The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

pope talk

'I don't know much about art, but I'm the fucking pope'

Who is Stephanie Rice and why should I give a shit?

Everything to do with fucking America

I didn't know anyone was fucking America??

gas leaks

Peter Costello has no testicles.

I mean, at least Hitler had one.

This fuckin' guy: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/retailers-back-call-to-ban-hijabs/2009/01/15/1231608879622.html

"Kids cry and get the fright of their lives with Santa Claus so you can imagine what it's like to see this just black, not really human shape, just this full-on black covering with a slit at the eyes."

Famous insulting chef from overseas comes here to insult minor current affairs host.

MAYBE WE SHOULD BAN THIS GUY FROM TELEVISION FOR TWO WEEKS HUH

foreign student bashing

of course bashing of locals is a-ok!

loving the grimshaw sitch atm

otm

MASTERCHEF!!!!!!

Yeah wtf is with everyone masturbating over that cravat wearing git.

Not that Ive seen the show, mind.

Apparently TISM had a spectacular rant about him recently I should go find it.

“By Christ, when your life's specialty is forcing another morsel of over-glazed lamb shank down your oily, globular, over-opinionated gullet, when, of all the things in the world men are called to do, of all the vocations of love and adventure,of all the trials of the emotions and amongst all the voyages of spirit mankind can embark upon, when, given this whole universe of possible callings, the one YOU choose is to sit on your crapulent crack and LAZILY WHINE about SOMEONE ELSE’S cooking, that's when YOU KNOW, you are at the very ACME of the BFW shit heap.”

m.pres is a fantastic TV character. would bro down with him before any TISM members, that's for sure!!

i love masterchef and haters can blow me

i mean what are they doing at this point, whining about someone whining about food? certainly don't appear to be making records!

xp ^^ this cat knows what's up

TISM split up in 2004 due to the terminal cancer of their guitarist, and the song Trayce is quoting came out eight years ago.

OK so I had no idea it was an old song, I assumed RHB was just having a rant because of masterchef, the dude who posted it on his LJ was misleading dammit.

Also let me repeat - I havent seen the show.

probably not your thing

Wait, what's wrong with cravats?

haha sorry if that sounded like i was taking a pop atcha trayce. just thought it was funny that a band that hasn't been active for five years piped up about masterchef of all things!

They didnt! I was misled into thinking they did by a nong on my LJ who said "masterchef is shit and TISM said it best" and then quoted what I pasted.

I love cooking shows fwiw, I'd probably enjoy it! But I dislike reality and vote em offs IMMENSELY, and... really, I know this'll sound snobby but I'm fed up with TV.

In actualy fact y'all have misunderstood me really (my fault) - all I was really meaning was "wtf is the huge immense fuss for".

my personal fuss is that it's a good show n i dig watchin it

also pls no offense but yr fedupness about tv is well documented and i'm a bit confused as to why you keep wanting to opine on tv when you don't watch it???

also i am drunk and sassy

sassiest boy in east funswick

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loool

hahaha the beer dude got voted out!! it's down to poo and the other one

http://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/masterchef.jpg

beep

the 'bring me hong kong in a bowl' bit with the wind blowing and all that was so next-level dramatic and hilarious all at once

the man really is a star

Julie The Mum won because her cookbook is gonna sell more than THE DRAGON LADY'S STRANGE ASIAN RECIPE BOOK??

also pls no offense but yr fedupness about tv is well documented and i'm a bit confused as to why you keep wanting to opine on tv when you don't watch it???

Because maybe I was asking "what is the big fuss" so someone could actually EXPLAIN IT TO ME, jesus get some reading comprehension people, not everything I say is a complaint.

i fuckin hate that julie the won. she's an absolute idiot!!

also, srsly, does she have parkinson's?

julie the won u__u

julie the won-ton

julie the won-ton-tess

can i just say, i would eat the hell out of that chocolate plate thing, omg.

totes. Gary's whingey 'you've changed me' call at the end about julie was barfffff

Right now all who can save us are inner city Sydneyite voting for pro business nice white ladies who also a pro not setting the world on fire and are nicer to minorities (as long as they have money).

Beyond that we just hope frydenberg has enough dirt on Dutton.

I crossed the river last week and Frydo’s grinning bonce is on every street corner. You’ve got to vote for a potato or the wrong potato might get it.

I'm voting for the Gobbledok, he's all for investments in public services and eating potato chippies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vIaCXCkkrs

Love the country regularly being held to ransom to meet the basest desires of Western Sydney and rural Qld.

just the three ambulances for the big boy

EXCLUSIVE: 3 Ambulances called to the home of Clive Palmer, understood both he and his wife were showing Covid symptoms and have been taken to hospital- more to come @9NewsAUS @9NewsQueensland

— Peter Fegan (@PeterFegan9) February 24, 2022

C'mon comrade Rona, you can do it.

I presume two of them were yoked to a common chain so they could drag Big Clive on a pallet?

Ed otm

Clive Palmer has broken the sanctions against Russia. But before you judge, it was with very good reason (buying Hitler’s old Mercedes) https://t.co/k8O0eP6AFu

— keen online poster (@keen_poster) February 27, 2022

Mr Palmer’s company Minerology is believed to have purchased the vehicle at auction in London recently for more than $200,000.

Look it's a fucking bargain compared to the GTHO Phase IV.

I'm saving my money for a Leyland P76 tbh.

Unless that’s some kind of souped up tinny, there’s no future in it.

porkbarrel bop

Albanese, campaign day 1: "in the words of the great Ramones, 'hey ho, let's go'." pic.twitter.com/g7GIKssUTp

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) April 10, 2022

this will be my first election as a citizen, i’m quite excited to be able to vote at last

Ramones Hey Joe let's go vs Dragon April sun in Cuba

Ho, fuck autocorrect

watchu call me?

this will be my first election as a citizen, i’m quite excited to be able to vote at last

<3 thats awesome :) Vote these bastards out!

I did the ABC Vote Compass and as usual, I'm further left than Stalin, my go-to is always "throw all the money at us, all of it".

<3 i will do my level best

Not feeling good about this, day one and Albo has already fallen foul of gotcha questions. Scummo is going to spend the next 6 weeks hammering Albo on this and I fear this is the sort of thing that cuts through.

Australians will vote for short term self interest and quiet xenophobia as always

is the problem that the ALP was too loud with the xenophobia the last four years

they seem to have outsourced leftist policies to the Greens, for sure

spare me some sympathy up here in south east qld with the murdoch press and the lnp strongholds and clive and the evangelical property developer mayor and the resultant dispiriting local discourse

NSW criminalised protest last week

sympathy also freely given though

lmao they gave him a 330ml can, owned

pic.twitter.com/bVdRbNMoTq

— cameron wilson (@cameronwilson) April 11, 2022

An empty 330mL can

Sorry to post own tweet, but I’m with Trayce

Huh pic.twitter.com/2JyqgSqyQc

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) April 10, 2022

is this guy trying to run for Prime Minister of ILM

A journalist has asked Albanese if he thinks he has less chance of winning the election as a result of yesterday's gaffe. He says he'll shake it off, like Taylor Swift. pic.twitter.com/YJ35p4Msyn

— Oliver Gordon (@olgordon) April 12, 2022

fucking lmao they’re incredible pic.twitter.com/MSVC7uirmS

— Lucy V (@LucyXIV) April 13, 2022

can't lose to the liberals if you have the same polices... right? right??

aggressive 'mate' usage is the cherry on top of this

Greens leader Adam Bandt has had enough of "gotcha" questions at #NPC. #AusVotes @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/e9pFzXcXKK

— Naveen Razik (@naveenjrazik) April 13, 2022

BANG

The best bit about that is Bandt gave a useful answer, one I'd want to hear from a politician. If he'd simply answerd "two point five six" or whatever I'd be sitting there going "whats a WPI and why do I care also you are a greasy speccy nerd with a cats bum face mr FinReview"

Srsly that jerno is the worst kind of private school boy nob I want to punch the lights out of.

that was so heartening to listen to

'Peter Dutton being continually owned' is not a terrible timeline to be in

now maybe Labor can stop being The Milquetoast Party????

they're pretty aggressive about signing new fossil fuel deals that last until after the end of human habitation tbf

Yeah, anyone hoping for Labor to be anything other than occasionally OK is going to be eternally disappointed.

I'd settle for 'at least average, maybe even look at that climate change thing in a bit more detail' but I've learned to have a low bar on this sort of thing.

I thought I had a handle on this country but is the prime minister having a sook, did the minister leak that the prime minister was a sook and why is this more important than what Peter did to Gina on the private jet to Bali?

THe PM is a big wet sack of feeble shit, Dutton is a big wet sack of ricin.

I was saying to Barn the other day that I feel like Labor could lose the next election but then I thought "except, NOBODY likes Dutton, so theres that..."

I remember thinking that about Abbott though...

Dutton will end up PM, he caters to the Aus blinkered self interest segment perfectly. No immigrants, no greenies, no hand wringers to get in the way.

They’re ready.

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I share a coworking space with climate200, they got on the wines at lunchtime today, and had some very nice cheese. It’s going to be a long few weeks but the keep up with the Comte I might be purusaded not to vote one for Pingers for Parliament.

Yet another election where it will be a lukewarm vote against someone rather than for anything. Albo's absolutely hopeless but the prospect of Dutton... my electorate is teal vs libs, so I guess I'll begrudgingly preference the teal.

Did anyone else see the people dressed as a lamb and a bee behind Jacqui?

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