Pato election commentary. This thread is going to be GOLD. Please post pics of the candidates.
question: if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?
― sunny successor, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Sadly, not that genuine stud (or that gay sex symbol himself, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey) but the rather lovely MP for Adelaide.
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
If you elect a new leader, will your countrymen please fuck off out of East London en masse?
That would be about the same time when your countrymen fuck off out of East Sydney en masse?
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw shit, someone beat me to that cliche.
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that would please a lot of people. (xpost)
― sunny successor, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?
No, they changed the law so nobody under 50 can vote (I was told this by Triple J).
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?"
The H of R and Senate seats you would vote in are both determined by where you live in Oz, and as you don't live in Oz at all, I would guess not. It might depend on whether you own property use in Oz, or how long you've lived elsewhere and whether you intend to return.
(KBP, is 'East Sydney' also known locally as 'West Dunedin'?
― Fred Nerk, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
roffle of the day from JOHN LAWS of all people: he interviewed howard and rudd on his show this morning. an early talkback caller commented that he sounded quite pally with rudd and antagonistic toward howard, and asked if laws was getting paid by the ALP. lawsie asked the dude if he was being paid to be a fuckwit!!
― haitch, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course 'Disgusted of Drummoyne' wasn't being paid to be a fuckwit, Lawsy.
At least nowhere near as much as you are.
― Fred Nerk, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Paying Laws to be a fuckwit is like paying a rhinosceros to be ugly.
― Fred Nerk, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I never knew you lived in Fabulous Phil Ruddock's electorate?
I live there this week! Call me, Phil!
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
King Boy Deporto, not Estie.
Ask King Boy more questions, overseas people.
― moley, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I should mention that my local MP is totally hot and very much rootable.
samez, she in middle: http://www.anthonyalbanese.com.au/images/400Richmond.JPG
― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Phwoar!!
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
KBP, is 'East Sydney' also known locally as 'West Dunedin'?
West Dunedin is the entire coastline from Sydney to Cairns!
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why gangstas be hatin' on John Laws. Hegot dat bling bling, yo.
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r154265_554938.jpg
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
What's that shining in his glasses? A gold plated console?
― moley, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
This morning on Kochie and Mel the phone in poll voted 90% to 10 in favour of spending the $30+ billion on better services rather than the tax cuts promised by Howard & Costello. It looks like Joe Public's going to need more convincing than getting their own money taxed then handed back to them.
― badg, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG the public in thinking sensibly shock
― electricsound, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
is lawsy's ring a GOLDEN LION???
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, it appears so. There appears to be a ring of gold plating around the microphone too.
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's a gold plated behringer
― electricsound, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Gold suits him: It, too, is malleable, flashy, cold, lacking in intelligence and bought and sold every day by influential stockholders.
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Rudd has just announced a plan to release $6 billion [nine zeros] of Commonwealth land for housing. The subtext being that you can give anyone $20/week but it's freaking useless without somewhere to live.
Regarding polls: Even the Herald Scum website's poll [will Howard's FREE MONEY OMG policy make you vote for him?] was at 60% on 'no' this morning. Looks like the usual bait-and-switch tactic is not working this time.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooh, and Howard has just said he will only have one debate, and it will be this Sunday, and there will be no worm.* Not a good move, if his shambolic appearance on last night's 7.30 Report is anything to go by.
<i>* so clearly Howard will not attend</i>
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
when did the australian turn into an andrew bolt inspired howard fanzine?
― electricsound, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Quote from Howard: "If (Rudd) doesn't turn up, I'll still talk for an hour and a half."
PLEASE do that. PLEASE. And watch the ratings nosedive because you're talking for an hour and a half.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
1996?
u should see the Rudd adverts up here in Qld. That guy is SO Queensland.
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/8/4/26/f_BillyMooreWm_699669a.gif
etc.
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"when did the australian turn into an andrew bolt inspired howard fanzine?"
No later than 1975.
At which stage the Blot was still being bullied at high school. Frank Devine (father of the dreaded Miranda) and Alan Reid were the Merde's chief mouthpieces then.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"Blot" seems somehow appropriate.
― Kate, non masonic, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Blot's blog is insanely idiotic. Competely insubstantial rant after completely insubstantial rant, all stated as though it were all incontrovertible.
He tones down his opinions for Insiders because he knows they'd never hold up against the mettle of proper journalists.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I remain baffled as to how ppl like him get away with the shit they spout, I mean how is he not getting his pants sued off?
― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
He works for Murdoch.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Blot is an A-grade clot.
At the Melb Writers Fest last year he took exception to some comment Hannie Rayson made, and walked out.
He was sitting about half a dozen seats from one corner of the theatre, and walked out of the door in the opposite corner. Show-boating clown.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Both my flatmates work for Murdoch :/
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
and that is how conservatives mount an argument.
What was he doing at the Writers Fest anyway? Shouldn't he be hating on all the artists?
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Guessed it in one.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Howard and Costello are still demanding Labor release its tax plan immediately. On day three of a six-week campaign. This bullying tactic can't be going down too well.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Aussie pie shops in London, where? I want a floater.
― Ed, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I want a floater.
-- Ed, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 07:35
Oh, I say.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL at the Liberal voting bogans of the mortgage belt having a whinge at RED KEV's $6b land scheme because it will devalue the properties that they have put a mortgage on (that they can't afford if the rate goes up 0.5% - that's the kind of stupidity that "Howard Battlers" are famous for).
Because HEAVEN FORBID that Generation Y should be in any danger of owning their own home or any type of land within 50km radius of any major city.
Thankfully, I get in inherit property so I'm pissing away my twenties. Huzzah! Vote Greens!
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
My husbands parents bought us a nice big house to live in....but there are strings attached....HUGE INVISIBLE STRINGS...but they are there, oh yes.
― Kate, non masonic, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
What do you mean "when"?
The fact that Andrew Bolt gets PAID to write that extreme right wing tripe is an indictment on journalism in this country.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Outside Shepherd's Bush tube.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
It is a tad unfair to associate the Australian with the Blot. The Oz's intellectual and ideological avatars are a Causescu-esque Mr-and-Mrs team called Dennis (The Menace) and Angela Shanahan. Rabidly reactionary the Oz may be 99% of the time, but at least there are SOME two-sentence paragraphs, and not that many of the all-tortured-verb headlines that are such a constant feature of the more batshit-insane right-whinge bleat sheets.
Andy the B wields his poison crayon for one of those, the Melbourne daily tabloid Herald-Sun, which is a slightly less rancid version of the Fleet St Sun or Mirror - I suppose a bit like the Daily Mail.
It is not, however, the worst newspaper in Australia by a long chalk. That would be either the Sydney Telegraph (Telegraft?) of which one Piers Akkermann is the leading light, or the Hobart Mercury.
Floaters? As I remember from Minder, the under the Hammersmith fly-over was quite a good spot to start looking.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Kate, non masonic,
I imagine they would be strings as thick as ropes. What a dilemma.
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
A pie and pea floater from Harry's cafe de wheels would be nice right now.
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^ congrats on not c+p'ing T. Martin's tweet about Joyce
― an terror has occurred (sic), Monday, 14 December 2009 10:32 (fourteen years ago) link
As if I'd steal T. Martin's work and use it on ILX.
Meanwhile, I am perplexed by my cousin's choice of Facebook groups. First she signs up to the group "No Kevin By 2011" and five minutes later she has become a fan of Bob Hawke. I...don't get it.
― no mate bruce springsteen is the american jimmy barnes (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 December 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i met bob hawke in a bar last year
― jabba hands, Monday, 14 December 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
he was v orange
Are you sure it wasn't some drunk tanned bloke going "aaaaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhh"?
― no mate bruce springsteen is the american jimmy barnes (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 December 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^remind me to show you my hawke impression
― blarinet (electricsound), Monday, 14 December 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't be as good as my Hawke impression. It isn't next-level like my Howard impression, through.
― no mate bruce springsteen is the american jimmy barnes (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 December 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
what amateur hour horrors have you wrought with your reminiscing, jabba hands.
― estela, Monday, 14 December 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
good thing i didn't mention the time i met the goatse guy tbh
― jabba hands, Monday, 14 December 2009 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Rudd out?
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
well this could be intersting
― kilgour's chronic (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm
― t-shart weather (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I so didn't believe this was going to happen.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Thursday, 24 June 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I've completely missed all the hoo-haa tbh, work's been the worst busy ever in my life. Is this kind of ousting/coup really rare and unusual? Is this like what happened to whitlam? im shit at politics
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 24 June 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
no this is more like hawkey/keating
― t-shart weather (electricsound), Thursday, 24 June 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the third leadership spill we've had in the last year, pollies be forgetting how to be a party
― dyaon't (sic), Thursday, 24 June 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i hope the sex party doesn't have a spill
― t-shart weather (electricsound), Thursday, 24 June 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Haw.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 24 June 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Well done, Ozmalia.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda feel a little bad for the dude tho
― t-shart weather (electricsound), Thursday, 24 June 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Liberal candidate punched in face over asylum policy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/18/2956861.htm
GAME ON
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck wrong thread
― bettina arnderpandts (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link