What song are you listening to?

[happy_tiger]

Yeah gambling addiction is brutal.

It's the only addiction that makes you think doing more of it is the way out.

Those bastard machines are designed to addict you. It's criminal really. At least with drugs you have fun. With gambling and pokies in particular you're just feeding a machine money for the most part.

Yeah it's the buzz of winning that's the addiction

 

[innsaneink]

@happy_tiger

 

[happy_tiger]

@happy_tiger

Many years ago , I saw a boxing troupe up at the Atherton Show
I always thought it was Jimmy Sharmans until recently finding out that it finished in the early 70s due to the laws banning boxers from fighting weekly and this was 1978
My only guess it was Fred Brophys ...but wasn't able to find out when Brophys started exactly
Wiki says about 1977 ...no exact date

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Seen Gary Numan in Sydney in the 80's, odd ball group but the drummer was out of this world, still going strong today.

 

[Merlot]

Angels - shadow boxer

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

 

[Leck]

Dont know what bungers cost these days, the legit ones at Coles or Woolies...been about 24 years since I quit thankfully

I used to work with a lady who would walk out every 30-45 minutes for a smoke, so I asked her one day how much cigarettes cost. She told me they had gone up to over $50 a pack 😵, but she had found a tobacco store that sold her Chinese imported cigarettes for half the price.

With all the tobacco wars going on in Melbourne, you can see how lucrative that industry is.

 

[Leck]

@happy_tiger

Great band. However in my opinion, Peter made a major mistake by going into politics. He was always Labor left, but I think he went too far with his own agenda. The Pink Batts scheme in 2009 is an example.

What a mess. Four young tradies lost their lives due to the rush to meet installation quotas with almost no safety rules. Then there was the cover up by the Rudd government in 2014.

 

[NewyTiger]

Not listening to these.

 

[Dr_Ice]

Great band. However in my opinion, Peter made a major mistake by going into politics. He was always Labor left, but I think he went too far with his own agenda. The Pink Batts scheme in 2009 is an example.

What a mess. Four young tradies lost their lives due to the rush to meet installation quotas with almost no safety rules. Then there was the cover up by the Rudd government in 2014.

The band had quite a lot of political songs

 

[Leck]

The band had quite a lot of political songs

Absolutely. However, Peter should have kept doing what he did best, singing about it.

He made some major gaffes as a minister. The green loans scheme, supporting Rudd's backstabbing of Kim Beazley, telling Steve Price that Labor would flip on its policies after re-election, and reversing his position on core issues that he had opposed while at Midnight Oil.

But perhaps the worst was the chapter in his biography where he stated that a gambling lobbyist handed him an envelope full of cash during the 2004 campaign. They threatened to sue him, so he retracted the claim and admitted that he had misremembered the event, clarifying that it was actually a standard campaign cheque made out to his electorate council.

This old time saying still rings true: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”