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Sounds like some 'TONE DEAF' tawt chose the accompanying 'music'.
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Should’ve been cancelled IMO.
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In very bad taste, carrying on with this whilst much of Australia burns, can't imagine the hundreds of home owners and relatives of the dead will have been celebrating much, should have been cancelled imo.
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Disgraceful and shocking!!!
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Have to agree that it was disrespectful, considering the amount of money spent, which could easily have been given to the firefighters, 90% of whom I read are unpaid volunteers(hard to believe).
But you also have to think that as bad as it looks, the aussies didn't complain. They could have refused to go to the fireworks, could have sat there in protest the next day, could have demanded the PM to answer etc. etc. None of that happened. Tweets and facebook posts don't count in real life. |
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How could they cancel the fireworks? It's on an 18 month cycle. Those fireworks have already been bought and paid for. They're well into planning next year's fireworks.
Volunteer firefighters are proud to be volunteers. It's not a job. It's all about helping people. They're proud of that. The Sydney NYE fireworks is an event that attracts thousands of tourists around the world and brings in millions of dollars. On the same night there was a cricket match that thousands of people went to. No one said that was frivolous and disrespectful. I heard Rural Fire Service volunteers on the radio say it was ridiculous to cancel the fireworks. I've been alive 54 years and there's been massive bushfires every single Summer I've been alive. Captain Cook noted as he was sailing along the coast the incredible number of fires. In terms of lives lost and property destroyed the bushfires this year don't rank anywhere near the worst in history. In 1851 a bushfire aided by temperatures of 47C 117F destroyed 12 million acres. They don't like mentioning it was 47C in 1851 these days.In 2009 173 people died in the Black Saturday fires.Fires made worse from local councils and National Parks dominated by Green ideology which meant a ban on hazard reduction burns. The fires this year are obviously exacerbated by the drought but the intensity of the burn lays squarely at the feet of green/environmental/conservationist lunatics that don't even allow a camper to pick up a dead stick laying on the ground to make a camp fire. They locked the gates to national parks so the tracks are unused. So if there's a fire no truck can get down there. It's an absolute disgrace. Another thing rarely mentioned is that about 50% of bushfires are deliberately lit. By Arsonists. I'm not sure how accurate that % is but I think it must be close. |
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They don't like mentioning it was 47C in 1851 these days
 Steptoe wanted to plant billions of Trees over here  |
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If the firefighters are proud of working for free, then of course there's no issue whatsoever. Like I said, the aussies didn't complain and there must have been a reason. For the rest of the world, its all just another news item anyways.
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A very comprehensive, and well considered post by...T_K_D_M
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I remember back in about 1994 or 1995 there was some terrible bushfires in NSW and even in Sydney. I was driving along James Ruse Drive near Parramatta just near Rosehill Racecourse. Anyway a Copper directed me to stop. So I did. I sat there and watched over a hundred Rural Fire Service trucks drive past with the crews sitting in the back and the name of their station on the side coming from anywhere from NSW rural towns to also Victoria and Queensland and South Australia. It was very moving. Seeing all these men from across Australia come to help.
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Isn't this just the start of their summer, temperatures could get even hotter and fires much worse yet.
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Standard liberal elitist virtual signalling nonsense in the social media era.
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#virtue!
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Standard MSM news broadcast item these days opens with 'there have been calls for...' which usually means some snotty nosed tea running kid researcher just out of studying trans rights for three years has seen a few posts from similar types that haven't left their halls of residence bedroom calling for a fireworks display planned for months to be cancelled from 12,000 miles away (so they can catch a few similarly (sheep) minded twitter likes).
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Glad to see you all so emphatic given it's their hottest and driest year ever.
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Newcastle , theirs not ours , exports more coal than we produced 60 years ago.......
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500 MILLION animals burned to death, never mind, let's let off a few fireworks and scare the siht out of a few more. Disgraceful.
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It wasn't mandatory for anyone to attend the display I don't believe.
The 'calls' for the display to be cancelled would be more valid from those directly affected, not those twittering or signing online petitions from their bedrooms. The world has suffered multiple natural disasters over the centuries, and guess what, it will continue to do so, fireworks displays or not. |
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I didn't make it clear what I meant by my post. I have no problem with the fireworks display but those posting that Aussieland isn't suffering from climate change should wake up.
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What's changed in my view is the dissemination of weather affected events. Twenty years ago (or longer) this stuff used to happen but virtually nobody new about it outside locals. Now virtually everyone in the world can see these events captured and broadcast instantaneously. This goes for all 'alarmist' news, not just weather events of course. Like the world able to see the London Bridge terrorist being eliminated just after it happened.
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Or maybe climate change is happening.
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Climate change has always happened. Virtue signalling however...
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Surely the problem of climate change (if it is man made) will eventually go away.
As the temperatures rise we need less fuel for heating. So emissions will start to drop. Isn't that what the hand-wringers want - for us to use less fuel? Okay, I'm using less fuel now. Also eating hardly any meat, and walk most places into the bargain. That reminds me I've got to get some petrol tomorrow. Add it all together, and most of us are model citizens without even trying! |
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It’s noticeable how often virtue signalling consists of saying you hate things. It is camouflage. The emphasis on hate distracts from the fact you are really saying how good you are. If you were frank and said: ‘I care about the environment more than most people do’ or ‘I care about the poor more than others’, your vanity and self-aggrandisement would be obvious. Anger and outrage disguise your boastfulness.
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A typical banal post from Drippin.
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Can't you see your problem Charlie, nobody likes you.
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Oh I never knew that.
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Sorry to have to spell it out for you Charlie, but you are a bit slow on the uptake.
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I'd rather be disliked than stupid like you.
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Charlie..Crappen is both unpopular and stupid.
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Every where you post, it always ends in a row.
I noticed last night when you were posting. I thought to myself - ''there's Charlie in the old routine, falling out with somebody again. Night after night, always the same.'' What a character. |
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Virtue signalling is effectively trying to portray oneself as the virtual angel Gabriel via an online (and sometimes media/political) persona while actually sitting on one's arse, and quite often being in reality away from twiiter and insta, a stonking hypocrite.
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A bit like you then Cider.
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When you weigh up Charlie - he's just a misery guts looking for something to worry about.
It always looks like rain to Charlie. Cup's always half empty instead of half full. The beer's always cloudy. Tea's always cold. Cakes are always stale. Life's not much fun for Charlie. And it looks like suckitforapenny has joined him. |
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Well I don't have any social media accounts, and I eat plenty of (tasty) meat. For a start ;)
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I don't have any media accounts either and also eat lots of tasty red meat.
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social media accounts if that makes a difference.
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I didn't accuse you of virtual signalling. Unless you have a guilty conscience
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