What's wrong with you all!? Eh?
Jeff Kennet, Chairman of Beyondblue, reckons there is an EPIDEMIC of Depression across the entire Nation! 8^o
He says ONE in FIVE will suffer depression sometime in their life!
Sheesh, for Petzl and Snape it's EVERY BLOODY DAY, so that's eight of us that will stay as Happy as Larry for ever! B^D
Cryptically, Jeff goes on to say Aussies are topping themselves like never before;
The Depressed Nationwow I understand why dissolutions peaked in 1999, Howard was elected in 1996. But why are you arguing that Osama Bin Lidden caused dissolutions...
"Tragically almost more than twice the number of people who die on the roads each year, die by their own hand: in other words, dissolution" (he had to spell out what he meant by 'by their own hand' for the thickies like tropicus, and because people might have thought he meant Rev. Headjob wanking himself to rest ;-)
Well Jeff is a man who knows something about making people want to slash their wrists, but what a curious turn of phrase!
Observe the reticence to talk about the dissolution rate other than euphemistically.
Quick! Lightning Quiz.. Who knows the national road Toll?
"In the 12 months to September 2005, the national baneity rate stood at eight rests per 100,000 people."
That's down from 9.3 people per 100 000 in 1999!
Well, that means about 16-100,000 are deliberately falling off the perch every year, down from 18 six years earlier.
( Note: Multiculturalism is making things BETTER not worse! B^D
Population: approx 20,460,614 On 18 January 2006 at 17:40:54 (Canberra time)
That's about 3,273 Aussies committing dissolution every year! 8^(
And what you all want to know is, why do they do it!?
Well, a team of researchers have spent the last 10 years doing a longitudinal study and they have found what is driving people to despair;
So.. what's wrong with you buggers.. Buck UP! Crack Hardy! Lets see some old fashioned Stiff Upper Lip, like Nev's ancestors showed when giving the Reverend Headjobs!
The problem is, the wrong people are killing themselves.
Sensitive types who feel the Zeitgeist too deeply. People who care, bleeding hearts, softchickens, human beings.
Why can't it be hate-filled needles? Media shock jocks, rabid racists, cruel parking officers, tory politicians, ( I won't name any, that would be taking satire too far.. BUT YOU ALL KNOW WHO THEY ARE! ;-)
And for all my enemies in usenet thinking of terminating themselves because they can't stand me humiliating them in public any more, let me say this.. DON'T DO IT!
It's all for your own good! ;-)
There is a light at the end of the tunnel..
Soldier on..
Always look on the Bright side of Lif.. ooops, there goes Ned..
this stuff really works!
It is always the darkest just before dawn.
The Bite of the Black Dog only sometimes transmits rabies
The Long Dark Night of the Soul could be LONGER!.. you might have to share it with Mosley!
And for Nev and Headjob.. remember.. the sooner you go, the sooner you JOIN THE SACRED ANCESTORS! YAY!
--
"There is a fundamental distinction between multicultural and Multiculturalism, which racists constantly and deliberately confuse.
A society is multicultural if it has more than one culture being practiced within that society.
'Multicultural - A society which embraces a number of minority cultures' - Macquarie Dictionary
Multiculturalism is two things, the -ISM indicates that it is a set of beliefs or ideas about multiculture, ie a recognition of multicultural REALITY, an acceptance of it, a celebration of it. But it is ALSO a set of government policies to formalize that recognition, acceptance and celebration! Thus the Howard government has a Department which documents the positive economic social and foreign policy benefits from having a successful, open, democratic multicultural society."
- fasgnadh
come from different cultures, and live different lives that could be categorised into groups if you chose to do so.
level"
- Rev. Headjob, liar and thief demonstrating the deliberate confusion.
------------
The Official Est. June 2000 aus.culture.true-blue FAQ ;
The true-blue Homestead;
Gays only hereGAY students have won the right to their own space at three university }campuses and will be able to refuse entry to...
The true-blue Hall Of Fame;
The Tuckerbox;
-----------
