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Aw man, as an ignorant non Australian from /all, it just looks like this lady hates Hugh Dennis.
I looked up pictures of the last couple PMs, but the glasses make it hard to be sure, is that Tony Abbott?
Edit: Oh my god, I read his sweatshirt and I was just so far off, lol. I’m in full agreement here.
Its Anthony THE Blue Wiggle you fucking heathen.
Yeah, I looked at the sweatshirt after I posted, but I’m leaving it up, because I think it’s funny how off I was. He really looks like a politician resigned to his fate, though.
It’s, ah, gotta be tough to be a wiggle.
I mean, its easy to laugh about it when you're rich as shit. They do occupy a weird place in Australian culture. Simultaneously hated, loved, respected and ridiculed.
I dunno about everyone else, but these middle fingers seem extremely well humoured and friendly.
Is this just an Australian thing?
Middle finger is a cheeky way to have fun with your friends.
Culture things, some of my best friends are cunts.
She seems like she’s in good spirits (as does the guy in the back), but I could see that being either because they’re all in on the joke together or because she’s super excited to have the chance to flick off a politician she hates and has been joking with her friends about it. Like, I could see reacting like that if I ran into George W. Bush, but it’s more fitting within the actual context.
I think what tips it over into friendly is that she’s right there. Especially for a former politician (not accurate, but what I originally thought), someone getting that close and being antagonistic would probably be received as more threatening. Though I suspect there’s a lot more wiggle room for that in Australia than in the US, because of guns (which doesn’t even make sense, because the point of guns is hurting someone from a distance, but it might just be the view of any given person as potentially very dangerous) and the culture around politicians.
At least from my experience there just isn't the same reverence about the PM as there is about the presidency. We've had a PM who would catch the train for official events. A comedy group called the Chaser even did a skit trying to get a hug from the old PM John Howard which I don't think they could have pulled off in the US.
Yeah, I think there’s a big enough political divide that at this point, it would be hard to find an adult who would feel honored to meet with each of: Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush, but the culture hasn’t really caught up yet. There’s probably also the fact that the POTUS is likely to have a lot more political enemies worldwide than the PM of Australia, but I agree that most of it is due to the same cultural differences in our perceptions of the word “cunt.”
Amazing stuff 😆
For future reference, this is what Tony Abbott looks like in speed-dealer sunnies:
Yeah, I figured this might be after a few years of drinking after getting out of office, but it still wasn’t close close.
Those are clearly weed dealer sunglasses. They're green.