…may sometimes be divided. This is the march on the VC’s office, protesting against the restrictions to be placed on any 2010 Octoberfest at Curtin University. It’s happening as I type! At any moment I expect flames to be rising from the Summer Palace, or is it still the Winter Palace in September? Organisers estimated the crowd numbers at 125,000, the police claimed 8,000, the university estimated numbers at “barely a dozen”. I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
No taxation without relaxation
To each according to their beers.
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stand back – they’ve got bubbles!
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I don’t wish to derail (the above truly is a pathetic putsch, if you will), but
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“a book to return to again and again”
Tim has certainly been returning to the same book, and writing it again and again
even the cover looks like leftover photos taken for ‘The Deep’
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I’m not surprised the rally is being held late afternoon. Wouldn’t have been such a fantastic idea earlier in the day say, before opening time.
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What are you saying? I used to line up outside the tavern waiting for it to open back in the day.
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+1
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All they want is their right to celebrate German culture, by drinking gallons of piss, swimming naked in the Curtin lakes and sleeping in their cars, in the Curtin car park.
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Germans sleep in their cars? Never.
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Have you ever tried to sleep in a car, in Germany, at night. Not to be recommended unless you care for hypothermia.
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Nice to see them protesting about the way the Federal government has treated tertiary education. Oh what ? It’s because they can’t suck more piss ?
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Given the huge bilateral boner the guy in the middle has, it would be a denial of human rights, cruel and unusual punishment etc to place any restrictions on this event other than to have the appropriate medical and/or veterinary specialists standing by to treat any post-coital subsidence difficulties.
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“Sir, do you dress to the right or the left?”
“Both”.
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The parallels with Paris 1968 are disturbing. I hope the Federal Government wakes up to this soon, before such radical actions spread to Murdoch and I find my car tipped and torched in the carpark.
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The ’68 riots started because boys weren’t allowed to visit the female dorms, so it’s not that far removed as an incentive.
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So if Curtin also starts cracking down on its students having sex in far-flung corners of its library or in the tavern toilets there will be REAL trouble, am I right?
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If the sex is part of german culture week yes.
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Have you never seen German TV?
The 3-digit Sky channels were a hotbed of randy Teutonics, day and night.
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Undoubtedly it would be. Germans are renowned for incorporating challenging and unconventional themes of human sexuality into their cultural endeavours. Look no further than the German film industry… “Das Butt”, “Das Kolor Zoo Sex”, “Den Glass Kaffetisch”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Schlampe”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Schlampe II”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Schlampe III”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Stricher”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Stricher IX”, “Bahnhof Toiletten Schlampe vs. Bahnhof Toiletten Stricher”, “Heidi und die Lederhosen”, “Nazi Bauernhof Sex Schule” etc.
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I think I have to combine these threads.
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Aww…bless
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What a motley lumpenproletariat. I hope they at least torched a Hyundai or something. Looks like a nice sunny day to be outside though.
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Sex, booze, German culture. Probably the right moment for a link to relevant material. All we need are some dwarves.
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…and women shitting on glasstop coffeetables whilst being fucked by alsatians.
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Am I giving away too much about how I like to relax?
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Wasn’t the bizarre architecture and confusing layout of WAIT buildings designed to deter this sort of protesty gathering thing? If so, then it seems to have worked.
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the sad thing is the student protestors are all in the business school
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Are they? You know them?
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Little bit disappointed that the Hayman Theatre in the background hasn’t turned up as a worst, as in “worst reallocation of education space by a tertiary institution”
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I thought it should be turned into the CES, as that would make it more convenient for the “Actors” to register for benefits. Actually, I prefer it it as an open plan office to a theatre.
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Yet another protest.
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Young people, you can’t trust them. Gold.
http://southern.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Oktoberfest-plans-quashed/7595453/
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