Tonight for something a little different we will have a little quiz night.
I will post a series of 10 questions
You will have 15 mins to think about them and post your answers.
Then another series of questions etc.
I will score the previous series and post totals before the next series.
If I make mistakes shoot me.
THIS IS A HONESTY SYSTEM. PLEASE NO GOOGLE ETC.
ASKING PARTNERS, FRIENDS,ETC IS ACCEPTABLE
This takes a little bit of work, so if I run a little late with posting forgive me.
First game will begin about 6.00pm correct time.
10 min/5 min warning will be given.
The winner will be crowned” THE PUB” Champion until the next time.
Join in have a bit of fun and good luck.
“Arise , Sir Rupert!…..aww!..will someone fetch the toilet paper?”
” Klav January 25, 2015 at 10:31 am
In a beautiful stroke of comic genius,Angelo Garrozzo, a leading member of the Rebels motorcycle club,has donated money to the LNP.
It’s been accepted.
All members of the Rebels motorcycle club have been urged to do likewise.
Wonder how Bleijie, the Conveyancer -General, will spin that?”
The Lying Nasty Party claims Mr Garrozzo’s contribution has been returned to him.
jaycee
Angelo has a clever plan. Now the money has been accepted Newman’s ‘Labor took money from bikies’ thing has been destroyed because the LNP has done the same. Angelo and his mates expect the money will be returned to them when Newman works out what is going on. They could be wrong about that.
There’s a link to it up the top of the page somewhere.
Mr Garrozzo really should have kept the details of his plot secret for just a bit longer.
The Queensland Greens have released their HTV preference cards, and they seem to advocate full preferences with Labor at no.2 in most seats, so hopefully that’ll swing a few key seats to the red side.
http://qld.greens.org.au/sites/qld.greens.org.au/files/State-wide_HTV.pdf
I’ve noticed that the 3 Townsville seats just have 1 Greens 2 ALP recommended, but the greens contesting seats north of that want exhausted preferences.
“The Lying Nasty Party claims Mr Garrozzo’s contribution has been returned to him.”…Let me guess..; They didn’t want to be seen to be accepting “tainted money”?…..Bwahahahahahahahahahaha !
Yet they will accept money from the likes of BHP. which have been taken to court many more times that the bikies!
But just how many “bikies” have donated anonymously? Just so they can have a quiet chuckle about Mr Newman accepting money from them?
The real worry is the size of the war chests that the two ‘combatants’ have and who has/has not contributed to them. I really wish we could find a way to get legislation through parliament that enforces a $2 declaration on all fund donated to political parties, and block donations from third parties to prevent such absurd obscenities as “Citizens United” in the USA – not that such things haven’t already been brought into play already!
Together with a fixed sum for each candidate who got a particular proportion of the vote. I think that might sort some of the minor parties out, and would make the declaration of “bought” MPs that much clearer instead of merely presumed, thereby clearing those that really are innocent of that particularly murky charge.
But what do I know, I’m just a lowly tax-paying voter…
Kirsdarke
Are you saying the Greens are actually doing the right thing for a change? I bet this will be a one off.
@2gravel
Yeah, probably. Although it still remains to be seen if Green voters do the same.
Around 50% of them exhausted their preferences last time, probably costing Labor an extra 2-3 seats. Hopefully this time around that figure will go down.
Back in the days of the Howard Banana Republic I gained a large scar on my chin where it hit the table when reading about Manildra, this event and who their friends were. A tanker load of ethanol was on the way to Australia , pretty sure it had set sail, from Brazil. While on the high seas Manildra had the incredible luck :loud cough: of the cheaper Brazilian ethanol having a new import duty whacked on it that made it it more expensive than the Manildra product. It never arrived.
And so it continues
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/25/asylum-seekers-forcibly-removed-from-darwin-detention-in-middle-of-the-night
Bear in mind that they said that they’d preference Labor ahead of the Libs at the Victorian election last year and were then caught out handing out open ticket How to Vote Cards.
puffytmd
You better be on a jet
Yes, Rosie Batty is Australian of the Year.
Yes, Rosie Batty is Australian of the Year.
Well done.
I was sure Abbott’s mate Deb. Furness would win.
Well deserved instead of a sportsman/Celebrity.
Brian,
What is more – and this will really get up abbott’s nose:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-25/rosie-batty-named-australian-of-the-year-2015/6045290
Joe6pack,
It’s worth noting that the finalists for Australian of the Year did not include a single sports person, and out of the eight finalists, six were women!
Rosie Batty is the st best choice of Australian of the Year. How she managed anything other than curl up and want to dissolve into a puddle of non-feeling, I have no idea.
I never got it with the sportspeople, unless they had done significant social development or charity work as well.
Obviously one award the idiot cannot influence.
Well done to all participates.
We will be celebrating tomorrow as usual. Local street parade which usually consists of kids from surf club,lions. rotary etc meals on wheels, and a dog .
In years gone by was tradition for it to turn into a huge water fight . balloons filled with water getting tossed and the firefighters spraying the crowd with water.
Sadly the insurance for the event which is run by the lions club banned such activities.
So while discouraged and announced , a few water bombs will still be thrown.
More women than men … I wonder why.
Rosie Batty – the best possible outcome.
Wonderful selection of people (women) for the Australian awards. I wonder if the selection committee were giving Toxic a silent up yours.
Congratulations to Rosie Batty, a truly worthy recipient.
All these female award winners? Will there be some frightened walls on Canberra tonight?
Gravel,
I wonder how many people are thinking that very same thought.
AJ,
Every wall in every room abbott is likely to enter will be shivering in its shoes.
I can see some new appointments to the board of directors of the National Australia Day Council coming up soon. The board members – the selection panel – are appointed by the PM. Perhaps he forgot to change Labor’s appointments.
Does being given a knighthood now detract from one’s genuine achievements?
Leone,
If abbott remains head of the current regime for the full term, he will be able to replace all those chardonnay-swilling socialists (seven of the eleven board members) before the next election.
Leone
I was thinking the same thing. Bet Toxic was seething when he found out the results.
Fiona
So that is three of us then.
I want to watch the tennis.
But all I hear from the players are sounds of sexual gratification or desire.
Maybe he wanted more women this year to enhance his position in the polls. After all, isn’t he the PM for Women?
Is there a vid of the speech where the crowd yelled go to hell tony? I would really love to see that.
CK
Ye. Me too.
Seething? You betcha.
leone
Our PM is all class. A petty prick!
For Peter van Onselen, the bromance is over:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/opinion/peter-van-onselen-tony-abbotts-attitude-problem/story-fnhocuug-1227195277366
What is it, by the by, with conservative commentators and the crossed arms thingy?
Van Onselen (note the hue of the tie):
Ackerperson:
Does anyone have the time and energy to put together a post on Rosie Batty in the next couple of hours?
I think it would make a terrific Australia Day thread-starter – and I don’t have the time to do it (though will happily publish it).
No need to guess where his left hand is
Webmaster
Can I please issue a formal complaint against Fiona for the posting of that pornographic image.
duck
Yes the shortarse has gone for the grope.
Again!
Caption competition.
Mine:- “just keep those hands away from my bum”
Just realised it’s a thumbs up gesture, I thought it was a finger pointing oh well!
joe6pack: How much to retrieve a bogged down LNP campaign tour bus?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8JDKEBCYAAPDwX.jpg:large
I think it’s an index finger – otherwise, it’s a seriously long/disproportionate thumb.