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Bucky's avatar is scaring me. And everytime I see King Charles I can't not look at his sausage fingers, they weirdly call to the eye. I know his Mom lived for ages, but I can't imagine even with top medical science he's going to last another 10 years.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Abdication is arguably the thing that hosed it all up. It’s been downhill ever since Edward hosed off. His mum made it absolutely clear that abdicating is the one thing you can’t do in the eyes of god, that’s why she never let go On the other hand it did avoid the problem of a pro-Nazi King, so there is that
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May 7, 2023 05:27
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ya think the king and queen did the dirty in their coronation gear afterwards
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May 7, 2023 05:43
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Konomex posted:Bucky's avatar is scaring me. I'm not wild about it either but I've had too many bans to bother fixing it, sorry. I stand by the text, I don't even know if whoever bought it meant it to be an insult. And there are definitely worse pics of Jimmy, so hey. And maybe The Crown was too sympathetic to him but I'm still disappointed in how lovely Charles was through the whole thing. It was just embarrassing for everyone. NTRabbit posted:On the other hand it did avoid the problem of a pro-Nazi King, so there is that Yeah downhill for the monarchy I mean. Kind of interesting to wonder what the world would have been like without Elizabeth's reign. fake edit - but having read a bit more about it the abdication wasn't really as much of a disruption as I thought, unless Edward managed to have kids. But Albert / George VI really wasn't keen on the job and I think that flowed through to Liz too, leading to the general level of apathy we see today.
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Skynews is reporting it, so currently I find it hard to believe: https://www.skynews.com.au/australi...1ed7a196fcbe0a6 quote:Sky News can reveal there will be an increase in the JobSeeker payment “across the board” of up to $40 a fortnight, according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
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May 7, 2023 08:00
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Comstar posted:Skynews is reporting it, so currently I find it hard to believe: I heard something similar on the ABC
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May 8, 2023 06:16
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Who this yank that likes Wolfmother lmao
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May 8, 2023 06:50
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https://twitter.com/albomp/status/1655345893158326273 Guys, is Albo feeling ok? 
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May 8, 2023 07:01
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Honestly kinda weird that people think Australians are actually bothered about the convicts. Like seriously it's basically a point of national pride if anything but most of the time absolutely no one cares as anything more than a historical quirk.
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May 8, 2023 07:10
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As a white colonial music executive and convict I'm pretty concerned about this public takedown.
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May 8, 2023 07:36
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dsriggs posted:https://twitter.com/albomp/status/1655345893158326273 he's only partially reversing a Gillard government change, it used to be 16
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May 8, 2023 07:51
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howard changed it but grandfathered in all existing recipients or something like that. gillard kicked off everyone who was grandfathered in
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cohsae posted:https://twitter.com/tramsphobic/status/1655330628991332352?t=RTzJ-5sQEExsIqPD3-uKBw&s=19 This is true, but there's also the population that's a factor. Australia only has 26 million people which would make it a small market even if there were more interesting bands from there.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Honestly kinda weird that people think Australians are actually bothered about the convicts. Like seriously it's basically a point of national pride if anything but most of the time absolutely no one cares as anything more than a historical quirk. Fun fact is that before Australia the convicts were getting sent to the US.
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May 8, 2023 09:22
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Mostly because our history education and media tends to gleefully emphasise how comically easy it was to get sentenced to death or transportation in Victorian England, usually amounting to 'stealing a loaf of bread' or 'being poor in an inconvenient place'.
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May 8, 2023 09:31
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cohsae posted:https://twitter.com/tramsphobic/status/1655330628991332352?t=RTzJ-5sQEExsIqPD3-uKBw&s=19 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Mostly because our history education and media tends to gleefully emphasise how comically easy it was to get sentenced to death or transportation in Victorian England, usually amounting to 'stealing a loaf of bread' or 'being poor in an inconvenient place'. One of my favorite Ross Noble jokes is that if everyone claiming that their convict ancestry was only as a result of stealing bread was true, then Australia is literally a nation founded by angry bakers.
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The best thing azealia banks will ever achieve was nearly loving Elon musk in a threesome so she could deliver the pork skin tweet. her crowning achievement was nearly (probably) loving the worlds stupidest man. Oh no, a nation of mostly white people makes white people music that azealia doesn't get. What a scathing and deep analysis. gently caress off moron.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-MtItyOFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njk2YAgNMnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3-HOdMeuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLP8rFrL1W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYE2xhO56L4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOcUE2C0WA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z--D1flPLnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sucSnEIWf2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGomSuDPeSU Get hosed Banks tbh
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Autisanal Cheese posted:One of my favorite Ross Noble jokes is that if everyone claiming that their convict ancestry was only as a result of stealing bread was true, then Australia is literally a nation founded by angry bakers. Explains a lot tbh.
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Senor Tron posted:Fun fact is that before Australia the convicts were getting sent to the US. i think its safe to say we turned out better
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Mostly because our history education and media tends to gleefully emphasise how comically easy it was to get sentenced to death or transportation in Victorian England, usually amounting to 'stealing a loaf of bread' or 'being poor in an inconvenient place'. While it is funny that our primary schools always go with the extreme Jean Valjean angle about the convicts, it is actually objectively true that the vast bulk of them were convicted of (what we could consider to be) minor property crimes at a time of mass social upheaval and poverty as the industrial revolution mechanised people's jobs. The actual murderers, rapists etc were just hanged.
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Autisanal Cheese posted:One of my favorite Ross Noble jokes is that if everyone claiming that their convict ancestry was only as a result of stealing bread was true, then Australia is literally a nation founded by angry bakers. But bakers make the bread, why would they need to steal it?
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May 8, 2023 11:59
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NPR Journalizard posted:But bakers make the bread, why would they need to steal it? The angry bakers caused the thieves to be transported for stealing from them; thus founding the nation
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https://twitter.com/cameronwilson/status/1655364554074001410 1: like im going to have 3 million bucks in my super when i hit retirement age 2: like im going to be able to retire 3: lol
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freebooter posted:The actual murderers, rapists etc were just hanged. Some did make it through, and live on today in our NRL teams and talkback radio studios.
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Well, LegoMasters was pretty Good. The Emperor Class Titan deserved the win. I hope they do an international Grand Grand Masters one day.
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Well that's surely the first time I heard the word "shitposting" on the abc
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Calling Australia a country founded by mentally ill rejects is pretty harsh. From a class perspective it's downright offensive. And the trashing of Australia's music scene is loving bonkers, for a nation our size we have some amazing bands and solo acts.
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Konomex posted:Calling Australia a country founded by mentally ill rejects is pretty harsh. From a class perspective it's downright offensive. And the trashing of Australia's music scene is loving bonkers, for a nation our size we have some amazing bands and solo acts. 
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liking king gizzard and tame impala at the same time is such a profoundly mentally ill position that you should be able to legally force someone to take anti psychotics and effexor against their will for expressing it
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sampa the great doesnt identify as australian anymore because they are literally so ashamed of this country as well fwiw
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I don't know how you can even pretend to think you like or understand music if you don't like Regurgitator.
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Konomex posted:Calling Australia a country founded by mentally ill rejects is pretty harsh. From a class perspective it's downright offensive. And the trashing of Australia's music scene is loving bonkers, for a nation our size we have some amazing bands and solo acts. What class do you think you're in if you find calling aristocrats and bourgeoisie mentally ill rejects offensive?
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cohsae posted:https://twitter.com/tramsphobic/status/1655330628991332352?t=RTzJ-5sQEExsIqPD3-uKBw&s=19 If you have beef with promoters or executives it's weird and lovely to take it out on the artists. But there is some good analysis in there. I like watching Australians rock the poo poo out of the world stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSnr4qtwz0 Although a lot of our biggest acts aren't even really that well-known here, cos they've got their heads down on the international EDM circuit. Ghost Leviathan posted:how comically easy it was to get sentenced to death or transportation in Victorian England I recently learned about Francis Greenway. He was an architect in England. Problem was that England was more or less built, so not much work for an architect. Sydney, on the other hand, lots of work for an architect. And a better climate. But gently caress paying your own way to get over there and find accomodation etc. So he forged some bank notes or something, got convicted and sent to the colony. Even the judge was like "this was a very weird crime, he was definitely going to get caught and it's not clear what the benefit was even supposed to be". He packed his portfolio and showed it to Macquarie as soon as he got off the boat and quickly became the renowned figure he is today. And historians are still like "why on earth did he forge those bank notes, very strange", when it's hilariously obvious. Wonder how many other times that happened. Source - Grace Karskens' excellent book "The Colony" Bucky Fullminster fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 9, 2023 |
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Redezga posted:I don't know how you can even pretend to think you like or understand music if you don't like Regurgitator. PSA, there's still tickets available for regurgitator's 25 anniversary unit tour at the forum this Sunday
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