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Post by rockdodger on Jan 16, 2022 11:24:11 GMT
"There were cynics who doubted the clowns who run this country could maintain their high standards of idiocy into this third year of pandemonium, but here they come again, tripping over their giant shoes as they enter the ring. Buffoons of that pedigree were never going to let us down. True to their vision, we’re trapped in a miasma of bumbling incompetence, leavened with spiteful, vindictive meddling in our private lives. Polka-dotted bowler hats off to them, I say. What a wacky week these crazy kids have delivered us. But before we luxuriate in the comic masterpiece of the Australian Open and Government’s removal of its reigning champion, Novak Djokovic, late on Friday, we should pause to applaud the latest jewel in the crown of our leaders’ stupidity: the screamingly funny $1,000 fine for not filing your positive rapid antigen test to the NSW Government’s gnomes. The early promise and backbone shown by the NSW Premier suggested he’d fluffed his lines, but normal nonsense programming was restored at the prompting of his Health Ministry halfwits and a couple of Sydney talkback windbags. Their barrage of uneducated blustering and bullying, echoed by the shrieking flock of Chicken Littles that nest in our print media, saw the Premier’s resolve evaporate like the morning mist. Given his Government has no idea who among its subjects has the RAT kits (I bought a couple of packets a month ago – or did I?), nor how many they have, or whether they’ve been used, correctly or otherwise, or by whom, or what result they gave, it seems unlikely that any fines will be collected. So, an unenforceable law to deal with an undetectable offence with a mighty but undeliverable penalty. If there’s a more amusing way of inviting contempt for the rules and their creators, I look forward to it. You can see the appeal, though: at a grand a pop they only need to catch 11 million recalcitrants and – bingo! – that’s paid for the 58 million PCR tests we’ve conducted so far. Besides, self-reporting has marvellous potential. In some U.S. cities there have been calls to defund the police, but our jokers have gone one better and outsourced the role to the citizens. A simple command to report oneself on pain of punishment – why did no one think of that before? “Hello, NSW police? I drove home on New Year’s Eve and used a breath-test machine to discover to my horror that I was marginally over the limit. Please suspend my licence for three months – oh, and there’s a cheque for $1,500 in the post.” Meanwhile, infections continue to climb, hundreds of thousands a day, boosted by the eager self-testers who uploaded their results to the health services website. So after nearly two years of kicking it, here’s where the can has ended up." Hey Foxy, who is your source? It appears to be someone NSW & as you are unvaccinated in Europe (are you not?🥴) it cannot have been you that put this master piece together🤔
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Post by rockdodger on Jan 16, 2022 11:50:55 GMT
Hey Foxy, who is your source? It appears to be someone NSW & as you are unvaccinated in Europe (are you not?🥴) it cannot have been you that put this master piece together🤔 People on Thunderboat are always asking for 'evidence' and 'sources' but I think this is only to make themselves look like they're taking 'a scientific approach'... or, more usually, to belittle the source. There are some here who think that 'fact checkers' don't work for the Government, and are 'independent'. I was under the general impression that not everyone is very happy in Australia with the way their government is running The Covid Show. I think Australia is going to be crossed off many people's lists of holiday destinations with the tyrannical way their ministers and the Police have been behaving. Looks like there are shortly to be many more 'unvaccinated' in Europe with people who don't want the 3rd 'booster' being demoted to the status of 'unvaccinated'. I am genuinely impressed with this article & was looking for an easy way to follow more of their articles.... oh well I suppose I will have to do it the hard way.😒 At least "Google is my friend" 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2022 12:56:29 GMT
Funny thing: when Fuxx used to bang on about immigrants all the time, Australia was a paragon of xenophobia whose policies we should be emulating.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2022 13:13:28 GMT
People can have differing views on different subjects, and this is perfectly acceptable, but some people are intentionally ignorant of that fact. More to the point, they like to prove how thick and pathetic they are.
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Post by Jim on Jan 16, 2022 13:28:53 GMT
People on Thunderboat are always asking for 'evidence' and 'sources' but I think this is only to make themselves look like they're taking 'a scientific approach'... or, more usually, to belittle the source. There are some here who think that 'fact checkers' don't work for the Government, and are 'independent'. I was under the general impression that not everyone is very happy in Australia with the way their government is running The Covid Show. I think Australia is going to be crossed off many people's lists of holiday destinations with the tyrannical way their ministers and the Police have been behaving. Looks like there are shortly to be many more 'unvaccinated' in Europe with people who don't want the 3rd 'booster' being demoted to the status of 'unvaccinated'. I am genuinely impressed with this article & was looking for an easy way to follow more of their articles.... oh well I suppose I will have to do it the hard way.😒 At least "Google is my friend" 🙂 Grow up man, "belittle the source". No, check it's provenance, see if it is reputable and truthful. If not, belittle the poster for lack of due diligence. From the odd post that gets quoted I see it's mostly unatributed nonsense from the bowels of the internet.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2022 13:36:28 GMT
I am genuinely impressed with this article & was looking for an easy way to follow more of their articles.... oh well I suppose I will have to do it the hard way.😒 At least "Google is my friend" 🙂 Grow up man, "belittle the source". No, check it's provenance, see if it is reputable and truthful. If not, belittle the poster for lack of due diligence. From the odd post that gets quoted I see it's mostly unatributed nonsense from the bowels of the internet. Dim Jim, the divot.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2022 13:43:37 GMT
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Post by rockdodger on Jan 16, 2022 13:47:44 GMT
A couple more insults and then I have to move a load of logs: "When I spent a month in Australia about 20 years ago I was struck by how parochial the Australian media was. Important events outside Oz barely made the news there. If little has changed since then it might make Australians less likely to be able to view events with any kind of sensible perspective. I also do remember a couple of run ins with petty bureaucrats, a particularly obstructive customs guy at the airport in Perth, and some stupid dress code at a not very special bar in Sydney. So perhaps the authoritarianism has always been lurking just under the surface. Having said that, outside of the cities I experienced great kindness and gruff Aussie hospitality, so it’s a real shame what’s happened to the place. Ruined by the metropolitan elite I suppose, just like Britain." "This is an interesting point. Australians have very little time for those who think differently, or step out of line, or take a contrarian view. It’s considered ‘unAustralian’, which is an actual word, the existence of which proves my very point. Barry Humphries used to go to the football in Melbourne in 1959 and stand in the crowd, with his back to the game, knitting. Brilliant satire on the entire Australian mindset. Like the other very few geniuses produced by the wide brown land, Barry had to leave Oz to have his particular brand of unique intelligence recognised and celebrated. So yes, Australians even have a name for it, the tall poppy syndrome, meaning if you stick your head up, it will be cut off. It’s considered very poor form to think for yourself down under. Which explains why they are at 95% vaccine uptake and frothing at the mouth like lunatic lemmings at Djokovic daring to be different." Foxy foxy foxy, I trust you meant the insults to Australians in general and not pointed to me, because you see Ross old bean, like you I am a furriner, you in Europe & me in Australia - so if they were directed to me you missed by a long mark, any way dont let me detain you from moving your load of logs.😇
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2022 13:48:29 GMT
You don’t need to reference the book, you’re a prime example.
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Post by thebfg on Jan 17, 2022 7:38:26 GMT
So he's been deported.
Except they can't seem to make their minds up on what happens now, one minister is saying that the three year ban is in place but the PM seems to be saying that they will review the ban as and when he wants to go back.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 17, 2022 8:22:08 GMT
I understand (from an antipodean acquaintance) that the normal thing is a 3 year ban, that can be reviewed, on request, within that period.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 17, 2022 11:14:18 GMT
'Life' in Australia:
"When I first saw this, I genuinely thought it was a poorly-done spoof having a go at vaccine extremists who think it's okay to encourage children to go behind their parents' back. Turns out it's actually being promoted by those extremists."
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Post by thebfg on Jan 17, 2022 16:56:02 GMT
The second one is quite funny
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 15:42:09 GMT
There is a post by naughtyfox above this that Some may have chosen to hide. ---- You are correct that vast numbers of people don't "get it" and will go along with it. This is how society works. It can't be any other way. As I said before there is a hijacker on the plane. Where they are directing us who knows but there is a major removal of basic freedoms underway. I suppose it is inevitable but it is concerning. I don't get influenced by any of the nonsense going round but this is major and not just about a bad dose of the flu. I fear for the control capability of the internet. Yes I am posting on here but has anyone really thought through this Facebook metaverse thing and Microsoft buying up a large online gaming company? Humans are being robotised for profit generation and they start with the children.
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Post by Jim on Jan 18, 2022 18:59:46 GMT
There is a post by naughtyfox above this that Some may have chosen to hide. ---- You are correct that vast numbers of people don't "get it" and will go along with it. This is how society works. It can't be any other way. As I said before there is a hijacker on the plane. Where they are directing us who knows but there is a major removal of basic freedoms underway. I suppose it is inevitable but it is concerning. I don't get influenced by any of the nonsense going round but this is major and not just about a bad dose of the flu. I fear for the control capability of the internet. Yes I am posting on here but has anyone really thought through this Facebook metaverse thing and Microsoft buying up a large online gaming company? Humans are being robotised for profit generation and they start with the children. You could quote him and force us to view it. My eyes my eyes!🤣🤣🤣🤣 I doubt, while the words are legible individually, combined that they make any sense in the real world. So no, CBA.
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