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I would say one of main social functions of music is that it excludes certain types of people: nobody wants to hang around in a room where there’s music they hate.
December 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would say one of main social functions of music is that it excludes certain types of people: nobody wants to hang around in a room where there’s music they hate.
As someone who did a lot of postering, yes, it’s a bit sad, but I understand why people don’t do it anymore. Postering is a pain in the arse, and it feels really weird to walk around town putting up pictures of yourself.
Hopefully we don’t collectively forget the recipe for cornflour paste though
Hopefully we don’t collectively forget the recipe for cornflour paste though
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
As someone who did a lot of postering, yes, it’s a bit sad, but I understand why people don’t do it anymore. Postering is a pain in the arse, and it feels really weird to walk around town putting up pictures of yourself.
Hopefully we don’t collectively forget the recipe for cornflour paste though
Hopefully we don’t collectively forget the recipe for cornflour paste though
Anon editor who probably works from home
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anon editor who probably works from home
ah yes because australia famously has SO MANY BANKS how could a simple bureaucrat be expected to keep up to date
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
ah yes because australia famously has SO MANY BANKS how could a simple bureaucrat be expected to keep up to date
Imagining you going on a tour of the Collosseum, shaking your head at the appalling state of the 1st century drop toilets
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Imagining you going on a tour of the Collosseum, shaking your head at the appalling state of the 1st century drop toilets
Omg Jordan you’ve spent too long with your brain in “inspecting a crappy rental property” mode, and now it’s your permanent state of mind.
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Omg Jordan you’ve spent too long with your brain in “inspecting a crappy rental property” mode, and now it’s your permanent state of mind.
That’s a corker! Never heard of Ted Fio Rito. Where do you find this stuff?
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
That’s a corker! Never heard of Ted Fio Rito. Where do you find this stuff?
🤣🤣🤣 perfect. Time and attention and political capital well spent.
September 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🤣🤣🤣 perfect. Time and attention and political capital well spent.
lol Google says it’s not any worse than borders, the fundamental violence and most crucial unfreedom of the modern age.
August 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
lol Google says it’s not any worse than borders, the fundamental violence and most crucial unfreedom of the modern age.
Protagonist (to the villain): “No. I won’t kill you, you’re not worth it”
Me: what!!? fucking kill him! What are you waiting for? Crush his skull! crissakes.
Me: what!!? fucking kill him! What are you waiting for? Crush his skull! crissakes.
August 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Protagonist (to the villain): “No. I won’t kill you, you’re not worth it”
Me: what!!? fucking kill him! What are you waiting for? Crush his skull! crissakes.
Me: what!!? fucking kill him! What are you waiting for? Crush his skull! crissakes.
I once had a string of gigs outside Cole’s (launching the jazz apple) with a jazz band and the actual con the fruiterer. He was surely earning more than us, but I can’t imagine he cost Cole’s more than two grand, which, think about it, is an achievable appearance fee for the average birthday party.
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I once had a string of gigs outside Cole’s (launching the jazz apple) with a jazz band and the actual con the fruiterer. He was surely earning more than us, but I can’t imagine he cost Cole’s more than two grand, which, think about it, is an achievable appearance fee for the average birthday party.
Was explaining to a black American friend how every single Australian knows a dance to a Tina turner song and she gave me a look that was part disbelief and part something that I have never seen before and couldn’t quite decode
August 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Was explaining to a black American friend how every single Australian knows a dance to a Tina turner song and she gave me a look that was part disbelief and part something that I have never seen before and couldn’t quite decode
Isn’t this a scene in confederacy of dunces?
July 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Isn’t this a scene in confederacy of dunces?
Sorry to be the bearer of milkshake duck.
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Sorry to be the bearer of milkshake duck.
Anita is also one of Australia’s most deranged Zionist propagandists.
July 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Anita is also one of Australia’s most deranged Zionist propagandists.
Big incomes for politicians are there as a carrot-bulwark against corruption, and ensure that it’s not only the rich who can afford to be politicians. They’re an important part of our democracy, but big business moneykeeps the poor out, and there are otherwise no consequences for corruption, so…
July 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Big incomes for politicians are there as a carrot-bulwark against corruption, and ensure that it’s not only the rich who can afford to be politicians. They’re an important part of our democracy, but big business moneykeeps the poor out, and there are otherwise no consequences for corruption, so…
Like, obviously the lot we got there at the moment don’t deserve that much money, but like, if we replaced them with people that weren’t pricks I would be only too happy to know they’re getting paid well.
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Like, obviously the lot we got there at the moment don’t deserve that much money, but like, if we replaced them with people that weren’t pricks I would be only too happy to know they’re getting paid well.
Honestly who cares. Can we talk about how our democracy is effected by political donations (and how big political donors get government contracts - looking at you Sabrina Russo among others), jobs for the boys after they get voted out and billionaire media and their capture of the ABC.
July 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Honestly who cares. Can we talk about how our democracy is effected by political donations (and how big political donors get government contracts - looking at you Sabrina Russo among others), jobs for the boys after they get voted out and billionaire media and their capture of the ABC.
Ah merit! The thing that led to the success of Tony Abbot and Peter Dutton and Barnaby Joyce.
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Ah merit! The thing that led to the success of Tony Abbot and Peter Dutton and Barnaby Joyce.
I went to some support sessions for partners and family of people with BPD and literally every person that got talked about was obviously an autistic with (C)PTSD. Borderline traits are honestly just a rational response to the way people get treated.
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I went to some support sessions for partners and family of people with BPD and literally every person that got talked about was obviously an autistic with (C)PTSD. Borderline traits are honestly just a rational response to the way people get treated.
This has been deliberate state policy worldwide since Napoleon made a point of hiring “savants”. It seems, for some of us, that “strong sense of justice” is more judicial than it is radical.
June 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This has been deliberate state policy worldwide since Napoleon made a point of hiring “savants”. It seems, for some of us, that “strong sense of justice” is more judicial than it is radical.
I’ve been to the Louvre 3 times and by far the most fun was the time we went straight to the Mona Lisa, took a selfie and then left. <10minutes from door to door.
June 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I’ve been to the Louvre 3 times and by far the most fun was the time we went straight to the Mona Lisa, took a selfie and then left. <10minutes from door to door.
Fuck Vimes. Pratchett is such a lib. It’s so awkward in The Night Watch where Vimes, now powerful and hegemonic, tries to justify his violence in long meandering tracts: “the difference is, it’s me doing it”. Like Pratchett can’t understand why Vimes seems evil when he’s supposed to be the good guy
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fuck Vimes. Pratchett is such a lib. It’s so awkward in The Night Watch where Vimes, now powerful and hegemonic, tries to justify his violence in long meandering tracts: “the difference is, it’s me doing it”. Like Pratchett can’t understand why Vimes seems evil when he’s supposed to be the good guy