The burger place near my work does a sauce that I would wager is exactly this. Their buns are often a bit stale and their patties could use some work, but boy do I love dipping fries in that pink sauce.

The novelist is, but the comic book writer who just goes by Priest is black.

Like most dickheads proffering this bootstrappy derp, Gurner was born into enough money to get someone else to pay for his startup at age 19.

We have very little arable land and we've built on most of it; that, along with 40 or so years of government policy that favours the wealthy, is why there's a housing crisis here. I'll float your suggestion next time I yell at the PM while he floats in his inner tube though.

You do good posts, Thomas R, even when I disagree with you (which I don't in this case).

Man, house prices in Australia are very, very different to house prices in the US. $788,000 wouldn't get you a studio apartment in Sydney. Even in regional cities the housing market is just insanely inflated. The whole thing is geared toward investors, not first home buyers.

Yet people will argue, seemingly with a straight face, that economic conditions haven't changed much in the last 30 years.

Victimised? I'm incredibly lucky, just like this guy was to have a rich grandfather, but I have the decency to recognise it rather than pontificating about how people less fortunate than me are at fault.

This isn't even terribly original - there was a similar storm of Twitter piss-takery in Australia last year when a right wing columnist for an unprofitable makework newspaper contended the same thing.

Mmmm, I smell the rich irony of an aggrieved right winger projecting his constant frothing rage onto people he doesn't know.

It's your privilege, your fragility, your ignorance, and your incredibly poor expression all talking at once, 'dearie.' Quite a heady brew.

My wife went to UQ, and I used to drink and buy weed there when I was at QUT, haha. Beautiful campus, with some world-class departments.

"He made a statement by crossing a picket line to get a trophy" isn't a strong recommendation where I come from either. The man was always a hell of a screen presence though.

Ah, good stuff, glad to hear it. Still, I need to work on my tone around here, especially will fellow long-timers. Not surprisingly, I'm much more circumspect about how I go about disagreeing with people IRL. No doubt that's why I'm forthright to a fault in this space.

I deleted my direct response to you because it was a dick move and I was hoping you hadn't seen it yet.

I would very much like to tell you all that this deadshit and his unrelentingly awful takes isn't representative of Australian attitudes to minorities and women but unfortunately I'd be lying through my teeth.

Strictly speaking, irony has to be purposeful by definition. Otherwise it's just happenstance. /RomanFromPartyDownPedantry

Calling your kid Danaerys would still be twee and annoying, but at least it's the character's fucking name. It's like, "Oh, I wanted to name my kid after someone really powerful, so I called him Chief Executive Officer."

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White man here too, haha, and I don't want to come across as the anti-identity politics guy. For whatever it's worth, I mostly just adopt the approach of "shut the fuck up and listen; offer support where appropriate." So it's not that I resent that emphasis in the campaign so much as I think it was misplaced and…