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The Age’s Catherine Deveny - she who despises blue-collar Australia - takes gentle issue with those who attended a recent public event in her city:
How about that Grand Prix, eh? One look at the racing fans is all it takes for me to realise that some suburbs should have fences around them. Knuckle-dragging petrol-heads, anorexic bottle blondes marinated in fake tan and middle-aged blokes with man boobs and pimples on their arses paying exorbitant money to watch cars go fast. What a disgrace. It’s no wonder I drink.
Open-minded lass, isn’t she?
I’m sure the parents of terminally ill children suffering rare diseases that there is no funding for researching will take comfort in the fact that the State Government has probably spent $30million on loud, polluting cars while their child dies. They’ll be at peace knowing that Bernie Ecclestone has pocketed a $20 million licensing fee. There goes my chance of ever being a grid girl.
Deveny’s chances of being a grid girl are probably equal to mine. And I wouldn’t leave enormous Deveny-sized hoof divots in the tarmac.
Why is it that many of the flag wavers who are the keenest for these events so they can “show off” to bring tourists into our town are the ones that least want to share it. If you need to have a Grand Prix looting, marauding and corroding our town to feel “proud”, please kill yourself at your earliest possible convenience. And take your “I’m Another Australian Against Further Immigration” T-shirt with you.
I’ve been to five or six Grands Prix at Melbourne, and can’t recall seeing that T-shirt once. Seeing as it’s an international event, with spectators from all over the planet, the Grand Prix is an unlikely venue for anti-foreign sentiment.
When I walk along High Street, Malvern, and see rows of four-wheel-drives that have spent even less time in the bush than Telstra, I want to pull out my key and scratch into their pristine duco BUY A SMALLER CAR YOU GREEDY SELFISH——Or ride a bike and save on the lipo.
Check the Age’s carpark, Catherine. You don’t need to walk along High Street to see urban four-wheel-drives.
(More on this wall-eyed hatemass from Andrew Bolt)
UPDATE. Age readers slam Deveny.
Actually this is supposedly social satire according to a couple of posters over at Andrew’s blog
Can’t see it this way myself though
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 03 21 at 09:59 AM • permalinkFunny how these folks always claim it’s satire or a botched joke when they get called on the actual words they use.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 03 21 at 10:01 AM • permalinkThis woman is supposedly an adult? Lordy, there’s nothing quite so irritating than the rantings of a self-righteous narcissist, especially one who’s such a peevish adolescent.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 21 at 10:01 AM • permalinkCatherine ought to move to where there are no Grand Prixs, and no SUVs.
Say, oh, North Korea. She ought to love it; if nothing else, dieting ought to be really easy there.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 21 at 10:02 AM • permalink#1 Mike G, it’s completely true.
I had a lecture today for a fun class called “Employment Issues”. My blood boiled.
The teacher was talking about WorkChoices, and had just finished talking about how it’s so evil and is going to cause the economy to collapse, and that this is Australia’s fault for not signing Kyoto, but that China can’t be held responsible for their own carbon emissions. I’d describe the argument more, but we’ve all heard it and mocked it. When I questioned this belief, I promptly got kicked out of class. For the third week in a row.
Then again, what would I expect from someone who claims Terry Lane and the Age are reputable sources on WorkChoices?
There’s looting at F1 events? Who knew?!
Anyone pick up anything good in Melbourne? Set of Bridgestones? Perhaps one of Honda’s performance-challenged Gaia-shrines?
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 21 at 10:09 AM • permalink...that have spent even less time in the bush than Telstra…
You know, sometimes I don’t think I get enough credit for the straight lines I DON’T touch…
Face it, if we leave it to these people, the only sports the State will sanction will be old-man tai chi and hacky-sack, but only if the hacky-sack is made from environmentally sustainable hemp…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 21 at 10:10 AM • permalinkI’d just like to know what the circumstances were that allowed her to inspect the blokes arses and find the alledged pimples.
Sounds like a woman scorned.
Posted by lizardflix on 2007 03 21 at 10:16 AM • permalinkDamn, who in here shit in her cornflakes this morning??
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 03 21 at 10:26 AM • permalinkWell, obviously SOMEBODY isn’t getting any. I know I sure got cranky during my year-long celibacy last year in Iraq.
The solution is obvious, then. Give Catherine a weapon and send her to Iraq. The surge can stand down.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 21 at 11:15 AM • permalinkPS: Habib, I’m sure TB meant well. Go easy on him, would you?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 21 at 11:17 AM • permalinkWell, I am for the end to obscene gov subsidies for big car rallies. FFS, either they pay for themselves or go broke. We can’t complain about XYZ stupid arts grants and give that shite a pass.
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 03 21 at 11:32 AM • permalinkI’m sure the parents of terminally ill children suffering rare diseases that there is no funding for researching will take comfort in the fact that the federal Government has spent about $500million on public broadcasting so that ABC can show twee multiculti “entertainment” for Catherine to chug a bottle of Chardonnay to. There goes my chance of ever being a BoBo leftard.
“Habib, how’s about being a buddy and taking one for the team?”
If she rolls over and crushed Habib…you’re in serious trouble young man.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 21 at 01:15 PM • permalink“There goes my chance of ever being a grid girl.”
Yeah, but you’re chances of making it as a Grid Cow are excellent.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 21 at 01:20 PM • permalink“Dr. Pepper went through my nose like water through a firehose!”
I bet that burns.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 21 at 03:50 PM • permalinkThe Ministry of Truth has many mansions.
BBC, ABC, CNN, SMHAge, NYT, Reuters, AP ....
Lashing out at 4WD owners is trite, tedious, and should be left to the anti-globalisation brigade. Fairy stories about the universal goodness and desirability of asylum seekers are now so orthodox as to be holy writ in leftist enclaves.
No need for immigration policy. You can leave one dysfunctional islamic country, cross several others of lesser toxicity (and have a stopover in a merely undeveloped one), then sail on to infidel-land where the useful idiots will insist that you clog up the courts with tendentious claims until you are given residency in a society you might go on to criticise and white-ant due to it not having enough regard for your outmoded belief system and general misogyny.
One jaundiced view deserves another. For proper dialogue, there needs to be less of this moonbattery.I think I can speak for all middle aged men with pimples on our arses when I say that I take offence at that. It’s not like I spent the whole weekend watching fast cast destroy the environment - I also spent a few hours surfing Internet porn and drank a dozen VB longnecks.
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2007 03 21 at 06:21 PM • permalinkI can’t wait to read her article on the Shanghai and KL grands prix. Surely Malaysians and Chinese fans couldn’t be knuckle dragging racists…
I have no interest in Formula One whatsoever, but what is about this event that enrages the Left so much?
For what it’s worth, I think the Japanese bike races have the best grid girls.
My blood boiled when I first read this at Bolta’s. What was it that annoyed me the most?
Her hypocricy? The fact that she’s larger than most obviously means that she isn’t particularly mindful of waste or resources when strapping on a feedbag.Her unmitigated hate towards others yet the breadmakers were so ‘wonderful’. These childlike black/white arguments are loved by the left and only highlight their own predjudices.
Or the fact that the AGE prints such utter rubbish, lapped up by readers, though scorned by any one with more than half a wit.
Read that Deveny piece yesterday. She obviously can’t see that she sounds just like the Penelope Keith character Margo Leadbetter in the Good Life. Quite funny, actually.
And how about those condescending descriptions of the people you will meet on her walk. The question I ask is: “Would
MargoDeveny ask these food merchants and their families and friends into her home?” Inclined to think not. Her view is that these people should be grateful that she has acknowledged their existence but their true status is “I know this little Iraqi man who make the most delightful pastries ... ”Surprise surprise, a few replies at the Age’s letter page
I tell you, when the calipahte comes….....
#14 Texas Bob hitting the nail on the head, once again.
Short of Catherine writing “It’s been 2 years, 3 months, 10 days, 6 hours and 27 minutes since I last had a good screw”, I doubt we’ll ever read a more vivid confession of sexual frustration than that piece penned by our delectable Ms Deveny. Classic stuff; not everyone would write so candidly for the whole country to see. We should thank her for freely revealing to us her bitter man-hating, her ugly snarling at better-looking women, and the insanely jealous loathing of the fun had by others.
Not enough rumpy-pumpy. That’s why you drink, honey.
And, I’m afraid to say, the prognosis in your case is very poor. Might as well continue the self-medication.
Next case.
I hold up a stick with a loaf of bread on it and stop the traffic. Not just any traffic but; I tell them all to look out for a 4WD (Emphasis added.)
Who’s showing their bogan, Ms Deveny? Hmmm?
Gee! I think it’s you.
Off to the fenced suburbs with you then, you spiteful, murder-minded, nasty piece of work.
What an angry inconsequential chamuta. What I come to expect of the ‘Left’.
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 03 21 at 08:24 PM • permalinkFunny, when fences ARE built around suburbs, Age writers complain about them, enjoining their old enemy, America, into the argument:
Inside it might have been Florida, right down to the bellhops and whizzing buggies. ... It was all a bit too Truman Show. I loved that movie — but I don’t want to live it. That’s the real problem with what we might call the Walkerisation of Australia. It doesn’t stay inside its own walls. Why should it? Without applied handbrakes, capital has no conscience, and greed is self-evidently good.
It’s no wonder I drink.
Take that back, harpy. Drinking is one of the noblest pursuits a person can engage in and you
sir mam sirwhatever are no drinker.P.S Suck my nuts, fun chief.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 21 at 08:34 PM • permalinkIt’s no wonder I drink.
Imagine the staggering amount her companions are obliged to put away. I know I’d have to be drunk most of the time.
She reminds me of the late Molly Ivins who was know to have tippled a bit, except Molly, vitriolic as they come, never would have dissed a motor sport.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 21 at 08:36 PM • permalinkWell, obviously SOMEBODY isn’t getting any. I know I sure got cranky during my year-long celibacy last year in Iraq.
Then what’s up with that camel weeping by the airbase gate?
“Well, Lieutenant, most of the men usually just ride the camel into town…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 21 at 08:46 PM • permalinkLots of HATE on display there.
Perhaps the Age should go to queen vic markets and solicit write ups from the fork lift drivers. They would probably be better written and have fewer death threats and spitefull violent intimidation included.
Oh yeah one more thing.
I LOVE motorsport.
Should I call Chubb Security now?
The F1 GP is an International cultural event FFS; chiefly attended by the middle class; there are many support events such as classic cars, multi-culti music & food ... more so than the Oz Open Tennis - has she slagged that off yet?
Sportz funding vs Yartz funding: the former may generate more spin-off tourism, etc. revenue - Adelaide will prolly gladly take the GP back if Brackistan doesn’t want it.
The Left is conditioned to binary thinking cos MSM headline-grabbing arguments are such?Hasn’t Deveny just had a kid ... got a partner?
Bet that the media tart would accept a drive in the celebrity race, if offerred, juz like Traceee ... she may have to wait til the wide-body <strike>Mummers</strike> Hummers are available ...
From salt of the Earth to scum of the Earth in 30 years. Slamming the working class is the latest fashion amongst the latte-Left; bogans, rednecks, white trash etc etc.
What a fucking loathsome movement they have become. I think i hate them more than i hate Islamists. At least the latter believe in something.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 03 21 at 09:15 PM • permalink#14- Why do you assume because of my name that I will couple with any form of carbon-based life that has a feint pulse? Sure, it’s a fairly safe assumption, but even we Levantines have to draw the line somewhere, and this bolshie boiler is not just over the line, she’s a few parsecs long gone- besides the fact that I wouldn’t with your willy, I’d say it would be like throwing a saveloy through Martin Place. And even if there was sufficient hallucinogens and viagra in the world, there’s always the off chance of copping an undistorted glace at her kisser- the resultant PTSD from realising you’re porking Paul Keating would result in permament drooling catatonia.
So, sorry I must pass on this mission. Unless of course the stipend is substantially improved. Is it possible to obtain fully lightproof kevlar head bags?
Actually, Habib, after perusing said species image, there’s a fair chance that you might be receiving not pitching.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 21 at 10:06 PM • permalinkI wonder how Catherine feels about that scourge of the 21st.Century,OBESITY,she has plenty of warped opinions on a range of subjects but I would really like to hear what she thinks should be done about the “fat plague”.On that topic,at least,she’s well qualified to supply expert evidence being equiped as she is with an arse that would offer nearly as much advertising space as the average F1 car.
Sorry, I’m a bit late to this party, but…
#11 - ROFLMAO!!!!
#28 - DITTO!!!
#48 - “suck my nuts, fun chief”. CLASSIC!!And to think, for about the first year I was reading Tim’s blog, I never looked at the comments. It’s like eating a cake without the icing.
Although it looks like Madame Deveney hasn’t missed too many desserts….
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 03 21 at 10:14 PM • permalinkWhat a fucking loathsome movement they have become.
#55, spot on. I know it’s slightly OT but it reminds me of Vaclav Haus’ comments on environmentalists:
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism. This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning of the whole world.
The environmentalists consider their ideas and arguments to be an undisputable truth and use sophisticated methods of media manipulation and PR campaigns to exert pressure on policymakers to achieve their goals. Their argumentation is based on the spreading of fear and panic by declaring the future of the world to be under serious threat. In such an atmosphere they continue pushing policymakers to adopt illiberal measures, impose arbitrary limits, regulations, prohibitions, and restrictions on everyday human activities and make people subject to omnipotent bureaucratic decision-making. To use the words of Friedrich Hayek, they try to stop free, spontaneous human action and replace it by their own, very doubtful human design.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 21 at 10:22 PM • permalinkMarieka Harpy in the Age is another columnist to take a shot at where people live:
I FEEL ashamed. I feel embarrassed. I feel all those things that someone feels when they’ve been doing wrong and want to unburden, like that Qantas hostie who we all initially thought was simply a wee bit razzed for Ralph Fiennes, yet suddenly seems embroiled in the kind of rudely tempestuous private life best written about in the Penthouse Forum by lonely men from Coburg.
What a pity ‘he’ wasn’t one of the many immigrants that also inhabit Coburg, a couple of K’s up Sydney Road from Deveny’s Iraqi bakers. Ill bet she’d be fawning.
I haven’t read the above comments yet, so if I repeat, I apologize. But:
I laugh at examples like this. I ask, “What kind of mini-tyrant idiot will agree with this anti-fun, anti-freedom drivel?”
Then five, six years down the road of time the political power is wielded to ban said fun.
Fresh home from the major fun of the Atlanta NASCAR races, BTW. Life’s too short to miss the major fun. (OT sorta: Seipp RIP).
#34 Arty:
I bet she had fun barking at the cars though.
The poor silly thing had to settle for barking because every time she pulled at her leash trying to get onto the track to chase them, her handlers corrected her and made her sit.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 21 at 11:02 PM • permalinkOf course the SUV stops when she walks into the road. They immeadiately realize that even the most rugged of SUV’s could not manage to drive around or over her.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 21 at 11:52 PM • permalinkFucking ugly boot-licking salad dodger.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 22 at 01:25 AM • permalink#68 Flashman-
So what’s worse? CD’s general sub-Uni review blast? Her incitement to violence? Or Tim’s clever reply?
I’ll tell you what’s worse - smug wankers that gratitiously use Latin in their posts.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 22 at 02:55 AM • permalink“Bloody hell Tim, you misleadingly labelled that photo of the she-wolf “grid girl”, and i merrily clicked it thinking I would get to see the 2007 grid girl in all her splendour, and MY EYES, OMG MY EYES!”
You wanna make your brain explode?
Imagine her naked.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 22 at 03:42 AM • permalink#56. Habib, would one of these be what you’re after?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 22 at 07:42 AM • permalinkSounds like Deveny, like many others, is overcompensating - a lot. Don’t like anyone local? Make a virtue of the heritage of strangers. None of this lot can treat Iraqis, Arabs or anyone else like a human being, they have to be idolised for not currently killing Deveny at the moment of meeting! “See? See? They’re not killing me! They’re bread bakers! There are no terrorists!!”.
Middle Eastern food is never just food it’s ALWAYS delicious Middle Eastern food.I lived in Brunswick for awhile, yes the bakeries are fantastic and the people working there - well, they seemed, gee - normal working folk. Some Turks are shy, others sociable etc etc. However, I also saw anti-Israel graffiti, made me a little wary…
Having said that, the Brighton driver who said they’d drive over the Loafers in Brighton was certainly over the top.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 03 22 at 09:31 AM • permalinkBlue Hen—grid girls are unique to auto racing because the cheerleaders kept getting run over…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 22 at 10:02 PM • permalink
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