Did you know that according to Jeff Kennett (former Premier of Victoria,
Australia) more Australians commit suicide than die in auto accidents each
year? Is living in Australia THAT miserable???

Steve C.

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:54:01 -0800, "Esteban Cordoba"
> wrote:

>Did you know that according to Jeff Kennett (former Premier of Victoria,
>Australia) more Australians commit suicide than die in auto accidents each
>year? Is living in Australia THAT miserable???

If that's true- then we should all be studying their driving habits to
see why they are so safe. [maybe just because of a low
cars-per-square-mile ratio?]

Om's link is real eye-opener. Heck Oz ranks lower than Canada. [and
the US, Ireland, NZ. . . . . and all of the godforsaken areas of the
world]

Jim

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:03:39 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

> Please bother to post cites when you post bull fertilizer please...

Trolls don't do that. They just throw BS out and see who bites.

Have you noticed an increase in non-cross-posted trolling since that
nice person came in and asked us if x-posted messages were okay here?
Looks like there's new software that will multi-post for them now. No
good deed goes unpunished!

--

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

Il 27/11/2010 12:03, Omelet ha scritto:

>> Did you know that according to Jeff Kennett (former Premier of Victoria,
>> Australia) more Australians commit suicide than die in auto accidents each
>> year? Is living in Australia THAT miserable???

> Australia didn't even make the cut:
> <http://chartsbin.com/view/prm>
>
> Please bother to post cites when you post bull fertilizer please...

I thougth that Japan would rank highest. Just another urban legend
--
Vilco
And the Family Stone
Scartati 'sta banana

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:54:01 -0800, Esteban Cordoba wrote:

> Did you know that according to Jeff Kennett (former Premier of Victoria,
> Australia) more Australians commit suicide than die in auto accidents each
> year? Is living in Australia THAT miserable???

And of those Australians who die in auto accidents, 15% were
planning on committing suicide VIA vehicle anyway.

Here in Austin we do it much dramatically.

-sw

On Nov 27, 2:54*am, "Esteban Cordoba" > wrote:
> Did you know that according to Jeff Kennett (former Premier of Victoria,
> Australia) more Australians commit suicide than die in auto accidents each
> year? Is living in Australia THAT miserable???
>

White Australians are annually encouraged to regret what their
forebears did to the Abos, which casts many into suicidal depression.

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:59:53 +0100, ViLco wrote:

> I thougth that Japan would rank highest. Just another urban legend

China is pretty high up there in female suicides. Rural Chinese
women like to drink fertilizer and pesticides. It's a new fad.

-sw

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:59:53 +0100, ViLco wrote:
>
>> I thougth that Japan would rank highest. Just another urban legend
>
> China is pretty high up there in female suicides. Rural Chinese
> women like to drink fertilizer and pesticides. It's a new fad.
>
> -sw

Hmmm. Dunno when or how this twist in the topic started, but I
gather the "accidents" on the Japanese rail system are generally
people committing suicide by train. That little tidbit is left
out of the terser announcements in English.

--
Jean B.

sf wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:03:39 -0600, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
>> Please bother to post cites when you post bull fertilizer please...
>
> Trolls don't do that. They just throw BS out and see who bites.

The post you've quoted from "Omelet" does not exist on my server. Perhaps
the sender is blacklisted?

At any rate I do not have an online source for the datum in question.
(Contrary to what some seem to believe, there is a great deal of information
which is not on the Internet!) During Jeff Kennett's speech at the Business
Chamber Annual Business Awards ceremony in Sydney on November 26th of this
year, he stated that more people commit suicide every year than die in auto
accidents in Australia. By writing "according to Jeff Kennett" I intimated
as much in my first post to this thread. If you can find a transcript of
that speech somewhere you can verify for yourself, otherwise you'll have to
dig into the records to find the annual number of auto accident fatalities,
the annual number of suicides, and compare the two numbers. I should point
out that Australia's figures for the number of suicides is questionably low,
because many suicides are listed as accidents. I do have a cite for that,
from Mr. Kennett's organisation:
http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=9.856

Steve C.