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.
nostrils are us says….1,2 and 6 baked in I reckon
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-06/murphys-law-guide-to-australian-economy/8163918
from; M Janda.
Looks terrific Smoke. There will be fire sales and bargains aplenty when interest rates start rising.
Baptistes tip for 2017.
Pay close attention to Donald Trump. There will be plenty of dollars to be had shorting companies the Donald inadvertently or deliberately undermines or stuffs. up.
I have a theory that big smart money has backed the Donald for exactly that purpose.
heeheehee …a fair rant…just don’t mention chodley ok?
http://ritualisedforms.com/bullshidospruik/
Bella 05:51pm.
Yes I imagine Susie may be searching for a job with ‘life after politics ‘ after locked into descrepancies of travel hitching a ride on Qantas etc.
Not following the warnings of the past , means disaster .Most pilots anticipate trying to chase many hrs to find careers , rather then chase a good pleasure hrs of sex in the bedroom encounters , filling their log books best place possible . Watch this chapter blow over with both sides not keen to pursue this noting both are locked into agreement not to tittle tat on each other.
She should know careers of politicians now may end up short.
I see Gough Whitlam cut costs by making outraged MP’s travel economy class. I absolutely love what he said to his Cabinet:
“I fly economy and I am a great man and I could fly economy for the rest of my life and still be a great man. But most of the people around this table are pissants and they could fly first class for the rest of their lives and they’d still be pissants.”
Man he must’ve been decent. Can’t say that about todays rabble.
Dismayed, you need to understand the meaning of the word ‘defame’. Defamation is vastly different to merely disagreeing.
He just found the word in a dictionary Yvonne and he has yet to find out its meaning
Yvonne says: January 10, 2017 at 8:01 am. Sigh. I have explained the “don’t defame me Carl” line to you previously. If you don’t have a very good memory it is probably something to do with your no or very low carbs diet. I cannot be bothered explaining things every couple of weeks because you cons choose not to remember or refuse to listen.
That’s a cop out, Dismayed.
No Yvonne, no cop out. Facts. Carl relentlessly misrepresents what people say in their comments. I have told you previously where the line “don’t defame me Carl” comes from. You continue to confirm a con is not capable of accepting facts. Your lack of memory is your problem not mine.
When you read the stuff from Dismayed, imagine yourself at a Labor Branch meeting and then weep as they, and the equivalent bunch of clowns in the Liberal Party, are setting the national agenda.
I often think of the Looters and the shit we would be in if they had tried to get us through the GFC. Cut cut cut… which wld have led straight to recession and massive unemployment. Here they are now. They have tripled the deficit unemployment up, business and consumer confidence out the window with no GFC to manage. Bloody hell.
Just goes to show the size of the mess the ALP left and now they are doing their best to ensure it is never corrected.
Then they will win power and all their chickens will come home to roost
DURING THE GFC:-A triple AAA credit rating form ALL agencies only 7 other nations achieved this, Treasurer of the Year, one of only 3 economies out of 32 not to go into recession during the GFC, creation of 900,000 jobs, unemployment as low as 4.7% (thanks Rodent for that stat)…..AND YOU REFER TO THIS AS THE MESS LABOR LEFT. OK…what do you call the mess we have now?
JS. Sigh. Weak weak effort. You are another who has No capacity to remember and live in an Imaginary space. I have stated since the inception of the JTI blog, I have never been a member of any political organisation.
For the good folk on here who can access taxpayer funded travel, you are more than welcome to be entertained at my digs tomorrow night. I’m whipping up Chermoula spiced quail breasts with pomegranate molasses and Sydney rock oysters with chardonnay vinegar dressing. If someone can bring a cheese platter, and someone else a dessert and the rest can bring expensive wines. No need for you to bring anything, Dismayed as you can sing for your supper by regaling us all with your cricketing exploits!
Gee you nearly had me heading off to the airport there Milton, with my last bottle of 1996 St Henri and a Grant Burge Mesach tucked under my arm.
The food, the location and you hosting made it irresistable, until you blew it with the last sentence on the guest list. Lost me there mate.
Milton says:January 10, 2017 at 3:54 am You will need another 15 courses then. Try and make some of them real food.
tbls – too true. Ms Ley and her ilk are on struggle street. And correct again, Surfers and there abouts are hell on earth by sea. When I was younger (so much…) i’d go to the cabbage Patch (?) with mates, or to Cabarita and thereabouts with my then girlfriend. Almost unrecognisable now.
Re earlier -from my brief experiences in Bangkok you’d have to be drunk to drive there. Even when drunk riding in a tuktuk was a sobering experience.
JB – all those days and months googling up opinions informed by man made computer modelling and other such stuff in different veins on wtc and fake moon landings, to what end? Your research will not alter anyone’s views on what you consider agw and the mentioned “conspiracies”. And be sure, i’m not having a go at you for your enquiring proclivities; we all fill our days in what could be considered futile activities (I certainly do). But to suggest that you don’t “fall into line” is an egregious interpretation of non-conformity. You are the prima donna assoluta on here for left leaning, paranoiac, the sky is falling, group think. And you are doing a great job at it. more power to your typing fingers.
And credit to BB when it is due: the socialist are responsible for all the ills in society. Consider Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Whitlam, Castro, Centrelink and so on and etc….
If you spent some time actually researching you wouldn’t be such an ill informed pompous idiot. Gainsay is the method of the idiot Milton. You wont put a counter argument because you haven’t got cojones or the knowledge for it. You have probably never even contemplated why you believe what you do. You are simply a regurgitating drone locked into a reward seeking child state.
Cone one bubbykins, debate me.
(Hitler was a socialist. Gawd give me strength, you understand less than nothing)
Jean Baptiste -And more futility, this time spent on flaccid ad hominem. Surely it’s time you left that bedsit, Jean and engaged with life and the living. What a self indulgent, first world luxury you engage in. Talk about wasted days and wasted nights! All this time you spend researching just so you can sound like an informed pompous idiot?
And for your information, Hitler was quite active in the National Socialist German Workers Party, hence his addition to my list of evil socialists. I’d add you to the list too if you weren’t such a harmless, know nothing lumpenproletariat
Hear, hear. Give em heaps JB.
Brown nose!
Back to the cricket. I see there is still no room in the Aussie ODI squad for the guy with just about the highest ODI average of all current Aussie players. Tom Cooper. ODI average of 48.8. 1 century and 8 x 50’s from 22 innings.
I think the squad for India should be D.Warner, U. Khawaja, S. Smith, P. Handscombe, G. Maxwell, M. Marsh, P. Neville, M. Starc, Hazelwood, S. O’Keefe, N. Lyon (just) J. Faulkner, A. Zampa. J. Bird, and one of C. Lynn/T. Head/J. Lehmann. Renshaw goes back to the shield to sort out his footwork. Khawaja struggled against spin in Sri Lanka and averages half as much outside Australia as he does here so goes up to open. Cartwright unlucky but his bowling is just not up to it. Could be some long stints in the field against India’s batting and I doubt we will get the same sporting pitches England received. We will get dry dusty turners from ball one.
Nathan Lyon Dismayed, after all you’ve written about him? You’d make a lousy expert witness turncoat.
As for the rest, you’ve got the wrong Marsh, we’ll see about the actual squad.
Unlike you I am a realist. It is clear you have forgotten more than you ever learned and left it where you sit on TOD. The selectors keep picking Lyon and will again and he will again bowl 3 good spells over the 3 tests if he stays bowling over the wicket and outside off which will again not be enough to keep pressure on the Indian batsmen or bowl Australia to victory. If he reverts to his around the wicket darts he will again be carted. The main reason they will take OKeefe is because he will keep pressure on for his entire spell, spell after spell. That is why his FC average is 23. Lyons is 34. Big difference at all levels.
If Shaun Marsh is selected it is a massive backwards step, he will not make it through the series. He is not able to play more than a couple of days without getting injured. His FC average of about 37 is the best indictor of his career. Always promises rarely delivers.
There you go again you selective dropkick.
Okeefe has 14 wickets at Test level from 4 matches, compared to Lyon’s 228, averages mean fook all with that level of experience but for what it’s worth 32 vs 34. Lyon took a wicket with his first ball in Tests, that must have really pissed you off.
Whatever you do Dismayed, don’t go to another level, you’d be breathless.
FC. First Class cricket. You claim to have played the game yet don’t know anything about it. When they have played together for NSW OKeefe consistently out bowls Lyon. You note OKeefe had only played 4 tests. He already has a better strike rate and better average than Lyon. You have made my point for me while cowardly attacking me personally. I was a fan of Lyon initially having seen him start in the BigBash after being a groundsman at Adelaide oval and bowl outside off with a loop and flight. But he quickly became defensive and his bowling became very ordinary. Your need to attack me stops you from thinking clearly and highlights your lack of knowledge. Just as well you got the golden handshake at the expense of others.
S Marsh…shouldn’t laugh…his last injury came about through fielding in half spikes. puts the brakes on… slips n falls on the wicket square and breaks his hand.
Frank Spencer stuff, the poor bugger…
Everyone should take a chill pill and stop dumping on poor Ms Ley. As a QANTAS shareholder I commend Ms Ley for using our carrier to the fullest whilst still keeping within the bounds of parliamentary travel entitilements. Ms Ley #YouCanRideWithMe and my carrier.
Right on BL. The lass shows a bit of imitative and a go-getter spirit and they are all over her like a rash.
Good heavens JB. I thought you were Marxist number 1 on this blog. I’m surprised you condone a bit of capitalist initiative.
Darren Jan 6 9:37pm
Darren, rather than link my response, it is late in the blog, I hope you get to read this.
Mate what I can’t stand is exaggeration or presumption. I take it from your reply you have only worked out of Perth, and only in a contracting role with financial services. Hence my reaction to your suggestion “tens of billions of dollars of losses suffered by unsuspecting ordinary investors.” In Australia? That’s bullshit.
As for your other comments, funny thing. I did deal with Brian Lacey, in fact we were the first to instigate full EDI transactions with credit unions for financial product sales. As for MLC Master Key, you got that wrong. I started with MLC in Perth, I can assure you it didn’t start there. Nor did Asguard.
Custodian companies? I have dealt with many, so don’t be condescending and it has nothing to do with this discussion. That’s like me saying you don’t know anything about LMI isn’t it?
I don’t claim experience, unlike you, I actually have it. My last role was CEO of multiple companies with over $1 billion turnover in Australia and NZ, I don’t make things up. I was ranked in the top ten per cent of Financial professionals world wide in independent Amrop evaluations, so don’t try it on anymore.
As for the legal profession, they have given me a life’s experience all right. And it has often been ethical and legal failures.
Last para! Good God! No wonder the country is rooted.
Hear, hear
Turnbull has ignored advice from the AFP on politicians rorts. Article from Oct 4 last year in The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/fix-politician-perk-rules-afp-tells-malcolm-turnbull/news-story/6c17b72adb5c6869bbcb2c7b8cf20165
On a brighter note, have just heard on ABC News, Gerald Risdale, for who I have the gravest contempt as a person, and as a ‘priest’, has been charged with a series of offences against kiddies. I expect he’ll top himself before it gets to trial, but that’s not a bad result either. I’ve heard your podcasts Jack. They’re what led me here. Well done. Your contribution can’t be overstated, or properly thanked.