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radlum posted:I guess that Abbot thing is John's way to ask for forgiveness after he said the whole country was casually racist. The thing is, we are. I mean to the point where according to Section 25 of the Australian Constitution it says that the states can ban people from voting based on their race, and Section 51(xxvi) can be used to discriminate against people based on their race.
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For real... I studied abroad i Australia and was very much surprised at the casual racism. I don't know that the passive aggressive racism in Midwest is any better but it's a stark contrast.
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In all honestly the casually racist remark is spot on. The amount of times I've been hanging out with people who are seemingly awesome until BOOM! offhanded massively racist comment, is sickening. I clearly remember as a kid the first time I really noticed “people being different”. Going through the public school system ‘round Parramatta way you wind up with a hodge podge of backgrounds - when Kindy started we had couple of kids who barely spoke English but by the end of the year everyone was nattering away in the same semi-broad accent. The first time I really noticed people being different was when my family went down to The Shire for a wedding. We went into Miranda Westfield to pick up a card and the whole time something just felt… wrong. Finally it dawned on ten year old me - I’d never seen so many white people in my life. I’m Scottish. Rougey fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Rougey posted:The first time I really noticed people being different was when my family went down to The Shire for a wedding.
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Y-Hat posted:You sound more like a Hobbit. I loving wish.
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That was amazing. Thanks for bringing our lovely prime minister to the attention of a whole new audience, but the whole thing was great. A visual newspaper for a visual age. Also: I never noticed any racism as a kid in Australia, even in a fairly rough school. Don't know if it's kids that just turn into shitheads or a sign of the times or just me being oblivious, but it seems to have gotten worse lately.
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Rougey posted:In all honestly the casually racist remark is spot on. The amount of times I've been hanging out with people who are seemingly awesome until BOOM! offhanded massively racist comment, is sickening. My life was pretty similar, primary school in Parramatta was exactly like that and then I moved to Queensland and 
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What in the actual everloving gently caress?!? I want to believe that this happened in some place with recurring racist violence from police-known racist groups and not in your average australian place where otherwise completely normal people turned racist lynchmob because brown people were somehow stealing their beaches.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:brown people were somehow stealing their beaches. This is the most Australian thing.
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Wow, that loving video. Also, I guess the term "Paddywagon" still flies in Australia.
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My favorite part of that clip: "...and after two nearby bottle shops were closed around 5pm, most of the crowd began to disperse." It's like an episode of South Park come to life.
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Ok the FCC comment section seems to be working again. Also to post a comment, you have to click the proceeding number of "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet" or just go to this link: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/begin?procName=14-28&filedFrom=X So far it has 47,061 comments. I think we can do better.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Wow, that loving video. pretty common parlance up here in Canada too.
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Why don't we all throw together a bunch of PBXs and switchboards and make our own internet? It's been done for years, just not en masse. Of course I didn't sleep last night so I'm sure I'm way off of anything that could be plausible in real life. [edit: and can't find the discussion here that popped up during the Arab Spring on where it's done in the U.S. and with very detailed schematics] Hey. Hey. Don't tread on my dreams man. Paradox Personified fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Paradox Personified posted:Why don't we all throw together a bunch of PBXs and switchboards and make our own internet? It's been done for years, just not en masse. It would be easy since the internet is just a serious of tubes.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Wow, that loving video. Paddywagon is bad?
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Fateo McMurray posted:Paddywagon is bad? It refers to the van the cops throw all the drunken Irish into so yeah.
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IRQ posted:It refers to the van the cops throw all the drunken Irish into so yeah. Or more likely the Irish cops that drove them.
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Fateo McMurray posted:Paddywagon is bad? Irish slang term?
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I'll be honest, I have no idea what Caillou is, but I'm with the gently caress you caillou because his name is loving stupid.
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IRQ posted:It refers to the van the cops throw all the drunken Irish into so yeah. First victims of the causal racism in this country - In my lifetime I expect to see a feral Asian Australian telling some Ivory Coast refugees to gently caress off back to Africa... wait no already seen it.
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SpookyLizard posted:I'll be honest, I have no idea what Caillou is, but I'm with the gently caress you caillou because his name is loving stupid. Caillou is Francophone Canada's answer to Anglophone Canada's Johnny Test.
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nine-gear crow posted:Caillou is Francophone Canada's answer to Anglophone Canada's Johnny Test. Beiber makes strike 3. We need to send a nuke to the great white north.
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nine-gear crow posted:Caillou is Francophone Canada's answer to Anglophone Canada's Johnny Test. Also produced by a downright rotten company. Cartoon from back in 2000. Epic court case about plagiarism against it.
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nine-gear crow posted:Caillou is Francophone Canada's answer to Anglophone Canada's Johnny Test. Ill be honest, i have no idea what any of this means.
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SpookyLizard posted:Ill be honest, i have no idea what any of this means. Caillou is basically the French-Canadian version of Johnny Test. To understand further, go to Quebec and see how long until you want to leave.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Wow, that loving video. For what it's worth, it's called a Divvy Van in Victoria.
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Wow that net neutrality video is almost at 3 million views. The consistency with which his clips have gone viral is pretty staggering, especially after only like 5 shows.
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Yeah, he's basically the Jimmy Fallon of the political late nights.
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ufarn posted:Yeah, he's basically the Jimmy Fallon of the political late nights. But people like John Oliver.
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Paradox Personified posted:But people like John Oliver. People must like Jimmy as well. I've got a certain fondness in that pet sort of way. He's somewhat endearing even if he is too eager/excitable.
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Cerepol posted:People must like Jimmy as well. I've got a certain fondness in that pet sort of way. He's somewhat endearing even if he is too eager/excitable. They should just have Justin Timberlake take over the show from Jimmy.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tonight, I would like to show you my Sausage.
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John Oliver going in on FIFA? Niiiiiiiceeeeee.
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HOLY poo poo! NFL Teams right now are being accused of drugging up injured players. They are no where near FIFA's level of corruption. How? That doesn't look like a real movie. Well why would I wan't to watch anything FIFA after that piece John? BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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This is better Syria analysis than my undergrads can provide Edit: gently caress me what an ending J33uk fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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