Germaine! Germaine! Germaine! Rather than cringe and shit-can "Aussie three times" Germaine Greer reckons we ought to embrace our inner bogan, as well as giving the infamous chant a historical, if perhaps far-fetched, context:
As chants would have it, 'Aussie' is here to stay
SO FOXTEL wants us to stop chanting, ''Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!'', and is prepared to give $10,000 to anyone who can come up with a better cry. There are some, apparently, who consider ''Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!'' unnecessarily confrontational, repellently nationalist, unsporting even.
Of course, far be it from me to contradict Germs on matters of etymology (which, as you all know, is the study of the history of insects, their origins, and how their forms have changed over time).
Was watching an audience member tell a joke on Hey Hey It's Saturday, way back in Daryl's big colourful knitted jumper era.
This kid woulda been about 16, personality of an anti-theft bollard and the annunciation to match, and his joke went [remember: in the most barely-awake disinterested delivery possible]:
Policeman pulls over a speeding car and, uumm, policeman says "what gear were you in?!" and guy says shirt... shorts... thongs.
And the camera cuts back to Daryl and he's got this expression, slightly open mouthed, dumbfounded, horrified, confused, aghast, all at the same time. Absolute p!sser. The only belly laugh I got out of that man's entire career.
Well, that was my facial expression reading these competition entries to replace Aussie Aussie Aussie Oy Oy Oy!
http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/06/27/aussie-aussie-aussie-bored/#commentsThe Roar wants you to win. Big. Fire up the grey matter and give us your best new Aussie chant in the comments below – we'll choose the best three, shoot them on video, and submit into Foxtel's 'Chant your way to $10k' competition.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 29 July 2012 at 23:59
I had the best intentions of hitting Preview first. Take 2.
The Roar wants you to win. Big. Fire up the grey matter and give us your best new Aussie chant in the comments below – we'll choose the best three, shoot them on video, and submit into Foxtel's 'Chant your way to $10k' competition.
// probably coz the joke was over so quick and it cut back to Daryl before he could TRY to be funny, that was his genuine expression - an ultra rare candid Daryl moment, and hilarious to boot
// mate of mine saw it too, and we had a laff about it at school on Monday – to this day "what gear were you in?!" is our private code when we hear something particularly lame.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 30 July 2012 at 00:13
m0nty: did you get banned from that faggot, libertard, open border nut case, blog catallaxy?
Posted by: Cameron | 30 July 2012 at 00:25
Just so I remember, there's a bunch of them over there (just popped in), congratulating themselves over banning someone who was "boasting" about "trolling" (on another blog, AGB?) the sacrosanct Catallaxy.
I assumed they were referring to your good self and the right hon. M. Patard in your conversation the other day.
Rather un-Australian (if you will) and even anti-liberty and free speech, which they claim to profess to advance, if you ask me.
In any case, 3 cheers for Tony T. snd his truly open blog(s)!!!
Cricket chaps are far better blokes no matter what the politics.
Posted by: Cameron | 30 July 2012 at 00:42
This is gold! A complete train wreck.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 30 July 2012 at 04:56
I notice Roar has now got one of those comment systems that unfolds as you scroll down the page. It's a great idea, certainly better than a "view more comments" button, but on this occasion I would have preferred the button since every time I scrolled to the bottom of the page a whole new screen of dismal comments lurched into view.
The payoff, after the torture, was your comment at the bottom, Biggy:
Posted by: Tony Tea | 30 July 2012 at 08:28
The day I get a comment rules, or "Commenting Guidelines" is the day I fold the AGB and call myself a cahnt. Nor do I see the point of banning trolls. I have never banned a commenter ever, apart from sp@mmers. I have very occasionally and with great reluctance edited the odd comment of its ultra language, but where do you draw the line? Best to let things evolve and take the piss out of anything OTT.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 30 July 2012 at 08:34
You know that Warners cartoonie where the two dogs go looking for cats? The little one says "Hey, Spike, I know where there's a cat." So, off they go to beat up on a cat, but the cat is actually a puma who has escaped from the zoo and keeps on beating up Spike.
Those commenters who say things like "well done on banning that troll" remind me of the little dog. What a sad bunch of join-in losers. The first suck-up who ever says "well done on banning that troll, Tone" will get banned. Although, since I never ban anyone, that will never happen.
Anyway, how about that Womens Handball?
Posted by: Tony Tea | 30 July 2012 at 08:55
Gatekeepers. Now, they shit me. Blogging is supposed to be an organic, evolving, do-it-anyway-you-like organism. But, no. There are people out there who are into telling you how it's supposed to be done and laying out rules. Well, kiss my sharries, gatekeepers.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 30 July 2012 at 09:22
What about Sigourney Weaver, floating above the bed in red silk, possessed by Zhoul in Ghostbusters gatekeepers? I enjoyed it.
Posted by: The Usual Suspect | 30 July 2012 at 14:01
I'm more key master than gate keeper.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 30 July 2012 at 14:57
There is one big difference TT, Spike never gave the little dog (Chester) any respect for his incessant yapping... the bullying aspect is bang on though.
Blogging is not what it was. Not enough people own blogs anymore, or comment on other people's.
Posted by: Russ | 30 July 2012 at 15:45
I am young and hung.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 31 July 2012 at 00:24
Call me biggz...
Posted by: James Ashby | 31 July 2012 at 14:52
Political bloggers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFox3SRoVtw
(language nsfw)
From The Thick Of It, great pommy political comedy series.
Posted by: Cameron | 31 July 2012 at 16:32
Yeah, top show. Unfortunately the original politician/actor went the same way as Andy Muirhead, Deev Randall and possibly even James Ashby.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 31 July 2012 at 19:22
I vaguely remember hearing about that, a quick google search reveals the child pornagrapher is 'trying to get past it' and resume his career. He used the old 'research' excuse just like Pete Townsend.
Thank god it wasn't 'Malcolm Tucker' though, the whole show would have been stuffed as you couldn't replace him. They're starting filming a new series soon with Malcolm in opposition.
Posted by: Cameron | 31 July 2012 at 20:30
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Posted by: Big Ramifications | 01 August 2012 at 11:10
That picture was captioned by an ESL work experience kid.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 02 August 2012 at 16:22
In correct Police-Speak, avoiding the simple past tense, the caption needs one change: "then the man has stolen".
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 04 August 2012 at 18:00
You've got no problem with "Murder" - with random capitalisation to boot?
// how often do you get asked if you have no problem with murder?
Posted by: Big Ramfications | 06 August 2012 at 01:49
Don't forgot "has" with an extra "a" up there.
Posted by: Norgen-Vaaz | 06 August 2012 at 01:53
Too right, Norgs.
Posted by: Häagen-Dazs | 06 August 2012 at 10:05
You two clowns better not be takin' the piss.
Posted by: Chaminda Vaas' mum | 07 August 2012 at 01:44
WANTED FOR QUESTIONING
Posted by: Homicide Squad | 09 August 2012 at 01:22
??? It said he died.
Posted by: Hank Pfister | 09 August 2012 at 01:24
And you wonder why there's so many unsolved murders in Victoria, heh.
Posted by: Homicide Squad | 09 August 2012 at 01:26
Interesting story coming into the NFL season about an Australian trialling with the New York Jets:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/sports/football/hayden-smith-is-learning-a-new-sport-in-jets-training-camp.html?pagewanted=all
As a tight-end too not as a punter. They're talking about giving him a practice squad position for the upcoming season. He's never played Gridiron before either.
Posted by: Cameron | 09 August 2012 at 18:31
Speaking of a cultural binge, I'll have you know that at 14:00 on the 'morrow myself and my good bed matress will be slaking in the finest of Sir* Richard Wagner's greatest hits, recapsulated at yea olde opree hause. An re-enactment of the virtuoso solo of Oztralian cap doffing apogee of our genuflecting ways. What with all our dog in the manger Anglos.
I got these tickets for $35 months ago faggots! as Stephanie n...Jamaican sprinting loving way lady says. Lay lady lay.
First up, I want a naked run in the style of Lohengrin Act III prelude. Next, well, let's face it, none of you plebians could care any less.
Enough to say that, at 17:00 I will be in rapture, dazedly sucking back a dowzwn od Sydney's rock finest fresh from Foster and her lakes, enticed, like Siegrifed dazzled by the idylls on our sullen Sydney lakes.
In all: get fucked. I am better than everyone. And those who I am not. I loves youse one and all!
Dick Wagner
Heil Dick
Posted by: M. Patard | 10 August 2012 at 22:36
For Hindy, if he was worth it, which he is not.
So much wind baggage given over to sloth. So much verbiage given over to emptiness.
No one cares, no one gives a shit. Beyond the next day and the next cruciate knee cartilage.
Whether 'tis for Luke on yon' the wing, nor sweet loafing lard arse fat carrying it out front.
Tomorrow, the boy marks his man, and all the world revolve like ancient slaag hagged wymins, salivating their lot, encrusted on like barnacles for her pay packet, and the Jewvision tube carries all in its way:
Enter the Gods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Jw8MuZxo
Posted by: M. Patard | 10 August 2012 at 22:59
And just to show, how ding dong daddy multi-culti lovin', free stylin' ... ab-solutely lovin', White neo-new-lovin' reconstructed boyo de joyo I yam:
Jessye Norman, who is not a Norman, with - Carbon Tax!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Jw8MuZxo
Posted by: M. Patard | 10 August 2012 at 23:14
And, don't forget, Paul "Condell Park" Keating just loved the Jew, Mahler.
He knew whre his French clocks were buttered.l
For Labor, and all the non-ultra-right, one of the greatest ever written:
One of the greatest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ
Posted by: M. Patard | 10 August 2012 at 23:55
And, here's one for all the AGB Anglos, all's well, twentieth century dies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nArLuubNjKs
Posted by: M. Patard | 11 August 2012 at 00:29
Now Dvir Abramovich, of course, is a man for whom this is a very personal issue, and who, rightfully, devotes himself to fighting against any attempts to diminish or trivialise the suffering caused by the Nazis. I could, at this point, go on at length about how I myself have no wish to do so, and how I am vehemently opposed to anti-Semitism and fully cognisant of the horrors of the Holocaust and so forth.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/defending-holocaust-humour-my-fools-errand-20120810-23z3s.html#ixzz239cE2181
Posted by: M. Patard | 11 August 2012 at 00:37
Good thing I'm just going to see a soprano sing SIR Dicki Vagners greatest hits and can stay clear of this.
Posted by: M. Patard | 11 August 2012 at 00:39
" "Maybe Tom and Alex can explain to us what is remotely funny about the gassing of millions of men, women and children and the burning of their bodies?"
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/defending-holocaust-humour-my-fools-errand-20120810-23z3s.html#ixzz239eMZa85
Lol
Posted by: M. Patard | 11 August 2012 at 00:45
Wow, sorry about that. Things are much better this morning. Please, ignore me and do carry on.
Posted by: M. Patard | 11 August 2012 at 07:37
It's an Ill Wind that blows.
Posted by: Tony | 12 August 2012 at 13:28
Curb Your Enthusiasm M. Patard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nS66IvbvcI
Posted by: Cameron | 12 August 2012 at 13:51
I do hate myself, but it's nothing to de with me being Anglican.
Posted by: Tony | 12 August 2012 at 14:12
Was gonna put that Curb Your Enthusiasm link up but thought it best left for you. It's excellent. And, topical as that tune was the opening at the concert yesterday.
On that subject, what a brilliant arvo it was too. I take my hat off to the Sydney Orchestra and the Yank behemoth Christine Brewer, a Brünnhilde that not even Siegfried himself would mess with, let alone to carry across the threshold.
I see that one of my links was wrong, that of Jessye Norman. Here it is again, just for completeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dnIc0bp88
Posted by: M. Patard | 12 August 2012 at 16:21
A lesson in cultural binge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppIS19La8W8&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: M. Patard | 03 September 2012 at 01:33
That's a long-winded and big-worded way of saying what we all know: the "cool" kids suck.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 03 September 2012 at 13:21
Mind you, I will be taking "acquiescent disposition" to the bank. Love it.
Posted by: Tony Tea | 03 September 2012 at 13:21
Apropos acquiescent dispositions, Hecky Brown, a character in The Front, is asked why he marched in the May Day Parade: "I was only trying to get laid. This communist girl, she had a big ass."
Posted by: Tony Tea | 03 September 2012 at 13:32
Speaking of acquiescent dispositions, I see that BoltA still can't figure out that all the Jew diligence in the world won't save him from a law suit.
What a meshugenah.
Posted by: M. Patard | 03 September 2012 at 22:39