The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I just wonder sometimes whether those to our right ever engage their brains before hitting the keyboards. There was one little pearl from peter of melbourne who described himself as a social democrat. Breathtaking given the dribble he normally writes. Doubt he knows what a social democrat is other than how to spell it.
Yesterday there was this exchange on a news article about the new Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. I was tempted to add my reply to custard. Ah WA some are stupid one day clearly stupid the next.
custard666 12:59 PM on 14/02/2015
The “chook” as she was known before the ABC with their media muscle, changed her name to palace-shay is an accidental Premier.
She will be worse than Anna Bligh.
She was put there by unions after being a union hack. QLD….beautiful one day…..stupid the next.
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Score: 3 algernon 1:25 PM on 14/02/2015
Good to see you Polish is up to scratch custard. So she changed her name to her name. And she worked as a Lawyer before entering politics more than can be said for the PM. Here’s her qualifications: She has degrees in Arts and Laws from the University of Queensland, a Masters of Arts from the London School of Economics where she was a Chevening Scholar, and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from Australian National University. So that makes her better qualified than the PM.
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Score: 3 fotonut 1:28 PM on 14/02/2015
custard666 doom, doom, doom. Hanrahan has nothing on you and the other coalition luvvies…either blame, blame, or doomsday just around the corner.
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Score: 3 antigramp 2:01 PM on 14/02/2015
The ink is scarcely dry on the new Premier’s commission, and we see an LNP stooge making stuff up and trying to make fun of her name… are you sure you have permission to use the computer?
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Well done Ace. I find peter of melbourne abusive and don’t bother with him anymore and custard I refer to as Mr Yellow and Runny and rarely get a reply published to him.
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I didn’t reply to peter of Melbourne. Best to leave him to shoot himself in the foot.. Custard is your typical WA boofhead who on the odd occasion has lucid moments
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There were 8 articles posted today, at The Drum !!!
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Obama is funny. Well he doesn’t have much to do these days 🙂
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/02/13/yolo-obama-poses-selfie-stick-makes-faces-mirror-new-video
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…play the video…
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Abbott sacks Ruddock for not seeing the vote coming. Talk about organising the deck chairs
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Yes, I just read this:
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/us-think-tank-asks-is-tony-abbott-the-most-incompetent-leader-of-any-industrialised-democracy-20150211-13cda6.html
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They see him as the village idiot, a 1950’s man if you like. Of course most the country here can only concur.
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Another despicable man. I hope he disappears from politics for ever. Scot Morrison and he are in the same league.
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No argument there hph, I find him repugnant.
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Abbott proving yet again that he is the Mad Monk – totally lost it. If he keeps this up for another week or two there will be another spill and he will be gone. Combine that with his remarks about the Human Rights Commissioner, the ‘holocaust’ spit etc – what a week.
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He just doesn’t seem to get it. He doesn’t think before he utters anything. But do we really want him gone. I think he should be allowed to go to the next election. It will be a train wreck of NSW 2011 proportions. It will give the LNP the opportunity to hose out the detritus and rebuild. Actually stand for something (not that Labor is much better nowadays).
Yet will Malcolm be any better. There are Liberals that would sooner they lost an election rather than have him lead. Odd really, Bill would have to put some substance to his arguments rather than some of his zingers.
We know Abbott is unfit for the position he holds. The country realises the mistake they’ve made.
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I think Abbott must go one way or the other. Things keep unfolding by the day. Anything can happen.
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Sacking the whip after barely surviving a spill, then bagging a professor of law for publishing her findings, then being publicly berated by the most iconic conservative, Fraser…..
Can’t last long!
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Its the Liberal party they won’t know until they’ve blown both feet off that they should replace him. Problem for them it will be too late.
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Even Malcolm Frazer thinks the government should resign.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-14/malcolm-fraser-attacks-abbott-treatment-human-rights-commission/6098920
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50 shades of grey
Well, well, well. What have we there? Am I right or am I right 🙂
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The funny thing is my replies are not getting thru !
hehe
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” ..It sounds like this is right up your alley. Remember three weeks ago you said “I like it when I cop abuse. It’s fun.” You know you’re kinky when you don’t pass up on an opportunity to tell us how much fun it is when the occasion arises…”
and more such as
“.. what kind of games do you have in mind?..” didn’t get thru !! ..and to the walker as well. (Moderator’s apron must be wet all the time) hehe
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I’m scoring 50/50. ha ha ha !
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you lucky you. I am… 2/50
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Well said Gerard. You are on the front page.
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I replied to you and to kismet but ….
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Ditto.
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Holy cow ! It’s hard to keep track of who is saying what and where with so many articles at the drum.
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Plenty of chatter, not much original thought.
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If there really is only one moderator, it will be interesting to see how long the new one can keep this pace up.
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Opening and closing times for the comments indicate that they didn’t hire another moderator. — budget cuts etc..
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This came past my desk today.
PILLOW TALK:
“Oh I say Queenie, isn’t it jolly dashed decent of that colonial chappie to give me a knighthood?”
“Oh yes rather Philly. Isn’t he the chap the Orstralians say is a badger smuggler.
It makes one think why on earth would one want to smuggle a badger?”
“Oh yes Queenie – it does sound a frightful bore. The dashed thing is that we will have to give him a title in return.”
“I know Philly – we can make him a knight of the order of the Royal Brown Nose.”
“A jolly capital idea Queenie – we can dub him ‘Sir Pository’.”
“Oh that is super Philly – I am slightly amused.”
(letter to the Guardian)
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gbe is going bananas over Turnbull, at the drum !
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I see the boy loving parrot was on Q&A tonight, lots of his incorrect facts emanating from his bowels. Why they would allow someone who enjoys public toilet shenanigans is beyond me. Balance I suppose.
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*boy loving parrot* 🙂
Oh this is a good one Algernon, how do you come up with these? 🙂
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The parrots easy, cast your mind back to him being caught in London.
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Oh! I didn’t know about that London thing ! Maybe my memory is failing me.. This is good. I’ll google it.
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If only he could get his facts and figures right on everything instead of just CSG (important as it is). Talking over and interrupting – someone pointed out he is not on his radio show. Waste of space and time.
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His opinion is worthless, just like Rolf Harris or Garry Glitter for mine. He was chocker block full of incorrect facts, sounded like a smart arse and talked all over the top of all. Jones needs to control the panel better.
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He leads a great tour of the Gentleman’s Conveniences of London.
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I read some very interesting articles about him, about his private school years and early adulthood and his time in London.
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I do believe, from purely anecdotal evidence, that the London gentleman had quite a penchant for young lads, in his teaching years (f*&^ knows what he would have taught).
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My understanding is the charges are only used where under age people were involved. Were he was caught was just outside West End Central police sleep house (which was just across the road from a pub I used to drink at and had friends worked at). A copper who lived there told me of its notoriety. Goodness knows what strings were pulled.
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I don’t think it was only strings that were ‘pulled’.
I have met teachers who work at one of the London Scamp’s former schools. They reckon there are massive files of parent complaints against the man. This may, of course, be pure scuttlebutt!
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I understand that he met with the principal of a school that they were working at and that it was felt that resignation might be the best course of action. It was a football coach I understand.
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Most of this information is in the public domain, yet morons continue to listen to this old cottager.
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Now I understand his anger and bullish behaviour when he is on air. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place because he cannot explain his repressed sexuality with right-wing ideology to his conservative listeners.
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Well they don’t believe that he is. People I knew around the time when it happened stuck their fingers in their ears and blew raspberries. Others point to his charitable work.
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I remember my dear, departed aunt, saying that ‘our Alan’ wouldn’t do that. Her son’s response was that ‘our Alan’ was a well known old queer about Sydney town, and the accusations were entirely plausible.
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Turnbull is a smart cookie. He is a smooth operator. A Machiavellian behind a prince charming persona.
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He is a prince-charming-shark. But, in politics, he doesn’t have the cruel instinct of Morrison or Pyne or Brandis, and of that other one whose uncle was a Nazi…
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Rupert Murdoch 7 hours ago:
Abbott, good guy, not perfect but no case for rebellion. Remember last one gave us Gillard disaster. Country still paying for it.
twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/564177211075608579
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I don’t have a twitter account.
If I had one, would they post it if I tell him where to go 🙂 🙂
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As I’ve said before I want Abbott to stay. Liberals at 36% will be the high water mark for him. A vote for the Liberals in the 20’s will get rid of all that tea party rubbish. Another 18 months of lurching from one disaster to the next
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I mean, if I tell Rupert where to go…
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I don’t have one either hph but I would.. 🙂
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He should stay to confirm his position as worst pm in history.
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I agree Big, He makes Billy big ears look skillful. I mean if they get rid of him that makes him the same as the others (according to Adolf).
We were in the Hunter Valley wineries for the weekend and about 6pm yesterday the place we stayed at slowly started shaking built up then stopped would have been about 20 seconds. Do you know of any reports of earth tremors yesterday.
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No tremors, but a long wall mine, of which there are many, will do that too. Hope you had a great day out. Since the Hunter Motorway opened, we’ve been getting up there for lunch (and purchases!) more frequently.
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Yes I hadn’t though of that. It was a nice weekend. Less than two hours door to door with the new motorway, fantastic stuff no more endless 50ks through Cessnock and the other small towns. Mind you the roads still full of dicks who have no idea of road rules. Yes plenty of purchases as well.
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It’s all up to the Liberal MPs and Senators. I probably agree with you Algy but in my heart I want him gone for the sake of all Australians. He should call a DD but is too gutless. Can we survive another 18 months under Abbott, Hockey et al ? Abbott is incapable of changing his whole modus operandi. Not long to go before we know what’s what and where we go from tomorrow. We live in very interesting times.
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If there is a new leader then they should call a double dissolution. The government simply isn’t working and needs the election to clear the air. However the conservatives are so perverted by power that they won’t. I mean we’re heading for a recession later this year and they only care about holding onto power.
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So the spill is on for Tuesday. Abbott hits the panic button. One sleep to go.
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News article at The ABC:
Arthur Sinodinos declares support for spill motion after Abbott moves meeting forward to Monday
open for comments
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I’ve been following it all. Recorded this morning’s Insiders (brilliant) – clash with car racing. Stacks of stuff everywhere. Loving it.
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Missed Insiders but will watch it later online. Fun time at QandA tomorrow night 🙂
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Saw him this morning on TV. I noticed more lines are appearing on his forehead.
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Yes, forgot about – Q & A should be a doozy.
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I saw it today. Thought Nikki Savva was back to here shitty best. The hypocrisy about this spill was breathtaking.
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I just finished watching it. The Ending was funny. Four funerals and a wedding stuff…
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Yes it was good at the end, very clever
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Note that the Farnsworth article posted late Friday will re-open on Monday. Articles staying open for comment longer than 24 hours. New mod has gone back in time. It’s better.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-06/pm-tony-abbott-facing-leadership-spill-motion/6075470
have your say…
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…still open for comments !
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Lehan Ramsay:
06 Feb 2015 9:59:02am
I would say Turnbull doesn’t want the position. And for good reason.
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Lehan Ramsay:
06 Feb 2015 12:29:10pm
These days everyone just wants to be a ball boy. Better wages. Steady.
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Well done Lehan 🙂
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They are going for a spill. Watch Scott Morrison try and tell us all that he is a human being, should be hilarious.
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Morrison is some sort of reptilian overlord, trying to take control of Australia.
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The guy has the personality of a dead fish and yes I know that’s an insult to dead fish. 🙂
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…and reptilian overlords.
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Finally got a comment up on the Drum , well one early this week. Pity I’ll be offline the rest of the day.
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Found another. So nice to see zing being served up a smorgasbord of shit sandwiches on the Lyndal Curtus blog.
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zing is a nasty person devoid of human compassion.
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zing is a dick
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That’s an insult to dicks 🙂
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The other words I have for zing are not for polite company.
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🙂
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I was going to post this but didn’t think it would make it.
“Hands up the person who has the shortest dick Zing?”
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Yes – Zing and some of the new Lib rostered on mob are increasingly very nasty. As much as I abhor old Trump and Dugong they didn’t resort to such nastiness, such truly horrid comments (surprised the mod lets them though).
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Tried posting as Norman Bates, can’t get through.
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“Love it when people talk science.” This is a very nice comeback, SO. Made me chuckle 🙂
(Article by Alan Kohler)
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Well you did talk sciency terminology – I replied to you, not pocket. Can now see it fits both, just.
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That’s what I mean. It fits the whole thread. Superb.
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Apow did it again in Lyndal Curtis blog. I can’t think of a smarty reply:)
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Someone else has taken to berating ws:
foolking:
05 Feb 2015 1:30:02pm
We come from all ethnicities, I’m all ears but I humbly reserve the right to develop and hold my own changeable opinion. Did you race you comment Waterloo because you didn’t think it would get through, therefore wasn’t worth a better effort?
Although he who walks dogs will probably complain to the ABC for me posting this at the PA.
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Too polite for me
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Of course.
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“He should have listened to compassion instead of compression of workers entitlements.
Not ever did I see Mt Abbott in an art gallery or in front of bookshelves or talk about soul, spirit or beauty. Why is that?”
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well said Gerard
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Yes, well said, deserves a knighthood.
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Is anything wrong with this sentence? : “Tony Abbot is trying to fix a leak in the dam by putting his finger in the hole but small cracks have already appeared in the wall.”
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Yes, Abbott has two T’s. 🙂
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hph leads off on Annabel Crabb’s article. This is truly a great week for the Pigsarms.
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actually, I posted it to another article but the mods blocked it, so tried it again in Annabel’s blog.
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It doesn’t matter mate, Viv a few weeks ago then us, The Pigsarms is on the rise, first the Drum then the world….
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The new moderator is doing things differently. So far, not too bad.
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Just makes you winder Viv how they had to correct themselves from all of that right wing garbage that was being posted.
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Well done hph. I think it is easier to fix one hole that a pile of cracks. The cracks spread and get bigger. Can Australia survive this for another 18 months? Can someone find a paddle for that canoe?
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It really needs a double dissolution to clear the air. This LNP hasn’t got a clue on how to govern.
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I thought a good one hph. I replied with a tongue in cheek comment regarding Abbott staying on as he was doing a good job for the LNP
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That’s a good strategy too, Algernon. The longer he stays, the more he becomes a clown — same as Berlusconi.
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Stuffed Olive:
04 Feb 2015 11:34:11am
It’s closer to a 25% cut DIM (another apt pseud). It all adds up year upon year. Maths never was a LNP skill.
[Good one Viv, got him a bewdy]
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I had to correct it. I had always thought the cut was 5% pa each year. But it still comes close to 10%. But I must add that the comments are giving me the shits. They keep blaming Labor – for shit’s sake, who is the government. The pity was that Labor never cottoned on to the unsustainable income tax cuts which effed up the balance sheet for good. Swan just ‘copped it on the chin’.
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Hung One On leads off on a Mungo piece at the Dump…
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Kiaola comes 3rd at Terang delivering Hung $1.30 in return, oh yes, this is going to be a good day.
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Taree Race 8, Shazza’s Bubbles nets Hung $1.20, glorious and some may say marvelous.
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DocMercury is back at the Drum and making no sense as usual, oh yes
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Oh c’mon…he does…:)
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I replied to postchick but the mods did not put it up!
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Yeah, I told post chick that she was a fucking idiot and it didn’t get up, can you believe that.
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Nice work, Hung, I can’t get a comment up at the Bum, but I’ve been blogging as joehockeyscigar, so maybe not.
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You’re doing well, Hung.
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On a roll young fella, cross between sleep deprivation and alcohol
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Yes, sleep deprivation and alcohol…I can empathise.
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HPH:
03 Feb 2015 1:59:02pm
To Megamouse:
So you are a staunch LNP supporter but you will never vote LNP again while he remains Prime Minister. The Problem with people such as yourself is that you have no idea what you are voting for – the policies or the man. Answer this question first: Are you supporting the LNP policies or not? Tony Abbott was a bad salesman. Right? So he couldn’t sell the snake oil to the people and you are sore because of his incompetence?
!!!
[Take a bow young fella, well said]
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Waterloo Sunset 2016dd:
03 Feb 2015 12:20:14pm
I see Gary Bullock is in changes in QLD now!
Nothing changes with The ALP.
It’s as predictable as the phases of the moon. just as the debt ramp-up will be.
Ho hum, I think that I’ll toddle off for a round the world vacation. Coming back when sanity prevails, and they get rid of my depreciating assets, in a sale.
Of course nobody will want to buy them in 20 years when we have solar electricity battery storage in our homes.
The blind, leading the blind.
[Talk about classic comments]
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posted this at Annabel’s blog but it didn’t get up!
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Captain Tony Abbott will be forced to walk the plank following the Queensland disaster.
In the National Press Club Address we heard a desperate speech from a politically drowning man. He says we are on a journey. What journey? The LNP ship hit the rocks. When the captain decided to navigate a course set by The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), it was bound to happen eventually. He says he didn’t come into politics to be popular. He said, “I came into politics to do the right thing for Australia.” What he actually means is that he wants to do the right thing for the big end of town.
And for the Privateers on board: the sad truth about the current status of the ship is that it is taking on water and listing. Unfortunately, having a different captain at the helm is not going to prevent it from sinking slowly and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
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Hey Hung, this is unfair! You are getting posted, I am getting shafted. What is your secret?
🙂
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Hung is just so good looking!
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Finally I can agree with you Sister
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I’m cute in text
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You are definitely cute today, Hung.
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It came up just as I was turning computer off for the day. Everyone has covered it well – unanimous as to how useless and boring and insulting the whole ‘speech’ was. Gawd it was bloody awful.
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In one week Viv, Tony will change a lifetime, this is bliss.
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