The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Bahahah!

I've been to Syd quite a bit since that thing was built and never been on it. Does anyone actually use it apart from tourists as a novelty?

I used it once, as a tourist

i went on it once. you can't even see out of the windows, because they're covered in ads. fuck that monorail.

"how can we monetise this monorail going forward"

the monorail episode of the Simpsons is funny because it's true

I hopped on the Monorail and scored this exclusive picture:

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/c/ca/Biteyandmarge.png

hey guys hey guys LIGHT RAIL DOWN GEORGE STREET

(eventually, one day, we promise, cross our hearts, don't bring up "Sydney Metro")

what the fuck is the puppy thrown out the window story my mom half explained to me on our weekly sat call????

They better not put a tram line down George Street. I lived in Edinburgh during the construction of their delayed and over budget tram to the airport. For the entirety of my stay there were road works, road closures and general chaos from the main drag being ripped up for tram tracks. It was horrible and if Sydney decides to do the same thing I'm leaving until it's finished.

lazertube skywalk otm

what the fuck is the puppy thrown out the window story my mom half explained to me on our weekly sat call????

Someone threw a puppy out the window (that's roughly the point at which I changed channels)

btw, today's Oz headline:

HYGIENE LESSONS WILL HELP MIGRANTS INTEGRATE: COALITION

When I stopped using deodorant the usual stink went away in a matter of weeks. Putting all those quickly absorbed chemicals under your armpits every day does nothing for your long term health. DON'T USE DEODORANT!!!!!

Commenter
robby
Location
melb
Date and time
January 10, 2012, 7:17AM

clearly a migrant

Australians are generally assertive enough to growl at those who push into queues. Migrants learn quickly.
As for deodorant... ever smelt the average Aussie tradie on a 40 degree day?
Darron | Melbourne | 10 January 2012, 6:54AM

Why are you sniffing tradies ??
Kel | batmania | 10 January 2012, 7:42AM

"Darron"

http://i.imgur.com/UPoXz.gif

wha'happen? not the Star W4rs painter dude who got outraged that a comic book for grown-ups had a breastfeeding scene with no exposed boob and that this made it unsuitable for children I assume

no that's from a crikey reaction toon to deodorantgate

*googles*

To be honest I really wanted to get some more Jack Daniels steak sauce but I have a bunch of different kinds of steak sauce that I had got to try and didn't really care for but I knew if I tried to push for steak sauce it would be Deodorantgate all over again. So I decided not to press my luck. It all worked out. I had to give up my surge protector to make my dad's DVD player work but he's all set up now.

oh ok

heavens

wtl;tr

Am so depressed by the general commentariat on deodorantgate, too. I mean ya rly, aussies be all idiots, but fuck its like playing racism bingo with all the comments of "pc correctness", "pc gone mad", "there I said it", "she just said what we're all thinking" and "lol taxi drivers stink". &Y^&%&^

we smell like cheese to azns

tbf, I do eat cheese like Nate Dogg smokes weed

http://p.twimg.com/AkDxoFCCMAE3F-Q.jpg

Another Happy Australian Day then?

indeed

Grubby student politics collides with angry black fella politics.

willesee

^^ cryogenics??

yes

Happy birthday Molly, even though you have no idea who or where you are apparently.

prospect is bleak imo

Yeah he is getting on in years anyway and it sounds like his brain damage has been pretty substantial - he's def most likely to be in assisted care the rest of his life I reckon. so sad.

abbott is surely going to be PM shortly and i don't even care anymore

I really cant see how, dont even a lot of libs hate him?

Bring Rudd back and lab will be in like flynn

rudd was crap too

soemtimes i really hate this country

rudd is totally not coming back

^^

he'll make one hell of a fist of it though

tbh i'm a bit confused as to why people think he's coming back, but i'm not exactly unignorant about such matters

people think he's coming back because (1) incumbent is shit (2) incumbent is hell of unpopular (3) they are desperate for anything atm (4) they don't know how caucus feels

i'm not exactly unignorant about such matters

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

hedging

anyway either way it will be embarrassing to the last

already is tbh

Yah I assume its more "he should come back because look at the fckin alternative".

Ditto Turnbull. Shit, if Turnbull was up, Labor might as well pack up and go home.

otm.

George Megalogenis did a piece for November's Communist Times Monthly in which he suggested Turnbull is the only fucking proper actual potential leader since Keating, and the only one who is willing to promote social issues and economic reform at the same time.

labor more like gaybor amirite

indeed