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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480895003321

Autore

Birmingham John

Titolo

Stranger thingies : from Felafel to now / / John Birmingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, NSW : , : NewSouth, , 2017

ISBN

1-74224-401-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Soggetti

Australian literature

Authors - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Things Themselves -- If magazines profiled men like women -- Batten down the hashtags -- Precious freedom thingies -- Why I miss the '90s -- Hip hop is old-people music now -- How Big Waterbed sprung a leak -- Hotel beds are the best beds -- Fox in socks and sandals -- Johnny Depp robbed my car -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- The upside of the end of the world -- Ferris Bueller's day of the undead -- Stuffing Your Piehole -- Apocalypse pudding -- I take it back, soccer -- Save my bacon -- Potato cake terrorist -- Oh Christmas ham, how did it come to this? -- Pig night out -- Grand theft mango -- Work it, Bitch -- The meeting -- Procrastination masterclass -- I am from the Microsoft Security -- There will be typos -- Sports and Leisure -- Licence to drink -- Eating his way to the top -- The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is a naval battle in the never-ending class war -- The Biggest Loser recap: appetite for reduction -- Yoga for the modern bro -- Leisure Suit Larry and the joystick of destiny -- Knocked off your perch -- There is a level 200 squirtle at the end of this think piece -- Domestic Affairs -- He died with a felafel in his hand -- The magpie war -- I have frozen my last toad -- Problem solver needed. Moral flexibility a must -- Dog beach -- We would become Volvo



drivers -- 'This car's from the future!' -- Modern Man -- Manspreading -- Without pants -- Cold snap -- Bachelor pad -- The Tasmanian Babes fiasco -- Manflu -- Dad bod -- Modern dad -- Inside the Sausage of Politics -- Flopping it out -- Ho, fellow conservative Australians!.

Statement by the League of Australians for a Muntstitutional Conarchy on the occasion of the Prime Minister's treasonous plot to raise the Natives above their lowly station -- From the office of the Prime Minister -- The Ballad of Admiral Morrison -- From Scott Morrison: Minister for Stopping Immigration -- Spy vs spy -- Minutes of an intelligence briefing -- The new reality -- Let Turnbull be Turnbull -- There is no such thing as 22 avocado toast -- Exciting marketing opportunity -- I read Senator Malcolm Roberts's scorching indictment of the CSIRO's criminal conspiracy to ruin us all so you wouldn't have to -- Election wrap -- I can haz kompromat? -- Why I voted for Cthulhu -- The triumph of neo-stupidity -- The phone call.