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 
Does anybody know who Tatum Satiago is?
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You bugger Hung!
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Never heard of him/her, honest judge.
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I guess omly the best will do then.
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She told me she was 16!!
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She could be a friend of Svetlana
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Nup.
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Bigotry is nothing new. Years ago when Italian and Greek migrants arrived in Australia they were sometimes judged as unsuitable migrants because of eating garlic.
Yet, eating vile brown vegemite and tinned spaghetti on toast was seen as desirable attributes and perfectly normal.
Now, wearing what our grandmothers used to wear, a headscarf, is seen by a few enough reason to burn down a theatre.
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How come wives of rich American men all seem to look alike? (The white ones.)
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Anyone in particular viv?
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No – lots of them I see on TV – politicians’ wives – the Trump troup for instance.
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They all look like barbie dolls don’t they even the blokes.
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I doubt they are alive. They could be clones.!
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Greg Hunt the New Health Minister and Sport. Wikipedia’s in for a hell of a workout.
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Has anyone thought yet of “Hunt the …t.”
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Mike’s brother.
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Or Yoricks
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Looks like ICAC Arfur is going to get the Health gig full time now. Abbott band though keep belting the drum for his return. One has to wonder what stuff ups are in store this week
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Sido makes Ley look like an amateur in the snout in the trough competition.
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They have no talent to choose from.
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Well that have plenty of that to choose from.
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Yep, she’s (Ley) a goner. Now just an MP. Still trying to suggest it was all within the rules. Bullshit. Never seen such contrived excuses to fly to Coolangatta and be on the Gold Coast. I see more recently she cut down on her charter flights but still enough to keep her flying licence.
Turnbull’s meeting the press time was a lot of waffle. Bravely smiling, or trying to.
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Yep the selection of sandwiches he was trying force down weren’t tasting very nice.
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Opens the door for Abbott to come back apparently.
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More on Ley’s charter flights. She is flying them herself. She does have to fly regularly to keep her licence. ww.bordermail.com.au/story/4396575/ley-charges-taxpayers-13000-for-capital-city-charter-flights/?cs=11
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Missed a w in the link : http://www.bordermail etc – just add it if trying to get to article.
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Why don’t all those politicians simply travel using the Opal card? Most conferences are done through skype or internet. I reckon they are rorting like buggery. Now that huge pension savings are made by cutting them, I feel especially miffed thinking Mrs Ley is hopping about buying investment units in QLD. That mouth of hers is almost a unit on its own.
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She was rorting and I think she’s a goner.
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I agree she’s a rorter but we’ll see. I doubt Waffles has the cojones.
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From SMH on line 9. Jan 2017 – read it for a good laugh:
Former speaker Bronwyn Bishop has jumped to the defence of Sussan Ley, accusing socialists of tearing her down and arguing that double standards exist for women and men in politics.
Ms Bishop, who was herself forced to resign after claiming $5227 in taxpayer-funded expenses for a helicopter ride to a Liberal Party fundraiser, said Ms Ley’s critics were ideologically motivated and fuelled by the “Twitterati” and 24-hour news.
Ms Ley stood aside as Health Minister on Monday morning pending the outcome of an investigation into her travel claims, following revelations she bought an $800,000 apartment on a taxpayer-funded trip to Gold Coast and has taken 27 flights in and out of the area in recent years, including two for New Year’s Eve engagements.
Ms Bishop said that she didn’t have specific knowledge of how Ms Ley’s travel was arranged “but I do know that there are socialists out there who want to attack free enterprise and anyone who sticks up for it. And I know that socialists, like alcoholics, will blame anyone but themselves. And whereas alcoholics can damage their own families, socialists can destroy the whole country.”
The former speaker said the two inquiries into Ms Ley’s expenses – by the Department of Finance and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – should be allowed to run their course without the cabinet minister “being attacked by people behaving like a pack of dogs”.
“But let’s understand that there are people out there who wish to destroy free enterprise and those who stick up for it. Whereas socialism, which is always on the march, if you expose it, it can be defeated. And be under no illusions, whenever you see some of these arguments come to the fore, there will always be an ideological component,” the former member for Mackellar told Sky News.
“But what’s this got to do with socialism?” pressed host Laura Jayes.
“A lot, a lot. Socialists will always blame anyone but themselves.”
Ms Bishop also criticised Labor for its response.
Acting opposition leader Penny Wong was quick to criticise Ms Ley’s explanation – and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s decision not to sack the minister – at a press conference on Monday.
“I found it pretty, pretty disgusting to see the Labor sending out a woman to attack another woman this morning. I don’t think that’s a good look either,” Ms Bishop said.
“And to be blunt, if you look at the socialist side of the Labor Party, you look at the people in there and the blokes who have…done many more things like that and, quite frankly, nothing happens. So I think there’s one rule for some and a different rule for others.”
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It’s like having Hitler defend you at the War Crimes Tribunal.
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Did Bishop realise that she was the worst Speaker in the history of parliament?
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Never – you know all Liberals think they are bloody perfect. The hypocrisy of her statement on Ley is a new high in that thinking.
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Too stupid but Sussan Leys nickname is Easy.
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Is it known why.
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Do tell.
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Easy Ley I guess. BTW the Guardian is moderating me at the moment as the Poms don’t like being told to fuck off. How immature.
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They’re a strange lot those to and forms. Some speak in this weird language thinking they’re speaking colloquial Australian thinking they’re hilarious. When you point out the talking nonsense they tell you that you don’t have a sense of humour. Even the dog walker at his silliest made more sense then that lot.
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I guess that is why she pronounces it Lee when Ley really is pronounced Lay. She even added an s to Susan as numerology says lucky.
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News line on Channel Nine SA’s news last night … describing Sussan Ley’s situation …… her career in an induced coma”. I did larf and admire the journos work.
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Bronnie has a hide like a rhino and a hairstyle to match. She is born to rule filth, a career parasite on the taxpayer. She wasn’t just the worst speaker we’ve had she would be on the list of those that are the worst politicians we’ve had.
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Where I had to laugh is that ICAC Arfer is temporarily replacing her. She has questions to answer he has criminal questions to answer
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I thought that Sido was dead in the water, but along comes a flotation device.
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Its the tory way Big, couple of years and they forget.
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So weird. First Bronny who makes our Bish look positively radiant with caring vibes and empathy strikes a pose and suddenly arty is centre stage ‘helping out’. I, too, thought he had fizzled away. Seems corrupt politcians don’t fizzle away. They get patched and pumped up. 😦
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Gotta love these Tories, $800k for a unit on a tax payer funded trip to the Gold Coast not a problem. $4000 for flights between Albury, Sydney and Coolangatta for two easy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-06/ley's-purchase-of-unit-on-taxpayer-funded-trip-'not-planned'/8165414
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Barnacle reckons it’s OK, so I guess it must be.
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Barking Barney reckons you can move a department to Armidale and everyone will go. Which they will of course won’t they
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/disgraced-former-federal-mp-craig-thomson-running-migrant-placement-scheme-20160920-grk4un.html
Convicted criminal. Can’t (apparently) afford to repay the money.
Alleged by the SMH to have submitted internet plagiarism in a report as chair of the Economics Committee.
Not sacked by Labor because it needed the vote. Then “sacked” by Labor because it needed the vote. Labor paid a settlement for a legal matter to which he was party.
Now a former politician allegedly offering his expertise to exploit a loophole in the regulations. I love that; when former pollies and public servants get rich showing people how to get around the rules they themselves implemented.
It just blows my mind that people think there’s a major difference between Labor and Liberal in these matters.
Labor practices corruption. Labor sends its kids to elite schools. Labor connections get Labor kids cushy jobs. Labor negative gears investment properties.
What did Emmjay say the other day? Stop settling for the least worst? Well sorry I’ve got to. That’s the system; but I’ll be —kt if I’m going to barrack for either one of them.
Pigs Arms on systematic Labor self-interest, careerism, bastardy, nepotism and incompetence? Frank Drebin said it best…
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Do you practise hard at being a fuckwit SM.
How on earth do you justify what Sussan Ley has done here. I’m commenting on what the POLITICIAN has done here. Purchased a $800k property and fobs it of as a whim from an LNP donor. Just happened to be there, seriously. Business class fares for two from Sydney to Brisbane return for two as well as full fares from Albury to Sydney so she can sit in the front seat. Don’t believe me, I fly on business every 4-6 weeks and have to fly at the lowest available fare.
And please what does Craig Thompson who hasn’t been a politician since 2013 have to do with this clear rort.
I don’t care which party a pollie is from if they’re rorting the taxpayer. Obeid for example needs to have his assets stripped from him whilst he rots in jail. I also think the state of politics is incredibly poor and has been for a while. And I agree with his sentiments, but then I guess you didn’t read the comments.
I’ll take you a bit more seriously when you get around to posting a piece here for others to comment on rather than being contrary.
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Well Algy beat me to it – I second his post. He’s spot on. Your post has nothing to do with rorting pollie perks and the sickening attitude to honesty which all Lib MPs seem to excel at.
I’m still trying to figure out how much of Ley’s charter flight costs ($100,000 odd in one year) are in fact her charging top rates for the use of her own plane which she proudly flies around the electorate for which she is known as the Farrer Flyer.
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Oh look the helicopter pilots got in on the act..
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/09/bronwyn-bishop-blames-socialists-for-criticising-sussan-ley-over-expenses
And the Gold coast is the place to be for New Year too.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/09/sussan-ley-used-taxpayer-money-for-gold-coast-events-with-multi-millionaire
But she stood aside. Malcolm thinks ICAC Arfer is a good fit for the moment.
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Just posted the whole bronnie thing from SMH.
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I am cleaning and baking. Son of Sandshoe the Younger will be here tonight overnight with his 2 mini-people girl and boy ages 6 and going for 5.
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I hope it is good for you shoe
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Lovely.
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To you, Mark and to you, Vivienne I so thank you. It was a lovely visit. I so appreciated knowing your comments were here.
My relationship with them isn’t established in familiarity so it was a steep learning curve for us all.And in heat wave conditions too. What lovely kids and I mean including the Dad, Son of Sandshoe the Younger too. Lovely, truly lovely having them here.
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Well do keep the relationship going Sandshoe. I’m so lucky to have both my daughters living only half an hour’s drive away. Granddaughter Olivia is now 17 months young and just so darn fabulous. All so much better than the horror of a relationship I had with my mother who cut herself off completely from any contact 17 years ago (she is now deceased) – all over imaginary doings which aren’t worth going into but that had been her strange way since I was 22.
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Thank you, Vivienne. Yes, as well as I can and you are fortunate to have a happy relationship with your daughters, and that they are nearby. My immediate neighbours all have local grandchildren in their lives. I see the continuity and what life advantages there can be in long term relationships between family for everybody. I do wish for everybody they had the opportunity and as well each of my three daughters. There are some real bad stories aren’t there of loss.
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I remember to mention, Vivienne, that Son of Sandshoe the Older is visiting in March. I think he will be able to tarry for a while so I look forward to that too. I have visited the kids but these visits are the first to me here. That’s really nice. 🙂
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Lovely to hear that, ‘shoe, it’s bloody difficult. Sometimes just establishing a fraction of a relationship is hard. I hope they come again!!
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Thank you Big. Kind and insightful I know thoughts. I am lightened the two blokes are going the distance. I hope they do it again. x
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/04/feral-cats-now-cover-99-per-cent-of-australia#comment-90534705
Nirvana for me and my cat hating buddies.
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The cat lovers are out in force.
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One commenter demanded mandatory beheading of cats, as a control meaaure. Could work.
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Some wag mentioned there were as many cats as Liberals
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Gay cats apparently.
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Wacko first post of the new year. Happy New Year everyone
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We kept bumping into each other on the Guardian.
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Yes i noticed lets hope for more, Sir Hung is in battle as well. One of the joys of a two week break for me. Gee there are some right wing fruitcakes there. I’m surprised what I can get away with there.
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That poster wasn’t going to take no for an answer was he Ace.
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No they didn’t HOO. There are others with their heads permanently jammed up their bums.
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Gosh they hand out baubles for anything in Britain.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-31/andy-murray-to-be-knighted-after-stellar-year/8155578
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Does he have a cat?
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maybe for his racquet. Fancy getting a knighthood for hitting a tennis ball. or for running a race.. Bit like getting an OBE for scoring 7 runs. No wonder Adolf Turd gave Prince Philip a knighthood.
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Ridiculous isn’t it. Still, in the not too far distant past Oz PMs dished them out willy nilly to friends and to donors.
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Too true, mostly brown noses of the Liberal Party. We had an old lady where I grew up, who literally begged the local member to give her an award. Just to shut her up they gave her a BEM (British Empire Medal). Proud as punch she was, services to the Liberal Party or the like apparently. Too thick to realise it was like a booby prize.
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I’ve known a few nurses with AOs, etc. Fuck knows why they got them, not for working hard. I remember Libs were charged, I mean, made a donation of $50000 for an MBE, it’s probably much higher now.
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The car park was eerily empty this morning. Shopping frenzy seems to have died out. I saw a few pale looking people skulking about. They looked like their credit cards.
Watching ABC news. No respite there with Malcolm dancing a wild unrestrained Hanukah. I reckon he will kiss Trump’s arse next.
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What only kiss it. What a sad excuse for a PM he is. How could anybody support apartheid Israel.
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Lets hope it won’t last long Gez.
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Bob Hawke suggested recently again I hear that we get rid of State governments. It makes me nervous to consider centralised governance. It could go very wrong in the hands of a cruel individual like Turnbull. Of course I think no-one is going to call it for what it is in the US of A and stop the Presidency of Trump. These are crazy days.
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Yes, ‘shoe, it always seems good in theory. It makes more sense to nationalise various boards, standards, licensing, etc. Although state governments do a really good job of mistreating individuals.
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Is Hung on leave, does anyone know? I mailed “Sandy Goes All Out for Mary’ to him, yesterday, another explanatory piece.. I’ve not heard that he has received it..’
We’ve no power. I mean electricity. This will be my last correspondence for a while. Mobile phone ‘s been on charger since early hours. Howsoever, battery is flat but I suppose this must be how long I’ve had no power, about 5 hours, give or take I skimmed FB to get the news. Richard Adams, Carrie Fisher have stepped out of the building.
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I was cross posting with Hung I think and the battery simultaneous to writing to acknowledge it died. All good, Hung.
Power restored here. I heard cheering in the street and a voice carry, excited, “That means we can have a cup of coffee .”
Right on. I’ll go a second.
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Hoo?
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All sorted, Big M. It was a few days ago. 2016 is on its last hours too. We’ll have a new year in thereabouts 120 minutes. Happy New Year, Mark.
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Vale Princess Leia. Better stick to the cricket. Seems like every time I watch the news someone else has fallen off the perch.
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Who will it be tomorrow Hung. Lets hope they play today. Junior and I are off to day 1 at the SCG.
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First the daughter now the mother. Debbie Reynolds has decided to pull the pin.
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Really! Oh gosh! That’s my profound comment. I think our generation and associates are dying of grieving, algy.
Back to the garden and a quick saunter down to shops before afternoon storms. Steamy day. Mud is very fetching I think. I’m covered in it. I wish it would fetch the groceries. 🙂
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Very hot here shoe, trying to keep out of it. 38 degrees and still climbing. Need to go out later. The mud would dry out here in an instant
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Ditto, here, already sinking a Trotters Best.
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Humid here but not too hot. Been pruning lemon trees which grew heaps this year due to the massive rain we had – totally verging on out of control.
Sad about Carrie and her mum. Tell your loved ones how much you love them – often.
It’s G & T weather here.
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Mario Milano has died. Never again will we see him battle the likes of Killer Kowalski or Brute Bernard, Killer Karl Kox , Bulldog Brower and Skull Murphy or even Spiros Arion. Vale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFlX5BJz7lE
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And the Hagiographies for George Michael are in overdrive over at The Guardian
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Collapsed scrum, Alan ?
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Touché. Had to think about that. I think they both had similar tastes in architecture.
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My thoughts, exactly. Male toilets were flooded with fans thronging to relive…….
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I left a comment after someone said what a decent man he was along the lines of “He had a love of park architecture not to mention a love for class A & B drugs.” For some reason that wasn’t seen as being within the guidelines
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Jeez. Larry O’Dea finally gets a shot at the good guy crown !
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Either him of Mark Lewin
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Oh dear – my two favs Mario and Killer. Saw all of those guys live. I once bought one item from Darrods and my name came out of the barrel – I was on In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy – spun the famous wheel and my question was to name the person shown. It was Killer Kowalski. I won four watches.
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Killer died in 2008. Never saw them live. My grandmother used to watch them and that was my first experience, pure theatre the the messages in the mother tongue. Used to watch until they were taken off TV.
What did you do with the four watches.
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I loved wresting and it was my free time when studying at high school etc. Graham asked the same question – one for my mum, one for my grandma, one for me and one for my dog. I was 18 at the time. In fact I sold them all. We already had better watches!
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A Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year to all those who freely roam here. A round of Trotters Best.
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Dear friends,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you and to your families
…and may the new year be less severe than is predicted! :))))
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Long time no hear HPH – trust you are well and you too have a lovely Christmas and a good New Year (could it get any worse? !).
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Where have you been man/woman you have been missed. Merry Christmas fellow traveler.
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Happy Saturnalia, old chap/ chapette.
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And to you hph. Its been a while. I hope you’re keeping well.
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Thank you all my friends. I’m fine Vivienne, apart from minor hiccups every now and then, still plodding along… 🙂
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Thank you all my friends. I’m fine Vivienne, apart from minor hiccups every now and then, still plodding along…
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/heres-a-forumla-for-bursting-elitist-anti-elitism
Our Jeff has nailed it. Particularly interesting is his idea about Podesta’s subterfuge. Oh but he needs to lie…
That’s why I think the party of Obeid, Thomson , The Terrigals Tripoli, Neal, Alpine Offset, etc, etc, etc, … should be complacent about the it’s own part in the status quo. It’s also the party that though Mark Latham would make a great PM.
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Shouldn’t be complacent.
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Vale Colonel Potter and Zsa Zsa
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A local here just turned 105 and in reply to the usual question ‘what is your secret /to what do you put down your long life etc’ she said ……… drinking alcohol and eating cheese.
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Its almost like asking overseas “celebrities” who just arrive in the country what they think of Australia. Or people saying we’re a close knit community when something goes wrong.
I like the idea of eating cheese.
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My kinda girl…
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Was Zsa Zsa Gabor in M*A*S*H
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Had to check to see if she was Mrs Douglas from Green Acres but that was her sister.
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A Happy Holiday (Christmas)
With the issue of a school in Queensland not toeing the Christian line, I thought it best to use both forms; A Happy Holiday and a Happy Christmas.
http://theaimn.com/you-better-watch-out/
Christmas (without snow) is almost here. Yesterday we bought the pavlova and, as is now an Oosterman tradition, we will be roasting the Indian Raan dish. The lamb will be marinated for a couple of days in the yoghurt and lemon mixture with the usual spice of garam masala which includes cinnamon, cloves, chilies and whatever I feel like chucking in. I rarely measure quantities which gives an uncertain and exciting edge to the end dish. Sometimes it bombs but at other times it will surpass even our wildest culinary imaginings. A good Raan in the middle of a hot Australian Christmas is to be applauded and revered. It is really the true spirit of Christmas. It used to be possible to buy a large shoulder of hogget or an ageing sheep. Not anymore. It is all lamb now. A hogget is to be preferred for slow roasting.
But I am straying.
You know how it is! We used to walk with our dog Milo past a house which has a large window reaching to the floor. Very often it showed an old man reading and three small dogs all seated on a variety of cushions. The man and his book on a recliner chair. A charming and intimate picture. Milo would run up to the house and the man and his three small dogs, framed in this large window, would all be aroused by Milo’s short burst of furious barking. The three little dogs did likewise. It would just last a second or so and Milo would dart back to us. It was a little tradition without fail each time. The man would laugh and we would wave to him. It was a neighbourly bit of fun. Then, without warning, the dogs and this man were gone.
The grass at the front of the house is now overgrown and the man’s car hasn’t moved. The curtain, that was never used before is now drawn across the large window. We are not sure what has happened. Milo still expects a return of the fun, but it hasn’t. He looks disappointed each time we pass the house. It has been at least a month since the last barking and waving-back exchange. I hope things are alright and it will all come back, but that’s not a given! Sometimes things don’t return to what was. No matter how one wishes.
Another strange thing which doesn’t bode well is that the chickens on the other side of our fence have stopped cackling. Worse, the door of the pen is open. I suggested to Helvi that perhaps the owner has died. ‘It is more likely that the chickens have died’, Helvi said. I responded, ‘only three days ago they were full on after having laid eggs. The chickens were cackling like mad,’ I added. The owner of the chickens is also an old man. His name is Harley. He has a wooden sign ‘Harley Davidson’ screwed on the outside wall of his veranda. Perhaps he used to ride a Harley bike. I will ask him next time I see him.
Harley always dresses in neat long sleeved shirts and wears jeans. A reserved man with a good sense of humour. He loves his dogs. They are a very large Bernese, and a lively small Jack Russell. Harley also does the gardening, feeds his chickens and reap the eggs. All of these would be combined each afternoon with Harley sauntering around his garden while sipping a glass of white wine and puffing a cigarette, overlooking his domain. A picture of a contented man. No doubt his wife would not have him smoking inside. That’s how it has gone now. I hardly ever see the wife, but she is there. Harley and I sometimes talk a bit and each time he would shake my hand.
I do hope to see him soon and look forward to wish him a Merry Christmas.
I also wish all of you, dear followers and friends, a Happy Christmas AND a Happy Holiday.
Feel free to buy someone a Christmas (Holiday present) May I suggest that a good book never fails to satisfy 😉
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Beautiful GO.
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Thank you, Mark. A jar of vegemite is in the post. ‘)
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Cheers Gerard.
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I am a second to that. Beautiful, Gez. Thank you.
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Here a hug, Shoe. (Not by post).;)
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It’s important I know not to wait at the gate for the mail lassie, Gez. Thank you. :).
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Love and best wishes to you Gerard and to Helvi (I see her commenting on AIMN).
Re schools and carols – never sang any during all my school years and not at my kids’ schools. End of year break up was speeches and awards to students.
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Shoe, Do you want to send your stuff to me to post? I have more time then Emmjay.
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Hi Hung. I’m totally across that. Yes please. I have 2 for you. I will mail them a little later tonight. Catching last of daylight in yard. Thank you.
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Umm, wait on. I did have your email address, Hung but I don’t know know if it’s lost on an old machine. If someone has mine…algy has it, I think…please send me Hung’s address or Hung mine? Thank you. Shoe.
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shoe, check your email inbox. There should be an email from me.
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Roger, Alge. I say. There was too . Thank you. 😉
Now there are 2 posts. The editing department’s really booming. Taking orff.
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Ace, are you on holidays, no song list.
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Not yet HOO. Sent one to Emm today and have the next few ready. Been a bit busy the past few weeks.
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Okay, cheers.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/16/disabled-workers-paid-as-little-as-99c-an-hour-to-receive-back-pay-under-100m-settlement
Fuck me dead. Is this my country? I feel ashamed.
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That’s why I tried to change the topic to something different – food !
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I can walk and chew gum however I might have a Vegemite sandwich on Xmas day. 🙂
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I used to have a biscuit sandwich on Xmas day.
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My sisters would regale in horror at my tomato sauce sandwiches.
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I commented
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Just ran out of Vegemite so it looks like I’ll have a bread sandwich instead.
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Mark, GO’s mum used to have bread sandwiches; a slice of white between two brown ones. Maybe she was just happy with anything after the potato peel soup…( don’t mention the war, it might come back)…
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🙂 🙂
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PS: Am saving for a new jar. Merry Christmas to you and yours and great to hear from you.
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Lovely to see you Helvi.
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Oh wow. Hello Helvi. I seem to remember in the 50s there were sammies that were made of a slice of brown bread between 2 white ones. I think my mother called them double deckers. Not plain bread. They were often curried egg with lettuce. Mr Curry likely wangled the recipe into the Womens Weekly. 🙂
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I see the finely the sulpted turd George condones the Hitler of the Philippines Durante personally going around a n killing people because they are dealers or addicts. What a joy having such outstanding people as representatives in the Parliament
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One person over at the Guardian described Dutton as sebago, classic.
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I think a sebago has more brains than Dutton.
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Is sebago something like sago?
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sebago is a potato good for mashing, Sago looks like mash so yes it is something like. 🙂
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Better than A Dutch Cream.
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I guessed it was like sago because you were speaking on Dutton. Conjures query ‘Dutton’s brains’. Leap of faith. Sebago/Sago. Mmm. Should do something with my native talent for keen observation.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/16/ms-dhu-endured-inhumane-treatment-by-police-before-death-in-custody-coroner
Gets worse.
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I knew it was shocking but seeing that footage and then WA police commissioner answering questions …. it’s beyond outrageous.
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WA police are little more than cowboys from my many visits there. Always the black fella’s fault even when it can be proved otherwise.
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