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 
One On:
“Who cares what the public toilet boy thinks, Turnbull is on his way out. The only problem for us is we will get Abbott again”
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Well done old fella amazed they put it up. Mind you if you talked about the age there might be problems. I put one up along a similar vein but you wouldn’t know.
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Thank you. To be honest I couldn’t care what that sop Jones does. Interesting, at lunch today I read the DT which had and Andrew Bolt article in it telling us all that he told us that MT wouldn’t cut it as PM. Well Andrew as a journalist you don’t make the grade either.
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I see the Right wingers bowels have gone into overdrive over at The Drum.
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Today is the same.
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Agree on the brief look I saw.
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SoZ on the stop the boats story:
As a magnet for every half-baked, incoherent idiot who needs to blurt, this topic has it all. Simply unbelievable.
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SoZ was in good form – gave reaver a good telling off alright.
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Yes I saw that. 🙂
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Wow, see the big difference between the old style -Ben Nallay- of last year and the new style -Big Ben- of this year? He’s not there at the Drum shooting at Left by chance you know. He’s as much right wing and libertarian as Chris Berg. He hides it so well behind his insults. Oh yes he does rain on some right-winger’s parade every now and then but that’s just a show. Complaining about his comment not getting published on a page where he’s already posted 30+ is also a show. Why does The ABC give him so much airtime? For ‘balance’? …Pigs-ass …
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Ben out on errands and shopping. Checked it out – gawd, gets worse every day. How he gets so many comments up ? Why not us too? And he really is an ignorant bastard.
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Either someone at the ABC has a perverted sense of humour or Ben is really an implant working in conjunction with some party inside ABC. This is really bizarre!
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I’m thinking that Ben is one of those poor idiots who’s mum told him that he was really, really smart. At least that’s what he got out of. “You’re a really Special Boy, Ben.”
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HPH:
23 May 2016 11:25:34am
Yes you are.
I think you are in the wrong country.
You should be in America working at Walmart. The Walton family will welcome your efforts with open arms.
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[Good reply hph]
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Jean Oliver:
23 May 2016 10:27:24am
This is not a leak against the ALP – it’s a complete farce. The documents were leaked by the NBN six months ago. Conroy has been working on them as part of the Senate enquiry. No doubt they now contain Labor notations. Everything about this raid is crazy – an NBN staffer taking phone photographs, the media already there to film it and it has nothing to do with national security. If you want to get to the truth of the fraudband it is there in alternate media but Turnbull does not want the public to know the truth or the extent of this disaster (financially and technically). You and he should be grateful the documents are locked up in the Senate – you’re being saved from monumental embarrassment.
[Well said Jean]
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I thought so too. Been out all arvo at Rutherglen. Just checked and seems action came to a halt. A few comments I posted before leaving have not come up.
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Sir Hung gave SoZ a good razzing at the AFL, something or other story.
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I was in a bad mood yesterday
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Is there ever a day when you are in a good mood?
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No, um yes, er, maybe… hope that clears it up
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Much like me!
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Thanks buddy.
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I am finding it interesting currently how many journalists that seem to look at this election campaign through the thought that the Tories might just be heading for a minority government or read the opinion poos through popularity ratings. I don’t know what the results might be or what particularly dishonest headlines might affect. Perhaps they try to talk up the tories I don’t know
I find it interesting though that there are two seats on in NSW the other in WA which are on margins of 5-7% for them that appear to be in serious trouble. Yet the media only mentions it in passing.
The AFP raid whilst the headline might have looked bad for Labor is now appearing a disaster for the tories and undermining of Turnbull. It demonstrates how chaotic the tory campaign is and surprisingly how disciplined Shorten appears.
It seems 2010 in reverse for me.
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The journos are not doing their job – ceased to at least 6 years ago Algy. Lazy lazy lazy. I’m feeling more optimistic about 2 July result.
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Shorten was in the Hunter this week. A driver overtook his motorcade at high speed, and ended up in a fatal head-on. Shorten was reported in the local press as providing appropriate assistance to the survivors, without making it into a Ruddesque media circus.
I agree, there isn’t much proper journalism these days. They’ve all got degrees in communications and media, yet are only good for cutting and pasting.
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Was is fatal Big?
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Only fatal for the unwise overtaker. ‘Our’ Bill was unharmed.
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It wasn’t semi-fatal was it?
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Or demi-semi-fatal?
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Or hemi-demi-semi-fatal?
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And the lady driver, was she an octogenarian?
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And was her name Mary of Nazareth?
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And this octogenarian Mary who survived a hemi-demi-semi-fatal car crash, was she on a mission from God?
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Demi-semi-hemi-half hearted and, effictvely, partial, or at least semi-partial.
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Big M, I think there is more to this story than what was reported. It’s the overtaker’s fault. No doubt about it. But how it was caused and what caused it is another story me thinks. (going out to join the dog walker, be back soon)
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I’m back
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There’s a lot more, as it was reported as a fatal accident on Friday, but only minor injuries today. ‘Shorten touched me’. Shouted the delirious accident victim from her ambulance stretcher. I think there’s a Foodge story in there somewhere, what a pity he’s MIA.
How was the dog wanker, btw?
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🙂 🙂
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Today on insiders they quoted a poll where the Queensland component was quite small and with a large margin of error. Yet they quoted as something accurate. Methinks they think the Malcolm will be returned and can’t understand how Labor is more than in the game, they don’t want to get it.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-20/kings-school-declares-sheep-tackling-a-poor-choice/7432128?WT.ac=localnews_sydney
This guy would make an excellent candidate for the Liberal party.
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I have a relative who is Principal of one of the larger independent schools interstate. They were at a conference a while ago and seated with the King’s Principal. for a dinner. His wife said when introduced so your the Principal of one of those wank school. He laughed.
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Don’t know what the fuss is about. At those schools it’s called foreplay.
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Yes Mark. I saw those animal molesters on the 7:30 Report. It made me so angry. Then at the end of the program I saw that guy who’s been bullied when he was a child. Almost had tears in my eyes.
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Training grounds for psychopaths.
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You mean LNP fans
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That’s what I said.
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True Big M
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More like Wesley, St Andrews or St Johns college. Turds or tories of the future
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hph, if my uncle was alive and saw his precious rams treated like that you would see one very angry man. Rams have a job to do and that is root. My uncles ratio was one ram to 33 ewes, ah, if only…
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So they’re like wombats, rams, hph, eat roots, shoots and leaves.
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Yeah Ace and if too many males they had their balls ripped out and became whether’s I think that was what they were called.
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🙂 🙂
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I never thought that I would agree with the Farmers Federation but young sheep do learn. My uncle would often keep a couple of orphans that were human friendly to help control the flock.
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It’s wethers. I’ve met a few rams – we used to borrow a neighbours to make love to our ewes. They are very gentle and easy to handle and the idea of tackling them is outrageous. We hand reared a surviving triplet – mum did not want to know them and they were too small to reach her teats. BaBa grew to think he was human. We sent him off for a remedial camp but no good. He would not join the other sheep. He had to be put down art about 8 years of age – dodgy knees, too fat. He’d become daughter no.1’s pet and so we had to get vet out to put him to sleep (no bullet in the head) and hired a bobcat and buried him in one of his favourites spot. Cost $150 to dispose of. We no longer keep sheep.
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Thanks Viv, was along time ago now. When out on the property us townies got to hand feed some lambs, pretty exciting when you are a little kid. My uncle would always return them to the flock. What he like was that they would always go through the gate dragging the others with them. They were never frightened of humans and often let us give them a pat. Great memories.
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Son of Zaky:
20 May 2016 3:56:43pm
Turnbull’s NBN plan was always to use the existing copper network.
I’m both honest enough and happy enough to ‘fess up and admit he certainly blindsided me with what that actually meant.
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I dunno, mummy made me play outside ALL day.
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I saw a mummy once and it scared the hell out of me. I think it was Boris Karloff 🙂
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It probably was. I went to the garage to check out the smell of dead bush rat, didn’t find it, but ended up insulating the store room. Go figure!
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You did good Big M. I am the same. Sometimes I walk into the garage/shed to do a-couple-of-minute-job but end up staying there a couple hours doing I-don’t-know-what-the-hell-I’m-doing?
“the devil makes work for idle hands” … So I keep doing it 🙂
(are you laughing SeaM)
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I find as I get old hph when I get done on the floor I work out if there are other things I can do while I’m down there.
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🙂
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Is that what Turnbull meant
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Me thinks this will play out badly of the tories. This smacks of nazism.
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I think Michael Bradley has it right. If the complaint was generated in 2015, why wasn’t it prosecuted then, not now mid-election. Yes, more Nazi like with every chapter. It’s a wonder the AFP weren’t in special black uniforms.
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They can’t wear black uniforms that’s what the Border Force wears.
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Oh, that’s right, the BF are the Nazi look alikes!
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Don’t think that I’m ignoring you SeaM. I’m having an extremely difficult time with the moderators today. Apparently I can not even mention Bob Dylan and his song ‘Masters of War’ on Simon Tatz page. Go figure. And my only comment over there showed up after I sent a couple of messages to the moderator. Funning ABC !
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You paint a target on yourself, Champ. You give them an excuse to scrutinize you closer.
The gay “slur” you delivered last night? What wrong with being gay? It’s generally considered impolite to slur gays these days. It’s also considered impolite to make uninvited comments about a person’s sex life.
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For heaven’s sake man, can’t you take a joke ? It was a joke. Go ahead do the same to me. Here or over there or wherever. Oh sweet jesus mary and joseph !
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Honestly SM, I wasn’t trying to belittle you or make fun of you.
Here is what happened:
You said you are fairly handsome; Dove said to you that he’s been cursed since birth with astonishing, almost Olympian beauty; then you said to him “Fairly handsome is a long way from Olympian” and I said to you “Maybe you and Alexander the Great share similar hobbies only”… So what? Don’t be so touchy!
Let me see what I can do here to comfort you.
Okay. I like to listen classical music. I am by no means an expert on classical music, but I enjoy it. Take Tchaikovsky for example. Although I don’t listen to most of his works, sometimes I enjoy listening to one or two of his compositions.
** Maybe he and I share similar hobbies ** 🙂
There you go. Happy now?
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And SM, I replied to your post at the Drum saying that unlike you I am incredibly handsome but they didn’t publish it, wonder why…
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Unbelievable. I tried to post one comment today, one hour ago, and it was sin-binned !!!
HPH:
Funny no one mentioned Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You”
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second try, different version, and they posted it. Hah!
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“wow” again! And today sparks are flying everywhere on the drum 🙂 Meanwhile the 1%-ers are laughing all the way to a bank on a tropical island. 🙂 “Same as it ever was..la la laa” I like this song 🙂
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I’ve only sent one or two responses. Seems hopeless. The threads off on tangents and bloody Big Ben hogging the space along with mods posting same post four times !
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I have a theory about him. I’ll gather my thoughts and tell you about it soon. I think I was mistaken before; about him being off his head. I now think that his disposition on the Drum was carefully, craftily and ‘purposely’ created to cause disunity and confusion among readers and commenters.
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I think Ben spends plenty of time with his hand down his trousers. I’ve just read that he survived tetanus with oral antibiotics and beer!
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Oh boy! The horsefly got a real hiding today at the climate policy blog 🙂
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Comments on the Drum from the right wing loonies have reached the depths of total codswallop ever.
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Yes I noticed a lot of nonsense in my brief look.
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I can’t believe some of the garbage that gets through
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There’s one on Being Aussie and Big Ben has his name up 32 times. Ridiculous. Can you bribe the moderators?
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Makes you wonder
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I just had a look (bin asleep), I don’t know how that bilious drivel gets through the mods?
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I tried to respond to Ben, but the mods won’t allow me. Strange! 🙂
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Joeblog the-US-ass-kisser got 28. – Funning Chip Rolley!
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The usual bunfight. Same as it ever was. The ABC is happy to keep it at this level. No desire to change the current status quo.
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You were right Mark. As you’ve said months ago, the story of Jarryd Hayne still continues and will not end. Why ABC is so obsessed with this story is a mystery to me!
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Thanks hph, apparently he wants to represent Japan at tiddlywinks 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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He probably won’t be good at that, either.
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🙂
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The Project is obsessed with it too. The ABC do cover sport and it is news.
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Pad out the broadcast I reckon
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He’s just a footballer from Minto. So what, he can kick a piece of leather. Good luck to him
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Lewinsky Fails to endorse Clinton
Monica Lewinsky released the following statement on HIllary Clinton’s run for President.
I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. The last Clinton Presidency left a bad taste in my mouth. As we get closer to November of the election year, citizens must remember that they cannot trust Hillary clinton to create American Jobs. The last time she had a meaningful job , she outsourced it to me . And I simply blew it.
Monica
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hah hah haaaa .. where did you find this? 🙂
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Surely this was tongue (or something) in cheek.
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🙂
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Give that man a cigar 🙂 .Mrs A had it sent to her by someone on Facebook.
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Crack me up Ace, well done.
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Well I got something wrong (at the Leadership article). Revisited Ryde councils 11 Nov 2014 minutes, which I read in about May 15.
The vote to inform IPART of Ryde Councils intention to apply for a Special Rate Variation was 9 – 3. Algernon seems to have got that wrong too. But he’s right in that Labor vote was split. The updated operating plan including the SRV, however, was adopted unanimously in Feb 15.
I’ll note however that my main problem in the comment was the idea that Ryde Council was increasing its revenue without increasing services. I consider that political word game. Infrastructure is THE most material service councils provide. It’s the reason you don’t walk ankle deep in mud. And your house doesn’t wash away when it rains. It’s the service most people use most often.
I was also wrong about the Councillor resolution to find savings. They were merely noting that staff had already improved the operating result by $2.5m including revenue, expenditure and staff reduction and reported it elsewhere. They were grandstanding.
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SM happy to be corrected on the vote but I knew that Labor was split, they don’t always vote in a block. Nor do the Liberals, thats why we have a Labor Mayor on a Liberal dominated council. I’ve lived in the City of Ryde for 30 years. For the last 20 it should have been under administration. The council itself is a basket case, it employs people who can’t get jobs elsewhere and has done so all my working life. It’s known as a place of last resort to work. The Engineering section for example is unprofessional. I’ve had to deal with them and many other councils professionally, they’re close to the worst. The staff at Ryde couldn’t find efficiencies if it slapped their face.
Now as I said they did go to the ratepayers and ask their opinion regarding the increase. Now I might be slightly wrong on what was offered but I think the rate increase was 0,4,7 or 8,10 or 12%. I think from memory its 7%. A 7% increase on $500 is $35 not $2. Living in a house it will be between $100 and $120 a year. As i said I mightn’t like it but I don’t disapprove.
There are 6 Liberals split between the moderates and the violent right. One of them does illegal work (electrical) without a licence and beats their family. Now SM I’m not making that up my source is fairly solid. The other I’ve had a run in with at the local shops, they incite people to hit them.
As much as its unpopular that the State Government is merging councils in Sydney, I don’t think they go far enough. Instead of the 42 Sydney has now I think 4-6 is closer to what’s needed.
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20% on $500 is $2 per week (ish). SM’s put it into weekly figures.
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True but I doubt its a 20% increase on the base. I don’t think we disagree about the increase even though one doesn’t like having to pay it. If I compare it to the neighbouring Peoples Isolationist Republic of Hunters Hill then they do a good job of looking after the roads and footpaths as well as some of the services that LG’s are responsible for. Hunters Hills roads are third world and their footpaths are a trip hazard.
However, I won’t back away from what a sheltered workshop Ryde Council is the good staff last about six months then move on.
The shenanigans that the councillors get up to is legendary.
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I should add having just checked, it’s a 7% increase including the 3% cap each year for four years.
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There’s councils and there’s councils. Amalgamations in the bush are stupid. We are already huge in area. What happened to my own was a balls up and presided over by some nincompoop appointee from god knows where. Our rates have gone up in some areas disproportionately and service via road maintenance and tips is down. A beautification project in local village a farce – took two years of big disruption to traffic and business. Tree cut down and replacements planted at wrong time so that about 1/3 have died. In Sydney the whole thing looks political – a Liberal fix. I used to live in Waverton and then mainly in Ashfield but no experience with council. However, I do believe that rural areas have a lot to do compared with city councils and we do get reasonable value for rates paid. Sounds like Ryde needs a shake up – how long have the senior staff been there?
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Councils !! OH yes. 1980s and 1990s of Queensland. There can be no other institution in Australia more corrupt than the Councils . I am talking about those in urban areas where lucrative land/housing development projects took place. Industrial and Commercial developments too. If you have your man implanted in the council board during the planning stage – that is, a few years before the start of a project – then all doors will open for you. That’s how the corrupters and the corrupted grew into a political force and formed ‘the white shoe brigade’ to take over the state government after having achieved total control of the major Councils during Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen era in Queensland. The councils approved housing projects in swamps filled with industrial rubble and rubbish, outside of Brisbane. Many developers made millions of dollars selling crap to people. The story is the same today in all states and major cities and even worse now since almost all of councils’ work is outsourced to, and, between ‘mates’
What is SM talking about a new rate increase blah blah ? How else those mates are going to get rich? Ordinary rate-payers are chickens, just pluck them, that’s how.
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The councils here should be under administration. The salaries paid are enormous (some GMs on half a million a year), as is the level of waste. I know a bloke who was employed by our council as a casual for six months, mapping and assessing bike tracks. He wasn’t allowed to ride his bike on the tracks because the safety of council workers riding bicycles during work hours had never been assessed. He milked it, and took six months to do a one week job!
Many of the smaller councils are run by people who also run the leagues, RSL, etc clubs. They run the council the same way!
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Vivienne, many of them started there careers there. Have limited knowledge and will actively tell people you’ll do it our way or no way. Some years back they kerbed and guttered our street. I asked if I could see the plans as was advertised. A guarded yes was the answer. Before I could even look at the plans the moron says to me do you understand what your looking at. I told him I worked for a consulting Engineering firm and that I had an Engineering background. Oh he said. I looked at the plans and pointed out that the drainage from the house blocks to the gutter or pipes wouldn’t drain properly. Guess what they ignored that and the water doesn’t drain properly. I could give many other examples. I’m with you in the country to an extent, many though are basically bankrupt with not enough people to generate the rates needed.
hph yes Queensland and the subdivisions below the 1:100 year flood. Half the gold coast is build below it. Just imagine if the Hinze Dam has a Sunny Day Failure, Half the Gold Coast will be wiped out. Or the Brisbane floods with half of Ipswich under water. Most people didn’t know it was flood prone and that the subdivisions should never have been there. Mind you had Wivenhoe Dam not been there then the floods would have been about 7 metres higher than they were.
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I’m surprised they don’t have pokies in the council chambers.
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It’s a long time ago now but I work for my local Council – I was secretary to the Shire Clerk (now going under grand name of CEO). There were 13 indoor staff and about 33 outdoor staff. Many were multi-taskers. I actually did the planning work which consisted of subdivisions and development approvals (for a dwelling). Some years later I was a Councillor on same council. I’ve seen how things have changed first hand. State government became more and more controlling. Councillors have bugger all ‘power’. Yet I am amazed at the goings on in Sydney councils. Some councillors must have the staff by the short and curlies in unsavoury ways. I see good and bad being done and everywhere I see plenty of room for improvement. The accountability required of LG by State govt is seriously way out of hand to the point where they accuse rural councils of billion dollar backlogs in roads and maintenance. That’s rubbish – they seems to expect 100s of ks of roads to all be brand bloody new. I’m still on a gravel road.
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The roads are a big issue in the bush. Were many of them were looked after by the State they handed them back to the council many of which are overwhelmed by the maintenance. There are many that do good. There are too many in Sydney though.
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State govt still funds Main Roads in rural areas and State the Highways. However, they decide when stuff needs doing and some parts remain neglected. I agree there are too many councils in Sydney.
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Getting about 1 in 5 up today. Yet the cat sprayers are having plenty to say about Duncan and his private life, courtesy of The Sorbent
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I’m not so lucky either. I hope Vivienne is doing better. Yesterday that tosh deserved a good whipping. 🙂
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I think I got the better of Tronsh if that is who you mean. Scored okay on one topic.
We seem to be dealing with more young lib low lifes than ever. They’ve upped the roster for the election period.
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Tronsh: Yep..that’s him
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I see Alfie is getting his ususl bucket of poo up.
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My mate Alfie, hope you were kind
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None of mine got up against him, he’d pretty much untouchable.
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They let you bag him sometimes
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They do but not today. Many others did. I wonder if he runs a pie shop like the dog walker
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I thought Alf ran a shoe shine stand.
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Hot dog I think Big
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Alfies got many things going on the Gold Coast. I doubt anything of any value to society.
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Saw a few young fella
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Thanks, Hung:
‘Alfie:
10 May 2016 9:04:25am
The public service: bludgers looking after bludgers.
Sir Hung One On OCD:
10 May 2016 9:59:20am
It’s great having you around Alfie as you always know something incredibly stupid will leap out your mouth and onto the screen. And here it is with this gem.’
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Yes thank you Bigith, couldn’t control myselfith…
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Anyway Big how did you know it was me? What gave me away?
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Wild guess.
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Uni education perhaps or just a wild hunch?
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Sorry I thought he said wild geese, I see now you what to have it away with wild gessessddrrs… off you go then, youngsters today.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-11/liberal-leadership-tensions-overshadow-election-campaign/7404450
And so it goes…
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Marvelous
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Thank you Ritchie, how are the time tables?
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Two Two Two
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Simply marvelous Algernon…
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I’d really take great pleasure in kicking Alfie up the arse. He said that twice. My response didn’t make the cut.
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The couple I triedctovpost didn’t get up either
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Fired off six comments so far and not one of them hit the target! 🙂
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No: 7
raymond:
09 May 2016 11:09:10am
The people have spoken and he will kill Hillary at the general election.
I’m so sure of it I’ll take bets.
HPH:
If you lose, you bendover.
If trump wins, we ALL will bendover, including you… no other choice.
🙂
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Funny. They put it up!
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Nice to see the ABC is showing cars driving around in circles whilst the commentators practice their onanism. In the meantime Landlines on at 3 and they haven’t posted today’s Insiders on Iview.
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Just watching barking barnie sprout the first lie of the campaign. Claims that the government finished building a dam this week. Hmm no they assisted in the funding the augmentation of an existing dam. In other words the dam was already there.
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I should add that the dam was in his own seat.
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I saw a little bit of Mal’s opening speech. I couldn’t fathom , nor could the journos. Waxing lyrical about creating jobs, improving the economy, etc.One journo asked when this was all going to start?
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I saw di Natale was in Newy yesterday. Made a dick of himself when he said Shortem was in Tasmania to visit a mine. Hmmm on the 10th anniversary of the Beaconsfield mine rescue. I think Turnbull has shot himself in the foot.
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I could hardly believe the drivel that was coming out of the commentators’ mouths. Just awful.
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It seemed a mutual wank. Just the lies being told. Last nights 7:30 for example telling a member and her seven helpers handing out how to votes at a railway station. They weren’t there.
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It seemed a mutual wank. Just the lies being told. Last nights 7:30 for example telling a member and her seven helpers handing out how to votes at a railway station. They weren’t there.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-07/living-danishly-six-hacks-for-a-happier-life/7379056
SM’s gonna hit the roof again when he reads this 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I’m really baffled. How do you deduce that I’m hitting the roof? I believe I have a fairly dry, plain-English style. What are the clues that give away my rage? I think you’re reading a lot in to my words that isn’t there.
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I believe I have a pretty dry, plain-English style. Why do you think I’m always angry? What’s giving my agitated state away?
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Last paragraph is basically the point I make in regard to Nordic boosting specifically and nationalist hype generally. Take it all with a grain of salt. Everyone’s got their problems.
People don’t seem to get the point I’m making. They seem think I’m engaged in petty nationalist point scoring.
I found your sledge about US banks confusing for this reason. I’ve devoted enormous effort on The Drum to criticising the bank system generally and the US system in particular. I mention once in passing that the Nordic countries had their own subprime crisis in the 90s – and praise their policy response to it – and you seem to have taken it as nationalist sledging.
Just by the by. My deposit in the bank is my financial asset. It is the banks financial liability. My loan from the bank is my liability and the banks asset. If everything is going well financial assets and liabilities are always equivalent to each other.
You may have noticed another critique I make on the Drum about this in relation to the Greek financial crisis. People engage in petty political and nationalist point scoring. Greece is to blame. Germany is to blame.
My point is that they’re both to blame. Given that income MUST be equivalent to expenditure over time. And financial assets (savings) MUST equal financial liabilities (borrowings) it should have been obvious Greece and Germany were both living in fantasy worlds.
Greece that it could borrow to fund current expenditure indefinitely. Germany that it can maintain trade surpluses and lend the difference indefinitely.
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SM, the capitalist system in Australia is shit. Join me and let’s fight for a better system. Let’s adopt the Nordic Model, a better system for our people. Enough of the Carlyle Wall Street robber barons mafia cartel and panama pricks.
If any of the prime ministers from Scandinavia were discovered to have hidden his millions of dollars in an offshore bank account, he would have resigned immediately – no questions asked.
If I were the prime minister of Australia, and if people had found out that I was keeping my millions of dollars in an offshore bank account, I would have been too ashamed to show my face in public and would have resigned from office immediately.
Malcolm Turnbull, your capitalist mate, has no shame. You are defending the indefensible: our capitalist system sucks like a vampire.
I hope you had a good weekend 🙂
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Funny thing, SM, I tried to make a joke
to Andso’s:
“I once built a model of the Endeavour.
It was pride of place on the bookshelf. ”
With:
“Is it in a bottle?”
But the funning ABC didn’t published it!
They think your joke is funnier! Aha aha
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I can’t help reposting these:
‘R Supwood:
06 May 2016 10:11:23am
Try editing, night school English, clear thinking, or silence.
OUB :
06 May 2016 12:52:53pm
Try taking your own advice. Your pus-filled posts are an offence to anyone with a brain.
R Supwood:
06 May 2016 2:19:49pm
So, they couldn’t affect you. Everyone should attack greedy and brainless conservatives. It’s patriotic.’
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OUB and brain are mutually exclusive at times, well most of the time, sort of…
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and this too:
“…the inability to keep one’s head still…”
R Supwood:
06 May 2016 11:34:01am
This, from an “expert” in onanism.
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Big M:
06 May 2016 12:15:57pm
A one handed expert, at that!
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🙂
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SM had to turn the Endeavour story into an attack on Labor.
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Um … it was a joke. Ironic you see? You said it was refreshing to have a diversion from politics. I also see it as parody of pretty much every comment the party cheerleaders on both sides make every day.
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Thanks, SM, yes it was refreshing to have some diversion today. Sometimes it’s like a slowly moving train wreck, but you just can’t look away!
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SeaM, next time when you make an “ironic joke” tell us that it is a parody so we can all laugh together. aha aha aha
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At least OUB got it, hph. That gives me some consolation.
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Would have to be the silliest comment of the week wouldn’t it
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Like I said: next time tell us SM 🙂
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All I can see at the Bum today is Jean Oliver wading through sprays of verbal bottom mucous.
Ten points for keeping your head above the effluent, Jean!
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I tried posting there to support OJ but the funning mods won’t allow me!
And SM always reminds of that little worm in Johnny Hart’s ‘What’s New, B.C.?’ who sticks his head out of the hole looking around with wide open eyes after a big dinosaur passes by. 🙂
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That Sayman’s a bit of dick aren’t they.
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Clairy Browne’s album Pool reviewed in today’s SMH Spectrum.
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I saw that. Olympia is another I saw a few weeks ago. Might find a space for her on a list soon too.
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I did okay.
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KK:
05 May 2016 6:35:17pm
Where did they get the patrol from?
HPH:
…from your illiterate momma.
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I don’t think they will ever post this ha?
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