The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

- 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

Is this associated to the freedom to be butthurt because the government is trying ineptly tax you on profits for minerals that you're digging out the ground (and that really belong to the nation not your stupid nickname/book of Grade 4 poetry/failed A-League club).

Still have no idea what's going on despite all my questions, but I think I haev learned this is something from Facebook so I can happily carry on not knowing

youtube "circle corporal stynes"

SHAN'T

it's not about facebook, it's more 'women say things may be offensive on tv, cop vicious online abuse as result'

that old chestnut

don't google anything circle-related btw, not for this tho, just cos it's shit

the age is still giving high-profile coverage to the circle, amazing coincidence that they're both part-owned by gina rinehart

I'm angry about all this for 2 reasons: 1) she's copping it more as a woman than a man who'd said similar innocous things would (remember, this is NOTHING like the slut-shaming and direct threads Sandilands made). 2) I am sick to death of the deification of the miliary in this country. Honest to christ. They are not sent to war involuntarily, its a career, and a very bloody well paid and rewarded one. Yes, it is an extremely hard and risky career. But no one deifies surgeons or SES rescuers or vets or miners.

I'm not saying soldiers are bad or I'm agin' em. I'm not, I have friends in the military. I hate the HOW DARE YOU THEY ARE A SOLIDER YOU SHOULD DIE YOU ASSWIPE attitude. Same ppl, probably, who go to Tobruk on Anzac day and get drunk and wave flags.

these people have watched too much ncis imo

u mean any.

i like the bits with gothy lab tech in

dre sample source acting a fool on a jag spinoff with goth tail, who would have etc

it's not about facebook, it's more 'women say things may be offensive on tv, cop vicious online abuse as result'

literally all I'm seeing is people being outraged about the outrage, have not encountered either a) the outrage or b) the source of the outrage anywhere. this thread said outrage was on facebook, so that totally makes sense as to why I haven't, QED

Does this help?

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/negus-says-sorry-for-dudroot-soldier-remark-20120301-1u42z.html?rand=1330572200199

"Negus and Stynes had been looking at a photograph of the shirtless war hero in a swimming pool on The Circle when Stynes, who later admitted she knew little about him, quipped: "He's going to dive down to the bottom of the pool to see if his brain is there."

Negus had then responded: "I'm sure he's a really good guy, nothing about poor old Ben. But that sort of bloke ... and what if they're not up to it in the sack?"

Another host questioned whether Negus was suggesting "that he could be a dud root", to laughter from the audience.

What I admit I still dont get, is why they were looking at the guy in a pic. What the context was. Did they know who he was? Does anyone? I'd never heard of him before this. Is he famous for something?

She wasnt the one who called him a "dud root", that wasnt even Negus. It was whoever "another host" was. Who has never been called out on this. Nor has Negus. Funny that. Pick on the woman.

still no idea why they were looking at a photograph of the shirtless war hero

is teh "dud root" host so bland that no-one at The Age can even look up their name?

i'm pretty sure negus was

ha ha xposts

negus was?

called out

No thats it negus wasnt, he said "those kind of blokes". not this guy in particular (tho that could be argued as weasley, I concede! And I realise theres a hypocrisy in me saying "this is just a little thing who cares" when I got in a strop about Sandilands - but I dont think the two compare?)

Curious that the Murdoch press (well News online anyway) has nothing on this on its obvious front page.

yeah negus is just "hey like that reminds me what if you put in all the effort to get totes cut with sweet tats brah, but you weren't as magic between the sheets as some bloke with glasses and a chunky mustache ~think abt it~"

some nameless other host, possibly a faceless man on loan from Kev's House Of Strawmen, or a chick without a funny name we enjoy typing, says "nyaaaahhhhh... dud root eh?" and Negus gets pilloried

I suppose we could look it up on YT but eff that jive.

wagga being taken over by spiders. freaky deaky!

yeah pretty crazy

some wagga residents, yesterday

http://i.imgur.com/FZs6q.jpg

lol

uh yeah i think #yumigate is more important than some water in some town

u thort rong

I can't cite this (lazy) but appaz every single property in nth wagga is underwater in some way

http://www.theage.com.au/national/wagga-wagga-levee-fears-as-river-peaks-20120306-1uiar.html