LEARN ABOUT PICKLES, YOU DELUDED, FEARFUL, INSULAR PEOPLE. AND GIVE ME MONEY
It’s pickle time at the ABC, where host Osman Faruqi will educate viewers about brine-fermented cucumbers while accepting your tax dollars and despising each and every one of you.
It’s pickle time at the ABC, where host Osman Faruqi will educate viewers about brine-fermented cucumbers while accepting your tax dollars and despising each and every one of you:
The ABC is poised to launch a multi-million-dollar lifestyle website that will cover topics more traditionally associated with women’s magazines, including recipes, sex and relationships, travel and fashion.
Staff have been told ABC Life will be a “BuzzFeed page for the ABC” and its purpose is “to replicate content that does well on commercial sites”.
And here’s one of the hosts:
The ABC advertised for 18 people for the project. One successful applicant was Osman Faruqi, who was hired after leaving youth website Junkee, whose parent company is outdoor advertising and media company ooh! media.
Mr Faruqi gave an indication as to the site’s content by sharing with social media followers a video about making pickles.
Oh, he’s indicated much more than that:
Australians are a deeply conservative, insular and fearful people with a collective delusion that they are laidback and forward thinking.
— Osman Faruqi (@oz_f) July 31, 2018