Reasons to be grateful for being Australian

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1. The phrase 'can't be arsed'

Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

^ british

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

2. Knowledge that unless you too murder someone, you won't be the biggest criminal in your family

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

3. Very close to the country that produced Crowded House

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

4. Sporting hero Mark Viduka

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

5. Don't have to bother treating women with respect

McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

6. you get to drink Australian lagers other than Fosters

snoball, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

7. less racist than the japanese.

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

8. Home to the world's most hilarious stand-up comedians

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

9. Toadfish

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

10. crazy looking mammals

snoball, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:31 (sixteen years ago)

11. Burnt Sausages

sonderborg, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

12. No stigma to favouring a speedo

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

13. cane toads

Schwwww (harbl), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

14 http://static.hullcc.gov.uk/hullinprint/archive/nov2006/images/mark_little.jpg

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

15. managing to get rid of Kylie and send her over here

ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

16. as 15, but Dannii

ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

10. crazy looking mammals

― snoball

poor old pato

estela, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

17 esteban buttez

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

18. People will put excrement in your ice cream for no extra charge

snoball, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

lol

Schwwww (harbl), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

worst country in the world imo

cozwn, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

Would appreciate this thread not becoming a borderline-racist hand-wringing exercise for foreigners.

Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

ok second worst

cozwn, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

19. love my way
20. eric bana in "chopper"

cozwn, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

21. All the cunce apparently live elsewhere, if this thread's any indication.

Trayce, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

well tbf this is a pretty bad thread idea, soz adam

what is your beef with the mac? (electricsound), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

is "love my way" still going? loved the first sn of tht show... was harsh when the little SPOILER died

cozwn, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

I saw a rather slow-looking older woman the other day wearing a tshirt with an Aus flag on it that said underneath LOVE IT OR LEAVE.

I wonder if it is rude to punch the elderly.

Trayce, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

cozen i think it's done with - three seasons, wasn't on last year.

foxtel have replaced it with 'satisfaction', drama series about... high-class prostitutes!

resident advice whore (haitch), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

xpost read the wikipedia link you provided

wilter, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

I ws just being polite

cozwn, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

22. People like backpacking in Australia. You are already in Australia and thus have saved yourself an uncomfortable long-haul flight.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

Trayce my father-in-law wanted to buy that exact nationalistic bullshit t-shirt yesterday.

Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

lol version i saw was SUPPORT IT OR FUCK OFF

dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

anyway this thread is not as good as that one where i posted the jizz fashion picture

dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

23. ex-WA premier Brian Burke
24. sporting hero Aaron Baddeley
25. jizz fashion (thankig u jabba hands)

wilter, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

26. stubbie holders

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

27. barbecue aprons with a pair of fake plastic tits on them

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

28. Russell Crowe
29. Crowded House
30. love ewes

wilter, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

31. 'grouse'

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:33 (sixteen years ago)

32. "deadshit"

sonderborg, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

33. Heaps good

Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

34. Once every five years we produce a piece of television that isn't a crap soap or a hospital drama or a police drama or a sea-change drama

Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 2 February 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

35. The Hard-0ns

moley, Monday, 2 February 2009 01:49 (sixteen years ago)

36. fucken cold chisel maaaate

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 February 2009 02:00 (sixteen years ago)

37. Opposite weather means we get all the awesome band tours at xmas/holiday time when all the pasty northeners come down here to party and drink beer.

Trayce, Monday, 2 February 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

38 rego/compo/bottle-o any of those abbreviated 'o' words, kiu

dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Monday, 2 February 2009 02:06 (sixteen years ago)

39. veebers obv
40. iguanagate

wilter, Monday, 2 February 2009 02:07 (sixteen years ago)

40a. episode of ABC's 'australian story' on belinda neal, post-iguanagate. god i laughed at the "you'll have a demon baby!" footage!

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 February 2009 02:16 (sixteen years ago)

thank you, haitch. i knew it was there somewhere.

JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

I dont think Denton's great or anything, but neither Rove - his satellite crosses are especially painful, after all this time he hasn't learnt how to handle the 2 second delay properly, it's a pet peeve of mine admittedly.

He also picks terrible people to interview; Denton might be dull but at least he interviews interesting people!

Micallef shits on them both though, even though his "proper" interviewing was a bit of a comical failure.

one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

rove more punchable imo

wilter, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

really? mr jovial vs mr holy shit arent i smart?

to inspire myself, i turn to myself (sunny successor), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

I like Rove a lot. Not his show, though.

Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

mr jovial + holy shit aren't i so loud and hilare and wakky

wilter, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

yeah my dislike is rooted in that fucking show.

wilter, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

television is full of awful people, on all continents

who will second this motion

resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

rove awful
denton awful

haitch otm

unaustralian (jabba hands), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

rove = penistry

denton = ?

wilter, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:07 (sixteen years ago)

cuntistry

to inspire myself, i turn to myself (sunny successor), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

^^

wilter, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

82. Helen "Greg" Gregson aka Mr. G.

jed_, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

rove's show is annoying, everyone is too self congratulatory and too each other congratulatory.

the first time i ever saw rove was on new year's eve 1999 when sydney was staging its huge millennial celebrations and rove appeared on tv from melbourne and said in a proud voice, 'the yarra has never looked browner', i was very taken with him.

estela, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

83. darrell lea milk licorice bullets.

estela, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

i mean milk chocolate licorice bullets

estela, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

84. Plentiful fresh locally grown produce, esp wide variety of SE Asian crops.

one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

haitch otm, Rove shits all over Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Paul O'Grady etc etc.

Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

Not to mention Letterman/Leno/Conan/etc

Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

milk chocolate licorice bullets

These sound fucking INCREDIBLY incredible.

i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

All this Darrell Lea licorice stuff looks GREAT.

i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

Their RockLea Road is AWESOME :D

one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

conan rules. dave has just gotten v v lazy.

to inspire myself, i turn to myself (sunny successor), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

85. MILKY BAR

to inspire myself, i turn to myself (sunny successor), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

i will eat all darrell lea stuff

wilter, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

oh man chocolate licorice bullets!!!! haven't had those in years.

re rove: i like him too because in comparison to other talkshow hosts i've seen he's so much less smug/pretentious/oooh-i'm-a-celeb-too-ya-know

just1n3, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

He in of himself is, as has been said, inoffensive enough. I think I kneejerk react cause his show has become so inane and shallow over the years. And I rly cant stand Peter bloody Hellier.

one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

OZCHALLOPS = potential part of next mong thread title??

I do think Denton has mad interview skillz, and I add that I say that as a former psychologist. So I MUST know what I'm talking about amirite.

Another pretty good oz TV person (IMEO) is Marcus (Not Quite Art) Westbury:

http://www.marcuswestbury.net/

moley, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:35 (sixteen years ago)

86. TISM

Live from the Witch Trials (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

\m/ TISM \m/

Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:44 (sixteen years ago)

Naah. No jism for TISM.

moley, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:57 (sixteen years ago)

it's all about ROOT! these days, donchaknow

resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.brock05.com/mrhdtgallery/A9Xsandown.jpg

Nothing short of Rove burning himself to death as a show of solidarity will redeem him.

Bored of Canada (S-), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

Denton's interviewing is, I think, vastly overrated.

Mongs in the challops industry.

I get the Denton loathing if the Enough Rope, serious interviewer is serious technique is all that you've seen. His earlier ABC, 7 and Logie hosting work offsets the worst aspects of ER methinks.

Rove, despite his ability, seems to be content to be the crowd-pleasing host of a reheated Hey Hey. I guess asking for his violent death based upon that is ok(?)

Rove shits all over Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Paul O'Grady... Letterman/Leno/Conan/etc

TS: Parkinson vs. Carson vs. Kennedy

Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

kerry o'brien needs a variety show

carbonara not glue (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

Kerry O'Brien's Barrel O'Laughs

resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

I cant think of Kerry O'Brien any more without seeing him with Kim Gyngell's face.

one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 05:03 (sixteen years ago)

TS: Parkinson vs. Carson vs. Kennedy

i'm not too familiar with carson's work but i'd take the king over parky, no contest. he's a shit-ton funnier!

resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 05:05 (sixteen years ago)

87. John Safran.

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 05:22 (sixteen years ago)

88. Newcastle's injury-plagued striker Mark Viduka looks certain to move to Melbourne Knights at the end of the season.

Ringtone bisexual bible shower (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:09 (sixteen years ago)

John Safran, of course.

moley, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

88. Newcastle's injury-plagued striker Mark Viduka looks certain to move to Melbourne Knights at the end of the season.

Melbourne Victory these days.

Do keep up, Dom.

The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

89. Adelaide United manager Aurelio Vidmar and his hilarious rant at Adelaide.

The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:53 (sixteen years ago)

He forgot to mention that they're all serial killers.

moley, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:54 (sixteen years ago)

It was still pretty good!

The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:56 (sixteen years ago)

Shame that Kosmina got the arse from Sydney FC because if people are gonna get behind the A-League, we need batshit crazy managers like him and Vidmar on the sidelines.

The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:57 (sixteen years ago)

Any relation to hilarious wild staring one-time Middlesbrough ace Tony?

there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:59 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, his bruv!

The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 12:01 (sixteen years ago)

90. The hilarious wild staring eyes of Tony Vidmar as he waited to come onto the field in Australia's 3-1 friendly win against England

there's no antivote to (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

89. Adelaide United manager Aurelio Vidmar and his hilarious rant at Adelaide.

― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:53 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

Heard about this. Can anyone point me to a recording?

Bored of Canada (S-), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)


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