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| pietillidie wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | pietillidie wrote: |
The problem with the right, I think, is its world ignorance and the extent to which it filters out reality in favour of children's-story-level claims it is spoon fed by authority. |
As usual you have that backwards
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Moreover, you do have the maths to understand why 30% of a $100M is somehow a lot more preferable than 70% of $100,000, right? |
Nah, I'm just a dumb uneducated trog who spends his day telling people with degrees what to do. Can you google a link for it? |
More like an angry young man, I'd say, still seeking dad's approval  |
hahahaha the laughs keep coming!!
seriously, I just cant see Stui seeking any ones approval!
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stui magpie 
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FWIW my dad and I reversed parent child roles at least 10 years before he died. The transition was harder for me than him.
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pietillidie
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| stui magpie wrote: | | FWIW my dad and I reversed parent child roles at least 10 years before he died. The transition was harder for me than him. |
Indeed. It takes one to know one is all.
I look up to you a lot more than you realise
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| stui magpie wrote: | | FWIW my dad and I reversed parent child roles at least 10 years before he died. The transition was harder for me than him. |
Yes, really old age can be a total bastard, but perhaps our own is easier to bear than that of the strong, protective parents we - if we are lucky - remember.
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The Age Odd Spot Nov 1st
"Students at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to study a course called ‘‘Wasting time on the internet’’ at degree level from next year."
So everyone here in VPT will have a degree - no further study required - awarded for " prior learning" 
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think positive
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| Morrigu wrote: | The Age Odd Spot Nov 1st
"Students at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to study a course called ‘‘Wasting time on the internet’’ at degree level from next year."
So everyone here in VPT will have a degree - no further study required - awarded for " prior learning" |
Hahahahahahahahaha that's a classic!
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stui magpie
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| think positive wrote: | | Morrigu wrote: | The Age Odd Spot Nov 1st
"Students at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to study a course called ‘‘Wasting time on the internet’’ at degree level from next year."
So everyone here in VPT will have a degree - no further study required - awarded for " prior learning" |
Hahahahahahahahaha that's a classic! |
If they apply prior learning i'll go straight to a doctorate. 
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Great memorial - Noël Pearson take a bow!
The chairman of the Cape York Group paid tribute to "this old man" Whitlam, praising his foresight and moral vision in striving for universal opportunity in Australia.
He even channelled Monty Python as he listed Whitlam's achievements, saying: "And what did the Romans ever do for us anyway?", to laughter and clapping from the audience.
He then answered his own question, reeling off a great list of Whitlam's achievements, including Medibank, the abolition of conscription, the introduction of student financial assistance and Aboriginal land rights.
Mr Pearson said as a person born into poverty and discrimination, he spoke of "this old man's legacy with no partisan brief".
"Only those born bereft truly know the power of opportunity," Mr Pearson said.
"We salute this old man for his great love and dedication to his country and to the Australian people.
"When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians."
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/noel-pearsons-eulogy-for-gough-whitlam-praised-as-one-for-the-ages-20141105-11h7vm.html#ixzz3ICC0JGkQ
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CarringbushCigar 
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| Farewell to the father of modern Australia |
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partypie
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| For anyone interested in Gough, My Story on SBS is worth watching when it is repeated. At the end he says "we just have to get along", a sentiment worth remembering in our days of fear loathing and dealing with bureaucrats. |
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Culprit 
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| Morrigu wrote: | Great memorial - Noël Pearson take a bow!
The chairman of the Cape York Group paid tribute to "this old man" Whitlam, praising his foresight and moral vision in striving for universal opportunity in Australia.
He even channelled Monty Python as he listed Whitlam's achievements, saying: "And what did the Romans ever do for us anyway?", to laughter and clapping from the audience.
He then answered his own question, reeling off a great list of Whitlam's achievements, including Medibank, the abolition of conscription, the introduction of student financial assistance and Aboriginal land rights.
Mr Pearson said as a person born into poverty and discrimination, he spoke of "this old man's legacy with no partisan brief".
"Only those born bereft truly know the power of opportunity," Mr Pearson said.
"We salute this old man for his great love and dedication to his country and to the Australian people.
"When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians."
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/noel-pearsons-eulogy-for-gough-whitlam-praised-as-one-for-the-ages-20141105-11h7vm.html#ixzz3ICC0JGkQ |
Gough is still shaking his head that Pearson is a Liberal. |
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Wokko 
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Surprised nobody mentioned the despicable behaviour of booing Liberal PMs past and present at the memorial. Not the time or the place for partisan politics.
I guess the people booing were the same type who were publically name calling Maggie Thatcher a day after she passed away. |
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Culprit
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| Wokko wrote: | Surprised nobody mentioned the despicable behaviour of booing Liberal PMs past and present at the memorial. Not the time or the place for partisan politics.
I guess the people booing were the same type who were publically name calling Maggie Thatcher a day after she passed away. |
Let's throw in the Right Wingers dancing on his Grave and the venom they produced in their News/Radio/TV Articles were far worse than any booing the MP's who really didn't want to be there. Forget the spin about respect, they despised everything Whitlam stood for. Maybe they just wanted to make sure he was dead. |
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Jezza
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| Culprit wrote: | | Wokko wrote: | Surprised nobody mentioned the despicable behaviour of booing Liberal PMs past and present at the memorial. Not the time or the place for partisan politics.
I guess the people booing were the same type who were publically name calling Maggie Thatcher a day after she passed away. |
Forget the spin about respect, they despised everything Whitlam stood for. Maybe they just wanted to make sure he was dead. |
Just because someone disagrees with someone else's point of view doesn't mean that they don't respect that individual at the same time. Abbott and Howard did not deserve such boos even if people don't like them as politicians.
I can't say I'm fond of all politicians like Sarah Hanson Young for example but I'd never boo her if she attended an important event like a funeral. The way people carried on when Thatcher died was nothing short of a disgrace and I seem to remember many here not being critical of the celebrations of her death last year in England. She may have had her set ways with her policies and maybe she was a dislikable person to many, but that in no way justifies the reason to celebrate or even act like an ignoramus in the middle of English streets when she passed away.
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