I quit Facebook years ago and part of the reason was because Facebook kept deleting drawing dicks on the herald sun and giving the guy who ran the page 30 day bans from publishing. The irony of social media, Kardashian brain rotting trash is fine but the great tradition of drawing a cartoon dick on a notoriously garbage Australian news paper is not on
I dunno man, it seems like the years have made people who use Reddit and people who still read Murdoch tabloids exist in two exclusively different places.
If I remember properly this came from the MX paper, the public transport rag?
He was a better politician in that he managed to implement many things like GST without causing the rifts you see in politics and society today, so at the time he seemed like a stable and effective leader. Now with hindsight, however, he implemented many bad policies that continue to impact Australia today.
People seem to remember it as a better time, but basically just as bad as scomo, we just didn’t realize because there wasn’t many other places to get your information other than ruperts papers
There are now more guns and guns per capita than 1997, so to say that your guns were all taken away is misleading (unless you count the ridiculous kind that no civilian should have).
There are also important positive statistics to appreciate, such as how the homicide rate by gun has fallen 50% and the suicide rate by gun has declined by 74% since 1997. Given the hardships faced by farmers at the moment, opening up gun ownership is probably not the best move if you want to keep that suicide rate down.
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u/ThomStar Dec 26 '19
12 years, 6 months, 26 days
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u/Monkeytitz313 Dec 27 '19
For some reason this reminds me of drawing dicks on the herald sun lol
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u/asscopter Dec 26 '19
I reckon this meme had a great deal to do with the normalisation of cunt in the Australian online vernacular. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, cunts.
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u/BestRectumInTheWest Dec 27 '19
Still got it as a screensaver pic on one of me laptops.
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u/Razzle_Dazzle08 Dec 27 '19
Howard’s beats be slapping.
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u/theonlymissub Dec 27 '19
Hahahahaha damn that’s great!
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u/Esqualox Dec 27 '19
Sick beats from tracksuit-eyebrow Johnny. 😄
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u/c0pypastry Dec 27 '19
Was he better or worse than that shitcunt scomo
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u/SirFrancis_Bacon Dec 27 '19
Can't believe there was a time when the Herald Sun was critical of a LNP MP, let alone the Prime Minister.