The Poodle has gone to ground, probably crapping himself about backing the winning horse.

Meanwhile, back at Labor headquarters ...

LOL, Labor using the Abbott wrecking ball playbook by attempting to suspend standing orders for a vote of no confidence in the PM, something Abbott did 5 billion times in opposition.

Can't tell you, secret ballot, unless I'm desperately clinging to any hope to keep my job as PM, then I'll arrange for the secret vote tallies to be leaked to further damage the party.

Kevin Sheedy ad Mark Thompson are being sounded out as Senior Assistants ... stay tuned.

Kerls was approached but the nursing home wouldn't release him for the times requested by the club.

Studley and Freedie were also approached as a joint Senior Assistants but unfortunately talks broken down in the Family Court.

There is still hope for Hodgey, but it's doubtful Mass's deportation order will be processed in time.

Rest assured that every effort is being made to get the right outcome for the club, and thank you for your interest.

Turnbull showing why he is head and shoulders above the rabble that is parliament, eating Shorten for breakfast.

Not the same without R&B though ...

Perhaps Labor could start with ...

My question is to the Defence Minister. Could the Minister advise the House what a competitive evaluation process for the submarines will entail.

My question is the the Defence Minister. Does the Minister still have confidence in the leadership of Tony Abbott and julia Gillard.

My question is the the Attorney-General. Could the Minister advise the House of the new metadata requirements that Internet Service Providers will need to comply with.

Point of Order Madame Speaker. The question was asked of the Attorney-General, not the Communications Minister.

He never officially retired as a player, perhaps he'll pull on the boots?

whufc wrote:But ordinary that last deciscion

Had to be a dead ball

Once the umpire gave it out Anderson didn't even have to run

Yep, but sucked in anyway.

I still wouldn't eat that crap, even if it was free.

Well if Studley leads the state to victory I can see the inept Glenelg Board replacing Lokan with him mid season!

So what I'm hearing here is the Wagons could already be circling for a STUDLEY comeback to the Glenelg coaching box interesting........
Dedja do you have any info on this you might want to bring to the table?

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a place for Ian Wallace at all?

He's just cleaning his RPG ... nothing remarkable about that.

around a bazillion

Pretty damning evidence ...

I think it says more about Alan Jones than anything else.

How ridiculous that they go off for lunch with 12 runs to go?

Don't think the Poms will need to bother visiting the Queen after this tournament.

OK, not a dud but a huge under achiever. To me he epitomises what's been wrong with WIndies cricket for years. Talent to burn, but wastes it by not having a heart or giving a rats in 80% of his performances. How the diamond studs look is seemingly more important.

Anyway, back to the match, I thought Steve Bucknor was back on deck after that wide decision.

Just imagine for a moment if Hicks was held in custody in the same manner as Guantanamo Bay by another country, say Russia, Egypt, Iran, Syria or North Korea for example.

Would the reaction of the Australian government and public have been the same?

I wouldn't want to mess with them ... their country has virtually been at war for nearly 40 years and still is in turmoil, but amazingly they can field an international cricket team.

What excuse do the Poms have for being minnows?

Camels going nuts in Kabul at the minute ...

Parnell to the rescue for India

As a republican heathen, I enjoy the Queen's Birthday and Christmas Day holidays too ... cheers

High on the list for me are:

Psyber - to chat about politics and global warming
Dog_ger - so I can understand his posts
JAS - amazing dedication to her side from the other side of the world
Centurion - in case I need a laugh
fisho mcspaz - no explanation necessary
Jimmy_041 - to plot the downfall of the Poodle

Jimmy_041 wrote:Where's Dedja these days?

Faaaark, what just happened???

Just woke up. Last thing I remember, I was drinking with this Dutch dude I just met and fell asleep.

Suspect you meant non-flammable

Worked a treat for them this year.

I’ve been in Uranus for the last 8 years, so there’s a bit to catch up on.

Bays winning flags? LOL, pull the other one.

Next thing you’ll be telling me that the Queen is dead, or that the yanks voted in a clown as President.

Or that Dean Laidley is now a chick, and the world shut down for a couple of years due to a virus.

Come to think of it, where the faaaark has the West End brewery gone, and WTF are pronouns???

And why isn’t Warnie commentating anymore?

Do the umpires actually have a stop watch on the players between wickets? I never thought they did

Probably the 3rd ump, if not, bet they do now

Was thinking about this, what about in England when you have to walk through the long room, down stairs out onto the ground to the middle, surely that would take close to 2 minutes itself, let alone taking guard and being ready to face a ball :shock:

It’s usually 3 mins, but 2 mins for the World Cup. Good point though, I guess you also have to take into account any heckling you receive whilst walking through the Long Room. Perhaps allow 5 mins for non Anglo-Saxons at Lords.

LOL, “Tendulkar‘s” been in a good paddock.

At least he got there In time.

southernbulldog wrote:Norwood recruiting themselves to flag favourites

Have they sacked the coach?

My 2c so take with a large grain of salt.

It’s a flawed and outdated eco-system, and that article summarises some of the issues quite well.

The only very blunt instrument the Reserve Bank uses is interest rates, but it generally punishes the ones that are not causing the problem.

The way inflation is calculated is flawed when taken into the context of what influence interest rates has on those ‘basket of goods’. Also, this eco-system assumes that demand is always the issue so hiking interest rates will suppress demand, therefore reducing consumption and inflation, but the latest cycle of interest rate hikes have predominantly been driven by a lack of supply (the downstream effect of the Covid years together with the Russian invasion of Ukraine), so a totally inappropriate response.

For example, official interest rates have little to do with the pricing of fossil fuels (world supply and demand, politics, wars, etc do). If consumption decreases because people are struggling to fill the tank, then this will not help reduce the price of fuel, hence have no effect in reducing inflation (as fuel pricing is in the calculation of inflation).

The RBA is locked into a cycle of ‘let’s be seen to be doing something’ so keeps hiking rates, as if it will somehow fix the inflation issue.

It’s a difficult and complex issue, but the very simple and dumb set of tools the RBA uses isn’t the answer, and generally the low and middle class suffer exponentially more for something they didn’t cause or can fix by their consumption habits, whilst large businesses and those that are cashed up with little debt (for example retired baby boomers) keep spending regardless, which increases pressure on inflation.

It will sort itself out eventually, but it could occur without the unnecessary pain created by the RBA.

OK, I’m done.

SANFL

IN: Sherrin
OUT: Burley, Port, Crows

I’m surprised they haven’t tried to shutdown the Gaza footy club … oh, hang on

Now that you mention it …

Booney wrote:… The Bay or Alberton (not while under redevelopment) make so much more sense…

Speaking of #shitholes

Ripe for a glorious choke.

Why someone who has been disqualified from driving 11 times has never been gaoled, then kills someone after being disqualified again 8 days prior, and after all that, is released on bail.

Both RAT and PCR

Reduce your porn consumption.

Boon, a slab of your favourite is yours if you can walk Gaz through this.

LOL, you’ll tip Gaz over the edge.

Having an Opening Round before Round 1 is easily and by miles the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in this competition.
And that doesn't even take into account the huge advantage 8 teams will get with a competitive game under their belt going into "Round 1".

The stupidest thing I've ever seen in the competition is the introduction of four umpires. That will continue to be the stupidest thing about the competition until they introduce five.

regards,

REB

Huh im confused.

So are they playing for points???

Is round 1 just split over 2 weeks essentially and one is called opening round and the other round 1??

No.

Opening round is 4 games. Round 1 is 8 games.

The 8 sides who played in opening round get a bye between rounds 2 and 6 ( I think ).

Faark me Boon, next you’ll tell us that SE fishermen don’t know a cray from a lobster.

Unfortunately Hamas have somewhat succeeded already.

Of course they knew that Israel would hit them with everything, and they have. Hamas are so depraved that they have no issue with thousands of Palestinian deaths in Gaza to further their warped cause.

On October 7, most people were 100% with Israel as news of the atrocities committed by Hamas surfaced, but knowing that Israel would flatten Gaza, sympathy for the Palestinians has increased significantly since.

Hamas are hoping that their actions have cemented opposition to the Israelis, firstly in the surrounding arabs states, and as a bonus, around the world. They hope that this will result in further uprising against the Israelis.

Palestinians are faarked either way. They can’t denounce Hamas as they hold power in Gaza, but Hamas don’t give a faark for their welfare. Basically no-one else will come to their assistance, so Israel will do as they please in Gaza.

Israel don’t have a plan after they flatten Gaza, so we’re all back to where we started.

It’s completely faarked with no tangible solution in sight.

Head will either get a wicket or get smacked out of the park.

Marnus saved by a bee’s dick.

I hate this half ball DRS rubbish, that was out.