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 
Lookie here.
https://www.queenslandrailtravel.com.au/Pages/SpecialCloncurrySteamTrain.aspx
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Looks fabulous, ‘shoe. Some of us litle boys still love oir steqm trains.
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Steam….bloody touch screen.
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… and girls
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… and girls. I love the idea of this journey.
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I was travelling through the upper Hunter for work yesterday. And there it was a steam tractor that had turned from the Golden Highway onto the New England Highway.
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Fancy that. Lucky you. I think I have seen a steam tractor in the to-be-done items at Clayton Farm. Clayton Farm is within walking distance of where I live and they are a heritage restoration museum. I should be walking there more often for recreation now the days are cooler.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM
vale Chuck Berry
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It seems impossible, but he went.
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At 90 a decent knock
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Chuck came to Albury in late 70s. Saw his show – was terrific. An old favourite. Seems the stars either cark it young or live very long.
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There seems little in between for most of the greats
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They’ll be drawing straws.
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And I got it wrong again, it was not Chuck it was Bo Diddley – he died at 80.
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Was that period before bell bottomed trousers? He was a great talent.
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Best described perhaps as a stove piper maybe. Exciting weren’t they with their noise, their rejection in their own way of the old ways. We always look for crowds and especially see if we can fit in. He sure pulled those. Xx
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/geert-wilders-falls-well-short-on-election-day-analysis/8361506
And did you read this? The xenophobes and nationalists did not win as predicted. We can all sigh with relief. Let’s hope Hanson will get a similar treatment, but I doubt it.
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If voters ( in Holland) can feed their families, see their children have solid job prospects and not have to worry about the diminishing value of their PENSIONS, they are less likely to vote for radical options.
In Australia pensions are means tested and cut, the queues are getting longer, the neglect of the disabled, industries are fleeing, electricity is dropping out. The young can’t get jobs. We are stumbling badly.
This is the climate perfect for xenophobia and fear of the foreign and Islam, for the extreme right to rear its ugly head.
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Pantsdown failed miserably in last weeks WA election. It appears the extreme right make a lot of noise but their populist nuttery in the end has little traction with all but the ignorant most of the time.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/europe/mark-rutte-netherlands-muslim-immigrants-trump.html
Did anyone see this? The mainstream parties did what they did after Wilders’ initial success all those years ago. They accommodated the nativist and nationalist sentiment.
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Typical Sea Monster in full flight trying to paint the Dutch in the same light as the Hansonites here.
I wonder if Sea MONSTER could also state that in the Dutch elections the Socialist Greens went from 4 seats winning 16 seats?
Rutte is miles ahead of Geert Wilders.
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I can’t like comments because I can’t log into Word Press and do anything needing a log-in, Gez. Lost password and I’ve lost access to the email address I used to make the Sandshoe account or WordPress would allow me another one.
So as I like this comment of yours, Gez and others here in your cruise-through I will have to say so.
I like the comment, Gez and your others. Like. Tick.
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Weird, surely if you can comment you can ‘Like’.
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Every time I try to ‘Like’, WordPress wants me to sign in.
I can comment no trouble. I simply enter my email and my name ‘sandshoe’ and I’m in.
WordPress says that without remembering my password I have to have the original email address I used to open the account with them and my sign on letter. I no longer have it because it was on a contract with iPrimus I long ago had to relinquish, not realising. Aside makes no sense to me.
Same, for the avatar, don’t know what happened to it, only way to get an avatar up and running is to be able to sign into WordPress and WordPress tells me create a new account as I cannot recall the password and no longer have the original email address.
I don’t want to do that. I cannot lose ‘Sandshoe’. Hence I’m in a holding pattern, no avatar and can’t ‘Like’. Beats me, Viv, believe me.
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I am trying to fix any issue shoe.
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Try
https://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/web?chn=1000&doi=2016-10-21&geo=AU&guid=1EC5AB61-2186-45B5-A359-137C9BB0F91D&locale=en_AU&o=APN11920&p2=%5EET%5Efh20au%5E&page=1&prt=NSBU&ver=22.9.0.71&q=gravatar.com&tpr=5&ots=1489822838140
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Whenever I clear my history I lose all my logins for various sites. Fortunately I remember my password for this one and my computer remembers it too. When I log back in I too type my email address and then the rest fills itself in and then it goes to word press (all by itself) where I do it again with password and then I’m sweet.
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Fancy not being Shoe. Mark, maybe I can take on “Hon Shoes”? It will get me in on a new account and I can get an avatar up. What do you think?
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I don’t understand the problem shoe. The Pigs Arms is set up to publish your comments after the first one has been accepted by a moderator. In your case you should be able to comment without logging in to anything.
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My WordPress account did something similar a few years back. Wanting me to keep logging back in. Don’t know what happened but it got better by itself.
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Hi Mark. Thank you for the link. I think I worked out earlier today that was where i needed to be at gravatar.com and then I cannot log in to Word Press because I cannot remember the password.
I’ve tried and tried. I think I have made some progress in that I remembered perhaps it was a yahoo address that I used and that seems to be confirmed because I never get thrown off abruptly trying to log in when I try using a yahoo.com address, and as well get asked if i can access an email that appears although partly obscured to be the very iprimus email I cannot access because it is no longer an email address of mine. It is entirely circular and I end up in the same place, Mark. I was told they will send me an account key but when they do it goes to an old telephone number I think. Just going round and round.
I might have to end up creating a new one. Thank you for your help everybody. Fortunate for you you remembered it Vivienne. I had all mine written down in notebooks i never imagined i would need again and shredded them. Drat.
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Imagine Australia went to proportional representation tomorrow. Imagine an Abbott led, Muslim-baiting, Liberal Party was first party with increased vote and Hanson was second going from 10 seats to 15.
And then imagine Labor collapsed to be replaced by mainly by the Greens.
Cause that’s analogous to what happened in the Netherlands.
We’re not out the illiberal woods yet. Burying our heads in the sand won’t make it go away.
Why does my simple repetition of facts make you angry?
And do you approve of the Dutch PMs words in the article?
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Did anyone see this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/geert-wilders-just-got-crushed-in-dutch-elections?utm_term=.dy2en67P#.mj36vmeP
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One might quibble over “crushed” when he’s picked up 5 seats.
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And even more importantly, the Green leader, Jesse Klaver, whose party were the real winners, is from Moroccan background with a Dutch Indonesian wife.
Who is racist now? Not the Dutch.
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Imagine Australia went to proportional representation tomorrow. Imagine an Abbott led, Muslim-baiting, Liberal Party was first party with increased vote and Hanson was second going from 10 seats to 15.
And then imagine Labor collapsed to be replaced by mainly by the Greens.
Cause that’s analogous to what happened in the Netherlands.
We’re not out the illiberal woods yet. Burying our heads in the sand won’t make it go away.
Why does my simple repetition of facts make you angry?
And do you approve of the Dutch PMs words in the article?
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And Waleed Ali won popularity contest in Australia.
Therefore Australians aren’t racist. QED.
The above statement is off course bullshit. Many Australians are racist.
The Dutch PM made racist xenophobic statements to win votes away from Wilders. Many people still voted for Wilders. He picked up 5 additional seats.
Many Dutch are racist.
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Hello one and all, have been put in the horse pistol again due to black dog. Hand cuffed and thrown in a van.
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Dear Mark, A transport in a van and time out are good things ultimately I hope and we hope that you are cared for. And now we are in autumn again, in all its change, the leaves will soon be falling. We’ve known each other in this media for a lot of seasons now.
We are more to each other with each season changing, knowing more of each other, more than the sum of all our words, Mark. Beautiful.
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You have that genius quality Hon Shoes. Keep them coming.
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It’s wonderful you like them, Mark. I’ll keep writing them until someone else sparks up again. 🙂
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Oh, you mean ‘words’. Slow with it lol. xo
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Sorry to hear that Mark. I thought you were on top of it. What a bummer. I’ll be sending you some good vibes and I’ll get Nurse Barbara to do the same.
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Thanks Nurse Barbara. Had been doing very well then fell like a rock throw in the sky. Vibes appreciated.
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Hope you’re on the mend HOO. Need to chase that black dog away.
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Thanks Ace. Looks like I will be starting new meds. Will stay in touch.
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I trust you are OK, big/little sister/brother.
Hope you manage to find some equilibrium with the medications.
Looking forward to your brand of Foodge/Gordon/Bish/Gib M and co
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Writing a piece about Merv as we speak.
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So good to know you’re on your feet today and battling.
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I’ve sent you another contribution, Emmjay. Sorry couldn’t let you know by mobile phone as I used to I belatedly realise. Sorry. Lost all my mobile phone numbers. My phone has to go to Hospital.
The Greg Davis show looks wonderful and fits quite nicely I think. I will have to wait for a while for data to watch it through. 🙂
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Emmjay, I need to know you do know you have a Pigs Arms episode in your email. I just need to know and I’m sweet.
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Sorry, ‘Shoe, no I don’t. If you can send it again, I’ll post it. Can’t for the life of me remember what I did with it – unless it fell into the spam trap and I deleted the lot without checking. Could be the cause. Apologies, Emm
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Oh okey doke, thanks Emmjay, sorry I did start to wonder as you didn’t say anything and that’s really unlike you. I’ll get onto that. It’s text and piccies separate. Hung said that he had trouble loading it when I sent a full page to him before with piccies already loaded.
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I’ve posted a new link to a vid on the Please Mr Trump post of Feb 14.
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It’s very good isn’t it Shoe.
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Especially with the twist at the end, Viv, I thought so. I hope you are going to have an entertaining week-end. Quiet in the pub at the present.
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Indeed it is. no new posts in a fortnight. Busyness I suspect. There should be one over the weekend.
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I couldn’t believe the gap either, Algy. Sick as a Dog, I was. Four days off work. Feeling better now. Will crank up text production machine.
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That’s no good. Just the nature of the Arms I guess. Nothing for a while then a flurry of activity.
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There is a piece of mine been a while on Emmjay’s desk in his editorial basket…unless it’s in the wastepaper basket. 😀
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We loyally wait for all that the Hells Angles are talking about walking … walking, mind you because they can’t afford motor sickles at this rate no publicity.
Be well, Emmjay.
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Loved it Shoe, especially the end.
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Yes, I thought it was clever eh, algy. Had to think for a moment what was intended. Ha ha.
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These buggers better not try to buy anywhere near here. Hells Angles are considering walking is all.
https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/news/john-cornell-and-david-gyngell-buy-another-slice-of-brunswick-heads/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=link-newsfeed&utm_campaign=c-all-autopromo
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Lovely thing this
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Of course this was the original…etched on my brain from early tv …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfY8njWDPu8
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In a chaff bag perhaps. Good one Algy
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I thought so viv.
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What’s in a chaff bag? Is this new speak?
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None other than the boy loving parrot, Alan Jones.
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I knew nothing of its being said he is interested in boys until I googled to see if I can understand the reference to chaff bag. I am unsure I know what is meant by chaff bag, but hey, that’s ok. I’m going to do some late night baking. That’s as exciting as it is going to get at my address this evening. Goodnight, folks. Have a good one.
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Jones said on radio that Julia Gillard should be thrown to sea in a chaff bag. He was arrested in the UK for loitering around a men’s toilet block in a park. Got hushed up here. He’s a hypocritical little turd.
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When I was in London in the 80’s, I enjoyed an ale at a Pub called the John Snow where a couple of friends worked. One of them was going out with a copper who worked at West End Central and slept at the sleep house by the same name which was just across the square from the pub. In the square was a men’s convenience. It was often frequented by males of a certain age according to the copper. The parrot was arrested for allegedly committing an act of outrageous gross indecency. The case was eventually dropped after intervention by several high powered people. He was also a school teacher who was asked to resign from two private schools.
Jones made these comments about Julia Gillard, “Jones told a Sydney University Liberal Club function 10 days ago that Ms Gillard’s father, John, died of shame because of the lies his daughter had told.
The function also featured an auction of a jacket made from a chaff bag. Previously, Jones said Ms Gillard should be tied in a chaff bag, taken to sea and dumped.”
The article was about the residents of the Toaster complaining about outdoor concerts at the Opera House, Outdoor concerts are part of the design. These cashed up residents of which the parrot is one are complaining about the noise of the concerts. They also complain about the noise flag poles make, what next the noise of the ferries.
Someone made this comment. “Perhaps a “concerned citizens” group needs to be formed to move the wowsers on from the Toaster.
Then move the Toaster on from Circular Quay … and into the harbour.
Actually, leave the Parrot in there.”
I replied “In a chaff bag perhaps”
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Lol we could begin to post all our contributions to the Dump. I see an alternative publishing venue.
Thank you, algernon. Comprehensive. I see. ‘In a chaff bag perhaps’ being evocation to that Happy Days episode. I’ve always wondered what drives him. I am very surprised he is complaining about the outdoor concerts. Music venues and promotions are a life blood of his industry aside his gabble fests woooden you think.
I know the concerts to be an institution and my niece commented to me once she was walking down Pitt Street listening to the music and there was a drum solo. It was the first time she realised her brother’s drumming was big. It was echoing through the canyons. That predates The Toaster.
Silly gooses. What did they expect. They can line their walls with egg cartons. They help.
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The John Snow pub will be in recognition of course of the terribly historic chap who pulled the tap off the water supply.
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So I’ve just learnt.
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Sycophantic radio audiences were gob smacked in Australia. “But he played rugby?” As if that stops pederasts in their tracks! I believe the AJ complaints file in one private school was so large it had its own building.
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Some keep their names out of Royal Commissions how so.
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What does a girl have to do to get a nice long Pink Drink around here. 🙂
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Probably just help yourself Shoe. At 1.06 am I think the ‘staff’ have knocked off and gone to bed.
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Good call, Viv. I’ll do that next time.
Weather’s a desiccating, hot wind blowing a gale with some overhead accumulation of grubby looking clouds. When sun blazed here today about 2pm the ultra violet was like a hotplate. How is it your way?
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Cooled down to 35 and no wind. Hate wind on hot days. I do recommend a long gin and tonic on ice.
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It’s cool here as in cool and no wind. I’m guessing it is in the mid-20s.
I’m inclined to drink. A gin and tonic seems to that incline a sophisticated tipple. I will try it one day.
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It’s very refreshing on a hot day.
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With ice and a slice of course
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🙂
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One wonders why Q&A had Brand is and Piers Ackermann on at the same time. Brand is will defend the indefensible and protect the party line no matter how stupid that might seem. Ackermann can only be there for comedic value. Ignorant on every subject and just parrots right wing nonsense.
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It was bloody awful. Ackerman is an old fool and clearly has not kept up to date on anything. Nothing to contribute – never did have anything to contribute.
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Hey to everyone at the Arms. I have been in hospital for the last 5 days as I’m crazy. I have finally after 25 years been diagnosed as Bi Polar and am about to be placed on a pension. I’m now on the right medication and am okay.
Algernon has known this for some time but when you see my posts getting a bit whacky that means I have fallen on the wayside. The Ace is able to read me like a book and he can see the train wreck coming.
Tutu came and saw me recently from Adelaide however I was arrested at Canberra Airport for drink driving. I will now have to deal with that. Tutu and I still care for each other even though we separated in 2010. Tutu can no longer live with me after a tumultuous life together. I do not blame her.
I told Shoe, who I’m sure is my twin just much nicer looking, about what happened but I feel that I need all of you to know where I’m at. As they say in AA one day at a time.
I cherish you all as friends even though I know I will never meet most of you and the creative writing I do when I get that urge is really good for my rehabilitation, Merv, Sandy and Hung and Co.
Sincere regards
Mark.
PS: I no longer care if my estranged son reads this but I live in Malua Bay about 15k south of Bateman’s Bay. Am I a lucky guy or what?
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Good news, in a way, Mark. My family is peppered with bipolar folk, so not strange to me. Glad you are home, in a great part of the world. I hope the drink driving charge doesn’t harm you too much. The courts seem to feel compelled to mqke examples of us working class types when we err. I’m eager to see what happens at the Arms. Foodge keeps telling me bits and pieces, but he’s about as reliable as Manne.
Can we meet up,if we,are wandering the south coast?
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Certainly young fella. I will send an email later.
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Hung, my dear pal and collaborator I got besties who have a bipolar struggle and recently spent a couple of days with a closely loved bestie with same. 🙂
Apart ie besties from you I mean, buddy. Could I please be a bestie rather than a twin?
I get insecure every now and then that the Pig’s Arms’ll burn down or something and then we’ll be virtually screwed for somewhere to tell BS and get away with it. We have to stick together. The patrons laugh, could any of us imagine it we would be entertainers with regular gigs at an online pub one day. Far out. I wish we could all get together in person and I missed the dinner at your place that time I was so, so very sorry to not be able to make it.
By accident I emailed you episode 86 last night: ‘Everybody Loves A Night on the Turps’. I meant it to go to Emmjay’s address for now, so sorry to you Mark to crash in when I know you’re on Easter 🙂 hols. Emmjay will take a year or so to get to it but no worries, Mark. He’ll post it when he can. (think it’s the ukelele weegend this weegend)..
Me too sentimental about us at the pub here. Love The Ace too. I could see you getting out of orbit too, but didn’t know what to do this time. This is good news from you. Get rested and well.
Christina (Shoe).
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Well I did figure that was the case. I think we are all besties here – a lovely bunch. I’m sure we will stick together. Algy has posted a ripper of a music show starring Aretha. What more could you want (Midnight Oil say I). Anyway, good to get it off your mind Mark (according to Nurse Barbara). Much love, sincerely, your friend Vivienne. xxx ooo xxx
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The most important thing is that you’re OK and safe.
Hungster, I’ve friends who have bipolar and others with mental illness including some in the family. I guess I’ve been reading the signs in others for years. You’re in good hands here as you know even if its a public forum.
As you know old fella I’m always here if you need to talk. Kindest, Algy
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The first seeds of impeachment of the US presidency might have been sown.
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The world can only hope Gez.
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Ditto. I predicted he might last 6 months before being impeached. At this rate it could be sooner.
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Who did you predict would win the election, Vivienne?
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The pussy grabber is on a short leash.
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Looked great with that Israeli criminal at the White House. Quite a pair.
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Back home Ace. Thanks for your ongoing support.
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And actually everyone at the Arms.
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Good to hear HOO,
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Cheers mate.
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Just to let you know for this week I’m allowed to use my tablet. Can comment but nothing else.
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OKay. Who gave you permission to use a tablet.
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Hospital staff.I will lose that soon.
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Ok HOO. Understood.
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You’re supposed to take the tablet, or pessary, or whatever!
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Not etch your life story on it! Honest!
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He he he!
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🙂
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It is going to be a stinker today.
Just stay calm and drink plenty of water. Police sirens were busy yesterday. Incidents of domestic violence are soaring during heat waves.
In Bowral a woman was seen to drive her shopping trolley into a car repeatedly. She was overwrought by someone’s parking procedure
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Couples are more inclined to seek relief through bashing each other especially after alcohol.
My advise; plenty of Granny’s wedgies with roots, but go for the lemon bitter without the gin.
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Wedgies with roots?
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I meant root vegetables. But both are alright. Granny does look more and more attractive when one gets older.
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Gerard, we survived the days of extreme heat -very unpleasant so inside most of the time except for early morning. Last night or rather early this morning we had masses of thunder and lightning and a sprinkling of rain. A cool change came through too but not till well after the storm. We lost power for about 5 hours. It was cool but just warm enough in the morning but now it has dropped to 16c and I’ve had to put on a tracky top. Mad isn’t it.
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We went to the Oberon Steamfest on Saturday, a cool 43, although parts of Newcastle were forecast for 47. Trump still doesn’t believe in global warming.
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You get your comment removed on the Guardian when it is one word. I wrote ‘Idiot’ in response to the Jedi. I was testing them.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-09/bowraville-murders-man-charged-over-deaths-of-aborigial-children/8254188
Can someone help me here. This will be the 3rd trial and the bloke hasn’t been found guilty. I struggling a bit.
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It was explained last night on TV but I can’t recall exact details. New and compelling evidence, police admit they stuffed up. They never took the deaths seriously at the time. It was dreadful. Police Commissioner apologised.
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Fanks Viv
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Here’s the detail now on ABC http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-09/bowraville-murders-what-is-double-jeopardy/8254682
Double jeopardy laws changed a decade ago.
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Corey Bernardi leaves Liberals, wow, devastating.
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He should resign. Six year job on false pretences. Played them for suckers. The system should not allow this.
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Will Adolf, Otto, Lurch, the sebago., Scotty as well as othe fellow travellers follow suit. as Vic said shouldn’t be allowed.
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Isn’t that f***… you know. Ought not be. Jack Snelling here in SA, too, supposed to be looking after mess he’s created of SA Health and bent on going for another electorate seat? I would like to think I got this wrong. Wishful thinking. This is the interior of his head? Preoccupied with political games? Oughtn’t be allowed.
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Interesting discussion with someone called dastyarirenminbi at the Guardian. Suggested they should stick to walking the dogs and they went apoplectic.
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What was the news item under discussion Algy?
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This one viv. I haven’t copied the whole link: big-personality-australian-pm-puts-brave-face-on-phone-call-with-trump . Its closed now for comments.
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Couldn’t find your convo but saw a few from dast…. did sound like dog walker. I did a find search through all the pages of comments.
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They were there the third tab. Under April1948 thread. Anyway he posted this:
“You just can’t help yourself.
You’re really a nasty piece of work. I gave you the link and it explains about The greens and The High Court decision.
Nothing that you can write can right the wrong that Labor inflicted. It’s no good keep hurling insults at everybody – you just look stupid.
You’re trying to make False News.
Anyway, I’m finished with you and your silly bile. Get a life.”
after I posted this:
“And was he “doing his job” when he lied to scuttle the Malaysian solution in 2011 or was that pure politics. Perhaps you should stick with walking the dogs.”
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Must have been in a longer thread where you have to click to view all the comments. Sounds even more like dog walker.
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I wasn’t there for the argument. They made comments Libs good Labor bad and talk of Kamps. Half way through I realised it was the dog walker. There were others calling his comments for what they were. Yet they chose to have a go at me. In the end I told them to grow up and that the only person throwing insults around was them. Bad day on the pie cart I guess.
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Same shit, different pseud!
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I now see him popping up here and there on Guardian writing as Big M says, same shit.
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One track ignorance, abusive, called out for the clown he is. Yep same old same old.
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I tried Dog Faecaes on the bottom of my foot, didn’t get up, wow.
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Malcolm has finally come clean but it still feels dirty.
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Buys the election just like the Orange Nazi. I see the Nazi had some less than flattering comments about Waffles.
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It seems Trump didn’t actually put a lot of his own money into it, probably because he doesn’t have much money to put into it. It seems he doesn’t want to release his tax returns because he constantly overstates his wealth. I read an article in one of the business mags that said the Trump Organisation comprises a handful of people who manage his licensing deals.
Failed casino operator. Reality TV star. Famous for being famous.
Real estate mogul? Not so much.
Clinton outspent him by a large margin. And here we get back to the same old story. Why can’t Clinton (or Labor) go hard on banks/developers/everyone else who rigs the system? Why did Obama roll over and let big finance tickle his tummy post-GFC? Because they’re desperate to paint themselves as “sensible moderates” and keep the donations coming in. Why did Obeid weird such influence for so long, even when everyone knew he was corrupt? Because he brought the donations
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Still practicing I see. Keep the fiction up.
Trump put in US$66m of his own money into the presidential campaign. And more if you include getting the nomination. His wealth which you dismiss is US$3.7b according to Forbes. Owns US$2.1b in New York in property. True the Democrats spent double what the Republicans did.
As for Obama he was handed the hospital pass with the GFC. Who was responsible well that would be GW Bush. They could have gone down the republican path like they did in the Great Depression much like the UAP did here and throw everybody on the scrap heap or unemployment at 30% plus but they didn’t.
Why didn’t the Liberals have any money to spend well the NSW branch of the party with ICAC finding 10 sitting members corrupt with their shonky money laundering. Over $4m in funding held off from them as a result. So with Waffles throwing in $1.75m he basically saved their campaign. Well enough for them to have a one seat majority. In essence he bought them a win.
As for Obeid he can rot in jail. Lets see the ill gotten gains of him and his family stripped.
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A response to Turnbull’s press club address from the Guardian by a Sebastian Johann ”
Whenever I hear a speech delivered by this idiot I immediately think of the following:
“During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning”, four of the audience members died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own large intestine – in a desperate attempt to save life itself – leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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I thought of the opera singer, Anna Russell turned comedic one-woman show who was responsible for, ostensibly more drunken as she went along, a famous speech to the Ladies (Gilbert & Sullivan I think) fan club in which she said she had been asked to talk about turning discarded dresses/clothes into patchwork curtains/bedspreads and how to turn patchwork curtains back into clothing.
From Wikipedia: She received the Canadian Women’s Press Club Award in 1956 as the best Canadian comedy writer of the year. Giving advice on how to be a successful singer, she quipped that although a glorious voice was important, “it helps to be an independently wealthy, politically motivated, back-stabbing bitch.”
I think that about Turnbull’s performances at the Press Club, that he might as well be providing some tit bits of information for the despairing how to put up with him and what he has done, he is such a shallow, out of touch, egocentric excuse of a leader of anything, nothing. 😦
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Calling in to say g’day. I
‘m caught up in a project for a few days in my yard with a couple of helpers. I was offered a trailer to fill too for a few days and to dump green waste. We’re going to the dump for a second time this afternoon so I’m in work boots. All good at my place. See you soon.
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The weather has cooled too 🙂 so can’t stop for now. Nice days and this morning looks like a little rain.
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