Australian Politics Forum - Ruddster drops the f-bomb

muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #15 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:31am The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks. I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's N = k/SsubscriptP Where N= number of swear words per day k= Sod's Constant and Ssubscript P = Penis size
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #16 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:33am Actually swearing at or in front of women has never been part of the Australian psyche.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #17 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:35am Grendel wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:33am: Actually swearing at or in front of women has never been part of the Australian psyche. With that I agree. See my addition.
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Reply #18 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:53am

muso wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:31am:

The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks.

I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's

N = k/SsubscriptP

Where N= number of swear words per day
k= Sod's Constant
and Ssubscript P = Penis size

I don't get your theory Muso - ?? You don't have to be a wowser to object to the PM swearing in the workplace. Would you appreciate your boss abusing you the way Rudd did with his ministers? Is he setting a precedent for other "bosses" to abuse their subordinates in this manner?

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Reply #19 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 2:21pm

mantra wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:53am:

muso wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:31am:

The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks.

I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's

N = k/SsubscriptP

Where N= number of swear words per day
k= Sod's Constant
and Ssubscript P = Penis size

I don't get your theory Muso - ?? You don't have to be a wowser to object to the PM swearing in the workplace. Would you appreciate your boss abusing you the way Rudd did with his ministers? Is he setting a precedent for other "bosses" to abuse their subordinates in this manner?

What I'm saying is that many corporate bosses feel the need to swear because some corporate highfliers tend to swear. They tend to emulate them and think that it makes them appear more macho, or maybe it compensates from their other deficiencies.

What I was saying is that swearing is commonplace in some boardrooms (generally where women are not present) I don't condone it though. I don't swear very often myself.

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Happy Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 559	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #20 - Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 1:02pm The way swear words are overused, we will have to look for other ways to express “robust language”
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Reply #21 - Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 1:08pm

The'ye just words, I can't believe the wowsers make such a big deal of it. Imagine if Rudd wobbled up to parliment drunk, now that would be a story.

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I WAS DRUNK AT WORK - HOWARD

John Howard has admitted addressing Federal Parliament while drunk during his so-called "wilderness years" after losing the Liberal leadership in 1989.

A new biography on Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister reveals Mr Howard was deeply affected by his 1989 loss to Andrew Peacock, breaking down in a tearful apology to staff and sometimes drinking too much.

[...]

On one occasion, after over-indulging at a farewell dinner for a close friend in 1990, Mr Howard admitted entering the chamber drunk.

"I had a couple of South Australian reds . . . I remember that night, yes. I can't dispute the story," he told the authors. Early morning walks helped Mr Howard overcome the drinking.

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Reply #22 - Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:10pm

Skippy - they are only words, but to a lot of people they are ugly words unacceptable in public or the workplace, although amongst friends, family or on anonymous forums they are usually tolerated.

Rudd portrayed himself prior to the last election as a conservative - more so than Howard, yet now we see another side to him - that of a bully with a mean temper. He comes across as two people - one a benign, articulate primeminister - the other a foul mouthed moron who snaps when he doesn't get his own way. Don't forget the incident where he gave a hostess a verbal bashing because she didn't give him the airline meal he requested. I doubt this will be the last of Rudd's childish outbursts.

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Darwin Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1037	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #23 - Sep 28^th, 2009 at 4:33pm Rudd said he was a fiscal conservative. The meal the hostie gave him was at like 9.00pm--I would snap and so would you, I bet. Factional warlords came to him to get him to re-instate the $100K limit to the printing allowance--it was not a workplace situation. The real question is, who and why leaked the conversation?
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merou Full Member Offline Less Tolerance, More Shooting Posts: 193 Pilbara WA Gender:	Re: Ruddster drops the f-bomb Reply #24 - Sep 28^th, 2009 at 6:16pm I can't believe this story wasn"t on the front page of every paper in the world, unbelievable, what sort of person in their right mind would ever say that disgraceful word. He should be hung in public. " what about the children.....somebody think of the children" GET OVER IT, FOR bugger SAKE
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