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 
Oh no, not Norway again. This from the ABC news.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-09/all-norwegians-become-millionaire-shareholders-in-world27s-big/5191480
See what happens if a country keeps control of its resources and make the wealthy pay a reasonable tax.
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“A preliminary counter on the website of the central bank, which manages the fund, rose to 5.11 trillion crowns ($931.87 billion), fractionally more than a million times Norway’s most recent official population estimate of 5,096,300 ..”
$932 billion for 5 million people !!!
Well done, Norway.
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I noticed it Gerard. Darn country keeps proving a point some of like to make and which is poopooed by Liberals. If that’s ‘socialism’ in action well its bloody fantastic.
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Yes, but;….Abbott goes for ‘stop the boats’, ‘stop the carbon tax’ and ‘stop mining tax’
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This is from K Donnelly’s blog
carbon-based lifeform says:
“I read the bible when I was 11. After reading the Bible, I was prepared to read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. ..”
….
This is priceless!
🙂
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Yes, and apart from a German copy there was also an English kindergarten copy.
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Of course the comment is nothing but BS. I actually read it when I was 10 and was bored with the bulk of it. But I wanted to know what was so important about it and to at least understand what I had come to think of as mainly nonsense. I then read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which I didn’t enjoy much either.
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I think the mods knocked off at 11 am or thereabouts. Closed a couple of short lived articles and two news ones going no where. Why effing bother.
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Viv!! They just went for a nanna nap 🙂
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HOO, saw a good one of yours somewhere there…the moderators are not just napping, they have gone to sleep …for hours…
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viv, it’s very often effing boring…
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I’m off for a long weekend in Melbourne with daughters (my birthday present) – lots of eating and shopping. Korean BBQ watch out !
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Enjoy!
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-09/collapsed-180kg-man-winched-from-sydney-balcony/5192546
How terrible a news story. Something similar happened in the US, when an external wall had to be taken out before a large man could be taken to hospital.
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Sounds like he didn’t fit through the door in the first place. Ghastly stuff.
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What a clever pooch!
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Bugger, I thought it would work!
Is it not possible for you technos out there to put in a function to add photos on this blog?
Bleh!
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This is the facebook page for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC):
Hope it works.
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It’s good Ato – the cartoon and the words. Morrison has lost his marbles.
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Atomou, that picture is in your computer. If you give me your IP address I will get into your computer to have a look at it. 🙂
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This from the Lib press release of 19 December 2013:
“We have consistently said since the election that we will not fund urban rail projects as this is a State Government responsibility.
Mr O’Byrne and the Tasmanian Government are responsible for Tasmania’s basket case economy and are now creating more uncertainty for political gain.”
I make two points – Tasmania only has freight on rail – there are no passengers therefore no urban rail so why make this backhanded disgusting head kick to Tasmania. Second point, I didn’t realise that this was normal wording for responsible governments to make – calling Tasmania a basket case. The rest of the media release is about $800M committed in their infrastructure program for Tasmania but then goes on to say they will continue with existing projects. It all makes no sense as they have not brought down a budget. Seems to be Labor’s program but they are making it sound like it is theirs. Confusing. Well not really I guess because we are dealing with idiots – so many ministerial statements kicking Labor. Grown ups? Where?
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Cop this and eat your hearts out. 😉
http://oosterman.wordpress.com/2013/annual-report/
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Impressive.
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Two from Iceland I see but none from New Zealand. 🙂
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Artichokes?
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I know what syntax is.
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So do I, Vivienne .. but only in computer science for programming 🙂
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Isn’t it a tax on naughty business? 🙂
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🙂 sin tax
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I sometimes use it in my pancake-mix. It prevents the dough from sticking.
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🙂
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Helvi, Gerard, I apologise for my bad English, syntax and grammar. I wasn’t born here. I went to school here but there are other things about me which I don’t want to disclose.
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hph; I don’t worry about those things either. Syntax? What’s that? Can you get it from the chemist without a prescription? Does it cure verbosity? 😉 (wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea.)
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Thanks, Gerard 🙂
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Lehan Ramsay has let her rip, over at the Bum!!
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I like the way Lehan operates.
Here is one on the great white shark blog”
Lehan Ramsay:
03 Jan 2014 3:00:15pm
I think that if we don’t bait them they’ll swim away on their own. But the surfers, that’s a problem, they probably think that they’re just fish. It’s kind of sad, really, that we punish them for eating surfers.
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I’ve yet to understand this debilitating anger and angst about people and pseudos. What’s the bloody worry? I don’t use them because I simply don’t take blogs that bloody seriously and I couldn’t give a stuff what others think about my thoughts.
Surely, it’s not the name -pseud or otherwise- they use that matters but what it is they say. Either you want to respond to that or you don’t. There’s never any need to, particularly since you’re at the mercy of moderators who could chop off the conversation at any time, or simply don’t publish your every rage. Calling up your mates at the ABC to get shit you want done is a worthless task that has a particularly malodorous whiff about it.
Who gives a flying frisson?
Frisson too much for you? Put a jumper on.
Bullying?
Who gives a flying merde?
Merde, il pleut?
Get an umbrella, or step out of the rain!
Very puzzling this!
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I suppose one writes because one cares, one feels sorry for the traumatized asylum seekers in hot tents, without soap, poor kids in Nauru without toys. I just read about Sarah Hanson Young writing about taking toys for them. She cares, and she writes about it. And writing about bullying is important, because it’s bad, so bad that it sometimes drives young people to suicide.
Sometimes we just want to share something about our own lives, but only if you feel you are amongst friends, you feel safe to write about your Christmas dinners, your garden, your favourite books, movies….
This is why I blog. Why do you, Atomou, write here, or anywhere else?
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You’re conflating two unrelated issues.
Bullying on general public blogs, particularly one such as the DRUM, is totally different to bullying directly, either by mail, or phone, or face-to-face. Responding to a bully on a blog is totally different to writing about bullies. Totally unrelated issues.
A statement appears on the DRUM. You either agree or disagree, fully or partially. You say so. A response might or might not appear. You again, agree or disagree, fully or partially and you say so. Your response might or might not appear. Them’s the rules. End of story. Personal emotions directed at the authors are neither solicited nor necessarily accepted. Again, end of story.
In a closed-circuit blog, say, like FB where there is some control (but not entirely so) of who sees your stuff and who doesn’t, obvious bullying directed at participants might be remarked upon but, I’d say, there, too, it shouldn’t engage one’s whole being to the point of destruction.
What do I write for?
I would have thought that this was an unnecessary question for those who have read my stuff. Simply put, I ask questions, I answer questions, I remark upon things that (to my mind) are important and then go on with my life.
I go on with my life, as I would think, everyone else who does have a life, gets on with it!
I’ll have a conversation until that conversation becomes something else. Then I don’t have a conversation. I step out of whatever it has become.
All this angst about pseuds on blogs and all the whining about people behaving like bullies on these forums, really puzzles me.
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The thing is, Atomou, it’s not so much the bullying or being subjected to personal insults that gets me angry, but, it is the psychopathic attacks on defenceless people, the refugees who are trying to come to Australia by boats. When I read a comment at the Drum such as this one: “ they take the risk, and if they sabotage the boat then let them be fish food…” it makes me soooo angry that I swear non-stop for a few minutes at the Moderator for allowing it to pass thru.
I try to reply to the same psychopath to tell him that he is a “psychopath” but my message does not get thru.
Then I swear more….
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hph,many of those asylum seeker blogs are so full of hate that I promised myself not to go there…
Then I read some by the usual suspects, and I have to say something…lo and below it turns into a personal attack…I’m surprised too that some of the very vitriolic posts get up…
At times they have been written by ‘Helvi’, by me…I have been forced in the past to complain ,and the false Helvi posts disappears.
I can’t understand any of this, I’m sad, I’m angry….but I battle on….
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Some seem to be driven by hate and a campaign to destroy the other, even suicide would be taken as a feather in the cap. If successful, recriminations would just be like water of a duck’s back. hph is right, the true sociopath/psychopath.
Normal debate is useless with them. They are emotionally comatose.
PS notice the flaming remark on the latest p/a offering on Gay Brisbane.
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Yes, Helvi, I saw those “false” posts in the past but don’t be disheartened my dear lady. Don’t be sad don’t be angry, because we at the Drum, all know your true humanity. Those psychopaths-low-life-lying-manipulators without a shred of human decency are envious of you because they know deep down that they are incapable of regaining their once-lost-humanity. It is the same as losing a limb in an accident. It can never come back. They are doomed and condemned to burn forever in their own eternal hell fire as long as they live. The more they burn, the more they scream and attack. And when they laugh at us, it is not a real laughter. It is just a ‘mask’ to hide their pain. They even use it when they look at their own soulless reflection in the mirror. And every time when they see it, the more the pain multiplies. They are beyond redemption.
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Thanks for that ,hph, on some days one needs a bit of encouragement to soldier on, and today has been one of those.
On my Milo walk I met a lovely Irish woman who looking at the possibility of moving here from Sydney…after only an half hour chat with her ,I felt I knew her…
Please, do move here, Thereza, was my goodbye to her… 🙂
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What can I say, Gerard? …The man imagines that none of us is at the same intellectual level as he is, as he has once told us in the past.
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TO: hph of the 3:10 pm post.
Once more, hph, that’s not what I’m talking about!
You are free to argue with people about issues. Any issue that you see as important; and if your collocutors are being psychopathic, you are free to say so and then to move on.
Disagreement is part of the rules and so, it’s OK.
Don’t get too distressed though if your righteous indignation does not get published. Thems the rules: Some things don’t get published.
Don’t swear. Not part of the rules.
Your opponents might well be emotionally comatose or, it could well be that they have some have some point, some view with which neither of us agree.
They are allowed to have whatever view they want. Thems the rules.
But that’s not what I’m talking about!
REPEAT: That’s not what I’m talking about!
That’s not what I have opened this conversation with. To avoid repetition, please read over my initial post.
TO: hph of the 5:05 pm post.
Who is this man who imagines that none of you is at the same intellectual level as he is and when exactly did he say that?
hph, you’d be better off reflecting on your thoughts BEFORE you post them and thus correcting them in time, rather than resorting to personal abuse and insulting sarcasm as do a couple of others here; then I’d not be so tempted to make such a hubristic statement.
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It wasn’t about you, Atomou. Follow the thread…
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It was aimed at me atomou, because I put some pointed polemic into gerard’s insipid link to an (old hat) ABC story that we had all seen.
There wasn’t any discussion or reasoning in it – as usual. Sop I gave someone a chance to defend why we should keep an American Citizen here, just because, as he says, “we are sleeping together’.
What about the hundreds of Irish girls that fall for bush rangers, or male anaesthetists that want to stay, because they love aboriginal nurses.
There are rules.
My wife’s parents were refused residency…Because the had a daughter in Canada.
Why should an American be admitted because he’s gay?
It’s plainly nonsense, and has been going on long before the Liberal Party swept into leadership.
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Just trying to inject some stamina instead of:
Helvi: Oooh hph, did you read what that naughty anonymous poster wrote in The Drum?
hph: Yes Helvi it was despicable and you’re so luverly.
Hevli: thanks hph, but you are much nicer than me. I’m sure of that.
hph: Oh no Helvi, you are wonderful and I just pale beside you.
Helvi: Well Gerard, loves you, we think that you are just so clever. And of course everyone else in The Drum is stupid.
Thanks hph, you’re not like them your just so clever.
Not only that, do you remember how gerry, wrote that he can pick out syntax (I dunno wot it is, but he does) and phrases, n’ the like?
Well he can tell you that SM is Vor, you know. he got knighted by The Queen for his observations. he can’t write English properly, but…Oh Boy, you put some syntax and cadence on the table, and he’s like a seagull on a chip.
He’s even noticed that people make spelling mistakes on purposes. The Queen commended him for that.
It’s never ending rubbish.
Ground Hog day, over, and over, and over, and over.
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Oh, shit, Cazo, I shouldn’t laugh but how can one not burst his belly with “Oh Boy, you put some syntax and cadence on the table, and he’s like a seagull on a chip?”
Thanks, old son, thanks muchly!
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Yawn!
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hph, I apologise if I’m not that man, but you HAVE posted this under my original post, no?
Nevermind!
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Regarding most of the stuff which follows below – it seems to me that some people don’t practice what they preach. Remember also that the Dump is for having a yack about things which piss us off on the Drum. I do think that anyone who uses another’s well known and clearly very origianl pseud is a low life and they are always from the moronic right.
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Well, the thread is in fact above ! original (of course). I’ve slightly injured my hand.
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Bev:
01 Jan 2014 2:38:50pm
Yet the left is the enemy of the family. There is strong stream of argument from the left and feminism that the family is out-dated. I would suggest the object is power and control. Break down the family and substitute welfare and the most effective unit of resistance to government control is destroyed particularly if males and fathers are removed.
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Helvi:
01 Jan 2014 5:11:55pm
“Fathers and males”, are not removed, they leave on their own accord…they love their kids and want to be part of their lives, but they running away fast from their harsh, controlling female partners, wives…
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Yes, the same Bev reckons that human rights lawyers make millions from defending asylum seekers in court…I’d like to see that!
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I saw that comment and just couldn’t quite come up with a decent reply. Too bloody stupid. Like the usual religious crap about gay marriage being the end of the world and ruining everybody else’s marriage. They’re just plain bonkers.
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hph:
01 Jan 2014 5:20:22pm
How wrong can you get by making a statement such as “..the left is the enemy of the family.” ?????….
It is the rampant INDIVIDUALISM which is the enemy of the family. A family is a social unit comprised of individual members to share the good and the bad equally. In bad times a member of Human family even goes as far as to sacrifice his own share for the betterment of the weak & defenceless member within his own unit.
Greed, jealousy and envy should not exist between the members of a Family.
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Yogi:
01 Jan 2014 7:42:29pm
“Greed, jealousy and envy should not exist between the members of a Family.”
Obviously you haven’t grown up in a large family if you think that is possible.
Sibling rivalry exists… sadly.
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hph:
01 Jan 2014 8:30:03pm
I did grow up in a large family, Yogi …but my family was nowhere near like Gina’s family.
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James Murphy:
01 Jan 2014 10:09:00pm
sibling rivalry exists, yes, but it doesn’t always have to be at ‘destructive levels’.
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sea monster:
02 Jan 2014 9:07:53am
James that’s the essence of it there. We’re great apes. Rivallry is what we do. If we stop doing it we stop being ourselves. The key is limiting the destructiveness.
Building some theoretical utopia in which we free ourselves of our animal motives won’t help anyone. Observing people who believe themselves and their political tribe to already be on that higher plain (and unwilling to countenence their own darker motives) is disgusting.
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MY reply to Sea Mendez was not posted. Funny that!
“Yet when I asked you, “Do you punch old people in their sixties and then brag about it?” your answer was, “Yeah sure. Is that inappropriate?”
Now this is disgusting!”
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HPH:
I have had confirmation from the ABC agreeing that a few single respondents use an unending list of Hotmail pseudos. There is not much that can be done about it. I have had some success of getting abusive posts removed.
When a post by either GO or HO (and hph) makes it on The Drum, you can rest assured the usual suspects immediately go in for the kill. They love trolling and personal bullying and stay up day and night hopeful of finally unhinging someone.
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I had the same thing at The Conversation, relentless bullying, implying that another chap ( a nuclear physicist) and I were a ‘closet homos’ for defending gay marriage, to the point where she provided links to her own blog, where the abuse continued.
TC has a more robust system for logging in, so she has been disbarred. Unfortunately at the Drum, one only has to provide a different name, with something that looks like an email, and the abuse keeps flowing.
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Why do people bother having lots so pseuds. Lack of confidence or think it’s somehow smart (it’s not). Some of those who attack me are nothing but complete nincompoops. They can’t make a point or prove one – just lie or write rubbish. I’m off for the arvo. Soon.
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Straight from the Drum.
gerard oosterman:
02 Jan 2014 12:01:40pm
No matter how you look at it. Treating refugees inhumanely after their arrival is primitive to the extreme. We will be condemned for that.
With being the least populated continent in the world we had a chance to show the world of dealing with it better instead of egging on an entire population in xenophobia.
Housing them in tents, calling them ‘illegals,’ denying them their humanity.
Shame on us.
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The DNHF is at it again.
gerard oosterman:
02 Jan 2014 2:27:26pm
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ateday;
Gerard Oosterman
Egypt alone has more than 3 times the population than Australia. Last time I looked the surroundings did not look that green. Syria, lovely meadows, Iraq and Iran are lush? Afghanistan green rice paddies? I don’t think so.
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Den Nordisk Hairy Folket:
02 Jan 2014 4:42:24pm
Egypt is overpopulated and people are starving. Australia should therefore ignore scientists concerns about sustainable populations. So gerard speaks, so let it be.
Dutch people are very clever and produce much food for export. The Netherlands can not afford to take more refugees.
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VoR:
02 Jan 2014 5:03:12pm
How can anyone get out of primary school in any Western country in the world and not know how Egypt supports its large population? It’s called the River Nile. Pharaohs? Pyramids? Moses? Some of this has got to ring a bell. The significance of the Nile to human settlement goes back millennia.
In any case I recall informing you about it several years ago in these very pages, so you can’t plead ignorance. What is the point of such a meaningless comparison?
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gerard oosterman:
02 Jan 2014 7:05:04pm
VoR.
How can you compare The Nile delta? One of the most densely populated agricultural areas in the world comprising of a mere 20 000km2 populated by over 90.000.000 people with the immense vastness of our Murray river basin of well over 1.000.000 km2 populated by a mere handful of people?
The Murray river basin is 50 times the size of Egypt’s. Even allowing for little rain inland, it is still a huge food growing area.
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Den Nordiska Hairy Folket:
02 Jan 2014 3:32:28pm
Europe is justifiably concerned at being overun by a hurricane of refugees. Australians are hysterical at the soothing, spring, breeze of refugees.
Europe is fast approaching limits to growth. Ignoring limits to growth is stupid. Australia is a magical land of milk and honey where there are no limits to growth.
When an Australian treats refugees the same way Europe does, Europe is justified. Australia is racist.
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Gerard Oosterman
VoR;
A third the size of the Nile delta in Australia (600.000 Ha) is flood irrigated for just one crop, cotton. If we had Egypt’s density of agricultural population it would give home to 30.000.000 people. Not that anyone is suggestion to do that.
Anyway, the discussion was about being humane to boat people before your usual going off at a tangent, raving about Holland and belittling.
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Ha ha! That’s supposed to be a spine-chilling sound of discovery BTW, not laughter. My spies are everywhere and one is inciting me to respond.
I can’t help noticing that copy and paste seems to be malfunctioning on your computer. It seems to have left out quite a bit of what was published before your last comment. Strange that.
That naughty DNHF! Do you know, I suspect he might be sea mendez! He tries to hide it, but I’m onto him. To be fair to him though, I believe he’s only quoting you from the Pigs Arms.
I believe it was you who changed the topic to Egypt.
As for comparing the Nile Delta to the Murray Basin : puh-leese! Enough said.
Or it should be enough said. In the unlikely case it really is ignorance, as opposed to whatever it IS that prompts these ludicrous country comparisons in the first place, I see Leafygreens explained it to you far more nicely than I had patience for, although I partially made up for it by throwing in a few pertinent facts. I must resolve to have more patience the inevitable next time.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-02/keating-morrisons-cynical-catch-22-ploy-on-asylum-seekers/5181902#comments
Search on 02 Jan 2014 1:52:08pm
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“In any case I recall informing you about it several years ago…”
Sort of sums you up beautifully.
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Hungsy, I’m not with you. What exactly sums up VoR?
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atomou, you are wasting your time and your talent here. Like beating your head against the proverbial.
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Yawn!
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First post on the first blog of the year at the dumb. How sweet it its.
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Congratulations. Were the twits asking for the hot cross buns having it on or had they come to think they should be there because they’d been there before. Are hot cross buns in fact more relevant for the birth of Jesus, his death or his miraculous rising (or whatever it is called). All a bit too twisted for me. I don’t believe in God or any god (God). Jesus was just a radical at his time. Good guys usually don’t last long – they get done over well and truly as we can see it still happening year after year after year.
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I could have written some of that a bit better. My beef is the whole commercial garbage that goes on at this time of the year. We’re barely out of Winter and the Christmas Decorations are up in the stores, Christmas Day is barely over and the decorations are gone and the Easter eggs and hot cross buns are there. None of it has to do with Christianity. More to do with the God of consumerism, truck loads of crap we don’t need.
I don’t mind a mince pie or a fruit bun with white icing, but I don’t want to be eating them from September to May.
The one today that got me was the poor darlings being unable to go to a restaurant because they were shut and the excuse was the penalty rates. Selfish people “I” want this and “I” want it now attitude,
Happy New Year to you vivienne.
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Yes, that’s right, Algy. Any time now and the Easter Bunny will pop up in Aldi’s.
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I heard something heart- warming yesterday. A friend told me how her student daughter made something beautiful for everybody in the family. As she doesn’t have much money, she uses her creativity…
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My youngest does that, this year she baked biscuits an almost endless supply of them. I haven’t been to Woolies since before Christmas, I’m sure they’re there. The hot cross buns were there before Christmas.
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Yawn.
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Why not go out and walk the dog Julian, clear your head. Obvious that ground hog day is a bit much for you. You know the repetitive bleat bleat bleat by you.
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Just reciprocating.
Even you can understand that, surely?
Yawn.
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Dear piglets and other pub animals! I wish you all the very best for the new year.
Go forth in this Year of our Zeus, 2014 and… multiply! Multiply your family, your love, your health, your wealth, but, most importantly, your understanding of life and of the wisdom of your deeds!
Love to you all, as well as to all those you hold near and dear!
Have a splendid year, one that lacks nothing and is bereft of nothing! One that is replete of everything you can make good use of! One that is hindered by nothing indecorous or unvirtuous.
May your larder be full but your body line slim and adequate!
May your hearts be full but your wallets slim and adequate!
The year 2013 is dead!
Long live the New Year!
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Here’s my reply to custards brush with melanoma
“Bleat bleat”
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“…Go sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here!..” from hph over at the Drum, brilliant mate.
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Yes, one of the few comments that made me laugh!!!
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🙂
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…me too, LOL
( sorry big m, that LOL is only used by youngsters)
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Just a comment on Paula Matthewson’ piece and the running commentary from the rusted on Libs. They have nothing to say of any substance whatsoever. Bereft of real comment. Frankly they are all pushovers. See Trump has returned to the Drum, Cherna will probably be next.
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A lot of jaw leading I thought. Then some downright lies from some that should know better or are up in arms if accused of the same. The spite from some of the staffers is quite astonishing. got most up today but a couple I’d have liked didn’t
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Helvi – you and I got a special mention on the Drum today from happy debunker. We’re famous.
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And positive comment as well rather that the usual abuse.
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Viv, we had our Christmas on Christmas Eve, so I I’m rather confused about what weekday it is..I did not know the Drum was open..anyhow GO found the post…
I would add more folk from our side: Alge, Mark James, Tom1, MontyB, MLCG(?)…
and Hungie but he’s hiding behind a new pseudo,Miowarra, Gerard (not very often)…There’s more, but I can’t think of them now…Malcolm…and dear old Arthur1, also not very often anymore…
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Yes, there are a few more. We, or perhaps I, should make a list !
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Whose sea monster though, I think I know but I’m not saying.
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We all have been blogging on Unleashed/drum for a very long time, so I have a pretty good idea about who is who even when they change their names. People are what they are, their opinions don’t change…they don’t all of the sudden develop a sense of humour, become abusive, if they have been nice before…their style of writing stays the same….
Some people pretend to be Labor, when they are obviously Liberal, there are all sort of triksters among the good genuine people…
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Great minds think alike.
Just finishing off the chicken liver pate. Finished the prawns off (plenty more in the freezer), had some Christmas Cake. I really won’t need dinner but I am sure to fancy something later on.
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Yes Helvi – I find the pretenders totally hysterical in as much as they think they are getting away with it. They can never hide their true colour. Why bother – the reverse idea is just too awfully ooky to even think of for a split second.
Lola is enjoying some Chrissy tidbits she missed out on yesterday.
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Sea Mendez
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…and hph, sorry for forgetting you.
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Thank you, Helvi 🙂
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…and Rhonda, Juliet Jones…
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Hi H, I was Wredan Blot for a few weeks and have gone back to Hung. Hung gets a poor run at times and I need to change names. I always post those names here though so you know its me.
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Must have been a short session at the Drum today for the moderators. all of about two hours
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All the very best to the patrons of the funniest pub in the world!
Finally, all is at the ready and we’re now beginning to feel the impending joy!
Have a great day, all of you! Lots of good food, gentle drinks and exuberant spirits!
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A Merry Christmas everyone. May it be a safe and peaceful time for all of you.
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Merry Christmas Algernon
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Someone wake up the Jones boy
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Others seem sleepy too Hung. Either that or up to the their necks in zucchinis.
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Merry Christmas Algernon.
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Losing control now! I just have to have a quick break. Daughter one has invited four Japanese friends, there are seven neighbours from here and there and probably around twenty family! How many is that? Don’t tell me!
She’s just got to get me a new oven! This one is pathetic Italian shit! Huge but useless!
The Japanese element is why the venue shifted to here. Apparently sis doesn’t know the way of the Japanese palette but I do! What an excuse! And I’ve got this awful feeling it’ll be here henceforthwith! There are three other possible venues but they’ve all got either ready-to-drop a baby any minute now or have already one, or only just met her.
So far, BBQd eggplants and zucchini, shoved in the oven the little spanakopitas in individual pots, with blue vein, feta and spinach, garlic bread… shit, I’ve still got a tonne to get together!
Break ends in two.
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It’s time to get the harpoon and off to the high seas, Atomou.
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Ah – when in Australia eat Australian (with a Greek twist). Some years ago I entertained 20 Asian students – did a BBQ lunch – they ate it all except for the Indian style rice which went with one of the meat on a stick offerings. The students were mainly Chinese though!
Hope the day goes swimmingly – I know it will.
I am thawing a lot of tiger prawns right now.
Happy Christmas everyone.
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Happy Saturnalia to youz piglets!!
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Same to you, Big M.
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Merry Christmas Big M and hph
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Merry Christmas Hung.
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