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 
There’s a new article about homelessness over at the Drum… I just posted this and suspect it may or may not be published… so just in case, here is my response to someone calling themselves ‘upside down economy’:
Well said upside down…
Unless I’m much mistaken, the very word ‘economy’ comes from a Greek word, ‘oikos’ which
means ‘household’; ‘economy’ thus means ‘household management’.
I suppose it rather begs the question, ‘whose household’ is being considered by our ‘leaders’ when they plan our economy?’ In the light of their actions, one can only presume their own… for it is certainly not that of poorer Australians!
The reason we will never get rid of homelessness is because our whole social system is a huge, on-going scapegoat ritual; it is structured rather along the lines of a game of ‘musical chairs’; only with jobs and houses, instead of chairs.
Homelessness is one of the truly horrifying things which can happen to the unemployed and once homeless it is virtually impossible to find anyplace to live. I experienced homelessness in the UK many years ago and can tell you that it is fear of unemployment, with its closely-attendant possibility of the full nightmare of homelessness, which is used to drive our whole economic system.
The scramble for housing is another example of our society playing musical chairs too… with houses as much as with jobs. They could just build more houses, of course, but they won’t… WHY? Because that would lower the prices and deflate the inflationary housing bubble which so many speculators are depending on to get a profit, providing they can sell out before the bubble bursts!
If they really want to know about homelessnes, I suggest they contact me; I am well qualified to speak on the subject not only from experience, but also academically as I hold an honours degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology… I can think of no-one better qualified to speak on the subject as no-one who has never experienced it can ever properly understand homelessness.
I now patiently await contact from anyone who is REALLY interested in knowing what kind of problems the homeless face.
And to those who say people become homeless because they choose that way of living I say, quite simply, “Bollox!”
😉
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This was my second attempt to respond to the snarl and sly threat of Reader1 on the “Wowsers Rule Sport, OK?” thread dated 04 Feb 2011 4:44:46pm. The first attempt to respond was also posted on the 4th but appears to have been censored.
Wowsers rule OK, indeed!
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Reader1 threatened:
“…Your recent contributions to Kevin Donnelly’s little foray has you on thin ice”
Before you threaten anybody, whether overt or implied – you’d better have the means of enforcing your threats to hand.
If you have issues with my comments on Kevin Donnelly’s article, bring them to the Pig’s Arms where we can discuss them further in a robust fashion without censorship beyond that required under law.
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It’s really irritating and frustrating that I can be attacked and refused a right of reply!
Seriously pissed off!!
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Go get ’em, tiger !
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I have given up trying to defend myself when someone(usually the same person) attacks me for no reason at all, maybe just because who I am and not what I write.
The mods never published my posts, which were always calm and not nasty; I don’t understand why they publish the attacks but don’t allow you to defend yourself.
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G’day Tomo! How’re the legs?
Today I sent my helper home from his last shift with me! I decided I no longer need him as I’m now on the ground floor and can now get about using just a stick… Walking is still slow and painful, though; and I can only do a limited amount, but I think I can just about manage on my own now.
In any case I’m doing as much walking as I can because when I went to hospital at the end of last month, my foot was discovered to be osteoporotic due to prolonged disuse… The bone fusion surgery has thus has to be postponed as there is apparently not enough calcium in my bones to fuse them together… So now I’ve been told to wait another six months and in the meantime to use the foot as much as possible… (New Year’s Eve was the first day I didn’t use crutches! I stayed at home all day but…)
Anyway, I hope your pins are also improving and that so too is your mobility. Funnily enough, even though it’s good to be able to stand on two feet again, and even to be able to walk again – even painfully – I actually feel more ‘crippled’ now than I did while I was on crutches, ’cause at least I could get up a bit of speed on those; on my foot and stick, I can only manage a snail’s pace… Still, I suppose my speed and the flexibility of my ankle/heel will improve in time too…
Oh well, “Perseverence furthers!”
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Comment by Mike Jones on Alan Kohler’s piece on Murdoch’s new iPad publishing model 7 Feb 2011:
All this volume talk and not a word about the quality and utility of the information !
I agree. If these organisations force sweatshop conditions on the people who create every day a custom written product – or TEN custom products, they will be producing pieces that make third world-made sneakers look brilliant by comparison. It’s a race to be more pedestrian, isn’t it ?
I think the time has long gone for quality journalism and the need for more trivial factoids never existed.
Over at the Pig’s Arms, we just make up stuff. Nobody cares whether it’s true or not – we care about whether it’s well-written, incisive, funny, beautiful or perhaps even that it reminds us of other things that are worth reading again.
I do feel sad that these new publishing models swamp the few great journos’ work and make it difficult to find them in a sea of dross. Moreover, young people may grow up never having read good journalism.
I suppose that the one benefit I can imagine about the new publishing model is that it removes any concern that by ignoring it, one might actually miss out on something good.
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That’s it Mike! You tell em about the ipig.
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See what happens when you leave the shop unattended, Jules ? There’s a Mike and a mikej claiming comment space. They can all piss off. That’s MY space !
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Emmjay, you are so right about people just making up stuff at Pigs. Had to laugh about that one.
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Well, all truth is relative, H. Ask Einstein – or since he’s dead, perhaps one of his relatives 🙂
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That’s true, H. I remember grampa saying something about all true relatives are related. I remember grampa saying that.
He was a bit koockoo though. Always star gazing like his grampa Thalesopoulos.
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ato, what does ‘poulos’ stand for? In Icelandic Gustafsdottir says that someone is a daughter of Gustaf…
My Friend’s surname is Ellinopoulos, I don’t know what’s ‘worse’, meaning longer,Icelandic or Greek 🙂
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Same principle, H.
Poulos, poule, pule, chick, son, daughter, O’ Mac, ovic, ez, etc; all the same thing.
So if you saw Einsteinson, you’d be seeing the same thing.
Same with O’Einstein, or Einsteinez, or Einsteinovic…
Reasonably good article on Wiki, under “patronymic”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic
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I was tempted to write: “Oh I thought Andrew was a homosexual Kate, I didn’t realise he had a wife and kids”, On her blog.
But intuition told me that it wouldn’t get printed.
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I’d say it’s got nearly as good a chance of getting printed as anything else. Which is low. I’m convinced they lose a lot of comments, rather than censoring them. Not that I write there much.
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Comment I attempted to add to one of those achingly self-righteous articles entitled something like ‘What a Deep Thinker I Am And The Proof Is That I Don’t Celebrate Australia Day’:
Crikey! You mean it was yesterday? What drongo puts a Public Holiday in the
middle of the flamin’ week?! Thought it was a bit quiet at work yesterday.
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Why do they keep putting new articles up (unleashed latest stories), when they can’t cope with the existing crop?
. .
.Went to The Mater yesterday, to visit the surgeon (Dr Geoff Askin), who operated on my cervical spine (I had a metal plate and bone graft inserted; which I mentioned once before). He had to reschedule a lot of his appointments, because of the flood; so worked on Oz day.
Nothing much they can do, except try some injections. It might dull the nerve pain, but it won’t reactivate numbness. Hah hah, I should have written dumbness.
Here’s to more CT & MRI scans!
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Sorry to hear about your discomfort, Jules. We of a certain age seem to dance lightly between one bodily let down and the next.
May yours give you a break.
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One gets used to the discomfort. Even without drink.
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Just gone back to UL, for a looksee.
They should write:underneath, “First to Comment”.
IN YOUR FUKEN DREAMS YOU DICKBONCE!!
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Or, of course, they could just write underneath.
I think that there’s a piece of uncooked snout in my keyboard. Just a soupçon as Ato said somewhere. I’ve always liked that word.
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Did you mean “snot” ?
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No no no, of cour senot.
Boar snot doesn’t have to be cooked, silly.
One whips it up into a sorbet; decorated with chicken drawing dumplings.
Washed down with a 440ml glass of Trotters.
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They’ve had technical problems with the current incarnation of the site from Day 1. I can’t understand why they haven’t fixed it. I mean, it almost works. I would have thought it would be trivial to make it actually work.
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I sincerely hope they strike the right combination of drugs/injections. You know, it’s amazing what they can do with a little trial and error, even though it’s nerve wrecking (not literally of course) while they’re failing the few tries. Treating the symptoms certainly has a lot going for it when treating the cause doesn’t totally solve it.
Crikey, a metal plate in your spine. That must be an issue when you ponce about OS. Or rather, when you enter the secure area at the airport. How far does airport security make you strip down?
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Hi Voice, When I first travelled through customs, after the op, I took a letter from the surgeon, explaining that I had a small titanium plate in my neck–just in case the bell rang.
However it has never been discovered ; consequently I have smuggled it ever since. I am a serial smuggler.
The surgeon grafted a bit of bone from my tibula into the cervical spine and then screwed a plate to hold it together. Some surgeons remove the plate, when the graft has taken and fused, but mine doesn’t. I get some pins & needles, together with some numbness and pain. The injections (if I take the job), will be aimed at the nreve endings in the neck.
It’s not to bad really, especially after seeing some of his patients walking the corridors with steel halos, pins in their heads and metal struts holding people together.
I’m a small case fore him!
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Nerve pain can resolve ….
Obviously you already know that and more besides, though.
Q. How do you end up with a small case? A. Start with a large one. No, doesn’t really work does it? Oh well. The thought was there. 🙂
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I believe the Unleashed article was subtitled: I Regurgitate
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Small compared to some of his patients. There was some sort of famousruggebee thingee mehoojah there being sorted.
Can’t tell you who it was because I don’t follow rugby league.
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He also deals with children who have spinal probs.
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Anyone know what’s going on at Unleashed? All comments are gone?
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It’s been in a parlous state of flux-almost terminal decline, in fact-for a while now.
They obviously have technical and manpower issues; stuff doesn’t appear, or it freezes for 48hrs. Sometimes they edit the actual comments and sometimes a bursts of Mulga-like hydras appear. And the layout of their information page stays unchanged, like a bush-rangers’ bed.
It is very unprofessional, not the least because one would think that with all the obvious problems they would hold back some of the articles, just to give things a chance to filter through. It reminds me of Fantasia, with all the buckets of water.
Bye the bye:
The following are results from an OZ-words Competition where entrants were asked to take an Australian word, alter it by one letter only, and supply a witty definition.
Billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole
Bludgie: a partner who doesn’t work, but is kept as a pet
Dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact
Fair drinkum: good-quality Aussie wine
Flatypus: a cat that has been run over by a vehicle
Mateshit: all your flat mate’s belongings, lying strewn around the floor
Shagman: an unemployed male, roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity
Yabble: the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater crustaceans
Bushwanker: a pretentious drongo, who reckons he’s above average when it comes to handling himself in the scrub
Crackie-daks: ‘hipster’ tracksuit pants.
And for the Kiwi’s amongst us:
Shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep
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What’s wrong with giving people compliments, we all need them…
On Jo Hilder’s blog I said something like this:
Reading Tomokatu’s posts on UL makes me think that his possible offspring would have been very intelligent indeed.
The moderators were not happy with my comment, maybe they disagree 🙂
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Good to see that Arkwright got a guernsey, with Fear!
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Good to see that Michelle (a blogger), got it.
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They also refused to allow my comments to Gigaboomer on the ‘gentlemens’ blog as it was a not-very-gentlemanly response to his equally ungentlemanly assertion that all humanists are equal to Maoists or Stalinists… which they somehow seem to feel is less insulting or offensive than my telling Giga that he could take is prissy christian self-righteousness and shove it where the sun don’t shine; and that the best thing he could do to help the cause of christianity would be to abandon it!
And a couple of similar, though somewhat milder, posts were equally censored…
I also ‘alerted the moderator’ and hoped that at least Giga’s offensiveness towards non-believers might be subjected to the same level of censorship as those non-believers, but apparently in vain, as I see this morning the offensive posts are still there…
So the ABC doesn’t mind if atheists are insulted; but they object when christians are. I’m disgusted, though not surprised, by the double standard!
😉
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For some strange reason the Drum appear to be reluctant to post my latest contribution in which I recited the lyric to Tom Lehrer’s song, “Be Prepared” and posted them in response to Ernest Rodeck’s article with a similar theme. For the benefit of piglets everywhere, here they are (to the best of my memory, anyway!):
Be Prepared
by Tom Lehrer
Be Prepared,
That’s the boyscout’s marching song,
Be prepared,
As through life you march along:
Be prepared to hold your liquor pretty well…
Don’t write naught words on walls if you can’t spell!
Be prepared
To hide that pack of cigarettes,
Don’t make book
If you cannot cover bets!
Keep those reefers hidden where you’re sure
That they will not be found!
And be careful not to smoke them
When the Scoutmaster’s around
For he only will insist that they be shared!
Be prepared!
Be prepared,
That’s the Boyscouts solemn creed,
Be prepared!
And be clean in word and deed!
Don’t solicit for your sister, that’s not nice~
Unless you get a good percentage of her price!
Be prepared,
And be careful not to do your good deed!
When there’s no-one watching you
And you’re looking for adventure of a new and different kind
And you come across a girlscout who is similarly inclined,
Don’t be nervous, don’t be flustered don’t be scared!
BE PREPARED!
With a bow and my applause for the Maestro, once professor of mathematics at Harvard University, Tom Lehrer!
🙂
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Perfectly good song, Asty. So are all my replies, yet many are rejected. Many nasty ones are published, so perhaps they just want mean posts… 🙂
Yours are always most respectful and civil, they should all be there.
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Well, to be quite honest, Helvi, these posts most certainly weren’t respectful or civil, but then neither were the provocative posts of that prize pratt, Giga… but he’s allowed to get away with insulting atheists, ’cause after all, he’s a christian!
😉
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OOps, I pressed the wrong button
Comment:
I wanted January 2011.
Was this article really that long ..sigh..!
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I really did this. Pressed Jan , to get to all of the recent articles; and came across “Why does coleslaw exist?”
Is Madeleine still around??
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She dropped in some weeks ago, Julian, and does so from time to time; but she’s still pretty much occupied over in the Twitterverse… she feels she’s having more of an effect there as she can thus reach so many people simultaneously…
Personally, I baulk at tweeting… it’s the technophobe in me…
😉
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THEY published it ………………….409 comments MJ.
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Censorship of Unleashed has reached unprecedented depths.
As at this time, it’s not possible even to read the 28 comments on Greg Barns’ piece, nor the 41 comments made on Orkins’ about Marrickville Council.
I’m off, like a bride’s nightie!
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I think they have all gone on holidays, together…
I could only go to Marrickville…and I think Greg Barnes’ shop was still open.
A post on the Soapbox led me to Melinda, but there was nothing at all.
Must be flooding at the ABC, all posts washed to sea.
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One can’t comment on any article on Unleashed today. They might have a problem or are using it as an excuse to have the day off. Bugger all activity allowed over the weekend. They should put some notice up explaining what’s going on (or rather not going on).
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Hi Viv.
When they open up again at Unleashed, take the opportunity to point out that the Pig’s Arms is always open and that we moderate even same day ! Mostly (for well-behaved patrons) we don’t moderate at all ! But then we don’t have a board of right-wing arseholes to keep happy.
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They are back now. I’ll let you make the offer re the Pig’s Arms – I’m concerned I could attract the wrong kind of person. Imagine having Mr G Bird arrive at the pub – you’d never shut him up. We’d need a bouncer!
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Fair enough, but we DO have a bouncer, Mr Crispin Bacon.
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Ah ha – when I wrote that question I did immediately think, uh oh, we probably do have a bouncer!
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Australians shunned at Golden Globes!!
They soon closed the comment section when Hadron pointed out what a bunch of morons they are for continually pointing out that Aussies are failures when they come second, because of course the opposite is true as they have reached a virtual pinnacle to be pipped at the post by the flavour of the month. One expects more from The ABC!
PHEW I’ll take a breath now.
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My thanks to Viv for defending me on Peter Ryan’s blog are not yet there, maybe never, so here they are! Many thanks to the one Gentlemanly Piglet, BigM, for helping Viv to help me 🙂
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Just trying to blog there now H. Is it really about manners or snobbery?
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I think the author is just an ordinary bloke, not some learned professor, and I think he is really talking about respect for other people and and some good old fashioned manners..
You have to admit that people are behaving badly, selfishly, in ‘the me first’ fashion…
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Good points
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Comments for this story are closed. No new comments can be added.
I like this story.
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If you mean the Gentelmen blog, Jules, I got 2 different error messages when I tried to comment there earlier, but just successfully commented then.
P.S. I have googled Vectis IOW so now I know the reference. But what it reminds me of is the plodding policeman on the old British police drama ‘Heartbeat’. Not sure I have his name correct.
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That is appearing on an ever growing list of stories Voix!
I didn’t look at the gentleman blog, as I didn’t think that I could throw oout any bait controversial enough to hook anybody.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Isle_of_Wight
A quick look at above and you will see the term ‘Caulkheads’, of which I am proud to be one.
You will note that there are records of references going back to Pliny the Elder and Ptolomy. But mysteriously no mention of Siduhnee, or Melburn! Or, Heavens to Murgatroyd, Brisbuhn even!
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I think the guy on Heartbeat is Ventris
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Yes it is Hung.
They have started a re-run of older episodes. It’s all exceedingly good stuff, with such marvellous chracture.s
Watched one the other evening. The actor who was in ‘Yes Minister’ played the police chief. He is The Publican in later episodes…A very worthy job!
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Yes Tutu and I catch the odd episode. Watched the one in which Kate died, very sad. Would like to see the first series again
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Couldn’t help myself as usual. On Damo’s newspaper blog to Francine of Sydney
Poor Francine, had to fire off a cheap shot in a time of crisis. It truly amazes me that the moderators allow such guff to appear on this blog. Please Francine, go away.
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Hung, she is a real meanie that Francine, I think she was previously Monica from Sydney.
Anyhow, Brian62, moocher and my good self have already told her off, hope they put up yours as well 🙂
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Good one Helvi. I just found her comment to be quite tasteless given the state of affairs in Qld.
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My tuppence worth is that Francine is a man, not a nice man either.
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Yes, Viv, I too think it’s HE, no woman is THAT rough and rude…
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Now now girls, lets not lose touch with reality shall we
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Ho hum, this is all easily resolved.All we have to do is wait till the planet’s population reaches 7 billion. That would be an acceptable figure for the 24 hour media to harangue all of the planet’s governments. They could replace flood-watch; tsunami-watch; earthquake-watch; survivor watch and celebrity spotting with a real time population-watch. Hundreds of reporters standing outside of maternity wards making us feel guilty; and film crews filming the ‘new braves’: the one’s queuing for castration and oophorohysterectomies. After a few decades we would have enough for all. 5 Plasmas each?
Maybe they’ll print it.
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I think that you should call it a day om leashed, quimo sabay.l Yours are all getting airplay.
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A friend of mine made a poultice and retired after selling umbrellas on-line and making a profit out of the postage every-time he replaced one under the perpetual warranty, as they were bought from China (where they have cheap labour) for a couple of dollars each. I wonder what happens when all the corduroy jacketed wonders in here try to get their (on-line purchase) warranties honoured?
To Frank Jumbo
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Feeling a bit chuffed now. On Bob Gosford’s mandatory sentencing in the NT article I have one post up – about the comments making me sick. It drew a reply from ‘the’ Mulga Mumblebrain filling me in on the rest of the problems (hate) and more.
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It doesn’t read like Mulga’s normal verbal diarrhoea
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Three times I have sent a post to Milne’s article on the so-called Labor letter – saying in effect that it is not from a Labor person as Labor people do not refer to themselves as leftists. Not published, probably because it is damn good proof that Milne’s letter is a fake.
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Actually granny my comment was directed at Sinbad, for writing that HN was in financial trouble, as I see that as libellous.
I agree with you and Michael-and I know some of the owners.
Now Happy New Year!!
Just in case it doesn’t get up!!
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Seems I am on the censor’s list again. Posted a comment on the Milne anon. labor letter suggesting it might be Gerard Henderson after a night on the piss. A second post done hours later has appeared but not the first.
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Me too, Viv, I replied to Algernon on the Milne blog, I said that Abbott walked like a night-club bouncer when inspecting the rubble in Queensland…and that I was surprised to see him not wearing his Speedoes.
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The mods don’t have a sense of humour. Do they just go for ‘rubbish posts’ – I think so, because they do publish an awful lot of total garbage. PS: Helvi – Abbott always walks like a night club bouncer – good description, I’ll remember that.
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Actually I also think he walks as if some night-club bouncer has squeezed his head… a bit too much!
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Certainly squeezed ‘something’ else as well as his noggin!
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Beat me to the punch. There Viv. As a person living in a region heavily populated by gays and lesbians, we describe the Abbot walk – as “the clench”
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I replied to one of yours Helvi where I put a one sentence post up agreeing with you and it didn’t get up. More controversial posts however did. On the same blog as you I mentioned that Abbott getting in the way of those cleaning up after the floods for the photo pic for the nightly news was most vile. Obviously the moderator didn’t agree.
I’ve noticed some odd things happening at UL since Christmas. Some blogs taking days to update others a matter of minutes. Weird indeed!
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It’s me Algy. I’m to blame.
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Why Ray why!
Emmjay is it called it the clench because they appear to walk with something stuck somewhere?
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I think you’re basically onto it, Algy. It might also be an expression of tender memories 🙂
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I was referring to the moderators angst.
I keep changing pseuds to fool them.
Ray
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Who Ray?
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Hoo Ray, perhaps?
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My father was Ray – Raymond.
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My father was both Ray and Raymond too!!
As was Jayell’s and my Dad’s.
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My dad’s name Juha, Johan in Dutch, and John in English…
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My fathers name was Dad
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Hung, your dad was a wise man, he could see that you were a boy of few words, he did not want overload you collection 🙂
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Yes H, a wise man indeed. Poor chap tried to get me to read, horrid. Plus I had two big sisters and a big brother that did all the talking for me.
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I knew it wouldn’t see the light of day over there on UL (Thom Woodroofe’s dung heap) but let the sun shine upon it here:
To Yank’s: 04 Jan 2011 10:37:46pm
All the Obama haters worming out from the wood work.. the dribble is morbidly arousing and strangely fascinating it appears that they sit and wait for tiny bit of Obama morsel and feverishly chew at… (04 Jan 2011 10:37:46pm)
I responded thus:
They’re not morsels, yank.
Many of us around the world are reacting to the fact that he is continuing to serve the world the putrefied policies and unmitigated lies that promote war, huge empires, poverty and the splitting of spoils among gangsters; the same policies and lies which his predecessors in the US and UK have been serving ever since the collapse of the Roman empire.
They are not morsels.
If there’s any difference between Obama and any of his predecessors it is that he is more cunning with oratory, a better wordsmith but that’s all. He, like Blair across the waves, are of the same moral DNA. He, like the Bush and Clinton and the Reagan and the Thatcher and the Nixon dynasties are no more than house boys for the gangsters and lords of the arms and drugs industries.
The slaughter of innocents goes on, hidden beneath the same thick carpet of lies, of bombs, of wheeling and dealing. He, like all the other dung beetles feeds on the same carcasses.
Such things are not morsels, yank. They are a curse on humanity and the planet it inhabits.
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But undeterred and unabashed, the ancient Greek hero, bearing the name of a Japanese anime hero, reposted the above and -lo and be-bloody-hold- the mods let it through!
One of these days I’ll figure out what they have for brains.
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Beware atomou, of one who has returned to the fold for he is the one who used your name on u/l – the imposter.
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granny, many thanks for the warning but I don’t know who you mean.
Could you send me a note @
anatomou@gmail.com
please?
Ta
And a joy-packed 2011 for you and all your loved ones, mate.
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I’m still recruiting.
Although one of you may be he.
StaggerLee :
01 Jan 2011 1:05:04pm
Tell the story Hadron. I’d love to hear it.
Reply Alert moderator
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Hadron :
04 Jan 2011 2:51:15pm
Come over to the PAs for minute-and I will recite!
Reply Alert moderator
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Shh, Hadron, let’s not say too much so as not scare our friend away…
When one has been on UL as long as I have, one knows who the writer is , of course it’s best not to let on that one knows…
We are who we are, like the old ‘a rose by any name is still a rose’, or something like that.
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Well let me know then. Gerard has my mail address.
I’d hate to invite a vagabond. There are enough here already 😉
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Is it you, Julian, JL, LH, JL, HC Esquire, RS, RoQ, No pseudonym today, ……. to name but a fraction?
Recite. Then you can post a link to the article.
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And JBH?
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JBH? No.
I thought that I had written about my meeting with SB. It must have been on an old UL story. You know the one’s where we could have fun. Before all those inverted Left Wing snobs, armed with the green Macquarie Thesaurus started up. (Like the one David Astle has in his secret drawer on Letters and Numbers.)(I got one for Christmas.)
Those ISs put on corduroy jackets, complete with suede elbow patches, just to blog.
It’s enough to make simple folk explete! (Not in the dictionary.)
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You know the ones. You probably don’t know the one’s?
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Had a punt each way there I see.
I detest all snobs, whether inverted or upright. That’s probably why I feel a twinge of guilt every time I cringe when Julia Gillard is so obviously overawed by the people she meets.
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Voice, I observed Julia when meeting and interacting with representatives of other countries at some coference in Brussel’s, and found her very relaxed, not at all intimidated or ill at ease.
Of course here in Australia there are no people she should feel inferior to…
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Would you describe your opinion as objective, Helvi?
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My observations are in accord with Helvi’s. I am always objective and totally honest.
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I’m not enamoured of Gillard. For all the reporting of her, being intellectual, smart and honest; my take is a bushy bogan candle in the wind.
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Would you describe your opinion as objective, Ray? 🙂
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I’m posting it here in case the moderators burn it. I posted it on Pescoe’s piece.
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I posted this on the dot on Christmas Day LH. Brilliant isn’t it, pisstaking of the highest quality. I loved the las 30 seconds.
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Apologies for duplicating the posting.
Of course I can’t catch up-there has been too much written while I have been on furlough.
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No need to apologise LH. Its a great piece, worthy of a second showing.
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Amazingly, it has appeared on UL.
Must have changed moderators at 19:00.
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My unpublished post, a reply to VoR…something on these lines:
VoR, I agree with you that flat TVs are getting cheaper and are easier place as they need less space.
Gez popped out to buy a pint of milk and came back with another flat TV, just so that the visiting littlies can watch their beloved Simpsons and he can settle in for the evening news on the bigger one, of course…
What on earth is wrong with this one, don’t the mods like me anymore 🙂
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