The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I’m miffed, they won’t publish my note from a driving instructor, on the blog about women story tellers.
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They did.
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On one of the ‘anti-anti-dole-bludger’ blogs over at the Drum I tried to post a comment that has not been posted; I’m also trying to say essentially the same thing on a couple of other blogs, hoping that a different moderator may allow it through:
“I see the Gillard government has learned its lesson well from Little Johnnie: When your government is a policy-free zone, you must whip your scapegoat for all it’s worth to distract the public from discovering that fact!” (or words to that effect!)
Atomou, you must be so disappointed with JG; I know how fond you were of that little red hen… but I think her and Swan are already planning labour camps and a ‘final solution’ to the ‘unemployment problem’… I’ve already been given my little ‘star of David’ in the form of a label (stuck on me by my ‘case manager’) as a ‘confrontational personality’, which is surely just bureaucratese for ‘stroppy bastard’… ’cause that’s how any bureaucrat from here on in will most certainly read it!
And all because I tried to lodge a sick certificate and complained about being kicked around from pillar to post by the system when they sent me to a ‘disability employment counsellor’ without any form of consultation with me or any kind of warning; just a letter saying the appointment had been made and that I’d be kicked off the dole if I didn’t go.
Of course, the result was that I was further kicked around from pillar to post (I think deliberately, as a punishment; the bureaucrats at Centrelink appeared to be enjoying themselves) and my sick certificate has been refused; whatever I or my doctor have to say about my stress levels after having been in constant pain for nearly the last two years, is apparently as irrelevant as the professional opinion of the (outsourced) ‘Job Capacity Assessor’ who interviewed me last week and decided I should indeed have another six months’ exemption from looking for work, but whose decision was apparently overturned by some Centrelink bureaucrat or other, who obviously knows better than anyone else, especially anyone who’s actually bothered to talk to me…
I have to go and see my case manager again tomorrow and find there’s nothing I can say to her which will not be read as ‘confrontational’… Once upon a time sticking up for yourself was called ‘assertive’ behaviour and was encouraged by psychologists; now it appears all they want is docile and unquestioning obedience… or else!
This ‘confrontational personality’ bit is not a diagnosis so much as a trope: like any label, once applied, all that is ever seen is the label; the person is forgotten.
If I actually needed further proof that we are living in a totalitarian state, now I have it!
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Gee T2, why don’t you tell us how you really feel? 🙂
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Was I too harsh, do you think, Hung?
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Me, never 🙂
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Asty, “disappointed” is a supreme underestimation so far as Julia is concerned!
But I am not surprised.
It’s the way politics run in this American backwater. “Yes, sir, no sir, three bags full sir, shall I turn this way for you sir? No, that way? Fine sir, anything you say, sir! I’m always ready for you, sir! Ready to service YOU, SIR!”
Yes, the Labor Party -for which I could give my right arm once upon a time, and for which I worked to the limits of my powers, has turned itself into a Labour Camp guardhouse. It’s sickening to say the least but, again, no surprises if one understands that “he with the stick wins” and, at the moment, the stick is held by foreign kleptocrats.
I will do no more than spit upon the word “Coalition”. If snakes had legs then they’d stepping upon the members of the coalition.
I’m chuffed that the Sydney Peace Institute has awarded Assange their Peace Prize. It’s a slap across Julia’s blubbering cheeks and a mighty message to her American redneck “americans-can-do-anything, sob, sob,” counterparts.
I’m not sure when Australia will grow up and stop fidgeting with the apron strings of some other country’s chef and I’m fast losing all hope that we ever will. Some glimmer in the Greens; at least judging by their rhetoric but we’ll soon see how they survive the test.
Sorry about the idiotic and vicious kicking by the pen pushing fascists, Asty but don’t let them take away your “confrontational” attitude. Let them squirm a little in their totalitarian-state supplied comfy chair, the shits!
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It is very painful to watch bright young people like Penny Wong being slowly chewed and spat out by that NSW right wing mangling machine. Same with the likes of Tania Plibersek and a couple of other women. Very painful, indeed.
Highly disappointed also with such men as Lindsay Tanner who I thought was motivated by more noble sentiments. The last Q&A showed him to be no different than the rest of his colleagues -separated by just a couple of non-material differences.
The three word slogans have become even more terse. Down to one word slogans now:”tough”. Everything is “tough”. Tough on immigrants, tough on crims, tough on…
Sounds bloody weak to me!
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The only ones who are really tough Ato, are those who are ‘doing it tough’ and they’re tough ’cause they have no bloody choice!
Thanks for the sympathy… it’s something at least to know that someone knows and understands how I feel.
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T, I think there’s a tribunal of some sort that you can complain to and have your grievances adjudicated by an independent panel. It might be part of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal System, I’m not sure. It could be worth pursuing.
In the meantime read some Kafka, or for laughs Catch 22.
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Just a quick note for the Piglets to advise that further comments from me on the ABC site will be under the name Miowarra.
My full online ID has always been “Miowarra Tomokatu” but I only used the family name on Unleashed. I didn’t like the instance of identity theft and I have registered the Miowarra pseud to prevent any recurrence.
Here’s hoping it works.
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Noted young (64) Tomo: now miow?
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Don’t you wish you were that age again HC?
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Don’t be redikolas, I’ll never get there. Too much S,D & Rest & Respite.
You’ve seen my pic. I look like a younger version of your likeness to a drunken Steve Miller.
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Always good to hear from you, Tomo…. ooops… May I call you Mi ?
Regards,
Emm
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Best of luck Tomo or is that Miow, I’m still battling with the moderator to stop an imposter Algernon from posting. Works for a while then the little turd comes back and I have to remind the moderator again.
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Well, I’ve just come from the Drum and it seems that now any articles which might appear to be the least bit critical of the USA’s assassination of OBL are all suddenly, ‘not available’… Surprise, surprise!
One of these days they’ll learn what the word ‘democracy’ really means… but I’m not gonna hold my breath.
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Asty, I found it also quite a sickeningly difficult experience, looking for articles which I knew were there -somewhere. Greg Barnes’ is one and I finally found it here:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/1207838.html
Since Greg Barnes is my hero, I also looked him at the DRUM here:
http://abc.com.au/news/video/2011/05/04/3207936.htm
In this video you’ll see also why I have great misgivings about the Chaser. Dom Knight shows how well he would fit in as a warden in Guantanamo.
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I had the same experience. I complained about it in the actual comments. I likened it to being lost in Hampton Court maze.
They printed my post, which included my Hampton analogy, but then made it impossible to find the article. Archives only showed three for the month, even though there were about 15.
A hopeless mess. I am absolutely convinced that Peter Garrett is in charge.
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More like a committee run by Scott Morrison, really, comprising, among other notaries of “No, ye can’t have it cause I don’t like it” Julie Bish, Chris Pyne and Joe Heckles.
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Leave Scott alone, you big Hellenic Bully, he’s only a shadow at the moment. He hasn’t even had the chance of becoming a wraith.
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I writhe at the thought that he becomes a wraith!
To wraith the unraithable thong! To wreath the unreathable head! To turn an alpha into an omega! To scar the unscarrable star! Oh, what a heavenly quest!
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So… Bin Laden is dead… and the drum is ‘temporarily offline’. One way to stifle debate I suppose.
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Atomou, here’s a response to your response to a certain Marjorie on one of the relgious blogs that didn’t get up for some reason: Marjorie was actually praising Joel Hodge’s article, in reply to which you said that Homer’s books were better…
I attempted to respond, “A book written by Homer Simpson would be better than this article…”
Anyone think that too harsh?
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Thanks, Asty!
Nah!
The gullible religious!
They deserve all they get.
I mean, “Thank you for this article. It was a pleasure to read because it had clarity, was accurate and well worded. It was WELL DONE.”
It was “well done?” (Uttered loudly even!)
What did Joel do, cook a steak?
And what was “accurate” about it, exactly? The whole thing was a sad waffle about the supposed rejection of some idiotic symbols and their supposed replacement by some other idiotic symbols!
What are meaningful symbols for some are meaningless grafitti for others.
Bwa hahahahahahaha!
Give me Homer, give me Maggie, give me Bart any day!
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A man after my own heart!
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Finally, we have a moderator who likes me. He’s* posted every one of my last five comments. Excepting my PS, in The Royal story. I just thought that people ought to know that ‘Ruby Murray’**, is cockney rhyming slang for curry. Me n Hads used to get blind on Trotters and Stolly, then head off for a Ruby at the local Bangladeshi Tandoori!
*or she.
** The author
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I got three posts up within a day, miracle
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Just over at Lehan’s piece giving the posters a bit of cold steel….
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I reckon they’ve outsourced the Unleashed part of the Drum. Watch where the traffic goes !
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Yes I’m speechless and you know for me that means mute 🙂
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OK Helvi, you can bring your fairy-bread, now that Hudson has bought the Walrus.
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Hadron, it was a rather lovely exchange between us old Unleashers, Horton, Hadron, H and Hudson, like the good old happy days 🙂
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I think these are ‘good old happy days’ too, Helvi! At least, here at the Pigs Arms anyhow… You know, we’re about to have our second birthday here at the Pigs this weekend (I had my own 56th last Saturday!)
I’ve spent many happy hours here over the past coupla years, and indeed, I don’t know what I’d have done without you all for company; I’d have a severe dose of ‘cabin fever’, at the very least, I reckon! Will try to get another epsiode of HH written by the weekend to celebrate!
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That Sea Mendez is beginning to get on my tits!
He writes sickening bullshit, I respond but my responses to him are never published! Highly irritating of UL!
He rallied his bile again against my post in Horton’s piece and I’ve responded with the following -which, I suspect, wil not see the light of day, or it will see it, well after the blog has been relegated to the dustbin of archival matter!
Woa, there SM!
You’re tripping over your eagerness to deride, to denigrate, to disparage!
David Horton has asked us to make a list of moments during which we would like be present. MOMENTS!
Moments, which, in fact, would be antithetical in value and effect to that of a crucifixion or, I’d suppose, a guillotining, or a hanging -say of Ned Kelly.
I’ve mentioned three or four such moments. Moments which I suggest added greatly to the value of human morality. Gave us some understanding of human nature and a lesson or two of how we should behave.
Again, these are moments.
You decided to use your dull scalpel to carve from the body of human history certain pieces and wave them about as proof that the whole body is sick. They are well and truly out of context and they are truly out of the scope of David sublime piece. They are out of the spirit of this blog.
Solon had something to do with the Delian League? News to me!
The Delian League was a bad thing? News to me!
Slavery was unique to Athens? News to me! And, so far as slavery is concerned, it might not be a grand thing but this was Athens, not Sparta or any other spot on the planet. And if you must mention slavery, then do remind yourself that Solon had made illegal usury; made illegal the use of person as collateral, brought back from abroad all those Athenians who were sold as slaves… drew new borders of demes so that no single man can corrupt the voting process, adjusted the caste system to make it fairer in terms of tax revenue… made sure laws were written and published in public areas…
But we’re not talking history, SM. Not on this piece, anyhow.
Permit me to have my moments, please. Moments, not rants about historical fragments.
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Nothing worse than repenting on the day of atonement!
Bugger it, UL proved me wrong and they’ve gone and published my above response! So unreliable the buggering buggers!
I reckon they secretly read us and have a dig!
Anyhoo, thanks, UL!
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Horton left out Shane Warne’s hatrick at the MCG
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And when Jennifer Hawkins got her skirt caught in her knickers, oh does history ever repeat….
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All my posts have gone up since things strangely improved on the old Unleashed – even had people working the weekend and on the hols – gobsmackingly amazing. Just one didn’t get up – a one liner ending in BS. Ato – you should always have a whinge about a clever post probably not getting up because it seems to ensure that it in fact does (get up).
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…’dull scalpel’. Love it.
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Well this must be some sort of a record. Posted a reply to Ravensclaw on Martin Farnsworths blog last friday at 11Pm, it was posted up this evening at 7:00pm. 68 hours can anyone better that?
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A record for sure. I will note in down in the Pigs Arms Book of Records 🙂
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Next to the biggest break on the pool table and the darts championship records.
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Old Unleashed, now Drum Opinion, is constipated again.
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The moderators’ time goes into arranging the all too many articles; they are up, then down, on the side, on the hot topics…some disappear before you have time to read them…some you find on Drum home side…in the archives…
These days I only read some of them.
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Do you remember when there were only three a day – which gave the editors time to edit and the moderators time to moderate and the readers time to engage in fun and meaningful dialogue rather than haranguing each other and being just plain abusive ?
I went from all pieces and many comments to few pieces and few comments and now I’m just tinkering with not going to the ABC for anything other than iView and the weather. Maybe they’ll get over Jonathan Green. I certainly hope so.
When I checked out other ABC initiatives – like the Pool (ridiculously bureaucratic admin overlaying amateur stuff – directionless more so than eclectic, I was disappointed. Perhaps the stories that they’re doing with regional / other contributors might have some promise. There was one about a Telstra chap from Grafton who was retrenched. It was well done, kind, succinct – and I appreciated it – and it’s run into a mini series of photos and text.
Could well be that that’s the future of ABC blogging – in which case maybe I will come back.
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I think there are at times ten or even more new articles a day, plus Annabell’s nursery rhymes and Uhlmann badmouthing Julia, or some Queenslander called Madonna about nothing.
The stories disappear quickly, and only Bob Ellis keeps writing and adding to his own stories somewhere in the abc cellars. Kellie Tranter did not even manage thirty replies and she used to be pretty popular.
Many of the commenters I like seemt to have gone too…
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I used to enjoy Kellie Tranter’s pieces too. I think I commented on the last one but the piece disappeared before I could see whether the comment got up or whether there was any replies.
I agree too that when the author does not get into the conversation, it’s a bit rude and something of a turn off. One needs to not overdo it (commenting on one’s own piece) – but engagement at even a minor level is essential.
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Top points for persistence, Viv. Until you start to agree that the horse is dead.
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The optimist in me won’t let go. Yes, I am persistent (in the best possible way) in all I do. Do you know what SPIN stands for?
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No, what does “SPIN” stand for (apologies to Voice prepositionally).
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I Think Peter Garrett, is in charge now.
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Superannuation Product Identification Number. I know this as a result of my thorough search for these numbers needed to fill out forms to transfer funds to one fund. Through no fault of her own my daughter had four different funds in urgent need of consolidation.
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Oh the silent beat of the muted drum.
The moderation seems even more bizarrely, haphazard, than before. Perfectly reasonable comments don’t appear and boss-eyed one’s do.
If they are trying to instil some discipline, by ruling out off-topic, or over-jocular reposts, then we will send for………..SUPperrpoosterr.
He’ll sort em!
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Unleashed has become “Feel the power of the Moderator!”
Oh, well! Murdoch the Moloch has gulped the last little crumbs of democracy. It was always in the cards, anyhow.
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Here’s a post which actually was posted on UL… but they chopped of my final remark, so here it is, with the final remark added:
Cynicure :
07 Apr 2011 11:30:13am
So… being a victim means that one is freed from the ‘luxury’ of moral responsibility? The imiplication of this is that anything and everything a victim does by way of revenge is justified… and so it is under the oldest of all laws, the Law of Revenge (“Aesthetics of Violence: Part II by DL Rowlands)
But if we are to cling to this most ancient of paradigms, we lock our society on a course of self-destruction from within, as was realised by writers as long ago as Euripides, in whose play “Iphigenia in Aulis” the sacrifice of Agamemnon’s daughter is used to portray the futility of sacrificing another whole generation of Athenian youth to perpetuate the ’empire’ she turned the League of Delos into… As it turned out this was to be the final round of the Pelopponesian wars, which would end Athenian hegemony in the region forever: Let Israel take note!
And let Isreal also take note that by this argument; by saying that victimhood justifies the victims abrogation of any and all moral responsibility, you justify EVERY single act of violence perpetrated AGAINST you by the Palestinians. By saying this, you also justify the desperate actions of the poor, whose economic victimhood justifies their theft, or even violence should they decide that such is necessary.
Is this now ‘god’s own people’ telling the world that it has no moral responsibility and that it regards such moral responsibility as a luxury?
Well now… even though I personally don’t believe in him/her/it, I can’t help but wonder what would good old Jehovah have to say about this.
Unless we’re extremely careful, we tend to become what we hate… Israel has become a Nazi state.
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I can see why your last sentence got pinged, T2. You have transgressed the unwritten law of blog – no references to H*tler or N*zis. I know, I know, harsh law, b ut necessary to get anywhere as far as spam filters go – and also sure to rouse the nutters.
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Yet sometimes, as in this instance, Boss, the reference is perfectly appropriate and justified. Thank you for not editing it the way the Drum did… (which would REALLY have made me look a bit silly!)
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Asty, my post on Wilson’s blog was cut short too, I dared to say that pink looks better on darker skinned ladies than us pale-skinned…or something silly like that…
Do the mods see it as racist for crying out loud. Other people have been complaining about their posts having been chopped or censored.
No more Unleashed, it’s heavily censored Drum Opinion by looks of it…
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Helvi, if they start censoring you, we are in trouble.
They wouldn’t bar you from ‘Pleasantville’! Not at the beginning anyway.
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I agree Helvi… and I agree with Vectis Lad too. That they are censoring you of all people just goes to show how ridiculous it’s getting over there at the Drum.
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Yes, asty, I must not say that the white is the new black at The Drum, I will be seen as ‘racialist’, even if I’m only talking about Fashions … plain silly.
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Thanks, Vectis Lad, you are much too kind!
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The Unleashed has become leashed. There can’t be any doubt about it. I am not sure what they want to achieve. The ‘zing’ has gone out of it and repetition of same issues is mind boggling. I suspect they want to emulate Crikey and are now hovering between 2 GB and SBS.
I get the feeling they are running around madly flaying and flapping with their arms hoping something will emerge. Alas, it just creates confusion and hot air.
Perhaps complaints have forced them to take a more censorious approach and confused moderators are snipping and cutting wildly ad hocus pocus mandamus.
Who knows?
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Unleashed is no longer. Rebranded Drum Opinion. I think it is now well and truly stuffed.
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Who would have ever thought that a right wind cabal of fascist c words would disenfranchise the hoi polloi and make space for vacuous ABC appartchiks ? Pretty soon only posts by staffers. Boom time for alternative blogs 🙂
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A sad day indeed. The new thing seems to be a feed into ABC 24. Thought the excuse was nothing more than spin as well.
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Our mate Algy – gotta be a time for us to advertise over there for disaffected Unleashed civilised discussion fans. And … is that rumour that you have a story imminent true ?
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It may be Emm, it may be. A few days off before Easter could produce something.
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Interesting development. I finally put a comment on Donnelly’s latest rant (this morning) and just checked it out to find Donnelly’s piece archived. My comment is the last one to appear. Did I make him fade away? Should I have done it sooner? Is this a new found ‘power’?
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I went back for a squiz, Viv and could not find the article to which I had offered a comment. When it takes more time to moderate a comment than the time allocated for an article before it’s archived, I’d say the system was pretty much past its “make sense by ~” date.
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Congrats to Lehan on getting a gig over at the ABC…
Now here’s one that didn’t get up in response to Gigaprick:
Response to Gigaboomer 25:03:11:
“I never said or implied that an atheist can’t have good morals, my point is they have no reason to.”(Guess who!)
Why don’t you let atheists at least think for themselves, Gigaboomer, since you’re evidently not very good at thinking even for yourself, let alone attempting to do atheists’ thinking for us?
Since you’re not an atheist you cannot possibly know what, how, or (evidently) even why atheists think; and putting words into peoples’ mouths about what you ASSUME they think is not a valid argument or method… it just makes you look stupid.
Furthermore, you prattle on about ’empathy’ for others and the supposed divine command to show empathy for all others, yet you yourself are quite obviously totally incapable of expressing any empathy whatsoever for anyone who disagrees with your ‘faith-based’ and hence partisan views.
So please, do us atheists one simple favor: please stop trying to think for us! You really don’t know how!
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You go hard, T2 ! Go really hard !
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I’ll try a similar tactic again if he tries that old trick again… some moderators seem to be more permissive than others; sometimes I think it just depends who’s on duty on the day whether or not some posts get up…
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Cool Lehan; was wondering if you might pop up over there. 🙂
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I think I’ve been verballed by Vectis Lad (March 28, 2011 at 9:53 pm )
I certainly don’t recall posting anything like what he? claims I have done.
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Whoa – is this a hint at Vexatious Lad ?
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Hi Tomo, it was just a bit of harmless fun. I borrowed your style of addressing the targeted poster──in this case you── to query another poster’s comment. about the tax demonstrators/protesters’s characters.
I since had a ding-dong with Aunty Social, about the same subject. We wore each other down; but I think that it was 40-15 to me.
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In response to some nasty goose on Kellie Tranter’s piece (I ran and failed to win Maitland),
Emmjay wrote:
I love “one answer” responses.
Annhilation of NSW Labor – hadda be carbon tax, right ! Not right !
I’m a traditional Labor voter and former party member. I voted against a sitting cabinet minister – not because of anything personal about her. I just thought the party I once knew and supported enthusiastically has turned into sh*t.
I feel a sense of resignation that no matter how bad O’Farrell’s team are, they would have to plumb unfathomable depths to be worse than NSW Labor.
But a miracle might happen. What if even a few of those new faces in parliament turn out to be half decent ? NSW will be in front.
Fingers crossed.
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Unleashed must be run by the ALP. It’s completely short circuited, with articles raining down; no moderating; no publishing; posts appearing for 20 minutes; posts disappearing for 20 minutes; long useless diatribes appearing and sensible replies to a thread being censored.
Next it will be offering bribes to Independent bloggers.
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………………….And 24 hour gaps, with a veritable pot-pourri of haphazard comments, obviously picked out at random, with dozens in between thrown in the bin, just like yesterdays back-flips.
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hadron vectis, abc’s top man is a howard appointee, mark scott, hardly labor.
they spent the money on the silly 24 use coverage, there’s no money to pay for the moderators in the week-end. it all smacks of liberal style of doing things. 🙂
after sixteen years it was time for labor to go.
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hadron, i just tried to reply to someone on donnelly’s blog, you can’t; there’s no reply section, only alert the moderator, duh…
i noticed bob ellis’ new blog on sunday, i sent a post, i noticed it had been published an half hour ago when the story was already moved to archives…
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I’ve just replied to you on “A plucky Women”. Apologies Helvi.
I was getting apoplectic!!
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Mark Scott was there when ABC was OK, and John Howard was there, yes……………………….. But John Howard is not there now and Unleashed is ‘not’ as good!!
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Where’s the line for independent bloggers, again, Hads ?
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Ring Blob Bellies. He knows everything.
Actually he doesn’t just know everything. He knows that he knows everything!
I suppose that sounds a bit Rumsfieldish?
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Hey Emmjay, I tried out my neeew loong dash on UL and it worked..Yippee. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Tomokatu suggested:
The nature of the protesters was known to him.
Tomokatu then announced:
The content and how it was inextricably linked to the protesters was also known to be accurate; as another poster had posited that──the demonstrators were comprised of tiny minded little people with a lack of mental agility. The other poster, Rodders, also decreed──that they were unintelligent and simple.
Well of course if he knew them all personally, that could possibly be correct.
It seems highly unlikely to this poster. Unless either of them can come up with some evidence.
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Oops I think I’ll go to bed.
That did have my luverly, ever so long dash in it, but as yet it hasn’t been posted.
But one with a long dash has…to DJ SCHWAN a know it all.
They’ll all be after hadron’s long dash now..You watch.
Must dash hee hee.
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If the ALP did run the ABC you would not have all that total crap there by Donnelly, Milne, Berg etc. I think Helvi is correct in her assessment.
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It would be like the just discovered BILLIONS of dollars black hole they left in NSW.
The should be pilloried and hung from Tyburn!
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Drinks on Baggely, if this gets up, on Gillards novel.
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One way to escape our “species suicide” would be to hitch a ride with your avowed beloved regime’s spaceship.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/17/3166962.htm?section=justin
According to Armoured dinner-jacket, “It’s designed to carry a living creature”!
I mean that in the best possible taste, as Kenny Everett would say.
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Struth. Did someone borrow my Ermine Dinner Jacket ? The Czech !
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Sorry! A bit obtuse? Your post and mine.
Mine was a note to Mulga; to hitch a ride with the Iranian rocket.
Apparently they are sending a monkey up.
I was trying to write in a Lancastrian accent. Hence Cheeky Monkey…..With a Lancashire lilt!
Anyway Baggely has promised to put a 1971, 50 pound note on the bar, if it gets up.
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Helvi, did you solve the anagram…
They’ve printed my post after the fourth attempt. suppose they thought that I wouldn’t go away.
Here it is . And to save you looking it up I’ll copy and paste the two posts. Probably not worth doing, as you have obviously forgotten.
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Brian62 :
11 Mar 2011 12:02:31pm
Hadron Collider Esq,your moniker and attitude describes your affinity with the erstwhile Murdoch,Hadron Collider/Murdoch: (the worlds largest and highest energy Particle accelerator)the word Hadron refers to particles composed of Quarks,Quark, Quark stringing along with the Merdeokka is symptomatic of penis envy.LOL
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Hadron Collider :
15 Mar 2011 9:40:43pm
Both of our pseudonyms are anagrams; mine in keeping with your inference and yours with an IQ notated beside it;)
Best regards and keep up the good work.
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VL, after reading it here I saw it on UL, also the one addressed to me…
I wrote about four posts on Jennifer Wilson’s blog, none were published, all most polite, defending her against unfair accusations…
Finally I told the moderators that they are doing a good job chasing people away from UL…funny, thy did not publish that one either 🙂
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And the anagrams??
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;););););)
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Can’t remember, the anagrams, i mean…can’t even remember where i have written..
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Never mind.
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Apatho Liar said over at the Catherine Deveny piece of crap today …
Thank you for an insightful, balanced and extremely amusing article, Catherine. But for contributions like yours, I for one would be completely in the dark about vital issues like ummm….. err …. whatever the advertisement for your coming comedy show was about over here.
Good luck with the re-run of your comedy show. I’m sure you’ll be very good. But don’t get complacent. Keep your day job.
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Emmjay, I have not seen your post there yet 😉
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Hi Helvi
It got published – right down the bottom – unless they removed it !
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I can’t stomach her. I think she’s cloth eared.
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Well Brian, Hadron is an anagram, so I’ll confer some points to you. However so is brian –and its complimentary IQ nomenclature 🙂
This did nit get up.
I didn’t expect it to, as it was a response to Brian62 about the penis rnvy pseud of Hadron’s……But now that
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Oops! I cut it short .
Now it’s stored at leashed I’ll just keep coming here–copying it–and going back to UL–to paste it. …Till they ring me up and say piss off!
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Just popped into copy. Off to UL to paste,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,…………….C Ya Whooooooosshh……
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Aldi, are you of German background? You write:’This nit get up.’ That ‘nit’ is not far from the German ‘nicht’. That’s all , Hadron, this amost makes me into a ‘nit’-picker, does it not Hadron?
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” This did nit get up.”
Should have been This didn’t get up.
”’More importantly!..Did you solve the two anagrams Helvi?
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