The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
One of the blokes I used to know turns out he’s reading my opus, an unlikely lad, and blow me away if he doesn’t say he LOVES it. There’s hope for anybody, tell ya. 🙂
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Mass intrusive surveillance approved by all states without as much as a murmur. No postal vote, no plebiscite.
People held for fourteen days without charge! This is what you get when you lock up people for years on Manus and Nauru without charge.
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The government will probably know less about us as Google, You Tube and Facebook. As for the new terror law, I think it’s an extension of the ‘ held on suspicion of terror ‘ law enacted post 9/11.
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Our JRT ‘Milo’ will be next held for 14 days without charge.
He did one in front of the CBA bank. I bent down to pick his turds up in my hanky in front of a nice lady with a recent bouffant hair-groom stepping out of a Merc, I made a big show and stowed the lot in my pocket while looking in her eyes.
She looked aghast.
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That’s just shit stirring.
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I remembered ABC iView has ‘The Magnificent Tati’ playing until 20 Oct. How did audiences everywhere not totally love Tati’s Playtime.
Milo is the fall guy. He is a classic stool pigeon.
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IDs and so forth. I think they might be dreaming.
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A friend of mine in NZ often would say ‘that’ll cap/gap their axe’ and I asked was it cap or gap and what did it mean (literal meaning). She said she wasn’t sure but her father said it all the time. She did say her dad had been a timber cutter. I love the expression. I’ve never heard it again.
I assume it’s gap and that gap means to cause a gap, between the handle and the axe head or originally I wondered if it was a timber getter’s reference to a chip in an axe blade…
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Do you remember the context of the conversation when the expression was said – it would give a clue. Capping something is to stop something. I’m thinking it might have been cap.
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She used it often. It always seemed to mean the person spoken of would be stopped in their tracks … from doing either good or harm (I think).
An oil well is capped, isn’t it to stop it.
I wonder if it’s the executioner’s axe. Capped. I have thought of someone to ask too. Thank you, Vivienne.
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Gap your axe is a NZ term meaning to annoy: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=abYBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8095&lpg=PT8095&dq=gap+your+axe&source=bl&ots=sBywbI3rL0&sig=8nayewdK5Y0CN7QZOrVBKz4k-cU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVqM-aqdjWAhUEoJQKHT3ZCdUQ6AEIOTAE#v=onepage&q=gap%20your%20axe&f=false
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You found it, Big M! That reference is 1998 too! Whereas I heard it in 1984!
A little more research reveals John Gordon was a sports radio jock and was frontman of a programme called ‘A Dog’s Show’ that the final of aired in 1981!
Awesome. So many thanks.
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No wuckin’ furries, Dear ‘shoe. It struck me as having Scottish roots, but, the reference claims it as Kiwi.
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Big M if something looks or sounds good to me, I always think, Aye, that’ll be a wee bonnie trinket frae Alba. Aye, like a nice tattie, just sain’.
I just sain when I’m mistaen, mind to ainsel, Lass yer bum’s oot the windae.
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You’re such a bonnie wee, Scott’s lass, and that’s the full extent of my Scotch talk, in spite of being a descendant of Highland shepherds.
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Thank you, dear Big. Canna tell a whopper of a fibbie but. I googled most of it. My own native references are pretty well limited to my being a bonnie wee Scot’s lass so you for sure struck a chord there. 😀
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He he he!!
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😀
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Bugger, Tom Petty has carked it. 66.
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That’s another premature death… and so it goes on this carking it and buggering up the mortality stats.
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My best ever. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/02/tony-abbott-renews-attack-on-macklemore-and-reveals-preference-for-savage-garden
AlgernonBennelong 22h ago
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People of Warringah, Please Please do the right thing at the next election a purge this clow
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I saw that. Others have said similar over recent months.
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Yes its a common theme. It was the 194 votes I liked.
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Record breaking in a very big way. Marvellous.
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Please. 196. Likely still counting. Its the AlgyBStatistics tally my place tonight lol.
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Well I think you get more kudos for the Roy Hay thing. An academic historian has asked you to collaborate with him. He wants you to identify the inaccuracies in his work. Are you still considering your response? Or did you just email it to him directly?
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I detest it that you have no face at all. If there is anything that creeps me right out online is not being able to even read a bio that is a single word or comment. I feel so unsafe every time your empty frame appears. I did not think it would again. Bugger ignoring it. How can I ignore it.
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Shoe, its best to ignore him. He might go away.
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Hey Walter perhaps you haven’t read this
“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.”
As a rather sick minded troll maybe seek professional help
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I have sent a Foodge offering to the publisher. 🙂
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Superlatives take over after a team from Melbourne wins something at a sports ground. Let the rubbish talk begin
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It was a very good grand final – I watched the second half. Dear Richmond won and everyone is very happy. AFL really is the religion of Victoria and it thrives over the border in Albury and surrounds. I’ll be watching some of the NRL gf today. It’s better than golf.
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I’m not doubting that and know of how the AFL can take up all a news bulletin. Even the weather is not immune. Its all the rubbish talk that goes with it I find just stupid. Yesterday at The Guardian, the dribble as in overdrive, my comment was a paraphrase of my comments on the subject there.
I watch both codes from time to time, I’ve more interest in the Holden Cup and the Penrith v PNG Hunters rather than the main game between the Rorters and a team that simply shouldn’t be there. Though I expect the Rorters to win big.
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Hubby and I have a bet as to when the bloody footy won’t get a mention on the local TV. It’s usually just Christmas Day.
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Haha. They might just sneaking in about the weather in Richmond though. As much as I can’t stand the Rorters, I was backing them last night. Thought they’d win by at least 30 so I was close..
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I was much uplifted to see a bunch complaining about how dreadful the commentators are! Hence I didn’t mind this silly weegend as much as I was intending. I thought nobody noticed the commentators are paid for doing nothing!
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Algy, we have Ovens and Murray football as well as AFL. We get all the local stuff all the time. Training and who’s who and who has done a hammy in training and who is the new coach. It never stops.
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same here, Viv, I don’t watch commercial TV because, in spite of budget cuts, they will televise local games that only have a dozen spectators ambling around. The biggest thing here is that an unemployable local was paralysed in a local footy match and how sad it is, and how he was a valued member of society, and how much he contributed and blah blah bloody blah.
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Its pathetic isn’t it. We have a bird cage liner local here, you wouldn’t call it a newspaper run by someone who thinks he can write whatever he likes even if its lies or ends up before ICAC. But the sports coverage its mind bogglingly idiotic. One eyed Wests Tiger supporter who can spin anything that looks like a win into a back page headline. The Under 14’s score a try and you get it from every angle. Relentless drivel. The front page is little different.
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I just dropped this comment onto an hysterical FB thread. “Instead of people reacting to references in headlines, get educated. Find out what is being said. I am almost 70. I know ‘stuff’ can be aggravating. Trust me. Get strong. Educate, Inform. Debate. Choose knowledge. Learn how to phrase argument and contribute with purpose.”
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Meanwhile, we have to put up with this shit media. Drivel and more drivel.
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Mostly only watch ABC and SBS except for the local News. One must keep up with the local stuff but that is where the local sport is and they report on it in the news as well as the sports section of the news. So, there isn’t much news really. Local paper which is quite substantial and now in the Fairfax stable has pages and pages of sport. Same every where it seems.
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Our local is a cracker, Six pages of locally written reportage, plus some reprinted international news, plus ads for real estate and lady boys, all for two bucks a day and three on Saturday. Yet the oldies reckon they can’t afford the internet, yet buy expensive fire starters every day.
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That be the Newcastle Herald Big M, the one that mostly produced in New Zealand nowadays. Sounds like a top read. We have two weeklies; one run by Murdoch which is readable, sometimes. The other TWT or as the locals call it the TWIT, which is unreadable rubbish. Yet the oldies (mostly the RSL types) swallow anything he writes. I reckon a certain Queensland identity known to us could write better and more informative than this dross.
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I feel a bet coming on. Our publisher-editor is on holidays. I did not get the memo. Have you a new list, Algernon? 😀
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Shoe, our publisher at large, is as crook as Rookwood. I,reckoned he should get some Tamiflu, but I think there is a shortage.
Pretty bad flu, a young bloke died in our ICU last week.
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I do shoe, I’ll leave it for this Friday. Forgot to send it this week. Snazzy dancing ad funk.
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Scary, Big M. I have a neighbouring family here who love me to bits. I’ve had to agree they don’t call by with tokens of their love for me. Three of them down. Crook as an old dog was the expression of the dad.
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algy, ok and I am feeling like one of your lists so it’s a good chance to go back through the archives.
Been tizzying. I have a lad visiting me tomorrow who is calling in from Adelaide with his friends. I have such a powerful memory of him starting school. He says he is going to plug in his amp and play for me and his friends if I want his band to, so that’s overwhelming enough that I have hoovered. 😀
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Here is betting that my indoor bowling at the Mittagong RSL tonight will be poorly attended. I reckon some of them will be spotted in the lounge downstairs watching the game.
The NRL is different from AFL but they still share the same oblong ball as far as I understand it.
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Of course the games are different. I’m moderately fluent in both. Prefer Union to League but most of the buggers play League where all the money is to be had.
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drink/an-australian-bottle-of-wine-is-the-most-awarded-of-2017/news-story/682d971683492c72a306f1bec379456d
Aussie.- wine World’s most awarded in 2017 and only $30.-
And…an Aldi wine won best shiraz at Melbourne wine extravagancy for just $6.99.
Who would drink butter-milk if you can drink Aldi’s wine?
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Oh for an Aldi now Spring is sprung.
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The winemaker probably has to have a second job. $7 is too cheap.
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We rushed out and bought the Aldi ‘One Road’ 2015 Shiraz, the winner of the Melbourne wine show, and it is a lovely red, Viv. I would not dismiss this one so easily just because it is cheap.
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I’m not dismissing it. Just think the winemaker is giving it away. Hardys do a smashing Merlot in one litre bottle for $7 and I buy it regularly.
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The winery of ‘One Road’ is owned by Aldi but seems to have a connection to Huon Hooke.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drink/aldis-7-wine-has-just-been-named-wine-of-the-year/news-story/4de10c584e5c1f15c6a44ab9935bfb0c
Yes, Viv the one litre bottle is a hit with us too.
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Owned by them hey. Bought a going concern no doubt. Aldi is not convenient to me. I also go to wineries and buy wine – lots of them not much more than half hour drive and even more if I go for one hour drive.
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I’ll have to send a small purse and note with the coachman next time he visits his Peggoty.
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Gez, we had a crack at the Aldi Shiraz. Best described as having a sour, dairy nose, a bit acrid on the tongue with benzene hints on the back palate.
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You have to get used to it, Big M.
Try a blind taste with your friends and see who will pick the Aldi One Road Shiraz. It is very nice with mussels and rump, with rough fishing mates on thongs.
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Ah, we had lamb and little spring rolls, clearly the wrong menu, sans thongs.
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Get Ups reaction to Tony Abbott suggesting sending the army in to force States to comply and expand their coal and gas mining, it ought to be enshrined as a classic.
Mate. Cool your jets.
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Not that he ever really had it but Abbott has well and truly lost the plot and is now certifiably insane.
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Yes, I think his electorate will not even like this idea.
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Like when he wanted to send the federal police to the Ukraine after that jet was shot down. Crazy.
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EDIT: What he actually said when I check it is “The former Prime Minister has said his successor Malcolm Turnbull could invoke “defence powers”, telling Fairfax Media the Commonwealth could then take management of resources from states.”
The conflation that he is suggesting the army should be sent in is the product of Fairfax media.
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What was actually said when I check it is ‘the former PM has said…’
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See the Fairfax report here and I note its byline which is a little different from its heading
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/tony-abbott-says-defence-powers-should-be-used-to-force-states-to-approve-mining-projects/news-story/d5fbbd8de55dbc4658765dc8fc1a9efe
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Tha man wants the country jammed in the 1950’s. You wonder why the clown sticks around.
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https://www.heartsofpets.com/why-do-animals-like-capybaras/#.WcRPA23n51R.facebook
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Don’t know about the alligator…
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Nah. It’s a pussy with a capybara…
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Welll… you know what I mean.
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The turtles looked interesing. I think they eat Capybaras not the 🐢 I mean
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😀
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I really get it that a lot of their stress is on music, arts and outdoor activities. I also have enjoyed in my time assessment that is not test based. It needs a great standard of teacher and I see they are talking about their teacher training.
http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/the-latest-school-reform-in-finland-introduces-a-new-way-to-look-at-subjects
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https://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/ohana-two-tiny-houses-connected-sun-room-viva-collectiv.html
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It’s been thirty years since I regularly did cryptic crosswords (I got pretty good at it). Just tried one again yesterday and got all but two clues right (one was staring me in the face) in 20 minutes. It wasn’t a DA crossword (his are very hard and tricky tricky) but I was so happy. All triggered by fact that David Astle was here in Albury last Friday.
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My mum did those like there was no tomorrow. I think I can’t do them.
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My first comment on ABC – Kath and Kim and Gay Marriage – got featured. Happy debunker also welcomed me!
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Looks like there is no commenting on the weekend.
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Can anybody explain to me what Bitcoin is in language that is so simple, I’ll get it. I wonder if it’s like have x numbers of shares in a pool of money.
Where’s the money?
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I’ve read about it 3 times now shoe and I have no idea. I believe the blockchain behind bitcoin is really good technology capable of recording every financial transaction in the world that can never be altered.
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You don’t know where the money is either. Puzzling. So far in my reading articles never seem to go so far as to talk about where the money is.
I know people can buy slips of paper out of a vending machine by feeding in cash. I have got this much.
I suppose then if I, say, want to buy a book or a car or a couple of mansions I lodge its receipt number with the business, Bitcoin, and the party I am buying off collects the money. Hmm. Ok so from what you say I am imagining that the advantage for those worried about banks, the techology behind this is considered as good as it gets to ensure security as good as it gets that the money will be there, so people value these ‘bitcoins’, which is the slip of paper, no, the receipt number.
Think this is what it is. It performs a function like Paypal but people maybe think it is more secure.
I’m unsure about the trade in ‘bitcoin’.
Do you know if the trade is in these slips of paper or maybe a trade in a Bitcoin is the futures market, nothing more than currency futures with a twist that wherever the money is, it’s thought that buying ‘a bitcoin’ will realise the money some day or profit for trading ownership of ‘a bitcoin’ further?
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Whatever it is (and at some time I had an idea but have forgotten) I’m not touching it. It’s basically a gamble.
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Nobody round these parts has so far known.
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Playing with browsers.
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Me head hurts.
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Oh, you have a heavy brow.
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It was probably the whiskey. 🙂
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Spoke to me neighbour, he saw he whole thing, reckons I didn’t pass out and the cops and ambos were on their way back to base from another call. Me head still hurts even though no brain was found.
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Well, that’s confusing. No brain, I mean. 😀
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No one messes with my Helvi. You take on Helvi you take on me. The Jones boy can bar me yet again however I will not let anyone mess with Helvi.
Helvi encouraged me to write Father O’Way in Space plus she never sets ceilings for anyone.
Mess with Helvi, you mess with me. Sorry to be so forthright but that is how I really feel.
I miss you Helvi and I’m jealous of Gerard, even though I like him a lot.(Don’t tell Tutu, shoe, Barb or Yvonne)
Go fuck yourself Sea Monster, if you wanna troll this site then see the Jones boy otherwise go and get fucked.
Mark.
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Mark, as you know, we have met G and H a few times.
Helvi always speaks very highly of you. She told me she thinks you are the funniest bugger at the bar, but she has no time for idiots!
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Thanks Big. That’s great to know. I will probably never personally meet them however like your good self and the regulars here at the Arms they are my friends. Even the bloke who cannot be named would agree and at least he was a gentleman.
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It is a funny situation, here at the Pig’s Arms. Emmjay, you, ‘shoe, and me have all managed to carry on with the saga of our poor dear friend, Foodge, never really speaking about the plot, and most of us have never met. Yes, I regard you all as good mates, and it really saddened me to learn of Lehan’s passing, as she was also a good mate.
We just went to watch a play called ‘Out of the Blue’, which is about depression, suicide and domestic violence. It was sponsored by the RUOK organisation, who allowed other suicide prevention or counselling services to present what they provide. I met a bloke who is the CEO of a mob called MIMs, or Mates in Mines, who mimic MICs, Mates in Construction, where blokes are trained to talk about feelings of depression and suicide, which are incredibly high in FIFO workers. Anyhoo, they have a green dot on their helmets and uniforms, just like the First Aid bloke has a Red Cross. Pretty clever, ay!
Sorry to sound a bit maudlin, but I think we have something pretty special here, in spite of the dirty glasses and dead flies.
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We here showing from time to time our human fragility and vulnerability, if we’re especially moved, tired, whatever. Reading words off a screen trying to work out a response to be nice, funny or empathise is not everybody’s bag, but it’s what we’ve given a shot. Our feeling for absent friends is real.
Some of my real time friends know the names of Foodge, Merv and others, beats me they listen to my carrying the story to them and laugh where I originally laughed at a story line, nod even when I begin with “Foodge”.
It’s inevitable we will get stroppy when someone begins dissing one or other of us repeatedly without let up. That’s bullying. We will develop the irrits with anyone who pushes pedagogy or ideology at us most especially given we are not pushing a barrow. There was a while when one of us was seriously not well. I reflected later that if I want to be anywhere when the same happens to me I want to be at the pub where someone will pick it up, gather me in, or ban me if I start repetitively mouthing off weird shit abusing freedom of speech and others.
Myself, I do not like it if anyone I am suspicious of posts but I cannot click on their avatar to read even a one line ID. A linked avatar means the pub is not the only agency with the link to the person and by it I imagine the higher is the chance of their identity being established if anyone is caught using the site for criminal activity, fraud.
The pub is just the sort of flea and chook lice ridden dump that low life might be found lurking around intent only to entrap good people in shit.
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Yes, the bloody fleas. I think Granny had a herbal remedy for fleas and lice, but I’m not sure what it entailed. Probably lots of boiling water.
Yes, WordPress allows all of us to post with very little info linked to the Gravatar, one could be an axe murderer, or worse, work for the CIA. Other forums are pretty light on for background info, even FB one can post with nothing more than an email address and a photo of a cat.
To be honest, my posts have become less political, and more related to the creative content. I think I learned my lesson trying to argue with drongos on other forums.
Anyhoo, ‘shoe, your contributions have been heartfelt, to the point where I cannot comment or reply, such is my level of angst for the young Christina. Such a story, worthy of a young Thomas Hardy, but equally well told by our ‘shoe. Yes human fragility and vulnerability.
As for shit posters, well, they are only rewarded by or honest responses. Cut them orff and starve ’em.
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Thank you, Big M.
Our honest responses seem to be of no avail. I doubt that ignoring the offender who has sparked this will have the desired response, but we can give it a shot except I really detest not giving someone a chance to participate, especially to climb down out of a bucket of old slops. Sad shit really.
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What did I do?
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Now, you’re stirring the pot. Explain why you come here. You’ve never said a word to me. No obligation, but hey no no obligation either.
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How can anyone take you seriously Walter. Your comments are nearly always the same here, depending who you’re trolling. They are just cut and pastes, even your comment today at 8:44am are simply cut and paste. No attempt to engage, just the same old nonsense.
Your relentless pursuit of Gerard and Helvi saw, her give up and not comment here or elsewhere. So what if Gerard wants to comment on all things Dutch. It seemed like a blood sport for you. It the way of the troll, just keep trolling.
In the past two years you’ve engaged once. I dont get it when someone from the Gold Coast was barred and Voice chose to leave. You stay, why? I can find the banned one amusing at times incredibly stupid at others and one whose health I was concerned about at the time, I comment with him elsewhere. Voice well she’s Voice. You on the other hand appear to have a very sick mind, I don’t know why I pity you but I do.
You’re not one I can take seriously, other comments here by others suggest that they don’t either.
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Comments back at the ABC – must be logged in. Let’s see how it goes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/about/backstory/digital/2017-09-07/comments-abc-news-audience-engagement/8878604
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Thank you stuffed olive. Logged on and posted a comment
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Oh the joy, Local Government Elections. Todays SMH leads with a story about our state member being referred to ICAC, for threatening and intimidating the Deputy Mayor and linking preselection to their vote on a 1400 unit development.
In our LGA all but 1 or 2 of the Liberals are now standing as independents. Here was me thinking that the Liberals had seen the light and purged at least two of the previous Mayor, one a violent thug, the other someone who beats his wife and children, uses standover tactics as well as undertaking work without a licence to do so. Clearly I was wrong about the Liberals seeing the light.
Reading on one sees he may have tried to influence other developments. Back in the Liberals first term with such a thumping majority anything could have been covered up he appeared to have some involvement in developments elsewhere, noise of ICAC then but hushed very quickly.
I’ll turn up to vote today hoping that things in our LGA will change, but knowing full well that they won’t. It will be another 4 years of dysfunction and incompetence.
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It just knocks my socks off that Liberals seem to think anti-corruption and anti-influence peddling are selling points in their contest with Labor. It’s just mind boggling the level of delusion Liberal cheerleaders in online forums have in this regard.
As for me I went with a clear conscience and light heart to vote Labor in my LG election today. The Labor team here is fantastic. I ‘m absolutely confident that the Mayoral candidate didn’t direct the work of staff (illegally) in his previous tenure. And he was not close to Obeid and continued meeting him (off diary) long after it became obvious he was absolutely corrupt. Neither did it seem he had a sweetheart deal day job at a Labor controlled council. And I’m sure he did not work for a major local developer during his recent political hiatus.
I’m also absolutely confident from time as member of a local branch that he’s not a bullying, narcissistic, prick with zero Labor values.
I’m also absolutely confident that the Labor preselection process was completely above board and that all candidates and selectors are local residents.
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I thought Gladys abolished all those bad councils or someone had already sent in an Administrator.
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It’s a matter of record that Gladys did not abolish all the Councils. She failed in her attempt. In any case what’s to stop a former mayor running in an amalgamated council?
I know what I know. I’ve seen it close up. Everything I said is true. I could tell you more but I’m keen not to identify myself.
I’ll say it again cause it’s true. The Liberal cheerleaders who think the Liberal party is clean are delusional.
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Hoes this one , Vivienne? The Liberal politician who was feeding commercial in confidence information to his property developer mate. Do you have trouble believing that one?
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Ah I knew this would bring out trolls like you Walter, Like a moth to a lamp. Why do you come here, think you’re the dog walker or voice, I don think so, more like their piss boy.
I was thinking the Liberals had hosed out all the filth which had them standing as independents, with a new broom, but it looks like I was wrong. Have a look at the criminal activity by Liberal Councillors at Ryde Walter, not that hard.
In the meantime, I won’t take your seriously until such time as you put up a piece here for others to comment on. Perhaps you could just fuck off back under the bridge and play with all the other deranged trolls.
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Something is so phony about the post you’ve logged here SM it scares me. Not a word rings true or you’re trying sarcasm. It’s too hard to interpret your motive, but it’s shallow I swear it. It looks more to me as if it rests on a base sourced in organised criminal activity … the term that comes to mind when I think of the tactics of electoral and political party fraud committed in the name of good. Bedazzled sympaticos of the purveyors of such attempts to meddle go in as trolls or can alternatively be revealed to be simply employees paid to pretend they are free thinking independent citizens with minds of their own. I’m an old hand from years back at flushing out the dead heads who imagine their dealing with a threat to their civil order as they know it and cherish it, nothing better than dictatorship at its worst and deadheads simply paid to cuckold themselves, their personal integrity and your post this time absolutely reeks of it, reeks, reeks, reeks. It looks to me as if you have many accounts on your book. I don’t believe we know you from the past of the Pigs Arms and I’ve wondered a long time. One thing I was sure of a long time ago without saying so is your no friend of the Pigs Arms. The comments you make are too stylised.
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Shoe, Walter has no interest in engaging with the debate here. I think anyone should be able to come here and participate, there are many more who visit but don’t comment, from what I can gather. Walter too, if he chooses to participate rather than troll.
Walters behavior here is far more sinister. His only interest is trolling either myself or Gerard. Our dear friend Helvi rarely visits anymore and I suspect it had to do with the repeated attacks by Walter on her and Gerard. Its an issue Walter should seek professional help about.
For me, I see Walter as a sad character with little more to do than to parrot the sought of nonsense he dribbles against what I said above. For the record, the violent thug didn’t get elected but the wife basher did, Walter will question my comment here, my sources is rock solid, family members, not to mention the personal interactions I’ve had with them. Labor also managed a 16% swing to it in Ryde, which would have the local state member in serious trouble. He already is he’s been referred to ICAC.
For mine I would have preferred Ryde Council merged, Its an incompetent council and the councillors be they Liberal or Labor are pathetic.
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Algernon, there’s no debating deluded Liberal cheerleaders. You know this. They’ll just call you rude names and stick their heads in the sand.
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It seems to me years SM has been coming here. I think once before I’ve commented. This is what I myself have concluded and whosoever SM is, SM is no friend. SM is entirely self serving. Interesting you are in middle of L G election. Good luck. They’re always fraught with prospectives’ tricks and magic mirrors lol.
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I found the results in the Daily Telegraph, algy.
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Something rings very true in your post, Shoe. Fraud committed in the name of good. That’s what the both major party machines convince themselves they’re doing.
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You’ve deigned to speak to me. I’ll give you that much.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l5Y-FVYXCc
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I posted a truncated version. Sorry. You need to let it run to the next.
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Nah. It’s ok. I saw it on FB. People have buggered it by adding all sorts of variation. Funniest thing.
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It’s on my FB too. Cracking people up good and proper.
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Brilliant shoe, a good laugh.
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Yeaaaah algy so glad you watched it and enjoyed it. 😀
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Been sharing it far and wide
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Vale Walter Becker, I gutted to be honest.
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Yes, great guitarist. Saw them live in Sydney, 2011.
Not much in the news about his death. I suppose we are in the arse end of the world.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956
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I had to remind myself who he is. I’m no good at remembering who’s who.
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Steely Dan are my musical heroes shoe.
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I have been listening this morning to the last concert Walter Becker played. For years I mixed up Steeleye Span and Steely Dan, their names, Hung. I won’t now.
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I have followed them all my life shoe. When I was 19 a friend got me to listen to the Royal Scam. I was hooked for life. I them listened to very bit of music I could get my hands on of theirs. Becker’s death has made me very sad.
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I am very sorry you are so very sad, Mark. I feel deeply for you.
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We might be able to help each other by talking on the phone. It might be a disaster. It might help both of us. I will message you.
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It was good. Lets do it again.
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I had my social worker coming over that’s why I had to stop the call. She thinks I’m a psycho whereas I know I’m a psycho. She wants to get me on the NDIS whereas I don’t ant any thing like that. Loved our chat will talk later on the weekend. Gotta see if Port wins.
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It cernally wurnt no disarsta.
Sure.
Nice mix of larfs and serius stuff. Great sharing.
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I’ve changed to Google Chrome as been having lot of both with internet connection via Mozilla. The rainbow is not showing up now.
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And now it is there. Odd. But nice and good.
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I was thinking of doing something similar Viv, Firefox just stops responding all the time.
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Really – same here, not responding and then getting totally stuck. I bought a new Splitter and it was okay for a couple of days. Problem has been going on for a couple of months. So I’m testing Chrome. I had suspected Telstra was fiddling with the connection to annoy me. I’m not with Telstra but they control everything anyway.
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I’m using Google Chrome and have the rainbow
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Where do I go to get the strip like we have here at the Arms, please?
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I have to suppose the rainbow strip we have here is only at the Pig’s Arms. I cannot see it anywhere and I’ve searched all over.
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A tiny nation that feeds the world.
One more reason to marvel: The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300 inhabitants per square mile. It’s bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe’s number two exporter of food as measured by value, second only to the United States, which has 270 times its landmass. How on Earth have the Dutch done it?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
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Yoy truly have to wonder at those stats. Amazing.
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I see a rainbow over the pub. Just lovely. I think it can stay for good.
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I’m sorry to complain. Now this page isn’t registering notifications at the top right hand corner … mumble mumble
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Try using chrome, seems to have fixed a lot of issues for me with Firefox.
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