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pls explain the excitement about this bloke

He just released an album, presumably one would expect it to be getting media, non?

no I mean pls explain why so many people are so incredibly super-excited

Oh ok. Didnae know they were. That new single is quite pleasant, but it is ruined when the chick starts singing.

hey dirt-aye, baby i gotye money

^ ~layered post~

but it is ruined when the chick starts singing.

except the twist makes the song approx 90x better

held her cardigan when she went on to do it at the Opera House the other night tbh, she is tiny

"Uh, is it Silverchair?"

(Sorry.)

what's the biggest month for weddings in oz?

There's a month for weddings? What like, weather wise u mean?

i guess? i think here may is considered biggest month, then a bit of june before it gets too hot?

i got married in february and we can see how that turned out

Big place, loads of weather variation. Nov/Dec is good for Melbourne but that's when it's wet in a load of places.

Yeah some ppl will go north and have a wedding in winter in QLD for example thats a good point. 2 friends of mine had a Feburary wedding the same day but that may have been more cos it was Feb 29th =)

I would think March-April in Canberra would be beautiful (stunning autumn leaves)

Pff weddings tho

aw man my sister-in-law was being induced a few years ago and was given the option of scheduling it on feb 29 or march 1

she chose march 1 wtffff

kid is pretty cool anyway i guess

aaaaahahahaha

"you were born on a boring day but you turned out all right"

otm

u shouldn't schedule ur wedding on charlton agricultural show day, my moms (yo) did that and still hasn't heard the end of it

lol, this 'at home with gillard' thing

"Prime Minister, I have good news"
"Alan Jones has emigrated?"
"No"
"Chocolate eclairs?"

not watching (couldn't get through wil anderson's hair and shit gags in the half hour beforehand) but both are indeed good news items

can I just say that one of these days I'm gonna start up a protest with a hundred trucks converging on Canberra to protest at the ABC still allowing Wil Anderson to pollute our television screens

that show was great

it was p good actually, who'd have thought!

a protest with a hundred trucks converging on Canberra to protest at the ABC still allowing Wil Anderson to pollute our television screens

COSIGN THIS

I was expecting it to be horrific, ended up snorting with laughter about 15 times

Better view this on iView dude iView at some stage then!!

When is the last time Wil Anderson was in anything? I cant say Ive seen him.

you also frequently note that you don't even WATCH tv

he has been hosting one of the ABC's top-rating programs for four series now, with a fifth iteration coming in a few weeks

I keep confusing him with the guy on spics and specs so I dunno.

...actually now we have a damn digital tv i have been watching tv :( Mostly Freinds re-runs and crappy Simpsoys eps.

Tony Abbott IS Dick Dastardly, sez Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/abbott-wont-guarantee-pair--for-thomson-if-wife-gives-birth-20110908-1jz5l.html

Ah, those classic Liberal Party family values.

It wasn't until I got past the second pic in that article that I was able to stop wondering "a pair of what?"

Yeah I'd never heard the phrase before either.

(btw i was posting the article for the deliberately "bad guy"pics, in case that was missed)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/bolt-found-guilty-of-breaching-discrimination-act/3025918

Not yet sure whether we can legally call him a racist. Oh and Tony Abbott wasted no time in defending him so

WHile I personally find glee in this, it opens a can of worms, allowing these dickheads to cry poor on censorship/free speech grounds. Ugh.

The grounds are false though, because it's factual errors (i.e. making shit up about indigenous people) that clinched the judgement.

Also those dickheads falsely cry poor on those grounds all the time anyway, so this will just go into the mix and nothing overall will change. Meanwhile Bolt got served.

It's boosted Bolt from the middle of the paper to a front page story tomorrow & news bulletins all over the country, I think the PR effect will be significant. Whether the grounds are false or not will be immaterial to your average Australian racist.

indeed

i still enjoyed defacing the work copy of the sun with 'AUSTRALIA'S #1 CONVICTED RACIST', but

baaaaahahahaha

just today, just for today, you are my hero

Im glad we dont have the Snu at work but if we did I would likely have done the same.

Bolt found guilty of making shit up, responds by making shit up

STANDING outside the Federal Court on the corner of William and La Trobe streets in Melbourne yesterday, Andrew Bolt pronounced it a black day for the press.

''This is a terrible day for free speech in this country,'' he said, reading from the notes he had written in courtroom No. 1 after losing the case brought against him by a group of fair-skinned Aborigines under the Racial Discrimination Act (1975).

oh and the feral scum's headline is "THIS IS A SAD DAY FOR FREE SPEECH", hoping to get to its readers before the facts do

Also they gave him two full pages plus editorial support on two pages, which proves that there's no free speech. Also apparently the HS web site blocked all comments on its Bolt story that advocates free speech.

That last bit makes no sense, what kind of comments?