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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Quote from: DJC – on
I'm not sure how you could deliberately lose a game of footy.
To suggest it, hint about it, try it or even mange to do it are all very different things to proving it or taking the credit.

btw., Quite possibly the cultural damage might already be done once some match day official has hinted at such a concept.

I doubt anyone would get someone like Fagan on board!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
After several years of unhinged unregulated profiteering and insider trading the Walls St billionaires are throwing a tantrum, that is what we are seeing at the moment.

It will be interesting to see the short and long term effects of this, the media will blame the politicians but of course the media is owned by the billionaires. How brave or belligerent will the billionaires become, it's going to be interesting.

Compared to any country's economy, even billionaires and trillionaires are just a drop in the bucket, but ego prevents them seeing that!

The echo chamber is cracked, the rats are fleeing before the ship sinks entirely.

What Joe Average thinks of when hearing discussions on deregulation, is not the same thing that is thought of by the likes of Gina Rinehart. The freedom the billionaire cries for is not freedom for Joe Average at all, it's closer to fiscal slavery.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Quote from: Thryleon – on
None of this strategic losing garbage in case you can only beat them once.

Thats a losers mentality.  Winning is winning.  If you can beat them now, you can beat them in the big one. If you cant win now, the belief in the final may not be there.
Agreed, you never strategically lose, it will burn a winning culture once you start picking and choosing when to try. Sends all the wrong signals to the existing list, and kicks mud in the face of sponsors who support you financially and support staff who volunteer precious time and resources.

For the very same reason you should never throw games for draft lotto, because it burns the bird in hand for just a hope of future good fortune.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Materially has anything changed?

Congress has more power and scope to block Trump, but not necessarily if he is operating within the boundaries he is allowed to, and ultimately the USA is a united entity, not anit trumpist.  They wont simply flip flop because the midterms have swung, it will take a new sitting president for that to be the case, and even then, they make too many flacid moves, and the public will turn on the democrats calling them week.
They gained a level of power over investigation and protections.

But it's true they won't act in the way the media report, they aren't going to shot themself in the foot, the reports of political revenge are vastly overstated.

What will likely happen is those decisions that lead to RedTrump's protection and exemption from accountability will go away, and his efforts or ability to persecute opponents will be greatly diminished, and those efforts it won't be funded by congress like they have in the past. he has to pay his own way now, and his family will be held accountable. But it won't be clean, it will be messy, because this isn't a shock, the RedTrump team would have been planning for this from the very start.

Why is he glum, because he has been kicked from the trough!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
The Walls St reaction says it all, you read whatever meaning you like into it, but it's not just one factor that has contributed to this and the blame sits on all sides. They made hay while the rule book was in the bin, and now there is going to be a price for some to pay.

It is a tell about the predictions on the future direction of US policy and fiscal restraint, Walls St trades on tomorrow not yesterday. Yesterday cannot be changed and means little to nothing for traders.

There is one thing you can predict with ultimate accuracy, greed.

And the opportunistic headlines are already appearing about China alliances, not even 24hrs has passed!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: National Songbook
Quote from: PaulP – on
Not sure I would describe The Necks as lounge jazz.
It's not meant to be derogatory, it was probably ambiguous of me to use lounge based on what a lounge might be assumed as, but it communicates the type of location someone might most commonly hear the music if not already initiated. Think Raffles, the Fairmount or back in the old days Melbourne Temperance Society, black tie venues, the antithesis of a Trump Ballroom.

"Lost in Translation" instead of "Weekend at Bernie's"
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" over "Mission Impossible"
"The French Dispatch" rather than "The Pink Panther"

I've seen a poster in NY describing them as the greatest 3-piece ensemble in living history, yet a huge chunk of the Aussie population does not know who they are!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: National Songbook
I suppose they've picked a bit from a mix of genre, but I'd have put Eagle Rock in there as typical Australiana.

@PaulP,‍ why am I not surprised, The Necks are terrific listening and a great introduction to lounge jazz for jazz music newbies. Anyone who has travelled will recognise their music, it's almost ubiquitous as the background of hotel foyers, bars and restaurants. On the classical side, did you tune in last night to the ABC Young Performer of the Year concert? I'm getting old, it started at 6pm and I feel asleep after a few hours of the final. Tried listening agian today, and the same thing happened.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/special-features/abc-young-performer-awards-grand-final-concert/107287336
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
The initial expectation is that the US will head towards recession, if that happens the RBA might have already shot itself in the foot and over-corrected, it's why some thought no change was the best option.

But the good news for investors would be markets, in particular it might signal the bottom of the market for housing is right now, although I've heard some describe the coming months in housing as a dead cat bounce.

A problem Australia has is that homeowners aren't dynamic enough, they tend to not shop around for the cheapest rates, which allows the big the banks to ride out the storm and still post big profits. Maybe that changes in the AI era.

I expect super to take a hit, a lot of Aussie super is heavily invested in the USA, and it's likely a US recession will impact growth. But this is where self-managed super can have a big influence, because if they think the market is close to bottoming out they could flood back into the domestic property market. At the moment there is a swing towards commercial over residential, but a US recession would probably be bad for that segment. Chasing growth can be a double edged sword.

What odds Aussie Politicians swing back to loving China?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Captain 2027
Quote from: Lods – on
Not sure why that's occurred.
It may be as the thread starter, my vote doesn't get counted in the total.
Seems strange, but probably doesn't skew the vote to a great extent.
I've seen this before in polls I've started as well.

If I recall correctly the count error occurred early in the process, maybe immediately after publishing, I think I was able to clear it by a reset before anyone had voted. I thought it might be clicks made during editing.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: DJC – on

As for the batting, imagine if we had a couple of batsmen with sound technique and an unwillingness to give their wicket away 🤔
You can see the point I've been making about the 1 in 5 men, I suspect it's a type of laziness driven by a lack of motivation, they do not want to work too hard, and then do just enough to hang around the squad when threatened.

The whole scenario is unfolding as outlined when IPL was first launched, the only thing the BCCI got wrong was how lazy their own crew turned out to be. The BCCI thought that courtesy of the biased rules their own lot would still be driven enough to top the table in all versions of the sport, nepotism and privilege wasn't going to be a barrier to global domination. But instead they manufactured a bunch of "Bling Billionaires" who are even lazier than the rest of the world, more Bollywood than peak sport, and the thing that has suffered is test cricket.