Archive - Aug 2009

An immigration success story. Where a second generation Asian immigrant drinks VB, watches the footy, drives an old Commodore or Falcon, eats meat pies, and smokes Winnie Blues just like a dinkum white bogan.

Neighbours has always been a wealth of subtle literary allusion for the entertainment of its many highly cultured fans, with past references from Aeschylus, Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe,etc. Recently the reference was visual, with Elle lying in bed reading Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment". Needless to say no character on Home & Away would do anything of the sort.

<+Fuckheadz> the best way to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint is to make them poor
<@Tigger_> you know the Greens secret plan????

PrometheanStardust proves that he is a master troll:

A state characterised by a proclivity towards ranting against racism, while holding the sort of job that is perpetually at risk for being outsourced to India.

Now it's dark...

If conspiracies are true, then the conspiracists must each day feel blessed that the conspiracy theorist busily obscures their activities with the white noise of paranoia.

When young children knowingly create imaginary friends we call this a delusional behaviour, whereas when adults call their work and business associates friends this is regarded as the apex of normality.

<+Ozone> ten different shades of awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI

Sort of like a scientist, except he has to think through how things actually work instead of filling in the gaps with politics and poetry.