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 
The Dot has gone. Interesting development.
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Pretty cool actually. Now if we can have less partisan comments, we might get back to basics.
There is a lot happening in the world, and Australia is a small part of it. Excepting the search for the Malaysian aeroplane of course.
…And I note, on Reuters that Putin is causing more problems with his neighbours.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/30/uk-ukraine-crisis-moldova-idUKBREA2T0BK20140330
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Had a couple of simplistic goes at finding it. Failed. Oh well.
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Now I know Gerard.
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Coogara:
25 Mar 2014 8:19:12am
Helvi, you can now sleep sound at night knowing the money spent on keeping boat arrivals out is diminishing as fewer boats make the trip. The LNP has taken the sugar off the table. Seekers of asylum now know that a boat trip means being drowned, returned to Indonesia or being resettled in PNG.
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My reply:
“The LNP has put more sugar on the table. The CEOs of the prison companies can sleep sound at night knowing that the government money spent on keeping the boat arrivals in the concentration camps has increased.”
…went straight into the wastebasket. I guess they don’t like the words “concentration camps”
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Guess who Coogara is? Or John, Reaver and so many others?
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Don Diego de la Vega?
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I watched an episode of Yes Minister tonight. It wouldn’t be allowed under The ALP. Too many comments about other countries and races.
I saw Tommy Copper too. he was conducting an orchestra, with a mouse in his suit.
Hilarious, however some of the comments would be banned by The Australian Left. NOT The British Left – just The Australian Left.
What is it that makes people such busybodies and telling us all what to say?
Jenny Brockie’s programme was good tonight. She’s on top of her game.
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You mean those loonies on the right like Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, Pol Pot? They were all champions of free speech, weren’t they?
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Jayell, Jenny is very good…our lawyer was once on her show.Yes an excellent show last night.
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Is it fair to say Pol Pot was right wing? He seemed to have it in for the middle class. And then there’s the whole agrarian collective thing.
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I just got back from walking the dogs in the botanical garden. pol pot was a monster, who’s ideas were hatched on the left-bank in gay paree.
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Pol Pot was just totally mad.
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I see what you’ve done there with the spelling of agrarian, Sea Monster (neigh Mendez). It’s the old double bluff.
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It’s the topic that just won’t go away, Coogera.
I’m amazed at your genius. You must have 25+ characters on the go across various blogs. Yet you manage to keep a consistency line and distinct style going for each of them.
I still can’t work out how vigourous criticism of Tony Abbott and the LNP by many of your alter egos works into your pro-LNP agenda. Or unambiguous praise of Labor.
Others who try much simpler deceptions trip up and can’t maintain consistency. Why change government when the economy is going swimmingly, it’ll be dole queues any day now. We are Australian, I am not Australian.
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Talking to yourself, SM. You geniuses just can’t find anyone else smart enough. 🙂
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Now, enough of this nonsense. I was wanting to have an argument with you over pronouncing ich properly i.e. not ick. Have you decided to?
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Thank you hph, amazingly I wrote about sleeping badly on another blog,Coogara must be following me 🙂
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The discussion (! ?) on the Drum’s Morrison and Barnes piece is vomit inducing as well as being extremely sad. One of the worst to date. What a horrible horrible horrible bunch.
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Yes, that’s right. And now those vile people are thinking of introducing ‘Knighthoods”. Hoods they all are but ‘knights’?
It’s so English, isn’t it? How come we are finding it so hard to get away from mum?
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Well he was born there gez, I thought the country had grown up a bit now were going back to 1957.
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They’d obviously rather stay with Britain
They’ve seen all of the countries that were fucked by The Dutch !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_Dutch_colonies
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…and here’s me, thinking we were part of the USA.
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Did anyone see Berg, on ABC (or Fox), last night.
What an oaf. Frothing about ceremony and tradition have never put a face to his artciles before.(I had a TV night last night.)
What a pontificating vile piece of shit – telling everyone what to do.
The only thing missing from his drivel, was food stuck in his (pretend) designer stubble (underdone by 4 days); a cork on his head and snot dribbling out of his nose.
What an uncouth twerp.
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Gerg Barnes, I meant. Shows how much I’m up to date with drivel, balderdash – and farcical, comments from a disgruntled disaffected Wally.
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Gawd Jules for a moment there I thought you were making such unusual sense. Very funny. Berg has such a baby face I’m not even sure if he shaves yet. Barnes is a Liberal and a republican so be careful what you say about him.
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On reflection of your comment above Jules I would say that it is Abbott and his IPA support team who spend a lot of time telling everyone what to do. In Parliament the favourite catchcry is GET OUT OF THE WAY. The Abbott dictatorship is really on a roll with this latest Knights and Dames shit coming out of the blue – no consultation with anyone, not even his caucus.
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Don’t worry about it. She’ll be right.
I just watched a bit of Parliament.
Burke by name and Burke by nature. …And I must say that I’m disappointed. I did see him as a potential leader, however on today’s showing, I’d rather vote for the bubonic plague, if I were a unionist.
He seems a bright man. His undoing must have been a stint with The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association.
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Looks line we’ve got another troll algernon at the dumb. Bit of a redneck as well.
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On which blog, alge?
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The Andrew Leigh blog, Helvi. It’s the Algernon with the little a.
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I just saw it, a real hater. I saw quite of a few of yours, I don’t even read the hate mail by the usual suspects any more. I say my bit and leave…all the nasties seem to flock to any asylum seeker blog.
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I’ve tried to post a comment against it, moderated out. Alerted the moderator though, pointing out that the comments and the name contravene their own rules as well as terms an conditions. I’l just have keep prodding the moderator to stop them. Took a few attempts last time.
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You’re on top of it then? I was going to alert you (and ask if it was actually you being sarcastic).
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There’s a little a Algernon at the Tania Hird article too.
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Thanks SM caught up with that at Lunch time.on the Hird article after your post here. It will take a week or two of alerting then they’ll get stopped, well that’s what happened last time. You’d have to admit they’re not the words I’d use (the first one not the Hird)
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Not your ideas. Not your writing style.
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hph:
20 Mar 2014 6:27:17pm
Cycling is fun:
1. You have to keep pumping if you want to get anywhere.
2. It’s best to wear protective head-gear when going into unfamiliar territory.
3. You can do it with no hands, but it’s best not to try it until you have a lot of experience.
4. It’s easier to learn with the help of someone who has a lot of experience.
5. You can do it by yourself, but it’s usually not as much fun.
6. It’s usually hard to control your speed the first few times you try.
7. It’s best to have a soft place to land.
8. You don’t need any special clothing, but you can get some if you are really into it.
9. If you’re with someone who is having trouble keeping up, it’s usually best to slow down and wait for them.
10. Most people think it looks easy until they try it for the first time.
11. Once you learn, you never forget how.
12. If you fall off get right back on.
13. If you get a flat, try pumping it back up.
14. Remember to signal before you change direction.
15. Make sure that you’ve got a firm grip.
16. Sometimes it’s nice to have a cushy seat.
17. Once you’re over the top, you can just coast the rest of the way.
18. That’s why some of them are called Mountin’ Bikes.
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stephen:
20 Mar 2014 7:11:44pm
No. 3.
Someone told me once that Phil Anderson, our great racing cyclist from 20 years ago, could ride around corners, any corner at will and at speed, with no hands … a bit like a good stockman can do with a good horse.
PS Horses, I know can leave a good trail ; when Phil was racing, his followers relied on it to get home.
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Bill or Gerard,
Now that he brought a horse into the discussion, would you like to reply to Stephen at Doug Hendrie’s page? I don’t think he understands what my message is about. 🙂
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I’ve put a comment similar to this one today on a previous occasion. Last time no one came back to dispute me and so far today it sits unanswered. These are the facts, the awful facts.
Stuffed Olive:
20 Mar 2014 1:36:39pm
What about the 746 deaths between 2000 and 2007 under the Howard Government. The deaths at sea under Labor were 877. Neither government was directly responsible for those tragedies until the selective memories (and false figures) of the Libs kicked into overtime. Most good people can see a whole lot of difference when it comes to an asylum seeker being murdered while apparently in our care.
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Yes, Viv, the Lib’s estimates have gone from the numbers you quoted (best estimates, I believe) to 0 under Howard, vs 1000, 1100, 1200…under labor.
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Both parties are guilty of treating refugees inhumanely. The ends never justify the means. You cannot treat people that have done no wrong badly in forcing other to behave differently.
The only people that have it right are the greens. The damage to Australia’s standing overseas is huge.
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” The damage to Australia’s standing overseas is huge.”
No it isn’t. it’s never mentioned. that’s not to say that it’s right; just that you are wrong.
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
The world is occupied by Russia’s invasion, China’s economy, The malaysian airlepalne tragedy, The Syrian chemical warfare, America’s recovery :http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26660342 ……………..and myriad other matters. There is no talk of Manus Island – although there are ‘two’ enquiries going on now. One Australian and one PNG.
If only one could turn the clock back to 2007, when the Kamps were closed sigh.
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I’ll just add to this ,before I take off for my daily constitutional.
I have a friend of 35 years (Scottish), who is going to stand as a Labour MP, in the south of England; I have friends that I Skype with in California (who are academics); I have family (on both sides) (my sister in law has just retired as an education minster in Canada and another teaches applied mathematics in a University near Brighton); family in France; friends in Spain and Portugal.
I just canvassed some of them. They are all descent hard working caring family people.
None of them had ever heard of Manus Island. They didn’t know whether it was a resort, or an Island off the coast of another country.
It was an interesting exercise, because it reminds me of how people try to twist things and influence people with marches and placards – which I’m not against BTW, having done it myself in the old, Ban-the-Bomb days.
Yes, very revelatory, indeed.
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Well I’d agree that no one OS gives a stuff. They’re all too busy with their own news.
I’d suggest additionally they’re busily treating refugees in much the same way. Northern Europe is trying to keep them in Southern Europe. Southern Europe is trying to keep them wherever the hell they came from.
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Well the Manus Island death was reported in Le Figaro in an article entitled “Contre l’afflux de clandestins, l’Australie muscle sa politique”. Roughly: “Against the flood of illegal immigrants – Australia toughens its policy”.
In Australian news for the same month the rugby got several mentions, as did the Australian Open, the Grand Prix even more, soccer, the cancellation of the Rolling Stones concert a couple, various pieces of financial news (such as Toyota closing) and a giant jellyfish that washed up on a beach.
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http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/american-news-networks-screw-up-their-geography-and-call-tony-abbott-prime-minister-john-abbot/story-fnizu68q-1226861047746
I submit this for contemplation. They’re only interesting for the sensational and even then they can’t get the facts right.
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Yeah, and how do the Australian news know what Fox News is reporting – because they watch it to copy it! 24 hour news. Brrrrrrrrr.
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Generally, throughout the world, there is ignorance about Australia; its ideals and function.
it is seen as a mine, and a country full of people putting shrimps on barbies.
99% of the population outside of Australia, have no idea about the geography, its politics or laws. They couldn’t even name the Capital.
Additionally humans(the general populace) have so many local problems they couldn’t care less what anyone else is doing.
Can anyone name Russia’s prisons, Portugal’s population, or Chile’s GDP? Without Googling, of course 😉
Of course not!
Any contention that “The damage to Australia’s standing overseas is huge”, Is just silly, spurious nonsense.
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They got Malcolm Fraser’s name wrong too. Called him by his middle name, John too I think. Maybe they just think all Aussie PMs are called John. Gord/Gawd knows.
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The Yanks can call him what they like, Adoft, Kurt why not Bruce.
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I have friends in America who emailed asking WTF is going on with your government.
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No you haven’t.
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I very much do Jules and they are as real as your friends (you’d never lie about friends would you). I’ve known this couple since 1970. They do live in the somewhat more enlightened State of California.
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Who is Ben the Lawyer sleeping with at the ABC?
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Andie or Custard or maybe Alfie, Hung.
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If he really is a lawyer he probably knows how to walk the line regarding abuse and/or defamation.
He pisses me off in his delusion that the parliamentary Labor party is a socialist party with socialist policies. This hasn’t been the case in 40 years. An aphorism that I apply to him: Accusations of bias are admissions of bias.
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Ditto.
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Today he’s gone all anti women’s reproductive rights, wanting to save every embryo.
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Not sure how an article on abortion can generate so much talk about men’s rights. Most of these blokes should exercise the right to keep their cocks in their pants.
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Every time the subject comes up on the Drum we get the same old same old crap from men. Some men.
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I hope they start paying the mods to work a proper day this coming week. And that they don’t put a flurry of articles up on Friday afternoon when comment is so limited. I suppose there will be analysis of the state elections.
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Nup – mainly asleep at the wheel again. Bastards.
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You shouldn’t take it personally. Its all about budget and resources.
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I’m not. And it’s not.
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So what’s it about then?
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Their priorities on articles on the Drum aren’t the same as mine. They put too many pieces up for comment on the same day.
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Viv, Unleashed /drum was better under the previous editors, now it’s the same old Labor/Liberal arguments. Before we had social issues, fun and games, now it’s soulless and mainly boring, also the same contributors all the time, no interesting new blood…
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The Friendliness has gone, it’s rather hateful these days…
If the ABC does not have much money, get some up and coming young writers to write for free…not that they paid much in the past.
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To Big M – certain person doesn’t have the dexterity required to do the job.
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It’s not THAT difficult!
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After 40 years there are some things that aren’t going to improve. It was tried once and it was a mess. I’m on to my fourth power gadget. Used to use scissors !
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I got sick of going to the barber. Bought some, reasonably good clippers, so now, once a week, trim beard back to almost nothing, then number three comb over the noggin. Mrs M hates it, ‘you look like a criminal’.
At least I don’t look like a silly old bugger trying the comb over!
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I am also my own hairdresser (since I was 14 with the exception of a couple of years when I spoilt myself but then that good cutter went overseas). I do one daughter’s hair too – she gets lots of compliments and they ask who her hairdresser is. I’m very exclusive!
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At least some of us aren’t wasting money!
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When I say hairdresser – I cut and style. I spend what I save on oysters and prawns. Daughter is just grateful to get a proper cut instead of paying $80 plus for a cut which doesn’t rate. My father always cut his own hair too – coincidence mostly. I used to cut second daughter’s hair until she was 18. She has a friend who is a professional hairdresser and she does it for her at a very friendly rate including some highlights.
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PS – Big M – I am sure you look great. A bit short and spiky often makes you look younger, fresh and clean. Most criminals (not the corporate kind) usually have pretty crap hair stuffed under a beanie.
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If Mrs M says you look like a criminal it is probably an improvement for a purse carrying nancy boy
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Yes, Viv, feminism hasn’t managed to do anything about female hairdresser pricing…up to $300 for the apprentice to muck your hair up. No wonder you can afford oysters!
Hung, there’s nothing worse than looking like an OLD purse carrying, Nancy boy!
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What’s this old business?
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Sorry Nancy.
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testing
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One, two….three!
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four five six…..
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The DRUM:
Algernon:
07 Mar 2014 2:31:14pm
So what do you propose to do with the other 2 billion WS.
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I thought that I would answer you here, in case you thought that I was thinking of putting poison in the oceans.
There won’t be any management at the moment. We are all too sensitive and cannot do what ancient races, or animals naturally do. However I believe that in years to come there will be some sort of control, that will lead to a sort of natural balance. No one will be exterminate – we just won’t replace as many.
Of course contraception has only been with us for a couple of hundred years, so as more research is done, there may be sensible ways to produce enough humans to consume what we have, without rapaciously gobbling everything and chopping down evry fuken tree.
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Fair enough Jules, Did seem an odd comment by itself on The Drum. Thanks for the explanation.
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Cop this one from the ABC Drum on Jonathan Greens piece. I feel rather proud today!
gerard oosterman:
06 Mar 2014 6:30:39pm
The liberal party in Australia is somewhat similar to the republican party in the US except here they are permanently fixated on brutalising the country mainly on their stance on boat people and the environment. This liberal government is hell bent on taking us back to the days of raglan sleeved men in souteneur sandals and beehive coiffured women in the ladies parlour. The Liberals, they love cutting trees and praise belching captains of industries including very large bodied mining magnates.
Your best shot is to root for the Greens and Labor party and piss generously on the Liberals.
Sorry to be a bit vocal here but what they( liberals) have done under this dreadful Prime minister ?Tony Abbott? to this society, dragging it down to a level of psychopathy never seen before needs a good dousing of a community initiated mass piss in.
It will happen! We have to maintain our rage.
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I’m amazed they published this call for pissing on Libs. 🙂
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Just listening to Abbott opening his cheeks and talking. What a joke he is says the same old crap day in day out.
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Mods at the Drum gone on strike again. Anyway, comments are getting more crapulous by the day.
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Yes, shut down early. Anyhoo, I suppose it stops us all from arguing with idiots.
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It does. But I had posted one considered response in the morning which never got up. It was a bit strong but nothing like so many others. Two other short ones never made it though I could see that posts at around 2 pm were later put up.
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Scott Ludlam – Brilliant – Thanks Gerard.
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Absolutely brilliant. Watch this and rejoice!
http://junkee.com/tony-abbott-slammed-by-greens-senator-in-jaw-dropping-speech-of-the-year-we-want-our-country-back/30146
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Yes, Gez, game on in WA!
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Nice
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Made my day.
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I’m joining the Greens, we need more Ludlams!
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Me too, although I thought about voting for Clive.
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Clive and Scott: two peas in a pod.
Remember what Plato, said about empty vessels, Hung.
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If I were Scott Ludlam, I would use my middle name; sharing the name with Scott Morrison might put some people off.
Morrison is now going to ‘talk Qantas’, maybe he wants to stop them arriving/ leaving Australia. He seems to believe that he has stopped the boats… .:)
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Who’s Plato?
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Atomou’s brother in law.
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A Greek? Hmm, good food then
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Who is atomou?
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Yes, we have a state election coming up soon. I’m so excited I think I will have to go and use my vowels.
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Keep up Jules, atomou married Plato’s sister Effie.
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I think Plato’s last name was Off. Good old ato gave Effie and out from being Effie Off.
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Is Morrison Abbott’s bodyguard? Every time I see Abbott on the telly, I see Monster Morrison behind him…that’s the last thing I see before slamming the TV off.
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Are you having an erection, Hung??
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Are you suggesting he’s a bit stiff at the moment Big.
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Rigid!
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So he’s got the wood on everyone then.
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If he’s got wood, he better watch out, TA wants to chop it off!
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Bill, wants to put it in his mouth.
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Big M, if the mines are empty, no more wool to be cut off sheep’s back, car industries sent packing, boats and planes stopped, we got do something: Abbott will be cutting some trees, we will be eating some grubs and tree bark.
The happy times here again!
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got to do
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When is TA going to spend that week with the Aboriginals? He may learn some useful skills for when the country is completely f*&^ed up.
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He’s not going spend any time them,, his quick visits are just photo opps.
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Yes, Helvi, no opportunity for serious hard-hat/fluoro vest action in that hot outback.
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Well he could go postal, he has before.
Mind you I think most industries are relieved that the flouro jackets have gone missing, very disruptive then having to fix up the mess he’s left.
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TA came to our ward, some years back…was far too important to wash his hands (a prerequisite to enter the place), so was told by one of the mothers to bloody well not touch anything. Arrogant sod!
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Seems to be a tory pollie trait Big. Howard visited the kids school once, gather the kiddies around me when the cameras are on me he told the Principal. The Principal politely told him to get lost.
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I remember one of TA’s fluoro clad visits to some factory, nodding, smiling, shaking hands…until one worker refused. “Sorry, mate, i couldn’t in all conscience shake your hand.” media outrage, ‘How dare a worker refuse to shake the opposition leader’s hand!!’
Then the poor bugger was chased around by cameras. If it were my workplace, I would have told them to f@#$ off ( and I have!).
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Little Willie, wants something else shaken.
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Well, you know where the bathroom is, JL.
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Maybe Jayell’s got wood then.
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I can’t see the wood for the trees!
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Enough with the sailor talk, lads!
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“Well, you know where the bathroom is, JL.”, Big, said.
Yep, and it’s enough to make me use it to drive the porcelain bus.
Mid you, I wouldn’t want to be bent over with Willie behind me. He’s got a reputation for back stabbing – men and women 🙂
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What a great speech, yet I notice The Australian and the Fin Review dismiss it as a social media phenomenon. We’ll see come the by election won’t we. Interesting that unemployment is rising in WA with the Mining boom finishing. The next thing will be the collapse in housing prices there. It’s happened before.
I do hope Scott Ludlam gets up there with two Labor. I could put up a a PUP leaving only two LNP.
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algernon:
04 Mar 2014 10:27:44pm
Qantas is in a hopeless position because because of poor management ,leaving passengers stranded was lust one instance of it ,yet they demand that the Australian taxpayer bail them out .Qantas is a gigantic boil on the backside of the Australian economy the sooner it is lanced the better, and the markets should be the ones to wield the blade.
Lovely word picture, Algy!
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Big I didn’t write that. I agree with the comments up to the instance of it, Looks like we have an imposter Algernon again. I’m all for Qantas being partly nationalised and Joyce being sack. The damage he did to the brand and those loyal to it by grounding the planes is what they pay for now. I won’t fly Virgin on ethical grounds though fly Rex to Dubbo regularly and prefer them over Qantaslink.
Agree though it’s well written.
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Come on (excuse the pun) who has been blogging at the Bum as Nocturnal. E. Mission?
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Not pea
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It just sounded like someone from here had a hand in it.
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It weren’t me, Big. Promise – but I do like the pseud. I was thinking up a new batch the other day – in one of those idle moments – for no good porpoise since I don’t have much time for the Bum any more.
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I was thinking of your friend, Mike Hunt, just the other day.
We still have access to the Bum from work, so occasionally comment during idle moments. Unfortunately the PA is blocked, as are a whole lot of educational sites.
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Sorry Big, did you try and put the Pigs Arms and educational in the one sentence? Almost lost me false teeth
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Educational and Pigs Arm are mutually exclusive Big.
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I find the PA educational, but I’m quite naive!
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Me too but I’m quiet knave
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I knew a Mike Hunt once, he didn’t get it.
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Algernon, All these years I’ve know you and mate you are the King of subtle.
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I always a particular delicacy.
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Here is a “hook, line and sinker” moment over at the Dumb from my good mate gbe
Bill Bored:
27 Feb 2014 10:16:27am
To be honest I m sick of this confected rage against the previous government for the drownings at sea. The conservative red necks that visit this site don’t want boat people here in the first place.
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27 Feb 2014 10:58:29am
Bill Bored: So sorry to hear your sick of this confected rage perhaps there are others who are sick of your constant and negative carping criticism of anything LNP.
And I am sure there are those who would not mind if you decided not to post here.
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Haggis:
27 Feb 2014 11:09:07am
Bingo.
Got him a beauty. Come in spinner : )
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Bill Bored … constant and negative carping………. Typical rubbish response. Bill Bored hasn’t been there constantly. They can never address the matter at hand.
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So true Viv. I have baited this person over their spelling and he finally took the bait. Like Abbott, lets not have anyone around with a different point of view.
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Hung, I seen some of your posts on The Drum, we sing from the same song book, we are brothers in arms…we are starting to sound same, very succinct and to the point.. 🙂
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the same
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Thanks Helvi, that’s a lovely thing to say as I admire you.
Cheers
Mark
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Thousand thanks,Hung.
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Christ you’re a shit stirrer, Hung: ‘ For example, from your previous posts you do you know the difference between a week and weak? I cannot wait to hear back from you.’
There was plenty more to follow.
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Along the same lines, we just received a scam email, pretending to be paypal, The dead give away was no logo. the second give away was the statement, ‘You just done a payment…’
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Still no response from gbe.
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Maybe gbe is paypal
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Good point, Algy, the Feds will be around, later.
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I think I asked gbe if the person had been in the job for 7 days 🙂
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Which article ?
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I can’t remember now Viv, Big M might know
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Forget tradition, we need transparency, you know, Viv, where you gave them a serve!
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Can’t find it. I give serves often ! Name the article please.
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‘Forget tradition, we need transparency’ The article about releasing cabinet docs to the ‘Pink Batt’ Royal Commission .
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Found it – I was looking for Big M not Billbored etc.
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Yes, a number of my comments didn’t get up, and I think some of Hung’s were later removed. gbe’s spelling is so appalling, that his meaning is completely lost!
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It’s still open but new comments not appearing. Mods taking an extended break. Bloody annoying. gbe always is a dickhead.
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Can’t get a comment up, today. Perhaps my tongue was to far in my cheek on the first comment??
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I’ve just emailed Chips telling him to pull the finger out and put comments up. New article there for 2 hours and nothing up. Others stopped dead in their tracks midday.
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He’s replied already. They are flat out apparently. I think his mods are conning Chips. Things will no doubt start to flow as he goes around there and tells them to pull fingers out.
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I am Bill Bored this week so thanks for the back up on the Springsteen article. Projectile vomiting at best.
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I just can’t stand that sycophantic crap that comes out every time he tours.
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http://www.bilaterals.org/?australia-us-free-trade-agreement
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Watch out everyone, Mark from Launceston is back.
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Gawd.
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I always felt the X from Y crowd (ie Mark from Launceston, Lewis from the Hills, etc) were sock puppets. So consistently on message.
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The x from y’s are all pricks.
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y is a very bad area for pricks and the x’s are the worst of a bad lot.
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Thank God no-one brought up z’s!
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Reckons he’s a Labor voter mostly, yet writes like a conservative.
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News headline: Fire crews were hampered by exploding tins of baked beans as they worked to extinguish a large truck fire on the Hume Highway near Gunning, halfway between Yass and Goulburn.
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Cassidy’s piece which was closed very very early seems to have disappeared. Not there at all.
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It’s back. Still closed. Maybe it was there all the time. Not sure …… doesn’t matter. Shit comments anyway.
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Well I don’t know if mine was the only comment/complaint or whether they were besieged, but the Drum has edited the Liar article to spell Craig Thomson’s name correctly. It’s the ABC FFS. They should do better.
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I don’t think the ABC does any proof reading of any article submitted to the Drum.
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Same diff. They should have some basic standards – which they’ve kind of acknowledged by fixing it.
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Anyone got any ideas about the Dumb? Lead story closed others open, strange
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ABC conspiracy. It stops Canberran civil servants blogging.
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I’m still Bill Bored this week. How did you go with Jonathon Green?
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I can’t remember now. Short term memory loss. I’d have to go back to my history files.
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I had a look.
I wrote this: “Waterloo Sunset: 20 Feb 2014 6:51:07pm
“””Thanks for the advice: it’s always welcome, however I have 8000 approx of human (modern) history, as an example to lead me to the conclusion, that my code is better that yours.
Abooot, is mere flotsam in the whirlpools, in the gyrating kaleidoscope of progress . . And your thoughts just footling rambling; sucked away in the whirlpool.”””
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It was in response to someone who keeps following me around changing their pseud.
I never answer back and say that, though. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest: it’s a free forum.
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Of course, checking it now, I would have re-written it – with better grammar and phraseology, however, part of the fun is writing quickly (including spelling mistakes) and giving an off-the-cuff view.
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I noticed that. Saw it up this morning when I checked at around 10 am ish. Went back later to see what gives and it’s closed. Bastards.
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