I stand corrected!

It really is a dead ringer for the fez-wearing meerkat from one of the adverts.

I'll see if I can find it. Edit: Nope, couldn't find it. Pretty sure it was one of the first Australian ones with Alexandr. I mostly found English compare the meerkat ads on yt.

It's from a dead ringer for an Australian advertising campaign "compare the market" by Youi insurance. They started the campaign with "compare the Meerkat", then switched to compare the market.

https://www.comparethemeerkat.com.au/

Make sure you check out the "compare the meerkats" link on that page

/giggle

To add some extra context, the 1 in 20 reply was after an Australian minister in the current government said we were wrong to support Lebanese immigration back in the 70's because of 27 some odds 'accused of terrorist support' types in modern Australia. Someone fired back the 1 in 20 statistic to poke holes in what has been a generally good thing for Australia, ie. integration of other cultures.

The rhetoric from the minister dried up pretty fast, because the figures were so awfully unbalanced that no sane person could try to continue to make the point without making a complete fool of themselves. Trump obviously doesn't have that problem (well, doesn't seem to care if he does make a bigger horses ass of himself).

Not that I support one or the other side of this retarded argument...

But in Aus, something like 1 in 3000 Australians of Lebanese descent were accused (not convicted) of being involved in terrorist planning/actions etc. And Australians lost their shit about it.

1 in 20 of Australian Catholic clergy have been convicted of child molestation, which closely matches a US study of 107,000 clergy turning up 1 in 24 odd. No one seemed particularly perturbed...

Pro tip: The west is more concerned about muslims/arabic types because they're brown and strange (to us), even though your child is far more likely to be molested by a pedo than he/she is to be killed in a terror attack. Though I hate using it, seems like a "won't some one think of the children moment".

Hrm, wonder if you can deport catholics back to the Vatican...

So good. *blocked but copy the Youtube URL into proxfree.com for all your Canadian/Australian/UK viewing pleasure.

Any Australians have anything to say regarding this situation?

"Which is grouse" Anyone know what that means?
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Australia word meaning wonderful, amazing, awesome, great, fantastic,etc. -Urban Dictionary

Just Australian Things...

Aaah good old East Texas etiquette.... Oh he said Australian .... Never mind then....... I've said to much.....

Sad, sad, conspiracy theory fail. Logic does not work at all. Why are these guys so often Australian? I don't get the connection there.

I've not watched the movie yet, so perhaps this is addressed there, but I am kinda suspicious of guilt offset schemes.

Also, the websites estimates an Australian's carbon footprint is about 50 times that of a Brit...wtf are they doing down there?

Yeah, this is way to short to cover the topic.

Freedom / choice is worth considering but people need to treat home buying as an investment because it is often the biggest single investment they ever make. Buy low and sell high. Putting that out of your mind because you're planning to never sell is a huge mistake. You would think that other countries would have learnt the lessons of the US, but housing markets in places like Canada, Australia, big Chinese cities are just waiting to pop. The mantra of 'house prices always rise' continues.

The most obvious measure broadly is price to median incomes. Here in Sydney (and some of the other Australian capitals) it's at eye watering levels. Buying a house here right now is basically banking on preferential tax treatment (in our case, called negative gearing), restricted supply continuing forever (the main driver of house prices by the way), and heroic increases in income to forestall the inevitability of prices simply becoming unaffordable.

It's gotten to the point here where lenders are asking home buyers (who want a loan to value ratio of over 80%!) to pay so-called lender's mortgage insurance (LMI) which adds a substantial amount to their loan and guarantees the bank (not the home buyer) if the borrower defaults. The insurance company who issued the insurance contract then goes after the defaulted home buyer to recoup the payout to the bank:

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/09/7-30-report-lenders-mortgage-insurance/

From what I understand there is still plenty of reasonably priced property in the US (in some cities) but even there you have plenty of places that have become ridiculously overpriced.

Yeah, our South Australian office (along with the entire state!!!) lost power at 15:30 yesterday (their time, 4pm our time) and we're only just restarting their systems now.

My South Australian colleague had to walk up 10 flights of stairs this morning because the lifts weren't working yet (they fixed them just after).

Like calling themselves One Nation but understanding that to mean only white Australians?

And he's a member of the Australian parliament with views that represent a significant minority of racist Australians. Views that are not particularly dissimilar to the mainstream racist majority who support the Liberals and Labor.