Non Footy Chat Thread II

[Poupou Escobar]

It better hit a million, because I just took out a second mortgage to buy a shitload of it. If it crashes again I'm f**kED ffs!!!

FFS!!!

 

[Avenger]

Merkins told me to buy in November 2021 and I spent my life f**ken savings on it ffs!!!

2017 when I bought mine.You also told me I was a fool for buying in Newtown in 2013. It’s doubled since then. There is a pattern here.

#merkin

 

[Avenger]

It better hit a million, because I just took out a second mortgage to buy a shitload of it. If it crashes again I'm f**kED ffs!!!

People who rent don’t have mortgages.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[King-Gutho94]

This whole Australian Day debate is getting tiresome.

Someone with some balls just make a decision so we can move on with it. It's a yearly circus now.

Because you can't win in this country anymore.

If you celebrate Australia Day you are accused from one side as celebrating genocide and all that shit that comes with it that had nothing to do with me or any generation that is currently alive.

And if you don't celebrate or recognise Australia Day you are called Un-Australian.

Until the government decide to change the date I we will always go out and celebrate it. And if the date is changed then I will celebrate that as well.

If people don't want to celebrate or recognise January 26 that's there choice and that's fine.

It's the constant lecturing from both sides that really drags what should be a day of celebration into a slanging match and makes the country look like idiots.

 

[the phantom menace]

And if you don't celebrate or recognise Australia Day you are called Un-Australian.

Personally, I don't take any notice of the types of people that would try and call a fellow Australian "un-Australian".

They usually have a narrow meaning of what they think and Australian has to be, and it's usually just a personal view based on thinking that is stuck in the past.

When I think of the types of people that would throw around the word "un-Australian", I think of Bruce Ruxton (former white male RSL head honcho), I think of Cronulla Riots meatheads - and I think of out of touch merkins like... Pauline Hanson and Peter Dutton.

I don't care when our national day is... but let's just have the guts to acknowledge (longer) history, f**king move it and be done with it.

 

[Noise]

This whole Australian Day debate is getting tiresome.

Someone with some balls just make a decision so we can move on with it. It's a yearly circus now.

Because you can't win in this country anymore.

If you celebrate Australia Day you are accused from one side as celebrating genocide and all that shit that comes with it that had nothing to do with me or any generation that is currently alive.

And if you don't celebrate or recognise Australia Day you are called Un-Australian.

Until the government decide to change the date I we will always go out and celebrate it. And if the date is changed then I will celebrate that as well.

If people don't want to celebrate or recognise January 26 that's there choice and that's fine.

It's the constant lecturing from both sides that really drags what should be a day of celebration into a slanging match and makes the country look like idiots.

I agree. But the fact that it is still 26th January is a decision. The decision right now is to keep the date.

 

[hindy111]

If you listened to me back when it was affordable and not argued for the sake of it you wouldn’t be in this hypothetical bullshit position.

He is not a powerful millionaire like us.

People who rent don’t have mortgages.

Some do. I have friends who rent where they want to live and have mortgages in places they don't want to live.

 

[hindy111]

This whole Australian Day debate is getting tiresome.

Someone with some balls just make a decision so we can move on with it. It's a yearly circus now.

Because you can't win in this country anymore.

If you celebrate Australia Day you are accused from one side as celebrating genocide and all that shit that comes with it that had nothing to do with me or any generation that is currently alive.

And if you don't celebrate or recognise Australia Day you are called Un-Australian.

Until the government decide to change the date I we will always go out and celebrate it. And if the date is changed then I will celebrate that as well.

If people don't want to celebrate or recognise January 26 that's there choice and that's fine.

It's the constant lecturing from both sides that really drags what should be a day of celebration into a slanging match and makes the country look like idiots.

Where I live ( inner west ) they now call it survival day. But then again I can't leave the house without seeing a bearded man wearing a dress. It's wild here.
I'll be honest and say as a kid Aus day meant little to our family and most our friends. It was just a day off and not a big fuss was made about it. When did Australia day become such a big thing? I can't help but feel it was since the Cronulla riots that it gained a lot of popularity. Prior it seemed quite low key.

 

[Suitman]

When did Australia day become such a big thing?

1988.

 

[the phantom menace]

I'll be honest and say as a kid Aus day meant little to our family and most our friends. It was just a day off and not a big fuss was made about it. When did Australia day become such a big thing?

I don't think it is a big thing these days. No-one I know "celebrates" the Australia Day aspect of it - other than simply enjoying and celebrating a public holiday/having the day off work.

 

[Eelogical]

I don't think it is a big thing these days. No-one I know "celebrates" the Australia Day aspect of it - other than simply enjoying and celebrating a public holiday/having the day off work.

Every year now it's like clockwork. On Australia Day, Anzac Day and Christmas Day merkins get activated and want to change or delete anything that's associated with traditional Anglo values. Years ago we would close off our suburban street on Australia Day and all the neighbours and their kids would get together and play cricket or other games in the street, BBQ some food and just have a good time regardless of each others culture. It actually meant something, not just an excuse for a day off. Jeez, even Triple J would play the top 100 Aussie songs as part of the festivities. not these days, nobody is supposed to be happy anymore.

 

[the phantom menace]

Years ago we would close off our suburban street on Australia Day and all the neighbours and their kids would get together and play cricket or other games in the street, BBQ some food and just have a good time regardless of each others culture.

Wow, our street does that on a random weekend afternoon in December, and call it Christmas. Don't need Australia Day (on any date) to do that type of get together.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I have friends who rent where they want to live and have mortgages in places they don't want to live.

It's greed. They're contributing to the housing affordability crisis, owning a place they don't need so some other merkin has to pay them rent just so she has somewhere to live. And it doesn't even create jobs. Invest your spare cash in the Aussie stock market instead of rent seeking ffs.

 

[hindy111]

It's greed. They're contributing to the housing affordability crisis, owning a place they don't need so some other merkin has to pay them rent just so she has somewhere to live. And it doesn't even create jobs. Invest your spare cash in the Aussie stock market instead of rent seeking ffs.

Why? They can't afford to live where want so rent there and they rent their places out to others. It isn't like they have 3 or 4 places.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They should sell the place they don't want to live in to some merkin who does want to live there. Reinvest the money into something productive. At least they're not running Airbnb I guess.

 

[Eelogical]

Wow, our street does that on a random weekend afternoon in December, and call it Christmas. Don't need Australia Day (on any date) to do that type of get together.

It’s become far from normal is how I see it. Of course, there are exceptions as in your case for example.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It’s become far from normal is how I see it. Of course, there are exceptions as in your case for example.

The last time all my neighbours were out in the street together was when Fauci and Soros forced merkins to celebrate ANZAC Day at the end of our driveways.

 

[the phantom menace]

America... a likely photoshop job, but

 

[Avenger]

I’m currently holidaying in Noosa. I think I like it more than Byron Bay