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 
Thanks, hph, mod asleep at the keyboard, I expect.
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Reply to Alf:
‘Son of Zaky:
11 Mar 2016 11:48:44am
I’m guessing that shirtfronting doesn’t hold the same appeal for you that it once did.
There’s something strangely satisfying about thinking of you tearing up your subscription copy of The Australian and smearing faeces all over it. It’s a shame I can’t be there and see it in person.
One man’s pain is another’s raucous laughter.’
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I liked it then and again now.
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Thats brilliant. Only one problem though The Australian come complete with the faeces embedded in it. Its not called The Sorbent for nothing.
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Here is a handy tip: Always keep a copy of The Australian newspaper somewhere close to your throne. You never know when you’ll need it. 🙂
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I keep one in my toilet, they seem to go together.
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🙂
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You’d get shot for buying the Australian in my household. Keeping it in the loo room could lead to the house self imploding.
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I believe you Vivienne. 🙂
Ok. I will repharse myself. “Always keep an OLD copy of The Australian newspaper somewhere close to your throne.”
I used to read the bastard’s (Janet Albrechtsen, Greg Sheridan’s etc) side of the story during Iraq war. Merde-och got a lot of money out of me. Merde!.. Merde! I was stupid 🙂
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Big M:
11 Mar 2016 4:05:51pm
Helvi, alas, Turnbull spreads the same shit, albeit with a gold plated shovel.
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Good to see the mod was sleeping when this was posted. Well done BigM 🙂
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I meant to reply here.
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Me too, I meant to do a lot of things, reply was just simply one of them.
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I thought I’d better print this before it disappeared from screen. 🙂
The Other John:
09 Mar 2016 10:49:04am
We dont need to fly anyone in, Paul. We just send the work overseas via the internet.
Works for me.
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R Supwood:
09 Mar 2016 11:24:32am
And for other selfish arseholes who game the system.
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Saw that one. Don’t they post utter rubbish. The loony rightwing get nuttier by the day. Swear one day the sky is blue and the next the opposite. Our local takeaway/newsagent woman (we get along well) is a bit like that. I put her straight every time. She recently was suggesting Stan Grant was putting tan on to look more Aboriginal. She was referencing some photoshopped pic Bolt had put up on Facebook. The fact she found it in the first place worried me.
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Now, that’s a worry! ..but then again there are a lot of crazies out there who should be looked after inside white coloured rooms with padding. 🙂
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She’s not a crazy – just reads and listens to rubbish. I’m glad she opens up with this rubbish so I can sort her out. She actually listens and she knows I’m Labor because I’ve told her so. She seeks my help with certain matters – like development applications, what to about a proposal etc and I explain what to do. She’s been there ten years and does work hard. Finally decided not to open on certain public holidays just to sell a few papers.
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I enjoyed this exchange:
‘HPH:
09 Mar 2016 3:42:21pm
I don’t know dD… if my tree wants to marry the person who lives across the road, who am I to say no? Imagine the entertainment value for the neighbours 🙂
But I draw the line at my kitchen table’s desires. I’m sort of attached to it myself. 🙂
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Son of Zaky:
09 Mar 2016 4:20:31pm
Just the sort of filth courageous warrior-princes like dD are fighting bravely against.
Lose control of which furniture is sleeping with which in your lounge room, and before you know it there’s pouffes everywhere destroying the sanctity of the place.’
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heh heh ..
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I’d love to know how R Supwood gets away with posting some of their comments. They just clobber the nutjobs of the right.
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This is funny, Vivienne. I’m trying to reply to Frog who replied to you but to no avail. I tried to say “the comment is devoid of compassion for the victims of abuse etc”. Why the fudge the moderators don’t like me? They favour heartless monsters! Why!
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whaaaa! I’m crying because .. 🙂
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Wow! I changed the wording -added a bit of insult as well- and it showed up. Fudge! …these moderators work in mysterious ways! (1 in 7 comments got thru so far)
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I just saw that hph. I replied to Freddie ages ago but not up. Stupid mods. It was offensive and against the rules. Glad you made it.
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What is so strange is, when I sent 3 serious comments earlier this afternoon with some historical facts to Joeblog on Nancy Reagan page, they went into the wastebasket. And now I’m sending fresh, provocative remarks with no value at all, all over the place, they all show up !!! The ABC is f***d.
Or another moderator started afternoon shift. 🙂
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R Supwood:
07 Mar 2016 1:35:51pm
Let’s all join together and do the sensible thing, and, get rid of this deficient, inadequate, dysfunctional government of broads, bumboys, bonkers, bastards, fools, fossils, fornicators, and, Joyce, Brough, Pyne, Bishops and the ex-European Mafioso types from the land of conservative superstition and mediaeval fantasy. You could mould a better government from farmyard dung, including the hollow skin of a leader, all knob and no shaft.
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Son of Zaky:
07 Mar 2016 3:01:38pm
“…broads, bumboys, bonkers, bastards, fools, fossils, fornicators, and, Joyce, Brough, Pyne, Bishops and the ex-European Mafioso types from the land of conservative superstition and mediaeval fantasy”
I take it this ongoing social campaigning asking that we respect diversity doesn’t really seem to resonate with you?
I only ask because a Bastards and Fossils Mardi Gras Parade isn’t, in my opinion, ever likely to pull either a substantial crowd or much in the way of TV coverage.
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R Supwood:
07 Mar 2016 4:40:42pm
I love diversity, as do you. But, diversity in dickheads and political deviates is not for the nation’s advancement. My mediaeval superstitionists are the romanist ratbags that fill out the government benches. Your suggested parade would not get a crowd. Perhaps a doco of Rupert’s Honeymoon private struggles would fill the gap; Rupert is unlikely to do so.
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I found Son of Zaky to be quite funny but a racist therefore I no longer engage with that person. R Supwood(phonetic for Arse Upwards as we discussed before) gets away with witty, brilliant, pertinent and sometimes rude comments. Father O’Way thinks Supwood is maybe a moderator but one with style, panache, in brief a wordsmith.
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Mark, he is not a racist now. But I think he might have been racist before in his earlier years. He admitted he was a bully when he was young. I don’t know if you’ve seen it but he apologised for it. With adults, racism and bullying go hand in hand. SoZ just doesn’t like Adam Goodes, that’s all. You know that he was using screen names MJLC and ‘A pocket full of rye’ previously. I’ll tell you who is a racist at the drum: Tabanus.
I agree with Father O’Way. Also, I suspect Yen is someone from The ABC or someone’s friend at the abc.
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Seems the mods have stopped posting. Verrender and Paula’s articles stuck at 40 and 16 posts. Hmmmmmm
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Still doing nothing.
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My friend Vivenne, I cannot ever imagine in my wildest dreams that you would do “nothing”, yes I know, eff off Hung the goat is cooked 🙂 PC internet problems are a plague Julia tried to fix. One of the best PM’s this country has ever had in my view.
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article – Pell’s testimony
Christine:
04 Mar 2016 4:29:50pm
Victims and Non-Victims are all humans at the end of the day. A bit of kindness goes a long way…
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A man is going to […] my young child
and I will show “A bit of kindness” to him !!!
F**khead
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I was happily conversing with her on another page then I came across to her comment above.
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How is this for another F**khead !
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Jack II:
04 Mar 2016 4:41:37pm
I don’t think people under the age of thirty realize how sexually conservative Australia was in the sixties and even the seventies.
Many things were hardly ever discussed, even in private between intelligent adults.
I doubt I ever heard the term “pedophile ” or even “child abuse ” before 1980.
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Really?
Below-the-belt-conversations, sexual innuendos leering or ogling at females, sexist remarks and jokes were never told in those times ? F**khead !
Why did they close the gates so soon? I was going to reply to them.
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Oh they knew about it all right. However one had to be absolutely certain about it. Problem is that many were protected. Jack II must have lived in a padded cell then or some sort of utopia.
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Algernon, my father told us children many years later why he wouldn’t even allow us to go school camps. Sad but true.
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hph I was on a scout camp about 1980, I was a venturer leader by then. My father also a leader saw another leader go into a room with a group of young boys. My father told the leaders of the camp what he saw. Someone said that he had to be absolutely sure before making allegations. The person running the show was having none of that, marched into the room where the boys were, literally picked the prick up and marched him off the site and told him not to come back throwing his belongs with him. Quite a statement. Fortunately nothing happened, he was removed from the scout movement within the week. He also worked for a particular well known cruise company known once for making raunchy ads.
Some years later he was charged with molesting boys on cruise ships.
I’ve also heard stories of what went on in the Newcastle region from people who grew up there. If true the breath of involvement from across all of society is quite frightening.
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I didn’t go to scouts, because one of the local leaders was known to be a paedophile, yet was never charged, I guess because the kids weren’t believed by the police. One scout leader was a peeping tom, literally caught flogging his log outside ladies’ bathroom windows.
It was pretty bad here in Newcastle. A friend of mine actually went to see the local bishop about it, and was told that if no kid would come forward and complain to him, then he would do nothing!
As for ben, he is well f*&^ed up.
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The scouts in our area was pretty well run with no noncing that I knew off. There were others that were to be avoided but they didn’t belong to any particular organisation.
I heard in Newcastle it went beyond the Catholic Church, there were also Teachers, Police, members of the Legal profession possible even down to politicians and others involved.
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I never joined the Brownies, the Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. I did ballroom dancing.
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How are you with the Ballroom Dancing nowadays.
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Not much chop Algy. Haven’t done it for ages and ages. Hubby not much of a dancer. At best I just do solo rock and roll/blues giggling around. Ballroom dancing included a lot of Latin and Jive. I did get a highly commended Bronze Certificate when I was 15 going on 16.
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I used to go Scottish Dancing in my teens used to enjoy it. Don’t think I could dance to save myself nowadays.
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I did Scottish dancing for a while, but there were much prettier girls at Ballroom!
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It was a group thing but the girlfriend at the time was at least one of the reasons.
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Yes, Algy, it was pretty bad in the Hunter Valley, with many high ranking cops being card carrying Catholics, and quashing any complaint into tyke paedos. There was also a very prominent barrister in Maitland, now deceased, who was a pederist.
Lot’s of crocodile tears over suicide victims who were raped by priests or brothers.
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This is an emotional issue for me because of what happened to the young daughter of a single mother I used to know back in the 1990s.
This is a problem in human nature and in our communities. This is not a problem of the religious institutions or other institutions and organisations. This is happening all over the world. In other countries, ‘the worst’ of these monsters don’t live too long after they are discovered and they don’t make much headlines either. The matter is solved quietly inside or outside ‘the system.’ But the news spread underground.
What pisses me of mostly is when someone sticks his neck out and finds excuses for the actions of these monsters, and if that someone is religious, asks for our forgiveness. Case by case there may be circumstances when the mental state of the person is severely defected, if so, I am prepared to consider not a ‘forgiveness’ but an ‘understanding’. Having said that, in most cases, these monsters are cunning, rational thinking predators…
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hph I can only but agree with you. And your last sentence is just so true. Scratch the surface and you’ll be amazed how many people are affected by child sexual abuse. I could go into statistics but that’s not the point. I could show you how it has affected people that I know. I do know that those who summon the courage to go forward and those who have gone to the Royal Commission are empowered as a result.
Mrs A and I saw Spotlight last weekend. It deals with the Catholic Church in Boston.There were people sobbing at the end of it. Excellent film worthy of this year Best Film. For all the bastardry of Pell at least he did try and put something in place even if it was flawed. It little more than throwing a few coins on the ground then dancing with the smoke and mirrors to get anything.
The sad fact is though that this abuse overwhelmingly will happen in the family home by a family member or friend and these people have little or no recourse at all.
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HPH, the same thing has happened in my family. Needless to say, I have threatened the perpetrator with a slow death. Unfortunately I have since discovered that my ex wife’s family are happy to tolerate a little bit of kiddy fiddling, as long as the majority of the kids are left alone. As you say, sexual predators are never satisfied, and see no wrong, so mollest any child within their sphere.
As for forgiveness, my youngest son reckons he could forgive if there was a genuine apology and recognition for what has happened. I’m not so generous. Unfortunately we are stuck with a severely depressed young person, who will never reach his poential.
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I’m sad to hear what happened in your family, BigM.
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Thanks, HPH, our family life is essentially fucked up, but we try to not think about it.
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I think Christine wishes that she’d been married to Onanist back in the ’70s .. I mean Onassis – Greek shipping magnate 🙂
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On second thought, Christine and Ben would make an ideal couple. 🙂
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Where was that posted hph? 🙂
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No posting. I’m just saying.
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Read her comments at ‘hospital funding’ page. She is a ….. 🙂
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R Supwood:
02 Mar 2016 9:00:52pm
So, the Republicans have Trump going well and being chased by two ratbag senators with ambitions longer than a dinosaur’s dicky. It’s vomit or diarrhoea or dysentery, making Clinton look human, capable, appealing. Good. We will all suffer mightily if a republican dog turd becomes president. Sheer evil.
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Arse Upwards is one of my favorites hph
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🙂
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He has a way with words doesn’t he
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-29/maccallum-turnbull-morphs-into-abbott/7207866
I think Mungo has hit the nail on the head in this piece. Turnbull is simply Abbott Mark II. Something about conservatives,they just don’t get that the trickle down effect has very little impact on society as a whole.
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Have you read Barnes’ crap today. Puke inducing.
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I made the trip to the bathroom twice already 🙂
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Barne’s climbed a long way up his own arse for inspiration.
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Ben’s off his meds again. He was ok last couple of days. 🙂
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Wow! the moderator is right-wing today. (s)he does not allow me to say “If you want to know who controls ‘the media’ read Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent” to Pop, at ‘Media on IS’ article
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Of interest – I got polled this arvo. From a ‘market research’ mob. But it was all about politics and what I thought of important issues and various politicians and then a lot all about the same sex marriage stuff. I suspect the research was more to do with marriage equality but boy did I enjoy giving my opinion on Turnbull, Joyce, Abbott etc. Every question was right up my alley in that I did indeed have a strong opinion on the lot.
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Good for you Vivienne. I notice Abbott seems to be back in the press a lot at the moment. How he thinks he could ever be PM again is beyond belief. It still may happen that is the really scary part.
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Yes I can see Adolf doing a Rudd to Turnbull in the coming months. Turnbull of course is becoming the incredible shrinking man beholden to the Nazi right of the party. I think Abbott coming back would be a good thing. Labor would poll in excess of 60% of the vote not to mention the complete wreckage he’d cause to his own party. I reckon he’d lose his seat.
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They are rusted on’s aren’t they?
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I really wonder what value people like Abetz, Nikolic, Bernardi, Andrews, B Bishop just off the top of my head or Bullock on Labor’s side or Rhiannon for the Greens are to the Parliament. None of them are in touch with reality. The Liberals are worse of course fascists dressed up as conservatives.
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And may I say Mal Brough, what a weasel, does he go out on any higher entitlement?
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I reckon a long goal sentence is on the cards. We could and little boy Roy and and Poodles Pyne who are people of interest to the AFP. Christiansen from Queensland was another. How do these creatures get a gig. Pictures of goats I guess.
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They all seem in trouble
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I wonder how long before the shit hits the fan. I predict not too long. We shall see as Bob Ellis would say.
Weather can returned to sanity here. We hit 43 last week. It is why I had a good couple of days on the Drum – too effing hot to do anything other than replenish the water for the birds. Have to go to a funeral tomorrow – a friend’s husband.
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No good Viv, 43 here yesterday, cloudy 25 today, Summer Bay sure is weird.
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Could other Rooms at the Pigs Arm be a drop down at the top of the page at Home and also at the Dump. Otherwise I love the new paint job and getting rid of those old spots which are no longer used but had a purpose at the time. A few beers for the tradies.
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Seems done, thanks for a few Trotter’s.
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Clever dick.
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Looks nice. Mr. T has done a good job 🙂
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-26/robots-will-take-over-44pc-of-workforce:-csiro/7203782
I’ll go first. To me spells even more danger for future generations and where are the the jobs really going to come from?
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If robots take 44% of jobs we are fucked.
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I truly believe the worlds biggest issue will be under or unemployed.
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How true is that vivienne. We have an education system heavily skewed towards university yet our TAFEs are falling apart because of lack of investment and allowing private institutions to rort the system.
It’s a huge problem, particularly amongst the youth.
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It seems all so profit now Ace plus automation. Growing up I thought that was going to be great, the automation part anyway, now I’m not sure. Skills and education would do a lot more for Australia rather then increase on military spending. I suppose the positive is that if they are products built here then it would create jobs???
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Yes $100b to fund something we probably don’t need. Yes spend a 1/10 of that on education and health and the conservatives scream. I have no problem with automation and increased productivity but a society needs to perform for all. Every one needs something to do.
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Seems a waste of money to me but as you say the squeaky wheel gets he most grease.
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If robots have the jobs and 44% of people are out of work who will have the money to buy the stuff the robots do and what is the point of all that. Robots already answer the phone and are totally useless other than the 1 2 3 or 4 choice.
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It makes you wonder what our grandkids will actually do for work, control robots perhaps?
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Whats happened here have they renovated the place for Merv’s imminent return?
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And whats happened to the rooms
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Found them, what about the links where did they go?
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So many questions so little time, will get there Ace. Most of the other pages were no longer being used.
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Nice change. Where are the rooms?
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Found some further down. My recipes are gone !
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And Cocos Palms, when did the pub get the Cocos Palms
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When it moved to Queensland from Western NSW, Gordon did it don’t blame me ha!ha!
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Viv, all your stuff is in “Rooms at the Pigs Arms” under “Vivienne”. It is now a drop down list.
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Mark – I can’t see it anywhere, Rooms at the Pigs Arms.
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Very bottom left corner
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Found it. Last place I would have looked.
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As someone mentioned here before (was it you M?) Ben does not like nurses and teachers. If he becomes a Nazi-like dictator, the first thing he’s gonna do is line them up against a wall. 🙂
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PJH:
24 Feb 2016 12:07:02pm
Does everything have to be preceded by a stupid hashtag these days. Can we move on from that ridiculous trend please?
Big M:
24 Feb 2016 12:28:06pm
Some are preceded by an octothorpe!
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Hah haha.. good one Big M
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I’m enjoying the exchange between Ben and She Monster at baby Asha article. It’s so funny 🙂 Helvi caught She Monster by the tail and She Monster didn’t like that at all 🙂
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I saw that, quite funny!
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Now She Monster got soo pissed off he started calling Helvi “Helix”
Plus Ben wants to know more about She Monster. He is really starting to grow on Ben. I see love blooming between She Monster and Ben.
Big Ben:
24 Feb 2016 5:16:21pm
Since you insist then, Mr Monster, tell me all about you – blonde, brunette or redhead? Maybe I might just break that vow of celibacy and put that ‘I’ back into LBGTI if I like you enough but still can’t work out what you really are.
I didn’t know this was a dating site, but Darwin always told me we must learn to adapt or perish. It’s just ABC evolution in action.
Keyboards have no chromosomes anyway.
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Hahahaaaa Hohohoooo …this is sooooo funny 🙂
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Actually the Helix thing was auto-correct on my new HTC M8 phone. I have an iron clad rule that I don’t make fun of people’s names. I challenge anyone to find an example of me doing so.
“Helvi” isn’t in the Android/HTC dictionary. Go figure! Get an Android device and try it…
I’m really not pissed off. I rarely am. I found it odd from day one on Unleashed that people throw various agitated emotional states on me.
Ben made the same mistake. It really was a gentle rebuke; and he thought it a “Lunch Mob”… there we go again. Thanks Android!
He thought it a “Lynch Mob”. Perhaps he’s projecting his own agitated state onto me.
I’ve been sending a lot of whack texts on my new phone.
R U the Glen instead of Rutherglen. Tensile Station instead of Wynyard Station. Event Cinemas at Top Rude…
Funny story. The Nym “Sea Monster” was down to auto correct. That was a Nokia /Microsoft device.
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SM, you can over ride auto correct.
Typed on my Sony android tablet. Having said that, this differs from the dictionary in my Aspera qndroid phone…go figure!
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Hi Sea Mendez, good to see you again. You should drop by here more often. Couple of things: ‘Sea Monster’ – you first saw this when I used it in my correspondence with Feet Slipper here at the pub…remember? Two – I think you are confusing yourself with Glen for Glenda. 🙂
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Big M , yeah I know you can override it but in my haste I overlook it.
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Rationalization. A defence mechanism whereby the individual justifies his behaviour by imposing on it a plausible rational explanation. 🙂
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Trust me hph it was predictive text. I thought it was cool and stuck with it. However it mightn’t be entirely coincidental. I’ve noticed smartphones will scan text on a web page and use that the predict what you type next.
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I’m just messing with you, SeaM, I’ll take your word for it. 🙂
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… but you gotta admit that “She Monster” sounds so funny …So does “Mister Monster” 🙂
just sayin’…
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I will never call you with these names at the drum but every time when I see you there I’ll remember these names. 🙂
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Yes I thought it good. What amazes me about the troll is that he claims he works 70 hours a week. Yet he finds time to be a prolific commentator. Strange.
Ben’s an onanist though
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Poor Ben. He’s not responding to my messages 😦
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I was thinking the she monster. Bens a bit of a troll too.
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I knew you were thinking she-monster, Algernon 🙂
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RealityCheck:
22 Feb 2016 1:43:07pm
ATTENTION MODERATOR: Please check what is going wrong with the submission function. I have been trying since 8 O’Clock or so this morning to get ONE comment through. I’ve tried every which way. I tried it FOUR TIMES between then and NOW (it’s 1:40 pm as I write this). If you cannot retrieve my last submission attempt by later this afternoon, I shall assume there is something seriously wrong with your moderation system (although as I check through the thread, I see others have got through MANY comments while I haven’t been able to get ONE comment through). Anyhow, I shall try again a little later. Thanks for caring about moderation FAIRNESS for all. 🙂
Moderator: Hi RealityCheck,
Please note House Rule: Be polite- Treat other people using the website, including ABC staff moderators, with respect and courtesy. Comments using inappropriate language, which are abusive towards other users, or which appear to deliberately provoke arguments, will be deleted. Refer to politicians and other public figures by their real names instead of calling them nicknames.
I would ask you to please re-send in your contribution with an amendment in regards to correct spelling of the Liberal/National parties, instead of calling them nicknames.
Thank-you
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….No shit !
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The nerve. Clearly running pro Lib comments. Clearly blind to the shit written by Lib supporters. Bastards.
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Did you call the Libs lying shit bum fuckers? They printed “That is particularly so here on their billion dollars a year ABC where the dull and abusive Labor Fan Club reigns supreme.” on Berg. There of course is no such thing as Labor Fan Club. Rules?
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I just logged in Vivienne. I’ll check what’s happening there very soon.:)
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This amused me:
‘Alfie:
23 Feb 2016 10:27:13am
“That’s a bold accusation Alfie. Are you into stuff like that on the weekends in your mind, son”
Shorten backs the AWU and CFMEU, both of who are facing charges of corruption and extortion. BTW, I’m not your son.
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R Supwood:
23 Feb 2016 11:17:25am
And no-one known is your father.
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Hah hah ahaaa… this is an excellent reply from Wood. First saw it here thanks M 🙂
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Alfie’s statement “BTW, I’m not your son” made me laugh too:)
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Classic R Spurwood retort.
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“Did you call the Libs lying shit bum fuckers?” if you are asking if that was me, Vivienne, no it wasn’t me. But I would like to call them what you called them. “lying shit bum fuckers?” 🙂
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Wondering what the mods found offensive, i.e. inappropriate language etc. You know I’ve never used that term before – it just sprang out of my fingers. Has a nice ring to it !
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Mods won’t let any of my posts up on Berg. Not a rude word in any.
Shorten just made a very very good speech in Question Time – suspend and all that stuff. Only way he can make a point. All about neg gearing and capital gains. Turnbull responding with lies of course.
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“Has a nice ring to it ! ” 🙂 🙂
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I don’t have much luck today either …just two comments.
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Yes, hehehe – my fingers make good jokes too. Didn’t come from any active thought process.
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Some of my best friends are bum fuckers, but they wouldn’t vote Lieberal!
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Some of my friends are just old farts.
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I’d hate to say that back wards Viv
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Yes I have friends who bat from that end too and none of them would vote for the filth either.
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I think we are veering off course here guys. Vivienne and I were not discussing who was batting for whom and from what end. 🙂 This was about four letter words and how they came out in this particular instance. Using 4-letter words in a discussion is an art form, a talent really. Sadly, I don’t have the skill. The way Vivienne used them today -the order and structure of it- I nearly wet myself. 🙂 Big M and Mark and Algernon are also good at it. More power to your fingers, Ladies and gentlemen.
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Exactly so hph.
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Tabs-anus is getting flogged by V
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He’s weird too. Occasionally makes sense and I wonder ‘what’s with that’.
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Good morning so far. Got a second up (Pell) and then a first up on Morrison’s speech. Wonders can happen.
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And a nice one two on the Miranda Stewart blog. My post almost instant.
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That Ben is a rather offensive shit on the Michael Bradley blog
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Algernon, sometimes I feel sorry for big-ben-nallay. Am I too soft and sensitive? I don’t know. But he needs help big time. And the moderators are not helping him at all by airing his madness.
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His comments on that blog are just plain wrong. The moderators are failing to do their job from what I can see. I agree they are not helping him.
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…plain wrong AND crazy…he is posting from another planet.
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Ben certainly nuts. The mods must be pretty ordinary people or have a sick sense of ‘humour’.
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A few sausages short of a dozen
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Ben has stopped taking his special medicine, which is sad, but he is a complete shit to everybody else.
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Would that be the sugar coated ones Big.
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No, I think full on anti-psychotics.
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For those that missed the Moir in the SMH on Saturday.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20150921-gjrcxr.html
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I think that a pig wearing lipstick may do a better job than Barnacle.
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I agree Big, I do hope Tony Windsor has a go in New England, poor old barking Barney will need a wardrobe of brown trousers.
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Jean Oliver:
15 Feb 2016 4:21:10pm
Thank you Bens for jumping in with that so quickly. I get sick to death of the lies people write about the subject. Years ago I tried to claim modest expenses associated with our then small property – some fencing, a second hand tractor etc to manage small flock of sheep and later some cattle. I was knocked back by tax office because I couldn’t prove I was a primary producer. I thought, oh well fair enough. The following year when I made a nice little profit on the livestock I didn’t include it as income because I wasn’t a primary producer.
[Great comment Jean. BTW sick of trying to reply to you over there, stopped ages ago, virtually never get up]
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Added to that, I was informed once by a solicitor that even if you get something from them in writing, in your favor, about the decision they have made, can be virtually useless.
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Nice work, Olive, yes, Ben sounds like a fat, old, loner, who thinks the internet is for everyone to share in his masturbatorial tales of wonder.
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Getting anything up these days is a memorable moment.
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The mods allowed Looney Tunes to post 30 comments on Mungo’s page alone. This is my monthly quota on the drum …IF I’m lucky! How is that for balance !!!
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Noticed some extraordinary. The nutjob CP had his usual rant on Verrender. Just had another look at responses and see his comment has been taken off. Not there. amazing
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What was the reason for taking the thread off, Vivienne?
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They never say. I just noticed it was there and later it wasn’t there.
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This made me laugh:
Waterloo Sunsettttt:
12 Feb 2016 4:14:09pm
All this hooting and hollering, just to do internet banking and browse. Most home users don’t need super-fast.
They may do in the future, but it will be there in the future.
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Algernon:
12 Feb 2016 5:55:46pm
Yet most third world countries have vastly faster internet speeds than Australia does. But I guess you’re right, thats about all you need for the pie shop.
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He listens too much to the academic relative who I doubt is in the field. Junior who is at the coalface in the industry scoffs at the nonsense sprouted by him. Its sad that Turnbull butchered the NBN which will now cost a fortune to retrofit. All this because someone wanted to live permanently in 1957.
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All because it was Labor’s idea and Labor was building it.
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Mrs M has three nephews who install NBN. They reckon that at some locations it could take as little as ten minutes to draw the fibre optic through the existing conduit to the premises, but the Libs would know better.
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Yes that’s right 10 minutes to change telecommunications from the 19th to the 21st century.Cheap and easy. This last three years shows just how devoid of ideas the LNP really is. There is history here look how the stuffed the Opera House and the Snowy scheme half buld things thats OK only cost $B’s to fix it up later.
Meanwhile WS has banked the money from the two pies he sold yesterday. Too busy writing drivel to serve the customers.
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Turdbull spoke a lot of waffle about the new ministerial lineup. I thought he looked very tired too.
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Well its only the lineup for this week vivienne. Someone will need to resign next week or will have been found to be doing something wrong. The talent pool is very shallow when someone like Ciobo can be Minister for Trade. It was bad enough Robb selling the country short, Ciobo would get lost walking up the garden path. Out of his depth in parliament let alone as a minister in cabinet.
Yes all that smiling and doing nothing tires you out. Must be hard when the party is in open warfare with one another.I wonder if he’ll call a snap poll. This war will make the Labor party shenanigans 2010-13 look like a Sunday school picnic. Adolf Turd still thinks he’ll be PM again one day.
Did you see Moir’s cartoon in the SMH today?
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Yes, a great picture. What’s that song about Jokers…
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Would that be The Joker by The Steve Miller Band. Some call me the space cowboy …..
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Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you Malcolm. 🙂
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Welcome to planet Quacko! 🙂
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Just looked at the news. Labor are planning to scrap capital gains exemptions. Government costings reckon it will generate 32.1 billion over ten years. According to Morrison this equals 600 million over four years. Maths isn’t his strong point, is it?
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Big, Morrison is ignorant of economics and maths. More important to attempt to discredit thr opposition. Hockey was a fool dorsn’t say much for Morrison does it.
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Algy they are all economic, environmental, educational, health etc total dickheads. The Jokers – stuck in the middle – that’s how I feel (and no doubt rest of PA patrons). Surrounded by fools.
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