I don’t know what this means, it just seems that it should be here. Northbridge.
I feel I should make it easier for people. Here are some phrases commenters can cut and paste. Why type them out yourself?
Get a life.
You obviously don’t know how to have fun.
Why shouldn’t real Australians talk about immigration?
There’s a reason people have fuck off we’re full stickers. (There’s a persistent commenter who seems affronted that he can’t air his racist rantings here.)
Head up your arse (that is a direct quote from Paul Murray)
If you time the fall of the South Tower
That’s my Dad’s__________
Not you Greg.
Yes you Greg.
I have only had one boyfriend and I don’t have big tits.
It’s not about the rooting.
Despite my obvious and major shortcomings, my activities make me superior to you.
The gun was an obvious metaphor.
My rack
I wish to promote Angus Burgers.
Ah, my Baravan appears to be on fire.
Our Nikki has the guts to…
I touched her breasts. They’re real.
You don’t have the balls.
Kahunas.
Good riddance.
The Worst of Perth 
Can we not have the racist jerk comments as a Worst post LA? Then we can all rip into him.
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it will only encourage them i’m afraid, they’ll think we are listening…
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You don’t have the Baravan superior to my balls. You obviously don’t know how to have fun, get a head up your arse (Not you Greg, fuck off we’re full). If you time the shortcomings, my activities make me appear to be on fire.
It’s not about the kahunas. There’s a reason people have big tits, why shouldn’t real Australians? “That’s my Dad’s rack. I touched them, they’re real.” That is a direct quote from Paul Murray. Despite my obvious and major breasts, I have only had one boyfriend fall off the South Tower (Yes you Greg, good riddance) and I don’t wish to promote Angus Burgers.
Our Nikki has the racist stickers to talk about immigration and the gun was an obvious metaphor.
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That is a fantastic one.
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Makes sense to me, I’ll second it .
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Hey! Easy on!
My Baravan is my only (and very tenuous) connection with sanity.
People like you should be exterminated on the grounds of cruelty to dumb commenters.
Who the fuck are you anyway.
Identify yourself.
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The Baravan was an obvious metaphor, it’s not about my obvious and major shortcomings.
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So, I do have a Baravan that is superior to your balls.
I’m sure that it will be pleased to know that.
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i just wanted to say that i have had more than one boyfriend, often at the same time, i have big tits and despite what anyone else tells you, it is all about the rooting.
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Was one of the boyfriends Greg mp? And did he have the Kahunas?
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there’s a very good chance one of them was greg, shazza. i believe he only wanted me for my rack, but i said, “you don’t have the balls!” (or the kahunas for that matter). Good riddance and get a life.
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oh, and i just wanted to add – Despite my obvious and major shortcomings, (like being a complete skank) my activities make me superior to you :)
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I once had a sign by the front door ( given to me by one of my less than diplomatic mates ):
Please Knock Firmly and Roundly;
I like firm round knockers.
The sign is long gone, but the sentiment remains.
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am I not predictable and repetitive enough to warrant my own cliche?
huh, huh?
I may sulk
I was always curious what ‘real’ Australians are. Is that to differentiate them from imaginary ones?
as an immigrant myself, I am considering marketing bumper stickers that say ‘Australian on Purpose’
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I suspect the ‘real Australians’ are the same mob of wankers watching Hey Hey Its Saturday on Wednesdays.
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and writing in to complain about Harry Connick
there should be another cliche up there:
‘political correctness gone mad’
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“Whatever the connotations of ‘black face’ in the US, we’re not in the US. We are in Australia. Harry Connick should show a little more cultural sensitivity and not expect us to pander to his cultural values over our own.”
Angry of Mayfair
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And don’t you just love the comments from rednecks telling Harry Connick Jnr to get a life.
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I particularly liked one pedant spouting that his name is just Harry Connick, and why do the media insist on adding ‘junior’ as if it’s a title.
also the arsehat insisting the skit could not be racist, because one of the singers was of Lebanese heritage.
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And how ironic, 5 of the 6 members were immigrants themselves.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/08/2708125.htm
As for Harry Connick – he’s always been a gormless twit
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And it’s Their ABC’s topic of the day.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/08/2707994.htm
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“…..At a press conference this morning, Opposition frontbencher Helen Coonan said she thought Connick Jr had got it right, labelling the skit “disgusting”. ”
Just as I would label the same silly pollie as narrow minded bigoted and popularist twit.
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And if Rattler runs with this and defends Connick, he will be exposed as the hypocrite he is considering his usual comments on out Indigenous bretheren.
People, it’s called Context.
And before people get upset Dave Chapple – an African American, has appeared on US Pay TV in white face.
Talk about double standards.
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But then there was that time racism saved his life, Frank.
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Oh and more double stands – where was the outrage last week when the kid smeared himself with Vegemite on Red Faces and WON !!!!!
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Oh and Chris Lilley appeared on the logies, playing a chinese person, poretending to be an aboriginal – and got Cathy Freeman to appear in the skit, and she took it in good humour as well.
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If we can’t paint our faces and pretend to be monkeys, the terrorists have won.
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That’s because Dave is fuckin hilarious, and getting to a finer point, Frank.
The hey hey thing was rehashed from 20 years ago, people (some of us) have moved on. It’s just not funny.
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No Shazza, it’s called double standards.
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Indeed Frank, but what’s wrong with that?
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Double standards is two flags on the one pole.
Not two poles in the one place.
Geez, you can be thick sometimes, shaz.
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No way am I linking to that.
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Coward.
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You try googling two poles in one place, with safe search off, then.
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ok, i did it snuff. didn’t realise you could turn off the safe search. thanks!
best i came up with was a site called 2 holes 2 poles.
won’t link to it out of respect for the more sensitive souls here.
you can imagine the content.
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Were the two holes Big Ramifications and Kill Teen Angst thingybob?
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Perhaps, I can, mp. Of course mine was a merely rhetorical statement, but you’re a fearless googler, I’m sure. Speaking of being spoilt for choice, in regard to your recent journey, Gigagalleries has quite a list, so I’m told.
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merci snuff!
you are the veritable font.
and shazza, those holes didnt look like any i recognised,sorry :)
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True, I’m not the size 10 I used to be. Though I am a little way off being considered a member of the wider community.
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Boom! Boom!
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Oh and to Harry Connick – Mr Pot, Meet Mr Kettle :-)
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What was that point you were making above about context Frank?
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Oh and Connick is backpedalling at a huge rate of knots.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26182622-12377,00.html
Then why make a huge fuss over it originally, your original comments on Red Faces was enough.
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Frank does Harry vote Green?
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His father was the New Orleans District Attorney – so I am assume that he has conservative views.
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I’m not exactly sure what your point is Frank – all the examples quoted above look pretty bad to me.
the fact is that regardless of who points it out, blackface is bobbins.
I found Chris Lilley’s stuff equally cringeworthy, and no appeals to post-PC irony could save it.
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There’s a crapload of whiteface out there. The recent avalanche starting from Whoopie Goldberg at the FREAKEN ACADEMY AWARDS. Hahaha, didn’t we laff? Whoopie! Pretending to be white! w00t you go girl!!!
But Sam Newman pretending to be Nicky Winmar a few months later? That’s just wrong.
Should I be offended by this recent movie?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381707/
Could the thought police let me know where I stand. I’m confused.
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Yes Big R, we know.
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go ahead, be offended
yes, it’s shit
yes, it is racist and relies on stereotypes for humour
whiting up and blacking up are just as bad as South Koreans making North Korean jokes and Perth people making jokes about Bunbu… er…oh.
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There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.
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“relies on stereotypes for humour”
Remind me not to laugh at 99.9% of future jokes.
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I have never used stereotypes for humour. especially not racial ones
I rely on hastily targeted ad hominem insults, gratuitous swearing, puns, double entendres, and some puerile scatology thrown in.
so there, cunt
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I share your ‘rage, skink: where is my cliche?
You know, TWOP isn’t as funny as it used to be.
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Ouch!
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Isn’t the Angus Beef one yours, DFOC?
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I beg your pardon, Bento: that is fattyboomba huckster Cookster.
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My mistake. You were born an Angry Whopper man, etc.
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“Australian On Purpose” Eh?
As a “ten pound tourist” who had his 10 quid paid by a government grateful to obtain his indubitably superior intellect and qualifications, I might justifiably say:
“One of Australia’s Chosen”
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I quite like that
or something along the lines of ‘I had to qualify to be an Aussie, how about you?’
perhaps anyone diplaying a ‘we’re full’ sticker could be pulled over and assessed by the same points criteria as immigrants. those that fail could go the Christmas Island, or perhaps to one of those places that gets visited by tsunami, where they could sit and watch Hey Hey and Sam Newman all day
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I have only had one boyfriend and I don’t have big tits.
Not you Greg.
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Yes you Greg.
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It’s not about the rooting.
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it is.
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My rack
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You don’t have the balls.
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I thought that was skink
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Kahunas.
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my balls nestling on your rack
touch them, they’re real
Despite my obvious and major shortcomings, resting my plums on your funbags makes me superior to you.
it’s not about the rooting
it’s about the frottage
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There’s a reason people have fuck off we’re full stickers.
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and the fromage.
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Sorry, but I also have to go with mp on that one, B.T.
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She edits. I was born a cut and paste man…
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ah yes b.t. unfortunately being a self confirmed and well documented bull shit artiste, i am unable to tell it like it is and must edit everything to add and increase the BS value.
i totally respect and admire your self discipline in sticking to the facts :)
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You obviously don’t know how to have fun.
Why shouldn’t real Australians talk about immigration?
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This from WA Today.
Drive-by shooting on Lebanese cafe
CHLOE JOHNSON
October 8, 2009 – 8:10AM
A Lebanese cafe in East Victoria Park was riddled with bullets this morning in a drive-by shooting, police said.
Police said several bullets were fired through The Prophet cafe’s window about 12.30am while female staff were closing the Albany Highway eatery.
Police later found a burnt-out BMW four-wheel-drive, which they believe was connected to the shooting.
“A four-wheel-drive was seen going past where the shots were fired”, a police media spokesperson said.
No-one was hurt during the incident. Police have confirmed the gun was an obvious metaphor.
Anyone with information should contact crime stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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beautiful bento, beautiful :)
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Ah, my Baravan appears to be on fire.
Good riddance.
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One less, greater rarity.
Putting up the market value of my collectors piece quite nicely.
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can you be riddled with ‘several’ bullets?
they make a point of saying that the staff were female, but then neglect to tell us about their racks.
it’s just sloppy journalism.
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‘eatery’ ?
what kind of fucking word is that?
‘I have already used the word cafe in this sentence, so need a synonym so that I don’t repeat myself. Pass me that thesaurus from 1952.’
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That language is fine skink.
There are unconfirmed reports that during the drive-by one staff member hid in the pooery.
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Who says TWOP isn’t as funny as it used to be? That’s comedy gold Bento.
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Not as funny as J.Ho Jnr, Liberal party impresario an latent wanting to knock off treasurer Whine Swine while simultaneously wantin to knock off Mal Trumble.
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Yep, that is hilarious Bill.
Frank must be salivating.
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Oh, I forgot something for Frank. “That double pole is another example of Liberal Party lies. And to make my point, here is a video of a young Jeff Newman.”
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Oh Skink, yours would be Patti Chong is a XXXXXXX XXX XXX
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thank you
now I feel loved
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DFOC, ummm? You Bubble Headed Booby! Your apalling spelling has besmirched my reputation. Ohh the pain, the pain of it all.
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We feel your pain.
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Pining for the Salt lakes DFOC?
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Three sleeps to go, shazza: I’ll just make it, I think.
I’m still waiting for my cliche.
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That was your cliche
You Bubble Headed Booby! Your apalling spelling has besmirched my reputation. Ohh the pain, the pain of it all.
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Sorry: bit of a slowie, me.
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TLA can’t we please have something about Fucking Outrage and Angry Whoppers?
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Catetorise him, TLA.
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Catetorise him as dead in the paper .
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In an apalling manner, of course.
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Although another sign would help, I think they’re an attempt to prevent double booking.
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Fuck, I hate tattoos.
Beauty bugger-uppers, all of them.
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You can remove a tatt, but a Baravan will sit mouldering in the garden for ever.
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At my present rate of progress, you might be right at that!!
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In that case Rolly, I am most glad to inform you I will be adding to/finalising some ink work tomorrow before commencing a new piece.
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Piece of what?
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Oh I should have put in a snuff quote.
“Like this?”
(Insert link of Shane Bourne in drag &cetera)
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Thanks, but there’s really no need, TLA. That’s him on the right. Bandicoot. 1976.
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I just chose that at random knowing you’d find it.
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Shane seems to have a tortoise down his pants.
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The guy second in from the left has got the Kahunas.
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Possibly, shaz.
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the chappie in the animal print trousers looks like he is wearing a cod piece
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This is my husband’s cut and paste list….. So tell me what, “nerd or Geek” goes around our suburbs looking for unusual and strange “things” and thinks it’s so cool and funny, at someone’s else’s expense. You are a sad bunch of lonely twats!!!!!
PS yes my husband has a funny list but he earns a F##K load more money than you will ever see in your life time!!! Not you Greg. CHEERS
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And back to the photo again. I think it may have something to do with Future Perthers.
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Back to the photo? What’s teh photo got to do with anything?
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it has a certain vibrancy that the single pole lacks.
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A Polish duo.
In harmony as well as vibrancy.
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I’m with Curious on this. I’ve passed the twin poles quite a lot recently and it does add to the vibrancy of Northbridge. Hell, that place has so much vibrancy now that all the cobblestones at the corner of Lake and James are coming loose. I should know, I’ve only had one boyfriend and I don’t have big tits.
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Was his name Greg?
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Hang on, TLA. Didn’t Icy Pole‘s have two popsticks ? I’m sure she’d prefer two, although he seems comfortable with one.
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I notice we never get the staple of the newspaper letter writer, “My dictionary defines…”
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I thought that was more the staple of the lame wedding speechmaker.
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Having attended 150 weddings, and written many hundreds of letters to ed, I have to disagree.
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More the case of the staple that got caught in my teeth while I was picking them in the process of trying to think of something/anything original to write
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Funniest post ever!
My biggest problem with the Fuck off we’re full sticker is that they are purporting to speak for all of us.
If it said “Fuck off I’m full” then I could live with it.
My dictionary defines “Fuck off I’m full” as the correct response to the waiter with the dessert menu.
ps: the staple of the lame wedding speech maker is – Without further ado….. and then they keep adooing all over the place.
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“My dictionary defines “Fuck off I’m full” as the correct response to the waiter with the dessert menu.”
Or perhaps the response to the anklebiters who want you to take them to the park to kick the footy when you’ve just returned home from a long Saturday lunch session with the lads.
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Didn’t someone once say “We will decide who comes to this country, and the jokes that they can make when they come!”?
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I don’t think ‘joke’ was in Howard’s vocabulary, was it?
Unless you count his hilarious ‘bowling a cricket ball’ sketch, which is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
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I seem to recall he also did a good ‘tripping up steps’ one. Not in the same league as the cricket ball debacle, but still funny and pleasurable (love a bit of schadenfreude) to watch.
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More tragic.
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Tragic.
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Actually I was quite embarrassed by that cricket thing. He’s supposed to be Australian for fucks sake.
It was like if the American President went out to throw the first pitch in the superbowl and, well, ended up looking like John Howard.
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I’m not sure if you’re takin’ this piss, but Obama did rock-all better than Johnny.
“at least he didn’t bounce it” — it looked like it bounced to me
And yes, Johnny’s bowling was an TOTAL embarrassment. I’ve read lengthy articles on Johnny being a “cricket tragic”. How school friends testify that he would be in the library with a hidden radio, listening to the cricket.
I often wonder if this school friend[s] is just another lobbyists with his snout in the trough trying to earn some brownie points. The cricket tragic thing smells of horseshit to me.
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Cricket tragic was my third favourite description of the lying rodent.
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and “first pitch in the superbowl” and you’re not sure if I was taking the piss?
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OK then, I’ll bite.
So you were aware of Obama’s sub-par effort at first pitch? But you said it was at the superbowl, which is supposed to be humorous?
And this makes it less cringeworthy, how? Have I got this correct? I’m very confused. Please explain.
They were both very cringeworthy to me. Bad analogy. Substituting “superbowl” for “baseball” is irrelevant in this context. Don’t be a smart ass.
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Apart from the fact that Obama’s was cringeworthy and he looked like a total girl, and Johnny’s was very VERY cringeworthy and he looked like a total geriatric
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J.Ho senile could run rings roun Jnr who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Monkey tricks comes to mind when thinking of Jnr. J.Ho senile could dog whistle” FOWF” while increasing immigration.
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That’s my Dad’s Pole
Good Lord, tried to read The Worst today. Did anyone see the worst ad on page 11? Also, apparently the EU is “plotting” to be a superstate. Someone call the Political Science faculty, they should be onto this!
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Read that collaboration of dead dick thinking promulgated on dead trees ?
I’m looking forward to Monday when that fluffhead Nurry gives back the morning program on 720 to Geoff, who, for all his strengths and/or weaknesses, doesn’t sound like a worn out car alternator with failing windings and a loose bearing or two.
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I have only had one boyfriend and I don’t have big tits.
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I’ve “had” several boyfriends who were trying to impress my daughters and left them looking like big tits.
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Time for a Creed Bratton quote:
“I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60’s, I made love to many, many women. Often outdoors… in the mud and the rain. And it’s possible a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing.”
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Huge work, Frank, with your various links. I dips me lid.
“Yeah b-b-but, that example was funny.”
“Yeah b-b-but that was at the Logies and the cultural elite were chuckling along.”
Double standards, all the way. Even Harry Connick’s outrage seemed racist to me. Only slightly racist. But…
“We’ve tried hard not to make blacks look like buffoons”
That skit seemed like ya average doo wop dancing to me… just goofed up a bit. Just coz they’re black doesn’t mean I should be offended. Or should I, Harry?
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I see Youtube has pulled Harry’s preacher “by request.”
Oh dear.
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Oh dear, indeed. You do know the meaning of Embedding disabled by request. Watch on YouTube, don’t you, BR ?
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shame on me
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I wanted to comment on said Youtube video. But strangely, I wasn’t allowed.
Not allowed to have an opinion???
Oh dear.
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And while you are arguing about semantics, can I ask you why do you think that happened? Not allowed to watch poor old embedded Harry flog his latest CD while impersonating a black preacher.
Coward. Death. Cuts. One thousand. Do go on.
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Which part of the word Watch don’t you understand ?
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semantics
How long before we aren’t allowed to “watch” it? Wanna take a guess?
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You can’t see the difference between Youtube has pulled Harry’s preacher “by request.” and Watch on Youtube ?
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Actually this is the original clip I linkerd to which is still up but you cannot watch it embedded, but double click on the clip and it goes to the clip.
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and on the other hand….
you have different fingers…
which may or may not be black.
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They often are.
I’m hopeless with a hammer.
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could be worse…
you could be hopless with a jigsaw, in which case they would be AWOL
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Some Brother Lee Love!
And at the end…. a bonus Kenny Everett being racist, pretending to be a stereotypical 19th century white American.
Hey, this taking offense thing rules! Why didn’t I get into it earlier?
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also try Little Britain ‘no more minstrels’ sketch
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skink, i was about to post it but it is just too wrong.
funny but wrong. it’s on youtube if anyone wants to watch…..
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Would that be the same Little Britain that has stereotypical skits about faggots and fat people and disabled people and their carers? Actually, doesn’t the whole show rely on stereotypes?
Say it ain’t so. Oh… but they don’t paint their face black! Oh, I get it.
Carry on with your circle jerk then.
*yes, I’m coming back to bed, mom!!!*
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Stereoptypical skit about “disabled people and their carers?” Hardly stereotypical BR. Your’e just waffling now.
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If you’re suggesting blackface and Little Britain are equally funny, and equally based on cringeworthy stereotypes, BR, then I wholeheartedly agree.
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Actually Little Britain DOES have a Blackface sketch involving David Williams as an obese black woman named Desiree.
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Frank for the win!
*crickets chirping*
Bottom line: The Hey Hey skit WASN’T FUNNY. But it also wasn’t racist, so get ha hands off it.
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A stupid idea on a completely shithouse show with a fuckwit for a host. Deserves all it gets.
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actually, i think it deserves more than that.
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Comedy is in the eye of the beholder as is offensiveness.
Context is everything; HHIS always was and always will be a moronic show viewed by morons.
The only person to whom Harry Connick should direct his outrage is his manager!
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Yet he had the gall to accept and “Honorary Cast Member” certificate and then without complaint heard Somers read it in an American Accent.
More Double Standards
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A substantial proportion of Frank’s video postings are greeted with mystified silence, BR.
However, in the interest of balance:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2009/oct/07/harry-connick-jr-blackface-jackson-jive
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/07/arts/entertainment-us-australia-race.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=connick&st=cse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100704302.html
But, I guess you do have the fine readers of Perthnow in full agreement.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26183047-948,00.html
Apologies for the crap full length links. Snuff would’ve been far more eloquent.
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I took a few painful minutes out of my day to read some of the Perthnow comments. I did note a link between those that supported HHIS and abysmal literacy.
Makes sense. Stupid show for stupid people. Those same peeps are always going to struggle with the complexity of isms.
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Leaving opening here for DFOC to link my spelling to this…Oh the pain of it all..?
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I have slagged you off enough this week: I will maintain a merciful silence.
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unfortunately the same stuff is being said on The Australian’s talkboards, so this level of stupidity is not related to socio-economic status
as Crikey said: “In the space of just a few hours, Hey Hey has become a calling card for misguided patriotism, in the same way that the flag took on an unsettling significance around the Cronulla riots, and the subsequent ban of the flag at The Big Day Out. ”
I am waiting to see bumper stickers that say ‘Hey, Hey, we’re full.”, or for some Indian students to get beaten up by Ossie the Ostrich
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After the accusations of racism from India in recent times, it will be interesting to note how they report this given the ethnic mix of the performers.
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it exists everywhere, in different forms.
I had an Indian secretary, who had terrible in-laws who looked down on her because they were light-skinned Punjabis and she was a dark-skinned Tamil.
I lived in Malaysia where the Chinese looked down on the Bumi, and the Bumi looked down on the Indians.
I lived in the Gulf where the Filipinos looked down on the Indians, and the Indians looked down on the Africans. The English looked down on the Scots and the French looked down on everyone.
just because it works in different directions doesn’t make it acceptable
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Did you look down on your own Bumi?
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No, I had my Head up my arse (that is a direct quote from Paul Murray)
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several news sites have published ‘a history of blackface for dummies’ that explain to blinkered insular Aussies why African-Americans consider it racist. I assume that you have read that and chosen to dismiss it.
The Jim Crow segregation laws were named after a popular blackface caberet act.
whilst there is a valid argument that it does not have the same power of association here as in the States, that does not stop it being racist
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And to prove my point that Black performers also “Whiten up” may I present Dave Chappelle – see from 2.05.
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Frank:
I know what I am getting you for Christmas – the Spike Lee box set
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It sucks being part of the persecuted, ridiculed majority doesn’t it
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Damn right G’day. What I wouldn’t give to be a marginalised minority. They are always getting the attention. ‘Look at me, I’m oppressed’. Bloody whingers.
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nobody is disputing that black performers have donned whiteface – you have forgotten Eddie Murphy in “white like me’ and Lenny Henry in the excruciating ‘true identity’
what you haven’t explained is whether you think there is a moral equivalence between whiteface and blackface
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/9325/
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Finally we’re getting somewhere.
Some racism is more equal than other racism. Hypocrisy is permissible.
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it’s all still shit, regardless of who is taking the piss out of whom.
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I know!
And police get to break the speed limit, and park wherever they want! Disabled people get the best parking spots, but when I want to park near the door, I get a fine! I have to take off my motorbike helmet when I go into Caltex, but those Moslem women can keep their burqas on!
Honestly, it’s one rule for us, and one rule for them. You couldn’t make it up. Fact.
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Don’t get me started, Bento!
Librarians can talk on the phone in a library, but I can’t!
Pilots can make calls in a plane, but I can’t!
Nurses can undress people, but when I try that at Iona there’s a shitstorm!
many bureaucrats are barely literate, but if I split an infinitive at work I am castigated.
Yes – the terrorists HAVE won.
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the only thing that is certain is that nobody has skin the colour of flesh-coloured Band-aids
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I don’t like it how when a girl accidentally touches me at work and I do that JIZZ IN MY PANTS expression I get my ass hauled up to HR.
So unfair.
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Power vs not having power you dipshit.
Why don’t you give up failing to form a cogent argument and go and “have your say” in the west’s poll with the rest of the half brains who don’t get how it’s really fucking difficult for black people to be racist toward white people in a western developed nation.
And yeah blackface fucking sucks as comedy, how weak.
I really want to use the word ‘hegemony’ here.
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who is that directed at?
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My mum.
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I dunno, they could try yelling YOU FUCKING. WHITE. CUNT. at the top of their lungs, like what happened to me when I didn’t give an Aboriginal lady some money like she asked.
That’s a start.
Did the big bad words make you angry, poor lisa? Substitute your own word for “hypocrisy” if you like. It is what it is.
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Were you offended at being called white, or being called a cunt?
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I wasn’t offended at all. I had a bit of a chuckle, actually. I was like “Crikey! Wasn’t expecting that.”
I was just replying to poor lisa’s rather strange ruling: “it’s fucking difficult for black people to be racist toward white people.”
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If you had an ounce of intelligence, BR, the fact that you weren’t expecting it would tell you something. As it is …
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30 people online, double the stats triple the comments. The mob has spken. More poles. More snark
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Drunks did it, TLA.
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???
ps: My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
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But you’re right, you know. I should expect Aboriginals to behave like animals when I don’t give them money.
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Gernaine Greer last night explaining why the poms are happy about the Hey Hey incident.
TONY JONES: Why are the Brits so happy with this?
GERMAINE GREER: Because they can’t play cricket, basically.
TONY JONES: The won the Ashes, Germaine.
GERMAINE GREER: They only just won the Ashes.
TONY JONES: All right. Okay.
GERMAINE GREER: Then they got thrashed in the one dayers.
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damn you, you made me go and look at The West
74% of their readers think that Hey Hey were right to broadcast it, which is spookily close to The Herd’s 77%.
Kamahl has now spoken out.
where’s that ‘Ride a White Swan’ clip?
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my mistake, it’s 76% in the West’s poll, which is even closer
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Apparently Kamahl has been taken out of context re the legal threat, which he said as a throwaway line at the end of the interview.
On the other hand Marlon Jackson has come out and said he was NOT offended by the skit at all.
http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9191_Marlon_Jackson_Okay_About_Hey_Hey_Jackson_Jive
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go ahead, use it.
those with the power rarely understand what you are saying lisa.
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I didn’t say I thought it was funny
I was just giving you a bit of help in your sanctimony
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Sorry guys. He’s been drinking for the last 3 days solid. I’ve put him to bed. He started frothing at the mouth.
He brings much shame to the Ramification family.
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50, 60, 70, 150 comments? Can’t be many Perth websites getting this number of commenters. Not now that Patti’s given up. And the quality, oh mercy!
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Enjoying all this top class material that you can plagiarise for your next stand up debacle, are you ?
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Funny you should say that. there is going to be a second TWOP live show on Nov 12th. Unfortunately this material doesn’t have the … … … … …timing… that I need.
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Christ on a bike TLA, when you were you planning on telling us? The diary tends to fill up this time of year.
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umm, were you, just once, that is.
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Not mine, shaz.
This is the time of year when I start seriously planning my retreat into seclusion.
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Right on.
The sequencing and chronology of the postings gets all stuffed up with the replies to replies thing.
You will need to expand the “Worst Talk” sidebar considerably if the comments keep up the pace that they have today.
One can get left behind very quickly, which is a bit rough on the folks who actually have to do a few moments’ work during their day.
I know that’s not what you were referring to, but it is relevant.
It’s been a glorious Worst day.
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Agreed Rolly.
It’s often a difficult choice between tending to a screaming child who’s managed to get stuck in some precarious position, or losing track of comments and being hopelessly behind forever more.
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Unfortunately worst talk is at its maximum of 15.
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It was a good day, Rolly. Normally I’m TWOP free on Thursdays lately, but I had the day off thanks to Typhoon Melor.
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I slept for a couple of hours today and there were 3 pages of comments when I awoke. Too many. Haven’t read them myself.
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You have a long night of merriment ahead.
Good luck.
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Lets just face it, you useless bastards are missing me. This post has no venom, no svenkage, no vitriol, no feministical overtones.
Just some trollop about Hey Hey its Saturday and the occasional funny comments, I thank the usuals.
ps. skink, the rage has subsided, please feel free to continue as before
pps snuff, get fucked as previously but only because you have had sex since I have so I suppose that must count for something
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welcome back richardbl. any more drink and post moments in the pipeline? i thought they were kind of interesting.
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Stop…Drink…Post
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I fucking hate myself – take Aussie from my name, erase this endless shame, forever casting blame. If you don’t act the same will I destroy you. Everyone looks the same beaten black and blue.
So I’ve had enough of these redneck pricks when fact is the only real shit that sticks. Watch as I tear the very skin from my face so no one will see my race. My deep disgrace.
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I hadn’t heard that before, it’s rather good
some of these doof doof yoofs have something to say:
“Captain Cook was the very first queue jumper
It was immigrant labour that made Australia plumper”
the spirit of Lawson lives, if not the rhyme and scansion.
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They certainly ramp it up to 11 on the self-hate meter. Pretty sure it made the JJJ Hottest 100 one year.
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The Herd? Quality Oz Hip Hop.
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Drapht > The Herd
/but you KNOW this
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You’re on your own there Big R. But to be fair, I’ve listened to more Herd than Drapht.
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I apologise forthwith for the lack of wrathful banter, my sarcasm gland is suffering from a rare form of lecherous cancer which is limiting my output of verbal bile.
Fear not, gentle readers, I am currently receiving frequent injections of hot, steaming, viscous venom, which in turn, will be violently expelled from my body as antsy persnickety comments.
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GERMAINE GREER: The thing that gets me is that wherever I look in whatever comedy department I choose to forage, everybody thinks it’s funny when men dress up as women, especially women of a certain age. They talk like idiots. They wear ridiculous hats. They have appalling attitudes and it doesn’t – it can be Monty Python. It can be anything and it’s okay. And women never get angry, they never throw anything, they never shut anything down, they never boycott anything. They just sit there and look at themselves being outrageously and offensively caricatured and they wear it. Wake up. If you can get so angry about this piece of shit, get angry about all the other stuff.
Any other quasi-feminists choose to speak out on this?
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there being no quasi feminists here, i doubt there will be any response from them.
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I’m a quasi feminist and so is my wife!
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Our Nikki has the guts to be a quasi-feminist
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I was thinking of that too. Honestly, I don’t see it much any more. The NRL Footy Show was one of the last bastions of this stupidity.
Waiting for Frank Calabrese to produce a dozen Youtube links to prove me wrong.
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Fourteenth best thread ever!
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Here are an article of the recently opened Exhibition marking 50 years of TV in WA and good news, it is on the ground floor, so your backs will be safe from hoisting me up stairs when we have out meet (HINT).
http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/ammpts-50-years-of-television-broadcasting-in-western-australia-exhibition-at-the-fremantle-arts-centre/#comments
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I’m surprised you would even consider wandering into Greens territory Frank :)
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Not everyone in Freo has their own veggie plot, shaz.
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wow germaine greer really is a bitch.
spending a lifetime trying to castrate the entire male population is one thing but dissing Python is just crossing the line.
on a related note here is a picture of germaine greer upside down with her gusset saluting the world: http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2005/12/if-australia-had-been-colonised-by-any.html
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Jesus, I never even saw this post. So Harry Connick Jr. is racist, or something?
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