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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKV-ps1QQvE
We’re up in Brisvegas this weekend and the paper this morning had a headline shouting that Dutton was making a play for the Prime Minister’s job. What a C-bomb !
On Monday I’m going to find out who to join up with to campaign against the steaming pile of shitty pond scum.
In the meantime, we can draw strength from Stewart Lee’s take on Trump.
Love and peace to all our Pig’s Arms contributors and friends.
Emmjay
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
For no reason at all…it is just that I abhor a vacuum…
When a catholic priest goes to a convent to hear the confessions of the nuns there, it is said he goes to ;”Dust the Lillies”….the lillies, of course, being the ;”Lillies of the fields”…: The nuns.
“Dusting the lillies”.
Wither goest thou, Father John,
On such a splendid day,
Do you follow whimsy’s course,
A carefree wanderer…say?
A laugh, a smile, pause a while..
Then, cautious answer, yea..
“I go toward yonder gate,
Under stately blue-gum tree.
There, (with blessings of God)..
I go to ‘dust the lillies’.
To dust the lillies gently,
Lest such petals fade and die.
I’ll embrace their hips,
Kiss their lips,
And whisper a little white lie!”
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One of the saddest stories I have heard was of a nun who was caught stealing tacky romance novels of the “Mills & Boon” kind from a country newsagency…I imagined the unfolding scenario at the local police station in this tale…: https://freefall852.wordpress.com/2016/06/26/the-last-lingering-kiss/
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It’s a very enjoyable read… enjoyable on a scale of 1-10 and that’s whether ascending or descending 10 (to be democratic). It does that. It’s the superlative and the inane, the joy and the misery. There’s a few stand-out insertions ‘like Dennis’s liver’ and ‘Christ his Magalene’. In general, the event that inspired your piece has to be one of the more mind blowing and sad items of the history of rural NSW, true enough.
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Thanks, sandshoe….I am an older bloke now…not SO old that I am senile, but still..at 67yrs, time is unforgiving…and yes..the sadness of so many have found their way to my ears…and yet..in this dog-eat-dog society, there is little one can do…I have enjoyed the company of women most of my adult life, with one failed marriage and some gaps in between…but some people just have no luck at all..and you can see it in their eyes…
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I learned music both practical pianoforte and theory of music which necessitated my attendance three times a week for many years at the local Roman Catholic Church’s piano rooms where the Convent sisters were the teachers and when we got to be seniors we were no longer in the stalls but hosted in the parlour. The Mother Superior who was the senior’s teacher ‘gossiped’ to us a little so…although I was raised Presybyterian in a North Queensland country town, I learned and saw things about the nuns that actualised them in my mind as women. That combined with other experience, I have read about the priesthood. I had seen interactions that were telling between the priest and the Mother Superior. I am your age, likely only a little older.
I was struck by the thread of general compassion your story reveals, no doubt written ‘up’ to support a rich narrative but entirely your empathy with the lives of women. You through the use of the various devices to tell the story really do reveal the story of servitude and women’s lives and that set in one of the seediest environments we ever imagine, that of an alleged crime. I felt grateful to you when I read it, on her behalf as well as on behalf of my gender, emotional too that I was so moved and transported into a spider on the wall view of no less than a country cop doing it hard from his viewpoint, equipped with position, his personality tempered by his however metered humanity … and because in rural environments the sheer need to survive can force the administrative consideration that all sides need to be viewed and compromise achieved. You provide her a gracious ending insofar ie as we know of her by the constraints of story as well and that is no small achievement. You’ve made a jewel.
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Well..to such a gracious and heartfelt response, sandshoe, all I can say is thank you…I hope I can supply yourself and others on this site with more and varied cameos and stories…I have placed some on a couple of other blog sites, and a few on Twitter.. either as pieces in themselves or as links to my own blog..like above..but in the main there are so many just languishing on the page…It will be good to be able to get them out to an appreciative readership…
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From Edward Gibbon ;”Decline and Fall. . . ” (from memory) “A nation of slaves will view as magnanimous the tyrant, who in with-holding his hand from extreme cruelty, dispenses his pain in measured doses…”
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If there is a goddess with a sense of humour, the Labor landslide will be more than the current polling 55:45 two party vote.
What I do know for sure Yvonne is that Australians NEVER vote in a party showing disunity because we have even less idea what kind of fuckwittery we are going to get.
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I like to harbour the idea that the great Australian rat-bag rebel still has a beating heart in every true citizen of our country…It’s gotta be the saving grace of any nation!
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On reflection, I doubt Stewart Lee’s description of Trump voters is sufficiently abusive when applied locally.
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There’s a bear in here… and a comment of mine as well … somewhere lost in the werks… . 🙂
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Sorry. Shoe, I was languishing on a place circling Sydney because of the high winds, they are spacing out landings. Safe now !
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Dutton won’t get that up. It’s a sadly underestimated factor that he looks like an old school Brisvegas cop of the misleading and misled style and that he acts like one. Once he rose to prominence, knowledge of that overriding aspect of him was a lit fuse that burned its way clear through the ballyhoo and stunting on the high wire of the political arena. What a cracker. Promote Dutton and they kiss goodbye to winning seats.
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I so hope you are right, ‘Shoe – especially his own godforsaken seat.
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I hope Shoe is right, also.
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If..by some stroke of a long-knife, Dutton gets his sweaty hands on the reins of power, he’ll immediately enact a terrible thing on a vulnerable ethnic or religious group to shore up the LNP racist support base, validated by the MSMurdoch Media…and going by some of the citz’s I happen-chance to talk to down at the markets or wherever…I’m afraid they’ll get that support…just another repeat of history…
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I think Dutboy is too fascist for the truly conservative middle Australia.
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The parallels are uncanny.
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I like to imagine Putin and Trump, post presidencies, doing a world tour as a duo, stand-up comedy act…with Putin playing the “straight man” to Trump’s manic personality…Putin feeding pidgin-English possibilities that Trump always swerves around in answering…They’d fill Carnegie Hall three time over the first night!
“Und zo, Dohnald..Vat vould make A-merika great again?”
“A bit more starch in men’s underwear for a start…I’ll tell you that!”……
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If Dutton gets his wish, how long before Tony Rabbit sits in the front row? Ugh, what a nightmare scenario.
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Other than that they find kindness for humanity and compassion along the way however unexpectedly sparing us further angst, we can hope at best that if success is their they turn on each other like rabbits caught in a trap and tear each other to pieces, may it be bloody. This sort of governance is intolerable.
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