Yeah, this chick got kicked out of Fiji recently, for pulling the same damn stunt, during the schoolies there (where Australian school grads go to party after they finish exams). I believe she had her Visa cancelled.
Can’t remember if she also had her Australian visa cancelled (not for statutory rape, but rather because she came on a tourist visa, but “intended to work”), but the argument made at the time was that she is using the “any publicity is good publicity” idea, and taking that to its ultimate extreme, so we should stop paying attention to her bullshit. Which seems a reasonable conclusion, to me…
I think it’s because there’s over a million Chinese in Aus (>1/27th of the population), and they’re also our biggest “trading partner”, so…
China weighs heavy on the Australian psyche. As does Indo, of course.
Whereas, despite us having the largest Japanese prison breakout in WW2 (Cowra), Japanese internment camps don’t feature in our psyche/historical narrative anywhere as much as (in my understanding, at least) they do in the US, say…
Edit: it’s also worth mentioning that many, many Tiananmen survivors and/or Hong Kongers moved here, after 1989, so that 100% plays a role, too. Similar with South Africans post ‘94…
Or Mao. At least in Aus, they really, really like talking about Mao…
I can think of a few reasons why that might be…
I kind of wish I had this attitude, the times I’ve been, but I personally hate lectures so very much (ADHD? Maybe…) that I usually only went to them live if a) it was mandatory/unrecorded or b) there were attractive women in the class who I was friendly with…
This… Has not served me well in life, I will admit.
For some bizarre reason, though, when I go to one-off “public talks” on whatever topic, I find myself being more like as you describe, so I’m not sure what that says about my psyche/subconscious…
But anyway, if I do go back again, I’ll be “older”, as you say, so fairly unlikely to be sneaking into extra classes that I’m not enrolled in, as you say…
That time in life has passed me by, too…
Edit: Interestingly, on field trips/prac work, by contrast, I was always one of the only attendees there who actually cared enough to take notes/ask questions, and actually wanted to be there, more than just slugging through it to get the attendance tick. Again, I’m not sure what it says about my brain/method of learning, but I did always notice that…
Unfortunately most of Uni is not practical like that, and I hated trade school even more than I hated “college”, lol…
Qué será será, and all that.
The second posh twit interviewed in that video (aside from sounding like a stereotype straight out of the Gap Yah videos. Or some minor Royal with “Received Pronunciation”) **didn’t even get the location of Magdeburg right, within Germany…
“Security expert”, and yet he doesn’t even know where “MAaark-Da-Barg*, as he said it, is, lol…
Saudi, so… Probably not, in this case.
Indirectly? Arguable, but unfortunately the Saudis are supposedly a fucking ally, so… Yeah.
Seriously though, perhaps this does raise some questions about erm, car hire, given that he allegedly hired the “weapon” only a short time beforehand…
Though I’m not entirely sure if “background checks for car hire” is the best idea either…
Islam is incompatible with modern Western civilization, change my mind, lol…
But seriously though, how many fucking times can this happen, or specifically be allowed to occur..?
Absolute fucking madness.
News here just said that they found explosives in his car, too, so… Yeah.
All sounds highly planned, unfortunately.
Fucking again!
There’s always been a contradiction, I feel, between supporting Israel on one hand, and condemning Russia on the other, when they are doing almost the exact same things, and broadcasting much of the same rhetoric…
I think (or I hope, at least) that a lot of people realize this by now, but it is certainly one of the things that makes Matthew Miller and Jake Sullivan so fucking slimy and disingenuous, lol…
Parts of Lebanon are still being occupied, post the “ceasefire” with Hezb, so they are, unironically, already up to step two…
Sinai when, tho?
They are still, in Aus (with the exception of SBS, perhaps), unfortunately…
Glad to see the tide turning over there, though, if so.
The same way they justify that bombing anti-aircraft guns is somehow “defending Israel”, I imagine…
As in, “Fuck you, we can do whatever we want, and we don’t even have to justify it anymore,” in short.
Actual psychopath behaviour, lol…
Though I have to admit, “Lebensraum but for Jews” really is the funniest timeline…
I read elsewhere that some of the complainants were female staffers who were arguing that they were being coerced into serving as surrogates for the fags, lol…
So not only men, somehow…
Though I would question whether being coerced into surrogacy is “sexual misconduct” or not, obviously…
We (in Australia) already had something along those lines, during Covid, with "check in" apps. Especially in South Australia, where those on lockdown were actively monitored, and required to answer random calls from the state gestapo if their location tracking was ever turned off...
Covid was a dry run for all of this...
For those who are unaware, Australia is very close to mandating a government-controlled digital ID to access government services (you already need one if you have a registered business, or to collect lottery winnings, for example), and to becoming fully cashless. This is very much a part of all that.
"Won't someone think of the children" has always been the playbook of authoritarians, left and right. I can't believe how quickly people here (i.e. in Straya) have forgotten, or have willfully chosen to ignore, that fact...
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
Me specifically?
I ain't paying to go see this movie, bruh.
I saw Wicked when I was like, 13. With my family.
"Musical theatre" was briefly my thing, to some extent, but I am definitely not some Wicked fanatic, lol...
For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the role and is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
I mean, the fact that this quote is taken (almost word for word) from a comment on the Youtube video it links to, and not even from anything from or related to the video itself, suggests that you may not be too far off...
Because Youtube comments (and Reddit, which this AI apparently also uses as a source) are notoriously dry, factual and unbiased, right?
Man, we really do live in the dumbest timeline, hey...
So I figured it out: someone, jokingly, commented on that video (8 years ago!!) that the lyrebird "Can't speak kookaburra properly, and so is unaware he is using racial slurs" (i.e. the nigga/nigger thing), and that single comment is what the AI is using as the source for this...
Jfc, we are doomed as a species.
It claims that this clip, from Attenborough of all things, is the source of that line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
Which makes... Zero sense.
I watched that damn series at the time it came out. I have zero idea how anyone could come to the conclusion the AI apparently has, having watched it...
True that. Which I think worked, when she was playing Salander (as, from what I can tell, the whole "fierce, battered woman" schtick lines up with the original books), vis a vis the other two actresses who have played the role without the same "toughness".
But it doesn't work so well when almost all of her subsequent roles have been pretty much the antithesis of that, lol.
The "toughest" role I've seen her in, in the last 15 years, is almost certainly Lamb, and even then, I'm pretty sure she's a housewife, lol. And I think they only made her vaguely "independent and tough" because it's also a sort of Nordic noir...
In English-speaking roles, she's seemingly pretty much incapable of being any of what she claims to be in this article, which is... Amusing.
Then again I've rarely met a Swedish girl speaking English who sounded "tough". Grating? Sure. But rarely "tough"...
Danes, on the other hand...
Edit: Apparently she's half-Spanish. I always assumed she was second-gen immigrant Swede (there seem to be a lot with chips on their shoulders, especially women), but I assumed something more "exotic" than Spanish, lol...
From what I heard, I think she is lying about her age, and is either at least a decade older than she claims to be, or has had so much plastic surgery that it’s ended up with essentially the same result (i.e. premature aging, lol)…