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Americans in replies
‘Cancel him, he’s problematic, he’s Ezra Miller 2.0’
Australians in replies
‘Oh it was Kyle and Jackie O, his reaction was completely justified and understandable’
There’s something really really funny about the project host asking for the baby to leave for being disruptive during the interview and then going right back to empathising with the mother about being asked to take her baby out during a comedy show for being disruptive.
#BREAKING
: Authorities say a man with coronavirus ignored instructions to self-isolate pending test results, instead working several shifts at Hobart's Grand Chancellor Hotel.
I’m guessing retired baby boomers were not often texted at 7pm on a Saturday back in 1978 to edit a document on the cloud because those things didn’t exist.
WA baby boomers have joined the chorus of voices lashing the Federal Government’s right to disconnect rules as ‘absolute rubbish’, lambasting the new generation of workers as being ‘too soft’.
To understand australia racism. A white wealthy tourist drunkenly attacked a poor fisherman completely unprovoked, and the fact that he avoided a serious jail time for his crime is universally reported as a ‘good news story’.
A Noosa surfer is tonight back on home soil after avoiding lengthy jail time for an alleged drunken, naked rampage in Indonesia.
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“They all perform under masks and use pseudonyms so no one really knows who they are. But there are rumours that it includes members of The Wiggles or that they are all schoolteachers. The schoolteacher theory is plausible as their tours lined up with Victorian school holidays “
If it wasn’t for
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there is absolutely no way Basil’s sexist hot mike clanger would have been picked up. Pretty much the entire Western Australia media in controlled by stokes and no way it would have gotten a run in anything he controls.
I just learned that Jeff Kennett split the running of Melbourne’s train network between competing companies to ‘encourage competition’. Did that guy’s brain work? People catch whatever train is closest to their home, how would competition help?
Why is hatred of bikes an essential factor into the conservative mindset in this country? It’s so random, like having an intense hatred of ducks or cinnamon.
At what point do we just agree that the term ‘woke’ is used so broadly that it essentially has no meaning? Whenever I hear someone using it non ironically I just assume it’s because they don’t have intelligence to make a cohesive argument about why they don’t like something.
‘My son illegally modified an electric unicycle to do go 120km, well above the 20km limit, and he put other lives at risk by riding at dangerous speeds on bike paths before he killed himself by his own dangerous actions. Here is why his death is the government’s fault’
It kinda set the tone for this government when George Christensen spent half of the year as a sex tourist is south east Asia, to the point where he was pinged as a security risk and everyone just shrugged and went “ah well. What you gonna do?”
I love Melbourne, but Tim Smith is the textbook example of how so much of its politics, media and business is dominated by mushbrained simpletons that only got to where they are because of the private school they went to and their family connections.
Wild watching The Castle today. A family owns a detached home in suburban Melbourne on one blue collar income and a second holiday home in the countryside and we are meant to find it funny that they are proud of this meagre achievement instead of wanting much more. Incredible.
Pretty incredible that after Ben Roberts Smith and Bruce Lehrmann, Seven would find a way to tarnish their own reputation even further. Hope the guy wrongly named as the attacker gets paid a fortune.
Possibly unpopular opinion. The Australian title of the spoof film Airplane was a better title. Flying High is a good title. Who wants to watch a film called Airplane?
I don’t agree with the Australian govt strong arming Facebook to give money to dying media companies but it would be really really funny if Facebook did leave Australia completely. It might even encourage businesses and restaurants to put opening times on their website.
Exclusive: A child born today will be paying for Australia’s COVID-induced debt bill until they are 31, according to
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What is the point of McDonald’s now that they are no longer cheap? If it’s a choice between an average burger meal and a very good Thai takeaway at the exact same price, I’m taking the Thai every time.
Nothing sums up Twitter more than hyperpartisan weirdoes yelling abuse at some kids for the controversial message that you can be friends with people that you disagree with
Singapore is no longer covering medical bills for COVID-19 patients who are "unvaccinated by choice". The Health Ministry says the unvaxxed make up a "sizeable majority" of those in ICU and "disproportionately contribute" to system strain. Keen to know what people make of this?
Bluey discourse peaked when in 2019 clementine ford wrote a column about wanting to fuck the cartoon dog dad from the show and then some other opinion writer accused clem of ripping her off an earlier column about wanting to fuck the cartoon dog.
A bricks and mortar store in high rent areas like shopping centres that almost exclusively sells vacuum cleaners. An item that people might buy once every couple of years at the most seems like a very weird business to have survived until now.
#BREAKING
: Major Australian retailer Godfreys Group has gone into administration, with 54 stores to close and 193 staff to lose their jobs.
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Not that I had much faith on Australia becoming a republic in my lifetime but this really shows just how impossible it would be. The no side will just say stuff like ‘if we become a republic you will have to pay extra taxes to the UN and you’ll be banned from speaking English”
Andrew Bolt is such a racist, opportunistic scumbag. He’s downplayed covid19 for months, said the lockdown was too severe but he instantly changes his tune when it gives him the opportunity to yell at brown people. Fuck Andrew Bolt.
most on the right that want Australia Day to stay on Jan 26 no matter what want that not because of any loyalty to Australia Day or nostalgia, but because they enjoy the day being sport for unending culture wars. a day that brings everyone together is the last thing they want.
The pingers guy making vacant homes go viral is both good in that there should be more financial disincentives for leaving homes empty, and bad in that it feeds into far left/nimby fantasy narrative that we don’t need to build more homes as we already have enough.
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It’s a good example of how when you are used to something you can tune it out, but also be completely oblivious that those around you can’t just tune it out.
I’m kind of confused by the numerous celebratory tweets for Lisa Wilkinson. Sure, Bruce ended up losing but her reputation is pretty much in tatters after that judgement.
Facebook should give back Pete Evans’ social media accounts for the duration of the Byron Bay lockdown. The rest of australia needs something to keep us entertained.
Dr Annaliese van Diemen and the vic govt’s response to the captain cook tweet is a Masterclass in how to respond to conservative attack jobs. The Dr didn’t apologise, respond or even acknowledge the pretend outrage and now the issue is over as there is no more fuel for the fire.
The white dude harassing a white woman for opening a Japanese food place after he also opened a Japanese food place is a good example of how a certain type of faux progressive dude like to use their politics to morally justify their harassment and hatred of women. Toxic behaviour
Christ almighty. I used to wonder how Jimmy Saville got away with it, but it seems clear that if you're from high society people will trip over themselves to make excuses for your behaviour.
Australia in theory: we are a sophisticated food obsessed nation with a deep culinary culture
Australia according to contact tracing. There are exactly two types of restaurants. Thai and RSL.
“Look at these poor bogans proud of their shitty home” I think as I queue up behind thirty other people to view a two bedroom apartment renting for $650 a week.
Just picked up a snack from a farmers market in Hobart and was told by the stall holder that it was “Six Dollarydoos”.
I wonder if the writer of that silly simpsons line from the episode Bart Vs Australia has any idea that the term dollrydoos has entered the australian lexicon
Albo’s ‘keep jan 26 but make it a referendum’ thoughtbubble is the perfect example of alp brain trying to focus group their way out of a problem in a way that offends the least amount of voters, but somehow offends just about everyone.
PETA CREDLIN: If we want the truth from our military about how people were killed in Afghanistan, we must also demand it from our political leaders about why people died in Victoria.
Politics in Australia makes much more sense if you stop looking at things through a left right divide and realise the battles are generational. The older, established get the govt largesse and policy favouritism and everyone younger fends for themselves
I mean this exact scenario was being predicted by numerous people on twitter, but when a government is filled with people that have never worked a casual job it wasn’t that obvious to them.
People declaring the death of the Aussie music festival and ignoring that knotfest and good things have had two successful post covid years is very on brand. Heavy music remains consistently popular and sell tickets and brings crowds but still gets ignored by most people.
If you don’t have any Panadol don’t worry, just do the same trick I’ve been using for twenty years. Just ask literally any woman with a purse if they have painkillers. They’ve all got a mini pharmacy up in there.
There are melburnians stranded in Sydney with no way of returning home yet we send charter flights in for tennis stars to fly into Melbs from rona riddled nations. And psychotic partisans on Twitter will troll you for hours if you dare say it’s bullshit.
This is fucked up really.
‘I would like to catch the train closest to my house, but I really like the branding and design of the competing train company so I’m going to drive 7km to catch their train’. Neoliberalism is a hell of a drug.
I get the anger at albo for appearing at the rally when ‘you literally are the government’ but there is no easy legislative fix to end male violence against women. Several decades of law and order elections and increased mandatory sentences hasn’t solved it.