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.
Power prices anyone? Westy does it again highlighting the massive profits to Private Corporations as the government turns a blind eye and runs it’s ideological campaign.
http://www.michaelwest.com.au/as-power-bills-swell-so-do-the-fortunes-of-power-companies-and-billionaires/
Sussan Ley caught out on a taxpayer funded junket to buy a property for herself. Turnbull silent?
there’s someone not silent??
Wraith 01:24pm.
You are a funny person . That last line being appropriate possibly be the answer.
I was once told , “Good fortunes for those who wait” .2017 lets all look forward and turf out the problems and enjoy the parties .
Merry Christmassed, Happy New Yeared and now looking forward to Tet (unoffensive) AKA as CNY and may nick over to Thailand for Songkram. Shed loads of bad capers going on in the world, so relax, take a huge hit on the doobie called life and enjoy. Footy season ain’t far away!
Gryzly, do you have all the CNY songs playing everywhere? Good time of year though here in Penang, Fun, food and firecrackers…..oh and don’t forget the Lion Dances, my favorite being the dancers on stilts.
I look forward to rejoin Footy Tipping again and never once suspected my email address was obtained from the site. Haven’t had any more of those offensive emails I received last year since some rather suspect people who were on this blog and seem to have “died” disappeared…
Abba’s Happy New Year was big in Hoi An. Very big.
Rates in the top 3 songs on high rotation at anytime of year Tri. Hotel California will always rate as the most played, then your Abba song and then the Lemon Tree song by Fools Garden.
Struth! The other specials were endured multiple times were ‘O Sole Mio’ and the big One Direction, whatever it’s called. ‘You’re Beautiful’ or summat. And some classically appalling Karaoke.
It’s all starting to happen Penny. No crackers. they were banned years ago but plenty of dragons getting around the place. The pork with eggs that are boiled for about 4 days is my favorite CNY fare. It is the quietest time of the year in HCMC and I love it. Everyone goes back to their home “country”.
Chuc Mung Nam Moi
Indeed. Happy CNY to all.
i rather enjoy CNY, a nice holiday when i don’t actually have to do anything much.
the christmas decorations are gradually morphing into new year’s ones, so all good
JB 05:38 pm.
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“Great improvement you sayin”
Must be the weather, or climate change .” öoooops” no no no not that again.
Earlier on had my head into 16 hrs a day work , sometimes 20 hrs, in highway transport later stages as well as local head bombed out not thinking straight trying to chase big dollars after past employment when the going was easy .
This cooked my brain running on coffee substances to stay alive following those white line fever markings . This fowled up my keyboard stuff . Then come the young kids trying to start up a band in my place backyard doing “‘Highway to Hell” ACDC stuff that doing this stuff , overloaded the brain not able to comprehend in a orderly fassion of life , now settled down . Pleasure was starting these guys off was my great achievement ,but I fell short in other areas like keyboard quality control. The lads kicked on and searched on gigs ,I loved that but soon found out the lads broke up coming in contact with new arrivals, the new women wanting marriage only , the band fell apart . So now the picture is back concerntrating on the keyboard these days as with other music I still play apart of . Earlier I was nothing but a muso had headsets attached not concerntrating so that now has changed . Lets all enjoy this world . Live on folks
cheers
Got it! You cooked your brain. Oddly enough it’s only obvious to us when you construct a sentence.
Jean Baptiste (7/1, 12.55pm)
says: ” In any case, you feel guilty about having a go at me? Dilligaf? ”
Bit out of character for you JB? An aberration in the evolutionary chain perhaps?
Also, I see you appear to have given up on your favourite professor’s firm 10 year predictions as yourAGW reference. You’ve now obviously retreated to some fairly vague outdated (+3 years old) scaremongering stuff in The Guardian that stops well short of attributing anything that one could hang one’s hat on.
You’re not throwing in the towel me old mate, surely?
Your bizarre leaps of logic and assumptions never fail to amaze Carl. It’s so peculiar I will never be quite accustomed to it.
It appears you are experiencing “McPherson Deprivation Syndrome” one of the latest identified masochist memes. No need to be obscure, your secret is safe with me. If you cant ask straight out, just write “I need a GMac fix JB.”
http://www.guymcpherson.net/summary.html
RIP Tilikum the 35 year old Orca that was taken from his screaming pod at 2 & in recent years inspired the documentary Blackfish which exposed the torment & suffering of a captive sentient being.
Slaveworld is insinuating he was ‘old’ but they live to 100 in the wild.
They lie because the average age of orca deaths at Seaworld is 13 & they can’t ever justify that.
What a horror humans made of his precious life for 33 years, exploiting him for profit & entertainment, keeping him alone & confined to a tiny pond for up to 20 hours a day. I believe he killed those trainers because he became psychotic from being imprisoned. The western world is so driven by power and profit that it’s pointless to believe there could be a time where justice and compassion would be superior in every way to ego and greed.
Swim free Blackfish, it’s all over now.
Jean Baptiste Jan 7 1.13pm
“me explain, me not complain. You do that, I do this.”
Whatever you’re doing JB you’re doing it on fire!
A good humoured freakin’ natural you are.
Keep giving ’em heaps,
Bella
Why I thank you Ms B, for that perspicacious appraisal. I am much encouraged. Congratulations to you on your own good work here.
You have some earned ten thousand Buster Keaton brownie points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvXxd3U1A5g
Carl one Coast 3:47PM
Gawd give me strength! You desperates are clutching at straws now. What difference is it going to make if the water is 2 metres or 2.05 metres over your head? Don’t fret the details , people will notice when salt water is covering their paddy fields. They really will, good luck convincing them that it’s an inexact science and the sea levels might not be rising.
Great torrents of meltwater from Greenland are pouring into the oceans 24/7 Carl and if you think that isn’t raising sea levels already then it’s your brain that needs serious re-calibrating.
Another extremist journal.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting
Calm down JB, I was only commenting that the excellent report offered by TV clearly indicated the image of flaw-less consensus on all this stuff is quite illusory.
The real opinion makers are not shy to admit when systemic problems are encountered in their registering/reporting processes.
Perhaps you might consider jumping aboard me old mate.
As far as I can tell neither I nor anyone else is questioning the bleeding obvious that the science is inexact, merely pointing out that regardless of any plus or minus error in the methodology sea levels are rising and will continue to do so.
You’re just quibbling Carl, you remind of the potty theologians denying evolution because of the “missing link.” When the missing link was discovered they felt their argument was twice as strong because now there were two missing links! And so on and so on with every new discovery.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm
Once again I refer to the active graph showing how much extra heat is being retained in the atmosphere, most of which goes to warming the oceans and carried is by the currents to the polar regions. You might point out this measurement is not precise. So what? If you get run over by a bus, it’s a bit academic if the bus weighs ten tons or fifteen tons.
Carl, well well well “Perhaps you might consider jumping aboard me old mate” sounds like you want JB to conform to your way of thinking. I am sure you will deny making the comment or some such other effort to deflect as usual. Deary deary me.
Hello All
Hello, mate.
G’day Gryzly 🙂