Another battle of the Titans here with a spelling deficient and also letterform, grammar and logic deficient note poster, versus number plate and car buying dumbarsery. Reminds me of the battle between Barra and Glen Jakovich. Wouldn’t a simple keying have been sufficient? By S. William Street central city.
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The Worst of Perth 
Pride and joy now shamed, tho feeble page
Can scarcely take the shine off urban beast,
Smothering not its dull complicit rage
At petty economics in the least.
Driving at certain penury invites disdain;
Fellow city denizen’s contemptuous envy
Duller advantage seeks, and though they twain
Attempts to scythe the self-conflicted poppy.
Neither knows the noble joys of grammar,
Shared disesteem of right unites the two,
Both party to an abrogative manner,
Neither can stand tall and less so true.
Alas the world turns, nothing stays the same:
Yet need sticklers exchange gravity for game?
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I just think that someone, and it might as well be me, should say, awesome sonnet and all, after ignoring it all day. You are wasted over here. Wasted.
Who the fuck even writes sonnets at 3.18 am? Just wondering
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You are right. Kudos. Any cunt can write a haiku at 3:18.
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Insomniacs do JZ. Thanks.
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And loosers. But valued loosers.
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I’m waiting on “Daffodils” as re-imagined by TL 101.
and maybe the same by Jesper.
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Its even got a note LOL.
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Did you write the note LOL what the hell
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It does have a certain quality doesn’t it?
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no
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Looks like kids writing on the note, but I could be wrong. Of course there’s no money left. Not after having to fix that ba$tard every couple of weeks when it breaks down and with the exorbitant cost of servicing.
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the pre-cursive font is indeed very similar to the stupid stuff they are currently teaching my children.
you can see where this young person is unsure whether to printing or use joined-up writing
this site really should investigate the handwriting that is taught in WA schools, which uses a typeface which I believe is entirely unique to this great state of ours, and a Worst in its own right.
I insist. I am most indignant.
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I have been ranting about this in private. My boy in grade one can easily recognise a real p, but for some reason they are presented with a p which looks like an n. Wot the fuck for?
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Wot the fuck indeed! They were bringing that style in at primary school in the early ’80s when I first started school, and I believe the idea was so that the writing would flow better when joined. I think the teachers referred to it as “modern cursive” or some such. I remember how hard it was to learn those stupid ps! And the r joined up was a pain as well. Fat lot of good it did teaching it. All the kids ended up printing anyway.
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Oh don’t get me started. I had been teaching my daughter L, when it turned out it was a capital I. Outrage!
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It is indeed the Victorian cursive shit they teach kids these days. My brother’s year group was one of the first to learn it, and he’s 22. Still, at least he can spell.
The stupid writing style only serves to make the stupid note look more stupid.
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Apparently they stopped teaching it, then started again.
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it sounds like the script we were taught tla.
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No, look at the p. We didn’t learn that.
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yeah, we did…
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I never learnt that one. One I was taught had a circle and was not open at the bottom.
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perhaps it was after i was sent off to the nuns at the other place.
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And don’t forget, I was in rurotardia until grade 3.
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the p is a giveaway:
Click to access alphabetmodela.pdf
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WTF.
Why learn cursive at all if it’s for another alphabet?
I’m suprised they still teach it all actually. I seem to recall not using in highschool and that was more than 15 years ago.
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bring back Spencerian
and Latin
the worst thing about the internet is that you are all unable to appreciate what a magnificent hand I have
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That summarises the whole mass debate.
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Mass debaters, all!
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That makes sense. 80s Victorian primary schools apparently were meant to teach it, but the old school nuns and nun-wannabe teachers at my joint were dead against it. I can’t remember the last time I used a pen at all…
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its all penises with you rock choppers isnt it?
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I should probably tick the option for notification of follow-up comments. Then I could aspire to snappier come backs – what is a rock chopper, Orbea?
Mental image of Barney Rubble on a retro pushy, with boulders for wheels…
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It would seem I got my GHPS Pen Licence during the remission phase of this style. I’d assumed it was a note written by an illiterate old person using some archaic font and dialect.
That p is completely bonkers.
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Just teach the kids to write in comic sans and be done with it I say.
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It’s not just the poorly written note (yes, we learned that rubbish handwriting style at my Catholic primary school), nor the licence plate’s hideous textspeak (vanity plate is an entirely appropriate term, particularly when they can’t have it with the correct spelling), it is how the Department Of Transport have succumbed to the Arial virus with their polycarbonate personalised series plates.
Time again calls for an outburst of my font fascism.
When they originally surfaced in 1985, white with blue characters, good ol’ Helvetica was utilised, and continued to do so when the colour scheme was inverted around 1991. Circa 1994, a new serifed typeface (of which I’m struggling to name) was utilised, which continued when a whole new palette of colours was made available at the end of the 90s.
However, about five years ago, some bright spark thought they’d revert to a sans serif font, but instead of returning to the most popular professional typeface of the last 40-or-so years (or even something else similarly legible but commercial-grade like Univers, rotis, Frutiger, Bell Gothic or even Gill Sans Ultra Fuck-Off), that ignoramus (or those ignorami) thought it suitable to put in amateur hour Arial, straight out of Windows Vista. Great. Easier to forge. Oh. Yes. Afterthought. We’d better put serifs on the “I”, so Karl’s Keystone Kops kan’t konfuse it with the karakter “1”, add a token bit of security (betcha your Windows Arial don’t got a topped-and-tailed “I”) and as an identifier for this syphilitic signwriter, as if to say “I WOZ ERE”, which is probably their payment in a personalised plate, possibly in purple or pink, complete with their own further reverse engineering on an already reverse engineered font.
Combine this blatant ripoff with the tendency for vanity plate owners to not only put their insecurity on display, but delude themselves with delusions of kewl in their madd skilz in mixing alphas and numerics to form words (or worse, like using numerals to replace similar looking letters when the original name’s taken, such as “M4RIE”, “MAR1E,” “MARI3” or “M4R13” when “MARIE” has been long gone), you have an instant identifier of someone who is likely both a dickhead and a bogan.
Or would that be a “D1KH34D” or a “8064N”?
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(applause)
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*joins the applause*
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Awesome rant!
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No worries at all, folks.
Also I might belatedly applause NF#1 on his poetry…wasted talents there, but we love ’em. Especially at 03:18 .
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V12AGINA4ALL
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The license plate people screwed it up. It was supposed to say.
No. Monylft.
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or “nomony. lftpls?”
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TL101 – it is unethical to stage your own Worsts.
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secoonded
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Mony?
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Who spells “of” wrong but “piece” right? Looser.
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I’m sure you’re probably being ironic RWL, but don’t you mean loser, not looser?
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Looser.
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Or on a plate: “L0053R”.
It’d be self-explanatory. Surprised if it hasn’t been taken yet.
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You’ll be able to buy a range of “NOMONYLFT” t-shirts in Bali next week, with illustrations of things such as Holdens, jet skis, and holidays in Bali. Bunnings shirts are sooo yesterday. And I’d like to hear a graphologist’s view on the handwriting.
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Don’t worry, those stickers—in fucking Arial, as they tend to be—will surface in the holiday destination of choice for those with both meagre fiscal means and functional illiteracy.
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The latest phallusy graffiti post is a bit down the list now, so I’d thought I’d share this here:
Russia learning from Perth?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/8926987/penis-graffiti-dropped-from-competition/
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There seems to be too much thought given to that graffiti work for it to work as a Perth style one. I like that each culture embraces a similar idea yet makes it uniquely of a place…
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Morm Nullborough’s lawyer Mary McKillop argued there was ambiguity about the question the former cabinet minister was answering in giving the evidence.
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anthr gr8 abrvtn of the langwg
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yeh i tht it waz prty gud 2 mahslf
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A teacher a my old school complained that the writing in our handwriting textbook wasn’t proper Victorian Modern Cursive. For good sake its just letters.
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In time, you might develop your own style of handwriting, as I have (which in either case, resembles nothing like school-taught cursive).
But then again, someone of your youth would most likely be more at ease with a QWERTY keyboard than a BiC or Faber Castel.
Mind you, top marks if you do enjoy the art of writing…if you’ve noticed in previous posts, besides my unhealthy preoccupation with all matters automotive (I probably know more about cars than others have forgotten), I’m also known as something of a font snob who happens to like Helvetica (having unconsciously cultivated my handwritten print style back around 1989 on that particular font), Gill Sans, rotis and Microgramma and will shoot on sight at professional misuses of Comic Sans, Arial, Papyrus and Curlz MT.
So say what you like, as long as it isn’t in Comic Sans. Or we’ll send you here.
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My handwriting has descended into either printing or illegible, however my Chinese is lovely.
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那是非常好的.
(Thanks translator widget)
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You mean here…
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Thanks for the more precise hyperlink, WAtching.
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More importantly, why does it still have a rego sticker on the windscreen?
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Rego stickers are so 2009.
Who set the exposure for the 1st photo – looks wrong, unless there was an alien spaceship landing at the time. Everyone looks pretty relaxed for an alien landing but you never know in Perth.
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Dude? Exposure?
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@RWL
They did persist as a fashion right up until January, believe it or not (there were optional 1/2011 stickers in green, and that was it).
Still heaps of vehicles with fading and peeling brown ’10 stickers no doubt…my dear departed Pop wouldn’t have been pleased, for he expertly removed and applied rego stickers onto all the family’s vehicle windscreens and would’ve been at a loose end. Or moved to another state where they’re still used.
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I think Steve Jobs probably set the exposure.
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