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During a recent internship at a regional TV station I met a pasty, flame-haired, tarred-toothed cameraman named Warren. Literally and figuratively, he was a redneck.
Not all lisps are necessarily camp.
During lunch one day a segment on gay Brit fashion luminary Gok Wan came on Channel 9. Wazza unleashed an expletive-laden verbal tirade which would’ve made Gordon Ramsay blush.
“Why the f—- do queers talk like that?!”Being gay doesn’t change your f——- vocal chords! There’s no bloody accent associated with sexuality!”
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It wasn’t in the speech, it wasn’t even in the Budget At-a-glance or Highlights document, and it wasn’t anywhere in the 77 pages of press releases distributed last night – if you were looking for the size of the deficit you had to go to page 5 of the Budget Overview document.
Wayne Swan managed to get through 3876 words to the House of Representative last night without letting on the Australian Government was about to embark on a $57.5 billion deficit for 2009-10…
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