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⌈ Secret Post #3176 ⌋

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[Journey]

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[Absolutely Fabulous]

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(Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey, Shirley Bassey, Ellie Goulding)

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[Tim Drake, DC Comics]

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[Wakako-zake]

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[FIFA, World Soccer Championship]

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[Fear The Walking Dead]

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[Calvin Dyson - Bond Reviewer, The Anime Man, BobSamurai's Anime Reviews, Retroblasting, Oliver Harper's Retrospective and Reviews]

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[Higher Ground]

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[Beelzebub]

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[Steven Universe]

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[Robert Stack, Unsolved Mysteries]

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That the USA is A LOT more liberal than Australia in a lot ways

Seriously, it blew my mind that gay marriage was legal in the USA first. Among other things.

Most of us are pretty embarrassed, but yes.
Gay marriage, climate change, conservation, healthcare, education - all apparently unimportant to our government.

Our Liberal party are also not what you would think of as a Liberal party. They're similar to the Republican party in the US.

"They're similar to the Republican party in the US."

Eh…I wouldn't go that far. You have to really ride the crazy train to catch up to the Republican Party.

Has the Republican party tried to Knight anyone recently?
Because that happened.

Don't know if you're familiar with who we just got rid of but here are some gems:

https://whatistherundude.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/20-quotes-from-tony-abbott-to-remind-you-why-he-shouldnt-be-prime-minister/

"Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage’"

...uh...you did say Australia, didn't you? Wow.

LOL @ at "baddies fighting baddies". Have a "Canadian House of Commons does the Middle East crazy dance" palate cleanser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzmelkCOHw

In Calandra's defence (not that he has much of one), he did apologize to the House the following day. Part of me hopes the reason he gave such a tearful apology, was because his constituents rang his phone off the hook, and gave him a nonstop earful over his behaviour in the above clip, but that's highly unlikely.

There's a lot of clapping going on. Is it customary among your people to applaud everything?
:s

Oh this is funny. I love that last line. Oh snap!

No, it's NOT customary. OK, maybe a bit customary, but it's grown to ridiculous levels with the nearly decade-long reign of the current majority party. The anti-Tory pundits refer to the backbenchers as "trained clapping seals" for this very reason. Not that there wasn't clapping in the House of Commons before; just not Every. Single. Time. a government minister stood up and said something. Before, they used to beat on the desks. Which. I guess clapping is an improvement? It's annoying to me, too, but it is the least annoying of all the annoying things the 41st Legislature did wrong, IMO.

they used to beat on the desks

I about forgot about that. Jesus, Harper has successfully made me think of this as standard.

Right? Even though it's only been ten years, they've pretty much turned QP into a standing joke. Worse, the Opposition benches are in a catch-22; if they don't do the same thing, they're seen as either weak or unwilling to cooperate; they do the same thing, and they're seen as complicit in the Tories' plan to ignore all the rules and traditions of parliamentary discourse.

I'm trawling Youtube looking for good CPAC clips that reflect what QP used to be like, but haven't turned up anything yet.

EDIT FOUND IT.

Edited 2015-09-15 23:25 (UTC)

LOL

It's entertaining, at least.

The clips I posted above were sad and undemocratic. If you want entertainment, this is entertainment.

Oh dear god.

They're all so ridiculous.
Love it.

Want more? Have some fish puns.

I found a clip of the current Speaker when he was a babbeh MP, but I was looking for the more recent clip where he drones on a bit about "the Lent season" then caps it with "and I was hoping my colleagues had given up heckling for Lent."

Oh man. Dad jokes.

I have a feeling we would never run out of clips of politicians being hilariously unhilarious.

Ahh the Lent season. It's the one where we pull the easter bunny out of the ground and if it has a shadow in the shape of santa, there are still three hail marys and four our fathers to get through before we can all eat pancakes. Right? RIGHT!?

...uh...I suppose? LOL. The Anglicans in my town do something similar. Er. They do the pancake dinners, and Carnival, anyway.

Oh, it's common. Our legislatures and parliament are basically a series of "OOOOOOOOOHHHH" and "OH NO S/HE DIN'T", but in the restrained form of clapping and standing.