OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Don’t feel guilty, mate. Most likely you worked hard and used common sense to get where you are now. Enjoy the fruits of your decisions and working ethics.

If @hindy111 is wealthy and generous, that passes muster for me and I’m strict about this. I had friends turn into greedy cretins, values gone to the toilet. They get laughed at behind their backs.

Desperately trying to teach the kids to consider others.

They are already in the workforce (by choice) and school and we give them the basics, but the big luxury items like the new phones or fashion stuff, they gotta put in. Lots of love but no free tickets. We want them to be self reliant.

They seem like happy kids.

I’m just waiting for the lad to get home and confess to a indictable offence.

Far better behaved than I was at their age ( so far as I know anyway).

 

[Eelogical]

If @hindy111 is wealthy and generous, that passes muster for me and I’m strict about this. I had friends turn into greedy cretins, values gone to the toilet. They get laughed at behind their backs.

Desperately trying to teach the kids to consider others.

They are already in the workforce (by choice) and school and we give them the basics, but the big luxury items like the new phones or fashion stuff, they gotta put in. Lots of love but no free tickets. We want them to be self reliant.

They seem like happy kids.

I’m just waiting for the lad to get home and confess to a indictable offence.

Far better behaved than me at their age.

Hindy is a sparky, so if he is good at his game then he should be doing OK for himself, especially if he is smart with his income. Good luck to him if this is the case.

 

[hindy111]

If @hindy111 is wealthy and generous, that passes muster for me and I’m strict about this. I had friends turn into greedy cretins, values gone to the toilet. They get laughed at behind their backs.

Desperately trying to teach the kids to consider others.

They are already in the workforce (by choice) and school and we give them the basics, but the big luxury items like the new phones or fashion stuff, they gotta put in. Lots of love but no free tickets. We want them to be self reliant.

They seem like happy kids.

I’m just waiting for the lad to get home and confess to a indictable offence.

Far better behaved than I was at their age ( so far as I know anyway).

I wouldn't say wealthy but not struggling. At the same time I don't really treat myself to anything outrageous. The odd expensive feed but most the time I'd be happy with a Chinese feed or a pub feed.
I feel a bit silly tbh going to real fancy restruants. It isn't my roots

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Notwithstanding, no government is obligated to take direction from this committee and they certainly have no veto powers. No teeth whatsoever. It was creating a simple permanent conduit to be heard.

Then what’s the point of it?

 

[the phantom menace]

Commitments to minority issues allow the elites to avoid bigger questions of inequality, where the answers would require them to make actual sacrifices. It’s why the most privileged people voted Yes.

*cough* Bullsh-t *cough*

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You seem to know all the rich people, what their individual carbon footprints are and their financial contributions towards sustainability initiatives. Very clever.

That’s fine mate. You seem to know all the racist and Nazis. Until the last referendum you knew they were all homophobes too.

 

[Happy MEel]

I would suggest that the very broad/vague nature of this statement is extremely useful. To the right people.

Not sure where you’re going with this so difficult to respond.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Hindy is a sparky, so if he is good at his game then he should be doing OK for himself, especially if he is smart with his income. Good luck to him if this is the case.

Yes, can be deadly work.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I wouldn't say wealthy but not struggling. At the same time I don't really treat myself to anything outrageous. The odd expensive feed but most the time I'd be happy with a Chinese feed or a pub feed.
I feel a bit silly tbh going to real fancy restruants. It isn't my roots

Ask @soc123_au the panther kebab is unbeatable.

And Tew Thai at Gladesville.

 

[Eelogical]

Ask @soc123_au the panther kebab is unbeatable.

And Tew Thai at Gladesville.

The Sydney Rowing Club used to have a decent feed. No idea on their fare these days though.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I had a mate visiting gallipoli for the pilgrimage so I sent him a picture of a Sydney kebab.

He was jealous.

 

[Avenger]

Me too, but it’s not.

From what I understand from my late FIL, Kosovo and its mountains, are so f**king fundamental in Serbia’s DNA.

In any event, the analogy stands. Kosovo has been part of Serbia from literally biblical times. Indeed even from what I can see, 6400bc.

Do Serbs deserve recognition in the the Kosovo constitution or is it tokenism? Should Serbs be heard ?

But indigenous Australians are heard. Do we still terrorise our aboriginal people here? Do we desicrate their holy sites like they do in Kosovo? Do we still indiscriminately kill them like what the ethnic Albanians do in Kosovo to the minorty Serbs?

It's not even comparable.

 

[T-Boon]

What percentage of people who voted NO would have heard the No vote campaign argument ? I’d say 10%. People didn’t need convincing to vote no.

 

[T-Boon]

We should legalise cannabis. I am going to get back into it. I’ve actually already got some but we have a big road trip coming up and I am going to be sensible.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

We should legalise cannabis. I am going to get back into it. I’ve actually already got some but we have a big road trip coming up and I am going to be sensible.

Prefer to de-criminalise smaller amounts.

Wipe out criminal records for possession of weed.

Some people and weed don’t mix.

 

[hindy111]

This is how we should fund Aborigines. There are three tiers:

1. Aboriginal communities of special need. These are areas of significant disadvantage where money should be concentrated. Government and police should have special intervention powers. Significant education, medical, psychological, and cultural funding should be provided

2. Outside the areas of special need (above), means test everyone identifying as Aboriginal. People should not get tax breaks and funding over and above the normal population simply because they have Aboriginal heritage ie there should be no reason that an Aboriginal bureaucrat in Canberra on 200K should need any further support. In this band, certain special things over and above what the normal population should be funded (where relevant) - eg certain medical treatments. This system is pretty close to what we have for the wider population

3. Aboriginal Heritage Funding. This would be like a grant system where everyone identifying as Aboriginal has the opportunity to apply. All fields of endeavour would be relevant - arts, culture, sport, ideas, inventions, preservation of language, research etc - anything. This system would be merit based and would largely replace the system we have where there everyone identifying gets something

 

[hindy111]

We should legalise cannabis. I am going to get back into it. I’ve actually already got some but we have a big road trip coming up and I am going to be sensible.

Mate I was all for it. Smoked a lotnas a teen but then just the odd joint and not a heap. Recently hooked in for 4mths after about 20yrs where only casual had. Really sent me a bit silly. It isn't for everyone. I was getting quite paranoid and my mood swings become out of control.
Not smoked for 9 weeks now.I won't go back. And this was home grown bud. Trust me if it's a good strain and grown properly it will be as strong as most hydros. Issue is in the 7ps THC level would be about 6-8%. 10-12% was a good strain. No most are over 20% and some 25%, THC. They are 3-4x more potent.
Anyhows I was all for legalising it. Now however I am against it completely.

 

[the phantom menace]

But indigenous Australians are heard. Do we still terrorise our aboriginal people here? Do we desicrate their holy sites like they do in Kosovo?

Well, our corporations do.

A year on from the Juukan Gorge destruction, Aboriginal sacred sites remain unprotected

Rio Tinto’s reputation is in pieces, but the laws, policies and power imbalances that allowed the blast to happen remain largely unchanged

www.theguardian.com

Destruction of sacred Flinders Ranges sand hills ‘heartbreaking’, say traditional owners

South Australia’s environment department has apologised for damage done to sacred sites adjacent to Nilpena Edicara National Park

www.theguardian.com

 

[the phantom menace]

We should legalise cannabis. I am going to get back into it. I’ve actually already got some but we have a big road trip coming up and I am going to be sensible.

We should have a referendum, and see whether people will vote Yes on that...

 

[hindy111]

We should have a referendum, and see whether people will vote Yes on that...

NO. 3mths ago I was all for yes.
It is dangerous stuff.