Ian Winthorpe III posted:

drat, in calling me a racist you appear to have won the debate and addressed the issue. You should Call your mum and tell her

urseus posted:

Probably not very much if it was confined to a single day rather than a lifestyle.

Marsupial Fish posted:

I'm going to add to the job hunting there with a couple of questions.
I sent my resume to a mob and they got back to me wanting a couple more details.
But a few things are not sitting comfortably with me.

It's an office/admin-type job.

Firstly they want to see a copy of my drivers licence, and I wonder why they'd need that at all, as it looks like I'd be driving a desk all day.

Marsupial Fish posted:

The working hours would be 7am - 4pm. a 42.5 hour week as normal, doesn't seem too normal to me in this day and age. Or am I being too sensitive about it?

Marsupial Fish posted:

Apparently if I pass the interview they ask for a day of unpaid work as a trial. I know the general consensus on unpaid 'trial' work, but this one seems fairly legit. ow many of you folks would tolerate doing this in the process of getting a new job?

Marsupial Fish posted:

After a successful trial day they then book me in for a general medical check...again, this is just an office job.

Oh, and they want me to do a Briggs-Meyers personality test. I did let out an involuntary laugh over the phone when the person mentioned this.

Fruity Gordo posted:

I just did a quiz on buzz feed and my spirit animal is an otter

Jean Paul Otter posted:

Hell is Otter people

Seagull posted:

Mr said that in Japan you should just go up to women, force their head onto your crotch and shout "Pikachu".

Bifauxnen posted:

poo poo, those comments make we want to dox them and submit a hard copy to every woman who ever encounters them in real life.

gay picnic defence posted:

Has to be a photoshop, surely.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

I got an international Chinese student pregnant, I don't want the child or be with her, but she would not get an abortion. I don't know what her intentions are, but I think she might want to use it to get Australian residency, but I don't really care about that.

I want to know, will the child be an Australian citizen if born here and will I have to pay child support for the next 18 years??

Cleretic posted:

Abbott's going to get laughed out of his own G20, right?

Our Tone posted:

cutting red tape
contributing to global trade liberalisation

NTRabbit posted:

I had that happen to a friend at University, entirely their documented fault, but he still had to take a year off study to work and pay back the debt, which he did back in his country town home, not being able to find work that would let him stay in the city and pay back centrelink at the same time.

Except he ended up not paying it back, because he was killed when he lost control of his ute on the way home from work one evening. 10 years ago now, but I still blame them.

Mad Katter posted:

ewe2 posted:

I have an aboriginal friend, I've always said Koorie with him, he's happy with that. Some aren't though; I do say indigenous because in some states they hate Koorie.

Laserface posted:

I thought you guys didnt like gendered insults?

Totally throwing my understanding of Auspol out the window here guys.

Laserface posted:

Honestly I prefer to be called Fuckwit because dickhead reminds me of the struggle of my people.

I appreciate the people in this thread that post articles and facts as its a great way to keep in the loop with regards to politics. You made me a greens voter so you should be happy that you got another person out of the "my dad votes X so I'll vote X" club.

You guys seem to get way more upset about the fact that you might upset someone than actually offending someone. Its sort of dumb.

Kommando posted:

news from goonmeet : CrazyTolradi is not on the electoral roll.

Avshalom posted:

Someone, not naming any names, skimmed campaign funds to buy peyote for her community garden.

Murodese posted:

Yes, she's making GBS threads you. The actual thing had something to do with sex workers from memory, but I forget what it is.

Fruity Gordo posted:

Can you get mescaline from it?

Griffball posted:

Pretty sure I'm worse, I chose to live here. Callala anyway.

BBJoey posted:

Sometimes when I'm driving from Canberra to literally anywhere else I see animals and they scare me.

Nuclear Spy posted:

Just went through the Facebook comments on the Australian Greens post of this video - 193 comments and I cannot find a single negative one, not even a troll.

Amethyst posted:

I already apologized for my initial careless usage of a gendered term cartoon. I don't think it was a transgression that required this ludicrous attempt to frame me as an MRA, but it reveals an awful lot about your vacuous partisan politics.

Gorilla Salad posted:

So we're going to restrict what the filthy poors are allowed to buy now, are we? Who wants to bet they'll still be able to spend up on Foxtel?


Hi, I'm an LNP politician. I will implement needlessly cruel laws that cause suffering to hundreds of thousands of people. I will illegally imprison, in conditions akin to torture, thousands of the asylum seekers we're legally and morally obliged to aid. I will demonise you for anything outside the white heterosexual 'norm' and see you discriminated against daily and do nothing. I will even change the marriage act to enshrine the discrimination against you.

What? Someone pointed out my family's suckling on the public teat and getting cushy arts placements and diplomatic jobs? That's not fair!!!!!


All politicians should be fair game for everything they loving do. Take one second to remember all the poo poo Abbott's trying to bring in and then tell me I should loving care if he's exposed as the lying cheating sack of poo poo we all know him to be.

Boo loving hoo.

Matthew Beet posted:

Squats over thread.

*ugggghnnnnn*


Hits post




Auspol!

Those On My Left posted:

For the record, Laserface, here's why your post was dumb as poo poo:

Using "sewing circle" to describe a collective of people engaged in petty trivial gossip is a sexist thing to do. This is because

(1) Sewing circles have unarguably traditionally and historically been groups of women. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_circle

(2) Society has long trivialised social interaction and discussion among women by perpetuating the stereotype that gossip is predominantly the domain of women.

These things hold true whether or not there is anything essentially or inherently feminine about sewing. They hold true whether or not the person doing this analysis believes that sewing is women's work.

So it is possible to observe that "sewing circle" is a gendered slur without actually holding any stereotypically sexist beliefs yourself.

In fact not only is it possible, it's actually the only informed view to reach.

Kegslayer posted:

You have a young man die on a live broadcast in what was a completely unexpected freak accident.

For gently caress's sake auspol of all the poo poo to whinge about this one's pretty far down the list.

adamantium|wang posted:

Looks like Harcher is starting up the leadershit machine again:

TFA posted:

Whenever a government looks like it is about to sink a few things always happen.

The first is that opinion pieces start appearing suggesting that there are organisational issues with the Prime Minister’s Office – usually targeting the chief of staff.

ABC TV posted:

Frankston, with 5.7% counted. This is from the Liberal end of the seat (i.e. the south), and there’s a 6.0% swing to Labor. Maybe the rest of the electorate will behave differently though.