Footscray is named after Foots Cray, a locality south-east of London
nominative determinism tbh
― nakhchivan, Monday, 15 February 2010 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey don't forget Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symons.
― Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification (S-), Monday, 15 February 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i know u read bb too but
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/hot-water-over-spell-check-20100417-sksv.html
― spare the powder, spoil the finger (S-), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.reubenyau.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/blackpeople21.gif
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
haaaa
― autogoon the news (The Reverend), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ebay otm
― black people for less (The Reverend), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
rare l@@k
― Marissas now living will never her (haitch), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/error-blamed-for-racist-term-in-google-tourism-ad-20100511-ush2.html
― chillwave of mutilation (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta say, on my recent visit Australia gave the impression of being more inclusive and multicultural than it was five years ago during my last trip. I noticed a couple of things in the media examining the country's reputation for racism, and there seemed to be an effort being made to move away from old attitudes. Then again I basically stuck to metropolitan areas this time. Have you noticed a change in your time there, Jabba/Pete?
― i would rather burn than spend eternity with god and rapists (chap), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Nicholson said on his blog digitalOZ he made the discovery by accident after misspelling an acronym.
lol, it is kind of hilarious how explanations like this make the explainer seem about a bazillion times more guilty
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
everything you've heard about australia being backwards and fucking bigoted is absolutely true
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 June 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
there are plenty of good people here but fuck the braindead majority that lives on murdoch drivel and votes for the shittiest most revolting fucking bigots they can find
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 June 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/australian-party-leader-hails-speech-calling-for-final-solution-on-muslim-migration
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Is racism a particularly large problem in Australia?
https://images.thewest.com.au/publication/B88929487Z/1534316549955_G851PCINH.2-0.jpg?imwidth=800&impolicy=.auto
https://www.pedestrian.tv/content/uploads/2018/08/katter-bullshit-1-637x397.jpg
https://cdn4.techly.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bob-katter-799x423.jpg
https://1v1d1e1lmiki1lgcvx32p49h8fe-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1534306629-bob-katter-aap.jpg
http://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/9555184-16x9-large.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PHDtT4ShX-Q/Vhr3ct_fg0I/AAAAAAAAECk/qlcsHln-X_c/s640/bob%2Bkatter%2B1341075600000.jpg
What do you reckon?
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
that is the best movie villain in a minute
― imago, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
This seems a real Sydney thing though. This shit just doesn't happen anywhere else, only Sydney. I don't know why.
bet Trayce feels foolish now that rampant African gangs have made it impossible for anyone to go to dinner in Melbourne
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Hahaha yeah I read that post and loled a bit.
Fuck me Jon was an asshole. D'you know he was even worse off-board to me - he used to send me screeds of abuse on Messenger and then turn around and demand to know what I looked like in my underpants :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
Apparently Katter's background is lebanese BTW.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
Katter's paternal grandfather, Carl Katter, was a Lebanese immigrant; his other grandparents were Australian.[4][5] Despite his family history, Katter regards defining his grandfather as Lebanese as a racist slander.[6]
You couldn't make this guy up tbh.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
During their 1964 Australian tour, The Beatles were pelted by eggs from some unknown assailants. Katter, then a university student, later came forward and admitted his involvement.
... he's not all bad then.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
In November 1989, Katter claimed there were almost no homosexuals in North Queensland. He promised to walk backwards from Bourke if they represented more than 0.001 percent of the population.
... and yet.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
Hahahaha I remember that! Stupid old cnut.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 August 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
Katter is a crazed loon who is a complete joke to just about everyone in Australia under the age of 65 bar some support in the racist Deep North. He's as representative of Australia in about the same way that Tommy Robinson is representative of the UK.
There's a huge amount of racism in Australia. But having lived for long periods in both France and the UK, I don't personally think the problem is any bigger in Australia than it is in those two countries. I've certainly encountered a lot of shocking, barefaced racism in France. If I was an Arab, and I had the choice to live in either Australia or France, I know which one I'd choose.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 August 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
There's less of that barefaced insults type here (yer Blair Cottrels and whatnot aside) but there's a real creep of everyday people hating on, as an example, outspoken Aus Muslims for daring to have an opinion on their own country. The avalanche of shit copped by Yassmin Abdel-Magied was just pathetic. Thing is, I cant work out if thats not just racism but also a weird prickly insular protectiveness, if you poke ANYTHING to do with ANZACs/soldiers/the war a certain set of the community goes INSANE. And they aren't all old people either - I see it from a lot of young white men (well, if nasty facebook abuse is anything to go by anyway)
And while in her case, that was genuine racism ("how dare a MUSLIM tell us how to think on ANZAC day go back to yr own country rarrr froth"), its also happened to people like ... I forget her name, the gappy toothed feminist comedian who got in hot water for razzing on ANZACs a few years back.
This whole ORSTRAYLIAN VALUUZ bullshit gets on my tits.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Yes if I was going to implant an assassination compulsion in a Manchurian-Candidate-style operative, I'd make sure it was triggered by the word "mateship".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 16 August 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
http://www.theshovel.com.au/2018/08/16/government-denounces-blatant-racism-calls-for-return-to-thinly-veiled-racism/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link
“This sort of speech has no place in Australia’s parliament in 2018, or in Melbourne for that matter, where it’s impossible to grab a coffee these days without being accosted by a Sudanese criminal”.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton echoed the Prime Minister’s comments. “I never once used the term ‘White Australia Policy’ when suggesting that white South Africans asylum seekers should be given preference over non-white asylum seekers. Mr Anning should be ashamed,” he said.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
Yep that's pretty much pitch perfect! Dutton is absolute scum but it's Turnbull the enabler that really makes my blood boil
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
Dutton is what it says on the tin - a QLD copper.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
I hate him so much.
Fkn potato
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
Dutton is a a prize cnut. I hope we run him out on a rail he next time he sets foot in Melbourne.
The Sudanese consulate is up the high street from home. I feel like popping in with tray of coffees.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 16 August 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
Tommy Robinson's not an elected politician, also he's just out of prison. You're probably on safer ground with France.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 August 2018 07:09 (five years ago) link
So racist speech-maker Anning got 19 votes to get elected to the Senate? lol
― badg, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Senate preference deals and fucking wieird. People have no idea who they are voting for.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
Lazy fuckers need to number the boxes. How-to-vote cards are for cunts.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 16 August 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
I forget her name, the gappy toothed feminist comedian who got in hot water for razzing on ANZACs a few years back.Catherine Deveny?
Yumi Stynes also copped it over insulting Aussie Hero(tm) Ben Roberts-Smith. George Negus got off easy. I wonder why.
(Ben's having his own problems come to light recently.)
― Vernon Locke, Friday, 17 August 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
Yes, Deveny. I'm not a fan of hers but she shouldntve copped the shit she did over that.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 17 August 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
White supremacist former cop about to be PM. What a fucking shambles
― monotony, Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
ffs
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Former Queensland copper more to the point,.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
Alan Jones using the n-word on radio - welcome to the lucky country!!!!!!!
No Alan, pretty sure you can’t use that expression. pic.twitter.com/B6X42t8GPH— David Woiwod (@DavidWoiwod) August 23, 2018
― monotony, Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
well, if it wasn't a particularly large problem before, it's about to be now
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
now it seems as thoough scomo will challenge dutton. goodness me we really are spoiled for choice!
― monotony, Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
ScoMo vs Dutton. Never did I envisage the day when ScoMo might seem the best candidate
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 23 August 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Oh why wont Alan Jones just die of a heart attack already.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
69 to 68 against referring Dutton’s eligibility to the high court, Trumble cast the deciding vote
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
fuck me, i guess I may as well just burn both passports, really lucked out with the US and Aus
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
so who thinks Dutton will call an election in two months, wait until May, or piss off everyone and push it until November 2019?
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link