The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

"Darron"

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wha'happen? not the Star W4rs painter dude who got outraged that a comic book for grown-ups had a breastfeeding scene with no exposed boob and that this made it unsuitable for children I assume

no that's from a crikey reaction toon to deodorantgate

*googles*

To be honest I really wanted to get some more Jack Daniels steak sauce but I have a bunch of different kinds of steak sauce that I had got to try and didn't really care for but I knew if I tried to push for steak sauce it would be Deodorantgate all over again. So I decided not to press my luck. It all worked out. I had to give up my surge protector to make my dad's DVD player work but he's all set up now.

oh ok

heavens

wtl;tr

Am so depressed by the general commentariat on deodorantgate, too. I mean ya rly, aussies be all idiots, but fuck its like playing racism bingo with all the comments of "pc correctness", "pc gone mad", "there I said it", "she just said what we're all thinking" and "lol taxi drivers stink". &Y^&%&^

we smell like cheese to azns

tbf, I do eat cheese like Nate Dogg smokes weed

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Another Happy Australian Day then?

indeed

Grubby student politics collides with angry black fella politics.

willesee

^^ cryogenics??

yes

Happy birthday Molly, even though you have no idea who or where you are apparently.

prospect is bleak imo

Yeah he is getting on in years anyway and it sounds like his brain damage has been pretty substantial - he's def most likely to be in assisted care the rest of his life I reckon. so sad.

abbott is surely going to be PM shortly and i don't even care anymore

I really cant see how, dont even a lot of libs hate him?

Bring Rudd back and lab will be in like flynn

rudd was crap too

soemtimes i really hate this country

rudd is totally not coming back

^^

he'll make one hell of a fist of it though

tbh i'm a bit confused as to why people think he's coming back, but i'm not exactly unignorant about such matters

people think he's coming back because (1) incumbent is shit (2) incumbent is hell of unpopular (3) they are desperate for anything atm (4) they don't know how caucus feels

i'm not exactly unignorant about such matters

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

hedging

anyway either way it will be embarrassing to the last

already is tbh

Yah I assume its more "he should come back because look at the fckin alternative".

Ditto Turnbull. Shit, if Turnbull was up, Labor might as well pack up and go home.

otm.

George Megalogenis did a piece for November's Communist Times Monthly in which he suggested Turnbull is the only fucking proper actual potential leader since Keating, and the only one who is willing to promote social issues and economic reform at the same time.

labor more like gaybor amirite

indeed

[Julian Knight] said if he was not granted parole he would be the first murderer in 175 years of Victorian legal history to be given a non-parole period and then not be paroled.

But Justice Osborn pointed out that in the past many murderers had been sentenced to be "hung by the neck until dead".

..yeah, great to know thats not an option anymore then isnt it, Justice Osborn! Bloody heck. I mean, it gasts my flabber that Knight keeps whining about wanting to be released, considering what he did, but ffs, what sort of help is it saying "well you're lucky we couldnt KILL you then arent we!"

...meant to ital those first 2 paras.

"I certainly don't wish to be appearing here on a regular basis, I have got much more productive things to do with my time," Knight told the court.

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yeah like making those number plates

the bart, the

Also, massive LOL:

Julian Knight
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the mass murderer. For the CEO, see Julian Knight (executive).

sooo sick of these you're-too-fat-to-be-normal shows

Rudd was actually quite good but had the misfortune of leading a party full of self-interested hacks (check out Simon Crean's rant today as an example).

Anyway, we're all fucked.

But I should say that Rudd's tea is quite good!!

Rudd started the internet filter, he can go to hell.

I'm still convinced that was more of a thing to pretend they care about " good morals" to those who still care about that/distract Conroy from anything important rather than any actual censorship.

Or more succinctly: giving the Catholic branch of the ALP a "win" without doing so.

not good enough

Well, it's a cautionary tale on why the ALP needs be reformed pretty sharply if it is to have any sort of future, but I'm still able to access hardcore pornography think pieces on progressive politics and US TV shows, so I'm still only slightly offended by it all.