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Shutup Guarín is cool

@manpe Do you still like monkeys doing human things

Even the Americans are making fun of Australian politics at the moment, and that's a surefire sign that there's a massive, cancerous turd right in the middle of it. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1y1ez7_tony-abbott-last-week-tonight_news

I don't get how that works Why are they allowed to own other clubs

Atlanta, Georgia. Find that spot Borat hit up and see if those cool black guys are still hanging around.

As a follow up to my post regarding the new budget. I currently pay $131 up front per semester of study for my Arts degree, in addition to a $2100-2800 low interest government loan that I don't need to repay until I get full time employment. That's going to be inflated more than 100 fold, starting from 2016 (by which time I should either be doing a master's or honours in history), it will be over $16,000 per semester, which the government will cover but at ridiculous interest rates. For easy comparison as to the value of the Australian dollar, 16,000 of them can buy you one of the following cars, some of which are brand new, and still have over 1000 to spare: http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/results.aspx?silo=stock&q=(((Service%3d%5bCarsales%5d)%26(((((SiloType%3d%5bBrand+new+cars+available%5d)%7c(SiloType%3d%5bBrand+new+cars+in+stock%5d))%7c(SiloType%3d%5bDealer+used+cars%5d))%7c(SiloType%3d%5bDemo+and+near+new+cars%5d))%7c(SiloType%3d%5bPrivate+seller+cars%5d))))%26(Price%3drange%5b..15150%5d)&vertical=car&sortby=Price As an arts graduate, in the likely event of my not entering the world of academia, my only realistic career path is teaching. The average salary for a high school teacher is $59,126. To complete an arts/education double degree in the fastest possible time, one would still need to attend uni for 9 semesters, spending $144,000 in all, not including the crushing interest repayments. So the average teacher of the future will spend at least 10 years of employment paying off student loans. Then the rest of their career paying off a home loan. There'll be nothing left for retirement.

The Liberal Party (who are actually Australia's conservatives, despite the contradictory name) have sent down the worst budget I have ever seen. Amongst other things (like deregulating uni fees ---> $40,000 per semester to study medicine, like fucking America. Uni education was entirely free here until about 1990), they've pretty much scrapped giving people under the age of 30 unemployment benefits. I live in an area where youth unemployment, conservatively, I estimate to be 30%. More likely it's closer to 50%. This place is already a mad ghetto hood as it is. What are the young people of west Sydney going to do when they have absolutely no income? I won't be able to leave my house after sundown. Even then, I won't find much security, I moved away from Liverpool (which is on a whole another level as it is in terms of crime and safety) to a place a couple of kilometres away (still very much ghetto, just a bit better than Liverpool), and the suburb I live in has seen 9 houses robbed in the past fortnight. Bearing in mind that this is a new development, there are barely 100 houses that have been constructed at this time. Sooner or later, we'll be robbed. There'll be carjackings next, it'll end up like Johannesburg or West Kingston where people simply ignore red lights at night and keep driving. All the while, our Federal Treasurer, MP for North Sydney (one of the very richest electoral constituencies in the entire southern hemisphere), Joe Hockey, pooh-poohs the struggles of the poor by claiming $7 is enough for a pack of cigarettes or two bottles of beer. In what century would that be, Sloppy Joe? Not to mention the frankly disgusting connotations that the working class are irresponsible people who squander their income on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Utterly disgusting comment from a politician. We have a government that is completely out of touch with how the majority of Australians live. The official retirement age (i.e. when you can put your hands on your superannuation/become eligible for pension without having to pay taxes) is going to be 70, should the budget pass parliamanent. Let that sink in. Seventy. They expect us to work for all but, at the most, a decade of our lives. It gets worse. Want to know the average life expectancy for Aboriginal Australians? 67. If they commanded more attention on the world stage, then Australia would be accused of imposing indirect apartheid by making it impossible for Aboriginal Australians to improve their lots by building some family wealth. The only option is to hope that the Senate blocks the bill and a no confidence vote is delivered, bringing about another election. But what's the fucking point, when the other main party, Labor (somehow, they spell it without the U, like Americans), who are as far 'left wing' as things get over here, and it's only if you're very, very kind that you can describe them as centre-rightists. Liberal are about a stroke to the left of Mussolini, so no matter who's in, it'll be some right wing nut. There's no hope for Australia. This country is finished, as a result of right wing politics. I hope those in the UK take notice from what has happened here and not vote for UKIP.

You should get dreads

I didn't know we were going back in time to 2005. Chelsea might as well sign Jiri Jarosik to complement him.

How do you feel about being in the hotseat on two forums simultaneously?

David Luiz is perhaps the worst defender Chelsea have had in the Abramovich years. You should all be delighted that a hopeless incompetent like him rates 50m. Yeah yeah talent, drives the ball forward, long hair. None of that is useful whatsoever for a centre back. What kind of maniac manager picks a centre back for his attacking attributes?

Any offer over 20m for a defender is going to be a steal for the selling club nine times out of ten. If it goes into Torres money, then ten times out of ten. No defender is worth that much, let alone one who isn't very good at actually defending.

I can feel the changes I can feel a new life

Spike is Julian Draxler

A League Cup is surely outweighed by Ramos' performance in the 2008-09 season, where Spurs won two from their first twelve matches and were bottom of the Premier League until he was sacked. If he had held onto the job for a few more months they probably would have went down.

If Sherwood's name ended in a vowel then he wouldn't have been sacked. Spurs have this obsession with hiring non-British managers, ignoring the fact that their the overwhelming majority of their foreign appointments of late (Santini, Ramos, Villas-Boas) have been completely useless. There's nobody else a club like Spurs can hope to attract who will actually do significantly better than Sherwood did this season (bear in mind he also did not make any signings and used Villas-Boas' donkeys throughout), so basically he has lost his job because he isn't a sophisticated continental 3-4-3 playing tactics wanker. It's discrimination.

I think people have forgotten just how rancid Benitez was. The standard of football was woeful, the substitutions never made sense (he'd often take off the best player on the day for Yossi Benayoun or bring on a defender when chasing a match or some other counter-logical thing), and 'squad rotation' policy was shocking. On the other hand Mourinho has only been a tiny little bit better and certainly if another manager had done the same things he has done then they would have come in for more scrutiny. That Mourinho has created an unshakably strong cult of personality amongst Chelsea fans allows him to stretch the elastic a lot further than Benitez could.

He stole a fucking train. That's how he made a fortune and then used that money to multiply his wealth. So much more gangsta than Mansour.

People calling Giggs and Scholes overrated are being really harsh. Giggs is the best Welsh player of all time and won't ever be challenged on that front, while Scholes was definitely among the best midfielders in the world at his peak. Plus their longevity is extraordinary, they were mainstays in one of the best teams in Europe for pretty much two decades. How many other footballers can claim that? Javier Zanetti and Paolo Maldini are all I can think of from the modern period.

Alvaro Recoba. He was crazily talented and could pull off the most outrageous manoeuvers, score some really spectacular goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fBHxR5yKIU But most of the time he was a waster. Amazing on his day, which only happened about once a month; terrible the rest of the time. He could have been Ronaldo (fat, not Cristiano) tier if he was more consistent. I consider him to be overrated because he was a star player in the Serie A back when it was far and away the best league in the world and so many consider him to be among the top five or ten strikers of the 90s/early 00s, but quite a few strikers from weaker leagues were better than him, and they never got the recognition because they didn't play in Italy.

@DJames Soca is cool But I find it hard to believe that people can listen to it for like hours in a row It's a bit sameish Like, the songs are mostly pretty similar They're about being happy and drinking rum and Carnival Dancehall is better Do you like Alkaline Ooh one more thing Gyal mek yuh batty jump jump jump jump jump! You can speak patois right Of course you can you're from Trinidad Wait Is Jamaican patois the same thing as Trinidadian patois If it isn't then you might not

If you're having drink problems, I feel for you son... Don't leave me hangin here y'all @Jype didn't you use to be Pr_22 Well you're a nice guy even if you weren't @Kostas Alright mate Kalou is boss Look at him now, tearing shit up for Lille You see I was right all along Kalou for President @ Cunt <3 @Liquidator You never came to banana republic you bastard I waited and waited @Madmax Are you Jaimin or Madmax or what Make up your mind ffs Mumbai is pretty cool @Stingray Allow me to follow you on twitter, you wanker I'm @TheShark94 I like cycling We would get on pretty well Do you like Vincenzo Nibali @francozola I hope you're still reading wsws.org They're the only voice of truth in the media world Check them out for a balanced report of what's going on in Crimea @zolayes How is your health? I hope you're keeping well, my venerable friend @Ollie Mitchell Guy Johnson. He bowls to the left He bowls to the right That Mitchell Johnson, his bowling was an integral part of Australia's successful Ashes campaign @ Mate you should see how far I've gotten Atletico CP now I never got any likes from you, you always wanted me to go one better @ I don't care if The Skipper wins Member of the Month a billion times in a row, you're still the best football poster ever You're French right Do you listen to Zouk music? @ Mate you should transfer into UNSW And do an honours in history with me I've got a beastly postgrad thesis planned I hope I can get out of honours with a first class Because then I can skip Masters and go straight into a PhD Looks like I'm going to be Dr. Cap after all @CHOULO19 I seem to recall I was your friend back in the day, though I can't remember why You're probably still cool though so stay that way @manpe I'll be your monkey smoking a cigarette I think that's everybody For whoever else I've forgotten Give me a break, it's been like 18 months since 'cap' was whacked I don't remember

In retrospect, this was my finest moment. What a post. Up there with tagging a thread on Salvador Cabanas (so glad I needn't bother with that Spanish shit) with 'bullet header', which I never unfortunately got to do over here. Bye guys <3 Fuck you Scouseman EBH would have seen another decade if you didn't out him What did this poor, innocent Colombiano ever do to you? And it’s Aston Villa, Aston Villa FC, We’re by far the greatest team, The world has ever seen… The bells are ringing for the Claret and Blue. The fans are singing, for the Claret and Blue. Everybody is knowing, to the Villa they’re going, Where the Villa are showing, We’re the best in the land! (Best in the land!) We’re congregating for the Claret & Blue. The Holte End’s waiting for the Claret & Blue. Everybody is knowing, to the Villa they’re going. Where the Villa are showing We’re the best in the land! (Best in the land!)

I say when I join TalkChelsea, I am sorry for my inglés...

Why I cannot do this... why you are so angry? I do not need to know about Australia... university life is the same for student no matter where they are studying... same problems, if you go to Universidad Nacional or Harvard... When I am student, I remember, I am very frustrated... I am finding studies difficult to care about... many of my friends, they are working, making money.. I am thinking to myself, I am wasting time, there is no point, everyone else is making money and I am stuck here...