Poll: Australia Strikes Again

[Dr.Susse]

there's no reason to be afraid of the magpies because they'll get real close but then choke.
Carn the pies (australian joke again)

 

[SirDeadly]

Seriously people need to get over what "isn't politically correct" and just start having some fun. That race was hilarious, everyone gets carried away now... The Chasers Make a Wish Foundation skit was hilarious but everyone ignored it coz it involved children.

 

[Chipperz]

Whew! Your title scared me. I thought for a moment the Aussies had finally made their bid for world conquest and unleashed their legions of sedan-sized spiders, vicious snakes, and mildly agitated soccer players upon us.

When the time comes, you won't need to come to a forum to find out - you'll already be dead. Studies have shown that, outside of Sydney and Melbourne, non-Australians have an average life expectency of 0.0038 seconds*. Your odds are far higher in the major "touristy" cities, where your life expectency almost doubles to a whopping 0.0071 seconds! I guess off of native soil an average human might last a second or so?

OT - I laughed, many people have laughed, everyone seemed to be having a good time, what's the problem?

*While the process of your death lasts less than a 50th of a second, the pain of most Australian animal's venom (known by the locals as "Hot Fosters") will make it feel like a thousand lifetimes.

 

[Ernie Devlin]

I'm sure if we all trawled through the British and American newspapers weekly we'd all have something that would offend us.
It isn't like the dwarves were beaten into submission and forced to ride other humans is it?
This is sensationalist garbage at best.

 

[cobra_ky]

After the whole Blackface thing I read an article which said that Americans were saying that Australians are backwards and racist. At first I was outraged by the comment and the hypocrisy of it, calling an entire group of people backward and racist is itself backward and racist, but then I realised that it was probably a load of shite that the Australian media was writing to get us outraged.

seriously. i haven't heard a word about this or the blackface thing outside of these threads.

Well well, it seems only after a week after the 'Blackface' fiasco, The world is up in arms against Australia again, after a novelty 'Dwarf Race' was held at a Victorian race meet.

is the world REALLY up in arms over this?

Anyway we still haven't got the kangaroos to combat effectiveness yet.

The drop bears are ready to go, though.

<a href=http://www.south20th.com/index.php?date=2007-05-27>Epic reference!

 

[Fire Daemon]

Yeah, I really don't have a problem this. It really isn't any worse than the little people in American wrestling. I don't follow that stuff much but I remember seeing an Irish duo who occasionally gets a leprechaun to come out and help him fight. Frankly, I don't see too much of a difference between those two things to criticize the Australian event while not criticizing the American one. The thing at the races was, in my opinion, no worse than giving a your child a piggyback ride. If someone is short enough to ride you like a horse, or at least pretend to, why not? It's more discriminatory to say 'no you can't do that because you're a short person' than to let them get on you're back.

I'm finding it a little bit difficult to see how this causes offense though. If anything, it's holding up little people as a better, maybe even perfect, group of people. People ride horses and most would argue that people are better than horses. Little people ride standard height people so it's kind of possible to make that link. Maybe that's what causes the offense here, standard height people feeling afraid that little people consider themselves equal to or better than themselves. Maybe, but probably not.

 

[KurtzGallahad]

When I first saw it on 9 I laughed, the next day there was all this whining and all I could think was WTF?

 

[Goatlemon]

After the whole Blackface thing I read an article which said that Americans were saying that Australians are backwards and racist. At first I was outraged by the comment and the hypocrisy of it, calling an entire group of people backward and racist is itself backward and racist, but then I realised that it was probably a load of shite that the Australian media was writing to get us outraged.

seriously. i haven't heard a word about this or the blackface thing outside of these threads.

Yeah, I figured that, or that at least no-one would of really cared.

EDIT: That's another thing I don't like about the media, they give the most voice to the whiniest losers. The majority of people don't care or don't really know anything about the issue, yet the media only gives voice to the outraged.

After the Chaser's Make a Realistic Wish sketch my father was ranting about how 'they've lost the plot', one of his favourite phrases unfortunately, and that they shouldn't make fun of dying kids. I asked him if he'd actually seen the sketch, his response was no.

I told him the sketch wasn't actually making fun of dying kids. He responded with something like "but that's what they've been saying on the news". Like I said, a lot of people just don't know what they're talking about when all the information they have comes from television news out for ratings and tabloid journalism.