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dour bureaucrat at a public broadcaster

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined April 2011
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Tiger Webb
4 years
this has been a saga
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2 years
[dog reading this] oh okay
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2 years
always read the plaque
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7 years
*googles how to win best picture*
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1 year
strongly believe this shit should be illegal
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2 years
found out my friend’s wife runs a croissant influencer account so when meeting her for the first time said “oh you must be ‘the croissant slut’!!” long story short that’s a different sydney-based croissant reviewer and air quotes aren’t always obvious in connected speech
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Tiger Webb
6 years
this segue better be all time
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Tiger Webb
8 years
find a man who looks at you the way russell crowe looks at maps
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4 years
to enter a roman cafe you have to scan an spqr code
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5 months
surely not
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Tiger Webb
9 months
quotes really ramming home how much these guys were writers on disco elysium
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5 years
brutal
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1 year
just nearly combined “no worries” and “all good” into the powerful concluding remark “all worries”
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6 months
pigs got my boy stuart
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Tiger Webb
3 years
that's correct officer. two beers in the hours to 8pm and seven thereafter -- which are to be counted in the "tuesday beers" figures
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2 months
gotta be one of the funniest subheads of all time
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6 years
my girlfriend left me alone with the cats we’re sitting. is this normal
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4 years
the first sign included a number so i’ve texted them
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7 years
weird how a foundational myth of australia is that we’re a nation of subversive larrikins, when in actuality everyone here is an ultracop
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2 years
insane quote to include in a news story when most renters can’t legally hang a painting
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1 year
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4 years
i assume this is viral marketing for, like, Hamstr or w/e given the first image is a stock photo
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8 years
SISTER: [opening xmas gift] this is just a copy of bloc party's 2005 album "silent alarm" ME: have you heard it recently tho. it holds up
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3 years
the premier saying "nobody should feel any pressure about their financial situation" and then not announcing any financial support is the most sydney thing ever
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8 years
still my favourite-ever wikipedia table
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2 years
guy in march 1805 thinking he has a pretty steady handle on things: battlefields are on land ☺️
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3 years
just went on abc radio to chat Labor/Labour spelling, a guy called up and said the ALP adopted the "or" ending in 1975 because gough whitlam told them to; i said federal labor used the "or" spelling from 1912 and he said i was just too young to remember
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7 years
someone with a hawaii area code has started messaging me accidentally
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3 years
it’s baby time :)
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2 years
please please please make BACHELOR’S HANDBAG the macquarie word of the year
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5 years
nice infant, dude — really tender and mild!
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3 years
this really hit the nail on the head for me
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3 years
this tweet was just read out in full at #estimates
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6 years
my mum once ate a bit of popping candy chocolate by mistake, assumed she was having a massive stroke, and lay down on the couch to die
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2 years
i was sceptical but this rules
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Tiger Webb
6 years
millennials are now killing [spins giant wheel] golf, because of [turns again] our short attention spans
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Tiger Webb
3 years
this is so fucked
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3 years
at a birth class on the weekend everyone had to say what they loved about their partner and one guy said he loved his wife's pregnancy cans
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3 years
if you think LGA boundaries are arbitrary i have some terrible news for you about nation-states
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4 years
congratulations to chris uhlmann on another successful week holding the public to account
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Tiger Webb
6 years
how is the guardian real
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3 years
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5 years
unfortunate
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3 years
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1 year
said goodbye to dad yesterday. probably the most-loved man in australian film; certainly the most-loved man in our house growing up
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@thomas_violence
thomas violence
3 years
@kimT9410 I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America
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Tiger Webb
5 years
[to the tune of “california love”] boris johnson / has got the roni
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Tiger Webb
6 years
negative reviews of the sydney harbour bridge
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5 years
when i asked the member for grayndler’s office to confirm the pronunciation of “albanese”, they helpfully referred me to this transcript
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4 years
this is stunningly racist
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4 years
a bit. do ya reckon
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3 years
it’s been one week :)
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Tiger Webb
10 months
australia is the funniest country in the world
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Tiger Webb
6 years
what was the reason women supposedly “make up” assault allegations again? fame? money? celebrity lifestyle?
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Tiger Webb
2 years
five ministries, scott? five? that’s insane
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8 years
hi america! don't believe we actively disrespect our politicians? once we lost a PM in the ocean then named a swimming pool after him
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2 years
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Eden Gillespie
2 years
Exclusive: A whistleblower at Brisbane watchhouse has sent me shocking recordings of officers joking they want to “bury and beat the f**k” out of black people, referring to Nigerians as “j***boos” & saying “let’s hope Ebola works”.
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Tiger Webb
6 years
if i was ever yellow carded at the world cup i would simply talk to the referee and make them see reason
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Tiger Webb
11 months
thinking about whether millions of other people have applied this logic to property, and whether that might indicate a larger problem
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Tiger Webb
5 years
to a pounding billy eilish bassline, love island just introduced a new guy named “ched”
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Tiger Webb
3 years
no words
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Tiger Webb
4 years
men will literally join the fellowship of the ring instead of getting therapy
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6 years
punctuation is SO important: it's the difference between "helping my uncle, jack, off a horse" and "helping my uncle jakov (a horse)"
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Tiger Webb
2 years
still laughing at how the bbc phrased this
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4 years
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8 years
whenever you see those weirdly orientalist "untranslatable words in foreign languages" articles, think of this
@AllThingsLing
AllThingsLinguistic
8 years
English has a specific verb for tricking people into listening to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
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2 years
@ginarush alas that was strike two for me. she is sydney croissant hunter
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6 years
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4 years
nothing but respect for MY christmas movie
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5 years
puffins always look like they've just been hugely bullied but are keeping it together until their tormentor leaves the room
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2 years
hey man, love your halls — you ever think about decking them?
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6 years
if someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. your job is to not put nazis on TV
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2 years
lol. lmao
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7 years
how's this. heard variant pronunciations of jacinda ardern, so called her office. got JA on the blower immediately. she confirmed: AH-durn
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4 years
"greater sydney" implies the existence of a second, lesser sydney
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7 months
money for nothing is crazy: one of history’s all-time riffs for a song primarily about installing fridges. and there’s a slur in it
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2 years
my daughter every time she sees a power cord
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3 years
a little tennis player trophy on greg hunt’s desk inscribed with “i stopped these”
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3 years
just saw a cat try to walk into a cafe. “you can’t come in here!” one of the waitstaff said. “we can’t keep having this conversation!”
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2 years
in high school our careers adviser used to always say “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” so someone asked if she liked being a careers adviser and she said no
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5 years
i've done it. i've found the funniest OED cite
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1 year
you just KNOW what the dad’s response is
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3 years
lmao this rules
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3 years
won’t somebody please think of the retailers
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PM says he won't 'undercut' retailers by funding free rapid antigen tests
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3 years
this is so funny. toddler commentariat
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4 years
at this point it hardly seems ethical for universities to offer degrees in journalism
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5 years
gaming at night? player's delight gaming in morning? depression warning
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Tiger Webb
1 year
bewilderingly specific number
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Dominic Giannini
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Tourists will come down the Hume Highway for the “ACT party lifestyle” and can do “about 15 lines” bc of drug decrim, Libs say.
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3 years
just heard a tradie answer his phone saying “big balls! how ya garn”
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3 years
diversity… we did it…
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4 years
australians love to believe a) they are anti-authoritarian b) everything their sixth form english teacher said about grammar was correct
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1 year
one of these things is not like the others
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5 years
some personal news
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1 year
trillion dollar idea: a cafe that is open at 4pm
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4 years
the sydney medical facility baboon escape happened on 26 february 2020
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6 years
Perhaps it is coincidental, perhaps not, but no Australian Prime Minister has served a full term since TES IV Oblivion was released.
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2 years
UN inspectors: hi there we'd just like to pop into this prison for a moment and check you aren't doing any torture NSW: no 😊
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2 years
invited on radio today to talk about whether textspeak (!) is good or bad. a woman called in and said she worried because abbreviations always leave out vowels (which she called “the emotional letters”) but leave in consonants (which she called “the intellectual letters”)
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