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Rather than watch that shitstorm, much better option is to watch the Late Show with Colbert. He is recording his shows live after each day of the RNC. Brought his Colbert Report character back for a segment last night, after going "to the woods" to find him with Jon Stewart :lol:
HAHA I saw that this morning..Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Colbert also crashed the stage at the RNC dressed as a character from the Hunger Games.. (I didn't really get it, as I haven't seen those movies, however it was pretty interesting to see the reaction and him being escorted from the stage)
He has been doing that Hungry for Power Games segment since his new show started. He basically skewered each candidate as they dropped out of the nomination race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bon
Yeah see I never got in on any of those guys shows so I don't think id 'get' the joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Besides, laughing at the RNC is filling up too much of my day already.
I mean, those bigoted assholes chose a Queen song to come out to.
Hey, they'd send Freddie Mercury to jail but geez that songs got some pop.
Just a perfect reflection on how out of touch those asshole politicians are.
haha literally one of the first jokes Colbert opened withQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
"nothing says conservative values like coming on stage to the music of a bisexual Englishman"
:roflz:
:lulzturtle:
So if I made a TV show you'd watch Mr Furns?
Depends if you have more than one joke ;)
Hmmmmm, sounds like a fairly short TV show then.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Besides, I don't really have any material, more so I just throw the banana skins out on the sidewalk and watch people fly.
My man is over in the squad thread still having an argument with himself.
I find that hilarious. But I see how it's not much of a spectator sport.
I mean even Third Eye Blind is getting in on this circus.
Third Eye Blind!!!!
Praise Griff what a time to be alive.
Ted Cruz should have just stayed home today the world wasn't ready for him to come outdoors.
It's amazing now seeing the delegates turn on these assholes one by one now they aren't flying the flag for their team.
That's an endorsement and half.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
They ain't been famous since the Knights had a decent team
So kevin from brisbane won't be the next UN secretary General.
He would have been shit and virtually no chance of being elected, but surely the government should have at least put his name forward!
Plenty of examples of petty shit like this in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Also plenty of examples of the new crew looking after the old crew so they in turn get looked after later in life.
Julie Bishop 'bout to get the plum gig of ambassador to Iraq after the next election.
**** em all I say.
KRudd has gone full tilt scorned woman on the whole deal too - has released correspondence between him and Malcolm basically showing him going back on his word to support him.
Geez let's hope he doesn't get those emails confused with him backing Julia, Julia backing him, Bill backing both of them, Turnbull backing Tony, Bronnie backing herself.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
A pox on all their houses.
I mean generally ex-PM's end up being on the right side of hindsight.
Keating was a ****, now he's a messiah, Howard was out of touch, now he's a statesman etc etc.
But geez no one is ready to let Kev back into the fold are they.
Blokes got funnel webs on his back or something.
Keating is an economic illiterate but when it came to taking the piss out of the conservatives during question time he was in a league of his own.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Why he's a messiah today though is puzzling considering he and Hawk were pretty much the force that destroyed the union movement in Australia,
We can classify goods and services in an economy as:
1: Wage goods.
2: Non-wage goods.
Labour and workers produce both wage and non-wage goods.
However, a worker / labour will only purchase wage goods and therefore the price of non-wage goods is meaningless to them with respect to their purchasing power.
Therefore, we usually consider a basket of goods when determining changes to the purchasing power of wages.
This has some problems as well and there is often debate about what goods to include and exclude from the basket. But overall, it sort of works out ok.
When we want to know the real value of say for example GDP we will apply a deflator which reflects the changes in the prices of both wage and non-wage goods.
Lots of different methods to do this that have long since left my mind but the conclusion will always be the same.
Real wages are determined with respect to a basket of goods and Real Income [GDP] is determined by the changes in prices of all goods .
Hence you need to use a different type of index / deflator depending on what it is you are measuring. Simply applying the one method to wages and GDP is unsound because it will include items wage earners never buy or indeed exclude non-wage goods that non-wage earners will buy.
Oh.. I retired on Friday so I have a little too much time on my hands these days........ will probably do a John Farnham within a couple of years due to boredom and the need to grind away at myself.
Carry on.
congrats on the retirement Dunster.
what's the definition (and examples) of wage/non-wage goods? since you've got time on your hands.
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...l-commissioner
well, this is going well.
It's only a finger pointing exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Nowt will get solved.
May as well chuck Pat O'Shane in the chair and really ram home how bad the white man is.
1. Inquiries into indigenous affairs.
2. Tax reform.
3. Hyundai A-League football in the future reports.
Lump em all in together.
Hand wringing horseshit at its finest.
Nuclear Reactors, tanks, Jets, Ships, ICBM's.... and so on are non-wage goods. We use wage labour to create them but those that create the product more often than not will never purchase it.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Wage goods are things wage labour produces and purchases like food, drinks, clothing, cars, houses.....and so on.
The mathematical and statistical significance of all this is well beyond me though and better left to others with greater brain power.
So.....Census next week.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-0...census/7678198
Thoughts?
Count me inQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
How come they can get the census online, but can't do online voting for elections? Online elections would save so, so much money. I know someone who every election works as a vote counter, and she gets paid $42 an hour to do it!
I'm all for an online census, but my big question is why we have to wait until the night of August 9 and can't just do it when we please over the next week. Surely come next Tues night when we're all logging on to do the census, the servers are going to crash or be stupidly slow?? Sounds like a disaster in the making tbh. I've already got enough server issues with the fxxxing loading screen of Pokemon Go ffs (inb4 Jeterpool)!
This is your chance to make "Griffology" a documented religion btw!
Given that Griffo actually exists and has performed miracles wouldn't that disqualify him from being a documented religion ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
I mean we're all in consensus now that Sarah Hansen Young is the biggest ****wit of them all yeah?
What a clown.
http://www.hellashriners.org/images/...AtImperial.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Looks like the Greens have called a special pre-census meeting
This is fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...14-gqsclh.html
Dickheads, oh they were from the Central Coast well I'm not really surprised.
As shitful as the behaviour was, the continual linking of any thing like this to 'the resurgence of Pauline Hanson' is just as shitful.Quote:
Originally Posted by skippy
Fairfax journo would have dead set run out of breath in the rush to print that headline.
True but I mean what is the world coming to when you can't be critical of another persons imaginary friend ?Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Yeah look the protest was fine by me, whatever floats those dudes boats. But doing it inside and with the megaphone was a bit over the top.
Also in the vid there are some real nervous peeps up the back who got the hell out of dodge the first sign of trouble.
$10 says they thought a massacre was coming. Which I guess ain't real funny.
I was actually taking the piss. Trespass is a serious offence and should be dealt with accordingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Interesting how the Pollies are trying to block the Adam and Steve plebiscite
Seems they want the voting done in Parliament where they can control what happens
If so many of the population are in favour of Adam and Steve getting married then what is there to be afraid of letting the people vote??
Or is it a case of the bullshit left agenda being completely full of shit that the people want same sex marriage??
I am thinking the polling on this isn't ****ing close to accurate and that's why the pollies are running scared of letting the people vote on it
Because the party administering the plebiscite is being highjacked by the hard-right who dont want it to pass. Your Cristensens, Bernardis and the rest of their RWNJ cabal have already said that they dont intend to vote in favour of amending the Marriage Act regardless of the result of the plebiscite, and Lyle Shelton from the Religious Zealots Alliance is already lobbying to have the discrimination act watered down so he doesnt get done for hate speech during the leadup to the plebiscite. So a poisonous divisive campaign where a section of society will be demonised in all sorts of awful ways for weeks on end, and then at the end of it it can get vetoed down even if the majority of australians vote for it. All for the measly cost of $160m+.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Yep, a bargain that.
And lets not forget we wouldnt even need to amend the Marriage Act if little Johnny H didnt sneakily redefine it as "man and woman" in 2004. Didnt need a plebiscite for that, shouldnt need one to change it back. Get it out in the open and done in parliament with a free vote and move on ffs. Cant believe in this day and age that the vocal minority still manages to hijack the conversation in this country.
They voted on it a few years back and it was rejected. In fact champions of the left Rudd and Gillard voted no (shorten and Turnbull voted yes). Stop making out one side of this debate is so damn righteous.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
This isn't a simple left/right issue.
If Turnbull changes his mind then Shorten (rightfully) screams "broken election promise" just like Gillard and Abbott both copped, and look how those broken promises nailed their chances of hanging onto the top job.
Turnbull is trapped, and it's got nowt to do with Bernardi and the other nutters.
You are getting a plebiscite, so campaign for your side and scream louder for your team than the people you disagree with.