OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[King-Gutho94]

As much as Delboy is a complete muppet, I do agree that we have totally rooted the whole idea of sex and gender and are now in a weird place. Science is being ignored in favour of 'feelings'.

Not something that personally impacts me, but an undeniable observation in my view.

Someone told me about a month ago there is around 70 genders out there.

I thought he was taking the piss.

We have moved a long way from just simply Male and Female

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Tricking up Barbie Campers at home with mates and slabs of Bud Light, no worries.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Someone told me about a month ago there is around 70 genders out there.

I thought he was taking the piss.

We have moved a long way from just simply Male and Female

There are only two genders, but lots of variability within both. You can have butch chicks and mincy blokes. Who gives a shit. But zie/zi/zirs etc. is too much of a stretch for me. Its fantasy land.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

There are only two genders, but lots of variability within both. You can have butch chicks and mincy blokes. Who gives a shit. But zie/zi/zirs etc. is too much of a stretch for me. Its fantasy land.

Caveman Gaz, deary me.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Caveman Gaz, deary me.

 

[Suitman]

RTBU have a list of 245 demands.
Here are just a few, as documented by the ABC.
It is no wonder there has been no agreement.

What the rail union is demanding to avert the Sydney train shutdown

Transport for NSW is "scrambling" to bring in replacement transport amid the Sydney trains shutdown this weekend. But why are workers striking and exactly what is the union demanding?

www.abc.net.au

 

[Gary Gutful]

A pack of shitbags.

In QLD, the new Government has paused BPIC, much to the disgust of the unions. It was adding 20-30% to the capital cost of every construction project. Good decision.

Queensland government suspends construction sector conditions policy as CFMEU labels move 'dangerous'

Described by the LNP as a "sweetheart deal" with the construction union, the policy dictates that workers can down tools if the air temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius, or 29C and 75 per cent humidity.

www.abc.net.au

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

RTBU have a list of 245 demands.
Here are just a few, as documented by the ABC.
It is no wonder there has been no agreement.

What the rail union is demanding to avert the Sydney train shutdown

Transport for NSW is "scrambling" to bring in replacement transport amid the Sydney trains shutdown this weekend. But why are workers striking and exactly what is the union demanding?

www.abc.net.au

Seems like a fair set of claims to me.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

These transport people work hard for a living.

You lot should see how much the rich and wealthy get away with.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Seems like a fair set of claims to me.

Get back to work, slacker.

 

[Suitman]

A pack of shitbags.

Yep.

 

[Gary Gutful]

These transport people work hard for a living.

You lot should see how much the rich and wealthy get away with.

The rich and wealthy wear all the risk and play an important role in growing the economy. Without them, transport workers would be sitting around scratching their coights.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The rich and wealthy wear all the risk and play an important role in growing the economy. Without them, transport workers would be sitting around scratching their coights.

Bourgeoisie propaganda.

The rich and wealthy sit on their asses and financially rape the rest of us.

Most of them inherit their wealth.

And dodge taxes.

 

[Suitman]

RTBU have a list of 245 demands.
Here are just a few, as documented by the ABC.
It is no wonder there has been no agreement.

What the rail union is demanding to avert the Sydney train shutdown

Transport for NSW is "scrambling" to bring in replacement transport amid the Sydney trains shutdown this weekend. But why are workers striking and exactly what is the union demanding?

www.abc.net.au

Time for a flashback to this week 20 years ago - here's what was making news on November 18th 2004:

The bitter stand-off ruining the railways

www.smh.com.au

SMH said:
So why, with such impeccable pedigrees at the top, is our rail system in such a mess and the Government's relationship with train drivers at an all-time low?

SMH said:
Apart from a series of expensive, pointless and morale-destroying restructures, little has changed. Trains are chronically late. Train drivers taking sick days grind the system to a standstill. Carr is still ordering the minister to "fix the trains".

SMH said:
Other complaints range from "Jurassic Age" work practices that have drivers driving trains for just 4 hours of an eight-hour shift, and workshops so dysfunctional maintenance has to be contracted out to private enterprise. A group is also suspected of using sickies to sabotage a vulnerable rail system already suffering a driver shortage.

Going back even further again, let's rewind another 20 years to August 1984:

Thousands face stand-downs Rail strike talks break down - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 29 Aug 1984​

SYDNEY: Thousands of State Rail Authority workers facc stand-downs from tonight following the failure of yesterday's ...

trove.nla.gov.au

Canberra Times said:
The Premier, Mr Wran, had earlier warned that tens of thousands of SRA employees would be stood down immediately if the five-day strike was not settled.

He said the strike was having a tremendous effect on the State's economy, costing millions of dollars a day.

Railway workers would have to understand they had no God given right to bring the State to a halt with impunity

The sooner we build more metros and convert existing lines to metro, the better.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Us ordinary centrist Australians, we respect working folk and we like our Unions.

And we condemn Biden for escalating the war in the Ukraine.

 

[Suitman]

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I’d be happy with an inheritance tax.

kicks in at $12m but an off set for charity.

If your kids can’t survive on a couple of million each or whatever too bad.

With all the extra tax collected, I’d be helping out the poor and middle class people. More cash for hospitals and social services.

I might send this idea off to Penny Wong.

@Legal Eel is going to tell me it’s a state power not a federal one.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Not tool long ago, white Australians used to worry about their wives and daughters and those black people. So they made segregation rules about where they could (not) go in the pubs and other public places. It wasn't until 1965 that a movement led by Charles Perkins* turned society away from the refusal of service or segregation in cinemas, swimming pools, hotels and clubs.

This right wing trans intolerance has many parallels.

One parallel is that men and women still use segregated public bathrooms. Is that intolerance? If men are such a threat to women, how do we know they are no longer a threat just because they have transitioned?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Us ordinary centrist Australians, we respect working folk and we like our Unions.

And we condemn Biden for escalating the war in the Ukraine.

Spoken and authorised by Silverdale for the Centrist Party, Campbelltown.

 

[Gronk]

As much as Delboy is a complete muppet, I do agree that we have totally rooted the whole idea of sex and gender and are now in a weird place. Science is being ignored in favour of 'feelings'.

Not something that personally impacts me, but an undeniable observation in my view.

Transgender is accepted throughout asia / pacific islands / subcontinent and those people are loved and never ostracised. It’s the post colonial retention of norms that old farts stubbornly cling to.