I love how he proudly bleats about how orrsome Job Network was. Like fuck i was. I had to use that program at one point while on the dole. It got me a remarkable zero leads for work. No interviews. Nothing. They had no idea how to hadle jobseekers who were actually skilled professionals - they didt even have an IT category! It wasted my fucking time having to show up to the damn things AND spend time seeing recriters/Seek etc.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
gah typos galore, I need a new laptop.
they're happy with 'borrowed money' when it's falsely inflating an untenable property market
Shh, don't mention that. It's not the most important issue facing a bunch of people today, certainly not... surely brown people on boats taking our jobs is more important than THAT.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
THIS. Why is nothing being done about the fucking cost of fucking housing in this country? Shitsnacks, we pay NYC prices for housing in the major cities. I'll never afford to own even a flat. It toads the wet sprocket.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
No party currently in Parliament has any plans of doing anything about housing affordability, and each one actually has beliefs that actively work against people who aren't on "the ladder of opportunity" getting on it - all they do is pull it up behind them. It genuinely is the most important human rights AND economics issue facing the country. Oh no, you can't build that medium-density housing in this area that's perfect for it because of amenities, it'll reduce the value of my home, and it's the government's job to protect my investment. But not other people's, luvvy.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
Indeed. NIMBYism and "I got mine mate, fuck you" attitudes are so rife. It angries up the blood.
...christ I have got to stop using Simpsons/Futurama quotes in everything I post.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:28 (eleven years ago) link
Like curently the Vic govt are looking at selling off the parklands/playgrounds around some of the inner city housing estates to build SHOPS. As if Brunswick st needs more shops when half the ones there are empty as it is. FFS.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
If I were dictator, these are the first people against the wall:
People who introduced the first home buyer's grantPeople who believe in the free market for everyone else but think government's should protect their investment (home value)People who think fucking ugly old buildings that use shitloads more energy are "heritage" when they should be bulldozed and replaced with apartmentsPeople who block public transport and public space developments
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
governments, not government's
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRq4QREq8F_voRiVmkhR-986bmXvE-fB617GeQ-Ivbs25zaTZjbHA
NEWSFLASH, WE ARE NOT IN ANY DANGER OF RUNNING OUT OF THESE THINGS.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, I'm on the fence wrt heritage protection. I like old buildings! And tbh a lot of new apartments are built so cheaply and badly that the energy usage/enviro concerns arent always allayed. Its an interesting challop tho :)
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
Know where some of the most wasteful, old, uninsulated dwellings are? Bandt country - the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. Okay, it's mostly because they're renters, but it's an interesting irony.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
I've made like five posts in this thread without calling Tony Abbott a cunt, so I've got to do something about that. Tony Abbott is a cunt.
I WANT TO PRINT OUT WALLOGINA.JPG AND SEND IT TO HIM, WITH AN ARROW POINTING TO ONE OF THE GINAS SAYING "YOU" ON IT
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
I <3 u EdO
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
THo now I just had a horrible vision of a "wallogina" being a wall of this:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/files/imagecache/home_content_listing_large_thumbnail/Whatginawants-a.jpg
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
Do you think there is a shortage of inner urban apartment developments in melbourne edward?
I certainly dislike privileged suburban nimbyism, but it seems to me that (new) supply is outstripping demand, at least here.
Though a lot of that may be b/c of a mismatch between where people want to live and where large apartment blocks can be built now (other than south yarra/prahran/docklands). Enormous apartment blocks going up in South Preston and no-one's buying, perhaps because they're marketing to young professionals who think the world ends about 6.5k north of the city.
― Tim F, Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
actually lol at me for implying people want to live in docklands
― Tim F, Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
Tim thats a good point, but the problem is they're all overpriced apartments and often pretty pissy for the price (tiny, badly built). I'm not surprised they arent selling. Also haha yes Docklands urgh what an urban planning disaster thats been.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
My comment about there being not enough _affordable_ urban development is a Sydney-centric gripe.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:59 (eleven years ago) link
tbf when I nearly took a job in Melbs two years ago I actually considered Docklands as that's where work would have been!
adding:
- people who bitch and moan at the *TINY TINY* national debt because debt is a bad thing, yet in the same breath nag the hell out of ME (yes ME actual ME) to take out a 25yr home loan on a $700k house
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:59 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ that, a hundred times.THOSE PEOPLE. Most of whom probably bought a few houses at 30k each and now earn that on each one as a rental.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
btw if there were genuinely a housing shortage here, this is what would happen
http://www.eveandersson.com/photos/south-africa/cape-town-township-khayelitsha-30-large.jpg
and that is not happening
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
THOSE PEOPLE. Most of whom probably bought a few houses at 30k each and now earn that on each one as a rental.
dead set they are fucking evangelists. they bought a house back when they were $150k (roughly 30% of annual income) and just expect that we can afford to drop 4–5 times that despite wages not going up anything like 4–5 times, and they nag and nag and nag and nag and nag and nag and nag
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
WEll sure, but people who want to buy are forced to rent. When in a healthy market, people who want to buy should be able to buy, while those who want to rent would continue to rent.
x-post
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
wtf did i leave that '30% of annual income' figure in the post for, ignore ignore xp
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
precisely
300%?
300% pure love.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
and yet here we are, life renters, because (a) it's affordable, (b) we can save/invest the difference between rent and mortgage payments on the same place (which is seriously 200-250% extra) and (c) because gillard, rudd, swan, howard, costello and keating farm cocks
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
by that i mean if you rent a place for $400/wk, if you were to buy the same place it'd cost $1200+/wk in mortgage payments
btw we did a stack of ~accountant~ research and discovered that you get tax kickbacks up the goona if you rent out a property to someone else, but if you live in your own house you get fa
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
i'm angrier than usual because i am unwell and all the windows are leaking
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
To most people - housing: essential, human right. POlicy is geared towards treating it as any other non-essential commodity, when there are really compelling social and economic reasons to make it affordable to own your own. There are thousands of people who don't want to live in the big cities but feel compelled to, for instance.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, there's a job going in Melbs I'd be perfect for and would have a good chance of getting. The thought of ditching rental life and moving down to, say, Geelong (where the majority of the fam will be in six months anyway) is pretty tempting at times.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:13 (eleven years ago) link
what's amazing is how quickly we went from ~the great australian dream~ to germany-style renting is the norm. a major difference is germans don't have their entitled parents hassling their kids to drop 600 kiloeuros on a bedsit in alexanderplatz
xp geelong is definitely better than it used to be but you'd be tied to owning one car per person, and there's only one train line (which you may have heard is not reliable because melbourne)
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh hai gillard, rabbit, these are ~the real issues~, not boats
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
I may have spent several months in 2010/2011 commuting Geelong to Elsternwick for work, so I am quite familiar with that. I don't drive, so I'm fairly relaxed about slow trains.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
ah k
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
Tho I'm pretty happy with my rental situation tbh, the unit I live in is massive and a bargain for its size and price. Because I'm only on a contract til end of the year it suits -- if situation changed and buying was what I wanted, I'd be stupid pissed about prices. My annoyance at housing affordability is actually NOT selfish right now!
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, we won't be buying either (it doesn't make sense in an inflated market)
it is amazing how the very people who are terrified of inflation in every other area (currency, grocery prices etc) just sort of sit and gawp at property hyperinflation like it's perfectly fine. i know it's because they're investors but the hypocrisy is incredible. it also reinforces how incredibly out of touch both major political parties are—most people i know (many quite well off) can't buy into housing and are pissed off about it.
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
...which brings us round to how soundly democracy is failing
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
okay, democracy in itself is not failing, but the part about representing every person is failing. another thing about all the people i know is that many of them are disengaged from politics beyond the gladiatorial/spectator sport aspect of it all, because they're being ignored
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh it's the usual, we have the two closest-together major parties in Western democracy, but the most rabidly partisan, tribal voters.. it was bound to happen. Why are we surprised.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
john faulkner keeps telling the alp they've lost touch with the people but they're all 'DUDE SHUT UP, WE'RE TRYING TO RUN THIS WESTERN SYDNEY FOCUS GROUP'
xp the tribalism is utterly utterly whacked. i don't get it. i do not get it. i'm also sick of people who are bolt-on howard lickers accusing me of being a labor shill because i'm not as extreme as they are. it's not even possible to have your own opinions where those people are concerned. if your values don't align perfectly with one of the two majors, you're lying to hide something. that's what amounts to discourse these days.
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
get a blog adam
oh also there's this thing where gillard/swan might say e.g. 'we will increase family benefits slightly' and the murdoch press runs this with a straight face
http://www.independentaustralia.net/Wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/australian-budget-front-cover_090512125211.jpg
and there goes analysis, out the window
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
Labor would do better if it professed some level of pride in the product it's selling. Dudes, you've won more elections than you've lost since the eighties, the country is not rabidly against you as an insittution, so quit acting like the last 30 years of history are some kind of clerical error. Oh and Liberals, get some fucking policies, you fuckfaces.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, if murdoch were dead and the profit-haemorrhaging news ltd had been allowed to fall on its arse 40 years ago, we wouldn't be having this race to the right
anyway thanks for listening, i'm of the high horse for the time being
http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/zQAHjDwYq6U/mqdefault.jpg
xp utterly utterly otm. labor has deserted itself along with its support base. no narrative, no consistency, gillard doesn't even respond to the party majority (e.g. marriage equality, which the party officially supports)
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
Other things I would do if I was dictator: execute everyone involved in Q&A - please note, getting partisans from every side to argue with each other is not balanced, it is retarded.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
Marriage equality is... uh.. I've got fatigue about the issue. Yes, it'd be nice, but it seems that small-l liberals these days don't do anything to come up with solutions to other problems that need some good progressive thinking. It's all "oh of course I'm a progressive, I believe in gay marriage, and.. I like refugees!". Okay, great, get out there and do some shit to solve some of the easier problems (i.e. gay marriage is all very well and good and I support it, but it mostly benefits the stable, well-to-do in the gay community anyway. Whereas the ones who are discriminated against in the workplace and can't get affordable housing and who have health problems... uh. less so, sorry that was a parenthetical too far)
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Well I can't sleep. What a shitty day.
Abbott is a cunt. He would rubbish our great institutions so much that Australians don't realise that they are excellent by world standards. Rudd is a cunt. He used to be for a Big Australia. What happened? Gillard was a cunt. Nobody did more to make Abbott look like a Prime Minister than she did.
I am going to give my preference to Tanya Plibersek because I don't see any point in replacing her with a Green. I do see a very large benefit in replacing that cunt Ursula Stephens with a Green though, so I'll be voting Green in the Senate, turning the barbecue on and then practising my Swedish intently because I am going to need it.
― i'm not not licking choads (edwardo), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Nobody did more to make Abbott look like a Prime Minister than she did.
perfect summary of election 2013 imo
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 September 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUk7JklvjT4
― Vernon Locke, Saturday, 7 September 2013 09:51 (ten years ago) link
blue saturday
― estela, Saturday, 7 September 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
i have not seen a boat all day so
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 7 September 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
Can I just bitch that FINALLY the Greens put up a candidate in NSW I actually liked and gave my vote to and it looks like she won't even bloody win. FOR. FUCK'S. SAKE. FUCKING LYING CHEATING ARSEHOLES THE SO CALLED "LIBERAL DEMOCRATS" AND THEIR FUCKING DISHONEST NAME JAGGING THE LEFTMOST POSITION ON THE BALLOT AND GETTING VOTES FROM FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DO NOT READ, BUT EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE FUCKING IDIOTS WOULD STILL BE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO VOTE FOR LIBERTARIANS IF THEY WERE PRESENTED AS SUCH.
Hate forever.
― i'm not not licking choads (edwardo), Sunday, 8 September 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
i put those fuckers right near the bottom fwiw
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 September 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
http://browncardigan.s3.amazonaws.com/imagesfarm/2013/0NjQuHmAWfX8yx5.jpg
― Dan I., Sunday, 8 September 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/e718acd6f73dd2ddfdecf95f2e6a2132/tumblr_mskly8abMF1sxv2vuo1_500.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 September 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link
FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL OF BRYLCREEM AND GIANT EARS
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 September 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
twooter is telling me this about first preferences:
- lab 33.85%- lib 31.72%- grn 8.42%- nat 4.57%
go home proportional representation you're drunk
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 September 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
too depressed/angry to have anything to add here
oh wait there is: the senate is now full of halfwits and extreme right nutbags, well done senate voting system
thankfully a certain poster in this thread's incredible impersonation of julie bishop last night amazingly cheered my spirits
― hipster racist (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 8 September 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
just hearing about it has lifted mine, i loathe julie bishop with a vengeance.
― estela, Sunday, 8 September 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
it really is too depressing to talk about, what is there to say.
― estela, Sunday, 8 September 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
what will you do when she's prime minister
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
Does doing this work or
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTjhNmnCMAAhjcX.jpg
― i'm not not licking choads (edwardo), Monday, 9 September 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
I was looking up Jamie Briggs (my bastard MP) on Wikipedia to see who he slept with to get his safe seat, and saw his categories incolude "Category:Coprophagous animals"
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 9 September 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
yes but i can't see what you're doing
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 September 2013 06:51 (ten years ago) link
Who Cares: The 2013 Australian Federal Election Thread
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Monday, 9 September 2013 07:47 (ten years ago) link
ahhhh
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 September 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
My seat's rusted-on labor, but not for the reason you'd expect (unless you kno where I live). Danby's been in the seat nigh 20 years now. He's one of only 2 jewish MOP. He ain't ever gonna lose while he's running. He won again of course. I'm cool with this, tho a green candidate in my area would seem as possible as in Melb so I'm not sure why all the StKilda hippie parents didnt get in.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link
I was on the phone to mum y'day and heard dad in the background come in the door and realise she was talking to me and he yelled "LOL HOW ABOUT THOSE GREENS OF YOURS" at the phone, and I calmly advised mum "actually Adam Bandt won his seat as it happens" and that shut him up.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:10 (ten years ago) link
bahaha. does he know they have three senate seats too?
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:28 (ten years ago) link
gillard hate will not be a patch on abbott hate six months in― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:52 PM (1 year ago)
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:52 PM (1 year ago)
eight months in but still
to quote the Washington Post, "one of the world's most hated Prime Ministers"
― "that guy from nokia mobile phones!" "what mobile phones?" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link
old but still funny
http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott-lame-gay-churchy-loser-says-his-daughter-20090813-eiu1.html
― eat sock become sock (electricsound), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
sounds like a kid to invest in
― "that guy from nokia mobile phones!" "what mobile phones?" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
― hipster racist (King Boy Pato), Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
every time i see her rancid smug face i think of this and lol, even though i didn't even see the impersonation.
― estela, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
to quote the Washington Post, "one of the world's most hated Prime Ministers"― "that guy from nokia mobile phones!" "what mobile phones?" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:17 PM (1 year ago)
― "that guy from nokia mobile phones!" "what mobile phones?" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:17 PM (1 year ago)
haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― Eric Banta (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 27 August 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link