Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (III)

[JGK]

Ironically, a vote for Latham would have been a vote for Beazley given Latham's health problems.

[Bradman]

Ta. When I re-read the post I thought it might actually have been Howard. Regardless of who it was I think Keating actually spoke to the original source and asked to use the line. (just not to make Abbott's or Jones' mistake I'll accredit that to Paul Kelly, I think)

[JGK]

Of course, the words are only one part of the message. Delivering them with the panache that only Keating could manage is the real genius.

[skully]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

[Bradman]

Hehehehe! Panache sums him up. I've actually heard a recording of the man laying into a newspaper exec.

Dire threats delivered with language from the docks in a remarkably reasoned tone.

[JGK]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

Both sides are guilty of that skully. But I agree, too much time is wasted on this sh1t. The standing of Parliamentarians of all pursuasions must be at an all time low. Xenephon didn't help matters this week either.

[Bradman]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

How many pieces of legislation have passed this current parliament? Some of which are abhorrent to Brown.

The only abysmal thing is the desperation of the opposition (and Gillard's gutless refugee policy).

[Bradman]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

Both sides are guilty of that skully. But I agree, too much time is wasted on this sh1t. The standing of Parliamentarians of all pursuasions must be at an all time low. Xenephon didn't help matters this week either.

Yeah. And what's with rann's jihad? naming and shaming 'kinky" Catholics. Apart from being just downright dumb I'd hardly label paedophilia or rape as "kinky".

[embee]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

How many pieces of legislation have passed this current parliament? Some of which are abhorrent to Brown.

The only abysmal thing is the desperation of the opposition (and Gillard's gutless refugee policy).

190 odd according to Albanese in question time yesterday

[skully]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

Both sides are guilty of that skully. But I agree, too much time is wasted on this sh1t. The standing of Parliamentarians of all pursuasions must be at an all time low. Xenephon didn't help matters this week either.

Aye, Xenophon is one massive attention whore.

[skully]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

How many pieces of legislation have passed this current parliament? Some of which are abhorrent to Brown.

The only abysmal thing is the desperation of the opposition (and Gillard's gutless refugee policy).

You pinkos have ridiculously short memories (in Q's case, we know why that is). The current Opposition is acting no differently to any other Opposition as far back as I can remember. The only difference is that the voting is on a knife edge. The most unfortunate part of that is that mad qunts like Oakeschott, Katter, Brandt (Brown's Kermit) and Wilkie wield so much muscle.

[Bradman]

And that's the point of the current bullsh!t, JGK. Keating used to fire off his brilliant one liners and then get on with governing the country and getting things done (even if much of it was bad). The Vulture and her cohorts are more worried about trying to discredit Abbott, whinging about being harshly treated in the media and sooking about anything they can sook about rather than getting on with the job.

Farkin abysmal government.

How many pieces of legislation have passed this current parliament? Some of which are abhorrent to Brown.

The only abysmal thing is the desperation of the opposition (and Gillard's gutless refugee policy).

You pinkos have ridiculously short memories (in Q's case, we know why that is). The current Opposition is acting no differently to any other Opposition as far back as I can remember. The only difference is that the voting is on a knife edge. The most unfortunate part of that is that mad qunts like Oakeschott, Katter, Brandt (Brown's Kermit) and Wilkie wield so much muscle.

Cruel and unusual exposure to the fascist line. Should be against some international laws or weapons test ban treaties or public nuisance laws or something.

Katter?

[embee]

He probably meant Windsor but predictive text automatically put in Katter after mad qunt

[Bradman]

Hehehehe! Katter's probably the only one of that bunch who won't be looking for another job a couple of year's hence.

WTF is predictive text?

[embee]

when your phone/computer predicts what you are going to write from the characters you have already entered

[Bradman]

And here I thought that was just spellchecking.

[embee]

same same but different

[Bradman]

same same but different

Thank-you Captain Confusion. Couldn't that be horribly dangerous if you hit enter too quickly?

[skully]

WTF is predictive text?

I shouldn't laugh, but I thought I was the techno dinosaur on here. Apparently not.

[embee]

same same but different

Thank-you Captain Confusion. Couldn't that be horribly dangerous if you hit enter too quickly?

read some of Zat's crap gems of wisdom when he's using his iPad (or whatever gizmo he's got) and he's pissed distracted

[Bradman]

It actually solves a few mysteries for me. I use a program for work purposes that puts aboriginal words into phonetics and the proper font. It keeps prompting me and I just click ignore.

[skully]

Predictive text shat me right off when it first became common on mobile phones. I hated the way it always seemed to guess words wrong. Then my eldest gave me a few quick tips. A real time saver on the older style of mobiles (each number representing 3 consecutive letters i.e. you had to press "2" three times for a "c"). Not so necessary on a qwerty keyboard Blackberry, iPhone, iTampon, etc.

[Bradman]

When Telstra first brought in voice prompts for directory assistance I tried "Melbourne Cricket Club" and got put through to the "Sydney Opera House".

Likewise the last mob I worked permanently for sent out an all staff email about Big Brother is watching you so don't surf porn sites. I spent half a day googling up porn sites and never heard a word about it.

[JGK]

He probably meant Windsor but predictive text automatically put in Katter after mad qunt

PMSL....

[JGK]

There's a whole site on funny autocorrects/ predictive text...

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

One example:

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