The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

She started this in 2007

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s-dogg was a celebrity rooter on that show if i'm not mistaken!!!

Wait, wat?

52 weeks a year requires the celebrity barrel to have a deep bottom

so to speak

fnarr

poor s-dogg, has no recourse until he wakes up

Im still confused, are we to infer he slept with mizz 'ardee?

uh?

s——— had a steamy affair with ilx user mh y/n

o hai

i could clear this up, and yet, lol.

I realise theres been some major misread here but its what it looks like to me hahaha. NFI what any of this actually is about.

btw, borrowed the most recent Quarterly Essay from the library yesterday--if you feel like a comprehensive 120-page takedown of the Oz, this is the magazine for you

I bought it and forgot to read it

I'm in this weird place now where the only books I ever take anywhere with me are text books. Everything else is an ebook or I just don't get around to reading it.

I found myself tempted with the idea of a kindle t'other day. Only ive heard the prices of kindlebookx on amazon isnt any cheaper than real books?

Depends on the book. I bought the Jobs bio ebook for $9.80 off Amazon; paper version is $12 posted from bookdepository.com and $45 at a Dymocks shop. Then you have ebooks that are easily 40% more expensive than the best paperback price, and some books aren't even (officially) available as ebooks.

otoh there are loads and loads of really good authors who publish ebooks exclusively, usually at somewhere around US$5.

I was sold when we went away in June, I chucked about 12 books into my suitcase and ended up reading the Kindle all week because it was easier to hold. You wouldn't think tech could do books better than books, but there you go.

One thing I've found is that with access to a uni library (I rejoined my old one for $50 a year) you can get access to heaps and heaps of magazines free in electronic form, download them as PDFs or HTML, convert to ebook form with Calibre. It's how I read the QE, for example.

the walking kangaroo

That's a joke, Joyce.

Ha. Its interestng, this shit has resulted in ppl I know who never comment on current affairs, doing so for the qantas thing. I guess grounding a major airline is pretty big bikkies.

Most ppl I see are kind of against the union action, tho? I'm in 2 minds.

like everyone loves to hate unions, but they get the shit achieved we all take for granted like 8 hour days and etc?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/cameron-launches-attack-on-news-ltd/3616902

murdoch press controlling politics, again

When Speaker Harry Jenkins told him to return to the motion's subject matter, Mr Pyne complained of government interjections.

Mr Jenkins told him not to be a "precious petal".

Geez, Rudd looks a look like Kim Kardashian these days. Must be a great salon he goes to.

this carbon tax will bankrupt us all!!1one

people at work complaining about this before, ohhh nooo our power bills will skyrocket by 4% etc

(same people will probably chuck $65k into a bmw)

looking forward to seeing the murdoch press carry on tomorrow

as opposed to oh about 100% since they privatised state-owned power companies

on the topic of marieke hardy, this is perhaps the best blog post i have seen all century: http://mariekehardy.com/blog/post/men-call-me-things-and-i-know-their-names/

(i remember that bloke calling her some really vile names on her pre-omgfamous blog, was mightly impressed by how she completely ignored it)

Woah hoh hoh... nice one Marieke!

RIP big harto

appaz murdoch wrote his resignation letter for him

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roffle!

rip roebuck

pretty much, that is sad news

suicide, and police took stuff out of his room shortly beforehand

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

oh jeez

got our highly specific and helpful smart meter installation scheduling information, telling us that we will lose our power for an hour inside a very specific TWO WEEK PERIOD

so, at some point within a fortnight our power will be cut without notice

not that we regularly work from fucking home or anything

I think you can refuse them being put in or something? Also hows it work when you rent? My house is old and my wiring is way dodgy, I admit I'm a bit worried about the fires some ppl have had from this shit :/

I dunno, I think the meter is outside but y'know telling us the actual day that it will happen would be useful, not "guhhhh before the rapture"

cocks

there is a very real danger of you not even knowing this has happened until after it's over:((((

<3

first world problems

I don't see why they can't run a schedule, basically

My best mate was working for the company that was developing the smartmeters and the wimax network and thanks to that, and some shit he's told me, frankly I dont want one anywhere near any house I live in, in the state theyre in right now. Trust me on this.