http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colourful language with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing.
The country's second most populous state Victoria is due to approve new legislation this week under which police will be able to slap fines of up to Aus$240 (US$257) on people using offensive words or phrases.
Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark said the penalties, similar to those issued for speeding or parking illegally, would free up police time.
"This will give the police the tools they need to be able to act against this sort of obnoxious behaviour on the spot, rather than having to drag offenders off to court and take up time and money in proceedings," he said.
But even the state's top lawyer admitted to swearing sometimes.
"Occasionally I mutter things under my breath as probably everybody does," he told ABC radio.
"But this law is not targeted at that, it's targeted at the sort of obnoxious, offensive behaviour in public that makes life unpleasant for everybody else."
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Shouldn't this bloody thread be in the News and Current Affairs forum, you drongo? 
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Nah! I was more interested in learning weird Australian curse words....klr wrote:Shouldn't this bloody thread be in the News and Current Affairs forum, you drongo?
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Just for the record I moved it to News and back into the Pub. Hopefully that'll keep everyone happy.
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They can justCoito ergo sum wrote:http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colourful language with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing.
The country's second most populous state Victoria is due to approve new legislation this week under which police will be able to slap fines of up to Aus$240 (US$257) on people using offensive words or phrases.
Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark said the penalties, similar to those issued for speeding or parking illegally, would free up police time.
"This will give the police the tools they need to be able to act against this sort of obnoxious behaviour on the spot, rather than having to drag offenders off to court and take up time and money in proceedings," he said.
But even the state's top lawyer admitted to swearing sometimes.
"Occasionally I mutter things under my breath as probably everybody does," he told ABC radio.
"But this law is not targeted at that, it's targeted at the sort of obnoxious, offensive behaviour in public that makes life unpleasant for everybody else."
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Re: G'Day Mate! Here's a Ticket for Swearing!
Yeah, maybe I won't visit Australia, it's evidently full of socialists AND dumb motherfuckers with prudish tendencies.
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Yeah its called....Seth wrote: dumb motherfuckers with prudish tendencies.
They are dumb motherfuckers something we both can agree on and i suspect they don't come much dumber than the victorian branch.........although they do share your maniacal hatred of socialism.
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Oh my delicate sensibilities!Seth wrote:Yeah, maybe I won't visit Australia, it's evidently full of socialists AND dumb motherfuckers with prudish tendencies.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
Re: G'Day Mate! Here's a Ticket for Swearing!
So they do have some socially redeeming value after all. Perhaps I can forgive them a little...anybody who maniacally hates socialism can't be all bad, even if they are prudes.redunderthebed wrote:Yeah its called....Seth wrote: dumb motherfuckers with prudish tendencies.
They are dumb motherfuckers something we both can agree on and i suspect they don't come much dumber than the victorian branch.........although they do share your maniacal hatred of socialism.
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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Can't stay to chat, I'm as busy as a cat burying shit ...
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Not me! You should have closed the bloody report too!Thinking Aloud wrote:Just for the record I moved it to News and back into the Pub. Hopefully that'll keep everyone happy.
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Oh for fucks sakes
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As a New South Welshwoman, born and bred, I have to say - you've fucking got that one, wrong, mate. NSW liberals are the hugest fucking idiot scrags around! And we're bound to have them for the next 8 years (my own prediction)redunderthebed wrote: They are dumb motherfuckers something we both can agree on and i suspect they don't come much dumber than the victorian branch.........although they do share your maniacal hatred of socialism.
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Damn. I never imagined I'd be able to earn three squares and a cot just by using my tongue.
Oh wait. Never mind. I guess I did already know that.
Oh wait. Never mind. I guess I did already know that.
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Our liberals in SA are more incompetent than anything but yes Australia at state and federal level our democracy the most predictable in the western world i suspect.nellikin wrote:As a New South Welshwoman, born and bred, I have to say - you've fucking got that one, wrong, mate. NSW liberals are the hugest fucking idiot scrags around! And we're bound to have them for the next 8 years (my own prediction)redunderthebed wrote: They are dumb motherfuckers something we both can agree on and i suspect they don't come much dumber than the victorian branch.........although they do share your maniacal hatred of socialism.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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