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[Lods]

https://www.news.com.au/national/politic...56f30ebb31

Looks like the Greens are too right wing for Lidia
(The party had actually reached an agreement with her to vote as she wished.)

[LP]

Just watching the remastered Pink Floyd concert, Earl's Court 1994, if you have never seen it do yourself a favour, probably deserves it's own thread.

Just too good.

[Professer E]

The term "duplicitous" springs to mind.

[Lods]

Just watching the remastered Pink Floyd concert, Earl's Court 1994, if you have never seen it do yourself a favour, probably deserves it's own thread.

Just too good.

Topics often get swamped in this thread by other topics.
I've bumped up the 'Music' thread.
We may get a more sustained discussion in that thread without politics and social issues to distract.
(Although a lot of music is actually about social issues so there may be some crossover) ;D

[Gointocarlton]

Hows this for sheer stupidity, bare with me for a moment.

Bell Street Level crossing removed at a cost of 100's of millions of dollars I would guess. This from the big build website:

The level crossings at Oakover Road, Bell Street, Cramer Street and Murray Road in Preston have been removed by elevating the Mernda Line over the 4 roads, and the new stations at Bell and Preston are now open.

We are working on the new open space underneath the rail bridge. A shared walking and cycling path from Oakover Road through to Murray Road will connect locals to the new stations and open spaces which will feature seating, play areas, BBQ facilities, amphitheatre, and native planting and will be ready for locals to enjoy in early 2023.

Around 82,000 vehicles passed through these former level crossings each day, where the boom gates were down for up to 40% of the morning peak


Note the bold bit. These farkwits have spent 100s of millions of dollars to remove a level crossing and replaced it with a pedestrian crossing? Are they farken mad? That will be fun in the morning and afternoon peak hours as people/cyclists press the button to cross Bell St...not.

There are pedestrian lights at High St 225m to the East and at St Geroges Road 225m to the West. There is also a major bike path on St Georges Road. But nah, lets put another shared path in and continue farking with drivers minds.

U N B E L I E V A B L E !

[Gointocarlton]

I see some person mocked Jesus on The Project which has caused some anger among the Christian community. I wonder if said person has the balls to mock an Islamic God on that high rating (lol) show. I suspect he'd be busy looking for safehouse the following
day.

[Mav]

But if he made racist jokes or put down other minorities, he’d be a hero to right wingers who would be outraged at cancel culture. Don’t tell me the defenders of the right to free speech are going to go all politically (religiously) correct and try to cancel a guy for telling a joke?

[Baggers]

I read the joke. At worst, insensitive, at best, clever (IMHO). I think Jesus would have had a chuckle.

Anyone outraged by that joke should avoid any stand-up from Jimmy Carr!

[tonyo]

I read the joke. At worst, insensitive, at best, clever (IMHO). I think Jesus would have had a chuckle.

Anyone outraged by that joke should avoid any stand-up from Jimmy Carr!

Saw Jimmy Carr at Hamer Hall a couple of weeks ago - he is certainly on the edge at times!

Although I thought one of the best lines came from his SMS send-ins.....

"Don't bother getting a rescue cat - I got one for my Gran, but when she fell over in the garden the following day, the cat just sat there and did f*** all"

[Lods]

With any 'belief' or 'cause' there will always be a range of emotions connected to those things depending on how strongly and passionately folks believe in them.

In the case of religion some will have a chuckle at a joke directed at their religion, others will be incensed and outraged.
It all depends on the strength of feeling and that's a very personal thing.

So for the 'comedian' there is always going to be a case of 'did they go to far'.
But comedy has always been about 'pushing the edge'

The really funny thing is that some things that 'pushed the edge' thirty or forty years ago and would possibly have got you arrested, would seem tame by today's standards... and yet other subjects are now considered off limits.