I do wish the various political parties wouldn't try to pull that kind of B.S., but I really can't say that I'm surprised in the slighest.weemadando wrote:And the LNP have been formally reprimanded for posing as Greens at QLD polling stations.
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- 2010-08-21 06:59am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- 2010-08-20 07:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Wow, you have proven beyond a doubt that you are a fucking retard. It appears you didn't even read your own article. The Daily Telegraph reports the campaign is run by the Alliance of Australian Retailers, which was registered only last week, and is being funded almost entirely by tobacco giants Ph...
- 2010-08-20 12:55pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Using Tobacco companies? When did they do that? I haven't heard anything like that. They've certainly accepted donations from those in the Tobacco industry, but I'm fairly sure Labor have there as well. Source Anonymous and unsubstantiated "sources claimed" in your source... Oh, oops . Yo...
- 2010-08-20 07:24am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Sure it's pretty stupid, but it doesn't come anywhere near what the other parties have done. Then how about, despite the supposed party policy about them being against Internet censorship in Australia, the Greens run Clive Hamilton as their representative in the 2009 Federal by-election? Or little ...
- 2010-08-20 04:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Greens got fans to call talkback Paul Austin August 20, 2010 THE Greens have been caught red-handed trying to ''stack'' calls to talkback kings Neil Mitchell and Jon Faine with pro-Bob Brown messages. The Age has obtained internal emails showing the Greens' Victorian media officer, Tom Maclachlan, ...
- 2010-08-18 10:12am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
However, as Stephen Conroy (2009's Internet Villain of the Year) proves, dumb and malicious are not mutually exclusive concepts.
- 2010-08-18 01:40am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Well, even in the unlikely event that Gillard loses the election, at least she can look forward to a career as a stage magician.
- 2010-08-10 06:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Aus Election:Coalition has costed just 1% of policy promises
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1348
Re: Aus Election:Coalition has costed just 1% of policy prom
The most hilarious thing is that most illegal immigrants come by plane (95%+) and a significant proportion of them are white people. I don't see billion dollar processing facilities being built in some pacific island for them. If a political party stated that they were going to put all of those peo...
- 2010-08-10 01:35am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Aus Election:Coalition has costed just 1% of policy promises
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1348
Re: Aus Election:Coalition has costed just 1% of policy prom
I'm prepared to give the coalition a free pass on this one, for one very specific reason. Namely...the opposition of the day can't cost them without running them by the government of the day first, and the potential is there in law for the government to hold them up indefinitely without explanation...
- 2010-08-08 01:03am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: If Anne Rice did not write any Vampire related stories...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3835
Re: If Anne Rice did not write any Vampire related stories..
... She'll be writing more BDSM stories based on famous fairy tales, instead?Sarevok wrote:If Anne Rice did not write any Vampire related stories...
- 2010-07-23 03:54am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Julia Gillard wants climate change action linked to summit of 'ordinary Aussies' 150 random idiots picked off the street to help decide Australia's future on climate change. Brilliant. :banghead: That boggled my mind when I heard that. How did that idea get out of the brainstorming room? Probably t...
- 2010-07-23 03:33am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
Julia Gillard wants climate change action linked to summit of 'ordinary Aussies'
150 random idiots picked off the street to help decide Australia's future on climate change. Brilliant.
150 random idiots picked off the street to help decide Australia's future on climate change. Brilliant.
- 2010-07-21 08:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
If anyone's stupid enough to vote for Family First, they're probably stupid enough for fall for this again, too.weemadando wrote:Stay classy Australia First...
- 2010-07-18 09:03pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
- Replies: 283
- Views: 20846
Re: Australian Federal Election thread - 2010 edition.
I hope you're not going to get sick of hearing "moving forward"... Over, and over, and over, and over, and over, ad nauseam :banghead: ... You're going to hear that many more times over the next few weeks. The irony? While Labor wants you to turn a blind eye to all of its past (and recent)...
- 2010-07-12 03:08am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Australian senator implies fellow senator is for child porn.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2516
Re: Australian senator implies fellow senator is for child p
Even in the United States, flat-out saying that your opponent is in favor of child porn is a little bit...out there. Especially a member of your own party. As the article mentions, accusing anyone who voices opposition to the filter as being pro-child pornography is pretty much the only argument Co...
- 2010-07-09 05:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Labor unveils "new" asylum seeker policy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1110
Re: Labor unveils "new" asylum seeker policy
The East Timor government says to Gillard: ... .
- 2010-07-03 05:08am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Rotating signature banners like darth wong
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1023
Re: Rotating signature banners like darth wong
There are actually a few sites that offer free rotating signature hosting. For example: Clintonio.com (which in my experience, other than an extended down-time a few months back, has been pretty reliable).
- 2010-06-15 01:40am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Dracula (Castlevania)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3862
Re: Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Dracula (Castlevania)
as opposed to assuming that he has vast, untapped reserves of power which weren't even hinted at in the previous fight against Anderson. Having already sent out his army, Alucard was supposedly (excepting his familiar) just Alucard-the-Vampire, but even then he immediately regenerated from his arm ...
- 2010-06-14 03:21am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Dracula (Castlevania)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3862
Re: Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Dracula (Castlevania)
The entire presentation of their fight is 'Alucard is totally fucked here, guys'. I mean, that's even how the Major gets Alucard to absorb Schrodinger - he's getting so wrecked that he needs to absorb all that blood in London, and gets Schrondinger in the process, which 'kills' him. And frankly, we...
- 2010-06-14 01:19am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: E3 motherfuckers.
- Replies: 214
- Views: 19855
Re: E3 motherfuckers.
And the Quantum Theory was good for a laugh. Literally GoW meets anime and this is the mutant baby. I wonder if the chick won't be grabbed by tentacles and fuc...I mean chained so the BIG MAN will save her petite ass? The few bits of actual gameplay scenes in the trailer made me laugh out loud. I r...
- 2010-03-21 09:16am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ding dong the witch is dead! Or at least no longer AG.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2145
Re: Ding dong the witch is dead! Or at least no longer AG.
Good start. Now if we can follow it up putting the boot to Stephen Conroy, that'd be even better.
- 2009-06-19 08:46pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Minnesota woman hit with $1.9 million RIAA lawsuit judgment
- Replies: 76
- Views: 4130
Re: Minnesota woman hit with $1.9 million RIAA lawsuit judgment
But seriously, I'll have to look at some of those studies because even a casual googlefu indicates that music sales are in mass decline and piracy is typically sited at least as a contributing factor. How many of these citations were from the media cartels and people associated with them? I remembe...
- 2009-06-07 02:25am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Metroid Other M
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1777
Re: Metroid Other M
Unfortunately, the pacing and animation of the gameplay makes me rather apprehensive... I just hope that it's not going to end up like that Nina Williams game for the PS2... They should have named that one "Death by Brain Damage".
- 2009-05-17 04:28am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: By definition, this is the worst game ever.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6090
Re: By definition, this is the worst game ever.
It was meant to be "growing loss of grip", perhaps? Still sounds stupid regardless.bilateralrope wrote:What does "growing loss of grid" even mean ?* Dark inner monologue and growing loss of grid
- 2009-05-16 09:32am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Millenium falcon vs White Star -clarification
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2667
Re: Millenium falcon vs White Star -clarification
Some quotes from the NJO book "Destiny's Way". "Ten seconds," Han told Leia and Dorja, and reached for the triggers to the concussion missile tubes. Anticipation drew a metallic streak down his tongue. He felt a prickle of sweat on his scalp. "Five." He triggered the fi...