Gark the Goblin
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dang, I wanted to just sort of blend back into the shadows
the creation of JMD's Lords of Chaos group was big news over here too
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Am I allowed to vent about Australian politics here? We have an election coming up soon.
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Preach on, Comrade Dwarf!
I wish we had a choice, our so called "Labor" party has sold out.
The conservatives call themselves the "Liberal" party and is lead by a former trainee Jesuit priest, we call the mad monk, he likes to pose in speedo's.
The only effective and respectable politician has retired from leadership of the Greens and now the party is run by people the right and left can use as examples of crazy greenies.
The Australian Democrats imploded years ago after they knifed thier best chance in the back.
The National party (farmers party) are lap dogs of the Liberal party pretending to be cattle dogs.
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What happened to Australia First (I think - the very anti-immigrant party with the female leader) ?
Also, do evangelical Christian groups have any influence over any of the main parties?
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Gark the Goblin
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aw man yeahh my australian friends are all pretty disgusted
wasn't there some sort of scandal with the prime minister last fall or something
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Sounds like Australia could use some workers revolution.
Gruumash .
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How is everyone doing these days?
Doodlebug you going to head to the land down under and start an uprising for the workers party?
Man all this political talk the only Julia I really know or like is this one. Julia
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What happened to Australia First (I think - the very anti-immigrant party with the female leader) ?
Also, do evangelical Christian groups have any influence over any of the main parties?
One Nation was a joke - it only survived because the Conservatives in power at the time gave them oxygen enough to act as a distraction. That oxygen disappeared when they won a seat.
They were Primarily anti Asian, anti Middle Eastern, and anti African immigration. A lot of support came from 1st and 2nd generation European immigrants, who brought their racism with them.
The One Nation party "peaked at the 1998 election on 9 percent of the nationwide vote, electing one Senator in Queensland. The party has never approached these heights again, and while it nominally still exists it attracts a negligible percentage of the vote." (wiki)
The leader of the party was called Pauline Hanson - she was parodied mercilessly. A Drag Queen called Pauline Pantsdown had 2 top 10 hits with "I am a back door man" and "I dont like it". Backdoor man had a federal injunction raised against it as it was in the middle of an election and seen as prejudicial.
As for religion..... Most Australians are ambivalent, they will say I kind of believe in god but that's about as far as they go. We dont have much time for "God botherers" and we have less time for "god botherers" that bother us about god. The main churches have some power, but that is because it was established in the past.
Hillsong (evangelical) got popular for about 5 mins and has faded, there were some scandals - proving that any and every church run by human-beings is corrupt.
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aw man yeahh my australian friends are all pretty disgusted
wasn't there some sort of scandal with the prime minister last fall or something
No real scandal... Australia has done very well out of the GFC and the government has done a lot of what it has set out to do.
The problems people have with Julia are the ingrained misogynistic tendencies in the conservative parties, and the press, they hammer her about a lot of inane crap.
She did make some promises she went back on and looked a right burke and that is where she lost my support.
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For Comrade Dwarf, Germaine Greer on Julia Gillard
Yeh that was good - occasionally GG gets back to her old school self
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The best bumper-sticker I have seen so far is... "Voting for Tony because you hate Julia is like eating s%$$ because you hate spinach!"
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Hi refugees!
Just thought I'd pop in and wave.
How's things?
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Hum.
It's sunny there, and the duck-billed platypuses(?) can roam free, election or no election.
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Hum.
It's sunny there, and the duck-billed platypuses(?) can roam free, election or no election.
Yes it is platypuses...
Its winter now, and cold and wet...
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It's *summer* here, and cold and wet, and the water vole population is declining.
You still win.
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Australia is hazardous. Your party might be squished by a zloty.
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I may actually get to run the next installment of my Lords of Chaos game. Speaking of which, I'm running out of crazy scenarios for them to run into. Start shouting out ideas and I may pick one to add to the game.
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My DM had us encounter the Keebler gnomes once.
I'm sure you could play that as straight or as twisted as you like.
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Well, so far, they have killed Dora the Explorer, killed over 1000 bards at Bardopolooza, had a character that dressed up like a girl scout and delivered bombs and are trying to become sky pirates. In the next session , I'm having a cameo by Buffy the Vampire slayer killing some Vampires and Werewolves that are "inspired by Twilight".
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Also, alligators in a spring that grants the benefits of an aid spell.
Credit to Kirth for that one.
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My DM had us encounter the Keebler gnomes once.
I'm sure you could play that as straight or as twisted as you like.
I remember those little brats. Their "leader", Little Debbie, made my life a living hell for a while.
And that damned cookie golem... that damned cookie golem....
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Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Wernk. *smash*
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Wernk. *smash*Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Gunter go eat the Ice Kings socks.
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Gunter go eat the Ice Kings socks.Wernk. *smash*Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Wernk! *slap*
