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They paid for a harbour view but face a wall of indifference

It is articles like these which make me think the worst in others. Who gives a fuck that you no longer have a view. You have a home to live in, you have food to eat, you are alive and that is all that should matter.

Stop being so melodramatic over the view you will lose.There are more unfortunate people who would gladly occupy your apartment.

It is like going to maccas and asking for prime rib, but getting a beef patty. Deal with it. Why should they deal with it? It is expected that infrastructure and building will take over a non-heritage listed area.

The dirty secrets of financial planners Written by Stuart Washington

“The financial planning industry has a series of dirty little secrets that make investment banks look like paragons of virtue. And that’s pretty hard to do in this day and age…

While I freely accept there are honest, committed and sincere financial planners, they are currently caught in an industry structure so tangled that it’s hard to pick the good from the bad…

And before those honest planners start crying foul about unfair generalisations (a big thanks to the planner who sent the e-mail with the subject line “Scummy journalism” in response to a previous column), it’s worth remembering that everything written above is based on criticism levelled by other financial planners.”
Washington outlines the start of his article by comparing the financial planning industry with investment banks.

i.e. Investment banks vs Financial Planning industry

as

Paragons of virtue vs “dirty little secrets”

Washington then attempts to provide a insulting disclaimer (more of a get out clause that is feebly proposed) that he freely accepts that there are honest, committed and sincere financial planners.

AND

that his claims are “based on criticism levelled by other financial planners”. Something which confuses me and probably a majority of Washington’s readers is the idea that you can be judging that the an industry has dirty little secrets and then judge it to be “levelled” (by the way Washington, my spell-checker picked out a mistake within your article. You should probably embrace that little button option up the top there called spell-check. It says “leveled”) criticism.

“These are not practices that appear in submissions made to the Corporations and Financial Services parliamentary committee currently charged with implementing change.

But it is worth spelling them out in some detail because they are practices that have threatened the integrity of the industry as a whole.

Both the industry and the parliamentary committee need to understand these practices and how they developed to fully comprehend the need for change. Let’s hope they then make changes that put the industry on a completely new footing.”

I have Nine Letters that answers these three paragraphs quoted above:
PDS (Product Disclosure Statement)
SoA (Statement of Advice)
FSG (Financial Services Guide)

Though I agree with the majority of his content, his sensationalist reporting astounds me (not really, because it is that bad). This is a poorly researched article with no solid basis that a piece of shit could provide. Even shit can be gathered to belong to someone, but his reporting contributed a bunch of mish mash aimed to confuse his readers into believing he were their Aussie battler of a reporter.

Sydney Morning Herald. The garner of respectability and the voice of truth in its reporting. But no longer is this true.

The reign of good spelling, grammar and puncation and error-free days are over. SMH has become the crummy daily telegraph that we get for free at uni (it is because they are that bad). It has become the shitty scrawls we see graffiti-ed on cubicle walls. Even the insight:

Here I sit
broken hearted
I tried to shit
But only farted

makes more sense than some of the rubbish that I have been accustomed to recently. Even though, their news may be up to date and may be viewed free on the internet, their reputation is at staked upon its consistent efforts on keeping the standard.

The above is an example of such a mistake. I know it is small. I know it is trivial to point the smallest mistake from this article. But it is the smallest problem which then becomes the basis of a larger problem. [A good example would be the clashes of religion. The fight of my God being better than your God just because he is classifed under a different fucking name,
What is even more fucked up is Christianity and Catholicism. You have religions believing in religions that come under the same fucking letter of the alphabet and you both follow the same fucking God! Build a bed and fuck it all off!]*

*Hmmm I kind of got carried away and if i get any comments to discuss this topic further, please comment below. (though I might be tempted to write about it anyway).

A friend once made a joke about one particular group of middle-eastern appearance who were cat-calling, name-calling and at one time resisting arrest from police (though I also regard police as the lowest level of decency but props for being the highest form of corruption in the public service).

This was comparing their support for each another’s actions to assuring their sucking each other off was okay because it was Halal. Hey its okay, they revealed that it was okay to harass others in the public streets. To ensure that it is okay by a trusted individual or a role model was to have a guarantor for pubescent attitudes on who had the bigger balls to do something more stupid.

They look at each other for approval, high-fiving each other with no thought on the consequences of their actions. What do I think? Is that all you really have? If it isn’t handing out names for passers-by then its the grinding of the fight showing how much of a man you are to your mates. But don’t worry, your mates will come by your side as you beat up on a kid half your size. Is that your strategy?

Hey its ok, it only happens in the area, but like stupidity and idiocy, it is infectious, like the shiny bald head of Howard that was for years the Australian icon or the trademark stupidity of Bush that has brushed all “Americans”. This blog entry will question:

Revealing your side’s strategy before the game has begun

IN WAR

The aim is to attack the enemy with stealth, yet there are constant reports on army movements that alert the enemy. It is meant to be a sort of game strategy in which you provide as little information to your enemy/opponent as possible.

I understand that there is a form of signaling which is often provided to the opponent but in doing so, you also offer the history of providing a signal and providing history for acting upon that signal. Doesn’t this create the predicament of becoming predictable and thus thwarted in the heat of war strategy?

IN SPORT

Often a coach or marquee player will answer reporter’s questions on how the team will play the game and which players they will target. Again similar to war, the field is the battlefield. Often game players will deviate from the set plans of the team and create their own objective based on their strengths. Hey sometimes it may work but if their opponents are ready for this type of play, well they will demolish this play and take advantage of the prior knowledge gained from the press conference.

Also, from these small information pools given at press conferences on the style of play that the team may be playing, their opponents having studied this team well, will counter with the possible strategies that are still left for this team. Or, based on the capacity and capability of this team, form possible strategies that this team can have.

So what are the positives and negatives of giving information to your opponent/s?

Biggest op since Vietnam: Marines attack Taliban

Operation Khanjar (Strike of the Sword), involving nearly 4,000 US forces as well as 650 Afghan police and soldiers, the Marine Expeditionary Brigade said
Deploying about 50 aircraft, the air and land assault

Good one guys! they will never expect how many to expect and how many brother terrorists to call on =)

The troops were to push south down the Helmand River valley, deep into insurgent-held areas…Key targets of the assault include the districts of Garmsir and Nawa, and a large curve in the river to the south that the military refers to as the “fishhook.”

You may as well give them your strategic plans on where you will attack. And for extra credit, you may want to set up camp (set up the booze for them, they are only human after all) for them so that they a place to stay as you do battle.

Military commanders said Operation Khanjar would convince local people that the Afghan security forces — backed by international troops — offered them a better long-term future than the Islamist hardliners.

You mean as you leave the country after a few years time?

“This is a big, risky plan,” Nicholson told his men at a briefing at Camp Leatherneck before the battle.
It never would have occurred that a battle would ever be risky.

The offensive, which is set to last 36 hours in its first highly aggressive phase

Is this the allocated time for them to bring the bbq meat and stove?

Defendant stabs witness to death in court

The 32-year-old woman was attacked as she testified from the witness box in an appeal over a libel case

If the 28 year old wasn’t fucked before, he is now.

The attacker was a Russian-born unemployed warehouseman, the Mail said. He now faces a murder charge, it said

Was it so bad that he was to lose a libel case that he wanted the murder charge instead?

Multicultural radio presenter linked to anti-immigration Facebook groups

“F—- Off, We’re Full”
“Stop the Islamisation of Australia while we still can”
“Australians against Multiculturalism”

These were several groups that Verney was involved as a presenter for a multicultural radio station. Good job there!

“Maybe a gun to their head might help them get the hint that they are not wanted here!!,”

I think a gun to anyone’s head is persuasion enough. And possibly compelling enough for anyone that they may not be wanted?

When Ms Verney was approached for comment over her Facebook posts, she said it was “unfortunate” patriotism was now regarded as racism.
“As a proud Aussie, I welcome new Australians in the hope and belief that they too, become proud Aussies,” she said.
“This country is beautiful the way it is, and like most average citizens, [I] do not want our society to change to suit others’ needs.”

The words speak for themselves.

“To that really groovy chick that catches the 9.37 train from Wolli Creek, I find you really attractive and want to meet up for lunch”

translates to

I’ve been stalking you like a lion stalks its prey. You will do for my next self-made camera sex video. When can we make a formal time for me to rape you in that that self-made video?

“You left your book on the train as you left in a hurry at Central station”

translates to

I thought I would steal money from your wallet for drugs but felt bad so I thought I would give you back your book and not the wallet in case you suspect me. So that I can continue stealing your wallet next time

“To the high school girl that left her folder on the seat, contact me at 04-blah blah blah”

translates to

I’m a sexual deviant and especially, a pedophile. I still have your folder from when I chased you down that alley way. Pedophiles have needs as well.

So often, I find these types of comments in this section of the paper and often find mindless or mind-dumbing. e.g. the “look who’s looking” section was designed to allow perverts confess that they were actually perving.

But also a way to allow particular readings to look as stupid as they sound by voicing verbal diarrhea in this section. Sit down, shut up and practice a form of verbal constipation instead filling airheads with a point of argument coming from someone more stupid than themselves.

Hi John Nash.

Fuck you and your game theory

KTHXBYE

(stolen idea from rob)