Melbourne

Water polo. For the physique, fitness and naughtiness.

Snowboarding.

Archery

Synchronised diving

Decathlon

Disappointed to see no parkour.

Fine, weightlifting or running

Swimming.

Rhythmic gymnastics

Boxing

ARCHERY

yeah mate, you're so edgy and cool with money to throw on hookers 🙄🙄🙄

Always love the analog vs. digital arguments.

Same goes for hardware synths whether they're VA's etc. and vstis/fx.

My opinion: who cares, if it sounds good and you're happy that's the end of the discussion lol.

There's a trend atm among new mums exerting their control over things like visitors. On one hand, I sort of understand protecting your space as a new mum, been there, done that and felt all the feels that go with it. But some are taking it to the extreme and don't realise that they are alienating their support networks and then complain that nobody has supported them.

This is so sad. It should be a time of bringing family closer together with love and joy and she's just handing out confusion and sadness.

With a mum like that bro and baby needs all the friends they can get. Right now be a good sib. Say nothing about what is happening but do listen.

and hugs

This lady sounds like a manipulative control freak, and will use her baby as a tool to control your brother and your parents further, if not drive a bigger wedge between them.

Beware.

I hope it all goes smoothly. I forgot which one you ended up getting… Are you liking the look of the new place?

May I ask how much the implant was? I need about 3 and am trying to gauge prices.

agree that credit cards are a bane

i can't help wondering how many people live beyond their means

i don't deny it bothers me a little, and really, it's just a little, that because I "look" poor and don't spend people think i'm poor ( and thus pathetic and beneath them ) No, I'm just being sensible.

It's great that you are doing home things. 🙂

I agree. An effective opposition is incredibly important, lest the governing party come to believe they have carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want, assuming the public is completely beholden to them.

The teals might be that check now

It's a massive gain for Australia. When they lost their moderate seats to the Teals, the party room became disproportionately alt-right despite existing in a voting system that demands moderates.

The cooker influence told them that Trumpism was the way forward and to win government again, when that only worked by disenfranchising voters. When everyone votes, a political culture that thrives on the extreme works the opposite.

American politicians need to go overboard to compete for attention just to get people to turn up and vote based on anger and fear, the people in the middle of the spectrum get disenfranchised more as both two-party single vote options stretch further from them to garner good or bad attention. This results in no vote, which is nowhere near as bad as a vote transferring to the opposition.

In a mandatory/preference country, hyperbole and extremism costs you the vote and because they have to vote still, your lost vote goes to the opposition and is a net change of -2 votes. 1 less vote + 1 opposition gained vote.

Peter Dutton was the leader amongst the right wing faction of the party when they had the moderate Liberal members, when Turnbull lost the leadership it was due to an internal power struggle from the right wing of the party room. At the time Morrison won because he was perceived to be both a moderate and somewhat conservative, when the room included the former Teal seat moderates they kept the leadership from going more fringe with Dutton.

Without the moderate members that lost to the Teals, the right wing of the Liberal Party had the majority of the party room and they put their leader in charge despite what happened in American being counter and unrepeatable to our much better voting system.

Now that the Liberal party has gotten a proper swift kick up the bum for letting themselves shift too far from center, with the leader changed in the process, if they have any sense they will realise how much they got wrong or they'll never win another election.

They have no choice now but to level and rebuilt their party, or the Commonwealth will become like Victoria and WA, having no second party option while the rusted on Liberal voters cost everyone the opportunity of a new second party emerging.

don't worry, the herald sun and sky radio/tv are still massive cunts and will tear apart and lie about everything Labor does

Imo it's not a loss for Australia when the only opposition is batshit insane and dangerous. They needed a harsh slap on the face. They need to be told in no uncertain terms that this Trump-lite bullshit is NOT welcome, it is not to be entertained even in a "but muh both sides!" debate. The Libs entirely deserve this bollocking.

I do really hope they can become an effective opposition again (and the greens too). But it'll require some big changes. If the libs do another moronic pivot even further right like they did after the last election and the loss at state level in Vic, then seriously, that's not even remotely Labor or the Australian public's fault. I'd love to see the libs die and some alternative parties come up instead.

If i had to rank them in terms of satisfaction, abbot losing was sweeter.

spoiler

I remember how I and other vulnerable people were treated in 2013

Probably not a nuclear reactor in their backyard.

I’m happy to go round and give them all a 5 minute back rub each. They’ve all earned it.

Surely a free bbq at the local park, jumping castle for the kids and fireworks for later on for a start.