CureTheSane

Federal govt is trying to have the whole country open up and live with covid

WA are saying "fuck that, we're going to act as if we are a separate country"

48 minutes ago, auslander said:

NSW is starting to open up but they shouldn't play any games in WA or SA as they are run by nutjob dictators. I want them to run games at the MCG cause it will be funny to see an empty stadium if Andrews can still have the place locked down by then. All the Labor premiers are embarrassing tools.

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17 hours ago, Geoff said:

Bitterly disappointed in the English team today. Loved what they were saying, and the notion the Ashes might be cancelled this year because Australia is an unvisitable country at the moment. But they folded and now they're coming here, participating in our fucking ridiculous quarantine rules and all.

I enjoy cricket and the Ashes is cool and all, but this country needs things like this to be cancelled to highlight in no uncertain terms what a fucking terrible place it is to be at the moment. 

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Hello!

Hey Olli

Just sittin' around waiting for my website to upload.

Listening to Roxanne's Broken Chandeliers which is a fairly positive song.

So tell me something good in your life...

6 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

More Aussie slang?

Yep, we can say anything we want, and it's just Aussie slang  
 

I started really with The Skyhooks and then Kiss
From there it was Twisted Sister, Maiden, Quiet Riot, etc
Next up would have been Bon Jovi

Free Guy - average, poredicatable, well made.

3 hours ago, Geoff said:

Haha. Yeah, to a degree, there is less traffic on the road but it's not what you'd picture in a legit lockdown scenario. I'm an hour north of Sydney and the roads here are definitely at least 90% "normal." Plenty of people at all the beaches, all bush walk carparks overflowing etc. And I agree, I think a large amount of people are visiting who they like within local areas. You look at how the case numbers rise and stay at these "high" (for Australia) numbers and it's very clear that a lot of people are just tired of it and ready to move on. What amazes me on a daily basis, though, is why all these people are getting tested. Unless you're actually feeling unwell, if you've been "breaking the rules" and have mild symptoms, why even bother getting tested? 

First lockdown we had, the streets were basically a wasteland.
Kind of eerie they were so empty.

This time, no real discernable change, at least when I am out on the roads.
Even right now, at 1am - 4 hours after curfew becan, if I walk around the corner to the main road, there is a bit of traffic.
Always gonna be nurses etc on the roads, but there is more traffic than there should be.

Dare say there is a shitload of petrol in Australia.
Although these days the roads aren't too far off non lockdown times.
People pretty much doing what they like visiting family and friends I think...

I have the first 30 seconds of Star Eyes by Peepshow as my main ringtone at the moment.

Yeah, I'm gonna call it.

We have relatively few cases compared to the rest of the world.
to say our nurses etc are at breaking point is an insult to most of the nurses etc in the rest of the world.

Aside from that, I don't know that they are doing longer shifts, overtime, etc.
I'm sure they are working hard all day, does that mean that they weren't before?

Talk about the strain of seeing covid cases etc and not letting family in to say goodbye etc, and yeah, I get it, that's tough.
but from what we're hearing, shit is about to get multiple times worse when and if we ever reopen.

The other day I saw a reporter on TV say to some nurses "thank you for your service"
Holy fuck, what an insult to those who usually receive that comment!!!
 

Haha, yeah nothing we can do because we are disarmed. Yes, having a handgun would have diffused all this....

Geoff is right about WA.

They are unique in that they are so secluded. And they stopped receiving overseas flights, so it wasn't all that hard to not get many cases. That said, their leader has done a good job to dare, even if he is a tosser.

I'm calling it now. Melbourne will come out of lockdown later than is predicted (buy a week or rwo) when we hit 80% double vax.

Then we will go back into lockdown when we get cases of unvaried and the hospital system can't handle it. Why?

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Actually didn't think that cover was too bad

I think Juno is permanently gone now. Haven't seen him for months.

I really don't think Aussies hate New Zealanders.
More just fun jokes both ways.
Aussies lay claim to pavlova, Russell Crowe, Split Enz, Phar Lap, Lamingtons which were all really from NZ
Even our national flag was supposedly copied from NZ flag.
I'm sure they stole some of our shit as well
But NZ is an amazing place, I could seriously move there (especially now that Aus is so fucked)

Yeah, I'm with auslander
Never really cared about flu shot or covid shot.

Re Geoffs post, I would pump Gladys up a bit because 1. I think pretty much every leader in every country copped some shit of some sort, 2. she had to contend with endless comparisons to other state leaders and 3. she at least sounded genuine in her appreciation and thanks to her citizens.
One thing she did, was to TAKE the health advise and then MAKE her own decisions taking it into consideration, but not allowing it to rule her decisions.
We are about to enter week 9 of our snap 7 day lockdown lol
So much harder when you are constantly lied to and played. I mean I stopped being played a year ago, but most still believe what they hear...

today we had fewer new cases than NSW, we are still ion the incline, you are on the decline.
So clearly our harsher measures are a waste of time, and I wish we would follow you guys
 

13 hours ago, Geoff said:

But don't worry, guys. "Freedom day" is almost here! All along we've been programmed to live in fear of this virus, and ensure that every move we make in our lives is governed by fear of the virus. But finally, we're all about to be free to, uh, continue to live in fear of the virus. Never-mind, though. At 80% the - and I quote - "vertical consumption of alcohol" will be permitted at a bar. I think probably only at outside bar, but fuck me, can I not wait to vertically consume a beer. And I will of course toast our incredibly generous government for making it possible, when it is possible. 

Seriously, I just don't understand this country. There is absolutely zero desire to move on from covid in this joint. I have absolutely no doubt that in December 2023 it will still be dominating our news with "covid crisis" headlines on every bulletin. I see snippets from people I watch/follow from around the world, talking about ambitious (and booked) travel plans all around the world. People out there genuinely moving on from this thing. But it's not even Australia's pretend ambition. 

I'm not even going to mention 70% because I think 70% allows us to go to the letterbox instead of staying behind our front door for the last 3-4 months, but even at 80-90% all I hear is "you can do these few more things, but we still want you to be petrified of this virus and act accordingly."

They talk about international travel commencing, while they're building quarantine concentration camps in parts of the country, thinking anyone is going to want to come to this hellhole via a two week quarantine period. I know they're apparently working on this, but I just feel like this country is so, so far out of the loop it's ridiculous. I genuinely hope the international community completely turns its collective back on any intention to travel to Australia until, by deafault, it forces the braindead fucks to actually properly understand what the point of all these vaccines is. And they can then try to get their shitful brains around the concept of actually properly trying to live with covid. 

I know I've said it repeatedly in this thread, but just genuinely ashamed of this country right now. Trapped in a covid panic they never want to get out of. Every day, you are still 100% assured to see a headline along the lines of "covid crisis worsens" or the like. Our daily "crisis" is most countries' hourly tally, as they get on with life.

 

If it makes you feel better, we are all quite envious of you guys up there.
Down here we see Gladys as a bit of a legend.
Of course that came about as a comparison with what we have.

Slash said Josh Todd sang out of tune when he auditioned for him.
By your argument maybe you'd be the biggest Crue fan if they had a better singer?

I always find it weird when people beg for a 'better singer'
Are you all crying for a better singer for Motley, Motorhead, The Ozzy Osbourne band , etc
You didn't hear Van Hagar fans crying for him to return to VH when they brought Dave back.

There are heaps of bands who have a vocalist that I won't really like too much and I am lucky to find a few songs that I like due to that.
I never had any issues with this singer. If I bothered to analyse his singing I could probably be picky, but that's not very rock and roll.

Finally getting to this album.
Best since Running With The Dogs.
Barman is my fav so far.
Lots of catch songs here, great surprise after the disappointing Power Crazy

1 hour ago, tts42572 said:

I look through my playlist and I basically have about 3-4 songs from each album they've done in it.  And I really dig those songs.  But then the rest of their songs are just kind of average or something.  Totally get what you mean. 

I kept 4, 5, 8, 9 respectively off the 4 albums.
Looking forward to this new one

4 hours ago, heavyharmonies said:

Disagree. The whole premiere thing is Youtube's new promotions method they're pushing and if you want your channel to be tops in their algorithm you have to utilize it. Don't blame the band. I've seen more and more musical acts releasing new videos this way over the last year.

Meh, just saying how it appears.
In this case, it's not really a big deal. I love Kissin' Dynamite and will get the album for sure.
More about some band I've never heard of before, and they throw a single in my face, and I decide for whatever reason, to give it a listen.
Then it says "come back later" and I can say that unless it pops up again, I will likely never hear the song.
So however they intend this to work, it doesn't seem to be for me at least....