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It's good to know that the reason we're getting rid of knights and dames is because they aren't modern enough.
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Nov 2, 2015 00:52
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I think fully sick is even more outdated than knights and dames.
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Nov 2, 2015 01:10
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Les Affaires posted:Regarding knights and dames, from the AFR story: Of course the Queen agrees. If she didn't she wouldn't Queen for long.
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Nov 2, 2015 01:55
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Solemn Sloth posted:She has managed to stay on another 40 years after involvement in a coup against a democratically elected australian government so I don't think knights and dames was going to be the tipping point m8 Is there anything to substantiate that?
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Nov 2, 2015 02:05
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It's not that I think he's lying, but wouldn't something like that be a bigger deal than it apparently is? If the Queen really was interfering in Australian affairs then it would be a fairly powerful argument for ditching her. I'd have thought the republicans would be all over it.
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Nov 2, 2015 02:17
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I have considered that but it doesn't seem like it would make a difference. You only need one or two people to make an issue of it to get it investigated.
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Nov 2, 2015 02:25
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I was thinking more like Four Corners or something like that.
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Nov 2, 2015 02:59
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There's a difference between politicians selling us out, which in a 'representative' system they're perfectly entitled to do, and the Queen throwing her weight around.
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Nov 2, 2015 03:04
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It was 40 years ago so whatever the case it's a fairly academic question, but it would still be interesting to find out. Prob have to wait for Charles to die before anything that could confirm or contradict it gets released.
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Nov 2, 2015 03:30
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It's in his best interests not to know anything. Looking forward to our modern, mature economy.
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Nov 2, 2015 07:01
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Distinct lack of nuclear transport options.
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Nov 2, 2015 11:13
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Replace them with robot horses.
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Nov 3, 2015 02:57
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NTRabbit posted:For the first time ever a woman jockey won the big horse race, in an industry that is cruel to horses and fuels gambling, at an event that promotes binge drinking culture, in Melbourne, who on winning said "I just want to say to those who say women aren't strong enough, get stuffed" You'd have to have a pretty hazy understanding of your own beliefs to be conflicted by this.
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Nov 3, 2015 05:45
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Splode posted:Motorbike racing doesn't have the entrenched gambling culture they want though They're just not pushing it hard enough.
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Nov 3, 2015 07:56
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Hard breaks are where everyone comes unstuck.
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Nov 3, 2015 23:58
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How can you be a Christian if you don't believe in, or are agnostic about, the central tenet of Christianity?
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Nov 4, 2015 05:48
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The central tenet of Christianity is that Jesus is (the son of) God. If you think that's up for debate you're not a Christian you're a heretic and a blasphemer.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:54
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Arguments about the trinity and whether Christianity is a contradictory polytheistic religion aside, the whole point of being religious is having faith. If you don't have that then you're not much of a Christian.
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Nov 4, 2015 06:00
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You can't doubt these things and call yourself a Christian.
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Nov 4, 2015 06:05
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Orkin Mang posted:though its true that most christains nowadays are agnosics but thats bc theyre not really christians in any meaningful sense. theyre humanists with anecdotes All the Catholics are excommunicated anyway, they just don't know it yet.
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Nov 4, 2015 06:15
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freebooter posted:Has any society ever actually toyed with the idea of Parliament (or at least Senate) as jury duty? No elections, no professional politicians, people's numbers just come up for a year of duty and they have to show up, debate and decide? This would be ridiculously easy to exploit.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:48
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That's intentional. The welfare cheat is the myth they use to take money away from people who deserve it, which is what they actually want to do.
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Nov 5, 2015 23:39
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Notice how they never have crackdowns on tax evasion, but they often do on welfare fraud?
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Nov 6, 2015 01:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Do you not pay attention to things like Wickenby? Most tax evasion is entirely legal so no not really. {EDIT: I guess I should say 'avoidance'. Whatever.]
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Nov 6, 2015 01:35
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You need a grid to sell the power, unless people are coming to your business to fill up a jerry can with electricity. Energy companies will become more like the big network companies that control the internet backbone.
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Nov 6, 2015 05:52
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Imagine if they sold bottles that didn't have anything in them.
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Nov 6, 2015 11:09
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Graic Gabtar posted:Well if he did flee OMG torture and OMG murder he probably should of thought twice about committing assualt that led to him ending up back in detention in the first place. Looks like the consensus we reached last time about you being a racist and a psychopath is holding true.
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Nov 8, 2015 22:50
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You don't even realise what you're being criticised for, much less what you're saying.
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Nov 9, 2015 00:21
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Did that make sense in your head before you posted it?
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Nov 9, 2015 01:43
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He said right there in his post. He doesn't have an argument, he just 'doesn't give a gently caress'.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:15
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If you think the government tortures people and you haven't formed a paramilitary group to launch a daring midnight raid on Christmas Island you don't really care either.
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Nov 9, 2015 03:20
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I can assure you that any insight was 100% intentional.
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Nov 9, 2015 03:32
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If you're not an armed revolutionary you're a counter-revolutionary.
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Nov 9, 2015 03:50
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When Hitler came to power I was on the first jet to Germany with my bazooka and bandolier.
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Nov 9, 2015 04:10
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Do you want to join my militia, Negligent?
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Nov 9, 2015 09:21
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So they should.
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Nov 9, 2015 23:43
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There are just as many idiots in Europe as there are here. We don't cater to idiots, we cater to people who think they are better than the idiots and demand that something be done.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:36
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Les Affaires posted:A land steeped in culture uses that culture to mitigate a lot of the things that would instead require rules, laws and force. If only we had a culture of our own.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:49
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These articles come up all the time and they're the most pathetic kind of handwringing, they're in the same vein as  people care more about Santa than Jesus
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The cops hardly find any grow ops. They might brag about their technology but they're forever busting them and it doesn't make any kind of a dent in the weed supply.
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