What Cheered You Up Today? (13 Viewers)

[A4K]

I like that 'None of the above' idea - every country should have that!

 

[MIflyer]

Cheer up?

I thought you said Gear Up!

 

[cammerjeff]

Ava Maria! Indeed!

 

[Zippythehog]

I like that 'None of the above' idea - every country should have that!

I think Hitchhikers' Guide says it best,
"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

 

[A4K]

Agree completely. As someone said a long time ago (maybe Barry Crump?): 'Anyone who grows up wanting to be a politician should automatically never be allowed to be one'

 

[MiTasol]

Sounds like the sort of thing Crump or Fred Dagg (John Clarke) would say.

Both long gone and long before their time.

 

[A4K]

Yep. (Bruce too).

 

[special ed]

I have said for decades, that a requirement to run for any office should require a History degree, preferably world history.

 

[Shortround6]

I have said for decades, that a requirement to run for any office should require a History degree, preferably world history.

Basic arithmetic would also help, they are voting on budgets and 10 + 10 does NOT equal 18 or 23 or any other convenient number that makes a proposed budget look good.

 

[GTX]

Voting this way means my vote must be counted 8 times before it actually counts.

It doesn't work that way. They do a first count and then if there is one candidate with enough of a majority, the count ends. If not, then they take the candidate with the least number and distribute their first preferences and so on. Rarely does it require more than 2 - 3 rounds.

The combination of compulsory voting and preferential voting are brilliant and something Australians should be proud of since it tends to:

1. Drive outcome towards the centre thus avoiding extremists
2. Give people the candidates that most prefer, even if not their first choice.

 

[MiTasol]

You are right for most electorates but I live in Flynn and that regularly goes down to the wire.

In 2013 the margin was very small and in 2016 the winning candidate eventually won by just 7 votes on the last count.

In 2019 he won by over 2000 but that was because a certain party ran a parade of city slickers through the electorate campaigning against coal mining and that is the major employer in the electorate. That parade caused other mining electorates to keep unpopular MPs.

This year it is classified as marginal so will almost certainly go the full count again.

I agree with the compulsory voting but I prefer the Hare Clarke system used in Tas.

Under Hare Clark you elect multiple candidates in your electorate and your electorate covers the same area as would normally elect that number of MPs so Tas has 35 MPs being 7 from each of 5 electorates. If they followed the rest of Aus there would be 35 electorates.

 

[Greg Boeser]

My first retirement check deposited today!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Last full week of work before flying across the pond to Germany later next week.

 

[Viking1066]

Received my grade for my first CAPTL Portfolio class and it was 100%. This pleased me greatly considering I did it in ten hours. The second quarter grades are all looking excellent.

 

[GTX]

My first retirement check deposited today!

Don't you just hate people who brag...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Don't you just hate people who brag...

I had someone at work bragging to me about retiring and telling everyone that he was passing off all his work to me. He did it in a very obnoxious way. So I bragged back that I likely have 20 to 25 more years of life left than him.

 

[Snautzer01]

I had someone at work bragging to me about retiring and telling everyone that he was passing off all his work to me. He did it in a very obnoxious way. So I bragged back that I likely have 20 to 25 more years of life left than him.

Brag that his chores are an hour of your time. No biggie.This time without faults..

Let his chew on that.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Brag that his chores are an hour of your time. No biggie.This time without faults..

Let his chew on that.

We spent the next year redoing his work.

 

[Snautzer01]

We spent the next year redoing his work.

Sent a bill.

 

[Greg Boeser]

My #3 son passed his licensing board.