"Are gay people people? y/n": The Australian Marriage Equality Voluntary Postal Survey Thread

Think Akron, with Parrots and worse traffic.

lol

61% is lower than I'dve expected/liked

given bigots lied wholesale and some major religious orgs actively instructed their people to oppose it, it’s a pretty good result tbh. but yes, it should have been 100%.

And still that fundamental obscenity which is a governmentally endorsed vote by the community on whether to magnanimously grant a basic human right to a long-repressed and ostracised minority.

yes

otm. turnbull will try to lap up praise but i honestly don’t think he knows what’s about to hit him.

the ugly attempted conversion of 'yes' to 'yes but'

90% of olds in my electorate voted yes fk yeah oldies

one big positive from today is that the electorates/states of a lot of the strongest LNP homophobes (Abbott, Andrews, Christensen, Abetz, Morrison et al) all came back with a majority yes

take the small victories y'all. I'm very happy about this news!

also I thought you were joking about a place called "blaxland" but ok nope

I reside in Batman, electorate-wise. I'm not sure how the names of electorates get decided but they aren't geographic.

mine is Corangamite

which is very nasty on toast

I'm in Mayo

hahah!

Nasty-on-Toast sounds like a village in Discworld

Tombot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Blaxland

I live in More More Moreland so I cant talk

Blaxland might be the name of an explorer, but Blacktown well and truly exists (and probably voted no). And was literally named thus because it was where "the blacks" lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown

shhhh dont tell them about Coon cheese.

somewhat ironically, or perhaps appropriately, whenever you guys teach me a new Australian place name that happens to look like it might be a spondee (two stressed syllables, i.e. sunshine, doorway), I hear it in my head to the tune of the Shopkins theme.

Blaxland, blaxland!
Blacktown, Blacktown!
etc.

wow, in three posts i've lost the train of this thread

On the other hand, we do have a popular ice cream called Golden Gaytime

you made that up

Slogan: you can't have a Gaytime on your own

http://www.streetsicecream.com.au/Brand/Golden_Gaytime.aspx

It is both true and delicious.

they are delicious! but don't buy them this summer as they're manufactured by streets, who are cutting workers' wages by ~46%

they are v good i concur

what are your most missed local foodstuffs, vg?

never in my wildest dreams did I think my home state (Queensland) would nearly match Victoria/Tasmania - and this from the only state where more people live outside the capital than in it!

I grew up in what's now in the electorate of Brisbane itself and so stoked that it nearly had as high a yes vote as Sydney and Melbourne!

i know, i’m surprised at how well the gold coast has supported it, it’s very heartening.

"Number of dickheads in Australia slumps below 5 million" http://www.chaser.com.au/national/abs/

my electorate was fifth highest Yes vote in the country, whoo

we’re at the melbourne street party and we’ve seen one person we know

I remain a bit baffled how the outer suburban Adelaide electorate that I grew up in got more of a Yes vote than the inner suburban Sydney electorate that I live in now.

forever lol at the 75% Yes vote in Warringah, suck on that onion boy

melbourne ports, third biggest yes in the country 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

emojis on ilx, i know, i don’t care today

🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

b-b-b-b-but no campaign's fee fees

many xxposts to estela

missed foodstuffs:
burger rings
chicken twisties
plain old pork sausages
chips & gravy
sausage rolls
souvlaki/greek food*
indian*

* i can get them here but they’re not as good nor as ubiquitous

i also really miss salad rolls - sandwiches here have ridic amounts of meat & beetroot is not a common filling ;_;

also this is kinda embarrassing but god i miss cabana
... and strasbourg + tomato sauce sandwiches

LAMB

i miss lamb. it’s SO expensive here

sorry for sidetrack

back to ballot talk

beyond deflating hearing the barrage of calls to sbs mandarin radio claiming same-sex attraction is “sick” and “abnormal”

i’m in no way a “fuck off we’re full” type, but seriously why the fuck did you move here

xp to vg: i am impressed that your list is not a compendium of sugar forms like my australian list would be, like my nz list is

i was trying to cloak my sugar cravings by listing savory items

sugar:
jelly babies
snakes alive
fruit tingles
freckles
etc etc

i also really miss those small-town homemade baked goodies sold at sunday markets, like yo-yos made by a little old lady etc

for that reason i am making my family jelly slice for Thansgiving dessert this year (may or may not be served glad-wrapped on a styrofoam tray lol)

rank a packet of Assorted Creams veg

kingston
monte carlo
orange
shortbread
chocolate