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[–] 9 points 11 months ago* (11 children)

Aw man, as an ignorant non Australian from /all, it just looks like this lady hates Hugh Dennis.

I looked up pictures of the last couple PMs, but the glasses make it hard to be sure, is that Tony Abbott?

Edit: Oh my god, I read his sweatshirt and I was just so far off, lol. I’m in full agreement here.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Its Anthony THE Blue Wiggle you fucking heathen.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I looked at the sweatshirt after I posted, but I’m leaving it up, because I think it’s funny how off I was. He really looks like a politician resigned to his fate, though.

    It’s, ah, gotta be tough to be a wiggle.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I dunno about everyone else, but these middle fingers seem extremely well humoured and friendly.

    Is this just an Australian thing?

    Middle finger is a cheeky way to have fun with your friends.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    She seems like she’s in good spirits (as does the guy in the back), but I could see that being either because they’re all in on the joke together or because she’s super excited to have the chance to flick off a politician she hates and has been joking with her friends about it. Like, I could see reacting like that if I ran into George W. Bush, but it’s more fitting within the actual context.

    I think what tips it over into friendly is that she’s right there. Especially for a former politician (not accurate, but what I originally thought), someone getting that close and being antagonistic would probably be received as more threatening. Though I suspect there’s a lot more wiggle room for that in Australia than in the US, because of guns (which doesn’t even make sense, because the point of guns is hurting someone from a distance, but it might just be the view of any given person as potentially very dangerous) and the culture around politicians.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    At least from my experience there just isn't the same reverence about the PM as there is about the presidency. We've had a PM who would catch the train for official events. A comedy group called the Chaser even did a skit trying to get a hug from the old PM John Howard which I don't think they could have pulled off in the US.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah, I think there’s a big enough political divide that at this point, it would be hard to find an adult who would feel honored to meet with each of: Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush, but the culture hasn’t really caught up yet. There’s probably also the fact that the POTUS is likely to have a lot more political enemies worldwide than the PM of Australia, but I agree that most of it is due to the same cultural differences in our perceptions of the word “cunt.”

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Amazing stuff 😆

    For future reference, this is what Tony Abbott looks like in speed-dealer sunnies:

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    That lady looks like she smells like cheap beer and cigarettes and always has a couple of points of speed on her.

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