The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

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In a recent talkback radio segment about language discrimination, one caller said his mother has a physical reaction when she hears “haitch”.

lol

the rest of the world is doing yanny and laurel, Australia is doing aitch and haitch

Tbh haitch peple belong in the disgusting savages thread

otm

Ugh ABC news breakfast did the yanny/laurel thing this morning, way to be with the zetigeist guys. And on that note is it just me or is Michael Rowland a completely punchable gormless gitface?

Peak hipster

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/active/article/maniax-axe-throwing-melbourne-opens-abbotsford

there's been one in my neighbourhood next to a craft brewery for four years. beat that for hipster

Surprised we dont already have peak-hipster darts bars, come to think of it. And/or hipsters playing bocce.

speaking of hipsters playing bocce, i went to north fitzroy at the weekend, it was lovely

barefoot bowls is three generations of "people younger than me are fucken hipsters" ago

lol my brother competed in an ax throwing league in sydney. my brother the hipster! who’da thought

oh lawn bowls has been a thing forever ya. Is bocce as well? I thought only old wogs did that.

yeah but 20-ish hipsters now wld probably see any lawn-ish ball game as being incredibly fuddy-duddy, because of the 35-yo ex-hipsters that had it as their arch ironic revival activity

Tbh haitch peple belong in the disgusting savages thread

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 9:58 AM (three weeks ago)

otm

― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:00 AM (three weeks ago)

agree w/ this

Tee hee

^^ is that what I think it is (wot I just read)

Did vaping get unbanned? We have two new vape shops in the neighbourhood and grizzled battlers breathing out sickly candy scented smoke everywhere.

It was a reaction the coalition results in the big byelection weekend

Did vaping get unbanned? We have two new vape shops in the neighbourhood and grizzled battlers breathing out sickly candy scented smoke everywhere.

still banned unless you wear a fedora is my understanding

I got a friend to re-christen her vape stick as 'electro-fag'

Was vaping ever banned? I didnt think it had been? Its not like you could smoke them indoors to start with though, or buy nic-based juice here.

Forgive my ignorance but what is the point of capon if you can’t buy ‘Nic-based’ juice?

The Senate is back to its usual standards then.

mouthbreather senator: invokes final solution

Australian media: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was front page of the Graun, is it not anywhere else?

jesus christ these times.

well at least nobody thinks of bob katter as just that loveable wacky bigot from queensland anymore

liberal party annoyed they didn’t think of it first

Sky now making claim Anning was told all along to make a ridic controversial speech and "fucking not back down" from it afterward.

how long do i have to be on this earth to not see fkn bob katter’s stupid cunt face in the news jfc

Sky now making claim Anning was told all along to make a ridic controversial speech and "fucking not back down" from it afterward.

heaven forfend he should be expected to fucking own his actions

Fuck me it just gets worse. 10 Queensland knuckle draggers run the country. At least we know the libs have given up on taking back the Victorian parliament.

imagine spending your life in fear that a bunch of people think peter dutton is more likeable than you

agitating for the very unpopular and very bigoted dutton is proof they don’t give a single fuck about australians

everything about this government is just so incredibly depressing

the coalition of the IPA and the right wing arseholes

nobody gives a shit apart from the six writers into 'The Australian' but they'll still collect a buttload of votes from dickheads on 'no brown people' and 'bill shorten is a communist'

new zealand derides the fuck out of us now, we're a total laughing stock

God, I made the mistake of thinking Australia could not have a more depressing prime minister than D Trump. O hai Potato Dutton.

i mean we only just had tony abbott, a man so fucking dumb he knighted the queen’s husband

The clowns were chanting for coal at a presser to discuss the drought, they have no shame.

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHH

xp “captain’s call” as I recall it ffs

STOKED FOR THE MADNESS

at this point we may as well replace parliament with a sensible series of non-binding postal opinion polls, the results are turning out better.

otm, they hate postal surveys because the single one they did went totally against their interests

Hey Libs, hows that stable government you were always hooting about having eh?

Eh?

every time i come back to australia something massively shit happens

21st century coalition: shit at economics and crippled by internecine power struggles, yet they still project these qualities on their opponents

the weirdest of the semi-sentient fascist potato's weird tweets are a fun read (helpfully collated here in case he has blocked you on twitter, which he has done to me): http://junkee.com/peter-dutton-tweets/172285