It was so much more incredible than it even sounds. It was also in this tiny basement room at the comedy festival, like 15 people sitting awkwardly, unsure of what to think of her, and me and my friends absolutely falling apart with laughter. It’s the best live comedy I’ve ever seen.

I hadn’t seen this so thank you for bringing it into my life

Oh god I love her!!! I don’t watch Love but I went to her stand up in Melbourne years ago, she is the most amazing human. The first show I saw she performed as this girl who’d been raised in a cult who lived in an underwater city, to this day it is still the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I want her to turn it into a…

I’m a little interested in the film, but only because of the director. I’ll wait for reviews once it comes out and decide then. I’m definitely not interested in watching a straight up romance with a happy ending but I might be interested if it takes a more complex view. I’m guessing a lot of Nazis had relationships…

I agree. I can see a place for this kind of movie if it doesn’t have a happy ending.

I think in some ways we do need to humanise Nazis because the way we turn them into inhuman monsters makes people think that the nice polite man or woman next door could never be a Nazi, so they don’t take the warning signs seriously. A lot of Nazis probably did seem like normal fine people. They were also responsible…

I hate to be harsh but he is not your friend. He doesn’t deserve to be your friend.

Yes. I like Adele but from the first listen it was clear Lemonade was a historic moment.

I recently bought plastic Birkenstocks and they’re so hideous but I would wear them every moment of my life if I could

It’s happening to Australian newspapers too, particularly on Facebook. So many of them are suspiciously hot young women.

This is the part I find bizarre. He was always a disgusting embarrassment of a man. That has literally always been clear. What were they seeing before that I wasn’t?

He wore everything best

He’s scruffed up for the men and women of the world and we thank him

This was my experience of Australian uni too — my uni very much had pretensions to the Oxbridge tradition and it was absolutely not out of the question for them to not award an H1 to anyone in the class.

Anecdotally I can tell you that it’s not “harder” or “easier” to achieve a 1st vs an A from equally prestigious universities, but it is different and the systems don’t really directly translate. Primary source: my classmate who graduated from both Columbia and the top-ranked Australian university (which operates…

More or less. I wanted to love it because I love musicals but it felt like it didn’t really capture the mischievous spirit of the Dancing in the Rain era great Hollywood musicals. It just felt like it took itself way too seriously.

It’s probably melodramatic at times and it’s definitely a tearjerker, I cried like five times, but compared to other similar based-on-a-true-story biopics I thought it did a pretty good job of avoiding being nakedly exploitative. It relies heavily on wonderful performances by Dev Patel and Sunny Pawar, who is easily…

I loved individual elements of La La Land — the art direction and cinematography were truly glorious and I thought Emma Stone was surprisingly good — but overall I felt lukewarm about it too. So far the only other Oscar contenders I’ve seen are Moonlight and Lion, both of which are far and away superior films to La La…

They scare me too, but at the moment I’ve still got a little faith that they’re a noisy minority. I honestly think most of the liberals despise Cory Bernardi more than Bill Shorten, so that gives me hope.

I don’t think our Liberal party would be able to get enough public support to implement any laws like this. So few Australians consider religion a priority.