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A busy place, Israel. Apologies for web absence, but even doing nothing around here is a frantic enterprise.
In Tel Aviv presently. Very different to Jerusalem; a little down-at-heel, but charmingly so. Pictures to be posted next week of the whole journey.
Back in town and back online Monday.
Five hundred fifty-five comments stacked up in the previous thread. Your fans miss you.
And if you ever need help moving, know that we’ll all be busy that weekend.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 12 16 at 09:28 AM • permalink
#3 – Ash, you pick up the empties, I will look after the unopened ones OK?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 16 at 09:32 AM • permalink
#6 – Ash, done and dusted, but only if they are still cold – (slinking off to check the esky).
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 16 at 09:38 AM • permalink
You can join in as long as you help clean up after 🙂
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 16 at 09:46 AM • permalink
- Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 16 at 10:02 AM • permalink
Sounds like my fridge. But then i only know of three main food groups, beer, pizza and cigarettes.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 16 at 10:06 AM • permalink
- Posted by wronwright on 2007 12 16 at 11:03 AM • permalink
Whoa! And what a beer frig it is!
Hey, can some of you guys give me a hand with the tire fire? Paco just scored a major deal on a truckload of Pirellis, but the dude with the truck has to get it back before his boss notices it’s gone.
More good news – Paco says he can get a bunch of old fridges, plus refills of CFC refrigerant, so Tim can have two or three beer fridges in every room (including the closets and bathrooms).
Even better news – all thse beer fridges will need extra power, and Paco is pretty sure he can put his hands on a couple of 100kw Diesel generators.
Man, Tim is going to be sooooo jazzed when he gets back and sees the place! Anyway, help me unload these tires so I can get back to the barbecue – I don’t want to miss any of the polar bear steak.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 12 16 at 01:27 PM • permalink
…even doing nothing around here is a frantic enterprise.
Heh
‘Well, in OUR country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else–if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.’
‘A slow sort of country!’ said the queen. ‘Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’
- Merlin,
What do you meant “Long ago”? I still get half-soles and heels on my boots. There are some great boot makers here in Oklahoma and you don’t just throw that kind of work/ride/dance wear away. The last pair lasted over 10 years and I’m into the second year on this pair… wear’em everyday.Commander Vines doesn’t like them but I do. lol
From a Mr. Hillman rom the Policy Studies Institute.
When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it.”
“This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.”
Y’all have a nice day.
- More Opinion Free from my our ABC News Radio this morning.
There I was, getting dressed for work when the headlines came on: Climate Change, David Hicks, the Hajj!
I’m so glad they’re Opinion Free.
Now if they can just do something about embedded Attitudes, and stop stacking the deck with agenda friendly stories, and swooning over the brilliance of our leaders’ leadershippiness in Bali and elsewhere!
That PNG guy in Bali – their version of Michael Mansill – I couldn’t help but think that a verbal slip of that magnitude (“Get out of the way and let the left .. the rest of us get on with it”) would have been on constant rotation with ridicule settings maxed if that had been George W. It went unobserved.
- Welcome back, Tim.
Moron-da Divide has missed you. School’s out and it’s booooooooooooored.
Did you find your belt, or do you have to walk about holding your trousers up with one hand? With one handed typing it will take you much longer to file!!#41
Don’t listen, blogstrop. It’ll only drive you insane.O/T RE: Previous thread and killer pooch, she seems OK thismorning, and perhaps the snake is a baby brown… can’t tell yet. I’m not opening the jar, it’ll stink!
The head is a bit mangled, but it could be one of these. or one of these.I really hate venomous snakes because they kill so easily.
- O/T
If you have a loafing $100, the Blue Ant bluetooth car kit for mobiles is on special at Tricky Dickies. It’s $30-50 off the normal price.
I got one. It’s good. Easy-peasy.
This is what it looks like, and it’s cheaper than a fine and lost points!
“Get out of the way and let the left .. the rest of us get on with it”
Like the other slip by Red Kezza on election night.
“There is a definite swing to the ABC…the ALP in Bennelong”.
I used to listen to NR in its early days because it seemed to be staffed by people just announcing the news. The last time I tuned in they were giving 7 minutes air time to a Labor nitwit rabitting on about something. No rebuttal time from the other side, of course.
Kae’s advice is good. I found my health improved immeasurably when I stopped listening to RN.
And another thing: I have also had to stop listening to ABC Classic FM while Margaret Throsby is fawning over her PC moonbat guest of the day. Hope she is reading this because I want her to know that she has been permanently replaced by my CD collection.[/rant]
- #38
… or divert to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.CheersPosted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 12 16 at 06:46 PM • permalink
I’m still wondering how a Seppo got to formally represent Papua New Guinea at a UN conference, with diplomatic status no less.
Does he actually have PNG citizenship, or was he able to persuade the Government to send him as their representative?
In other words, is he a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist who got to the conference via another door and did he have his “Get out of the way …” statement ready and rehearsed for the appropriate moment?
Does anyone know what Kevin Conrad’s background is, other than the fact that he’s Harvard-educated and is/was a director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations?
A good insight, but I still prefer Bill Bryson.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 16 at 08:38 PM • permalink
Paco is test marketing over at LGF.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 16 at 09:02 PM • permalink
#60 Well, since we’re spruiking…
I’m still looking for venture capital to open a chain of Kosher Sushi Restaurants—Manahattan, Miami Beach, Tel-Aviv—thought up a great name too:
“Sosumi”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 09:45 PM • permalink
Kae, only if you order your Fugu with the sperm sac.
Otherwise, we send an order of “belushi” round to your table…(nyuk, nyuk)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:08 PM • permalink
(maybe I really am finally beginning to recover….)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:10 PM • permalink
- Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:14 PM • permalink
It’s like…Jim’s older (dead) brother…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:19 PM • permalink
An order of Belushi, kae.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 16 at 10:22 PM • permalink
- Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 16 at 10:23 PM • permalink
Gotta get goin to my psych appointment…she’s insisted I bring along my 12-String…I think she thinks I’m a megalomaniac.
I’ll hit her with Kotkke’s “Vaseline Machine Gun”, Merle Watson’s “Windy & Warm” and close with Jorma Kaukonen’s “Embryonic Journey”.
F’ing Freudians…I’ll show her…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:25 PM • permalink
Kae, this is the order of “belushi” I was referring to…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:29 PM • permalink
And Kae…this is what I’m a gonna play for her…Vaseline Machine Gun
Then I’ll ask in my best Viennese accent “Und how dos dis make you feel?”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 16 at 10:38 PM • permalink
This frivolity is going to piss Miranda off. Let’s have some intellectual discussion, for God’s sake. Rupert doesn’t pay Tim $2,500 a day for us to shoot the shit.
I know – we’ll have a debate. RESOLVED: The Putin administration is less a return to Stalin than to the Tsar, and as such, is appropriate to Russian cultural norms.
Miranda, you start.
OT. I don’t generally read Jill Singer, but I just had to respond to something she wrote today.
My goodness, Jill, that’s a remarkable rant.
Looking good is one thing, but doing yourself up like a pox doctor’s clerk is another.
The problem for the girls of today is that most of the women they see around them in the media are the Britneys and Lindsays of their world. Girls tend not to be interested in the Hillarys and Naomi Wolfs because those two don’t feature in the teenage girl’s favourite media outlets.
In any case, I wouldn’t be looking to any of them as appropriate role models for my daughter.
Lindsay and Britney? Open near any edition of OK or Who Weekly and you see enough.
Hillary Clinton? All those years of standing by a womanising, lying husband. Some fine standards there, Ms Singer. I have no wish for my daughter to emulate that role.
Naomi Wolf? She’s probably the closest I’d come to accepting from your list, although there have been rumours for years that her statistical data comes from dubious sources. (Yes, I have my own copy of The Beauty Myth.)
If you really want a decent feminist to look towards, try Phyllis Chesler, Susan Faludi or Camille Paglia.
Oh, and while Oprah is is a brilliant example of someone who has made a fantastic material success of her life, I do wonder how happy she truly is – every other week there seems to be something on the cover about how happy/unhappy she is.
Taking potshots at girls because they wear daggy tshirts is rather silly, don’t you think? We’re supposed to be living in enlightened times, and as a wearer of daggy tshirts myself, I see nothing wrong there.
For all you know, when the girls go to formal occasions they could be wearing Armani. One tshirt does not make a wardrobe, nor does it make a person.I figure it will probably get edited and mangled, hence posting here for posterity.
I return you to your regular programming; in this case, trying to work out what pressies Tim is bringing back for us.
No gefilte fish for me, thanks.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 16 at 11:36 PM • permalink
Rupert doesn’t pay Tim $2,500 a day for us to shoot the shit.
He doesn’t? Could’ve fooled me!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 16 at 11:52 PM • permalink
About the last time she was “here” she linked to a story about how we had deconstructed some construction workers in Afghanistan.
Seems that was incorrect. Seems we tracked the travel of some mucky-muck from his cave into this tent. No construction workers, only terrorists. Just another inadvertant error by the MSM.
I’ve greater mystery than Tim’s absence is the absence of Margos Maid. Coincidence? Fuck no.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 17 at 12:10 AM • permalink
#102 – True happiness is being shot while standing in line to buy non-existent food. Those were the days.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 17 at 12:45 AM • permalink
OT (is there a topic here?) – another world leader joins the ranks of climate change sceptics – and the Daily Mail illustrates the story with that photograph of the Polar Bears.
To be sure. I find the excessive choice, especially in processed dairy products to be the bane of my decadent western capitalist existence.
I sympathise with that fellow in the milk ad who asked the rancid old hag for a bottle of ordinary milk and instead got a lot of gob about all the varieties of milk.
He should have dropped her like a worn out Globite and helped himself.
As for Putin, it seems that he has worked out that the west cannot operate without three fundamental commodities; oil, caviar and porn. If he keeps supplies of all three at optimum levels, he’ll do well.
#112 – Haven’t really kept abreast of the great things that are happening in Putin’s Russia, but hopefully choice of dairy products is not one of them. Hi-Lo? Lite? Skim? Full? Soy? Please. Just check the use by date and be done with it.
The most profound effect I’ve found after the fall of the Iron Curtain has been that the world’s holiday destination are no full of fat, sleazy, rude Ruski men and the world’s strip joints are now full of beautiful, sleazy, rude Ruski women. A fair trade I think we’ll all agree.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 17 at 01:03 AM • permalink
111 Ash; Beats me, I was looking for Linda Blair when I stumbled in here.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 17 at 01:05 AM • permalink
My new year’s resolution will be to consider using preview.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 17 at 01:10 AM • permalink
“Then I’ll ask in my best Viennese accent “Und how dos dis make you feel?”
I much prefer something allong the lines of “now tell me about your mother/father” while puffing on a 2” thick 6” long stogie.
Either that or ask her about her pets, Freud was pretty freaky on them as well.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 17 at 01:16 AM • permalink
Spotted copies of “the great global warming swindle” (think Ive got the name right) in at our local Kmart. Will have to try and graba copy next time I go in. DIDNT see it in the ABC shop section of our local bookstore though. I wonder why???
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 17 at 01:35 AM • permalink
- 119. Thanks for the offer but this is one show I dont mind the makers getting a bob or 2 of mine.
Imagine if it actually outsold “an incontinent truth” or even outranked it in CD sales for a week or 2. KRudd and co would have chooks flying out there arses trying to work out if GW was a “winner” or not.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 17 at 01:44 AM • permalink
It is absurd – even obscene – that a PNG spokesman should have taken the high ground. PNG is a kleptocracy. Mike Manning, a long time PNG resident and head of the local Transparency International branch, has recently estimated that a third of the country’s budget is simply stolen by politicians and bureaucrats. Inquiries in the past have revealed just how this is done. Alongside this looting has been the degradation of the country’s natural resources – in particular its forests – by corrupt bargains with foreign exploiters. This began even before independence in 1975, and continues today. There have been attempts to kill investigators.
Rudd wants to open a “new page” in the relationship. It would be better to throw away the book and start again. In a rational world, PNG would be recolonised.
On a slightly more serious note, I do believe that the VRWC has successfully concluded Operation ‘They are Waaaay too Dumb to See this One Coming!’, our plan to infiltrate a demi-conservative into the ALP as their leader.
I have found in a few test-posts that going on the leftist sites and praising KRudd for his conservative values and for slavishly following Howard’s policies really makes their heads explode.
It’s fun the whole family can enjoy.
MarkL
Canberra
Was in Kmart this morning and did’nt see any GGWS DVDs, but I was quite excited to see they’ve finally released the Hogfather miniseries on DVD here, and parted with my hard earned forthwith.
and 103/104, try Tanqueray Rangpur
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 12 17 at 02:05 AM • permalink
97 – yojimbo, check out this link. Miranda, maybe you should too. 6 stupid outrageous lies on war reporting by the MBM in the last 6 weeks, and I bet you believed them all.
ps MBM stands for “make believe media” – I like it better than MSM when discussing Iraq etc.
ps a request for the management – when you undertake your improvements to this site, could you consider having the browser return to the end of the thread after posting (or maybe have that as an option). regards – a user. ooo – an edit function on posts, and maybe a “quote reply” button would also be cool!
Rudd already has a room full of soiled poultry.
Australia’s wealth – and more importantly the ACTU’s wealth – is built on carbon output. Rudd may love the applause and adulation in Bali but back home he knows he will be dead meat if does the dirty on the unions. Kevni lies awake at night hoping that global warming turns out to be a scam. As the “global warming” year, 1998, slips further into the past be might just get his wish.
#124 Nah, that’s what spilchekker’s for. Werks for me eveyr time.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 02:47 AM • permalink
#129 You’re game, Peter m – I just stick with copy and paste and perview.
I’ll just creep back into the corner for when Andrea reads your presumptuous request.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 02:52 AM • permalink
- #130 Contrail.
No doubt his spin doctors are already working on how they can give Mr Rudd all the credit for Peace in Iraq and Global Warming Defeated.
After all both wonderful events look like occurring on Mr Rudd’s watch.
Now, if he can just hold back inflation, rising interest rates and industrial unrest, he might even make it to the end of his first term.
Peter M.; An “edit function on posts”? What is that? You don’t want to edit my func, do you?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 17 at 03:15 AM • permalink
I agree. PNG is a mountain of gold floating on a sea of oil and gas.
That the people are still piss poor pig hunters running around wearing cockrags and chucking spears through each other is a bloody disgrace.
And seeing we had the mandate from WW1 to 1975, it’s mostly our disgrace.
Another tragedy brought to you by the venerable honourable EG Whitlam and his comrades.
O/T
There is a real good stoush going on at Jen Marohasy’s blog based on some evidence that the IPCC failed to publish or edited out any dissenting views to Gorebal Warming on the first workgroup paper that makes up the famous IPCC ‘summary’.
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002627.html
The little kids who invade her blog who drone the global-warming-all-our-fault are screaming. One in particular wants to put an end to all those dissenting views. Funny that!
“The IPCC owe it to the world to explain who among their expert reviewers actually agree with their conclusions and who don’t,” says Natural Resources Stewardship Project Chair climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball. “Otherwise, their credibility, and the public’s trust of science in general, will be even further eroded.”
That the IPCC have let this deception continue for so long is a disgrace. Secretary General Ban Kai-Moon must instruct the UN climate body to either completely revise their operating procedures, welcoming dissenting input from scientist reviewers and indicating if reviewers have vested interests, or close the agency down completely. Until then, their conclusions, and any reached at the Bali conference based on IPCC conclusions, should be ignored entirely as politically skewed and dishonest.
link
Snowball’s chance in Bali!
- O/T
Well, whaddya know, down goes the Aussie stock market. Maybe it’s just part of the US sub-prime crisis, but still, I wonder how long before we begin hearing a repeat of Keating’s famous words “the recession we had to have”?The recession we had to vote for, more like it.
- The way I interpret the whole Bali stroke-for-stroke “where is the love comarde ?” fest is this:
1. The US came to the conference with the stance that we will not f@#k up our country first and second, any concessions from us means concessions from the developing nations (who pollute…a lot)
2. In response UN and EU heads and a few insignifcant small voice scream, cry and carry on like spoilt brats at this stance.
3. The US goes compassionate for an instance and on prompting says the magic words “We will come or remain at the negotiating table’
4. On hearing this some in the UN and EU have fellatio and become bravado that we made The US cave in. get the spin doctors now!!
5. Upshot, US walks away with dignity in tact. Everyone else is trying to take away some solace from what just happened. The Greenie’s are really really pissed off because a) no regressive, dark ages policies were ruled upon but most of all b) and this is what you didn’t hear much of and that is nuclear power became the choice over solar and wind to replace fossil fuel as the energy of choice. Watch the UK over the next few days to endorse this position
#140 I take it you’re talking about Luke and SJT. They’re serial reality deniers who seem omnipresent at that blog. I’m not sure they have any sort of life outside trolling there. Both of them are so tedious (and in Luke’s case so given to ad hominem attacks) that I long ago gave up reading what either of them write.
I see their reputation is in tact. I like the content of Jen M’s blog but like you I had to tediously scan the comment lines to see who authored. In the end I gave up. I would say Jen needs a good moderator like Andrea or Slatts on Bolt’s blog but I sound like one of those who wants to crush dissent.
First cab off the rank?
It didn’t take long for the action to start here, did it?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 06:24 AM • permalink
All of them, I reckon, Burbank.
I’m waiting for the breweries to go out in sympathy.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 06:40 AM • permalink
Airline baggage handlers are also considering a strike over the new year holiday season.
I’ve sent this to the Tele:
The news that Qantas baggage handlers may be going on strike over the holiday period, consequently ruining peoples’ travel plans, fills me with joy.
Finally, I get to use a line I’ve been waiting years for: To all those whose holidays have been stuffed by the Transport Workers Union, don’t blame me, I voted for the other guy…
Another fearless artist.
Well, except for the dangerous Presbyterians:
“you’re not allowed to represent him, and I thought I’d better not”
#90 This frivolity is going to piss Miranda off
I suspect everything pisses Miranda off. These will be going up any minute.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 17 at 07:26 AM • permalink
The US must have done ok, they’ve upset George null“Ooooo! theres some lovely filth down here Dennis” Monobot at the Gruinaid.
Ooooh Gorgeous George might have noticed Emperor “honest” Al Gore has no clothes on. (A large chunk of George bellow)
“Most of the other governments insisted that the cuts be made at home. But Gore demanded a series of loopholes big enough to drive a Hummer through. The rich nations, he said, should be allowed to buy their cuts from other countries. When he won, the protocol created an exuberant global market in fake emissions cuts. The western nations could buy “hot air” from the former Soviet Union. Because the cuts were made against emissions in 1990, and because industry in that bloc had subsequently collapsed, the former Soviet Union countries would pass well below the bar. Gore’s scam allowed them to sell the gases they weren’t producing to other nations. He also insisted that rich nations could buy nominal cuts from poor ones. Entrepreneurs in India and China have made billions by building factories whose primary purpose is to produce greenhouse gases, so that carbon traders in the rich world will pay to clean them up.”
Wouldn’t it be funny to see the green loons do a Trotsky on Gores ass?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 17 at 07:31 AM • permalink
Ooops the masks slipped hasnt it?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 17 at 07:37 AM • permalink
#153 the guy says “you’re not allowed to represent him, and I thought I’d better not” but then it says “Temby doesn’t believe in God”
He needs a better understanding of the rules : If you aren’t part of the religion you can still eat yummy bacon.
My ignorance is showing : who are the 5 cat like dolls in the picture to the left of Hanuman (or is it Chewbacca?)
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 17 at 07:37 AM • permalink
At news.com.au we read:
Fran Bailey has won a recount in the Victorian regional seat of McEwan by just 12 votes in one of the most extraordinary results in recent electoral history.
She lost the first count.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 17 at 07:41 AM • permalink
That means the likely result will be:
Labor 83 seats
Coalition 65 seats
Independents 2The margin is 9 seats. About 2.5%. Rudd will not be feeling safe, as there was a fairly large protest vote in some seats, and many marginals created in otherwise safe coalition seats, which can swing back just as easily.
Long time – lots can happen.
The interesting part will be which independent in the Senate that Rudd beggars himself to – Zenephon or Fielding.
#162 its official single 30ish year old men suck.
Why do you say that? Lacking details I’ll assume the problem is with you. (ducks, runs and hides)
#164 just purchased my first iPod. I hate it
Did it strangle your puppy and run off with your wife?
(a lone tumbleweed drifts across the unkempt lawn of timblair.net)
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 17 at 11:23 AM • permalink
The new government wasting more of our taxes. Funny, I don’t recall them asking us during the election if they could do this.
#166 – Burbank – this sort of cash will buy some serious suicide belts, lay off our new overlords!!!!
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 17 at 11:33 AM • permalink
Apologies if this has already been posted, but have ago at what these dickwads got up to in Bali so they can tell us how to fight global warming.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 17 at 11:36 AM • permalink
#139 Disela man ia, Whitlam, emi nogat save tumas! Emi ting olsem inap long givim independence igo long PNG, ol lain bilong hap bai lusim ol kastom bilong en na sanup tru long democracy. Emi ting olsem oli bai lusim ting ting long ol wantok bilong ol na usim vote bilong en long man husat i bai lukautim bisnis bilong ol. Nogat! Oli usim vote igo long wantok bilong en husat i givim bikpela moni long ol. Ol man husat i kamap MP, oli save usim wok bilong en long kisim planti moni tasol. Emi les long wori long olgeta pipol husat i stap long electorate bilong en.
Planti man meri husat i stap long bus, i no save long rit na rait. Emi no save gut long tok pisin. Emi save tok ples tasol. Yu ting olsem oli inap long save long democracy?
Questions to follow. Sharpe out.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 12 17 at 11:39 AM • permalink
#169 – Richard – have you bin into the schnapps???
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 17 at 11:44 AM • permalink
#169/170 for the Tok Pisin (PNG Pidgin) illiterate out there, here is a translation.
This Whitlam, he’s not very smart. He thought that just by giving PNG it’s independence, that the people there would forget their customs and embrace democracy. He thought that they would forget their clan and tribal system and use their vote for a person who would best represent their interests. No! They use their vote for the clan/tribe member who offers them the most money. Those who become MPs use their position to garner wealth for themselves. They couldn’t care less about their constituents.
There are many people in the bush who are illiterate. They don’t even speak Pidgin. They only speak their local tribal dialect. Do you think that they are able to understand the concept of democracy?
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 12 17 at 12:04 PM • permalink
So. Mr. “I’ll be back on Monday” Blair is probably sleeping off the jet lag and the shlivovitz on his living room sofa with his shoes hanging off his toes, and his bags lying on the floor, and we are left to entertain ourselves once again. I say we paint his face yellow and slip his dangling hand into a bowl of warm water.
Actually I think Mr Blair is still looking for his belt.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 17 at 12:21 PM • permalink
So I’m learning The Hanukah Song, and I came to two realizations:
1) I can’t sing for shit.
2) I can’t play guitar for shit.
#1 is understandable, because I’ve got one of those deep voices that’s more suited to movie trailers (“In a world where…”) than singing. But damn, I’ve been goofing around on the gee-tar for three years and I still can’t strum without it sounding like I’m slapping the strings to death with the pick.
Ah, well. I’m married, so it’s not like I’m losing opportunities to seduce chicks with my six-string.
#178 use a thinner pick and hit it less hard.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 12 17 at 03:05 PM • permalink
#166 It was bad enough with the previous government donating around $16m a year to the that neck of the woods. (No links, sorry – lost all my bookmarks a couple of months back and still regrouping).
I guess they just can’t get enough guns.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 04:04 PM • permalink
Just when you thought it was safe to get out from under that table:
NEW Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says the war in Afghanistan will be lost unless NATO and its close allies change tactics, overhauling military and civil programs designed to bring stability to the country.
Bring on the bloody moabs, ffs. Talk about a moron. Who voted for this pack of half-brained gibbons?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 04:10 PM • permalink
Actually, on further reading, he is probably not tooooo far off the mark, but I’m pissed because I’m pretty sure that the previous Defence Minister (that’d be Brendan Nelson) said a few of the same sorts of things.
If NATO countries would honour their commitments to the treaty there might be a bit more solid progress made, and if the Brits were allowed to do their job properly instead of lickspittles and cowards like Brown and Blair before pulling them back before the job’s done it might be a bit different.
I still think Dear Leader and his cadre are a pack of gibbons, though.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 17 at 04:13 PM • permalink
- I missed this one: Janet carves off a little back-bacon
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22908896-5013450,00.html
It ain’t right…but needs must.
Giving Blairites first crack at these .
Been carryin ‘em around the world for over 16 years…not mint, but never opened.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 17 at 07:54 PM • permalink
Sure enough, there’s bubble gum.
By now it’s texture would be similar to the contents of the Tardis’s glove box after that ill-fated trip to the Silk Road
(never use the Patented Assyro-Hurrian Compressible Opiator unless the end-product is to be consumed within 365.25 days.)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 17 at 08:56 PM • permalink
Fuck that…my idea, my funny ha-ha, not theirs, mine.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 17 at 09:39 PM • permalink
#98, While we’re at it…I “outted” Margo’s Maid over a year ago…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 17 at 09:41 PM • permalink
Nir Shaviv was also busy in Israeal.
So Tim, did you hook you with the Judean People’s Liberation Front or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 12 18 at 12:46 AM • permalink
Looking forward to trip news. Welcome back.