Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
I see police arrested 59000 drivers and motorcyclists in Thailand for drink driving over the New Year holidays.
There’s got to be a Guinness (oops) Book of Records entry there somewhere. No wonder the Thai death toll is around world worst, some 14000 a year.
My bet is that 58,000 of the miscreants paid a bribe and got off
Except for the expats TV…..
But of course!
My bet is about 10 million were not arrested
PLMO 10:57pm.
Just in short after me bailing out of this game of scrutiny doing battle with the apponent you now encounter, I do know being a mate for 47 years sailing through those years no problems until politics with political party selection , often turns us into some confusion with difference following .
He is highly rated incredentials and IQ with much added community support and helping many in need but,… heeeeee get a little carried away been fed by other idealogue nuisances from the Burnside cheer squad deviating away from the facts .The fact we must follow is credentials are in the media outlets also follow up confirmed reporting as the OZ media who chase down navy opperation s at sea on confirmed reports before publication goes ahead and internal detention opperations also .
He is OK , just believes he is right before other media reports and I was told never argue with an idealogy person cause you never get through to them .
BTW ,….that climbing on the backs and barb wire fences saying comes from Peter Garret in that desert protest he set up when Paul Keating was the first to set up detention centres when he locked up the first batch of asylum people .
Garret was an activist created instability in the Keating government . His presence was well documented calling Keating barbaric following many skirmishes just when all the pollies racing for the airports to resorts overseas getting out of the faces of the cameras . The crowd that Garret gathered up was intense in knocking down the Keating wall and succeeded eventually while guards were rounding up people like a farmers sheep dog and putting them back inside the enclosure. GARRET was at his highest point of intimidation later galloping around the perimeter of parliment house while followed by his other sheep of protesters making the media frenzy all excited .His fanatical view was facilitate further vandelism on any detention centre that appears on the horizon being a real hot-head rock star , came perilously close being bungled up and shoved in detention himself.
Whoopsy!:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/washington-post-express-makes-biggest-typo-ever-on-front-page/news-story/1cd8a9174b5270617839aff3971f7ec8
Classic stuff up TBLS! I imagine the sisters will be seeking revenge.
Which got me thinking, we have the symbols for man and woman, clear enough. Who’s doing the graphic design work for all the rest of the QUILTBAG communities? There’s gotta be a quid to be made there somewhere.
Lou, it seems they’re way ahead of you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_symbol
So much so that they’ve been incorporated into Unicode and are probably already available on your keyboard if you know the right key-combination! Although some of them are confusingly similar to the symbol for iron sulphate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols
Ah thanks John, only a few more to complete the collection.
As for your reference to the similarity with the symbol for iron sulphate, that is clearly reserved for the rusted on!
Good link. Good publicity stunt!
I liked you earlier NT CU link too. Controversial spelled with a “U” much, but really funny and apt for the NT.
They are all considerate understanding nurturing types in the Territory.
Give ’em heaps.
JB……great publicity stunt, but probably did better advertising for the NT than Tourism NT, who are an unimaginative lot. Maybe not so apt now with the new government but certainly applied to the last (and worst government ever) lot. It’s all a bit boring and normal now..
hey Dismayed, I know you live in South Aus, but I could have sworn this was you.
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/01/06/13/59/sydney-driver-crashes-while-telling-off-dashcammer
Ok 50 overs left today. I hope we bat for 30 get a lead of 380. Bowl 20 overs tonight this would give us a new ball at tea time tomorrow. C’mon Aussie. Hey Milton. I told you Renshaw would be out sooner or later? Wade should be next to go. Dropped another one today sick yes but once on the park the job has to be done. I would also be surprised if Cartwright is in the 1st test team in India.
Renshaw isn’t batting after two concussions on consecutive days, is that what you call “out”?
More likely you are out of it.
Pretty good article by John Hewson.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/beware-the-new-conservatives-motivated-by-ambition-and-ego-20170104-gtm2jl.html
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any further back down the evolutionary chain. Wouldn’t it be just wonderful if Bernardi and Abbott came to blows? I mean literally. Belted the Bejezus out of each other.
And before you start Carl, nature is nature I only disapprove of violence in the higher forms.
Dismayed. Give ’em more heaps.
Abbott 2/1, Bernardi 5/1. Betcha Tones leads with his chin though.
Mack the Knife says: January 6, 2017 at 3:44 am “Milton, do not forget you are debating Eddie the expert” Firstly there is no debate. Milton is wrong as are you. Ah yes, Mack the dinosaur comes in from the outfield as usual. Have you ever played the game Mack? I have played at district level in SA and was part of a squad that was the forerunner to the Australian Cricket Academy. Apart from playing at a reasonable level I, in my 2 and half decades in the Oil and Gas industry I was able to get the opportunities to develop my abilities to recognise strengths and opportunities for improvements firstly for efficiency and productivity then also for safer outcomes but through the years it became about people, helping people improve. But back to viewing, reviewing, coaching and hopefully improving. When you have some idea of what you are looking at it is actually possible to watch and recognise areas that need improving. If you have something specific regarding the technique I have discussed about Renshaw bring it. I very much doubt it. You have a need to snipe that is just who you are.
I have never met you Mack, I have watched you comment here for several years. I have not met you but I know you. I have worked with so many just like you. I was trained by people like you, I then had to learn to work with people like you then Manage you. It is people like you that keep me Dismayed. There is some sort of resentment in people like you that does not like to see people move on, improve or try and help others improve. Very sad. Very sad indeed Mack.
Dismayed – seems you’re in the mood for an orgy of self-congratulation mate. It titillates only the writer.
Dismayed – I was wondering when you’d get around to regaling us with your resume. Personally, I was hanging onto every word and sadly was left wanting more (a bit like your team mates I guess). Still, it makes a pleasant change from the “Milton this..”, “Milton that..”. I was beginning to think you were falling in love with me until you provided this brief excerpt from your upcoming autobiography. Can you provide us some stats in your next instalment, and talk us through the day you guided SA from the brink of defeat to an historic victory. I’m guessing you were an all-rounder and brilliant in slips (and still wearing them!). A pic of you cutting would be to the good.
Oh you are a dickhead Dismayed, depressing to read. I played district cricket in Perth before you were shitting so what? If you want rude you’ll get both barrels. Sounds to me you didn’t make it either in sport or business, sorry for you sad sack. I was very successful in business but no one here could or should give a fat rat’s arse. Stop projecting your level of self importance.
You just don’t get dialogue, exchange of views robust or otherwise. You bring nothing to the conversation, just a black cloud. Why don’t you stick to something you really are superior at, blankety blanks.
Give others some space and they may tolerate you, not his childish crap. It is beyond tiring.
Come in spinner. You bite like a big old dumb hammerhead Dismayed, and how did a little one liner/ attempt at humour deserve such a diatribe like that “Eddie the self-proclaimed expert on everything”? Are you writing novellas these days? Anyway, you showed your true colours with that churlish, low rent remark about James Hird. I guess the word compassion is not in your vocabulary huh? Just reinforces my opinion that you are an oxygen thief with a bad attitude and a huge chip on his shoulder, I wouldn’t have wasted a minute of my time training a big mouth loser like you. Remember OS-1? that’s you in a nutshell.
I’d bet money you are a either a tourpusher who can’t seem to crack the next step up the ladder, or a directional driller, both species being the type to be full of bravado when the going is good but when things turn to shit guys like me have to come and remedy the situation. Remedial work, the two words I hate most on a rig. Best DD I ever worked with said, and I quote, “I used to be a great driller with a lot of knowledge about downhole until I became a directional hand”. Sound familiar sport? If you ever were a driller you probably got promoted early so a competent driller could take your place.
Oh, about the cricket, yes I played for 10 years up to club level when I was 20. Fast bowler & generally batted next after the keeper. Used to idolise Dennis Lillee and Michael Holding when I was a kid and my action was a bit of both, with a Jeff Thommo attitude. Used to love bowling bouncers and beamers at smart arses like yourself. Then I’d try a yorker and either bowl them out or get an lbw decision.
Preferred football though, getting sun-fried in the Qld summers playing cricket with a sweaty face covered in zinc cream became tfm. My nickname was “beetroot”. Now I’m paying for it with lots of BCC’s. Batsmen, huh, like Tangles used to say, the only thing he hated worse than batsmen were flies.
Bye the bye, some of us don’t have time to sit around during the day watching the cricket big mouth, I didn’t see any of Renshaw’s batting. I was merely commenting that Milton was debating Eddie the expert.
Your theme song dismal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKWch_MNY0
I once picked up a game, Rolleston v Gindie in Central Queensland, whilst ‘on the job’. Organised by the boss as a bit PR with the local captain, whose place we were working on. Does that mean I’m a former professional cricketer?
i don’t have a view about who writes what on the blog, i just skim past some stuff, and i expect when i have a bee in my bonnet others do likewise with mine.
one thing i find interesting though is the apparent conviction that there is a vast ideological gulf between labor and liberal in australia.
i have only ever voted labor, couldn’t even bring myself to vote democrat in the senate, as lots of labor friends did at a couple of elections, so i get the tribal loyalty thing.
i do think though, that you both major aus political parties fit in between, say tony blair and bill clinton on the political spectrum.
it’s one of the reasons australia has had such stable and effective government for the last hundred or so years.
I think they fit more in between Bozo and Krusty on the clown spectrum.
Jack, good, fair point. Just as a matter of interest, who do reckon Tony Blair fits between? I’m thinking a long way from Jeremy Corbyn for starters.
Dismayed says:
January 5, 2017 at 10:42 pm
“Don’t defame me Carl “potentially libellous claim” ?? get grip for once. You have previously told me to “just conform you routinely “don’t recall” things like Milton and many of other of the old cons on here when you are shown to be hypocritical which is somewhat of a constant for a con also. No cop outs by me. I simply cannot be bothered with the dual requirement of bringing you cons into the modern world and having to highlight the ridiculousness of your ways along with the need to continually “point out” your past many many indiscretions and ongoing hypocrisy due to your apparent oldtimers or wilful ignorance or a bit of both.”
Well …. that was a limp wristed flannel prate of an excuse for retreating if ever there was one. All froth, no grog as per usual. But at least you’re predictable. No worries and no hard feelings comrade, you’re off the hook.
Not much point in you looking for a comment I never made mate
Guy in an elephant costume sitting at the cricket.
How embarrassing. You’d have to be thick skinned to do that.