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Post by psw on Feb 23, 2024 23:02:39 GMT -5
Nearly 100,000 people - amazing! So @90+ thousand per concert, that's about 270,000 for the three in Melb. - and the population of Australia is about 270 million - plus Sydney audiences means that about 1% of Australians attended. Quite a deal! And I do wonder how many people saw more than one show.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 25, 2024 0:21:04 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 25, 2024 6:32:30 GMT -5
That article even mentions the Knitting Nannas that started here.
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Post by groo on Feb 27, 2024 0:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 27, 2024 0:11:40 GMT -5
Nearly 100,000 people - amazing! So @90+ thousand per concert, that's about 270,000 for the three in Melb. - and the population of Australia is about 270 million - plus Sydney audiences means that about 1% of Australians attended. Quite a deal! And I do wonder how many people saw more than one show. Quite a few people flew in from NZ and parts of Asia that aren't getting a tour. (and an errant zero popped into your population of Australia count)
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Post by tzarine on Feb 27, 2024 0:48:05 GMT -5
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Post by groo on Feb 27, 2024 0:56:50 GMT -5
I always thought that banning Huck Finn was a ripsnorter; the book was a fairly sympathetic treatment of that period in US history - like the dickheads who tore down a statue of James Cook in Melbourne this week because he was perceived as racist. By today's standards he may have been, but by the standards of 1770 he was enlightened.
He was also a brilliant navigator, seaman and leader.
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Post by psw on Feb 27, 2024 1:37:16 GMT -5
Hal - good catch! That makes closer to 10%.
So the Swiftie conerts were a bonanza for the tourist biz, at least in the two big cities! Did many of the visitors stay to see any more of the country?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 27, 2024 2:08:53 GMT -5
I don't know, but they certainly spent up big on accommodation, food and Taylor Swift merch - the merch money won't really stay in the country, the other stuff will.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 27, 2024 3:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Feb 27, 2024 4:26:32 GMT -5
I always thought that banning Huck Finn was a ripsnorter; the book was a fairly sympathetic treatment of that period in US history - like the dickheads who tore down a statue of James Cook in Melbourne this week because he was perceived as racist. By today's standards he may have been, but by the standards of 1770 he was enlightened. He was also a brilliant navigator, seaman and leader. Who was funded by a colonising power. The British Admiralty funded a chunk of his expenses and he was given conditional orders to go and look for Australia. I don't think he as an individual was the problem but he was certainly representing the problem to the countries he arrived in. I'm not sure about tearing down his statue, it seems a pretty legit part of OZ/NZ history but I'm very OK with calling NZ's tallest mountain Aoraki rather than Mt Cook.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 27, 2024 11:39:56 GMT -5
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Post by groo on Feb 27, 2024 16:26:15 GMT -5
Who was funded by a colonising power. The British Admiralty funded a chunk of his expenses and he was given conditional orders to go and look for Australia. I don't think he as an individual was the problem but he was certainly representing the problem to the countries he arrived in. I'm not sure about tearing down his statue, it seems a pretty legit part of OZ/NZ history but I'm very OK with calling NZ's tallest mountain Aoraki rather than Mt Cook. Agree. Where I'm sitting right now I have a fine view of Wollumbin, the cloud piercer, a mountain that for 220 years was known as Mt Warning, the name that Cook gave it.
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Post by Queen on Mar 3, 2024 15:53:31 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Mar 3, 2024 16:24:38 GMT -5
Have they banned it? I haven't seen anything about that. There's a massive difference banning access to something versus saying, "this movie/book has problematic content, and you really should let your children know that it's not acceptable, and at the time, it was being used even though the people it applied to found it insulting."
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Post by Queen on Mar 3, 2024 17:40:41 GMT -5
It's reclassified to PG... Parental Guidance "General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. A PG film should not unsettle a child aged around eight or older. Unaccompanied children of any age may watch, but parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger, or more sensitive, children." (source www.bbfc.co.uk/rating/pg)So... not a ban.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 3, 2024 19:53:30 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Mar 5, 2024 19:58:45 GMT -5
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Post by jimm on Mar 6, 2024 16:22:28 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Mar 8, 2024 17:29:08 GMT -5
police arrested someone driving an SUV with cloned plates on it, and several more cloned plates inside the SUV, which was towing a stolen camper.
he is 11.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 8, 2024 18:57:00 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Mar 10, 2024 21:40:52 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 11, 2024 6:04:39 GMT -5
Oh! Well if you put it THAT way then I'm completely behind it That dragonfly illustration in the article is gorgeous. It's nearly 4 inches long! Now I really have to go to New Zealand.
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Post by tinaja on Mar 11, 2024 9:49:41 GMT -5
Oscar awards. Other than fashion I really don't care. Rarely see a film on the list.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 11, 2024 11:22:48 GMT -5
I actually saw the film that won, prior to the actual ceremony, for the first time since (I have no idea)! It's like those rare times when Radiohead gets a Grammy or something, like "wow I am hip to mainstream society this week."
I meant to add to my earlier comment "plus it's a freaking Petaltail!" which will mean nothing to any of you, sorry, just had to say it
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Post by sprite on Mar 11, 2024 13:57:19 GMT -5
The royal family released a picture of Kate and her kids, which has been removed from publication by some big media names because it was digitally altered.
the sleeve of one kid was altered. who gives a shit?
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Post by tinaja on Mar 11, 2024 14:25:42 GMT -5
My yahoo "news" feed is constantly about the royals, saying nothing.
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 11, 2024 14:42:00 GMT -5
I think UK taxpayers might not like it if people whose salary they pay lie to them.
I'm driving up to the Rochester area for the eclipse. Wish me luck with the weather. I thought about flying to Texas to improve my chances, but then I thought that with my luck it would be pouring rain down there and brilliant clear skies in upstate New York.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 11, 2024 16:25:21 GMT -5
Yay vinny! Hope the weather is perfect.
We're going to settle for 90% or whatever here, I guess.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2024 17:19:35 GMT -5
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