The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

yeah, like they did in the US

THIRTY NEWSPOLL WOW WOW WOW WOWOWOWOWOW

when i get off the plane it will be potatoes in charge right

god imagine PM Potato, judging how soon to call an election before Tone tries to roll him

oh jesus

that does it i’m not coming back

DJ Funknukl sentenced to six months, conditional release after two

does the judge know something about our moment of greatest need

lol at barnaby joyce, the ol' root rat, putting the boot into mal

dishonour amongst thieves, babey

does the judge know something about our moment of greatest need

lmao

can’t wait for 7 to make a doug parkinson docudrama miniseries

here are my channel 7 cricket commentary team predictions, this is most important

- warney (of course)
- michael clarke (suspect he has no loyalty)
- adam gilchrist (good guy, people like him)
- james brayshaw (slash my wrists already)

the 12th man is definitely in retirement now

and mark taylor incessantly facefarting into the microphone

can't see 'tubby' making the move, expect more traction and sizzle for fujitsu air conditioning however

ian chappell condemned to telling the ducks at the local park about why he was a better captain than everyone else

and allan border making ads for ollllllld peeeeeeople

who knew that australian banks are run and staffed by inhumane monsters??

never saw it coming, folks, guess that's why malcolm didn't want the word to get out!!

I just emailed "Oohhh noooo! We're probably going to get Georgina fucking Downer as our new MP!' to my wife, and it popped up on-screen as she was doing a work presentation via Skype so that all her co-workers saw it.

everybody wins

Not quite as bad, but there's a married couple in the office. Bit weird at first since they're old friends of the boss and hired right after he came on board. But they perform their jobs well, so the weirdness has faded.

But the guy did his first big presentation to the company about his department with slides projected from his desktop. He stammered and hemmed his way to the end, but got through it.

And when the next department head went up there for her presentation, she minimized the ppt to reveal a text message from the guy's wife, sitting two rows down from me, saying, "You did a good job up there! So proud! XOXOXO."

And that was kinda of way off topic for this thread. Sorry.

today's most important fairfax story

In a recent talkback radio segment about language discrimination, one caller said his mother has a physical reaction when she hears “haitch”.

lol

the rest of the world is doing yanny and laurel, Australia is doing aitch and haitch

Tbh haitch peple belong in the disgusting savages thread

otm

Ugh ABC news breakfast did the yanny/laurel thing this morning, way to be with the zetigeist guys. And on that note is it just me or is Michael Rowland a completely punchable gormless gitface?

Peak hipster

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/active/article/maniax-axe-throwing-melbourne-opens-abbotsford

there's been one in my neighbourhood next to a craft brewery for four years. beat that for hipster

Surprised we dont already have peak-hipster darts bars, come to think of it. And/or hipsters playing bocce.

speaking of hipsters playing bocce, i went to north fitzroy at the weekend, it was lovely

barefoot bowls is three generations of "people younger than me are fucken hipsters" ago

lol my brother competed in an ax throwing league in sydney. my brother the hipster! who’da thought

oh lawn bowls has been a thing forever ya. Is bocce as well? I thought only old wogs did that.

yeah but 20-ish hipsters now wld probably see any lawn-ish ball game as being incredibly fuddy-duddy, because of the 35-yo ex-hipsters that had it as their arch ironic revival activity

Tbh haitch peple belong in the disgusting savages thread

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 9:58 AM (three weeks ago)

otm

― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:00 AM (three weeks ago)

agree w/ this

Tee hee

^^ is that what I think it is (wot I just read)

Did vaping get unbanned? We have two new vape shops in the neighbourhood and grizzled battlers breathing out sickly candy scented smoke everywhere.

It was a reaction the coalition results in the big byelection weekend

Did vaping get unbanned? We have two new vape shops in the neighbourhood and grizzled battlers breathing out sickly candy scented smoke everywhere.

still banned unless you wear a fedora is my understanding

I got a friend to re-christen her vape stick as 'electro-fag'

Was vaping ever banned? I didnt think it had been? Its not like you could smoke them indoors to start with though, or buy nic-based juice here.

Forgive my ignorance but what is the point of capon if you can’t buy ‘Nic-based’ juice?

The Senate is back to its usual standards then.

mouthbreather senator: invokes final solution

Australian media: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was front page of the Graun, is it not anywhere else?

jesus christ these times.

well at least nobody thinks of bob katter as just that loveable wacky bigot from queensland anymore

liberal party annoyed they didn’t think of it first

Sky now making claim Anning was told all along to make a ridic controversial speech and "fucking not back down" from it afterward.