Brer Bento may be a nappy-changing, balcony-dwelling goat-cheese-eating PUMCIN, but he was a uni student once and there is still a spark burning feebly in his duck-a-la-orange-stuffed belly. I know this to be true because Comrade Bento sent me this item from the latest Grok, which the students at Curtin publish.
“Kids these days…dress standards? Not in my day,” he huffed. And it is true: Rachel Murray calls short denim pants a “scourge” and wants the authorities to “set a standard of expectation”. The scourge distracts students from the “content” they study.
The Worst of Perth 
Wow thats a lot of pointless writing.
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You mean DFOC or Grok?
Hat tip Ljuke.
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Rachel’s got a budding career beckoning at one of our 2 main newspapers then
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We have TWO main newspapers? Are you suggesting that any other publication could even aspire to hold a candle to the brilliance of Teh West?
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Only the pinnacle of worstness in Perth print media on a Sunday – The Sunday Times
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Have-A-Go News?
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that’s where I’ve seen her by-line before!
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I must admit, I’m not fond of seeing girls with bums and boobs hanging out there when I go shopping or whatever, but that’s usually because the short shorts and boob tubes are on people with tree trunk legs and with back fat. Joondalup Shopping Centre was a fine example if this on Sunday. I felt like I needed to bleach my eyes by the time I left. But isn’t university a time in their life where young people are meant to make bad fashion choices? Where they can look back at photos in horror in a few years time and think, “What the hell was I thinking?”
I’m more concerned about the clothes being age appropriate. I hate it when I see girls as young as 12 or 13 dressed in those bum flashing shorts. My cousin came over from Canberra in January and took a train to Freo, and happened to see just such a group of tanned teenage girls on the way. Her take on it was, “Wow, everyone in Perth looks so healthy! But what’s with the teens on the train with little shorts up their bums? I wouldn’t let my girls go out like that.”
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It’s the only thing that makes shopping at Joondalup remotely tolerable
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Not for me. For me it’s a worst, along with having to navigate through cashed up bogans and their hideous screaming offspring. I’m glad someone’s enjoying it though.
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What do you mean? They’ve got to have somewhere to work … oh … wait …. you meant the customers?
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Curtain stewdents are funny.
http://loversandlobbers.blogspot.com/
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TWOP continues to be eductational – today it taught me that I went to the wrong university.
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Apparently my university didn’t teach me to spell too good either.
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Nor well.
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Link fail. That’ll teach me. Take two.
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Hur hur, HMTL fale.
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You’re fucking kidding me, what next?
“Universities have typically been viewed as places of free speech, expressing yourself and creativity. Is it time for University to start excluding those who choose to infringe on others rights through the wearing of cut off denims? Besides these skank-ass, low socio economic status troglodytes are really distasteful, how does the system even let them in in the first place? Oh and how about a few less Blacks, Asians and self-identifying aboriginals while we’re at it?”
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I think the term she was looking for is “uncovered plates of meat”.
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Bryan Brown in FX was being imposed on Vietnam Tv yesterday. I’m sure he said “no wukkas” and strike me pink.
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He doesn’t start calling people ‘dumb bastard’ until FX2
Why haven’t there been any rumours of an FX3 before. I’m going to start some.
Hey, have you heard they are talking about making an FX3. Sam Johnson is attached to play Bryan Brown’s reluctant apprentice.
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He was up that dead chick like a Bondi Tram with a dingo’s donger.
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Have just tweeted it. FX3 is on baby.
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you flamin’ beauty.
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FX3: The CGIening.
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I’ve really got on board with FX3. New Tweet.
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Can someone google FX3. I want to get twop #1 for Bryan Brown FX3 searches.
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I forgot to mention Fx was followed by Beastmaster 2. (The Beastening?)
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The one where Marc Singer (The Beastmaster) travels to THE FUTURE (the 80s).
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You got it.
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Actually it was a parallel dimension not the future.
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TWOP currently #4 for search: FX3 Bryan Brown
TWOP #1 for search: FX3 “Bryan Brown”
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Vietnam google finds ” the tweet and ranks it at number 5.
14 Apr 2011 … FX3 hits production snags. Bryan Brown labels co stars “dumb cunts”. Dawn French and US Star Ice T threatened to …
Behind an interview with brown saying there won’t be a number 3.
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And on the even brighter side I’m totally ruling “Bryan Brown dumb cunt” in Viet google.1&2
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aren’t you supposed to be on hols?
try googling worst of perth, see if la chong still comes up tops?
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At airport. Free wifi. Quck flight to Saigon for a last mojito or two at the Rex rooftop bar and then home. Will be eager to get the whole wrapup of The Deefock Inheritance.
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Some are calling it The Cohen Interregnum.
Others are referring to it as The CoCo Azimuth.
A few are regarding it as The Outrage Outrages.
The man himself is saying: “I’m just warming up.”
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The Douchebag Imperative?
The Hornbag Alternative?
The Dumbcunt Covenant?
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The Guildford Vacillation?
The Content Farrago?
The Tossed Sock? (apols Martin Amis).
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And what better holiday activity than googling Bryan Brown dumb cunt?
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I hope Mr COco stais in chrg forevs.
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A Quantum of Fuckwit
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Well I’ll be Bertied.
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As a new arrival to Perth, I enrolled in a post-grad course at ECU – way to meet some educated, like-minded locals while up-skilling, I thought.
In one class of 150 students, it turned out that I was one of 4 permanent residents and 2 Aust citizens. This included the PR lecturer.
There is definitely free speech in the classes – language groups all sit together, but to have our final marks delayed because our individual research paper submissions included 4 which were identical (even without Turnitin checking) was taking the piss.
Learnt a few things, mainly that ECU is not the place to “upskill while associating with like-minded locals”. But the Mt Lawley campus carpark was handy while I had the use of it…
Does ECU even have a student publication?
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http://3degree.ecu.edu.au/volumes/2011/01/03/
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And don’t forget my early tweet breaking news, “Edith Cowan may have been man.”-Scientists.
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Certain Perth lawyers of my acquaintance have been known to be quite disparaging of lawyers with degrees from Murdoch, and simply dismissive of Notre Dame graduates. I want to be a fly on the wall when the first crop of ECU lawyers start applying for positions… any year now…
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Not to mention all those Police Studies graduands
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Actually, ECU does have a student publication, it’s called GSM – my attempt at an apology after inheriting the title “G-Spot Magazine”. Third Degree is the hosting website for the articles written by the journalism students, who are the only people on campus who know about the site.
The Editor of Grok has promised his writers a carton if they get the paper into MediaWatch, i’m sure TWOP is worthy of at least a stubbie.
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I’m fairly certain the mighty Nathan Lynch already got Grok onto Media Watch, some time between 1994-97. Back in those golden days of Stuart ‘Pompous Git’ Littlemore.
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I’m fairly certain you’re right, Bento (since I was at Curtin around that time). I think Nath took off to Margaret River in ’97 though – one of his last emails to me said something about “worshipping at the temple of bong” – a phrase that has stuck with me over the years.
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Where did “G-spot Magazine” come from?
After a year on campus, I’d never heard of GSM either…
What’s going on with that?
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TLA is standing in it, according to the tile post earlier
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Who knows.
GSM only came about late last year.
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As I walked around O-Day at UWA last year, I remarked to my similarly mid-30s-aged colleague, “They didn’t look like this or dress like this in our day – why can’t we be 18 again?” Crop tops and short-shorts are the new black on campus.
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Makes you wonder if there’s any point having toga parties any more. Actually, are toga parties even held any more?
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Only in Wundowie, Hutch.
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“There is nothing impossible to him who will try” to host a mankini party
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Hughie , bum poppers were the dress de rigeur back in the day, Summer of 1980.
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Sorry, bit OT… it’s f**king prosh today. How many times can one politely say, “No, I don’t want your paper!” when the idiots have spaced themselves only half a block apart from each other and can see I didn’t want one from his mate down the street already. Grr! Was ready to hip and shoulder the last guy that stepped out in front of me on William St.
Sorry for the grumpy post, but I hate prosh day (just in case you hadn’t already guessed!).
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yes, i had the same experience, trying to photograph buildings down william street this morning.
perhaps you are in one of my shots?
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If you were taking photos at about 9.45 around 140 William up to the CAT stop just past Murray St, then yes, you may have snapped a very exasperated looking woman in a black dress with curly red hair Vegan – that’d be me.
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Do you want TWOP to turn into some kind of old farts collective ? Queue Rolly.
Give generously to Prosh. It is a charity after all.
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i give to charities.
just not this one.
and i do think there tactic of placing two or three young folk every fifty metres annoying.
if that makes me an old fart, so be it.
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Sorry Bill, I’m with Vegan on this. I give to charities and I’m all for giving to charities. But not that one.
After my first prosh especially where a student harrassed me for 10 minutes and almost abused me for not buying his paper I’ve decided they can all get stuffed. I understand they’re trying to have with it, and I’m not suggesting TWOP become old fart central, but if that makes me an old fart then that’s fine with me.
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Dear Sirs,
I am adding my voice of complaint to your register regarding the miscreants of Prosh. They are a blight upon the fair city of Perth.
In addition I make the observation that a degree from any other University apart from “The University” is a case of bum meet degree.
I hope this has clarified the situation,
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PPS. Retailing Liberal party gossip as opinion is perfectly acceptable.
Yours truthfully, Ye Olde Flatulence
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From what I’ve seen (at Uni and since) most of the paper sellers themselves couldn’t give a middle class shit about charity
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Why does that not surprise me Hutch.
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IS IT TIME FOR A STANDARD OF COGENCY?
Universities are traditionally understood to have been places of higher learning in which the faculties of critical thought, formal logic and reasoned argument are taught to impressionable minds that might otherwise flounder in the attempt to express themselves at all.
One of the most common ways students reflect these efforts is through their writings. I wonder, though, is it time Universities considered threshing out the chaff? I ask this because of two words: FUCKING IDIOTS.
You would have to have been too poor to front up fees to have avoided the crushing realisation that campuses ‘these days’ are largely populated with blithering morons who will never have to prove their intellectual merit through anything more strenuous than a quick Wiki hunt while watching LifeStyle You. This demographic is easily recognised by their apparent preference for clubwear and expensive sunglasses, as a more ‘sophisticated’ alternative to simply dressing as an out-and-out skank.
Revealing one’s stupidity through shallow value judgements and inane, apolitical diatribes on the trend of the month seem all too familiar these days. This is probably attributable to the rise of the ‘hipster’ as God and the unutterably loathsome mind-melding process that is Web 2.0. The Pod People have spoken and their message is a bleating chorus of acquiescence. It’s true, higher education is still an important sector of our economy, providing more and more revenue every year while gently easing off the taxpayer teat; yet surely we have to draw the line somewhere. I draw that line at pretending to be nice to these cretins, something I flatly refuse to do; they can fuck off.
Now it may be argued that droning on and on about your ill-conceived, unchallenged hereditary middle-class worldview is a matter of personal choice – and surely we can all appreciate that ‘bums on seats’ is a University’s stock in trade – but it leaves me wondering whether such vacuous entities are not perhaps destined to end up as bums themselves, after graduating into the maelstrom that is the annual turnout of Commerce students (a glut of superfluity if ever there was).
Universities are theoretically (that means according to a theory) a place in which a person may apply their mind to study and learning, in the hope of emerging a wiser, more capable person. Do you really want to expose yourself to ridicule by publishing unsupported claims that your fellow students are ‘hos’? If you really want to impress people with your University degree, it might be advisable to act as if you actually had one.
So what is to be done about this nauseating parade of fools? Sadly, I think we all know that it’s too much of a stretch to expect Universities to introduce more stringent requirements for entry or success. The floodgates are open and anyone with a hundred thousand dollars can just waltz on through. All that is left is the vain hope that someday these self-entitled opinionistas will find themselves confronted with a moment of angst, causing them to pause and think – ‘am I really as intelligent as I thought I was, or have I been kidding myself?’ Have a nice day.
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Yes, yes and yes…
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People who have never “found themselves confronted with a moment of angst, causing them to pause and think – ‘am I really as intelligent as I thought I was, or have I been kidding myself?’” aren’t trying hard enough.
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surely this is just a witty counterpoint to Paul Nurry’s column in Teh West today preaching tolerance and saying that women have the right to wear whatever they like, even a burka, unless of course they are robbing a bank.
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You mean this Skink ?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/paulmurray/post/2521/comment/1
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Frank! Where you been??
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Daeling with that Bolt loving Bowe over at Pollbludger.
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wired
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gaint even.
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wow, i have to dress in a particular fashion to earn your respect?
perhaps rachel is off to adfa.
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Oh my, I feel ill. I agree with Rachel. I’m old…sob, sob, sob.
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I see up to 1000 denim cutoffs go past my window every day.
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See? Watch out for?
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Explains the moderation delays.
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I’m sitting in the hotel lobby waiting for the train to Hanoi which is why you’re getting this non cunctatious moderation at the moment.
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the train to hanoi leaves from your hotel lobby?
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Why not?
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polish ya shoes guvnor?
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I’m looking for a shoe cleaning beggar. Walked through mud for 5 hours yesterday in order to be sold stuff by Hmongs and their Ilk.
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A brand of cigarettes tried to sell you things?
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True story.
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Outrage.
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I see that bloggers have filed a law suit against the Huffington Post for $105M as recompense for unpaid contributions to the website. They reckon their work has contributed a third of the value of the business, which was sold to AOL for $315M
In a similar vein I lay claim to one third of the value of The Worst of Perth on behalf of all the contributors that have helped create this impressive organ
Please mail a cheque for $4.67 to my home address.
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That much?!
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the $4.67 will then be distributed among those who added value to Skink’s redbubble site
I claim my 5c now
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Organ freakout ! Oh, yes.
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As a mature age student at another university known for housing the elite of the gene pool (old slags like me being the exception), some observations
1) the girls do wear shorts that are so short the pockets hang out
2) the boys wear incredibly tight shorts and skimpy tank tops, and many wear white moccasins with white ankle socks
The hanging out pockets are kind of disgusting and moccasins with ankle socks… there aren’t words… . But I’m sure they say exactly the right thing to someone. Why not get away with it while they can?
oh and unrelated, or is it a marker of the innocence with which these boys and girls wear their shorts:
3) they all seem to speak to their parents on their iphones about 5 times a day and tell them they love them. It never used to be cool to admit to having parents, never mind speak to them. what’s going on?
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What crazy fashionista are these dudes and dudettes following? I too am sure they say the right thing to someone, but what is that and who too? I am discombobulated. My 19 year old daughter who attends the uni that smells like shit, also wears shorts that are a tad short but I can’t recall seeing the pockets hanging out. Perhaps she is untucking them once out of my eye shot?
Tut, tut, tut.
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Shazza(nator) – the pockets are hanging out like this.
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Oh. I thought people meant the back pockets, like tags hanging down covering protruding cheeks.
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Sheesh! How about a NSFU warning next time! Some people might be checking TWOP at uni – Ljuke could get himself fired.
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Say what you like, Supré girls are HAUT.
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See dat gurl
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“I love you, Mum” is much cheaper than paying your monthly phone bill for yourself…
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I’m all disillusioned now.
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Gen Y may seem daffy, but they’re sharp enough about some things.
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Thanks Ruby Ruby, although I emerge from this thread sadder and wiser, at least in future years I can be reassured that my kids hate me the way they’re supposed to no matter what they say to me on their iphones.
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Are these shorts sold like that, or do people just chop up old jeans? I have a feeling they come with designer oversized pockets to hand down.
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Mattb, how’s life in the fast lane? Vibrant?
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Mattb – I thought people were just cutting up old jeans, before I found the links to shops selling them (see my responses to Shazza, above).
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Shades of “Stonewashed”, “Pre-faded”, Pre-stained-with-Diesel”, etc. so on and so forth.
“Be original, follow the latest fashion.”
Chrisstus, we get stupider by the decade.
As a fully paid up foundling member of the Grumpy Old Farts Foundation, and after many decades of devoted observation of the nature of human
frailtystupidity, I still can’t fathom the collective failure of the faithful followers of fashion to understand that they are simply being conned.Cunts.
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Now now Rolly. I am sure you wore a Powdered Wig back in the day.
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Wigs, indeed! Never!!
But I did like the shoe buckles and padded calves.
The heels weren’t so bad either.
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Aristotle was also of the same mind Rolly.
Accepting that ‘ the more things change, the more they stay the same’ is good for a sage countenance.
Sometimes I chuck doughnuts in the forecourt of
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I am the editor of Grok and appreciate any derogatory comments as it encourages me to sub-edit better. I can’t believe I missed ‘standard of expectation’. Bit disappointed you didn’t feature CARA’s letter to the editor though.
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Maasaate! Many criticise, fewer can do.
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the professional just
plagiarise
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I have slagged off Grok before. Especially the shiny paper which you have taken my suggestion and dumped. Creative Corner (puke) was an awesome gathering place of crap.
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The front cover’s laminate reportedly gives sexual pleasure.
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only to the editor
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What happens in the bedrooms of consenting adults and magazines is no business of the state
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Bentley is a bad surburb and not a nice place to belong or live.
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