The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

convincing argument on this being the point where the libs have fucked theyselfs

précis plz

bishop carried weight in the party for being the organiser/dealmaker; traditionally when the deputy is good at this, it helps the leader. with abboott hanging her out to day so comprehensively by not doing his onwn dirty work, she is now a diminished figure in the party (can't master a brief). the people who want to roll abbott but can't get the numbers to do so (because he's protected by the right nationally) will tear bishop to shreds instead. there are no credible alternative deputies who can cover for abbott's many shortcomings.

oooh, interesting

ta

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/stalker-receives-shorter-sentence-cut-after-today-tonight-segment-20121205-2aud1.html

and on the lighter side.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dark-blue-hue-a-police-winner-20121205-2auj9.html

They look like they could be for strippers.

shoulda gone for pink

have youse been watching 'a moody christmas' on ABC

best program

final ep to start momentarily

I liked it a lot - after this year will be keeping an eye on anything O'Donnell directs.

All six eps running b2b across two nights at xmas btw

"“There was lots of anxiety ... they were hallucinating and seeing weird things. Some reported that their vision had gone funny and they were seeing things that were not there,” Mr Mergard said."

Um... well, yes. Theyre mushies. They're supposed to do that.

astroturfing

7.30 had a thing on tha dark internets earlier inna week too

spams and scams comin atcha

http://www.ganeandmarshall.com/images/bots_magadik_main.jpg

mildura, yesterday

http://sortius-is-a-geek.com/?p=2626

put this simian fukkn bullshit artist to the sword already

Wow thats an awesome takedown. DONT MESS WITH IT THEY WILL PISS ON YOU.

Peter Siddle: The Hero and Poster Boy of The Summer

HELIUM SHORTAGE!!!!!!!!1

that explains the evil villain with a high pitched voice and his blackmail video

just found out nestlé sold peters ice cream! going to buy a drumstick today

!!! PAUL KEATING INSULT GENERATOR APP ON SALE TODAY !!!

is it on android yet

just found out nestlé sold peters ice cream! going to buy a drumstick today

― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, December 19, 2012 7:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now owned by the same PE firm that owns the company I work for

free ice cream please

that insult generator was plugged to buggery on a8c n3ws 24 this morning, sadly it's rubbish

lol @ insult generator having drawn 'unhappy' response from keating, woulda paid to have been in the room to see that

apparently making your car look like a reindeer is a ~thing~ in the suburbs

oh i hate that so much

I enjoy it, I have a huge fondness for aseasonal Christmas nonsense, the more bemusingly abstract the better

mainly cause it keeps looking like hands coming out of the top of windows

counting those which also have 'my family' stickers

perfect strike rate so far

I enjoyed a 'my family' thing that consisted of a solitary sticker.

baha

I wonder if you can get ones that look like little mafioso Sopranos dudes.

are these... series of fam mem avatar stickers or?

yes

ugh

heaven needed a key in the pitch

rip graeme garden

omg most important news story of the day

lol!

I saw some of those stupid family on car stickers yday driving out in the burbs. J had no idea what they were and was baffled by my explanation. "what are they advertising, though?". "They arent. They're just a meme. Yes, I know its stupid"

Saw some reindeer antler windows too!
J: "how soon should one take those things off the car after xmas?"
Me: "how about before they ever went on, ie never use them?"
J: "...is the correct answer!"

The temperature at Bega in NSW has risen from 22 degrees at 8am to 38 degrees just after 9am.

booooooy howdy

fuuuuuuu

Most of NSW is gonna be 40+ with strong north westerlies. I dont envy anyone there. I have a friend who lives in the blue mountains, and my brother works in bushfire monitoring, so I'm worried all round.

BREAKING NEWS Bushfire in Mount Forest Road Carlaminda area is impacting on properties. It is now too late to leave.

emphasis the abc's

Yeah the brekky news this mornign was saying something similar about... somewhere, coulda been the same area. Theres a new fire threat level "catastrophic", which I think basically means "if where you are has this threat level GTFO NOW"

jesus h.