The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

hold up now

Back In Black Shiraz, Highway To Hell Cabernet Sauvignon and You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato are just some of the varieties that will be available.

they're not even doing a Whole Lotta Rosé? barefaced cheek imo

=D

"Roundabouts. Roundabouts represent freedom. Roundabouts represent democracy at its finest."

Somebody build a statue of Tony Abbott in the middle of a Canberra roundabout with the above inscribed at the base.

I AM SO ANGRY

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RU70gj9nUYI/TkpnjXW5erI/AAAAAAAAAB4/x7hSD5VCLnw/s321/Picture%2B4.png

loooooooool

So today there was this entitlement rally and a pro-marriage rally (as opposed to the same-sex marriage rallies which, um, are also pro-marriage).

Holy shit, you all really aren't kidding about the Bolshevik traffic lights, are you?

Me: "Young Talent Time is coming back"
Wife: "Isn't that just a farm for paedophiles?"

The worst thing about the traffic light article is that the picture's just an excuse to use the 'are for the birds' line, and it's not even a picture of anywhere in Australia!

I thought those birds looked rather gray for Australian avian standards.

Top-of-the-line Panasonic electric shaver

Shaver Shop: $550
Amazon US (including shipping & plug converter): $211

btw I checked locally, couldn't find anyone doing a SIXTY ONE PERCENT OFF sale

How is there not an Amazon.com.au yet?

nfi (although we are getting Kindles at local retail in a couple of weeks)

CONVOY OF NO EDUCATION CONFIDENCE

"WE'RE SO ANGRY THAT WE'RE GONNA DROIVE TRUCKS"

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/honk-if-you-want-a-new-government-truck-convoy-calls-for-poll-20110821-1j4ul.html

Pointing at the flags flying from vehicles in his convoy, he said many Australians had fought and died under the flag to defend freedom, but "this communist government is taking it away from us". Numerous protesters standing nearby nodded agreement.

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"Thousands" of trucks were expected to storm Canberra but only 200 showed up because there's not enough parking. In other news Libya uprising aborted because there's nowhere in Tripoli to sit down.

da shittest branded flashmobz

Keeping up another great Aussie tradition: http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/blackface-red-faces-20110828-1jgqw.html

Jesus.

QANTAS: Putting the 'b' in "Samo" since 2011.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/correction/story-fn6nj4ny-1226124242214

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/29/milne/
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2011/08/30/the-most-read-political-blog-in-australia/

lollllllll

"the Southbank Jester"

biggest shock on this article was that fat violent drunkREDACTED glenn milne was actually back on staff at the oz

Oh good, it wasn't just me who was surprised by that.

i prefer 'southbank typist', i must say

when bias is good

Attempts to contact Milne - who in 2006 famously pushed fellow journalist Stephen Mayne off the stage at the Walkley awards - failed.

fucken melbourne

Country         City          Rank   Overall Rating (100=ideal)
Australia       Melbourne     1      97.5
Austria         Vienna        2      97.4
Canada          Vancouver     3      97.3
Canada          Toronto       4      97.2
Canada          Calgary       5      96.6
Australia       Sydney        6      96.1
Finland         Helsinki      7      96.0
Australia       Perth         8      95.9
Australia       Adelaide      8      95.9
New Zealand     Auckland     10      95.7

Well, there goes the rent again.

Adelaide can gain that 0.1 on Helsinki if they can get Tuomas to be a guest lecturer in Women's Studies at Flinders University.

I'm up for going back to uni to study women with Tuomas

Would you study women in front of a baby?

it's ok though because our airlines are now less safe

Yeah wtf whatever happened to "qantas is the only airline with a flawless saftey record"?

And since when were UNITED so safe, havent they gone sliding into the Potomac on numerous occasions?

(not to mention erm, the obvious)

Read something last night about Vic Police now having the power to remove burqas without permission. Haven't seen it in any local press for some reason. You lot heard anything?

heard some blah-de-blah on teh bus yesterday, but it was neil mitchell show so i didn't actually listen

Saw it on page 11 of the 29 August edition of this (10mb pdf), nfi why it got bugger-all coverage here or even a ~twitter backlash~

This came up a while ago, it was in the news. I dont think it ever became an power but was raised as a possibility or discussion point.

I remember this because someone was talking about it on FB - Nicks gf I think - and she had some idiotic friends going on about "fuckin islams shouldnt wear that shit we make people take off their helmets in banks" and I got into an argument with this dickwipe and told him he was making no sense (his spelling and grammar was UNREADABLE) and some ladyfriend of his waded in and abused me for picking on him for being dumb.

aaaaaaahahahaha

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is what im sayin im not bein racist or religist lol but some things should be kept at home

I like the idea "religist" is a thing.

loooooooooooooooooooooooool

On that, I want a name or single-word phrase that describes people who do this, in this order:

1. argue against the rights of a perceived minority (e.g. gays should not be allowed to marry)
2. when challenged, complain that they are the victim of prejudice

i.e. they demand the right to take away other people's rights

So anyway yeah, has that changed? I doubt we'd let cops just rip one from a woman's head wholesale, but I can kind of see where "please show me your face" might be a reasonable request from an authority figure - we were allowed to do so at the passport office iirc

hypocrite? xpost