Clive Palmers twitter is tweeting out appalling racist/homophobic/transphobic trash on the 14th. I really dont want to share it here, it's just... gross.
Edit: just looked it up, it's gone now anyway.
But god it is so embarrassingly obvious he's trying to ape Trumps campaign in every way, as the "rich guy who hates the system no really and I totally get you middle class whites who got fucked over by other rich people who aren't like me at all, look here's some racist memes and reminder of the words you used to say without anyone getting upset". Right down to dodgy tax returns.
Double edit: WHOOPS THIS ISN'T THE POLITICS THREAD, IT'S THE DEADLY STRAWBERRIES THREAD. Apologies.
but what I found personally interesting is that my aunt works in refugee processing for immigration (don't ask how she feels about current off-shore Australian centres, things get broken), and one of the things she finds super frustrating is when people give her a clearly pre-fabricated narrative that they've been told to use by people smugglers or similar. Because she has to note down if she thinks they're lying. She says that it's truly tragic when she can tell a person has been through hell, probably has great reasons for seeking asylum, but will only regurgitate a set of generic phrases and a highly sculpted family history.
And then I read this, and I think "yeah, because deviating from a narrative deemed 'acceptable' will also get you kicked out so what the fuck are these people supposed to even do?"
One: Stomping Grounds, but we ask very nicely that they don’t increase the volume over the course of the night because there are folks (like me!) with sensory sensitivities or audio processing issues in loud settings.
Two: We look at quieter restaurants which can probably seat a bunch of people, like maybe Lemongrass in Carlton, a Thai place not far from the CBD that seems to be constantly winning awards and also is vegan friendly.
I can look into Lemongrass specifically this week if I get an idea of numbers.
Does anyone have any thoughts on either of these?
Lemongrass does sound pretty rad, gave it a look up online, if you're happy to go take a look at it that'd be great imo
Otherwise yeah we can hopefully just fall back onto Stomping Grounds if we can't find anything else, and maybe ask if we can get seating near the edge of the space rather than the very middle...
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" these days
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
There's a scene in the TV show Love where the Australian character starts singing that song, and it's all so painfully accurate I had to hide.
although, now I think about it, "why was he born so beautiful" fits in pretty well after that.
Lots of people will "jokingly" sing the true blue song to get the birthday person to chug their drink, but if someone then launches into born so beautiful after that you know they're really going for it
This got me thinking it's funny that, at that time in a birthday celebration, usually most people are a fair few drinks in and finishing one in order to have cake, which generally won't go well with a lot of booze.
Which then got me thinking - what's the biggest chunk of beef I could realistically buy and prepare? Because I think this year I want a birthday steak.
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This got me thinking it's funny that, at that time in a birthday celebration, usually most people are a fair few drinks in and finishing one in order to have cake, which generally won't go well with a lot of booze.
Which then got me thinking - what's the biggest chunk of beef I could realistically buy and prepare? Because I think this year I want a birthday steak.
You could always pick up a few whole rumps and slice them into steaks.
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
I don't think I've ever heard that one.
HOW
Maybe it didn't make it over the nullabor in any great numbers? Usually dad got shouted down before he could get through 'why were [they] born' etc so.. perhamps it just never had a chance to flourish.
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people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
I don't think I've ever heard that one.
Also haven’t heard that one. Form a line here to hand in our True Aussie badges.
people generally jump straight to "here's to [...] he's true blue, he's a pisspot through and through, he's a bastard so they say, he tried to go to heaven but he went the other way, he went DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" there's days
I don't think I've ever heard that one.
Also haven’t heard that one. Form a line here to hand in our True Aussie badges.
Aww crap, first the nerd patch, then the man card, and now this..
to be fair, the true blue song is about getting the person in question to scull the rest of their drink while everyone is chanting "DOWN DOWN DOWN" so it probably comes up more in certain circles
This got me thinking it's funny that, at that time in a birthday celebration, usually most people are a fair few drinks in and finishing one in order to have cake, which generally won't go well with a lot of booze.
Which then got me thinking - what's the biggest chunk of beef I could realistically buy and prepare? Because I think this year I want a birthday steak.
You could always pick up a few whole rumps and slice them into steaks.
Oh shit yeah - it's also WAY cheaper - just order in a nice side of Harvey Angus rump, have your butcher dress it and cut it into inch thick rump steaks, and live like a fucking GOD. Until it runs out. Ends up costing around 1/2 - 2/3 of the price of just buying cheap rump steak a bit at a time, so it's really great and cost-effective if you have some freezer space.
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Edit: just looked it up, it's gone now anyway.
But god it is so embarrassingly obvious he's trying to ape Trumps campaign in every way, as the "rich guy who hates the system no really and I totally get you middle class whites who got fucked over by other rich people who aren't like me at all, look here's some racist memes and reminder of the words you used to say without anyone getting upset". Right down to dodgy tax returns.
Double edit: WHOOPS THIS ISN'T THE POLITICS THREAD, IT'S THE DEADLY STRAWBERRIES THREAD. Apologies.
But I feel we gotta get some ideas for numbers first.
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https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/09/15/how-europe-determines-whether-asylum-seekers-are-gay
but what I found personally interesting is that my aunt works in refugee processing for immigration (don't ask how she feels about current off-shore Australian centres, things get broken), and one of the things she finds super frustrating is when people give her a clearly pre-fabricated narrative that they've been told to use by people smugglers or similar. Because she has to note down if she thinks they're lying. She says that it's truly tragic when she can tell a person has been through hell, probably has great reasons for seeking asylum, but will only regurgitate a set of generic phrases and a highly sculpted family history.
And then I read this, and I think "yeah, because deviating from a narrative deemed 'acceptable' will also get you kicked out so what the fuck are these people supposed to even do?"
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Lemongrass does sound pretty rad, gave it a look up online, if you're happy to go take a look at it that'd be great imo
Otherwise yeah we can hopefully just fall back onto Stomping Grounds if we can't find anything else, and maybe ask if we can get seating near the edge of the space rather than the very middle...
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To be fair, mostly people only get as far as the first line before being drowned out in groans.
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There's a scene in the TV show Love where the Australian character starts singing that song, and it's all so painfully accurate I had to hide.
Lots of people will "jokingly" sing the true blue song to get the birthday person to chug their drink, but if someone then launches into born so beautiful after that you know they're really going for it
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Which then got me thinking - what's the biggest chunk of beef I could realistically buy and prepare? Because I think this year I want a birthday steak.
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You could always pick up a few whole rumps and slice them into steaks.
I don't think I've ever heard that one.
this is the most suspicious thing you've ever said
HOW
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Oh I don't know about that..
Maybe it didn't make it over the nullabor in any great numbers? Usually dad got shouted down before he could get through 'why were [they] born' etc so.. perhamps it just never had a chance to flourish.
Also haven’t heard that one. Form a line here to hand in our True Aussie badges.
Never heard it though.
Aww crap, first the nerd patch, then the man card, and now this..
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i will make you all scull your drinks
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Oh shit yeah - it's also WAY cheaper - just order in a nice side of Harvey Angus rump, have your butcher dress it and cut it into inch thick rump steaks, and live like a fucking GOD. Until it runs out. Ends up costing around 1/2 - 2/3 of the price of just buying cheap rump steak a bit at a time, so it's really great and cost-effective if you have some freezer space.
fuck goddamnit blake you just got that back in my head
I worked there for over 8 years
after they started that song it was pure torture every time it played
thankfully my job never entailed putting one on