The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

user 'sic' made that joek on the jet thread!!

lolllll

http://i.imgur.com/7WPWL.gif

found out the hard way that you must TOUCH and not wave or swipe

rfid tech bought from the soviets qf

i don't have a problem with the touch part, but the 2-3 seconds it takes to respond

The "far queue" joke was genius, I did lol.

But the "touch dont swipe" ting has been a known for a long long time. That said, even then it fails a LOT (ive seen it), and takes a full 1-5 seconds to register. Unlikje a metcard which just goes in and comes out within a second. There are ppl on the comments on that article claiming the opposite - that a myki is a 1 sec reaction and metcards take 5-10 seconds (lol wtf is he on).

that's what i mean, you touch and move it slightly (because hello the vehicle is in motion) and it spends 5 sec telling you that the read failed

btw myki fanboys exist, i've been hassled by them

myki fanboys

fanboys of myki

i ask you

Oh your talking about on trams, thats a bit different

I'm talking about at station gatez

on that, metcard-embedded myki readers are faster than standalone myki readers ime

Ive heard the opposite? Haha.

But overall, I'm wary noot of the readers per se (theyre shite), but th3e fact that these readers *working* are what bills us correctly. s'not like metcard where you scan once and you know yr done (*and if not, woo free trip). If these things wont touch off, say hello to a full day full fare, and good luck trying to get a refund (3 working days).

Also if you dont use yr card for 3 months, they SUSPEND it. And if you fuck something up and it blocks the card, you have to MAIL IT TO THEM to get it fixed. MAIL IT TO THEM.

never had a prob touching off from the train.

though i heard about that time you had a prob touching cloth on the train

>_<

we've all been there, rite? rite??

loool

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/pm-v-obama-who-has-it-harder-20120401-1w6qa.html

''I'm good mates with Barack Obama,'' Ms Gillard was quoted as saying.

''I tell him, 'you think it's tough being African-American? Try being me. Try being an atheist, childless, single woman as prime minister'.''

julnagllard

I came to post that about an hour ago, and decided against it, as I just ... I dont know.

You know the most depressing thing? While the comments are across the board "yer useless Joolia and thats not even why", pretty much NO ONE is horrified about the fact she said "you think its tough being African-American". I mean... words fail me.

I'm sure it was said in jest in private, if it was said at all, but ffs whats the matter with her?

fuck idk

demonstrates how out of touch she is though

also I considered dropping it in 'is this racist' but it would just be dragged into trayvon territory in like 14 seconds

p surprised that almost any australia-related thread isn't posted in there

after all we are the most racist country in the entire world ((c) ilx)

healthy irony in the 'you are all racist and also have no culture' type posts

not they they necessarily happen together but my point remains

ehh, she says it was a gag btwn them, if he's offended that's his business but he probably wasn't, it's slightly sad for her to trot it out for a private audience but massively declasse of Farfax to report it, three degrees removed from any context.

Rupert Murdoch, tweeter

Rupert Murdoch, hypocritical entitled piece of shit

guy rundle does some good impersonations of the rupe-tweets

it's slightly sad for her to trot it out for a private audience but massively declasse of Farfax to report it, three degrees removed from any context.

Yeah this was my thinking.

rupert, next-level tweeter

classical music grants scandal

oooh where dis

classical music grants are the scandal really - if the rich want background music to network to, maybe they should pay market rate. everyone else has to.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/05/my-cup-of-tea-millions-for-a-tiny-record-label-with-powerful-players/

imagine how many CL records coulda been produced for that tidy sum!!

based on what the other two "cost", tens of thousands tbh

A spokesman for Crean told Crikey Melba’s application for funding would be considered “as just one of 450” competing requests for arts funding, and that Melba would have to take its chances alongside all the rest.

Rightly fuckin so, too!

http://i.imgur.com/1hAb6.jpg

what of k4te 4xf0rd in all of this i ask

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

lol jim

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

Haw!

far out, best t bomb all year

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

thing is I blieve part of their remit WAS to support new/Australian compositions but instead it mainly went on Aussie covers of foreign or dead foreign ppl

Fuck The (Ben) Polis

That, and "GOBS 2012" sums up the week.

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