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	(Anonymous) 2006-08-02 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	Looks like the education card is getting played again. Pattern? viralmemory @ LJ (Reply to this)

endymionic
2006-08-02 04:26 pm UTC (link)

Yesterday I was working on a defence to a defamation suit brought by the prime minister of singapore that has bankrupted the opposition leader so that he has to rely on shonky pro bono lawyers who pass on the hard work to law students like me.

Sadly, apart from the total OT nature of that statement, considering the state of oppostion politics in my country (read: nil), that isn't too far from the truth. Because Singapore is basically a one party country. However, that doesn't mean that the person who posted that is nothing less than a pretentious show-offy little git.

Still though - the only good thing to have come out of BB Australia has been Blair. And that's only cause he's semi-pretty. *is so shallow*

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	(Anonymous) 2006-08-02 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	The law kid better watch his step. She failed to capitalize 'prime minister of singapore'. For all we know, she may be getting sued for defamation this very instant. Or maybe the government's crafting a new law to jail commenters that evokes Teh_Government. Like the bloggers. Pray for your soul, o' young hardworking law kid. - minoriko @ LJ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	endymionic 2006-08-02 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah, someone should point he/she/it towards the whole mr.brown case and see how much they want to trumpet the fact that their doing work for the opposition parties on the internet. The gahmen' gets everywhere. Srsly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	batshitinsane 2006-08-02 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	How true. How true. does sekrit fellow Singaporean handshake (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	endymionic 2006-08-02 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	OMG. ~~I knew I couldn't be the only one!~~ does it back (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	batshitinsane 2006-08-02 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	YES. We have to be careful! The gahmen is everywhere looks around shiftily (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	endymionic 2006-08-02 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	W00t! makes sekrit Worker's Party sign (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Ben was such a sweetheart, though! Er. I think. Bearing in mind I've watched a total of ten episodes out of the whole series. -- Abbymouse (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	endymionic 2006-08-03 05:22 am UTC (link)
	:\ No no, I think I remember him. He was on BB when it was still interesting though! Now I hardly ever glance at it. My last viewing of it was a little of last year's series because the runner up was from my uni. I guess I was really bored XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	He won! And stupid Sarah-Marie didn't. This pleased me. It also amused the hell out of me that Blair jumped into Ben's lap when they announced the winner. :D -- Abbymouse. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	endymionic 2006-08-04 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah I remember that! Good times, good times - that was when BB was still entertaining! Heh. I still remember Marty and his stockwhip that he brandished when he came out of the house. Rawr. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2006-08-06 05:57 am UTC (link)

Eh. None of the peoplesuedfordefamationsuits are in any sense the 'opposition leader'. Closest you can get is Chiam or the current WP people, and last I heard, SDA's having some internal problems. Don't think JBJ or CSJ count as opposition leaders (and the latter is just completely nuts, and that's being generous). I suppose you could call the current WP leaders the 'opposition leaders', with what, all of...one constituency seat, and one non-constituency seat. I mean, that's two. It's a majority among the opposition. Compared to. One.

Technically, not one-party, dominant-party, and opposition politics is effectively nil because the opposition's also mostly incompetent with either no policies of any worth (the various 'democrat' parties) or economically ridiculous (WP).

-holyprophetril on LJ

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	dana 2006-08-02 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	God I hate Rove. He's so dull, and he's whole 'Oh, I'm not gay, I'm not gay' type jokes rub my nerves, no I know you aren't dickwad, stop already. And I know I should feel sorry for him because of his wife and her woman's magazine cover fight with cancer, but not so much. Bring back Andrew Denton any day. (oh right, he's gone to the ABC, and he's entertaining). (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-02 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	Seconded. Denton wins! Rove... not so much. The whole flicking of switches jumped the shark. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sproutling 2006-08-02 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Rove was good when he was guesting on Good News Week, but after they removed his personality and made him completely ineffectual, he became really boring. I haven't watched Rove in years (I haven't watched BB since series 2 either, so it's no big loss). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. Rove is so distasteful to watch, the way he fawns over his guests and is completely unfunny. That little stand-up section is well placed at the start of the show because it is a perfect reminder to me to OMG CHANGE CHANNEL QUICK OMG. ~Myf (Reply to this)(Parent)

	qem_chibati 2006-08-03 12:30 am UTC (link)
	Meh, the last episode I watched was a couple of years ago, but it was the one where he did that interview with Carson from Queer Eye. I still think that nothing can top that episode. So I wonder if those jokes have anything to do with that.... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dana 2006-08-03 04:22 am UTC (link)
	He was a television host for the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and kept making lame jokes and ending it with some variation of 'but I'm not gay' It got very old fast. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	qem_chibati 2006-08-03 05:03 am UTC (link)
	Ah. Yeah, bet it would. =/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-08 10:05 am UTC (link)
	I'd managed to scrub that out of my mind, but the pain is flooding back. Seriously, how lame can you get? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adora_spintriae 2006-08-03 10:37 am UTC (link)
	Andrew Denton is just ABC's Rove. PARKY FOREVER! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-04 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	Rove was better back when he was on Channel Nine and it had way fewer interviews. And more people involved than Peter Hellier (why'd Dave have to go?). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-02 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	The links have been baleeted. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Rove McManus is an Australian night-time talk show host I read that as Rove McAnus. -silly mousey (Reply to this)

life_on_mars
2006-08-03 07:11 am UTC (link)

Yesterday I was working on a defence to a defamation suit brought by the prime minister of singapore that has bankrupted the opposition leader so that he has to rely on shonky pro bono lawyers who pass on the hard work to law students like me.

Back when I worked in legal offices I worked for (and with) some utter sleazeballs but there's no way I'd reveal the details. We had a little thing called 'client confidentiality', which is supposedly one of the first things you learn in law school.

I'm not predicting a particularly bright future for this 'hard working student' if s/he hasn't even figured that one out.

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	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 10:33 am UTC (link)
	Rove is entirely unfunny and in very poor taste. Has been for ages, IMO. Someone seriously needs to stick a pin in that man's inflated head. ~~Sean Micallef FTW.~~ -- galuxkitty (Reply to this)(Thread)

	chowderhead 2006-08-03 11:13 am UTC (link)
	OH HELL YES. I nearly cried when Shaun Micallef's tonight show was axed. So underappreciated. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, so did I. I was so happy to see him as a regular on Thank God You're Here. "Please excuse my unworthy crack, your Highness." I have an unhealthy amount of love for that man. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	girlneedsagun 2006-08-03 11:21 am UTC (link)
	I loathe Rove. That is all. (Reply to this)

	aerobot 2006-08-03 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	I don't watch Rove. I watch "What the!?" I HEART that part of the show, everything else can toss off. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	I used to be a big punter in the Melbourne comedy scene (back when it still was a scene and was good. Cheeseshop, anyone?) Anyway, one year at a Planet Chrissy show, Miss Itchy decided to pass out Christmas gifts to the local acts. They got Rove (who didn't even bother to show) a pink ostrich, to be his new co-host, and it brought the house down. I believe that says it all. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 03:00 pm UTC (link)
	John Safran, where are you and all your fatwas now? (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	Aw, I missed out on the wank (hates being slow). Why is Rove still on TV, anyway? :\| And I agree with Jamie being the wrong winner - he annoyed me so much, but if Camilla won, everyone would be going, "sympathy vote". ~ cpywrt@lj (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-03 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	This is random and has very little to do with the wank, but looking at the Wikipedia article you posted.. they have a category called "Living People" -- eh, what? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-04 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	That category is just plain silly. I'm alive and it has nothing there about me. ;_; (Reply to this)(Parent)