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Americans are hopeless at pronouncing anything Australian, they can't even say Aussie correctly. Well they can, they just choose not to.

DrunkFace wrote:

Americans are hopeless

Remember all the people you stole yours from.

I thought the would point out the facetiousness nicely, but I wasn't entirely kidding. Yes, you made it your own, but its roots are what they are, even if its structure is malleable, given time.

That's not what I said. I just think it's silly to criticize different English dialects for being different or changing, since English itself is a result of the evolution of human language. If you can be understood by the people you're trying to communicate with, it's all good. If that's not what you meant either, fine, but it's annoying seeing you resort to grade school insults every other post. It's more demeaning to you than anyone you attack.

Some aussies speak excellent english

eh, tbh it's increasingly difficult to take q&a seriously. was great a few years back the questions that get selected nowadays are so inane and stupid that it's hard to even watch

your politicians/party-heads don't even show up for questions? lol wat.

Adams_BJ wrote:

Some aussies speak excellent english

yes, the ones you send to uni. sydney or back home to oxbridge to be educated as public servants or intellectuals :p

Dilbert_X wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

your politicians/party-heads don't even show up for questions? lol wat.

They don't turn up for a lame TV show, so what?

yes, the television question-show format or televised debate is 'lame' and 'mass cultural' and 'dumbed down', but you'd have to be obtuse to not recognize that modern-day politics is almost entirely mediated by... mass media. almost every average voter's experience and contact with politicians thesedays is through (tabloid) newspapers or televised debates/events. bbc question time is quite often a risible show, where little englanders show up to ask their neurotic and asinine middle-class questions, and it's easy and fine to be snobbish about it... but that is literally how most people receive their political fact and opinion. it is how most people engage with policy, and decide on the politicians whom will receive the vote.

i'd say it's pretty important that a politician shows up for question time on tv. plus then you get gems like this:

no because your democracy is bought and sold on capitol high by lobbyists and rich-people in backrooms.

the idea of a public forum for debate/policy-making/questioning is thoroughly socialist.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-05-10 19:01:37)

Jaekus wrote:

1,000 days since Abbott has been on Q&A. If the guy can't face journalists in his own country he has no business 'leading' the nation as PM. He is a completely pathetic joke. Even his own daughter is quoted as saying he's a "lame churchy loser".

I'd say tomorrow marks his 1k Q&A absence.

Tony's strategy has been to avoid as much media as possible because he and the LNP knows that he simply does not hold up under scrutiny. That's why when he's not bike riding his campaign has been little more than brief appearances where the majority of the time Tony's in the background nodding and looking like he understands what's being said. When it's his turn to speak he parrots meaningless slogans like "Scrap the Carbon Tax" "Turn Back the Boats" and his latest, "A better deal for Australians," waves, refuses questions, and leaves.

Which Australians Tony? Which deal Tony? What makes it better Tony? Better than what Tony?

It is impossible to get a substantial answer out of him and if you try he either gets angry or completely shuts down. The only way he can function is if he's scripted and largely the media has been happy to grant him this - even the ABC for fear of being called biased.

He knows that he can't function at a more than superficial level, the LNP certainly knows it, so Q&A is completely off limits give its purpose is to be an unscripted environment where questions can be asked freely.

Thing is eventually he's going to have to take part in a leadership debate where he will have to answer quesions. Given that he has failed to work on this weakness, and in fact fled from it, I suspect he will be humiliated as he was last time. Whether it will matter or not, who knows.

Loves Abbott's cartoonish "Little Book of Big Labor Waste" outlining things like advertising, staff payouts, market research, and travel expenses as examples of how the Labor Government is wasting taxpayer money. Of course when asked what he would do to change this he had to admit that the Coalition couldn't promise to cut any of this. Why? Well because they are all expenses associated with running a fucking Government. All Tony could really say is "well we won't spend as much on these things" despite the fact that he has no way of knowing what future expenses he'd face if in Government.

Meanwhile I have to wonder how much money he spent designing, printing, and distributing a little booklet that is actually without any value whatsoever.