the person who was arrested. Can't I be the President instead?
Let's make Rob the one who got arrested, me the President, and Alana the cop?
NO I AM THE PRESIDENT. :E
My Mumsie told me recently that Obama and I share the same birthday ha! Going by the freaky accuracy of the 'Birthday Book', Aug 4 people, (and generally those born on the 4th), have a deep-seeded hatred and/or resistance towards any authoritative structures, people and systems; particularly those which cause systemic social and economic inequalities.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 4:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm a 4ther. I'd argue with your nutty theory, but anecdotal evidence is on your side for the moment.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 4:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
*Implied correlation between numerology and maths*
That's even more obvious than my attempted Jew-bait.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 5:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
LOL - Go ahead my dear, make my day.
And snap!
btw, It's not my nutty theory... It is numerology; mathematics. Don't you like numbers? :E
And snap!
btw, It's not my nutty theory... It is numerology; mathematics. Don't you like numbers? :E
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 5:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
*Implied correlation between numerology and maths*
That's even more obvious than my attempted Jew-bait.
Posted: 6 Aug 2009, 5:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
LMAO
Revenge is sweet.
Revenge is sweet.
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 7 Aug 2009, 8:06amSubject: Re: In The News Today
And if you spell Obama backwards, and Alana backwards, they both start with A!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo spooky!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo spooky!
Posted: 7 Aug 2009, 10:58amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
If you spell my name forwards and Obama's name forwards both names start with O!!!
Posted: 7 Aug 2009, 11:24amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
If you spell my name forwards and Obama's name forwards both names start with O!!!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo spooky!
Posted: 7 Aug 2009, 1:51pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
nerdgasm!
touchable holograms!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw
touchable holograms!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw
Posted: 7 Aug 2009, 6:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I honestly can't believe some of the comments on youtube about the touchable holograms...
"I'm not impressed"
What the fuck? :facepalm:
Imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb!
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
"I'm not impressed"
What the fuck? :facepalm:
Imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb!
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
Posted: 8 Aug 2009, 1:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not todays news, but its news to me:
RE: The Shadows
The group reformed in 2004 - healing a rift of over 10 years - to mount a farewell tour, and they recorded a new track "Life Story" (written by Jerry Lordan)to accompany a new greatest hits package of the same name which featured 1980s re-recordings of all their 1960s and 1970s hits. This opportunity to see Marvin, Welch and Bennett, joined on keyboards by Hall and bass by Griffiths, was so successful that they extended the tour in 2005, this time of Europe. The line-up was almost the same, but Warren Bennett, son of Brian, came in on keyboards instead of Hall. On 27 November 2008 a concert tour, with Cliff Richard, for 2009 was announced.[2]. On 11 December 2008, Cliff Richard and the Shadows performed at the Royal Variety Performance at the same time announcing their forthcoming 50th anniversary tour. The tour commences in September 2009, features 36 shows throughout the UK and Europe and is expected to extend to Australasia early in 2010.
:clap: :bow: :cheers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows)
Wednesday 10th February at the Entertainment Centre. Tix $130 - $159 from Ticketek
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CLIFVISA10&view=vent (http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CLIFVISA10&view=vent)
RE: The Shadows
The group reformed in 2004 - healing a rift of over 10 years - to mount a farewell tour, and they recorded a new track "Life Story" (written by Jerry Lordan)to accompany a new greatest hits package of the same name which featured 1980s re-recordings of all their 1960s and 1970s hits. This opportunity to see Marvin, Welch and Bennett, joined on keyboards by Hall and bass by Griffiths, was so successful that they extended the tour in 2005, this time of Europe. The line-up was almost the same, but Warren Bennett, son of Brian, came in on keyboards instead of Hall. On 27 November 2008 a concert tour, with Cliff Richard, for 2009 was announced.[2]. On 11 December 2008, Cliff Richard and the Shadows performed at the Royal Variety Performance at the same time announcing their forthcoming 50th anniversary tour. The tour commences in September 2009, features 36 shows throughout the UK and Europe and is expected to extend to Australasia early in 2010.
:clap: :bow: :cheers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows)
Wednesday 10th February at the Entertainment Centre. Tix $130 - $159 from Ticketek
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CLIFVISA10&view=vent (http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CLIFVISA10&view=vent)
Posted: 8 Aug 2009, 4:40amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I honestly can't believe some of the comments on youtube about the touchable holograms...
"I'm not impressed"
What the fuck? :facepalm:
Imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb!
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
:lol:"I'm not impressed"
What the fuck? :facepalm:
Imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb!
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
Posted: 8 Aug 2009, 6:27pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb!
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
"meh, my candle still burns brighter" - waxman
"w34k" - flamingflaming09
"teh sun's better lolz" - S0l4r
"Get a real job, Edison" - CoalMiner's Son
Awesome! :rofl:
Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 9:55pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nobody here likes The Shadows?
Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 11:35pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nobody here likes The Shadows?
(http://www.concertlive.co.uk/userfiles/djshadow.jpg) > (http://www.leosden.co.uk/graphics/Disky%20The%20Shadows%202007.jpg)
Shadow > The Shadows
I think Apache is the only track I know by those jokers.
Haven't been to a concert since Pink Floyd or U2 but those ticket prices seem pretty steep @_@
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 8:28amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Chinese MacGyver builds working helicopter out of wood
20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan built himself a helicopter using only â according to the man â what he remembers of middle school physics lessons and "relevant knowledge [found while] surfing the Internet via my mobile phone."
Well, sure looks like things worked out. His single-seater conveyance has blades made from the wood of an Elm tree, a frame reinforced with steel pipes and uses an engine from a motorcycle â all for around $1,600. Wu claims the 'copter can get him as high as 2,600 feet, though it seems he's grounded for the time being as the Chinese government has forbid him to fly because of safety reasons.
Wu, whose father pegs him as a gadget lover who would always take things apart, says that he "had this dream from childhood of not needing to climb mountains anymore. I wanted to go to school in my own flying machine."
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/08/chinese-macgyve.php
20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan built himself a helicopter using only â according to the man â what he remembers of middle school physics lessons and "relevant knowledge [found while] surfing the Internet via my mobile phone."
Well, sure looks like things worked out. His single-seater conveyance has blades made from the wood of an Elm tree, a frame reinforced with steel pipes and uses an engine from a motorcycle â all for around $1,600. Wu claims the 'copter can get him as high as 2,600 feet, though it seems he's grounded for the time being as the Chinese government has forbid him to fly because of safety reasons.
Wu, whose father pegs him as a gadget lover who would always take things apart, says that he "had this dream from childhood of not needing to climb mountains anymore. I wanted to go to school in my own flying machine."
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/08/chinese-macgyve.php
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 5:41pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Chinese MacGyver builds working helicopter out of wood
Haha look at that thing...that's great! Good on him!
(http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/08/Chinese-farmer-wooden-helicopter-thumb-550x355-21956.jpg)
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 7:53pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ballarat teacher on multiple sex charges
Herald Sun
August 11, 2009 03:47pm
Michelle Dennis
A FEMALE teacher charged over alleged sexual liaisons with two schoolboys has faced a Ballarat court.
Michelle Dennis, in her early 30s, was charged last October with three counts of sexual penetration of a child aged under 16 and one count of committing an indecent act, the Herald Sun reports.
She was immediately suspended from teaching by the Victorian Department of Education.
The charges came just days after Ms Dennis was stood down from Ballarat High School after being charged with three counts of sexual penetration of another student, aged 17 or under.
The new charges are understood to have come after a male former student of the school contacted police.
All seven charges relate to alleged sexual encounters between Ms Dennis and two students outside the school grounds last year.
A former friend of one of the boys told the court today he first met Ms Dennis when she picked up his friend from near his house in the middle of the night early last year.
He told the court his friend returned later and boasted about the alleged sexual activity.
He also told of text messages and images he claims were sent from Ms Dennis to the boy.
Ms Dennis was a teacher at Ballarat High from 2003 to 2008.
The committal hearing is continuing.
(http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi1010/epi1010img34.jpg)
Niccce
Herald Sun
August 11, 2009 03:47pm
Michelle Dennis
A FEMALE teacher charged over alleged sexual liaisons with two schoolboys has faced a Ballarat court.
Michelle Dennis, in her early 30s, was charged last October with three counts of sexual penetration of a child aged under 16 and one count of committing an indecent act, the Herald Sun reports.
She was immediately suspended from teaching by the Victorian Department of Education.
The charges came just days after Ms Dennis was stood down from Ballarat High School after being charged with three counts of sexual penetration of another student, aged 17 or under.
The new charges are understood to have come after a male former student of the school contacted police.
All seven charges relate to alleged sexual encounters between Ms Dennis and two students outside the school grounds last year.
A former friend of one of the boys told the court today he first met Ms Dennis when she picked up his friend from near his house in the middle of the night early last year.
He told the court his friend returned later and boasted about the alleged sexual activity.
He also told of text messages and images he claims were sent from Ms Dennis to the boy.
Ms Dennis was a teacher at Ballarat High from 2003 to 2008.
The committal hearing is continuing.
(http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi1010/epi1010img34.jpg)
Niccce
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 8:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ballarat teacher on multiple sex charges
Herald Sun
August 11, 2009 03:47pm
Michelle Dennis
A FEMALE teacher charged over alleged sexual liaisons with two schoolboys has faced a Ballarat court.
Michelle Dennis, in her early 30s, was charged last October with three counts of sexual penetration of a child aged under 16 and one count of committing an indecent act, the Herald Sun reports.
She was immediately suspended from teaching by the Victorian Department of Education.
The charges came just days after Ms Dennis was stood down from Ballarat High School after being charged with three counts of sexual penetration of another student, aged 17 or under.
The new charges are understood to have come after a male former student of the school contacted police.
All seven charges relate to alleged sexual encounters between Ms Dennis and two students outside the school grounds last year.
A former friend of one of the boys told the court today he first met Ms Dennis when she picked up his friend from near his house in the middle of the night early last year.
He told the court his friend returned later and boasted about the alleged sexual activity.
He also told of text messages and images he claims were sent from Ms Dennis to the boy.
Ms Dennis was a teacher at Ballarat High from 2003 to 2008.
The committal hearing is continuing.
(http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi1010/epi1010img34.jpg)
Niccce
Herald Sun
August 11, 2009 03:47pm
Michelle Dennis
A FEMALE teacher charged over alleged sexual liaisons with two schoolboys has faced a Ballarat court.
Michelle Dennis, in her early 30s, was charged last October with three counts of sexual penetration of a child aged under 16 and one count of committing an indecent act, the Herald Sun reports.
She was immediately suspended from teaching by the Victorian Department of Education.
The charges came just days after Ms Dennis was stood down from Ballarat High School after being charged with three counts of sexual penetration of another student, aged 17 or under.
The new charges are understood to have come after a male former student of the school contacted police.
All seven charges relate to alleged sexual encounters between Ms Dennis and two students outside the school grounds last year.
A former friend of one of the boys told the court today he first met Ms Dennis when she picked up his friend from near his house in the middle of the night early last year.
He told the court his friend returned later and boasted about the alleged sexual activity.
He also told of text messages and images he claims were sent from Ms Dennis to the boy.
Ms Dennis was a teacher at Ballarat High from 2003 to 2008.
The committal hearing is continuing.
(http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi1010/epi1010img34.jpg)
Niccce
Student: Hey man I just had sex with that teacher!
Mates: Sweet! You gonna do it again?
Student: Dunno man, my ass is still a bit sore....
boom boom tish!
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 12:57pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 8:50pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Man arrested for drive-by faeces attack
A 39-year-old construction worker has been arrested for throwing his own faeces at women passers-by from a motorcycle in two separate attacks in western Japan, police said today.
The man turned himself in yesterday after making the second drive-by attack in Settsu, a satellite city near Osaka, and was detained on suspicion of assault, a municipal police spokesman said.
The worker, identified as Tatsuya Moriguchi, committed a similar assault in the same city on August 3, the police official said.
"The suspect has told investigators he did it because he felt frustrated when his work didn't go well,'' the official said.
"I have no idea what kind of penalty he may face. I have not heard about such a case before.''
In the first incident, Moriguchi relieved himself outdoors just before getting on his moped and throwing the faeces at the head of a woman in her 20s, the official said.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25943308-5005962,00.html
:poop: :cuckoo:
Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 9:13pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Japan. Best country ever.
Posted: 18 Aug 2009, 5:13pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Thought this was kind of fitting.
(http://www.ringtail.com/images/lj/Japan_De_motivational_Poster_by_yuki_snow.jpg)
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Posted: 20 Aug 2009, 7:50amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Got cawk?
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01465/caster-semenya_1465588c.jpg)
World Athletics: Caster Semenya 800m gold medal overshadowed by gender controversy
Semenya crowned a spectacular season by triumphing in 1min 55.45sec while Britain's Jenny Meadows produced a lifetime best of 1min 57.93sec to take the bronze - Britain's third medal of the championship. Fellow Briton Marilyn Okoro was eighth.
But instead of being able to celebrate her victory, Semenya found herself facing uncomfortable questions about whether she should really have been lining up in today's first-round heats of the men's 800m.
Ever since her arrival in Berlin, she has been the subject of whispers and innuendos about her masculine body shape and facial features.
Earlier in the day the International Association of Athletics Federations admitted that it was so concerned about the rumours and her huge improvement this season that it had asked Athletics South Africa (ASA) to carry out a "gender verification" test on the athlete.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said: "Following her breakthrough performance three weeks ago at the African Junior Championships, where she made a tremendous improvement for someone who is 18, the rumours, the gossip, the challenges if you like, started to build up.
"At that point the IAAF contacted the South Africans and asked them if they could they demonstrate gender verification documentation and, if not, that they should start to provide something."
Davies said doctors in South Africa had already begun testing Semenya but because of the complexity of the process, it would be some time before the results were available. Until then, she was clear to run.
"We need to make sure that the rules are followed and clearly women should compete in women's competition," he said.
But the questions about Semenya's gender were dismissed by ASA spokeswoman Ethel Manyaka, who said the federation would not have sent her to Berlin if it was not certain she was a woman.
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also rejected the rumours in an interview before the championships.
"We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man," he said, adding that when he and Semenya stopped at a petrol station in Cape Town recently and the teenager tried to enter the ladies' toilets, she was barred by the petrol attendants because they were convinced she was male.
"Caster just laughed and asked if they would like her to take off her pants to show them she was a woman," he said.
But resolving whether a person is male or female is not a simple matter of physical examination - the method originally used by the International Olympic Committee when mandatory gender testing was introduced in 1968 before being phased out on ethical and scientific grounds 10 years ago.
There are numerous "intersex" conditions that do not affect external genital appearance.
If Semenya is found to have an abnormality, the issue will be whether it offers her an unfair advantage. If so, hormone treatment or surgery may be necessary.
There is also a precedent for stripping an athlete of a medal, as was the case with Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan, who lost her 800m silver medal after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
The fact that Soundarajan later attempted suicide underlines the sensitivities involved, and Davies said Semenya's test results would remain confidential.
He said: "We have to very sensitive to this because there is a health issue and she is a human being who was born as a woman and who has grown up all her life as a woman but who is now in a position where this is being questioned."
(http://www.sportzpics.net/image_dir/album80288/150th_sm_OA3N6399.JPG)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01465/caster-semenya_1465588c.jpg)
World Athletics: Caster Semenya 800m gold medal overshadowed by gender controversy
Semenya crowned a spectacular season by triumphing in 1min 55.45sec while Britain's Jenny Meadows produced a lifetime best of 1min 57.93sec to take the bronze - Britain's third medal of the championship. Fellow Briton Marilyn Okoro was eighth.
But instead of being able to celebrate her victory, Semenya found herself facing uncomfortable questions about whether she should really have been lining up in today's first-round heats of the men's 800m.
Ever since her arrival in Berlin, she has been the subject of whispers and innuendos about her masculine body shape and facial features.
Earlier in the day the International Association of Athletics Federations admitted that it was so concerned about the rumours and her huge improvement this season that it had asked Athletics South Africa (ASA) to carry out a "gender verification" test on the athlete.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said: "Following her breakthrough performance three weeks ago at the African Junior Championships, where she made a tremendous improvement for someone who is 18, the rumours, the gossip, the challenges if you like, started to build up.
"At that point the IAAF contacted the South Africans and asked them if they could they demonstrate gender verification documentation and, if not, that they should start to provide something."
Davies said doctors in South Africa had already begun testing Semenya but because of the complexity of the process, it would be some time before the results were available. Until then, she was clear to run.
"We need to make sure that the rules are followed and clearly women should compete in women's competition," he said.
But the questions about Semenya's gender were dismissed by ASA spokeswoman Ethel Manyaka, who said the federation would not have sent her to Berlin if it was not certain she was a woman.
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also rejected the rumours in an interview before the championships.
"We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man," he said, adding that when he and Semenya stopped at a petrol station in Cape Town recently and the teenager tried to enter the ladies' toilets, she was barred by the petrol attendants because they were convinced she was male.
"Caster just laughed and asked if they would like her to take off her pants to show them she was a woman," he said.
But resolving whether a person is male or female is not a simple matter of physical examination - the method originally used by the International Olympic Committee when mandatory gender testing was introduced in 1968 before being phased out on ethical and scientific grounds 10 years ago.
There are numerous "intersex" conditions that do not affect external genital appearance.
If Semenya is found to have an abnormality, the issue will be whether it offers her an unfair advantage. If so, hormone treatment or surgery may be necessary.
There is also a precedent for stripping an athlete of a medal, as was the case with Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan, who lost her 800m silver medal after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
The fact that Soundarajan later attempted suicide underlines the sensitivities involved, and Davies said Semenya's test results would remain confidential.
He said: "We have to very sensitive to this because there is a health issue and she is a human being who was born as a woman and who has grown up all her life as a woman but who is now in a position where this is being questioned."
(http://www.sportzpics.net/image_dir/album80288/150th_sm_OA3N6399.JPG)
Posted: 20 Aug 2009, 11:13amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:rofl:
gotta love those transvestites
gotta love those transvestites
Posted: 2 Sep 2009, 11:46amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Boy who cries blood! just like vampires! weeeeird.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/857079/possessed-teen-sheds-tears-of-blood
(http://images.ninemsn.com.au/resizer.aspx?url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2009/world/0209_inman_sp.jpg&width=310)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/857079/possessed-teen-sheds-tears-of-blood
(http://images.ninemsn.com.au/resizer.aspx?url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2009/world/0209_inman_sp.jpg&width=310)
Posted: 2 Sep 2009, 1:49pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
doesn't get more emo than that
Posted: 2 Sep 2009, 1:56pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
lol.
Wait until all the religious folk get onto it...
Wait until all the religious folk get onto it...
Posted: 3 Sep 2009, 2:47amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
doesn't get more emo than that
Seriously, he could even use the blood to write shitty love poems about his ex-girlfriend.
Posted: 3 Sep 2009, 8:18amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Seriously, he could even use the blood to write shitty love poems about his ex-girlfriend.
:lol:
Posted: 3 Sep 2009, 3:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
NT Housing Trust evicts 14 year old just days after her father's death. :facepalm:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/03/2674987.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/03/2674987.htm
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 11:56amSubject: Re: In The News Today
What the fuck?
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 2:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Summerdayze coming to Adelaide
http://www.adelaideclubber.com.au/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=35
http://www.adelaideclubber.com.au/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=35
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 2:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I hope Blake is putting on a Groove party as well, cos that line up is seriously crap.
FunkyJPromoters
Posts: 3,627
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Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 2:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Summerdayze coming to Adelaide
http://www.adelaideclubber.com.au/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=35
http://www.adelaideclubber.com.au/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=35
Decent line up... but crap venue in Melbourne
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 3:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I hope Blake is putting on a Groove party as well, cos that line up is seriously crap.
i was thinking exactly the same thing. vote 1 for groove
BrandoPosts: 96
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 3:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I hope Blake is putting on a Groove party as well, cos that line up is seriously crap.
Nope they have combined
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 4:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nope they have combined
Looks like I'll be having a pretty boring New Years Day then.
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 8:58pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That line-up is rather shit isn't it.
Especially with all the talk that Andy C would be back for new years day. Last year was friggen awesome. Looks like this year I'll be munted at somebodies house.
Especially with all the talk that Andy C would be back for new years day. Last year was friggen awesome. Looks like this year I'll be munted at somebodies house.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 8:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
more acts tbc
THRESHOLDPosts: 181
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 9:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Decent line up... but crap venue in Melbourne
dilated people and ugly duckling would be cool, but not for $100... where is the dnb?, sounds like its just going to be another house music listenin, salmon coloured and fluro shirt wearing crap, footy player party.
Posted: 4 Sep 2009, 9:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Looks like I'll be having a pretty boring New Years Day then.
lol nah man. He's got some SERIOUS hip hop in the works
"MDMA doesn't change the fact that you're a dickhead. Don't hug me." James M
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Posted: 5 Sep 2009, 12:22amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Definitely intrigued now.
Posted: 5 Sep 2009, 12:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I won't get too worried just yet then. Last new years day was off the hook so I've been hanging out for this one.
So long as there is some DnB I'll be happy.
So long as there is some DnB I'll be happy.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 5 Sep 2009, 12:58amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I won't get too worried just yet then. Last new years day was off the hook so I've been hanging out for this one.
Same. Was so good having a chilled NYE and avoiding what is generally an over hyped night that turns out to be shit and having Groove to go to the next day. Capped off what was an awesome holiday season
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 2:06amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Shops sell party gas drug
Article from: Sunday Mail (SA)
KATE KYRIACOU, ELISSA DOHERTY
September 06, 2009 12:01am
PETROL stations, newsagents and convenience stores are selling nitrous oxide - commonly known as "happy gas" - to customers who inhale them for the high.
The state's peak health bodies have expressed shock that the potentially lethal gas is being sold over the counter.
The 10ml canisters - which come in a 10-pack that sells for $7 - are popular with the weekend party crowd.
The cylinders - which are legal - are designed to be inserted inside whipped-cream dispensers.
But a staff member at one store said they did a roaring trade on Friday and Saturday nights.
"Not just kids, everybody buys them," he said.
When asked why people bought the cylinders, he said: "They sniff it, you know, to get high". The Sunday Mail sent a 14-year-old into a store to buy the gas, which he was handed without question.
Australian Medical Association SA president Dr Andrew Lavender said people had suffered brain damage and even died from inhaling nitrous oxide in uncontrolled environments and enclosed spaces.
He said he was concerned the gas - once used by doctors as an anaesthetic - was so readily available.
"It is of concern that any substance that has potential for abuse would be readily available and seemingly in circumstances that would be targeting a market of young people on their night out," he said.
"Any inhaling of gases is very, very dangerous.
"As well as the effect of the gas itself, by inhaling that you may not be receiving enough oxygen."
Drug and Alcohol Services SA executive director Keith Evans was also concerned.
"Our preference would be that it is not positioned in such an obvious manner," he said. "It's not illegal to sell them here but it is illegal to knowingly sell to someone you know is likely to be using them for sniffing purposes.
"We recognise they have a legitimate use but, given the circumstances, it's clear in this case the individual knows it is going to be used as a drug." He said the canisters were often sold at petrol stations, hardware stores, stationery suppliers, newsagents and supermarkets.
Nitrous oxide inhalation can cause euphoria, numbness, giddiness, light-headedness, distorted perceptions and anxiety.
Breathing in the gas also causes displacement of oxygen from the lungs, which can lead to unconsciousness and even death.
Article from: Sunday Mail (SA)
KATE KYRIACOU, ELISSA DOHERTY
September 06, 2009 12:01am
PETROL stations, newsagents and convenience stores are selling nitrous oxide - commonly known as "happy gas" - to customers who inhale them for the high.
The state's peak health bodies have expressed shock that the potentially lethal gas is being sold over the counter.
The 10ml canisters - which come in a 10-pack that sells for $7 - are popular with the weekend party crowd.
The cylinders - which are legal - are designed to be inserted inside whipped-cream dispensers.
But a staff member at one store said they did a roaring trade on Friday and Saturday nights.
"Not just kids, everybody buys them," he said.
When asked why people bought the cylinders, he said: "They sniff it, you know, to get high". The Sunday Mail sent a 14-year-old into a store to buy the gas, which he was handed without question.
Australian Medical Association SA president Dr Andrew Lavender said people had suffered brain damage and even died from inhaling nitrous oxide in uncontrolled environments and enclosed spaces.
He said he was concerned the gas - once used by doctors as an anaesthetic - was so readily available.
"It is of concern that any substance that has potential for abuse would be readily available and seemingly in circumstances that would be targeting a market of young people on their night out," he said.
"Any inhaling of gases is very, very dangerous.
"As well as the effect of the gas itself, by inhaling that you may not be receiving enough oxygen."
Drug and Alcohol Services SA executive director Keith Evans was also concerned.
"Our preference would be that it is not positioned in such an obvious manner," he said. "It's not illegal to sell them here but it is illegal to knowingly sell to someone you know is likely to be using them for sniffing purposes.
"We recognise they have a legitimate use but, given the circumstances, it's clear in this case the individual knows it is going to be used as a drug." He said the canisters were often sold at petrol stations, hardware stores, stationery suppliers, newsagents and supermarkets.
Nitrous oxide inhalation can cause euphoria, numbness, giddiness, light-headedness, distorted perceptions and anxiety.
Breathing in the gas also causes displacement of oxygen from the lungs, which can lead to unconsciousness and even death.
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 2:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
major bulby land
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants | Use it to get into their heads.
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 10:54amSubject: Re: In The News Today
funniest/most disgraceful nos purchasing memory is when we made my mate go in to the convenience store at 6am on a sunday morning and buy $280 (2 shopping bags full) worth of boxes
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 11:02amSubject: Re: In The News Today
that is a fucking mission!
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 11:58amSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,26032222-2682,00.html is the news.com.au link
good to see they published my Bluey McBlueLips comment
good to see they published my Bluey McBlueLips comment
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 12:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
They published my "Gotta love the bulbies" comment as well.
nangnangnangnangnangnangnangnangnang
nangnangnangnangnangnangnangnangnang
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Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 12:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Go Nostex!
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 5:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
ah the days...
. though still cant get mental imagery out my head of a story of someones mate doing it one time and a shard of the pierced metal cap got lodged in his lungs, requiring major chest surgery to have it removed.fark
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Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 5:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That sounds like a bit of an urban myth to me.
When it involves a mate of a mate it's generally bullshit.
When it involves a mate of a mate it's generally bullshit.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 6:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Where does the The Advertiser get their 'investigative' reporters from anyway? It would have been a major break 10 years ago lol.
It just seems to be they're behind the time more often than not with these kind of 'scoops'.
The 'state's peak health bodies' have a lot to answer for too, if they're this slow then I'd be scared of them being much help on any real issues.
Wait until they get onto BOC haha.
PS. Looks like Blake Trenorden's gonna get bashed at school tomorrow...
It just seems to be they're behind the time more often than not with these kind of 'scoops'.
The 'state's peak health bodies' have a lot to answer for too, if they're this slow then I'd be scared of them being much help on any real issues.
Wait until they get onto BOC haha.
PS. Looks like Blake Trenorden's gonna get bashed at school tomorrow...
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 7:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted by: Niko Bellic of Liberty City 4:08pm today
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 7:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Can see Rann pushing for these to be banned now.
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 7:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
funniest/most disgraceful nos purchasing memory is when we made my mate go in to the convenience store at 6am on a sunday morning and buy $280 (2 shopping bags full) worth of boxes
thats a lot of whipped cream
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 7:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
A few people I know/live with were on first name basis with the Nostex attendant for ages. They kept asking him round for bulbs but sadly he never showed.
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 8:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
LMFAO!
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 8:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That sounds like a bit of an urban myth to me.
When it involves a mate of a mate it's generally bullshit.
When it involves a mate of a mate it's generally bullshit.
normally i'd totally agree, but from what i recall, the connection was somewhat closer.
cant remember for the life of me who anymore though, so let it be an urban myth
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Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 9:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
thats a lot of whipped cream
That Caltex purchases a create & half of the shit prior to big parties / raves.
Been doing it for years and they always sell out...
Posted: 6 Sep 2009, 10:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I remember the first time we got a cash & carry card for Ultraworld we went and bought 10 slabs (10 boxes) of bulbies with it.
To be totally honest I think the only thing we ever bought using that card was nos.
Nothing funnier than introducing international DJs to the world of bulbs as none of them had seen anything like it. Safe to say they all tried it and all fell in love with it pretty quickly.
To be totally honest I think the only thing we ever bought using that card was nos.
Nothing funnier than introducing international DJs to the world of bulbs as none of them had seen anything like it. Safe to say they all tried it and all fell in love with it pretty quickly.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 7 Sep 2009, 10:16amSubject: Re: In The News Today
A few people I know/live with were on first name basis with the Nostex attendant for ages. They kept asking him round for bulbs but sadly he never showed.
was a good guy. didn't mind telling a story that's for sure.
confidence is a preference to the habitual voyuer of what is known as...
thinking of buying or selling property? need a conveyancer? pm me if so for details.
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Posted: 7 Sep 2009, 12:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hello, MISS LADY!
Posted: 7 Sep 2009, 1:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
the supermarket on grange road and crittenden road is now the place to be.
any others?
any others?
Posted: 7 Sep 2009, 10:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Giant rat found in 'lost volcano'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 11:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah I dunno wtf is wrong with people, have seen some strange opinions on this one. I highly doubt that 'he' had no idea.
What about the legit female competitior that missed actually winning the race and enjoying it?
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 12:26amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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World Athletics: Caster Semenya 800m gold medal overshadowed by gender controversy
Semenya crowned a spectacular season by triumphing in 1min 55.45sec while Britain's Jenny Meadows produced a lifetime best of 1min 57.93sec to take the bronze - Britain's third medal of the championship. Fellow Briton Marilyn Okoro was eighth.
But instead of being able to celebrate her victory, Semenya found herself facing uncomfortable questions about whether she should really have been lining up in today's first-round heats of the men's 800m.
Ever since her arrival in Berlin, she has been the subject of whispers and innuendos about her masculine body shape and facial features.
Earlier in the day the International Association of Athletics Federations admitted that it was so concerned about the rumours and her huge improvement this season that it had asked Athletics South Africa (ASA) to carry out a "gender verification" test on the athlete.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said: "Following her breakthrough performance three weeks ago at the African Junior Championships, where she made a tremendous improvement for someone who is 18, the rumours, the gossip, the challenges if you like, started to build up.
"At that point the IAAF contacted the South Africans and asked them if they could they demonstrate gender verification documentation and, if not, that they should start to provide something."
Davies said doctors in South Africa had already begun testing Semenya but because of the complexity of the process, it would be some time before the results were available. Until then, she was clear to run.
"We need to make sure that the rules are followed and clearly women should compete in women's competition," he said.
But the questions about Semenya's gender were dismissed by ASA spokeswoman Ethel Manyaka, who said the federation would not have sent her to Berlin if it was not certain she was a woman.
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also rejected the rumours in an interview before the championships.
"We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man," he said, adding that when he and Semenya stopped at a petrol station in Cape Town recently and the teenager tried to enter the ladies' toilets, she was barred by the petrol attendants because they were convinced she was male.
"Caster just laughed and asked if they would like her to take off her pants to show them she was a woman," he said.
But resolving whether a person is male or female is not a simple matter of physical examination - the method originally used by the International Olympic Committee when mandatory gender testing was introduced in 1968 before being phased out on ethical and scientific grounds 10 years ago.
There are numerous "intersex" conditions that do not affect external genital appearance.
If Semenya is found to have an abnormality, the issue will be whether it offers her an unfair advantage. If so, hormone treatment or surgery may be necessary.
There is also a precedent for stripping an athlete of a medal, as was the case with Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan, who lost her 800m silver medal after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
The fact that Soundarajan later attempted suicide underlines the sensitivities involved, and Davies said Semenya's test results would remain confidential.
He said: "We have to very sensitive to this because there is a health issue and she is a human being who was born as a woman and who has grown up all her life as a woman but who is now in a position where this is being questioned."
World Athletics: Caster Semenya 800m gold medal overshadowed by gender controversy
Semenya crowned a spectacular season by triumphing in 1min 55.45sec while Britain's Jenny Meadows produced a lifetime best of 1min 57.93sec to take the bronze - Britain's third medal of the championship. Fellow Briton Marilyn Okoro was eighth.
But instead of being able to celebrate her victory, Semenya found herself facing uncomfortable questions about whether she should really have been lining up in today's first-round heats of the men's 800m.
Ever since her arrival in Berlin, she has been the subject of whispers and innuendos about her masculine body shape and facial features.
Earlier in the day the International Association of Athletics Federations admitted that it was so concerned about the rumours and her huge improvement this season that it had asked Athletics South Africa (ASA) to carry out a "gender verification" test on the athlete.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said: "Following her breakthrough performance three weeks ago at the African Junior Championships, where she made a tremendous improvement for someone who is 18, the rumours, the gossip, the challenges if you like, started to build up.
"At that point the IAAF contacted the South Africans and asked them if they could they demonstrate gender verification documentation and, if not, that they should start to provide something."
Davies said doctors in South Africa had already begun testing Semenya but because of the complexity of the process, it would be some time before the results were available. Until then, she was clear to run.
"We need to make sure that the rules are followed and clearly women should compete in women's competition," he said.
But the questions about Semenya's gender were dismissed by ASA spokeswoman Ethel Manyaka, who said the federation would not have sent her to Berlin if it was not certain she was a woman.
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also rejected the rumours in an interview before the championships.
"We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man," he said, adding that when he and Semenya stopped at a petrol station in Cape Town recently and the teenager tried to enter the ladies' toilets, she was barred by the petrol attendants because they were convinced she was male.
"Caster just laughed and asked if they would like her to take off her pants to show them she was a woman," he said.
But resolving whether a person is male or female is not a simple matter of physical examination - the method originally used by the International Olympic Committee when mandatory gender testing was introduced in 1968 before being phased out on ethical and scientific grounds 10 years ago.
There are numerous "intersex" conditions that do not affect external genital appearance.
If Semenya is found to have an abnormality, the issue will be whether it offers her an unfair advantage. If so, hormone treatment or surgery may be necessary.
There is also a precedent for stripping an athlete of a medal, as was the case with Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan, who lost her 800m silver medal after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
The fact that Soundarajan later attempted suicide underlines the sensitivities involved, and Davies said Semenya's test results would remain confidential.
He said: "We have to very sensitive to this because there is a health issue and she is a human being who was born as a woman and who has grown up all her life as a woman but who is now in a position where this is being questioned."
So the verdict is in and he is more man than woman. Has plenty of testosterone, and produces sperm from his internal testes; has no eggs or estrogen. This hasn't stopped people from crying racism, sexism, or just plain unfairness.
John LPosts: 3,007
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 8:13amSubject: Re: In The News Today
So the verdict is in and he is more man than woman. Has plenty of testosterone, and produces sperm from his internal testes; has no eggs or estrogen. This hasn't stopped people from crying racism, sexism, or just plain unfairness.
KILL IT!!!
Get off my lawn.
timbohPosts: 5,759
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 8:37amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:10amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I highly doubt that 'he' had no idea.
What about the legit female competitior that missed actually winning the race and enjoying it?
I can't see how he couldn't have known he was not exactly female.
I'd like to see the legit competitor sue for her prize money and glory, but in reality she'd probably be hounded for her venal self-interest. People are stupid.
In more important news, my favourite leader has been talking again. It has no effect on anything really, I just enjoy his alpha male style.
Berlusconi the Modest
When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi goes on the offensive, great things happen for bloggers. He got worked up after a Spanish reporter asked whether he should resign for the rising scandal over his womanizing, including an escort who says she was paid to spend the night with him. Reuters reports Berlusconi's stunningly candid explanation for why he thinks he should stay:
"I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150 year history (since unification in 1861)," Berlusconi said in televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Now, though struggling with corruption, Italy is a democracy, but I'm pretty sure that's what Robert Mugabe says too. But back to Berlusconi, it gets better. He has never denied sleeping with the woman accusing him, but forcefully explained why he would never pay for sex:
"Never in my life, not even once, have I had to pay for a sexual encounter," Berlusconi said. "And I'll tell you why: for someone who loves to conquer, the greatest joy is the conquest, so I ask, 'if you pay, what joy can there be?'"
That must make his wife feel even better about her decision to start divorce proceedings. But the press conference still gets better:
When Berlusconi apologized to Zapatero for his lengthy answer, the Spanish leader said there was no need and it was "very interesting."
Bravo Silvio.
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:13amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So the verdict is in and he is more man than woman. Has plenty of testosterone, and produces sperm from his internal testes; has no eggs or estrogen. This hasn't stopped people from crying racism, sexism, or just plain unfairness.
KILL IT!!!
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:37amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 10:10amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
I can't see how he couldn't have known he was not exactly female.
I'd like to see the legit competitor sue for her prize money and glory, but in reality she'd probably be hounded for her venal self-interest. People are stupid.
In more important news, my favourite leader has been talking again. It has no effect on anything really, I just enjoy his alpha male style.
Berlusconi the Modest
When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi goes on the offensive, great things happen for bloggers. He got worked up after a Spanish reporter asked whether he should resign for the rising scandal over his womanizing, including an escort who says she was paid to spend the night with him. Reuters reports Berlusconi's stunningly candid explanation for why he thinks he should stay:
"I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150 year history (since unification in 1861)," Berlusconi said in televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Now, though struggling with corruption, Italy is a democracy, but I'm pretty sure that's what Robert Mugabe says too. But back to Berlusconi, it gets better. He has never denied sleeping with the woman accusing him, but forcefully explained why he would never pay for sex:
"Never in my life, not even once, have I had to pay for a sexual encounter," Berlusconi said. "And I'll tell you why: for someone who loves to conquer, the greatest joy is the conquest, so I ask, 'if you pay, what joy can there be?'"
That must make his wife feel even better about her decision to start divorce proceedings. But the press conference still gets better:
When Berlusconi apologized to Zapatero for his lengthy answer, the Spanish leader said there was no need and it was "very interesting."
Bravo Silvio.
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images
I highly doubt that 'he' had no idea.
What about the legit female competitior that missed actually winning the race and enjoying it?
What about the legit female competitior that missed actually winning the race and enjoying it?
I can't see how he couldn't have known he was not exactly female.
I'd like to see the legit competitor sue for her prize money and glory, but in reality she'd probably be hounded for her venal self-interest. People are stupid.
In more important news, my favourite leader has been talking again. It has no effect on anything really, I just enjoy his alpha male style.
Berlusconi the Modest
When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi goes on the offensive, great things happen for bloggers. He got worked up after a Spanish reporter asked whether he should resign for the rising scandal over his womanizing, including an escort who says she was paid to spend the night with him. Reuters reports Berlusconi's stunningly candid explanation for why he thinks he should stay:
"I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150 year history (since unification in 1861)," Berlusconi said in televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Now, though struggling with corruption, Italy is a democracy, but I'm pretty sure that's what Robert Mugabe says too. But back to Berlusconi, it gets better. He has never denied sleeping with the woman accusing him, but forcefully explained why he would never pay for sex:
"Never in my life, not even once, have I had to pay for a sexual encounter," Berlusconi said. "And I'll tell you why: for someone who loves to conquer, the greatest joy is the conquest, so I ask, 'if you pay, what joy can there be?'"
That must make his wife feel even better about her decision to start divorce proceedings. But the press conference still gets better:
When Berlusconi apologized to Zapatero for his lengthy answer, the Spanish leader said there was no need and it was "very interesting."
Bravo Silvio.
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images