It’s embarrassing. Even the Aussies are being smug about being smarter than us.
Pharyngula
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It’s embarrassing. Even the Aussies are being smug about being smarter than us.
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At this point in America we’re just hoping the store shelves remain stocked.
And that we aren’t arrested.
What do you mean, EVEN the Aussies?
Jim Brady @3: I’m guessing he means Aussies aren’t generally thought of as being smug (unlike Yanks and us Poms). Though I have come across some that are, very much so.
For anyone confused by the lyrics, “barbies” means barbecues, not plastic dolls.
@5As Australian I can confirm this. Most of them work for Skynews after dark, or other Murdoch media cloaca.
Election aftermath, Aussie politics: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-10/election-results-independents-rising-charts/105267162
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Oh no. More choice. Greater democracy. Whatever shall we do? 8-0
Guys, I just listened to this and did you not understand this is made by a Canadian?! X-D
It’s a tribute / parody to Australians. This isn’t Aussie’s being “smug”. It’s a Canuck doing a celebratory song about the outcome of the Australian election.
I mean, seriously – you can’t tell the difference between Canadian and Australian accents?X-D
Say it ain’t so.
My American brain can’t remember that many words strung together, unless it’s made into a movie.
chrislawson @5
I’m trying to remember how I first learned that. Maybe Croc Dundee guy, but not the movies…yes there were more than one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_on_the_barbie
Sounds about right as I may have seen that football game between SF and Washington. If not the commercial was probably still it. Plus there was (or still is?) the Outback restaurant chain which has some Aussie lingo in its marketing. Did they promote shrimp on the barbie? Yep:
https://www.outback.com/menu/restaurant/category/42904/product/73110137
Silentbob @9
Yeah at first I thought it was maybe an Aussie faking a US country music accent though I assumed maybe an Aussie accent would come through while singing. Hmmm. Bon Scott was Scottish and Brian Johnson English. The Young brothers are/were Aussie. Did Men at Work’s singer have a thick Aussie accent when singing? Colin Hay is Scottish too. Well that’s just weird. Two Aussie bands with Scottish singers.
Well there’s always Olivia Newton John…she was born in England. She moved when she was 4 so maybe had an Aussie accent?
Sorry my Australian cultural references are limited and filtered through US-centric lenses.
Because of course they did. A movie from 1990 with a title which I think might have been a terrible pun:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shrimp_on_the_Barbie
English Emma Samms plays an Aussie. Her General Hospital costar Tristan Rogers was legit Aussie.
So in 1990 USians knew what barbies are.
@10. beholder : My American brain can’t remember that many words strung together, unless it’s made into a movie.
Your clearly not being utilised properly brain gave us endless attacks on the ONLY ALTERNATIVE to Trump pre-election aimed at discouraging people from doing the only thing that democratically stop him and then you went and effectively voted for Trump foisting that disgusting despot on the rest of the planet with all the horrific and incalculably grim consequences that comes with it. Metaphorically beholder you have blood on your hands and have done us all harm that is beyond estimating. No, I will not stop reminding you and others here of this truth. This needs saying.
Of course here in Oz we actually can vote for people and parties such as the Greens and NOT get the worst fo allparties and peopel elected because we -unlike the USA -have preferential voting.
An idea the Amercians and especially thsoe who want more choice and want tovote for leftwing peopeland parties outside of the two major partiues woudl be welladvised to adopt and make as a reform in their country –
@13 StevoR
Some strong detective work there. Unfortunately, no one cares. Give it a rest already.
So a single blog commenter offering political views in the comments section, however wrongheaded, and voting accordingly can do all that damage to the rest of the world? I mean if I decided not to vote in my red state it would have made no difference. Glad I voted or I too would share in the blame and have blood on my hands. Before Trump in 2016 I was leaning into rational ignorance toward politics because it looked like Hillary v Jeb. I don’t have that luxury. But my views and votes still don’t amount to a hill of beans. beholder is omnipotent.
On a lighter note an Aussie is on top of the F1 pack. I checked (as one must) and he was Oz born. I still prefer Lando, Yuki, and now Kimi.
@9 Silentbob “I mean, seriously – you can’t tell the difference between Canadian and Australian accents?”
Its not obvious to me that this was done by a fellow Canadian. If you go to the Youtube version, and read the comments, there is this:
“As a proud aussie, you’re welcome mate. We stand with Canada during this trying time, and off topic, you’re pretty good at doing our accent!”
So not obvious.
If you had to guess where Van Morrison, Elton John, Mick Jagger or Robert Plant came from based on their singing accents, you’d probably say the US Deep South. Unless perhaps you were from the Deep South, in which case they’d probably sound like fake accents by people of indeterminate origin.
@ 16. Hemidactylus :
Yes. Last year’s election was a tight one and Kamala was robbed by voter suppression and also by third party spoilers and their voters who de facto voted Trump. beholder actively worked against Kamala and thus actively worked for Trump and should be held accountable for their actions and its consequences here. I don’t think this is the only place that the troll beholder here spread his poison and I fear there may be people including lurkers here who were affected by it.
I suspect Beholder was likely part of or supported in various ways other Third Party Spoiler and anti-Kamala Harris groups such as the Abandon Biden / Harris movement – surely one of the most self-destructive to its own cause groups in history.
(Wonder how they feel now seeing Genocide Don do far worse to the Palestinians than his predecessor let alone Kamala Harris ever would have done. Also Genocide Don’s crushing of anti-genocide, pro-Palestionian protests and deportation of many Arab-Americans among others. Do they now realise how badly they fouled up and what now can they do about that?)
No, beholder is NOT omnipotent but they did do their part to help inflict Trump on the whole planet and given the magnitude of that evil, beholder needs to be made accountable and needs to face consequences. Vicar et al too. All the Purity Disunity mob who white-anted and attacked, again, the ONLY ALTERNATIVE to Trump. Vicar at least has stuck the flounce.
It is not just how beholder it is how despite our accurate warnings about what he was doing constantly attacked the Democratic party and Kamala and undermined support and unity for them. The reichwing does one thing well and that is unifying behind their candidates and party. The Left needed to do that too and could well have done so and won – had it not been for beholder and the others in the Putridity Disunity mob.
Imagine how very different a Kamala Presidency would be now. Trump in jail where he belongs, Climate action, sane Health policy, sane cabinet picks and so very much more – and so many horrors averted that have already killed innocent people.
I was so looking forward to Kamala as POTUS and the rarely hearing Trump’s name again after his other trials and jailing. The likes of beholder, Vicar & co robbed us all of that and so much more. What they did was unforgivable in my view.
Huge Piastri fan here and, yes, he was born in Melbourne, Victoria. So great to see an Ausie winning and leading the F1 championship. Pity about jack Doohan -wish he’d been given a lot more of a chance. He did after all outqualify his teammate in his last race – hope Doohan will be back in that car in five races as seems to be the plan? Unfair of Alpine to treat him as they did and for him to have had the pressure and threat of Colapinto looming over him from the start.
@15. Trump enabler and de facto Trump voter beholder
It didn’t take any detective work at all beholder, you have admitted what you did and everyone can go back and see that and your past behaviour here and look around at the present and see where its got us.
People do care. Me, for one, but I know I’m not alone in caring and wanting you gone from here.
No. Go away beholder, go rethink your life and don’t try commenting again here until you have faced what you’ve done what its cost everyone on the planet. Until you face that and at a very bare minimum admit what you did and caused and apologise I won’t let you or others forget it.
Clarity fix because word doesn’t fix missing words :
It is not just how beholder voted. It is how – despite our accurate warnings about what they was doing and its consequences – beholder constantly attacked the Democratic party and Kamala and undermined support and unity for them and encouraged attacks onthem and NOT Trump and his fascists.
Thinking other “minor” parties including the Greens and how they work and are becoming increasingly popular here in Oz there’s a good article and set of graphics here :
Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-10/election-results-independents-rising-charts/105267162
Again, so very very glad we have preferential voting here although our system isn’t perfect and could use some more tweaking still too.
StevoR, I took your advice. I fucked right off and rethought my life. I wrestled with my inner demons. I looked the cold, hard, unforgiving truth in its metaphorical face. It wasn’t easy, but I had a moment of insight, which I will relay to you:
No one cares. Give it a rest already. It doesn’t matter how many times you repeat a lie, it doesn’t make it true.
beholder @22:
Wrong. Based on what I’ve read here, many of us see you and your ilk as Trump-enablers. Beneath contempt, in my view. Yeah, StevoR should tone it down, but only for his own sanity. Scum like you simply aren’t worth the attention.
@23 Rob
Fair enough, I’ll revise my statement.
No one cares, except a few frankly pathetic individuals obsessing over things someone on the internet did not do. They live a wretched existence. They should get a new hobby.
[You clearly care, beholder. That much is evident, given your piteous pathetic pleading posture towards StevoR — if you didn’t care, you’d be ignoring it. It follows that at least one person cares, which makes your claim contradictory and thus vitiates it]
@7. John Morales : Dóh! Missed that youhad shared that link already, sorry.
@Trump de facto voter and enabler beholder : You lie as usual. You did de facto vote for Trump as I have already explained. You will be remidne d iof it and face the consequences for it. You do have metaphorical blood onyour hands and w eall sa wand remeber what you & the other Purity disunity mob jklowns and trolls did pre-election.
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StevoR, no worries; two independent adductions speaks well for the article.
Functional result still looks like a duopoly, but the intricacies and feedbacks (preferences matter!) make it quite complicated.
You want preferences from party X, Y, or Z? Well, have policies that they don’t hate, and maybe do a tad of quid pro quo in other aspects, such as preferences.
Far as Beholder’s attempt to escape karma goes, well… whether or not anyone cares about it is not relevant to the truth-value of its contention. I for one notice how their bluster is about a purported lack of caring rather than about truthfulness or about relevance. Kinda revealing.
(It’s good to be honest and virtuous, no? No need to bluster or frantically prevaricate)