“Smells like teen spirit” indeed.
Still, more than a few young students lost their virginity in those music rooms, as the stains on those corduroy bean bags would attest.
The romantic ambience of Pink Floyd and quality Indonesian hashish was, I was told, ruined by the lingering stench of Quellada lotion.
… which were notable for their excellent speakers, corduroy bean bags, dim lighting, eternal stench of marijuana and pubic lice infestation.
At the University of Adelaide, some time between, oh, 1977 and 1982, the student union building had a couple of music listening rooms…
@expectproblems I’m sure I’m not THAT predictable. And, since there is no dissent, I assume I’m correct.
@expectproblems So, crabs. You’re talking about crabs?
“So, grandkids, I can remember when we just had a normal Moon. Just a big sphere of rock, it was. But then it became Super.”
“Supermoon” is bullshit anyway, unless you think “super” means “a little bit bigger than average”. No? Exactly. It’s all bullshit.
Yeah you people should learn how to look up things on the internet. Do you know what the “internet” is? How about “things”?
@druey I still haven’t seen the second set of three. No rush. That sort of TV drama takes time to make.
@NewtonMark Look, one thing at a time, of these people’s heads will explode. Oh. As you were. Go for it.
So you fucktards going on about the “supermoon” do know it was 24 hours ago, right?
I’ve been enjoying the TV series “The Tunnel”, based on the Danish series “The Bridge”, which has an excellent tabloid troll character.
Hildebrand in man employed to be a troll being a troll outrage.
Yes, yes, off you go, people, and whinge about the Hildebrand. It will make a difference*. [Pats your head gently.]
@stufromoz She.
Oh this looks like fun. Thanks, @Kate_McClymont and @lb_online. pic.twitter.com/QRyuDCK5bn
He started it.
@jplonie “Wi-Fisting”?
@robcorr This is my hope also.
@robcorr I can’t be arsed reverse engineering IPA’s web presence infrastructure right now, so I’ll assume it’s like most and is rubbish.
@robcorr Your interpretation is correct. I’ve never had anything where I’ve felt the need to turn that on.
@robcorr Oh that’s a point. I guess sometimes people turn that on instead of getting a halfway decent web server.
@robcorr Pissy little traffic spikes of a few thousand requests are nothing. They handle MUCH bigger than that.
@robcorr IPA paranoia isn’t an input into Cloudflare’s systems. I use them myself for a few bits and pieces.
The taxi thing has happened and, apart from some snark from the driver, I am safely back at @bunjaree. With a #trollchinus.
@robcorr Cloudflare to anti-DDoS protection. Generally if there’s a pause to confirm you’re legit there’s something going down.
I just caught the train from Katoomba to Wentworth Falls, but now I have to wait for a taxi to be sent down from Katoomba.
@robcorr So you know what Cloudflare is doing there?
That means that right now I am sitting in the dark in freezing temperatures to save $15.
So how village life taxis work is that you wait 15 minutes in zero degree temperatures for the taxi, or catch it from Katoomba and pay more.
No, really, stop sending me your peanut butter stories.
@iain_chalmers That place needs to be burned to the ground to save our species.
@R_Chirgwin Yeah the gas water heater thing needs to be followed up. That was just bullshit.
Feelpinions + Television = Wisdom.
I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU DID WITH THE PEANUT BUTTER OR HOW ENJOYABLE IT WAS.
I am now receiving reviews of various Dick Smith condiments. I should have realised. I am an arsehat.
@SnarkyPlatypus Look, you thought that sleep could make the #thorpocalypse go away. You poor deluded fool.
As far as I can tell, the person saying that has precisely zero direct knowledge or experience of Dick Smith’s operations. But, you know.
“They do have taste testers but they just don’t understand Australian standards.”
“The only selling point is that it’s Australian owned, not because it’s any good. It’s all shit.”
OH: “Are any of those foods Dick Smith sells any good?” “No, they’ve vile. The tomato sauce is bearable, but the biscuits are disgusting.”
glengyron Tonight we bubble for Joe Hildebrand.
@engin_eer Pretty much.
Fuck. I have tweeted feelpinions about the Thorpe thing. It’s OK, everyone, I’ll be throwing myself off a cliff soon enough.
Now, any editor that runs a story that’s nothing more than “Twitter’s response to @IanThorpe’s news” should just kill themselves now, right?
Sorry, my immediately previous tweet was also meant to include the words “smug solipsistic cunts” but, you know, 140 characters.
Dear Australian Faggots, the experience of “being gay” extends much further than 400 metres from Taylor Square. Do try to remember that.
OK, I’m detecting from my view of the Twitterverse that Mr @IanThorpe has done good tonight. Despite jokes from smug inner-urban poofs.
@MarkDiStef @BuzzFeed Gosh. Thank you.
@MarkDiStef Also, I haven’t said “Congrats!” yet for the @BuzzFeed gig. Break a leg.
@MarkDiStef Indeed. I’ve only met her in formal situations, but, yeah, one can tell. It’d be a great session.
1950s FFS, that @MarkDiStef’s life expectancy is plummeting daily.
@MarkDiStef We are agreed. [Nods.] Out of those three I’ve only met Fraser. But I understand all three are lovely people.
@MarkDiStef At least Our Thorpie didn’t get rat-arsed and steal a flag from the palace.
@MarkDiStef Oi! I wasn’t around in the 1950s either, you disrespectful whippersnapper. :P But Ms Fraser also speaks about the pressure.
I may have to kill @drearyclocks. [Law enforcement, please ignore this tweet.]
@MarkDiStef Are you sure you haven’t forgotten Dawn Fraser? In the context of the media in her time, wasn’t it the same thing?
@drearyclocks That was ballsy.
@mr_gadget Indeed. And concepts of personal privacy are very different. We should compare notes later.
@fieldproducer But I do know that the power of such a respected Australian could make a difference.
@fieldproduce Thanks for that. They’re huge issues in my world. I’m just at the pub right now and haven’t seen it yet.
@drearyclocks Wait. I already file for a Rupert masthead. Conflicted.
@mr_gadget See, that’s an interesting observation already. I don’t know HK first-hand. I await.
I’ve not met @fieldproducer, but that’s an interesting observation.
fieldproducer If used in education the Parkinson interview with Ian Thorpe could really help kids in discussions around mental health & sexuality.
@mr_gadget I’m intrigued about social aspects. When is it appropriate to be turning your environment into a data source, how people respond?
mrgrumpystephen Here’s my real opinion piece though: everything is terrible and everyone is awful.
@mr_gadget I’m glad. Actually, I’m interested in your experience and, even moreso, those around you.
@ladyhana Nup. It’s all misery.
@drearyclocks So there’s basically no way I can respond to your tweet and win, is there. You bastard.
RT @mrbenjaminlaw: Fuck I just want to break into the TV and give the guy a hug. [Which is why we have OH&S rules.]
RT @mr_gadget: first tweet from Google glass #throughglass [It’s not too late to kill yourself and save our species.]
Apparently @mrgrumpystephen thinks you’re a “loser” if you’ve missed one of the 45,000,000,000 things on the internet. The loser.
@johnthelutheran In a way that’s even more sad. My trip to Cronulla revealed one guy who’s “racism” was more about nostalgia.
paulkidd Will #Thorpe have to give back all his medals now? After all he won them at the straight Olympics.
So I’m assuming @FrannyHilIson is a satirical account? Surely no actual human could be this ignorant? twitter.com/FrannyHilIson/…
@TheLoudestVoice @R_Chirgwin Yes, that’s right.
God, now I feel like a deleted scene from an ABC Sunday night political thriller.
@ethicalmartini Well, everyone’s personal experience is different.
RT @R_Chirgwin: Should not be so hard to buy a gas oven without getting ripped off. [That’s what Hitler said.]
Uhoh.
@jonoabroad @R_Chirgwin Nah, they don’t bother will all that old-school stuff any more. They just hack all your stuff. Allegedly.
RT @juhasaarinen: My theory is that #Thorpe came out and caused @stilgherrian’s bins to be stolen. [Pretty much, yes.]
RT @jonoabroad: I know your not a polar bear, but it is fun to think you are. [My phone number is on my website. Let’s talk later.]
RT [REDACTED]: “gen-y spooks are lazy cnuts” [Exactly. There was a time when they’d put a bit of effort into it.]
@jonoabroad @R_Chirgwin Yeah yeah, years ago, during the First Gulf War.
This whole “We’ll surveil all the things” thing is just lazy, impersonal and inelegant. Where’s your sense of style, guys? You lazy sods.
I miss the days when you’d be walking and a car would cruise up to you, the spooks would say hello by name, and just explain the damn issue.
@R_Chirgwin No, no. Ancient news. Bins stolen. And, I’m sure in a COMPLETELY UNRELATED incident, my laptop and phone.
@R_Chirgwin Yeah, well, it’s a thing that happens. “They” steal your bins and go through them. I’m kinda over that lame bullshit.
I assume that’s just because these days it’s easier to just pwn my laptop and phone that fuck about with my trash.
It’s been years since anyone has stolen my bins. The last time was during Gulf War I when I was writing for a energy industry news site.
Gavin_Conroy Spitfire pair on patrol pic.twitter.com/SOhq8EsTxN
This internet thing is useless.
swearyanthony Kill the yuppies, take their bins.
@WP_DownUnder Damn. It’s offline. Otherwise I would troll with that like nobody’s tomorrow.
@mischbypls @BernardKeane No, it’s a statement, or hope, that a fellow human’s private life should not be yet another fucking media circus.
As I said earlier, I am so glad the front bar at [REDACTED] has Mr Nick Cave’s “Murder Ballads” on high rotation.
@AttardMon @marcuskelson So what you’re saying, in essence, is that we should all just kill ourselves right now. Gotcha.
So, Internet, how do I watch the #thorpocalypse live RIGHT NOW? Or is the internet “everything but live TV”? You have seven minutes.
Oh. Sooner that two hours? Where’s the live stream? #thorpocalypse
In just two hours, Australian television will face the Thorpocalypse.
@troyhunt As an aside, @haveibeenpwned has allowed me to Make A Point to a few clients who were pwned. So thank you.
@troyhunt “Kill all zealots!”
@troyhunt Oh there is that. Is this where I mention Perl? ;)
@troyhunt Serialisation should be punishable by death, truly. We invent databases and then use that shit.
@BlogsofWar It just occurred to me that I have no idea where on the planet you are.
@BlogsofWar I shall, thank you. After a bite to eat I’ll have a whiskey in your name.
RT @flexnib: Imagine if he doesn’t actually come out! [That would be the most magnificent troll ever!]
RT @sylmobile: sugar glazed, Nutella filled scroll [Worst. Orgy. Ever.]
@BlogsofWar Everything is under control, yes. It’s another lovely winter evening in the Blue Mountains.
dailydot Aaron Swartz doc ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’ knocked off YouTube by bogus #DMCA claim: bit.ly/1s4Camd
@deconverter Stop it, stop it, stop it.
Damn. I’ve misjudged my drinking rate of dark ale in relation to the closing of my bar tab and the train timetable. More ale then, I guess.
@deconverter Oh dear. Now I am confusing the two stories and this will not end well.
I particularly like GLBTILOLWTFBBQ “activists” who’ve been saying “It’s a personal issue” before launching into their “He should…” bleats.
It’s particularly special* that so many people have written and published their feelpinions without having seen the interview. Ethics FTW!
Scary thing is, the TV interview with the famous sportsplasher hasn’t even been aired yet. Imagine what it’ll be like once it has.
@virag064 Agreed. :) [Bows.]
SwiftOnSecurity I don’t use Facebook.
“Why not?” is the wrong question.
The right question is, “What does Taylor Swift know that I don’t?”
RT @jonathonio: “Denton, who wields sway with younger audiences” run that past me again [Oh Earthlings, you are all so cute!]
@virag064 This is quite true. But for now. it’s tonight’s Media Fascination. Poor bastard.
@virag064 I’m not having a go at you. I’m just frustrated about the unfolding public spectacle, and everyone having a feelpinion.
How about you get off your own arses, and do something for Australia yourself, instead of being patriotism vampires on children?
It’s your selfishness, demanding that strangers perform for you like dancing bears, that created this fucking problem to begin with.
Jesus wept, people. You aren’t content with someone winning eleventy gold medals for sportsplashing, now you want him to solve human rights?
@virag064 No he doesn’t. Leave him alone. It’s none of any of our business.
@juhasaarinen Stop it. You’re a grown man. Get a fucking grip.
@juhasaarinen Kill yourself.
@scott_thewspot I did trial a Lumia 1020, and was very impressed, but no I do need something with a better lens again.
@RealNickHodge The audio production in that is just spot on.
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I really need to get a proper camera.
One hour until sunset, Katoomba instagram.com/p/qYW57CiFtq/
Just to be clear, I’m not really a polar bear.
@stufromoz Yeah but starting your own Wikipedia page is tacky and against their policies. Rightly so, too.
Oh that’s right. I’m meant to be thinking up story pitches and sending them off so I have some paying work this week. Nah. Another ale.
@einspruch @RealNickHodge OK, that’s too weird.
@CosmicRami Yeah, but I treat the personal parts as an early attempt to do psychological typing. MBTI is little better statistically.
NerdcoreBlog 3D-Printed Open Source Medieval Armor for Barbie crackajack.de/2014/07/12/3d-… pic.twitter.com/ftRKJx7I9D
@RealNickHodge I remember with great fondness the time we brought ABC Adelaide to a standstill when he launched a mock homophobic attack.
@RealNickHodge Yeah, he is nice guy. Spent a couple long nights drinking with him when DAAS was just about to become famous.
@CosmicRami I’d better not tell you that I’m trained as an astrologer then. Thought it might be a contrast to all the hard science I did.
God that brings back memories. Is Paul McDermott still a thing?
In public. On a Sunday morning at around 1100 . On Montefiore Hill in Adelaide.
This is true, though, @RealNickHodge. I am the only person to have been in bed with all three members of DAAS simultaneously.
@RealNickHodge Three.
@CosmicRami No, we’re clear. NASA use it and have a definition, but the term was coined by an astrologer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon
So, hypothetically speaking, how would you get a gig “educating” Channel Seven presenters about gayness? And do you get to choose?
The sad thing is, @CosmicRami, I think it was someone at NASA. #icemoonprison
CosmicRami I’ve decided the person who coined the term “super moon” shall have their own private suite on the #icemoonprison … So tacky.
@prestontowers @fivewalls Russian Ark was glorious, but a complete wank. [Shrugs.] It was video art rather than drama. YMMV.
RT @mattdasilva: You do actually have two heads ..? [Yes.]
Excellent. I just found the first incorrect fact about me on Wikipedia. But I’m not going to correct it because it works in my favour.
So he has his own Wikipedia page and I don’t. Humph.
@prestontowers @fivewalls Yes, but his TV work goes back some years before that, including SBS’ “The Movie Show”, and bunches of radio.
@fivewalls @prestontowers Ah. You’re referring to someone I work with sometimes. Tastes differ. But I think your timelines are wrong.
SERIOUSLY PEOPLE IF YOU ARE STILL TWEETING FEELPINIONS ABOUT THORPE THEN FFS CATCH UP WE’RE ONTO DENTON NOW.
Oddly, I thought that in a democracy anyone was welcome to express their political opinion. Obviously Denton and I didn’t get the memo.
@fivewalls @prestontowers I have no idea who you’re talking about.
@fivewalls @prestontowers I don’t quite see why speaking confidently is a bad thing. It’s actually Media Presentation 101.
RT @benpobjie: @prestontowers @stilgherrian he’s wrong about the ALP though: standing for nothing isn’t a bar to being elected. [True.]
sirajdatoo Oh, ICYMI, this is how many people were discussing the data retention bill allowing govt to retain all your metadata pic.twitter.com/q7jUlESWK4
RT @Andrew_Zammit: He expressed an opinion on something. [How dare he. HOW DARE HE! WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS, WITH AN “OPINION”?]
RT @prestontowers: He said the ALP is unelectable because they seem to stand for nothing. Plus, Greens are ineffective. [Well, um, duh!]
RT @benpobjie: because he said some things about the government and we’re all jealous that he’s more famous than we are [Oh is that all.]
Should I ask? OK, I’ll ask. Why are some people launching into a whingefest about Andrew Denton? Will I now regret asking?
RT @BobGrrl: Did your other shopping include boots? pic.twitter.com/WFEUsqyxz5 [No. But clearly it should have. For so many reasons.]
@BobGrrl Oh, then again.
@BobGrrl Other.
RT @mattdasilva: Is that with gin in it? [That’s a gimlet, you arsehat. Though maybe a piglet could be a gimlet with bacon, for breakfast.]
I want a piglet now.
Because I follow @JohnBirmingham, I have discovered that @tinderfessions is a thing. A very interesting and amusing thing.
NewtonMark “A selection of the things described in the Guardian as ‘iconic’ in a heady fortnight in 2010.” arseh.at/4kj2
@jeamland Yes. Yes I do. It probably is a piglet, by the way.
@Chiangrabbo Well played.
Pleased that the front bar at [REDACTED] still has Mr Nick Cave’s “Murder Ballads” in their regular rotation. It always cheers me up.
@jeamland No. They shouldn’t.
This is a brief tweet to acknowledge that I say @RealNickHodge’s “Countdown” link earlier but am now politely ignoring it.
@profsarahj A Skype link for video both ways would be cheap and easy to set up and help the interaction no end.
@profsarahj True, my point was kinda off-topic. Agree you’re at a disadvantage when you’re in a remote location. They should use video.
What shopping I am going to do has been done. I’ll get the shifter when I’m next in Sydney. Which is Tuesday. Winter ale time.
@franksting No, just that one man. My lack of surprise was based on his personal contributions to the relaxed Sunday atmosphere.
Town Centre instagram.com/p/qYJwFgCFsQ/
Ah. That’s a “Target Town & Country”, which has no hardware section. But, The Veronicas. Conflicted.
Well I’m in Target now and they’re playing The Veronicas so obviously everything is perfect.
@myxer99 Yes. Big W had no sets and wanted $19.95 for a single cheap-arse 250mm shifter. Fuck that. That’s not why China was invented.
I’ve left them to it. I’m heading off to revel in the glorious excitement of buying a new shifting spanner.
Double negatives are tricky and potentially incriminating.
@mrgrumpystephen Also, enough of my so-called friends are arsehats, I don’t need any more.
@mrgrumpystephen What, like pigs and cows are really nice on the inside? Are you suggesting I cook and eat the backpackers?
@Joshua_Glenn That was “reasonable expectation of privacy”, but iOS was “helping” as always.
The guy with the thick Irish accent: “So many of my problems have been caused by alcohol. So many.” I am shocked by this revelation,
NewtonMark Worst saddle rash ever. RT @inhabitat: What do you get when you cross a bike with a chainsaw? arseh.at/4kj0
@SnarkyPlatypus I was thinking that. There’s at least one female Estuary accent in the group.
@Joshua_Glenn One could argue that the front bar has no “reasonable speciation of privacy”, but sound quality matters.
@Joshua_Glenn My iPad is bigger and has poorer microphones than my Zoom H2. Also, NSW Surveillance Devices Act 2007, and ethics.
Oh dear God, the ringtone on her phone is Yazz, “The Only Way Is Up”.
No #RI in the group, so my decision is “No”.
Hmmm… I have my audio recorder with me. Can I be arsed interviewing them?
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Imagen having a ‘Pan-European’ restaurant. [I’m all for paella with sauerkraut and feta, obviously.]
“In Spain one night we had three jugs of sangria in the first 20 minutes and we were falling over everywhere. I love Spain, it’s so cheap.”
I’ve gotten another glass of wine. I’ll stay a listen a while longer. This is excellent.
Male, accent sounds like Sheffield area, boasting how he could eat “a whole one of those roasts”.
“Asian.”
“”I’ll show you the real Asian,” says a young Cockney woman. “I’ll take you to Dixon Street.”
A young man explains in a thick Irish accent how Korean food isn’t quite like yum cha.
It appears that their understanding of “Australia” extends to 250 metres from Railway Square, and their train to Katoomba this morning.
Ah. Backpackers. “There’s so many different kinds of Asian food in Sydney, it’s confusing.” I see.
RT @GuardianAus: Channel 7 commentator will be ‘educated and counselled’ after gay slur trib.al/EjEW1FB [#gayreeducationcamps]
One of the older women lunching here today sounds just like royals correspondent Gaye March from @madashelltv.
PlaneTalking #Airbus says factory hourly rates lower in US than China. This-has-implications! blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2…
@SnarkyPlatypus @carlyfindlay A lot of “traditional” food assumes low labour costs, with family or servant labour.
Flashbacks, eh?
@profsarahj Yep, I got the import of Article 2 immediately. A shame that “Stop the boats” and “orderly migration” we’re assumed goals today.
@carlyfindlay @SnarkyPlatypus Perhaps, but when labour costs count, nothing beats chucking a few spuds into the oven.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yorkshire pudding is a bit labour intensive for a $15 Sunday roast, I suspect.
@profsarahj Thanks.thats the first time I’ve looked at any of that law. It looks… tricky.
Sunday roast instagram.com/p/qX-QR8CFof/
Winter sky, Katoomba instagram.com/p/qX97priFn8/
@scottcarson1957 @BBCNews @rodstewart @SusanBoyleHQ Yeah, I don’t think the bookies will be giving very good odds on that one.
Remember “Her Majesty’s Disco Stick”? stilgherrian.com/humour/her-maj…
I wonder whether this Commonwealth Games will finally have a Torch that doesn’t look like a robotic slug.
MT @BBCNews .@rodstewart & @SusanBoyleHQ set to perform at Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. [Wrestling. Tell me it’s in the wrestling.]
People of Earth, your planet is not as advertised in the brochures.
Mango the Ferret is missing! instagram.com/p/qX572YiFhV/
Happy Sunday, near Wentworth Falls instagram.com/p/qX5X62iFgj/
Yes, just to be clear, @dannolan, I discovered “Drawn Together” a long time ago. Today’s discovery was so many episodes on the Tube.
Mobile: Walk dirt track then Railway Pde to Wentworth Falls; 1210 train to Katoomba; Sunday roast; shopping; remainder TBA.
“Suspicion breeds confidence.”
@cathywilcox1 “One small feline is all that lay between death and survival…”
Someone on my timeline just mentioned “Drawn Together” and so I am pleased to discover this on YourTube. youtube.com/watch?v=JrZ2ci…
@melissamadsen Oh thanks. I wasn’t sure how it was working with just me and @marcfennell and no second guest. Glad it worked.
@swearyanthony @mikedayawake According to @ChrissieM they’re bing sold at the House.
saladinahmed 1899 account of a “lady cyclist” who “used her fists in scientific fashion” on her harasser. pbs.twimg.com/media/BsQi252C… pic.twitter.com/ZsBriVgHxj
ICYMI, me “helping” @marcfennell do @DownloadABC this week all by myself. abc.net.au/radionational/… And on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=fQWygz…
ICYMI, me at @zdnetaustralia Friday: “Big data is just a big, distracting bubble, soon to burst” zdnet.com/big-data-is-ju…
@SnarkyPlatypus @michaelneale Careful. That’s what Fitzsimmons said.
@Jin_Shei @safzoro @strange_signs @pingudownunder Yes, I understand that geese can make excellent guardcritters.
Sun plan: Plan week ahead; Sunday lunch, Katoomba; shopping; continue planning the week ahead, with extreme prejudice; reading and research.
RT @mikedayawake: “Please… kill me…” pic.twitter.com/h7WpvSKuUn [Also, burn the Sydney Opera House down to the waterline. Jesus wept.]
RT @cathywilcox1: Tony “People skills” Abbott charms the PUPs. pic.twitter.com/s12T7jrsR4 [Well done. Did you kill the other cartoonist?]
Well the goose thing seems to have struck a chord.
@SnarkyPlatypus Probably not, but I’ve sent you the link anyway.
@scottcarson1957 @SnarkyPlatypus @RNBreakfast Aha! “A paradigmatic violation of the right to be recognized as a person before the law.”
Fuckin’ hilarious. You hypocritical turds.
People’s Fitzsimmons Feels are strong today. How dare he reflect on a social issue from a different viewpoint than your own. How DARE he.
Oh. Of course Australia isn’t signatory to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Wait, as I read that, Australia isn’t a signatory? treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDeta…
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDeta…
@scottcarson1957 @SnarkyPlatypus Oddly, someone on @RNBreakfast just suggested reading Article 2 of ICCPED on “enforced disappearance”.
@scottcarson1957 @SnarkyPlatypus Yeah, Little Ally’s current government, the adults in charge now, seems to have Everything Under Control™.
@scottcarson1957 @SnarkyPlatypus Yeah we’ve got that sorted. Except for some glitch with the so-called “High Court” and “international law”.
@garthk Well that was remarkably easy.
@scottcarson1957 @SnarkyPlatypus Well same here in Little Ally. Except for Sri Lankan children. If any of them reach shore we’re screwed.
RT @strange_signs: Not a sign you see everyday. pic.twitter.com/X7h7oRU7zG [We need more of these geese. HT @pingudownunder]
@SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers I’ll teach you how to say it in Thai with proper tone. That’s more advantageous for you commercially.
Everybody dance now.
RT @Chilp: Why not just dump it into the water, mate? [Choke points in water systems. Easier to clean. I’ve thought… wait, no, I haven’t.]
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: @stilgherrian You should stick with retweeting me. That always makes you the good guy. [Quite true, my love.]
Sure, @SnarkyPlatypus, but remember who our Big Ally is, how much they pwn Australia, who gutless our “leaders” are, and who Big Ally fears.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: If Tones really does side with Japan over China in their territorial disputes… *facepalm*
@kcarruthers No, we can’t be sure of that at all.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, Mr Rabbit’s vision* for the future has been particularly impressive* this qweek.
The Palmer United Party (PUP) policy development process explained. pic.twitter.com/xemUQSZxHN HT @theretronaut buff.ly/1nikpYR
So was this photo taken before or after Prime Minister Abe decided to take Mr Rabbit out for a few drinks? pic.twitter.com/TmB3GtC9vO
@SnarkyPlatypus Such ideas have been very much on the thoughtful person’s agenda here in Australia this week. Also pic.twitter.com/TmB3GtC9vO
It’s good to see that my comments re Japan have been retweeted into the arms control wonkosphere. That should help my diplomatic career.
“The Brookings Center Doha”? Lulwut?
This is called the Cooperative Arrangements Regarding Nuclear Waste Disposal. We dispose of the waste and then you cooperate.
And the quickest way to get rid of all that unwanted nuclear waste is out the rear ramp door of a C-130 over particularly annoying nations.
I can’t wait until Japan decides “fuck this” regarding its dodgy nuclear reactors, pulls their cores, and smears them all over East Asia.
@stufromoz @RealNickHodge @gavialzola @BabyAnimalPics I’ve already had breakfast, thanks.
RT @mongrel43: What’s a thought leader? [Exactly.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Don’t your laundry staff fold your clothes? Time to fix that, I’d say.
@Secbuff Now I’m curious about how the language has changed over time. A TV show I saw yesterday used “drone”, not “bot” or “zombie”.
@Secbuff Gotcha. I think I’ve heard “pivot” used in that context, yes, but I’m more familiar with “beachhead” or “staging point”.
@Secbuff It’s too early in my day to make the right connection there.
Only “thought leaders” use the word “pivot”.
RT @markparton: -5 degrees always looks divine at sunrise. This was in Tuggeranong. #cbr #canberra pic.twitter.com/n8spyU5WQh [Lovely.]
Sun plan, draft: Plod through the backlog of certain tasks; Sunday lunch, Katoomba; shopping; plan the week ahead, with extreme prejudice.
Oops, sorry @RNSundayExtra, I forgot to tweet that tweet with the hashtag #fauxnetics so there it is.
So, @RNSundayExtra, “esculators”? I see. [Walks away slowly, shaking head, phoning for an “ambliance”.]
@SnarkyPlatypus So do I. Two weeks ago at 0930 Sunday the apparent temperature in the upper Blue Mountains was -12C.
@SnarkyPlatypus Canaux sont toujours commode.
RT @jendudley: Even I am pretty sure this wouldn’t work. Pretty sure. #latergram instagram.com/p/qXcUX3qmQz/ [Try it. Try it. Try it.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis ennuyé avec l’univers entier. Il doit être empêchée. Et vous?
There. Now to wait for the other one to do the same.
Well, I know what avatar I need to celebrate* this fact.
Oh FFS.
Round numbers at dawn instagram.com/p/qXZcxfCFnb/
Sunday. The chill pervades your entire body. Your blood congeals. Your life force is ebbing. And God is laughing at you. Sunday.