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Pollies are well known for living hard dangerous lives.
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No it's because they're all crackers.
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Birdstrike posted:electricians are called sparkies because of sparks and also because who the hosed can be bothered saying "el-ec-trici-an" when it can be shortened ya bloody drongos But like why do people encounter/think about/fetishize working class jobs to the point where they give them cute nicknames? It stands out to me as an outsider.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:04
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DancingShade posted:I already know I'm an rear end in a top hat but thank you for offering to show pictures of your waterlogged feet as proof of your debating prowess and superior wordplay i'm just mad as hell you'd have the balls to accuse me of being a desk jockey just because I called you out on your dumb as gently caress theory
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Recoome posted:Yeah I am pretty sure I saw you there today believe it or not. Did you see the bikes? Wasn't sure if they were staying in one place or riding to prepoll to prepoll cause I think there's another on Queens Street. When I was entering the cyclist party bikes were there and when I left they were gone. Like a fart in the wind.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:05
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I don't have a cute abbreviated name for what I do for a living though so I mean am I really any better than a marketing VP because obviously my job can't be very dangerous
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Jun 20, 2016 09:07
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Count Chocula posted:But like why do people encounter/think about/fetishize working class jobs to the point where they give them cute nicknames? It stands out to me as an outsider. They don't. They fetishize the successful tradie with a lifted Hilux and a jet boat.
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MC Eating Disorder posted:i'm just mad as hell you'd have the balls to accuse me of being a desk jockey just because I called you out on your dumb as gently caress theory I'm impressed you think tinea is a badge of honor. You should sort out your foot hygiene.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:08
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DancingShade posted:I'm impressed you think tinea is a badge of honor. You should sort out your foot hygiene. I bet you're a foot model or a "footie" as you call yourself
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Jun 20, 2016 09:09
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Has anyone brainstormed cute names for jobs people I know have like 'soccy' (social media manager) and 'shoppie' (designers 'cause they use Photoshop, but that's probably taken by people who work at Woolworths). Hey I've said so much negative poo poo about Australia that I gotta say MONA is the best museum I've been to; beats out everything in New York.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:09
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DancingShade posted:Spoken like a true shiny bum. Please tell me this isn't real Australian slang.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:10
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MC Eating Disorder posted:I bet you're a foot model or a "footie" as you call yourself 
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Jun 20, 2016 09:12
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Count Chocula posted:Please tell me this isn't real Australian slang. fair shake of the sauce bottle mate
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Jun 20, 2016 09:15
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Pollie Tradie Shoppie Choppie Landlordie Friendlyjordie Cookie Bookie Pollie
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Jun 20, 2016 09:16
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We had 'bookie' in America. Somebody called me a 'cobber' yesterday. That was weird. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/terrifying-man-in-ski-mask-with-rifle-just-from-a-band-filming-a-music-video-20160620-gpnbfh.html I love Australia's gun laws, but it's so bizarre that even air rifles are illegal. The NRA is going to use this as a cautionary tale for years to come. And no, this wasn't my band.
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Jun 20, 2016 09:19
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im still called a seaman 
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Jun 20, 2016 09:46
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Sludge Tank posted:im still called a seaman Spunky?
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Jun 20, 2016 09:48
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We call em floaters
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Jun 20, 2016 09:49
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So whats this hot new aussie fad of calling electrocians sparkys about then?
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Jun 20, 2016 10:11
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There actually a Wikipedia article about this for some reason, although not just for occupations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_English
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Jun 20, 2016 10:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMlWGPt5kPg
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Jun 20, 2016 10:28
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SynthOrange posted:No it's because they're all crackers. This was perfect.
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Jun 20, 2016 10:34
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Nickopops posted:There actually a Wikipedia article about this for some reason, although not just for occupations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_English Hehe the url shortening changed that to read 'Dim...tralian_English'
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Jun 20, 2016 10:36
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Count Chocula posted:But like why do people encounter/think about/fetishize working class jobs to the point where they give them cute nicknames? It stands out to me as an outsider. It doesn't just happen to blue collar occupations, since you get things like sawbones and chalkie and shyster and pollie and journo and muso. Giving things nicknames is pretty common in Australia, regardless of context.
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Jun 20, 2016 10:39
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Is there anywhere I can see that ACA report on Nauru as I kinda missed it (I know i'm not the only one who'd pass on watching ACA). Apparently it was shithouse journalism as usual but this time it's hit piece sponsored by our government. Ora Tzo fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 10:42
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Can we start calling ourselves Dimtralians?
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Jun 20, 2016 10:42
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It doesn't just happen to blue collar occupations, since you get things like sawbones and chalkie and shyster and pollie and journo and muso. Giving things nicknames is pretty common in Australia, regardless of context. also places: servo, bottlo 
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Jun 20, 2016 10:43
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Count Chocula posted:Has anyone brainstormed cute names for jobs people I know have like 'soccy' (social media manager) and 'shoppie' (designers 'cause they use Photoshop, but that's probably taken by people who work at Woolworths). You should definitely call yourself a shoppie it suits you well
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Jun 20, 2016 10:46
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Spent today handing out green htv in groom(lol) the ALA volunteers accused labor of stealing their htvs which they obviously didn't. They whinged to the second who took them as seriously as they deserved. We have so many parties at prepoll, the Senate candidate for the DLP is there everyday, loving hilarious everytime people tell her they didn't know that they still exist.
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Jun 20, 2016 10:47
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Signed up for four hours of H2V'ing with the Greens on election day. Looking forward to being sneered at by boomers. 
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Jun 20, 2016 10:53
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It doesn't just happen to blue collar occupations, since you get things like sawbones and chalkie and shyster and pollie and journo and muso. Giving things nicknames is pretty common in Australia, regardless of context. Sawbones I learned from Star Trek.
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Jun 20, 2016 10:57
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lol if you work on a current affair and don't just hang yourself
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Jun 20, 2016 11:04
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australians are lazy and also drunk
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Jun 20, 2016 11:04
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Solemn Sloth posted:lol if you work on a current affair and don't just hang yourself Cant, too busy planning kidnappings
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Jun 20, 2016 11:11
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or being invited to tour rape/torture camps
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Jun 20, 2016 11:14
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Mattjpwns posted:Signed up for four hours of H2V'ing with the Greens on election day. Looking forward to being sneered at by boomers. Whether that happens will really depend on where you are, both electorate and occasionally booth-wise. I handed them out in the last state election in a safe Labor seat in Adelaide, and that was all pretty kind to me; all the hatred was being directed at the Liberal candidate and voters, I didn't actually get any blowback whatsoever. This time I'm doing it in Melbourne Ports, and with the exception of the Caulfield area I'd be more concerned about the Labor volunteers than the Labor voters (in the Caulfield area I'd be worried about both, I do not envy people down that neck of the woods). Although that has led to me volunteering for the most hilariously 'oh my god this actually exists' role in an election campaign: staking out our election day paraphenalia on the night before to make sure nobody fucks with it.
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Jun 20, 2016 11:19
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Cleretic posted:Whether that happens will really depend on where you are, both electorate and occasionally booth-wise. I handed them out in the last state election in a safe Labor seat in Adelaide, and that was all pretty kind to me; all the hatred was being directed at the Liberal candidate and voters, I didn't actually get any blowback whatsoever. Does the Jewish community really hate the greens?
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Jun 20, 2016 11:24
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Does the Jewish community really hate the greens? Conservative Jews aren't too keen on the BDS agenda
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Jun 20, 2016 11:53
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does anyone know if there's a compiled list on the various parties policies on indefinite detention? I'm across greens and the major parties positions but I'd like some more info to provide to the people I know who are never in their life going to vote green no matter what but can hopefully be convinced to vote for some other minor party who's position is ideally positive and at least not actively evil.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Does the Jewish community really hate the greens? THAT Jewish community does. It's the foundation of the currently-sitting member's support base, and basically the only part of the electorate that likes him. He's been doing his best to paint the Greens as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic just to galvanize that section against us, and that part of the electorate's been by far the most difficult and painful to actually deal with in any way. How to deal with meeting people that think we're anti-Semitic is literally the only specific advice and instruction on a single detail I have been given during Greens volunteering. That's how difficult that part is. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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