The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

4.5 million hicks can't be wrong

bring back joh

and i do mean his rotten corpse

yeah it's going to be an ugly (hopefully) few years up here..

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2012/03/25/1226309/395263-campbell-newman-lisa-newman-election-night-kiss.jpg

i mean hopefully few, not hopefully ugly

was away for two nights, just check the abc news site, thought the seat tally had stopped loading

*checked

so apparently the government spent $370,000 to find a way to ban anzac day and replace it with a day where we have to go to mosques and eat communist halal meat

btw I am getting all my news today from comments from the daily telegraph and herald sun sites only

anzac day in melbourne is FUCKED because they DISRESPECTFULLY moved the parade to FUCKING st kilda road due to the FUCKING COMMUNISTS (and not the major 18-month infrastructure project in swanston st or anything)

pommunist

isn't the shrine of remembrance on st kilda road? ISN'T THAT WHERE THEY ARE FUCKING GOING?

pommunist

― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, March 26, 2012 9:29 PM (28 minutes ago)

"No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs": http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/no-irish-outrage-at-aussie-job-ad/story-e6frg2qc-1226298435994

tbf he has a point

Another commentator said “good luck to anyone emigrating to Oz - seems they are racist!”

breaking news

"Jet announce split".

...they were still going?!

user 'sic' made that joek on the jet thread!!

lolllll

http://i.imgur.com/7WPWL.gif

found out the hard way that you must TOUCH and not wave or swipe

rfid tech bought from the soviets qf

i don't have a problem with the touch part, but the 2-3 seconds it takes to respond

The "far queue" joke was genius, I did lol.

But the "touch dont swipe" ting has been a known for a long long time. That said, even then it fails a LOT (ive seen it), and takes a full 1-5 seconds to register. Unlikje a metcard which just goes in and comes out within a second. There are ppl on the comments on that article claiming the opposite - that a myki is a 1 sec reaction and metcards take 5-10 seconds (lol wtf is he on).

that's what i mean, you touch and move it slightly (because hello the vehicle is in motion) and it spends 5 sec telling you that the read failed

btw myki fanboys exist, i've been hassled by them

myki fanboys

fanboys of myki

i ask you

Oh your talking about on trams, thats a bit different

I'm talking about at station gatez

on that, metcard-embedded myki readers are faster than standalone myki readers ime

Ive heard the opposite? Haha.

But overall, I'm wary noot of the readers per se (theyre shite), but th3e fact that these readers *working* are what bills us correctly. s'not like metcard where you scan once and you know yr done (*and if not, woo free trip). If these things wont touch off, say hello to a full day full fare, and good luck trying to get a refund (3 working days).

Also if you dont use yr card for 3 months, they SUSPEND it. And if you fuck something up and it blocks the card, you have to MAIL IT TO THEM to get it fixed. MAIL IT TO THEM.

never had a prob touching off from the train.

though i heard about that time you had a prob touching cloth on the train

>_<

we've all been there, rite? rite??

loool

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/pm-v-obama-who-has-it-harder-20120401-1w6qa.html

''I'm good mates with Barack Obama,'' Ms Gillard was quoted as saying.

''I tell him, 'you think it's tough being African-American? Try being me. Try being an atheist, childless, single woman as prime minister'.''

julnagllard

I came to post that about an hour ago, and decided against it, as I just ... I dont know.

You know the most depressing thing? While the comments are across the board "yer useless Joolia and thats not even why", pretty much NO ONE is horrified about the fact she said "you think its tough being African-American". I mean... words fail me.

I'm sure it was said in jest in private, if it was said at all, but ffs whats the matter with her?

fuck idk

demonstrates how out of touch she is though

also I considered dropping it in 'is this racist' but it would just be dragged into trayvon territory in like 14 seconds

p surprised that almost any australia-related thread isn't posted in there

after all we are the most racist country in the entire world ((c) ilx)

healthy irony in the 'you are all racist and also have no culture' type posts

not they they necessarily happen together but my point remains

ehh, she says it was a gag btwn them, if he's offended that's his business but he probably wasn't, it's slightly sad for her to trot it out for a private audience but massively declasse of Farfax to report it, three degrees removed from any context.

Rupert Murdoch, tweeter

Rupert Murdoch, hypocritical entitled piece of shit

guy rundle does some good impersonations of the rupe-tweets

it's slightly sad for her to trot it out for a private audience but massively declasse of Farfax to report it, three degrees removed from any context.

Yeah this was my thinking.

rupert, next-level tweeter

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