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AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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codswallop
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2.55pm CBS tweets that on May 1, 2011, the US announced the death of OBL. On May 1, 1945, Germany announced the death of Adolf Hitler.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/osama-...dy/story-fn8ljm6z-1226048335673#ixzz1LAYhQZme
wow
thats quite amaznig
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/osama-...dy/story-fn8ljm6z-1226048335673#ixzz1LAYhQZme
wow
thats quite amaznig
If this is the Guardian you mean, then I guess the label fits! http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian-web/index.htmlOmi said:Guardian
Wahay. Waiting for leftists labels now.
roosters93
Member
Bernbaum said:
Word.
I'm seeing a lot of dislike for them here. I don't really read it to be honest, but I will mention something.Omi said:I just can't stand The Australian.
I was on the jury for the Sydney terrorism trial, which was no doubt well known. After it was over and the articles hit the papers, The Australian was the only one whose facts were correct throughout the articles. The other newspapers and commercial TV news presentations had numerous, glaring errors.
This may be down to the journalist/s who wrote said articles for The Australian and only applicable to that point in time, but I thought it was worth noting.
Fair enough, as I said, I don't really read them. That was one of the few occasions when I had. I thought, since I spent the better part of a year in the courtroom that it would be interesting to see the newspapers/tv news take. It is a rare occasion when I know all the facts on something and can cast a critical eye, fairly.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Fixed.Dead Man said:
To say anything else would by hyperbole.
reptilescorpio
Member
Nice to know he is finally gone but still, ten years. Pretty sure he hasn't even been running the terrorists since he went underground. Killing Osama (lol Obama, oh you Fox news!) won't suddenly mean al Qaeda will see the error of their ways and embrace their American neighbours in song and dance. Shit is still going to be happening. Even killing 80% of them won't stop the attacks. Things need to change at a cultural and societal level if we want to avoid the next Osama popping up in the next few years.Choc said:
The guys at work listen to Gold FM and the radio ads against plain packaging cigarettes are fucking incredible. I wouldn't be surprised if they said that every time cigarettes are put into a plain package a fairy dies or some shit. Money talks, money controls all.Choc said:
reptilescorpio
Member
Eh, I just don't understand why it is a bad thing? Makes them look less desirable, I know people who based their choice on what the packet looks like. Wouldn't plain packaging be cheaper to manufacture as well? Just irritates me that people are fine with companies spreading lies so readily. No wonder so many people are so damn ignorant and uneducated. Plain packaging won't kill your son and the pokie regulations won't slit your grandmas throat so why do we allow people to say they will?Choc said:
anyone who doesn't think the pokies thing is a good thing needs to read this
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/56496.html
its heartbreaking
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/56496.html
its heartbreaking
It's a bad thing for their interests because implementing further regulation costs them money, and it also renders the billions of dollars they've spent on brand recognition worthless. No one should give a shit about their interests of course, but you asked.reptilescorpio said:
I think the people who smoke Holiday and Horizons will be glad for plain packets to come in. Then no one will know that they're smoking the cheapest and nastiest cigarettes available.
I'm quite glad I quit smoking in '09 and was shocked to hear the price of cigarettes now from a friend of mine who still smokes. I used to smoke rollies and could get by spending around $10-12 a week on them. Now that people are spending well over that per day without blinking is really terrible.
I'm quite glad I quit smoking in '09 and was shocked to hear the price of cigarettes now from a friend of mine who still smokes. I used to smoke rollies and could get by spending around $10-12 a week on them. Now that people are spending well over that per day without blinking is really terrible.
reptilescorpio
Member
A lot of people would argue that the taste/value is linked to the packet design as well. Addiction does weird shit to your brain.jambo said:
Also when I posted that abc link on my facebook I was happy to hear some stories of people would are also disgusted at the pokie situation and someone shared their story about working at a club in Corio that had pokies.
On topic if anyone is trying to quit smoking here is a low cost solution! Only $8! Also Trackmania on Wii is only $14 at the moment. Big W is doing their "cheap" game a day thing again too.
I don't really understand many of the arguments against the plain packaging. If nobody is basing their decisions on how the package looks, then why does it matter if they all look the same? Also, if, as the tobacco companies used to claim in their ads, that the plain packaging won't lower sales, then why are they paying so much to tell you that? If it doesn't affect sales, they shouldn't care.
Choc I got a couple of hundred extra visits to the site, which was a nice way to start the month. I think 75% of any extra traffic I got was hotlinking directly to the comic, which is OK too. Doesn't earn anything, but it has the URL in it.
It gave me an opportunity to tinker with the site and add Facebook functionality to every post for easier sharing, which seems to work OK.
(Goes back to drawing)
It gave me an opportunity to tinker with the site and add Facebook functionality to every post for easier sharing, which seems to work OK.
(Goes back to drawing)
roosters93
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jambo are The Australian still acting like this? http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepois...nnounces-that-it-wants-to-destroy-the-greens/
I've never read it and my only point of reference is seeing some of their journalists (like Janet Albrechtsen) on Q&A spouting hard right views.
But that editorial from last year seemed pretty extraordinary to me and for a newspaper to so overtly reveal its bias is not very common I would think.
I've never read it and my only point of reference is seeing some of their journalists (like Janet Albrechtsen) on Q&A spouting hard right views.
But that editorial from last year seemed pretty extraordinary to me and for a newspaper to so overtly reveal its bias is not very common I would think.