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Every Time You Wear Bamboo Clothing, A Dolphin Dies
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Dudes With Fancy Water Bottles Have The Hardest Penii
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11:51AM Jess McGuire | Today’s story about a Greens councillor who has been asked to stop bringing her husband to meetings because he eats all the food really made me laugh this morning. Then I popped down to my local AA meeting and greedily gobbled up the free biscuits before ducking out the back door and narrowly avoiding the sharing of feelings.
A Greens politician has been told to stop bringing her husband to council meetings because he eats too much of the food.
Councillor Prue Cancian was told not to bring her activist husband Chris Maltby to meetings of Waverly Coucil in Sydney’s eastern suburbs because the ratepayer-funded catering could not sustain it.
This cannot be true – how much food can one human being consume? Surely not the same amount as an entire suburban council’s membership? And is Chris Maltby some kind of idiot unable to notice when he’s scoffed down a table’s worth of food and left nothing for others? Has he no restraint? More »
Hungry Hungry Hippies
11:51AM Jess McGuire | Today’s story about a Greens councillor who has been asked to stop bringing her husband to meetings because he eats all the food really made me laugh this morning. Then I popped down to my local AA meeting and greedily gobbled up the free biscuits before ducking out the back door and narrowly avoiding the sharing of feelings.
A Greens politician has been told to stop bringing her husband to council meetings because he eats too much of the food.
Councillor Prue Cancian was told not to bring her activist husband Chris Maltby to meetings of Waverly Coucil in Sydney’s eastern suburbs because the ratepayer-funded catering could not sustain it.
This cannot be true – how much food can one human being consume? Surely not the same amount as an entire suburban council’s membership? And is Chris Maltby some kind of idiot unable to notice when he’s scoffed down a table’s worth of food and left nothing for others? Has he no restraint? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
4:59PM Jess McGuire | In the lead up to the doof doof-tastic Rainbow Serpent Festival which is happening this very weekend in the Victorian countryside, The Age has published a sweet little piece about the positive effect the festival has had on the town of Beaufort.
For four days from Friday, 8000 ravers will converge on Len Carey’s sheep farm (the sheep have been moved), eight kilometres south of Beaufort. Locals say the festival brings more than $500,000 annually to a town, population 1400, that has endured drought, economic downturn and loss of businesses including stock agents, a sawmill and a bank.
Naturally, a whole bunch of alternative types descending upon Beaufort was initially a little frightening for locals, but they’ve grown to love those smelly ferals.
Newsagent Jim Cox says the festival has put Beaufort on the map and made it a destination, rather than a blur in the rear-view mirror between “the two rats” – Ballarat and Ararat. After initial disapproval of “the hippies and their lifestyle”, he says locals realised the financial benefits, and came to accept them as “good, fun-loving people”.
“They might go out and take drugs, drink and root, but if they do, they do it out there (on the site),” Mr Cox said. “They might be a little bit dirty and scruffy … some of them stink because they don’t wash for days. But they’ll come into town and dive in the pool and that’ll do them for a few more days.”
Drug taking, drinking, rooting, no showering, smelly… yup, that sounds about right. Newsagent Jim Cox, you are adorable.
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This Is The Best Description Of Hippies At Festivals Ever
4:59PM Jess McGuire | In the lead up to the doof doof-tastic Rainbow Serpent Festival which is happening this very weekend in the Victorian countryside, The Age has published a sweet little piece about the positive effect the festival has had on the town of Beaufort.
For four days from Friday, 8000 ravers will converge on Len Carey’s sheep farm (the sheep have been moved), eight kilometres south of Beaufort. Locals say the festival brings more than $500,000 annually to a town, population 1400, that has endured drought, economic downturn and loss of businesses including stock agents, a sawmill and a bank.
Naturally, a whole bunch of alternative types descending upon Beaufort was initially a little frightening for locals, but they’ve grown to love those smelly ferals.
Newsagent Jim Cox says the festival has put Beaufort on the map and made it a destination, rather than a blur in the rear-view mirror between “the two rats” – Ballarat and Ararat. After initial disapproval of “the hippies and their lifestyle”, he says locals realised the financial benefits, and came to accept them as “good, fun-loving people”.
“They might go out and take drugs, drink and root, but if they do, they do it out there (on the site),” Mr Cox said. “They might be a little bit dirty and scruffy … some of them stink because they don’t wash for days. But they’ll come into town and dive in the pool and that’ll do them for a few more days.”
Drug taking, drinking, rooting, no showering, smelly… yup, that sounds about right. Newsagent Jim Cox, you are adorable.
MORE: Residents wired for electro-dance festival, too More » 
