March 2012
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February 2012
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the-metres-gained replied to your post: I have not seen this Sherlock program
I really like the show and don’t care about any of that. It’s definitely an interesting take on the ACD stories.
Well for god’s sake don’t look at any Tumblrs if the owner is a fan. You get gif after gif of Doyleseque gay flirtation. Headpalm.
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I have not seen this Sherlock program
I feel like I ought to because I love Sherlock Holmes (though somehow I missed the second Guy Ritchie film). but, every comment on the show I see, read or hear goes like one of the following:
Benedict Cumberbatch is hot
Martin Freeman is hot
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman should totally be a couple
Holmes and Watson are clearly gay
I ship Holmes and Watson
I ship Freeman and...
Comment:
Isn’t the ALP already a alliance of classical liberals (Leigh, Emerson etc) and social democrats (Gillard, Rudd) ? Under the ALP they’re at least united under one banner, but why would those who self-identify as social democrats (as most greens do when thinking about the economy) join forces with those who self-identify as classical liberals (roughly on the ALP’s...
Thinking of blogging about the need for an...
the-metres-gained:
citizen-cam:
But I won’t because a) it won’t happen, b) it can’t happen and c) classical Deakinite liberals can hit really hard.
CLASSICAL
LIBERALS
ARE
NOT
DEAKINITES
STOP HITTING ME
True though. They aren’t. That was an oversimplified version of the truth. Deakin was a liberal, but by the standards of 1912, not 2012. Yes, yes, I’m worse than Hitler etc.
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Thinking of blogging about the need for an...
But I won’t because a) it won’t happen, b) it can’t happen and c) classical Deakinite liberals can hit really hard.
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What is a casual vacancy?
Section 15 of the Constitution gives the States the power to fill “casual vacancies” in the Senate when a Senator resigns their seat or dies. This has happened quite a lot since Federation; the very first casual vacancy was created in 1903 on the death of Free Trade Senator Frederick Thomas Sargood, who was replaced by another Free Trader, Robert Reid. Since then it’s happened...
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I'm just saying, I could study or I could eat...
And you know what? Let’s do mine.
The "do no work at all" strategy seems to be...
the-metres-gained:
citizen-cam:
It’s week 2 and I’ve read nothing, written nothing and taken down 2 sentences of notes.
So far the strategy’s working out well.
Hey look, biscuits.
just fucking study you cunt don’t you realise how lucky you are
ALL STUDY SUCKS HAIRY SMELLY SWEATY DONKEY BALLS HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT
Also what are you my mother? I SAID I HAD BISCUITS!
The "do no work at all" strategy seems to be...
It’s week 2 and I’ve read nothing, written nothing and taken down 2 sentences of notes.
So far the strategy’s working out well.
Hey look, biscuits.
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redrabbleroz replied to your photo: Actual LOL
This meme is out of date
Your face is out of date.
The Metres Gained: "Labor, a party divided"? →
amnesiac1331:
isthereanybodyaliveoutthere:
flash-beagle:
Rudd, Gillard - 31 to 71
Turnbull, Abbott - 41 to 42
So true. Channel 9, The Opposition, etc, are all running around like “almost one third of the caucus preferred another leader!!!”…When half of the Liberal Party…
The “Abbott won by only one vote line” annoys me less than the people who think that ANY political...
“I now support Julia Gillard as Prime Minister. Julia Gillard is a visionary who...”
– 31 Caucus members, today, who sound ridiculous saying this. I demand 31 resignations.
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
the-metres-gained:
johannesvandergraaff:
schadenfreudig:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love...
Oscar picks
I don’t give a shit but I do this every year and last year I think I got six out of eight. So anyway…
Best Picture: Hugo
Best Director: Martin Scorcese
Best Actor: George Clooney
Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor: Nick Nolte
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer
Best Original Screenplay: Bridesmaids
Best Adapted Screenplay: Hugo
Nothing to do with deserving...
But seriously, can't we just wind up the ALP?
It’s a hundred and eleven years old, more if you count the various colonial parties. It’s twice as old as the Liberals. It’s an old, blind, senile, incontinent dog that we’re only keeping around out of sentiment.
Take it behind the shed and give it both barrels.
Truly, it’s the kindest thing.
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redrabbleroz replied to your post: Well other than Dark Knight Rises I guess that’s what we have to look forward to at the box office for this year.
New Spiderman movie? Hobbit movie? The Avengers movie?
I’ve no interest in Spider-man. I didn’t like the other Spidey films. Ditto the Avengers. It’s Whedon, so I may end up seeing it, but the superhero genre does not...
Well other than Dark Knight Rises I guess that's...
Someone blow up Hollywood please before this gets any worse.
“A romantic comedy based on the truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the...”
– Um…
“In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy...”
– Seriously Jack Black. Just stop.
“Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a...”
– That Sean William Scott is destined for Oscar glory.
“When the world’s media descend on the remote Scottish island where a...”
– This is what David Tennant gave up Dr. Who for.
“A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik’s...”
– This is a real movie.
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The Cam Show Episode List - Season One
These are the eight episodes of the sitcom I’ve come up with based loosely around my life. Basically it’s me doing a series of stupid things. Canned laughter might be needed because otherwise nobody will know where the jokes are. It will be like Ricky Gervais except even more annoying and less funny.
CAST LIST
Cam……………………….Himself...
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Cam's moment of physical comedy.
INT CAM’S FLAT. EVENING.
C/U SHOT OF A COCKROACH. IT IS SITTING HAPPILY ON SOMETHING. PULL BACK TO SEE IT IS A PACKET OF PASTA SPIRALS, SITTING ON CAM’S KITCHEN BENCH.
CAM SITS ON THE COUCH. HE STANDS, AND GOES INTO THE KITCHEN. A POT OF WATER IS BOILING ON THE STOVE.
CAM APPROACHES THE STOVE AND SEES IT BUBBLING. HE LOOKS AROUND, ATTEMPTING TO FIND SOMETHING. IDLY, HE MAKES A...
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ncctardis replied to your post: ncctardis replied to your post: ncctardis replied…
Despite my party membership, I do agree with that sentiment, and I’m intrigued by your idea/opinion of getting rid of parties all together. However, in the current climate, we have the Coke/Pepsi choice (I think Boston Legal brought that up once)
We can’t get rid of parties. To quote Jed Bartlet,
...
A history of the next ten years
This is how it will probably go.
27 Feb 2012: Gillard defeats Rudd for ALP leadership but Rudd stays around.
Late 2012: Rudd runs again and loses but stubbornly refuses to quit.
Mid-2013: Gillard calls election. Abbott and the Coalition sweep with a massive majority into power. Gillard resigns as leader and from Parliament. The ALP, despite their misgivings, turn to Rudd as leader because they...
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ncctardis replied to your post: ncctardis replied to your post: The five options…
Ouch. Didn’t realise your job was at stake, didn’t mean that personally mate. As much as I wish Turnbull was still the Liberal leader (hell, I think he’d be PM in his own right now if he’d have stayed on) there’s no viable alternative to Abbott atm
There are lots of viable alternatives to Abbott. At the 2010...
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ncctardis replied to your post: The five options for tomorrow, in descending order of probability
I can’t wait! :D
I can’t either. I won’t have a job any more, leaving everything else aside.
But I’m comforted to know that Abbott will be totally unable to govern and that before long the same leadership crap will get him and he’ll be overthrown by the faceless men in the...
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The five options for tomorrow, in descending order...
Rudd doesn’t get enough votes to win but stays on the backbench and keeps sniping, launching another unsuccessful challenge later on, before Gillard takes the ALP into an election at which Labor gets decimated by the Abbott Coalition.
Rudd gets a handful of votes, gracefully stands back, probably not contesting the next election, at which Labor gets decimated by the Abbott Coalition.
Rudd...
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samclifford replied to your quote: “It doesn’t matter who the ALP leader is or what…
Yeah, pretty much. The Gillard government actually has a pretty decent track record, particularly when you consider they’ve got/had to negotiate with such a diverse group of cross-benchers. But who gives a fuck? Let’s just not be Tony Abbott.
Or, alternatively, let’s not set our standard so low as...
“It doesn’t matter who the ALP leader is or what they do or what they stand...”
– Every Rudd supporter and most of Labor.
I hear this one more time I’m blowing up someone’s car.
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