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 
No activity at The Drum since 4:40pm.
I think the moderator went for late night shopping.
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Hah! .. Movement at the drum .. The moderator is back from late night shopping!
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hph, saw you on Clementine’s blog, thought about writing something serious about PROPER rehabilitation, but decided against it, what’s the point of it, just wasting my time.
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This has been happening too often on a Thursday but I have also noticed ‘stop work’ happening on and off during any day.
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Well at least that’s better than today. Anything not nice to Uhlmann isn’t getting up and there is no activity elsewhere. Helvi’s had a soap box for most of the day.
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Exactly – mine on Uhlmann not up (after hours) although I was reasonable.
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I thought mine were OK too but not one is being put up I’ve put up about 6-8 comments.
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Vivienne, Algernon .. check this out .. Now there are 5 fresh articles with no comment!
This is crazy!
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And Helvi’s still got the soap box. It must almost be beer o’clock for the mods. Shall we soon see “Comments for this story are closed. No new comments can be added.”
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Alge, I’m so shitty about the Drum business I say anything to stir them up….what’s the point of it all when they only put posts up twice a day, there’s no conversation.
I agreed with Viv about Assange just to irritate the Libs by saying we have enough good politicians on Labor side…
Better me on the soapbox than that nasty John or Sea Mendes
🙂
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Seems it all came back to life very late Friday arvo – after I had turned off the computer to attend to dinner etc. See this morning that old Shebs had to agree with me.
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I did not even bother with Uhlmann, I don’t like him…they don’t make ABC reporters like Kerry OBrian anymore.. 🙂
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Gerard and Stuffed hogging the Drum’s front page – all arvo. Nothing happening. Are they trying to kill it off by pissing us off, totally.
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How boring Gez and Viv on soapbox all day 🙂
Seriously, I don’t know what they are doing over there….I’m getting fed-up, and hardly go there…
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Couple of observations. Dugong is getting really cranky with me – following his threads and mine on the same topic – tax. His arguments get more adament that he is right and I am wrong (along with everyone else) yet he still says the same thing each time and ignores my response’s content. Seems that contrary to years of indoctrination under Howard/Costello, low interest rates, low inflation are not good indicators. Now they are indicators of everything going down the gurgler. Also note that he (and others) are usually phrases or words which I introduced to the Drum – defending the indefensible being one example. I think I have a fan or some fans though. Imitation and all that. Apparently he must be the only person who has bugger all GST on his grocery bill. Maybe he does not buy toilet paper, shampoo, biscuits or anything of that nature. He conveniently forgets that bloody GST is a Liberal tax. All the woes of the tax system only come to light under a Labor government (funny that). Don’t get me started on actual rates of income tax – those discussions are off the planet but they won’t let facts gets in the way of a good rant. Bloody heck though – was going well and then comments stopped and I never did get the last word in, Dugong did !
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Must be doing a lot of cost cutting at the ABC. All the posts today and at the bottom this little message: “Editor’s note: this story will be opened for comment when our moderators return from leave.” What’s the point of putting the post up if you can’t comment!
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Hows this though the, mods are asleep on yesterdays blogs and comments are almost being posted immediately.
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Yes Algernon, those moderators used to do a little bit of work during holidays.
Not anymore. They must have reduced the number of staff!
I replied to Rumba on Tim Dunlop’s page just before 10am this morning (ABC time) and it showed up. After that, everything froze again.
Oh well, I better go to Bob E’s blog and piss off some right-wingers there. 🙂
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How weird is it, just opened them up again and almost instant postings, what’s more discussions like the early days.
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It is weird! I went there after I read your message.
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And they’re still accepting posts. Maybe all over the weekend.
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The moderators at the Drum are intentionally delaying the messages so that they will not appear at the correct-response-time. After a gap of three hours or so they start posting up most recently made comments and work their way down to the older comments & replies. This way the posters’ and the readers’ flow of attention will be redirected to other trivial recently made comments and replies, and by that time we will all be herded away from older messages which have relevance & substance that needs to be highlighted. It’s real cluster stuff-up, done intentionally to create confusion! It takes hours to read most of the comments and we don’t have that much time.
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I just replied to nasty John, who is always attacking me…I’m curious if my post gets up, his is every second one…John is just one of the many pseudos, this person uses.
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I noticed it Helvi.
My comments to multiple-pseudo-user are not getting through either.
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Exactly. I wish I could understand what their game is. Though I am still wondering if the author of the article is now charged with moderating and so not there all the time. Comes on to check it out every few hours and put some up. But, very confusing, as a reply to mine can come up quickly but my reply in response takes hours. Buggers up the thread completely or makes you look like a fool sometimes.
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Vivienne, The Drum is getting worse… Imagine ABC in the hands of Liberals if they win in September! I will not be surprised if they put Andrew Bolt in charge of moderation.
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Are you saying that The ALP, run The ABC?
Wow, that would explain this being lost:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/27/cold-weather-continue-month-forecasters?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Global warming of course. Well it might be. As is the hot weather in Australia.
But???….Is it carbon, or God?
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It is still in the hands of the Libs. They are doing the manager’s bidding. The language in the reporting on the net and on the ABC news on TV is very telling. Colourful descriptions instead of basic facts. Using Libs language time and again. Still no explanation as to why Reith gets a weekly gig to bash Labor.
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Persecuted, does the ALP run the ABC?
Answer is: Of course not!
But go back and check the Howard era of the ABC board of directors.
Is it big C or God? ..Well, what do you think? You’re an atheist, aren’t you?
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Wow! Cynthia Banham’s article shut the gates after 2 hours of exposure.
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…and Friday afternoon late they put new articles up , and close them after few hours, only to open them up Monday morning late, very confusing.
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Huh! They knocked off early today!
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Get home from work for a bit of wind down commenting and they’ve pulled the lot. They reckon they open one up again tomorrow. Phht!
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They do that with ANYTHING that’s really controversial, HPH… I very rarely visit the Dumb and even more rarely do I ever feel moved to comment these days…
It’s quite bizarre really… I mean, they keep on recycling the same useless types of article which stir up controversy about matters for which there is NO resolution (ie. right vs left, religion vs atheism, and everyone vs boat people… etc…) in order to claim their status as a ‘public opinion’ blog… but whenever it comes to anything REALLY controversial, they censor it and, if necessary just turn of the commentary ‘tap’…
The only reason such a blog exists in the first place is to encourage the illusion that we have ‘freedom of speech’ in this so-called de-MOCK-racy!
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Yes Astyages.
“Illusion of freedom of speech” & “de-MOCK-racy”
Well said.
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Has The Drum opinion died, it’s midday and nothing’s happening over there… 🙂
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Took a bit of finding this afternoon I noticed. Perhaps they’re answer to the new SMA and The Age
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Helvi, I answered your reply re the accent and Abetz etc. Abetz had referred to people who did not speak with an Australian accent. Think about that – amazing. Most people seem to have missed it. Half my posts get up and half dont on a good day. Some just never get up, nothing.
Yes, Drum seems to be sleeping in and having long lunches. It might be time they shut it down. The selective posting is enough to drive sane person nuts.
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You’ll be safe then.
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Sunset, you have to admit that all the intelligent posts are by Laborites; Viv, alge, Mark James, Tom1, Reinhard, julie jones, Daisy May….and plenty of others.
Liberals have alfie, andie, john, maj, custard….LOL
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“alfie, andie, john, maj, custard” there all parrots, not a great deal of intelligence there. Alfie struggles with more than a sentence.
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Viv, I saw it, very good. Yesterday was the strangest day, the posts written between one and two thirty were published after six. I don’t know what they are doing over there; no one is going to read old posts, the conversation is halted.
The other day I complained because I did not see my posts up (every second one by that awful ‘john’), after that all my posts came up, they even put up my complaint 🙂
It’s not enjoyable anymore, like it used to…
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Yes Helvi, I saw the samething; something strange is happening at The Drum. Sometimes I am wondering if there is a rift between moderators, because on some days I get a friendly moderator who puts all my posts up, and on other days I’ll be lucky to see half of them up there. Their working hours are also very strange. It must be something to do with their automated (computerized) operations that they have introduced last year. Did they cut down personnel numbers at the Drum? ..Maybe!
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hph, even today, Viv’s and my posts from about eleven a clock came up much later than say the ones written at one a clock …
I know for sure that one poster is having conversations at least with her/his three or four other pseudos…There has been some changes, by looks of it, it’s all very erratic…
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Timing is indeed crazy. My reply to Helvi came up hours later. I had assumed it was dumped. Others never make it as I said but the logic as to what gets up and doesn’t is just, well, absent. As I have said before, the writers of articles which go up late on a Friday only to be closed an hour or two later must be furious. They are the ones who should be complaining loud and clear to the ABC to sort this out. Reith goes up early in the week but it is he who should be banished to the late Friday gig. His weekly free anti-Labor rant is long past its use by date.
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It doesn’t seem to be worth running something like the Drum, where essays are published, and comments sought from the general public, if said comments take hours to filter through, or, sometimes, not at all.
I did suggest to some poor bugger, who works nine hours a day, plus, cooks, cleans, and does all of the gardening, whilst his wife only works six hours a day, and does nothing else, because it is her feminist ‘right’ should get a divorce…didn’t get published. Oh well.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286227/Amazons-human-robots-They-trek-15-miles-day-warehouse-dictated-computers-checking-work-Is-future-British-workplace.html
Wonder if the unions can help?
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That looks scary, Sunset, I almost agreed with you on the Drum, but realised they don’t like if you just say: Agree….you are supposed to add something… 🙂
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All four soapboxes have our Viv standing on them…at the same time, a Super Woman 🙂
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Yes, I saw it and thought, a quadrella for Stuffed Olive – amazing. I’ve been commenting on a few articles and being knocked back but suddenly someone likes me, lots. Then I was off to Rutherglen as planned. I think it might be a first notched up.
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Well done vivienne what an achievement. I don’t think I’ve seen four of the same too often.
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I was amazed to see ‘SO’ in print so often.
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Article at The Drum,
‘Berlusconi returns to Italy’s political showbiz’ by Emma Alberici
I commented this morning:
“Marcus Aurelius must be turning in his grave.”
It didn’t show up!
But Alfie’s comment is there:
“Italy clearly still runs on Bread and Circus.”
!!!!!!
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Getting a bit boring there, hph, too many Alfies…I’m trying to avoid them but there is always some ‘alf’ or another who will find you…and abuse you.
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Yes Helvi, the Drum is boring. There are no inspirational, feel good articles published at the Drum. It’s either war/politics or economy. We need humour, we need laughter ..something to cheer us up! Also, their lunch breaks are getting longer and longer. For some strange reason we are not given enough time to respond to the comments of the bullies. What is happening at ABC?
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Asty, I read your space adventure. It reminded me of John Carter, a fictional character, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Next time we go together. I’ll be Sancho Panza.
🙂
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Asty, while reading another article, I found out you were a sci-fi fan as well. 🙂 There are so many articles/topics in this pub that it will take me months to cover each one of them. 🙂
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Oh yes… I’m interested in virtually everything EXCEPT sport! And we have other writers here who cover that topic in their own ways… Yes, it’s become something of an ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ hasn’t it? I remember when it was just a tiny little corner pub… but a lotta work’s been done on the place since then!
I do hope you’ll take plenty of time to explore… Feel free to wander around at your leisure and read anything that takes your fancy; if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask… and please leave comments!
I’m sure you’ll get your bearings soon… Merv! Another pint of Trotters’ for my mate here!
Cheers!
🙂
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G’day HPH… Thank you… I was beginning to think that no-one other than Algae and Sandshoe had read it… or even noticed it! You may feel free to comment on the actual blog itself if you wish… I almost missed your comment here as I don’t visit the ‘Dump’ very often… The Dot used to be quite popular but I don’t hang out there as much as I used to.
Do you remember the name of the Burroughs book? I wouldn’t mind having a butchers at it… Of course, I’ve always been a fan of Cervantes too… largely because of my own somewhat quixotic personal philosophy. Now, if you’d like to come along on ‘Asty’s’ next foray “… from the inner reaches of the human mind to the [short fanfare] Outer Limits!” I’ll need to know a little bit more about you so I can ‘create’ you as a character in my little fictions… perhaps my ‘Man of la Mancha’ could use a sidekick!
Glad you enjoyed my story; have you read its sequel, ‘Far Kinnell’? (Or is that the one you’re talking about? I was thinking you’d read ‘Astyages Saves the World (AND Christmas!)’…
Anyway, I hope you liked both of ’em! (AND ‘liked’ them too!)
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Wow! This place is like an enormous Mexican cave.
What an echo!!!
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I noticed there are many posts here by names starting with the letter ‘H/h’….
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Yes Helvi, The first element H born out of primordial nucleo-synthesis in the early universe. Mother of all other elements starts with H.
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hph, Hungie and I would agree…Humour, Home,Harmony, Haloumi, Health, Horse,Heavenly, Hellebore…..but not Hate, Haste, Hunger,Hell, Hangover….
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Can I add my welcome to you hph, nice to see you here. A fellow traveller so to speak. Another pint of Trotters if you could Merv.
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Thank you. Thank you, Algernon1
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Hello Helvi, Hello Astyages,
Thanks for the welcome. I like reading your posts as well, Helvi. And Asty, I wish you would participate more often. We need more substance to stand up against those Conservatives and right wing nut jobs at The Drum.
🙂
(this is my 3rd attempt to reply)
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Thank you for that vote of confidence HPH… must say I luv your moniker; it reminds me of a really cool local band in Bedfordshire when I lived there, called the ‘Halfway Human Band’… (I’m SOOOOOO pissed off that the name’s already taken!)
I can’t be bothered responding to most of the posts there now HPH, as they seem to have fixated on topics which only ever go round in circles and stir up far more heat than light!
However, I HAVE recently written a couple of articles here, which, I might add, I’m rather proud of, which have received so little attention, I think hardly anyone has noticed ’em… which is a pity ’cause I WAS thinking of them as the start of a series… They are:
Astyages Saves the World (AND Christmas)
And:
Far Kinnell
I think only one or two of the piglets even read ’em!
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asty, I wondered about what the letters hph stood for, would have never guessed…
Isn’t it time you put up a story here, just because posters don’t say anything doesn’t mean they have not read the article…most times the conversations have nothing to do with the article 🙂
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Well… I dunno Helvi… I felt rather ignored… I’d have thought my last post, ‘Far Kinnell’ was an original enough idea to start some kind of debate… but it only got 2 comments that weren’t my own. I was beginning to wonder why I bothered…
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No, I’d never have guessed what HPH stood for either!
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Its always worth bothering asty, just as some won’t comment doesn’t mean that they aren’t been read and enjoyed. There are other sites that I go to but never comment on, doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying them.
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Hi Astyages,
Half Past Human is the title of a science-fiction book. Being an idealistic-romantic-dreamer in my teens I used the read a lot of science-fiction books, as well as French, English and Russian (European) classics. My passion for science, history and politics has started with writers such as Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Dostoyevsky and many others. By the way you and I share the same birth year. Now you know what I am talking about.:)
I will check out your articles later this week, but let me tell you that much, I am neither an author nor poet nor critic. I am still a student learning from my masters.
Your humble student weed-hoper 🙂
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Perhaps you might like to check out my own blog too… It’s title is ‘Astyages’s Weblog’ and it can be found at:
astyages.com
Again, please feel free to comment an anything you care to read; as some of my work is anthropological in nature, I would encourage you to ask questions and leave comments!
Whereabouts are you located, anyway, weed-hoper? (Well… it sounded like more of a name than ‘Half-Past’ anyway!)
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Sorry I didn’t see your other two replies earlier, HPH… I tend to wander in and out of the bar a lot…
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” the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun.”
Never has a truer word been spoken (ABC’s fracking Drum..!)
Hi everybody. I apologize for my entrance in this fashion for the first time.
Hi again. 🙂
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hph, I have enjoyed your posts on the Drum, I don’t know what’s happening there lately but whoever said that about prawn heads is spot on…I’m starting to feel sorry for the article writers…no worries, it’s a perfect entrance 🙂
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Ditto! Welcome to the pub! Merv says the first pint of Trotters’ is on the house! Cheers!
🙂
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Hello Helvi, Hello Astyages,
Thanks for the welcome. I like reading your posts as well, Helvi. And Asty, I wish you would participate more often. We need more substance at The Drum, to stand up against those Conservatives and right wing nut jobs.
🙂
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Hello Helvi, Hello Astyages,
Thanks for the welcome. I like reading your posts as well, Helvi. And Asty, I wish you would participate more often. We need more substance to stand up against those Conservatives and right wing nut jobs at The Drum.
🙂
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Hung, why don’t you save your best pieces for The Pigs Arms…the lesser ones for The Drum. I have noticed you have been busy there, I often see you grinning on soap box 🙂
So what about it: a funny story from Hung?
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Yes your Aitchedness. There is one coming, I am waiting for a photo from Warrigal. Sandy goes to Mars. Anyway have you seen my alter ego Karl?
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Hung, I noticed Carl yesterday and thought that he was pretty cool, but did not connect him to you…
I just came from the Drum and reading more Carl comments, I thought this got to be Hung…I’m a pretty good detective 🙂 Mum used to say that nothing escapes H; she is doing her homework, but at same time takes in everything and has conversations with her brothers, and feeds the dog 🙂
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Yes Karl is much more diplomatic than either Rupert or Hung. Interestingly Karl was able to put one over the moderators by using a Thesaurus. Instead, like Hung stating you are a wanker, Karl said Chris Berg was too busy to comment as he was “whisking the primate” (spanking the pony). Don’t you just love technology.
Now my Helvivaciousness, you normally know it is me when I am under a different name. Is all well?
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Karl was just a little bit more polite…at least for starters, plus I had not been following that blog, the second day I KNEW… 🙂
You have come a long way since Emmjay gave you spelling lessons some years ago,on some music blog, if I remember right….on the Unleashed.
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Yes Helvi. Some things in life just aren’t fair. I mean here I was cooking my lovely roast lamb dinner, plus Tutu’s sticky date pudding, for Emmjay and the Firstmate and in return I get spelling lessons, hmm.
Anyway, I am doing well at the moment. My GP has agreed to take me off all medication over the next six months. I have gained a lot of weight which is disappointing and I have come home from work this morning and decided that it is time to do something about it.
Tutu and I are going away for a week at the end of Feb to a seaside town to eat fish and drink chilled Chardonnay.
My eldest son in Melbourne is going from winner to winner at every step as a chef and even though my youngest still doesn’t talk to me he is working and has lots of girlfriends.
Both of my sisters, one in Wollongong and one in Melbourne, are doing really well.
Life is truly beautiful
Oh and for Gez, I got a dozen wines from the Winemarket by Angove called Nine Vines Shiraz 2011, silk and not too expensive.
Crikey, I haven’t talked this much in ages.
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Good to hear everything if fine,Hung…
Emmjay’s English lessons were long time ago, well before any of your lamb roasts 🙂
It was in the days when The Unleashed was still fun…I check who’s posting and if i see some of the nasties, i close the door and go a safer blog…
Have a good holiday and don’t have too much of the good thing.
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edit: is not if 🙂
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Look, just wanna confess about one of my handles
R. Ambrose Raven
Sorry guys, but what I do is research a topic and then get out the Thesaurus.
Sorry
Mark
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Yes all that Dogs and Baklava’s was me
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Yes sorry, all that detail was just fantasy
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Mike Jones said did I want to be Poor Know Star? Hey what was a young boy from Wollongong supposed to do? I mean it rescued my parents from extreme wealth. I dun know…
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I did NOT ! I was Store King Ha Van Orman.
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🙂 🙂
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Looks like the Drum has broken down. It hasn’t updated itself for over 4 hours. Luckily I have drinking and gambling to go on with(just joking). It’s all good 🙂
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It doesn’t know if it is on or off, Arthur or Martha. Bloody hopeless.
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Just to add – the Drum is infested with the greatest number of moronic posters ever. These Abbott supporters will say anything about anything, mindless garbage trotted out. Nothing relating to reality. Really giving me the shits. I tell myself to not go there and some I am leaving well alone. It is hard.
Anyway, if I do disappear for a while it will be because I’m on jury duty.
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Viv, that’s what i said to gez today: too many stupid Abbott lovers there. Actually not that many, just one or two writing under twenty aliases talking to themselves, and ABC allows that…
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gerard oosterman :
15 Jan 2013 8:56:14am
Is it just a rumor that the cows went off their milk when Tony Abbott visited a dairy at Bundaberg and tried to put the suction cap on a jersey’s other udder?
Reply Alert moderator
Big M :
15 Jan 2013 9:13:09am
No, that was all bull!
Classic Pigs Arms
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They didn’t like my comment “Pull the udder one” dunno why.
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Helvi, I don’t know if this will get thru but Throw Milk Overboard is about to tell you he was once Hung
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Well, I never thought it was you, Hung, but told Gez and we have been chuckling about it all day…you can be so funny. I gave it the Pseudonym of the day! I don’t do it too easily… this is only the second time.
Gez and BigM were good too. Classic Pigs Arms day…
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Hung ,your reply got up…WOW.
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Thank you your Aitchedness
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Helvi, we made the front page 12:46 25/1/13 CST, we is legends
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Bugger H, we has gone already 12:51 25/1/13 CST
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Yes, Hung, I noticed that; twice by myself, and once with you, we Hs got to work together… 🙂
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I made front page a few times lately too. We all done good.
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Yes, Viv, i saw you and alge and our old friend Waterloo Sunset on the Soapbox. I replied to one of nasties ,my post did not get up, but I was pleased yours did…:)
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Helvi, Am trying over at the Drum re The Miserable, can’t get through
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We have been meeting regularly on the Drum lately. Nice.
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The Banana chair sounds good
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Hello there jarrah, nice to see you.
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Algy, following you at The Drum, go you good thing
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And you too Hung. Did you notice the one we gave to Murk saying the same thing about 2 minutes apart. You look in fine form giving it to some of those right wing dopes.
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Reclining in a Banana chair sounds good
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Hung, I just saw your latest post from about a month again…
Why don’t you come back to Pigs, I have seen your posts on Drum, why not write here too 🙂
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Helvi, I miss you, now from me that can mean anything. I often reply to you, Gez, Algy and Stuffed Olive but rarely get through. Cheers Mark.
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Same here. Posts not getting up and stories closing so quickly. Situation is ridiculous on the Drum. I think some of the writers of the articles must be pretty pissed off. Hope they complain.
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I sometimes reply to you Mark, Viv and Alge, but they don’t get up either, they must know that we are all Piglets. Yet Voice’s attacks on Gez and me are published..go figure.
I get shitty and promise never to write there, lately it has not been very tempting…
I
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Just to sound like a cracked record I reply all you but the mods often don post them. What shits me is that toads like alf can write completely off topic comments, usually inane, and they’re are posted!
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Just got one through to Gez about sausages, miracle.
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And Big M, this is getting exciting
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And Viv, wow, all on one day
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Thanks Hung. I saw it. Good one. Ta again.
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To Gerard – I didn’t get a chance to reply re comment on voting and fines. The Oz way seems to be to fine everyone for not paying or being late etc. It is just the way things are, no exceptions. The bugger is if you have moved and don’t get the notice you are up the creek. So best to constantly update one’s address.
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Here’s one that will never get up
Shebs,
As a fan of acronyms I have finally figured out yours.
Shit Head Exudes Bull Shit
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That’s a lot of shit there, Hung. Caro cited some poetry in her earlier article, in which the F word was used.
I used it in my reply, but it did not get up…I was just testing… 🙂
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Exactly !
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HOO, you’ve been quiet, lately, how have you bin???
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Big M, no, he has been writing very good posts on the Drum, true Hung?
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Thanks H and Big M, working too much at the moment, have gone backwards a bit, end of the tunnel is end of November when I can go back to my old roster can’t wait, money has been good, mental health is suffering, starting to have bad behaviours again like telling the neighbours to fuck off because their dog barks for 4 hours in a row, didn’t win lotto, the home had a gastro outbreak, got it second last shift, Tutu is great, haven’t seen her in a while due to work but we are still getting on well, didn’t win lotto a second time, picked Alcopop in the Cup, Dunaden should win on Tuesday, Port Adelaide had another miserable year, I have to barrack for St George, how bad is that, have been eating a lot of Thai salad, raw veggies with Mango, dried prawns and fish sauce, unreal, got so new glasses so now I can read, Peter Slipper is a legend, Tony Abbott is still a wanker, working hard not to hate myself, getting a bit lonely when I have time, noted that the SA opposition leader is backed by Chris Pyne meaning I will never be able to vote for her, found a new doctor, she is an Indian girl and is great, had a blood test but failed to turn up, have reduced debt and saved money, typical life of Hung One On. How about you?
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Too polite there Hung, Shebs is a clot parrots rubbish from Indonesia.
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Like the thunder box there Emm.
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Can’t get into the box below so have to use the nearest reply.
Re the Drum – I guess it has always been so, but lately the people posting comments seem to be way off in gaga lala land. Writing stuff so irrelevant to the topic; replying to another comment and making no sense. And … to Meredith’s recount of the Ernie Awards showing no sense of humour or understanding or mysogny and thinking all it is about is discrimination. And, the one on raising kids etc – stupid replies to my mention of snakes ! My experience and knowledge of snake behaviour is of a very high level, including, unfortunatley, the matter of having to occasionally kill one of two of them. Well they were on the back verandah !
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Can it get any quieter here? Don’t think so !
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Hi Viv. Well, comment wide we’re quiet but we’ve had between 100 and 200 views ever day in the last week.
We do need some more articles, but I’ve been flat out trying to stay solvent and everyone else apparently also either reclining in a banana chair in blissful retirement – or fooling around over at the dump. I’ll whip around as usual – perhaps something might inspire you to write a piece – perhaps a new Spring recipe ?
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I pretty well used up all my good recipes and especially those of interest. I don’t really do cakes or desserts either. I gave it a lot of thought and could not come up with anything I was happy about. However, if I have one of those light bulb moments I’ll be in touch.
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