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There’s been talk of a new random thread, but as far as I can see there isn’t one yet. This seemed like a good occasion to make one, since you guys should see this, but I imagine most of you don’t follow Aussie politics closely (I got this off @clare’s FB, so you never know). Since I now am apparently the Board Debate Critic, let me post this video where Australian PM Julia Gillard verbally trounces Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, on his sexism:
It doesn’t really need any context, but here is an horror show of the type of treatment Gillard has been subjected to by the Opposition (NSFW). There is also a reference to a recent occasion where a broadcaster said that Gillard’s recently departed father ‘died of shame’ at a dinner party for Opposition party members. Tony Abbott, sensitive soul that he is, though it wise to call back to that shitstorm by saying that Gillard’s government is ‘dying from shame’.
I think the events that prompted Gillard’s speech will soon be forgotten (along with its political expediency), but the unflinching statement of anti-misogynist principle will be remembered for a long time.
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That was an amazing smackdown and the most I’ve liked Gillard ever (Abbott “now looking at his watch because apparently a woman’s spoken too long”, oh zing). How did she handle the Peter Slipper affair though…Clare?
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Marinus, I love you. Thanks for posting this, I’ve been up to my eyebrows in life today, only had time for that fb update, as I was watching the news. She’s put up with do much shit for so long, I punched the air as I heard it.
Anne, the whole Peter Slipper thing is bizarre from the beginning. I mean, his appointment as speaker for a start. My mum works in the library at Parl House, and her best description of him is ‘smarmy’, but the fact that his appointment was so crucial politically, meant that it was really no surprise when these allegations surfaced. Now I haven’t really kept on top of the text message thing, see previous comment about ‘life’ and ‘eyebrows’, but as far as I can tell it was some nasty shit going down there. I don’t think the govt handled the first bit (sexual harrasment of a staffer) particularly well. But it seems to’ve been some kind of set up, see above about politics surrounding his appointment, so their hands were tied. Interview by Leigh ‘Destroy The Joint’ Sayles with Anthony Albanese on 7:30 might be worth looking for, but its now almost 10pm, I got up at 5:30 and I have to get up again at 6:30, and I’m on my phone, so google is your friend in this :-)
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Doesn’t matter much, since Slipper has resigned in the interim. Like I say, though, there’s more at stake here than some point-scoring.
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Yeah. I think the deputy got elected, but I can’t remember where everyone stands as far as votes go now. As long as Slipper doesn’t resign from his seat, the govt still has the majority. Off to check your link now. I wish I didn’t have to sleep! This is interesting.
Damn you and your links to The Australian not only is it a right-wing piece of shit, it also makes you have an account. Blech. I’ll find something better :-P
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/peter-slipper-resigns-as-speaker/4303966
Though this lacks the yapping poodle voice of Christopher Pyne saying “I told you so” that the ninemsn report has :-)
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I was surprised that Tony Abbott thought he had any credibility on the anti-misogynist politician front—the opportunism was downright Romney-style. Now if only Obama could learn something from Gillard’s verbal evisceration of the opposition…
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Apparently there’s a piece on Jezebel, but I’m at work and can’t find or link to it :-)
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Voila. Though it doesn’t say much more, just general badassery.
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Thanks Anne. It’s got lots of background links…
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My lovely friend Rachel sent me this. I laughed so hard.
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ha!
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Hahaha OH GOD
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If that were true, Spider-Man could be the god of alcohol withdrawal.
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I’ve been having a pleasant sort of past couple days, partly involving imagining scenarios where I suddenly come into obscene amounts of money. Anyway I thought y’alls should know that if I did then one of the few ridiculous extravagances I’d do is fly every LPTJer (sorry TNMer is still too new to digest) and their significant others/families to somewhere awesome—I’m imagining some sprawling manor situation with so many rooms and a body of water nearby and maybe explorable jungle and exciting cliffs—where we could all hang out for a week or so. Also I would bring all my best friends along cos I’m the benefactor and they’re great. Have I already told you guys this idea before? Ah well. In this updated scenario me and my friends arrive on a boat that I’ve bought for one of them, and we have quite a time on the sea beforehand.
That’d be hell of weird going on the internet from there though, cos TNM would be DEAD cos we’d all be sitting around a giant table drinking mead, and @H____h and @Davy can dance with flagons atop it since they were Meriadoc and Pippin in that scenario where we all were LOTR characters.
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Wait, when were we all LOTR characters? Was I Tom Bombadil?
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I CALL RADAGAST THE BROWN
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It was here (http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/index.php/topic,12392.msg673104.html#msg673104). Biggins I don’t think you were around at the time so I didn’t assign you, I’m sorry. You can be Bombadil indeed. CBS was Gollum. We’re sort of lacking a Frodo now Andrew’s gone. Greg I think that’s a better call than the “giant eagle holding an Ent in its claws” one you made last time.
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ok i wasn’t around much then either i guess so I call treebeard
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Actually, looking back on that thread, I would also still choose orc-with-white-handprint-on-face.
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I’m Sauron!
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Hmmmmm. I just submitted a fucking insane, insane, insane draft of my dissertation proposal to be workshopped on Friday, and according to the workshop website stats something like 35 people have already downloaded it. Probably only four will show up on Friday, mind you, but either way I feel like barfing.
This is a roundabout way of saying that I now have a little bit more time to read TNM!
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Congrats, lady! and good that you’ll be around more :-)
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Well done HH. That stuff is terrifying! But awesome! You’re gonna do great!
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I’m one of the motherfucking Rohirrim, they’re like Vikings but on horses instead of in ships, they are beardy and badass, not like those baldfaced Gondor cunts
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Cleaning my basement, collecting stray thoughts:
I hold on to a lot of stuff that I really ought to get rid of, mostly for sentimental reasons, but sometimes for superstitious reasons—like feeling that if I throw away a picture of a person, harm will then come to that person. I mean, I don’t really believe that, but I still end up keeping all that stuff.
Don’t ever re-read trip journals you wrote while under the influence of LSD or mushrooms or what have you. You will not learn anything worthwhile, so just … don’t.
However, you should re-read your papers that you wrote for your 100-level history class, because they are hilarious and awesome.
Sort of related - just because you were the best poet in your college poetry workshop, that doesn’t mean you actually wrote great poems (though it is nice to see the encouraging comments from your prof, who also happened to be one of your favorite poets).
Only re-read letters from your dead grandmother if you want to start crying. Same with the reply from your dad after you sent him a letter telling him how you tried to kill yourself.
Don’t ever press a thousand copies of your first record if no one has ever heard of you and your entire fanbase is, like, fifteen people tops. I have about 800-some copies of the first Dear Astronaut album if anyone wants one.
Let’s see. What else?
Can one get in trouble for throwing away an American flag?
Why do I have this Metal Zone effects pedal? Where’d I get it? I’ve never used it. Does it even work?
I’m pretty sure that I decided at some point that the reason it’s okay to save all of these unlabeled CDrs is because some day I will discover a cache of amphetamines which I will take in order to spend the next 48 hours straight going through all of these goddamn CDrs.
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I dunno what you’re talking about Jeb. I have this (somewhat cumbersome) program wikidpad in which I recorded an LSD trip. Just read it now and it is awesome!
On the other hand I have absolutely no desire to read papers I wrote for 100-level classes, or any classes, really. They were all just awful. I have no idea what my profs were thinking, not flunking me and telling me to go home.
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Dude we have so many boxes of unsold CDs in the basement. It’s like ‘what are we going to do with all these doorstops?’
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Your local library will have a flag disposal box in the front of it, chances are. They give them to Boy Scouts, who have a ceremony for respectfully taking care of ‘em.
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What a WEIRD country.
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Curling season started last night, and my team’s skip looks exactly like TSKS. Like, to a distracting degree. We lost our first game. Shoulda gone to extra ends, but our skip folded and gave them a point they didn’t actually get because the other team’s crazy-ass vice was freaking out
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RoyBiggins said: Your local library will have a flag disposal box in the front of it, chances are. They give them to Boy Scouts, who have a ceremony for respectfully taking care of ‘em.
Okay, but what if it’s one of those AdBusters flags where all the stars have been replaced by corporate logos?
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They accept those too, but burn them in an open pit.
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Hoshi said: What a WEIRD country.
qft
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I’m going to go get a library card. And head to the post office. Living downtown is the best, I can run all my errands on foot.
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My sister told my five-year-old niece that I was moving much closer as soon as it was for sure (it would only be a little over four hours to drive to visit them, which is really not long), and I guess she’s a little worked up about it. She has been calling me and using her mom’s iPad to Facetime me with increasing frequency. Yesterday she called me while I was out running errands and I had to stop and find a quiet place to talk because she needed to discuss whether she should get her ears pierced if her mom said it was okay (I had my ears pierced when I was like three or four; it’s a thing). So I guess I didn’t realize she felt close to me but it was hard because I was far away. She asked if she could come visit (my sister’s best friend lives in the city I’m moving to) and if I would come visit. She’s really terribly sweet in a lot of ways. I’m a super lucky aunt!
Edit: No, the five year old does not have a cell phone; I think my sister showed her how to call me and then she leaves her phone sitting about when they’re at home.
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That is adorable.
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Sooo cute. I hope I live near my family when they start having kids.
Guys I’m about to go get some 2 for 1 fucking faffel! yeah!
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It is always faffle time in our hearts.
Also, Em, that is amazing. I love my niece and nephew so much. When I thought I wasn’t going to be living close to them anymore, that was hard. Here is a picture of them being awesome, eating a can of sardines that they made my sister buy for them. She told them that she’d buy them, but the kids had to eat them outside the house.
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EmJ said: Edit: No, the five year old does not have a cell phone; I think my sister showed her how to call me and then she leaves her phone sitting about when they’re at home.
When I was little I remember getting super-excited both about distant relatives and everyday items my parents used. I imagine a device that lets you talk to your aunt any time you want must be awesome and enticing to a 5 year old.
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Yeah, far-away relatives are magical. I remember being SO excited to have, say, my cousins from Springfield (a car ride about 4 hours away at the time) were coming to visit. Having folks living elsewhere are actually bragging rights when you’re young enough.
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Man, that’s the truth. I used to always be namedropping my aunt and uncle who lived in Yankton, South Dakota. SO EXOTIC.
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hahaha I don’t think I ever did that stuff. I know I lied to people about having anything to do with my step brother. I used to tell kids he was a karate master who was reaaally protective of me.
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Ha. Yes, my niece thought NYC was very exotic I think and always asked a lot of questions about it. My nephew, who is two, also benefitted, because he is obsessed with trains, so I made him a video of a subway train arriving in a station with a blind curve, which looked pretty cool, right up until the doors opened and it would have been even creepier for me to keep filming. So I sent him that and a little while later I’m doing the Facetime thing with the little ones and my sister, and my sister goes, “Thomas, can you tell Aunt Em how many times you watched the train video?” And he pulled the shy act, so of course my niece bursts in with, “Well, he’s watched it just about a hundred or so times! I don’t watch it that often though, because I’m not that big of an engine fan.” Well there you have it.
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ANYWAY now I have to stop being the cool far-away, big-city-dwellin’ aunt and be a regular Midwesterner just like them so probably I’ll lose some status. Them’s the breaks.
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Oh, no. Trust me, you’ll still have draw. Especially if your sister doesn’t have cool tattoos.
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Ha ha she does not! And actually, when I visit my family I generally stay with my parents, and their rule is that if I do that there must be no visible tattoos, ever. Which is sort of a mess, but I go along with it (even in the summer! even in my pajamas! this rule is untenable in the future!), and I don’t, like, change to go over to my sister’s house, so actually my sister’s acquisition of this iPad was quite the thing. I can dress however I want at my house of course, so the first time my niece got a load of that it was like WHOA.
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Hah! That’s a great reveal. But yeah, boy, that is untenable in the future. Yeesh.
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EmJ said: Ha. Yes, my niece thought NYC was very exotic I think and always asked a lot of questions about it. My nephew, who is two, also benefitted, because he is obsessed with trains, so I made him a video of a subway train arriving in a station with a blind curve, which looked pretty cool, right up until the doors opened and it would have been even creepier for me to keep filming. So I sent him that and a little while later I’m doing the Facetime thing with the little ones and my sister, and my sister goes, “Thomas, can you tell Aunt Em how many times you watched the train video?” And he pulled the shy act, so of course my niece bursts in with, “Well, he’s watched it just about a hundred or so times! I don’t watch it that often though, because I’m not that big of an engine fan.” Well there you have it.
This is so excellent
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I am not, and probably never will be an aunt. This makes me sad. Great stories Em!
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I’m in the same boat as you, Clare. My sister is a lesbian who hates children, so…
