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[Osmosis Jones]

Yes, but with magnificent natural wonders ripe for destruction.

*Sob*

Also Max, Re: the bread... get yourself to a Vietnamese bakery, son. We have a million and one of them these days, and those guys know how to make bread. As far as I can tell, they learnt everything the French could teach them when they were conquered... and then improved upon it.

I'm living in a land without such glorious bakeries now, and it is terrible. If you think Aussie bread is sweet, wait until you try Japanese :/

[10ebbor10]

Soooo, your current government is basically Thatcher but all of Australia is now Wales?

Truly, Thatcher did some good things as well (debatable) and wasn't a corporate drone.

[Dutchling]

Soooo, your current government is basically Thatcher but all of Australia is now Wales?

Truly, Thatcher did some good things as well (debatable) and wasn't a corporate drone.

Everything I know about Thatcher comes from people on these forums who apparantly hate her

[Sheb]

Also Max, Re: the bread... get yourself to a Vietnamese bakery, son. We have a million and one of them these days, and those guys know how to make bread. As far as I can tell, they learnt everything the French could teach them when they were conquered... and then improved upon it.

Never tried vietnamese bread, but Laotian baguette and the sandwich they makes from these deserve a place in the world's food pantheon.

[Osmosis Jones]

Also Max, Re: the bread... get yourself to a Vietnamese bakery, son. We have a million and one of them these days, and those guys know how to make bread. As far as I can tell, they learnt everything the French could teach them when they were conquered... and then improved upon it.

Never tried vietnamese bread, but Laotian baguette and the sandwich they makes from these deserve a place in the world's food pantheon.

It looks like Laos was also a French colony, albeit a low-key one, so it's probably the same mechanism at work

[Sheb]

Yeah, I hate sounding like a colonization apologist, but here is a positive impact from colonization.

[Reudh]

Oh god, that Wrecking Ball video is so accurate.

And re: the bread
I agree. My next door neighbour is a baker, and he makes the BEST bread - any time he and his wife have a new recipe we're the test run!

[Dutchling]

Speaking of stuff the English suck at: tap water.

Seriously, the stuff tastes like pool water chloride.

[Max White]

Oh god, that Wrecking Ball video is so accurate.

Speaking of political satire videos: Tony Abbott; Modern Man!


EDIT: In other news, turns out Pyne really is just full retard. He wants to attack the indigenous history part of the school curriculum. This does not bode well for him. You do not fuck with indigenous Australians. We might be a racist country, but a strange sense of patriotism has formed around Aboriginal Australians...

[alexandertnt]

The first part of our story is the Indigenous part, but then there's the other part and that needs to be told as well.

Whats this World War Two some people are always on about? Or this ansac or anzac or something? I heard they were important but it all sounds like a myth to me, probably just a corruption of indigenous history were exclusively taught.

[Max White]

You know if he was replacing it with our military history that would be one thing, but oh no, this is so, soooo much more sinister. They want more religion.
Strap on your crash helmet monster truckers, we Texas now!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Parents' and citizens' associations are rejecting Mr Donnelly's push for more religious education, saying religious studies belong in the home, not in public schools.

Rachel Snowdon from the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens says Australian public schools should be secular institutions.

"In a society where less than 30 per cent of members have a defined religion, it's a little bit disingenuous to then make children learn religious studies in schools," she said.

Family groups against Christian indoctrination? Truly alien to me.

[Max White]

Australian families are a little suspicious of actual faith right now. While the majority still identify with a religion, few people actually practice it in any meaningful way, with less and less church attendance. Also the Royal Commission into child abuse makes the news weekly, with countless stories of abuse at the hands of clergymen from various faiths. Right now parents just don't trust churches, so I'm not surprised they want to protect their kids from religious schooling.

In other news, the UN continues to pester us on those damn human rights, this time something about breaking international law. I use the term news loosely, because lets be honest, this is hardly new. They have been complaining since we reopened the concentration camps offshore detention facilities.

Clive watch: His approach to state law? Nuke it from orbit.
I think I have Palmer figured out. He is a libertarian, just orders of magnitude smarter that your average one. He doesn't parade around talking about freedom, or how government is evil, or his amazing pure philosophy. No, instead he just finds unpopular laws and sets out to destroy them and everything else even vaguely related. He will happily destroy all legislation he can, because he doesn't actually believe in any of it at all. He is a big fat Ayn Rand, but smart enough to not tell everybody because actually standing on that platform would make him a lot less popular than just hit and run tactics against policy.

Meanwhile, in environmental news: The federal government engages Japanese whaling ships with what amounts to dickery. For those not in the loop, one of the pre-election promises made by then Shadow Environmental Minister Hunt was that Australia would send ship specially built for antarctic sea conditions, the Oceanic Protector, to monitor the Japanese fleet. A pretty weak promise, considering the ship was already commissioned under the Labor government to do exactly that, so we were going to have that presence either way... Except that when the Coalition won the election, Minister for Immigration and Boarder Protection Morrison decided he wanted all hands on deck and commandeered the Oceanic Protector, sending it north to terrorize refugees.
Well Hunt had to hand in something, so instead send a plane over to circle for ten minutes and then go home... Yea, because that will help.

[Max White]

Nope, not at all. It circled for ten minutes out of a weeks long hunt, and they gave plenty of prior warning that it was coming... It really was nothing more than a token effort for the media that cost more taxpayer dollers.

[Sheb]

I'm probably going to say something stupid, but wouldn't it be way more efficient to just require every whaler operating in Australia's water to carry an Australian custom official?