A Dummies Guide To OzPosting ft. Andrew Law
Added 2022-01-25 13:06:09 +0000 UTCThis week, we're rejoined by Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) from Boontavista to talk about the kooky characters of Australian Twitter. This includes a guy who believes he is solely responsible for trending topics, people who are *really* into voluntary lockdowns because they realise it makes for great content, and some Australian witches, who are somehow just as bizarre as other self-fashioned witches in other commonwealth nations. Plus, we talk about why mundane movie opinions always go viral, and what it is about David Lynch that seemingly makes everyone mad online.
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sorry I don't mean to tease, I know that you went through it with some awful fans
Alanna
2022-01-29 10:51:35 +0000 UTCthinking about 47:00 and bts 👀 (not really, I understand you didn't do the same thing re bts Hussein lol)
Alanna
2022-01-29 09:52:57 +0000 UTCI feel like “notice me senpai” is that much more pathetic when “senpai” is the Twitter “Trending” algorithm.
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 23:40:39 +0000 UTCIt’s worth remembering that Lindsay Ellis got hounded out of a job because she had the temerity to say that a Disney movie has certain similarities to a Nickelodeon show. People just love them some fucking Disney! (It’s kind of hilarious that no one is standing up for Nickelodeon, though. Wump, wump!)
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 22:13:08 +0000 UTCClearly the main outcome of New Labor installing those anti-teenager speakers was that said teenagers turned around and inflicted Facebook on Boomers as revenge.
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 21:39:14 +0000 UTCIn France, the parents let the kids have a little taste of wine. In the UK, by contrast, the parents let the kids have a little taste of MDMA or cocaine (depending on their class and persuasion).
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 21:32:20 +0000 UTCStan is when BTS kidnap Dido, lock her in the trunk of their car, and then drive off a bridge in a murder-suicide. (Alternately, it’s when KPop Twitter kidnaps Eminem, locks him in the trunk of their car, and then drive off a bridge in a murder-suicide, in much the same way.) (By contrast, if Jeanne Moreau drives off a cliff with you and your mutual boyfriend in a murder-suicide, that’s “Jules et Jim”. Nobody talks about “Jules et Jim” Twitter, though, for whatever reason…)
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 21:29:08 +0000 UTCI was curious, so I checked, and Teach For America (1989) predates Teach First (2002). So, yes, we Americans seem to have done the whole sending-underqualified-white-kids-to-underfunded-state-schools thing first. (I remember getting offered T4A, but I’m suspicious they offer it to almost everyone who completes a bachelor’s degree in the US.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-25 21:23:40 +0000 UTCi don’t mean to alarm anyone but i had to look up “stan”
Rowan
2022-01-25 20:17:42 +0000 UTC
