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For starters...

Swig when you hear*:

- Our internal polling

- Baseball bats

- Long night for the True Believers

- Sandbagging

- Firewall

- Labor heartland

- Abbot can/can't claim a mandate to...

- The people have spoken/the Australian people always get it right

Drink when:

- live cross to Bob Katter cut short because ranting

- Barnaby Joyce turns that particular shade of puce

- Clive Palmer blames the CIA

- Paul Howes appears on screen

- Cath McGowan defeats Sophie Mirabella

- Rudd concession ends in tears/booing

- Jaymes Diaz wins

Nudie run when:

- Jaymes Diaz falls short

- Rudd loses Griffith

*rigorous observance will get you totally obliterated by 8pm

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For starters...

Swig when you hear*:

- Our internal polling

- Baseball bats

- Long night for the True Believers

- Sandbagging

- Firewall

- Labor heartland

- Abbot can/can't claim a mandate to...

- The people have spoken/the Australian people always get it right

Drink when:

- live cross to Bob Katter cut short because ranting

- Barnaby Joyce turns that particular shade of puce

- Clive Palmer blames the CIA

- Paul Howes appears on screen

- Cath McGowan defeats Sophie Mirabella

- Rudd concession ends in tears/booing

- Jaymes Diaz wins

Nudie run when:

- Jaymes Diaz falls short

- Rudd loses Griffith

*rigorous observance will get you totally obliterated by 8pm

Or there is the simple version - drink when reminded that Eden Monaro is the bellwether seat or any variation of that. You might last a little longer than in Horza's version but probably not much.

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Haven't been on here for awhile, hope everyone is doing well!

Apparently my wife texted me yesterday about GRRM and Dinklage doing a talk at the wheeler centre in Melb in November but I didn't see it. Did anyone manage to get tickets? Any spares floating around out there?

Grrr! owell. I hope today isn't a bad things comes in threes day, no GRRM, Tony Abbott as PM, surely the third must be the apocalypse, which may actually be good considering the first two... hmmmm

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Dude rocked up at my polling station seriously expecting that there'd be someone handing out HEMP Party how-to-votes.

Also an actual, living, breathing WikiLeaks Party stall worker, so I got to (politely) tell him what he could do with his HTV guide.

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Did the dirty deed and voted, here in my blue ribbon seat of Bradfield.

It struck me that there seems to be a massive generational divide over this. All the statuses I see on facebook, the board here as well, twitter, whatnot...everything is talking about how terrible Tony Abbott is and how this is going to be a disaster with him as PM. Going by the technosphere, you'd have thought it was a landslide to Labor, and yet the Coalition is probably going to take this easily.

While that might be fun for them, the Coalition is going to have to appeal to younger voters at some point otherwise they're going to be electorally wiped out down the track (unless these young voters turn conservative later on, which is also possible).

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What really concerns me is that people are actually voting for the Palmer United Party. I just assumed they'd put there hat in the ring this time, then just slink away after not getting anywhere...

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Secondly, I considered voting below the line for the first time ever, but decided 62 was too many... :blushing:

No shit, same here. I haven't got all day. Just made sure who I voted for had labor above liberal in their preferences.

Looks like Big Ton' has won. Goodbye NBN. :bang:

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Queenslanders have voted in alarmingly large numbers for the PUP. Maybe they thought it was Micahel Clarke standing for election?

As a Queenslander I can neither confirm nor deny this. All I know is I didn't and no one around me is admitting to it.

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