Someone, I think it was AGB labelled my anti Tim Winton sentiment as an irrational hatred. I like that as a label, especially as I really don’t know why he just shits me so much. He’s like a John “Bono” Butler without the American accent. He can turn out a nice sentence, although I thought that Cloud Street was sort of like fake WA nostalgia. I haven’t really got anything to base my irrational hatred on. I’m passionately against his idea for Hyde Park Lakes being turned into a dugong sanctuary, despite the fact that I made that up myself. Since I usually only like original photos, I haven’t had any entre into specific anti Wintoning. Richarbl has sent a picture of the Cover of Cloud Street which does look pretty bad, (particularly that sticker) so I guess I’ll have to go with that. Thanks Richarbl.
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2 of richarbls hobbies in 1. Reading Winton and photography.
I understand the irrational hatred thing. I feel the same way about Kylie Gillies, Toni Perron, Alex lloyd, Daryl Sommers, Kylie Minogue. I could go on. I have a lot of hate.
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I hate them so much I don’t even spell their names correctly.
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Speaking of irrational, shaz, in our discussion last night of the Schapelle Corby Tours website, I mentioned that I’d seen much stranger sites, which reminded me, amongst many others, of this particular example. Then I realised I should have shared it here, but letter late than never.
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Well that’s odd.
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Laughing and crying at the same time is an unsettling experience.
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Bugger. better*
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I don’t normally look at your links Snuff because of their generally negative aspects but I couldn’t resist a look at Schapelle Corby Tours.
So wrong on so many levels but so compellingly funny.
A rare compliment on your browsing skills
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Very nice indeed Snuff.
Link Phobia Richarbl?
Do sit down… Now tell me. When did you start feeling this way?
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Good. Don’t.
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Very funny Snuff, your disturbing habits continue to drag this blog down to yet another level.
Despite any effort on my behalf to give some credit you continue to be the worst of the worst of a mostly ok bunch.
I have asked you on several occasions what your problem is, yet the unnecessary abuse continues.
Is there something I need to apologise for?
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Richarbl I think you may need to brace yourself for a run of RSVP gags. It’s all in good humour really.
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Ahh yes, good humour, I remember that
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Not very helpful.
Funny though…
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Your gravatar looked a little David Koch to me at first WAtching. I hate him.
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Who Kochie? Or me?
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I have noticed that some contributors “disturbing habits continue to drag this blog down to yet another level”
I thought I would raise the tone back up to where it was.
Surely someone will say Cunt today…
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If only to ensure ‘cunt’ & ‘kochie’ are linked on google:
David Koch / Kochie is a cunt.
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Saying cunt is not disturbing unless it is said amongst genial company and said often.
Having scum like snuff collect photos to use against other contributors is another thing again.
Is this blog to become the worst of Perth itself?
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Thanks for taking the fun out of TWOP cunt but your cowards refusal to answer any of my friendly questions has degenerated your status to scum and you will be treated accordingly from this point.
TLA you will be no doubt disappointed at this turn of events but I think Snuff has been given enough latitude on my behalf.
I certainly don’t mind having the piss taken and I have certainly made plenty of provocative comments, some intentional, some accidental and some stupidly.
And I probably deserve some of the return comments, however if I offended anyone I have never failed to aplogise.
Snuff on the other hand refuses to display any shred of decency and ultimately I don’t think that is what TWOP is about.
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I’m Brian and so is my wife
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Oh fuck it Orbea, I am being serious here, I have a cunt problem and you’re just taking the piss. Damn your attempt to disrupt it by using Python humour! I am not fucking smiling.
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This was meant to be lot funnier than it sounded.
sorry.
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..and in news just to hand…
TLA likened Snuff to the crazy uncle at a family wedding yesterday as TWOP started to tear itself apart over how to deal with Tim Winton’s proposed Dugong Sanctusry.
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Whenever i have a “cunt problem” it is usually just a yeast imbalance. It will pass.
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TWOP elites like Snuff and Skink and Bento (and Shazza) live in ivory towers, possibly ivory dildoes. They have no day to day contact with real decent aussies. Junkies and prostitutes are their helpmeets – on a good day. Ask them no questions and they’ll bodge up no photoshop. You’re photo features as a very popular worst today. What more validation is required?
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No problem TLA.
Questions are off the agenda, no biggie really because no one appears capable of answering them anyway.
Regardless of the outcome I will continue to represent the principled side of TWOP, as do many others.
Why you ask, because I reckon the TWOP concept has real social value and I will continue to contribute until otherwise.
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You can’t be serious can you Richarbl?
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I think part of Richarbl’s problem is that too often he _is serious
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As well as humourless.
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Richarbl is generally a lot funnier when he is not being shafted by an ivory dildo.
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Oh Lazy one,
Did you get my email regarding the WA Police Media Release and the irony between the POI and the address of the allged offence he is being linked to ?
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Yes, but won’t be running that one.
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Damn, but until you do, here it is for those playing at home :-)
http://www.police.wa.gov.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=9r0IazMypoI%3d&tabid=1489&mid=1983
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No.
Don’t
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Umm, the media release and story is already in the public domain, and so it is ripe for ridicule by this site, as I previously mentioned, the West Article is virtually the entire WA Police Media Release sans letterhead and authorising officer
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/6238819/police-seek-man-over-nollamara-home-invasion/
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Three wise monkeys! Superb work, WAtching.
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I do see it.
I do hear it.
It’s just not that funny…
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Agreed. Not Worst. Not funny.
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Thanks for the back up Shazza…
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Where do I live?? Tell me!
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Outrage,
Read the media release and all will be revealed, but then again your lot just do a wholesale copy/paste job :-)
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You live on the street where that dickhead has the Iranian and Somalian flag flying don’t you?
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If I may ask, what photoshop are you referring to?
I don’t use any false photography ever.
Oh fuck, its a question
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believe that TLA was referring to my previous photoshopped submissions to this venerable organ.
perhaps he is expecting that I may ‘shop one of your RSVP photographs in an attempt to create humour at your expense. This is unlikely, since you seem impervious to humiliation, even when self inflicted.
I really think it is about time you got over yourself.
yours
skink
(third ivory tower on the left)
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My Ivory Dildo has a balcony. Top that, cunts.
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Dildo My Ivory cunt. has Top hat, s a t balcony
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Being a Saint Brigids graduate I like to think I’m a woman of the people LA.
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and it’s the only half decent photo I have of myself… sorry
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You could have at least posterised it.
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Cut me some slack here. I’ve only just learned how to link. “Posterise?” Explain…
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Apply a dodgy photoshop or other effect to disguise the reality.
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Cun’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
You can, however, make a Cunt from another Cunt…
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A smaller one. You always end up with a few pieces over.
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Waste not want not.
Jerky anyone?
On the topic of dried flesh products…
A few years ago i saw in souvenir shops a classic worst…
“Kangaroo Scrotum Purse.” I can no longer find one in the real world. However…
http://www.univenter.com/kangaroo.html
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is this site being overrun by incoherent bald cunts?
if so, when will Fred Botica show up?
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Glad to note I only fit that description after a brazilian.
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I am prolific, No?
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So’s herpes.
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A thinly veiled compliment I believe?
If I may say… you could probably work on your quantity. Your quality however, has never been in doubt:-)
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I missed it, and it’s no longer there…
???
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Well the Daryl Somers couldn’t really be called irrational surely?
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Yes LA I was thinking that about all the things Shazza listed, which made me think that an operational definition of ‘irrational hatred’ is required.
Like, on the surface of it what’s not to like about John Butler & Tim WInton. Greeny leftys who make good money producing reasonable-quality popular art but are apparently reasonably humble about their success, as opposed to utter crap merchants like Kylie, Daryl, Toni etc who get shitloads of money for being overtly crap and plastic and work for evil corporate entertainment conglomerates.
Yet we still hate Tim & John. I irrationally hate both because of:
dreadlocks
pony tails
lack of tunes
‘musicianship’ ‘craftsmanship’ etc
humourlessness
earnestness
too much nature, while they both could not exist without massive environment-sapping urban hordes of fans
lack of realistic politics
both quite ugly really
which doesn’t get me any closer to an operational definition. Would it be:
Someon that everyone acknowledges is great and successful, yet they make your skin crawl.
As opposed to (eg Toni Pearen) everyone fucking hates them but they’re still on tv every week hosting a show that everyone hates.
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I forgot horrible tea cosy beanies.
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I agree – I think he’s one of these tofu eating Soy Latte Green types as well :-) And the TV adaption of Lockie Leonard – talk about continuity errors with “Sarge” still wearing the Khaki Police uniform, despite it being phased out by Dr Karl.
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There was a Lockie leonard poster at the FAC TV thing.
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But did you take any photos of any TV Worsts ?
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There was nothing that worst Frank. Just a lot of old tv cameras and photos of tv personalities of the past.
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‘A well known graphic designer’ known to you designed a Lockie Leonard poster for the play about 12 years ago. Was it that one do you think?
I love Cloudstreet. A superb piece of writing, but he hasn’t matched it since. I wrote a really scathing review of Dirt Music because I was completely incensed by it and was very chuffed when The West Published it.
The riders was rubbish and I refuse to even look at Breath even though there is a copy in the house!
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Excellent, some truly rational Wintonian hatred! The poster was for a tv show I think. I do believe I have managed to avoid listing that well known graphic designer so far.
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cimbali, you really should read ‘breath’, it’s wonderful.
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So people keep telling me but I know it will only make me cross.
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Nowdays I only read books I’ve read before. Time to break out “The Mask of Dimitrios” again.
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I thought ‘The Riders’ was ok, except for the total lack of plot.
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when Lockie Leonard was filmed the khaki uniform was de rigeur for the well dressed whalloper
continuity error?
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Nope, as I believe they were introduced in July 2006 :-)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2006/04/10/1612357.htm
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Well I spoke with Rhys Muldoon (Sarge) while he was sipping latte in a caff in Stirling Terrace in March 2006, filming was well underway then.
It would have been a continuity error to change to the blue uniform during filming.
I dont drink latte, mines a long macc, thanks very much Frank.
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No doubt Bob “Ten thumbs Talbot” Faggeter was in it too?
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Frank owes me a coffee
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great writer.
bloody awful cover.
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That’s the spirit.
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It was indeed me: No.39.
I’m impressed you have Winton at No.1. You must really irrationally hate him. Must be a WA thing.
Fingers crossed Nine serves up a 20-1 Irrational Hatreds. Be fun watching the fake experts – Tottie, Luttsy, Sammi, Kelly, Georgi, Tommy, Erika(y) – talk about themselves.
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Actually #1 is just a time thing. my number one would be Macca on a Sunday morning. Fuck he shits me.
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But he is a god to the ABC Rural listeners though – which says a lot considering they voted for Brendan Grylls to have Colon Bayonet by the Kahunas over Rorts for Regions.
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We’ve seen the level of bumpkin intellect Frank.
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Co-sign. Fucking Macca. The worst thing about Macca is I always forget he’s on until after I’ve turned on the radio. After 10am I just black out all memory of his existence until the following Sunday when it all happens again.
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Exactly! And then you realise there’s going to be 6 hours of the cunt patronising the shit out of our poor bumpkin bretheren.
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And it’s worse when he broacasts from WA and he has to start at 3am during Daylight Savings and the yokels can see him live and THEN relived it on the wireless because his show is on delay.
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Actually, Macca is less your Irrational Hatred and more your Very Rational Hatred.
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I concur, nothing irrational at all about that hatred
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The inability to get his fucking theme song out of my head ratchets up the shitme rating to 11.
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Winton has a theme tune? Oh you mean Macca. Looks like I should have gone with him first.
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As anticipated, I have not been able to get the line “And he shakes it just like a maraca” out of my head all day.
Any chance John Ritter is going to make the list? I fucking hate John Ritter with a burning passion. Don’t think he didn’t get a ‘good riddance’ when he finally popped his humourless clogs.
Russell Goodrick? Danny Katz? Robin Williams? The guy who used to live upstairs from me who wees directly into the toilet water, rather than bouncing it off the bowl?
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Not the Reverend John Ritter, whom I believe I am, surely, Bento.
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Yes Yes Yes!!!! My most hated thing of all time. If I ever find some one has maliciously set the radio station so I will accidently hear any part of that show when I turn the car on – I have to syringe out my ears.
Possibly I should insert those ear candle things that you stick in your ears then set fire to in order to fully expunge him!
Or maybe someone should insert ear candles straight into Macca
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Now you’re being rational.
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Now you’re talking.
Read here.
“I love trains.”
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I’ve posted this before, but for Tony T :-) Classic Macca.
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Gold.
All it lacked was a pun about “tinkling” the ivories and a traditional “Didja get that, Kel?”
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Great post, I didn’t know you were a Macca hater.
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Neither did I. Then I heard him.
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surely the reason he shits you is because of the parochial jingoism from the media that accompanies everything he does.
because he is from WA, and writes about local places, it is considered unpatriotic to suggest that he might not be that good a writer. Robert Drewe is protected by the same halo, and I notice his name on Winton’s book. Everyone read Craig Silvey’s ‘Rhubarb’ just because it was about Freo, but you were met with hushed silence if you dared suggest it was a bit sophomoric.
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Robert Drewe’s Savage Crows was excellent. He doesn’t shit me. And Winton’s shitme-ness is not dependent on the quality of his writing.
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clearly you haven’t been reading his column in the West.
I am glad to see folk coming out in support of these authors showing exactly the sort of parochial chest beating I expected.
I just read that Craig Silvey’s latest book is also set in the time of the Cook murders, which shows a distinct shortage of local stories. It is set in a fictional country town that closely resembles his actual home town of Dwellingup.
i wonder if there’s a bum thief in that town
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I forgot, Drewe’s in the West. Haven’t read him. He’s not a patch on Michelle Philips I’m sure.
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Well at least Bento hasn’t called good riddance on Liz Jolley. Don’t think there’s been too much parochial chest beating has there? Are you a fan of Dave Warner scribblings?
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I didn’t know Dave Warner had written anything – I shall go find City of Lights. A serial killer in Perth? wherever did he get that idea?
I didn’t actually say I disliked Winton or Drewe. They are both good writers, if not to my personal taste. Winton in particular needs a good editor though.
I agree that it’s not the writing that irritates, it’s the fierce loyalty that these writers engender in Perth readers.
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it’s not a bad read skink, quite well done, and a certain black humour to it. (dave warner)
craig silvey sophomoric – the perfect word to describe his work. thank you.
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I have it. It’s a modest cut above a standard crime book. The Rottnest ending pretty lame. Has some amusing turns of phrase. There is a thinly disguised Carmen Lawrence, who the protagonist rogers fairly frequently.
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i would certainly never have gone so far as to buy a copy. it’s more a borrow from the library tome.
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Second hand shops. They’ve got lots.
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Yeah skink I agree it’s partly about the reception given to the person’s work.
Robert Drewe is a borderline irrational hatred for me, because I also reckon The Savage Crows is one of the best ever Australian novels but I hate the Shark Net, and all the middle aged people reminiscing about perth in the 60’s.
Maybe another criteria for irrationally hating a local writer is one’s parents read their work at their book clubs.
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I was briefly a member of a book club and then someone picked The Shark Net.
in spite I made then read Christopher Brookmyre next
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The Shark Net was excellent, too.
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Hear hear. It is the greatest WA book ever. Skink is drugged up – someone slipped some herring into his soy frappacino with a twist of lemon.
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I didn’t say I didn’t like it, but thanks for validating what I said about fierce parochial loyalty.
as I said before, I prefer tea to coffee, which is such an unrefined stimulant.
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I don’t like the Shark Net. The Savage Crows is definitely the best WA book ever.
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Oh come on PL: I expect lunkheadedness from skink – but you?
The Shark Net has Rottnest, the media, smoking, sex in cars, rubber products and murder.
And boiling brain!
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I’m still traumatised by being forced to read Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo in high school English. Being form the same area the parochial dial had been (and still is) ratcheted up to maximum.
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I like that there’s someone in Los Angeles been reading this one for a while. Maybe it’s Tim?
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I imagine he’s over there chatting with directors for the Cloudstreet TV series, TLA.
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And googling hate Tim Winton?
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Probably just the name on Google Alerts, a la you know who, TLA.
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Ditto. Cloudstreet didn’t rile me too much, but An Open Swimmer did it. Just because he happened to live in the area for a while in his teens, and went to the school, hundreds of English students from Albany must have a hatred for him, since they were forced to consume his books over and over in high school. I do, at least. I guess that’s sort of rational though.
I have to turn off the TV when he comes on, there’s no real reason for it, he just makes my skin crawl for some reason.
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He’s the Les Muray of prose.
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is it too much to suggest that Cloudstreet was just a fucking soap opera?
when I read it I kept thinking of Catherine Cookson
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Cloud street was indeed soap compliant. And Catherine Cookson is another person I’ve never heard of. Another A lister?
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no, she is the ‘most widely read’ English novelist of all time – The Mallens and such – mostly tales of doughty women clawing their way up from Struggle Street
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By going on the game? Clawing their way up from Cloud Street?
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I believe that ‘StruggleStreet’ was Winton’s original title for the book, but had to change it when he found out that Howard Sattler had copyright on it.
somebody gave me a copy, raving that Winton was a magical realist, and that Cloudstreet was Australia’s own Hundred Years of Solitude.
imagine my disappointment
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Heh, hated 100 years of solitude too. 3/4 the way through I realised nothing was going to happen.
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I wonder if that’s better or worse than the most prolific author of the 20th Century, skink.
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Oh no, they have printed another one of those ‘who is on Perth’s A-list stories”
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26214408-5012990,00.html
actually, it’s the same story that The West ran last month, with Rosita Stangl trying to bignote herself. I once helped organise a party at the Art Gallery for the Islamic Exhibition. Since many of the exhibits were religious, it was a dry event and guests were asked to dress appropriately. Stangl showed up in a catsuit and moaned that she couldn’t get a drink. Fail.
interesting that Craig Silvey is on that list, but not Winton or Drewe. Curious to see Hank Marvin described as a comedian. Some real people, then newspreaders and weather girls and the usual self-publicists
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Who the fuck is Craig Silvey?
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a one novel wonder. set in freo, touted as the next winton, but not as good.
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I just finished his second book – Jasper Jones.
Better than Rhubarb. some nice writing, a bit of judicious editing would have improved it though.
It had some really lovely characters and you would swear that you had met the cricket loving vietnamese kid before – I am sure he went to Mazenod!
Overall I enjoyed it.
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maybe you did indeed meet that kid before, perhaps as one of Chris Lilley’s characters.
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woudl it have been even more vibrant if the lead character had been called Jesper?
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I note that being ‘vibrant’ is a necessary to being an A lister these days.
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And more to the point, why the fuck am I not on that list?
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You know LA, I do look for your name each time they trot out the A lists.
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Maybe La Chong has some kind of veto?
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She wasn’t on this latest list. Not vibrant enough.
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Well since her Master Bates quit the DPP and the demise of her TWAT Column, La Chong has slunk into well deserved obscurity – oh and outing her as Guppy’s lawyer helped too :-)
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She’ll be back Frank. I diagnose a serious case of relevancy deprivation syndrome. Which can only be overcome by a return to the A list.
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Samantha Druce is successful? In what chosen field?
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Oh yeh, I hate Sam Druce too.
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of course she is successful
she is WA’s most successful gold digger since Paddy Hannan
I believe they are going to erect a statue of her on the corner of King Street with a fountain of champagne coming out of her Gucci handbag
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I thought that honour belonged to Rose?
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oh, I’d forgotten about her
isn’t A-list celebrity fleeting?
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This is true Skink. It looks like the Russians are overtaking the Indians too.
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fame is a fickle mistress
no doubt the the Russians will also be displaced by the next set of dodgy arriviste millionaires with more money than taste and a desperate need for approbation
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Am I not on the list because I don’t earn as much money as a Freo concretor? I just can’t understand why ‘m never there.
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you should have gone for that Channel 7 weather reading gig
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No doubt
“anonomous South American meat-packing glitterati”
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she did better than Tim Roberts’ girlfriends.
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now why aren’t those bunny boilers on the A-list?
I’d love to see them going at each other after a few shandies. That’s the sort of thing guaranteed to get a party moving
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he’s the man who has the literary world abuzz:
http://www.readings.com.au/interview/craig-silvey
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That synopsis doesn’t do much for me. Despite being set in the country, no B&S scenes?
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I refuse to read an article on a man with such a clear case of monobrow denial.
Although in fairness its possible he lost it after passing out at the latest B&S.
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I can’t belive I’m only on page 2 of Google Aus for “hate Tim Winton!” A lovely review of cloud street from school kiddie who also tells Winton to get his hair cut. Gold!
http://community.boredofstudies.org/7/english-advanced/380/my-school-only-one-doing-cloudstreet-tim-winton.html
…oh we were lucky enough to have to read that crap book as well :P
and we dont have anything on it – not because we only just started it but my teacher is a dumb arse who doesn’t know ANYTHING and cna’t read, spell or answer what questions she has been asked.
it was sooooooooooooooooooooo boring!!!!!!! like 430 pages of boringness and then we had to watch crap videos about tim winton and how he hates the new world with amterialsitic posessions. get over it dude (and get a hair cut while your at it)
i hate ENGLISH (mainly my teacher)
Lauren!
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Nice.
You trying to get your hits up to a million all by yourself today?
It’s all about you, isn’t it
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Looks like the million will be mid to late November. Sounds the perfect time for some kind of drinking meeting.
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do dugongs drink auroch or howling wolves?
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the 12th? does that count as mid-to-late?
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Average of 2500 per day. Don’t think we’ll get there for the show date, unless perhaps there’s another B&S or election.
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the ides of november?
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And yes it is about me. Probably fortunately my own clicks do not get counted.
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Brilliant, TLA. Amterialsitic !
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That’s an excellent word.
What else would you expect from someone with a teacher who cna’t read or spell.
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as reviewed by the “yes but no but” tart.
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He’s the Stangl of web publishers
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I pretty much hate anyone who is passionate about god, or global warming, since neither of them exist.
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Me too. I only believe in the goodness of oil and coal companies.
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you must have a real love-hate relationship with Steven Fielding
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A cursory glace at the linked blog that their relationship many things may be tenuous.
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bang!
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I somehow omitted the word ‘suggests’
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…you are still about 3 further edits short of a comprehendable sentence. Good luck.
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Thats comprehendible i’d say. And i make it only 1 further edit.
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Tim Winton, not that great, and taken way too seriously for way too long. If he was ever any good he stopped trying long ago, due no doubt to the adulation.
I used to like that Randolph Stow, despite the book we all had to read in high school. He could write. Never sure why WA didn’t embrace him as home grown talent.
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Tourmaline is an under appreciated classic.
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Someone from WA other than Randolph Stow wrote a book?
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A little while ago I Googled “Tim Winton can lick my balls” and this rather good Castle Hill based blog came up as first hit.
Like, she’s a chick and she’s funny and she doesn’t bitch and moan about stuff all the time.
This is not the Tim Winton entry, but it’s funnier:
http://annikskelton.com/2009/09/21/mark/
re: Winton. I think she said she’d root him even though he was fugly. Crivens!
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That’s true, I did say I would root Tim Winton. I say that about a lot of people though, then when it comes down to it, I get a headache instead.
I love that my site came up as the first result when you included the phrase “lick my balls.” I’m gonna have a beer just to celebrate that.
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Prepare for a shit fight people.
3 out of 4 assylum seekers are on welfare.
Lazy fuckers. There’s heaps of jobs going on Christmas Island…
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Let’s get those dugongs settled in Hyde Park before we start worrying about side issues.
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My bad. Sincerity is sooo unseemly…
Let’s try again
Prepare for a shit fight people.
3 out of 4 Tim Wintons are on welfare.
Lazy fuckers. There’s heaps of jobs going on Christmas Island…
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Centrelink would not give me any free money last time I asked. Now I know why. The time before that – FUCK! The hoops I had to jump through.
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Wilson?
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Woah! Name calling already.
Jesus fucking Christ. I’m sure we’re gonna get a lot of valuable input from you on this. Why don’t ya take it to Andrew Bolt’s blog?
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It wasn’t rhetorical.
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Snack?
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Blackface?
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Lonely?
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Call me now.
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Blackface? Yes.
Lonely? Yes.
Snack? Ouch
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Youse cunts should read “Eleven Months In Bunbury” by James Ricks. It becomes a bit laboured and predictable towards the end, but the first half reads like an Australian Bukowski.
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NO! That novel should be blanked from the world, and it’s title too.
“__________________________” is the most inane pile of dogbollock poseur prose I have ever had the misfrotune to read.
And Tim WInton put it on our course requirement and I had to whore my soul finding something good to write about it or fail.
I detest this novel. Noone under the age of 45 drinks at the Burly, let alone shags one of it’s saggy pig-tittied, yeast infested chong-busket barmaids.
Good Gravy, that statement really raised my bile levels.
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You talking about 11 in Bunbury right? Why “__________________________”?
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No way, dude. You’re WRONG.
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Because it’s so very painful, and causes me to be physically ill if i speak it, so my memory blocked its horrible name out of my vocabulary.
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There were things to admire about the Ricks novel.
Daryl Cake’s Ferals is also worth a look.
Neither can match the magnificence of The Shark Net, but.
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thought you’d be really pleased to know that building 213 at curtin has been officially named the tim winton lecture theatre.
on sunday mornings it doubles as the church of tim winton.
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first, are you serious?
second, is that the new one behind liz jolley / norm dufty?
finally, when is he going to start lecturing there?
I think it was skink who has already been over naming things for living people…
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And here is the story from The West Online.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/6421541/winton-recognised-at-his-former-perth-university/
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yes, yes, don’t know.
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I think they should have named the toilet block after him. Far more apt, given his body of work.
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I see that Winton and his cabal of Dugong holing corksoakers have scuttled attempts at cutting off their I’m an Auusie writer subsidies.
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Good on ’em; look what happened to the Aussie music industry after it lost it’s own parallel importing war – Shannon bloody Noll!
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Well the price of a Noll cd would have been a lot less than before.
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Youse Winton-watchers should get along to this exhibition just opening today at the WA Museum “The quirky humour of the images is tinged with a sense of unease, evoking similar feelings to Winton’s novels.”
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(html fail) this thing
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/whats-on/whats-on-now/#maritime
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