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Title: the australia zone
Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 05:06:05 pm
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gday
Title: the australia zone
Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 05:14:03 pm
***passes you a beer, mate***
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Post by: BARK RANGER on January 30, 2017, 09:08:26 pm
1. What's your take on the Nauru and Manus refugee situation
2. Do people enjoy Chris Lilley, consider him gimmicky/racist, or both?  We Can be Heroes had some good bits but eeeehhhhh
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 09:17:00 pm
1. They're fucking shithouse but there's not much that's going to happen while there's bipartisan support from Labor. Unless there's a big swing to the left from them nothing's going to happen, and our political climate's going rightwards like everyone elses so fat chance, it's too important to pay Serco billions of dollars to torture people. Trump fucked up his ban, but we did a way better job of it.
2. Chris Lilley sucks, and hasn't done anything in a while because everyone realized that. I feel like suppose are being exposed to him all of a sudden, which is weird.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 09:17:55 pm
PLOISE ROISE FOR OUR NATIONAL ANTHUM

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Post by: krytton on January 30, 2017, 09:28:12 pm
oh boy a thread just for me

now i can complain about how absurdly warm it is and americans won't go "hmmm boy i sure wish i was there" like no you fucking don't. this is hell with spiders.

brb moving to iceland
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 10:01:29 pm
go to the beach mate, it's noice outside
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Post by: krytton on January 30, 2017, 10:04:17 pm
the beach is 3 hours away :(
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 10:15:20 pm
put a bucket near some sand. fill it with water and salt. dunk your head in it, then knock it over onto you. You have a beach. No excuses.
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Post by: BARK RANGER on January 30, 2017, 10:48:36 pm
1. They're fucking shithouse but there's not much that's going to happen while there's bipartisan support from Labor. Unless there's a big swing to the left from them nothing's going to happen, and our political climate's going rightwards like everyone elses so fat chance, it's too important to pay Serco billions of dollars to torture people. Trump fucked up his ban, but we did a way better job of it.
GirlKisser420, January 30, 2017, 09:17:00 pm

  Sucks :(  I guess the resettlement deal was always destined to be more of a face-saving measure than a realistic, attainable thing anyway.  Probably going to see a massive expansion of prison/detention centre privatization in the U.S. now too, thanks domald frump

2. Chris Lilley sucks, and hasn't done anything in a while because everyone realized that. I feel like suppose are being exposed to him all of a sudden, which is weird.GirlKisser420, January 30, 2017, 09:17:00 pm

Some of his shows aired on HBO in several countries, most of them stayed  under the radar and got lukewarm reviews. Shit kind of hit the fan when Jonah from Tonga aired in the U.S.

Many major US civil rights organizations wrote to HBO expressing their deep concern over the show. These included the NAACP, National Hispanic Media Coalition, American Indians in Film/TV, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities and The Asian Pacific American Media Coalition (which itself includes the Asian American Justice Center, Asian Pacific American Advocates, Japanese American Citizens League, Media Action Network for Asian Americans, National Federation of Filipino American Associations, and more).[34]

  Sorry for bringing up this negative stuff, you guys have some choice birbs, some of the best on the planet. Fruit doves and lorikeets are awesome.
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Post by: Yavuz on January 30, 2017, 11:09:28 pm
Thinking about applying to a short-term exchange program with ANU. Is Canberra as boring as I've heard it is?

(I mean, I'm okay with boring. Given what's happening in the U.S., boring would be a nice change of pace.)
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 30, 2017, 11:52:57 pm
Canberra's got a decent music scene but otherwise it's like a suburb of Washington DC. As far as I can tell everyone's a spy or political gremlin.

There's worse places to be though. It's real neat to just have the regular depressing grind of capitalism as everyone tries to circumvent minimum wage laws and our unemployment welfare department goes on some insane debt campaign.
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Post by: krytton on January 31, 2017, 12:06:44 am
canberra's cool. it's like a big forest city.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 31, 2017, 12:43:01 am
crikey my vocabs gone walkabout. chuck a cone on the barbie
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Post by: Cleretic on January 31, 2017, 01:09:01 am
I like Australia until I start hearing how much we overuse swear words. And how much of a big deal sports are, because I'm left so far in the goddamn lurch when conversation turns to them.

I was doorknocking with the Greens in St Kilda the day after the Bulldogs won the grand final. That was... a very hungover day, and it took me a while to find out why.
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Post by: Blandest on January 31, 2017, 01:17:56 am
I like Australia until I start hearing how much we overuse swear words. And how much of a big deal sports are, because I'm left so far in the goddamn lurch when conversation turns to them.

I was doorknocking with the Greens in St Kilda the day after the Bulldogs won the grand final. That was... a very hungover day, and it took me a while to find out why.
Cleretic, January 31, 2017, 01:09:01 am

Don't you get the grand final off though? Or is that just the AFL? Either way I don't like sports but I'd be fine with sports related public holidays. I think the overuse of swearwords should be taken in context. I mean I swear a bit but I wouldn't say I overuse swearwords, it's just that the meaning of the words is pretty diluted/changed so they aren't dropped as infrequently as in other countries where that isn't as much of a thing and really do we want to hold our wy of speaking up to the standards of other countries? I feel like the most important thing about those words is how they are said and how they are intended to be taken. I'd very rarely tell someone I didn't like/know to fuck off but I'd say that all the time to actual friends and I think the difference is usually pretty clear.
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Post by: cashmir sweaters on January 31, 2017, 01:47:01 am
oh boy a thread just for me

now i can complain about how absurdly warm it is and americans won't go "hmmm boy i sure wish i was there" like no you fucking don't. this is hell with spiders.

brb moving to iceland
krytton, January 30, 2017, 09:28:12 pm

I was there a n 2001 and I want to go back. I like spiders 🕷
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Post by: Cleretic on January 31, 2017, 02:07:54 am
I like Australia until I start hearing how much we overuse swear words. And how much of a big deal sports are, because I'm left so far in the goddamn lurch when conversation turns to them.

I was doorknocking with the Greens in St Kilda the day after the Bulldogs won the grand final. That was... a very hungover day, and it took me a while to find out why.
Cleretic, January 31, 2017, 01:09:01 am

Don't you get the grand final off though? Or is that just the AFL? Either way I don't like sports but I'd be fine with sports related public holidays. I think the overuse of swearwords should be taken in context. I mean I swear a bit but I wouldn't say I overuse swearwords, it's just that the meaning of the words is pretty diluted/changed so they aren't dropped as infrequently as in other countries where that isn't as much of a thing and really do we want to hold our wy of speaking up to the standards of other countries? I feel like the most important thing about those words is how they are said and how they are intended to be taken. I'd very rarely tell someone I didn't like/know to fuck off but I'd say that all the time to actual friends and I think the difference is usually pretty clear.
Blandest, January 31, 2017, 01:17:56 am
Yes, we did get the grand final off (at least, Victoria did; it's where Victoria elected to stick one of its public holidays since the federal government basically just goes 'you've got ten public holidays, stick 'em where you want' to all states), but I didn't watch it and wasn't keeping track of who was even in it. I stopped paying attention after I bombed in the office's footy tipping (which was mostly done by asking my sister for help). I spent the day itself playing video games, didn't check the news, and the next day found out it was apparently a big deal.

And on the wearing, in general it doesn't bother me because yeah, we generally aren't THAT bad. But we're a lot more liberal with them than other countries for some reason, and I really hate that some people go nuts with that and struggle to string together a sentence without swearing several times in it. Also I don't like that the C word slides into that sort of speech WAY more than it seems to in other countries.
Title: the australia zone
Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 31, 2017, 03:04:19 am
Australia as a country is a lot closer to a working class culture, except without the class consciousness or political structures that would be a really nice pairing. Lots of swearing, bit of anti-intellectualism, disrespect to authority (as long as it's through the right channels) and flannel shirts.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 31, 2017, 09:24:15 pm
If anyone's in melbourne swing by Flinders street to help the protest against evicting the homeless people from around the station, shit's pretty gross.
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Post by: Blandest on February 01, 2017, 02:04:15 am
I don't really understand what the protests are about. They need to do maintenance work on the station and they can't do that with people living underneath the scaffolding. SBS is saying that they are going to be providing services and accommodation for twenty of the remaining homeless people for two years and the protest seems to be less about the general idea that we shouldn't condemn homeless people, and more about the specific situation.
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Post by: Eider Duck on February 01, 2017, 09:05:30 am
Has the country had their annual "everything is on fire because the summer is so fucking hot" event yet?
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Post by: Blandest on February 01, 2017, 09:08:00 am
Has the country had their annual "everything is on fire because the summer is so fucking hot" event yet?
Eider Duck, February 01, 2017, 09:05:30 am

I think the central coast of NSW had one recently caused by a bird flying into a power line and then catching on fire thus plummeting to earth as a ball of burning bird.
Title: the australia zone
Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 02, 2017, 04:22:31 pm
crikey it's bloody hot outside
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 02, 2017, 11:32:05 pm
better have a golden gaytime to cool off mate, it's an ice cream schnitzel
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 09, 2017, 10:45:37 pm
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/ac7804cde2a9bb9c97da5b9df0fa4180/tumblr_ol3ptiSDdD1r82qrjo1_500.jpg)

phwoar it's pretty hot today mates, make sure you have a golden gaytime to cool off
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Post by: Yavuz on February 09, 2017, 10:54:38 pm
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/ac7804cde2a9bb9c97da5b9df0fa4180/tumblr_ol3ptiSDdD1r82qrjo1_500.jpg)

phwoar it's pretty hot today mates, make sure you have a golden gaytime to cool off
GirlKisser420, February 09, 2017, 10:45:37 pm

Australia looks nice tie-dyed.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 09, 2017, 11:25:14 pm
it does but we're all going to die
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Post by: krytton on February 10, 2017, 12:46:22 am
i am on fire

send help
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Post by: Sseth672 on February 13, 2017, 01:52:32 am
My friend told me about the blackouts recently in south straya - on the other hand I had no idea they manage to normally keep the grid up on nothing but wind and solar, which is pretty damn impressive.
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Post by: krytton on February 14, 2017, 05:32:01 am
well canberra has plans to be using 100% clean energy by 2020 so yay progress

also, it's pretty cool now. i was able to walk outside the house today without melting which is a step up.
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Post by: krytton on February 16, 2017, 12:13:26 am
nevermind everything's on fire again

i contend that summer is objectively the worst season
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Post by: Blandest on February 16, 2017, 02:02:30 am
nevermind everything's on fire again

i contend that summer is objectively the worst season
krytton, February 16, 2017, 12:13:26 am

Winter was the only season I could cope with due to it not being 90%+ humidity everyday.
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Post by: FinchChunk on February 16, 2017, 04:48:56 am
I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to realise that Men at Work has actual good songs (and sick fashion choices).

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Post by: Cleretic on February 22, 2017, 12:26:37 am
Not enough people around me are excited about this.

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Post by: FinchChunk on February 23, 2017, 02:58:17 am
Curtain is a weirdly good choice, that actually looks kind of cool.
Other potential leaders? Gough could get a bonus to policy change and speed up public works? Howard could get bonuses from natural resources but using a living PM is probably poor taste.
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Post by: Cleretic on February 23, 2017, 03:38:30 am
Given the fact they only ever include people who have died, Curtin was the best available choice. Whitlam's good too and could potentially lead to a fun playstyle, but he's kinda too divisive for a recent leader. Civ's no stranger to having controversial leaders (Enrico Dandolo for Venice and Oda Nobunaga for Japan in V) or recent figures (hell, they patched in Steve Jobs as a Great Merchant in V), but if you're doing both at once you'd want it to be a pretty agreed-upon positive one. Especially if it's for a country that's never even been in the series before. You want to show them that you understand and like them!

Curtin's a nice pick because of that, but also because he embodies an era and style of Australia that resonates with people and could have fun gameplay. They can tap into the Diggers which are a relatively iconic thing in terms of Australia's impact on war, and he's of a time where you can get the playstyle to reflect another thing people think of when they hear 'Australia', which is its comparatively unusual sparseness; a few big, fancy cities, and a United States-sized amount of sparsely-populated, unappealing land. The only living PM (or any PM) I could see being a better choice than Curtin would be if you went for Hawke, and made him a playstyle that instead highlights Australia's love of recreation.
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Post by: Blandest on February 24, 2017, 12:57:33 am
Given the fact they only ever include people who have died, Curtin was the best available choice. Whitlam's good too and could potentially lead to a fun playstyle, but he's kinda too divisive for a recent leader. Civ's no stranger to having controversial leaders (Enrico Dandolo for Venice and Oda Nobunaga for Japan in V) or recent figures (hell, they patched in Steve Jobs as a Great Merchant in V), but if you're doing both at once you'd want it to be a pretty agreed-upon positive one. Especially if it's for a country that's never even been in the series before. You want to show them that you understand and like them!

Curtin's a nice pick because of that, but also because he embodies an era and style of Australia that resonates with people and could have fun gameplay. They can tap into the Diggers which are a relatively iconic thing in terms of Australia's impact on war, and he's of a time where you can get the playstyle to reflect another thing people think of when they hear 'Australia', which is its comparatively unusual sparseness; a few big, fancy cities, and a United States-sized amount of sparsely-populated, unappealing land. The only living PM (or any PM) I could see being a better choice than Curtin would be if you went for Hawke, and made him a playstyle that instead highlights Australia's love of recreation.
Cleretic, February 23, 2017, 03:38:30 am

Wait till Howard dies and then make it so Australia has no guns. Or Abbott and his trait could be getting a bonus whenever he sticks to really poor decisions he has made, like say attacking a stronger force or eating a raw onion o n live TV.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 24, 2017, 03:00:10 am
If you got a bonus every time you did something really fucking dumb I'd be unstoppable.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on March 19, 2017, 07:29:39 pm
Just remembered Harold the fucking Giraffe. What was with that.
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Post by: krytton on March 19, 2017, 07:48:22 pm
i too remember when giraffe boy rolled up to my school in a tricked out van and showed me his insides
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Post by: krytton on March 21, 2017, 07:53:18 am
ITS BEEN ALMOST TWO MONTHS AND I STILL CANT BELIEVE OUR PM GOT OWNED BY A CHEEZEL
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on March 21, 2017, 06:06:37 pm
turnbull gets bullied by incredibly stupid right wingers constantly, it's the only thing I like about the libs
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Post by: FinchChunk on March 26, 2017, 07:49:19 pm
I had a conversation with a friend of mine who is fairly active in the LNP (for context my politics are of the 'caring about refugee rights and gay marriage not so much about unions' left wing variety, basically I voted for the Sex party last election). His position was that Turnbull is hamstrung because he took power on the basis that he would be consultative and not make so many 'captain's calls' so he isn't in a position to go strongly against his party. My feeling is that what people didn't like about Abbot wasn't the captain's calls themselves but the fact that they were all moronic and on that basis Turnbull should pursue the positions that made him popular in the first place (e.g. sensible opinions on gay marriage and climate change) and he'd probably be surprised at the support he'd receive from young people who feel labour doesn't speak for them and are fed up with the Greens not achieving much.

That said looking at all the support One Nation et al. have and I wonder if I just think that because I'm just in a massive echo chamber (I almost certainly am).

I've never voted for Libs but Labour is terrible and the Greens aren't very inspiring these days, if Turnbull stopped being such a dickhead about gay marriage and just made it happen and made some sensible moves towards transitioning to more reliance on renewables I'd strongly think about voting for them, if only to provide some positive reinforcement. And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle, I guess.
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Post by: Cleretic on March 27, 2017, 04:31:37 am
I'm gonna generally... disagree with the Greens comments, speaking as a member of the Victorian Green since last year. But I think you're touching on something I've voiced elsewhere, is that Australia's really lacked any strong, charismatic political leaders since Rudd. Everyone since him has either been playing it safe (Turnbull), is an obvious idiot (Abbott), or just isn't all that interesting (Shorten, debatably Di Natale), which leads to a lot of dissatisfaction with the leaders themselves because they neither catch people's attention, nor achieve much of note. I'd argue that's part of why Hanson got her foot back in the door; she might be a terrible person and kind of an idiot (albeit not to Abbott's level), but at least she's a fairly strong public speaker and you know she believes what she's saying. That's a lot more than you can say for either of the big party leaders right now.

I'd love to see Labor win government in the next election, but if Shorten's still leader at the time it will be less because of them winning and more because the Liberals lost far harder. I've been rooting for Albanese or Plibersek to take over from him, they're way better at it, but it doesn't look like it'll happen.
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Post by: krytton on March 27, 2017, 08:54:08 am
HELLO FELLOW SEXBOY

im gonna go ahead and disagree too but this time about one nation because id like to point out that they got rekt in WA. Like m80, they got fukin rekt af. wowie zowie, i heard the own happen al the way across the continent.

Ive seen a few people say that australia is really fond of trump but if the trump-lite party couldn't get western fucking australia on board then im gonna go ahead and say thats bullshit

ALSO IF THERE ARE ANY NORTHERN FRIENDS STILL ALIVE RN THEN STAY SAFE MATE STAY INSIDE AND JUST PARTY DOWN AUSSIE STYLE TBH
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Post by: MyFaceBeHi on March 27, 2017, 09:31:03 am
Aww, look at the convicts sweltering in the heat, what what! 🇬🇧
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Post by: krytton on March 27, 2017, 09:49:09 am
U FUKIN WOT M8
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Post by: MyFaceBeHi on March 27, 2017, 10:44:14 am
FUK OFF M8 DONT LET US BEAT U AT CRICKET AGAIN OI OI
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Post by: FinchChunk on March 28, 2017, 08:07:24 am
Re: Greens. I would love to be proven wrong and if they have a shot anywhere you figure it would be Victoria so more power to you.

Is the WA thing really a rejection of One Nation or was it the Libs getting done and One Nation copped it as well because of the recent preference deal? I'm a QLD sexboy so maybe I just run into more of Pauline's posse. 

FUCK OFF YOU POMMIE BASTARD.
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Post by: Cleretic on March 29, 2017, 04:47:06 am
Re: Greens. I would love to be proven wrong and if they have a shot anywhere you figure it would be Victoria so more power to you.

Is the WA thing really a rejection of One Nation or was it the Libs getting done and One Nation copped it as well because of the recent preference deal? I'm a QLD sexboy so maybe I just run into more of Pauline's posse. 

FUCK OFF YOU POMMIE BASTARD.
FinchChunk, March 28, 2017, 08:07:24 am
The Greens are doing pretty well in Victoria on scales you don't see. Recent council elections led to a lot of new Greens representatives on the local level, and in pretty much all the 'just outside Melbourne' federal seats the Greens got fairly close to being elected. I'm expecting we'll see some of those seats flip in the next federal election.

You can argue a lot of things about the WA election, really, and I'm not sure how true any of it would be, but I do think some of it was a 'rejection' of One Nation. I think what we're seeing isn't exactly people deliberately going against them, but more that they just don't have the pull that we kept being told they did. The media loved the notion that she was 'Australia's Trump' but she just doesn't have that pull or an environment to incite it. She had some lucky timing during the federal election, but now that even that small amount of shine has scratched off since then, and we're seeing her get rejected not actively, but as her returning to the 'sideshow' image of her she had for so long.

I don't think we'll be completely rid of PHON come next federal election--they're polling extremely well in Queensland to the point where I can't imagine them not getting a bit of a foothold--but they won't be seen as the New Third Force for very long.
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Post by: FinchChunk on March 29, 2017, 08:16:00 pm
I hope you're right. I do think how vocally she has supported Trump is a mistake. His idiocy is becoming an accepted fact and I think the big lesson of Abbot is that even bigoted assholes don't like to be seen as idiots.

Maybe I should just move to Victoria, though I hear your coffee is pretty shit.
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Post by: krytton on March 30, 2017, 03:22:38 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8FIowFVUAAPhQb.jpg:large)

i love seeing sky get savagely owned
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Post by: FinchChunk on March 30, 2017, 04:50:57 am
This (http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2017/03/29/scientists-find-burning-wreckage-universe-where-latham-became-pm) made me smile.
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Post by: krytton on April 10, 2017, 01:53:08 am
clarke and dawe was funny

:(
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Post by: krytton on April 10, 2017, 11:43:38 pm
oh cool theres a lizard in my room
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on April 11, 2017, 12:52:46 am
if there isn't a lizard in your room somewhere you're technically a kiwi
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Post by: Blandest on April 11, 2017, 01:27:19 am
What if it is one of those Asian geckos?
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Post by: FinchChunk on April 12, 2017, 07:38:25 pm
They are a valued part of our society and have been here for generations.
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Post by: krytton on April 24, 2017, 11:15:13 pm
well friends, lets take a moment to think about the diggers. Those guys were sincerely rad as heck
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on April 25, 2017, 03:08:12 am
Gallipoli was really important to australian identity, which is why we have to do it again
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Post by: FinchChunk on April 25, 2017, 07:56:29 am
People who have and do risk their wellbeing to help their fellow people are rad as hell and giving in a way I cannot comprehend.

(http://i68.tinypic.com/21j90y8.jpg)
This sort of thing can fuck off though.
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Post by: Yavuz on April 25, 2017, 11:23:56 am
People who have and do risk their wellbeing to help their fellow people are rad as hell and giving in a way I cannot comprehend.

(http://i68.tinypic.com/21j90y8.jpg)
This sort of thing can fuck off though.
FinchChunk, April 25, 2017, 07:56:29 am

I know I'm not supposed to get a furry vibe from that image, but I definitely do.
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Post by: Eider Duck on April 25, 2017, 12:38:16 pm
The image just makes me think of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War)
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Post by: krytton on April 25, 2017, 01:27:51 pm
(http://i68.tinypic.com/21j90y8.jpg)
This sort of thing can fuck off though.
FinchChunk, April 25, 2017, 07:56:29 am

my freind... you need to stop being racist towards the sexy sexy roos
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Post by: FinchChunk on April 26, 2017, 07:32:37 am
I know I'm not supposed to get a furry vibe from that image, but I definitely do.
Yavuz Sultan Selim, April 25, 2017, 11:23:56 am

I'm sure whoever drew it wants to be held by a strong military marsupial.

my freind... you need to stop being racist towards the sexy sexy roos
krytton, April 25, 2017, 01:27:51 pm

Can I be pissy about the use of papyrus?
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on April 30, 2017, 05:58:48 pm
it's 9 am, time to crack open a cold one with some mates
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on May 04, 2017, 07:07:04 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtWjcb6UIAARals.jpg)
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Post by: FinchChunk on May 07, 2017, 02:42:33 am
So the Greens are teaching the courtesy pee (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/05/05/Austrias-Green-Party-to-teach-women-how-to-urinate-standing-up/5701494016577/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im&utm_tracker=1736664x84899) now I guess.
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Post by: Cleretic on May 07, 2017, 04:13:05 am
So the Greens are teaching the courtesy pee (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/05/05/Austrias-Green-Party-to-teach-women-how-to-urinate-standing-up/5701494016577/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im&utm_tracker=1736664x84899) now I guess.
FinchChunk, May 07, 2017, 02:42:33 am

That's Austria, not Australia! Man, that's a blast from the past, I haven't seen someone make that mistake in a LONG time.
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Post by: krytton on May 07, 2017, 04:17:10 am
So the Greens are teaching the courtesy pee (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/05/05/Austrias-Green-Party-to-teach-women-how-to-urinate-standing-up/5701494016577/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im&utm_tracker=1736664x84899) now I guess.
FinchChunk, May 07, 2017, 02:42:33 am

That's Austria, not Australia! Man, that's a blast from the past, I haven't seen someone make that mistake in a LONG time.
Cleretic, May 07, 2017, 04:13:05 am

wait are they not the same country? that explains so much. i didnt think russel crowe was born here
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Post by: FinchChunk on May 07, 2017, 04:45:25 am
I just realised this and came back to delete my post.
Now I am trapped by my own stupidity.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on May 10, 2017, 05:42:50 pm
seriously though, Bob Katter's the Parliamentary Pisspig, he loves the juice to splash off his big hat
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on May 13, 2017, 05:50:45 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ikmmiCj.gif)

Australian of the Year
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Post by: krytton on May 16, 2017, 04:25:52 am
turns out that guy wasn't australian after all

i guess you could say it's a... flase flag
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Post by: Blandest on May 16, 2017, 08:56:47 am
turns out that guy wasn't australian after all

i guess you could say it's a... flase flag
krytton, May 16, 2017, 04:25:52 am

I think he's at least an honourary Australian. He's following in the tradition of cricket streakers, and that guy who mooned the queen when she last visited.
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Post by: krytton on June 12, 2017, 12:09:19 am
mmm love me some curry on toast
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on June 12, 2017, 06:01:43 am
the word curry sounds like we've slangered it already
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Post by: krytton on June 13, 2017, 09:49:08 am
dunno why the wedgetail isnt our national bird because it beats the shit out of a bald eagle
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Post by: Blandest on June 13, 2017, 11:26:24 am
dunno why the wedgetail isnt our national bird because it beats the shit out of a bald eagle
krytton, June 13, 2017, 09:49:08 am
There's not enough meat to eat on an eagle and we need to be able to eat the animals on our coat of arms.
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Post by: krytton on June 14, 2017, 01:03:43 am
i'll eat a hundred wedgetails if we get to own the shit out of america with our giant bird
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Post by: krytton on June 19, 2017, 10:33:27 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCu5PmZUwAEDMcD?format=jpg)
caleb is a gift
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on June 19, 2017, 10:56:17 pm
cant be that hard

caleb bond's dad is james bond, explains a lot
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Post by: krytton on June 19, 2017, 11:26:33 pm
i mean what would james bond expect after naming his son caleb?
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRim-b36lVB6yEAbRKZBDJgEXh3giwQSIsFzp9wrxY2dnyU--MssTlbZiIZfA)
did he expect his boy to grow up and change his name to johnny sex? he brought it on himself really
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Post by: Muffinator on June 28, 2017, 03:58:04 am
i mean what would james bond expect after naming his son caleb?
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRim-b36lVB6yEAbRKZBDJgEXh3giwQSIsFzp9wrxY2dnyU--MssTlbZiIZfA)
did he expect his boy to grow up and change his name to johnny sex? he brought it on himself really
krytton, June 19, 2017, 11:26:33 pm
Those fingers are some horror movie shit.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on June 28, 2017, 04:01:25 am
prominent knuckles much caleb
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Post by: krytton on June 28, 2017, 04:11:32 am
🎵but hidden in his coat is a red right hand🎵
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Post by: krytton on June 30, 2017, 08:16:39 am
time to pull out the aussie memes

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDi9ytxWAAAO2SH?format=jpg)

struth
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Post by: krytton on August 04, 2017, 01:49:01 am
one underrated aspect of australian culture is when you turn 50 the government sends you a box to shit in and mail back to them
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Post by: krytton on August 12, 2017, 12:08:47 am
(http://i.imgur.com/zoz6j2O.jpg)
guys... look at this banan... look at the size of this FUCKIJNG BANANA... ITS HUGE... I CANT DEAL WITH THIS
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Post by: Ven Malakim on August 12, 2017, 01:24:01 am
man why didn't you tell me you were in town, I live like 20 minutes away from that giant sumbitch.
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Post by: krytton on August 12, 2017, 02:42:07 am
question: how do you live so close to that thing without going crazy

bananas arent meant to be that big
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 12, 2017, 08:40:22 am
Maybe if you stay far enough away that it looks regular size?

Anyone want to place bets on how this postal plebiscite thing is going to shake out?
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Post by: Cleretic on August 12, 2017, 11:04:22 am
Anyone want to place bets on how this postal plebiscite thing is going to shake out?
FinchChunk, August 12, 2017, 08:40:22 am

OKAY SO

What we've got so far:
-No real idea if the High Court challenge is going to have wings or not, from what I know the question is entirely if Whitlam's postal vote on the national anthem holds up as precedent or not.
-Postal votes tend to skew overwhelmingly towards older demographics, who tend to be more conservative.
-The ACL's propaganda machine is already revving up, as are a number of pro-marriage equality rallies.
-'Morally abstaining' appeared to be an idea gaining traction pretty early, but is getting pretty resoundingly shouted down through various high-profile social media posts. Chances are there'll be some of it, but...
-Transactions with the AEC jumped HARD on Friday, with over sixteen times the usual amount of people enrolling or updating their details. A vast majority of these people are likely doing this specifically to ensure they can vote 'yes', because conservatives tend to be pretty on the ball with updating their details and don't have a whole lot to fight for here.
-Looks like the ABS have no idea what they're doing with this, but that's something that could be resolved in the future.

So in summary, it's probably going to happen, it's gonna be an ugly as hell few months, and we have no idea how it will shake out since it's essentially a phenomenally conservative-skewing polling method clashing against exactly what gets liberal-leaning voters incensed.

Now, what'll happen after that we can't say for certain. If it comes back 'no' it's likely to just be a big depressing fight for nothing, and Labor will just pass it if they win the next election (which they probably will, barring some cataclysmic disaster). If it comes back 'yes' things get really interesting, as we don't exactly know how it's gonna shake out; Labor's most likely going to be almost all in favor, and the Greens definitely will be, but we legitimately have no idea how many are going to abide by the plebiscite, who's going to vote no regardless, and who might be swayed by more minute details. It's not something that breaks down very easily; fucking Hanson has said she'll vote in accordance with the plebiscite. So if it comes back 'yes' either we'll see it win by tooth and nail, or get knocked down by a bunch of people going against the public response, and it's pretty much all going to come down to the really esoteric Liberal backbenchers you never hear about.

...And if it gets knocked down after a 'yes' the LNP are going to struggle hard to recover from the fact they went rather specifically against the will of the people and wasted a bunch of money for nothing, meaning Labor win the next election by a landslide. And then pass it in like, the first month.
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 14, 2017, 04:18:44 am
Do we think that last one is a possibility? The plebiscite going yes but it still being voted down. If the plebiscite data is reported by electorate then there are probably some members who will reason that their electorate is against it and therefore they should/can vote against it but it seems like there'd be such a backlash against the party as a whole that the leadership would go to lengths to assure that didn't happen.

I hope that the amount of noise on social media will reduce the amount this disadvantages young people. I feel like the bigger question is how many young people just don't care, or don't care enough.
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Post by: Cleretic on August 14, 2017, 09:03:21 am
Do we think that last one is a possibility? The plebiscite going yes but it still being voted down. If the plebiscite data is reported by electorate then there are probably some members who will reason that their electorate is against it and therefore they should/can vote against it but it seems like there'd be such a backlash against the party as a whole that the leadership would go to lengths to assure that didn't happen.

I hope that the amount of noise on social media will reduce the amount this disadvantages young people. I feel like the bigger question is how many young people just don't care, or don't care enough.
FinchChunk, August 14, 2017, 04:18:44 am
Hard to say how possible 'Plebiscite returns yes but the LNP still don't pass it' is. As I said, the ones with the keys there are the esoteric backbenchers you never hear from. Across the general right-wing parties there's a relatively even spread between openly 'will abide by the plebiscite's result' (Hanson most notably, but there's others) and 'will be voting no regardless' (Abbott, Bernardi), There's also some people who haven't said but can be pretty clearly read (Turnbull will probably abide by it, Joyce likely won't (if he's still eligible to vote in the first place)). Labor will mostly be voting in support, although in some cases I imagine that it's more out of pressure than actual belief, so I'd estimate that between all those we can make educated guesses about it comes out roughly equal-ish, maybe slightly in favor of 'no'. But those known quantities aren't the entire parliament.

So it really comes down to the big swathe of MPs that you can't really judge one way or the other, the esoteric backbenchers. Both among the Liberals and Labor, to be honest, although I'd be more confident about the Labor members voting yes if only for coldly political reasons. But that's a lot of question marks in that murky middle range, enough to decide the vote even with everyone who's been up-front.
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Post by: krytton on August 15, 2017, 03:31:26 am
hey heres a cool question: are we gonna even have a postal vote now? because shit's kinda hitting the fan
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 15, 2017, 04:00:52 am
I was aware there was some sort of high court challenge but I haven't been able to find any more info on where that's at. Or do you mean BJ's trubs. I swear the first Lib friend of mine that starts trotting out that bullshit about Shorten or Wong colluding with the NZ government will have every smug thing they said about Ludlam and Waters fed to them.
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Post by: Cleretic on August 15, 2017, 04:06:02 am
The reason they went for it is because they figured they have the right to do a postal plebiscite without putting it through parliament, which is what's going to the High Court in early September. If it gets knocked down there, it's not coming back specifically because that's the reason they're going for it.
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 16, 2017, 06:12:43 am
I've just spent the last hour reading about the Charlottesville nonsense and getting very depressed about the ability of people to have civilised political discourse at all anymore. Then I watched Annabelle Crabb and James McGrath (QLD LNP Senator) eating Milo and ice-cream (http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/canberra-al-desko-with-annabel-crabb/LE1428H002S00#playing) and I felt good about life again.
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Post by: krytton on August 17, 2017, 04:33:51 am
THIS TRAIN DONT STOP

https://twitter.com/michaelkoziol/status/898108926989709312
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 17, 2017, 04:52:54 am
The Nationals are going to have to change their name.
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Post by: krytton on August 17, 2017, 05:00:38 am
🚂🚃🚃fuck +44 im all about that s44🚃🚃🚃
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Post by: Blandest on August 17, 2017, 11:28:58 am
Regardless of how you feel about the particular people caught up in this, it's a dumb rule and has no real place in the constitution. Maybe instead of the plebiscite they could just pass that shit in parliament by doing their job, and then spend the plebiscite money on a referendum to change section 44.
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 17, 2017, 07:49:33 pm
Yeah, you can see what they were going for but for a nation of immigrants it is a bit nuts. To be honest if they found that BJ was alright I'd understand as he wasn't born overseas and never utilised his citizenship, though I'd be irritated by it.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on August 19, 2017, 09:26:11 pm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11906614 (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11906614)

Hahahahaha chaos reigns
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on August 19, 2017, 09:27:05 pm
I'm a sovereign citizen now
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Post by: krytton on August 19, 2017, 09:53:20 pm
hello toowoomba i am in you.. quick question why is iT SO BUSY ON A SUNDAY AND NOTHINGS EVEN OPEN!!!!!
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on August 19, 2017, 10:24:30 pm
toowomba's a christian swamp
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Post by: krytton on August 19, 2017, 11:12:11 pm
ah fuck i had subway for lunch does that count as a baptism
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Post by: krytton on December 07, 2017, 01:23:20 am
🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺 eat shit lyle 🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺🏳‍🌈🇦🇺
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Post by: Lemon on August 15, 2018, 10:05:22 pm
So I'm gonna be in Sydney for a week and I'm currently looking for an Airbnb for the first two days of it.

Is Manly Beach cool? I'm considering it on name alone (also the price is pretty good) but I've heard it's kind of touristy? Any other suggestions not too far from central Sydney?

Also: Any of y'all wanna hang out?
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 16, 2018, 12:52:42 am
(grain of salt, I'm a Queenslander not a Sydneysider so this is from my visits, proper locals will know better despite the fact that they are otherwise moral degenerates)

The issue with Manly is if you want to get to the proper centre of town you need to get over the bridge or take the ferry which can be a hassle. It sort of depends why you're visiting and if there are particular areas you want to to have easy access to (E.g. do you want to go bar hopping, do you want to have easy access to the galleries and the opera house etc). 

When I visit Sydney I usually stay somewhere like Darlinghurst or Paddington which is convenient for going out  and near the central public transport hubs, but also because that's where my friends are and I'm going to visit the city. If you're going for more for the Aussie beach stuff Manly might still be a goer especially if you're mainly out during the day and don't mind a few ferry rides.
Bondi might be another option? Still a bit touristy but it has the beach and is on the right side of the Bay.
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Post by: krytton on August 16, 2018, 01:25:56 am
just fyi manly also has a former quarantine station which is now a hotel. ive never stayed there but boy do i want to.
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Post by: Cheapskate on August 16, 2018, 07:34:58 am
I went to Manly Beach. It wasn’t too crowded, but I wasn’t there on a hot day.

If you take the backstage tour at the opera house, they let you play the piano in the practice room, so you can tell everyone you’ve played piano at the Sydney Opera House.

Harbor cruises are gorgeous. Taronga Zoo has great views. The National Maritime Museum has cool ships and stuff. Giant Dwarf Theater hosts excellent comedy shows.

Try Vegemite.
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 16, 2018, 08:10:31 am
Try Vegemite.
Cheapskate, August 16, 2018, 07:34:58 am

Post videos.
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Post by: Lemon on August 16, 2018, 10:33:22 am
Well, I'm gonna be spending 5 days in Sydney proper, so one of my objectives for this Airbnb was to find a place that wasn't too damn far away, but would give me a different vibe than the city center.

Also, as a lifelong Midwesterner, the very idea of a "beach" confuses and fascinates me.

Here's what a beach looks like over here:
(http://www.superiortrails.com/2014images/burlington3407.jpg)

You'll notice the water is clean but nobody is it it, and that's because that's Lake Superior so it's negative one million degrees.
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Post by: Lemon on August 16, 2018, 05:40:50 pm
Update: Got impatent, booked a spot in Darling Point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Point,_New_South_Wales)
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 19, 2018, 08:09:58 am
You'll notice the water is clean but nobody is it it, and that's because that's Lake Superior so it's negative one million degrees.
Lemon, August 16, 2018, 10:33:22 am

Also someone put rocks all over the beach.
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 22, 2018, 06:46:19 am
I'm starting to worry that some people are serious about this whole Dutton as prime minister thing.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on August 22, 2018, 07:57:51 pm
australian politics is so fucking dumb. america thinks it's the worst at politics because they have one azathoth-esque idiot king but our entire political class is a hollow scramble for power by apparatchiks who inherited everything that is pathetic about this nation's culture, and do so in a way that has constantly failed for everyone involved over the course of a decade. the blatant contempt for the idea of a public good is on constant display, and it's all mired in false echoes of blokiness. Once again we have a conflict over whether we get a fascistic uncle or a suit stuffed with millions of dollars. 6th time's the fucking charm though rite
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Post by: krytton on August 23, 2018, 11:32:53 pm
we're... safe?????
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Post by: FinchChunk on August 27, 2018, 01:16:25 am
Relatively.
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Post by: FinchChunk on October 20, 2018, 11:05:40 am
Fucking loving all this stability.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on April 16, 2019, 03:30:17 am
G'day, checking in.

Glad to see that the eating of raw onions is becoming tradition for the LNP.
https://twitter.com/mattjcan/status/1117170594318041089
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Post by: Maslow’s Tweeds on April 16, 2019, 02:57:56 pm
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1116889096494825473

Wow, he’s doing worse in Sydney than my Swannies.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on April 21, 2019, 02:39:09 am
https://twitter.com/Salubrious_Rex/status/1119867867623636992

This happened next door to me today.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on April 21, 2019, 04:02:33 am
so did his house burn down?
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on April 21, 2019, 04:19:05 am
UnFortunately not, there was an abundance of damp towels in the yard that he beat it out with. I don't think he prepared them for this occasion, he just left towels and other things outside and they got wet.
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Post by: krytton on May 18, 2019, 04:47:55 am
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1129655915177635840

????????
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Post by: Mr. Hunky Academia on May 18, 2019, 04:52:44 am
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1129655915177635840

????????
krytton, May 18, 2019, 04:47:55 am

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Aj71_g7l--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/s7rkhk5vthpw51e1wawf.jpg)
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Post by: Wrought on May 18, 2019, 07:26:31 am
I'm very happy that A) the normal politics thread has been destroyed and B) now the only discussion of politics on ballp.it is australian politics
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Post by: Blandest on May 18, 2019, 09:37:25 am
I'm happy that Abbott is out. I'm sad that the lnp and Morrison are in.
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Post by: krytton on May 18, 2019, 09:45:44 am
whatever your thoughts on todays result its important to remember... tony abbott ate shit. he took a big bucket of turd and dunked his head in it. and thats a beautiful thing
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Post by: Blandest on May 18, 2019, 09:51:10 am
This is true but Dutton's head is much more shit dunkable. I guess Abbot wins on face punchabilitu.
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Post by: FinchChunk on May 18, 2019, 11:28:35 pm
I saw a quote from him somewhere that he'd rather be a loser than a quitter. Just, he was always such a fucking loser, we didn't need this to confirm it Tony.

Betoota has been on good form at least.
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Post by: Garthantash on May 29, 2019, 04:54:56 am
I am still recovering from the election result. I wish we could have booted Pyne out rather than let The Fixer slink away.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on November 13, 2020, 04:13:12 am
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/tv/russell-coights-all-aussie-adventures-saves-the-life-of-geelong-girl-bitten-by-tiger-snake-c-1554674
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on December 01, 2020, 05:36:49 am
After years of trying to find a way to watch it and finding nothing at all, I'm now downloading 303 episodes of Spicks and Specks. This might be the best thing that's happened to me all year.
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Post by: Blandest on December 02, 2020, 11:34:53 am
After years of trying to find a way to watch it and finding nothing at all, I'm now downloading 303 episodes of Spicks and Specks. This might be the best thing that's happened to me all year.
Salubrious Rex, December 01, 2020, 05:36:49 am
Good work on achieving your goal though I'm not sure it's Wil Anderson's best work.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on February 21, 2021, 06:20:19 am
The latest discovery on my attempts to find 00's Australian shows that nobody cares about anymore is this youtube channel that seems to have all of The Chaser's shows (https://www.youtube.com/c/ChaserEpisodes/playlists) if anybody is interested in some outdated and probably insensitive poor taste satire. It also has The Checkout, which I think is just Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow and not actually The Chaser, but I recall being decent and informative.

I grew up watching The Chaser's War on Everything, I had the first 2 seasons on DVD and wore them out, last I tried they were unwatchable from the years of use and handling. I'm also curious about CNNNN, I have vague memories of watching it as a child but all that I remember clearly is Fungries.

I don't know how well any of it has aged but that at least will be a fresh fount of nostalgia to distract me when I'm bored some time, assuming everything hasn't been wiped when the ABC finds out about it.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on February 21, 2021, 02:19:05 pm
CNNNN is probably gonna hold up stronger, the 24 hour news format holds up better and this country has not evolved in the slightest since then
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Post by: FinchChunk on September 18, 2021, 09:59:55 pm
How are y'all going? I'm in Qld where we're sort of blissfully unaware of proper long term lockdowns but looking at the news today and the way people on Australian coronavirus Reddit are talking (not a great source of sanity I know)  I worry for my fellow country people.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on September 18, 2021, 10:47:54 pm
How are y'all going? I'm in Qld where we're sort of blissfully unaware of proper long term lockdowns but looking at the news today and the way people on Australian coronavirus Reddit are talking (not a great source of sanity I know)  I worry for my fellow country people.
FinchChunk, September 18, 2021, 09:59:55 pm
I'm in NSW, my region was previously part of the Greater Sydney area but was recently changed to regional because that was confusing people. Unfortunately that's only emboldened people to ignore restrictions and carry on as usual.

My boss tested positive last week so I'm in isolation as a close contact for at least another 3 days depending on the result of my 12-day test today.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on September 19, 2021, 04:33:16 am
I'm in Melbourne. This lockdown's going pretty much the same as the last one for me, though I'm doing essential services work so I'm in a really solid position. Most people seem pretty relaxed, but its real bad if you aren't in a good spot like everyone who's lost work. The lack of income support is real bad, Jobkeeper and Jobseeker made a huge difference, but unfortunately the liberal party's committed to not doing that again for ideological reasons. I honestly wouldn't say I'm doing great, but I'm trucking along as well as you can. The main problems are lack of going out for dinner after work, a bad habit I thoroughly enjoyed, and how it impacts dating.

I'm mostly concerned about Sydney since that's got a bigger outbreak with more relaxed rules. Plus there's a lot more ignoring restrictions apparently.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on September 19, 2021, 05:57:22 am
I'm mostly concerned about Sydney since that's got a bigger outbreak with more relaxed rules. Plus there's a lot more ignoring restrictions apparently.
GirlKisser420, September 19, 2021, 04:33:16 am

NSW state government's pretty much given up on doing anything more at this point as well. They're sticking to the limp restrictions they've already got until 70% vaccination and then I think just opening everything up again. They've just announced an easing of restrictions in Sydney's high risk LGAs the same day as the highest number of COVID deaths in a day for the state. Hoping their transition out of lockdown goes smoothly but my expectations are so god damn low at this point.
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Post by: Blandest on September 20, 2021, 02:06:04 pm
I moved from the Gold Coast in 2016 to England right before Brexit happened and then Boris got in and now I'm in one of the worst countries in terms of the covid outbreak. My family on the coast and my sister in Melbourne can't come and see my new-born son so that's good. I hope Queensland stays reasonably untouched because lockdowns are shit.
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Post by: FinchChunk on September 21, 2021, 06:25:14 am
I moved from the Gold Coast in 2016 to England right before Brexit happened and then Boris got in and now I'm in one of the worst countries in terms of the covid outbreak. My family on the coast and my sister in Melbourne can't come and see my new-born son so that's good. I hope Queensland stays reasonably untouched because lockdowns are shit.
Blandest, September 20, 2021, 02:06:04 pm

That's rough. I have some friends in healthcare in England and I get the feeling there is a real split between general life being almost back to normal and the hospitals still being overrun, what's your experience like?
Regarding GC Northern NSW is slowly getting cases so who knows, presumably it has to come sooner or later.  My impression is there is a fair amount of anti lockdown sentiment on the Goldy, partly because they are most impacted by border restrictions, which is understandable, but unfortunate.

The main problems are lack of going out for dinner after work, a bad habit I thoroughly enjoyed, and how it impacts dating.
GirlKisser420, September 19, 2021, 04:33:16 am

That does sound like a drag. It's a bad habit I've shared.
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on September 21, 2021, 06:05:26 pm
That does sound like a drag. It's a bad habit I've shared.
FinchChunk, September 21, 2021, 06:25:14 am

once I can go out I'm basically going to do a pub crawl but for udon
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Post by: FinchChunk on September 21, 2021, 08:56:43 pm
That actually sounds amazing
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Post by: Blandest on September 22, 2021, 01:49:21 am
I mean life is "back to normal" except for the general worry that there are a bunch of people infected with covid that don't seem to give a shit. Barely anyone is wearing a mask on the train I am currently on going to work and people don't seem to give a shit about distancing anymore. I'm just trying to continue as if all the mask mandates were in place and such as it's all I can do.

I get the GC thing. I imagine it's not fun in Coolangatta and the Tweed. I've only got my friends and family to speak for and they are all vaccinated. I think it's harder to convince people when they haven't been affected by it.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on February 04, 2022, 08:54:45 pm
Aww yeah, might chuck a wobbly later.
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Post by: FinchChunk on November 24, 2022, 10:21:32 pm
Challenging truths incoming
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Post by: krytton on February 06, 2024, 09:20:43 am
oi mate whatre ya pronies