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Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Kyle Aaron on May 22, 2009, 08:59:38 PM
A not very politically-correct young woman describes a nightclub shooting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0L2VaTWs9s) she saw.

She already has a facebook group with thousands of fans, has been offered a nude shoot with Zoo Weekly, and has had to hire a PR firm to manage things.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Koltar on May 22, 2009, 10:10:09 PM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;304099A not very politically-correct young woman describes a nightclub shooting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0L2VaTWs9s) she saw.

She already has a facebook group with thousands of fans, has been offered a nude shoot with Zoo Weekly, and has had to hire a PR firm to manage things.

Thank you Kyle,

 So...we now have a possible NPC we can drop into a future game situation.



- Ed
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: tellius on May 22, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Chk Chk Boom! I love that they have already remixed the comments into a trashy club track.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: FASERIP on May 23, 2009, 12:01:54 AM
Man, I love this shit. Thanks for sharing.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: tellius on May 23, 2009, 12:51:53 AM
Just to share some more, this is the skinny individual that suffered the chk chk boom: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25521674-421,00.html
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Kyle Aaron on May 23, 2009, 01:28:24 AM
Hah!
   In an email to news.com.au, Justin Kallu said: ""Im just abit upset about the fact that ive been shot and that i almost lost my life and there s this girl all over the news getting popular all because she has no brains."
(a) She is more well-spoken than you, and
(2) She ran away, you got shot. Which one is the dumb one?
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Koltar on May 23, 2009, 02:06:56 AM
Just because she used slang and such - that does not mean that she's not intelligent.

She was pretty descriptive.
As for the not politically part - she was quoting what the young men said ...in a bar. Not exactly a debating club or the library as far as settings go.


- Ed C.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Kyle Aaron on May 23, 2009, 03:18:44 AM
She referred to them as "wogs", Koltar. A person of Anglo-Saxon heritage in Australia referring to Lebanese, etc as "wogs" is equivalent to one in the US referring to "spics", "greasers", "kikes" and so on; though it's not as offensive as "nigger".

For my part, I'm not too worried about bad language. One bloke shot another one for bonking his cousin, I think that's a more important issue; though the lefty and righty blogs and columnists alike disagree.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Koltar on May 23, 2009, 03:32:27 AM
That slang word is so regionally specific - that it just wouldn't come across as offensive unless the viewer lived in Australia.

-Ed
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: One Horse Town on May 23, 2009, 03:53:23 AM
Quote from: Koltar;304138That slang word is so regionally specific - that it just wouldn't come across as offensive unless the viewer lived in Australia.

-Ed

Not so, it has the same meaning in the UK. It's on a par with the n-word here. Maybe we shipped out the word with the colonials. :p
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: jeff37923 on May 23, 2009, 03:01:52 PM
Damn, that's funny as Hell. Fifteen minutes of fame indeed.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: David R on May 23, 2009, 06:52:39 PM
Quote from: Koltar;304138That slang word is so regionally specific - that it just wouldn't come across as offensive unless the viewer lived in Australia.

You're wrong Ed.

I'm gonna' unleash my fully sick boys on you.

Regards,
David R
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: Ronin on May 23, 2009, 07:00:38 PM
Quote from: Koltar;304138That slang word is so regionally specific - that it just wouldn't come across as offensive unless the viewer lived in Australia.

-Ed

Its pretty much offensive outside of the Americas. It never caught on here for what ever reason. The term has been around since the victorian period.

Quote from: OHTMaybe we shipped out the word with the colonials.

Yup, that pretty much covers it.
Title: Witness describes nightclub shooting
Post by: tellius on May 23, 2009, 07:40:36 PM
This just keeps getting better and better.. word down from the police is that she wasn't a witness at all (http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25527760-5014239,00.html)!

QuoteAs Ms Werbeloff's newly hired agent, Adam Abrams, confirmed, "She was not a witness. She saw the camera, ran over to it and told this story."

Part of me would like to call this genius (ala the Chaser's for those playing locally), but I am calling that she is just a media-whore wannabe displaying the least awesome side of life.

.. at least the name calling is heading her way with her being tagged as a Bogan (the aussie White Trash equiv).