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 
SM, your reply says more about you and your misplaced pride than about Gerard. The way I look at it, we all are citizens of this world. We help suffering people because we are compassionate human beings. Not because we are Australian or Dutch or Buddhist or whatever…
ABC didn’t post this. You’re lucky.
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Whats the country coming to. Barking Barney a breath away from being PM. Ruddock a special envoy on human rights and Who was it the the canoe man becoming the High Commissioner to Hong Kong. That after windbag heads to Washington.
Our hot air balloon of a PM is treating us with contempt. Not to mention the international community. He has no choice with barking one. but the others are an insult.
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It’s like a movie or two I’ve seen. But it’s effing real.
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Another clown resigns, others think its time to go. The tories are rats of the sinking ship. Maybe the electorate is waking up to the fact that Malcolm’s just another one legged arse kicker.
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Goh popped up twice on the piece on Ruddock’s appointment. I posted 3 but none made it yesterday. Comments all gone the usual disgusting way.
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Yes I saw that yesterday. As for the posts that didn’t make, well, I posted 5 on the same page and the result was ZERO! My serious posts are deliberately blocked. I wonder WHY
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No luck today. I had one very good and informative comment on privatisation which didn’t see the light of day. Stuff I’m learning from Keating.
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Hah !
They must be reading this page, Vivienne, 🙂 because as soon as I posted the above comment, a comment I posted at the drum appeared (bottled air stuff)
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Always the way. Bastards. Turning off.
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4 out of 10 for me, It is frustrating. Try again tomorrow, Vivienne.
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3 out of 11 today
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Love this poster on Verrender’s piece: darthseditious:
08 Feb 2016 12:50:26pm
Because, FGR, we as a society decided that healthcare should be available for all, regardless of the individual situation. Something that selfish jerks like you seem to overlook. Gods, the unceasing whinging coming from the ultra right on the ABC is starting to make my head hurt. Moderators you have to do a lot better. Start by reading the ABC charter which calls on you to support unbiased reporting and interactions then try to put a shunt valve down on some of the more detestable pests which lurk around here. FFS, you have a duty to those who really own the ABC – the Australian people, not to the government of the day. Start growing a pair.
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Yes, today Alfie called someone a village idiot. Stayed up for a while. My comment about Alfie being a nasty little man didn’t get through, but, then again, the entire thread was taken down.
The place is full of fuckwits who DON’T want universal healthcare, or a National Disability Scheme. I wonder what sort of help they would expect from the gummint if they were unlucky enough to receive a (another!) brain injury and sat around in wheelchairs pissing and shitting themselves?
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They’d be the first to put their hands up for NDIS funding. They take everything they can get their hands on and keep very quiet about it all.
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I missed that one Big M. Yep, the place AND the ABC is full of f******s. I got 2 out of 4 today. Well said darth.
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Today Ben is parading as Big Ben, on his usual anti-anti-smoking rant. He’s probably got cerebral ischaemia from all of the smoking!
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Oh, I missed that too !… I have to check it out later.
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‘Action and Reaction’ was not me. 🙂
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Big Ben was a strong onanist today
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Algy, you are going to confuse Alfie with them big Old Testament words!
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I recall R Supwood calling Alfie an onanist and he said he didn’t know what it meant. Guess he still doesn’t
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I laughed and laughed at RS surreptitiously calling Alf a wanker. I think I wrote as much a few hours later, but poor old Alf was too busy shining shoes, or selling pies, or whatever he does in his business empire.
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So did I Big
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Just sums up what we all think.
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I have the right to make sarcastic comments, ABC. Do you hear me ABC?,,,Hello?..
At greg barns’ article ..2 comments not published
1) I agree Chubblo. I’d like to nominate The Hon Scott Morrison instead. And outsource the treasury department to Goldman Sachs
2) What did you expect Dove? It’s always been like that. High profile appointment or High profile position in the private sector after politics.
grrrr….GRRRRRR…. 🙂
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The ABC loves mr Turn-bullshit artist. By default, mr Ruddock too !
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I think that Ruddock may have been a well meaning bloke, but after a lifetime in the Libs, he’s become another prick. Someone on that story suggested that retiring politicians go to some sort of work rehabilitation scheme, not real work, and not for real money.
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Fudge! I can’t even make a dent today!
Zero out of 6 comments !! wtf !
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He was a conniving shit Big M. Shafted a friend of mine, when he changed seats. His old man was a pillar of the party, not that that means much
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He is a despicable sneaky sly snake. In the same category as Scott Morrison.
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Let me know what you really think, lads!
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🙂
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Indeed Big. He should have retired years ago. Now if the senile helicopter pilot and the turd would do the same thing.
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They have a stellar line up!
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I see Dr B S Goh is having a bit of a go at you HPH. Wonder what the B S stands for, claims he did his PHD in Rocket Science, so I guess bullshit.
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It’s the other way around, Algernon. I started with him yesterday:) He is another bullshit artist.
A Rocket Scientist…Gimme a break!
If his brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow his hat off.
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Yes he seems to be an artist of the bovine manure kind. Perhaps he sculpts with it. I suspect his PHD might be more along the line of onanism and its effects.
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An old physician (who had all of these qualifications) once told me that BS(c) = Bullshit, MBBS (medical degree in most countries) = Much Better Bullshit, and PhD = Piled high and Deep.
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Check out scholar.google.com/citations. There is Dr BS Goh and he is widely published and cited in rocket science and mathematics of population . A work he produced in 1966 was cited in a paper on sustainable fisheries in 2005. So it seems his ideas have some resonance.
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I could blog as Dr Albert Einstein, doesn’t mean thats who I really am. I could just be plagiarizing.
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Hello Sea Monster 🙂
Big deal! .. Have you met the man? How do you know Dr BS is not a bullshit artist? And you are the one accusing others with conspiracy bullshit!!! Hah!
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I could also point out that over time the site encourages the use of appropriate nicknames and the use of pseudos. It also discourages the use of actual names. It may be Dr B S Goh who appears to be at a university at Sarawak in Malaysia or was it Xidian University in China. This one though has made claims in the past that they were living in Australia.
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Bean San Goh, maths stuff, visiting prof at Curtin. Whatever, he’s a dickhead.
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Curtin uni has a campus in Sarawak. Co-author of a chapter here and there repeating much the same stuff solving equations.
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Unless I know them they could be anyone. I agree vivienne, he’s a pompous dickhead. I have my doubts he is who he says he is.
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True, he could be anyone and just found an interesting name to use. Either way, when commenting on a blog/Drum using one’s academic qualification is irrelevant unless the topic is rocket science or maths. If he is a fully engaged visiting prof he should have no spare time to be commenting on the Drum. If he has something important to contribute he should be writing articles for publishing on the Drum. Instead he is just trying to assist in justifying our appalling treatment of a small number of asylum seekers. (I can never reconcile this with the 200,000 economic migrants we take every year, now our now belated compassion for 12,000 Syrians who will underdo the slowest most selective choosing process invented.)
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Agree he seems to comment enough, more often than me and I’m no Professor. These blogs are nothing more than ones opinion you’d like to think those who comment though are intelligent however.
I get cheesed off with the economic migrants that are allowed in. Bring in $x and we’ll give you citizenship. Yet show some compassion and these people are all sorts of things, disease carrying vermin if you listen to the right wing nutters. The 12000 a odd number, big son and dance about the first 40 then silence. Now its background check yada yada yada. The real number will probably be 120.
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Algernon, Vivienne, I love Mathematics. I have always been interested in mathematics and science. I was good at maths when I was at uni. But now, in my old age, my mind has slowed down a lot, which is only natural. The best years for the study of mathematics and mathematical discoveries are between the ages of 15 and 25. After 25, you are either an academic lecturing students or working in the private sector applying already known theorems where they are needed.
Having said this, today I checked this Dr B S Goh’s stuff. What he does is, he is using mathematical functions to create models.
Creating mathematical models to describe the population growth of species, the interaction of species, the impact of species on the environment and the impact of the changing environment on the species, is fine…. this is science.
But what he did is purely for academics to look at and to ponder. It is pure mathematical jargon. You, I, a layman or a politician would not understand anything from his work.
We all know Newton’s third law of motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When species act, nature reacts. Alternatively: when nature acts, species react. This is an ongoing process. (By “nature” I mean, and, refer to, its simplest form: air, water and soil. I excluded living organism form ‘nature’ for the sake of making this point.)
The other day, I asked a question at the Drum. If people fell trees on the slope of a hill and then the hill slides to bury people, is it a natural disaster? The scenario I described in this question is an example of how nature reacts to man’s action.
And now, I ask this question: What is man’s action? And for what purpose, this action takes place?
This is a philosophical question. Not a scientific question.
But here is the crunch: Dr B S Goh is right wing. Ask him about “greed”. He doesn’t want to hear this question. He is looking at species and the environment from a Business School perspective – purely from an Economic perspective – He is a person most interested in his own well-being, A selfish dingle-dork.
If he claims to be what he is, his Phd maths studies models and all that jazz means nothing to me.
A Rocket Scientist…Gimme a break !
He is, what Vivienne said above. 🙂
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He comments at The Australian and Sydney Herald websites:
Dr B S Goh says:
Wed 16 Jul 14 (10:46pm)
Currently Australia’s annual CO2 emission is about 1.3% of Global Total. In absolute terms in the in the past 20 years Australia’s annual CO2 emission has been stable at less than 580m tons. But in recent years the annual INCREASES of China’s CO2 emission has been greater than 700m tons. Thus over 50 years’ time framework Australia’s CO2 emission is irrelevant. Australia is also a very expensive country for any actions taken against global warming.
The only relevant Performance Index to measure any policy is Annual GLOBAL TOTAL CO2 EMISSION. Australia’s annual CO2 emission is a small and fast diminishing component of this index.
Why have almost all the professors and other academics who claim to be experts in policy making to fight global warming not realize the failure of their assumptions in defining policies for the Greens and ALP? Sadly so. Ah yes all the Wall Street Executives also failed to understand that the assumptions behind the Li Copula Maths formula which was used to value trillions of dollars worth of shonky derivatives were invalid. Reality caught up and created GFC.
The logical cost effective strategy for Australia to fight global warming is to do joint R&D;with China and India in nuclear energy and renewable energies with the aim to moderate the CO2 emission of these two Asian giants with rapidly increasing CO2 emission. Australia should do NOTHING within Australia. We have been distracted by feel good moral hypes from the Greens and ALP.
A measurable amount of China’s CO2 emission is owned by Australia. We buy lots of goods from China and CO2 are emitted in making them. We export lots of coal and iron ore etc which produce CO2.
Logically we need to think GLOBAL to fight Global warming.
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“Paul Ehrlich is visiting Australia and giving lectures on the Population Bomb for the World. Australia is distracted by the politically correct obsession with global warming which at best is the no 4 global problem. The No 1 global problem is the continued global population growth.
Each four months the increase in global population is greater than the total population of Australia.
The continued global population is the greatest threat to the security of Australia. By 2050 there will be severe famines and wars in Asia. Australia is at risk of being swamped by a tsunami if millions of baotpeople when that happens.”
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There was an article at The Conversation a couple of years back, on cycling safety and the sorts of things that govt/councils can do to improve uptake/safety/etc.
BS Goh, Australian in Asia commented that gaming theory dictates that it would be safer to cycle on the wrong side of the road?? A number of commenters asked whether he had ever ridden a bike on the wrong side of the road, and, if so, how would he handle left turns against the flow of traffic, and without the benefit of traffic lights, etc. He reiterated over and over that gaming theory dictates….
BS Goh, Australian in Asia seems to have time to comment on every forum from the Drum, to the Conversation, to the Canberra Times, and more.
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Have just had a week in Asia I can tell you it is entirely possible to ride a bike on the wrong side of the road and negotiate left hand turns against the flow of traffic.
However, let’s face it as you say Big M, BS Goh seems to comment on every fora in the country. He seems to have an extraordinary amount of time for this. Bit like businessmen like Alfie. You’d have to question what those who employ him think of his spending so much time commenting on these fora, if in fact it is the same BS Goh.
I question whether this BS Goh and the Professor are the same person.
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Traffic in Asia is different, Algernon. I saw that if you ride an elephant on the wrong side of the road, everyone gets out of your way. 🙂
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They seem to have people with whistles directing people out of car parks. There’s no giving way to the right though for all its chaos its all ordered. Cars or bikes will just nudge their way forward forcing all other traffic to stop. Footpaths are just another place for the bikes to use. No accidents just the odd little love tap.
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Never been there, but I’ve clocked up 1000s of kms in Australia, and there’s no way I would ride against the traffic!
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Thinking global must mean Australia does it bit too. On BSGoh’s reckoning no country the size of Australia should do a thing which means that probably half of the world should do nothing ! He’s nuts as well as a dickhead.
Riding a bike on the wrong side of the road was feasible back in the 50s. Do that on a country road now and you’re sure to be dead in a short time. Or lying in a ditch.
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Funny, he didn’t participate in the conversation at ‘CSIRO cuts’ blog. But this doesn’t mean he wasn’t there under a different screen name.
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Oh, I think he keeps his Goh pseud. Just couldn’t come up with anything to say. He is so insincere – world population I believe is already stabilising. He has no answer as to how to reduce it to save the planet either. The answer of course is always education. ISIS and co busily fighting against education. Let’s keep tabs on Goh just for fun.
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will do:)
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Might be time to question he? it’s real or not.
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Poor Sea Monster! I hope you’re reading this.
Here is a fine example from Ben.
abc.net.au/news/2016-01-26/berg-there-is-much-to-celebrate-on-australia-day/7113160
The Yank and Ben are having a conversation about smoking tobacco. The Yank thinks it is bad because it causes cancer. Ben thinks it is his right to smoke and get cancer. Then The Yank says:
“Have fun in the cancer ward, I hear its a barrel of laughs in there. But wait, you’ll run through your tax contributions quick enough and be onto mine and every other non smoker.”
And this is Ben’s response to The Yank:
Ben Nallay:
26 Jan 2016 5:50:04pm
Thanks yank. I wish you and your children all the worst luck in the World too, and hope you all get cancer and die, in return for your cursing me so vehemently for no reason at all.
Have a nice day.
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This guy is a cuckoo 🙂
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I was gobsmacked that, someone would be such an arsehole that they would write this, and that the immoderate moderators would publish it.
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There is a lot to be said about moderation at The ABC. It’s not ‘moderation’ moderation anymore. And ‘moderators’ are not moderators. They are more like ‘puppet masters’. I noticed that they are playing one person(s) against another depending on the political colour (flavour) of the day/week, to paint their version of the ‘big picture’. Hence, their version will exclude from this picture, your facts and figures which are significant to establish the truth. At the same time they will include cuckoo entertainment to fill up the space and deliver the usual bunfight among the participants. And it’s going to get worse in the future once the new Head Director walks in.
I’ve given up providing facts and figures. They won’t publish it. Sometimes I post relevant information. Other times, I piss on them.
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Called their bluff and in a very short time I got this up – nearly fell of chair. I was referring to CP’s insane rant.
Jean Oliver:
04 Feb 2016 2:50:29pm
Yeah, freedom write a baseless teacher/union/Labor bashing article full of insults. CP is allowed to stretch and break the rules and the mods turn a blind eye and this happens frequently. I’ve posted factual non-ranting comments and replies which never see the light of day yet more snarly responses are let through. I think the mods are brown-nosing the Liberal bosses.
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Followed up by: Miowarra: (it’s on We can’t afford to….
04 Feb 2016 3:07:29pm
That’s become evident over the past year, Jean
That’s why I’ve reduced my attempts to contribute.
Eventually, this forum looks to going the same path as other originally neutral and unbiassed forums and be swamped by the rantings from the Right.
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Well said Vivienne.
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At Zika virus blog…
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What I think:
03 Feb 2016 3:51:41pm
Well I made a VERY long response to one of your other comments, and, as yet, the ABC has not posted it. Until the ABC starts playing fair, I don’t see how we can progress this debate. Maybe, through some kind of FOI request, I can find out what they did with my other post.
See Ben, neither you nor I knows (unless you work for the ABC) who is sitting in there pressing all the little buttons (Hello Moderator!!!). By choosing which of one’s comments to let pass, and which to cut out, they can help to form a profile for a contributor. They can choose to put all the ones in that make a person look unreasonable etc, and omit the ones that are perfectly sensible, can’t they moderator???
Now, I have little vanity. I have nothing to lose and nothing to gain from anything I say, although I try to make my point as well as I can, given the constraints of time. I am happy for my comment to be argued with and I may well learn something else if someone answers me well. I would like my ‘long post’ to be put in please. It holds my views and I haven’t sworn or insulted anyone any more than they have insulted me. If there are members of the public who don’t like my views, well let them put their case and let’s see…
Now, maybe some born again Christian or good old time Christian has his/her fingers on the button in there. Maybe someone who is very highly connected to some kind of politician or other is in there…I don’t know.
Let’s roll the dice and don’t assume that we will all be nice.
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..and this one..
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What I think:
03 Feb 2016 4:14:37pm
Nope, I just checked and they didn’t put it in, Ben. So there we are. I don’t even have a copy of what I said in the post they didn’t put up so I can’t even post it to you.
Incidentally, by speaking about people sitting on the Drum all day, are you referring to yourself? You probably have as many posts in here as anyone. I say things in here because I think it is important to argue one’s point of view, especially when dealing with idiots.
I speak English English, not Latin English and I looked up my old-fashioned Webster’s Dictionary and it says foetus (‘es’ plural). It also says you can spell it fetus (singular), so there you are.
Sorry I didn’t take Latin at school, but I probably had better things to do with my time.
PS. The ABC shouldn’t feel safe that I won’t try to find out who the Hell sits in there with their fingers on the button. I think we have a right to know. However, the chances are that I will be too lazy to bother.
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As I said before, frigging ABC ..
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Know the feeling. Ben gets a million posts up, so WTF ?
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Ben is high on a cocktail of Tofranil, Zonalon, Luvox, Buproban, Paxil, Elavil and Prozac today.:))
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Yes I see he’s got his bowels working overtime today. The mods need to do their job.
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The mods are enjoying the smell of ben’s poop.
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I’ve just sat down at the computer to view today’s offerings from the ABC. It’s essentially just a spray from Ben’s Anus.
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Just what you are used to Sister.
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Today, R Supwood reminded Ben to pop his pills and not to “polish” too much. 🙂 When I went back to copy and paste it here the comment was removed. The mods are protecting Ben.
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Which is amazing considering the huge number of inappropriate, nasty and senseless comments they allow up. Many of my responses to comments made to me don’t get up. They’re creeps.
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When I see an idiot reply to your initial comment in a thread and then there is no more follow up from you, somehow I sensed that they were blocking your replies too, Vivienne. Your comments are always logical, relevant and deserved to be published. Yes…creeps.
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Agree on that one hph
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Mark, I’m banned from replying to ‘certain people.’ You’ve said that you’ve given up. Don’t give up yet buddy. Get in there and slap them in the back of the head. They deserve it. Maybe you’ll have a better chance.
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Thanks hph. I have started up again as Sir Hung One On OCD and have got a few up. Cheers.
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Yes, I saw it the other day. 🙂
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Yes I love Supwood’s work, has a wonderful way with words. Ben on the other hand has two mouths both attached to his bum.
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I find this Ben Nalley business more difficult to comprehend than Tony Abort’s position on bicycle charity ride rorts, I mean funding.
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You’re funny. I know you are reading this Sea Mendez.. The fact that you can not let go and forget the past is a further confirmation that you’re still full of hate, anger and poison because what I’ve speculated before must have been true. Enjoy the circus. 🙂
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Here’s my effort on Surely it’s a …..
Jean Oliver:
27 Jan 2016 12:21:58pm
The ABC and Fairfax have done no such thing Petrus. Stop making stuff up. Tragically it was Rudd’s policy on asylum seekers which stopped the boats – adopted by Abbott who also threw in illegally towing boats back (hijacking them and illegally entering Indonesian waters). The reason we don’t have Europe’s problems is that we are not in Europe.
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Tina:
27 Jan 2016 1:54:26pm
“…The reason we don’t have Europe’s problems is that we are not in Europe…”
I beg to differ, Jean. The reason we don’t have Europe’s problems is because of the current border protection policy including turning back the people smuggling boats. Had Labor been still in power, by now we would have million boat people on our streets and the sexual harassment of our women on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne. Please recognize the facts and give the due credit to those who were not afraid to take fight with the powerful media to ensure safety of our women and children.
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Jean Oliver:
27 Jan 2016 3:50:51pm
Beg all you like Tina but it was Rudd who stopped the ‘boat people’ and Gillard was already locking them up on Nauru and Manus. A million in the streets hey – I think you’ve lost the plot in your adoration of Abbott but I guess it takes all kinds as they say.
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Tina T:
27 Jan 2016 6:45:46pm
“… it was Rudd who stopped the ‘boat people’ …”
Short memories Jean?! Everyone will tell you that it was Rudd who ‘opened the floodgates’. He is the one who dismantled the successful Howard’s border protection policies. Have you already forgotten that over 50,000 illegal boat people were brought to our shores by the people smuggling criminal network?!
I understand your political leaning and your desire to give some credit to ‘your political side’. However, you cannot deny the facts.
Next time try some other political subject where the facts are not so obvious.
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Jean Oliver:
28 Jan 2016 8:23:51am
Not denying any facts Tina just pointing out your omission in your own political leanings as well as the absurdity of your million boat people whom you say would be here on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney over the last two years. When you stick your toe in to the comments its better to deal in facts and not fiction.
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Gee delusion is strong for Tina isn’t it. We’re Europe apparently and a million coming. Frightening people believe this sort of rubbish. They walk amongst us and they vote.
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Yes, they are everywhere, and there delusion is unbreakable.
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Tina is a dingle-dork. 🙂
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Ben the brainless us having a dig a government sector workers ruining the lives of those like him again. He’s a fool.
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This was the response to Ben’s bile today:
‘Ben Nallay:
27 Jan 2016 5:04:10pm
“These people are women and children who have had to flee the family home due to domestic violence, ”
Read ’em and weep, lads. There’s your answer. More mouthes sucking on the udders of the sacred Taxpayer cow.
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Christian Brother:
27 Jan 2016 5:49:11pm
No wonder your wife went crazy living with you in the same house. Yesterday I saw your comment to someone, wishing he and his children would die of cancer. You’re insane. Seek help in one of our public hospitals, for free.
Peace.
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See a couple of others gave him a much deserved swipe. Amazing the mods keep publishing ben’s bile.
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Against there own house rules I’ll add.
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He accused government sector workers of being low lifes and sexual deviants. The mods allowed it. I tolf him he was a buffoon. Also acused me of wasting time on goverment funded internet. Had to point out I’m on holiday and pay for mu own. He has some serious mental issues.
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Ben just keeps digging, doesn’t he? Seems to hate all public servants, health care workers, women, homosexuals…he must be running out of people.
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He appears to be an Olympic onanist.
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Both hands on the pole.
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A gold medalist whatsmore.
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kih kih guess who that was:))))))))
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Nice work..no wonder his wife left him!!!!
I laughed and laughed.
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Yes what big m said. I had a goof chuckle. Tells me he’s a KGB agent. Killer Goose Bogan possibly. I don’t get why he is given such latitude there. Writes crap and gets a good kicking every day.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-25/australian-of-the-year-david-morrison/7113086
Oh for fuck sake. All that good work with Rose Batty, now another fucking army moron, sorry.
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The tories love their military men
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I’m sure he is a good guy Ace but me I’m sick of military people getting all the accolades to be honest.
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I’ll bet it’s cheaper to give an award to a bloke who spoke out against domestic violence than it is to fund facilities that support victims of DV.
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Agree with both of you.
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At least he is a republican. Going to be interesting.
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Yes there could be some momentum on the Repubic viv. The monarchists from ACM will carry on about the hijacked referendum in 1999 and how decisive it was. They’re like conservatives; heads firmly rammed up a certain orifice.
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Just got the same post up twice. No failures today. Must be the Indonesian connection. Just waiting for the rain to stop before going out.
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‘Had Costello been in charge during GFC he’d have been there with the empty water hose wondering if he should use it with the fire storm going past him.’ Classic, Algy.
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I tried to post one serious comment today….just one comment, at the Fifa Blatter blog. Frigging ABC blocked it.
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…Yet they allow this one thru:
Jack II:
25 Jan 2016 6:15:51pm
The inherent FIFA corruption and nepotism only shows how multiculturalism is a very real threat to civil society and organisational governance.
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frigging logic !!!
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There are some complete foolsvout there today the all knowledgeable The Owl is an expert on Bennelong apparently. Twists what he read in a book.
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I see Lynton Crosby has been made Expatriate Australian of the year in London by Lord Pottymouth. That after the Conservatives made him a Sir. How far up their bums to these Tories stick their heads. Seriously what on earth of vslue had he provided to receive such accolades.
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Yes, I read that this morning. The conservatives gave him a title after he worked for the party, and was paid multi millions. I always thought that one was supposed to have made a considerable contribution to society as a whole to deserve such an award. Then again, the price of a knighthood in Queensland was a $50000 donation to the lib/nats.
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Services to the party. Nothing of benefit to the real community. They love their little boubles don’t they.
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Yes and of course it is totally disgusting. Services to the Party.
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You could almost describe him as being a modern day Groom of the Stool.
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‘Groom of the Stool’, priceless.
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Very sought after position apparently Big M, the Kings arse wiper. They handed out Knighthoods and Earldoms for them.
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I think we are getting weaned off the Drum. No comments.
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I have given up now Viv.
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What I learned today: Ben thinks his IQ is 163,he enjoys heat waves, and ‘swims like a fish’. Nothing else seemed to be of any importance.
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What sort of fish Big, a blind mullet possibly
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He got a walloping. Comments up but wonder for how long. We are getting some steady rain, light but still coming down since 9 am. Wetter elsewhere further south.
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Yes, blind mullet, North Head Sewage Treatment Works style.
Of course he got a walloping, he’s a self absorbed dick.
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Which blog was it?
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Global warming, hence the inane reference to him liking heat waves!
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Ben doesn’t talk to me anymore. 😦 He’s pissed off with me; since our last conversation in December. 🙂 Made a fool of himself this week. Poor guy.
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I suspect that Ben may be mentally ill, in all seriousness, but it doesn’t make for good blogging on a public forum.
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Big M, he has some serious mental problems; there is no doubt about it. I could see it in his comments last year. When he appeared first time on the Drum, I thought he was a bit eccentric but later on I realised he is not playing with a full deck. He mentioned a few times that he is dependent on drugs. A cocktail of legal and illegal chemicals got his wires crossed for sure. The funny thing is, the ABC moderators are very generous to him. Perhaps they are on drugs too 🙂
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Clearly, but, as you say, the mods give him plenty of leeway, more than many others.
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They don’t seem to give the piggies any leeway why should they give Ben any. Chilling in Bali, maybe they’ll be lenient for a comment ftom overseas
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Yes, last year he was whining about being poor after holidaying in Bali. Makes no sense.
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Bali expensive?!? It’s cheap. Took Mrs A out for her birthday at a very nice restaurant for about 1/3rd of what it would cost at home. I guess with Bens IQ of 163 maths eould be his long suite.
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Nice work, Algernon, but it should be too expensive for a bloke who claims that he is living on twelve bucks a month! Hope you Algernonia are having a great time.
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The younger and junior are with us. The elder revelling in having the house to herself. Here for a week.
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Ben’s effort today makes me think that he is completely stupid, rather than mentally ill. Why do the Mods let him hijack the comments so he can roll out his personal theory about why smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer.
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Yes they seem to be turning them on and off regularly.
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I’ve been to town and back and it’s off again. I do think they owe an explanation. And, that bloody you said it still sits there the same since early December. Ridiculous.
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What’s with the mods and the Rules – just reading comments on Mungo’s piece. Full of bile.
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Comment of the week:
‘Gary Giftbox:
12 Jan 2016 5:51:02pm
Jar-jar Binks was actually a rather clever parody on a previous onion-muncher Oz Prime Minister .
The loose-limbed swaggering walk, the incomprehensible blather (“Meesa suppository of awl Wisden”) and the total dedication to his own interest at the expense of everybody about him, followed by a perfunctory admission of fault which did nothing whatsoever to either alleviate the harm caused nor make the affected parties feel any better about his errors.
I’m very glad that we will not see his like again – in film or elsewhere.’
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Good one.
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Looks like Grant is the new Lardo this week, prolific poster, jumps to a lot of conclusions
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What topic Algy. I just see too many idiots condoning and defending dumb stupid pollies and cricketers.
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I see – Poor Start
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Though I never call MPs public servants. They are elected representatives and their conditions are special and totally different to the PS. I expect a higher standard of conduct from all of them.
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Well being an elected member is a public service, but I take your point. The same rules should apply. I’m not a public servant but a government sector worker. If I did what Briggs did I’d be marched to the door, if I used a work computer or work mobile to do what Dutton did, I’d also be marched to the door. For mine Briggs must resign his seat and I’d also be bring in the AFP for the leaking to the press. Dutton should at least quit the ministry given his track record or should be sack. I doubt waffle a lot has the balls to do that.
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Mal ‘golden shit shovel’ bullturner was ready to root out and discipline leakers in the party on Monday. Now Dutton’s pissed all over the busted tap and not a word from our fearless PM.
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Guess he doesn’t want to touch anything, never know what he’ll pick up. Turdball will be nothing more than a smiling talking head leading open war fare until the next election.
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On the Gayle blog vivienne, Counted 25 out of 109 posts when I posted that it’s now 39 out of 484. He had a dig at me yesterday too in a response to the dog walker. Pointed out I’d known him for about eight years at The Drum and elsewhere. He came in half cocked on something he didn’t understand.
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Because he’s an anus, that’s why 🙂
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Halfcocked anus, the worst kind.
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What the dog walker or Grant. Grant is very much a dick. I guess being holiday time many have time on their hands. Yes I know they look all but one could comment here but won’t.
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Grant is Half…. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Who the f&@k is Grant?
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Semi Grant.
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Or a colon!
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Do you have any idea of what to do with a light bulb with no user manual, one going cheap!!
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Do you know how many it takes to change one.😃
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Couldn’t find that one.
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Gran is Tabanus — using a different screen name
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No idea, Mark. That’s catch-22 🙂
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So Grant, Lardo and Tabanus are the same?
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I think so Algernon, but I am only assuming. Vivienne may have an idea as well.
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Same argumentative rot. Quite likely.
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Posters seem to have plenty of time to keep posting on an item they regard as a ‘non-event’. I did try hard to offend someone under a pseud, but the person in question is un-offendable!
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Yes it looks, Algernon.
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He’s at it again and you’ve got a good response to him. I’ve posted 3 and can’t score one look in. The moderator is bonkers.
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I didn’t post much today five in total two not up. You’d think the penny might drop with the mods wouldn’t you especially when you’re are quoting their own rules to them.
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Vivienne, last 15 weeks I tried to post approximately 350 comments and replies. Maybe 60-80 of them went up during that time. – Frustrating – That’s why at one stage I didn’t come to PA as well.
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http://www.pigrambrothers.com.au/
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I watched the program the other day. Good stuff.
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Signing in again.
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Ditto.
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You’ve been a bit quite lately HOO. Pretty close to you birthday isn’t it. Anyhow nice to hear from you again.
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So busy Ace, can’t scratch myself at the moment. Birthday yesterday. Cheers.
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Thought it was. Happy Birthday for yesterday. a year in front again.
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Happy Birthday, young bloke.
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Happy birthday for Tuesday. Hope you ate or did something nice HOO.
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Happy birthday Mark. What presents did you get? 🙂
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Thanks one and all. Had a fabulous day and as usual the family showered me with gifts and hph a close family member gave me a light bulb but with no user manual. 🙂
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He’s a generous bugger that hph HOO. Fancy not giving you the manual.
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You have to wonder what certifief practising arseholes we have running this country. Here we have a public servant making an alleged sexual harassment claim. After covering it up for five weeks the Minister resigns.
Today apparently in th Moron press images of the women are release pixellated. Not only that her degree, age a position are also released. The prawn brain education minister defends the governments handling and praises Briggs. I pity his wife and children.
What a complete lack of morals and ethics from this lot. Time someone grew a pair.
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As usual there is a statement about ‘making a mistake’, ‘owning up to said mistake’, and moving on”. If it were a Labor minister (or a Speaker who is no longer a member of the Libs) they would rake over it for months. My only surprise is that the person lodging the complaint is female!
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The prick distributed photos that “somehow” managed to make the press. What grub distributed them to the press. This person who his colleagues suggests has so much to offer should resign his seat.
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They’re all arseholes but Briggs is now one of the biggest competing with Dutton.
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Yes Mr Potato head thinks calling women witches is perfectly Ok between mates; a little bit of robust banter between mates. What will Malcolm do leave it a few weeks and say that he’s a naughty boy.
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It seems the usual suspects of the right have no problems with Duttons language or Briggs behavior. Their wives, daughters or mothers must be nothing more than chattels to them.
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More of the same at the Bum today. The usual suspects are busily shitting in their own nests.
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You wonder what makes some of them tick. I can think of one grub clutching at straws
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Then there are the usual suspects defending the indefensible and using gross distortions of so called logical thinking to twist and turn and defend. Incapable of admitting Briggs and Dutton are complete arseholes. If they were Labor pollies they’d say the opposite because, er, it’s a different situation, blah blah blah.
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I question whether some have a moral bone in their bodies. Ask them how they would feel about their wives, daughters or mothers being called mad f….ing witches and you get stupid questions about Shorten crashing into cars potentially killing women and children. Another making claims of being pompous and lacking in perspective. They just don’t get the sexual harrassment or the complete respect of women.
Without taking political sides here can you imagine if a non conservative politician did the same thing. The Murdoch press would be running an eight page expose and wouldn’t let up for weeks.
I think they’re doing more than shitting in their own nests Big M, they’re swimming in it.
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(Algernon,I tried to reply to you over there but I wasn’t allowed)
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Ditto.
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I had posts denied as well were I couldn’t reply to some of these grubs.
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Beyond Suffragette – comments are totally hysterical. Seems all wars were fought by men in order to get women the vote.
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Yes a lot of loony tunes there. Adman is a piece or work isn’t he. Tossed up whether we’d see Suffragette or Joy last night. Joy won out. Good movie worth a look.
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Nice work, Viv, Algy and hph, on trying to protect Australia from the vulgarians.
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Yes plenty of them about. Mods seem to be taking a bit of a holiday with nearly all my posts getting through. Yesterday was moderated a few times. Alfie threatened to pack up and leave the country. I suggested there would be a queue prepared to help him. DE was at his trolling best. Others need a bex and a good lie down.
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Yes, I wish Alfie would pack up his pie van, or shoe shine stand and f*&^ right off.
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There are others you’d wish would pack up their whatevers and go off and take photographs as well. Alfie lacks the ability to think for himself
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Lard-anus
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Sorry, put this in the wrong spot.
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no, no, It looks better here 🙂
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Yes I agree stand out more
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Berg’s total rubbish article and the appearance of Lardo. So many posts. What is it with the crazy mods.
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You stole my thunder there a bit there vivienne. Lardo manages 32 posts out of 191. The mods are failing their own rules regarding dominance. Lardo is a complete nutjob.
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Dog Walker was making a goose of himself as well I see.
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He is a distracted driver too. He’s going to cause an accident one of these days.
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Appears to use three pseuds on the same post
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Exactly – their own guidelines ! He’s also just arguing back with drivel and nothing of substance. I came to it late in the arvo having been not at home. Got one in and three subsequent posts have hit the bin. I wanted to say I was amazed that Berg hadn’t given the Dries credit for Medibank, NDIS, Gonski, the Accord, the Henry review etc etc. He’s rewriting history big time crazy. The Libs called for a report and got it and did nothing about it. Keating had it completely reviewed (quickly) and acted on because it was in fact his mission since he was a teenager. He wanted to shake up and wake up Australia, especially the banks who were stifling business. I’m loving the book.
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I described the Berg piece as a hagiography which it pretty much was. Carlton was a decent enough chap but pretty much ineffectual. Keating called him Old Rosie. Keating also found the gaping black hole in his figures leading up to the 1987 election handing the election to Hawke on a plate.
I see the table dancing and Hong Kong grouper Briggs has stood aside as has Brough. Will Little Boy Roy and the Poodle do the same.
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Lardo is Tabanus.
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I’m assuming Doublethink Dugald is DW
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The style is familiar alright. A new pseud but could be one of three regulars.
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Vale Stevie Wright
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I last saw him sing in the late 70s at Brookvale oval. He sang Evie then just walked off the stage. He was pretty much broken down back then.
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The drugs and alcohol just wrecked him Big M. Seemed to almost get himself back on track at the Opera House in 1979 then fell apart again.
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They were great. And Vanda and Young – RockWiz tribute a couple of years ago was fanbloodytastic.
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True vivienne, they were the start of so many great Australian bands
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Better luck today hopefully
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and on that note, Algernon, and everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and to your families. 🙂
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And to you hph,
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Looks like the mods have left for their festivities everything getting through
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I see you are having fun with SM.
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Yes calling him out for his trolling activities on a couple of occasions. You wouldn’t get that up too often. I’m a little surprised his little playmates didn’t come out to help him. Don’t think I had one post rejected today, must be a first.
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Ben is my muse, but the mods won’t allow me to have fun with him. At most a single reply if I’m lucky and that’s it.
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You are lucky today, the mod likes you.
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Must be a temporary mod today given they were up pretty quick. I don’t reply to SM that often nor do they let everything through. Ben seems to be a chosen one normally. Prolific writer of drivel.
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get a load of this Algernon, R Supwood replied to dogwalker: “Stick your GST increase up your telescope”. Did you happen to see his first reply to walker this morning? It was a ripper. I think walker went crying to momma mod and complained. They removed it 🙂
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I saw that but didn’t see the first, I’m just amazed what R Spurwood gets away with. They save their best for the Dog Walker though. Poor old DW has no idea how to reply. He must have a pretty big jaw.
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I see they’re still going too. Normally they’d close down early.
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It was a one-liner as well. It went something like “…when you use your anus as a telescope” 🙂
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Normally something like that would get through from him. DW would wonder why they would say such things and come out with some sort of disgust. Yet
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Those GST comments seem to be a sign of mental illness. Glad Supwood got one in!
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Probably doesn’t pay any with his pie shop Big M.
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Just went back to read all that he wrote Big M. I agree with you. There was another there Burderimboy. He’s worse, definitely a few short.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/6814056/Girl-writes-furious-letter-to-parents-who-lied-about-Santa.html
🙂
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I don’t like it hph. I don’t believe it either. Looks like a set up. Appalling handwriting to boot. 10 year olds write better than that.
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Well, you know the saying “Education begins at home” ..Maybe it’s the parent’s handwriting and they did it to fool us 🙂
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That same thought passed through my mind too.
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