G’day TWOPpers. What the heck-diddly has been going on with Wikipedia? Monday’s feature story was When God Writes Your Love Story, then Friday they had Everything Tastes Better With Bacon. What? Even a copy of Cloudstreet?
Just as well I’d made several trips to the UWA book sale. No copies of Keepsake, which was a fucking outrage. That fatuous rainmaker Bento was there, too: “No Halcyon Hall! At $25 it was a bit steep.” 
This was much cheaper, but no deal. 
This was even cheaper, but was only picked up to be photographed. 
I can’t put this one down. Of course, when I don’t have my nose in a book I am a healthy open-air boy. Why don’t you let me write your love story? 
TWOP footnote, from Teh Wiki: “American college professors Margaret and Dwight Peterson responded to the Ludys’ book by writing an essay called God Does Not Want to Write Your Love Story, in which the Petersons argue that the book makes young people see marriage as a fantasy comparable to that of Disney Princesses, and that this fantasy often results in disappointment”.
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Good to see that some people have come to their senses and given Macca away:
What can one say about a bloke who’s so up himself that daylight is a discovery.
BSWAM will no doubt appreciate the reference ;)
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I feel that he has an absolute loathing for ignorant country bumpkins he talks to and despite this, still can’t stand him.
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A rustic version of the urban “shock jocks” so prevalent on commercial radio.
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BTW, what happened to “Weehend Worstof” this week.
The thrill of the imminent “Fathers’ Day” too much for you?
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Make that …”weekend”….
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I fired him. I’m in charge now!
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You are the new ‘Canon” ?
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….with the “Digit Dick” ?!?
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….or “Weekend”….
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Macca is a headcase inside a knob inside a fruitcake. The turducken of wierdos.
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He’s no Rusty, for sure.
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Yeah. I’ll make sure I tell Dad. If he ever calls.
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Dude: it’s Father’s Day. You’re supposed to call him!
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Mum says I can’t. She doesn’t like to talk about it. Sometimes I send an SMS to Dad and pretend to be Freo Cookster.
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Forget about your mum. And is it fair on other people to impersonate them? Cookster has his own problems. Be a man and take control of your destiny.
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Mum says you are not very nice and I have to get off the internet now.
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She got that right, buddy. Call me when you man up.
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I just don’t pick up the loathing that you seem to hear. To me, he’s just another one that romanticises the idiocy of rural life.
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The wise words of a typical “Metrocentric Twat” (©Rolly2008 ) who hasn’t yet discovered that milk doesn’t originate in cardboard and plastic containers.
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A wise man once said, “You can’t milk a fixie.” Think about it.
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You can beat an egg, but you can’t beet a root.
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Really? You don’t think his endless enthusiasm for what these morons are doing isn’t faked?
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But how could he keep it up for so long, without the facade ever slipping? If I ever happen to stray across his show, after 15 minutes of rubes talking about rain or their upcoming ag show, I’m ready to put my arm into a combine harvester.
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He keeps it up because he loathes them. You think he could keep doing that if he liked them? Only hate could keep that shit going.
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But surely it’s easier just to loathe them without also subjecting yourself to their incessant complaining? Like I do.
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No. It’s not. You need reinforcement.
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Ahh. Like in the way I keep putting on 6PR. Or buying sarsparilla.
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You buy a kole beer, but can you ever finish it.
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It’s a commercial relationship,he listens to their shit for a small ABC stipend and they in return listen to his shit .Now what he do in his spare time; who know , who care. My guess : the usual Austrian activities , keeps his dungeon in tip top shape and travels along the Perth to Darwin highway disguised as s part time meth dealer and enviropoofter with a fake beard: in a 4wd with attached vacuum cleaner/ chainsaw and with stickers like “Save the wails” and “Pieces to all humans”. He’s already done a “backgrounder” on the people he intends to meet.
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For $175,000 a year, working 1 day a week I’d listen to bumpkins for a few hours too.
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I’m not sure that “faked” is the right word. It is very hard to express. I remember ages ago the Weekend Australian magazine did a big article on him. It was one of those funny stories where you had to read between the lines to get the gist of what everyone was saying. I don’t think anyone wanted to just come out and say he was a bit unhinged.
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XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX cunt.
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His enthusiasm for playing the trombone – did no one else notice that?!
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ferrous materials do oxidise when exposed to water vapour and oxygen
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Surprised as I am to see that a copy of “Hudson River Villas” has made it to Perth, I am equally glad Bento did not waste his $25. The book is riddled with errors from end to end and omits extant houses in favor of demolished ones on account of the simple fact that the author managed to alienate a goodly number of their owners.
In his defense, I freely admit that said owners come pre-alienated for your convenience and also that Halcyon Hall, developed as a resort, would not be included as matter of course (its ommission in “Pleasure of Ruins” is a harder case to argue).
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That’s reassuring – thanks Barkeep.
It would seem there is also some difference between New York Style and Perth Style when it comes to the definition of ‘villa’. New York Style being ‘a large and luxurious country mansion’; Perth Style being ‘a 3×1 single storey dog box in a complex of 8 identical dogboxes, in any one of the non-descript middle ring suburbs’.
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Does a Villa have a shared driveway? I’m sure Tiberius’ villa on Capri had a communal agapantha garden bed and one brick drive.
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He may have been a formidable general, but even Tiberius knew not to risk the wrath of the strata body.
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Note left – “Visitor chariots only cunt!”
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Nice little villa, near Perth $367k jubbly
Jamie
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If you are in New York and someone refers to a villa they are usually referring to what would be generally termed an actual villa.
When they refer to “acres” or “gardens” or “woods” and they are not actually obviously referring to acres and gardens and woods – then they may be more in keeping with “Perth Style.” Or as I like to think of it: “International Evil and Stupid Developer Style.”
Oddly enough, due to the Dutch colonial history of New York, a house in New York State cannot be properly called a mansion unless it is part of or developed upon the manor grants of the original Dutch settlement or immediate British and American claims upon same (around 1640 through 1800). This led to deep resentment among the Vanderbilt class and the satirical referrence to huge palatial houses as “cottages” both there and in New England.
It is not uncommon for a “mansion” in this region to be a very small (although, relatively speaking, very old) farmhouse and a “cottage” to be a luxurious large-scale house.
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A chinese student asked me once, “What is the difference between a mistress and a mansion?” One is a building and one is a woman.
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Or as Wattsie would say, one costs you a fortune … etc.
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Kind of a dumb question…but the NYS “villas” were usually centered on farms that fed New York City. That was how their owners derived their weath.
What is the farmland like around Perth? Google seems to suggest that the countryside is very arid, but there must be a belt of farmland somewhere or the city would not (could not, I assume) have grown during the time it did.
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At the moment it is very green, but that is a rarity. The south west corner of WA has been becoming drier over the last few decades. Dry land farming for the most part , which well and truly peters out by Southern Cross, east of Perth. (a craphole). The south of the state has more vineyards and the remants of a once thriving dairy industry. Williams south east of perth would have been a rich farmer town, (I’m sure it has featured here before) East of Perth, it used to be mostly small towns with family farms. Now they are massive enterprises with mega machines. The only way it can be made to pay.
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Cuntry party homeland. Agglomerate the farms, evacuate the towns, eviscerate the services, then bemoan the lack of money spent by (now absent) taxpayers.
get fucked if I want to spend a day in a dungeon above ground I’ll go to Kardinya
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“The south west corner of WA has been becoming drier over the last few decades”,especially run off
.http://watercorporation.com.au/water-supply-and-services/rainfall-and-dams
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Lots of farmland surrounding Perth, but the soil is essentially sand. Farmland is being converted to villas (Perth Style).
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Yes. I have been to Seminyak
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If the farmland around Perth were a lawn, it would have to be registered.
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