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ABC TO TAKE SOME HEAT
“If you’re as sick of pathetic frightened corporations kowtowing to green obsessionism as I am,” emails ilibcc, “you’ll like this. Most of my clients would pass away in a dead faint if they saw anything like it.” Speaking of shock, it seems the ABC has - contrary to earlier reports - secured the rights to broadcast The Great Global Warming Swindle. No link, but Andrew R. forwards this media release:
ABC TV today announced the purchase of a controversial documentary on climate change.
The Great Global Warming Swindle, written and directed by Martin Durkin, caused controversy in the UK when it screened on Channel 4 in March.
The Great Global Warming Swindle features leading academics, scientists and journalists discussing the facts, myths and evidence surrounding one
of the most contentious issues of our time ...ABC TV has purchased the 60-minute international version of the program and will screen it in July.
Certain folks won’t be amused.
i hope it is 90 minutes and not 60 minutes; i saw it last march in london and am pretty sure it went for 90 minutes; the website says it is 74 minutes long, so it should run for a 90 minutes time slot on the ABC to allow for their usual tedious promotions of the ABC Shop etc etc etc etc
Posted by arnienelly on 2007 05 22 at 12:55 AM • permalinkI think hucbald is about to get his arse kicked lol
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 01:00 AM • permalinkSailor Jerry is damn good rum, and I’ve got the hangover to prove it. Just another reason to support the company!
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 05 22 at 01:02 AM • permalinkI don’t know if a pierced tongue is classy, but it’s certainly, what’s the word I’m looking for,
quickerdifferent.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 01:07 AM • permalinkBloody hell! An Aussie connection. Jerry’s a big fan of Radio Birdman.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 01:10 AM • permalinkThe only thing I regret about my tatoos is that it makes it that much harder to convince the cops that I’m not who they think I am when they think I’m the guy they’re after…not that they’re after me, ... are they?
Did you hear that? Sounded like a walkie talkie squawk outside my window!!
I’m gonna go check it out. Where’d I put that shotgun?
oh yeah, AGW is bullshit and the AlGore is a liar.
#16
Did you hear that? Sounded like a walkie talkie squawk outside my window!!
No, it’s just a Parrot Attempting Communication Overtures.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 01:23 AM • permalink#14- All the bits which say “anthropomorphic global warming is a load of old bollocks”. They’re getting Red Symons to splice it together, along with a toe-tapping sound-track.
Here’s a snippet of the new ABC edit.
As long as the tattoos aren’t a set of arse antlers I don’t care.
The flaming arse of death look is a little overdone, and some can cross the line into tastelessnessIt can also colour peoples attitudes somewhat towards you, for example this chap could be the founding member of Mensa, but I doubt anyone will get much past first impressions of him.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 22 at 01:57 AM • permalinkIf memory serves, there was a doco some time ago called “Against Nature” that ABC or SBS aired, but they could only manage it with a lengthy disclaimer at the start - and I’m guessing they will do the same with this ‘un.
(ie “The ABC does not endorse the following documentary - in fact, we show it only to bring to your attention the opinions of bad, bad people who should be exterminated and to get Janet Albrechtsen off our backs.”)
On related matters, Media Watch last night posited the idea that journalists should not be allowed to report on the positive contribution of Australian soldiers in Iraq unless they also report on the bad things happening elsewhere in Iraq.
However, apparently journalists have no responsibility to report on the good things Australian soldiers are doing in Iraq when reporting on suicide bombings, or other negative events.
BTW An overdue well done to Cuckoo on 1000 posts!Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 22 at 02:10 AM • permalinkI’ll be damned. There’s a joint that sells Sailor Jerry where I live. Within walking distance, no less. (OK, “walking distance” in this town may not be the same as most places…)
Infidel Tiger,
I don’t know if a pierced tongue is classy, but it’s certainly, what’s the word I’m looking for,
quickerdifferent.My ex-girlfriend had her tongue pierced. Heh.
tfm,
As long as the tattoos aren’t a set of arse antlers I don’t care.
A Tramp Stamp!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 02:11 AM • permalinkABC TV today announced the purchase of a controversial documentary on climate change.
The Great Global Warming Swindle, written and directed by Martin Durkin, caused controversy in the UK when it screened on Channel 4 in March.
Ha - dare one hope? Could it be that the ABC is coming round (or out)? Could we see yet more
Labor party hacksABC presenters leaving to become Labor party candidates at the next election? And who will be next? Kerry O’Brien?Well irrespective of the truth, don’t forget we have all State and Territory Labor governments beavering away with their own emissions trading regime and they’ve been plugging away for years now. Well this little gem arrived in my inbox this afternoon:
Subject: National greenhouse emissions reporting to commence by 1 July 2008.
Dear Stakeholder,
The Council for the Australian Federation agreed at its 12 April 2007 meeting that national greenhouse emissions reporting would commence by 1 July 2008, either through purpose-built legislation or through the National Pollutant Inventory.
The Council agreed that, as emissions reporting is a fundamental pre-requisite of any emissions trading scheme, if the Commonwealth Government has not introduced legislation in time for the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System to be activated by 1 July 2008, the States and Territories will require reporting from this date through the National Pollutant Inventory as an interim measure.
The Council also
* agreed that a national emissions trading scheme should place Australia on a path towards achieving a 60% cut in national emissions by 2050, compared with 2000 levels;
* endorsed the National Emissions Trading Taskforces timeline for the implementation of a national emissions trading scheme by the end of 2010. Achieving that timeline includes:
a. entering into an intergovernmental agreement by the end of 2007; and
b. passing legislation through all Parliaments by the end of 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter to achieve implementation of the NETS by the end of 2010.
The full communique from the Council for the Australian Federation can be read at the National Emissions Trading Taskforce website at:
http://www.emissionstrading.net.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/7525/CAF_Communique_12_April_2007.pdfRegards,
Secretariat
National Emissions Trading Taskforce
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Holy Shit! Read the pdf file. It’s frightening! What can I say, except folks, these loonies are serious and if they get their way, our economy will be
regulated out of existencedestroyed within 43 years. Now I wonder where the 5 year plan to doom and destruction sits in this scheme? Oh yes and the idiot Kruddy supports the 60% reduction too in contrast to McCann’s Comments#27 Another disclaimer: “the following material may be offensive to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.”
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 02:14 AM • permalinkI think we need to find out what the name of the new hydro electric vehilce production company that all these people have purchased shares in.
Seriously with oil prices going up for no real reason and now the fact that that oil is apparently contributing to this massive global warming - I smell a rat and I reckon that all of them are in on it and they stand to make a big return!!!!!! Especially Krudd and Big Al
#23 & #28
Tramp Stamps/Arse Antlers - As a rule of thumb they indicate that she’ll drop her strides after 5 Malibu and Cokes, which is no bad thing unless she’s drinking them by the pint.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 02:23 AM • permalink#35 - No offence met, only extracting the urine, Killaette.*
There are no rules for any of these things. You could put Pamela Anderson in a Christian Dior evening gown and she’d still look like a mobile sperm receptacle. Conversely, Her Royal Highness QEII could swan about in a pair of arseless chaps, smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes and she’d still have an air of grace and dignity about her.
Once dated a young lass who sported a tattoo of The Southern Cross that made me feel patriotic in a rather pleasing way.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 02:39 AM • permalinkIT,
While we’re on the subject, I don’t know about Malibu and Coke, but I did know a *ahem* young lady (I can’t call her a “girl” as she’s a bit older than I…) who’d do me in the parking lot after 3 or 4 shots of Rumple Minze. No skin art on her at all, though…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 02:43 AM • permalinkSaw a young girl, perhaps about 13, the other day with a set of AAs. Her dad looked like a Yakuza, so I wasn’t really surprised.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 02:45 AM • permalinkI just finished watching that doco and im glad that it has been made - its everything that ive been trying to tell people for the last 18 months.
Do you know how hard it is to work in an office full of hippies who throw stones at you when you spend too long washing your hands or you turn the aircon on or you leave your light on when you go to lunch
Im making this compulsory viewing in my office!!!!!
Spiny (since we seem to be on a nick name basis) I am here often but I dont post all the time I generally come and have a read each morning and each afternoon. Sometimes I dont have much to do at work and I stick around for a bit. Especially when they are thowing a party while Tim is away - the bean dip is addictive
#41-Killaette
Yep showed it to an acquaintacne of mine on Sunday night and she was mortified. She’s on message now.I think it is the angle to follow. No one person can argue the science, but it is easy to see how the leftovers of the mad green left see it as a cure all for everthing they’ve ever wanted all at once.
For what it’s worth, my ex-girlfriend (with the tongue piercing) had several tattoos, though none were visible when she was wearing a t-shirt and jeans. The most memorable was the dragon in the middle of her back. As impressive as the art was, I found it somewhat disconcerting, as it seemed rather masculine to me…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 02:55 AM • permalinkI guess it boils down to the old eye of the beholder category. MHO is similar to Infidel Tiger’s. Low-back body art = Daisy Duke’s on the floorboard. I’m not going to even try and defend this opinion, but it is the first thing that comes to mind whenever I see one plastered across a woman’s back. But who am I to say anything? I’ve had tattoos on both arms for a couple of decades now.
Sailor Jerry is now my newest American hero!
#37 - I had to google Rumple Minze. At least she would have had minty fresh breath!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 02:57 AM • permalink#42 Killaette
It was a clumsy joke. You know, the oldest pick-up line in history… =^D
#46 IT,
Potent stuff, too - 100 Proof. If we were out on a date and she asked me to order her a Rumple Minze, or a “Rumpie” as she called it, I knew it was going to be a good night.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 03:03 AM • permalink#37 Rumple Minze to pumple minge?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 03:04 AM • permalink#38. Not wanting to rush to #3’s defence (I’m sure he/she doesn’t need it), but I would certainly support the qualified statement that “nothing screams lack of class more than a fuckheaded oaf of a parent who lets a 13 year old get a tat”.
Back to the ABC screening the show thing; I wouldn’t get a boner for the ABC too soon. I heard some commentariat on Sydney 702AM yesterday who used the phrase “God bless him” after mentioning Paul Keating.
Maybe they should start using PBUH instead?
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 03:05 AM • permalinkI like some tattoos on women, but a celtic design is a real turn off - to me it just cries trendoid.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 03:09 AM • permalinkMaybe ‘undead’, along the lines of that Kevni Ruff link that was posted here recently.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 03:10 AM • permalink#53 Have a look at Hanzi Smatter. Vice versa, I saw a Japanese girl recently with “the rose that got gave me” as a tattoo.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 03:17 AM • permalink#51
Some people will do anything to sell a bottle of wine. Take the company behind Infierno, a red wine launched a few months ago with the slogan ‘lipopener’ and a website called www. oralsatisfaction.co.uk. ‘The wine is perfectly matched for intimate sharing,’ it promises you, with a lascivious wink. ‘It will loosen the tongues of men and women alike.’ In other words, buy this and you’re guaranteed a shag.
LMAO! Back in the (very) old days, “714s” had that “guarantee”. When I was in high school, the guys all called them “spreaders”. Crude, yes, but 18 year olds usually are. Unfortunately, in my only (youthfully naïve) experience with them, I discovered the other famous quip about ‘ludes: “They turn women into animals and men into plants”.
:^/
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 03:18 AM • permalinkFor the sweet young female things that are considering getting a tattoo, it ought to be mandatory to show pictures of women of a certain age who got tattooed when they were young and firm. They don’t tell you what pregnancy, menopause, and/or sheer gravity does, even to that once attractive little rose you put discretely on your left boob, or the colorful butterfly on your rump. It ain’t good.
Ladies, instead of Arse Antlers, consider the new Kevni Ruff smiley face tattoo, which helps prevent your partner from suffering from premature ejaculation.
Unless he works for the ABC…
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 03:31 AM • permalinkShows you how yesterday glaobal wramming’s become. It’s doubtful a thread has ever moved away from subject matter so quickly and forcibly.
Memo to self: Buy bottle of Rumple Minze.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 03:36 AM • permalinkAnother newsworthy item concerning that great cultural institution, the ABC.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 03:39 AM • permalinkGorebal Warmenink? Yesterday indeed. The eyes glazed over quite some time ago, Infidel.
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 03:47 AM • permalink#65 CB,
I thought the Breakfast of Champions was a cold beer and stale pizza from the night before.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 22 at 03:49 AM • permalink#67 - I always thought it was a soixante neufer.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 22 at 03:51 AM • permalink#74 For what it’s worth, my ex-girlfriend (with the tongue piercing) had several tattoos, though none were visible when she was wearing a t-shirt and jeans…
Two funerals I was at recently.
1. The daughter of the deceased, aged 29, lovingly described how a highlight of her life was when her dad (died age 51 of liver disease) bought her her first tat when she was 16. This woman has five children by at least four fathers, judging from their variable complexions, and lives in a housing commission unit.
2. Large butterfly across the chest of mourner, wearing a low-cut dress (black at least). Problem. The woman is mid-40s, no longer svelte and no longer with any tone in the bust. The butterfly is tending (as old tatts do) towards a blue splodge. With each shallow breath or step it fluttered its wings.
Tatts are all very well but think ahead: “What will this delightful piece of body art look like in 20 years when I’m middle aged?”.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 05 22 at 03:55 AM • permalinkI dont like all tattoos for example my sister just got the most god awful tattoo on the back of her neck - she may aswell have had 666 inked on her forehead.
We all gave her a hard time about it and she said well you have one.
This is the same girl who came over on Easter Sunday wanting to know where all her eggs were and then proceeded to tell my family that she doesnt believe in jesus just a divine godess of nature
Well her godess isnt doing anything about golbal warming is she (meager attempt to tie back to the thread)
#5 The last time somebody told me to look for something in isle 5 was in the Maldives.
This English it is tricky no?
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 05 22 at 04:14 AM • permalink#55 I may have related this story before, however:
My friend’s son got a tatt when he was 19. It was chinese characters.
“What does it mean?” I asked him
He replied “Luck. Or something. I dunno.”
I said “How do you know it doesn’t say something like ‘Corey fucks rabbits’?”
His mum cracked up.
The cheeky brat, who hates spiders, replied “Maybe it says ‘Corey fucks spiders’.”
They are pretty silly about their ‘efnic’ tatts.Kae there is a show on Foxtel called Miami Inksomeone I know emailed to find out if they were coming to Australia and if so if she could get one of them to do her tatt she was told that was possible and quoted $500 american dollars for a 15 x 10cm tatt
I know it’s a terrible stereotype, but when I was in law enforcement and we wewre profiling punters, a cartoon said “I’ve been in the slot, I have form” without having to ask a question. I had a rogues gallery of every Boryukodan we shook down, as their ink and hairdoos made them stick out like dogs balls; the photos were passed on to Interpol, so their money laundering trip to Jupiters got them on a world wide database.
I don’t like them myself, and I think they make you too easy to identify if you’re planning something nefarious. Call me old fashioned, but I reckon Julia Gizzard’s got a tat on her ample arse; except for military ones, I think they make blokes look like thugs and women like slappers, they’re up there with mullets, ugg boots, Winnie Blues in a t-shirt sleeve and anything made out of flannelette.
I await your derision..
I’m late coming to this but if Hucbald’s “get a life” comment was directed at cuckoo’s silly “hah hah I’m first to the thread” comment then I’m afraid I’ve got his (Hucbald’s) back. So go ahead and tell me to “get fucked.”
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 22 at 05:29 AM • permalinkHabib I agree with you but there is no reasoning with the tat fanatics, which are legion. Yesterday I saw a teenager wearing a t-shirt advertising one of the local tattoo shops (they used to be called “parlors” but I guess that’s from the days when only sailors got tattoos) that had the slogan “Ya right it hurts.” The bogus machismo of pasty teens bragging about how much pain they can take is a big part of the tat craze.
I will say a lot of tattoo artists do seem to be quite talented. I met one guy on the bus fresh from New York who was showing the bus driver and passengers his book of sketches. And of course he was covered with tattoos. Still, I wouldn’t want my daughter (or son, unless he was a Marine) to get one. (Marines are allowed one, on the arm, and it better say “mother.” Heh.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 22 at 05:35 AM • permalinkThis always happens when Tim Blair goes out of town. The topics invariably turns to tits, tatts, and ultimately, tufu. Soon, very soon, someone will show up in “a ute with a rack of bitter in the esky”.
Speaking as someone who grew up in a lower middle class area of Ohio (Aussies would call the people bogans), noticeable tattoos on women scream the message “I’m hard and low class and will allow you to bang me hard for hours for a beer and a slice of cheese pizza”. Especially ones on the ankles.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 22 at 05:40 AM • permalinkI’m afraid I also agree that for the most part tattoos are the stamp (heh) of low class—at least the ones that advertise a girl’s… assets. My favorite are indeed the “arse antlers”—what kind of father would allow his daughter to get a directional sign applied to her back pointing to her anus? Why doesn’t she just tattoo a sign saying “I like it up the back”? I’d throw her in a convent, if they weren’t all infested by tattoo-bearing hippies worshipping the “Great Mother.”
But of course my ideal of “class” differs from that of people who think that “class” means “doesn’t judge anybody by any standard whatsoever.”
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 22 at 05:41 AM • permalink#84 Killaette, you’re right:
Hucbald, I’ll speak up as the first tattooed person here. Get fucked.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 05:46 AM • permalinkSomeone told me that having a tattoo on the inside of the upper arm is quite painful cos of the nerves and stuff running thereabouts. That’s why you sometimes see a maori style tatt ringing the upper arm but stopping before it goes all the way round.
Whenever I see this on someone I consider it a public declaration that they are a big wuss.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 22 at 06:01 AM • permalinkUSMC tattoos are legendary.
As well as the ubiquitous “Globe Anchor Eagle”, they feature things like bulldogs with DI hats, bowie knives, all types of guns, bloodstains, skulls, bullet holes, and exhortations to God about what to do with their enemies (usually something extremely bloodthirsty)
PC they ain’t.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 05 22 at 06:03 AM • permalink#87. What I’ve been trying to say, but much more eloquently stated.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 06:11 AM • permalinkBack on the subject of “our” ABC, anyone catch the fraudulent plug for a Labor candidate in the promos for the 7.30 Report?
It was phrased so as to make you believe a senior combat soldier had broken ranks and was tipping a bucket on the government over its handling of Iraq; in truth, it’s a colonel who’s about to retire, who is a lawyer and a political staff appointee dating back to Hawke/Keating, and the endorsed Labor candidate for Eden Monaro.
While he did some time in Iraq, he never left the Green Zone and was a legal attache to coalition HQ- a fearless warrior in the face of an onslaught of affidavits.
The shameless and misleading plug for an item about an agenda-driven political candidate is not mitigated by the belated mention of his status once the item had started to run- the misconception that Col Kelly knew what the fuck he was talking about had alreadty been created (and he’s come to light in the past, claiming to have let the cat out of the bag about Abu Grahib and the AWB, and these claims have been shot down in flames by relevant ministers, staffers and Gen Peter Cosgrove, then CIC of the army).
Undeterred by these facts, Rewd Kezza worked himself into a pink fit with defence minister Brendan Nelson, finally hysterically asking “how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, minister??” Not only reverting to Lancet accounting but revealing for all to see the ABC agenda- even if it’s ancient history and proven to be either false or dealt with, trawl it up as there’s fuck all new to raise.
Watch if you’ve a strong stomach- it’s odious, self-promoting turds like Mike Kelly that make me have second thoughts about serving in the ADF.
Maybe the concept of fragging isn’t always wrong….
#96. Fragging is wrong. Glad I could clear that up for you.
In regard to your main points; yes, I saw that item. I found it amusing that one of the main points being presented by Kelly was the disastrous de-Baathification of Iraq, and yet the architect of that failed policy was ALSO held up as the key US player vouching for Kelly’s own credibility.
Fuxake!
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 22 at 06:22 AM • permalinkWill there be anyone left at the ABC in July to switch on the broadcast equipment. Most of the staff of them will be on the campaign trail for the ABC. Well, everyone but Kerry O’Brien. He needs to run the half hour free advert for labor at 7.30 each night. The 7.30 Report excelled itself tonight with a long and adoring interview with the Labor candidate for Eden-Monaro, a Colonel mike kelly, then O’Brien lashed Brendan Nelson for disagreeing with Colonel Messiah. The contrast was astonishing.
Strawberries, cherries
And an angel’s kiss in spring
Our 1.618 is made of all these things…Took me all day to work that out.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 06:33 AM • permalinkProbably best if these cfuckwads aren’t appointed to the military in the first place; the ALP bitch and whine about the politicisation of the public sector, but it was Hawke/Keating who opened the doors and made it part and parcel of every level of government.
Franky when it comes to the ADF I’d rather see appointees from the right than the left- a general staff who is prepared to engage and kill the enemy is probably a bit more use in a military situation than one who wants to sit down for a hewrbal infusion and a discussion on the best ingredients for pot pourri.
At least this idiot never had an operational role, unlike another who’s put their hand up for preselection, Major Peter Tinley; I don’t know enough about him to pass an opinion, but he was in charge of 1st Squadron in the SAS when he retired- I’ve read varying reports about his competence.
I think it’s best for the democratic health of a democracy that the military and its members are apolitical- the current GG is a fine example of this, and displays what is best with retired senior officers; grubbily scrambling for a safe seat is not a good look, and I think is a reflection on the government that commissioned them.
OT, from our friends over at muzzie village, something to please Chasers fans:
Chasers are at the mosque today doing a sketch with sh taj.. From what i hear it should be a good one.
(Starts from bottom of the page.)
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 06:50 AM • permalink#23 - that bird’s already starting to spread it’s wings, ain’t it? It’ll be a bloody condor in 20 years.
I haven’t been able to take tongue piercing seriously ever since Rosanna Arquette announced she had one as an aid to fellatio in Pulp Fiction. Put it this way, I have to make a mighty conscious effort to avert certain mind-pictures with many of the modern female singers on TV.
#102 - I think someone just nominated herself as the dedicatee of my reworking of a certain Roberta Flack tune.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 07:22 AM • permalinkGo Andrea. You’ve got clout. You’ve shup everyone up about those mind numbingly dumb, class indicative, peer driven, youth, drug and crime associated, age regretful TATTTTTOOOOOS.
Posted by Macosghair on 2007 05 22 at 07:23 AM • permalinkImagine these in a couple of decades.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 07:25 AM • permalinkThe ABC should take some heat for their unswerving boosterism for Hicks (it’s anti-governmenr, doncha know?) while other deserving cases (victims of foreign courts) can rot in jail.
Read here.#113
Kae. Forget it. You’re nearly 50. And happy prospective birthday. When I hang my daughters G’s up on the line I look around to see if the neighbour is watching.
Posted by Macosghair on 2007 05 22 at 07:26 AM • permalinkAnchorman: Today scientists announced that there is no global warming. The whole thing was a misunderstanding.
Anchorman: In other news banana grove owners in Canada’s Ontario province announced they would not be able to meet production quotas thanks to…
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 05 22 at 07:30 AM • permalink#106- I’ve been wearing DMs for almost thirty years- whenever I see a hippy/beatnik eejit in Docs, I think to myself “now there’s an interesting situation- he’ll have to kick his own head in.”
I don’t think any of these halfwits know the skinhead history of Doctor Martens patented bouncing sole bovver boots.
#117 Did you notice the letter Bolt quotes is from Daniel Lewis?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 07:33 AM • permalinkDisney Wimps!
Who’d a thunk it?
Mouse Clubbed.#122, Habib:
That’s part of what sucks about uniformed rebellion templates.
Docs are about the most comfortable boots a man can wear.
#121, mythusmage:
I hope it’s not a resurgence of the Frozen Path and the Mutant Polar Bear Liberation Front that is keeping me from getting my shipment of Canada-nanas.
Since we’re on the subject of sexual mores, drinks and bodily attributes, this offering via LGF is apposite:
Weird Fatwa For Today.Meanwhile in Lebanon the Syrian-backed forces are now trying to inflame the whole country. Syria is behind it, but the ABC can’t bring itself to say what Syrian dissidents say:
Many Syrian dissidents and pro-democracy activists have privately expressed dismay at Ms. Pelosi’s message of friendship to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. They say that Ms. Pelosi’s visit, no matter how well-intentioned, has effectively pulled the rug out from under them, critically damaging their efforts to create momentum for reform from within.
Well done Nancy - and the nancies at the ABC. Surely Bush is to blame, again ...?#106 Grimmy -
Nothing says rebel against conformity like conforming to a clichéd template of rebellion.
Well said. I’m going to steal that.Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 22 at 08:05 AM • permalinkThen there’s the Hypocritic Oath:
Doctor hard of hearing, vague on Arabic.#58. Hence the reason I never got a tatt.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 22 at 08:12 AM • permalink#127- Any scuttlebut on Maj. Tinley? His background appears impeccable, but rising to the dizzy heights of Major after graduating from Duntroon 25 years ago isn’t exactly rapid.
DMs are the most comfortable head-kicking boots ever invented- I could do 12-14 hours straight on my dogs in a pair of steelcaps, which I’ve still got, along with the 18 hole cherry reds I bought at Shelleys on Oxford St in 1978; I’ve got five pairs of the fuckers and none are falling to bits yet, although I hear that some are being made under licence in China and the quality’s gone to shit, no more goodyear stiching etc.
I’ve got a pair of Hun made Camel waterproofs which are pretty good as well, ultra light but strong- somehow though I think the Sausage Eaters lost their bootmaking elan after . these
Hoots the ABC should be debunkened..
That battered old portable Red Kezza tonight lost his grip on his teeth and dubbed AWB -AWP.
In a new book on bleeding heart SBS and Labor Heroines…Liz Jackson describes how she bravely stormed the bastions of the law at Chancery Lane by graciously joining forces with a monocled chap and wearing a pair of workman’s overalls to class. Well THATS SHOWING THEM.The girls from AUNTY also figure right through this gripping yarn by C. Hangar.
Pity that fruity old growler Throsby who supposedly pushes their “fine music” and managed to slip in an hour attacking FEDERALISM by selecting an anti Howard Government guest and featuring his favourite tracks every now and again in a sop to the broadcasting guidelines.
Naughty Auntie. Time the old girl was put out to pasture at the old horses retirement village.That is to say - welcome to crawler’s corner.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 08:46 AM • permalink#155 Grimmy
read this thread to see what happened to 1.6#113 Kae, if you get a good-fitting g, it’s quite comfy and you don’t get a knicker line.
Of course, you can also ensure you don’t get a knicker line by not wearing any knickers, but we’re talking about g-strings.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 22 at 08:55 AM • permalink#144- I reckon his deputy dawg is more likely to don that sort of clobber.
The ALP’s picked the wrong thing to harp about this time if they’re after the bogan vote- whing about public-funded pissups might go over gangbusters with the purse lipped. bluenose, sanctimonious, wowserish luvvie/god botherer/health nazi set (who are sewn up for the ALP and the Greens anyway), but most yobbos would be dead set impressed that JWH can put away 20ks worth of VB in one sitting, and still get up for an early morning wander (unless of course he’s only just getting home, or on his way to an early opener).
Just think- the last time we elected a PM who was off the piss, we wound up with this.
#155 Grimmy. Start reading here . The current situation is this.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 08:56 AM • permalink#144- In fact I think she’s trying them out here.
Somehow though I don’t think Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Woodpecker has quite the same ring to it.
I think cuckoo’s fears are probably justified: ABC will air the program, and then a bunch of Goremongers will be invited to pummel it with their propaganda bats.
Tattoos? As a rule, don’t care for ‘em. Military and patriotic, ok. “Barbed wire” around the biceps so common now that it’s about as trendy as a baseball cap. And I can’t count the number of times I’ve wondered about what appeared to be a hideous bruise on a woman’s ankle or calf, only to discover (on, er, closer examination) that the thing’s a tattoo of a butterfly. My brother got a tattoo of the Harley-Davidson logo (with an eagle perched on top of it) on his bicep; the old boy’s muscles are starting to sag a little with age, now; the eagle looks more like a crested hoopoe, and the logo seems to say “Hooley Davitsop”. Matter of personal taste, of course. Although I daresay I’d start to get a bit alarmed if the craze becomes more or less universal, and Aunt Claudine and Uncle Zeke turn up at the family barbeque looking, respectively, like a Pict warrior and a South Sea cannibal.
Oh all right Kae, you asked for it!
The first time you ever sat on my face
You said my nose was just too damned cold
And you complained that I hadn’t shaved that day
Well that’s too bad
Your mama likes me that way…The first time you ever wore the uniform
You said you felt like such a fool
I said don’t worry, darling you look fine
Now get ready to be spanked
You’ve been a naughty little girlThe first time we watched the neighbours get undressed
You said we’re crazy, we’ll be caught by the police!
I said we’re safe, they’re at number 5
I hear they put on a good show, that’s where we’ll be tomorrow night…Still needs another verse, I think.
Works best for me when I imagine it being sung by Scott Walker.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 09:02 AM • permalink#156- Sometime Kae, you’re better off if crawlers give you a wide berth.
#167 <insert rachel corrie joke here>
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 09:13 AM • permalink1.618:
I feel yeah. These bullies hurt my feelers on a daily basis.
Whacha gotta do is just get tough. I know it sounds harsh, but there it is.
I’ve found that going on a bit of a rant about traitors needing their tongues ripped out or some such always makes me feel better.
So, here’s my words of encouragement. Get tough, get over it and come back.
Hope that helps.
new hydro electric vehicle
My dad had one of those when I was in me impetchus yoot. At least he was always complaining about that ‘dam junker’ he was driving…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 22 at 09:33 AM • permalinkIt’s too bad that I hate rum. They have a store about an hour from here.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 05 22 at 09:42 AM • permalinkI’ve only ever seen one useful tattoo.
Your blood group, inked on the inside of your elbow.
I don’t know if it’s redundant with modern medicine, but it could be useful if you’re being shot at.
Unless you get your arms blown off of course.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 22 at 10:12 AM • permalinkBest line I’ve yet heard about tatts - from a tattoo lover himself:
“The kids these days are very decorative - if they were furniture, they’d be rococo (sp?) - but flighty. And yet, for such unserious and ever-changing people, they get a lot of tattoos.”
He’s also one of the most literate people I know. He just fell in love w/ the ink. And if I were a 24yo graduating med school, I’d go into tattoo and scar removal. It’ll be bigger than botox in 20 years.
#177 I think this one is useful too.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 22 at 10:32 AM • permalinkJust got back from my post office…lovely experience…beautiful blond, medium length hair in a pony tail, casually dressed with hip hugger jeans and loose T, that came to the jeans top…stopped me and said…“Would you mind looking to see if there is a spider crawling on me, I just walked through an unseen spider web, and I feel all creepy-crawly”.
After a perusal front back and sides, showing various here to fore hidden tats, lovely ones at that, she passed inspection.
She thanked me kindly, walked to her convertible and drove off, still feeling creepy-crawly, despite her passing inspection.
MORE PROTESTS IN IRAN. Gateway Pundit has a roundup, and video. I’m surprised these aren’t getting more play on CNN, etc.
Gee, I wonder why? OH WAIT, U.S., Israeli and coalition forces have to be inside a country, (or what passes for a “state”) before the U.S. media covers.
I have to agree with wronwright and Andrea about the tattoo thing. It’s cultural thing.
However, that didn’t stop my daughter from designing a lovely little picture of her children’s birth flowers to put on the small of her back. The problem is, she gave the tattoo artist an 8"x10” rendition to work from, thinking the artist would resize it. We don’t talk about it.
#126, Holy Jeebus!
The Professor mumbled quietly to himself as he struggled to recall where he had left his notebook only moments earlier. His observations of solar activity over days and weeks had ground slowly down to the tedium of months and years. He gazed over the top of his coke-bottle glasses and ignored the beads of sweat that ran down his face.
“So!” he said.
And then he died.
Speaking of tats placed around the lower spinal area…
Speaking to some physician friends of mine, they say that a woman coming to the hospital in labor, having a tattoo on the lower spinal area won’t be getting an epidural from them.
Apparently too much risk of pushing a bit of whatever dye was used into the spinal cord, with attendant risk of complications from ensuing infection.
Which problem likely isn’t considered at all when the young lady originally got the artwork.
Paco:
Arse Antlers is a term for a lower back tattoo.
From the Wikipedia article:
In Germany the lower back tattoo is called an “Arschgeweih”, which literally means “ass antlers”. This term was created by comedian Michael Mittermeier, and since there is no other simple word in German this term prevailed.
I didn’t know either. Wikipedia is almost as much fun as Google.
#192: Very well put, Salty, and very gracious, as always. Speaking for myself, I think she’s an original and interesting personality, and I was rather hoping that she’d provide the dustjacket designs for Pacozon.com’s new line of books rewritten to order.
Speaking of which, I’m thinking that Clinton’s autobiography would be a better read if it were reduced in weight by about two pounds, and given the picaresque, “Tom Jones” sort of treatment that it deserves(Fielding’s Tom Jones, that is; not the Welsh crooner). Of course, it would require a large injection of facts missing from the original, but I think that can be managed.
Kae - or any other femme feeling it’s all just a bit unfair: start commenting about having a shower whilst dropping the line about how blonde and gorgeous you are, or like Michelle Pfeiffer but “bigger” and you, too, will see the desperate, lascivious males of this tribe flock to your every comment.
Now, 1.618, get your lovely arse back here.
(To the blog that is; not continuing the facial references).
“Gulfstream Liberal” genre update begins..now!
From the AP
AL Franken just filed his financial disclsure papers with the Senate. Worth between 4.3 and 9.9 million. Listed among the assets were municipal bonds(read tax free interest) from Minnesota and New York.!
“The rich don’t pay their fair share!” Snip
“Yeah, two Americas.” Snip
“Bush only caters to his rich cronies.” Snip“Snip” explanation ensues. Way back in the day, bonds came with coupons that you cut from a sheet and mailed to the paying entity for your income distribution. “Clipping coupons” was a big part of the financial lexicon at one time.
I just love these people, I really do!
Well, MDFD (my dear friend Deb), a brunette, used to refer to us as Neve and Nic, after the actresses, me being the redhead.
But I think I have to find another redhead to represent me ....perhaps this one?#177 Mr Creosote
I don’t think it’s necessary these days to have your blood group tattooed on you - they can match them quickly, and besides, I don’t think that the Doctors would trust a tattoo to be correct…And like you said, if your arm got ripped off you’d be buggered. (What if several got their arms ripped off and they were all mixed up?)
#200: I believe that’s a Palestinian firing squad, in the traditional semi-circular formation.
The singles scene in that part of the world must be pretty harrowing. “Single woman, 26, non-smoker, looking for man, 25-40, who’s into long walks on the beach, candle-light dinners, car swarms, ululating at anti-zionist rallies, and raining down on a crowded plaza in bits and pieces.
#200 - they say they’re women, but how can you be sure under all that tenting? Could be that this is just evil jihad humour at its worst.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 06:29 PM • permalinkAh, there she is! Lured back by the siren songs of Texas Bob and myself, no doubt.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 06:34 PM • permalinkup to your arse in arms is better than up to your arms in arses
And I would say that either is better than being up to your arse in alligators.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 06:47 PM • permalinkIt’s too bad that I hate rum.
I’m not a big fan either, but Sailor Jerry is different. It’s 92 proof but you can barely taste it.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 05 22 at 06:53 PM • permalinkC’mon kae, don’t you go doing a runner too. Of course I’m talking with you.
(Asks self once again, What is this weird effect I have on women? Sniffs armpits…)Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 22 at 06:56 PM • permalink#192, saltydog:
Ma’am. It was never my intention to pick on 1.6. My only intent was to remind her that here, like just about anywhere else folk tend to gather, things can run a bit hot from time to time and there’s no reason to take it to heart.
That’s especially true where there’s no vocal intonation, facial expression or body language to apply as modifier to what’s said.
We all know this. Anyone who’s spent any time at all online in forums or chat knows this.
Back to the topic people! I arrived late.
Re the Gloal Warming Swindle bit, I bet the ABC for once will find its balance and the telecast will be heavily weighted by contrary comment and views.
And they’ll have Peter Garrett or Tim Flannery as moderator ...
BTW, did anyone else see that disaffected former Australian Army Colonel Mike Kelly on the ABC’s 6.30 Report last night? I usually only watch the ABC for programs like “Spooks” (good) and “Life on Mars” (very good). Accidentally caught last night’s “Report” and was immediately sorry.
Surely the ABC has used up its propaganda quota for the month? Its ALP campaign chest also must be empty, no?
I thought “Life on Mars” was bollocks, a sad hankering back to the days of Jack and George switching on the two-tones and giving some villains a touch up (and a fit up if needs be). Was a bit of an indictment of the parlous state of policing in Blairistan.
The Waffen SS used to tattoo blood types on the inner arm- made them very easy to identify later. I must say I liked the idea years ago formulated by the wacky little racals from this motorcycle club, who used to tattoo “Property Of Satans Slaves” on the ample bots of the delightful young ladies who used to hang about with them.
would be interesting if they drifted off into more mainstream life and got hitched etc- I’m sure hubby’d be impressed when this claim of title was revealed for the first time, ditto the gyno.
Here’s the aforementioned AAs- I believe lady Randolf Churchill had some sort of cartoon on her arse; the only time I’d want one is if I was finally caught for some indictment and was off to the pokey- I’d get “No Entry” inked on my bum.
I recall when I was in England in 1978 I saw a skinhead in the delightful enclave of Tower Hamlets, with a dotted line inked around his neck, highlighted with the motto “Cut Here”- I wonder if anyone ever accomodated his request?
If you had half a dozen arms, you could tie them to your body with bungee cords and run around going, “Look, I’m an octopus.”
At least, you could run around until someone whacked you over the head with a shovel.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 22 at 07:31 PM • permalinkI’ve seen the whole of the first series of Life on Mars and half the second. I give it a double thumbs up.
In fact, if I poke around behind the couch here and find a few spare arms, I can give it four or five thumbs up.
And what’s wrong with seeing a crusty old copper beating a confession out of a suspect, destroying evidence crucial to the defence, searching houses without a warrant and shooting first and asking questions later?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 22 at 07:34 PM • permalinkNothing, except it doesn’t happen anymore except on the UK Channel on Fox- Jack Reagan and his type of guvna have gone the smae way as the Krays and the Richardsons, ditto here. Coppers have been turned into social workers and psycologists, while crims have gotten progressively more vicious and amoral.
speaking of trouser tattoos with a traffic theme, maybe ‘Mo Daewoo should have one applied to his bot reading ” Clearway, No Standing 7AM-&PM; Moday to Friday”.
I think the roly poly lil’ pudden’s going to be very popular in the showers- it’ll be TaliTubby vs Tumescent Torpedo Time.
so I walked into my hippie filled office today and the aircon was left on all night (down the hippie end) and the tap in the kitchen was left running.
Then one of the hippies comes in in their new car (a massive range rover thing that guzzles like 15 litres of fuel per 100k)
And they get up me about my contributions to the so called global warming issues.
Then I see all this crap stuck all over the walls and floor. Printed paper (from trees not recycled) with pictures of cocroaches and cane toads all over them.
I am wondering what sort of people cant work out that deforrestation has more to do with increasing co2 levels than human output and also how they can warrant using the extra electricity to power the printers to print them in the first place.
#235.
So long as they have a “Greenpeace” bumper sticker on the SUV that makes it all OK. Just ask them.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 05 22 at 08:07 PM • permalink#218, Grimmy,
NO! I wasn’t accusing you of being mean to 1.6! It wasn’t you I meant at all. I’d never accuse you of such a thing—unless, of course, said fragile came out a traitor! ;^) Which she wouldn’t do. At least, I think, not so anyone could tell.
Of course, you’re right about being tough about what people say—obviously. It is easy to misunderstand or misconstrue what someone says (see above). There are times, however, when what is being said comes through loud and clear. When that happens one needs to understand that folks on the internet (and folks in general, really) don’t know you, don’t care, and have nothing whatsoever to do with who and what you are; one ought to listen to their opinions accordingly.
Glad you didn’t take a long Paco, 1.618. I admit I don’t understand you most of the time, but you’ve never been mean or vicious. There’s few enough people in the world like that.
#239- One of the sushi joints I frequent specialises in “octopus balls”- they’re relatively expensive compared to their other fare, so I asked the chef why they were so pricey, after all each occy should supply fourteen of the buggers; he returned my query with a blank, epicanthal stare.
I told him logically, if an octopus has eight legs, he should have seven sets of cobblers- therefore every octopus should be able to yield 14 octopus balls.
An inscrutable glare was my only answer- no wonder those Japs are coining it in, charging a premium price on a plentiful commodity.
Reminds me of when I was last in England- I found myself a bit short and borrowed some money in the pub. Wanting to settle the debt, I called by the fishmongers on my way to the flat of the chap on whom I’d imposed the night before.
I rang the bell and he came to the door, where I presented him with an unwell cuttlefish I’d picked up at the shop on my way over; he asked “what the fuck’s that? It looks diseased!”
I replied “Why, it’s the sick squid I owe you.”
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I’m still suspicious. Will they run it with ‘Inconvenient Truth’, or bookend it with the usual ‘balanced’ ABC panel of experts? Still, if it gives Terry Lane a coronary (which it will), it’ll be worth it.