ANZG: The Trans-Tasman Thread

[Saint Jade IV]

I thought that was it. Still, it doesn't show well on your state for the "Australian" Party to do so well.

On that subject, when I was growing up in Australia, being quite young I didn't understand politics much, let alone know what a 'racist' was, so whenever that Hanson character appeared on TV I said I liked her. It was only much latter (ten or eleven), till I realized she was a bitter women, with anger management issues, and a psychotic rage over foreigners and contrary opinions to hers.

Reasonable Queenslanders everywhere would like to apologise to the rest of the country for producing the craziest, most racist politicians. And actually electing them.

[New Rogernomics]

On that subject, when I was growing up in Australia, being quite young I didn't understand politics much, let alone know what a 'racist' was, so whenever that Hanson character appeared on TV I said I liked her. It was only much latter (ten or eleven), till I realized she was a bitter women, with anger management issues, and a psychotic rage over foreigners and contrary opinions to hers.

Reasonable Queenslanders everywhere would like to apologise to the rest of the country for producing the craziest, most racist politicians. And actually electing them.

Apology accepted. Now only if she would fall over, and find a grave to crawl into; we could share a beer over it.

[Saint Jade IV]

Reasonable Queenslanders everywhere would like to apologise to the rest of the country for producing the craziest, most racist politicians. And actually electing them.

Apology accepted. Now only if she would fall over, and find a grave to crawl into; we could share a beer over it.

Hey if that's all it takes to get a beer round here, I can find plenty more to apologise for!

[New Rogernomics]

Apology accepted. Now only if she would fall over, and find a grave to crawl into; we could share a beer over it.

Hey if that's all it takes to get a beer round here, I can find plenty more to apologise for!

It's easier to score a beer, than score a girl in kiwiland; the later is pretty easy though.

[The Murry]

In regards to the federal election 2013 with QLD and the opinion polls as markers a simillar result to QLD on Saturday looms for the nation.
And pointless spending will end, punishing the wealthy with heavy taxes which lowers the amount of people they can employ, and finnally the economy can get back on track.

I know Wane says the economy is going well, but are you going to trust a man who did a six month course as a secretary opinon on the economy. At the moment we're doing poor to average however when compared to the rest of the West we are doing well.

But comparisons are odiouse

I defy anyone to bring forth anything that has changed in the way we live our lives in Australia. And if anyone whishes to argue that all the treasury people in the US. and the UK. are more stupid than our Wane, good luck to you.

All this brings us to one conclusion, the GFC did not hit Australia and our government has the intelligents of a peanut

[Lugarnia]

All this brings us to one conclusion, the GFC did not hit Australia and our government has the intelligents of a peanut

Surely your not insulting a Peanut by that comparision

[Forster Keys]

In regards to the federal election 2013 with QLD and the opinion polls as markers a simillar result to QLD on Saturday looms for the nation.
And pointless spending will end, punishing the wealthy with heavy taxes which lowers the amount of people they can employ, and finnally the economy can get back on track.

What particular spending do you label pointless? Also our taxes for the rich aren't that high. We haven't changed since Howard years IIRC and trickle down is proven bullshit. I'm not an economist but: http://www.faireconomy.org/research/TrickleDown.html

I know Wane says the economy is going well, but are you going to trust a man who did a six month course as a secretary opinon on the economy. At the moment we're doing poor to average however when compared to the rest of the West we are doing well.

Trust not the man, but the team of experts which feed him his information... Personification is a running scourge at the moment.

But comparisons are odiouse

I reckon ay.

I defy anyone to bring forth anything that has changed in the way we live our lives in Australia. And if anyone whishes to argue that all the treasury people in the US. and the UK. are more stupid than our Wane, good luck to you.

I don't know if I understand the manifesto here, but we're in a constant state of flux, so anyone could describe said changes for about an hour if you wanted.

All this brings us to one conclusion, the GFC did not hit Australia and our government has the intelligents of a peanut

No it doesn't. It's a couple of unrelated statements. Also you spelled intelligence wrong.

[Forster Keys]

On that subject, when I was growing up in Australia, being quite young I didn't understand politics much, let alone know what a 'racist' was, so whenever that Hanson character appeared on TV I said I liked her. It was only much latter (ten or eleven), till I realized she was a bitter women, with anger management issues, and a psychotic rage over foreigners and contrary opinions to hers.

Reasonable Queenslanders everywhere would like to apologise to the rest of the country for producing the craziest, most racist politicians. And actually electing them.

It's OK. I know some Queenslanders. I understand why.

[Blouman Empire]

So are you the black sheep or are they?

And that RAAF story is terrible needs to be some sort of accountability.

We both are, in different ways. I remember my grandmother loudly espousing the virtues of the Labor party from her hospital bed last election. Working class catholic background.

It's funny because now the ALP have a large majority of people who would be against the catholic side and a part that don't care about the working class side. My grandfather was an ALP MP in the NSW legislature himself being Catholic and from a working class background. Funny how I'm not apart of that now though the ALP is not what it was as Kim Beazley Snr once said "When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now all I see are the dregs of the middle class. And what I want to know is when you middle class perverts are going to stop using the Labor Party as a spiritual spittoon"

[Blouman Empire]

I have acquired marmite for the normal price. Worship me as God of Bargains!

I don't like processed corn starch, the shortage didn't effect me at all, people complained in the newspaper though.

You guys should be eating vegimite anyway

[Blouman Empire]

Good Work Bob Katter and the party on the results in the election in QLD

Please don't encourage him. He is an embarrassment.

Actually this whole election was.

I'm seriously considering moving states now, with a racist homophobe holding that much majority in QLD.

Homophobe? He has said he was in favour of gay marriage.

[Blouman Empire]

On that subject, when I was growing up in Australia, being quite young I didn't understand politics much, let alone know what a 'racist' was, so whenever that Hanson character appeared on TV I said I liked her. It was only much latter (ten or eleven), till I realized she was a bitter women, with anger management issues, and a psychotic rage over foreigners and contrary opinions to hers.

Reasonable Queenslanders everywhere would like to apologise to the rest of the country for producing the craziest, most racist politicians. And actually electing them.

It's not enitrely Queenslanders fault the rest of the country helped put Krudd into power.

And I'm not accepting the apology until Swan is out

[Saint Jade IV]

Please don't encourage him. He is an embarrassment.

Actually this whole election was.

I'm seriously considering moving states now, with a racist homophobe holding that much majority in QLD.

Homophobe? He has said he was in favour of gay marriage.

So I'm confused as to why he wants to overturn civil union legislation. Suggests a rather different viewpoint.

[Forster Keys]

We both are, in different ways. I remember my grandmother loudly espousing the virtues of the Labor party from her hospital bed last election. Working class catholic background.

It's funny because now the ALP have a large majority of people who would be against the catholic side and a part that don't care about the working class side. My grandfather was an ALP MP in the NSW legislature himself being Catholic and from a working class background. Funny how I'm not apart of that now though the ALP is not what it was as Kim Beazley Snr once said "When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now all I see are the dregs of the middle class. And what I want to know is when you middle class perverts are going to stop using the Labor Party as a spiritual spittoon"

Well arguably the deterioration of the Australian manufacturing industry has lead to the collapse of much of the working class itself. People don't tend to identify as working class anymore. The working class is I think tied in with Marx's ideas of the proletariat, both of which, in most of the western world at least, come and gone.

[New Rogernomics]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

[Blouman Empire]

It's funny because now the ALP have a large majority of people who would be against the catholic side and a part that don't care about the working class side. My grandfather was an ALP MP in the NSW legislature himself being Catholic and from a working class background. Funny how I'm not apart of that now though the ALP is not what it was as Kim Beazley Snr once said "When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now all I see are the dregs of the middle class. And what I want to know is when you middle class perverts are going to stop using the Labor Party as a spiritual spittoon"

Well arguably the deterioration of the Australian manufacturing industry has lead to the collapse of much of the working class itself. People don't tend to identify as working class anymore. The working class is I think tied in with Marx's ideas of the proletariat, both of which, in most of the western world at least, come and gone.

I think the ALP has now gone too far away from those roots, there is now a lot more of the "we know what's best for everybody" mentality within the ALP by self serving moralists who have spent most of their adult life working for the party and haven't experienced the real world

[Forster Keys]

Well arguably the deterioration of the Australian manufacturing industry has lead to the collapse of much of the working class itself. People don't tend to identify as working class anymore. The working class is I think tied in with Marx's ideas of the proletariat, both of which, in most of the western world at least, come and gone.

I think the ALP has now gone too far away from those roots, there is now a lot more of the "we know what's best for everybody" mentality within the ALP by self serving moralists who have spent most of their adult life working for the party and haven't experienced the real world

Agreed more or less, I do think we share the distaste the political class, and certain culture, that's set itself up there. Primaries are required.

[Costa Fiero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

The Finns have had more F1 and WRC champions than we have. That's a good enough reason to spit-roast Jabba Brownlee and offer him to the Norse gods.

[Blouman Empire]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

The Finns have had more F1 and WRC champions than we have. That's a good enough reason to spit-roast Jabba Brownlee and offer him to the Norse gods.

But how many Finns have set up their own F1 team that has gone on to win World Championships?

[Blouman Empire]

Agreed more or less, I do think we share the distaste the political class, and certain culture, that's set itself up there. Primaries are required.

Like America?

I would say we should set up our own party but I'm pretty sure we would split into two parties during the first meeting

[Forster Keys]

Agreed more or less, I do think we share the distaste the political class, and certain culture, that's set itself up there. Primaries are required.

Like America?

I would say we should set up our own party but I'm pretty sure we would split into two parties during the first meeting

Both points conceded.

American style primaries are horrid, but salvageable so long as you eliminate political donations and the position of money within them. Just take money out of the political system altogether as far as I'm concerned. Corporate donations, and limits on advertising work for me comrade.

And as for our party? It'd bring a new meaning to the broad umbrella concept.

[Forsher]

I don't like processed corn starch, the shortage didn't effect me at all, people complained in the newspaper though.

You guys should be eating vegimite anyway

Classical Studies' teacher weighed in one th edebate today and slammed marmite. Is not willing to try vegemite anymore...

Geographical fact, comes from England.

[Forsher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

That video has 79 views. Things I've learnt from it. Germans are really good at learning English.

[New Rogernomics]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

That video has 79 views. Things I've learnt from it. Germans are really good at learning English.

Well to pour salt on the wound I could say Nokia phones suck, and Motorola's are better, and that SMS were not invented in Finland, but instead as a result of a collaboration between German, French and British companies*, according to wikipedia Finland had little to do with developing SMS messages at all, it hosted the first paid SMS service, but it didn't develop the technology at all. They couldn't help claiming other nations achievements as their own.

The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert.[8] The innovation in SMS is Short. The GSM is optimized for telephony, since this was identified as its main application. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Initial_concept

[The Blaatschapen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLIQwgWu8c

I can understand the whole mocking Gerry Brownlee and the government for being dicks, but really this video is just as ignorant about New Zealand, if that was the intention. We invented electric fences, jetboats, bungy jumping, disposable syringes, and contributed to the splitting of the atom aka nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Also there has never been slavery in New Zealand, and we were the first nation in the world to give women the vote. I guess all everyone will ever know about NZ is sheep and Jerry Brownlee, from now on. I suppose I had better start telling everyone I have sheep, just so people know what country I am from. /End sulk.

I have to face it, our politicians suck.

It's a trait of many politicians everywhere. Not just over there