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  1. 14 hours ago, iococoi said:

    the struggle

     

    Nice, love how dicey that brick roll looks. The confidence at raising the lid just screams I've done plenty like it. The falling lid almost wipes out the accomplice.

    When the lid bangs they must have an "oh crap" moment hoping no one noticed. They'll deal with that too in time.

     

    Something therapeutic about these videos (unless you were a beak dentist or resident). I used to live in these areas and those birds are plague-like. The smaller red bin are the general household waste usually picked up weekly. Imagine if they tried to open your yellow recycling lid for some misplaced goodies, could out you as a grub to the whole street ?

    some more:

     

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  2. Some other points:

    Median age is 38. 48.2% have a parent born overseas.

    Millennials (Gen Y) and Boomers have drawn level as the largest generation demographic (both about 5.4 million)

    Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders are 3.2% (an increase), and 167 different First Nations languages are spoken at home by about 10% of them. Their median age also increasing.

    5% of households report at least 1 member who has served in the ADF (military). 85K currently serving and 496K formerly served.

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  3. Australia's 2021 Census data is rolling in and apparently (all denom) Christianity (43.9%, down 8.2% from 2016) and 'no religion' (38.9%, up 8.8%) are converging neck-and-neck. In 2026 'no religion' might overtake as our official leading response to 'what is your religion?'. God bless!

    That Christianity figure has halved in a half century (86.2% in 1971). "In 1971 the instruction 'if no religion, write none' was introduced. This saw a seven-fold increase from the previous census year [0.8% in 1966] in the percentage of persons stating they had no religion" (ABS).

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  4. Perfect dates in Australia, quieter sport calendar period unless you're manic about the early summer cricket tests (looks like the Windies & SAfricans are visiting). Only downside might be the increased difficulty of day sleeping in tropical summer rather than winter, so might opt for more replays over live. Can imagine a lot of soccer balls and related merch filling stockings next Xmas if the final is on December 18.

    And Asian Cup and HOME women's World Cup six months later ?

    And as an atlas nerd kid Qatar was my obsession at one point and I did follow the Q-league for a bit in the 2000s so a part of me is fond of them hosting it.

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  5. I've been listening almost exclusively to 1982 stuff the past couple months, so I'm just going to publish this early for what it's worth.

     

    1. Aspects - STR4TA

    2. Solar Power - Lorde

    3. Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu

    4. Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, the Creator

    5. Moodswings in This Order - DPR Ian

    6. Cavalcade - black midi

    7. Deep States - Tropical Fuck Storm

    8. Bright Green Field - Squid

    9. Juntos ahora - Nair Mirabrat

    #10 would probably be out of Hushed & Grim (Mastodon), Times (SG Lewis) or possibly Sycco's First EP (Sycco), but yeah 9 standouts.

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  6. 1 hour ago, usagi said:

    I don't think it's off-topic at all. this thread covers wide ground and talking about perceptions of the US by outside observers in the context of those observers' own perceptive blind spots is relevant. I wasn't talking about you directly, take it how you will.

    Yeah that's cool, and your post content was entirely valid, Australia has plenty issues (you also refer to some pot kettle black overlap which I was mostly careful to navigate). I think there is already a comparable thread about Australia, and there is room for both the serious and in jest. But in quoting mine specifically it did give the impression of being aggressively contrary, direct and presumptive, as if I was one of your maligned numpties, or less woke on the 'perceptive blind spots'. But I'm reading a bit too much into it clearly. Sorry, carry on ?

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  7. 15 hours ago, usagi said:

    things I'm not glad my country does go in for: creating a culture where it's more offensive to call someone out for being racist than actually being racist, acting like a leading western light whilst mostly free-riding on those values, laziness and self-entitlement from decades of being "the lucky country", the hypocrisy of being crucially dependent on migration as an economic platform whilst fearing it as a social ill and using it whenever convenient to score political points, the appalling media landscape with its high concentration of power in a few aging hands and brutally shit content, climate inaction and an abandonment of basic custodianship of the land (RIP the Great Barrier Reef, one of our greatest national treasures), cultural and ethnic segregation from decades of white flight cos people simply don't like living around darkies, the incestuous relationship between private industry and politicians which ends up determining public policy, a parasitic leadership class that deadlocks us at every turn from moving forward on the most important issues of the century, etc etc.

    what's become very apparent in the last 5-6 years is how much Australians enjoy pointing and laughing at yanks and their problems whilst remaining blissfully unaware of their own, quite a few of which are in the same vein. I heard some dickhead gloating the other day about how Australia "doesn't have a cultural history of slavery" like America does. very cool to know.

    You’re a bit off topic though, I hope you’re not implying I’m one of your ‘blissfully unaware’, American-jeering Australians, bit of an ignorant reach to make if so.

  8. Things I’m glad my country doesn’t really go in for: guns, god, pep rallies, college football/basketball, cheerleaders, Mexican food chains, Dr Pepper, miliinduspsychpharmacomplex,white xmas, elect Trumps, cable, expensive healthcare, land animals that can eat you, the worst football code, driving  on the other side, Iran/Russia obsession, all that constitution/amendments mumbo jumbo, evangelists, elderly presidents, lynchings, capital punishment, non-compulsory voting, ‘putting the kids through college’, simplistic English spelling, dadt, kardashians, etc. etc.

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  9. Ran through the Bond series again in recent months, god I love that franchise! My current ranking:

    1. Dr No. (9/10)

    2. Casino Royale (8.5)

    3. Spectre (8.5)

    4. Goldfinger (8)

    5. The Living Daylights (8)

    6. Quantum of Solace (8)

    7. Octopussy (7.5)

    8. For Your Eyes Only (7.5)

    9. You Only Live Twice (7)

    10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (7)

     

    11. Tomorrow Never Dies (7)

    12. Die Another Day (7)

    13. Skyfall (7)

    14. The Spy Who Loved Me (7)

    15. Never Say Never Again (7)

    16. From Russia With Love (6.5)

    17. Goldeneye (6.5)

    18. Diamonds are Forever (6)

    19. Live and Let Die (6)

    20. Licence to Kill (6)

     

    21. No Time to Die (5.5)

    22. The Man With the Golden Gun (5.5)

    23. Moonraker (5)

    24. The World is Not Enough (5)

    25. Thunderball (5)

    26. A View to a Kill (4.5)

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  10. Been reading a lot of Joyce Carol Oates in recent months.

    Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars (patriarch dies saga)

    Carthage (daughter goes missing, mistook it for true-crime until halfway through)

    A Book of American Martyrs (abortionist killed)

     

    Plus a few short story collections (Give Me Your Heart, Sourland, The Evil Eye) - not as good but a quick palette cleanser given her novels can be long

     

    She's cool. Gets bereavement, does gothic stuff well, and don't give a crap, very productive. Some of it is more borrow-from-library, but the first two I mentioned really connected with me and are worth an own. Will try to get my mother into her (already got my father into Nevil Shute this year, and think JCO is something my mum will get).

  11. On 9/17/2021 at 3:42 PM, baph said:

    Covenant was a bad call, Roo. It was a bad call. 

    those bad takes are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...and they're gonna come in here...coz it'll be dark mode soon and they mostly come at night. Mostly...

    *logs out and cuts power and cocoons self in hypersleep until a future when Covenant is well-liked*

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  12. I'm still very fond of that turn-of-the-millennium time when a subsection of the then rock-rooted Australian music scene was dipping into electronic & urban a bit more. Things like Friendly (big beat), Josh Abrahams (D'n'B), B(if)tek (techno), Gerling (indietronica). Regurgitator were also a bit synthy rap-rocky at times. 1200 Techniques and Koolism had some funky hiphop. Along with The Avalanches, all these acts were quite eclectic and exciting. It only really poked into the mainstream for a few years before slipping underground again, lasted about as long as big beat. Sort of like 90s indie/alternative meeting urban electro. Avalanches did a remix for Gerling in 1999 and pre-SILY Gerling called the Avalanches the best band ever.

  13. 12 hours ago, xxx said:

    This makes for an interesting thought experiment. You may have something of a super power if you're factor deficient for instance. Your inability to form competent clots may help dodge that effect. 

    If it's in the "hypercoagulable" side of things like Factor V Leiden, it makes covid even scarier than it already is. You don't have to answer with your personal health info. I work in a clinical lab and that was the scariest effect I was able to personally observe. People got admitted with perfectly normal "bleeding" metrics and I could watch them get rekt within hours. 

    Yep, Factor V Leiden. Luckily, Australia effectively stopped AstZen for under-50s overnight! (a future rollout phase) My father and his mother are the hereditary line, both high risk to Covid, going to exercise Pfizer choice.

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