Date: 11/09/2015 09:44:34
From: wookiemeister
ID: 773926
Subject: the Australian "nanny state".

Drugs, pornography and bicycle helmets under Senate microscope as David Leyonhjelm’s “nanny state” inquiry begins

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-11/senate-nanny-state-inquiry-begins/6766740

ok, pool fences, good or bad?

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Date: 11/09/2015 09:48:45
From: roughbarked
ID: 773930
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

wookiemeister said:

pool fences, good or bad?

Depends on how much thought is put into their design and construction.

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Date: 11/09/2015 09:51:49
From: Tamb
ID: 773935
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

roughbarked said:


wookiemeister said:
pool fences, good or bad?

Depends on how much thought is put into their design and construction.


The do-gooders will soon call for a ban on pools so the fence question will become redundant.

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Date: 11/09/2015 10:19:28
From: transition
ID: 773957
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

not much useful about the swear phrase nanny state

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:15:21
From: party_pants
ID: 773964
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:25:56
From: dv
ID: 773965
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

party_pants said:


David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

He is part of that set of libertarians who oppose collective action for environmental protection and are against penalty rates and minimum wage etc… basically upper middle class weirdos more interested in philosophy than in improving the world.

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:37:59
From: kii
ID: 773967
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Same for booksellers:

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:38:30
From: kii
ID: 773968
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

dammit

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:40:34
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 773969
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

dv said:


party_pants said:

David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

He is part of that set of libertarians who oppose collective action for environmental protection and are against penalty rates and minimum wage etc… basically upper middle class weirdos more interested in philosophy than in improving the world.

I haven’t actually heard anything from this person, but assuming that dv’s assessment is accurate, this is the exact opposite of what I understand by the adjective “liberal”.

On the other hand, observing his date of birth, maybe everything he says is intended to be a joke anyway.

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:41:18
From: Tamb
ID: 773970
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

kii said:


dammit

That sort of language is not acceptable to the nanny state.

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:43:47
From: furious
ID: 773973
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Isn’t he the one that wants everyone to own shotguns?

“What I want to do is go back to the way Australians used to be,” Senator Leyonhjelm said

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:45:14
From: poikilotherm
ID: 773974
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

The Rev Dodgson said:


dv said:

party_pants said:

David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

He is part of that set of libertarians who oppose collective action for environmental protection and are against penalty rates and minimum wage etc… basically upper middle class weirdos more interested in philosophy than in improving the world.

I haven’t actually heard anything from this person, but assuming that dv’s assessment is accurate, this is the exact opposite of what I understand by the adjective “liberal”.

It’s spelt Liberal…

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Date: 11/09/2015 11:49:20
From: dv
ID: 773977
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

kii said:


Same for booksellers:

Gives them or sells them?

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:01:42
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 773979
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

party_pants said:


David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

Do you have vision of he performing this trick? I would like to see him pissing on hi own head.

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:05:12
From: dv
ID: 773980
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

DL does favour marriage equality, is opposed to racial profiling by police and government access to metadata wityout a warrant etc.

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:05:42
From: furious
ID: 773981
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

More likely she is a librarian…

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:06:47
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 773982
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

bob(from black rock) said:


party_pants said:

David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

Do you have vision of he performing this trick? I would like to see him pissing on hi own head.

Proly if he did a head stand then gravity could assist him
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Date: 11/09/2015 12:17:35
From: transition
ID: 773983
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

few of the things mentioned involve insurance, the insured, and insurers

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:36:16
From: diddly-squat
ID: 773985
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:37:29
From: Tamb
ID: 773986
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

bob(from black rock) said:


bob(from black rock) said:

party_pants said:

David Leyonhjelm can go and piss on his own head and stop wasting everyone’s time with his liberty bullshit.

There.. I’ve said it.

Do you have vision of he performing this trick? I would like to see him pissing on hi own head.

Proly if he did a head stand then gravity could assist him

I think an NRL player got into trouble for pissing into his own mouth so assume the top of the head is quite possible.

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:43:39
From: sibeen
ID: 773988
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

I’m sure they would :)

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:45:48
From: diddly-squat
ID: 773989
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

sibeen said:


diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

I’m sure they would :)

a problem is no longer a problem is no one is complaining about it, right??

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:47:02
From: dv
ID: 773991
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

They would be replaced with awesome new problems

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:47:50
From: diddly-squat
ID: 773993
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

dv said:


diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

They would be replaced with awesome new problems

and you’ll be happy about it…

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Date: 11/09/2015 12:50:15
From: Tamb
ID: 773994
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

diddly-squat said:


dv said:

diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia

They would be replaced with awesome new problems

and you’ll be happy about it… or else!!!

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Date: 11/09/2015 16:18:55
From: Thomo
ID: 774074
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

wookiemeister said:

ok, pool fences, good or bad?

A lot of our work is Pool fencing, so I guess you could ask if I’m biased .
But what possible reason could you put forward to support doing away with AS1926?

Brett

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Date: 11/09/2015 16:21:32
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 774077
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

What happens to the super of a dead bastard?
The baby boomers are starting to drop off the perch, do the kids get it as a wad of cash?

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Date: 11/09/2015 16:24:26
From: JudgeMental
ID: 774078
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

either the beneficiary you nominated in your super form or whoever you’ve nominated in your will. i guess.

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Date: 11/09/2015 16:24:55
From: Bubblecar
ID: 774079
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

I’m more worried about upper storey windows having to conform to a particular child-safe type, or be fitted with bars.

Imagine trying to enforce legislation like that in Europe.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:20:49
From: transition
ID: 774089
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

>ok, pool fences, good or bad?

Fencing a pool off is not that much different to fencing your larger yard/block in many cases (the practical aspects), in fact the pool area can be fenced off as a section of the larger yard (like with shrubs etc).
Why is fencing a pool area of any lesser importance than the reasons you might fence anything.
Of course they can be a little inconvenient, opening the gate, terrible lot of work that.
Thing is M&D, brothers, sisters, grandparents (or whoever) after a drowning have to wrestle with the loss for years, whereas a fence might take half a day for professionals, M&D probably can do it over a couple of weekends.

You know, the police have to come around, the ambulance, they don’t want to be there. And it ends up in the news, parents etc don’t want that, ony adds to their troubles. The media though are keen to ride any sort of misfortune.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:22:58
From: PermeateFree
ID: 774091
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

transition said:


>ok, pool fences, good or bad?

Fencing a pool off is not that much different to fencing your larger yard/block in many cases (the practical aspects), in fact the pool area can be fenced off as a section of the larger yard (like with shrubs etc).
Why is fencing a pool area of any lesser importance than the reasons you might fence anything.
Of course they can be a little inconvenient, opening the gate, terrible lot of work that.
Thing is M&D, brothers, sisters, grandparents (or whoever) after a drowning have to wrestle with the loss for years, whereas a fence might take half a day for professionals, M&D probably can do it over a couple of weekends.

You know, the police have to come around, the ambulance, they don’t want to be there. And it ends up in the news, parents etc don’t want that, ony adds to their troubles. The media though are keen to ride any sort of misfortune.

Might be easy for you, but other people don’t use barbed wire.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:24:26
From: transition
ID: 774092
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

>Might be easy for you, but other people don’t use barbed wire.

tell little ol’ me what that means, exactly.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:24:45
From: Michael V
ID: 774093
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

transition said:


>ok, pool fences, good or bad?

Fencing a pool off is not that much different to fencing your larger yard/block in many cases (the practical aspects), in fact the pool area can be fenced off as a section of the larger yard (like with shrubs etc).
Why is fencing a pool area of any lesser importance than the reasons you might fence anything.
Of course they can be a little inconvenient, opening the gate, terrible lot of work that.
Thing is M&D, brothers, sisters, grandparents (or whoever) after a drowning have to wrestle with the loss for years, whereas a fence might take half a day for professionals, M&D probably can do it over a couple of weekends.

You know, the police have to come around, the ambulance, they don’t want to be there. And it ends up in the news, parents etc don’t want that, ony adds to their troubles. The media though are keen to ride any sort of misfortune.

Yes.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:26:07
From: PermeateFree
ID: 774094
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

transition said:


>Might be easy for you, but other people don’t use barbed wire.

tell little ol’ me what that means, exactly.

Just a joke, which you obviously did not get.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:28:05
From: Cymek
ID: 774095
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

The next law to be implemented is wearing a seatbelt when on the toilet

This is what happens when you don’t

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:32:11
From: transition
ID: 774096
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

>Just a joke, which you obviously did not get.

sorry, i’d just come from imagining the grief of a mother that had lost a toddler

I got the barbed wire jest, and thought if you saw my 85metres of 2m high colourbond you’d think farm boy did it with a laser.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:35:07
From: PermeateFree
ID: 774097
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

transition said:


>Just a joke, which you obviously did not get.

sorry, i’d just come from imagining the grief of a mother that had lost a toddler

I got the barbed wire jest, and thought if you saw my 85metres of 2m high colourbond you’d think farm boy did it with a laser.

They will just dig underneath.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:36:49
From: Cymek
ID: 774098
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

PermeateFree said:


transition said:

>Just a joke, which you obviously did not get.

sorry, i’d just come from imagining the grief of a mother that had lost a toddler

I got the barbed wire jest, and thought if you saw my 85metres of 2m high colourbond you’d think farm boy did it with a laser.

They will just dig underneath.

It goes down as far as it goes up

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:39:10
From: PermeateFree
ID: 774100
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Cymek said:


PermeateFree said:

transition said:

>Just a joke, which you obviously did not get.

sorry, i’d just come from imagining the grief of a mother that had lost a toddler

I got the barbed wire jest, and thought if you saw my 85metres of 2m high colourbond you’d think farm boy did it with a laser.

They will just dig underneath.

It goes down as far as it goes up

Ok then, just keep an ear open for an angle grinder.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:39:11
From: transition
ID: 774101
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

They will just dig underneath.

don’t have a pool, thought about putting an old bath in the ground and having fish, but sometimes young kids are here, so couldn;t be bothered with the worries

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:41:44
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 774103
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Peak Warming Man said:


What happens to the super of a dead bastard?
The baby boomers are starting to drop off the perch, do the kids get it as a wad of cash?

Appointed recipient of wad
Spouse
Kids
Next of kin

In that order, I think.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:45:40
From: Michael V
ID: 774109
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Cymek said:


The next law to be implemented is wearing a seatbelt when on the toilet

This is what happens when you don’t

!http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/south-park-reverse-cowgirl-marque.jpeg

Ha. I remember that happening to my sister when I was very young. I laughed so hard, because the situation looked so funny. I got a flogging for laughing at my sister’s funny predicament…

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:47:27
From: PermeateFree
ID: 774110
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

PermeateFree said:


Cymek said:

PermeateFree said:

They will just dig underneath.

It goes down as far as it goes up

Ok then, just keep an ear open for an angle grinder.

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Date: 11/09/2015 17:47:48
From: Cymek
ID: 774111
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Michael V said:


Cymek said:

The next law to be implemented is wearing a seatbelt when on the toilet

This is what happens when you don’t

!http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/south-park-reverse-cowgirl-marque.jpeg

Ha. I remember that happening to my sister when I was very young. I laughed so hard, because the situation looked so funny. I got a flogging for laughing at my sister’s funny predicament…

I imagine you’d be remiss for not laughing

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Date: 11/09/2015 21:28:38
From: wookiemeister
ID: 774268
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

diddly-squat said:

a lot of these sorts of problems would simply disappear if I were to be made Emperor of Australia


get in the queue diddly

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Date: 12/09/2015 23:07:43
From: wookiemeister
ID: 774682
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

Thomo said:


wookiemeister said:

ok, pool fences, good or bad?

A lot of our work is Pool fencing, so I guess you could ask if I’m biased .
But what possible reason could you put forward to support doing away with AS1926?

Brett


personally i’d say having a pool without fencing is madness, kids die in pools all the time even with fencing

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Date: 13/09/2015 08:24:46
From: transition
ID: 774775
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

safety lighters give me a callus on my thumb
them do is causin’ little ol’ endless frustration
to which there should be a royal commission

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Date: 13/09/2015 08:27:06
From: stumpy_seahorse
ID: 774776
Subject: re: the Australian "nanny state".

transition said:


safety lighters give me a callus on my thumb
them do is causin’ little ol’ endless frustration
to which there should be a royal commission

used to be the first thing i’d do when i bought one.. flick it out with a pocket knife…

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