AusPol: Commemorating 100 years since the Ottomans stopped the boats

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Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

TheIllestVillain posted:

confiscated his family's scary looking ornamental sword because somebody somewhere said something about a beheading

Plastic sword.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:00

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# ? May 16, 2024 16:24

Gough Suppressant: Nov 14, 2008

Zenithe posted:

Plastic sword.

Plastic is pretty scary due to it's non-biodegradable status from an environmental perspective

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:03

Mad Katter: Aug 23, 2010; STOP THE BATS

Good thing the cops have all their metadata, who knows what could have happened otherwise?

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:06

Cleretic: Feb 3, 2010; Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

QUACKTASTIC posted:

I assume it's a backhaul issue. Was ok for the first week of Netflix, but now I'm getting dial-up speeds during typical peak hours.
Thankfully theres a whole bunch of newspaper articles that show you how to fix these bandwidth problems - the answer is Foxtel!

e. it took me three page refreshes to even post this. can you imagine a time where you can't post on the internet!?

My family hit a usage limit we've never hit before, but it might have been a combination of Netflix and me getting a new gaming PC that needed games.

Today we're hitting unchartably low speeds (as in, a speedtest I'm trying to use won't even connect) for no clear reason, though. We're not downloading anything big or using Netflix, it's just poo poo for some reason.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:12

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

It's Saturday morning and everyone is hammering Netflix

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:19

Seagull: Oct 9, 2012; give me a chip

i can't believe they confiscated a plastic sword. every couple of months i'm reminded of this and my mind boggles

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:33

Seagull: Oct 9, 2012; give me a chip

*grizzled senior federal police officer looking over a plastic sword* this.... this is absolutely hosed. sharia law *shakes head*

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:34

Seagull: Oct 9, 2012; give me a chip

*votes 1 jacqui lambie network*

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:35

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Was there a TPP thread floating around somewhere?

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:45

Negative Entropy: Nov 30, 2009

Holy poo poo, I've looked at the business card Rod Harding handed me and it has this:

He looks like some action hero, a sheen of sweat, a stern expression. He looks like Michael Westen about to put on some sunglasses and have the bridge behind him explode.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 04:57

CATTASTIC: Mar 31, 2010; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In all my thirty years on the force I never had to deal with this kind of hardware.

*holds Marvel Avengers Hulk Smash Fists in pastic baggie*

One week from retirement and I had to land th' mother of all cases

*shakes baggie*

Then it hit me, all the pieces came together - the Muslims' secret...

They're always angry...

*stuffs Marvel Avengers Hulk Smash Fists into coat pocket*

It's gonna be a long night.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 05:02

CATTASTIC: Mar 31, 2010; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kommando posted:

Rod Harding is my ~~porn~~ grizzled private eye name btw

CATTASTIC fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Apr 18, 2015

# ? Apr 18, 2015 05:05

Nuclear Spy: Jun 10, 2008; feeling under?

Kommando posted:

Holy poo poo, I've looked at the business card Rod Harding handed me and it has this:

He looks like some action hero, a sheen of sweat, a stern expression. He looks like Michael Westen about to put on some sunglasses and have the bridge behind him explode.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 05:29

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Pred1ct posted:

Jesus christ, teaching women how to deal with 'risky situations'. I assume it involves teaching MMA moves and how to take down attackers Bourne Identity style because you wouldn't be blaming women for walking on the street right?

This could actually be a good thing, if only it weren't painfully obvious that their rape classes were really going to be "blame women" classes.

Any class teaching women about how to watch out for rape should start with big letter up on a screen saying:

Rape is never your fault.

Then:

Nothing you did, said, wore or went in any way justifies rape.

Of course, what will really happen is "You had a few drinks and wore a dress which showed them shameful titties, therefore you have no one to blame but yourself."

# ? Apr 18, 2015 06:32

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

It's going to be a girls etiquette class run by a convicted rapist

# ? Apr 18, 2015 07:14

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Nuclear Spy posted:

Can I reprint this as a business card and hand it back to him?

# ? Apr 18, 2015 08:14

Endman: May 18, 2010; That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die

Do it.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 08:20

CATTASTIC: Mar 31, 2010; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

End... who?

# ? Apr 18, 2015 08:47

Skellybones: May 31, 2011; Fun Shoe

End Labor Waste.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 09:18

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

stop the boats

# ? Apr 18, 2015 09:21

Orkin Mang: Nov 1, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Jumpingmanjim posted:

stop the boats

stop. them. boats.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:20

duck monster: Dec 15, 2004

Sludge Tank posted:

Irrelevant post warning

I was talking to the photographer who took this photo

When I asked him who he worked for and he told me "Herald Sun", I went "ahhh... I see" and he immediately goes "judging eyes!"

I told him about my bad experiences with the Hun and he said "yeah I'm just a photographer. I don't get involved n the politics stuff I just take the photos, the photos tell the story. I don't really care too much, it bought my house and my car" and then proceeded to brag about all the cool stuff he's done with his job.

Whats happening here? Why are the cops dragging off a little girl?

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:20

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
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It was ages ago during protests agains education cuts

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:39

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

duck monster posted:

Whats happening here? Why are the cops dragging off a little girl?

it was from an old bust the budget rally.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:39

Sludge Tank: Jul 31, 2007; by Azathoth

duck monster posted:

Whats happening here? Why are the cops dragging off a little girl?

Some student protest a year or so ago. I can't remember, and the guy who took this photo doesn't remember either. What I found more disturbing was he quite happily said in no uncertain terms that he was fine with his photography being whored out to suit an agenda even if he didn't agree with their ethics, because it bought his house and his car.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:40

Gough Suppressant: Nov 14, 2008

I would be so loving stoked if that was my kid.

If the police were my kids on the other hand, what a disgrace.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:41

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
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It wasn't just the herald sun either, noted dullard Annabel Crabb wrote this:

quote:

Are student protests outdated in our era of communication?

The last few decades have turned our world upside down. The end of the Cold War changed politics. The advent of the internet has deluged us with a mighty, confusing, exhilarating torrent of information, bringing with it previously unimaginable ways for human beings to come together, to talk, argue, share knitting tips and to deliver to vast audiences a tiny but resonant truth about something happening in their own backyards.

How, then, can it possibly be that student protests have not changed even one little bit over that time? And how can it be, as even our phones gets smarter, that protesters are somehow getting dumber?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing there is nothing to protest against in the budget, nor that university students should not take every opportunity to explain what the full deregulation of tertiary fees in Australia will mean for parents and children.

I'm just wondering why university students � who should be the most connected, educated, cutting-edge communicators in our country � are still protesting like it's 1969.

I think that's probably about the year when the chant "No cuts! No fees! No corporate universities!" was invented, along with its idiot twin "Hey hey! Ho ho! (Insert minister's name) has got to go!".

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:41

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
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There is no longer any need for protests, what with all the silicon chips and such

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:42

Gough Suppressant: Nov 14, 2008

It takes a special type of poo poo to look at protesters and go "god, haven't these people heard of slacktivism???"

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:43

Sulla Faex: May 14, 2010; No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with ENDLESS SHITPOSTING

Why would you go to a protest when there's nothing to protest and everything's fine, just fine, never been better, return to your homes and loved ones.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:48

Sludge Tank: Jul 31, 2007; by Azathoth

Amethyst posted:

It wasn't just the herald sun either, noted dullard Annabel Crabb wrote this:

I'm not afraid to admit I find rally chants really loving annoying and an eternal source of crowd-awkward when it starts to fizzle out or some neckbeard tries to start a new one.

Just all out carnage m8 grab a chair and start swingin no need for lame chants

# ? Apr 18, 2015 10:50