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Yeah, they played well (including a spectacular goal), but slipped up on defence. The better team won. Still a pretty good result.

They're very much a duck. Some people just think they look like geese. They do "quack" but they sound quite different to the Pacific black ducks.

Governments doing their best to avoid accountability? Who would have guessed!?

What’s with the eshay hate over at r/melbourne? If you believe what you read there, packs of vicious eshays roam Melbourne, contributing to the downfall of society. They harass strangers, carry weapons, obstruct traffic, and make the city unlivable.

I get out for exercise in Melbourne at all hours of day or night. I occasionally encounter eshays late at night, roaming the streets, speaking loudly in their eshay slang. They’re always pretty friendly, I’ve never had any trouble from them. The most trouble I’ve ever had from eshays is that they play loud Australian hiphop music on trains in Sydney. It’s mildly irritating, but far from the worst thing that I’ve seen.

So where are these dangerous eshays making the city unsafe? Do they only appear at specific times in specific places? Or is this just more, “kids these days,” crap? Or a convenient scapegoat?

also she lives in a smallish community in buttfuck Vic and she doesn’t remember which of the three “asian groceries” she went to

She also has a property in Mt Waverly and claims that's where the "Asian grocery" is. Apparently Mt Waverly has two Korean grocery stores, and two other grocery stores that sell east or southeast Asian goods. Still doesn't make sense.

Also, threw out the dehydrator that she didn't use to dehydrate the dried mushrooms she bought. That doesn't hold water at all.

WTF I need my white light. "Warm" light looks brown and dirty.

A teacher at my son’s high school apparently had no choice but to resign after displaying racism while teaching a class. It’s a very multicultural school, I didn’t expect this. But given the amount of racism I get from random strangers in Melbourne, I really shouldn’t be surprised. Looking at threads over on r/melbourne, the introverted and unwelcoming attitude that permeates the city is really obvious. Rationally, I know it isn’t everyone in Melbourne, but God damn these people make sure you notice them.

It had a population before the US decided they wanted to use it as a naval base, and the British helped them round up the population and dump them in the slums of Mauritius.

My rant? Check the usernames and comment histories, you goon. I'm very much not the same person as Rusty Raven.

I think the "rant" was probably facetious. But consider we have a system where people are compelled to perform jury service whether they want to or not. If parliamentary service worked the same way, it would preclude career politicians who lose touch with their electorates.

He has a history of this shit. He previously got drunk and went on a rampage in Canberra, resulting in a hotel door being destroyed. This is the standard of Victorian MPs. Pretty poor reflection on the state.

They removed some fairly obvious race-bait the other day, but they don’t seem to be doing much for the most part.

Two of the worst characters/people doing things that really should land them in prison. They’re both emotionally, mentally and at times physically abusive to everyone around them.

Isn't that the whole point? It's a scathing criticism of the English landed gentry, and the social class structure surrounding it. It's the same kind of thing as Honglou Meng which is a criticism of noble families in feudal China.

And it’s painted as a great love story.

It's framed as a love story, but I always saw that as a literary device that served as a vehicle for the completely unsympathetic characters. Honglou Meng is framed as a love story, too.

It’s also really fucking boring.

I think it's more that it's lost relevance. It was rather controversial when it was published. If you actually want a love story, there are definitely better better choices.