The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

i.e. it's actually genuinely properly good, as opposed to the whole 'aww they did their best, 8/10' assessment we tend to bestow on the bulk of our shallow crap

let's not get carried away, it's had one episode

if ep 1 were a tropfest entrant it would win the universe, is what i'm saying

2's not quite as good as 1 but 3 is fantastic iirc

So, The Age reported on the weekend that the veges sold at CERES farm are "banned" due to unacceptable lead levels in some of the food. It went on to say inflammatory shit like "no one's been sick but lead can stay in the body for YEARS OMG WTF"

...CERES have released several press releases since then saying no, the food that is SOLD at the site has never been part of the one small contanimation found; subsequent testing has also not shown a problem, the EPA say the site as a whole is ok - and nothing was ever "banned" by anyone to start with.

Has the Age retracted its article? Has it fuck.

Hmmm yes, anti hippy articles mere weeks after Gina Reinhart gets her flabby fingers into the Fairfax boardroom... what a coink.

stirring their own demographic - typical brunswicky-dwelling CERES visitor probably reads the age still.

look how many grrrls still put "i like to read the age on saturdays!" on dating profiles!!

They do? Uggghh. TBF the people into CERES are as likely to see the sites press release as well as/before the age article anyway but its unfair for the average reader to see ENVIRO FARM BANNED DUE TO LEAD POISONING LOL all over the front page with no clarification.

Not that Ive ever even been to CERES all this said. Lawl.

CERESous business

Bit difficult to figure out what the Age's target demographic is any more. Mental patients?

people who feel the herald sun is too right wing but don't really understand what that even means

whoever said that the summer versh of the sun, when bolta et al are on holiday, is a delightful mix of sports coverage and cat pictures was OTM

Yeah I have NFI what the hell Fairfax are doing anymore. There's a ballsy article in the business section today that basically says "all rich people are buying govt influence and here are a load of examples" which was pretty startling, but that aside the whole things gone to shit and I have NFI what to read anymore.

right-wing is handy shorthand for bigots (esp. now that right-wing no longer has a mainstream context)

which I suppose is why abbott/howard diehards keep calling us 'lefties'

Wayne "Swanee" Swan rightly points out that the mining moguls are a bunch of dicks.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/03/06/wayne-versus-the-lizard-people-the-secret-history-of-illegitimate-power/

Along the way, curiously — and there’s a master’s thesis in this for some thoughtful politics student — the drinks associated with these sinister groups changed — it used to be “chardonnay socialists” in the ’80s, but like the puritans they are, this gave way to coffee, with the latté serving as an appropriate marker of unworldly know-it-allness, before soy milk replaced it as the current ornament of inner-city snobbery

love the hutt reference and the hardsonning of c. palmer earlier on.

hey guys

I have a few questions, hope you can help

hello, what would you like to address

- who is Yumi Stynes

daytime tv iirc

I love how when someone vaguely insults a guy its death threats and "how dare u he is a WAR HERO" but when women have to put up with a continuous barrage of "slut", "fat bitch", "whore" etc etc from all corners, people say "oh get a sense of humour". The SAME people, usually.

- who is Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

Well thats the other thing. Who indeed.

bad root allegedly

lol

also, a murderer.

Sorry, I mean "war hero".

corporeal ben roberts-smith

he totally took out a nest of talibans single-gunnedly in afghanistan and saved his unit, iirc

http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/SingleGun/StarsFl.jpg

saved his unit (euphemism)

- what did Yumi Stynes say about Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

SHE INSULTED A MAN WHO DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY

- waht did Yumi Stynes say about Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

'dud root' iirc

wait, she said his brain is at the bottom of a swimming pool

yair i think it was n3gus who said dud root. wonder how he knows.

stynes, on sering pic of shirtless n tattoo'd corporal by pool, said he was about to dove into pool to search for his brain

negus said "not talking about him" (corporal), but what if dudes looking like that (ripped, tatts) couldn't get it * done in the sack

* sexual relations

- what was the context of this Yumi Stynes saying this thing about this Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith

stynes or someone else as brainless saif "u think he's a dud root then??" cackling ensued, as it does

xp basically cos they showed a pic of him by pool shirtless w/ tatts and siiiick pecs

like, that's it, came from nowhere

I believe they then called the dead war hero who died for our country and he was all 'yeah no worries' xxp

cept she has claimed ignorance of 'sunday night' interview w/ corporal where he revealed he + wife used IVF

so NAGL on that front

critics of that ought to know that 'boring in bed' is rather distant from 'is not fertile' tbf

still NAGL imo

so I believe that Facebook is now dedicated mostly to "kill the woman who insulted the manhood of a guy who is a hero because he killed several people"

I don't understand how society works btw.

SHUT UP BECAUSE FREEDOM