The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

ha

woman = prostitute
man on bike = seeking prostitute

lool

man driving bus = seeking 50 prostitutes (c) someone on twitter

wtf

bali ain't no place for a single lady dontchaknow

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/bali-why-bother-20111024-1mfiz.html

ew

but loooool at poll at bottom

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2011/10/25/is-this-the-worst-travel-article-ever-published/

loooool

lol I was more amused by the indignant comments than the article itself (bali sounds like a shithole I'd never go near thanks to aussies). Some guy was all over the comments saying this woman should be spoken to by the editor, that she'd attacked Bali which was just Not Good, and what would this mean for the poor 14 year old in jail omg THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!ONE

in a few weeks we're going exactly where she set that article, and tbh i'm glad it's not a comfortable first-world experience full of aussie bogans

(we are skipping all the bogan areas entirely)

i do not give a single shit about the fucking queen

so the bloke who blew the bum off that peaCOCK in that ARSon attack is from POOwong

My friends had a GO at me for laughing about that vandalism. I'm like "come on, they fucking blew the bum off a statue, its FUNNY" but apparently I am a horrible human being, wont somebody think of the workers at gumbaya park etc ... humourless prix

feel like they should commemorate that once it's fixed by dressing the bird in assless chaps

fucking abbott, unfettered access to pokies obviously much more important than climate change action

ITS-UNAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU

If ever my secret ice lab is under threat I'll just donate 2.5% of my profits to an AFL youth league

So, the kids will be funding their own team IOW

people need ice

LOL wtf @ "choking game"
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/teen-dies-playing-choking-game-20111027-1mkwj.html

Is it too gauche to call it "erotic auto-asphyxiation" when it involves teenagers, or something?

i think this is more "lack of access to drugs auto-asphyxiation"

see, if they had pokies they could afford drugs and wouldn't need to auto-asphyxiate

^^^

hey, do people who are aware of Marieke Hardy dislike her? Because I know fuck-all about her, but was persuaded to read her new book by a friend, and both it and she are really, really awful

I'm ambivalent. She isnt offensive, she's dreadfully twee tho and lays the nostalgia on a bit thick a'times.

Yeah, she just exists in a self-conscious bubble of twee and swearing

i liked her earlier sex-crazed incarnation as 'holly c' on triple r better. s-dogg was a celebrity rooter on that show if i'm not mistaken!!!

she did call chris pyne the most hateable person in australia or something, that was pretty good.

She started this in 2007

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vlPhIi5WyT8/RwWAatKUluI/AAAAAAAABi4/I2A-BdX9wWo/s320/Kevin%2BRudd%2Bdon%27t%2Bfuck%2Bit%2Bup.jpeg

s-dogg was a celebrity rooter on that show if i'm not mistaken!!!

Wait, wat?

52 weeks a year requires the celebrity barrel to have a deep bottom

so to speak

fnarr

poor s-dogg, has no recourse until he wakes up

Im still confused, are we to infer he slept with mizz 'ardee?

uh?

s——— had a steamy affair with ilx user mh y/n

o hai

i could clear this up, and yet, lol.

I realise theres been some major misread here but its what it looks like to me hahaha. NFI what any of this actually is about.

btw, borrowed the most recent Quarterly Essay from the library yesterday--if you feel like a comprehensive 120-page takedown of the Oz, this is the magazine for you

I bought it and forgot to read it

I'm in this weird place now where the only books I ever take anywhere with me are text books. Everything else is an ebook or I just don't get around to reading it.

I found myself tempted with the idea of a kindle t'other day. Only ive heard the prices of kindlebookx on amazon isnt any cheaper than real books?

Depends on the book. I bought the Jobs bio ebook for $9.80 off Amazon; paper version is $12 posted from bookdepository.com and $45 at a Dymocks shop. Then you have ebooks that are easily 40% more expensive than the best paperback price, and some books aren't even (officially) available as ebooks.

otoh there are loads and loads of really good authors who publish ebooks exclusively, usually at somewhere around US$5.

I was sold when we went away in June, I chucked about 12 books into my suitcase and ended up reading the Kindle all week because it was easier to hold. You wouldn't think tech could do books better than books, but there you go.

One thing I've found is that with access to a uni library (I rejoined my old one for $50 a year) you can get access to heaps and heaps of magazines free in electronic form, download them as PDFs or HTML, convert to ebook form with Calibre. It's how I read the QE, for example.

the walking kangaroo