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So I'm not a football fan but I am on the Socceroo's bandwagon and I am thoroughly impressed by SBS. The coverage and analysis has been excellent and its been better than some of the sports coverage on the other networks.

As I am watching this I can't help but wonder why this moron Pauline would want to get rid of the SBS. The world news show is also excellent and they have a lot of diverse programs. We need channels like SBS and ABC. Yeah I get that they aren't right wing propaganda channels but why is she so against SBS?

Does she not like it as its a channel which promotes diversity and multiculturalism?

One of my favourite shows, Wellington Paranormal is on SBS so Pauline better leave this channel the fuck alone.

So I have been watching with interest this 7-eleven saga which is appearing frequently on a current affair.

For those that haven't seen it, its worth watching. There have been numerous stories on it. Basically franchisees sign a 10 year agreement and generally pay a large sum to purchase the store. Anywhere from 400k to well over a million.

They have an expectation that they will get a new agreement once the 10 year period finishes. As the 10 year period comes close to ending 7-eleven advises them the agreement won't be renewed and they should sell the store.

The problem though is that while 7-eleven says to sell the store they won't accept any buyers that the franchisee finds and declines all. Once that 10 period is up they take over the store and pay the owner nothing.

There appears to be a lot of cases and they are all hard working families who now have lost everything.

No one would buy a franchise from them now as they have shown to be completely untrustworthy.

Aside from being immoral surely there is a good faith aspect to this where legally 7-Eleven has to do the right thing by the franchisees.
Do the franchisees have a case for court to get compensation?

As a Labor supporter I'm frustrated at some of the decision making that goes on by some of the MP's and the Labor party.
I have no doubt that after the last election; Labor got a bit complacent and arrogant due to the arse kicking the Libs took.

The CGT decision had to be made at some point, it was never going to be a long term policy. Albo should never have said openly that it wasn't going to be changed. I think a lot of people aren't pissed at the changes, but pissed that their prime minister lied about it over and over again. The whole lying thing is going on repeat on sky news and its fucken annoying.

You have politicians like Annika Wells wasting tax payers money and then using technicalities to get around it. How stupid is she? She actually thought it was ok to make her driver wait for seven hours while she was at the Australian Open and then billed us the tax payers over $1000 for it. The level of entitlement is fucken astonishing.

Its about time Albo you represented us, the people. Not the corporates. We don't want or need Pauline Hanson as the next prime minister so stop fucking around and do your job so it doesn't happen.

Rant over

This movie is a fucken emotional roller coaster. I cried numerous times, laughed and then cried a little more.

Sure, the script gets a bit formulaic at times and you can tell where its going but its an excellent movie and in my opinion is probably the romance movie of 2026.
The casting is excellent and the pace of the movie is good. It doesn't drag at any point.
Nick Offerman is entertaining as the chef and Zoey Deutch was excellent in the lead role.

Its definitely worth the watch.

I honestly don't understand why people think Pauline Hanson has a chance at winning. With Barnaby Joyce and David Farley they have two seats. Pauline would need to sit for a seat and win, and they would need to win 76 seats.
There is no fucken way that would ever happen.

A possible option would be they form a coalition with the Libs and Nationals. I can't see One Nation taking seats from Labor though and any seats they do take would probably come from the Libs or Nationals anyway. They will only get seats in either regional area's or QLD.

That cunt Gina might dump millions into the ON campaign but I still think they have fuck all chance of coming close to winning.

The only people who are saying that she has a chance is the media and some bullshit poll which they probably funded anyway.

Love the Collector and the Collection and have been waiting for the third movie for years. Every time I check I always see them saying its in production or its coming soon. It's been in development for over a decade.

Will this movie ever come out or has everyone involved in the original movies just moved on?

As a Labor supporter I am torn with Albo. He had the opportunity to do something for the good of the people in Australia, more notably - children. I'm specifically referring to gambling reform and removing gambling advertising from tv.

Both he and Anika Wells are gutless in this regard. Cowards to take on the gambling industry and instead listening to that grub Peter V'landys and betting companies. I guess its no surprise though when Sportsbet were making donations to Labor MP's

When they banned smoking advertising I have no doubt the smoking industry complained. Cigarettes are still around. Sports still survived without cigarette sponsorships.

Last I heard, we the voters put Labor in power - Not Peter V or Sportsbet.

When I watch the footy with my kids it annoys me that its thrown down their throat.

It would be nice if they fucken listened to 80% of the Australian population and did what we want rather big business.

So as a child I loved He-man and have seen the Dolph/Courtney Cox 80's rendition a couple of times. Its a bit of a guilty pleasure.

I've seen the trailer for the new movie which comes out in the couple of weeks and I'm not overly enthusiastic about it. Jared Leto and Alison Brie look like a good pair but I'm not sold on Nicholas Galitzine as He-man.

What's everyone's thoughts on it?

Just out of curiosity - where are all the scrubs who participated in the protests during COVID now?
You couldn't find a more ill informed, idiotic group of people and to be honest they are a fucken embarrassment to New Zealand.

We know that the majority are all on the dole and are bludgers but for those that aren't - do you still have the same idiotic views now? Are you still as selfish as you were a few years ago? I have no doubt that its probably the same bunch who follow Brian Tamaki - who we all know is nothing more than a oxygen thief.

The opening hook in this song is sublime. I honestly can't find a flaw in Dakota - it's one of my favourite rock songs of all time and every time I hear it I just switch off and think back years gone by.

I get that we all have different tastes and preferences but what is everyone else's thoughts on this song?

So I enjoyed Greenland - the original, the storyline wasn't bad. I liked the idea that random citizens were chosen to survive and it wasn't just the rich like in 2012.

The special effects were decent and it showed some of the chaos that would happen if we heard that the world was going to end.

I thought in Greenland 2 the storyline was a complete cluster fuck and was complete garbage. I didn't even know there was a sequel until I saw it on a streaming service and for me it goes down as one of the worst sequels of the year.

As a Chocolate enthusiast and someone who hates Coffee (yeah yeah I know) I am always on the look out for a top notch Hot Chocolate. For me so far that award goes to Max Brenner. At $9 for a regular its a little pricey but it gets the taste buds ringing.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a decent hot chocco?