The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Yeah I have NFI what the hell Fairfax are doing anymore. There's a ballsy article in the business section today that basically says "all rich people are buying govt influence and here are a load of examples" which was pretty startling, but that aside the whole things gone to shit and I have NFI what to read anymore.

right-wing is handy shorthand for bigots (esp. now that right-wing no longer has a mainstream context)

which I suppose is why abbott/howard diehards keep calling us 'lefties'

Wayne "Swanee" Swan rightly points out that the mining moguls are a bunch of dicks.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/03/06/wayne-versus-the-lizard-people-the-secret-history-of-illegitimate-power/

Along the way, curiously — and there’s a master’s thesis in this for some thoughtful politics student — the drinks associated with these sinister groups changed — it used to be “chardonnay socialists” in the ’80s, but like the puritans they are, this gave way to coffee, with the latté serving as an appropriate marker of unworldly know-it-allness, before soy milk replaced it as the current ornament of inner-city snobbery

love the hutt reference and the hardsonning of c. palmer earlier on.

hey guys

I have a few questions, hope you can help

hello, what would you like to address

- who is Yumi Stynes

daytime tv iirc

I love how when someone vaguely insults a guy its death threats and "how dare u he is a WAR HERO" but when women have to put up with a continuous barrage of "slut", "fat bitch", "whore" etc etc from all corners, people say "oh get a sense of humour". The SAME people, usually.

- who is Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

Well thats the other thing. Who indeed.

bad root allegedly

lol

also, a murderer.

Sorry, I mean "war hero".

corporeal ben roberts-smith

he totally took out a nest of talibans single-gunnedly in afghanistan and saved his unit, iirc

http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/SingleGun/StarsFl.jpg

saved his unit (euphemism)

- what did Yumi Stynes say about Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

SHE INSULTED A MAN WHO DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY

- waht did Yumi Stynes say about Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

'dud root' iirc

wait, she said his brain is at the bottom of a swimming pool

yair i think it was n3gus who said dud root. wonder how he knows.

stynes, on sering pic of shirtless n tattoo'd corporal by pool, said he was about to dove into pool to search for his brain

negus said "not talking about him" (corporal), but what if dudes looking like that (ripped, tatts) couldn't get it * done in the sack

* sexual relations

- what was the context of this Yumi Stynes saying this thing about this Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

stynes or someone else as brainless saif "u think he's a dud root then??" cackling ensued, as it does

xp basically cos they showed a pic of him by pool shirtless w/ tatts and siiiick pecs

like, that's it, came from nowhere

I believe they then called the dead war hero who died for our country and he was all 'yeah no worries' xxp

cept she has claimed ignorance of 'sunday night' interview w/ corporal where he revealed he + wife used IVF

so NAGL on that front

critics of that ought to know that 'boring in bed' is rather distant from 'is not fertile' tbf

still NAGL imo

so I believe that Facebook is now dedicated mostly to "kill the woman who insulted the manhood of a guy who is a hero because he killed several people"

I don't understand how society works btw.

SHUT UP BECAUSE FREEDOM

Is this associated to the freedom to be butthurt because the government is trying ineptly tax you on profits for minerals that you're digging out the ground (and that really belong to the nation not your stupid nickname/book of Grade 4 poetry/failed A-League club).

Still have no idea what's going on despite all my questions, but I think I haev learned this is something from Facebook so I can happily carry on not knowing

youtube "circle corporal stynes"

SHAN'T

it's not about facebook, it's more 'women say things may be offensive on tv, cop vicious online abuse as result'

that old chestnut

don't google anything circle-related btw, not for this tho, just cos it's shit

the age is still giving high-profile coverage to the circle, amazing coincidence that they're both part-owned by gina rinehart

I'm angry about all this for 2 reasons: 1) she's copping it more as a woman than a man who'd said similar innocous things would (remember, this is NOTHING like the slut-shaming and direct threads Sandilands made). 2) I am sick to death of the deification of the miliary in this country. Honest to christ. They are not sent to war involuntarily, its a career, and a very bloody well paid and rewarded one. Yes, it is an extremely hard and risky career. But no one deifies surgeons or SES rescuers or vets or miners.

I'm not saying soldiers are bad or I'm agin' em. I'm not, I have friends in the military. I hate the HOW DARE YOU THEY ARE A SOLIDER YOU SHOULD DIE YOU ASSWIPE attitude. Same ppl, probably, who go to Tobruk on Anzac day and get drunk and wave flags.

these people have watched too much ncis imo

u mean any.

i like the bits with gothy lab tech in