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Farva

After every attack where someone gets butchered in the street by Islamic terrorists we hear shitstirring unsubstantiated claims about hijabs being torn off or Muslim women being abused. Usually when you look more into it, it ends up being internet trolls that have said something offensive and is re...

Farva

Does Australia have a large Muslim population? I saw a figure of 500k/28mill last night. I doubt its precise, but it may not be entirely inaccurate. A substantial proportion of that figure live in the Sydney area, so its a larger proportion of the city population, than overall. Australia only has a...

Farva

Lets leave it there, until we know more, before calling anyone heroes, or suggesting their actions led to deaths. What harm do we do by speculating? Well, we don't have any harm. I just guess suggestions that someone who is now deceased was an idiot for something that may not have occurred grate on...

Farva

Fact remains that no-one here knows what happened, at all.
We had a very mentally unstable person holding a whole heap of people hostage.
Anything could have caused those deaths.

Lets leave it there, until we know more, before calling anyone heroes, or suggesting their actions led to deaths.

Farva

Dunno why some people find it so hard to admit Abbott might actually have been right this time. Another dumb comment. We've been on a high alert for years. Under our previous level of readiness, which had been adopted since 9/11 and the Bali bombings, a terrorist attack was considered likely. And t...

Farva

Now that the dust is settling on this tragic incident, I'm starting to think about the short to medium term ramifications. I hope I'm wrong but I expect some push-back against Muslim-Australians. I don't think the push back will be as bad as some feared, especially given that it now seems the gunma...

Farva

Donger, you need to trim your beard mate.

Farva

Donger wrote:

Oh ffs.

No one amongst us knows.

He could be a hero...

OR he could be an idiot.

What I do know is that we cannot DEFINITELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY say he is a hero who DEFINITELY saved everyone.

Fair enough.
But you must realise that a lot of us misinterpreted what you wrote, so chill.

Farva

Yeah, nah. The 'one bloke in a coffee shop' remark was foolhardy on so many levels. It could quite conceivably only take one bloke in his house or even on a beach with a laptop, smart phone or watch. Yes. We can all see now that there was an issue. However, this attack was not seen by our security ...

Farva

Donger wrote:
Ali's Choice wrote:
Donger wrote: That was my point, numb nuts
Well it was an extremely poorly made point, because you seem to be suggesting this male hostage shouldn't have acted in the manner in which he did.

I'm with AC, I thought you were having a crack at him.

Farva

It will be interesting to see what was occurring at the time. If the guy was kicking off then he did a very brave thing and saved loads of people although a shotgun isn't a particularly effective weapon to control a crowd. If he acted in a premeditated strike it was still brave but possibly foolhar...

Farva

It is easy to raise the warning and if they don't, and something happens, they get shit canned. Damned if they do, damned if they don't You're not seriously suggesting that Australians would blame the Federal govt if someone committed an act of terror in an Australian city tomorrow? It is painfully...

Farva

I had thought that Britain was secular and not Christian, but there you go.

Farva

stonehat wrote: In heaven you will meet 72 virgins, formed from the top 5 out of the picture on this thread and sundry others.

When we talk about the top 5, are we talking the Openside or Guy Smiley method here?

Farva

So, to summarise, the bored's collective wisdom seems to be suggesting that their options are: 1) Hold a raffle 2) Invent an attractive dance 3) Sell smutty photos of or prostitute out ( most of ) the Women's Sevens Team. 4) Ask the Samoan government for a bailout. 5) FOAD Let's see how it goes. :t...

Farva

So, to summarise, the bored's collective wisdom seems to be suggesting that their options are: 1) Hold a raffle 2) Invent an attractive dance 3) Sell smutty photos of or prostitute out ( most of ) the Women's Sevens Team. 4) Ask the Samoan government for a bailout. 5) FOAD Let's see how it goes. :t...

Farva

Australia Samu Kerevi - big centre that plays for the Reds. First season with the Reds last year and looks the goods. Adam Coleman - lock for the Force. 2.04m and 122kg, but with skills to match. Jack Debreczeni - flyhalf for the Rebels. Had a massive NRC tournament. Hopefully he can turn that form ...

Farva

Mog, it's turning into a nightmare... :lol: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B44oWJiCIAA2bX3.jpg:large It's not a nightmare it's just silly and extremely predictable. The fact is, the Islamic faith on a global level, needs to address some pretty tough questions. Meanwhile, well-meaning PC secularists ar...

Farva

Why won't e free market work if climate change is real? If the cost of climate change is adequately factored into the price of a product, like it should be, then the market would find a solution. I'm pretty bullish for us overcoming climate change, I think the ability is there, we just need the poli...

Farva

"Hey guys, let's try and prevent stupid reactionary violence against people who have at best a tangential connection to this deplorable event!"= silly Yeah, nah, you're still a dick ... this is the guy who constantly accuses me of building strawmen ... ffs. If you want to discuss this, at least be ...

Farva

Mog, it's turning into a nightmare... :lol: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B44oWJiCIAA2bX3.jpg:large It's not a nightmare it's just silly and extremely predictable. The fact is, the Islamic faith on a global level, needs to address some pretty tough questions. Meanwhile, well-meaning PC secularists ar...

Farva

6roucho wrote:To be fair, karahi is more like a virus, floating around for ages before spearing into Melbourne and filling it with his reproductive material.

Blackrock Bullet is more your classical germ.

You can't kill Karahi either.

Farva

What a germ of a poster Blackrock is proving to be. I hope the same level of cordiality is extended to your pal for pointing out the same; AC didn't go trawling through old posts to find old posts with which to make a snipe again another poster, over a real tragedy. Like I said, germ. :uhoh: You me...

Farva

It takes a special kind of arsehole to get angry at people for NOT violently over-reacting to this story The alternative to immediately leaping to the defence of voodoo fairy-tales is NOT violently over-reacting. In fact, if you've read any of my posts on the subject of Islamic fundamentalism and r...

Farva

... and the mindless f ucking idiocy begins ... Sydney residents keen to say #illridewithyou to ward off anti-Islamic sentiment In a climate of fear and uncertainty, Australians have banded together to show their support for the Muslim population, reports the SMH's Brittany Ruppert. The #illridewit...

Farva

The anti-Islam rhetoric is starting to increase on FB. Have had a few acquaintances share images on comments from this site over the past few minutes. Which, as I'm sure you know, is the province of morons and idiots. http://i.imgur.com/k8GKqt5.jpg Great response from four n twenty :thumbup: They t...

Farva

Blackrock Bullet wrote:
Farva wrote:What a germ of a poster Blackrock is proving to be.
I hope the same level of cordiality is extended to your pal for pointing out the same;

AC didn't go trawling through old posts to find old posts with which to make a snipe again another poster, over a real tragedy.
Like I said, germ.

Farva

This seems to be doing the rounds. No idea if credible or RR https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B44S8AWCAAE8aYD.jpg Would be a very odd thing to make up. If you google her name it comes up with a body building mum from Glenwood http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/glenwood-mum-wins-inba-bikini-...

Farva

What a germ of a poster Blackrock is proving to be.

Farva

Yes, they've been saying all night it's a lone nut. Abbott said it too when he addressed the nation/world . Clearly Abbott is a liar so expect to learn of a second gunman by the end of the night :uhoh: Psst Abbott isn't actually there, the Police have been saying this for the past few hours, Abbott...

Farva

karahi wrote:I'm just waiting to see what A Bogan Affair makes of it.

I as held hostage and now the government is trying to screw me?

Farva

2, 1, 3

Farva

L. Ron Hubbard wrote:Not clear if they escaped or were let go

Doesn't matter. Good news

Farva

Farva that was her excuse but I think she was just using that as a way out of receiving flak given that she tagged her initial tweet #brandfail. Just another totally clueless meeja cnutbag. Most likely. I wasn't trying to defend her. But it is an interesting point. What should a CEO be doing at the...

Farva

No brakes => clearly a fixie, so lycra wouldn't come into it. Yes, but the clothing appears baggy and seems to be cargo pants and a t-shirt. Plus there is no evidence of glasses. So we're agreed that he's actually saying "hey, whose bike is this?" Probably stole it and is making a dash to get away.

Farva

There's a huge fight going on right now with the taxi industry (which is horribly outdated) and Uber. I welcome change. It's just that a lot of people have been looking for a way to lash out at Uber. This helps them. People do go a bit berko on social media. This lady (apparently a lecturer in Soci...

Farva

DOB wrote:No brakes => clearly a fixie, so lycra wouldn't come into it.

Yes, but the clothing appears baggy and seems to be cargo pants and a t-shirt. Plus there is no evidence of glasses.

Farva

Without having any sort of real idea of this, I would think that the fact that these guys haven't blown themselves and the hostages to smitherines already must mean there is an increased chance of the hostages being released peacefully. If they were there purely on a suicide mission, the world has b...

Farva

Does anyone seriously believe that ISIL are such a global threat that they will impact meaningfully on Australia? To the extent that we need to risk the lives of hundreds of Australian troops and spend hundreds of millions of dollars that we apparently can't afford. It's funny how Tony Abbott has s...

Farva

Hope it ends peacefully but if there are any hostages saved it will be a miracle. You can't negotiate with these kinds of loons :(( Do we know what their demands are? If they wanted to kill people, then surely they wouldn't be holding hostages, so they must have demands. I was hypothesising Farva. ...

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