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Australia once had a great performer in parliament, who went on to be our Prime Minister. Here is a snippet from 1989, when Paul Keating was Treasurer:

Mr KEATING» (Treasurer)(3.18) —'We have just had a motion moved by the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Wentworth (Dr Hewson), who could not sustain the debate. It was the limpest performance I have ever seen. Seven minutes into the speech he could not sustain it. It was like being flogged with a warm lettuce. It was like being mauled by a dead sheep. He had the hide to ask us where our fiscal responsibility was.

This is a government which has taken a 7 per cent deficit in the public sector borrowing requirement and turned it into a surplus of 1 1/4 per cent and cut outlays by 7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). And the honourable member for Wentworth has the gall to ask us where our fiscal responsibility is. Those opposite went to the last election with their former Leader offering $7.8 billion worth of unfunded tax cuts and we went with a $400m package which was fully paid for. And the honourable member asks us where our fiscal responsibility is. Last week he had the gall to say that the Opposition would have a fiscal policy which was lower than ours as a proportion of GDP; that is, absconding with all our work over seven years-all those months in the Expenditure Review Committee meetings cutting down public outlays from nearly 31 per cent of GDP to 23 per cent, and copping the Opposition's criticism for nearly every one of them, one after the other. Finally, we bring down a Budget with outlays to GDP just above 22 per cent in a year or two, and those opposite say they will knock $140m off it and that it is all theirs. We have built the structure of fiscal policy. As I said, it is like building the Empire State Building and those opposite us jumping into the lift, rushing to the top, putting a brick on top and saying, `Look what I have built'. It is a joke that they talk about fiscal responsibility.'
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Sculptor1 wrote: May 21st, 2021, 6:12 pm

For my money I'd rather go somehwhere I could buy drugs rather than have my friends not talk to me!
Agreed - btw you have too much h
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Papus79 wrote: May 21st, 2021, 11:15 pm US southerners have this down to an art.

Awe... bless your heart! (you're a moron).
I thought all southerners were morons - only joking.
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Robert66 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 3:06 am
Sculptor1 wrote: May 21st, 2021, 6:12 pm

For my money I'd rather go somehwhere I could buy drugs rather than have my friends not talk to me!
Agreed - btw you have too much h
Eh?
Never had h.
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Sculptor1 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 8:47 am
Robert66 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 3:06 am
Sculptor1 wrote: May 21st, 2021, 6:12 pm

For my money I'd rather go somehwhere I could buy drugs rather than have my friends not talk to me!
Agreed - btw you have too much h
Eh?
Never had h.
You have it hidden somehwhere
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Robert66 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 2:43 pm
Sculptor1 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 8:47 am
Robert66 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 3:06 am
Sculptor1 wrote: May 21st, 2021, 6:12 pm

For my money I'd rather go somehwhere I could buy drugs rather than have my friends not talk to me!
Agreed - btw you have too much h
Eh?
Never had h.
You have it hidden somehwhere
Dyslexia.
Don't bother with those sorts of observations with me.
I thought you were talking about heroine.
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Christopher Hitchens had a good one - 'Give x an enema and you could bury them in a matchbox'.
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Sculptor1 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:16 pm Dyslexia.
Don't bother with those sorts of observations with me.
I thought you were talking about heroine.
Normally I would avoid comment about spelling etc but I just saw a chance to make a joke - no harm intended.
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Papus79 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:47 pm Christopher Hitchens had a good one - 'Give x an enema and you could bury them in a matchbox'.
It is a good one - thanks for sharing.
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Robert66 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 11:47 pm
Sculptor1 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:16 pm Dyslexia.
Don't bother with those sorts of observations with me.
I thought you were talking about heroine.
Normally I would avoid comment about spelling etc but I just saw a chance to make a joke - no harm intended.
noone tekn.
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Papus79 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:47 pm Christopher Hitchens had a good one - 'Give x an enema and you could bury them in a matchbox'.
I don't get it.
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Robert66 wrote: May 18th, 2021, 6:27 pm I propose, just for fun, a thread where the following could be shared :
- funny or inventive curses, without swear words.
As mad as a bucket (or basket) of frogs.

I always liked that one; I still do. I don't know why. When you examine it closely, it doesn't seem to mean much. <shrug>
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Sculptor1 wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 7:08 am
Papus79 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:47 pm Christopher Hitchens had a good one - 'Give x an enema and you could bury them in a matchbox'.
I don't get it.
X is so full of 💩 that if you extracted it all, there would be very little left.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 11:00 am
Sculptor1 wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 7:08 am
Papus79 wrote: May 22nd, 2021, 4:47 pm Christopher Hitchens had a good one - 'Give x an enema and you could bury them in a matchbox'.
I don't get it.
X is so full of 💩 that if you extracted it all, there would be very little left.
Sorry - as soon as I typed the post I got it. Pity one cannot delete posts here
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Pattern-chaser wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 10:59 am
Robert66 wrote: May 18th, 2021, 6:27 pm I propose, just for fun, a thread where the following could be shared :
- funny or inventive curses, without swear words.
As mad as a bucket (or basket) of frogs.

I always liked that one; I still do. I don't know why. When you examine it closely, it doesn't seem to mean much. <shrug>

Perhaps the water in the bucket is gradually reaching boiling point, and the frogs are mad as in ANGRY, at the humans who have put them in this predicament.
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