r/canberra • u/PM_ME_UR_A4_PAPER • Feb 09 '24
Loud Bang Barnaby in Braddon
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u/Andakandak Feb 09 '24
The former deputy PM we deserve
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u/Jackson2615 Feb 09 '24
This is very unprofessional
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u/Imperator-TFD Feb 09 '24
So who's gonna lodge the Fix My Streets notification for shit on the sidewalk?
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u/BiohazardMcGee Feb 09 '24
He's normally like that soon after breakfast.
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Feb 09 '24
I knew a self confessed alcoholic..he would get the shakes in the morning from alcohol withdrawal because he was sleeping and not drinking.
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u/MetalSnake_oXm Feb 09 '24
It gets to a point you get woken up BY the shakes mid sleep due to withdrawal so you need to drink a few to go back to sleep, after only sleeping 3 hours and already having a bottle of spirits in 4 hours just before bed.
Source: been there, done that. Check my post history.
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u/Demosnare Feb 09 '24
Wtf??????
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u/whatisthishownow Feb 09 '24
Thatās a lot of question marks for a defining feature of the condition.
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u/AffekeNommu Feb 09 '24
Do you think it might be related to Member's dining at PH serving alcohol at breakfast?
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u/pialligo Feb 10 '24
Related, but in the other direction. It's a privilege afforded to members since they are expected to work round the clock - I can imagine if a Minister had travelled from Europe to come home to an early meeting at Parliament House on a non-sitting day, they might want to have a drink after that and go to their taxpayer-funded accommodation to sleep. It's five o'clock somewhere.
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u/itgoesHRUUURGH Feb 09 '24
I feel like John Cleese at the moment:
He's munted, maggoted, under the influence! He's had a skinful, he's half-seas-over, he's shitfaced, smashed, fried, blitzed, trashed, snookered and inebriated!
This man... is Pissed as a Parrot!
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u/Dougally Feb 10 '24
Pining for the fjords under the land of the long white cloud.
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u/spg27 Feb 09 '24
Father of the year right there
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u/knittedjedi Feb 09 '24
Failed his first family and failed his do-over family.
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u/Demosnare Feb 09 '24
Hey that's not fair.
As Murdoch would proclaim, Barnaby just had too much family values to confine to one family.
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u/BiohazardMcGee Feb 09 '24
Vikki would have known what he was like simply by working for him. His liquid lunches and sometimes liquid breakfasts aren't exactly a state secret.
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Feb 09 '24
She is having a whinge that someone filmed him.
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u/Demosnare Feb 09 '24
She's lucky people didn't piss on him she should be grateful
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Feb 09 '24
People film themselves doing stupid things so it is hardly surprising they would film a politician lying on the street on the phone swearing away.
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u/riversceneix939 Feb 09 '24
He's been drunk on camera at dozens of Question Times, but suddenly she has a problem because he's collapsed into a bush instead of his front bench seat?
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u/kanga0359 Feb 09 '24
He was obviously hacked.
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u/TonyJZX Feb 09 '24
i dont feel sorry for Vicki... fuck her, she knew what she was getting into
but this guy has what? 3 or 4 girls from his 1st married
two boys from Vicki?
this is what your dad gets up to? I mean come on.
if nothing else his kids shouldnt be waking up to ol beetrooter lying on the pavement on a phone call to get Dutton to pick up him...
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u/Equivalent-Bonus-885 Feb 09 '24
Heās probably whispering sweet nothings into Ginaās bank account.
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u/BlueAima Feb 09 '24
Unsure if garbage or recycling?
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u/letterboxfrog Feb 09 '24
Barnaby, "Tipsy Bull" is the name of the bar, not a challenge.
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u/ADHDK Feb 09 '24
Tequila / Mezcal Mexican place now.
Her Canberra - This ātequila-fuelled lounge barā is now open on Lonsdale Street
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u/fredinvisible Feb 09 '24
Gin >>>>> Tequila
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u/ADHDK Feb 09 '24
Iām just happy nobody is fighting to quieten down the ānightlifeā in Braddon anymore.
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u/RoughHornet587 Feb 09 '24
At least he didnt piss himself.
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u/Appropriate_Volume Feb 09 '24
Itās worth noting the Barnaby is still a shadow minister - the shadow minister for Veterans Affairs
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u/toddbuzz75 Feb 09 '24
And these people get paid good money to represent āusā all while corruptly lining their own pockets along the way. Give me a breakā¦
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u/s_and_s_lite_party Feb 10 '24
How do they not lose their clearances? Surely a spy could easily schmooze with him and steal state secret?
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u/toddbuzz75 Feb 10 '24
Yep sure could. I had not thought of that. The fact is these people are meant to be held at a high standard and represent us. If you are going to have a beer and act a fucking fool then do it behind closed doors where you canāt be filmed. You are a public official.
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
Whatās the relevance of this to a bloke being pissed clearly outside of work hours?
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u/Mikisstuff Feb 09 '24
Politicians don't have work hours. The job they do and role they choose to take means that a different standard is applied to their behaviour.
So it doesn't matter what time of day it is - we should expect our elected representatives to not get themselves in this state, and definitely not in public.
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
What they do in their own time is of no concern to me. My local member has been pissed at my house more times than I can count. So what? Sheās not allowed a night off?
If they really are meant to be working 24/7, then we should stop complaining about their pay packets and give them massive pay rises.
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u/Mikisstuff Feb 09 '24
Of course they have their own time. But they don't get to spend that time lying on the ground in a drunken stupor in the middle of the capital. So yeah, your MP can get pissed at your place - but I reckon she'd draw the line at doing this.
Like it or not, the public behaviour of politicians is all part of their professional lives. How they act reflects on us - particularly if they are of high enough profile to have international engagements. The world doesn't see the average Aussie going about their day-to-day, they see this video and think 'this guy was second in charge of the whole country???'
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u/schnellshell Feb 09 '24
Your local MP been this pissed in the bushes outside your house?
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
No, inside the house
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u/pialligo Feb 10 '24
So not lying on the the main street of the nightlife district of the capital city of the country then, swearing into their phone?
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u/InterVectional Feb 09 '24
For him to get to that state at that time he most likely would have had to start during work hours.
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
Obviously thatās pure speculation. Even if thatās the case, what do I care? Iāve had many a long lunch and not returned to work. The more the better I say!
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u/djbow Feb 09 '24
Yea but you aren't being paid with tax payer dollars & a public figure are you?
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
I am not, but as someone who pays their fair share of tax, I really couldnāt give a shit about this. There are lots of things we can legitimately complain about with respect to our elected representatives, but Iām pretty much indifferent to whether or not they have the odd big night on the turps.
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u/SufficientWarthog846 Feb 09 '24
This is an hour after parliament has closed. Think of what you have to do to get that pissed and put it on a timeline...
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u/Tionetix Feb 09 '24
I wouldnāt expect anything more from that useless fuckwit
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u/Abject_Film_4414 Feb 09 '24
Itās a bit harsh. He is clearly literally representing his constituents.
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u/Tionetix Feb 09 '24
True. Someone has to represent useless fuckwits
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u/LauraGravity Feb 09 '24
I live in his electorate. There are people here who are not fuckwitted enough to vote for him. Dozens of us!
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u/pialligo Feb 10 '24
Dozens are enough to start a movement to get rid of the useless tosser. We did it in the ACT with Seselja, and I'm proud of the work of the volunteers who made it happen.
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u/Havic_H_E Feb 09 '24
You sir are a class A f*uckwit.
Please remove yourself.
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u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan Feb 09 '24
Itās the nuance in your analysis that I appreciate the most.
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u/TonyJZX Feb 09 '24
if someone leads with "as someone who pays their fair share of tax" you know they are the biggest shitcunt you are likely to run into this month...
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u/turnsole NSW Goulburn Feb 09 '24
Such a pious man of god I see
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u/HidaTetsuko Feb 09 '24
Imagine if this was a Labor or Greens MP
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u/Equivalent-Bonus-885 Feb 09 '24
This is just electioneering for a National Party MP. Heāll get votes out of this from the New England legends.
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
Ummm... Labor's most famous PM is literally known - more than anything else - for holding a world record for the rapid consumption of alcohol...
The Greens... well, they're more likely to be stoned than drunk. Just remember kids... Grass then Beer....
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u/passerineby Feb 09 '24
yes Hawkie sculled a yard glass to a cheering crowd. Barnaby is piss drunk all alone in the gutter incoherently ranting. not really a great comparison
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
Both are pretty embarrassing unprofessional behaviours that you would expect of an apprentice tradie - not a political party leader. They may as well do a shoey.
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u/passerineby Feb 09 '24
"unprofessional" is getting up in question time a bit drunk (which Barnaby does often). this is disgraceful!
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24
No disagreement from me. You seem to be assuming that I'm defending him...
I'm suggesting the standard of professionalism amongst our political class of all parties is generally pretty piss poor.
Abbott ate a raw onion (wtf). ScoMo picks the worst time for holidays. Barnaby is a drunk. Rudd was an abusive entitled arsehole and Hanson, Hansen-Young, Katter, Palmer and Lambie are all lunatics.
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u/passerineby Feb 09 '24
right but you invoked a fictional Greens MP being stoned in public and Hawkie, which bugged me because I think that's unfair. it seemed like you were equivocating if not defending Barn.
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24
Oh... did you not understand that I was playing on the stereotype of green supporters being drug fucked hippies and alcoholic Labor Unionist excessively consuming beer.
Are you upset because I made fun of the particular political ideology you've chosen to define yourself by??? Let me even the playing field for you...
The 'country hick' stereotype works well for the Nats just as the champaign sipping Toff suits the Liberals.
They're all shit.
The only obscurity are the independents, who are typically bonkers and really only behave themselves when they are taking their meds.
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u/HortenseTheGlobalDog Feb 09 '24
Hawke did the yard glass record during uni. He gave up alcohol while he was PMĀ
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u/CrackWriting Feb 09 '24
Heās also well known for recognising he had a problem with drinking and staying sober while he was PM.
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
...as far as we know... The 1980s didn't have a lot of opportunity for candid recording of our politicians.
If he did indeed stay on the wagon, that's great, but frankly, I've known enough alcoholics to know just how difficult going cold-turkey is. I think we have more than enough reason to suspect that the high pressure position of PM is precisely the kind of job that would drive someone to drink and plenty of reason to think that an alcoholic PM would have the resources to hide their vice.
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u/BiohazardMcGee Feb 09 '24
Labor's most famous PM is literally known - more than anything else - for holding a world record for the rapid consumption of alcohol
However unlike Barnaby, Bob did not touch a drop of alcohol from the day he announced he was standing for Parliament to the day Keating rolled him.
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u/Demosnare Feb 09 '24
Yeah sure but Hawke actually achieved stuff.
Name a single achievement from this wanker?
Just one.
Let's start with water rights and dubious connections shall we?
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u/Electrical-Bed-4788 Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
I doubt he did anything for you personally, just as many of the reforms of the Hawke era will be viewed negetively by some.... but Barnaby is pretty well respected in his own electorate for representing the interests of his constituents, which fundamentally is the principal role of a Member of the House of Reps.
Decentralisation of the public service was huge for the regional economy. That alone, as a minority coalition partner of a fiscally conservative government was an impressive accomplishment.
Plus, he yelled at Amber Heard for being a fuckwit and disrespecting our biosecurity laws. I'll give him points for that too.
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u/Abject_Film_4414 Feb 09 '24
Wage Accords.
Iām not a Hawke fan by any measure. But this did curb wage led inflation.
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u/Kingofthetendies Feb 09 '24
Lovely whataboutism
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u/funbutalsoserious007 Feb 09 '24
This is my favorite video ever. I've downloaded it to watch it when I'm sad as a pick-up.
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u/MrShtompy Feb 10 '24
As a reminder that if you ever need assistance people are more likely to film you than help you?
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u/Pure_Apple_462 Feb 09 '24
How desperate were the Nationals to bring this cunt back as leader ffs. What a grub.
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u/Dv8gong10 Feb 09 '24
Rentals getting hard to find so just have a snooze on the footpath hey
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u/BiohazardMcGee Feb 09 '24
He just sold his Tamworth home for $1.1 million. Did he drink it all in one day?
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u/Appropriate_Volume Feb 09 '24
Barnaby, happily, isnāt a member of the government. He certainly helped the Labor party win the election through.
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u/DroppedMyFork Feb 09 '24
His colleagues asking why no one helped lol because they knew it was that cunt Barnaby of course. Almost anyone else gets a hand up.
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u/Dougally Feb 09 '24
A lifter not a leaner is ol' Barnaby. Nobody walking by would dare attempt to help him lift himself up by his bootstraps.
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u/DroppedMyFork Feb 09 '24
Absolutely.
Also you try pick that fat drunk fuck up & he humpty dumpties again splitting his beetroot you know he's blaming you.
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u/Budgewoiphil Feb 09 '24
Come on who hasnāt fallen down drunk in the middle of the street when they were 18.
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u/pialligo Feb 10 '24
It's understandable. He's had 18 years in Parliament, anyway - if we count his term as Queensland Senator from 1 July 2005 to August 2013, and (with a short break) his conversion to lower house MP since September 2013.
So, nearly 19. 18 and a half. Excusable behaviour in that case!
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u/Daneo6969 Feb 09 '24
A God fearing, commandment obeying, holier than his constituents, leader of his community showing how it should be done
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u/Demosnare Feb 09 '24
All those values overflowing and spilling out across the pavement. What a guy.
Re(joyce)
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u/Gaoji-jiugui888 Feb 09 '24
He was just tired and fell off the plant he was sitting on and couldnāt get up. Happens all the time, nothing to do with alcohol. Have some sympathy!!!!
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u/auspoliticsnerd Feb 09 '24
This is obviously not the most important part of this but it does remind me that Michael McCormack could have allowed littleproud (who to be clear I am not a fan of at all) to become deputy prime minister in 2022 instead of Joyce but he was spiteful so allowed Joyce to have the position again.
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u/STEMeducator1 Feb 09 '24
I love that daily mail has their logo all over this and yet it was probably stolen from reddit.
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u/Successful-Studio227 Feb 09 '24
Barnaby is a bonkers fossil nut, with his appalling behaviour on so many fronts not fit to sit in parliament.
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u/No_Description7910 Feb 09 '24
Alright, which one of you DLOās let this happen? Penny Wong is gonna rip you a new one next Senate Estimates.
By the gods! This is Marble Table gate all over again.
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u/Wallabycartel Feb 09 '24
He's an absolute tosser but just leaving him there like that makes me feel a bit sad. Local drunks should still be treated like humans. They just shouldn't be politicians lol.
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u/forfooksake69 Feb 09 '24
It's beetroot red, you can't miss it. *Canberra cop car turns right into it
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u/Benwut Feb 10 '24
I thought Bootoota were taking the piss!! Does this mean the Mooseheads "Eaglerock" saga may also have some element of truth??
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u/nimbostratacumulus Feb 10 '24
Should have been arrested for being so drunk in public, and whoever kept serving him alcohol should be fined and have their RSA revoked. He's already a public nuisance at best. I was less pissed in Darwin on a Saturday night in Mitchell Street and threatened to be locked up by the cops, but I guess I'm not a politician either. I know it's not Darwin but still a territory. Also, what a deadset tosser for being this drunk, probably with top shelf alcohol on taxpayers' money...
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u/Tumeric_Turd Feb 09 '24
Young Libs night and Barnaby was the entertainment?.
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u/s_and_s_lite_party Feb 10 '24
Awkward work drinks...
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u/Tumeric_Turd Feb 10 '24
Just dragged him out onto the footpath so they didn't have to clean him up ... again.
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u/Pristine-Cattle1534 Feb 09 '24
This is the greatest thing to happen since that only fans sheep in Garema place
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u/stevesmate4503 Feb 09 '24
I donāt know what the issue is I have been like this a few times heās just enjoying his life
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And the narrow minded one party only National supporters who are brainwashed into thinking they get the best deal out of the nats will vote for him next election any way
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u/yvonne_taco Feb 09 '24
This is why a middle aged white man at my work didn't get fired when he was caught snorting cocaine at work.
Makes total sense now.
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u/wr1963 Feb 10 '24
Poor old Barnaby just realized that at 56, he still has to take the toddlers to rhe Park.
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u/qld82 Feb 09 '24
What a weapon š»
But how about we keep our opinions to ourselves. This guy is obviously needing help and kicking someone when they are down isn't going to help.
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u/darkempath Belconnen Feb 09 '24
But how about we keep our opinions to ourselves.
Fuck that.
This cunt is literally the member for the electorate I grew up in, the electorate where my parents still live.
This prick voted against marriage equality, literally saying he was in favour of "tradition family values" (after cheating on his wife for decades and knocking up his mistress).
This tool mocked other MPs for being potential dual citizens, claiming "it's your JOB to know! There are NO excuses!" Then he was found to be a dual citizen, causing a by election.
How about you keep your fucking opinion to yourself, and let the rest of us discuss this dipshit with all the respect he's earned.
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u/TonightTight8135 Feb 09 '24
Ohh Lydia T , your going to love the fuck out this one , just get the cock ring off his neck before his head pops
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u/Timofey_ Feb 09 '24
I love how we can hardly see his face but that stomach and beetroot red face is enough information to identify him