The 2013/2014 Off Season Thread

[The Elephant In The room]

I don't get the skiers and snowboarders who wore their ski pants loose. I get fashion (OK I don't get THAT fashion) but why do it when it could be detrimental to their performance ?

They were just preparing for their post performance shag fest.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/w...-tinder-memories/story-fnl611g7-1226835958450

 

[Gronk]

Horrific scenes in Syria with people queuing for UN food handouts.

They have our Governments sympathy and support in this humanitarian crisis. Just as long as they don't come here on boats right ?

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Gronk, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of countries a lot closer than us who can help them.

 

[Avenger]

Gronk, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of countries a lot closer than us who can help them.

Exactly. Like their oil rich middle eastern brothers.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Exactly. Like their oil rich middle eastern brothers.

Like the ones allied with at least half of the people responsible for these poor buggers' plight?

 

[Avenger]

Like the ones allied with at least half of the people responsible for these poor buggers' plight?

Well choose the other half.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Horrific scenes in Syria with people queuing for UN food handouts.

They have our Governments sympathy and support in this humanitarian crisis. Just as long as they don't come here on boats right ?

Terrible situation, but I originally thought it was a screen shot from world-war Z.

 

[Avenger]

Get the yanks to take them. They seem to stir shit in those parts anyway.

 

[Twizzle]

If you listen to the libs they are saving them from possible drowning by not letting their boats enter our country

all they have to do is stay at home and face this every day

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Exactly. Like their oil rich middle eastern brothers.

Any country in Europe, Asia or Africa is closer than here. Go there, it's easier.

 

[Gronk]

Get the yanks to take them. They seem to stir shit in those parts anyway.

All they were after is democracy and a fair go mate. Something that we take for granted here.

How did it all start? The trouble began in 2011 in the Syrian city of Deraa.
Locals took to the streets to protest after 15 schoolchildren had been arrested - and reportedly tortured - for writing anti-government graffiti on a wall.
The protests were peaceful to begin with, calling for the kids' release, democracy and greater freedom for people in the country.
The government responded angrily, and on 18 March 2011, the army opened fire on protesters, killing four people.
The following day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals, killing another person.
People were shocked and angry at what had happened and soon the unrest had spread to other parts of the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16979186

 

[Gronk]

Maybe they just come from the wrong part of the world for us to give a f**k about.

About 45 per cent of all admissions under the Humanitarian Program came from the regions of the former Yugoslavia, and it is this group that prompted two innovations in Australian policy: the introduction of temporary 'safe haven' protection and the introduction of financial incentives to return home.
War and internal displacement throughout the 1990s were the main causes of the intake. Proclamations of independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) by Croatia and Slovenia in June 1991 marked the beginning of the disintegration of the SFRY. The Serb forces of the SFRY retaliated and, in March 1992, when Bosnia and Herzegovina also proclaimed independence, the SFRY laid siege to Sarajevo. The UNHCR began airlifts into Sarajevo on 3 July 1992. The humanitarian air-bridge was in place for more than three years and about 3.5 million people in the former Yugoslavia were helped by UNHCR. During the crisis, the Balkans experienced the worst atrocity in Europe since the Second World War when, in July 1995, 7000 men and boys were massacred by Serb forces at Srebenica, Bosnia. The Dayton Peace Accord, of 21 November 1995, ended hostilities in Bosnia but in March 1998 fighting erupted in the southern province of Kosovo.(3) Australia took in 8544 people from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 6517 from Croatia, between 1992 and 2002.

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliam...ibrary/Publications_Archive/online/Refugeess4

 

[born an eel]

If you listen to the libs they are saving them from possible drowning by not letting their boats enter our country

all they have to do is stay at home and face this every day

the more we accept that can afford to buy their passage on a boat, the less people we can take from more dangerous situations.

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Maybe well off people from the Eastern Suburbs who believe in their plight could help them out. Take them into their house and give them a leg up.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Like the ones allied with at least half of the people responsible for these poor buggers' plight?

The refugees are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims - same as all the Gulf States, as well as Turkey and Indonesia.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Horrific scenes in Syria with people queuing for UN food handouts.

They have our Governments sympathy and support in this humanitarian crisis. Just as long as they don't come here on boats right ?

There are 2.5 million Syrians displaced due to this conflict. How about we bring them all here?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

All they were after is democracy and a fair go mate. Something that we take for granted here.

I don't know if you saw the Arab Spring unfold in other Middle Eastern countries, but 'democracy' and 'a fair go' are mutually exclusive in those places. The Syrian regime were well aware of that.

Wherever these people rise up and demand 'democracy', the only thing that changes is the implementation of elections, followed by the tyranny of the newly empowered majority. Human rights abuses ensue.

If the Syrian Sunni majority got the democracy they were asking for, there would be wholesale oppression of the Syrian minorities, including the Alawites that currently 'rule' in Syria.

 

[Gronk]

There are 2.5 million Syrians displaced due to this conflict. How about we bring them all here?

Pou, I think Pauline Hanson stole your login.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It's obvious you have been the only one using your own, unfortunately.

Lucky you'll never have to worry about refugees living anywhere near you or your kids, hey?

#PlentyOfRoomInTheWesternSuburbs

 

[Gronk]

It's obvious you have been the only one using your own, unfortunately.

Lucky you'll never have to worry about refugees living anywhere near you or your kids, hey?

#PlentyOfRoomInTheWesternSuburbs

Playing the suburb card is weak as piss and shows you've got nothing left in your bag of tricks Pou.