parmigiana

Of course Victorians say elbum instead of album so nothing surprises me

South Australians know how to pronounce vowels sounds, eg the 'a' in dance is broad like the a in cart, not cat.

ie ' Are you taking your cousin or your sister to the da[size=3]r[/size]nce?' ;)

:lol:

My apparently unpopular opinion is chicken parmigiana isn't that great of a meal, and not worth the debate of how to pronounce it.

Give me a regular snitty with pepper sauce any and every day of the week over a parma/parmi.

Problem is when they reply "My cousin is my sister"

AFL, NRL, NFL etc. Should accept big hits and fights as part of the game. PC and a "duty of care" has lowered the excitement of said sports. Players at all levels are aware of the risks involved, and the administrators should not be held responsible for the consequences of rough play.

I have a big issue with the NRL with respect to fights and huge hits. They are apparently meant to be against it, but all the promo vids and highlights reels are pretty much of big hits, violent behaviour, and fights. They're meant to be against it, but it's basically the only thing they use to promote it.

Pick one way or the other - embrace the hits & fights and be proud of it, or actually be against them and let your sport die out due to boredom.

(*edit* I didn't want to go on a rant here, but this issue is something that's been stewing on my mind over the past year or so, sped up by things like the Adam Goodes saga and the lock-out laws. Bear with me if you can- you've been warned!)

There are two groups of people in Australia who are giving me the shits because they (more than anybody else) are contributing to the erosion of our culture, common identity and improvement as a Western, first-world nation.

The first people I want to call out are the Baby Boomer, conservative wowsers. The people who control the majority of our country's wealth, own the majority of property and land and (with the ensuing group I'll name) have the biggest influence on our laws and policies. These people stay wide awake at night, terrified that somewhere out there young people are taking drugs, getting drunk, enjoying loud music or doing anything else that involves having fun in groups. This fear is fuelled by the horror stories fed to them about P-plate drivers, girls overdosing at music festivals (never mind the army of Police and sniffer dogs that panics them into doing this), coward punch attacks and whatever other storm in a teacup is the flavour of the week amongst the trash media. As a result, these people wilfully support virtually any new laws that make this country an even bigger nanny-state than it already is, under the guise of "well at least they're doing something because these people can't control themselves"- and God-forbid if you want to get a bottle of wine in Sydney after 10pm. Hooligans! This wouldn't be so bad if our government (made up largely of 'boomers themselves) didn't introduce and encourage all these ridiculous, borderline condescending laws as a way of short-term vote buying rather than using some common sense, thinking long-term and considering that our country is fast losing its' "laid back" reputation that has proved so popular with overseas visitors.

The second group are the Gen Y/ Millennial hipster leftist, green, Invasion Day, perpetually offended brigade. These people are too young and naive to realise that so much of the media geared towards their demographic (Triple J, Ped. TV, Buzzfeed, ABC News, The Guardian, The Daily Show, Huffpost, The Project etc) is biased and usually stacked with people who all just happen to agree on climate change, refugees, racism, feminism, LGBTQWERTYBVCXSAAHGFTCBM rights etc. They truly believe that somebody like Waleed Aly is a centre of the road "voice of reason" and that the only bias exists amongst racist Bolt, Jones, Hadley and all those other people their handlers and the cool people tell them to despise. The Adam Goodes saga revealed how dangerous the line of thinking from these people is: that you virtually cannot criticise anybody from a minority group (whether a long existing minority group or one of the 5 new minority groups you've been discriminating against, created each week) without being instantly screamed at as a bigot/ racist/ homophobe/ Islamophobe/ transphobe/ evil right-winger etc, regardless of what it is about that persons actions/ words you disagree with. Rap and hip-hop were based on not caring about political correctness and freedom of thought/ expression, yet even the Aussie rap scene has become a leftie circle-jerk. Whether it's Briggs with his copy-paste of the "white racism" meme from American culture, Illy wanting to "flood the houses of climate change deniers" or any of these other artists hating on evil Rupert Murdoch, conservatives, the Catholic Church and the usual leftist bogey men while preaching about Islamophobia, climate change, feminist issues, refugees and the like- even the rap scene has become infected with this mind-cancer. The worst thing about all of these people? They think they're smart and they know what's really going on- because they're told so day after day by their handlers in the media. They think the validity of your opinion is dictated by the colour of your skin, your gender and what university degree you have. They don't see racism or sexism when it's directed at white males (because fuck those privileged racists, right?) The don't realise that modern day universities are largely production lines for the next batch of useful idiots to repeat what they've been indoctrinated with. These people- as a whole- are turning our country into a hysterical bunch of whiny piss-babies who want to shut down debate and freedom of speech whenever it suits them- and give certain people/ groups a free pass because to demand equal accountability is "racist" "sexist" or "Islamophobic". They're too stupid to realise that instead of bringing us closer together as a nation, this obsession with ethnicity, culture and gender is actually dividing our country.

The thing about these two different groups of people is that it's a working definition of horse shoe theory. I'd like living in Australia a lot more if I didn't have to listen to the bullshit from these people and watch them take our free, multicultural, egalitarian society down a dark road. I fear that these people are why we will never have stable government again. Even somebody as fondly remembered as Bob Hawke would have been chastised as PM in this day and age for being a sexist, boorish, beer-sculling idiot (and probably something about racism or white male privilege as well). John Howard (who even won over a fair few traditional Labor-voters in his time) would have been given the same bashing Tony Abbott did- and look how long he lasted...

There will always be violence

Human beings are animals

Animals kill

Some humans are capable of second, third, fourth person thinking.

Two for me. Five is way too much procreation.

Two for me. Five is way too much procreation.

Why all the worry about how many children people are having? With all the baby boomers retiring, Australia needs more younger people.

World population will peak at 9-10 billion then reduce - we don't need to artificially restrict population size.

There are issues with the 'urbanization' of our population. A tiny percentage of the population feeds the vast majority.