mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

Hey, lastfm eventz page sez mounto goatingt0ns are touring in May!

I will actually go this time round, I swear.

in press published an interview a couple of weeks ago iirc

tix went on sale mid-Jan

Weird, I didnt spot it in my usual mailing lists.

Yikes lucky I checked, tix were almost sold out already and the show isnt til May. Bloody eck.

prepare to be depressed

Australia's household debt as a percentage of disposable income has been stuck at 150 per cent – the highest in the world – for about five years. Twenty years ago it was 50 per cent. In other countries it has come down, albeit painfully. Interest paid as a percentage of income has doubled in 20 years.

And the underlying cause of this is the high price of land in Australia. It is one of the mostly sparsely populated nations on earth, yet the cost of land is among the highest in the world, crippling the citizens with massive debts and leading to hugely profitable banks.

The combination of rising population, a lack of arable land and artificial restrictions on residential development in cities has led to a six-fold rise in the median house price since 1986, from $93,000 to $550,000 now. Over the same period, average household incomes have risen 3.5 times.

It's true, as ANZ Bank's economists pointed out in a recent paper, that mortgage rates have halved over the same period, but that doesn't account for the psychological impact of debt that is 1.5 times income, on average, nor, more importantly, the fact that averages like these imply that many people are above average, and deep in the poo.

The result is that it's a major problem to means test the 30 per cent health insurance rebate so that individuals earning $124,000 and families on $248,000 won't get any help. All of a sudden lots of people on that sort of money are battlers now. Why? Because of debt.

soooo glad we never bought

battlers now. Why? Because of debt.

i don't buy this

last week there was a load of noise in parliament (mainly the coalition) claiming that rich people were doing it tough

also apparently there are ads with some woman standing out the front of a mansion whining about losing the rebate

masturebate, morelike

Aside from being unable to afford anything, at all, ever again in Australia, what have I missed in the last 11 or so months?

You back are ya?

Your football team has moved. To Hobart.

Oh, and "Baby John Burgess joins Balls of Steel Australia as the game show host from hell."

reprising his role

anybody have new order true faith 12"

need it to make a ~~seduction mix~~

I only got it on "Substance" and that seems to be the reg version

i have it d'ld from the recycle bloog

oh i got that too. was more about having vinyl versh to do mix start to finish on turntables. maybe i should look at renting CDJ for a couple days

I have some NO vinyl at home I can check once I get home... somehow dont think i have the twelvy of that track tho.

(also my vinyl is all in a right state :/ )

So what's going on down there now, political chaos or something?

mayhemming and hawing

So what's going on down there now, political chaos or something?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:29 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Peter Garrett's former boss resigned

rong thread ned

oh lord

k4th4rin3 murphy is a moron imo

what did she do

started an article with "Kevin Rudd appears to have launched an audacious pitch for the Prime Ministership with..."

sounds fair to me

this bit

"There is one overriding question for my colleagues and that is who is best placed to defeat Tony Abbott," he said.

"Tony Abbott is on track to win and has been for a long time."

as well as the other bits

i don't buy it, and now i pretty much entirely believe this whole twaddle was entirely media beatup with no substance

lol @ me talking like i know anything about politics

Be funny if so many ppl have given up on both sides teh Greens won.

Anyway isnt the next election not for ages yet? I can never keep track.

next year

or this thursday, take your pick

pm gillard has just announced a leadership ballot will be held on monday morning.

the leapfrogging on both sides is fascinating (as is the bridge burning, jesus christ)

I honestly stopped caring years ago :/

relevant quote from another bord

So it turns out I was wrong about Michelle Grattan making all this shit up.

oh no, she probably was still making it up

just that her invented reality and actual reality matched up for once

even a stopped clock etc etc

hi

Ha nyancat. Did u pilfer that off angru.

mite have done

Bloody hot oot.

good day for drinking imo

Would that I had anyone to go drankin w/ :(

im hittin the 0ldie w/ h-man

hrm. Wut time? I might actually drop in. I dunno. Depends how hot it is. Havent been to the oldy in ages. Or is the outside bit likely to be a sardine tin?