The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

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.

I trust you

The disorganisation I heard about was o_0.

think we've already had dem smarterermeterers installed at the block - nothing exploded as yet

give it time

big concerns round my way:

- evil non-residents using the apt block bins
- evil non-residents taking the limited parking spots
- couch that mysteriously appeared in ground floor lobby, stayed a week, then disappeared again -> wtf even is this

My guess: someone nicked it off hard rubbish, realised they couldnt get it up the stairs, couldnt work out what to do with it?

Haitch where u gonna fit another couch in your joint?

it seemed 'placed' to forma a horseshoe with the other two (much nicer) couches, but!

xp lol

Hi S, whats the haps!

what the fuck is "OZBAMA"

the new ozomatli lp

the 'z' is silent

as is the second 'a'

Sydney's useless monorail under threat of being torn down in four years if the Government stumps up $60 million to buy it back from the owners, to facilitate redevelopment of Darling Harbour convention centre.

Along the way, it had beaten some other, more radical alternatives. There had been a serious proposal with the support of the National Trust and others for the monorail to be replaced with a ''Lazertube-Skywalk''.

This was 1980s-speak for a moving footpath from Town Hall, dipping underground in places. The Royal Australian Planning Institute thundered in the pages of the Herald in 1987 that it was a far more ''cost-effective'' option.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SgELYKeB4GU/S2hmoGK4ONI/AAAAAAAAAvI/GX7SjfNJCP0/s400/vlcsnap-2010-02-02-08h45m02s140.png

Sydney, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook

xp aghhh fuck

Bahahah!

I've been to Syd quite a bit since that thing was built and never been on it. Does anyone actually use it apart from tourists as a novelty?

I used it once, as a tourist

i went on it once. you can't even see out of the windows, because they're covered in ads. fuck that monorail.

"how can we monetise this monorail going forward"

the monorail episode of the Simpsons is funny because it's true

I hopped on the Monorail and scored this exclusive picture:

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/c/ca/Biteyandmarge.png