The official OZ bashing thread.

[shockshiok]

Re: Australia's Homeless: A National Epidemic

They are very quiet on how much money it takes to buy an average house in Australia

Most Australians dont make 104,000 per year

the silence is deafening! 104K to purchase a crap property, highest taxes, 10%GST. PAP style silence here.......

 

[BlueCat]

Re: Australia is in a Recession according to JP Morgan Sydney

well,they are not the only country in recession.
almost every countries in the world that depends on US and Europe are in recession.

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Australia is in a Recession according to JP Morgan Sydney

well,they are not the only country in recession.
almost every countries in the world that depends on US and Europe are in recession.

this is true, but they will enter recession late and leave it late. a painful two years is forecast for australia, the worst country in the world.

 

[axe168]

Re: Australia is in a Recession according to JP Morgan Sydney

this is true, but they will enter recession late and leave it late. a painful two years is forecast for australia, the worst country in the world.

Kudos.. ya interpretation is excellent ! Currently we have positive 1 per cent.. BUT we are so much WORST.. as compare to SG, US, Europe, UK... but how come ah?? Care to explain further ?

 

[redbull313]

Re: Australia's Homeless: A National Epidemic

the silence is deafening! 104K to purchase a crap property, highest taxes, 10%GST. PAP style silence here.......

You forgot the A$9 sandwiches

 

[nuttymeggy]

Re: Four men beat up M'sian student in Melbourne

I think you can onli walk alone at 2.50am in sillypore and nothing happen to you.

sillypore LOL. i always spell it as stinkapore

 

[neddy]

Re: Australia's Homeless: A National Epidemic

They are very quiet on how much money it takes to buy an average house in Australia

Most Australians dont make 104,000 per year

So do Americans. Jealous?
Americans cannot afford to do to Australia or Europe. They cannot afford the sandwiches there.
Better stay in US and eat China-made sandwiches.

 

[neddy]

Re: Australia is in a Recession according to JP Morgan Sydney

Kudos.. ya interpretation is excellent ! Currently we have positive 1 per cent.. BUT we are so much WORST.. as compare to SG, US, Europe, UK... but how come ah?? Care to explain further ?

Now you make shockshiok really jealous He is already stuck in a PAP slum and cannot afford chicken (see how envious he is of your chicken business). Can't you just leave him alone to console himself.

Have compassion, Chinese New Year coming.

 

[redbull313]

Re: The World's Worst Currency? Beware the A$.......

and i also need not point out the US is showing undue strength when other world currencies are crashing, like the australian toilet paper dollar

you can be assured of stability with 13 trillion US liquid dollars sitting idle WORLDWIDE - and people feeling safe with their US$ instead of banana republic worthless currencies like the australian worthless dollar

Our Newspapers are also calling it a "flight to safety"

I wonder, why people choose to hold US$ and abandon other currencies in time of turmoil?

 

[redbull313]

Re: Australia's Homeless: A National Epidemic

So do Americans. Jealous?
Americans cannot afford to do to Australia or Europe. They cannot afford the sandwiches there.
Better stay in US and eat China-made sandwiches.

Now, Now Joshie Boy

Over here our prices are falling

Remember our Food and Car prices are a fraction of what you are paying

Jealous, Hulh?

 

[imperialarms]

aussie jailed for insulting Thai king!

Author jailed for insulting Thai king

* Story Highlights
* Australian author jailed for insulting Thai king in a book
* Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years; cut from six for his guilty plea
* He was arrested last year, three years after the book was first published
* Defense lawyers deciding whether to appeal or ask for a royal pardon

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family.

Harry Nicolaides was arrested last August over a 2005 book called "Verisimilitude," which includes a paragraph about the king and crown prince that the authorities deemed a violation of the Lese Majeste law.

Nicolaides, 41, was bombarded with questions from foreign journalists as he arrived at the court Monday, wearing shackles as he stepped from a prison bus. In tears, he said he would plead guilty.

"Truth is stranger than fiction," he said. "It's been an ordeal for months. It feels like a bad dream." VideoWatch shackled Nicolaides at court »

The Thai Criminal Court originally sentenced Nicolaides to six years in jail but cut the punishment in half because of the guilty plea. He listened calmly as the verdict was translated to him.

After hearing his verdict Nicolaides said: "I wish my family the best." VideoWatch Nicolaides' brother's reaction »

One of his lawyers said no decision had been made about whether to appeal or seek a royal pardon. King Bhumibol Adulydej has pardoned foreigners in other similar cases in the past.

CNN has chosen not to repeat the allegations made by Nicolaides because it could result in CNN staff being prosecuted in Thailand.

Nicolaides had been living in Thailand since 2003, lecturing at two universities about tourism.

He was about to leave Thailand when he was arrested on August 31 last year. It is not clear why the authorities waited three years after the publication of his book to bring charges against him.

"I think there are individuals who have exploited an obscure law for their own self-interest," he said.

Only 50 copies of the book were published, and only seven were sold.

The law Nicolaides was convicted of breaking is section 112, known as the Lese Majeste law.

It says: "Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years."

Thailand's king is highly revered in this Buddhist nation, but even he has said in the past that he can be criticized.

Thailand's new prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, also told CNN he is concerned about the misuse of the Lese Majeste law.

"There are cases in the past where this law has been abused for political purposes, and I agree this has to stop," he said.

Despite the rhetoric there's little sign the prime minister will change the law. Other cases are pending against both foreigners and Thais.

 

[imperialarms]

Re: aussie jailed for insulting Thai king!

same punishment as insulting LKY

 

[busy123]

Re: Melbourne, one of the World's most Expensive and Dangerous Cities

I hear from colleague now this ozzieland become traffic jam place

 

[busy123]

Re: Australia is in a Recession according to JP Morgan Sydney

Methinks you jealous lor

 

[busy123]

Re: aussie jailed for insulting Thai king!

Except for sinkee dun likes LKY and those Thai all love the king

 

[busy123]

Re: The World's Worst Currency? Beware the A$.......

Our Newspapers are also calling it a "flight to safety"

I wonder, why people choose to hold US$ and abandon other currencies in time of turmoil?

Yalor now my colleague forex broker tell me this year and next year is to buy this US of A dollar and sell off those previous big yield NZ and Ozzieland no more yield there so now everyone sell sell until jialat

 

[busy123]

Re: Australia's Homeless: A National Epidemic

You forgot the A$9 sandwiches

Only those Ozzie so stupid pay cheating price for sandwich what

 

[busy123]

Re: Report:80% of Muslims Have Experienced Racism/Attack in Australia, Feel Unsafe

when 80% of them are getting spat on, says alot about australia, and why its the worst country in the world.

hee hee

I feels so badly for the islamic there in this ozzieland idiot place

No need to spit on them

For what? Why like that?

 

[zuoom]

Re: The World's Worst Currency? Beware the A$.......

Our Newspapers are also calling it a "flight to safety"

I wonder, why people choose to hold US$ and abandon other currencies in time of turmoil?

simple.

it's the currency of the world. basically the standard to buy n sell.

bring it to vietnam, bring it to india, bring it to russia, bring it to the middle east, it's accepted, usable to trade for products.

there's no other currency that enjoy the widespread usability like the greenback. none. not the GPD, not Yen, nor the upcoming RMB or the old standard Swiss Francs, new standard Euro.

hell, the greenback is in popular culture, on MTV etc. it's everywhere, and it's not going anywhere in a hurry.

it's still the safe currency to be in. even if it's value were to go down... say by half. it's still worth half a dollar.

 

[shockshiok]

Re: The World's Worst Currency? Beware the A$.......

simple.

it's the currency of the world. basically the standard to buy n sell.

bring it to vietnam, bring it to india, bring it to russia, bring it to the middle east, it's accepted, usable to trade for products.

there's no other currency that enjoy the widespread usability like the greenback. none. not the GPD, not Yen, nor the upcoming RMB or the old standard Swiss Francs, new standard Euro.

hell, the greenback is in popular culture, on MTV etc. it's everywhere, and it's not going anywhere in a hurry.

it's still the safe currency to be in. even if it's value were to go down... say by half. it's still worth half a dollar.

this is true, its still the world's currency.