Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 10^th, 2022 at 8:47am:


We look after our own, and our own is who is here in this country.  It doesn't matter your age, race or gender, you're one of us.

I used to think country folk were racist until I was living in a rural town for a short time and while they say some of the most incredibly racist things I've heard (until joining this forum), they were the first there when the new Vietnamese family moved in to help them when their shop burned down.  I would always try to do the right thing, but after witnessing this, and taking part where I could help, the locals treated the imports like their own, without hesitation, the moment they needed help.  Even one of the most stoic, walls up no emotions on display farmer we there, hugging the father of the family and crying with him when they were going through what was left of the building.

Turns out they're really not that racist, they just say racist things.  They recognise humanity and its people like that, racist language and jokes aside, that formed my understanding of what mateship was.

But that was 20 years ago.

My wife and our eldest hopped on the buses to Brisbane twice after the floods to help clean up.

They won't be the last floods, but I'm done with things like the mud army.

As things start to get more difficult in the economy, rates increase and belts need tightening, I'd already gone through our budget and identified the things that I can cut out.

But now, with my new found realisation about the rest of your cu, I've decided that the multiple streaming services we have are more important than the monthly contribution to breast cancer research and the one for Alzheimer's.  Someone else can do it.

Why should I go without netflix?

The next time my neighbour's husband who should really be in a home goes walkabout, I'm not going to join the search, might as well just stay home and watch some Iron Chef.

Or Gladys down the street, widowed and in her 90's, bitch can mow her own lawn and take her bins out and in herself, I've got my own things to worry about.  And if her Woolies delivery isn't on time and she runs out of toilet paper or tissues, she can call her son in Victoria, not my problem.

Trolleys?  No need to return those, just push them into someone else's car when I'm done.

Doing a tip run and got spare space in my tray or trailer, no need to check if my neighbours have anything they need to get rid of.

Provide free accommodation to homeless pets after the bushfires when their families are barely able to find a roof over their head, let alone a pet-friendly one?  Nahhhhhh, not my problem.

Storm or flood damage on your place?  I'll crack a beer and watch you struggle to close your garage door or board up your windows.

There is no point in modern Australia pretending mateship is a thing anymore and trying to be a part of it. 

Too many people have their hands out, wanting assistance when they need help but will never ever help those in return.

"Oh sorry I've got a bad back", "Oh I don't have time, sorry" blah blah blah 

And they're usually the ones who will tell others to pull themselves up by their bootstraps yet cry the loudest when they need help.

Be it something simple like wearing a mask when they're being begged to by authorities so they don't have to mandate it, or lending a hand in a time of crisis.

They have found a way to push their selfishness to such an extreme that it's destroyed what was left of mateship in this country.

It's been replaced with "Fu you, I've got mine" and "People I think I'm better than are getting a level playing field, I deserve more!".

aquascoot wrote on Aug 9^th, 2022 at 4:15pm:


We're not talking about tanking the economy, we're talking about cu like yourself who preach personal responsibility so things don't need to be mandated then refuse to take any responsibility while advocating for death in some personal cursaid to prove to people who don't care about you how alpha you are.

You're a wretched piece of s and you are utterly unworthy of the gift of life you so easily disregard in others, dressed up as concern and compassion.

You deserve nothing but being first in line for the outcomes you preach for, but alas, we'll just have to settle for you being a lonely old fart obsessing over proving how right you are to strangers online who don't care because the moment your kids grew up enough to pick and choose who is in their lives, they didn't choose you and your wife, if she stuck around, is the one wearing the pants which is why you preach such misogynistic views here to go along with your raging desire to see people die so you can pretend to be tough, special and most importantly, right.

COVID exposed the people like you, unwilling to take the most basic of steps to help protect others to help in keeping everything open so the people you pretend to care about don't lose their small businesses etc, all while crying about how victimised you are...

The world will be a better place when you're nothing but a statistic, forgotten and used as fodder by conspiracy tards red pilled by similar rhetoric to what you've posted. 

Even that is more than you deserve.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2022 at 5:56pm:

aquascoot wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 8:23am:


It's not meant to be, you've proved to be unwilling or incapable of rational debate.

We'd be better off without you, humanity would be better off without those like you.

Carl D wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2022 at 5:56am:


wikipedia discredits someone so it must be true LOL

incorrect

i advocate for human flourishing.

a position now held by albonese and every premier.

white flag accepted