Emmjay
Many patrons of the Pig’s Arms, including myself, have expressed dismay at the recent blood letting in the front bar and for this, I would like to extend my apologies to any patron who feels badly treated.
Most pubs have a blow up from time to time. Fortunately nobody here has lost a life so far but let’s hope our bouncer Crispin Bacon returns from his stint in the Sydney CBD soon. Far be it for me to Barry O’Farrellise the Pig’s Arms though and there will, as usual be no closing time here.
Moderating a blog is both time consuming and challenging – balancing a desire for maintaining a venue for free speech with a need to maintain mutual respect amongst individuals, if not always for ideas espoused in the pub. And in moderation, it is very important to not stonewall and kill conversations – a point apparently lost at the ABC.
In the nearly five years that the Pig’s Arms has been open – continuously – we have seen thousands of articles posted, over 400,000 views and around 100,000 comments – although it’s hard to be certain because we need to delete old discussions on the dot and the dump so that the performance doesn’t grind to a halt.
Throughout this time and massive communication space, we have run free (mostly) and I would like to publicly thank Gez, Voice and Hung (also for his brilliant renovations) for their sterling contributions to the administration and moderation effort at the Pig’s Arms.
However, in the end, the responsibility for maintaining lora norder falls with yours truly. There can be no ambiguity fielding in slips. As a result, I will be assuming sole admin and moderation duties.
We will return to the mutual respect model whereby comments will be automatically permitted until a commenter plays the man – or woman – instead of the idea – after which that person goes onto a moderation list.
Since I do not have unlimited time to moderate comments I will attempt to cover the bases twice or thrice a day – so expect some delay if you’re an overly contentious, abusive bastard 🙂 Behave and your comments go up more or less immediately.
Fair enough ?
Right. Drinks on me.
Venise Alstergren said:
Drinks on you, MJ? Okay, I’ll have a bottle Krug, cold but not chilled, served in a quaffing sized glass, with a smidgeon of the prohibited Beluga on the side.
Thanks
Venise
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Googlehoover said:
We’ve seen that bloke before Emm. We all know him in one form or another. That particular one, and his kind. He has all the nobility and dignity of the hard working man doing a job that is as necessary and meaningful as any other.
He was the kind of man that offered answers, not always right and usually set about with all manner of expletives and a goodly sized gob of irony. He offered security, though perhaps he never felt so secure himself, given what he’d gone through. He was loving in his way, but love may have come hard, again given what he’d gone through.
And then he was gone; and for all his failings, all his foibles and all the quirky corners of the man, you’d give anything to have him back, just for an hour, just for a minute.
That kind of man is not all that common these days and we’d all do well to remember just what men like that gave so we could sit about idly bickering over inconsequential nuggets.
By the way, I just love the semiotics of the image. Cringemakingly apt; it made me chuckle darkly, and I’m sure the others had a chuckle too. But where’s his leather slop poncho?
As my old man used to say, “D’ya getany onya?”
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helvityni said:
He needed some Abbott style protective work wear, from top to toe..
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Carisbrooke said:
Every thing’s good in America (moderation).
Jets, or sharks?
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Googlehoover said:
ANITA
Puerto Rico
My heart’s devotion
Let it sink back in the ocean
Always the hurricanes blowing
Always the population growing
And the money owing
And the sunlight streaming
And the natives steaming
I like the island Manhattan
(I know you do)
Smoke on your pipe
And put that in!
GIRLS
I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America
BERNARDO
For a small fee in America
ANITA
Buying on credit is so nice
BERNARDO
One look at us and they charge twice
ROSALIA
I have my own washing machine
INDIO
What will you have not to keep clean?
ANITA
Skyscrapers bloom in America
ROSALIA
Cadillacs zoom in America
TERESITA
Industry boom in America
BOYS
Twelve in a room in America
ANITA
Lots of new housing with more space
BERNARDO
Lots of doors slamming in our face
ANITA
I’ll get a terrace apartment
BERNARDO
Better get rid of your accent
ANITA
Life can be bright in America
BOYS
If you can fight in America
GIRLS
Life is all right in America
BOYS
If you’re a white in America
GIRLS
Here you are free and you have pride
BOYS
Long as you stay on your own side
GIRLS
Free to be anything you choose
BOYS
Free to wait tables and shine shoes
BERNARDO
Everywhere grime in America
Organized crime in America
Terrible time in America
ANITA
You forget I’m in America
BERNARDO
I think I’ll go back to San Juan
ANITA
I know a boat you can get on,
Bye Bye!
BERNARDO
Ah-hah
Everyone there will give big cheer!
ANITA
Everyone there will have moved here
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helvityni said:
I saw the movie The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday, not all roses in America, I had to close my eyes few times, they could not take in anymore of the ugliness…
Un-moderated ugliness is hard to take….
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Carisbrooke said:
WSS, was loosely based on Romeo & Juliet – as I’m sure everyone knows.
The lyrics above prompted me to refresh my knowledge the whole production. Wow they certainly had some drama getting it together.
Including technical stuff that never occurred to me. You neither, I bet. (Yup I hate Google, for the bloody distraction, however it’s less time consuming than dusting off the encyclopaedia Britannica.)
Any augmented fourth can be decomposed into three whole tones. For instance, the interval F–B is an augmented fourth and can be decomposed into the three adjacent whole tones F–G, G–A, and A–B.
Ma-ri-a”
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sandshoe said:
Taking a break from some work. Again interesting. I am presented with some basic theory. I failed initally to decipher what the question was forming in my mind. At this hour no surprise. I pondered what key is it in. Derh. It is in F-major I suppose and that has 1 flat B…and raising the B flat a semi-tone must make it augmented, thus it is F-B and not F-C flat LOL. 😉
Anyway the significance of the dissolution of the augmented fourth interval into tones that are whole is only relative to the key the piece is in that provides its harmonics and without which it wouldn’t be
Ma-ri-a
😉
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Voice said:
I must say, this house renovating caper has aged you somewhat. On the plus side the old arm muscles certainly seem up to scratch.
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Hung One On said:
Is that a night soil tin?
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Big M said:
No it’s a barrel of turds.
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Big M said:
…so, not a barrel of laughs.
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sandshoe said:
There may be a break in transmission. My computer is playing up.
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vivienne29 said:
Sorted then. Good luck (just in case you need it).
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Voice said:
Better late than never.
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Hung One On said:
Move on. Nothing to see here
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Big M said:
I just hope that Manne can get all of the blood orff the walls!
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Carisbrooke said:
I’ve got the painters in at the moment.
Unbelievable…The whole place; 3 guys plus cost of paint.
Cheaper than it was 10 years ago (by about a 3rd). Must be the lack of work on the gold coast.
Shall I get a quote for The Arms?
Mind you, you get white, white or white.
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Therese Trouserzoff said:
Three quarters of the new roof is on at Rancho del Cambria – and looking good. Fingers crossed for continued overcast and dry (hence cool) weather for the next couple of days.
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Big M said:
Last time someone told me she had the ‘painters in’, she was menstruating…be careful what you say!
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Carisbrooke said:
Must have been a close friend…………………………..or, a fellow nurse?
Labor,of course. Liberals are much too refined.
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Big M said:
‘Liberals are much too refined.’
Great joke!!
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algernon1 said:
What like oil?
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Big M said:
Yes, the sludgy by-products of distillation become parliamentarians.
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algernon1 said:
And the grit?
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Voice said:
What colour white, Carisbrooke?
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Voice said:
Oh, these long comment strings off the third or fourth reply. I’ve inadvertently butted into a conversation about .. I’m not sure what. But I’m pretty sure it’s not white house paint.
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Carisbrooke said:
A sort of lily livered white.
Did I tell you they were cheap.
I said. ” join a union, they’ve got vacancies now”. Just go and get some leather pants, gold chains and a tattoo”.
Nope they’re hard workers; just stopped for a pie from Horners.
It was white, but it’s whiter now.
Oh oh, I feel a song, wasn’t that FREE, ‘All White Now’?
Maybe you didn’t get them down under?
Here we go again, Simon Kirke was a friend. AND…NO, he wasn’t a nurse, he was a drummer.Went on to be in ‘Bad Company’.
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Carisbrooke said:
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Carisbrooke said:
This was from a recent revival concert.
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Carisbrooke said:
This was when Iknew them. They area lot younger.
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.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqUB2UWRDVU
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Carisbrooke said:
Here’s Simon with FREE. Paul Kossoff was with thm then. he died of course.
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Voice said:
Pretty much the turn conversations with my grandmother always used to take. She’s dead now of course.
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Voice said:
My other job is holding sensitivity training courses.
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Carisbrooke said:
Good bloke Simon. Salt of the earth. A rock gentleman.
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Carisbrooke said:
You know it’s time you wrote a story Voice.How about a lady Foodge? A sort of Marples-Foodge.
Foodge uncovers nepotism or summit?
Foodge discovers lost risotto recipe.
Foodge divulges secrets of the absent ….I dunno, something or others?
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Carisbrooke said:
I’d better go and watch Foxtel, to see if there’s anything happening. I’d hate to miss out on a world event.
Gotta a busy weekend, with daughter moving house.
I have managed to keep my trailer for 2 weeks. I’ll kiss it goodbye in the morning.
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Hung One On said:
Great singer JL, without looking is that Paul Carrick?
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Hung One On said:
Looked, Rodgers, did I include his tribute album on the USB? If not I will send it to you via Mike
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Carisbrooke said:
Bloody good show, what what.
And if you need a magistrate to sit in, old Parley Garnish will stand up. He’s a circuit adjudicator and will offer advice in return for a couple of snifters.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
That’s not related to anything. It’s just been in my head recently. Probably from having to write it out a hundred times, as a punishment for talking in class.
Why can’t people write poems like that any more? Or is it my imagination?
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Therese Trouserzoff said:
Did you mean Parsley Garnish ?
Jules, I was hammered mercilessly for talking in class in primary school especially. I usually ended up in the front row under the teacher’s nose, sitting next to the least attractive and often the densest student in the class. That was killing off any attempted stage whisper jokes and most of the value I might have made to the life of the class.
Hence “There was movement at the station….. and the Highway man came riding, riding …. the curfew tolls the knell of parting day ….. what rough beast slinks towards Bethlehem ……. wots in a name ‘e says ” etc etc.
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Carisbrooke said:
I went to a school, where you weren’t even allowed to talk at the breakfast table.
I’m breaking out now though 😉
Yep I think that Parsley garnish is a good name for a fictitious judge.
I watched ‘The Man Who Shot liberty Valence ‘, the other night. Wow, were lucky that he doesn’t come in to The Arms. It would be a bloodbath. James Stewart was the reluctant hero, who thought that he had shot Liberty. It turned out it was me.
They had a lot of odd names in the cowboy era.
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sandshoe said:
I was on a bus when the breaking news came in. Gez, now you’re not admin & I’m not under pressure about allegedly being in cahoots with you for whatever reason beats me I will drop you a line when I sort your contact details as I would appreciate very much your help with a design idea. I reckon we ought to do it & be done with idle rumour we’re in each other’s pockets. Let’s be. I would really appreciate your experience of design. I am anticipating you will be across that?
ps I don’t often drink. When I get off this bus I will buy a bottle of wine. New visstas. Emmjay will do a good job. Thanks for the post, Emm.
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Big M said:
Yes, covert operations complete!
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Therese Trouserzoff said:
Thanks for the vote of confidence, ‘Shoe.
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gerard oosterman said:
Murdoch’s Merlot. A cheeky little number with lots of deceits on the middle palate, and lingering hackings showing some bitter ambitions.
To be drunk yesterday.
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gerard oosterman said:
Yes, I totally agree. Free Murdoch Merlot on me, between 12am and 3pm. No double shots!
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