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Fact or Fiction

Posted 06-29-2015 at 12:14 AM by Phylum

Time to play a game!

Did our Australian Leader Most Glorious, Tony Abbott, really say this following the recent legalisation on gay marriage in the US?

If all those nations jumped off a bridge and our population really wanted to also jump off a bridge would you do it? The last thing you should do in a democracy is listen to the will of the people. This isn’t a popularity contest - that’s just how we get in a position to say this isn’t a popularity contest.

Ball is in your court.

Posted in Random Crap, Crap

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	While the sentiment is stupid enough to be him, it's far too wordy and articulate.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 12:34 AM by Bullet Magnet

	I don't follow Australian politics, but it does sound like something some tight up the ass politician would say, cause a shitstorm and then apologize for.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 08:27 AM by Havoc

	Politicians do not apologise. They issue not-pologies that at best accept no responsibility at all for the outcry and usually make it sound like the offence was the fault of those offended.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 12:28 PM by Bullet Magnet

	I cannot see a politician ever flat-out deny listening to the will of the people. It's just too stupid, even for them.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 03:00 PM by Manco

	Some people are cool with it. Especially those who disagree with what they perceive to be the tide of public opinion.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 05:21 PM by Bullet Magnet

	He said words that add up to the same meaning. But he didn't say those specific words in that specific order. Also, the fact of the matter is that marriage being equalised in the USA shouldn't affect at all whether Australia does it. Australia should do it simply because it's the right thing to do.
	Posted 06-29-2015 at 10:24 PM by Nate

	It's not real, as Nate said. It came from a satirical article, and was so convincing it had my friends, my parents and I pretty annoyed for a while.
	Posted 06-30-2015 at 02:42 AM by Phylum

	: This isn’t a popularity contest - that’s just how we get in a position to say this isn’t a popularity contest. greatest thing i have ever read. : Politicians do not apologise. They issue not-pologies that at best accept no responsibility at all for the outcry and usually make it sound like the offence was the fault of those offended. fucking true.
	Posted 06-30-2015 at 02:51 PM by MA

	Whoops ---!>
	Posted 07-02-2015 at 05:42 PM by MeechMunchie

I'm clever too

	Why the fuck can we even do that. Seriously.
	Posted 07-02-2015 at 08:13 PM by Phylum

om nom nom

Posted 07-02-2015 at 08:30 PM by Phylum

Updated 07-02-2015 at 08:39 PM by Phylum

	What the fuck Phylum?
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 12:41 AM by Nate

Allow me to answer your question with a question.

I think the rest is self-explanatory.

Don't make me get the unclosed iframes out.

no thx

e: Woah apparently that merges us into a single entity. - Phylum

Posted 07-03-2015 at 06:57 AM by Phylum

	I'm pretty sure that human fusion is against forum policy.
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 09:02 AM by Bullet Magnet

	Finally, somebody fixed blogs.
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 09:46 AM by Varrok

	It's ok I can fix it more.
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 06:53 PM by Phylum

	Blogs were not well implemented in vBulletin 3. There's a lot of shit you can do in blogs that you can't do in posts. And a few things you can do in posts that aren't supported in blogs even though they should be.
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 07:31 PM by Nate

	Isn't formatting < and > out to the relevant escape codes just basic security though? I mean, holy shit. I could have done much worse things to this page. The sky is literally the limit when I can insert any Javascript.
	Posted 07-03-2015 at 10:48 PM by Phylum

	The shit?
	Posted 07-06-2015 at 08:03 AM by Wil

	: Basically I wanted to just post a quote except you need to have stuff outside the quote box to count as minimum characters so I used censor tags and they didn't work.
	Posted 07-06-2015 at 12:45 PM by MeechMunchie

	vandals!
	Posted 07-07-2015 at 02:14 PM by MA

	Mr. Phylum, tear down this forum.
	Posted 07-07-2015 at 02:54 PM by STM

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