PM Builds on landslide as Shorten remains faceless.

[silverfaun]

Will Bill Shorten ever shake off the "faceless man" epithet that has dogged him all his political life? Will he be able to garner affection so important to a politician?

What is his X Factor? what can he do the emerge from the isolation he has put himself in since gaining the leadership of the OPP party. Nobody's seen him, where is he? what's his excuse for not putting himself out there for the public to see just what kind of a man he is & what values he can impart to the people who did not vote for him but are hugely important to him if he wants to be a viable Opp Leader.

Waiting until Parliament resumes must be a daunting thought for him as he doesn't have the chutzpah & likeable personna of Albanese. Albanese who is no longer leader of Opp business, what's that all about? getting rid of one of the most successful operators Labor had & putting a woman in as deputy regardless that she nearly lost her seat because of her constant verballing of doomsday events Tony Abbott would visit on us if he got in.

Prime Minister Abbott won't take long to get his measure, after all, he got Gillard's & Rudd's, they had no defence against him other than a disgraceful gender war that was so desperate it may have cheered the sisterhood but never came near lifting her popularity and people had gone off Rudd redux.

Then we were subjected to poor Rudd, a damaged man, manic & autocratic that was so transparent voters repudiated him in droves. Rudd, the man Shorten removed from the Prime Ministership & then expecting voters to trust him after he destroyed Gillard's Prime Ministership. This is a man with no moral fibre, another man whom his own colleagues don't like & call him names & deride him behind his back.

Are we going to be treated to an Opposition that is dysfunctional & chaotic like they were in government? time will tell, they haven't looked at any of the reasons they failed as yet, they haven't faced up to the reasons they failed as far as we can see. If they don't have an in depth review of themselves they are doomed to keep making the decisions that has seen them reduced to little more than a rump.

TONY Abbott, once mocked by Labor as "unelectable", is now preferred as prime minister by nearly half of voters.

Bill Shorten, dubbed a "faceless man" after the political knifing of Kevin Rudd in 2010, remains just that: a faceless man.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/pm-gaining-as-shorten-remains-faceless/stor...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-builds-on-election-landslide-newspoll/s...

[twinkles**stars]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

He must be 1.7m then because 1.8 is over 5'10.

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what tape measure are you using? 1.8 = 70 and 3/4 inches = nearly 5'11" or 5.9 feet

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The one that is says 1.8m is over 5'10. 

Decimal points are not used in imperial measurements.

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Yes decimal points can be used. They are often used actually when converting from metric back to imperial

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Why did you question what tape measure I used?

How is over 5'10 different that under 5'11?

Or why is it worth you arguing over it would be more to the point?

Never have I ever seen decimal and imperial measurments combined.  I think you would end up with errors in calculation by mixing the two.  I was always taught they don't mix.  We never say 1.8 feet, .75 of an inch or 1.78 pound.  

Where is this often to which you refer?

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wow....how was I seen to be arguing? You do know some of the cheaper tape measures are not accurate don't you? We have a batch at work once that were way off, caused all sort of dramas.

Over and out!

[jethro_woolfe]

I'd agree with all of that. the use of the french makes you seem a bright person too.

[freakiness]

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@poddster wrote:

Now hat is really backward thinking. A decimal point can be used in ANY numerical expression even Imperial. Have you ever heard if the unit of measure for 1/1000 inch as a "thou"?

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We are not talking about 1/1000 of an inch. In case you didn't notice the conversation was about 1.8m being over 5'10. We don't mix metres and feet or kilos and ounces was the point.  Pre metric conversion we used imperial measurements with fractions rather than decimal points.

[freakiness]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

He must be 1.7m then because 1.8 is over 5'10.

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what tape measure are you using? 1.8 = 70 and 3/4 inches = nearly 5'11" or 5.9 feet

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wow....how was I seen to be arguing? You do know some of the cheaper tape measures are not accurate don't you? We have a batch at work once that were way off, caused all sort of dramas.

Over and out!

What was that for then?  

What is the differecnce between over 5'10 and under 5'11?

Why the need to question the measurement? Looks like it was just to be petty.

[jethro_woolfe]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Now hat is really backward thinking. A decimal point can be used in ANY numerical expression even Imperial. Have you ever heard if the unit of measure for 1/1000 inch as a "thou"?

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We are not talking about 1/1000 of an inch. In case you didn't notice the conversation was about 1.8m being over 5'10. We don't mix metres and feet or kilos and ounces was the point.  Pre metric conversion we used imperial measurements with fractions rather than decimal points.

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There is a concerted push to return to imperial measurements. metrics come out of Europe, like all degenerate methodology.

[poddster]

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@freakiness wrote:

 

Decimal points are not used in imperial measurements.

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I was referring to this part of your affirmation disproving your statement

So if decimal points are not used in in imperial measurement what is the unit of measure for a 1,000th of an inch ?

[poddster]

Metrics are in fact historically Arabic, and to use your words they are the methods of the middle east, is that good or bad?

[twinkles**stars]

Lighten up freakie....why take everything so personally? ♥

[jethro_woolfe]

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@poddster wrote:

Metrics are in fact historically Arabic, and to use your words they are the methods of the middle east, is that good or bad?

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 That would have to be worse than i feared then. did the arabs invent modern numeracy ? i read they had some kind of civilization once.

[***super_nova***]

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@jethro_woolfe wrote:

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  Napoleon was short in stature, but a giant among men .

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Actually, that was the Brits' spin, Napoleon was not short for the times he lived in.