Re: Australia Day hand-wringing

by Zat on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 09:21

Btw Hass, please tell me you didn't go for the latest Aus Day accessories that were incredibly popular in some parts of town here...

http://www.mirrorsocks.com.au/

And there was I thinking a mirror sock may have been some sort of deice used by RD types to prevent accidentally seeing oneself in a mirror when using a sock for a part of the body other than the foot...

by lardbucket on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 09:25

I was going to by some of those, but upon reflection ...

by Hass on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 13:41

Zat wrote: I would have made a joke about your hat too. But only because the flag bucket hat is one of the most stupid items of clothing gong around, and is never a good look.

That's the point. The hat is supposed to be daggy.

Obviously jokes come with the territory, but they were heavily slanted towards people making fun of the supposedly "racist" overtones and less about the dagginess of the hat in general.

P.S. You can rest assured that I have not bought any mirror socks!

by Zat on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 15:22

You could have pointed out that the people calling you racist had obviously not read the 'survey' and were reeling on Nine news for their 'knowledge'. I know how well that would go down at the ABC!

by skully on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 15:27

Big Dog wrote:
skully wrote:
Big Dog wrote:I was at the OZ day ceremony at Bellerive today. Witnessed my neighbour Brian Ritchie (ex Violent Femmes bassist) & his wife become Aussies as well as twenty odd other citizens. It was a very pleasent day.

Good times, BD.

It all happened on the boardwalk where we had dinner at the NZ test.

That was the same boardwalk where we watched that blonde twice exchange her shirt with a colleague? Cool

by Zat on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 15:33

Might have to start calling you skully waffles...

by skully on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 15:37

I have 53,000 posts that leave no doubt that I'm a waffler. Cool

by Zat on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 16:06

by skully on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 16:15

Ah, now it makes sense. Cool

by Big Dog on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 19:50

skully wrote:
Big Dog wrote:
skully wrote:
Big Dog wrote:I was at the OZ day ceremony at Bellerive today. Witnessed my neighbour Brian Ritchie (ex Violent Femmes bassist) & his wife become Aussies as well as twenty odd other citizens. It was a very pleasent day.

Good times, BD.

It all happened on the boardwalk where we had dinner at the NZ test.

That was the same boardwalk where we watched that blonde twice exchange her shirt with a colleague?

I'd forgotten about that. I must be getting old. Wink

by embee on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 20:28

You probably caught gayness off skully