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 
Does anyone have an idea of who ‘Rabbithole’ might be? – from among past commenters?
His alias is new but he is not new at the drum certainly.
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No idea. But he pretty much says the same thing everytime. He’s on a mission to get us to understand what the problem is. Harbeques was always saying the same thing. He’s gone (think). He might have been reincarnated.
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Thanks Vivienne..
by the way, did you watch the documentary program about Gore Vidal on ABC 1 last night? It was interesting..
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No – I hit the sack – I should have thought to record it.
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No – hit the sack early and didn’t think to record it.
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Well that is odd. First reply went into the clouds and now it is there.
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Is today really the best The Drum can do. Another Refugee debate where the mods are only letting the tory nutjobs have a say and one on the running of the bulls.
Wonder why you try sometimes.
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Been out most of the arvo so saved myself the agro!
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The heavy editing by the mods pisses me off as well. Nothing new I suppose.
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Sea Monster quickly found me this morning. Lehan doesn’t care for my agreeing with her !!
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He’s arguing with me – in the usual way.
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Takes offence then tries to point out they’ve been saying that for years.
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Lehan is firing on all cylinders. at Jonathan Green’s page.
well done Lehan 🙂
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I seem to have been put out to pasture again. Hopeless. Lehan did very well even though her message got a bit confused as she admitted. Those darn nightingales.
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Lehan had a great innings, Viv had a fair whack at the ball, but was cut down by ideologues. More crap!!
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Me too, Vivienne. I was allowed to post to only one blog (Islamic State) but banned for the rest ! Lehan did very well in confusing the Abbott-fans. I thought that was very funny.
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I posted this on Hewson’s piece and no one has answered my question.
So everyone who drinks milky coffee is the enemy? I really knew that was the explanation but I am still stumped as to how that moniker came about because it is very clearly idiotic logic. I’m of the left, not a wannabe and I prefer good black coffee. Is it okay to have a percolator?
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Abbott is a Statesman you know.
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United States’ man for sure.
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So the neocons think vivienne. Almost sound non robotic this last week.
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He put a lot of work into getting those sentences into a statement that sounded like he meant it. Ha.
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Quiet isn’t it. Is it because most are depressed and sad?
Do check out my Seafood Chowder – it’s a good distraction.
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Actually, Vivienne, it’s cold where I am and it slows me down. brr….
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Freezing here too. Lot of snow on the nearby alps and we’re getting cold wind even on the rare day the sun has shone. Lot of rain.
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Busy at work. helicopter retrieval cancelled due to 120 km/hr winds at Tamworth. Relatively mild in Newcastle. Will check out the chowder. Mrs m reckons the best chowder in Australia is at the Bellerive Hotel in Hobart. Have to catch the ferry across the Derwent for lunch every time we are there.
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Windy and cool here, what a joy at netball for this afternoon!
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Thick frost this morning but nice and sunny now and no wind.
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Good for stone fruit I am reliably informed.
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I wonder where you got that idea from !
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Don’t know but in the next episode from Gordon we just might find out. 🙂
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Does Gordan control the weather, or is that Jack Frost?
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Nah, only cricket
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Adolf Turd now the Carbon Tax has gone.
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Too true.
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No, not today and not recently. Are you getting it when going on to the internet or just with certain sites. I think I have had similar messages in the past. Your ISP may be having a problem. When all else fails (having checked with ISP etc) turning the whole thing off and having a cuppa then going back and beginning again can help. Or, just unplugging the modem from its power for a few minutes can sort it out.
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Thanks Viv, only on the Drum when trying to comment.
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I have had that on the Drum – can’t post – on many occasions. I think it is either they are updating the site for articles or giving themselves a smoko. It’s nonsense.
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Yes. Good bye Drum. I get much more pleasure sticking it up the right wing conservatives at New Ltd.
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Okay, so I can post via Explorer but not Firefox, hmm.
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Fascinating Hung. I had so much bother with my old Explorer and got sorted by going over to Firefox. Might be a problem with an ad-on, a blocking somethingother which has entered your system without your knowledge. These gadgets have a mind of their own sometimes.
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Viv, I had to disable some add ons as they kept crashing however I would say that you have hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
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Article: What price democracy?
The Moderator didn’t like this when I replied to James:
“I’ll stop whinging if the following is implemented:
– Disclosure of all corporate and business donations to political parties and politicians (including to the members of their families.)
– A ten-year ban that prevents retiring officials from taking jobs (AND any business dealings) with corporations & companies.”
….
is it my English?
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No, just the usual cherry picking (discarding). I sent a couple of completely reasonable posts which never made it. One replying to someone sniping at me.
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I fired off at least a dozen comments and replies last week. Only 2 or 3 were posted….Such is life. But I’m amazed how much breathing space is given to right wing nutters there. Zing and Ben-the idiot are making many outrages, silly comments and the moderators are very nice to them. The mind boggles !
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The rubbish that’s published from ben the dick is extraordinary. He thinks it’s all clever, but it’s straight from ‘The Young Liberals’ Guide to the Economy, and other Big Things.’
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ben the dick 🙂 …so true BigM
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I’m convinced that some of those a sent an email from head office every day with what to say, Big M. Ben the dickhead takes his lines from the chapter on how to be a parrot and waffle on.
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The majority of the comments on the Drum on anything to do with asylum seekers are making me feel sick and sad and angry all at once. Who are these people. Morrison clones. Brainless idiots. How can anyone be so mean and hard hearted and twisted. It’s the pits.
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…and I’m sick of the heartless comments from ‘(insert name) the lawyer’.
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As much as I like writers putting up articles as they have recently, I sometimes wish they didn’t because we just get the hysterical raves and lies and nasty stuff repeated every time. Not quite repeated, they are getting more insane and twisted each time. How do these people function?
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I find many comments to be reprehensible, and often just skim through, looking for PA folk, names that I associate with reasonable, well thought responses. My mental health doesn’t cope with so much negativity.
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I was in Rutherglen yesterday and only really caught up with the latest crap today. I’ve only made a couple of comments. As usual some get up and other don’t.
On other articles, whether it is PUP, economics, budget or whatever, the Abbott fan club who approve of everything apparently think that all the things we know as surprises were no surprise, not a lie and they have the gall to ask for proof that he lied. Gawd gawd gawd.
So, in the meantime I say all power to PUP and Ms Lambie (she has a great way with words).
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TA’s comments to the Japanese PM were appalling, yet, the rusted on Libs were busy saying it was nothing, storm in a tea cup. If a member of the public service said the same thing, they would be sacked.
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I Rudd or Gillard had said what Abbott said they would also be screaming blue murder and the RSL would be on the front pages. I don’t get it. Abbott wants to be besties with so many people and never puts his brain in gear before he open his mouth. If it was scripted then I am of course appalled but not surprised. His supporters will support anything he says so I am waiting for him to be pro-choice, speak against the Catholic church, for assisted suicide and bringing back the death penalty, telling our soldiers to toughen up and accept a 30% pay cut etc etc.
That’s how stupid things have become.
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Well yesterday I think it was Abetz uttered in the senate that there had been something like some minor self harm issues on Christmas Island. What an appalling comment to make. People don’t self harm for the sake of it and any of it shows an underlying mental health issue that needs to be resolved.
Anyhow the Liberals and mental health or brown nosing the Japanese or treating those in the senate like they don’t matter. It’s nice to see the business council is starting to get pissed off at the LNP inability to govern or negotiate.
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Yes Algy – we could go on (helps to get off one’s chest) – but clearly the Libs and their nutjob supporters don’t think asylum seekers are PEOPLE.
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I did notice a crack today, clete I think it was who thought a Double dissolution might be the way to go and that a Labor government would be preferable to 6 years of PUP. Appeared to think the LNP were incapable of governing. On that last sentence I am in complete agreement.
Unfortunately I don’t think its just LNP people who don’t get that asylum seekers are people.
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There is a good article on the Drum by A Kohler and the rorting of the aged by nursing homes and retirement villages. Nothing is spared for the old not even a reasonable retirement it seems.
I remember reading the practise of nursing staff taking photos of the elderly underneath their night shifts and then, during lunch hours much hilarity between the staff guessing which genitalia belonged to which patient.
We are all edging towards getting old and the horror of what awaits us in the nursing homes. We now have to worry, not just about some murderous nurse but also my genitals becoming the property of the Mary Magdalena Anglo nursing home. All I know that no IPhone or Pentax will creep underneath my blankets. I defend my dick and balls to the death.
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What’s next, web-cam of the elderly in nursing homes, to raise a few extra bob for the administrator?
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Closed for comment only nine hours after the essay was published. Bloody hopeless.
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https://newmatilda.com/2014/07/08/how-did-we-let-terror-happen
A good read by Ben Elton.
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Good to see you again gerard and Helvi.
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Hi Alge, seen some good posts by your on the Drum, keep them coming….
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Eltham not Elton. Sorry.
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“Abolish the States alltogether, let’s have one clever, united, modern country, lets put the money on one good system of education, healthcare, one criminal system.”
Well done Helvi. You are on the front page of The Drum Home -You Said It- since last Wednesday.
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I’m with you hph.
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Helvi is right but it would only work with a permanent Labor federal government, or Greens. The LibNats wouldn’t have a bar of being fair, let alone allowing any good system to continue. Look what they are trying to do now.
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I’d abolish Local government and State Government and introduce Regional Government
. Most Local governments are basically bankrupt with much of what the state does could be consistent over the country instead of having 6-8 versions of basically the same thing.
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Trouble is that it is unlikely the people of each State would vote to abolish their State. Drawing up regional boundaries would be a nightmare – more so once outside the metropolitan cities. It’s easier said than done. Having been through a local government boundary change which involved losing some parts to Albury City and Corowa and then combining three councils into one – the result has been a disaster. They reintroduced archaic Wards so that we have made no progress. We should have merged with Albury but 97% of the voters were against it. What we got instead was no control and a resulting dog’s breakfast.
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Probably right vivienne, however. Many local governments are little more that sheltered workshops for unemployables in my opinion. Having had to deal with many LGA’s, and in Sydney there are far too many, I’d suggest that most are unprofessional in the way they operate. There is no consistency in the way they do things or develop between councils. State governments are just arbitrary lines on a map and often don’t represent geographical regions. The regions would need to have a significant numerical base to work.
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Yes, I agree, Algy, one Hunter valley council was making a great deal about their ‘engineer’ gaining ‘another’ qualification. A masters? A graduate diploma? A degree? No, a TAFE certificate in engineering. His other qualification was his Higher School Certificate. In other words, he had been getting away with being completely unqualified for his position for over seventeen years.
I don’t think this is unusual in NSW from my observation of some council employees. One building inspector, who came to our place, didn’t know the difference between joists and battens. This was after he had been at the wrong address, which, suspiciously had no building work occurring!
At least in NSW there are some state building regs to which to refer, but, I guess they still don’t always over-ride some of the idiocy of local councils.
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I understand were you’re coming from Big, There is is shortage of qualified people in many professions unfortunately. The “engineer’ having just a TAFE certificate is a little disturbing, that he could find a TAFE college nowadays to complete their course is even more surprising. Engineers should be members of the Institute of Engineers and a TAFE course isn’t going to cut it nowadays where it might have once (like 40-50 years ago).
A building inspector not knowing the difference between a batten and a joist, do houses routinely fall down in Newcastle?
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Algy, this was a few years back, but, even then, a council engineer with no qualifications?
The building inspector, I think, got the sack. He had, unfortunately, failed to record dimensions of framework, joists, etc. Me being slack, didn’t get the final inspection until three years after completion, and had to get a statement of compliance from a civil engineer, who was happy to issue the letter.
The Newcastle earthquake of ’89 was the best thing that happened to building regs. Bigger pier pads, floor joists bolt to piers. Better ‘tie-down’, stainless steel brick ties, etc. Prior to that, piers were laid on a little square of paving cement!
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My brother was in Newcastle in the quake in 1989
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Algy – I do agree, and Big M – I do understand and know of similar cases though they were 30 years ago. For federal electorates the State boundaries are stupid. Albury and Wodonga have far more in common than Albury and Broken Hill (a day’s drive away). Clearly local government in places like Sydney and Melbourne are a joke and in both cases the State government seems to be focused almost entirely on spending money there. It all gets pretty ridiculous. Kennett changed local government in Victoria – fewer councils through mass amalgamations but for its size Victoria always had far too many councils. But in the end for all the talk I doubt we will see anything other than fiddling at the edges and that the States will remain.
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The Adelaide City Council are the worse thing that ever happened, still think it’s 1950
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Our chimney fell down, and half of the piers under the house were condemned, Hung.
Yes, Viv, fiddling at the edges. This happens in health care. Our area health service got converted to a ‘health district’. A whole bunch of people got promoted to being ‘health district director’, or whatever. Converted back to area health service. The same bunch of people got the arse. Money lost in signage, stationary, etc. Us plebs in the trenches perceived no change, except for receiving emails from people we never knew existed, until they got the sack!
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David was working for Noyes, have you heard of them?
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They installed mining equipment
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Mining makes a lot of noyes.
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Yes Big so does breaking wind. My brother said the quake was very scary and it felt like it lasted for ages. He was in a stairwell at the time.
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The quake went for 12 seconds, but it was one of those moments when time stood still, like falling off a motorcycle, or breaking wind.
It certainly unmasked some dreadful building practices!
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Well I was going wine tasting with the family that day and we were in Cessnock turning into the main street as it happens, I remember thinking there was a dreadful over-steer in the car and couldn’t work out why. We noticed people running out of shops. I pulled up at a bank a walked in wanting to make a withdrawal as the staff picked themselves up off the ground. The told me there had been an earthquake, I replied when did that happen, to which they replied just now where were you it then dawned upon me what had happened.
It certainly did something for building codes and standards as well.
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hph, thanks for alerting me to the You Said It page… 🙂
Everybody, we are back home but now we have the school holidays and kids to keep us busy…still, my one-liners are quick to throw in the mix…
There must be a nice moderator over at the Drum, who lets all my posts through, and the following they the mean one, who doesn’t publish any of them….
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Howdy H
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Hi HOO.
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Welcome back, Helvi, say ‘hello’ to the old bloke for me.
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BigM, I shouted to the old bloke: Big says ‘hello ‘to you. He replied: Funny I’m feeling a bit hot too, must be the double glazing…
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Oh, good, glad the double glazing is working!
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Love you Helvi. Missed you lots.
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Viv, the pretend lawyer from Drum replied to me: People like Helvi and her Labor mates….
We are all thousand times better than them.
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Don’t worry about them H, you’re my girl, well after Tutu 🙂
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Was that ‘Bum’, the Lawyer?
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You know all about bums you purse carrying nancy boy
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Well, having read the shit that spews forth from the orifice of Bum the Lawyer.
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Yes, on the Drum, he’s no lawyer, I never reply to him, it must irritate him…
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HOO, they don’t worry me, they are all dumb bums…
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Perhaps Bum the Lawyer is the suppository of all knowledge?
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I’d rather have a Labor mate. Imagine life with Liberal mates. Puke puke, erk erk. Mere acquaintances is close enough!
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Anyone watch/listen to Insiders this morning. I thought the Abetz interview was worth remembering and commenting on.
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Otto’s boy was a disgrace. Seems this government is happy with what effectively amounts to piracy. I saw him as unfit under Howard that he has a gig under Adolf says something about the quality of this government. Love the PUP girls description of him, she’s not afraid to call a spade a bloody shovel is she.
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She is going to bat for Tasmania and fixing army stuff. Will be interesting times ahead. Hope she continues to call Abbott & Co the miserable psychopaths they truly are and keep proving to be.
Wish Helvi and Gerard would come back. Last tiff involving Voice may have sent them away. We really are shrinking and it is a pity. I can’t understand why some people get so bloody personal and keep on about it.
Still damp and miserable here. Am making gluten free bread for daughter. Roast rack of lamb on tonight’s menu.
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Didn’t Big M say they were on holidays?
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Much like yesterday here, A nice roast chook here.
With Gez and Helvi, perhaps its just a break. They been quite at there blog too. Voice hasn’t been about for a while either. Its been quite here before as it appears here currently and maybe people will come back. I have little time for the personal attacks as you know.
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All of us have a break from time to time. I’m over my limit this month and have been slowed, horrid.
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Hung I noticed them at the Dumb during the week, I suspect they are still on hols.
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Yep, I guess they are still away. made some comments at the Bum, and got lambasted! The dog walker was one of them.
They haven’t posted anything on ‘Oostertreats’ for a while. At least comments there are friendly and polite.
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Yeah, even yours
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Always to GO and H.
Not you!!
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Wake up Sister 🙂
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They had posted a comment on Drum (Thursday or Friday) so I assume they are back home.
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Was it really them?
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I suspect it was them, there has been the odd comment this week. The dog walker commented on one of mine, but about the person who went off on a tangent.
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They did say they were ‘back’ on the Drum. VoR responded to them I see – in the negative. I find that a lot of my friends agree with me. So the negatives will get the same answer or similar to their view, as with the positives. Which means that, in fact, there are people who agree with Gerard.
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Sorry Hung, half asleep.
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Hung, how come you’ve got an ugly Pig’s head for a gravatar, or porcinatar?
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It reflects my true inner personality
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Of course.
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Getting a few up on Kohler’s blog this morning. Must be the early mornings and a late start.
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Yes, I see you are getting a good hearing. Meanwhile the LNP cronies are still living in de Nile.
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Well done. The righties are reduced to complete drivel. Yet they bravely persist.
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There are some real dickheads out there today at the Drum.
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Every day now. It’s pathetic. And the mods are nuts.
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Yes I noticed on Thursday. confined myself to two only. Had some called “v” writing are wankery and heading off on a tangent, even the dog walker appeared think them odd. Actually called frangipani an art wanker but it didn’t get up. As for the Kohler blog it beggared belief.
Did notice the Oosterfolk made an appearance, though they’re quite here and on their own.
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Yes, I noticed. I replied to one you had replied to but mine never got up. Their attack/defence is all over the place. Never a thread of reality, forever distorting other’s comments.
Now of course we have that great friend of Aboriginal people (who is on schedule to be a year late in spending his first week as PM with them) telling the country it was unsettled ! etc).
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And ….. does unsettled mean that it used to be settled and the settled up and departed? Doesn’t even make sense.
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With people starting to distance themselves from him because of his comments. Doubt he understands what he’s saying himself either. Suspect they seem him for the charlatan that he is.
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Typical populist politician, says what he thinks the audience (electorate) want ti hear, unaware that the audience is smart enough to remember most of his statements. Displays a lack of intelligence, and complete contempt for all of us.
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Goodness only knows how he managed to be a Rhodes scholar. Maybe it was on the strength of his boxing.
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Can’t see this getting up on the Rosewarne piece on Harris
Tie me daughters friend down sport
Tie me daughters friend down
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No, didn’t get through.
A bit like ‘two little boys….two little toys.’
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If you think I would leave you dying
when there’s room on my horse for two
C’mon on girl and stop your crying
I have enough KY to get through
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Thanks Gordon for our Hung!
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Go the farce has ended
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Now to see what happens to the bastard.
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Will be interesting
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Jail term. Anything is possible with people but I would never have thought Rolf would be such a fiddler etc and it started so bloody long ago. The Queen must be feeling a bit icky having sat while he did your portrait not all that long ago.
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Don’t the royals have a bit of history?
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That over priced kiwi wine mob, the Rolf used to ads for, has been very quiet.
I think the Royals just leer at cleavage, and copulate with other women who look like horses.
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Looks like the kiddies will be safe: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-01/harris-legacy-in-ruins-as-police-probe-fresh-claims/5562796
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British Paints have been a bit quite too I see. Very handy with his hands apparently.
Big Charlie’s married to one.
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I was going to say that Big, but I had to wait till I was home.
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Being sick of censored, banned or whatever I have used a new pseud and varied address. All three comments so far have gone up pronto. One Stuffed Olive comment sent hours ago did not appear. I think I may have proved that a mod or two don’t like me or my name.
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Yes, Vivienne, that’s the secret and that’s what I do at times.
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Works alright. Managed to get one in this morning just before, as it turned out, it closed. Green groups struggle… article.
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Yes, sometimes Big M is mud, but some outlandish pseud will get through.
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I still can’t figure out the reason behind being apparently banned so often. I’m not rude but they allow so many nasty retorts up. I’m left to ponder that some just ban a pseud who happens to be a Stuffed Olive without looking at the words in the comment – which would explain something else – they don’t read the comments!
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It is why I stopped using Hung One On Viv
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Maybe you need to change to Stuffed Olive the …. Ben the boofhead seems to get up all the time
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That Bum the Lawyer should run for the LIEberal party, as he’s a smug arsehole!
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I’m amazed he gets so much of a run. Clearly one of the two bum variety.
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Article: Hizb ut-Tahrir – honour killings
Mitor the Bold:
26 Jun 2014 7:21:41am
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[…]
This idiot should have been allowed to present his case, whether he claims to support it or not. He certainly supports a lot of other oppressive and violent nonsense. Free speech means hearing things you don’t agree with – there’s nothing free about ensuring things you disagree with remain unspoken.”
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Psychotherapist HPH:
“I charge $100 an hour for my time.”
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of course it wasn’t allowed
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HPH – I don’t see you much lately on the Drum or maybe I’m just concentrating on the wrong articles. Or are you still suffering censorship. I haven’t been getting stuck in as much as I would like mainly because there is just too much shit there. Or, as in one case, too much sensible comment on one article so I didn’t bother repeating same points.
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Hi Vivienne, Yes there is so much crap and not enough humour there. I’m visiting the Drum occasionally these days. I had a nasty head-cold last couple of weeks. I’m still trying to recover from it.
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Well I got them going on Berg’s piece yesterday. Ben the Lawyer – how does he get so much up. Arguing the facts as usual.
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Plenty of Ben the Bonehead there I see. What an ignorant git he is.
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‘Waterloo Sunset .2014:
23 Jun 2014 5:32:48pm
Just thought that I’d mention that I am in The UK at the moment, and at a BBQ in Hampshire, conversing with a range of SE English people, I was asked what the name of our PM was and which party was in power, amongst other things.
I tried to make Australia sound important, however no one had any idea – or cared about our immigration policies, or our economy.
I suppose it bought me back down to earth, much as in the same way – in Australia (excluding those that google before blogging in The Drum) – no one seems to be knowledgeable about The UK or EU.
A couple of solicitors and a detective thought that Tim Cahill’s volley was great!!
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Tim:
23 Jun 2014 6:12:17pm
Wow, ‘Waterloo Sunset’, you have no idea how sad that makes me, that some ignorant people at some British BBQ know so little about the Australian PM. Please continue to be embarrassed because I am embarrassed that we have people like you believing to be so important to represent the honours of our entire country. Perspective – please get some
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Honest Johnny:
23 Jun 2014 7:36:37pm
W.S : They didn’t even realise two of our last three PM’s were born in the UK? Hmmmm. Here’s an idea. Why don’t you stay there and make it your life’s mission to educate these ignorant BBQ goers? You would do this country a great favour.
Appropriate responses!
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Seems pretty irrelevant to me whether you know who the leader of another country is, I mean I know that the UK leader is David Beckham coz he’s on the news.
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There’s nothing like basing one’s argument on innuendo and hearsay.
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Me too, Tony Abbott says climate change is crap, so Tony knows more than 98% of the worlds scientists, the man is a genius.
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Meanwhile, Hung is upsetting the soccer sycophants at the bum:
Sir Bill Bored:
24 Jun 2014 11:43:57am
Who cares. The most corrupt game in the world that is so incredibly boring. Makes two flies crawling up a wall look exciting. And if a goal s scored the reaction is positively mind boggling.
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Scotty A:
24 Jun 2014 1:19:38pm
Go back and stare at the wall Billy. Let the rest of us get on with it
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Some of course are born with two bus
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Bums
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So them with two bums will be doubly upset by HOOs comments?
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Well of course they’re all arse Big.
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They didn’t post my reply to Scotty A, what is it with the ABC and expletives?
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Oh and Big, bring the flies
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Have rounded a few up. I’m having trouble getting the bridles on ’em.
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He makes all this up. Or his friends are just as ignorant as he is. I think he ought to stay over there – for good.
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Interesting that there are news items about TAs appalling behavior in French, and even Algerian newspapers, but no one at a pommy BBQ had ever heard of him. Says a lot about ws’ friends.
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At a pommy BBQ all they’d be doing is complaining about the weather.
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What the ignorant dog walkers of Hampshire, surely not salt of the earth.
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‘Anyone who’s been on Skype can tell you…’
While I’m at it, what is it with calling people ‘luvvies’, makes the user of the word sound a complete bloody wanker.
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Well you may well have nailed it there Big. Maybe its a Hampshire saying.
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Must be, f@#*ing whingers!
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Or just pommies
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From today’s Australian (one can access the headlines) – reinventing and promise:
‘Indigenous PM’ Tony Abbott to keep his promise in Arnhem Land
Patricia Karvelas
Victoria Editor
Melbourne
https://plus.google.com/106140687680516794384
TONY Abbott will mark the first anniversary of his swearing-in as Prime Minister by spending a week in northeast Arnhem Land, hosted by Gumatj leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu.
Mr Abbott will stay in the community with other politicians and bureaucrats from September 15, making the deadline he imposed on himself to spend a week in a community every year.
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TA promised to spend the first week of his PMship in Arnhem Land, therefore the promise is already broken.
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Yep – as I said they’ve reinvented the promise. The Aust thinks we misheard everything on that video tape. Betya he doesn’t stay a week – something urgent will come up. I’d say it’ll be two days and one night. Enough time to zing around and get photos done and dusted. I hope the locals ask him why he is so bloody late.
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He’ll have learnt that from Howard. He was very good at the photo op especially in Bennelong. In and out in 30 minutes and gave the appearance he’d been there for the day.
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We called our previous local member Tim Fischer, 2 minute Tim for the same reason. In and out in two minutes. A quick wander round, doffing his stupid hat and saying ‘good day to you’. He was the same everywhere – often bought his paper at my newsagent and flashed off with the same inanity. I knew him at a number of levels and he was as good a bastard as the rest of the bastards.
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As in he is a bastard. Not good. Slyly unpleasant.
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I thought that TF was an ignorant buffoon, now I find out that he’s a bastard.
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Who’s TF ?
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Tim Fisher.
We’ve got a B grade tennis player now and he looks like a buffoon when he turns up to things, he might stay for a bit longer though.
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Ignorant buffoon and a bastard.
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Who Fischer or the B grade tennis player
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This from yesterday on Sexism Diplomacy must take the cake:
EvilPundit:
20 Jun 2014 5:57:29pm
@ScottBE – Are you serious? Compared to male Prime Ministers such as John Howard, Kevin Rudd, and Tony Abbott, Gillard was given the kid glove treatment.
In fact, she received less abuse, simply because most people give women more leeway.
The fact that she still complained is just a demonstration of the exaggerated feminist feeling of victimhood.
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EP opened with a comment about Western women whining. My reply about the most consistent whining about sexism seems to come from evilpundit didn’t get published. There’s no reasoning with this, I presume, man, is there Viv?
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I replied to that too and it didn’t get up. I just don’t get why – ridiculous. The whole discussion which followed was appalling and one person did get a comment up which said what I would have said. I turned off the computer in disgust. I think, on reflection, that the mods pick their opening comment very deliberately. Too often it is a very bad provocative choice. There must be other exciting openers they could choose. So, yes they are very selective (we prove that) but they put up an awful lot of rubbish. They are diminishing every week the value of the Drum and opinions.
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I agree. posters used to put up reasonable arguments, with links to other sites, data, etc. Now it’s just like listening to toddlers arguing over a toy. Very poor.
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Who’s EP?
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Evil Pundit, Hung.
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It is not even worth considering
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You know, the Pundit of Evil, or, as I call him, evilwhinger.
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Is he related to Dog Walker?
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‘Luke Dog Walker, strong is the Farce, with this one.’
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May the flatulence be with you
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And so with you
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Go, the farce has ended
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Thanks be to Gordon
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Thank you Farther.
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Bless you my son
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Thanks be to Gordon, full of Grace…is that a brand of Scotch whiskey?
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Yes. She was 8 years old that scotch 🙂
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All this flatulence, sure its not the beans
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I scored a first up on Barne’s piece. Shortest comment I’ve ever made.
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Then bloody Realist and aGuy, and your mate Dr Goh in Asia rambled on about complete shit…immigration layers making ‘millions’ and an immigration industry that just sucks money from the taxpayers’ teat. Christ, some of them must hate humans.
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Oh, and the lovely free food, education and medical care on Manus!
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The conversation pretty much as usual went downhill. And these people have a vote !
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I can’t be bothered reading most of the comments…just have to read the names!
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Sea Monster:
18 Jun 2014 9:11:06am
Great point. I’ve got some others that follow on from it:
If not for its massive economy and military the US would be a non-entity.
And if not for its massive population and growing military China would be a non-entity.
And if an entity miraculously arose from non-entity, it would be an entity.
And beneath their clothes, clothed people are actually naked…
Classic
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Which piece was it Hung. Helps to find the context. But it’s pretty good on the face of it.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-18/lewis-woods-diplomatic-fails-could-follow-abbott-home/5531292. A real classic Viv
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Found it. They are silly arguments. If it wasn’t for her dad Gina would just be another ordinary working mum and not wield the horrid power she has.
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