The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

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

dre sample source acting a fool on a jag spinoff with goth tail, who would have etc

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

literally all I'm seeing is people being outraged about the outrage, have not encountered either a) the outrage or b) the source of the outrage anywhere. this thread said outrage was on facebook, so that totally makes sense as to why I haven't, QED

Does this help?

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/negus-says-sorry-for-dudroot-soldier-remark-20120301-1u42z.html?rand=1330572200199

"Negus and Stynes had been looking at a photograph of the shirtless war hero in a swimming pool on The Circle when Stynes, who later admitted she knew little about him, quipped: "He's going to dive down to the bottom of the pool to see if his brain is there."

Negus had then responded: "I'm sure he's a really good guy, nothing about poor old Ben. But that sort of bloke ... and what if they're not up to it in the sack?"

Another host questioned whether Negus was suggesting "that he could be a dud root", to laughter from the audience.

What I admit I still dont get, is why they were looking at the guy in a pic. What the context was. Did they know who he was? Does anyone? I'd never heard of him before this. Is he famous for something?

She wasnt the one who called him a "dud root", that wasnt even Negus. It was whoever "another host" was. Who has never been called out on this. Nor has Negus. Funny that. Pick on the woman.

still no idea why they were looking at a photograph of the shirtless war hero

is teh "dud root" host so bland that no-one at The Age can even look up their name?

i'm pretty sure negus was

ha ha xposts

negus was?

called out

No thats it negus wasnt, he said "those kind of blokes". not this guy in particular (tho that could be argued as weasley, I concede! And I realise theres a hypocrisy in me saying "this is just a little thing who cares" when I got in a strop about Sandilands - but I dont think the two compare?)

Curious that the Murdoch press (well News online anyway) has nothing on this on its obvious front page.

yeah negus is just "hey like that reminds me what if you put in all the effort to get totes cut with sweet tats brah, but you weren't as magic between the sheets as some bloke with glasses and a chunky mustache ~think abt it~"

some nameless other host, possibly a faceless man on loan from Kev's House Of Strawmen, or a chick without a funny name we enjoy typing, says "nyaaaahhhhh... dud root eh?" and Negus gets pilloried

I suppose we could look it up on YT but eff that jive.

wagga being taken over by spiders. freaky deaky!

yeah pretty crazy

some wagga residents, yesterday

http://i.imgur.com/FZs6q.jpg

lol

uh yeah i think #yumigate is more important than some water in some town

u thort rong

I can't cite this (lazy) but appaz every single property in nth wagga is underwater in some way

http://www.theage.com.au/national/wagga-wagga-levee-fears-as-river-peaks-20120306-1uiar.html

levee's gonna break and send a tide of mostly harmless but probably quite irritated spiders flowing towards melbourne

mark my words

these irritated spiders will devour us all

far out xxp

http://i.imgur.com/Ak3WH.jpg

Think of all the excess mozzies from floodwater the lil dudes will snack on. Its natures balance!

Tho I think in this case they mite be a little ambious:

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2012/03/07/244739-a-dog-walks-through-spiderwebs-next-to-flood-waters-in-wagga-wagga-mar.jpg

ambitious, even.

dogs with spiders in their mouths etc

Hahah :D

re spider invasion: was going to write a post starting with 'imagine living in wagga' then realised that's enough

"...its easy if you drive
and also wear some moccas
maybe have some kids or five"

"ya don't call wagga wagga wag...*drowns*"

AWESOME. <3 Corrinne.

http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-danger-in-deifying-our-war-heroes-20120308-1um2j.html

and in a fit of hilarious irony, most of the comments on the article are STILL defending him as a war hero *headdesk*

so I finally googled You Am I Stynes and she's Ben from Regurgitator's babymommy? he was such a tatt and fitness bro that it adds another layer of bemusement to this whole foofooraw

OK yeah that is curious actually.

can my DN draw a line under discussion of this topic pls - not very zeitgeisty anymore

RIP Ian "Turps" Turpie, heaven needed someone to host 'Supermarket Sweep' in the afterlife.

Aww wat?

Rip turps

Didnt even know he was ailing.

RIP big man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YghJ-34UGo

^^that really is something else

remember him this way imo