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watt price tully
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David
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All I can say is The Betoota Advocate's headlines are always the best part of the pieces, and that's not a compliment. Take the Tony Abbott knighting Prince Andrew one – that's a hilarious idea, but the piece itself is just the same old tedious repackaging of actual news with fake quotes.
tl;dr Bad satirical media outlets need to die swiftly. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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watt price tully
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David wrote: | All I can say is The Betoota Advocate's headlines are always the best part of the pieces, and that's not a compliment. Take the Tony Abbott knighting Prince Andrew one – that's a hilarious idea, but the piece itself is just the same old tedious repackaging of actual news with fake quotes.
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They’re hit and miss. Some headlines are very funny, some articles if you xan call them that are a miss and some are very good. The Greta Thunburg, the ICE one and the two on Mildura are pretty good.
I know it might be a bit low brow for literary editors 😉
The reference to Scotty from Marketing is hysterical
https://m.betootaadvocate.com/world-news/australians-left-feeling-confused-after-seeing-a-prime-minister-do-something-during-a-disaster/ _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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David
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I was watching some old videos from The Onion to make me feel better (perhaps to check if I still have a functioning sense of humour), and I thought this was pretty funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwom49awRKg _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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watt price tully wrote: | stui magpie wrote: | Good to see you stop posting Guardian links and moving to a better quality news source. |
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Yeah but I bet you chew in time to the steps.
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I wasn’t too sure who was funnier: Andrew Bolt or The Betoot Advocate:
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I didn't realise you were a fan of The Bolt or that you had a Hun subscription so you could read his stuff. What's he up to that you find funny? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Wokko
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stui magpie
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This is simple but I found it amusing.
Saw a guy today in the CBD wearing a Tshirt that simply had written on it:
"Atheism is a non Prophet organisation"
I thought it was clever and funny. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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stui magpie
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A couple of weeks back, my cousin asked me if she could use the place in Toc on the 19th and 20th December, I said yeh.
If it's hot here, it's hotter there and cuz isn't equipped to handle heat. So I messaged her to see if she'd gone up or stayed home. She went up and said she owed me utility bills. She'd been inside all day, I dare say with the baby split system working overtime ( I really need to upgrade that).
I told her to give the garden a drink before she leaves and we'll call it even. Hopefully she doesn't bugger up my automatic timing system.
The baby split system doesn't really get to the bedrooms, so I'm laughing at the poor buggers bad timing _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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stui magpie
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think positive
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hehe, thats funny, so are the scrolled jokes!
my sister was on the channel 7 news at the cricket, ejecting the first drunk of the day around 10am! shes the short arse! that made me laugh, she looks about 10 compared to the others! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
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Ducked over to Cobram this morning, old people on holidays in hot weather have the worst fashion sense.
One tall skinny old dude was rocking footy shorts and a Bintang singlet with sandals and more hair on his shoulders than on his head, another had the shoes and socks, board shorts and a long sleeve flannelette shirt, tucked in to the boardies of course.
Then you have the more generously proportioned female's with that particular walk, the one where each step the leg goes out, around and forward, that says there's some serious chafing hapening down there. To complete the look there's a heat distressed iPhone poking out out of a size F+ bra. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Hehe your terrible, but honest! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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On RBT (random breath test):
old guy gets pulled over "im terribly sorry, i know ive had too much, its the anniversary of my wifes death"
The cop: "im sorry mate"
"no need to be sorry, i shouldnt have been drinking"
cop 'what have you had mate?'
"a glass.... no at least 2 glasses, of....................champagne!!" _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
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Speaking of terrible but honest _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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watt price tully
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