Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/04/man-tells-australian-prime-min.html
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HEY, MISTA PRIME MINISTAH! ANDY!!!
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Is thumbs up in Australia a “ok dude all good, right on” kind of gesture or “hey you, up yours buddy” kind of gesture? I know it varies.
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Seems it’s a positive gesture, not a negative one in .au.
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Then the press were hustled away and the homeowner was hit with six tasers and four rubber bullets and the police armoured car drove over his lawn.
Oh, wait. Australia. Never mind.
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Now that I’ve watched it that makes sense.
Things like this make me wish I was Australian.
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If this was Trump who was told to get off somebody’s lawn; he would say this isn’t a lawn, pull down his pants, take a dump on the lawn, say “all I saw a big toilet”, call the incident fake news, say he did not defecate in public and Fox News commentators would praise him for three nights straight for standing up to the mainstream media over the public shitting.
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The First Dog on the Moon editorial cartoons at the Guardian UK are a great way to learn what’s going on Down Under. They’re often funny AF, and frequently V thought-provoking, sometimes both.
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Thumbs down for posting a comment before bothering to watch a 26 second clip. 
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Thumbs down, like, “boo your the worst” or thumbs down like…something’s else??
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It depends what country you’re in. But you’re miles from the worst.
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Things like this make me proud to be Australian.
The casual racism, climate change-denial of this government and an aboriginal population wildly-over represented in prison (and deaths in custody) not so much.
But faced with the alternative, yeah, feeling very lucky right now.
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I hate to be the token contrarian Kiwi (nah I love it) but it could be argued that our trans-tasman friends care a little too much about their front lawns!
(Speaking after a few years in Freo where the flyin flyout crews obsess over their reticulated lawn watering systems in the middle of a parched desert.)
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Can confirm, although the obsession is dying out, albeit much more slowly in the west.
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Yep, that’s us. Our Prime Ministah occasionally imprisons asylum seekers without trial and now-and-then stomps on someone else’ lawn. Let’s call it a mixed bag.
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To be fair, many Kiwis in Canterbury and Auckland love to keep their grass berms green through summer too.
Fortunately Melbourne taught me to replace any grassed area with vegetables instead! (Backyard cricket pitches are still to be encouraged of course.)
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Our obsession is tomatoes. Best not to get me started.
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Thank god that common sense prevailed and the ban was lifted 30min before the start.
Having said that black deaths in custody is a national shame and the mining company Rio Tinto just blew up an aboriginal site with 46,000 year old artifacts so it’s hard not to live under a cloud of shame and frustration in this country. But Hey, the rest of the world… “put another shrimp on the barbie”…
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