The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

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.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0bvyZMrZ9k/TKKupLtlvTI/AAAAAAAAFrA/9WOHtLdZkZ8/s1600/carrey_dumber.jpg

"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

Once I was told "he's old, you should make allowances for him" in defence of a homophobe, i.e. I should get off his case so that he can prejudicially get on someone else's

xxp hypocrite doesn't sum up the whole logic trail well enough imo

http://delimiter.com.au/2011/08/30/wikileaks-cable-outs-secret-iitrial-background/

- MPAA in America orchestrated the action against iiNet, wanted that fact to remain a secret
- MPAA hassled Conroy directly (again in secret)

omg this bit

The US Embassy, according to the document, noted that Australia had “very high rates of illegal movie and television show downloads”, in part because of “the sometimes long gaps between their release in the US and their arrival in Australian theaters or on local television”.

This stuff doesnt seem to be news, is whats weird to me, I'm not sure what I am missing.

“AFACT and MPAA worked hard to get Village Roadshow and the Seven Network to agree to be the public Australian faces on the case to make it clear there are Australian equities at stake, and this isn’t just Hollywood “bullying some poor little Australian ISP,” the cable quoted the US Embassy as writing.

iiNet, the cable claimed, had been targeted because the ISP was “big enough to be important”, as the third-largest ISP in Australia. The MPAA didn’t go after Telstra, the cable claimed, because the telco was “the big guns” and had “the financial resources and demonstrated willingness to fight hard and dirty, in court and out”. In addition, iiNet users had a particularly high copyright violation rate, the cable claimed, and its management had been “consistently unhelpful on copyright infringements”.

This was already a known thing? Certainly at least the supposed situation, as I had always read it.

(partic the "dont pick on T because they got too mucn clout" bit)

Yeah the reason for singling out ii was always pretty obvious but it's the other stuff, mainly (a) MPAA wanted desperately to be the secret overlord in all this (b) MPAA had to nag VR & 7 to be its sockpuppets and cop the flak publicly

of course the cover's blown now so

What amazes me most about all this is that corporate action is almost always emotionless and soulless, i.e. legal action proceeds, everyone works through it professionally and without real emotive anger, but the MPAA seems to actually chuck tanties, probably because it knows its business model is dying and the people at the top (i.e. not the law firms) are in a constant and escalating state of reactionary panic.