OzKitsch: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
We ask Australian humorists to tell us what's funny online. Andrew Sholl's Twitter account is devoted to doing just that. Consider this the bumper edition
The original intent behind the @OzKitsch Twitter account was to have a laugh at cringey aspects of Australian life, like concrete koala letterboxes and Ned Kelly bottle openers. There's certainly no shortage of material.
But its purpose has evolved over time. Instead of simply wincing at the olden days or wallowing in nostalgia, it seeks to examine aspects of everyday life that we have seem to have forgotten, either by accident or design: everything from regional beauty contests, monuments that were never built, and high school war cries, to Menzies' fleeting admiration for Hitler, quack cures for the Spanish flu, and the musical stylings of Alan Jones.
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