Spike

I haven't even turned twenty fucking seven yet

We put an offer on a house today and it was accepted. I'm excited but also not. We need our own living space but at the same time it feels like I'm digging my heels in more and I'll never live in Australia again. I probably wouldn't feel so bad about it if I could have visited this year.

Concerning Iggy Azaea, she may be a great rapper after all. It's impressive that an Australian bogan can rap like an American black woman with such consistency. Think about it. @Devil-Dick Willie @Toinho

I mean they are just observed patterns that don't apply to everyone but everyone is probably guilty of something on that list every now and then. Every culture has their foibles, Australians do, and those foibles are probably the cause of heads butting in cricket. Aussies expect you to be able to take as much verbal abuse as one gives, probably too laid back for Indians but at the same time it's an oxymoron because of how aggressive/vulgar and direct Aussies are. Australian direct aggression versus Indian indirect argumentativeness is probably a bad mix. Australia: 'You're a fucking dense cunt!' India: "No! Sir, you are a very bad man, shameful behaviour!'

so i take it this is mainly true https://m.economictimes.com/argumentative-too-emotional-are-indians-tough-to-work-with/articleshow/45638709.cms

SHIRAZ

The best sledges are aimed precisely at the man, not his child or wife, and cut through like a knife and cannot be turned against you.

Could you imagine driving down to Sydney to soak up a few rays while trying to peer into some prime backpacker clunge and some bloke walks past and says into your ear 'Welcome to Sydney, mate'. That's prime time for a bottling

Maybe someone can explain to me why the BCCI and the Indian national team complain about everything all the time?

@Devil-Dick Willie Is 'Welcome to Sydney, mate' racist sledge of the year?

Cheap wicket for Gil and Pujara lucky to be in right now, that was a tight LBW call

Oh I thought de Plessis was actively putting small pieces on the ball to cover damage

Saffas were rubbing shite on the ball years before that, don't remember when he was chewing on a lolly and was putting pieces on the ball?

What nation hasn't ball tampered? If you were to ask the layman no one except Australia but it's ridiculous; just get on with it. As if they aren't picking at the seam everytime they spit on their fingers to 'polish' the ball

btw to all the people talking shit about Smith's captaincy during the sandpaper issue, I guarantee you it when down like this Smith: Daveo mate, I reckon that is illegal Warner: yeah nah smudge matey don't fucking worry about it, rightyo cobber? Smith: okay davey, if you say so. .... Warner: Oi Camo mate, I got a job for you... Smith's personality is that he is good at batting

Warney is an idiot, best spinner of all time but we've always known the bloke has no way with words when he is trying to pull clunge on his 1999 Nokia monochrome screen

"open up a bit" in test cricket fucken hell imagine if he was watching the Kiwis, he'd die of boredom

Wracking my brains trying to think of the most depressing meal I've ever eaten/seen because I just saw my nephew eating a microwaved hotpocket and a cup of milk. Disgusting

Hypocritical of Warne (and Symmonds) saying that Labuschagne needs to 'bat properly', with Warner going out like a s p a s t i c this test and Warne never cracking a century in his career, meanwhile Smith holds his bat like a r e t a r d and is possibly one of the best batsmen ever.

It really isnt' that difficult to pronounce La boo skug knee

that doesn't necessarily mean players. it could just mean that they keep doing the same thing on the pitch

Frugality can be good for the soul, spoiling yourself only sometimes makes one appreciate all they have. Such a shame that American is predatory on countries like yours, imagine all the gifted doctors and other learned people you've lost due to the brain drain. They aren't banned any more,, the chocolate doesn't cover the whole egg, there is a very thin line of separation.

Nearly right with identity politics but it is any sort of identity, not just gay/straight/white/black/a woman. Social class, locality, occupation, religion, etc. It's any sort of pandering that will associate X political ideal with Y identity. So identity politics can be 'enlightened smart people vote left, bigots vote right'. Or for you own country, 'Gammons vote Tory'. I can almost say it's a way of justifying of your own preference while putting down other's. Identity politics isn't a new term

@Dr. Gonzo it's because you guys are on reddit. It's easily the worst website on the planet and each sub will eat you alive if you deviate from the groupthink you shouldn't think of it as 'otherside' because identity politics is snake oil sold to you, ,left v. right are ultimately meaningless terms due to the deviance in ideals within their own half of the divide. communism is left, but facism is right but both can be totalitarian??! then there are policies that can be defined as both left and right, but also in opposition to both (open borders)

The racist thing is weird to me, didn't he do a bunch of civil rights work in the 70s and 80s? Does it stem from his part in the war on drugs and the discrepancy between the incarceration lengths of powder cocaine and crack cocaine?