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[Lord Biscuit©]

So, you like large solid round things shoved up your butt?

[Gin Bunny]

BISCUIT, YOU ARE STARTING TO TEST MY PATIENCE.

And by the way, the Energizer Bunny has the batteries in its BACK.

[SG]

The commander of the force in question new his forces weren't powerful enough to defeat the enemy, but Churchill demanded he attack with what he had anyway, with predictable results.

Are you sure on this?  I thought cradock engaged without knowing the full strength of forces against him and he wanted to damage the Germans who had far lesser repair and supply capability than the Brits.  Of course, as it turned out he lost his ships and inflicted bugger all damage on the Germans who were way superior in temrs of quality and quantity but he kept them in teh area and they were later destroyed in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

SG

[SG]

Certainly not, I AM THE ENERGIZER BUNNY!

If not then tell your boyfriends / strapped on ladyfriends that the reset button needs pushing and you go off like a frog in a sock.

SG

[Thaluikhain]

Isn't the energizer bunny outperformed by the Duracell guy, so that they have to be sneaky and get a bunch of bunnies and swap them when he isn't looking or something?

And I think I have just discovered a new and bizarre fetish for you to try out with several friends, GB.

Are you sure on this?

Well, no, I haven't researched it in any great detail, but it was what I have been led to believe.  May require further investigation.

[Hank Azaria Chamberlain]

This is annoying me, YOU'RE WRONG BISCUIT.

Does the phrase(s) "The King is dead. Long Live the King" mean anything to you?

Nick Clegg may be doing the seemingly democratic thing by trying to align with the (majority gaining)Tories, but their people might want to do a quick sweep to see how many of those votes they receieved were to keep the Conservatives out, as I know a fair few English folk who voted LibDem because they knew they were the only serious challengers to the Tories, and wanted to do anything in their power to not give Cameron's crew the vote.

[Gin Bunny]

It's already been explained, therefore...I do not give a fuck

[SG]

Does the phrase(s) "The King is dead. Long Live the King" mean anything to you?

Nick Clegg may be doing the seemingly democratic thing by trying to align with the (majority gaining)Tories, but their people might want to do a quick sweep to see how many of those votes they receieved were to keep the Conservatives out, as I know a fair few English folk who voted LibDem because they knew they were the only serious challengers to the Tories, and wanted to do anything in their power to not give Cameron's crew the vote.

Which is the superiority of the Australian system of preferential voting.

For example, let's say in any given seat the vote goes

Tory 40%, Labour 35%, Lib-Dem 25%.

In the UK the Tory candidate wins for getting the most votes.  Not 50%+1 but a simple majority.

In Australia, as the lowest vote winning candidate, the Lib-Dem votes would then be distributed according to second preferences.  So if the Lib-Dems prferences run half and half then the final vote becomes

Tory 52.5%, Labour 47.5%

And the Tory wins.

More interestingly however if the Lib-dem 2nd preferences are split 16% Labour, 9% Tory then the following result occurs:

Labour 51%, Tory 49%.

And the LAbour person gets in becasue they are the candidate with over 50% of the vote.

In other words, our system prevents a candidate that the majority of people do not want from winning the seat whereas in teh UK it is possible for the least preferred candidate to win if the rest of the vote is split between several otehr candidates.

SG

[Emperor Fadeaway]

Well all know that SG.

[SG]

Well all know that SG.

Nah, y'all don't.

Or at least not until I told you.

SG

[Emperor Fadeaway]

You're delusional as well as a fucktard.

I think it's quite clear that our system is much more superior.

[Emperor Fadeaway]

Told ya so, douchebags.

Ah, the Tories being back in power just warms the cockles of my sweet little heart!

It'll be our turn in October.

[Lord Biscuit©]

So fadey, what's your glowing idea of liberal bliss?

• Every man for himself - get rid of Social Welfare. We can use the savings to build fences around 'safe' housing estates for accountants.
• Pretend all refugees are ex-Taliban and full time Al Qaeda fighters, and treat them as such
• Turn chook farms into accountant farms and lower the tax-return threshold to $1000 to ensure tax accountants have enough work.
• Remove regulatory control from banks and telcos so they can sink or swim according to market forces. It almost worked overseas, why not here?
• Merge state & church to make it easier for Abbott to turn his views into law

I'm sure there's a few more you can think of.

[Emperor Fadeaway]

Are you a wharfie, or what?

Only the wharfie's are voting Labor now. Haven't you seen the polls??

[Lord Biscuit©]

Who said I'd vote Labor? You're not making assumptions are you?

I'm trying to get a feel for what you see to be so glowing about Liberal party governing. My worry is that neither candidate has a great record, is very creative, or will bring much to the party.