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This man is not fit to be a leader on the world stage!!!!

wasn't this the candidate who went out clubbing in New York with some strippers from scores

Eating one's own ear wax is man's second-greatest existential achievement.

In any class of schoolkids there is the little grotty boy whom nobody likes and who sits miserably down the back of the room eating his boogers. I hope Australians aren't stupid enough to elect him Prime Minister.

Krudd is a smug tosser.

Yeah... picking his ears in parliament, like, totally disqualifies him from being the prime minister.

This just demonstrates how little the people posting comments on here know about Australian politics. Kevin Rudd is the best thing to happen to this country. This video was probably dug out by desperate Liberals, clutching at straws at the tail-end of their hopeless campaign.

Rudd is a trouble and it isn't only liberals who know it. The man was involved with cows from an early age and is most likely working for the Chinese. He clearly is manipulating Australian nationalism towards a Sino-centric anti-American perspective. His three pillars are but one supported by a foundation rooted in Beijing.

hopeless campaign greggy boy? We'll see on the day. LOL @ the best thing to happen to this country comment though!!

Let's see.. article about Australia written by a Yank. I'll bet Outback Steakhouse gets a mention - check! And I'm sure Yahoo Serious will get a mention - oh yeah, check! But you forgot to mention:
1. Dingos stealing babies, and:
2. Steve Irwin.
Only two out of four cliches.. lift ya game, Washingtonpost! I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down.

Dude I'm not sure exactly what a dunny door is but Septic Tanks seems like he's about to burst. Nice work Emil, maybe you'll be sentenced to an Aussie booting!

Who cares what a bunch of yanks think really, look at who's running their country. Bush is the biggest joke on the world stage today and so is the US.

rudd is the most rightwing candidate the australian "workers" party have ever produced. his earwax policy bares no comparison to his severe attacks on workers' rights, muslim and aboriginal bashing and his shameless support for the american neo-liberal project.

Nice work Kevin07 - maybe if you spent less time picking your ears and more time developing your own policies as opposed to stealing the Prime Ministers I'd vote for you. Scrap that, I'd never vote for you.

Ja'mie King would make a better PM than you...seriously.

Azlan, you need to do a little more research on the topic. The ALP "workers" party are actually the extreme left wing government in Australia. The ALP stand for workers rights and actually focus on this topic too deeply, ignoring business. Muslim and aboriginal bashing? you have no idea, they are left wing and as a result are overly welcoming of minoritys.
Do not comment on international politics unless you are informed.

How is the menu of the Outback Steakhouse representative of Australian cuisine?

The Outback Steakhouse:
- Does not serve Pavlova,
- Serves Fosters - which is as bad as American beers in its similarity with sex in a canoe,
- Does not serve vegemite,
- Does not sell beef from a particular country with less cattle disease problems than the USA.
- Uses incorrect spelling of the type often seen in America, and
- Somehow fails to mention on its website that tipping is very unusual in Australia.

This makes the conclusions you draw on the place of earwax in Australian cuisine erroneous.

Earwax, which has a much more robust flavour when matured to a dark brown colour, has a distinctive tang somewhere between the flavours of salted macadamia nuts and dried shrimp. Although this can be an acquired taste, it is a readily available condiment and can be used as an edible substitute for sodium chloride.

Further evidence that earwax has been consumed by connoisseurs of fine things can be seen in the tasting notes of some wine experts.

I knew you Aussies are weird but damn Paul, if you are Kiwi, is ear wax really as popular as you make it sound? Is this why you guys attack crocs and kiss snakes? Cause compared to your last meal death don't seem so bad? I feel sick just reading wat you have wrote. Maybe your doctors would recommend i eat up some boogers?

USA,

When reading the absurd, do you consider the possibility of litotes or irony?

Even though our dominant languages are similar, our cultures are totally different. Imagine what the USA would be like if you doubled the minimum wage, had an innate dislike of pompousity (if business cards includes post-nominals in Australia, people notice a foreign accent), and created histories about yourselves that focussed on a lethal natural environment?

syd: 1. if your idea of "extreme left wing" is the alp i'd hate to see what your idea of extreme right is. 2. no current party that enters parliamentary elections by definition can be extreme left wing. 3. the alp long abandoned their policies of 'workers rights'; note that under a rudd government striking will still be illegal. 4. rudd's policies of islamophobia perpetuated by the howard government are practically identical; note he wants MORE troops in afghanistan and wholeheartedly supports the northern territory intervention. 5. the only section of society the alp is over welcoming to is big business. i know these facts on 'international politics' as a worker under australian capitalism.

Join the Anti Earwax Eaters.
We must eradicate this practice from Australia before it spreads to the rest of the world (don't worry though USA - that Earwax Eater is only interested in China)

There is an Australian Facebook Group dedicated to spreading the word on Earwax Krudd:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5444272187

If this is all the conservatives of both oz and the u.s have on Rudd well try again. Youve tried this before, youve failed before and youve failed again.... Ja'mie King would make a better PM than Howard or his gutless offsider.

such aro

***IT'S NOT EARWAX!!! He scraped with his fingernail at a deep fold near the canal. Notice how his hand went up before the scraping as if he was making sure something was there or getting ready to be covert. Going after earwax is more random and stoic - he was purposeful. I suspect something was hidden there for later consumption.

if thats the best the liberals can find to try and smear Rudd in the pre-election race, they really are getting desparate.

I have never voted labor and I wont this year but I do object to an American critisising any other political system. Yours is the most corrupt system in the free world.
But what else can you expect from the only English speaking country in the world to dumb down the spelling of english so it's population could read it.

Would rather an ear wax eater than the neanderthal manchurian canditate Bush.

To the anonymous, some would say gutless person who posted 9:52 AM. Much like your hideous Labor party leader, it seems you too lack credibility...and have a thing for stealing other people's material. Rewording another persons post to make it you own? It seems you've taken this KRudd obsession of yours to the next level.

I know as a Labor supporter you might find it difficult, but if at all possible try, please try to be a little more original and creative in the future.

And by the way - the Liberals have not failed again and again, but in fact won every election since 1996. I'm not sure where you've been for that time, and how you could have missed that very important fact, is it possible you've been too busy picking your own ears to notice?

Rudd is a slimy, conniving, union dominated fool. Regardless of the outcome of the election, give him 12 months and the entire country will know it.

Um i'm sorry you cant judge us you elected Bush. TWICE!
I happen to like K-rudd the other option is a 70 year old racist who made us jump on your war bandwagon. And when you think of the important stuff - like foreign affairs for instance, do you want the guy who speaks fluent mandarin (to keep the chinese happy)the dude who was a foreign diplomat himself AND the dude that has a fan club who run around wearing KEVIN '07 shirts OR would you rather howard, who while he looks like a lovable grandpa, is actually the grandpa no one wants to visit coz then you have to listen to his rant about the reason the country's gone to sh*t is because of the aboriginals, the indonesians, the opposition (obviously they have no power because he rules the senate and the house of reps, but his bad decisions are their fault anyway) etc. and employs a guy called downer (i'm not even joking) to make the calls on international relations who's only succuss has been spending last 11 years pissing off every nation in our region - including us,

i could get used to some ear wax... after a while.

a long while.

better than the homophobe.

You guys are such dopes. That is where he keeps his M&M's. He is eating M&M's not ear wax. Learn to do more research before you complain. Aussie's are known for saving important items in their ears and you are witnessing the retrieval of same.

Thanks for the heads-up about this video clip, I laughed myself stupid when I saw that and immediately forwarded it to all my friends.
To whoever said Krudd is anti-worker's rights, wake up! Note the fact that his party is entirely made up of unionist henchmen. If Krudd gets elected I will cry even harder than I did when Iemma managed to con NSW into voting for the same incompetent labour govt fools at state level for the millionth time.
It galls me to have Americans tell us who to vote for but I have to say, I agree with them this time.

earwax=yuck yuck yuck

still

he is the less or two evils but im sure he'll be just as big an arse as john howard if he gets in

i'll be voting greens

No humph, he's the lesser of two weavils.

This is based on the choice facing us Australians. Further, we are not certain what he ate from his ear.

if this kruddy man becomes PM can you please invade us and restore democracy

Might be plum pudding !!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a LIFE! Crikey.... Seinfeld caught picking his nose in Traffic...err that was comedy. or was it rea-life ????
But then again, who can tell these daze and
MAYBE HE WAS TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE rather than listen to any-more waffle from yet another Polli with more Ambition than Savvy!
Any-one that knows Aust'l'n Politirix and the Children over-board affair last time realizes that a distracted, unthinking event bears little resemblence to his/her ability to lead a Country (that I wouldn't swap for ANY OTHER) and manage an Economy that is on Auto-pilot thanks to the Chinese. ( which K.R took the time to Learn)! (What, by the way has Dubbya EVER learn-ed? "Nucular"?)
Go Kev... better you than what passes for lead-ship on the oppisite benches!!!
I'll throw in a biblical mis-quote too,...
" let Ear amoungst you that not picked your cast the first Wax!

So Kevin Rudd is not fit to lead a Country because he app"EAR"s to eat some Wax?
Pop Qizz for the Leader of the Good Oil US off AHHH!!!
Europe is
a, a country.
b, a moon of Pluto.
c. A film with-out Ronny ray-gun in it.
d, None of the above.
As the Little Rascal said.." Let he /she amounst you that has not ...etc etc."
Or, people that live in Glass houses etc etc...
( can you be sure that the Video was not "doctored" anyway ? It is not that hard to do, it's easy as ,,, well picking your nose!)

Oh and one more thing, during a "boring, 6 hour session, listenig to God only knows what rubbish, you place your finger in your ear. On realizing that there is some bodily excression on it, ( the finger) what do you do ?
a, wipe it on your Suit?
b, wipe it on your bench mates suit.
c, wipe it on the bottom of the bench.
d, Roll it in a ball, take the nib out of your ball point pen and try for a 3 pointer on the PM ?
e,none of the Above ?

Me, I'd go for option "d", but there is a problem here. Under the Omnipotent and All pervasive( an Ozzie Moron I know!) Anti-terror Laws he could be kept in Custody for up to 4 weeks ( or Years if your name is "Hicks") with-out Charge or Legal repressentation, subjected to unique waze with water saftey and then released into custudy till after the Fedral Election(Australia) because you launched a missile at a Serving head of State!!! ...errr, a "friendly" Head of State! (Launching missiles at Iraqis, Afgans, Palistinians etc etc, doesn't count).... off-course!
AS I SAID.... Get a Life!

Wax from ear to mouth
A labour delicacy
vote Kevin 07

...ALMOST as embarrassing as having W as president...

i'd rather an ear wax chomper than a war mongerer....go kevin you good thing!
no war
ratify kyoto
indigenous reconciliation
industrial relations
education
health...who gives a toss about ear wax???

waxing lyrical....kevin 07 is the best thing to happen to oz in a long time! eat more bush

Kevin07 was elected, and it was the best thing to happen to this country. If you thought his earwax was bad look at the last PMs eyebrows!!!!!

funny stuff.....especially the over-the-top american bashing from us Aussie posters. very embarrassing

it's an article in the off beat section. no need to be so sensitive. babies.