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 
(ring ring)
..
(ring ring)
…
(ring.. Mark answers the phone)
Mark: “Yeah who duck is this?’
Hph: “It’s me hph..”
Mark: “What the duck do you want?”
Hph: “Mark, I need your help. You gotta help me!”
Mark: “Yeah! What the duck did you do this time you duckhead?”
Hph; “Mark, I’m in the shit!”
Mark: “You’re always in shit you shithead”
Hph: “No Mark, this time I’m in the REAL shit.”
Mark: “Real or not you’re always in shit.”
Hph: “Mark listen to me… I am in a tank full of real shit”
Mark: “Get the duck outta here.”
Hph: “That’s what I’m trying to do Mark help me”
……….
{Someone else can do rest}
🙂
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And they all lived happily ever after.
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Hahahaaaa… Hey Sea M .. this is hilarious 🙂
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-27/norway-man-rescued-from-inside-drop-toilet-after-losing-phone/7790980
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…. I’m still laughing … can’t stop…. 🙂
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WTF was he thinking. Guess the dunny is out of order now. As for the mobile its up the shit now. 🙂
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Well, Algernon, ….Every village has one. 🙂
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I guess he was bogged down
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I, too, think he was. Unfortunately for him, it’s summertime over there. In winter, he would have been standing on frozen shit. (oh boy, those fingers holding on the edge of the toilet seat are so funny) 🙂
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One for our Hung (I know he loves this feller): http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-25/australians-dont-hate-jarryd-hayne-but-want-sincerity/7783768
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Thank you for that Sister. A very interesting piece
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I tried leaving a comment there but really who gives a shit.
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I’m sick of these comment-free Drum articles.
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Weird – suddenly comments are available. Same system as the news items comments had (different from the Drum). I’ve left a comment – fortunately remembered my log-in info/password.
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It has not come up. Nothing has since the first 12. wtf … as usual.
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I’ve not long skimmed through, and there’s nothing!
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Looks like commnts for two hours then nothing . Nothing new then
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The banning of selling petrol and diesel fuelled cars is getting closer in The Netherlands.
http://time.com/4298742/netherlands-petrol-diesel-vehicles-ban-pollution-electric/
( PS Havanna Liedown, did you watch the welcome of refugees in Germany on the ABC 4 corners? Makes you proud to be an Aussie.)
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nah he’s still recovering… I gave him a good hiding down below 🙂
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…and what a hiding it was. By an ailing mosquito. But don’t let me interrupt your bragging.
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“Lawmakers in the Netherlands on Monday passed a motion…”, Gerard has it come to passing motions, like with Movicol and other laxatives? 🙂
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I think they also recycle motions into a gas which helps electric cars when the battery runs out. A win win.
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lol 🙂
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Yes, I thought I’d passed a motion, once, but it was all piss and wind.
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I knew someone a few years ago. He was described as a Rectal Propulsion Supervisor
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Reminds me, dear Gez (I was looking round the pub for you), anything is possible if this ban gets up …seeing fracking’s been ducked off out of Victoria! Never can tell! We all might cease killing each other even if not in our life times!
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Q and A … geee that Brendan O’ Neill is a bit of a cornhole, isn’t he? 🙂
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Yes: http://leftfootforward.org/2013/05/dont-feed-the-troll-the-five-stupidest-brendan-oneill-articles/
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Thanks Big M
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He had a regular Unleashed gig once. Couldn’t stand him. Always trolled with lazy false-equivalence arguments. Feminists are the new feinting Victorian ladies. Oppression of homophobes is the new oppression of homosexuals. Blah, blah, blah…
Can’t stand lazy, false-equivalence trolling.
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Thanks Sea M 🙂
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He’s so offensive and ugly in every way. Q & A don’t need people like him on the program – it just insults our intelligence.
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Has anyone been watching Grand Designs New Zealand? There are some really wacky people over there. 🙂
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Yes. Fascinating.
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Logging in again.
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https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/non-muslims-flock-to-buy-burkinis-as-french-bans-raise-profile-of-the-modest-swimwear-style/
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You should be able t wear what you like
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Interestingly they describe Nigella Lawson as a Jewess when in actual fact she’s an atheist. Still the its just an item of swimwear. Like Hung said anyone should be able to wear what they like at the beach. Probably not stylish enough for the French.
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I’m not sure they understand the difference between being Jewish by inheritance vs being a practicing Jew. Yes, she describes herself as being an atheist.
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Yes that’s correct Big, If a parent or parents are of a particular faith or thinking doesn’t necessarily make the child the same.
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Yes, but there are also Jews that are described as descendants of Hebron. More like a nationality.
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And what of the other 11 tribes of Israel. Wouldn’t they be Jews also. They’re all Arabs anyway just a diffent type. Nigella Lawson says she’s atheist , she doesn’t say she’s a Jew other that by upbringing.
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Men should wear it too. Skin cancer prevention.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-20/prejudices-failing-male-nurses/7762284
Hmm
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Are male nurses still called ‘sister’? I suppose nurse for both sexes. Mind you, there are now many more sexes about. You wouldn’t know who is taking the bed pan now. All the Lgbtq with hogb and even lrrci. (long range reversible idiosyncratic orientations.)
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The title ‘sister’ disappeared in the 80s, probably more because it removes the image of some feeble minded person who ‘answered Gordans call’, so doesn’t need any decent pay or professional recognition, rather than the emergence of males in nursing.
Of course males have been in caring roles for millenia without being called ‘sister’.
I do call Hung sister to wind him up.
Hving reread this, I do feel marginalised, and need some compo.
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I believe that our correct title is Mister, sister, er brother 🙂
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Thanks, comrade.
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sisters in arms (kih kih kih)
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We will decide who comes here and the manner by which they come. (John Howard). It seems, now that Vietnam is saying that, all Aussies are up in arms
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Thousands of Australian are in Vietnam for the official ceremony at Vung Tau. A second less formal event was planned for the Long Tan site.
Initial approval was granted for Long Tan but then withdrawn when local authorities became concerned at the growing numbers planning to attend.
Turnbull intervened. Then his Vietnamese equivalent intervened. The local authorities agreed to allow smaller groups in phases.
Unfortunately many missed out. Including Harry Smith who led D Company in the firefight 50 years ago.Harry was interviewed for ABC Radio news this morning he found the circumstances “disappointing but expected”.
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What Harry Smith said in today’s SMH is more enlightening.
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Yep nailed it really.
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We all know that the beige coloured statesman it responsible for much of the social and economic mess that the country now finds itself in. We all heard him hairy chested claim to a partisan crowd those comments and the use of asylum seekers as pawns in his pursuit of power. He is the on responsible for the hyper racism now on display regarding asylum seekers. Its ironic that Turd now says he shouldn’t have opposed the Malaysian Solution.
I think it is right that the Vietnamese government stepped in and hosed down expectations for this commemoration if they thought that it was growing out of hand. The Australian Government had ample warning that the Vietnamese government. might intervene here. I’m sure that the Vietnam Vets would have been dignified with their ceremony at the cross at Long Tan. However the Gala Dinner and Concert for something that should be a solemn occasion. Who’s idea was that!
I have a problem with the jingoistic attitude that government and almost exclusively Liberal Government have to the celebration of war events and anniversaries especially milestone ones. Their ability to metaphorically use the Australian flag as an item of clothing to cheer on yet send others to do their work.
The Vietnam War was the war I grew up with. From the late 60’s or about the age of 10 onwards I was trying to work out what it all meant. I was in the Scouts and we’d march on Anzac Day but not really understanding what it was about. One year I think it was 1970 we’d come to the end, a drunken RSL committee member commented to we might want the the lemonade and icecreams over there and how we weren’t like the long haired layabouts. Those “layabout” where the leaders who up to 10 years older than me were at risk of being conscripted into a war that they didn’t agree with. I never marched with the Scouts again in a Anzac march.
As these men came home from the war they were conscripted into the were shunned by these same drunken RSL committee types and others at large unlike their fathers and grandfathers before them. It took more than a decade to gain any sort of recognition.
I went to a dawn service in 1985 to try and make sense of it and came out none the wiser. Yet after visit to Gallipoli a few months later I got it, the futility of war and the playthings that the ruling classes played. No one ever went there yet a decade later Howard turned the place into the latest lets get pissed place for “tourists”.
The same a few weeks later when I visited a former concentration camp in Germany of the evils inflicted on others by a tyrant and psychopaths. My father was visiting his parents homeland on an extended trip before WW2. The family told his mother to get out of Europe whilst it was still easy to travel. Which they did, not that he was Jewish.
Gerard I agree wholeheartedly with your strident comments online about the plight of Asylum Seekers and you calling out of this utterly appalling government’s treatment of of them. The Minister is a buffoon and out of his depth. But I cannot agree with you linking the plight of Asylum Seekers to the blocking of Vietnam Vets visiting the site of a battle they were involved in 50 years ago. Well other than the relevant minister is also a buffoon and way out of his depth, ignoring what he was told.
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I understood that about 100 men were involved with Long Tan battle. Yet, a thousand ex-soldiers, some with family and children wanted to visit the sight. A gala dinner and a pop group was to be featured as well.
Vietnam was bombed and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lost their lives in yet another futile war.
I mean, would we welcome a thousand Japanese ex soldiers remembrance at Darwin featuring a large sake with sushi fest and sumo wrestling?
Why do those remembrances get so hyped up? Why not reflect and grieve without all the add on?
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Ah Gerard I’m with you there the hype has been there for a while. There is no need for it. As for families they attend other theatres of war
The gala dinner and pop group is tacky and tasteless. I’m unsure of the numbers trying to visit Long Tan either. Yet the government was warned that that the Vietnamese government had concerns had concerns about the numbers weeks ago. Our government just ignored them.
The Japanese didn’t set foot in Darwin they bombed it and flattened the town as they did in other northern outposts. Japanese visit the former concentration camp at Cowra and have done so for many years and are welcomed by the locals. The Vietnamese welcome their former foes too. In both cases they do so respectfully.
The Vietnamese government allows two commemoration services a year Anzac Day and 18 August they allow this provided the following protocols are followed. No uniforms or medals, no flags to be raised, no music and speeches to be short and low key. They’ve allowed this for 20 years or so. People can visit at other time with three days notice.
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I claim asylum at your house. Feed me, clothe me. I’m not going to work, so don’t expect me to help around the house. Oh, and my family are due to arrive soon. Too bad if you don’t like it.
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You’re welcome to my house Havana. Where are you from and what is your real name?
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Man Haron Monis, from Iran. Thanks hph – what’s your address? Please ensure all food Halal from now on, and no pet dogs are on the premises.
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Man Haron Monis from Iran is dead. If you claim you are Man Haron Monis then you are one sick puppy who needs shelter in a mental asylum.
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From The Aust: Pauline Hanson says an ATO decision to install squat toilets in its office could spell the end of the Aussie way of life |
My comment – I never sit on a public toilet. I’m fairly sure men all pee standing up.
You should get No.2s done before you leave home.
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I’m sure there’s a joke there somewhere, something about not giving a shit, or Pauline keeping her nose out of other people’s business.
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Problem with pantsdown I suspect
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If I here the second Queensland one nation Senator use the words “empirical evidence” when he doesn’t even understand what it means I’ll scream. The man like his leader is a fool
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A fool, an idiot, a moron.
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🙂 🙂
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But, frankly I was disgusted that he was given a gig on Q & A.
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Well they gave pantsdown a gig a few weeks ago and she demonstrated that she was a moron and a fool as well. There would be those out there like a canine lover we know that would see these people as intelligent and factual.
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I’ll scream too. The only information I could find about him on the internet is that he was once a coalmine manager. Does he have a scientific background at all, to claim that NASA is manipulating data/information?
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None. He reads denialists’ websites. I’ve read the shit he spouts elsewhere especially on the old Drum.
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He’ll describe himself as a Mining executive. I think he deludes himself.
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If I here the second Queensland one nation Senator use the words “empirical evidence” when he doesn’t even understand what it means I’ll scream. The man like his leader is a fool
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NEWS FLASH from the Aust: Former Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has got a senior job at Gina Rinehart’s mining company.
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…and you were surprised?
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In a way yes – didn’t think Gina was that stupid. Mirabella has no skills other than self interest which she has failed spectacularly in for last three years.
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Birds of a feather I guess. Both selfish greedy people. Deluded beyond belief.
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Yes, old lemon face is only good at being sour.
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You could say its a Eureka moment! 🙂
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What as the back shed cleaner or holder of the keys
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Replacing the urinal cakes in the Mens’ dunnies.
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Hey, mate, these urinal cakes taste funny.
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They smell kinda dunny too
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Aren’t things going swimmingly for all these Lib/Nat governments: Baird’s sale blocked (amazing), Giles in the shit, Dutton in the shit, Turnbull’s Census in the shit, the DD election shit results, WA wants a mining tax etc etc. All this from such brilliant economic managers (their words, not mine). Census website is now working – will people fill it out or just say WTF!
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Dutton doesn’t talk he vomits when he opens his mouth. Will the government last till Christmas?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/nsw-prisons-to-see-1400-extra-beds-old-jails-re-opened/7712570
Well, there you go. One would think after the abuse in detention centres, government would be actively looking at doing things differently. No, we are getting more jails, more punishment, more prisoners, more re-offenders. It clearly shows that our attention is not on lowering crime by rehabilitation and re-education. No we are pursuing what has proven to be so wrong. Punishment alone does not work.
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This’ll cheer everyone up http://www.smh.com.au/world/bikiniclad-swedish-policewoman-mikaela-kellner-tackles-thief-goes-viral-20160729-gqh685.html
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How is the census going, piglets?
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Well I could have done a haed copy in my motel room last night . Mrs A said she did it yesterday afternoon and said that if I was returning today that I could fill in today and not be considered to be away for census. Work that out.
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If Mrs A submitted it then I believe Algy is out of the count. But if you have a hard copy you might be okay.
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Did ours on Sunday. No problems – easy. But they came unstuck at 7.30 pm last night – hackers etc. Oh dear !
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What census?
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Con-Census
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It’s been a fuck up. Liberals – great managers ! Pig’s Arse !
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Yes, a clusterfuck of Abbottonian proportions
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Abbott set the wheels in motion with this. A complete stuff up from a government that know no other way
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While here and in the UK, plans are under way to build more prisons, Holland is closing them. They even asked Norway to send a thousand criminals, to at least fill some of the empty cells and keep employing guards.
http://qz.com/644914/the-netherlands-keeps-having-to-close-its-prisons-due-to-lack-of-prisoners/
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Says it all doesn’t it Gerard.
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Well, Holland is actively looking for prisoners. Every little bit would help fill empty cells in Holland., even paedophile bishops, clergy, headmasters, or politicians, sport crooks. Please…help.
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🙂 🙂
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From this:
https://theconversation.com/capitalism-and-democracy-part-3-63632
I came across to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVj5XQYAi8
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What are your opinions?
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Haven’t got a spare hour to watch and listen to the whole thing – not yet anyway.
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Thursday 8 September 2011
(Simon Critchley is an English philosopher)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/08/history-of-violence-simon-critchley-video
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I didn’t find that very illuminating except to confirm what thinking people already know.
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Watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics. The commentators onanism has reached new levels. For Bruce it will be perpetual for 16 days
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🙂 🙂
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Bruce will be in seventh heaven, Australia leading the medal tally on day. He’ll be working that much harder.
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Yay ….. our Census paper work has just been hand delivered. Lady said this was her last road. Phew – thought we might not get counted.
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Why do we have to give our names & addresses to the ABS? 🙂
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They have always had them on list the Census people have when they come to your house. As to exactly why the change to putting it on the form, well I don’t understand. Seems to be a totally unnecessary irritation. It doesn’t bother me – the Taxation Department and Centrelink have all this information and keep it for decades and decades and they have more private info than what they get on the Census Form. Medibank have info too, and your Bank and your Council if you own land.
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You are right. It is so true Vivienne.
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So Lord Wafflealot has the government he so richly deserves. The second pantsdown senator from Queensland seems a real winner. Loves a conspiracy theory as so many there do, especially around climate change. But then a coal industry “executive” would know that Climate change isn’t real even when the evidence is slapping his face. Seems ignorant of what Islam and a Muslim is. Claims Australia is a Christian country yet would know what a Christian is. Strange I thought the country was a Secular democracy,
The disaster of the last two weeks suggests that an election for the reps cannot be far away.
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Yet Brandis is kidding himself that the Senate will be easier to deal with! Ha !
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Just logging in.
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Yes I heard Brandis say that he couldn’t negotiate with Lazarus in the last Parliament. Might help if he actually spoke to him rather than telling him what to do.
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Apart from the waffling it is the hand gesturing – constant. Trying to convince himself and us that he believes what he is saying. The more he waves and points the more I am sure he doesn’t believe it or of course is just lying.
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Of course that’s what all good Liberals do well.
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Got no Census letter, no log in id and no form. Got nothing. Apparently someone is to deliver stuff to the house. I’d rather them send the bloody letter but postmaster (whose son is delivering in the outer areas west of me) says they (ABS) decided we would either be less likely to have the internet or be too stupid to use it. WTF. It’s a ballsup for more reasons than Nick X says.
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Well I’m unsure how I’ll do one next week. I’ll be staying in a little country town in a motel
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Just fill it in now – you are usually at home anyway. The Census does not have to be filled in on the night.
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Yep, the detention centre workers should just be spat on, it’s all they deserve.
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Havana, your moniker looks a lot like one I used a while back on “Unleashed”. It’s funny, but I’m afraid it’s not quite in the abuse league of two I used on a coal industry apologist climate change denialist – “Yorick Hunt” and “Yukon Pharkopf”. 🙂
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Is Mike Hunt still around?
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I knew someone called. Mike Hunt once. He preferred Michael for some reason.
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I let the primitives to do the spitting, it’s not MY style, maybe it’s yours, I rather call the cops, the law endorsement, in cases like this.
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Right as usual your Aitchedness. 🙂
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That’s why “spit masks” are placed on the inmates. As you say, they’re the primitives.
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