The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

never gave permission for it

why should this stop them amirite

http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020510/144858__alanis_l.jpg

Oh yeah it got pulled about half an hour after the kerfuff blew up y'day afternoon. The manager claims he had no idea what kind of debate/night it was gonna be (hmm) and evebn the guy who designed the poster has posted a full and very upset apology saying he was a dick, didnt think at all about what he did and he's very sorry (and deleted the poster).

Its just this one guy who stayed on to defend the concept, wouldnt listen to anyone else, scoffed at people who told him he was mansplaining by saying "stop it with your shitty internet memes ffs" and the thread was at about 400 comments last I looked

And he's now saying "me and my wife are copping personal abuse messages so I'm not discussing this any further". Which you know, lol? Or not maybe.

Basement Jaxx DJing at the cricket

these third-generation australians with asian grandparents should go back to their own country amirite

to be fair, they did uncover that the Chinese Medicine shop was run by asians

no, they mistakenly claimed it was run by roundeyes who were forced to move to make room for asian shopkeepers.

The manager claims he had no idea what kind of debate/night it was gonna be (hmm)

can imagine if it's something like, say, 'regular comedy night' that someone else does the legwork on actually organising, they probably didn't know. i rex a few bar managers will prob take a bit more of an interest in lineups in coming weeks.

#paedoshambles_au

andrea yu, a striking story in that she's found a media job in the last month

who is

beijingcream.com/2012/11/stephen-mcdonnell-gives-andrea-yu-a-lesson-in-journalism/

^sfw, surprisingly

beijingcream.com/2012/11/woman-of-the-hour-andrea-yu-is-actually-andrea-hodgkinson-magazine-cover-girl/

hott mag cover imo

wow what a creepy individual

the PM segment with mcdonnell interviewing her is supremely uncomfortable listening

having said that, she's less disingenuous about what she's doing than the average news ltd hack

A CLICK FRENZY OF DIK PLAY

"wah our website fell over why did this HAPPEN". Amateurs!

loool

odds on they forgot robots.txt

"There's more to the Click Frenzy webfail than is being reported. The Click Frenzy website was not down because of millions of shoppers, but millions of queries. There is a huge difference. These millions of queries were a result of the hundreds of thousands of people logging on, and all the feedback from the advertisement trackers overloading the database with queries which are sent between server and client. According to one shopper on my FB feed 'it takes three-plus pages to get through to the actual offer, and each of those pages has three or more advertisements on it'. Pretty simple to figure out what happened, as this is precisely how DDOS attacks occur. The simple solution to get the site working would have been to remove the advertisements, or at the very least make them static (but then the click-throughs couldn't be counted, so Click Frenzy couldn't claim to sell millions of impressions to the gullible advertisers and retailers who spent their money with them initially or in the future).

lol @ DDoS'ing yr fukkkn selves

project team: 'why would you make promises to your stakeholders that are guaranteed to jeopardise your entire event?'
client: 'shut up, that's why'

courtenay-defcon1

already changed the end card on Monday night's 20:00 repeat programme

father b0b a r0wland s h0ward fan apaz

courtenay-defcon1

new tribute dn

awes!

people at work were all like "omg he's dead did u read april fool's day it was touching"

people at my work were all like "what oh"

well one girl was more interested in telling everyone about how she's off to see Nickelback tomorrow night

I thought the photos in this article looked familiar in style:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/steampunk-exhibition/4379110

yeah the third one was the giveaway (being that i didn't actually scroll down first)

wtg k8

indeed!

oh yay!!

awu stands for "who the fuck cares"

absolute wankers unite (over this non-story)

some bloke at the oz is absolutely drowning in months and months of his own caked-on spooge

lol

the only reason i'd like to see the libs in govt is for pyn3 to be shown up for the completely useless berk he is

given that their ~special skill~ is attacking the government, i don't know what they'd do if they got in

"fuck that governor-general, that piece of shit governer-general is a criminal, we has pr00f"

minister for silly walks

julie bishop = minister for women's womens of the women for women and also women

she is such an asshole.

'narcissistic bimbo' otm if deeply misguided.

punter_defcon1

?

he is dead