To be honest, if I were running a government department this kind of thing would be happening all the time.

Unfortunately the barcode is't long enough to fit in "CHOCOLATE STARFISH".

There's an echinoderm called the Chocolate Chip Starfish incidentally. This description is ripe with entendres:
"The Chocolate Chip Starfish, Protoreastor Nodosus, also known as the Horned Starfish, features small horn-like projections from its appendages. It has a short and stout body with short and thick arms along with those knobs which resemble chocolate chips - its size and knobs make it almost impossible to swallow whole. The Chocolate Chip Star eats by excreting their stomach out onto their prey and retracting it back in."



Ouch.

Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I was saying. Good to know somebody gets me around here.

ABS deputy statistician Jonathan Palmer apologised for the oversight.

"The ABS acknowledges that in issuing 16 million barcodes it did not check and remove words and phrases that may be offensive," he said in a statement.

Who would seriously expect them to do that? Just so some wowser won't have to face the horror of accidentally seeing the word "bum" if they for some mad reason are reading the bloody barcodes.

To the story linked in the article about Tony Abbott getting headbutted. Every single person attending a Young Liberals event needs a violent strike to the face, including counter-protesters who show up just to harrass the polo-shirt wearing trust-fund drink spikers. If you just avoid the creeps instead of giving them an enemy many of them will grow out of it in a couple of years when they realise they are not as rich as they think they are.

Also I dunno what hitting Abbott is going to achieve besides making you feel better. He's an ex amatuer boxer who knows he's basically universally hated, and you gotta kinda expect you might get bashed just for being alive if you go to Tasmania. I don't think it would have phased him very much. Still, it warmed my heart reading that, I hope it fucken hurt.

Here he is getting punched in the face in his younger days.

Huh, apparently the assault on Tony was not actually in response to his campaign against equal rights, just a natural reaction to seeing the dickhead in person.

Someone send this guy an invitation to SE!

I love this guy. And suddenly all of Abbott's three word slogans; 'Stop the Boats!', 'Axe the Tax' and all that bullshit have been replaced by this guys 'Nut the Cunt'!

Bewdy Newk!

Agreed. That one sentence "I'd had half a skinful and I wanted to nut the cunt" is better porn than most of the porn I watch.

People who get offended by accidentally seeing naughty words are the people most likely to scrutinize bar codes looking for them.

UGH, F BUMSEX, K? INNATE!

Those bloody innaters are at it again?

Nate is quite happy with this arrangement.

Stuffed Bumsex (Aussie slang for "surprise buttsex")

"Inadvetantly" spelled, even!

Let me Abos go loose, Lou
Let me Abos go loose
They're of on further use, Lou
So let me Abos go loose

Oh, them funny Oz guys. Playing BDSM games with 'roos. Exploiting bisexual koalas. Tossing more bunnies onto their barbies. And the platypus pr0n, oy.

But now they're disrespecting queer people. Not good. Moral adjustment is needed. And more coin purses made from dried wallaby scrotums.