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There’s been many a moment in the preceding 18 months I would have happily tried my luck selling number one son. Even an exchange for a better one.
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Street artist?
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He’s only 18 months old. Give him time.
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Ah!
You want your male child to behave like a girl only
to complain in later years that he is not man enough to do the dirty work that women are not prepared to tackle!
Pardon the bit of “Devils Advocate” spilling out there, but remember that “Boys will be boys” and that we should be grateful for that.
Viva la difference!
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There are some who might see that response as defensive and way too much information, rolly, but you’re right. For all we know he could
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This is not a gender bias, it’s simply the result of him being a shit of a baby. Luckily for him, he is also very cute.
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Aren’t all small boys? (As the Bishop said to the actor.)
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Cute, or little shits?
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Cute, of course :-)
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How does one inculcate artistry, bad taste, together with the desire to deface public property?
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Set the appropriate example, I suppose; which is where much of social (mis)behaviour originates.
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“Not necessarily bad taste NF #1…
I must admit that I like some of it.
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Speaking of pre-loved, Troy and Adele are the gift that keeps on giving:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7123908
Worst.
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papers here really are crap
ant decent redtop would already have the most important details, the things we really want to know:
1. what are their pet names for each other?
2. did they ever do it at Parliament House?
3. does Troy eat his Greens?
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Absofuckinglutely skink. In particular I would have thought that DFOC would have been all over this like a bad case of groin-rash. Surely there must be a Subi angle?
Bad after Daile Spice’s “effort” yesterday, nothing surprises.
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Bad, But. Meh. Whatever.
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Well Troy did have a house in Shenton Park.
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Editor: “Cohen, get in here you cunt! Biggest fucking story since an Aboriginal was sighted in Swanbourne and you’re in here sitting on your scrawny arse doing restraunt reviews! Now get out there and find me a local angle!”
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If Adele and Troy enjoyed a shag at Rotto, he’d be all over it.
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I know just the spot, shaz.
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Why havent we had an earthquake on Rottnest with all those boobs about the place?
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I’m sure the earth moved, shaz.
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Good question, shaz. And as a resident of Pawnee, Indiana, I’m now a little concerned.
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loving jen’s work snuff.
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In the cave under Bathurst lighthouse is oh so romantic.
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Oo-oo-oo!
A-a-a-h!
A shag on a rock.
Nice one.
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When will that fat cunt of a slapper, shut the fuck up?!
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…or should that read…”When will that fucking fat slapper shut up her cunt”…..?
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Why do people keep making references to her body shape?
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Agreed shazz.
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Surely if either of them is to be the ‘porky’ one, it’s not her .
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Good question. There’s plenty to criticise in her behaviour and astonishingly poor choice of fuckbuddies, but body shape is totally irrelevant – jesus christ it pisses me off. Imagine what people would be saying if she were actually fat.
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The evidence:
1) Dewlap
2) Tuck shop lady arms
3) Lumpy tum
4) Fat hips
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That about sums up my view of the matter too, Jane.
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JaneZ, Shazza, I recalled your comments when I recently saw this on reddit
3000+ comments all bemoaning how “fat” these women had become. Ridiculous.
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I don’t discriminate, I comment on everyone’s body shape.
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Because it is ungainly, unattractive and essentially an unhealthy example to set to younger folk.
Besides that, it is actually a thing that she can do something about, which is more than can be said for a lone voice in Parliament.
In my (not so) humble opinion, barring underlying medical dysfunctions, the state of someone’s body is a metaphor for his/her state of mind.
Which is probable why mine is a bit of a mess, too.
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“Because it is ungainly, unattractive and essentially an unhealthy example to set to younger folk.” I’m sure that is not the motivation for these type of comments. They don’t seem necessary to me. Cracks about green minge – now THAT I could get behind.
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geddit ‘behind’ roflroflrofl
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Seems, if anything, voluptuous rather than fat to me. Each to their own, just seems irrelevant, unecessarily nasty, and as mentioned above, a bit one sided when you look at her partner in crime.
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Commentary on the one does necessarily preclude the other.
They appear to both be a pair of fat-heads.
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I think it does when the body focus is only on the woman. I have not heard buswell referred to as fat in the media. I think it’s a dubious assertion to claim there is no gender bias occuring here.
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Bugger the media; it’s the facts that interest me and you will never get that from the meeja.
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I have on several occasions commented that Tro resembled a fat sunburnt badger
I am an equal opportunities offender
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They both sport a typical ‘parliamentary build’. When you spend all your time lounging around on leatherbound sofas just wanting to be loved, you burn less than you consume and it’s got to go somewhere – in their case, it coagulates around the centre of gravity (which happens to be the seat of the chair). It’s not Troy’s fault he looks like Donkey Kong
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“And it burns burns , burns when the fat is on fire”
(Apologies J.Carter)
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I can understand the stigma that the word “fat” now possesses for some people. However, the fact of the matter is, she is carrying excess weight. Troy Buswell is not only a fat cunt, but a male chauvinist with a smutty, juvenile sense of humour. The fact that Adele was attracted to him is almost as repulsive as her banging on about it.
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Something like: “Birds of a feather……”?
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“bang together”?
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Boom! Boom!
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That’s exactly it O. Greens represent, among other things, feminists. If I can be blunt about it, fucking Buswell is a complete stab in the back to self-respecting feminists anywhere.
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…and vice versa.
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indeed!
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At least we all now know that Troy eats his greens!
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Skink did mention something about that a little earlier in the piece.
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Word on the street is that the Greens will drop her, but she will join Family First.
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Well said Rolly.
But how do you explain my body not being narrow and dirty?
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Touché!
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Something tells me Rolly is a fat cunt
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Neither female nor feminine, I too carry some ugly fat, though not all of it above my shoulders.
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Onanist & Rolly I’d like to see both of you give birth to 3 kids, turn forty, and not be ever so slightly overweight (which is what she is, like most people in her circumstances). She looks fine and healthy, it’s her politics and personal judgement that are wrong. Your comments aren’t worthy.
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Totally agree PL. Some of the best and most effective politicians have been fat cunts.
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To state the obvious. It’s absolutely true. Most politicians tend to be overweight at least to some extent because they’re overfed, overpaid, underexercised and over 40. Nobody actually wants a politician to look as fit as Tony Abbott because it suggests he’s exercising his body mor ethan his mind.
My point was that in this case, a female politician who’s not perfectly slender had sex with someone, and the fact that she’s not perfectly slender seems to make that disgusting to some commentators.
They are missing the disgust factor which is that she had sex with Troy Buswell and can’t stop calling media conferences about it.
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I agree PL, and was attempting to be humorously self-contradictory in my previous post. Only total cunts – i.e. those persuaded by the apparent moral turpitude of “Biggest Loser” contestants – are convinced by the skinny=right (or “fat slob can’t be right”) argument.
After all, what a fuckin’ superficial way of judging politics, not to mention the classic ad hominem fallacy.
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Nicely put but I would correct that to *ad homiwoman
Troy is despised for his behaviour not his looks.
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Gave into ? Even this guy can get it right.
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AC hate groupup n running
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How about a ‘get a fucking life’ group.
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Please elaborate! Sounds interesting
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Oh please elaborate! Sounds interesting
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facebook needs a “mock this group” function.
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….especially for the over 50’s whose sex lives are somewhat depleted.
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Indeed, shaz. Fortunately, there’s a big difference between a should also resign and a hate group, which if one were to exist, would only have the counterproductive effect of garnering a sympathy vote.
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A TWOP commenter saying get a life to another trivial group? I like that spirit.
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Hey I have a life. TWoP is my bit on the side.
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You have a life? I hate you.
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Any particular side, shazza?
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My good side Rolly.
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Well, I suppose everyone has one :-)
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She should resign ? Give it a break , Troy only resigned because he helped himself ( again ) to unauthorised government monies. Sexual indiscretions are just an insufficient grounds for any parliamentarians dismissal unless it involves more substantial matters. Ripe source of humour but.
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I don’t think she should resign, I think she should be dropped because she’s a shit Green, literally in bed with a guy who slashed all kinds of public spending and doesn’t give a rat fuck about the environment
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Well that’s the issue isn’t it? What the bloody hell made either of them think that sleeping with a member of an opposition party wouldn’t be seen to compromise them politically?
And of all the people to pick as a fuckbuddy, a douche like Troy Buswell?
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There’s a rumour that she was a bit weak on opposing stop n’ search – citation badly needed, if anyone has the goods
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Hansard 12 November 2009
She voted both ways during various divisions and votes.
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just a rumour then folks… thanks orb
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There’s never been any accounting for taste, SW, and I doubt that
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Bugger. Apostrophe abuse.
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Funny , in the ‘funny peculiar’ sense, that so little has been made of the “Getting into bed with the opposition” and “Sleeping with the enemy” opportunities.
Someone needs to wake the resident gerbilist.
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That’s probably not, rolly, but perhaps should be, because the Greens and the Liberals are allies, in practice. They might be poles apart in theory, but that just means they’re never going to win seats from each other. Any differences they might have are easily overcome by what they have in common, which is that they can only win seats from the ALP, therefore their common enemy.
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It’s funny, but yu never see The Greens target Marginal Liberal Seats to get elected.
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Frank the Labor party stuffed up Fremantle all by themselves.
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And What has Adele done now ?? :-)
She’s stuffed ANY chance of the Greens being re-elected in the seat, and indeed in ANY lower House seat, and maybe the Upper House.
Her Minge has single-handedly destroyed The Greens :-)
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Yeah it’s probably even easier to be comfortably entrenched in opposition when you’re getting cuddles from the government after hours
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Couldn’t find the song of the same name by Perth band The World Famous Oralettes, but this song sums up Troy & adele perfectly :-)
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I loved the WFO’s. Assume you’re referring to “Dirty Weekend” and not “Forget my looks, what about my personality”.
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Yes I was referring to Dirty Weekend, I have the single of that – B side was a track called Bomb Scare, and in a glorious piece of Irony, It was written by Jim rossiter, who I’m assuming is the same person who is a cop in one of the Road Safety ads where he is holding a Radar Gun.
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I too had a single of theirs; “Woman of the City” (one of the last 45’s ,we’re talking 1983 here). Jim always did an excellent extended guitar solo in live versions of this at the Floreat or the Booragoon. The combination of him and Lucky on the pedal steel was outstanding.
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You are changing goalposts. The facebook group doesn’t make a case that she “doesn’t give a rat fuck about the environment”.
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sure. If it were my group (see the Troy Buswell Support Group for an idea of how I run things) then it would accuse her of betraying the progressive movement by sleeping with the enemy. Her credibility is lost and the way they’ve both dealt with it (essentially ‘See, I said “sorry” so it’s over’) doesn’t exactly address the damage done. The question is, ‘What kind of Green is she’ and the answer must be ‘One who doesn’t see business & development interests as the enemy’, which may be a pragmatic position to take but it’s fucking unprincipled. & it makes the party look bad by association.
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Can I ask where you got, modifed your avatar? What does the top line say?
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Got it from news.com.au, MSPainted it to say ‘SHEER SEX’. Looked better pre-JPEG compression. Yours is cute.
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stolen from Crikey – The First Dog on The Moon charicature of Bazza Hall I theenk
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“Sleeping with the enemy”?, by this form of analysis the member’s (Troy’s) member will have turned green. Troy is nobodies enemy except himself and as for cutting expenditure the Labor party would have had to do that if it were in power , but probably a tad more skillfully.
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Nobody’s, Bill ?
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You criticise my grammar and I’ll criticise your political analysis.
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Bill,
Read and Weep :-)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/29/2885934.htm
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It is an interesting argument – and in terms of the numbers game, it’s probably true. But by that logic (as the article implies), the Greens would be better off rebranding themselves as a middle-of-the-road party without ideological commitment. Perhaps they should just join Labor?
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Is this the same KimJordan reporting on Fran Logan
“ABC Perth news editor Kim Jordan said he had not been concerned about Mr Logan’s behaviour. “He may have had a couple of drinks under his belt before he showed up. (But) there was nothing inappropriate.”
DFOC could prolly fill us in with more details.
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I’m in love again :-D
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Bugger! Put that one in response to snuff’s “Click the Button”.
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It was the latter I was referring to, Bill. Please go ahead.
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What is that sound ? Bill ? Bill … ? Click the button, Bill.
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You may find this a tad more sophisticated than your analysis Snuff.
http://tinyurl.com/38e69yn
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I make it a rule never to click a tinyurl link
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Possum’s always interesting, Bill, but his analysis only reinforces my statement that the Liberals and the Greens share a common enemy, the ALP. Sorry, I thought you disagreed.
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Snuff, you are so correct – read Pollbludger whenever I, or another ALP leaning poster attacks St Bob and his fellow Tofu Munchers.:-)
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No ,Snuff Possum identifies occupational class as being a large determinant of voting behaviour. Whether seats can then be taken will then be , to acertain extent, by changes in occupational class.
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I’m glad we all agree, Bill. So, why did you write that Troy is nobody’s enemy but himself ?
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we were kinda convinced that our youngest came out flipping us the bird – in attitude if nothing else – which is strangely appealing and yet frustrating with regard to his strength of personality. I see we are not alone though when it comes to pre-birth attitudes.
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You got one of them too? Maybe it was a bad batch?
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That, dear lady, is priceless.
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how did you get hold of my son’s photos?
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question is, do they float?
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My dog just loves babies, pre-loved or not.
I just wish that he would bury the bones more discretely.
Boom! Boom!
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I presume that’s just a typo and he doesn’t bury them all together, rolly.
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Pun, dear boy.
He will insist on putting them all in one untidy hole.
A bit like the ex-treasurer’s private parts.
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Sorry Andrew
Your once acerbic and vaguely analytical site has stooped to Troy and Adele gossip of the most obvious form. Please folks. Back to the funny stuff!!
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Ahem
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Luv it!!!!
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Absolutely fantastic. 3,000,000 whorediamonds.
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Alas I cannot claim the credit but will forward praise to a certain friend of mine.
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Yes please do. Laugh out loud funny.
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I don’t think there was THAT far to stoop Don.
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Don, it’s worst behaviour and it happened in Perth. Seems a valid topic to me.
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I agree Shazza, clowning . however is always worst
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Ah gerrof. A clown who’s scouting Farmer Jacks Girrawheen for baby-eating jokes is alright by me
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And Don has been to clown college. true story.
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Speaking of Clowns, Will Anderson will be on the Woolfster’s “show”.
Russell Woolf Russell_Woolf
Wil Anderson on Drive after 4 this arvo. http://fb.me/xljCrQV1 2 minutes ago via Facebook
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Not to mention the hegemonies.
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But, but, but……I find the whole thing wryly amusing.
If I didn’t I’d be on the bottle and munching kilos of valium.
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Continuing our discussion here Snuff, Troy is nobody’s enemy than himself because he has no more control over his reward system than the average junkie. See his wikipedia page where he is undoubtedly of high intelligence but has been duped by both power brokers in the Liberal party (Crichton-Browne) and the Labor party (Grills & Burke).
Snuff, this is your statement “Any differences they might have are easily overcome by what they have in common, which is that they can only win seats from the ALP, therefore their common enemy.”
Possum points out that occupational status plays a large part in voting behaviour. This implies that votes may flow between all parties when people have changes over time in occupational status. The Liberal party and the Labor party have a common enemy in the Greens and Labor and the Greens have a common enemy in the Liberals. Frrrtt
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Tellingly, you’ve left one out, Bill. The Liberals and the Greens have a common enemy in Labor.
So, as a Liberal, apparently now Troy has enemies in the Labor and Greens parties. That still doesn’t sound like nobody to me.
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Another day ends and we’re no closer to the truth.
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On the contrary, Bill. We’ve agreed that the Liberals and the Greens do indeed have a common enemy in Labor, and that Troy apparently has plenty of enemies. Much closer than where we started.
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Whether Troy has any political enemies is a moot point, because he is now a political failure.
Whether the Greens and Liberal have a common enemy in Labor is not a statement with much explanatory power either.
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So it’s a moot point now, Bill ? Funny. That’s not what you said earlier, is it ?
And of course the fact that the Liberals and the Greens have a common enemy in Labor has plenty of explanatory power to the parties trying to win seats, including whether they even contest them, as we saw in Freo.
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Bento, if you ever followed the Pollbludger thread on the By-Election, you would’ve read Glen, a Card Carrying Liberal state that his Mother would rather vote Green, rather than the ALP, not because they agreed with the Greens, but because it wasn’t the ALP.
Oh and Read this – http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/politics/clown-college-open-again-20100428-tsf4.html
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I don’t understand your point Frank – neither of the things you mention have any relevance to your claim that Adele’s affair means the end for the Greens, or my refutation of that claim. You can post columns by people saying Troy and Adele are both fucked for the rest of the evening, but it doesn’t in any way support your assertion.
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Politics = a bunch of cunt ideologues/trade unionists/big business lackeys/one issue polemicists attempting to barter over the needs/wants/aspirations of their necessarily confused constituency. If you’re lucky.
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Troy is not a seriously hated figure , and here’s some objective analysis on why the Green won Freo.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/18/freo-by-election-the-beginning-of-big-things-for-the-greens/
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Bento, That was BEFORE Adele decided to play with Troy.
Face it, you Green Morons are deluded – Adele Carles has single handedly done to the Greens, what Meg Lees did to the Democrats.
PERIOD.
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I’m pretty much staunch Labor, and don’t imagine I will ever vote Green, Frank. But you seem to see party politics as being like football, where you have to cheer on your team no matter how shambolic they are, and boo the opponents no matter what.
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It’s called being Loyal to your Party in Good times and Basd times – funny how it’s ok for Greens Supporters can do that, but for Laborites i’s evil.
Hypocrites.
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I vote for whichever party offers the greatest amount of investment in public infrastructure for the least amount of tax.
1/5 of a commentbox now. Am I being excluded by being forced into ever smaller boxes?
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Now, NF#1, we see the violence inherent in the … oh, stuff it.
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As I suspect (or at least hope) you detected Snuff, my political comments are made in jest. In actual fact, I’m a hardcore Trotskist.
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I shit you not, comrades.
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Politics, NF#1 ? I was referring to TLA’s cruel comment box repression.
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Agreed Snuff – a cruel form of repression. TLA’s form of collectivisation, perhaps? Damn those “intellectuals”; those canal-dwelling kulaks.
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it’s
not
repression
I
tells
ya
it’s
the
beat
man
it’s
the
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Cool, Daddy O.
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Let’s split this joint Daddy-O: this is oldsville.
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Frank why should freo voters remain loyal to Labour when they took that electorate for granted. There are times when a party needs a kick up the bum.
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Getting closer, Bill.
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I hope the fascination with this story wanes reasonably quickly – I’m bored with it already, and the puritanism, misogyny and knicker-bunching which seems to characterise the public response is making Perth look very provincial.
Usually, the tone of commentary here is better than the brainsquawks on the Worst or WAToady, but the venom of the fat jokes directed at Adele is pretty much on a par, it seems.
Other than displaying questionable judgement, I don’t really see what either has done wrong, from a public service point of view. It appears neither party’s voting or professional performance can be questioned, and it also appears Troy made perfectly legitimate use of his entitlements.
Rooting someone of a different ideological persuasion is hardly a hanging offence. And Frank – if you think this will destroy the Greens, you credit the public with a far longer memory than I do.
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I think it’s yet to be seen whether there has been an abuse of parliamentary entitlements. Given his previous form, and the fact he admitted as such, leaves one to wonder.
As a freo resident, and occasional green voter (locally) I agree Bento. This will not sway my opinion of the party one bit.
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Rubbish, and you know it – Adele won because of the pissed off ALP voters and all the Libs votes cos they didn’t run a cadidate.
Take those away and Adele is toast – as she will on Saturday when rthe Bolshies at murdoch Uni will cast her aside as a bad experiment.
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What do you mean ‘rubbish’?
You concede the voters were pissed off with Labor. I put it to you that Labor has done nothing to endear themselves to the population since the last State election. The demographics in Freo have shifted, and it can’t be viewed as a safe Labor seat any more. But they haven’t shifted far enough for the Libs, or any of the conservative or single issue nutcase parties, to have a hope of winning. So, the Libs will stay out of Freo, and leave it to the Greens and Labor to duke it out. The middle class NIMBY leftie Freo sympathies will just keep trending Green, if you ask me, and the foibles of one individual won’t change that.
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Bolshies have not existed at Murdoch at least since the great purge of a few years ago. One laconic past-Bolshie lecturer remarked to me a few years back that most of his kind had been sent to the Gulag – i.e. Rockingham campus.
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Ouch, NF#1. Siberia was rough, but Rockingham ?
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Well, you could be sent to the Peel campus. Most die of madness within one to two months.
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Or accept their role as slightly glorified Tafe “lecturers”. Tourism Studies, anyone?
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NF’s last word: most university courses are now so vocationally oriented that most, if not all, lecturers are reduced to the status of mere “instructors”. No longer any humanist emphasis on research, knowledgeability and so on. Just the facts, man.
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Be that as it may, Troy fucking Buswell?
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Bento,
I have the goss – Adele is FUCKED. Just ask Dr Martin Drum & William Bowe :-)
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Not disputing that Adele may well be fucked. You said it would destroy the Greens, and I think that’s unlikely.
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It will destroy them – who can take them seriously as a Party that understands Women’s issues if their star candidate was being unfaithful and screwing a Liberal Pollie.
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I suspect it is mostly (older) males who see ‘promiscuous’ females as somehow traitorious to the ‘feminist cause’ (eg ‘quasi-feminists’). People who are inclined to support the Greens for their stance on ‘women’s issues’ are, I suspect, unlikely to be swayed by the infidelity of one woman.
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As a feminist Freo resident I concur with Bento. Tis all wishful thinking Frank.
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if she was forced into an admission she did not want to make by her own party the perception will be that she has no real power. I predict that she will not get genuine support from her party at the next election and be hung out to dry
sadly
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I don’t think there’s much dispute that Adele is probably fucked. My comments were directed at Frank’s suggestion that this would doom the Greens as a party, which I think is nonsense.
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Adele who?
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Read the opinion piece in Today’s Dead Tree edition of the West – it seems the writer has a better clue of the Fremantle demographic than you do :-)
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Wouldn’t waste my money on it Frank, but surely you’re not suggesting that I must be wrong because some plonker at the Worst agrees with you? If so, I’ve got a submerged shipwreck to sell you.
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Why ? Scared you’ll be proven WRONG ?
Try former Gallop & Carpenter Staffer Luke Walladge then
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2883513.htm
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Only the demise of the Green party would prove me WRONG, Frank. Reading the article will only prove that some plonker at the West has an opinion – for which I’ll take your word. And the article you link to doesn’t have any serious analysis, it’s just another plonker who thinks one member rooting a dickhead will shake the foundations of democracy. It won’t.
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Wait.
You just used a former Carps adviser as your trump card?
I’m sorry, that’s an automatic forfeit.
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It’s all gone quiet here.
I’ll accept your apology any time, Frank.
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I’m horrified at how well the Lib candidate polled.
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Vomit
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haha awesome
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Poor Tex.
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I don’t think Tex is the third person in this relationship.
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What has ALP done to win back Freo? Nothing except to be crapper. Freo will go greener, just not with hemp condom weilding Adele on the ticket.
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Wrong – Only Hemp Brained morons who fall for their bullshit will vote for them – the smart ones will figure out that they are nothing more than the left wing of the Liberal Party.
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“The left wing of the Liberal Party.”?? Frank really? I don’t care for any of them, but even I can see that you’ve been hitting the grappa a little hard with that one.
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And looking back, wasn’t McGinty just like some kind of cold sore on the electorate? He was an awful creature.
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Fremantle was doing just fine under the ALP ticket. The question may as well be – what have the Greens done for Freo? – …besides titillate us that is
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I liked gentleman Jim. As a student journo, he was about the only one who ever returned calls.
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Shazza, The Fremantle Electorate is more than the Tofu Minching Feminazis in the CBD :-)
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“”It will destroy them – who can take them seriously as a Party that understands Women’s issues if their star candidate was being unfaithful and screwing a Liberal Pollie.”
Women’s issues, whatever they may actually be, are not magically wholly undermined because one particular woman makes dumb choices about who she fucks.
And as to “being unfaithful” – relevance, please?
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Let’s See, Married Man Cuckolds A Married Women who he didn’t exchange vows with.- Join the dots.
That’s unfaithful in my book.
What strange morals you Greens have.
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I joined the dots, thanks, and ended up with a sort of odd squiggle.
I am perfectly aware that both parties were being unfaithful to their spouses – my question is how that is relevant to either the Greens’ feminist credentials, “women’s issues” as you term it, or to feminism in general.
I am not particularly a Green, nor do I have odd morals.
I do like me an Inappropriate initial Capital from time to time, though. And I do wonder what Tofu Minching might be.
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What are the odds?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=minching%20the%20bird
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Rule 34 at its finest. Well done, Bento.
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It’s ‘that’ Liberal pollie – the leering, slavering sexist lout twice pilloried for harassment. That’s why it’s unfeminist.
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I’m finding
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Having had the leisure for once to read and analyse the above politcking, I conclude that (a) politics is for assholes; (b) the Greens are not nearly as benign as they would like to paint themselves (always vote Labor meself, though agree that this is almost purely a least-worst option choice); (c) bring on the Revolution.
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My prediction is:
a) This will be pretty much over by next week’s news cycle.
b) It won’t see the end of the Greens.
c) Adele is safe, because if the Greens have an ounce of common sense they won’t be giving up a lower house seat for anything.
d) She’s got a fair bit of work in ffront of her, and
e) Troy Buswell?
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No it Won’t – Giz Watson Knew about, and Told Adele to Stop the affair as early as January.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/30/2887132.htm
Hope you’re pleased now Bento and Shazza :-)
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a lot of people knew about it
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Pleased about what exactly Frank?
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Well I hope the Greens take a more sane approach than you Frank , but there’s no betting on it.
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You and Shazza don’t get it, do you – The Greens Credibilty has been shot by their handling of this – woe betide how they would deal with a sensitive subject if they were running the joint.
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And here is the Audio of the Interview:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2010/04/30/2887452.htm
To the average listener, this is political dynamite which proves beyond any doubt that the WA Greens as a brand has been damaged permanently.
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As somebody previously alluded to, Frank, unlike your good self, most Australians have the political memory span of goldfish, so while the Liberals and Greens have undeniably scored a spectacular own goal, and Carles may yet get dumped, perhaps many have already taken the ball back to the centre, and got on with the game.
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And because of that, he’ll be back in the ministry before too long enough, no doubt well qualified to be the next Minister of Extramarital Affairs.
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I agree Bags. He’ll be back.
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Frank. I really, really admire you passion. However, as is often the case when people have a huge personal investiment in an issue, you have a far from balanced view on these issues.
To blurt out party line after party line, and then to call other naive when the counter them is a naievity
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(cont’d) borne out of blind faith.
I have really enjoyed your political updates up until this issue. But I am sorry to say that in this case you are just coming across as hysterical.
For the record, I have no affiliatioons.
Is there not a forum out there where people who do have affiliations can get all fired up at each other.
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Yes there is and Frank lives there. It’s pollbludger.com I think.
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Perhaps that is where this discussion belongs.
I thought this was a comedy site!
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I still think it’s funny, WAtching.
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That certainly wasn’t the feeling amongst many people calling in to 720 today Frank. I think you may be mixing your wishful thinking with reality :)
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The Greens Party machimne would’ve sent out an email to their followers to ring Talkback radio in support.
You are naieve in how politics works – The Libs do EXACTLY the same thing, and Their ABC are happy to be the conduit.
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Frank, I think you may be confusing the Labor party with some kind of socially conscious organisation instead of the middle of the road capitalist mob that it actually is.
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It’s true, I’m a Green and my batmonkey was harnessed up and ready to deliver evil spores of deceit ere the sun’s first rays had spilt
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Getting passionate about politics is like getting excited by religion.
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But Onnie, it was so easy to join !
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that’s awesome
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Not ignorant about politics. I ran on a left ticket in my uni days and spent some time as a student union rep. Iv’e also handed out how to vote cards at polling booths. Reckon I’m a bit more savvy than the average aussie punter.
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Yeah Frank and the Labor party sent you an email to get on teh intertubes.
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Nope, I do so under my own violition.
Unlike the Tribal Greens who need to be TOLD what to say and how to say it.
Nice try at Trolling – go back to the Hippie Commune with your dope smoking mates like the Adulterer and the Protector of same.
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Yeah I’ll stay in the Protectorate of Same.
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You were saying Shrieking wombat ?? :-)
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/francois-carles-why-im-not-angry-at-troy-buswell/story-e6frg12c-1225860970657
Bill & Shazza,
Still going to defend the poor downtrodden Adele after THIS ? :-)
Oh and so much for Adele being thankful for the Greens saving her hide:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/adele-carles-i-was-bullied-into-troy-buswell-affair-confession/story-e6frg13u-1225861000809
I love being proven CORRECT :-)
It ain’t over for the Greens by a LONG shot.
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Frank you have well and truly gone loco buddy. Show me where I defended Adele. You wont’ find it.
I simply agreed with Bento that this affair will not impact the Greens as a party and the local paper here in Freo seems to reflect that view too.
I can’t see how any of the articles you posted above show you as CORRECT. The only point you seem to be making it that this
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cont..
(now over) relationship will be the end of the Greens. I see no evidence of this.
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Frank has form for imagining a debate where none exists, so much that when he’s been whipped and debagged on Poll Bludger he brings his paranoia here.
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Imagined ??
Then why did Adele fail to show up at a meeting to discuss her behaviour, and also to May Day to meet with her constituants ?
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I would agree with Shazza re the Greens in this whole, ahem, affair: I don’t think that this will adversely affect them in the long run, at least nationally.
Sure, Carles may have acted irresponsibly here and it might reflect adversely on their stand of being principled people. At least unlike the Wiberals, the Greens don’t bang on about Family Values. The Liars in Canberra make a habit of seducing Family First to further their own ends by trying to bolster their own Family Friendly credentials. Puke and chunder! Get me a bucket! RALPH!
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I agree with you regarding AC, she didnt show at May Day, she didnt show at Greens Reps. What public event will she attend in her electorate?
I just dont know why you bring your ra ra blinkered ALP showboating to TWOP
Can you wave pom poms in beat?
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In the last week my household has received three phone calls from the ALP and a direct mail from Carmen Lawrence asking for $100 to go up against Michael Busstop Keenan.
I just dont know why they dont get Terry Burke onto the case he raised lots of cash.
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$100 to go up against the Member for Smiling? You’re on.
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A man of many talents…
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Kerning and Smiling are both very demanding portfolios. Who said the Libs had a shallow talent pool (other than Frank)?
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I am peased to announce that I am the owner of a “Troy Buswell” corflute. Inevitable photoshops to follow…
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peased?
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The past tense of ‘peas’.
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Much.
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Michael Keenan is currently selling his grandchildren’s kidneys to fund his campaign.
I will pay $5000 for his chin dimple… and the knife that took it.
Then I will conduct a lottery for the right to nail the chin dimple to a busstop of your choice in your suburb.
93.7 announcers need not apply.
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Tarvu??? That’s an elaborate Flying Spag Monster style hoax surely. Jesus it’s the best laugh I’ve had in yonks.
According to the Tarvupedia, He, AKA Mike Fantastic, fell to earth and was adopted by octopuses (octopii?). At the age of 9 “his adopted father, Oobu the Octopus told him (in Octish) that he was ready to come on to dry land and join the human race.”
Octish? Octish? FFS. The core philosphy “Every land is nice, and everyone who lives there is nice too” PMSL
http://www.tarvu.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tarvu
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