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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 
Mainly for Shoe: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/21/rip-flo-bjelke-petersen-but-lets-not-forget-johs-legacy
The list of Jo’s horror regime goings on is horrendous.
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I was honestly shocked how deeply I was affected when I saw announcement of Flo’s death. I felt a rush of anxiety she and Jo would be inappropriately lauded and anger that anticipated they might be.
Thank you so much for the link, Vivienne.
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Not opened for comments unfortunately, she was the nice face of a criminal pair. Evil destructive people. Probably a State Funeral FFS.
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Not just Jo’s criminal activities (sadly indicted posthumously), but Flo’s piss poor performance as a senator. I think she was reprimanded for failing to attend the senate, and only ever made shambolic speeches about local events. How they kept voting for her I will never know?
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Imagine the comments, however. I think they will wait a respectful while in view of the floodgates that can be the only potential. This may herald a watershed in the recorded history of this era. It has been too long coming. I often reflect how one person can distort and cruel history whether it be the bully in a playground or a politician like Jo.
There’ll be a howl if they give her a State funeral.
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They better not. Labor govt wouldn’t think of it!
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Queensland viv, stranger things.
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Oh well at least the endless phone calls and opinion polls will now stop. Even had three today. A 5% swing at a general election would see a landslide. Yet the Liberals will see this a a great result.
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I empathise, Algy, I thought Keneally might get up. Back to the status quo.
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I though she might to. The barrage of Liberal lies in the last week was relentless. As predicted though the Asian vote for Alexander collapsed. I hope she runs again
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My hopes dashed. Such a shame. Maybe the smears stuck. But a 5-6 % swing is a good sign. Leastways we’re spared his sneering gloating in QT.
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Take the positives vivienne. Kristina achieved that in 30 days. Its a victory of sorts for the Liberals but a pyrrhic one. They’ll get smashed at the next Federal elections
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Let’s hope so Algy. Might have been hoping for a bit much in Bennelong but am very disappointed. Disappointed that people continue to vote in such members of such a bastard, mean and nasty party against their own best interests. We don’t have 8 million millionaires to explain it.
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I have my doubts he’ll stand at the next General Election or if he does he’ll retire soon after should he win. Waffles has taken a big hit, so has Alexander
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I see the mute muppet got back in. What a shame. I think Viv’s comment about sums it all up.
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The disability jokes gone down a treat.
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Reminds me of an ad about the prices going down down down, prices are… 😀
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Mitch Marsh will want to score plenty of runs to justify his inclusion with 9 overs at nearly 5 runs each.
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WACA specialist apparently.
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What does that mean – is he a bowler or batter or both. I know that bowlers prefer that no runs are taken when they bowl. Isn’t 5 runs an over not too bad?
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He was bowling so no not good. The Marsh brothers father usrd to open for Australia and played with the chairman of selectors. Shaun has had 10 chances and many fails. Mitch is a competent grade cricketer and not test standard. How both get selected regularly is beyond most.
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I think hubby said much the same. Obviously I don’t follow cricket very closely – not since Lilley and thingamebob days.
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Marsh had no choice but to make runs. Just shows how piss weak the Poms are at the moment.
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8 overs till the new ball, well thats 80 runs with another 70 on top after that. Put England in for a a few overs before lunch with a 300 lead. Good chance it will be all over today.
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I get the runs myself at times. Have to forego the stool softener.
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I’m one of those fielding positions like silly mid on.
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Fingers and toes crossed that Alexander is sent packing tomorrow.
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I’ve been texting with the well connected Liberal mate. They reckon its the end of Waffles. They’re learning Mandarin. Reaction by Chinese friends of theirs to last weekends little effort was that it was anti-Chinese and can’t speak Chinese properly. In other words the Chinese will say nothing openly against Waffles but quietly they’re pissed off big time. Our Chinese friends (who vote both ways) are unitedly pissed off.
I’m hoping too vivienne. If the punters are out early to vote then Alexander is in serious trouble, oh and it will be 35 degrees tomorrow so they’ll be pissed off anyway.
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First dog sums it up perfectly.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/16/what-do-the-voters-of-bennelong-want#comment-109770996
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No First Dog is wrong because we know it is not a contest between the least feculant. Liberals are feculant. Labor is not feculant. That’s why you spend so much of your leisure times condemning every single aspect of Liberal people, policy and delivery but offer only the odd muffled criticism of Labor.
First Dog is also wrong because he repeats the Obeid smear. Keneally is not tainted at all by being installed by a corrupt faction.
Indeed she deserves a medal because she told the truth about him when giving evidence to ICAC.
He also smears Labor with the Dastyari thing. We know there is nothing to see there. There is nothing wrong with politicians hob-nobbing with billionaire property developers and apparent agents of foreign influence. Nothing to see there.
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Fuck off Walter. Go and play with all the other trolls under the bridge.
Merv the there’s a stench in the pub again.
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Dung beetles are a genuine fear for poor old Wally.
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Yep, right on cue. And the Libs never spend all their time condemning Labor for everything and get that repeated ad nauseum by most of the MSM. What rot SM. Gawd the Libs spend every day condemning Labor while Labor is the Opposition. Ever listen to Question Time? Who hob nobs with Billionaires – J Bishop, B Joyce and M Turnbull and most of the rest of the Cabinet. You know what I think – all Liberals are bastards, through and through.
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Love the reference to Howard, hahahahahaha
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I see the poll in todays SMH has Alrxander in front 53-47 Newspoll is 50-50. I’ve responded to both and 8 opinion polls the last 4 weeks even though I was away for 10 days. I also see that in The Age the vote in the chinese community is 66% for Labor.
The interesting thing is both the SMH and Newspoll show that Alexanders vote has collapsed with an 11% swing and the % of the vote the same.
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I see the MSM is ramping up their nonsense on Bennelong by election. Tony Walker in the SMH thinks Turnbull will get a good result, how on earth would he know. Is he getting constant phone calls and opinion polls? Do they condone the filth the Liberals are spewing out about Kennelly, lies that have nothing to do with the campaign.
The closest I’ve seen was Katherine Murphy on Insiders yesterday where she commented on New England, Barney won because he was there’s, no One Nation or Shooters candidate. What she heard constantly though was that the government was incompetent.
Bennelong is different, Waffles xenophobic comments will not go down well with the Chinese. Saturday will tell.
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Waffles effort on Q&A was a complete disaster tonight. Clearly wants the government to collapse.
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Waste of an hour. Same old waffle. An odd audience. I was furious and swore at the tele a lot.
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Mrs. A went to bed after about 20 minutes. Was there anyone he didn’t insult.
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no – and it’s all Labor’s fault. He gave the same old stock answers – NBN is fucking perfect, Uluru statement wanted a third house and it would never get up at a referendum, Labor never funded NDIS. He spent way too long answering questions with rubbish and with electioneering for Alexander – bloody outrageous. There should have been more questions but instead we got waffle and electioneering and how bad Sam is. ABC did a very bad job.
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I changed channel.
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I haven’t watched it yet. Sounds like i might not get through to the end.
Hey, Sister brother, I’m back.
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Welcome back Sister Shoe.
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If you have a look at New England results, oh wow did the local load it up with lots of candidates representing parties no-on’e heard of or what. Surely that was shite.
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See this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-10/tiny-nsw-mullengandra-school-with-two-pupils-to-close/9240598
As a matter of interest Mullengandra is just up the road from my home (in country talk) and Bill McDonald was on the Hume Shire Council when I worked there. I think he is about 93 now. His farm was on Sweetwater Creek Road and we bought lucerne from him for our sheep. Bill was still on the Council when I too became a councillor. He fought me tooth and nail not to buy an A1 fire fighting unit (modern in every sense) because the brigades wanted to continue to do up old trucks. Long story. I won and three years later Bill reckoned it was the best thing the Shire ever did (without mentioning it was my idea). Mullengandra is just a bit too far out for hobby farm subdivision development and hence no new families and kids. Older continuing farms either have no kids or send them to private schools in town as there is a bus service. Sad story – the pub went first. The thing is though … this – it’s never been a village, it’s a locality – very pretty.
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Looks a nice part of the world Viv. Lots of history. Sad the school had to close. I wonder if they could use it for another purpose maybe a museum.
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That idea would go nowhere. We have a fantastic museum in my real Village of Jindera. It’s of the pioneering kind and totally authentic – the building and its contents and all the out buildings and displays. Over the road there is a blacksmith’s timber building awaiting resurrection. It was still functioning when we moved here.
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Sorry Viv. Don’t know the area like you do but love Australian history.
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I know – don’t be sorry. No-one there to run it anyway and probably nothing to put in it really.
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I read that and wondered yesterday Vivienne. One child next year isn’t enough to keep a primary school open. I was amazed at two.
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The bell curve distribution would have been interesting at exam time.
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I once helped an unsustainable Council turn around it’s financial performance. At the elected Council’s request I reviewed a whole bunch of services. You can save $X by cutting such and such. Didn’t accept one proposal (bear in mind they selected areas for review, not me). In fact they increased subsidies on some services and restricted user fees. They worked against their objective of financial sustainibility.
Quiet separately but concurrently, I worked with staff on depreciation rates. Politicians had nothing to do with it. Pretty quickly we figured out the average age of serviceable assets in each class was more than the useful life the engineers had used to calculate depreciation. The real world consumption of their assets was lower than what their engineering handbooks suggested.
Change a few equations on a spreadsheet. Bingo! Council returns to operating surplus.
The elected Council took credit for the “turnaround” in the press. Like Bill I suppose. Gotta have a lot of ego to be a politician, I thought.
But the reality was even more extreme. Talking to them later, they actually believed the credit was due to them. They believed they had addressed the problem.
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Sorry Walter don’t believe you. I thought you worked in a Call Centre
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Councils rarely give credit to the person who came up with a good idea. In the end it is always a whole Council decision. The Minutes record who moved and seconded the original motion.
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Just completed my third opinion poll for the Bennelong by election and the seventh since the poll began. I’d have been lucky to have done tree opinion polls on politics in the last twenty years!!
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Whats the mood of the electorate Ace?
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Must be a lot of extra polling going on. Libs doing badly and wanting to see if pork barreling in turning the ride. Ha
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tide
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viv and hoo. The Libs leaked a poll last week saying the Libs in front 54-46 and the odds are favouring Alexander. That said the first week the mood was hostile, people pissed off having to go to a by election. I was away of course for a couple of weeks, the mood doesn’t seem to have changed.
We get two phone calls a night mostly robo. I had one from Kenneally’s team on Thursday, pointed out if she just misses out she needs to run at a General election. They said she’s in it to win, then again this bloke didn’t know where our local shops were and he lives three Kms away, missed the point, the candidate was poor last time which resulted in a swing to Alexander. Also had the unions ring me pointed that out to them also.
I think the Liberals are scared they’re going to lose the seat. Labor is well organised even moreso than 10 years ago they’re pushing hard. I haven’t seen such a dirty campaign especially from the Liberals. The Obeid (and Tripodi) line is used often but the tories are too thick to realise she was the one that effectively put him in gaol.
To be honest I don’t know who will win but it will be close. If the electorate is out in force early then Alexanders gone. I don’t know if he has had anything from the UK regarding his citizenship which was the reason for this waste of taxpayers money in the first place.
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Apparently got his citizenship thing done in just 7 days – one week. Someone pulled strings. For Labor people it has taken months – 4 months last year. Another rat.
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Goodness knows how, Lord Pottymouth perhaps. Apparently the Liberals are handing out scratchies which could contravene the Lotteries Act. It could be interesting how the Dastyari thing plays out with the Chinese and with Waffles thinly veiled xenophobia towards the Chinese government yesterday.
Watching Insiders this morning they were suggesting this could be an Aston by election for the government, trying to talk it up. I think Bass maybe more appropriate. Like it or not Bennelong is becoming a bellwether, we revelled in getting rid of Howard 10 years ago and sticking it up Waffles would fit in nicely. Statewise Ryde has gone with government for 40 years.
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Yes, and they got Nash’s renunciation done in 3 days. Amazing.
Re Sam – he’s been spied on and ASIO or the Americans are leaking all this stuff. I think the questions raised by that are far more signficant than Sam telling his Chinese mate that he’s probably being listened in to. Are we friends and trading best budies with China or note. And what about Andrew Robb for fucks sake.
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I’m thinking the Chinese vote will go against Alexander and the more so as Turnbull keeps up his anti-China ravings.
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Here’s hoping viv. Perhaps the seat waeming could behammered this week.
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Give the dickhead Alexander the cat treatment.
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We can only hope HOO.
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Bloody hell Mitch Marsh added to the test squad. Thanks Dad, that pocture of the goat is coming in handy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/06/victorian-country-fire-authority-members-mistreated-girl-17-in-sickening-hazing
Here are the people looking for the sympathy vote at the last election.
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Unfortunately this is the sort of organisation that attracts people who are too stupid for the army reserve.
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And arsonists
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-05/matthew-leveson-inquest-coroner-delivers-open-finding/9226512
Don’t you just love justice(excuse me while I puke)
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How are the ashes going? Is anyone out for a duck yet?
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Not sure Gez but watching the cricket is the best sleep I have ever had.
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Verrender and Long write the truth about the RC into Banks and Super on the ABC. Makes comforting reading – Turnbull probably shooting himself in the foot again. Facts we know but points out how the light will more likely shine on the shonky rip off retail funds.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-02/royal-wedding-prince-harry-meghan-markle-princess-mary/9215170
To be honest I don’t really care.
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Apparently Harry didn’t want to be part of the royal family until he spoke to his dad.
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Well he’s not really Charlie’s is he.
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Appears not to be. Like Ronan Farrow looks like Frank’s son. Felt sorry for them saying ‘Of course’ to each other other sorting out points of order in front of the media. Shades of Princess Di saying ‘Of course’ when Press asked her and Chuck if they were in love. We meanwhile are the poor minnows. barely more than tins of imported sardines really, seeking some bright spot to have a wee gossip in as friends do that ‘the kids are getting married’.
Will a Republic save us from ourselves?
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I love sardines
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I am always looking for a spot to wee.
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I nearly weed behind the pub tonight, then I was reminded of Manne’s court case over exposing oneself.
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James the rugby player
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Nor do I, given I was In Thailand last week noticed it was mentioned on the BBC, talk about a circlejerk, talked ad nauseam about it.
This might help her from The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/03/meghan-markle-a-z-guide-to-her-new-family
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Well that was hard on Princess Margaret. She had every reason to be disagreeable. Wouldn’t let her marry the man she loved and look what’s going on now in the Royal mob’s households. Marrying divorced and not at all British American woman. All the divorces and scandals.
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Different times vivienne. Made Margaret a chattel really.
It’s all pap for a republican. As for other things I wonder if they checked if Katherine was a virgin? As if its really anybody’s business. Apparently Meghan has royal blood, a direct descendant of King Edward III, then again apparently shes also related to half the 20th centuries US Presidents.
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My dad looked really important when he was dead, honest. He looked like he was a fiercesome monarch of the entire Scottish clans. I was awed. That’s good enough for me. I’m royal. 🙂
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-02/barnaby-joyce-wins-new-england-by-election-antony-green-says/9220356
Dumbo gets re-elected, amazing.
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Dumb electorate.
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Seems like New England are okay with an adulterer and a water thief.
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The pig shit have voted. Apparently he’s about to become a father again to someone other than his wife.
I think Bennelong may have a different result.
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The madness of The Australian, today: Peter van Onselen
The breakdown of our body politic can be traced to the Opposition Leader. He’s been at the heart of it for years.
What the fuck………….
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Maybe Peter needs the cat treatment. The Nat bloke from NSW said what we were all thinking.
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Exactly, though he’ll be gone at the next State election too.
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Lets give some panadol on his way out. 🙂
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The internal inspections are coming along fine for Peter. He needs to keep believing that.
In the meantime the Liberals were being ignored at the local shops this morning.
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Piglets, a report: I returned to my doctor’s office this week and asked him to run me through the tests he told me last week show I’m in excellent health. This is and that is fantastic he ticked off, one by one, Liver and kidney functions first class and so on. Inflammatory response he said cheerfully is a little up. You show a little of that. Nothing to worry about. Take no notice of that. He moved along. I reserved comment.
Your iron result is a little low, but it’s ok on the line. Funny that, I thought. I’ve been wondering if I should eat a Holden.
I demurred. We need to take that inflammatory response seriously because… uh… I am seriously not well. Thinks: as i said last week. Thinks: as I said when I got my friend K uncharacteristically to take me to the hospital couple of months ago and I expected she would leave me there. Thinks: I have as well run out of social workers, counsellors, real estate agents, affordable housing champions, a State government too so stuff is shit.
Tell me why are you not well asks doctor. Thinks: I said last week. I repeat: I feel paralysed, don’t want to do anything, don’t care about anything, I am hardly breathing. The stress of being is doing my head in. I walk out onto front verandah and cannot cope, let alone walk down stairs. Doctor listens to chest as he had the week before. How long have you been like this, he asks. Since I went to the hospital and got rejected because the doctor on call doesn’t like me and we don’t get on. I’m discriminated against. Thinks: You’re showing great courage. Persist.
You’re sick, says doctor. You need antibiotics and I’ll give you a puffer to relieve the stress, if you need to use it. How long do you think you’ve been sick. At least two and a half months and around about, perhaps two m onths before I presented after i was rejected time before that when I was told I likely have diabetes (no, I know this week I’ve not got that).
Stool: great and no cancer. I ask: what about parasites. Doctor: I didn’t do parasites. Thinks as he says hurriedly we can do that: Didn’t do parasites. In this environment crawling with possum parasites because their native habitat is near destroyed. Anyway: back to the bowl.
Bloody amazing antibiotic Roxithromycin. I’ve had two. First time I’ve felt there’s a light at the end of this tunnel. Doctor says: Be back on Tuesday and we’ll get you right, we’ll get you right. I’m going to take some credit. Incredibly careless.
Doctor: (I think) a little embarrassed.
It’s like an Embarrassment Procession really. It’s shit and it’s lonely and it’s embarrassing. I wish someone would apologise to me of this ginormous bureaucracy, and all the pricks on my metoo list as well, did someone say summat about ambitious women in media? Too little. Too late. Trump has to go.
Anyway, now I’m on the mend, I’ll be apples.
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Good to hear Sister Shoe. Maybe some Trotters Ale and wedgies with herring and Vegemite sauce may help, may not either. 🙂
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Before I went back I thought that if this doesn’t work I will have to phone Mark and break the news to him I’m unexpectedly dying with an ostensibly excellent health report card.
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Wonder how Roxithromycin scrubs up with Trotters. Best medicine will be a session at the Pigs Arms bar with all the gang. I purchased all my interstate public transport cards towards planning a holiday.
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I see there’s a trial of Roxithromycin for male pattern baldness. Everyone’s a winner.
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Does it kill cats?
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We can only hope. I know panadol will.
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Researching baldness Mark. Anything you want to tell us? Your secret is safe with me.
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I will go for a full beard look I guess if that high level of testosterone (But I’m normal 🙂 ) serves me well. I think I’ll pay it back to Thanksgiving. I’ll probs get a job. Should buy a tie.
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I guess I’ll need a hair cut teehee..
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Breaking news. The Australian cricket selectors have just announced the team for the next men’s test at the Adelaide Oval. Here it is,
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh
Marsh 12th man.
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What a surprise. Who gets 10 chances. Thanks Dad. Least I’ll be able to watch this one
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Must be pretty deflating to every other cricketer in Australia firstly Shaun’s recall now they are looking to recall Mitch, pathetic really. How was your holiday?
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Mitch Marsh is little better than a competent grade cricketer. He’s not a Test cricketer. Daddys pulling the strings again.
Holiday was great HOO, back this morning. Would have liked to stay longer. Checked the weather there today 24-26 (normally 29-32) and pouring with rain, it’s a month into the dry season.
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I don’t know nuttin’ about cricket. I studied. Believe me I got books. I left a page open with diagrams on the hall table. I learned only that cricket lexicography must be worth a quid.
Even I, my most dearly loved member of my very own and upfront cricket illiterati, can see the single word ‘Marsh’ repeated over and over until we learn it, granted there are at least that many positions for the name card ‘Marsh’, is dodgy thinking.
Can this selection criteria determine we will win the Cyberian Universe Scratch Team vs the Pub Test match on Boxing Day?
I doubt we have that many drinkers whose name is Marsh, first or last. Of those, who will not be going to the Boxing, would you think.
Fuck that’s weak.
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How was your holiday, Algy mate? 🙂
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Arrived back this morning, Most relaxing we’ve had. Weather was great too. Mrs A and I could have stayed longer.
Off to the doc this afternoon. My eyes all puffy, they flared up the day before we went, been treating it with conjunctivitis drops I’ve been using though that’s only kept it in check a bit. Opthamologist next week to get to the bottom of it
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Good fortune be yours with that, algy. We’re on stand-by to hear how that goes.
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Two interesting comments from afar over the weekend. One that England thinking that a 10 wicket loss was a close result and had momentum going to. Adelaide. The other was Mateo Csnavanni claiming the LNP having all the monentum in the Queensland election despite an 8% swing against them.
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Chief Tom Tom sent out some confusing message early about the LNP showing those Laborites where to get off and nobody clapped. Ok, he didn’t say exactly that but what he said should be ranked. 🙂
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Yep, it’s Labor’s fault the LNP didn’t win and a vote for One Nation was a vote for Labor. They’ve gone nuttier than ever.
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Nuttiest speech making I’ve ever heard that one by Chief Tom Tom.
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The Big Loser is the Big Winner. Dead silence… clap clappity… dead silence.
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He ought to have taken his High School Principal along to say a few words for him.
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Deja Vu. Nothing new under the Queensland sun.
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Note for the colour blind amongst us; please know the silk is deliciously vibrant with colour.
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/fast-lane/article/2017/11/23/please-watch-anti-gay-interpretive-dance-which-indisputably-extremely-gay
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Extraordinary.
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Indeed. 🙂
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Good music.
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My kind of tapper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgYWYH_Hlag
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Me, I’m a terrible dancer that’s why I took up guitar. He got it right from start to finish and I love the all black outfit.
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But the top is a wine/burgundy colour and the pants/cap and shoes are black and the tie is lilac-ish. Don’t know about the socks, undies and singlet though.
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I’m colour blind Viv. I could see the different tie colour but the rest looked black to me.
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Well there you go. I really don’t understand what colour blindness is but just looked it up and know at least it isn’t all like black and white TV.
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Yes. It’s a common miss understanding that we can’t see colour. There are some colours I cannot pick and the best way I can describe is I see colour in a different way and I struggle to match colours together i.e. what goes with what. Tutu did that for me all our married life. I have Protanopia.
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So do you now just rely on the shop assistant to tell you whether you picked something good or gawdawful to go with your jeans etc.?
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Pre Tutu I had to go to a wedding as guest and didn’t have many nice clothes to wear. I went to a clothes shop in town and told the guy the problem i.e. colour blind. The guy was camp as the army on bivouac and he dressed me a from top to bottom including shoes so well that everyone commented on how great I looked. I was young, slim and handsome in those days. I wouldn’t have been able to do that myself ever till I met Tutu who realised I had colour problems and she took over dressing me from that point on.
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Well done.
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I was at our local shops on Saturday. The Liberals were out in force. Not the usual crowd. Never seen this lot though. Told them what a waste of the taxpayers money. Have a nice day was the reply. The butcher cooks a few of his flavoured snags each weekend. Well this weekend was Peking pork and the snag plain beef.
The bloke cooking rold me it was constant the commenting and none of it positive towards Alexander. Anyhow who should turn up but Alexander. Told the last pamphlet handler the same as I’d said to the first. He said why don’t you tell him yourself. Said to Alexander. Why are we even having this by election. Because you cant be bothered to get you paperwork in order. What a waste of the taxpayers money.
Theres anger in Bennelong.
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I keep getting blocked at Aunty for calling Christopher Pyne Christopher Porn. Can’t see the problem myself. Spellchecker thinks it’s okay.
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Don’t see a problem old fella. Thesewer blockage might though
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Well I’ll tell you what I think the problem is. A bot doesn’t like the word “porn”. It’s not a human making the call.
If a human was making the call I don’t see a problem with it. It doesn’t demean Pyne and it isn’t bigoted. It makes light of Pyne’s predicament and maybe obliquely critiques a legitimate concern over security. If his twitter was so easily hacked…
Although we note the hacker appears to have been motivated by homophobia.
However, being the ABC, it would need to appear with a legitimate point. We know from experience the ABC doesn’t tolerate empty shitposting to the extent that The Guardian does. Shitposters are frustrated at the ABC. Shitposters run wild at The Guardian.
You seem to be confused as to what I think is wrong with your comments. My general point is that they are demeaning, ad-hominem and often bigoted. Pyne gives us an example. Mincing poodle. As social progressives we should be aware that that appears to be homophobic and it reinforces gender stereotypes.
It creates a hostile environment for men who are gay and/or effete.
We’re told that gay youth are more prone to depression, anxiety and suicide because of the general background of homophobia. So put yourself in the shoes of an effette, gay, 14 year old. How would he feel reading your “mincing poodle”?
I’d suggest you can’t stigmatize Pyne for being effete and possibly gay without stigmatizing everyone who is effete and gay.
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Enter the troll. For a brief moment I thought your comment was genuine and I was interested, SM.
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The troll took the bait shoe. They can’t help their vileness
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Leave him out to dry in the sun. Love the long bow straw man from Christopher Porn to the mincing poodle.
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See told you Hung. Accusing of being homophobes. Every time they enter the stench gets stronger.
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Moderator is fussy. Puts up a comment as to why someone is deleted as off topic or dominating the conversation. My old foe Forrest Gardener got himself banned.
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I don’t comment much at the ABC, but I notice that Old Mate Forrest gets quite a few mentions from the mod!
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One of thr joys of being overseas; stuck inside during a storm is the TV. Watching RT which is the Russian Television English channel. Apparently the Lebanese PM has pstporned his resignation. Don’t know what the ABC goes on about sometimes.
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BTW I’ll be the South East Asian correspondent for the next 10 days. Mrs A an I are in Thailand.
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Have a nice time – holiday?
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Yes . Mrs A and I have been married for 30 years in January so. We’re calling this our anniversary trip.
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Enjoy yourself mate and eat all the fish cakes you can.
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Or just fish HOO
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Yes all of the above. The world will run out of fish soon so Thai Fish Cakes will become Thai Cakes. So sad.
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A good ute story.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/exclusive-barnaby-joyce-peeling-back-the-rumours,10942
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It’s a great website. I’m a member.
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What a grub.
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And now for something completely different.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-18/us-navy-apologises-after-jet-draws-giant-penis-over-washington/9164642
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Great flying skills.
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Mature flying skills.
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Maybe it was a message shoe.
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Quicker than Message-in a-Bottle as a mail service, I’ll grant that, Hung. Beats the Top-Cock carrier pigeon as well.
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How was the Oils concert Algy? Did you survive ok.
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Yeah Algy??
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It was great though Mrs A and I were stiff and sore afterwards. I don’t think we’d survive another stand up. Really glad we went. Bit over two hours and no rain.
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