hooman posted:

I misread your post, but I think my misreading is funnier.

Starshark posted:

It is, yes.

E: One time I had an undesexed goat and it sprayed semen all over me, will that get you some yucks?

hooman posted:

Getting sprayed with goat semen sounds awful.

JBP posted:

Much like




your posting :iamafag:

Hobo Erotica posted:

Check it guys

https://www.facebook.com/ClimateChangeIsNatural/posts/1748447445207174

Edit - nvm sorry pretty obvious should have looked closer

Zenithe posted:

Ferry McFerryface unmasked: FOI reveals minister chose name, not the public

MikeJF posted:

Not just unnecessary but actively damaging, congrats. Good thing this one was 'pretty obvious', I assume if they'd faked it just slightly better you'd be spreading it everywhere and getting the other easily led ranting and raging against the drat muzzies.

Maybe if people when they saw a poo poo-stirring post took two seconds to loving think you wouldn't see a lot of what gets people going being spread about, eh

quote:

Bill Shorten promises federal anti-corruption watchdog if he wins the next election

Labor will tackle head on the "corrosive" influence of corruption in politics and establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog if it wins the next election, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised in an agenda-setting speech.

The decision to set up a National Integrity Commission - which the Greens and Nick Xenophon Team have long advocated - would cost an estimated $58 million over four years, according to the independent Parliamentary Budget Office, and have the sweeping powers of a royal commission.

quote:

Barnaby Joyce: federal Icac unnecessary as Senate has anti-corruption powers

The deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, has dismissed the idea of forming an independent anti-corruption watchdog to oversee federal politics, saying the Senate already performs the function well.

Zenithe posted:

Ferry McFerryface unmasked: FOI reveals minister chose name, not the public

Zenithe posted:

Ferry McFerryface unmasked: FOI reveals minister chose name, not the public

quote:

We always said we would just run it over summer, have a look at how it goes,” he told Channel Nine. “It’s had a bit of international recognition, bit of lighthearted fun, lots of kids taking selfies.

Anidav posted:

I will open a steakhouse with VR glasses where while you wait for your meal you follow the journey from the cow's perspective from birth to your plate.

MikeJF posted:

Not just unnecessary but actively damaging, congrats. Good thing this one was 'pretty obvious', I assume if they'd faked it just slightly better you'd be spreading it everywhere and getting the other easily led ranting and raging against the drat muzzies.

Maybe if people when they saw a poo poo-stirring post took two seconds to loving think you wouldn't see a lot of what gets people going being spread about, eh

DancingShade posted:

This but with death metal playing while you watch.

DancingShade posted:

This but with death metal playing while you watch.

Sparticle posted:

Cattle Decapitation

DancingShade posted:

Trip report: the cooked animal muscle was loving great.

I did exaggerate a bit though. I have a vegan friend and he doesn't give a poo poo when I eat a roo burger in front of him. Those anti meat protesters are simple wankers desperate for some sense of self validation.

Recoome posted:

Like I’ll be honest, what points can you make against the meat protesters that couldn’t be made against any other protest?

DancingShade posted:

Easy. It's not even a good cause.

Teddybear posted:

Ferryface is getting play internationally-- it's too stupid of a story to not. What a lovely thing to have define your career.

quote:

Transport Minister Andrew Constance will rename Ferry McFerryface after popular children's author and illustrator May Gibbs amid questions over the name's popularity in a public poll.
Gibbs, who died in 1969, was the popular children's author and illustrator who created the Gumnut Babies and Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, among other classic Australian books.
This comes after Ferry McFerryface and Mr Constance hit the headlines on Tuesday when it emerged that the name was not ranked in the top six when voting was open to the public in the Name Your Ferry competition in 2016.

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Surprise: News Corp Is Once Again Waging War Against A Young Person Of Colour

I am deeply saddened to announce that it is time to set the ‘days since News Corp breathlessly waged a smear campaign against a person of colour who said an innocuous sentence they didn’t like‘ counter back to zero. Milking the outrage of credulous racist boomers for every single click that its worth, News Corp’s nest of ideologue columnists and journalists has been prodded several times and pointed in the direction of activist Tarneen Onus-Williams.
Onus-Williams attracted the ire of Murdoch‘s goons over comments (pearl-clutchingly described by The Australian as “expletive-laden“) she made in a speech at Melbourne‘s Invasion Day march. Specifically, they took umbrage with the following section: “We have not organised this to change the date. We have organised this to abolish Australia Day because gently caress Australia. gently caress Australia, I hope it loving burns to the ground.”
Apparently not hugely familiar with the concept of metaphor, The Australian reported on the comments as a quite literal “[call] for Australia to be burnt to the ground“, despite a) how obviously it is not and b) a full-length interview with The Age the following day in which she patiently explained how language works:
"It was a metaphor, not actually a statement to be taken literally. I just want everything, all the governments to fall apart, because our people are dying and nobody cares and the whole system needs to change. The leaders of this country continue to ignore and oppress us. I am sick of our people getting locked up and dying in custody, of our young people suiciding."
But, of course, those printing presses only keep churning as long as there’s someone to vilify that’s a colour that their readers don’t like, so we’ve seen a raft of headlines launched from under the News Corp banner in the last few days: “WAR activists ramp up calls to ‘burn this colony'”, “Aboriginal activist called a ‘hypocritical hater'”, “Burn baby burn – Oz inferno”, “Nation burning’s Tarneen’s onus bonus”, “Invasion Day activist criticised after controversial remarks”, “Call for Invasion Day rally organiser Tarneen Onus-Williams to be sacked from government body”, to name a few.

Zenithe posted:

You don't think animal welfare is a good cause...

DancingShade posted:

They were harassing people eating meat.

Using your logic you should be holding a rally outside a confused Melbourne shoe shop to protest factory conditions in Bangladesh.

bandaid.friend posted:

It could only get stupider if, after it was revealed the Transport Minister had picked a name which hadn't won the one hundred thousand dollar popular vote, the Minister decided to give the ferry another name that hadn't won the vote

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-30/ferry-mcferryface-to-be-renamed-to-may-gibbs/9375688


At least Gibbs was on the original shortlist. I wonder what Constance has against Ian Kiernan?

Zenithe posted:

This is a method, not a cause. Their methods are bad, their cause is good.

Which I’ve said like, at least three times.

bandaid.friend posted:

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/news-corp-campaign-tarneen-onus-williams/

DancingShade posted:

Confusing someone who doesn't like the protest with someone who thinks animal cruelty is good and cool is also bad.

JBP posted:

You literally said it isn't a good cause, dickhead.

Zenithe posted:

You don't think animal welfare is a good cause...

DancingShade posted:

Easy. It's not even a good cause.

Conversely people protesting against unfair industrial conditions have actual merit.

Recoome posted:

Like I’ll be honest, what points can you make against the meat protesters that couldn’t be made against any other protest?

DancingShade posted:

Easy. It's not even a good cause.

Conversely people protesting against unfair industrial conditions have actual merit.

gay picnic defence posted:

What did that idiot think would happen after saying those things? I cringed when I saw that clip, what a way to undermine broader support for your cause.

DancingShade posted:

If you can't see the difference between protesting industrial award conditions and screaming outside a restaurant because you don't like how animals are farmed in a completely different location then alrighty then.

Kommando posted:

The ferry farce has a feeling of iSnack2.0 about it. Manufactured outrage to draw attention.

bandaid.friend posted:

I don't think news corp would have supported changing the date if she was more polite. They'd have found something to fault in an Invasion Day march regardless. I don't want to blame her because a media empire is intent on making targets out of women of colour who step out of line

JBP posted:

JBP posted:

Yeah it's a fine thing to care about animals and do things about it but direct action like entering a restaurant and yelling implies violence. IMO I think this kind of action is fully sick if that's your plan and you've got the will to hurt someone if it comes to it.

It's super scary when a large group of people start yelling at you apropos of nothing while you're having dinner with your mum or family though. My favourite part is the use of loud speakers to deliver missives in a lovely modern restaurant that probably echoes like a spooky cave while people a meter from the thing cover their ears. Use your lungs, it's not the Volga.