“…age-old evil, tireless and googly, cloaked from the masses by modern skepticism, yet still a potent force stalking the dark ways of the night.”
— Dennis Wheatley (The Gumnut with Googly Eyes Rides Out)
The gumnut with googly eyes has long been a stalwart of Perth art worsting. Now this obscenity moves into the realm of desperate real estate flogging. A medium where the gumnut googly eye is just as at home. From the House of WAtching.
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The Worst of Perth 
I’ve been thinking about moving to Baldivis, if only to escape this guy.
I always wondered what he was the member for…
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I spend all night on photoshop- and not one comment?
Sheesh.
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clap clap, well done, real men use MSPaint
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Real men get the photo right the first time
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Oh Dear.
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perhaps he didn’t see the flowers?
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Perhaps Not.
Or perhaps he doesn’t click on links due to a phobia, developed around the time of the Buckels post.
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9% Comments made by contributors outlining how this blog is not all about Richarbl yet seem obsessed by him anyway.
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Watching, have you become so paranoid that you believe everything I say is somehow directed towards you?
Fact is my reply was directed to Pforts and was a general observation, it had nothing to do with you.
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are you sure?. reads like a comment about the photograph and therefore the photographer
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Yes of course I am sure, the theme of my reply was based around new age technology such Photoshop, etc vs old school photography which I prefer.
Within photographic circles it is a contentious issue which creates no end of spirited discussion.
My reply was fully intended to add to the general theme of the conversation
and was in no way intended to garner ill feeling.
Thanks for asking tho
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I thought I’d been translating sex and the city into Chinese for too long and had better get back to see what the peeps were up to.
I’ll check in again later.
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you’re nuts
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As trying as my current TWoP free days are, TLA, and fine as the nuts are, it seems we’ve barely missed a thing.
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directed at the photographer with some pissweak comment about ‘real mean’
your hasty backpedalling makes you look like Michael Keenan
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Yep. Just the usual self-obsessed paranoid drivel followed by bullshit excuses. Some things never change.
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I’ve never been in a photographic circle. What do you ?… oh never mind.
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It’s the bokeh OK?
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not the kerning?
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what I meant to say
was Fuck the bokeh
what about
the kerning?
(I’m still learning)
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A rather touching poem about photography here.
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And it even references me…
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WAtching all the huge waves crashing… hahaha.
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Defying the Terms of Use a bit there NF – Dean would not be impressed
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I acknowledged authorship – what more does Dean want?
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These poems may be freely used for non profit purposes on the following conditions:
I get told about where they are being used
If they are used for a magazine / newsletter etc. then please send me a copy.
If they are used on a site then please send me a link.
FURTHERMORE
“I wrote this poem to show some of the reasons I use Psyonic Dreams as my internet name. Many years ago I started using the name Sonic as my internet name, based on the “Hedgehog With Attitude” from the Sonic computer games. Eventually I decided to change it.”
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To be precise, I did not “use” Dean’s or his Mum’s poems on this site, but simply alluded to them via hyper-linking.
Psyonic Dreams was duly noted.
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hmmm…
has the replies
gone awrys?
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I’m not thinking that comment threading is important by now. It usually only fucks up after 100 comments.
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Threading appears irrelevant for most posters this evening, who all appear to be well into their second six-pack. I’m just waiting for Ric Harbl to get back from the pub.
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How ’bout those cute little gumnuts?
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But…but … but the Member for Smiling?
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WA – I happen to live in Smiling, so I didn’t find it very funny :(
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Well, clearly he is not the member for frowning.
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What about the people of Kerning.
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You’ve got our Mikey all wrong WA – he’s simply baring his teeth like this.
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Reply to TWOP’s #1 Hater Just the usual hate filled garbage typical of a coward immersed in a campaign of personal denigration.
Some things never change.
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Christ richardbl. Why don’t you just, you know, kind of fuck off.
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Stay out of it SW, this has nothing to do with you
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Fuck off, cunt.
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Iv’e said it before, and I’ll say it again Rich. You cannot control who enters a discussion on a public blog. It’s one in, all in.
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Indeed, shazza, but the mob mentality and continual paranoia by some of the commenters – old and new- is dragging down the mood of the whole scene here.
Humour it is not.
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What I don’t get is why ricahrdbl seems to think it’s all about him.
If he doesn’t like it here, then there’s a pretty easy solution.
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“I’ve never been in a photographic circle. What do you ?… ”
they all go into a dark room, admire each other’s enlargements and then see what develops.
boom boom
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*Seems* being the operative word.
Who perceives it to be so?
The whole thing is bullshit of the first order.
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Otherwise, skink, they go into the darkroom, make an exposure, and see what develops.
Boo-Boom!
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The mob mentality is a typically human phenomenon occurring when people perceive a common enemy. Rich has taken a personal swipe at a large number of contributors thus fuelling the mob fire, and compounding his own perception as being picked on. It won’t stop until one of two things occur. 1) Rich stops responding to the bait. 2) People stop baiting.
Neither seems likely any time soon.
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now that race, gender, sexuality, disability and ginger hair have been made out-of-bounds, the only way that the herd can identify a suitable target for persecution is if some poor sap makes a complete tit of themselves in public.
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Like…er…breastfeeding?
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….Expose their enlargements before developing them in his dark room.
Bam bam!
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A terse letter from the Shire of Kalamunda is in the mail. This is surely some sort of trademark violation.
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I thought precisely the same thing Bto.
So we’ve seen Entry Statements from Kalamunda, Darch, Whitfords and now Baldivis…and now Claremont chimes in with this monstrosity. I would have to say that it is just a gross display of wealth.
It just proves that no amount of money can buy taste.
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Should there be a link WAtching?”
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He didn’t want to get out of his car.
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Sorry…
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Off Topic, I see the Wheel of Perth is to close in May.
A vanishing worst?
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I noticed the big Perth Hollywood sign is up. Has that been there all this time or did they take it down and then put it back up?
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it’s up for the air race. i was privileged to see it when it was only the last three and a half letters, but unfortunate to be driving and unable to photograph it.
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Are you saying that you failed to get wood?
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Let’s not forget that Perth has a set of medical facilities named after Tinseltown. And a vanished celebrity gossip-columnist.
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Rather sad to hear this actually.
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You though HollyWood was just missing, not decomposing in a box?
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i thought ljuke was referring to the perth sign on the foreshore.
did i miss something? i know that i quite often do.
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Would it have been so hard for WAtching to step out of his House and get a bit closer to the sign?
I had to go to The Rivergums website to see the googly-eyed gumnuts up close.
“Discover a healthier, more relaxed way of life.
“Nestled in Baldivis, a beautiful scenic pocket just 40kms south of Perth, The Rivergums embraces its natural surroundings by allowing you to live with nature, not against it.
“Already home to over 350 families, The Rivergums is a HIA GreenSmart accredited estate featuring sculptured lakes and wetlands, landscaped parklands and abundant natural bushland.”
http://therivergums.com.au/
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I already cropped it closer than the original.
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The spiel fails to mention how conveniently located the estate is to this…
Something of a selling point I would have thought.
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Now all they need to do is host a Rock Concert
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Banksia man lurks
Kerbside, eyeing off your kids
Natural bushland
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Ourobouros stands
Glinting eyes among the leaves
Terror glade’s idyll
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Live naturally
Until the ‘dozers take us
Commence phase two
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ah crap
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Goggle-eyed gumnuts
Entice rapists of the earth
To live “naturally”
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Kinetic secret
Realtor’s lore of attraction
Fridge magnetism
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May Gibbs’ ghost now weeps
Developmental ass-rape
Progress must go on
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Alongside freeway
Dragstrip down the road, nothing
but beer and skittles.
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driving home along the new highway, I saw two shipping containers in a cow paddock draped with a picture of Don Randall, MP for Canning.
it was somewhere near the silver cork things south of Mandurah.
looking at his website, Randall seems to be trying to take credit for building the bypass, possibly single handed with a shovel.
never have I seen any billboard more demanding of a Hitler moustache and fringe.
cunt
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reminds me of the scarecrow in ‘League of Gentlemen’
Don Randall is possibly THE most hated person in the Liberal Party, and that’s from inside the Libs, let alone from outside the party.
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I glue shells to things.
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Amazing, NF#1. I don’t know which is worst, Dean’s poems, his tatts, or his … WTF !
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His Mum’s poems?
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Another Vanished Worst? Can the Shire of Kalamunda Councillors account for their whereabouts this afternoon?
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I see where you’re going with this.
Cohen! Get your army of spooks onto it.
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It seems they dispensed with the ‘terse letter’, and proceeded straight to ‘burn the fuckers, BURN THEM!’
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It’s a council eat council world out there… Expect a counterstrike… right in the googly eyed…
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This has been brewing for some time.
First Rockingham started stealing away Kalamunda’s British seniors monopoly. Then Baldivis came for Bickley’s crown as ‘most unlikely metro wine region’. Safety Bay has out-boganed High Wycombe for the last 2 censuses. But when they came for the googly-eyed gumnuts, it was fucking on like Donkey Kong.
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Kwinana must be ready to clutch the honourable title ‘DNA Testing Capital’ from Armadale.
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They gave up on DNA testing in Kalamunda years ago – when they ran out of surnames.
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