I know, I know…
I don’t care when I’m talking about something I know, or when I’ve prepared, but doing improv. isn’t what I was looking for…
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Imposter!!! Though I can imagine Churchill as a high school student ( the real one )
Hahaha, me too.
…the real one was disobedient and uber Pro English to the point he ditched Latin for more English…
He’ll be the cool one on the block, with his slick greasers hair and leather jacket, yep, he was a ladies man.
“He’ll be the cool one on the block, with his slick greasers hair and leather jacket, yep, he was a ladies man.”
Thats sounds like me. (back when I had hair,) 
Hahaha, poor tankgeezer 
What pisses me off is when people do conserve water and don’t wash cars, and water lawns and all the things the govt. says we shouldn’t do to save water…then when we do save water the same govt. jacks up the water rates because…we aren’t using enough water so the water board has a budget shortfall!!!
Is that a R/L Catch 22 or what…
That sounds about right.
I have two children, both teenagers.
I reckon each of them is about .15 deficient in body mass, which is confined to their empty skulls where their brains should be.
Not greatly.
Our water supply problems are partly climatic but largely due to plenty of water now being in places where people aren’t (e.g. Lake Argyle in north western Australia holds about nine times the volume of (fresh) water as Sydney Harbour, but that’s no good to people in our largest city Sydney on the other side of the continent); to farming marginal land which requires irrigation; and to bad resource management, such as using the bulk of the headwaters of our major eastern continental water system to grow water-hungry cotton and rice inefficiently in essentially arid areas where the water storages are huge but shallow, so that much of the stored water is lost to evaporation. Same with thousands of miles of open water channels to irrigation farms in marginal areas.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/plea-for-cotton-farms-water/2006/11/06/1162661617879.html
http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve08/1378water.html
The bulk of our water is used to grow food for domestic consumption and export. If we lose the capacity to produce our own food, and to earn foreign dollars on exports to import the food we can’t grow, we are, and this ain’t brain surgery, stuffed.
We don’t have a total failure of water supply despite being in the (allegedly, but there is evidence to the contrary less than a century ago) worst recorded drought (but it’s only about 150 years of records, which isn’t even a blink in earth time).
We do have a serious problem with the location, allocation and use of the resource, but it’s made far worse because we are governed by cloth eared, brain dead idiots who wouldn’t know if a train was up them until the passengers got out. As demonstrated by the Water Minister in my state who, upon being asked why his government opposed the installation of domestic water tanks to capture significant rainfall from house roofs in the longest and worst drought we’ve experienced with our metropolitan and state water storages falling every year lately, said, and I kid you not, that domestic water tanks "fill up in winter when you don’t need them.” http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/to-dim-and-johnny-its-water-under-the-bridge-20081216-6zrs.html
There could not, of course, be any connection between government opposition to rainwater tanks where citizens harvest the bounty of the heavens for free as nature intended and our government relying upon privatised water companies to provide at a profit to them what a couple of decades ago was our right from the state water supply system we paid for from our water taxes, which were handed over to the private water companies for a fraction of their cost.
That’s been predicted here for the past three decades as an imminent problem.
It worried me, and others, the first time I heard it at a conference for senior managers of the life insurance / superannuation company we worked for thirty or so years ago, when it was predicted to destroy civilisation as we knew it by the year 2000. It ain’t happened yet. Oddly enough, its greatest proponents are salespeople for superannuation funds who are trying to frighten people into paying more than the government minimum calculated to provide a reasonable retirement.
The argument assumes that the only source of income is from personal income tax. The reality is that governments here derive income from other sources such as a 10% goods and services tax (= VAT in UK); taxes on businesses; and taxes on asset transfers, notably real estate. As the population grows and engages in taxable transactions, so does the base of those other taxes.
I think our government social security system for retired people might be rather less generous than that in some European countries, although I haven’t seen recent comparisons. It used to be that Scandinavia and Germany had womb to tomb social security systems that ensured everyone lived reasonably well all their life, but I don’t know if that’s the case now, particularly since Germany inherited the Soviet jewel in the crown, being East Germany. 
:rolleyes:
Here, we like to stick to the 80/20 rule, so that we spend 80% of our social security budget on the 20% of the population which causes 80% of the work for police, child welfare services, community services, courts, prisons and so on. Actually, it’s more like the 95/5 rule, but you get the idea.
By diverting our national income to these unworthy recipients, we ensure that money isn’t wasted on worthy recipients such as old servicemen and servicewomen who actually did something for the country; or on their families; or on just the vast bulk of the population being average people who worked and behaved responsibly all their lives while the shitheads just bludged and whinged and bred the next generation of shithead bludgers and whingers who will repay the nation’s misplaced largesse by destroying the government housing that’s given to them at minimal rent and whingeing about how their government benefit isn’t enough to live on as they sit stupidly before their 48 inch plasma TV while yapping on their top line mobile phone and hoeing into their take away mega meal which could have been cooked at home for a quarter of the price. Meanwhile the old soldiers and old age pensioners who lived responsibly have about the same government pension as the shitheads and wait for months or years to get into underfunded public hospitals for ‘non-urgent’ surgery to alleviate painful and debilitating ailments while the shitheads get immediate access to hospitals every time they overdose on drugs that they somehow manage to afford on the government pensions they whinge aren’t enough to exist on.
And all of that, and more in the same vein,
really pisses me off!
Bloody hell RS you took the words right out of my mouth.
I will only add the problems of water management(mismangement) have been around since the first settlers arrived in this country. For over one hundred years various governments have paid lip service to drought proof this country, but as RS pointed out most governments could not organize a piss up in a brewery.
The simple fact is for over thirty years NO government in this country has allocated adequate funds(if any in some states excluding Queensland) to build the infrastructure to keep pace with changing conditions or the increasing levels of immigration.
digger
One expeience which sticks in my mind was when I was first re-introduced to life as a civvie.
A few weeks earlier, I had been zipping around in the belly of a rotary-winged aricraft…So, there I was, waiting in the snow, for a bus which was half-an-hour late. Suddenly, the bus appears, I stepped aboard, the driver said “You must have the correct change!” There was I, covered in snow and more than a little miffed, I said “You can Foxtrot Oscar, Sunshine, you’re half-an-hour late! This is coin-of-the-realm, I want to go home - Driver, take me there!”
Next thing I know, he’s on the blower and the Bobbies are on their way…can you believe it? 
Haha, wow, that’s quite a story. So you were a military pilot?
No, I was cargo!
No matter how many minor to moderate things there are to piss me off, very occasionally there is something new and outstandingly objectionable to really get up my arse, which shits me mightily rather than merely pisses me off.
And here is a spectacularly obnoxious ‘shits me mightily’.
Rarely do I get a double-barrelled push up the pooper like this God-bothering and relentlessly publicity-seeking little pastor prick exploiting our devastating bushfires and the deaths of a couple of hundred people to push his own nasty religious barrow while a major federal politician who has sucked up to that pastor and his fundamentalist Christian fuckwits like a dehydrated piglet on a rubber glove suddenly distances himself from the bloke and electors who helped him and his neo-con shits into power, and who will suck up to them again when the fires have abated.
A FURIOUS Peter Costello has rounded on a Christian cult for suggesting the Victorian bushfires were divine retribution for the state’s abortion laws, describing it as “beyond the bounds of decency”.
Just three weeks ago, the former federal treasurer sent a video message to a special Australia Day prayer meeting organised by Catch the Fire Ministries leader Danny Nalliah.
But he reacted angrily to a statement by Mr Nalliah yesterday recalling a dream concerning the consequences of Victorian abortion legislation that became law last year.
“In my dream I saw fire everywhere with flames burning very high and uncontrollably,” Mr Nalliah said.
The preacher claimed God’s “conditional protection” had been “removed from the nation of Australia, particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb”.
Mr Costello rejected the claims.
“To link the death and the suffering of bushfire victims to other political events is appalling, heartless and wrong,” he said. “Those who have suffered deserve every support and sympathy. It is beyond the bounds of decency to try to make moral or political points out of such a tragedy.”
Catch the Fire Ministries have given their blessing to Mr Costello’s leadership ambitions on several occasions.
Mr Nalliah met Mr Costello ahead of the 2007 election to “prepare” him for the prime ministership. A church member publicly recounted an episode where “the spirit of God suddenly moved me to cry out in the loud Aboriginal-like tongue followed by the shouting out several times of ‘the honourable Peter Costello, prime minister-elect of Australia’.”
And just ahead of an Australia Day prayer meeting, Mr Nalliah announced: “Our silent prayer is that Peter … will be here to take the leadership of the party and lead the nation into victory as prime minister.”
Mr Nalliah has attributed both the drought and the global financial crisis in part to human sin.
We need an emoticon for projectile vomiting!
And for the Catch the Fire Ministries own version of how legalising abortions causes bushfires which are predicted in dreams by pastors of self-proclaimed Christian churches, go to http://catchthefire.com.au/blog/2009/02/10/media-release-abortion-laws-to-blame-for-bush-fires/
Well, it’s the same with the Communists…
Everybody seems to try to get an advantage out of the suffering of others…
We live in a bizarre world.
Communists at least have a coherent ideology based upon the greatest good for the greatest number, even if in practice the nations which have tried it so far have been abysmal failures because the structure and operation of the state have been dictatorial antitheses of the communist ideal.
People who view natural events revealed to them in dreams as God’s punishment for whatever are just patent fucking nuts and should be locked up so they can’t infect other weak minds.
I’m talking about the Communists blaming the fires’ many deaths on Capitalism…
Some stupid woman in California with 6 kids and no job that is supported by government money that goes and has eight embryos implanted in her womb and now is expecting the Government to pay for her new 8 kids. :evil: And I am sure they will. I think medical cost alone were going to run $1.3 million.
Sometimes I wonder why I get defensive when people call Americans stupid….
That’s almost as good as the German Aid worker who decided it would be a great idea to adopt 50 Palestinian kids, and since he’s unemployed the government will have to take care of them.
Then, according to himself, he was planning on giving them up on adoption again in Germany as soon as they have the German citizenship (through him) and will be supported exclusively by the Government.
Ah, that.
In principle they ought to be locked up for being as delusional as the idiot pastor, but the difference is that communism is dead for all practical purposes while Pastor Prick is just one of possibly millions of religious nutcases of all brands of religion who do more harm than good and hold sway over tens of millions of deluded and nasty people.