the news thread

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:41 pm

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:46 am

http://www.theage.com.au/national/psych ... -ftuv.html

jesus christ. i used to live over the road from this loon. was pretty rad when they raided the house and found the weapons cache etc. mad drama.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:58 pm

LOL

what a tool, just move on mate. Why would you want to go somewhere you are not wanted anyway?

psychiatrist eh? sounds like a paranoid bellend.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvvyg5GK ... re=related

rap star is a gay fish

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:20 pm

INTERNET MELTDOWN THREAT.

Must be those naughty hackers at it again...tsk tsk.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... -fzlh.html

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:07 pm

this makes me really sad and ashamed...

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politi ... -g4n3.html

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:11 pm

Amick wrote:INTERNET MELTDOWN THREAT.

Must be those naughty hackers at it again...tsk tsk.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... -fzlh.html

stop using windows and all will be OK

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:18 pm

Given the vast sums of cash that Microsoft make every year, and the eventual effect this thing could have (ie: bringing down the entire innernet in some countries) I think $250k is a very small reward to fix the problem. Offer $10 million and the problem will be solved overnight.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:28 pm

mixtress wrote:Given the vast sums of cash that Microsoft make every year, and the eventual effect this thing could have (ie: bringing down the entire innernet in some countries) I think $250k is a very small reward to fix the problem. Offer $10 million and the problem will be solved overnight.

Or a case of Russian vodka...not pointing the finger at any nationality.

almax · Post by **almax** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:33 pm

deviant wrote:this makes me really sad and ashamed...

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politi ... -g4n3.html

:script:

Its terrible but kinda ironic considering a few years ago the Indians were being completely racist to our cricketer Andrew Symons who is of Jamaican decent.
I have a feeling that this may have been a catalyst to the increase in Bogan mentality of "bash the curries" so to speak.

Why cant we all just accept people for their differences? and if it really gets on your goat, ignore them.

Ah the youth of today, perhaps the recent trend of not spanking your child is not working?

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:38 pm

I don't actually think that ALL the attacks were racially motivated... You can get indiscriminately bashed in Melbourne no matter what race you are...

But the facts remain, I don't think I'd be able to defend australia on this if I was questioned by an Indian national...... "ummmm, yeah, sorry?"

for shame

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:28 pm

This chap is suing the Bank of America for 1,784 billion, trillion dollars.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEno ... 925?rpc=64

Good Gravy Marie

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:07 pm

this completely breaks my heart.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6137586

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:14 pm

They should not be fed in prison, both of them.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:59 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:this completely breaks my heart.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6137586

people have been voting/wanting to get capital punishment back. i am torn. but reading this....just makes you want it back

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:04 am

Capital punishment only if its done medieval style imo.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:58 pm

Woman 'filleted' by gang of raccoons

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:45 pm

deviant wrote:Woman 'filleted' by gang of raccoons

I never would have believed this story if I hadn't seen some show on TV a month back about US rangers hunting these bastards in the burbs. Teeth and claws like you wouldn't believe, especially given they look so fucking cute. Poor lady.

amzie · Post by **amzie** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:52 am

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26 ... 01,00.html

Pucking Hell!

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:07 am

what a wanker

ambiguety?! throw him him to the civil libertarians

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:09 am

I reckon that's funny as....

pretty simple really, if you don't want to get raped, don't go down the tunnel... duh

EDIT: oh, btw....

it's bullshit

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:21 am

I really wish this whole Red Faces Saga would be flushed down the toilet already.

Julia Gillard puts in 2 cents. FFS fuck off and get back to work.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:24 am

deviant wrote:I reckon that's funny as....

pretty simple really, if you don't want to get raped, don't go down the tunnel... duh

EDIT: oh, btw....

it's bullshit

"My name is Bart Calendar and I am a well known artist. For my next project me and five of my drinking buddies will sit around a table in a bar. People will be invited to bring their grandparents and older relatives to us. We will interview them and then decide whether or not it is OK for their children to kill them. We will take into account political affiliation and potential inheritance amounts as well as the cost of their current prescription drugs. After each end of life order, my death panel will do a round of shots.

As part of this project we are extending an invitation to Roman Polanski's family members if they are interested in having him be the first septuagenarian we evaluate.

Our goal is to help people better understand family relations, the American health care system, and the danger of using hyperbole in what should otherwise be a reasoned and rational debate."

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:39 am

deviant wrote:I reckon that's funny as....

pretty simple really, if you don't want to get raped, don't go down the tunnel... duh

EDIT: oh, btw....

it's bullshit

It's sad that they have to come up with such violent and brutal imagery to provoke discussion.

Why couldn't they be more positve and call it something like 'The love tunnel'...

Oh.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:40 am

"The Free Prize Tunnel (sponsored by Coca Cola)"

tee193 · Post by **tee193** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:52 am

amzie wrote:http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26 ... 01,00.html

Pucking Hell!

fuck! i admit i did chuckle at the "punch you in the face tunnel" and punching the aspiring model and him being proud for having a strong impact on her that not many artists could do

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:46 pm

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26 ... 62,00.html

ha!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:37 am

My old school

http://www.news.ninemsn.com.au/national ... 2-students

unnecessary

Jinx · Post by **Jinx** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:10 pm

mixtress wrote:My old school

http://www.news.ninemsn.com.au/national ... 2-students

unnecessary

All my cousins went there. Surname hindson. Know 'em?

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:58 am

Jinx wrote:
mixtress wrote:My old school

http://www.news.ninemsn.com.au/national ... 2-students

unnecessary
All my cousins went there. Surname hindson. Know 'em?

Nope. But I graduated in '93.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:02 pm

Same year I graduated from Bovine University!

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:05 pm

The university of Cow?

SONUS · Post by **SONUS** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:28 am

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

1976 60 Minutes Investigates Swine Flu Scare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLF5Uw

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states on their main flu Web site http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ that flu activity is increasing in the United States, with most states reporting "widespread influenza activity."

The CDC goes on to say, and I quote:

"So far, most flu is 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes called "swine flu")."

But wait stop the presses.

A three-month-long investigation by CBS News, released earlier this week that included state-by-state test results, revealed some very different facts. The CBS study found that H1N1 flu cases are NOT as prevalent as feared. A CBS article even states:

"If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn't have H1N1 flu. In fact, you probably didn't have flu at all."

Obviously CBS News and the CDC are completely contradicting each other. So who is right?

Well, CBS reports that in late July 2009 the CDC advised states to STOP testing for H1N1 flu, and they also stopped counting individual cases.

Their rationale for this, according to CBS News, was that it was a waste of resources to test for H1N1 flu because it was already confirmed as an epidemic.

So just like that virtually every person who visited their physician with flu-like symptoms since late July was assumed to have H1N1, with no testing necessary because, after all, there's an epidemic.

It's interesting to note that at the same time as the CDC decided the H1N1 epidemic warranted no further testing for cases due to its epidemic status, Finnish health authorities actually downgraded the threat of swine flu.

In late July the health ministry and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland actually removed swine flu from a list of diseases considered dangerous to the public because the majority of cases recovered without medication or hospital care!

And, as the CDC continues to use fear to motivate and control Americans with their worst-case swine flu scenarios, they say nothing of the experience of those in the southern hemisphere, which just finished their flu season and found it was not as bad as expected.

CBS News Finds H1N1 Tests "Overwhelmingly Negative"

Before beginning their investigation, CBS News asked the CDC for state-by-state test results prior to their halting of testing and tracking. The CDC did not initially respond so CBS went to all 50 states directly, asking for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1 prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in July.

What did they find? CBS reported:

"The results reveal a pattern that surprised a number of health care professionals we consulted. The vast majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors, such as travel to Mexico."

As you can see from this CBS News graphic, not only are most cases of suspected flu-like illnesses not H1N1, they're not even the flu but more likely some type of cold or upper respiratory infection!

*cough*

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:01 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci ... -hk22.html

fuk me australia post is slow

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:32 am

these derros who got stung for gang raping those girls should hang

the footballing culture of tolerance makes me sick

'we'll support our boys and get them the help they need' lol

shotgun to the nuts is what they need

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:24 am

word nat. such a shithouse attitude.

almost as fucked as the refugee stalemate. depressing to say the least. you've completely fucked it ruddy.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:33 pm

gnat wrote:shotgun to the nuts is what they need

Harsh, but fair.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:45 pm

my old high school in the papers..

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/school ... 5792693794

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:42 pm

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/925734 ... o-get-girl

Awesome. Man sues Lynx deoderant for not providing the "Lynx Effect" as advertised.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:31 pm

Avoid semi dried tomatos.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/92578 ... -hepatitis

Damn, coz I love em...but I love not having Hep A more.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:08 pm

I'm quite surprised this hasn't happened sooner. Sad news alert.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/seven- ... 5794894398

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:57 am

be careful of your kebab

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6480623

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:16 pm

im getting scared of this summer already...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/premi ... -ijiq.html

Mr Waller said he was "reasonably confident" that Melbourne's two biggest dams, Thomson and Upper Yarra, could survive the coming fire season.

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a hot to very hot day on Thursday with isolated showers and thunderstorms developing. Thursday's temperature could reach 36 degrees, according to Weatherzone.

The hot spell will continue on Friday with Weatherzone predicting a peak of 32 degrees.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:08 pm

FUCK MYKI IN ITS DUMB ARSE!!!

http://www.theage.com.au/national/myki- ... -imlj.html

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:53 pm

Australia is so backwards sometimes.

It's like our civil liberties groups are living ten years ago.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:46 pm

Only in Radelaide...

or Sleep with your Dadelaide.....

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 82,00.html

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:06 pm

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Main parties derail Bob Brown's crusade against tax havens

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:14 pm

Grooverider's been released!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:01 pm

Feigan wrote:Only in Radelaide...

or Sleep with your Dadelaide.....

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 82,00.html

He said that, after they both undressed, Daniel told the boy to "stick it in".

lol

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:34 pm

http://www.smh.com.au/national/gas-aler ... utostart=1

The audio is just as good as the article.

'Luckily the pig didn't follow through'

Gold.