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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 14, 2013 10:29:09 GMT 10
I will be surprised if this doesn't go as global as the PM's misogyny vent www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-14/chief-of-army-fires-broadside-at-army-over-email-allegations/4753208That's huge. Seriously epic, for a western military leader to make a public, high profile and no-bullshit statement like that. Dressed in greens, no less (are they called greens?). Kudos for the sentiment, that demands respect. But aside from that I'm curious to see what happens with that video globally. It deserves to (as the kids say) "trend"
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 15, 2013 16:44:59 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Jun 15, 2013 23:33:40 GMT 10
So US citizen Kane has rid himself of another wife. What can Wendi have done wrong? Was she caught reading The Guardian?
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Post by angra on Jun 16, 2013 7:25:21 GMT 10
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 16, 2013 9:12:25 GMT 10
"to mount magic attacks against the Germans"
And the allies won, so it totally WORKED!
Years ago I used to giggle at the pravda.ru website. It has no connection with the original pravda, and it oscillates between being pure "I was a teenage alien" schlock and attempting to pretend to look like it's actually trying to be a real news organization - usually so that it can publish Very Serious Articles about the imminent decline of the west and secret American trucks carrying WMD to plant in Iraq.
They also have galleries. When a rumor emerged that putin was getting a bit on the side from a russian gymnast, pravda.ru obliged with a nice gallery of glamor shots. And I distinctly recall the headline for the Milla Jovovich gallery - "The Sexiest Ukrainian IN THE WORLD!" (Apparently it's not enough to be the sexiest Ukrainian from Ukraine)
Anyhey, back in about 2005 or so they ran a story about the old soviet psychic defence unit being disbanded after a very effective career. Their job had been to protect the soviet/russian leadership from psychic attack, and there had in fact never been a successful attack on their watch.
To which I chuckled "Oh yeah? How do you explain Yeltsin?"
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Post by angra on Jun 16, 2013 10:37:57 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Jun 16, 2013 12:12:51 GMT 10
Twitter. A very odd thing indeed. Maybe it's only for twits (I have never been tempted.) Just look at Bob Carr's latest. He's got massive human rights abuses in West Papua, a dictatorship in Fiji, witch-burning and the despicable abuse of women in PNG and he can only manage this - Bob Carr @bobjcarr 14h "The better part of valour is discretion." Falstaff fakes death and survives pic.twitter.com/ip9Nbp692h View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 14h Hal to Falstaff at Battle of Shrewsbury, "Thou owest God a death." pic.twitter.com/cmgXpVF9xz View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 15h Simon Russell Beale a pretty passable Falstaff pic.twitter.com/dKh2s6sopG View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 15h A box set with Richard 11 and both parts Henry 4: outstanding, and better than the Globe's DVDs of the Henriad pic.twitter.com/a47LFe3SXv View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 15h Watching 2012 DVD Henry 4 with J Irons. Greatest work of literature in our language. pic.twitter.com/JhL5PNJT5a View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 13 Jun Spoke tonight at anniversary of Rabitah International on #Pakistan & Aus multiculturalism & engagement in the world pic.twitter.com/IqVo4DhpJ2 View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 13 Jun Discussed the situation in #Bangladesh with members of the community pic.twitter.com/HQ4TDfJzYY View photo Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 13 Jun Great to meet w members of @thegpp. Discussed social justice, the fight to end extreme poverty and #polio eradication pic.twitter.com/yPbCFWJyDi View photo The Lowy Institute The Lowy Institute @lowyinstitute 13 Jun WATCH: @bobjcarr chats with @mfullilove about his new book #rendezvouswithdestiny prior to last night's book launch vimeo.com/68277859 Retweeted by Bob Carr View media Bob Carr Bob Carr @bobjcarr 12 Jun Talking human rights in #Vietnam with Viet Tan reps ahead of Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue pic.twitter.com/tONsZRToFL
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 16, 2013 14:43:07 GMT 10
I'm glad he's ok - it could have gone very very wrong. But this is still one of the inadvertently funniest lines I've read in a news article in days: "ACT Police have since issued a general warning against entering or sleeping in bins"Hey, it was tuggers. He probably thought it was the town center (he says ... carefully avoiding the use of any shopping mall trademarks) After this week's news, I think "dumb ways to die" needs a sequel Drink home-made booze from a tin Have a nap in a rubbish bin ...
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 18, 2013 19:52:07 GMT 10
Ack! (said bill the cat)
I just saw an advertisement on youtube (which I've recently learned to pronounce adverTISEment, rather than adVERtisement).
It was quite good. It was an adverTISEment for some sort of honda thing. It was only about 10 seconds in that I realised that it was actually quite clever, and being drunk ... it took me that long to get the joke.
It's an ad involving cars, too - so now I want to go back and watch it from the beginning.
Do you think I can? NO!
Bloody youtube. The only thing I can't watch again are the ads. Sheesh.
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Post by angra on Jun 20, 2013 8:26:27 GMT 10
Funny how politicians' adolescent debating habits just keep on giving.
The speaker has declared they are not allowed to call each other liars, so they've hit upon using a synonym - mendacious. It was hurled around with abandon during yesterday's question time, at least four times on my count, and they got away with it.
men·da·cious
Adjective Not telling the truth; lying: "mendacious propaganda".
Synonyms lying - false - untrue - untruthful - double-tongued
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 20, 2013 13:24:17 GMT 10
I'm listening to the HoR today as well. 'hypocrisy' is another crowd favorite. 457 on the agenda, Rob Oakeshotte made the most sense. Craig Thompson is still Union to the core but made some initial sensible comments. liberal/Nat speakers not so enlightening. How anyone with a bit of knowledge falls for this stuff is an Odd Thing. 457 relates to Asylum Seeeker Policy, CO2 backflip, incompetency , leadership wrangles and government staffing (457 holders).
I'm sure it makes sense to Gush Gallopers using the Liberal Issues To Hammer Home email that Crikey got hold of last year.
Abbotts speech on Aussie battlers from long ago to today was touching (minimal indigenous references of course) and how Labor has declared war on the sexes, the Classes, and now foreign workers .
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Post by angra on Jun 20, 2013 13:29:20 GMT 10
And Abbott likened Gillard to Hanson and accused her of racism, just before launching on another "stop the Boats!" rant against "illegals."
What hypocrisy.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 20, 2013 16:13:23 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Jun 20, 2013 17:25:03 GMT 10
Gillard should obviously make a clean breast of things and stop being such a boob. (Ooooo! I've come over all Kenneth Williamsy!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tusgPXNKsgStap messin abaht.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 21, 2013 20:51:35 GMT 10
ARRRRGHH!
YOUTUBE YOU BASTICHES !!!!i!!
LET ME WATCH THE FRIKKING ADS AGAIN!!!!11!
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