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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lewis Young
We debunked Gov's contract $ ages ago, the fact it keeps getting mentioned is a tell regarding cognitive bias, once you learn or are exposed to something you can't unlearn it.

It's the principle behind RedTrump's weave, why he continually repeats lies, like fake news assertions, you can't erase it from your subconscious. Even when you know it was wrong it still influences the opinions you form.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
The hurricane screamers complain about rising costs, lost jobs, broken roads, etc., etc., while reading about their heroes profiting. Profiting from war, monopolies, oppression, corruption and crime on a global scale, they can't put two and two together. They just keep bitching in the queue about the rising cost of their Meds, it's truly bizarre.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Collateral (See Adjunct)
Meaning Def; A sudden unexpected increase in people reporting family not returning from ocean fishing trips in the Bay of America! :o

Sushi anyone?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Who will win the Brownlow?
The media are cutting up because the umpires do not follow the AFL Media sophistry regarding favourite players and clubs.

Furthermore, when the media carries on about 17 possession games getting three votes, it just shows you they haven't really watched the game and are commenting off the stats.

I admit I had to go back and watch fragments of a couple of those low possession games, Rowell probably had 12 or 15 decisive and influential possessions when it mattered. As many if not more decisive possessions than most players like Daisocs or Bont get in a 35 possession game.

Actually, the AFL media hypocrisy is shown in it's support for Daicos, because most of the Daicos possessions are vacuous, he is genuinely a highlight reel type player admittedly with very good highlights and excellent finishing. But he's not the one getting the job done as much as fans like to think, he is somewhat reminiscent of Ablett Jnr's pre-Gold Coast give and get game plan which many commented was over-rated.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
It's now looking more complex, like multiple people were involved in the shooting, I'm not surprised that the rapid fire conclusion wasn't the whole story.

It makes me wonder just how hard they have looked for the right person, .............. a bird in the hand ....................!

This story is starting to quack, the RedTrump administration will probably want a quick fire death penalty and close the case!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
I'm reading today that the RedTrump administration is claiming a DNA match for the shooter, just 48hrs after obtaining the samples.

This is CSI Hollywood like precision and efficiency, but my understanding this is also Hollywood fantasy.

Just a month or two back I watched a recent BBC documentary(circa 2025) on crime and modern forensics, that doco reports that even the cutting edge forensic methods still take a few weeks to deliver a definitive result. It's not like TV.

Yet today, less than 48hrs after obtaining samples, we have RedTrump and JD Vance admin claiming definitive DNA match is reported by FBI Director Patel from a dilute sample, that is DNA from fingerprints or body moisture off an incidental surface like a towel or handle.

Ignoring whether they have the right person or not, I'm inclined to believe the BBC version of DNA analysis timelines.

There are different types of analysis, and growing a sample is not the same as matching a sample, and matching a sample the first time is not the same as confirming a match, etc., etc.. Analogously, it can be thought of as solving a seriously tough and importantly unique jigsaw puzzle for the first time, but once it's been done it becomes easier and faster to repeat. Maybe @DJC can give us some insight.

So is this yet another example of the public being misled?

Some might think the issue is trivial, or inconsequential, but to me it is the heart of the debate about truth in government.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Storm
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Perth and Adelaide fans believe there's a huge Victorian bias in the AFL.
I don't think there is a systematic bias for or against any one specific club, but the problem is the inconsistent way the rules are applied. If there is favouritism it's probably subconscious.

But I don't think anybody can claim the judiciaries are consistent, and I think that is all fans really want, the judiciary should be fundamentally consistent at least in it's own frame of reference.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Storm
Well maybe we can take some solace out of the fact that it is not just the AFL Judiciary that is bogus and / or corrupt.

But as a Storm fan it's hard to swallow. Earlier in the season players were warned and being pinged for hip drop tackles, a hip drop tackle is when you tackle from behind or the side and drop your body weight onto the back of an opponents lower leg. It is considered very dangerous, it wrecks knees and ankles, and it happened twice against Storm players at the weekend. Both incidents were not even penalised and were cleared by the post match judiciary. No wonder Bellamy went feral post match, I can't blame him, as if by accident it just happened to be two of Storms prime movers in Munster and Coates who were the victims.

Then yesterday, Broncos star Reece Walsh blatantly and deliberately headbutts an opponent, is sin binned on the spot, and yet post match is cleared by the NRL judiciary.

The couple of weeks before, the Bulldogs captain Crichton rakes the eyes of Storm player Papenhuyzen, an event caught on video and reported, and is cleared to play. Some might say karma got even in that case, Crichton was injured the final against Storm last Friday night and is now apparently likely out for the season barring a miracle recovery.

In the last few weeks the Storm have had Solomona and Grant both suspended for what was effectively accidental high contact, Solomona is basically out for the season from opponents throwing themselves at Solomona's 6ft high shoulder to claiming a high contact penalty. The last event for which Solomona received a three week suspension wasn't even penalised by the on field referee, for good reason, the opponent was dropping his knees in the tackle, which is the NRL equivalent of ducking into a tackle.

I don't mind this if the rules are applied uniformly, and the same applies to the AFL, but it's clear that is not the case.