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Well yes I know I just wanted to vent a bit about my anxiety about it :L

"woman up" : that sounds kinda awkward, I have to say.

Personally, I'd have said something like "get your guts in order", but that would be discriminatory toward our fellow non-organic citizens

evilsoup wrote:but that's OK, because now I get to make the suddenly-legal main protagonist be in a gay relationship with the side character my cousin has introduced. Just to see the look on his face.

so yeah the look on his face was pretty great
he told me to 'stop projecting'
my argument that manly combination is the most masculine form of lovin didn't exactly go over well
also

A thunderclap woke Jack up with a start. He immediately looked out of his window and saw th lightning storm outside, just like it had been for the last four days.

Jack looked at the clock on his bedroom wall and saw that it was four minutes past four. 'What a weird dream,' thought Jack. The idea of being in a relationship with Richie was more amusing than confusing. Obviously Jack had none of those interests where men were concerned, as in he was only attracted to females. That being said, he had been in the Dragon Crown pub only a few hours earlier celebrating his seventeenth birthday. He then remembered that the cute redhead kept smiling at him from behind the bar and Jack had been plucking up the courage to talk to her.

But the empty space next to his bed told him that he got too drunk before he could make his move. Jack could not hear any noise coming from Richie's room next door, whether his friend had taken a girl home to bed with him, Jack knew not.

he seems to think that he's found a clever way out of this ho ho ho

Jester, bad luck mate.

Got off a plane to find Tony Abbott had won and Geelong had lost

then watched the Lollabies get pumped

FML

IKR

For those of us not familiar with the Liberal Party, how exactly bad is this gonna be like

Is it going to be like Canada where the conservatives getting into power has sent them on a bad course towards being USA 2.0 or is the shift leftward I've heard about enough to make it alright?

It's not gonna be that bad. Waleed Aly says it pretty well - the Libs have been dragged substantially to the left on most policy issues and everything Abbott has done as opposition leader suggests he's learnt the lessons of 2007 (and Labor's performance in Queensland against the backdrop of Can-Do Campbell's slash-and-burn government should reinforce them), that the electorate has no patience for neoliberalism or European-style austerity.

It's just frustrating on a number of levels. The fact the Libs have won such a crushing victory will cement the idea Labor's ideas were rubbish and that somehow conditions in Australia 'got worse' over the past six years - when in actual fact they didn't, the Coalition has adopted most of the ALP's policies, and what the country badly needs is some adjusted expectations. Secondly given how thoroughly they've divorced themselves from their ideological roots as part of that leftward swing you're left wondering - what is the Coalition actually going to do? They basically have two concrete political objectives (stop the boats and end the carbon tax); the former is an issue at least in part beyond the control of government and the latter depends on the Senate. What happens after that? I suspect we're going to lose a decade in which we remain relaxed and comfortable but the fundamental issues facing the nation go unaddressed.

jester mate your observations are as always astute and well-reasoned

Stofsk wrote:jester mate your observations are as always astute and well-reasoned

We've tried our best to Keep The Bastards Honest in the senate, Biscuit. Counting will continue, but at this stage the Liberal Party have actually lost senate seats, the Greens have gained. Clive Palmer got a foot in the door thanks to my home turf, which is about as tragic as Victoria voting the Motoring Enthusiasts Party into the upper house.

Locally(Tasmania), the firm swing against Labor neatly foreshadows the upcoming state election.

To put everything Jester already said into my personal view, it's galling that the Australian public was led to believe that a a bunch of desperate people in leaky boats represented a sovereign crisis, or that we're mortgaged to the hilt. I don't blame people for voting against Labor after the pantomine of the last six months, but there are always alternatives - as we here in Denison have demonstrated once again.

Next election, I think we'll all know the importance of preferences.

I was about to launch into a defence of Senate preferences but holy shit the Motoring Enthusiast bloke is a 9/11 truther

I'm keen to know what the Sport Party guy thinks about our foreign relations policies.

thejester wrote:I was about to launch into a defence of Senate preferences but holy shit the Motoring Enthusiast bloke is a 9/11 truther

And

"We are the only species on the planet who are forced to pay to exist," he said. "I think it is fair to say we should have the right to enjoy our existence with minimal government interference."

Yes, but if you want to do that you have to go live fof the grid. The grid is the infrastructure that taxes pay for. Like roads. That cars travel on.

And

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/br ... 6715312533

(continued from the videojuegos thread)

When I start adding up everything I spend on luxury items, I become really glad I don't have to pay for food or the roof over my head.

Hopefully in a few month I'll have a real job that'll me afford my own roof & food, but then that'll no more luxury for a while if I don't want to have a negative income balance.

Good thing I was able to save a little something these last few years, while I earned wages without real expenses on the side.

bloody driving lessons. bloody rusty bay parking.

I'm sitting in on a 400-level course on Women's Studies and Queer Theory

and I just

wonder to myself why I went into studying STEM stuff like this is way more interesting and it's not as if that other stuff is helping me find work

LIFE DECISIONS EH

I got a Windows phone at work.

It's pretty cool. It has free offline maps for GPS and the UI is very clean and intuitive.

But I'm a Java dev and all the Java guys are now making fun of me and I'll have to sit at the .NET table

c# is just what java wishes it could be

my brother had one of them for about a month and then got rid of it because it didn't have a file manager

Holy shit I think I've finally reached the age where I can't get by on 4 hours of sleep in a pinch anymore

curse this mortal coil and all that

If you were Batman, two hours would be good enough.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Holy shit I think I've finally reached the age where I can't get by on 4 hours of sleep in a pinch anymore

curse this mortal coil and all that