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The Meanies are an indie Australian punk rock band, formed in 1989. The current band members include Link Meanie (Lincoln McLennon), Ringo Meanie (Mark Hobbs) and Wally Meanie (Roderick Kempton). The Meanies had a hiatus in the mid-late 1990s, but began performing again in 1998. The band is known for its highly energetic performances, with vocalist Link often becoming injured on stage on several occasions.
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As close as Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr., Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale, and any other superhero director/actor team might have worked together to develop their successful franchises, the “Deadpool” flick seems likely to be the most collaborative of the genre. As fans know, star Ryan Reynolds has been the driving force behind getting the movie made — and as the project’s writers recently confirmed to us, they do indeed speak with him everyday.
“What’s great about Ryan is that he’s been the keeper of the Deadpool flame for many years, he’s loved the character since forever; he lives it and breathes it,” Reese said of some of the specific ideas Reynolds has brought up to them. “We’re a little newer to Deadpool, although we’ve done a bit of catching up. One of the nice things about working with Ryan is that he tonally gets it — if we ever do something that is off the Deadpool path, or if it doesn’t feel like Deadpool, he catches it.”
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Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up.
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A Christian lobby group says surrogacy should be a last resort for infertile married couples, not a solution for gay and lesbian couples who want children.
The Australian Christian Lobby has called on Queensland MPs to amend or reject a new bill to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy, where a woman carries another couple's child for no payment.
Heated debate is expected in parliament as MPs debate the issue this week, with the opposition hoping to restrict access for same-sex couples.
The ACL says children are not pets and should not simply be given to anyone who wants one.
Yeah, the church knows how to look after children They've been doing a sterling job of indoctrinating, separating, masturbating and penetrating young children for years.
Seriously, why does any pay attention to these people anymore? They all think they have an invisible friend! FFS! They are all MENTAL.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he'd personally like to see the legal drinking age lifted to 21.
But there would have to be rigorous debate and evidence that the policy could reduce binge drinking before the Government would consider it, he said.
"If the evidence is there and it is capable of being proven that it works, then we (will) look at these things and make a decision," Mr Rudd said, when quizzed on ABC Television's Q&A program last night.
Mr Rudd told the audience, including 200 high school students, that booze, like alcopops, was a concerning factor in P-Plate driving deaths.
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The federal opposition has labelled as corrupt the process used to appoint a former Labor MP to a highly paid job with the national broadband network.
Mike Kaiser took up the role with the NBN Co - which will build and operate the $43 billion network - after quitting as Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's chief of staff last year.
The appointment of Mr Kaiser, who will earn more than the Prime Minister, has prompted allegations of political interference on the part of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who recommended the former state MP for the job.
The opposition's legal affairs spokesman George Brandis says Mr Kaiser is a close, personal friend of the minister and has no previous corporate experience.
"I'm accusing him (Senator Conroy) of interfering in the process to secure this job for one of his mates," he told Sky News today.
"The manner in which this was done is plainly, plainly a corrupted process."
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Well never let it be said I don't listen. Shut up. No, I am serious. Shut up.
Anyway it seems that the current news system is balls. It's annoying, too complicated and no one is using it. So we are going back to the old way. Submit anything you want in the Something for the Geek and our trained news monkeys will do the rest.
This means we will be resurrecting the easy news poster and the submit a link pages very soon! In the meantime, just submit your articles, reviews, news and links right here.
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GANGgajang was formed in 1984 after several songwriting sessions for the ABC TV program Sweet & Sour. Some of the songs were used in the show but Mark "Cal" Callaghan from The Riptides, former members of The Angels drummer Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup and bassist Chris Bailey, together with Kayellen Bee and Marilyn Delaney, decided a brand new band would best showcase their songs.
After adding former Aliens guitarist and keyboard player Geoffrey Stapleton and Adelaide born guitarist Robert James, "GANGgajang" became their self titled debut album. With sales in excess of 120,000, it spawned the hit singles Gimme Some Lovin, House of Cards, Giver of Life, The Bigger They Are and the now unofficial Australian national anthem, Sounds of Then (This is Australia).
In 1987, GANGgajang's music was featured exclusively in the Quiksilver surf movie Mad Wax. The film became a cult surf classic and introduced the band to a worldwide audience. GANGgajang was named "World's Best Band" two years in a row by the World Pro Surfers' Association.
A second album, gangAGAIN in 1987, completed the first phase of the band as everyone took some time to pursue individual projects.
Today is hot, muggy, and it's raining with thunder, this always comes to mind when it's like this, you can thank Backscratcher for reminding me of it today.
There is dead give aways to where this was filmed too, I spent much of my childhood there, good times.
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Al Fastier spent three long, cold days laying on his stomach in Antarctica earlier this month, chipping away at ice that had accumulated under the 102-year-old hut built by Sir Ernest Shackleton. His goal was to retrieve two crates of whisky that the famed polar explorer brought down with him — and then abandoned — after his unsuccessful 1908 expedition to the South Pole.
Ok, it didn't turn into a massive piss up. But there is hope for the future.
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Prosecutor James Tierney said Spratt's friend drove up to the bowser closest to the shop, got out of the driver's side door and got in the passenger's side and sat on him.The service station attendant could see the pair "kissing passionately", and Mr Tierney said the attendant could hear loud moaning and the woman was "moving in ways that gave the impression the pair was having sexual intercourse".
The attendant called the police, who arrived and asked the couple to stop.
They did not, and Spratt was not arrested until 27 minutes later.
WAAAHAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!! This guy deserves to have lots of beers bought for him.
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People who drink at least two soft drinks a week nearly double their risk of developing pancreatic cancer, a study has revealed.
Researchers collected data on the consumption of soft drinks, juice and other dietary items, as well as lifestyle and environmental factors of 60,524 people who were part of the huge Singapore Chinese Health Study, following up with study participants for up to 14 years.
The research found there was a 87 per cent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer for those who drank two or more soft drinks per week. No link was found between drinking fruit juice and developing pancreatic cancer,
AAAAAHHHH!!!!!!
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Time for you lot to reclaim your musical inheritance. I saw The Triffids, some time in the 80's, backing Echo & the Bunnymen and I thought they were great. I used to own most of their albums, must torrent them again! I loved their version of St. James Infirmary and this song, performed live in 2006 at a concert in memory of Dave McComb - RIP.
The Triffids were an Australian rock band] formed in Perth, Western Australia in May 1978 with mainstay David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist
They achieved international success in the 1980s but disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road" (February 1986) and "Bury Me Deep in Love" (October 1987); while their 1986 album, Born Sandy Devotional was featured by SBS television in 2007 on the Great Australian Albums series.
I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted but if any of you don't know them - check them out.
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (of Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel on Monday.
The country's top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979.
I bet he's going to come out of the closet.
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After years of popularity in the alternative rock scene, Dave Grohl, lead vocalist of the Foo Fighters and ex-Nirvana drummer, wanted to express the passion for heavy metal he bore since his youth. In 2000 Grohl recorded seven instrumentals without vocals but with various heavy metal musicians in mind. He labeled the recordings "Probot" but never had the intention of fully developing or releasing the material. Years later, with the help of friend Matt Sweeney, Grohl slowly managed to contact some of the artists in mind and began developing a studio album out of his work. An album was recorded out of the material and released in February 2004.
The one single to be found on the album was Shake Your Blood was the one single that was released from the album and featured Grohl on drums, Lemmy from Motörhead on vocals and bass, and Scott "Wino" Weinrich on guitar. When the Foo Fighters went over to London to play a concert in Hyde Park Lemmy joined them and they combine to bring you the awesomeness that can be seen in this video.
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Geto Boys (originally spelled Ghetto Boys) is a hip hop group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill. The original Ghetto Boys consisted of: Prince Johnny C, Sire Jukebox, DJ Ready Red and Little Billy, the dancer who later came to be known as Bushwick Bill. The group released a mostly unheard of album titled Making Trouble. The group broke up shortly after and a new line-up was put together with the inclusion of Scarface and Willie D, both aspiring solo artists.
The Geto Boys earned notoriety for its transgressive lyrics which included gore, psychotic experiences, necrophilia and misogyny. Despite the explicit content of their songs, critic Alex Henderson argues that the group "comes across as much more heartfelt than the numerous gangsta rap...wannabes who jumped on the gangsta bandwagon in the early ’90s. The Geto Boys broke new ground with their soulful southern sound (a precursor to the Dirty South style).
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Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time string band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their music has been called bluegrass, Americana, and alt-country, in addition to old-time. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs. They have been recording since 1998.
"Wagon Wheel" has become something of a signature song for the group, but its origins predate its formation. Says Ketch of its authorship:
"I heard a Dylan song that was unfinished back in high school and I finished it . . As a serious Bob Dylan fan, I was listening to anything he had put on tape, and this was an outtake of something he had mumbled out on one of those tapes. I sang it all around the country from about 17 to 26, before I ever even thought, 'oh I better look into this."
Secor and Dylan have since signed a co-writing agreement on the song. It has been covered by an increasing number of acts since its release on O.C.M.S. in 2004.
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The Australian Federal Police has abandoned attempts to prosecute those responsible for leaking the ACMA blacklist last year, the communications regulator said today.
Chairman Chris Chapman told a Senate Estimates Committee hearing that his understanding was the AFP "have not pushed on with any prosecution.
"It's my understanding from the AFP that they considered the prospects of success under their guidelines, but it wasn't sufficient to get a prosecution," Chapman said.
Other operational priorities were also understood to have contributed to the AFP's decision.
But the Australian Communications and Media Authority said it had beefed up security since the leak, which was understood to have been caused by the hacking of one of the filter providers.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had entered discussions with Google to block access to video content that was not technically feasible to filter at the ISP level.
Conroy told a Senate Estimates committee that it was technically infeasible to apply his proposed filtering regime to web sites like YouTube because it would introduce performance issues.
The Government was instead reaching out to Google to filter out refused classification video content.
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Australia’s drive to protect its own population from the horrors of the internet may be starting to have knock-on effects on the surfing habits of its neighbour, New Zealand - some websites are no longer accessible in NZ via Aussie ISPs.
A Reg reader wrote to tell us: "NZ surfers being routed via Optus routers in Oz have been blocked from NHL.com, and peopleofwalmart.com along with all 'Gamehouse' social games on Facebook.
"This doesn't appear to be blocking people inside Oz, just certain NZ telcos relaying via Oz... X-net is one NZ ISP seemingly unaffected - maybe their subscribers are all clean living priests or summat... Then again..."
According to our reader, a tracert command will take the diligent surfer as far as "vlanxxx.52gdc76fo2.optus.net.au" before vanishing into the ether.
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From the Bollywood film Alluda Majaka. You may think this chase is silly in the first 30 seconds, but believe you me, you ain't seen nothing yet! Includes the famous horse-slides-under-a-lorry 'stunt'.
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I have been reading one of New Scientist's books of scientific oddities (How to make a tornado.) and I came across the delightfully named Stubbins Ffirth, a American Doctor during the US Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. Old Stubbins went a bit further than most of us would be prepared to in the name of science and I have decided to share this unsung hero with you. I can't find a great deal, but this is wiki's description of his great work:
Stubbins Ffirth (1784–1820) was an American trainee doctor notable for his unusual investigations into the cause of yellow fever. He theorized that the disease was not contagious, believing that the drop in cases during winter showed that it was more likely a result of the heat and stresses of the summer months.
Ffirth decided to bring himself into direct contact with bodily fluids from those that had become infected. He started to make incisions on his arms and smeared vomit into the cuts, then proceeded to pour it onto his eyeballs. He continued to try to infect himself using infected vomit by frying it and inhaling the fumes, and, when he did not become ill, drank it undiluted. Endeavoring to prove that other bodily fluids yielded the same results, Ffirth progressed on from vomit, and would go on to smear his body with blood, saliva, and urine. He still managed to avoid contracting the disease and saw this as proof for his hypothesis. However, it was later shown that the samples Ffirth had used for his experiments came from late-stage patients who were no longer contagious.
Truly Newton was right and we stand on the shoulders of giants!
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Eat clean fresh food. I see a lot of cancer in my job.It's fucking common sense.CLEAN FRESH FOOD.... 
Soft drinks double your cancer risk
meg on 09-02-2010
remember the thread about the women who sued the doctor who gave them twins through IVF? people got...
Church picking on the gays again. Because their invisible friend says so.
nrejones on 09-02-2010
Since I was 16 or so, we would have pissups at my place. We had free reign, and a place to crash at...
Take drinking age limit to 21, says Rudd
Nalixor on 09-02-2010
Well said.
Church picking on the gays again. Because their invisible friend says so.
Nalixor on 09-02-2010
It wont happen, the AHA and their ilk will see to it, kill their biggest cash cow, drinkers between...
Take drinking age limit to 21, says Rudd
Marchpig on 09-02-2010
I was thinking from a UK perspective, where a shit load of NHS money goes on 'fertility treatments'...
Church picking on the gays again. Because their invisible friend says so.
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Church picking on the gays again. Because their invisible friend says so.
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