The 2013/2014 Off Season Thread

[Avenger]

One of the worst ever jobs I did was working casual jobs that Forstaff used to arrange whilst I was at Uni. One gig was Inghams Chicken where I had to put these chickens into the bag from a conveyer belt. I was convinced that the bag was too small but a Greek Lady next to me showed that you had to literally put your thumbs in the chicken's arse to make it fit and slide in. I felt for those people having to do that day in, day out.

 

[Maroubra Eel]

That reminds me of another story, but I might save it for later.

 

[Daneel]

One of the worst ever jobs I did was working casual jobs that Forstaff used to arrange whilst I was at Uni. One gig was Inghams Chicken where I had to put these chickens into the bag from a conveyer belt. I was convinced that the bag was too small but a Greek Lady next to me showed that you had to literally put your thumbs in the chicken's arse to make it fit and slide in. I felt for those people having to do that day in, day out.

I feel sorry for the people that had to eat chickens which have had your thumbs stuck up their ass

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

My problems with the budget:

* Chaplaincy Programs;
* The 30yo limit for the dole. Coulda lived with 25;
* Superannuation Concessions weren't touched.

In general, though, it's the kind of medicine that we need to swallow. The LNP didn't seek to go after anyone in particular. They looked at spending areas that were spiraling out of control over the next decade and cut them back, irrespective of what they were.

It sucks but if they pull it off we won't be wasting $30bn per year on debt interest by the middle of next decade.

 

[Gronk]

My problems with the budget:

* Chaplaincy Programs;
* The 30yo limit for the dole. Coulda lived with 25;
* Superannuation Concessions weren't touched.

In general, though, it's the kind of medicine that we need to swallow. The LNP didn't seek to go after anyone in particular. They looked at spending areas that were spiraling out of control over the next decade and cut them back, irrespective of what they were.

It sucks but if they pull it off we won't be wasting $30bn per year on debt interest by the middle of next decade.

So it was OK to rally the states to commit to Gonski, offer them gabillions in education funding and then cut it 7/8 months later ? Done so simultaneously with health cuts, all designed to increase the GST by stealth ?

You don't think that he's a lying merkin ? Surely you will admit that he, like his peers on both sides of politics, cannot be trusted ?

But Abbott, who said he "wanted to be known as a prime minister who keeps his commitments", for the first time categorically ruled out any change to the GST, even if elected for a second term, despite its inclusion in the Coalition's promised first-term tax review.
"The GST will not change. Full stop. End of story," he said.
He also promised no unexpected spending cuts, beyond those to be announced by the Coalition later in the campaign, saying pressure to cut further after the election "will be pressure that I will resist, I will defy ? I will do what I say we will do."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/treasury-disputed-forecasts-pefo-election

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Certainly a man of his word.

 

[Gary Gutful]

No politician can be trusted when it is so easy to sway public opinion. We get the sort of lying merkin politicians that we deserve.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I feel sorry for the people that had to eat chickens which have had your thumbs stuck up their ass

I won't be buying Ingham chickens in a hurry.

"Mmm tastes of old Greek lady thumbs"....:thumn

 

[Gronk]

I larf that Abbott said yesterday that if the budget does not pass through the senate that it will force a double disillusion election.

He went on to say that if we did go to the polls, that the independents will lose their seats & labor will lose even more. Really ?

I think Tony would get a rude shock. That's why he will not let it get that far.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I won't be buying Ingham chickens in a hurry.

"Mmm tastes of old Greek lady thumbs"....:thumn

One of my best mates, now in his 50s, became a vegetarian when he was 16 after working a summer in an Ingham's chicken processing place. Though I don't think it was the thumbs that did it for him.

 

[Gronk]

Christopher Pyne called Shorten a merkin. Are you allowed to drop the c-bomb in parliament ?

http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/pyne-calls-shorten-c-bomb-in-parliament/x78q4ru

 

[Poupou Escobar]

As long as you don't stick black or gay in front of it merkin is fine.

 

[Sensai Cobra]

What about white ?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I don't see what's offensive about being called white.

 

[Gronk]

Just spoke to a bloke who's surname is spelt COCKBURN.

He pronounces it "COE - BURN".

Nice try merkin. Failed.

 

[Daneel]

Just spoke to a bloke who's surname is spelt COCKBURN.

He pronounces it "COE - BURN".

Nice try merkin. Failed.

Had a principal at high school whose daughter was in our class and we called her Cockburn all the time. The principal held an assembly where he demanded that we pronounce his last name coburn. We didn't

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

As long as you don't stick black or gay in front of it merkin is fine.

There's a great line in Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch' where the author explains his great joy when he sees a big Nazi-looking soccer fan rise to abuse John Barnes, and he only yells 'You f**kin merkin'.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Had a principal at high school whose daughter was in our class and we called her Cockburn all the time. The principal held an assembly where he demanded that we pronounce his last name coburn. We didn't

Funny that. There was principal at a primary school in Coffs Hbr, where I grew up, whose name was Dudley Cockburn, and who was nicknamed 'Dudley Dickfire'. Unfortunately some wags told one of the local journos who'd just interviewed the principal that his name was Dudley Dickfire......got as far the early page plates before the sub-editor noticed the problem.

 

[Gronk]

OK OK he didn't say the c-bomb (yeah right).

Apparently he called him a grub.

Do you recall that Gillard got ejected from parliament in 2006 for calling the Heath Minister Tony Abbott a "snivelling grub" ?

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1652219.htm

And they reckon that Bronnie Bishop isn't bias ?????

 

[Twizzle]

He called him the C Bomb, its on Vimeo

Youtube nuked it.

Cant give you a link, sorry