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Ken McGregor
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The Black Eyed Peas
Have been on a pretty incredible run, commercially speaking, for a good few years now. People, especially on sites like this, are always bitching about their ubiquity, but they're obviously doing something right if they manage to weather 7-odd years of pop trends.

Yep, Stacy's right, Coogan was fantastic in 24 Hour Party People.

No, the hipster douchebag in you is the one saying things like "I know I should like Radiohead, but I just can't."

Man, the Baldur's Gate games were brilliant, and I would be about as willing to sit through a table-top D&D game as I would an Air Supply concert.

The ending…
Did the ending to this feel like a tacked on studio re-write to anyone else?

See, that last comment is probably about as racist as this skit, I think. Having a crack at Aboriginal creation stories to try and make a country seem stupid is pretty insensitive.

I still don't get the coon cheese thing?

There are lots of racists in Australia, and there's a lot more people who, while they're probably not racist, are way too stupid or ignorant to realise why this might be offensive. We had a whites-only immigration policy up until the 1970's, removed Aboriginal children from their families up until the same time, and a

Holy shit, man. That is great.

It's a miracle Jimmy's still alive. He's earned the right to host as many middle-aged unplugged sessions and release as many soul-covers albums as he wants.

I used to work in a record store…
…at the domestic airport in Sydney. Famous folks would wander through on a semi-regular basis, killing time before flights.

From memory, the Castle got a really negative review on this site, as the reviewer thought the humour in the movie was meant to be derived from laughing at simple poor people. 'White Trash' was the phrase from memory.

Australia too, please…
We didn't sign a horribly one-sided "free trade" agreement with you bastards just so you could decimate our economy. Hulu is our price.

Mr Simpson, the state bar forbids me from promising you a big cash settlement, but just between you and me…