shark said...

pharro said...

Hey Diver
Judging by your Avatar (One of the most arrogant, self obsessed footy players ever) I wouldn't expect any other sort of response from you.

Does anyone even remember that the vote was previously taken and the answer was NO. It is getting a bit much that we are being asked for a fourth time about something that has been voted on before.

How many different versions of NO do you people need?

Spoken like a true idiot!

get a grip mate-no need to get snotty. Im sure it wont be the end of the world whichever way it goes tomorrow.
If its that important to you, then perhaps you should move to east coast to enjoy your beloved DLS.

Well said diver

Not gettin "snotty" shark.
Just sick of the arrogance of people saying "we already said No".
Does that mean the whole generation that weren't able to vote last time shouldn't get a say?
Whether it gets in or not I hope it (and many other issues) are discussed and voted on in future years, so we can continue to evolve and improve our way of life for the majority.
Or are those who said "No" before that wise that they know what is best for future generations.

whats the go i moved house 3 months ago and forgot to update my details i was told at the polling place the rules have changed and i couldnt vote not even a absentee vote how many other people got this??? my right to vote was taken away because of an adress not happy....

megsie said...

whats the go i moved house 3 months ago and forgot to update my details i was told at the polling place the rules have changed and i couldnt vote not even a absentee vote how many other people got this??? my right to vote was taken away because of an adress not happy....

thats not true, I was in the same situation but needed only sign a form (which they filled out on the spot) and voted.
Interestingly though 2 of the other officers present said what you said but the other (upon looking closer) corrected them.

They had a big pile of the forms on the desk.

The government just needs to grow some balls and bring in DLS wether we like it or not

Greenroom said...

The government just needs to grow some balls and bring in DLS wether we like it or not

Why??? the people have spoken!! Yet again!!

Just a few stats which may be of interest.

Taking the country portion out DLS, still would have gone down on Metro only.

Country
Total Voters: 300,170
Yes: 59,833
No: 150,238
Vote Counted: 69.98%
Variance in favour of No: 90,405


Metro areas which voted "Yes"
Total Voters: 529,814
Yes: 206,796
No: 174,189
Vote Counted: 71.91%
Variance in favour of No: -32,607
21 locations

Metro areas which voted "No"
Total Voters: 511,570
Yes: 159,902
No: 207,359
Vote Counted: 71.79%
Variance in favour of No: 47,457
21 locations


A bit of history

1975
Yes: 250,644
No: 290,179
Total Votes 540,823
Yes: 46.34%
No: 53.66%

1984
Yes: 329,536
No; 392,340
Total Votes: 721,876
Yes: 45.65%
No: 54.35%

1992
Yes: 399,441
No: 452,985
Total Vote: 852,426
Yes: 46.86%
No: 53.14%

2009
Yes: 426,531
No: 531786
Yes: 44.51%
No: 55.49%

This was my 4th DLS "experiment", and I've had to vote for 3 of them, my opinion hasn't changed over the years.

4 times in a row now the WA public has voted against DLS, the concept is not new, the people are not stupid, it's just the Majority of Western Australians don't want it.

The DLS crew reckon the "no" voters should be shipped of to Queensland, that does not make good comercial sense, it would be far cheaper to ship a bunch of whining "yes" voters to NSW and Vic as there is far less of them.

Flame Suit(s) on

Red Thumb til your little hearts are content if you want a scapegoat

About 30 thousand children a day die from starvation.
We spend about ten million dollars trying to work out whether we should get out of bed an hour earlier or not.
Can you imagine what God must think of us?
A state peopled by idiots and governed by fools

kiterdan said...

...when the dinosaurs die we'll get DLS!

Stop giving them cheap medication? Hurry up and die. The sooner the better

pooman said...

elbeau said...

About 30 thousand children a day die from starvation.
We spend about ten million dollars trying to work out whether we should get out of bed an hour earlier or not.
Can you imagine what God must think of us?
A state peopled by idiots and governed by fools

Yee who has never sinned...you must not be one "us" idiots then?

I live here too

kiterdan said...

I think it's fair to assume that a vast majority of younger people voted in favour of Daylight Savings.

However, we are a top-heavy country (WA included) - if you look at the age demographic, we're pretty old and getting older. From the people I've talked to, a majority of the older crew voted against Daylight Savings.

It follows that when the dinosaurs die we'll get DLS!

That's where you are wrong, one of the Pro DLS organisers said that had they made a mistake by only promoting DLS to the "Young crowd" as he put it, they thought that they would have it there because of them, but they miscalculated their liking of it.

What most people here fail to realize is that and I'm really say this but "windsurfing and Kitesurfing" are really minor minor sports in the grand scheme of things.

Here's a few groups of sports people who most likely didn't like DLS

*Surfers who surf before work, who lost an hour of water time (a personal favorite of mine as I love the true dawn patrol)
*Rowers who HAVE to train at first light to avoid wind but also the multitude of boats out on the water after 6am
*Joggers who job before work rather than the heat of the evening.
*Windsurfers and Kitesurfers on shift work, the Seabreeze doesn't come in any earlier with DLS but they have to get of the water an hour earlier to get to work.
*Scuba divers who enjoy night diving


Out of the people I know through work and play pro and con is spread fairly evenly across age groups.

But apart from that I believe that "Yes" voters attitude to the "No" voters most likely cost them dearly.

I'll be honest, I take the p1ss out of the pro argument, it was easy to do if i was bored, I do understand some of the business arguments and some of the recreational arguments, but what really makes me want to take the p1ss is the attitude.

If you don't like DLS you were either:
Old
Stupid
Retarded
A dinasaur
A woman
Anti Business
No life
Can't afford new curtains
A farmer
and many many more
or all of the above

I'll let you in on a little secret, the only people who really believe the curtains will fade are the "yes" voters, they're the ones who are constantly bringing it up.

I'll offer some more advise, if you want to sell something then sell it before the customer tries it, the best looking car in the world is the object of desire untill the punter drives it and discovers its a dog.

I'll offer some more sales advise, if you want to win people over to your side do it with proper argument rather than what I've posted above.

After 4 conclusive referendums
Thats
Four conclusive referendums
Thats
IV conclusive referendums
Thats
IIII conclusive referendums
Thats
2^2 conclusive referendums
Thats
3+1 conclusive referendums
Thats
one more than we needed conclusive referendums

and they reckon us "no" voters are thick

So....

Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet Are we there yet

Well I'm just so happy!
But then I'm just;
Old
Stupid
Retarded
A dinasaur
A woman (geez, hang on. That's not right. But then if i'm all the others I could just be confused on that one too.)
Anti Business
No life
Can't afford new curtains
A farmer
and many many more
or all of the above

Greenroom said...

Anyone who enjoys windsurfing and voted NO for DLS is fair dinkum one phuct up individual kook who cant windsurf in the first place to save their old, stupid, retarded, dinosaur licking sorry arse
Even if you can windsurf why wouldnt you help out your West Australian windsurfing mates out and vote YES? Huh?

Ahh my entry in Who's Who

Greenroom said...


Even if you can windsurf why wouldn't you help out your West Australian windsurfing mates out and vote YES? Huh?

I figured that if they were clever enough to vote "Yes" they would be clever enough to spell it, The WAEC did make allowances for the Yes voters who couldn't spell "Yes" by making a "Tick" acceptable but in reality that was stretch some of their capabilities.

It is unfortunate that although the right thing to do would be to help out the poor unfortunate Windsurfers and kiters who couldn't spell "Yes" or create a "tick" on a page, the WAEC frowns on people helping others fill in their vote forms no matter how sad and pathetic they look.

Mark _australia said...

Hmm. Elmo and Greenroom, 2 blokes who agree but can't admit it.

It's his natural surfing ability and youthful enthusiasm, I'm jealous (truly).

Agree with all your other comments there Mark.

If you don't like life in WA, far cough


and my final words on the vote

Nah nah na na nah

Yeah dude agree with all the above

but it really sh1ts me that as soon as you say you are voting NO you get the consdescending look from the chardonnay set who think you must be a curtain-fading dairy farmer hick retard (before anyone gets upset, read my post above)

well no problem now as we have voted NO 4 times, so there will be no more votes ever.
Just like extended shopping hours.
Ha farkin HA

As Elmo said elsewhere - time to get over it for another decade or so. Selfishly I think its a shame - for my WS and kids (more time to do things outside with them when i get home after work). Also think it would have helped the local WS/KS shops, with more people WS/KS more often. But thats life.

Whatever pharroh and others may think the vate has been taken

Can you understand NO

True idiot....

I would have taken the result whatever it was and depsite the footy team I follow. Only a true idot would confuse the two and bring them into the same arguement.