"I worked for a few years as a bar attendant within the corporate 'birdcage' represents all the most noxious parts of colonial, consumerist, corporate, misogynist and small-minded Australian culture. If an alien came to Melbourne and wanted to understand the where we need help as a culture, I would take them to the Melbourne Cup. Excessive consumption. Sexist beauty standards and rigidly policed gender boundaries. Class divide and corporate culture. Binge drinking. Animal abuse and exploitation. Sexual harassment. Anti-intellectualism and attention-seeking. Littering and total disregard for the environment. And I haven't even mentioned the gambling yet."

 haresfur wrote: 
This planet. Who thought this stuff up?

Rebel Wilson and Australia’s hilariously odd defamation case

Even more creatures for terrorising foreigners (Warning: lots of blood)

"It's a bit annoying for the young lad, he must have been there for quite a while and not realising he's getting nipped away. It's not life-threatening, but it's a great tale to tell."

'Sea bugs' attack Melbourne teen's legs during Brighton ocean swim

 haresfur wrote: 
awesome.
OZ has a great tradition in political graffiti. Long may it continue.

Artist Questioned by Police Over Mural

Driverless cars: 

Kangaroos throwing off animal detection software

 haresfur wrote: 
Now with link

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 

I was having more fun picturing Haresfur's mom sitting around at the coffee shop with her pals, bitching about how much she spent on his university and all he does is 'pick up poop'. 

Google, messing up my fantasy life with facts since 1998.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

 islander wrote: 
  Here.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 You know there's a great little web site called Google.   You should check it out sometime.

 haresfur wrote:  
Is there a story link for this, or did you miss the "things you thought today' thread?

"My mother describes me as somebody who picks up dog poo for a living"

Cairns 'dingo poo' researcher calls for rethink of dingoes' pest status in Queensland

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
No, I didn't buy the t-shirt

Welcome to Tasmania! 
 

Just another day on the water in Oz

Great white shark jumps into fisherman's boat, injuring 73yo man

 SeriousLee wrote: 
I thought, oh the ground was flat and they rotated the photo. Then I looked at the clouds, which should be horizontal and realised that they weren't but also weren't as far off horizontal than the ground so it appears that they just tweaked it a little. I can imagine someone fussing with it for hours trying to get it just right.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
" “a mystery that I can’t divulge, but I’m filming something here that has something to do with food.” Everything about this secret food truck project is “a secret.” "

Now that's interesting. 

 haresfur wrote: 

 Nice shot.

Walkers trace steps of Chinese miners who walked from Robe to Bendigo