Bento sent in this ad for Town of Vincent candidate Matt Buckels. Bento was seething with rage that Matt apears to be sipping a latte, and that he’s not rowing on Hyde Park lake. He’s a founding member of Future Perthers too, which also enraged comrade Bento. The ad gives me the same feeling as hearing Tim Winton speak. It justs shits me for unknown reasons. If Winton wants to save dugongs, I automatically want them exterminated. If Winton wants subsidies for authors, I want them taxed heavily. Same with Matt. Previously I might have been supportive of recyling all plastics. NOW I am determined to just recycle a few. Previously I would have loved to see Hyde Park’s lakes rehabilitated. NOW I will make it my life’s work to have them filled with unrecycled plastic, then hotmixed over. He has a masters in urban design but is against all talk and no action. I don’t think the two things are compatible.
The Worst of Perth 
Given the amount of much-recycled councillors going round I don’t see the reason for teh rage for this one, other than the ubiquitous incomplete Masters degree
A worst? Hardly
In Stirling Terry Tyzack is running for his 35th year in Council, come on, that’s just fucking ridiculous.
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You may be right Orb, but Tim Winton writes well too, but still shits me.
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That, TLA, is simple jealousy.
It’s because he thinks along the same lines as yourself but gets the ideas ‘out there’ first.
Wake up to yourself, fer crissake.
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Tim Winton has a blog deriding arse & boozie sculpture, with gratuitous use of the word cunt, and rampant smartarsery? Link please.
I thought he just wrote a reasonably good novel, and moaned about society’s indifference to writers?
Note – when a friend told me Tim Winton studied literature at Curtin, I thought they said Ted Whitten. For at least an hour, we had a heated debate, in which I thought I was rejecting the ridiculous assertion that Mr Football could read.
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No, I never wanted to write nostalgia or save dugongs.
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John Butler gives me the shits too. The same kind of shits as Winton.
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Especially when he came out in support of Queen Adele – whom I’m wondering is being softened up to support Crazy Colin’s Sunday Trading by stealth in applying it to “Tourist Precincts like Fremantle ?
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I’m not a huge fan of JBT’s work, but can vouch for him being a genuinely nice guy.
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What about JCVD? Oddly he doesn’t shit me.
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Jesus Christ Venereal Disease?
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and i wonder where our lord may have caught that. Rotto perhaps?
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i had a giggle when the 7.45 news referred to Midland and Armadale as tourist precincts
at least there are no shotgun wielding geriatrics in leederville
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sorry that should be few
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Not to mention Joondalup. Tourist precinct?
I can see the pitch now…
“Come and see the World Famous South African and English Immigrants of Joondalup.”
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Appearing now at “One Punch World”, Midland, Armadale and Joondalup.
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I can see the pitch now…
“Come and see the World Famous South African and English Immigrants of Joondalup.”
“Watch in awe as their children place AWOL FIFO/FOWF on their cars”
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whats so wrong with sunday trading? the roman catholic church has had a monopoly on trading on sunday for centuries
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I just noticed Richarbl mentions he is a big Tim Winton fan in his personal ad.
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No, really? What’s his stance on Les Murray?
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That is actually correct TLA, I enjoy reading and I do enjoy Tim Winton’s books so fucking sue me.
I must be the only person in the world who has their dating profile linked to a Worst Of site but chose not hide it.
And I have chose not to hide it because I have nothing to hide.
Regretfully, Matt B has chosen to use his only card in the pack and shown himself incapable of answering the questions he so forcefully asks.
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Yes, Matt, but he also claims drinking habits as “Occasionally / socially”. How’s that for “dishonest campaigning” ?
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Speaking of desperate opponents!
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You’re the one who said your dating profile was unused.
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Can I just put on the record that I comment drunk while wearing pyjamas, only moderately to heavily. And sometimes socially.
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There’s no shame in wearing pajamas socially, TLA.
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Don’t be fooled Vincent.
This man is a former staffer for Wilson Tuckey.
Make your vote count…
Tell him VWOL FIFO
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Who, Matt Buckels? or Tim Winton or John Butler…
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They’re all the same guy!
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If only. Wilson Tuckey is the future of The Liberal Party. He would be lucky to have suckled at the teat of such a great thinker. I just said that to make you think of someone suckling at Tuckey’s grey haired withered old teat.
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Can the State Library archive that mental image for future generations.
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Who, Matt Buckels or Terry Tyzack?
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he has two, so both.
unless he’s a witch, in which case he may have more and can suckle them all.
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Speaking of Seth Effikans, this calls for a totally appropriate “tune”
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lol funny song I regularly sing to my south african mates. oh yeah, I’m a pom, I don’t mention that on the flyer.
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Ah, the rolling green mountains of Leederville,
the towering Jarra forests of Dog Swamp…
looks like Winnats.
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hope he’s going to save the land of make believe.
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That was my main issue with Mr Buckels. Well, that and the stupid fucking haircut, FuturePerth affiliation, smug face that you just want to punch, and ‘Think Green’ tee that you just want to … erm … not recycle. Or set on fire.
To me it looks like 3 pics of Tasmania, and 1 of a fucking latte in the process of being sipped.
Cunt.
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Bento, you need to get off your arse and out into your own natural environment.
They’re all WA localities.
Ignorant metrocentric twat (©Rolly2008)
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They don’t look like my natural environment at all. Not a single cafe, junkie, or gorgeous homewares store in sight.
Cunt (© Bento 2009)
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Jeez, you muddle minded, urban dwelling, blinkered-like-barney, myopic MT’s.
Like shazza with her rejection of the normal anatomy of healthy kiddies.
Wierd.
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“rejection of the normal anatomy” Rolly?
When you resort to such hyperbole you compromise any validity to your point.
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Was there a point?
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Think you may have missed the boat on that (c) there Bento. Or should that be shut the gate after the horse has bolted
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pig’s arse
If I am not mistaken, the Hills are Winnats Pass in Derbyshire, England.
I have no idea what relevance that might be to Vincent, but where I come from winnats is another name for clags, tagnuts, or dingleberries. I think it is a subtle hint that he does not wipe his arse. Maybe he is saving paper.
he seems to be saying ‘I must be an environmentalist, because I went on holiday to Buxton once, and do not own a single shirt with a collar.’
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That haircut is my Dad. and its a soy dandy cap.
You WAnkers shouldn’t swit around and snigger.
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Crap. I’ll go back to cutting and pasting…
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I too am the proud owner of a roof.
I thought that ‘sustainable transport planner’ couldn’t be a real job, but it turns out I was wrong:
http://www.adlogic.com.au/smejobsearch/jsponly/JobDetails.jsp?jobId=616912
no doubt this comes down to asking whether they can afford a few of those nice hydrogen buses that don’t have enough seats.
I assume that public servants put the word ‘sustainable’ in front of everything these days. No doubt my garbo is now a ‘sustainable recycling removal technician’, whether he takes all plastics or just a few.
ruffling feathers whilst rocking the boat is obviously a mixed metaphor.
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when you say transport planner people expect you to be able to design roads and the like.
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either there are no women running in this election, or this is a ticket for the blokes.
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he also happens to be one-third of the average age of candidates in ToV
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oh, a young blokes ticket…
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If you start to explore the stupidities of local government here, you’re going to need a bigger website.
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But what is his stance on vibrancy?
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And bong merchants? And trucks?
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Having further reviewed his platform, I can confirm he is generally pro nice things, and anti nasty things. Which is just super.
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That’s you stuffed then, if he wins.
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Looks like a Greens plant to me :-) They ALL say they have no political affiliations, but is as further from the truth – a good guide is who they were supporting at a general election.
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where as Lib Lab plants for council just state ‘Don’t ask Don’t tell’, and thats just for political affiliation
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“..rock the boat and ruffle a few established feathers.” He’s got my vote.
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erm, i thought you lived south of the river?
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yes curious, my vote is a metaphor.
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well in that case, vote early and vote often shazz.
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‘I’m not afriad to ruffle a few feathers’
Thjngs that about this staement that make me want to vomit blood.
1) The only other person I have ever heard use this is my 72 year old grandfather and he is forgiven cause he also asks my answering machine to tell me he called.
2) It makes him sound like a chicken f***er.
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chickens no
waterfowl perhaps
as Michael said @11.24am, local government is a rich vein of material, Bento’s and TLA’s choice looks particularly poor,
have you examined Custard Guts’ Dad Catania, also in ToV? He’s the bloke who banned the Perth Voice journo from sitting at the press table during council meetings, as DFOC has mentioned previously
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let’s just make it quite clear I’m not aligned with Nick Catania in any way. Next time I may just have that as my flyer:
Vote 1 Matt Buckels
Proudly not aligned with Nick Catania
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Chicken Farmer?
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he certainly sounds like he practices animal husbandry anyhoo.
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“…improve public transport, including providing a cross-town bus”
WTF ?? Has he seen how many existing bus routes there are in Vincent, between Walcott/Green and the Freeway ? I can see at least three that run “cross-town”. The tosser has probably never caught a bus in his short life.
I bet he had a great time at school with a handle like that.
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I disagree. I think he caught that special yellw bus to school.
His mum says he’s special.
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have you ever tried to get a bus from mt lawley to Leederville?
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Whats wrong with the 401, or the train ? Oh, you’d have to change once, is that too bad ? Normal for pubic transport in any large city
Compared to the rest of this city, Vincent is a public transport paradise.
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They should bloody walk! Or use those bikes with electric motors that also shit me.
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the 401 goes from HIGHGATE
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from which you could walk to mt lawley…
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they got rid of the 401 earlier this year.
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chainge, just wanted to say that your posts crack me up. keep ’em coming!
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Oh, so now you come back.
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Oh I thought he meant a bus for angry people.
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ouch shazza you need to get in to standup!!! well I laughed.
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He’s probably got the best platform of the entire field, yet he ends up here it’s a crazy world this worsting.
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I vote Not Worst, but only to shit Bento of course.
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I vote not worst, but only because there are so many worthier worsts in the local government elections.
One of the candidates in our area has a catchline “give Klompie the job” on a quarter A4 black and white photocopy (yes I know that’s A6), whilst the others seem to have actual policies (usually, as Bento notes, being generally pro nice things, and anti nasty things).
I hope he gets in.
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I vote for TLA, against Tim Winton & John Butler; & Matt Buckels & Dud have been involved in some dirt in this campaign, the clean no-affiliation green image is just an image.
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Well this is going well! I just threw this post in to move people along from the scratch and sniff kiddie.
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put up the sushi one I sent this morning!
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I probably should have, but as amusing as it was, I don’t think it could have got the action of this Future Perther tidalwave.
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always about the posts, not the worsts,
are you moving to teh “hey hey its worst-a-day”?
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They are connected are they not? It’s obviously a popular worst, where’s the beef?
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TLA: i just searched FuturePerth and i can find no website.
This shit runs pretty deep doesn’t it? Their headquarters aren’t on Mt Eliza by any chance?
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I’m not sure, but it would definitely be reachable by monorail. No website? Bento will know. He has a full Ipcress File on these guys.
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Help me out here Bento. If it’s not a Freemasons plot i will invite Patti Chong, Mike Ward and Matt Buckels to my next car key party.
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http://www.futureperth.org/
It’s bland and not very vibrant. There is space to comment on articles. So am eagerly awaiting some vitriol from here to spill over there. Usual crap about burying the railway between the CBD and Northbridge (why haven’t they done it already if it’s such a fucking great idea? )
Best suggestion I’ve seen for a while is to convert the Belltower into a funky bar (Oct 3, The Perth Voice, by some local polly called Hyde).
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Thanks ronngly. What is their view on the “Rasing the Crackpots” alternative? And are they behind the new initiative whereby we increase vibrancy by the use of “teenagers wearing enormous flourescent pants.”
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Increased vibrancy = euphamism for another crap cafe strip and tapas bar
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Belltower bar? That’s got vibrancy from arsehole to breakfast. I actually LIKE that idea.
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Me too, imagine the lovely tunes you could make with the bells after a few Howling Wolves. And it would certainly keep the ferris wheel turning. The vibrancy!
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I’m an Auroch Toro man now. Unfortunately though it’s $10 a bottle more expensive.
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Geezus Kriste, when are you going to hook a booze sponsor?
How is it that some jerk can double park and within 15 mins of posting, come on TWOP to defend their cretinism. Yet we can’t get a winery to jump on board – I’m talking to you d’Arenberg.
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It may have something to do being associated with the worst. I could have gone the best of perth, but then I’d have less readers than Future Perthers.
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And you’d run out of material in a week.
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you and mr shazza, a bottle or five of howling wolf, and an intimate perth eye capsule…
rottnest chapel all over again if i’m not mistaken.
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Oh curious the memories… The flexibility of youth.
I would be hard pressed (pun intended) to get my leg over anything higher than a garden hose these days. (Please spare me the link Snuff).
I fear the capsule may only be handy for some shut eye while I sleep off the Wolves.
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enjoy the break shazza! i’m having rotto envy:)
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What, no one noticed my Rootto joke?
BTW thanks mp, I am excited, but not in ‘that’ kind of way.
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sorry shazza, i did notice and had a laugh cos i remember rooting at rootto as being a jolly thing to do:)
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I was just typing to mp that for once you hadn’t made a typo, shaz.
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and i would have chuckled at that too snuff :)
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When in Rome Snuff.
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Now, where was I ?, Ah, yes.
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… and it’s Spring. Brilliant, sophisticated and notorious, shaz.
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I was FOR the railway being sunk until I saw how shithouse it turned out in Subi. Seriously how could you fuck that up?
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“why haven’t they done it already if it’s such a fucking great idea?”
Because this is perth. I’m surprised we haven’t defeated the idea at a referendum yet. Give it time.
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Very nice G’day.
Saw Colon Bayonet last night saying that extended trading was defeated bat the ref because of the dud question… Hmm. does that mean that we are only one tourism precinct away from daylight savings?
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There’s a rather uncomfortable shot of a building tour. Their comments are in the range of 0 to 3 per article. If they can’t get 250 plus with a shot of 2 poles, then it’s time to give up. They are pro development and pro vibrancy.
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I think the number of on-topic comments on this blog is in the range of 0 to 3 per article.
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Future Perthers can only dream of off topic coments of this quality.
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if those ten sad ugly fucks on the building tour are the future of perth, then this city is doomed
doomed, I tell you
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I think there will be a TWOP commenter and contributor in that group but I can’t be sure.
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Maybe an ex-TWopper. Greg Hoey…
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Your comment is awaiting moderation. ????
WTF: I can say snigger but i can’t say GrXg HXXY?
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Actually thats about right. Probably for the best TLA…
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Who’s Greg?
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Not you Greg. CHEERS.
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I was thinking that the FuturePerthers should promote the doubling up of poles at ALL Perth traffic lights. Potentially a very vibrant development with the added bonus of increasing awareness in WA of the racism involved in crap blackface skits.
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How about we all go to FuturePerth and help them out with our invariably constructive commentary. Snack…SNACK! Crap. Where the fuck is he!
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Is that you Snack? There is something familiar about your prose that I can’t quite place.
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Ouch. Low blow from the High Priestess. You can call me anything you like, but don’t call me sincere and well intentioned…
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Sorry WAtching.
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I assume it will only be a short time before Mr Buckels sees this and replies. Maybe he can be convinced to drop his Future Perthing activities. An online intevention perhaps?
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Back from four blissful days on Rottnest: I’m at the POST reading this thread and giggling uncontrollably.
I think my fellow POSTies believe I’ve been touched by the sun and smoked too much herring.
Where is Mr Buckels???
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Drop him a line DC. His email is at the top…
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DFOC,
Has Crazy Kim charged the batteries in her camera for the great worstorama that is the TVW Reunion on Sunday ?? :-)
We want photos dammit of Perthonalities in various stages of drunkedness.
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I don’t mean to nitpick (well…), but where exactly is Vincent going to “grow in the future” ? Call me myopic but it seems to be reasonably well surrounded by urban tourist zone already.
I guess the quality of local government candidates is set to plummet further when the abolition of student fees really starts to bite and a whole generation of aparachiks hasn’t had the chance to make their early political howlers in the privacy of their own universities.
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Future Perthers are PRO densification (if not defenestration), or “promoting the densification and growth of suburban development nodes.” so that should answer your question. Your nodes will be squeezed.
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Well, I’m glad you cleared that up, TLA. I was just about to go behind the shed and squeeze my nodes, but I’ll wait for densificators to do it for me.
I’m trying to think of a small urban enclave where new generations build their homes on top of their parents’ in order to densify their suburban development nodes.
Is it fair to say the FPs have seen the future of Perth and it’s Gaza City?
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Soon Perth wil be but a suburb of Bunbury… Welcome to the Great BunVegas Region people.
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that previous compliment was meant to be posted here under this bunvegas reference but it applies across the board:)
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MP: Being both a BunVegas Residentiale` (yes, we have tildes as an incentive to living here) and an employee of WA Newspapers, I have actually have nothing more pressing to do that warble guff on TWOP, so you’ll probably be subjected to more :)
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I suspected as much Chainge Daile. Enjoying your contribution to date.
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A WAN employee? How Outre!
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Ah WAN, inventor of such witty in-house sites such as WOOGLE and our wonderful mascot Chester, The Times Tiger. How it warms the very cockles of my heart to be a member of such a media juggernaut.
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Slanderer- growth can go UP as well as out.
you’re not suffering from myopia, just a “short depth-of-field, bent over, gazing downwards at some object of intense gratification” moment.
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Thanks for the heads UP, orbea. Any number of European cities offer a wide “urban experience” without having to go UP. With the track record of this city, let the FPs loose on Vincent and I’ll bet a sweaty navel that the place will end UP like Randwick or Bondi rather than, say, the inner area of London.
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Oxford St Rescue – visiting tourists get caught in the one way traffic system and almost get sucked out to Mount Hawthorn but for the bronzed heroes of Oxford St Rescue.
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Join the chanting festival crowds at Leederville Oval on WAFL game day.
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Obviously Vincent will grow inwards…
A la my toenail…
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i think mr buckels has dreams of reuniting vincent with perth – big opportunity for growth there.
indeed, he refers to amalgamation with the city of perth.
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Vincent should definitely have a corridor to the sea.
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aussie, i think you’re on to something there – all local government authorities should have a corridor to the sea.
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I like the idea of a corridor to the sea, mainly to fuck with the town of cambridge.
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would it be so bad? mostly it was a point of difference to the mayors “fauxtrage” at the suggestion.
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i’m not necessarily opposed, but it would be nice to have some debate about council changes rather than having them foisted by government fiat.
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I invented that word btw… just in case it catches on.
Fauxtrage!
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it’s a truly beautiful thing matt b! well done you.
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Wow, what a bunch of hypocrits, you sit at a computer talking crap about Perth and everything that’s wrong with it, and then comes a long a group actually doing something pro-active and you flame the shit out of them? I find this site funny and entertaining sometimes, but by god, you guys are pathetic… doubt this will get posted.
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Are they doing anything. There must be 50 perth gabfests out there. Which of them has done anything. I haven’t seen vibrancy one from any of them.
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Hear Hear Whatabunchoflosers.
I’ve already told them but they don’t listen…
I will tell them again.
You WAnkers shouldn’t sit around and snigger.
BTW:”Is that you Snack? There is something familiar about your prose that I can’t quite place.”
Only angry this time…
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I said sorry for fucks sake.
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Might i add, how can you criticise him for vested interested when PCC counciller Hardy, didn’t have to cut his affiliation with hinderance on society group City Vision. Also, i’m not a member of FP, if thats what you’re thinking.
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Whatabunchoflosres,
I’m glad you have enjoyed this blog, but you seem to have absolutely and utterly missed the point.
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Itmakes it hard to criticise people about sitting on computers and whingeing, when you have to sit on a computer and whinge to complain about it. Whatabunch should study the miss nude transcripts for more examples.
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Lol it is nice to be the topic of this blog. Seriously guys you’ve never seen a better local government flyer. Do you see the rubbish that comes in the letterbox?
FYI the happy snaps are from a recent trip to the UK – the lake is Grassmere in the Lakes, bottom left is in south west Scotland, bottom Right is Glencoe, and the middle is a local one at Lincoln’s on Lincoln St.
I just figured that everone puts a dodgy mug-shot looking very sincere, and I’d rather share photos of my recent holidays – that way I can use leftovers as Christmas cards letting people know what I’ve been up to this year.
Have any of you guys ever tried making someone vote for you using two sides of an A5. If you want Worst of Perth you should have seen my last DL flyer from 2007…
Hey dave Cohen – I was going to say “Say hi to George” from me but I gather he has retired recently. Big shoes to fill.
Also whichever idiot thinks it is easy to catch the bus across Vincent is the one who does not catch the bus much. 401…. pfft… you idiot. Instead you could extend the Subiaco Shuttle from Subi through Leederville and across to Mt Lawley and through to the station again creating an inner city circle route.
Yes the hair was a bit of a debacle on holiday… believe it or not I cut my own – after years of bad hairdos I figure I may as well look bad for free than look bad for $40. In person I tend to pull it off in a Goodies kind of way.
Lol ruffle a few feathers:) Hey there are grandpas who vote you know!!! as I say there are a lot of people to appeal to – 1 flyer for everyone.
Poor lisa – the dirt is quite innacurate from the Voice. It was a letter to the editor… in my books dirt sheets are anonymous and factually incorrect, not signed letters to the editor of a paper.
Slanderer it is going to grow UP (as in vertically) – but you are right I’m personally in favour of your european model… you could dig out my old stuff on the SSC website re: Leederville Masterplan.
But cheers folks – nice to be talked about.
Matt
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But why would you need to go from Leederville to Highgate Mt Lawley anyway? Strippers World has closed down.
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it has reopened as something very similar, but without the catchy name.
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Strippers’ World?
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I’m in an area where the councillors are thoughtful enough to vote for you.
I think you should get a go, although I would struggle to get over the Future Perthing and the self administered haircuts.
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LA, don’t ya just love the unpredictable nature of this blog? Every day is a new adventure. I’m off to Rootto tomorrow. Will scout some worsts.
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I like the FuturePerth guys. At least they are an alternative to City Vision. Young group with the balls to try to change things a bit. I don’t think you can fault them this early in the game.
any tips on a decent blokes hairdresser in the area? I do an ok job but the holiday hair was about 3 months overdue.
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Kahunas,Matt b, “with the” kahunas.
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and the feminine of ‘kahuna’ which escapes me right now….
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“Movaries”?
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it’s rack.
obviously.
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The ‘chongs’.
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heh. i laughed. Chongs it is.
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i’m sorry, can someone get an anatomically correct doll and point out to me where my ‘chongs’ should be? i’m kinda scared they havent descended yet.
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your ‘chongs’ are directly opposite your ‘buswell’
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But i had my Buswell removed years ago, it became engorged with it’s own self imoprtance and gave me gas….
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A hairdresser guys… come on don;t get sidetracked with kahunas.
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Come on Matty B don’t get discouraged and don’t lose control of your apostrophes. You’re amongst friends here, its ok to drink and post.
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Mark or DJ at Distracted on Oxford St.
quality doesn’t come cheap though
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I can’t use the same salon as my mother in law. Sorry.
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And duh… latte’s come in glasses. unless you are at 130.
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And finally, no the pics were not chosen depending on the t-shirt I was wearing. And “no political affiliations” does not mean “I don’t vote for anyone.” Is there no moderating on this site to that there at least has to be a modicum of wit for a comment to get through?
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based on my own contributions Matt B, i can vouch that TLA does not discriminate against any comment based on wit or lack there of. He is very gracious in that way:)
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moderation is based on wit or lack or even a fraction
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I may live in South Freo Matt, but youv’e got my vote.
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Shazza I’m prepared to move if it gets me a vote or two.
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Hypocritical, us? How about emblazoning a campaign brochure with photos of lakes, forests and mountains that have nothing to do with the Town of Vincent?
Is this idiot suggesting that he can turn Leederville into an old growth forest possibly resplendent with deer and bears, is he going to flood Hyde Park until it becomes a lake and everybody will go rowing on the weekend dressed in cheap t-shirts and seventies flares? Is Mt Lawley to be converted to a grassed mountain range where young children will amass memories to last a lifetime?
I think not! This feckless fool is exactly that. And don’t get me started on his ridiculous claims of experience!
Doing a Masters is NOT experience!
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Oh dear… haven’t you got 15 seasons of Family Guy to watch or something before eating some cold pizza and playing Wii Fit?
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Good to see you share the disdain MB.
I do believe this evenings dinner includes salmon fillets with
steamed greens and several Tasmanian beers and possibly a Tokay or two, all enjoyed in the warm ambience of my Danish architect designed inner city apartment.
And what is a Wii Fit anyway? Is it like a fuckwit?
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Lol;)
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jeez, and I thought I was a metrocentric twat
Danish architect? that’s nothing, I have got a Lithuanian plumber.
when faced with a tokay-swilling wanker, an unkempt hippy in a row boat suddenly looks like my kinda guy
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working as a transport planner for a major organisation with more than twenty thousand commuters counts as experience?
I reckon that counts.
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I tell you what Richarbl I reckon my flyer is more likely to get me votes than your RSVP.com.au profile will get you dates: http://www.rsvp.com.au/profile/display.jsp?handle=richarbl&uid=629125
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Matt B, I like you. Probably doesn’t matter to you since I’m in Freo.
Ignore these haters. If you ever want to move to Fremantle I predict a shining political career.
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That is kind of amusing however I have to ask, does your wife know you are browsing male profiles.
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That is probably a fair point however I don’t want plenty of votes and my profile is deliberately written to reflect that.
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You just got my vote, Matt. Epic win.
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I probably agree with you on this one Snuff.
I made some good points but googling a handle and finding nothing more than an unused dating profile and including the link to win an argument is surely the sign of a desperate opponent.
I may have possibly deserved it given a couple of comments but surely we, as voters, deserve better than this type of dishonest campaigning to ensure a better future for our city.
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You are dealing with a politician and you don’t expect a low blow ?
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no hard feelings Richarbl – I’m a good natured guy but if a heap of folks want to have a sly dig on a nuffy blog then I’m up for a bit of shall we say “ruffling the feathers.”
Seriously I’d wager I’m the candidate most likely to peruse Worstofperth at least.
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No hard feelings and you hit him right in the balls. Ruffled the balls right up. Truly you are a futurer. See my question at 7:52 P.M.
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Don’t worry about the balls BO’S, they are still working just fine, I assume.
They say that there is no such thing as bad publicity Matt.
Here you are on a reasonably popular site with everyone clutching on your next word.
This is your big chance to win us over with your vision of the future and secure your chance in politics.
If I and others are impressed with what you have to say I will sincerely offer my political experience to assist your campaign.
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well there is one day left of a 3 week postal vote so it is pretty much all over bar the shouting I’m afraid.
If someone had advised me to remember when I sent a letter to the ed of the Voice to DELETE about 30 fairly confidential emails to another candidate at the end, so that they printed my letter instead of slating me on the front page, well that would have been useful.
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Pity, you should have been worsted earlier in the process. You could have mobilised the crackpot vote.
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why did you wait so long? THe flyer has been out there for 2.5 weeks just about.
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It just got sent to me yesterday. Pity, the wanker vote could really have come through for you. And to tell the truth, if I’d seen it, it wouldn’t have looked bad enough for me to use. Bento was so steamed up with that latte sipping that I had to go with it.
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I swear it is a flat white!
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I wanted to say that it wasn’t a latte, but feared I’d out myself as a metrocentric twat
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I thought it was Kava.
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Quite possibly, TLA. Fancy submitting a vibrant Gateway to Dog Swamp statue ?
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Holy snappin’ duckshit!
Do they really believe this crap?
What the hell is vibrant about a coffee house or a row of shops other than “..the fiendish rattle of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street”.
Shit! No trams even.
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It’s Kahunas already………………
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Then beware the tough questions Matt b. We may act like inmates out for the day, but there are some canny types amongst us.
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Hang on Richarbl… can you explain what you mean by “this type of dishonest campaigning”?
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I reccomend here for the haircut, although the sign is no covered.
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Whoops, forgot haircut link.
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coincidentally there is a Mat b posting in that thread. It is not me.
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Easy. You are handing out brochures that display images that do not represent the Town of Vincent.
In fact they do not represent Perth nor do they represent the vast majority of Australia yet you seem to think people somehow connect your holiday with your vision of the Town of Vincent.
It is no different to an estate agent advertising a two story mansion on the beach but in reality selling you a fucking fibro fenced hovel in Balcatta.
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but they are clearly not in Vincent? If any Vincent resident has been mislead and is out there looking for these places I sincerely apologise.
I just put in holiday snaps because I got back in the middle of September and they were the only recent photos and I thought they made a nice point of difference to the standard mug shot. I was just saying, hey vote for me and here while you are at it here are my holiday pics.
Sorry that you don’t like it, but I tend to think it makes a nice change. Just sharing a bit of my life with the voting public.
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Ah ha! There it is. The admission.
It’s about you isnt it Matt? Not about your policies, your viewpoint, the difference you will make. But about what kind of guy you are, and if people will find you appealing. It’s about you having the glory. The glory of it all.
Told you guys!
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Jeez, these voters are fickle fuckers aren’t they?
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A bit like pollies LA.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have a ferry to catch tomorrow so must get my rest – I haven’t been up this late in a long time.
Goodnight all,
Good luck Matt b.
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Speaking of voters, you really should check these out, Matt.
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coz I am a man who will fight for your honor
Ill be the hero that youre dreaming of
Gonna live forever knowing together
That we did it all for the glory of love
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Heh heh. That’s funny. I’m not going to open the link, but I like it.
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I tell ya LA, if I wasn’t such a nice Christianly person these days, there would be hours/days/weeks of material.
BTW Richarbl, I reckon your’e copping that pretty well. Kudos.
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Christinsanity.
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I agree TLA, that is kinda funny, devious but funny.
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i had to look at the link because i cant help myself and RBL i thought it was quite charming!
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Why thank you mp.
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That’s what I like about you mp, your’e such a glass half full kind a chick.
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yep, half full of bourbon shazza :) it’s makes the whole world look a whole lot better…..
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the pessimist says ‘the glass is half empty’
the optimist says ‘the glass is half full’
but the drunkard says ‘are you going to drink that?’
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All talk and no action.
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Drink ‘n sniff.
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Your blog’s good for a lot of laughs, TLA, but that was the best one for ages. Matt for PM.
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i am moving just so i can vote for you!
excellent find matt.
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wow, that RSVP counterpunch is stone cold feather ruffling.
at least now we now that the ‘BL’ on the end of his username stands for ‘bald loon’
no mention of tokay or the Danish architect on his profile. what lady could resist that?
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Do people stil say pwned? I know I’m the last bastion of teh.
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Say what you like about my profile Skink… and you probably will but at least I have the err kahunas to leave it online for the vultures to feed on.
But in reality I don’t give fuck because I will continue to play the game with an open stance and if I cop a couple of cheap shots on the chin so be it, at least this debacle is keeping us entertained
Beside you would be quite surprised at the amount of unexpected sex I have gotten from having a profile that tells the truth and includes some reality based stuff.
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Cheap shots on the chin? I think those shots were lower.
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I doubt skink would find none quite surprising.
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What is your problem anyway Snuff?
Every time I contribute to this site I seem to have you hanging around like a mangy cur dying for a feed, whats up with that?
Did I kill you in a previous life?
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You said just yesterday that it was an unused dating profile.
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unused perhaps in the sense that he’s not dating, he’s only having unexpected sex?
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I agree unused was probably not the correct word to describe, unused in the sense that I haven’t updated it for ages nor do I have online very often.
It is a bit of a shame that internet dating is considered to be such a bad thing, if both parties are open with each other it can make life very interesting.
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Now Snuff did you give my question some consideration?
I don’t really care if you follow me around but I would like to know what your problem is.
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Richarbl, the enlightened question is, what did I do to inspire this reaction from others. Not to question why others behave the way they do. After all, that is their challenge.
Jesus, Poor Lisa’s Star Wars references have got me all Yodafied. Deep I am!
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the star wars references from the voice article came in case it you missed.
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Gee shazza this drink and post thing is really taking off.
But as you know i am slower than a frozen sloth so why don’t you explain your enlightenment to us all.
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I don’t really think there is anything such as ‘unexpected sex’, since most men spend a large part of every day execting sex, or wishing for it, praying for it, and sometimes begging for it.
I think the only unexpected sex that might happen to a man was if he was buggered in his sleep.
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Cough syrup won’t save him now.
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Well Richarbl, what does experience get you? Colin Barnett has a lot of experience, yet he’s an absolute incompetant idiot, same with half the politicians in parliament.. experience gets you.. vested interests and old and out of date values.
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It’s David, Matt. I am not a Dave.
Would you work on getting the Voice back at the media table during council meetings?
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A journalist mulching policy would resonate.
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Sorry David – just getting with the casual nature of the blog. Apparently the Voice is back at the desk. The new journo was kind enough to totally slate me on the front page last week:)
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I guess that’s a no.
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Nah I’m a big fan of the Voice. I just got unlucky this time. Strange combination of circumstances.
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Strange combination of circumstances my arse, what about those fucking flares?
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They’re just a pair of Jeans from Myer. I do like a bootleg cut it is true. I think the fact the legs are in the foreground of the shot exaggerates the flare a bit.
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Shame on you:
You should be supporting the local charity shops!
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Next election I’ll don a safari suit for you.
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Not retro enough.
Try grey flannel daks and a navy blue blazer with shiney brass buttons.
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aka Rod Willox Councillor for Lawley Ward, Stirling
damn these darkies what?!
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fucker got back with 2/3rds of the vote
what?! opposition
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While you are there buddy what’s the strategy behind getting on all these global warming denialist websites. e.g. JoanneNova (crackpot) and ClimateAudit(flatulence) There’s no science to be found there. You hoping to convert them ?
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Forget it BO’S. Your type of logic, decency and common sense doesn’t hold a lot of water these days, unfortunately.
I think you will find our friend probably has a similar capacity to answer questions as car salespeople, real estate agents, telstra supervisors, lawyers and other forms of morally bereft humans.
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Last drinks Richarbl.
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I would’ve thought you would be a bit more streetwise than to fall for a monorail salesman Shazza.
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Still standing Richarbl.
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I thought you might be.
It seems like it is just you and me left at the party, y’know I didn’t hide my profile on RSVP, did you read about how I enjoy long walks on the beach and giving massages.
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What happened to the Pina Colodas, and getting caught in the rain?
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They are included free of charge, Oh still my beating heart.
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If I and others are impressed with what you have to say I will sincerely offer my political experience to assist your campaign. For example, while we’re discussing haircuts … lose the hat … it just makes you look balder.
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me? I’m not bald at all?
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Not you, Greg.
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oh richard I got you with a funny link don’t act all stroppy on me. There was not an ounce of a sensible question in your first post, which followed immediately after my good natured entry to the blog which explained the photos. So I saw an opportunity and got a few laughs at your expense, but also to show you that it is not easy to sell yourself in a few words on a brochure/website.
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No problem, we all had a good laugh about your tacky gag, especially me. Don’t worry when its election time I will be putting you down for second preference!
Seriously though, that brochure deserved such derision.
If you are expecting a career in politics then I suggest a closer look at your marketing and your moral positioning.
The world is full of flim flam merchants, it is easy to make a glossy brochure and point out the failings of the existing government but to make a genuine difference to
peoples lives as an independent candidate is a lot harder.
The choice you need to make is….. are you capable of making a difference or will you become yet another faceless public servant?
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Well for now I’m just trying the Matt B way. I can’t solve the world in an A5 flyer, but it just may give me 2 or 4 years (depending on where I come) to see if I can make a difference.
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Have you considered A3?
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have you any idea how small some letterboxes are?
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Well all letterboxes will be small with that fucking attitude. Go A2, A1, or even A0 and damn the torpedoes.
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Now, now Matty, don’t go getting all coy and humble on us. We all know you won’t be able to make a difference.
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Cheers Shazza. To be honest chances are the mayor will still have the numbers and I could be in for an immensley frustrating few years.
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I’ll put money on it Matt. But to be honest I admire your chutzpah.
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Hi Bill,
About a year ago I was discussing climate change with a mate who is a climate skeptic friend, and I realised I could not answer his questions, and that my understanding of the contemporary science was outdated. It was triggered by a guy who used to work at the AGO called Dr David Evans, who is JoanneNova’s partner.
So I decided I needed to brush up on the science, and that included the blogosphere. I’m not a climate scientist, but the arguments at a mates or pub level are more commonly at the level of a skeptic website so I wanted to be sure I’d heard all the arguments and could competently put them in their place.
Plus I don’t mind a bit of an argument at a contrarian blog in case you’d not figured that out by now;)
IN terms of pro climate blogs I’m more a bravenewclimate kind of guy.
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Not taking a bet each way Matt b?
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nope absolutely not. I’m their resident warmist.
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an how does how your commitment translate into action so that Leederville becomes “carbon neutral”? The cross town bus will help of course.
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Are you familiar with the City of Fremantle’s new carbon neutral program? Something to strive for. Of course under an ETS “carbon neutrality” is a bit of a misnomer as technically everything accounts for its carbon there…
FYI I did my honours back in ’97 on Sustainable Development of Energy supplies in WA and Globally (UWA Environmental Engineering), just around the time Kyoto had been set up and
Public transport, cycling, density, design guidelines for efficiency. Well planned density is probably the key – your Peter Newman kind of stuff (not that I’m a fan of North Port Quay).
I’m also a recent convert to nuclear power.
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Iv’e just retracted my metaphorical vote Matt.
By the way I hope you didn’t cover your roof with the cheap and thereby relatively ineffective solar panels. You’re bound to be disappointed, which may go some way to explaining your nuclear stance.
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That’s why I didn’t mention the nuclear thing on the flyer Shazza. Seriously you should have a look at Bravenewclimate.com.au – the arguments for nuclear are compelling, and all the arguments against it I used in my honours a decade ago (which made my supervisor want to flunk me) are blown out of the water.
Generation IV nuclear power… it is probably why I don;t have political affiliations even the greens don;t want me:)
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Well now I waqnt to vote for you since you are talking up my speculative uranium explorer shares. Go Yellow!
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You went the cheap ones didn’t you.
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nah they are lovely panels. They were not top end gear but I simply didn;t have the money. Im very happy with them though and hope solar can provide a big whack of future energy needs.
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The cheap uranium shares or cheap solar panels? I wonder how Solarution is going.
If you mean cheap uranium shares, then yes, but they will be expensive one day.
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Why are you bothering with pissant Sicily without Electricity. Get a suit, a $40 haircut an join the Labor party. They are crying out for people with clues. God save us from Dripper.
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With Alannah going, there’s an opening for self administered haircuts.
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Ha ha she looked like she stuck her head in my lawnmower.
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I really don’t know much about party politics sorry… but if they are interested my number is on the flyer.
Honestly I’d be a better fit to The Greens, but they all (as in all parties) have their characteristics that put me off.
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I’m agreenie but politically speaking they are dead in the water. You want to be a futurer you better start practising Bruvva speak.
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being anti-nuclear might be one of them.
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Yes, if the greens have one unifying position that just may be the one.
Matt here’s a clue, if you don’t know much about party politics it really isn’t your game. Even being on the P&C requires an understanding of party politics. In fact being involved in any kind of group of people requires an understanding of party politics.
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I mean I’ve never been involved in a political party.
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Ammendment to flyer, letterheads and all other forms of identification.
Matt Buckels, as seen on TWOP.
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or Matt Buckels: officially Not Worst
perhaps TLA could send him a ‘cock on a wheelchair’ TWOP T-shirt that he could wear for his next flyer
that will secure him the elderley and disabled votes
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The Joanne Nova who was Joanne Codling? That explains a lot.
Where would you put the nuke plant Matt? How about Leederville Oval.
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I believe so. I don’t know her other than the blog.
I would quite comfortably live in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant – yes. but you’d be cheaper putting it where the transmission lines already are. Also if you put it there where would the Falcons play?
Everyone is happy to holiday in France, where plants are nestled in between vineyards.
Seriously this is not an energy blog… you should head over to Bravenewclimate and read up and join in. the site is run by the Professor of Climate Change from Adelaide Uni.
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Dude the Falcons play at Joondalup Arena. You should know that.
The Royals play at Leederville now, as a local candidate and living within 300m of the ground you should know that.
Big fuck off nuke plant next to Water Corp and we can have nuke powered desal water for the open spaces of Vincent, we’ll fill hyde park with water that way
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what is the point of Geraldton, if not as the site of a big fuckoff nuclear reactor?
coastal location, new deepwater port being built, close to the uranium mines, low seismology, it’s ideal
it’s not like the radiation could do any damage to the gene pool up there
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a nuke reactor in Gerro would definately make the gene pool more vibrant
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Gerro wasn’t in vincent last time I looked.
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but the aspirations are there, particularly for nuke boy,
one day leedy will be like gerro
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It could be with Vincent’s corridor to the sea policy. I would have gone through the town of Cambridge, through Cookster’s house to Floreat Beach, but hey I’m no town planner or futurist.
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Vincent have a Lebensraum policy? Il Duce Catania? explains his media policy. Where’s the piano wire?
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The amalgamations will mean that all councils wll have a corridor to the sea.
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kalamunda and bunbury seems like a good match to me.
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What, via Collie?
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too easy.
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The Falcons thing was a gag to catch you out. Or the joondi-woondies as I think my other favourite blog filled with people who could do their own series of grumpy of men likes to call them.
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They’ll always be the Cardies.
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“my other favourite blog filled with people who could do their own series of grumpy of men”
Do tell.
TWOP could do a pretty good version of grumpy young(ish) women too I reckon
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That would be Dockerland.
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So, are you a Clive Waterhousen fan?
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CLLIIIIIIIIIIVVEEEEEE!!!!!
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“…..my other favourite blog filled with people who could do their own series of grumpy of men likes to call them.”
Link, please.
That sounds like home to me.
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Not going to lie, i don’t have the attention span to read all the above posts so i’m just going to jump in and say that i suspect this is the same Mat B who was a former Pelican Editor back in the 90s. Curiously enough another former Pelican Editor is now involved in the City of Perth Youth Council. You just can’t keep a good hack away from public policy.
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Hey well done bob. for the record I was never a guild politician and just had a good time at Uni and had a blast as Pelican ed back in ’96. Good times.
Wow in 13 years you have a local council candidate and a City of Perth Youth Council type… wow what a stellar breeding ground for hacks Pelican is. Although I did coincidentally have lunch with an ex-guild prez today.
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In 13 years you have former Editors, Presidents, Office Holders and Guild members who have become Members of Parliament, the foreign service, the United Nations, public policy analysts, professors and journalists.
Expanding backwars in time they have also become federal and state ministers, prime ministers, magistrates and supreme court justices.
It seemed beside the point to highlight all this. I was only attempting to underline, with some vague gesture towards humour, the way in which university level “hacks” have a tendency of continuing their careers out into the adult world off campus. My apologies, next time i try to make a generalisation on a light entertainment blog i will submit my footnotes as well.
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So how did Grok go?
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well Simon Bloke Collins gets to go to Eurovision for The West each year… that has to count for something. That bloke form the band Humbug was great too.
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well I must have been one who slipped through the cracks. Seriously thought I wasn’t a hack… I applied for a job after doing the 8 page music section for the year, and just happened to get it, then went back to my life.
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Unbeleivable.
The best.
Ever.
Except maybe the bns.
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See Orbea, if I had followed your advice and gone with something else, we wouldn’t have had one of the most excelent posts.of the year Cut and thrust, bad haircuts, corridors to the sea, 3000 views and 200 comments. It’s ten to ten at night and there’s 30 people online.
I believe I have been vindicated a defenestrated over this choice.
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I’ve even linked from my facebook site! Three lousy emails I got to my matt4council gmail address! I should have been here all along!
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Damn straight, you’d have the metrocentric twat vote sewn up! Hope you stay!
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have to agree
the green tshirt wearer transport advocate turns into a climate change denialist nuke proponent
definately a worst
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denialist… come on that is a tough call.
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Very interesting MB. But your not seeing the whole picture. I would rather know your views on The Sign of Three.
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Yes unfair , nuclear is going to be a necessary part of the mix with wind , solar and geo thermal.. Matt is not a denialist and has fought the good fight on their blogs. Unfortunately they are generally industry fronts (astroturf).
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how much carbon intensity is used to explore, mine, transport, process, enrich, build the plant, store the waste (perhaps under Kailis or even Dirty 130) and decommission the plant?
actually storing the waste under dirty 130 might improve the coffee, definately improve the clientele
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True Orbea , or another way of saying the same thing is that considerably more energy is generated from the process in its total life cycle than we put into that process. Generation 4 nuclear reactors are supposed to solve the problems you have outlined.
At this stage we cant rule out nuclear power as part of the mix.
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…and where has a Gen IV reactor been shown to work BO’S?
yes they are supposed to solve the problems of their own making, but we were told that for Gen II and Gen III.
give a Gen IV a skivvy and stand it in the queue at Jus burgers
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The future’s on, fellow futurer!
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that should be Bruvva futurer.
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interesting (and at times hilarious) thread….got seriously boring once the “self-imploding” candidate started contributing tho!
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now now lets not get nasty. I tend to think it could turn out to be a political masterstroke.
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I agree with the stroking bit……not the master part!
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epic fail
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Serious question from an amused observer………given that the cut ‘n’ thrust of local govt politics is so demanding, do you have the level of insanity required to run as a candidate for a fourth time?
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well the first time didn’t really count. I only produced 500 flyers and was just wondering what it would be like to run. 2nd time I only had a chance if Sally Lake had clinched the mayor as she was running in my ward. If she’d managed a couple more percent I’d have been on I think.
But serious answer…
The issue that got me on the front page darn near broke my heart and quite possibly if I don’t get on this time then that could be that. It really got to me being accused of creating some sort of dirt sheet, which I didn’t, and dropping Maier in it as he’d done nothing wrong but 1/3 of a conversation can be a dangerous thing in an enthusiastic local paper’s hands. A massive front page based on a totally legal and ethical action by Maier, and a factual letter to the editor. It was a shame how that panned out but and it did get me thinking if my slightly unorthodox approach was just not a good fit.
Maybe Town of Vincent really does want very normal councillors?
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answer = yes
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Politicians are mass debaters.
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A four time loser in local govt elections….now that would be hilarios and worthy of therapy.
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This has been a very very funny post from both worsters and worstee. So may funny coments. That is what was missing from the great bumpkin debate. They were just too dumb to reply in a deliberately amusing fashion. Kudos and kahunas to all.
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TLA: can i retract my Wilson Tuckey comment.
Or change it to Greg Hoey.
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Really? I liked it. If you must, send me the link to the comment, but I’m leaving in the suckling at Tuckey’s teat as my reply.
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I just don’t want Mattb to post My “WAtching” profile on all the dating sites.
They’re spooky.
I’ve changed.
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Seriously finding that RSVP link as just about the 1st thing that popped up on google was the biggest free kick anyone’s every been given since some absolute douchebag sent 30 or so private emails to a local newspaper putting him on the front page in the crucial week of the election for all the wrong reasons… sigh.
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TLA: Can we get Tim Winton on tomorrow?
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I had Tim Winton as a lecturer for a semester at uni once… after three or four weeks of people saying how lucky we were, i ventured to ask who the bojangles he was and he happened to overhear. His response, forever etched into my mind is as follows:
“If you don’t know who I am, you don’t deserve to be in this class”
The class in question was ‘Creative Writing in Modern Society’
Aftwards, having read one or two of his works as my grade depended on it I was astonished he said it was I who shouldnt be there.
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I would like to have some kind of (original) photo before starting a Winton post. Anyone got a shot of him that includes John Bono Butler in the background?
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Unfortunately not. But i do have a dugong scratch and sniff… Does that help?
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LA i could find nothing original but i whipped up a little something for you
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Commiserations, Matt. It’s been a pleasure reading your contributions. I hope you’ll drop in again sometime, and you really should check out the TWOP Town of Vincent competition.
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I vote Gateway to Dog Swamp, and She-Ra vs Nick.
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I assme there is a flurry of activity in the edit profile field from many TWOP readers. Lot of adjusting of social drinker to heavy drinker, Danish architect to Aussie reno cowboys.
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Goodnight TWOP. Thanks for the laughs at my (and Richarbl’s) expense.
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Thank you all for a good evenings entertainment.
I couldn’t help noticing that Matt would like to accept plastics for recycling, except of course, for himself.
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as endorsed by Leimo
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have we yet determined where Matt stands with regard to vibrancy?
and where does he think it should be inserted?
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I’m so glad that word got edited out of my flyer. I’d have been annihalated here.
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Tis true Matt. I prefer vim to vibrancy.
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I’m a Zas lady myself.
I my politics with a touch of Zas.
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regretfully I live in Stirling, so will not have the opportunity to vote for you
I am saddled with Terry Tyzack, a man of such hubris that he allowed a council facility to be named after him whilst a serving council member. Personally I find this habit of naming things after living people to be rather gauche, and think that Tyzack should have had the decency to have either declined the honour, or to have died.
I recall when I moved into the neighbourhood asking someone whether Terry Tyzack was a famous Olympic swimmer
we swim at Bayswater Waves in protest
that’ll show him.
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Tyzack – Perth college architect who lives in a colourbond shed.
Regretfully my ward councillor is Rod Willox, Colonel Blimp who has sussed the numbers from the RSL village to ensure his incumbency.
no-one else has a chance unless you can rabbit on about serving in Malaya what!?
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at least you don’t live in bayswater where there is a john d’orazio park.
not somewhere to go after dark.
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BTW Matt B: Seeing as it’s your area of expertise: What IS the accepted international measurement for vibrancy?
Black Skivvy Scale?
Ferris Wheel Quotient?
Tapas per capita?
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Here in Vibrant Bunvegas, we have one of the highest TPC (Tapas Per Capita) and LTP (Latte To Poser) rates in the developed world.
Would Matt like to use us as a model for developing his region?
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Really? Tapas? Do they pronounce it Tap-arse?
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Two schools of thought…
Half the population pronounce it “that fiddly shit you eat with your fingers at that place my girlfriend always wants to go”
How the other half pronouce it is hard to decipher, what with their tosser heads being so far up their suited arses.
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tap-arse is to the twenty-first century what horse’s doovers was to the twentieth
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I was there in the twenty-first century and i never got any horse’s doovers. All i got was crappy vol-or-vents.
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Bunvegas is getting there CD but still lagging on the SS and FWQ ratings. However they’re setting the pace for FOWF and AWOL FIFO ppm.
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We also lack the capacity to decipher or acronymise an entire sentence, for which I hang my head in shame.
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If we are serious about bringing the wider Bunvegas Region into the 21st Century i think we are going to need some sreious acronyms. I am pro-defenestration and i’ve been looking into it. The best way way to effect change is to form a committee to review the findings of the previous committee and come up with some new acronyms.
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Monorails and hovercars MUST be on that review committee’s agenda.
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Also, Hoverpools. We want some of that UP action.
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the only way is UP
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Our procedure is to form a sub-committee to form the committee which would then vote on forming an enquiry board to which committee members would be appointed to have lengthy, generation-long arguements on whether or not someone in the committee is qualified to be on said enquiry board.
Example in point: our back beach regeneration scheme was in debate for 10-odd years before they decided to abandon all development and instead, just Mandruah-ize it.
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I usually love your work CD, but you’re missing the point here. The real question is: Did the have any good acronyms.
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Can’t say i read their submissions that closely. I shall make it my weekend homework to dig up the minutes and acronomise them.
Apologies all round.
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My Desk. Monday.
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Bunbury Back Beach redevlopment =
Stragtegis Housing Intensification Targets
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compleet wiht Funbury typos
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I was thinking Bunbury Land Administration for Node Development.
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Bunbury Organisation for Local Landmarks or Community Key Sites.
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et al
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On random acronyms, I jsut got sent an email for this workshop:
WORKSHOP:
Peer Observation of Teaching (POT): How to get started
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Matt B. You never answered my question. See October 16, 2009 at 10:29 am
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You can copy the link on the date for a specific link to the comment.
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Plastic Matt aka Lyle Langley doesn’t seem overly keen on answering questions, WA.
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Good luck finding that in 376+ comments. As TLA suggests, WAtching, you’ll probably have more success if you provide a link.
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Look I wish there was a simple answer but I think it is a complex non-linear multi-variate relationship. Where does the woman with the aussie flags fit in, for example.
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And please not I answered it before Richarbl even had the chance to say I would not.
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Thanks, but there’s no need to reassure us, Matt. We’re all well aware that the bald loon has , ahem, issues.
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Therefore:
BSSxFWQxTPC/FOWFxAWOLFIFO=Vibrancy
I am calling it the Unified Vibrancy Equation.
Don’t you dare steal it.
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It doesn’t work.
I’m an engineer… I played with your variables to see how this could work out. No matter what I tried (even with a generous fudge factor), FOWF comes out to zero, and we all know that you can’t multiply or divide by zero. All you get with this equation is zero = vibrancy.
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Don’t blame the equation. The problem is your Data. Our focus groups have been returning quite high FOWF numbers.
Do your maths again.
Given that you are an engineer i am sure you will appreciate how well this equation works in thew real world.
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Jesus Tit!
355 comments. First think I asked myself, funnily. Is that a lake in the Town of Vincent?
Did you hear about him emailing The Voice with some “dirt” on Dan Caddy. And the FREAKEN BONEHEAD forwarded the whole email chain with him and Dudley Maier discussing stuff like “we shouldn’t really be doing this” and joking about Caddy’s private life and how he yelled out “FUCK!” when The Voice journos questioned him on this?
Probably been mentioned. I ain’t reading 355 posts to check. Oh, and I’ve got nothing against Buckels or Duds or anyone. Purely for the Lulz.
Local politics saddens me, how it’s become party based.
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Yeah I explained it was a big of a stuff up:) Yelled out is a bit of an exaggeration… jsut a pointless bit of smear from a local paper ahh well. There was no dirt sheet.
No parties here mate.
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So is Dan Caddy teh gey?
ps: Dan Caddy for GG!
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I’m not actually sure what you are asking?
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I see you’ve finally met bald loon’s retarded cousin, Matt, who’d better not have an RSVP.com profile.
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fuck me snuff, that was piss funny!
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Sorry FREAKEN BONEHEAD was a bit harsh. Wasn’t expecting you to be answering personally.
Slinks off.
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no no that’s fine:) It was a total cock-up on my behalf no shying away fro that! In fact it would have made a better Worst than my elegant and snazzy flyer resplendent with holiday snaps. no offence taken.
I just don’t know what teh gey meant?
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You were not to know that I’d become the TWOP resident worstee celebrity of the moment.
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Matt 1 : BR 0
Matt 1 : Richarbl 0
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Come come.
Just because I grovelled.
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I wouldn’t agree with that score so quickly Snuff.
Yes Plastic Matt definitely scored highly with the cheap rsvp thing but on the other hand I exposed him for the slimy vacuous politician he actually is.
Even shazza changed her vote throughout the course of the evenings entertainment.
Surely that is worth one point alone.
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Minus 1 for utter delusion.
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Richard other than “exposing” the “fauxtrageous” scandal that the photos in the flyer are not taken within the Town of Vincent, which to be quite frank you’d have to be a complete and utter bufoon to think I was trying to con people with, I’m not sure where you exposed me?
I reckon Shazza would still vote for me over the other candidates even with my pro-nuclear leanings.
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This one is easy.
Your one single act of including the link to my rsvp profile to win an argument is all the proof anyone would need to know you exist in a moral vacuum.
To be fair you really exposed yourself.
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Yeah having internet skillz is so immoral these dayz.
Hey buddy, your choice to post a rsvp page, your photo, your haircut.
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1) it was funny.
2) the point was, other than being funny, that I was demonstrating that it is not easy to sell yourself to other people without potentially sounding a bit cliched or daggy. Which means I linked to build an argument, not to trash you.
3) here I am enjoying the banter created by my flyer which has been posted here originally just to flame me, and yet you are somehow slighted when I say “here Richarbl here is a bit of you selling yourself that I’ve found and am now going to invite TWOP to poke fun at” and you somehow exclaim fauxtrage!
hypocritcal much?
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After giving point three some consideration I am actually going to agree with it.
TWOP has displayed your brochure complete with personal details on a satirical site with the express intention of getting its hacks to rip it to shreds.
It would be of hypocritical of me to say otherwise when a glossy brochure of my own is displayed for the same purpose.
Fair call.
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wow, conciliation
last time this happened it was kahunas and affadavits at three paces
kudos richardbl and mattb
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good point – how come that uni student in today’s thread got his contact details obscured?
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you’re a politician, standards are lower
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I put those flyers in 5000 letterboxes… and god knows what kind of freaks live there. At least I know what kind of freaks reside at TWOP.
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freaks for four years
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true, Matt has really exposed himself.
he has had the balls and the patience to answer some of the criticism and explain his stance on certain issues, regardless of criticism from us contrarians (see, I’ve learnt a new word from Matt)
he has also show himself to have a sence of humour about himself.
richarbl has yet to show that he has a sense of humour about himself. if he did, he would be laughing at his own baseball cap, and that he describes his personality as ‘average’
Mat is only the second person flamed by this site to have appeared in person to defend himself, and has managed to do it without making a complete tit of himself
he seems to be one of the few people running for council for some other reason than they got planning permission for their property develpment knocked back.
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Kahunas.
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chong buckets for matt buckels
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I might even vote for you purely because you are willing to at least entertain the thought of nuclear energy as an alternative.
Unlike Shazza, I do live in Vincent so my vote would be more than symbolic. Unfortunately, I tend not to vote in council elections.
So you can count on my vote. Possibly.
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Your only option left is to drop your voting papers at the town tomorrow. THe count is tomorrow night.
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Looks like your’e starting to get some traction here Matt. If only local government played as nicely.
Be sure to mention us in your maiden speech, should you ever get the chance.
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I would like to thank, the wankers, the social drinkers and the smartarses who made all this possible…
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I wouldn’t be where I am today without the beration, castigation and humiliation…
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… and a boat, unless you swam, shaz.
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Yes Snuff, took the ferry. Beautiful sunny Roottnest is perfect today.
Master shazza having his arvo nap. Little miss shazza with nanna shazza on the beach. Mr shazza said he was going to the shops, but I know he has gone to the pub for a sneaky pint. Ah yes, everything is as it should be. And Iv’e barely missed a TWOP beat.
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I think he was visiting the chapel.
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Good to see all the ‘in spirit’ non-votes for independent-minded Matt from people who do and don’t live in the town!
Me I actually voted and I voted for the Empire headed by Darth Catania. The jedis’ hearts may be in the right place but they couldn’t run a galaxy to save their lives, in fact they all got slaughtered easily and their little green leader went off to live in a swamp then died.
Hm I’m going off to develop this analogy for deployment in the Willagee by election.
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The half empty glass of reason.
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Reisling actually!
Admit it Matt, it’s true about the Jedi. The empire truly kicked their arse.
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Didn’t you watch Return of the Jedi? We win… sorry.
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Nope the ewoks won it for the jedi.
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That was the full quote to the Voice. I’m Wicket.
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Booo!
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I’m guessing you didn’t get my flyer in time? If you did would it had helped if I’d promised more vibrancy?
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will kerry o’brien and antony green be doing the c(o)unt from Castello Catania tomorrow night?
why dont you post the results here from the polling room?
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The party’s on at Kick Nuttania’s joint ?
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Wrong corner of the galaxy Matt. This ward of Vincent’s already plenty vibrant for my liking, what it really needs is more walrus sculptures.
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I think they just approved the Hyde Park Masterplan sorry, but if I do get on I’ll see what I can do.
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the tea room can replace the cottage at the other end of the park?
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Seriously WTF is a tea-house? Either it is a cafe or it isn’t. I’d put in a whole restaurant and wedding reception venue.
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… cunningly avoiding the gay sex reference
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I thought Tea House was code for knock shop, otherwise they’d have called it a cafe.
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I got married in Hyde Park. There was a photo of that on my last flyer.
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Ok. I have reviewed this whole post and i can pretty sum it up thus…
Matt Buckels is a complete gormless fuckwit.
Matt B on the other hand is not to be trifled with ;-)
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Certainly Buckels could learn a few tricks from me.
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I thought you’d concur…
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Doesn’t have the balls.
Has the kahunas.
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I’m glad we’ve cleared that up.
Now seriously…
TLA: Can we have Tim Winton on Tomorrow?
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if I get elected tomorrow Tim may cotton on to what a boost to status being featured on TWOP can be.
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Will you still talk to us once you’re all elected and celebrity-like? More importantly, will you institute the ‘Everything Should be Modelled on BunVegas’ model as your council policy?
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well I’ve never spoken to you before so no I’ll probably come back. maybe once and tell you all what I really think of this crappy little website.
But in 5 years when an Icon Building at the south end of Oxford St looks a lot like the Lord Forest Hotel…
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‘crappy little website’…. so you’ll be suggesting sewerage treatment and then re-intergration back into the city’s water supply?
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I was joking yeah?
But for sure I have no problems with recycled water.
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Speaking of websites, Matt, here’s one that I guarantee you’ll love. It began on August 27 this year, so a quick perusal will bring you right up to date. With a little luck, you might even star there some day, too.
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If you get elected tomorrow and oddly I would like to see that, what are your plans in regard to some of your election standpoints.
This mostly a serious question so I will pick something fairly easy, exactly what do have in mind for Hyde Park?
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well they just approved the masterplan on Tuesday night so it may be too late for me to do much other than make sure it actually happens and is not just an inactioned report.
The issue is the lakes… I love the park as it is but the lakes either need water all year or they need some soft edges and native conversions. They’ve gone the water all year approach.
The kids playground at the west end needs a total overhaul and I’ll make sure it is not soft as anything and have some slides and other stuff that’ll put hair on your chest. Was just in the OK (the photos) and seriously they let kids parks actually be exciting and fast rather than completely lame. couple of great ones in Edinburgh.
I’ll also make sure the cafe is decent not some council run rubbish like the Beatty Park cafe. Private management by someone who actually gives a toss about their cafe.
ANd fix up that water feature in the north west corner… it has been turned off for well over a year and my kids love it.
Maybe also a fixed little ice-cream stand opposite to the cafe.
And of course row boats for hire on the lakes! Boathouse/cafe.
But other than the lakes being pretty average at the moment I love Hyde Park pretty much as it is.
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OK = UK
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That’s where ya wrong
the UK is shite
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then the Leedy Masterplan needs a rocket up it. Get in some world class designers and let them rip.
We are the only economy on the planet that is still booming, lets get some guru like Koolhas, Corner, or whoever to give us something decent, not sappy watercolour renders and generic block towers and “icon buildings” gag.
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Mat B: You’re missing the point completely.
Any concrete swans in the pipeline?Tyre Swans? Now there’s your heritage.
and acronyms?
Where are your acronyms?
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Leederville needs a rocket, not the masturplan, preferably delivered at ballistic speed
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Leederville, Mt Lawley and even fucking Maylands are booming. Only Suniaco has retreated to the primeval slime.
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did you see how I dropped some names there… that is the incomplete masters talking. DO you like it?
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looking like an old masters
finish the fucker before its too l8
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Thank you for your reply Matt.
Being mixed up with a major political party for fifteen years means that I am well used the meaningless garbage associated with the breed.
Sorry to put you through all this crap but it doesn’t pay to bullshit the bullshitters and I have to say you dealt with it pretty well although calling TWOP a “crappy little website” should result in a shuffling of preferences.
Hyde Park is indeed a little treasure with the lack of water being the only drawback.
The problem is the area was originally a natural wetland and the water simply seeps back into the water table as quickly as it is pumped in.
The only solution to this issue is to remove the black sludge that has built up over the years and then line the lake bed with clay which will act as a sealing agent to stop the water from draining away.
Replace the organic sludge to maintain a healthy ecological balance and the lakes should remain full with minimal top ups to balance evaporation.
Why should I tell you this, because I too love Hyde Park and I am happy to assist any one who wishes to preserve it.
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…and the pond liner is in the masterplan, designed by Kathy Meney of Syrinx, who also designed the Point Fraser treatment wetlands near the Causeway.
Masterplan released in December 2008
there is another solution, allowing the superficial aquifer to recharge back to sustainable levels, but that is far too radical a prospect for people who demand european lakes in an Australian setting.
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it was reported in the Voice yesterday that there were a few late changes so I really don’t know what was actually in the plan. When I saw Syrinx were doing the plan I actually thought – wow, they are actually using a decent consultant who know what they are doing!
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That all sounds good. The boy loved the water feature, bring it back. He also loves the spining round thing in the playground, but is bemused by the caged disabled swing.
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those spinning round things are all over the uk. They call them roundabouts. The Health and safety nazis don;t seem to have found that relic at Hyde park. although it is in sand, and in the uk they tend to be surrounded by gravel or bitumen so you really get worried.
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What about the hookers and junkies? Won’t someone think of the hookers and junkies?
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apart from the fact that there are sometimes needles in the sand in Hyde Park, which I know from experience.
we love the Park, but my choice would be to return the lakes to a natural marshland state. I like what they have done with Point Fraser
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SO when can we expect to see some results from TOV elections? Anyone know?
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By God you are a bitchy bastard TLA.
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There WILL be Tim Winton action next week. Dugongs in Hyde Park Lakes? Wait, I’ve said too much…
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Will need another hundred or so coments to exceed B&S numbers of just over 600. I think it will actually make it! This is where the future of Perth action is. Here is the nexus between arseholes and smartarses. here is where the future of Perth will be debated and decided.
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Perhaps we need to get Plastic Matt’s stance on feminism in order to get a few extra comments?
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Or Matt’s views on rural suicide.
Pro? Anti?
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the ALL plastics is because last election they made SUCH A FUSS about putting in recycling in yellow top bins as though they were saving the freaking planet, and then when they actually shock horror delivered it was still useless so you still have to remember numbers. those damn yellow top bins were such a shallow stab at “sustainability” and they got them over the line!!!
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Have you read and accepted the long term implications of plastic in Alan Weisman’s book “The World Without Us” ?
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Meanwhile you philistines missed 2 hours of wonderful video firsts courtesy of Channel 7, the First 50 years, which included the In Perth Tonight Segment discussed here.
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I saw some. Sandy looked the same.
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Check out her 3 daughters on the WA TV history site – for uni students the obese feline’s purring would go into overdrive :-)
Oh and while there are no figures yet, here is the WAEC page for Vincent.
http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/elections/local_government/election_centre/council.php?eID=92E12E4F-DF91-462C-A10F-44901E539F15&cID=Vincent
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Wakey, wakey……its election day! I wonder if Matt’s out there kissing babies yet?
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only my own.
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This one is for the comment count.
Where is Vincent anyway? Is it one of the Western Suburbs or is it one of those nasty places on the wrong side of the freeway?
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it’s a nasty place on both sides of the freeway
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wait..no…I’m thinking of Stirling
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Ahh, what TOV,s have we had?This is in Vincent
I can’t remember if the home of the Cuntkini was TOV or Perth
A lot of the Beaufort Street Arrondisment is in TOV.
This was TOV
And this
I think this
And I think many more.
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was my duel with Chong as relentlessly dull as richarbl’s spat with Matt?
did I come across as a such a supercilious smug git?
I feel like I am watching myself from the outside and it is deeply disturbing.
perhaps this is an epiphany.
I’m off to go and find some flowers, read some Daniel Goleman and attempt to connect with my inner puppy.
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If La Chong had been amusing it would have been a lot better. In all the comments I forget, Who DID have the Kahunas?
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simon beaumont, I think
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No comparison, skink. Yours was an admittedly humourless, (on Chong’s part, whomever she is), multimedia epic. The bald loon hilariously knocked himself out in the opening seconds and has been a dead man typing ever since.
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I will agree with you on this one Snuff, that rsvp link was a counterpunch which was always going to be difficult to overcome.
And besides my argument based on extracting morality and substance, two qualities that politicians are desperately lacking. In effect a flawed argument from the start.
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not to mention two qualities that are desperately lacking on TWOP:)
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not true, there is plenty of substance
in fact, there is so much of it that several contributors have been accused of substance abuse
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I will expose myself.
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And on the subject of being funny: I invented this awesome joke a few moments ago regarding our subject.
Q. How does he fasten his pants?
A. Buckles them.
SWISH!
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Here goes nothing… may the force be with me I guess.
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So Plastic Matt spare us the Jedi Nights references.
How did the election go?
Are you to be swathed in Mayoral Robes or is it the back bench
or perhaps the park bench?
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Good luck.
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New post for the votes.
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that’s Councillor Matt Buckels thank you very much.
I don’t have the numbers, but I ran 2nd of 6 and picked up a 4-year sentence, with Dudley Maier 1st and Tarryn Harvey 3rd also getting on in the North Ward.
South Ward both incumbents fell short with Warren McGrath and Josh Topelberg getting over the line fairly comfortably.
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Congratulations, Sincerely
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Cheers – seriously this blog was a great antidote to worries about the Voice coverage. I may have to consider watching what my online presence says from here, but I doubt it. maybe a tilt at the Mayoral robes in 2 years in a Red Ken/Boris style mash up.
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May I suggest something from the Mussolini catalogue?
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Heh.
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Congrats Matt B on all 1300 votes.
Sincerely.
Hope Vincent actually lasts till your term expires.
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By the way I have about 1000 of those flyers left over if anyone wants a signed copy? Maybe I’ll issue them like Channel 9 cricket memorabilia.
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Have read this all and laughed myself silly, until I read that Matt is pro nuclear and cuts his own hair!
I’ve just helped this guy get elected.
BTW Duds gets his hair cut at the Mens Room on Bulwer St or by Michael at Headturners on Beaufort St.
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I can live with the nuclear, but the hair cutting still sticks in my craw.
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Thanks for the inside info Sally….sorry Thirdswamp ;)
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never trust a hair dresser that isnt bald
whats wrong with leederville barbers carr place north ward booyee?
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do you really PAY $$$ for that haircut Dudley?
I’d go to where Matty B goes, and he should go to north ward
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well he proved you all wrong didn’t he.
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Try again when you’ve learnt to read, WABOL.
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He proved what wrong now? You sure you didn’t prove yourself wrong?
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careful usual normal timing
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Not me WaBolosers, I said I would vote for him.
Furthermore his election doesn’t alter the umbrage generated by his latte (flat white) sipping.
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Fucking hell. I go offline for few days, and we get vibrancy up the yin yang! Excellent work Matt – my initial seething rage was no match for your RSVP counterpunch.
I welcome our shaggy-haired overlords.
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Nice mention in Inside Cover today for this.
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2nd best thread ever!!
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Nukem was on the front page of The Voice last week. Future Perthers AND his Masters in Urban Design both got a mention. Sweet work.
I’d forgotten he was a FP founding member and thought he’d jumped ship. I’m not too sure if I’m more, or less, disappointed.
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So this guys the Micheal Keenan of Town Of Vincent, Anyway Im sick of seeing Micheal Keenans creepy smiling face on every bustop in Dianella, Im going to make a complate soon about this fact!.
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