The off topic thread 6.0

[Cruyff14]

Congrats

Thank you kind sir!

 

[Bradesmaen]

Going to be a dad again, another little girl on the way. Been rough going between a failed (IVF) transfer and a miscarriage but we got there in the end.

I'm 10-11 weeks away from my first via the same route. Nerve wracking times given what it has taken to get here and you think every little thing is wrong or going to go wrong

 

[Jatz]

Going to be a dad again, another little girl on the way. Been rough going between a failed (IVF) transfer and a miscarriage but we got there in the end.

Congratulations mate. Got our second one due next month.

How far along is your wife?

 

[SM]

Going to be a dad again, another little girl on the way. Been rough going between a failed (IVF) transfer and a miscarriage but we got there in the end.

Congrats mate!

 

[Jars458]

One idiot got shot.

"[T]his group refused to accept police direction, forced a breach in police lines and ran towards the main front entrance of Parliament House. Unfortunately, it was apparent that some of these demonstrators were affected by alcohol. This group was supported by participants from the more general demonstration who were incited to join those involved in riotous conduct by a speaker from the official platform."

Is that accurate of the day would you say?

It could well be. A number of others died from heart failure. Over 150 were injured including Capitol Police. That doesn't even count the mental health of many of the officials there. It was completely indefensible but yet only one of the many completely unacceptable things Trump has done or said. He is beyond any form of rational defence.

 

[Jars458]

Going to be a dad again, another little girl on the way. Been rough going between a failed (IVF) transfer and a miscarriage but we got there in the end.

Fantastic news, congratulations.

 

[Bostonian]

It could well be. A number of others died from heart failure. Over 150 were injured including Capitol Police. That doesn't even count the mental health of many of the officials there. It was completely indefensible but yet only one of the many completely unacceptable things Trump has done or said. He is beyond any form of rational defence.

Well that's actually from when our own Parliament was location for a similar scene in 1996.

"On the day of 19 August, the protest began with senior Australian Trade Union officials including ACTU President Jennie George and Assistant Secretary Greg Combet, along with Labor Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, Greens Leader Bob Brown and Democrats Leader Cheryl Kernot rallying demonstrators against the Government from a podium.[4][5] Beazley told protesters: "[The Howard government] hates workers, it hates students, it hates Aboriginal people, it hates women...", while Brown promised to "bury" the Government's industrial relations Bill."

Getting their thugs all riled up

"[T]his group refused to accept police direction, forced a breach in police lines and ran towards the main front entrance of Parliament House. Unfortunately, it was apparent that some of these demonstrators were affected by alcohol. This group was supported by participants from the more general demonstration who were incited to join those involved in riotous conduct by a speaker from the official platform.

Police formed a protective line along the perimeter of the Great Verandah which was subsequently forced back to the main doors. The police line was withdrawn from this area due to the level of violence being experienced by officers and was redeployed to an area inside the front doors in support of parliamentary security personnel. This deployment stabilised the situation for a short period. However, demonstrators using increasing force broke through the first line of doors.

Once inside this area, demonstrators used weapons, including a large hammer, a wheel brace, a steel trolley and a stanchion torn from the external doors to break open the internal doors. Simultaneously, a second group of demonstrators used other weapons to break into the Parliament House shop, but were held at the internal doors. The shop was ransacked by demonstrators and major damage was caused by persons who subsequently occupied the area. After some two hours, the demonstrators were finally repelled from Parliament House and driven back onto the forecourt area and, shortly afterwards, they dispersed.

The Irish Times reported that protesters threw acid and urine at more than 300 riot police who were called in to control the violence, after about 25,000 trade union members and Aboriginal protesters marched on Parliament. More than 60 police were injured and 50 people arrested, while "the Parliament House entrance, marble hall and souvenir shop were turned into a battle zone...

Treasurer Peter Costello was locked down in his office by the Federal Police, as rioters stormed Parliament.[8] Some 90 personnel had reported injuries by the following day, including lacerations, sprains, and head and eye injuries. Nurses treated 40 injured people on the floor of the foyer.[1] During the course of the riot, unionist Davie Thomason, of the CFMEU, took the podium at the official rally with a bloodied face and spoke while shaking a police riot shield, saying to cheers from other protesters:"

All sounds rather familiar doesn't it?

I'm betting more than a few of the bet wetters over Trump vote Labor, what ya reckon?

 

[Jars458]

I'm betting more than a few of the bet wetters over Trump vote Labor, what ya reckon?

No doubt about that. I dispute the term bed wetters. Juvenile.

 

[Bostonian]

No doubt about that. I dispute the term bed wetters. Juvenile.

Should I call them hypocrites?

 

[Cruyff14]

I'm 10-11 weeks away from my first via the same route. Nerve wracking times given what it has taken to get here and you think every little thing is wrong or going to go wrong

It's all worth it in the end, Mrs C14 had a very smooth first pregnancy so we were very lucky in that regard.

But yeah, it's still daunting knowing the road to get to where you are isn't straight forward.

Congratulations mate. Got our second one due next month.

How far along is your wife?

Yeah I saw the mrs was pregnant, two under two for you right? That will be a lot of fun

13 weeks.

 

[moomba]

Bloody hell, do none of you blokes have televisions?

 

[Cruyff14]

Bloody hell, do none of you blokes have televisions?

Haha, it will be 2 years 7 months between mine.

 

[moomba]

Should I call them hypocrites?

Where is the hypocrisy?

 

[Bostonian]

Where is the hypocrisy?

Let's see. Taking issue with Trumps followers storming a political building and questioning why anyone would vote for such people.

Then the same people whose party are in bed with mangy dogs like the CFMEU don't distance themselves from that party even when their corruption is exposed.

1996 they rioted Parliament House. 2024 and the low lives are still operating like criminal thugs. Were nice and cosy with their political party and politicians until they were all exposed.

Looks like a hypocritical existence to me.

 

[moomba]

Let's see. Taking issue with Trumps followers storming a political building and questioning why anyone would vote for such people.

Then the same people whose party are in bed with mangy dogs like the CFMEU don't distance themselves from that party even when their corruption is exposed.

1996 they rioted Parliament House. 2024 and the low lives are still operating like criminal thugs. Were nice and cosy with their political party and politicians until they were all exposed.

Looks like a hypocritical existence to me.

People aren't taking issue with Trumps followers storming a political building, they're taking issue with Trump for encouraging it, doing nothing about it for hours and then blaming everyone buy himself and his supporters furniture happening.

Even now he's talking about them being political prisoners, and of pardoning them if he gets re-elected.

There is no hypocrisy there.

 

[Bostonian]

People aren't taking issue with Trumps followers storming a political building, they're taking issue with Trump for encouraging it, doing nothing about it for hours and then blaming everyone buy himself and his supporters furniture happening.

Even now he's talking about them being political prisoners, and of pardoning them if he gets re-elected.

They literally are. They are calling them insurrectionists.

So like the talkers that day at Parliament House Trump riled up his followers.

None of the rioters here that conducted similar actions were jailed though.

So It would seem jailing them was a far greater penalty handed out than those who attacked our Parliament who got zero jail time.

 

[chef]

Going to be a dad again, another little girl on the way. Been rough going between a failed (IVF) transfer and a miscarriage but we got there in the end.

Congrats mate

 

[chef]

I'm 10-11 weeks away from my first via the same route. Nerve wracking times given what it has taken to get here and you think every little thing is wrong or going to go wrong

And congrats to you too mate.

 

[glenferry23]

Congratulations Cruyff14 and Bradesmaen, awesome news

 

[moomba]

They literally are. They are calling them insurrectionists.

So like the talkers that day at Parliament House Trump riled up his followers.

None of the rioters here that conducted similar actions were jailed though.

So It would seem jailing them was a far greater penalty handed out than those who attacked our Parliament who got zero jail time.

You need to differentiate between the insurrectionists, and Trumps role in the events of Jan 6, pre, during and post.

 

[Bradesmaen]

It's all worth it in the end, Mrs C14 had a very smooth first pregnancy so we were very lucky in that regard.

But yeah, it's still daunting knowing the road to get to where you are isn't straight forward.


Yeah I saw the mrs was pregnant, two under two for you right? That will be a lot of fun

13 weeks.

Yeah things like oh it hasn't moved in a while and then I panic. Just cause of how hard it was going through 2 missed/miscarriages then this. 3 years of it so far.

 

[Jatz]

It's all worth it in the end, Mrs C14 had a very smooth first pregnancy so we were very lucky in that regard.

But yeah, it's still daunting knowing the road to get to where you are isn't straight forward.


Yeah I saw the mrs was pregnant, two under two for you right? That will be a lot of fun

13 weeks.

Yep, 2 under 2 for us.

We’re very fortunate, I basically just had to look at my wife and she fell pregnant again. Can’t begin to imagine all the anguish you’ve been through with your journey.

That’ll be it for us though I think. Too expensive to be raising big families anymore (which is rather sad).

 

[SM]

Yep, 2 under 2 for us.

We’re very fortunate, I basically just had to look at my wife and she fell pregnant again. Can’t begin to imagine all the anguish you’ve been through with your journey.

That’ll be it for us though I think. Too expensive to be raising big families anymore (which is rather sad).

There's more fun ways than just looking..

 

[moomba]

What a campaigner

 

[moomba]