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AlphaKretin posted:I'm disappointed; I can't find the NT News saying anything amusing about the recent spill motion. Five PMs in five years and the  The front page the next day:  EDIT: Beaten 
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theflyingorc posted:what is a spill in this context A boring, legal, political version of a coup within a party basically. Liberal agreed to sack Tony and bring in "Rich Dude".
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WebDog posted:The NT news did do this: I feel the  of the bottom half, is tempered by the  of the top half.
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theflyingorc posted:what is a spill in this context In Australia you don't vote for your PM, you vote for a representative in your area. The party that is able to get enough seats to hold the votes is the one that forms government. Quite often this involves dealing with 3rd parties (or cross benchers). The party that forms government elects a leader internally who becomes PM. Internal machinations of late have meant that we're now on our 5th prime minister in 5 years. Kevin Rudd was well liked by the people but loathed internally, Julia Gillard was slaughtered in the press because Rupert Murdoch has a boner for right wing men rather than capable women and so she got replaced before an election with Kevin Rudd again but too late. Then we got the onion eater (Tony Abbott, look it up. Raw onion, skin and all) who, will not loving a dead pig yet, managed to let his own hard right ideology get in the way of looking like an idiot 24 / 7. For 2 years he promised great things and spectacularly managed to choose the thing that most Australians find abhorrent, daft, pointless, damaging or all of the above. Abbott survived one spill 6 odd months ago ~60/40 to literally no one. 40 people in his own team would rather have had no one in charge (not quite how it works but still) than have him. After making himself look worse at every step the hard right in the party decided they'd make the socially liberal, fiscally conservative guy eat a bunch of crow on everything he stood for and most of what the people liked him for they knifed the onion eater and put Turnbull in charge. tl:dr The spill in this case is when there is a contest for leadership in the party that controls the government at that point in time, which happens to get us a new prime minister fairly frequently these days. ninja edit: That smarmy grin for an avatar some kind soul bought me is our current pm.
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Birb Katter posted:In Australia you don't vote for your PM, you vote for a representative in your area. The party that is able to get enough seats to hold the votes is the one that forms government. Quite often this involves dealing with 3rd parties (or cross benchers). The party that forms government elects a leader internally who becomes PM.
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Wouldn't there still be George and Charlotte?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Wouldn't there still be George and Charlotte? Yes but I think it's safe to say that he was too crazy to remember that, if he ever knew it.
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 Meerkat-keeper guilty of assaulting monkey-keeper over love triangle with llama-keeper Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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So much drama in zoos.
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Man shot in the groin for bag of chips
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This reads like one of those sentences constructed specifically to illustrate points about grammar like "eats shoots and leaves" or "the strippers JFK and Stalin". AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 02:28 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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Sep 27, 2015 02:19
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This reads like something out of the Ankh-Morpork Times.
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Screaming Idiot posted:This reads like something out of the Ankh-Morpork Times. This is probably stretching the topic a bit but everyone needs to see it
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I take back everything I've ever said about vine. 
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PYF Strange News and Headlines - The Cheese of Truth
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:PYF Strange News and Headlines - The Cheese of Truth It goes great with the ham of truth.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ka2nkIi2I
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Travis343 posted:It goes great with the ham of truth. Throw both of them in UCB'S Bucket of Truth and you have a Dennys breakfast 
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White man trying to buy gun shoots self in penis — blames it on a black guy What is it with guys being shot in the dick this month?
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AlphaKretin posted:This reads like one of those sentences constructed specifically to illustrate points about grammar like "eats shoots and leaves" or "the strippers JFK and Stalin". It’s a garden path sentence.
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This is a lovely loving phone pic that I'm ashamed of but it caught me off guard because I was too busy laughing at the headline before it*.  "Prime Mimimster" *"Ex-PM Abbot says he could have won the next election, yeah, sure. 
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 Sailor DID NOT use raccoon to bypass breathalyzer[
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I don't think so. There's no change in meaning anywhere, the subject is just not the expected one.
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Dylan16807 posted:I don't think so. There's no change in meaning anywhere, the subject is just not the expected one. also known as "a joke"
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Woman Fulfills Lifelong Wish of Becoming Blind
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quote:she decided to blind herself - by having a sympathetic psychologist pour drain cleaner into her eyes. gently caress
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Only in nc
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How is that legal, not malpractice, etc
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blugu64 posted:How is that legal, not malpractice, etc It's most definitely not, and it most certainly is.
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It's like a surgeon curing cancer by just killing the patient.
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drgnwr1 posted:White man trying to buy gun shoots self in penis — blames it on a black guy I'd like to think if there's a god, this is how he's keeping idiots from reproducing
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CJacobs posted:It's most definitely not, and it most certainly is.
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