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From lydia_petze, koalas coming down to drink from dogs' water bowls etc. So cute! Also, pictures of stupid people doing physical activity. Also, pictures of poor bastards who work outdoors. Also, pictures of girls in bikinis, because my local paper is fucking quality.

The national paper's not that much better: a frontpage bite on today's Weekend Australian read BEWARE THE ALPHA FEMALE with a picture of Keira Knightly. Similar feminist-baiting headline in the magazine itself. Turns out the article's about women bullying in the workplace, Keira Knightly courtesy a tenuous connection with The Duchess.

Fuck you very much, Australian editors. Go away and die.

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I'm fully well aware that sexism is a problem everywhere, but everything I've ever heard about Australia makes it seem like it's even worse there /:

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I can't believe that woman was actually playing tennis. She looked awfully well-groomed and not-sweaty. Maybe she went straight back into the air-conditioned players lounge after posing for the pic.

Is it wrong that I slashed the two electricians a little bit? They were so cute!! ;-D

BEWARE THE ALPHA FEMALE

/eyeroll

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We have a very blokey culture, with a white, suntanned, rugged, southern-cross tattooed masculinity the Australian ideal. It's fucked.

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I know, what a fruitcake! And the golfer, too! I am a total sweater, I just have to look outside and I'm dripping. I'm like that guy in the Lynx ad.

Those two electricians are so mfeo :-D

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I know, what a fruitcake! And the golfer, too!

Golfers are nutbags, they'll play on in any weather. It's why so many of them get struck by lightning.

I am a total sweater, I just have to look outside and I'm dripping. I'm like that guy in the Lynx ad.


Oh, me too, it's gross. A change of clothes and some spare panty liners are totally my friends in this weather. (Hi hi, TMI!)

Those two electricians are so mfeo :-D

Hee! Glad it wasn't just me ;-) The slash goggles, they don't come off!

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It's gotten so that I eyeball with distrust anyone who chooses to wear or fly an Aussie flag. It's been co-opted lately by that yobbo, "fuck-off-we're-full" element, and it's just wrong that that's happened. But it has ;-(

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Indeed. /:

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they're less goggles and more implants.

Hi, TMI! I am EXACTLY THE SAME.