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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 12:21 pm
Anti-APEC activist Paddy Gibson:
This year on the radical left, there has been an accepted wisdom that a key component of our activism should be building support for a major mobilisation at the APEC conference in Sydney in September. However, earnest discussion of the political content of such a mobilisation is only really beginning.
Translation: The ferals want to riot but have no clue why. Too bad Paddy himself is locked out:
University tutor Paddy Gibson, 24, is on a list of people who NSW Police have said cannot enter any APEC security area.
He’ll have to stay at home with his friends.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
“If students were offered a decent living allowance that wasn’t below the poverty line, then sharehousing would be way more affordable and our life experience, our community experience would be enhanced.”
And if students got a job and earned their own way (as many worthwhile ones do), and contributed something useful to the world while enjoying the privilege of an education, their life experience would be greatly enhanced.
What a whiny little bitch.
So, he’s 24, a University tutor, obviously passed one or more University degrees with a taxpayer subsidy, now he wants taxpayers to further subsidize his housing in inner city Newtown?
Its taxpayers that should be protesting, not the cast of the young ones.
Five things the comrades don’t know about Paddy:
1. His real name is Tarquin Fink-Nottle*
2. His father is the senior partner in a prominant and conservative law firm
3. He beds the female students in his tutorial classes in reverse alphabetical order
4. His trust fund is now worth more than the annual amount of social security payments made to people who read Leftwrite
5. He’s had his penis surgically lengthenedBut to be honest, I don’t worry so much about Paddy; by 35 he’ll be married, paying off a mortgage and wondering what the hell he did during his 20s.
* With apologies to PG Wodehouse.
The piled-up dishes, the dead beanbag, the unpaid bills and the mouldy fridge; it may be grot and chaos to some, but sharehousing is an important rite of passage, say the experts – and more and more young people are missing out.
I “sharehoused” while in grad school (20 odd years ago), and the one bum on the roster was tossed out on his keister for being a parasite. So it’s not like “sharehousing” is a new concept, nor does one have to live like a pig to do so. This SMH “journalist”, Sunanda Creagh, probably baths once a week, to save Gaia, y’know…..
That Gibby willingly lives in such grody quarters with associates of the same tastes says much about him…..and none of it good.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 01 at 11:38 AM • permalink
I’ll defy police
Big talk from somebody named Paddy.
“The Stop Bush Coalition is determined to march into the APEC security area and I will march with them.
Is there a leftist with an original thought anywhere on the planet? Anywhere? And what will they do with themselves in approximately 15 months when the Bushhitler leaves office? I smell a massive Zeitgeist meltdown brewing.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 01 at 12:37 PM • permalink
I had quite a variety of living “arrangements” in my callow youth (and none of them involved living with mommie and daddy). I wouldn’t go back and change any of them.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 01 at 12:40 PM • permalink
And what will they do with themselves in approximately 15 months when the Bushhitler leaves office? I smell a massive Zeitgeist meltdown brewing.
Could be interesting… I doubt they given it any thought whatsoever, now that you mention it. They’ve been telling everyone who’ll listen that the Chimperor will suspend the elections just like he’s suspended the US Constitution… although Hugo Chávez doing just that elicits nothing but praise from these same little ratbags.
Lefty Logic™, go figure.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 09 01 at 12:58 PM • permalink
So, these idiots, having too much time on their hands, are going to protest at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference? Well, they’ve made the right choice. If they had decided to protest against the Pacific Asian Commerce Organization’s conference – to be held this year in Macao at the Pok-Ho Hotel, Casino and Convention Center – they would have have been rounded up by our security and chucked into the Seventh Hell of Soap and Flea Collars.
It’s time to bring back Al Capp’s SWINE: Students Wildly Indignant with Everything…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 01 at 04:01 PM • permalink
If students get given more money, they’ll simply bid up the price of rental accommodation (that’s the market for you – if demand increases, so will prices) and screw the rest of us. To hell with them. Living in poverty and sharing with a gaggle of others is part of the rite of passage of being a student.
If I had been given more money as a student, I would have been drunk 5 nights a week instead of 4. You have to think about your priorities when budgeting as a student.
Maybe this tool is missing the point that people put up with living at home with mum and dad for a lot longer in order to save up a nice, big deposit so that they can buy a house? In other words, it can be a sound financial decision to not move out of the family home. Hell, given what I am paying in rent now, I’m prepared to move our family of four back in with my parents in order to save a big wad of cash.
It might also be a pain in the arse putting up with mum and dad and their old fashioned ideas like “clean up after yourself, put the butter back in the fridge after you’ve used it, put your dirty clothes in the washing machine, put your clean clothes back in the wardrobe – and hang them up properly, wash the dishes before going to bed, it’s Tuesday – have a shower for goodness sake, it’s 8am – time to get up and do some work, it’s Saturday – the lawn needs mowing” etc etc etc.
PS – in the Bill of Rights, there is no 17th right that says “All students shall have the right to live cheaply in Newtown”. Sorry, but if you want cheap rent, you can bugger off to Auburn or Penrith or one of those places on the outer fringe.
PPS – and I am sure these tools would be the first to protest very loudly if a developer decided to knock down a few buildings and actually increase the supply of housing in the area.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 01 at 05:31 PM • permalink
Paddy is a un iversity tutor? Of what sunject and object.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 01 at 06:29 PM • permalink
THE piled-up dishes, the dead beanbag, the unpaid bills and the mouldy fridge;
I used to live like that, but then I grew up.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 01 at 06:33 PM • permalink
“And what will they do with themselves in approximately 15 months when the Bushhitler leaves office? I smell a massive Zeitgeist meltdown brewing.”
Nah, they will, in their blissful igmorance, claim the only reason hes not running again is because hes scared of them.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 01 at 07:25 PM • permalink
“And what will they do with themselves in approximately 15 months when the Bushhitler leaves office? I smell a massive Zeitgeist meltdown brewing.”
“Dammit, that Romney/Giuliani/Thompspon is WORSE THAN BUSH!”
Look for that around November 5…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 01 at 08:00 PM • permalink
If you want to have some fun yanking the chains of inner-city lefty wankers, follow the link and complete this survey on the future of a park near me. At present, it’s an ex-looney bin that has been pretty much abandoned and gone to hell. It’s also prime waterfront property. As part of the “future vision” of the site, I said that I hope that by 2020 it will be covered in a Westfield Mall and tall apartment buildings.
The loonies that used to reside here were let out some years back and are now running the local council.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 01 at 08:58 PM • permalink
A “sharehouse”? WTF is a “sharehouse”? Whatever happened to the good old hippie word “commune”? Or are the people who become “sharehousers” incapable of even the level of work needed to keep a commune up to snuff beyond them, so that they had to come up with some other name?
Sharehouse: a warehouse for failed hippies.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 01 at 09:16 PM • permalink
Sorry, that should have been Students Wildly Indignant with Nearly Everything…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 01 at 09:29 PM • permalink
This is one event where Police should be able to enact Section 10 of Tim’s Bill of Rights.