Renmark 2010 - Grandad’s roses
Okay pronunciation guide for non-Australians:
Nargh.
Aussie is pronounced pretty much like “ozzy”
NOT Auhsssie
I know right
but please.
And Australia is not pronounced
Osstralia
or Awwstralia
it’s more like “ustraylia” or “ustrayya” or just “strayya” depending on your level of bogan
And I swear to god stop saying Down Under NOBODY SAYS THAT
I’m sorry I just have a lot of feelings about this
Good News Week - Westboro Baptist Church
More from everybody’s favourite religious whackjobs.
“Do you want to see how Australia deals with the Westboro Baptist Church?”
My contribution.
Source: alittlebirdytoldmethat
There are sensitive parts of the issue which people don’t understand, which is how big a problem homophobia is for young people in our country. […] I was talking to my boyfriend at dinner and if I was with her [Julia Gillard] I would get him to tell the story that broke my heart about when he was twelve and he was getting bullied on school camp at the beach and he just ran into the ocean and tried to drown himself. Or I would tell her about… you know, I used to do stand up about bullying in school, about being called “dancing fag” or “fairy boy” and I didn’t mention in stand up the time when when three guys came up to me at a party and just kicked me in the head while yelling “Faggot, you know where you stand!” […] This is actually not a controversial issue; 63% of people want to see this, 74% of labor voters want to see this. At the moment in this country, if you are gay you’re much more likely to experience self-harm, depression, homelessness, eating disorders, drug abuse— you’re 5 - 14% more likely to commit suicide and the biggest contributing factor to that is homophobia. And the marriage act, as it stands, empowers homophobia. And that needs to change, I think.
Source: butmostlynatalie
Ghost In The Supermarket of the Day: A supermarket in Brompton, South Australia is apparently being haunted by the sweet-toothed ghost of a man who was gunned down outside the building 14 years ago.
Security cameras inside the store captured footage of a box of Fruit Roll-Ups being “flung” several meters down the pasta aisle in the middle of the night.
According to business proprietor Norm Hurst, the supermarket’s previous owners warned him the establishment was haunted. Adelaide Paranormal Detectives reportedly examined the footage and found it to be genuine.
Case closed.
[adelaidenow / videogum.]
I used to live right near this place! Avoided it like the plague but that was due more to the fact that it was set out really confusingly and always seemed to be closed.
Source: thedailywhat
Here is a thing I didn’t know about my state
“In 1893, the British colony of New Zealand became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women, and the women of the nearby colony of South Australia achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain also the right to stand for Parliament”
(from Wikipedia)
Source: robenator
The scariest thing I ever saw on Doctor Who wasn’t when I was a kid. It was a David Tennant story. The Cybermen one. On a parallel Earth. And there was another Mickey. Called Ricky. And he was a freedom fighter. And when he died Mickey decided to stay in parallel Earth and fight the Cybermen. But Ricky was obviously gay. And he had this boyfriend. So at the end of the story, Mickey and the boyfriend decide to go and liberate Paris. And I thought, hang on. Here you are, off to the most romantic city in the world, with a man that looks exactly like your boyfriend, except he doesn’t love you anymore. And he never did. Your lover is dead. But you have this reminder with you every day. A man who will never love you. Because he loves Rose. You can’t grieve properly because he’s still there. It’s like your relationship, your pain, is beneath contempt. You’re totally alone. And that was supposed to be a happy ending.
And that was the scariest thing I ever saw on Doctor Who.
Source: naekingnaequinnaelairdnaemaster
POOR RICKEY. POOR MICKEY. POOR GUY WHO LOVED RICKEY I FORGOT HIS NAME BUT POOR HIM.
Possibly my favourite moment of any TV show ever <3
(I do like this show, but it’s very problematic that so far the one regular female character, happens to be the only disabled character, and the only PoC whereas the other four are white able-bodied dudes. But considering the lack of presence the queer community has on Australian TV it is definitely all kinds of awesome in that respect!)
Source: roger-explosion
