This pirate beflagged van in Hilton from Mez sort of segues to a desperate letter fromPatricia, who claims an anti flag South Perth Mayor is set to downgrade the Aussie flag on Sir James Mitchell Park, and replace it with 4 flags, Aboriginal, City of South Perth, WA flag and Aussie flag. Patricia claims to have exhausted all avenues. It’s nice that she turns to TWOP in desperation. If only Andrew Mallard and “The Hurricane” had come to me. They might have got better outcomes. Patricia says…
It will be replaced with 4 flags – one the City of South Perth Flag, two the Aborigine Flag, three the Western Australian Flag and four our official Australian. Our full time and paid mayor has said to me he does not like the Australian flag – he has said the same thing to many others. So the idea is to dilute the value of the Australian flag. What happens to our flag in the future is just that – in the future – meanwhile our present official flag means a great deal to many people. The greatest worry from my point of view has been the lack of any public consulation – not a mention of it anywhere. Pat
The Mayor sound overly flag happy rather than anti flag to me. I’m no fan of the design of our flag, but I’m worried that the South Perth flag might be even more hideous.
The Worst of Perth 
Am loving that broken wall. Aint it awesome to live in a first world country
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yeah, it’s like some rolling concrete tide, lapping at the very foundations of the supa IGA, our very best infrastructure lost forever in its surging depths
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It’s also the short cut from “Thirst Camel” to “IGA” (I’ll wager).
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Diluted icon
Pluralist infill traitors
Worship the flag cunts
btw, isn’t Patricia that crazy cyclist chick with the multiple flags and EXCELLENT voice projection?
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God made all nations;
He allotted their times and
Boundaries, says Acts.
(Acts 17:26)
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Just a bloody shame
Our proud Christian heritage
Pissed away like that
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OMG my class wen t on an excursion in the city and that chick was full on yelling at us because we come from a catholic school
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lol I saw her today chatting with Mike Ward before pedaling off screaming ‘End the burqa in the workplace who are these people invading our true blue country’ lol she’s serbian. Catholics though that’s a new one :)
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Clearly she has OH&S issues.
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Picture?
Why would you not take a picture?
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http://perthbands.com/forum/index.php?topic=4860.0
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please note that the van is painted in the same “anti radar” shade of charcoal as the Ady Gil
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Shouldn’t this thread be in Pirate?
Arrgghh?
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I see that someone has set fire to the West Australian building.
everyone on this site is a suspect
unfortunately it is the wrong bloody building
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Looks like an inside job too. Has anyone seen vegan this afternoon?
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hahaha! i actually love that building and was looking forward to when the city square redevelopment is finished and the heritage buildings are tarted up.
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As was I. Newspaper House is one of the few buildings Alan Bond owned that he didn’t get to tear down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Perth_Technical_School#Current_history
It ought to be preserved for that if nothing else.
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it seems that the damage is not so bad, mostly rubbish in the building rather than the building.
i certainly hope so.
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that current history section on wiki reads as a who’s who of building demolition in Perth in the glorious 70/80’s
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Funny how most of them turned out to be cunts.
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Good to see the 4WD version of the Mitsubishi Delica Starwagon getting a look in. You can gun those things like a muthafucka. If I hadn’t had to use my old one for work, I sure would have painted it black and Jolly Rogered it. Got busted smoking herb in the back of it in the Shenton Park Hotel car-park back in 93. Nice officers simply “confiscated” the offending substance rather than charging me with anything. My guess is that the owner of this vehicle indulges similar practices.
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according to the cops of my acquaintance the confiscation is valuable intelligence to determine the ‘quality’ of ‘erb in the region
“just social, just social”
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What does the City of South perth flag look like?
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so awful that google images won’t even show it.
the aborigina flag is actually an official australian flag, so i’m not sure what pat’s gripe with it is. unless she is the rather unpleasant bike lady and then i can understand why she doesn’t like it.
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the dad’s to blame – apparently he was from Serbia. At least that’s what I and the whole street heard.
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bend sinistre with Bill Grayden rampant
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Hang on, if they are taking down the Aussie flag and then ‘replacing’ it with an Aussie flag and three others, isn’t that just adding flags? Or am I led to believe they are going to be all on the same physical flag?
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…one flag to rule them and in the IGAness bind them
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Dilutin the franchise , jus like Mary McKillop and the saints.
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I thin she’s sayin’ that the big motherfucker flag will be replaced with 4 smaller limpwristed versions. I think.
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· Four flag poles proposed:
– National
– State
– Indigenous
– City of South Perth
The official concept and why they are making the changes:
· Significance of existing flagpole site – sweeping views of Perth, where Swan River colony first founded. Preferred location for Australia Day flag raising and citizenship ceremonies. Also a prominent landmark for other events of state (Skyworks) and international (Red Bull Air Race)
significance.
· Why spend money on the project? The site is high profile area and used for events of National significance and contains memorial to Captain Stirling. Upgraded area will compliment the new beach area, planted trees and viewing deck and will link up east and west beaches.
Click to access Attachment724.PDF
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Stirling dissed us
fucking manky scots git
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I refuse to pledge allegiance to any council unless they have nine or more flags.
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I’m with you, Rich. The problem isn’t too many flags, it’s not enough. Surely their Sister City, some local sporting teams, Sea Shepherd, McDonald’s, Norsk Volvo, the South of Perth Hash Harriers Club, local secessionists, and Rotary have flags they could run up as well?
I won’t be satisfied until there is a wall of flags, spanning the entire foreshore from the Narrows to the Causway. Breathtaking.
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Norse Motors closed down, alas. They could run a Natalia flag instead.
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I like the cut of your jib, young man.
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Shouldn’t that be jibe.
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I’ve always found upgraded areas to be very positive and full of praise.
Even when they’re critical it’s in a constructive way.
And I’m glad this upgraded area is linking up the beaches – anything but linking down.
And I admire a council which has nothing to do with landmarks that aren’t prominent.
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Are you suggesting and implying they employed superfluous, redundant tautologies in their blurb, DFOC?
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I am happy to pay the new area some compliments
I think the new landscaping, beaches and footpaths are great. That stretch of the foreshore had been neglected too long.
it is a pity they had to spoil it with flags and jingoism, but I suppose it’s better than another Smiths sculpture
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I will be bringing this – and the unauthorised toiletries, and many other TWOP items – to the attention of Don ‘Weasel Words’ Watson when I interrogate him on the weekend.
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Cohen the Grammarian.
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I thought that Eventscorp was pulling out of Red Bull Air race in South Perth after 2010 – maybe I misread that somewhere
fascinating reading though – God! I wish I worked for local government
bet they all giggled at the agenda
“Presenters
Mr S Pullyblank”
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they probably made that name up and cacked themselves in the admin dept.
http://bit.ly/bt0Ho1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynWTLeUJRA
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Speaking of multiple flags, that line of flagpoles extending along Mounts Bay Road from the roundabout near Narrows Bridge is awful. I get an attack of the cultural cringe every time I drive past and see this line of non-flags; scraps of cloth with slogans printed on them. I’ll try and get a photo.
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the worstest was when they were used to promote a city wide sale…
abso-fucking-lutely awful.
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