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@HartWexford
Ben Pobjie
9 months
Ben Stokes is on 11 off 28. If McCullum has any integrity at all he will order Foakes to run him out.
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Ben Pobjie
9 months
Bloody hell Baz did it, that crazy bastard did it
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Ben Pobjie
9 months
Ben Stokes is on 11 off 28. If McCullum has any integrity at all he will order Foakes to run him out.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@afraidofwasps I like that the Riddler follows Jeopardy rules
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@adamliaw Seems like you caused all this by giving her the name in the first place
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
@Halalcoholism Interesting use of “willingly”. Implying there are actors forced to play racists against their will
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
Finally
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
His fake guns. That he fake used while pretending to be fake cowboys and soldiers because his job was to fake stuff
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5 years
Daily Wire host criticizes Mr. Rogers for corrupting boys with his "metrosexual wimpiness," adding "if you really want to have a beautiful day in the neighborhood, call John Wayne and tell him to bring his guns"
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
@bendreyfuss 140 pounds is fat to you? Do you live in Hobbiton?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Dan Andrews: REALLY sorry you can’t go shopping at 1am Annastacia Palszczuk: LOL where do you want to go anyway, INDIA? Blessed to have such impressive Labor leaders in this time
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Thank god Melbourne had that massive long lockdown last year so that they didn't have to keep going in and out of lockdown indefinitely.
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
@IonaItalia There’ve been times when I suspected a woman was into me, but the humiliating price of acting on that and being wrong is far too high.
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
@missdianemorgan And do you?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
I just want one person - JUST ONE - to explain how, without closed borders or lockdowns, covid zero is possible to sustain in a world in which covid exists. I have not seen a single person even try to explain this.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
If you want a lockdown, stay home. Nobody’s stopping you. Stay home and shut up about how much it gets you off to ruin other people’s lives
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@paigeweldon @mark_petrolo When I was a boy, flour was carried in the mouths of orphans, who would spit it into the flour-well in the backyard, and that worked fine for us.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@RadioFreeTom Slept in my Tennessee Ernie Ford t-shirt, woke up another day older and deeper in debt.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@KyleKulinski I see what you're getting at Kyle but it won't work: we can't hire 300,000 Afghan soldiers to teach at American colleges
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
If Jeremy Corbyn's approval rating is way below Boris Johnson's, that's just evidence that the British people are morons, because look at Boris Johnson. Just look at him.
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@mtracey On the other hand the fact that this IS his primary communications platform is absolutely lunacy too
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Because of lockdowns, my father did not see his grandchildren for all of 2020. Because of lockdowns, he has not seen them for all of 2021. He's now completely lost his sight and will never see his grandchildren again. Forgive me if "we're all in this together" isn't cutting it
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
It is really a bit odd for Daryl Somers to say "Hey Hey would be axed today" as if it wasn't axed years ago. More sensible to say "Hey Hey would never be made in the first place today". Which would be correct because it was rubbish
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@WhoresofYore I think we can assume, from her expression, that it was worth it
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@richardosman 1. Bill 2. Ethel 3. Barbara 4. Alan 5. Stefan 6. Pierre 7. Kerry 8. Luke 9. Stanley 10. Mohammad 11. Joe 12. Fatima 13. Penelope 14. Helen 15. Graeme 16. Freda 17. Nina 18. Neil 19. Jock 20. Juan
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
It doesn't. Actually, just being an Australian gives you licence to do that, dickhead.
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4 years
Since when does being Australian of the Year give you licence to personally attack our prime minister, asks @kylie_lang
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@KenTremendous So nobody who supported someone other than Warren did so for any reason other than misogyny? Not a single one of them genuinely thought another candidate was better?
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
Guess what Britain? @pixelatedboat is right and if you're not voting Labour you're a dickhead.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@whnlaws @TLPspitspot @robertpopper It was so kind of you to let the creator of the show know this, especially in a thread in which he was remembering his late friend. Very important work you’re doing here.
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
@sarahmccammon @lizzzzzielogan Look, we were all VERY disappointed that the Sound of Music was not set in a gas chamber
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
If a person who declared that NSW opening up was suicidally risky, but is now celebrating the fact that Victoria is opening up with a higher caseload than NSW ever had, simply said, "I was wrong previously", they would instantly become a far less annoying person.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@Halalcoholism That was amazing. “The Spaniards wanted an excuse for killing thousands of people, unlike the Aztecs, who killed thousands of people to keep the sun from going out”
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@pattonoswalt Which starred Linda Hamilton, who was in Dante's Peak with Pierce Brosnan, who was in The World Is Not Enough with Denise Richards, who was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon!
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Anyone complaining about Hazzard saying that everyone will get covid is just saying that they prefer politicians to lie to them
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@WilliamShatner That's an excellent point as long as you assume that the only thing people ever buy is computers.
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Ben Pobjie
10 months
@virtualmusing @BabbyUnit “Is the atmosphere a little awkward? Why not calm things down by deliberately insulting your family?”
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
Cal Wilson was one of the cleverest and funniest performers going round, but much more: as kind and sweet a human being as I’ve ever known. I am in shock. I know I’ll be one of many many people who are devastated but so grateful to have known Cal.
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
Just out of respect for individuality, I salute the one passenger watching Lord of the Rings
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1 year
That moment for women’s sport ❤️⚽️👑🦘
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
@IonaItalia @HollandSFW I need to clarify: my problem is not anything to do with wokeness or fear of false accusations or anything. It’s just good old-fashioned fear of rejection. Nothing modern about it.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@Historycourses Because the Aztecs conquered and massacred other peoples in an authentic indigenous artisanal manner.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
The attacks on Leo Puglisi illustrate how so many of those who like to tweet #ThisisNotJournalism actually mean “this is not cheerleading for my team”
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
The fact is Australia is sitting on a huge vaccine surplus complaining about a vaccine shortage
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@sarahkcomedy @jk_rowling You don't actually seem to be disagreeing with JK about anything. Which is good, of course!
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@BoJackHorseman Alison Brie looks weird
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@thebettinaarndt Please, Bettina, I ask sincerely: explain what "driven too far" means in the context of a man setting his wife and three children on fire. For the love of god tell me what are the circumstances in which murdering your own children is a reasonable response. Please. I beg you.
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
People wearing Nazi uniforms as a joke are not a problem. It’s the people who aren’t joking that are a problem. Hitler, for example, was a problem. Mel Brooks, for example, is fine.
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Ben Pobjie
3 months
A vote for Trump is a vote for *checks notes* …competence?
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It's funny how millions of people feel they (and others) MUST support Kamala Harris just because she is brown and female. This is what happens when you convince people that immutable identity traits are more important than competence. Perceived victim hierarchy above all.
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
@sarahmccammon @lizzzzzielogan The funniest bit is that for the story it tells, the movie actually plays UP the severity of the situation. In real life the Von Trapps just got on a train and left with no problems
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Ben Pobjie
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@Halalcoholism The existence of farming comes as a huge shock
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
New cases down by 69 from yesterday. At this rate Sydney will have zero new cases by Monday. Primary school maths. Sorted.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Ian Thorpe noting that Great Britain’s relay team has four swimmers “who can all swim”, which definitely seems like a good selection tactic
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@timminchin I noticed the sad old woman in the corner staring straight at me. Is that right?
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@ed_solomon @neilhimself Every night, the movie slips out of the house, runs to a local theatre, plays to an empty house, and runs home again
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Ben Pobjie
10 months
@Joshstrangehill How does that help me with this pudding?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@aimeeterese The logical corollary of this seems to be that if abortions ARE legal, men SHOULD be allowed to take no responsibility for their children. Rachel thinks that’s ok?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
And he’s dead. Makes you think
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3 years
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Elvis Presley having the new Polio vaccine to encourage young people to take it (1956).
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Ben Pobjie
2 years
Obviously. You push your FASTER friend down.
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When a bear attacks, don’t ‘push a slower friend down,’ National Park Service says
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
@OzKitsch Is that the name of the guest speaker or the venue?
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@StephenKing The answer to the first question can be found in a little book I like to call "Pet Sematary"
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Apparently people are still talking garbage about “underlying conditions” so - even though it’s yelling into the void - I feel compelled to go over this AGAIN. 1/
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@AshBCoffin Same happened to me except instead of a Henry Hoover it was a tiny man with one eye who lived in our house and could not say anything except "it is done"
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Ben Pobjie
9 months
@StormyShubh Assuming you’re paying my fare, yes
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Ben Pobjie
1 year
Nope. We’ve already established that if you’re at a rally, and Nazis show up at that rally, it’s a Nazi rally and you’re a Nazi. Those are the rules now. We decided.
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Important post from the organisers of last night’s rally. The footage circulating is selectively edited to give the impression the whole crowd was engaged in this chant. That is not the case. It was sufficiently few people that I could not hear it from about 20m away.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
The lockdown is a choice made by the Victorian government. Stop acting like it's an irresistible law of nature. If you think lockdowns are good just admit it.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Life is shit but I just had a zoom call with Bill Oddie so sometimes there’s good stuff
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
I’ve been in NSW under lockdown. I’ve been in NSW in the Omicron outbreak. The lockdown was 100 times worse
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Raf Epstein
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'Worse than a lockdown' How the Omicron outbreak is smashing NSW
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@barriecassidy He didn't humiliate the Logies, he just publicly noted the humiliation that had been going on for decades.
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
US President
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@HJJoyceEcon @fairplaywomen In fact, as we know, clown fish change sex when they can't find a mate of the opposite sex. So really we should keep men completely segregated from women, wait for them to change sex, THEN allow them into women's prisons and sport. It's science.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
So yes, it IS necessary to report how many of those who die had underlying conditions. It’s not dismissive, heartless or an evil conspiracy. It’s just obvious sensible public health messaging. And if you complain about it you’re either stupid or dishonest. 6/end
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Ben Pobjie
3 months
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@CitizenSnipps1 @LulaLulaGT @FondOfBeetles @JankovicWonIW15 Incidentally, saying “no one is destroying women’s sports” in the same tweet in which you suggest women’s sports shouldn’t exist is just amazing. Well done.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
It does sadden me how many people believe that life in indefinite lockdown would be worth living.
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
Indeed. If the Coen Brother gave a shit about women they would, like, marry one, and then give her the lead role in one of the greatest movies of all time, for which she would win an Oscar. Fucking disgusting how the Coen Brothers never did that.
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Noah Berlatsky
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also watching lots of Coen brothers films in short order it's really remarkable how few are helmed by women characters (as in, none of them are, right?)
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@ddale8 We've been treated very badly by the Pacific. Very badly. The Pacific is a very good friend. But my tariffs will make sure the Pacific pays its fair share
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@BridgetPhetasy @russellcrowe I think it's ok to respond to rando critiques when the rando is enough of a dick to tag you
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Gina Riley in The Games: not talked about enough when it comes to all-time great Australian TV acting performances
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
How many bodies are in your street today?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Maybe we should consider him as a man who helped lead the free world through war and was also racist
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Churchill helped lead the free world through war. He was also racist. How should we consider him today?
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
At this point I am going to assume that anyone calling for harsher lockdown measures in NSW simply wants me and my family to suffer more and is motivated purely by sadism. I can’t honestly maintain belief in anyone’s good faith anymore
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@RevRichardColes You'll need 1 horse, 1 radish and some sensual lighting
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@Halalcoholism Nothing Trump says should be taken literally OR seriously, but everything Biden and Harris say should be interpreted in the most literal and extreme way possible.
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@VictoriaCoren I have a similar routine. All of the products are biscuits.
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@exitthelemming I’ve always loved Martin’s work. He’s a modern day Damien Niven.
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
@RichardDawkins The difference is it's spiders and not lions
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
FACT CHECK: this is not a constitutionally sound analysis
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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@Micha_Frazer Literally nobody has ever attempted to debate “trans lives”. You know this.
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
"Have you ever noticed how whenever someone inconveniences the dominant western power structure, the entire political/media class rapidly becomes very, very interested in letting us know how evil and disgusting that person is?" Thanks @caitoz
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
@TitaniaMcGrath God I wish my kids were POC so they'd know about consent from birth
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
Glad Victoria still requires permits for entry, to make sure nobody accidentally infects the state with a case of good health contracted elsewhere
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@pixelatedboat Eminem’s appearance was a warning that you only get one shot
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Melbourne has unique challenges fighting covid. Unlike Sydney, in Melbourne people live in groups, several in one house, rather than individual steel pods. Also in Melbourne, unlike Sydney, breathing is legal.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Anyone even a *little* bit disturbed by the fact a government can make it illegal to leave your house after 9pm and when questioned just shrug its shoulders?
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Rohan Smith
3 years
Daniel Andrews on calls to scrap the curfew because "there's no health advice behind it" says he's sorry "if people can't do their grocery shopping at 1am or exercise" but there is a reason the curfew exists. @newscomauHQ
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@VictoriaPeckham Don’t worry, Mermaids twitter blocks are totally reversible
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
As far as I can tell, covid zero enthusiasts are in favour of keeping state borders closed forever, and are also happy to keep Victoria and NSW locked down forever.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
Feel compelled to point out that lockdowns and restrictions are always a choice. A quarantine leak doesn't automatically cause lockdowns like the moon causing the tides: governments decide to lock down or not.
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Michael Rowland
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The PM says Hotel Quarantine has been 99.99% effective. The 0.01% has sparked lockdowns/restrictions in most cities. The 0.01% led to a 22% fall in the City of Melbourne's economy. Howard Springs has a 100% success rate. No lockdowns. No deaths. That 0.01% is wearing thin.
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Ben Pobjie
3 years
The “as a father” move is empty manipulative bullshit when Morrison does it and it’s the same when Andrews do it.
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4 years
@annakhachiyan People are mad at Joe Rogan permanently for everything
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Ben Pobjie
4 years
Of all the people I've interviewed, I think Michael Gudinski had the hugest, most irrepressible passion for his work. I barely even managed to ask a question, he was off and running and unstoppable in talking about Australian music. Boundless energy and humour and love
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Ben Pobjie
5 years
@Peter_Fitz @PeterDo76549714 Hands up all who want to see if Trump can navigate a small boat from Tahiti to Jakarta?
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4 years
@watsoncomedian But had you *watched* it?
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