Australian Political Satire show pisses off everyone.
Basically:
Steve Irwin(crocodile wrestler)
Peter Brock (racecar driver)
John Lenin (musician/singer)
Jeff Buckley( singer-songwriter and guitarist)
Princess Diana (British Monarchy, famously died in motorcar accident)
Stan Zemanek (right-wing radiobroadcaster)
Don Bradman (famous Cricketer)
Kerry Packer (massive media owner, government manipulator and nasty bastard)
Belinda Emmett (Australian Actress and wife of TV host Rove McManus)
They really take the cake.
Thoughts?
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
I think the best comment on this I've heard was a letter to the newspaper that pointed out that this song is not actually criticising these people but in fact ripping into the media that canonises people after they die.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
I think the best comment on this I've heard was a letter to the newspaper that pointed out that this song is not actually criticising these people but in fact ripping into the media that canonises people after they die.
“Also, we don't need no Jacob to gay this place up. We have officially won the award for the forum with a highest proportion of gay members whilst not being themed about poojabbing, cowboys or Kylie.” - Nate
Because other than them there is no satire in Australia at the moment?
I did actually put in my previous post: Does anything decent come out of Australia, besides Neighbours? Like, ever? It seems to be one of the few 'main' countries which has very little to show for itself.
But I thought it was too inflammatory, especially considering half of the people who had replied to the thread were Australian, and so edited it out.
“Also, we don't need no Jacob to gay this place up. We have officially won the award for the forum with a highest proportion of gay members whilst not being themed about poojabbing, cowboys or Kylie.” - Nate
[QUOTE=Mutual Friend;325944]I did actually put in my previous post: Does anything decent come out of Australia, besides Neighbours? Like, ever? QUOTE]
*gags*
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Common, it was funny, as the chases is, I love that show.
Neighbours? Are you serious? *Throws up*
Well there's Summer heights heigh (Used to be right after chases but finnished last week), I suppose Kath and Kim a long time ago, all of the Australians mentioned in the song, and alot more.
Actually, australia has contributed alot, it's just drowned by the amount of brittish and american celebrities out there, and so the Australians that emerge are far better than most of the other actors out there, the not outstandenly better than brittish and american celebritties crash and burn outside of australia however.
I wouldn't describe Titanic as 'extraordinary', but it was very good.
Relevance?
In my opinion, only.
Titanic was a whirling, churning mire of Fail so terribly bad script-wise that the Director was forced to encode highly developed hypnotic arrays into the elaborate sets that were attuned so highly they only tweaked into the brains of Stay-at-home mums and lovesick singles, creating a psychic backlash of belief in the event so powerful it sent ripples into the timestream that caused a flucuation in the temperature at the exact date the Titanic was crossing the Atlantic, creating a freak Iceberg that hit the ship in the first place. Thus, Titanic was the first historical movie to cause itself.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
I still don't understand its relevance. Unless you were just pointing me to an example of a poor film that was made outside of Australia (they exist? Seriously?) as if that meant anything!
Titanic was a whirling, churning mire of Fail so terribly bad script-wise that the Director was forced to encode highly developed hypnotic arrays into the elaborate sets that were attuned so highly they only tweaked into the brains of Stay-at-home mums and lovesick singles, creating a psychic backlash of belief in the event so powerful it sent ripples into the timestream that caused a flucuation in the temperature at the exact date the Titanic was crossing the Atlantic, creating a freak Iceberg that hit the ship in the first place. Thus, Titanic was the first historical movie to cause itself.
You know the saddest thing is that I actually understand all that.
Neighbours = *HURK*
And yeah, the Chasers are awesome, though seeing as I usually avoid watching TV I often end up looking up random episodes on youtube, most of which the poster forget to put the episode number.
They're still not as good as Thank God you're here, though .
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"Thank God you're here, grandma's been raped!"
Sorry couldn't resist.
Actually Thank God you're here isn't realy Australian apparently, it was ripped off an american show, which in turn ripped off a brittish show.
Actually nearly all of our shows are either imported from overseas or are ripped off overseas shows.
Makes it ironic that america's making an american Kath and Kim.
TGYH is a new Australian show (I won't call it original because adlibbing has been a form of entertaining for thousands of years) that was then sold on to Britain and the US.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
Oh, well my know it all teacher was wrong ...
Goes to show you shouldn't beleave everything you here.
Anywayz, I would say piss off everyone, but the toilet Jesus jokes was kind of far, and it got the whole Christian society upset.
But hey, it's the Chaser's war on everything, not the Chaser's war on everything except (our sponsers) the deseaced, religeous groups, and basically anyone that will got offended.
The show is meant to be offensive, whilst hilarous at the same time.
The Chaser's War on Everything sucks. It was funny in the first season, but they seemed to have forgotten why they're doing anything in the first place in the second season.
Not really. They're still railing on the stupidity of Current Affairs, still making fun of Politicians, still pulling off daring stunts.
That's what they've been doing the whole time.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
But don't you know? The moment something becomes popular, it immediately starts sucking. It's like they only have a certain amount of quality to spread around their viewers so the show was so much better when it appeared at 11:25pm on Friday nights and watched by no-one. But now they're on in prime time so they're crap. Just like Josh Lawson or Missy Higgins or Powderfinger.
Scratch that; Powderfinger really are crap and always have been.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Australian Political Satire show pisses off everyone.
