Fosters says it doubts customers will be bothered by a reduction in the alcohol content of its Victoria Bitter beer.
In a move that will save the company up to $10 million a year in tax bills, the alcohol content in VB will drop from 4.9 per cent to 4.8 per cent from August.

Un. Aust. Ralian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtilCBbR8xc&eurl=

And now for something completely different … “the chipmunks” doing [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZxjqmuX5EFaulty Towers[/url].

p.s. Don’t mention the war.

How long will if be, do you reckon, before we get a Piers Ackerman column complaining that there weren’t enough right whingers on the panel, though?

Has it been replaced with ‘the economic is political’, as in the phrase “it’s all about the economy, mate”?

And if the political and the economic form a nexus as is claimed, shouldn’t this nexus be informed by the personal as well? Or is it already since the personal is political?

Check this out at Your ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2007/s1966728.htm

Who says tat Auntie has lost her sense of humour?

If Larvatus Prodeo can’t cater to an inclusive left site, meaning accessable to less educated people and your average unionist, do you know a site that can?

Tim, who is your “average unionist”? In my experience they are certainly not militants but beyond that there is a vast diversity of interests, abilities and aspirations represented amongst them. You should get out a bit and observe the world you live in and then you’d feel less inclined to resort to stereotypes. Plenty of them, by the way, are highly educated knowledge workers (as a very large part of our workforce is) and, if they were inclined to read Larvatus Prodeo, would have no difficulty in comprehending what was posted on it and no difficulty in forming their own sound views on the different opinions that are expressed here. Plenty of them, though less educated, have had the benefit of our splendid (albeit not perfect) secondary education system and, as Gummo points out, don’t need to be talked down to in order to be communicated with.

“Their Light on the Hill is a nice sinecure in one of of our many legislative chambers followed by a lavish pension at the taxpayers’ expense”

That’s one of the many reasons I keep talking about Australia’s Two-Parties-One-Faction system. Hands up all those who can distinguish Labor from Liberal in mid-2007.

If Larvatus Prodeo can’t cater to an inclusive left site, meaning accessable to less educated people and your average unionist, do you know a site that can?

Don’t underestimate your average unionist.

If your vocabulary can cope with The Herald Sun and its relatives in other cities then there shouldn’t be too much here that’s outside your comprehension, once you’ve adjusted to the longer sentences and paragraphs.

<gratuitous snark>Buggered if I’m going to start writing down to people.</gratuitous snark>

Wow, those words. Yep hands up to being ’sentimental and politically naive’. I’m trying to push back my ignorance but I feel like a lot of what is said here doesn’t do that. If Larvatus Prodeo can’t cater to an inclusive left site, meaning accessable to less educated people and your average unionist, do you know a site that can?

Remember the left includes poor people too.

Well keeping me around as the collective’s token poor person obviously isn’t fooling Tim any.