Went past this today. Was expecting it to be bad, but it’s not really so much worse than many other Perth dumbarse mansions is it? It is claimed that workers pissed off by La Oswal’s insistence on no meat on the property during building, buried a meat pie somewhere on the land. Possibly the worst aspect to it is that now it will probably never be finished and will be demolished.
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Demolish and back to the drawing board I say.
Meanwhile in Freo news, they are packin it in Packenham.
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maybe Notre Dame will get rain for forty days and forty nights and will flood
Oh, the irony, if Notre Dame were destroyed by an act of God
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Hannibal Lecter collects press clippings of church roof cave-ins.
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why, it’s almost up to the floor level.
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the far canals of freo westend
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all that’s missing from this photo is Cohen in a sun hat making like he’s HST
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While sucking my pen, with my personalised-plated Jizz in the background?
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why did you go all the way to India, when you could have had your picture took in front of the McTaj Mahal? Why holiday overseas, what’s wrong with Australia? huh, huh?
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he is a well known local holidayer
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I put it to you that Rotto is also overseas.
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I was born a HCB man.
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Skink is more your PG Wodehouse.
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I clawed my way out of a monstrous tentacled vagina a William S. Burroughs man.
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My mates a grano and he tells me they put chop bones inside the foundation as a protest.
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why, how sophisticated and witty.
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Someone I worked with once hid slices of pepperoni under the vegetarian’s keyboard.
In summer.
The desks were crawling with ants by morning.
That was a dick move.
This… not so much. At least the bones will harmlessly bio-degrade.
(Whatever a grano might be).
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You don’t know what a grano worker is? Dude, ivory tower.
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Hey. I drink at the Bxxxxx .
I’m no ivorian, Cote ‘d or otherwise.
I guessed chippie (ie Carpenter, and not the Karen type) but that would be a Graino (for woodgrain) so… nope. No clue.
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granolithic mason.
does concrete and shit.
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You get to hang out in the Baravan?!
*jealous*
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I’m torn between saying “Kudos” and “WTF?”
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I heard they dug up Gandhi’s ashes and threw them in the vichyssoise
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And Mother Theresa’s.
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but not before they’d pissed on them.
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We men are as the specks of glittering dust,
Suspended in the swirling winds of fate
Allotted little time to make our mark
Upon this cruel yet fair imprisoning world
And sooth: we’re here today and gone so soon
No wonder some would try immortalise
Themselves, sorrily erecting temples
To testify their span to future cunts
Yet prey to sad vicissitudes of time
This human impulse struggles in the face
Of stronger forces: ruin, entropy,
And Market, greatest leveller of all
That fickle god once smiled on Oswal’s star
But now his strivings show for what they are
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This one’s called ‘Meat Pie’ BTW.
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Superb.
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Beautiful!
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Weeping as I look upon this
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Where are all the Oswal star fuckers now?
Have they disappeared like a fund manager up a tax haven?
Or are they just in a holding pattern until the next leveraged bit of exotic tottie comes along?
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I wonder, if the ANZ get their billions back, will they fill up the ATM at Curtin more often?
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Who’s that ugly old bloke SheRa’s tucking into ? Anyway such was the sympathys that the high rollers all passed round the hat to get the Oswals out of bankruptcy but unfortunately it wasn’t enough.Oswalathon fail.
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dinner.
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“Go Vegan” she shrieked,
“Save the planet from hard hooved destruction”
“Your meat eating addiction causes cancer lah?”
Yet the Krug in the carved ice swan dripped in bejewelled condensate, it will be warm by morning, better drink it now.
“How do they make their money?”
Coal makes ammonia makes explosives makes rocks in boats
for steel
for spoons
and cars
and weapons
and fridges
and stainless steel cooktops
and espresso machines for everybody
and boats to carry rocks.
Yet chowing on a beef kebab in a peanut sauce is destroying the world for future cunts?
I walked to work today, to keep my footprint low, and she’s opens otarian restaurants? A coal exporterflogging low-carbon footprint haute cuisine?
The Peppy Grove Taj MacBurrow according to some hobbits “I have on good authority that it will be a totally green and sustainable house.”
Star fuckers have ruined this city, and the star fuckers are looking for another pre-rotting corpse to gang fuck and sate their lust for status.
However did we let you fool us for so long?
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Great rant!
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Indeed.
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Respect.
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i’m waiting for tl101 to ask why we are feuding.
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It’s all about the shoving….it right up us.
Classic hypocrisy all ’round.
You’ve got to give it to them for the sheer ‘face’ if it all.
As the Bard put it….” ‘t was ever thus”.
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Beautiful.
Also, I’m no rurotard, I may be wrong, but my logic goes
…. ammonia… fertiliser… mostly used for growing grain to feed hard hooved animals so people who live in 2 bedroom 1 bathroom duplexes can feed their cancers, no?
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‘Unfortunately, some Australians have such a knack for the ‘tall-poppy syndrome’ that no matter what anyone does, the knockers will cut them down.’
http://blogs.watoday.com.au/theverdict/2009/07/food_for_though.html
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Thanks for the link skink. Good times.
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Heh. I remember TWOP was like the Marie Celeste every Tuesday, as we were all off bogarting the Chong. Good times indeed.
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Surely this April 3 2009 response – from Dave Herring – was one of the all-time classics:
Don’t bother replying to those people who say you aren’t Australian. They aren’t worth a response.
I wonder how Australian they are, or whether they’re so angry they come out with whopper lies, whatever is the truth.
It will never be the same to all beef, Patti. Special sources? Let us choose or pick some dungeons and – Open Sesame! – they’ll see they’re bums.
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I’m a big fan of Dave Herring’s work. But he’s no Nippon Lunch Box, in the WAToday-baiting pantheon.
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Both are superb trolls – in their idiosyncratic way, not that there’s anything wrong with that
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it never hurts to be reminded what an excellent judge of character Patti is
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Compond worsts. Well done.
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Its a new thing in Dianella some people have houses that look like Temples that look Greek or Italian but this one looks a Min Tahj Mahel, Maybe Indian People have something to do with it.
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Wasn’t the Taj Mahal made in China ?
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Quite right Snuff, but remember the caesura is broken on most models.
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Hey TL101, did I read a couple of days ago that you’re changing postcodes? to 6053?
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How dare you sir…
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heh, wondered what that would rustle out.
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No, The Dianella postcode will always stay the same, If Your a new user welcome to this site we have some nice people and some wiredos on this site.
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You’re a wi-reed-oh. (NO OFFENCE)
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and some tedious cunts
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and what’s this ‘we’ ?
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its how tedious cunt 101 says yes
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No it was made in India!
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i ment mini
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You are TWOP’s Mini-Me, TL101.
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Have you ever polished DFOC’s helmet TL101?
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and THIS you correct.
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Shit stirring of the highest order – *doffs hat*
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indeed well done all
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Demolished? I heard it was going to be rezoned as a theme park.
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That’s a great ‘renovator’s delight’. Or ready-made ruin.
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I’d love to work it into a replica of some forgotten indian temple deep in the heart of the jungle where they eat chilled monkey brains for dessert and exploit the poor local residents for coal (or ammonia?) mining. Props if you get the reference :P
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A snowdome of half finished Os house would be nice.
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I would buy it. How are you keeping up with all the clamouring voices calling for more TWOP merch?!
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Please!
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Kali ma shakti de… in a snow dome in Peppy Grove.
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No time for love, Orbs.
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Perth’s version of Halcyon Hall, I take it…
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Yes. Ammonia magnates fallen on hard times.
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The DVDA action has moved to iron ore magnates now
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Context is everything, isn’t it ? If this structure were a 16th century mosque, located somewhere is Rajasthan or Maharashtra State, it would be regarded, unequivocally, as having architectural merit. It might well have World Heritage listing, if that were the case. As the vanity, or folly of 20th/21st Century industrialist, however….
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not just context, authenticity.
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authenticity? no such thing.
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Hearst’s Castle in California is about as inauthentic as a building can get and there are many who would argue that it is a masterpiece of detail and scale. Aren’t industrialists as much a part of human history as Islamic clerics? (Maybe no one’s favorite part, but their foibles are at least as “authentic.”)
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Tomb of the Forgotten WA Entrepreneur.
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Clearly a sign of their inability to assimilate ;)
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So, an industrialist… isn’t that someone who causes something to be produced? Other than a fragmented paper trail?
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I have been thinking about this–given the proper fittings and finishes, this wouldn’t be too different from some of the silent film era palaces in Holmby Hills or the older neighborhoods in Hollywood: buff or peach stucco, dark Spanish oak doors and window frames, a garden of palms and flowering orange trees, mosaic swimming pool, maybe an Isotto or a Packard pulled conspicuously up to the door. Those places are arguably nothing but kitsch too, but they seem to settle into the landscape and climate beautifully and no one would think of criticising them architecturally these days.
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Ah… you think this was anywhere NEAR finished?
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No, obviously it is unfinished–I am saying that in the state it is in currently, it could be finished in a way in keeping with the old style Hollywood Mission/Art Deco houses that many now admire. In other words the bones could support something fairly handsome (at least as shown in this picture).
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So… you’re suggesting that someone with some taste and vision, and the financial wherewithal to do something about this, could make this come good.
In Perth.
Interesting concept.
(how you crush us with your low low blows… I think this promises to be first in a series of what happens with this site… I fully expect all developments to be in the full spirit of TWOP)
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I t could be finished, but there are several reasons why it probably wont. The amount of money to complete would be massive. people with that type of money usually have their own vulgarity they are keen to inflict. The distictive style will always be associated with these guys. Billionaires who ae the only possible candidates would almost certainly erase it and start again. The legalities will also probably stretch for a decade, so it will probably be in very poor shape when there is even an opportunity to do anything.
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Prize for first tags and photos inside?
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wyrmworld. or nate.
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I think you are giving the former owners too much credit Bartender. I know the stye you refer to, and I don’t think that’s what they were going for here. Think more marble and gold.
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stye – a freudian typo?
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That’s very funny.
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indeed. I think Bartender has mistaken this for the Hollywood spanish mission style, rather that McTaj Mahal.
Think about it like this: if The Sopranos were Indian, this is what they’d build.
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I don’t think it would have looked as bad as people have said covered with a quarry or two of white marble.
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I actually agree: plenty of architects have played up ancient forms wrapped in modern luxy finishes with varying degrees of success. The Kreeger Mansion, in Washington, DC, for example:
http://www.kreegermuseum.org/
I realize it’s not to everyone’s taste, but I really love that building, and others like it – see the work of Edward Durrell Stone, for example.
Not to be confused with the Krueger Mansion, which looks like this:
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Kreeger looks beautiful. Oswals pile not as imaginative.
Kreuger not bad either.
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There are some mansions in Perth that are quite good to look at, like your Kreeger, the trouble is they are built on relatively small blocks so they are cheek-by-jowl with the neighbours mansion. The visual effect is awful as you drive past, e.g. City Beach.
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I don’t quite follow–my favorite urban and suburban neighborhoods here are the ones where impressive houses sit very close to similar ones – whether the houses are attached or single-standing. I can appeciate rolling lawns and big plots too, but don’t see why close proximity has to be a bad thing. See Park Slope, Brooklyn; Monument Ave., St. Louis; Whitby Hills, LA; Beacon Hill, Boston. More modern/modernist houses in very close proximity can be seen in places like Denver, Tuscon, Palm Springs and Malibu (the latter looks a little tatty these days, but that’s more upkeep than architecture).
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I totally agree. With all your examples, where each mansion has some element in common with its neighbours.
This is the sort of thing I mean, where styles clash and people want as big a house as they can possibly build on the land they have:
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BTW, speaking as a non-local, I would love to see a Best of Perth feature here. Maybe every week feature a landmark or new structure that embodies Perth’s history or potential (if that’s not too wet).
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Someone did do a Perth’s best. Coincidentally, it is heavy on modernist houses. And squash courts.
http://perthsbest.wordpress.com/
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Thanks!
But I would love to get your opinion as well.
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controversial – then TLA’s taste WILL be on display
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No that would be missing the point entirely! MUST NOT HAPPEN
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Taworri Way, City Beach, http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Perth+Western+Australia&ll=-31.936025,115.761293&spn=0,0.006866&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=-31.936037,115.761212&panoid=YRIs1rSKsOGIXe7XJcIXoA&cbp=12,65.86,,0,3.59
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I found this old article from three years ago as background on the Oswals for our friend the bartender
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/meet-the-oswals/story-e6frg8h6-1111116556392
interesting that it says that ‘Radhika is a strong believer in karma’
I remember posting this way back then when everyone was singing their praises, pointing out the last paragraphs about his father’s financial irregularities. I believe I got criticized for tall poppy syndrome, or something.
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I read the credit for that article as “Victoria Laurie is a Perth-based stiffy writer”
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Ick. Although we have plenty like that over here. Homegrown, too.
I cannot remember which film it was, back in the 1980s, where a character played by Danny DeVito said “Meanwhile I have a $500 ice swan melting into the chopped liver,” while complaining that his invited guests thought he was too vulgar to bother to attend his party. But for some reason it always surprised me that everyone else has not seen that movie, whatever it was, and therefore continues to commission ice sculptures.
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Criticised on here for tall poppy sydnrome, or something? No way skink. My TWOP comment form has a field at the bottom for “Which tall poppy are you targetting” and it’s mandatory.
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not criticized here. I think we could start a ‘tall poppy of the week’
this week I nominate that blonde who was on that reality TV show and who’s going out with that footballer and is now planning to start singing. A Bree Maddox for the next generation, but without the shoving
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Well, yes.
My point was that what’s here could be tackled in a way that would result in a handsome, livable house (albeit for someone with very deep pockets).
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I think Bartender that it is quite possible to create something that is grandiose and yet still aesthetically pleasing. I think there are plenty examples of this as you say above. The problem I see with the Oswal complex is the focus on ostentatiousness at the expense of any apparent architectural merit. I suppose we will never be sure now how the end product would look, but it did seem to heading in a Prix DAmour direction.
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p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prix_d’Amour.jpg
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Jesus Christ, that thing was ugly.
I was surprised to watch Gone With the Wind and realize how small and simple “Tara” actually was: basically a nicely proportioned old farmhouse with some brick columns added to the front.
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No I don’t think it’s ostentatious enough. That’s the problem. It’s just big without being that interesting. Big and crrrraaaazy would have been better. Even the infamous domes are relatively modest. All the talk of it being a monstrosity have been overdone. It’s really more about them than the building. When people criticise the building so strongly, they’re really having a go at the karmic indian vegans personally.
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I think the original domes were far less modest, as was the house, but the howls of protest from the locals ensured the planners made them tone it down. The final design was a level of gauche arriviste pretense appropriate to Peppermint Grove
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Spot on. They were foreigners and too uppity to even have the decency to be white. White-anting the building for being in poor taste is just a snobbier way of burying chop bones in the grano.
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Huh? If we dont like the building we are being racist? I don’t follow that logic. My assessment of the house was based on what I read about it.
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I didn’t mean it quite that categorically. I don’t think the building is, or would have been, necessarily much worse than many of the others around it – those whole few blocks surrounding it are full of sub-Prix d’Amour horrors from all eras. I am quite sure that a lot of the negative reaction to it is really a negative reaction to the Oswals, and a lot of the negative reaction to the Oswals is because they are Indian (as well as being shonky, and wankers). I’d heard about the chop bone thing before and it’s disgusting, like schoolyard bullying. (You say you don’t follow the logic and in trying to explain myself I am forced to admit that there was none – just pure gut reaction. But I am making assertions on the internet here, so who needs logic?)
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Yes, I think I have made that point before. The criticism of the house was a little out of step with how bad it actually was, and some some of the anti house sentiment was actually about them. This forum is of course different.
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i think that a lot of the reaction to the oswals was their ethnicity. having said that, the house really doesn’t have much (any?) architectural merit, although neither does a lot of peppermint grove.
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I agree that the Oswals themselves are part of the picture here. Though I was in a relationship with a (wealthy) Indian guy once, so claim innocent on the race card I think. I actually like a lot of the large homes around Claremont, Peppy Grove. Some are quite beautiful. This one though didn’t float my boat. Maybe it was too soon to judge.
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No, it’s bad. But not baaaaad in a pricks d’amour way.
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sorry shazz, wasn’t referring to you.
having spent a fair amount of time assessing properties in that area i would agree that there are some beautiful properties, but also a very large amount of noveau dross.
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Good point. What is most worst about this is who the owners were. Uppity foreigners who came to Australia to show these bumpkins a thing or two (not that we Americans are exempt from this conceit…). But these guys were flashy self promoters, often quoted in the local press spouting nonsense about spiritual harmony and architecture or inanities along the lines of “only the best is good enough for us”. They came off like wankers. But, mostly, said foreigners allegedly left town late at night, leaving the mansion unfinished, the jet with no fuel, the brightwork on the yacht unpolished, full ashtrays in the roller, and an Australian bank on the hook for something like $500 million.
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…and a darch on the front doormat
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Added ammonia rain. (new image) and put the merchandise link back.
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A darch produced by eating raw beef and pork sausages for 2 weeks.
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Ah, more like A$860 million.
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Planet loving explosives manufacturer and fertiliser spewer suggests flying to New York for lunch.
Cunt = Radish.
Thanks for the link BS
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No worries!
I think that page was written in a hurry as a lot of the prose don’t make sense.
“We will soon be back to help you better, one delicious Otarian meal at a time!” – What does this even mean? The twitter-sphere also seems pretty happy that the London branches are gone.
The ‘flagship’ Otarian branch on Bleecker St. in NYC had been closed since October or November citing “water problems”, but it seems they have quietly removed the location altogether from the site!
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I did a Burrup related tweet in your honour today.
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Why thank you!
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I always try and articulate “Burrup penninsular” when burping.
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Thanks Burrup Sentinel. Now following.
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Thanks for the support, Sharon!
Been gathering news on the Oswals for about a year now ever since they had their final altercation with their Burrup shareholder Yara International which led to Pankaj fleeing Australia for India/Dubai. He had his plane, yachts, and cars seized and auctioned off.
Now the ATO is chasing wife Radhika for A$180 million in unpaid taxes.
News on the Oswals have been scant of late, but the sale of their 65% share in Burrup Holdings is concluding soon and there should be some updates on these xxxxxx.
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Yeah, ok, A$860 million, I knew it was a big number.
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Indeed. I think it was in The West that I read that the Oswals have a total of 14 (FOURTEEN!) lawsuits ongoing.
Now the husband is suing his own company for US$500 million, saying this was the money he used to personally fund the project, and also suing Apache Corp. (the parent company of Tap Oil) in Texas for another US$500 million in damages for the soured gas deal. I suppose this is how he made his (alleged) billions.
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No, this is how lawyers make their (real) millions.
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Ummm, I know a little bit about the oil biz. Tap Oil is an independent Perth based company. It is not a subsidary of Apache. I believe their only relationship with Apache is as partners in some development projects.
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Maybe a bit off topic, but does Perth have an “old town” district where the early elite settled? It sounds as if Peppermint Grove would be a contender, but the neighborhood’s development seems to post-date the gold-rush city by quite a while.
I may have asked this question before…Perth obviously has a historic downtown but it’s hard to see where the residential district of that era was in relationship to it.
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Looking into it, I guess Perth never had a gold rush per se.
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Kalgoorlie, but the money went to Perth.
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You were asking about stuff I like the other day. This still exists, but is sealed up and crumbling.
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Awseome collection…
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Fantastic building…
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Amazingly not demolished, but apparently it is unsafe. There are cracks in many of those scroll things. The ends are encased in stupid metal panels and have (had?) inane heritage pictures on them. The building is now hemmed in by others, and its beauty is even less appreciateable.
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Reminds me of some of the early work of Louis Sullivan, with the huge arched door and the arcaded columns on the balconies.
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I was looking for not worst buildings the other day as requested. I actually like this brick hirise at 200 St George’s terrace, but it doesn’t look very good in this pic.
http://www.realcommercial.com.au/property-offices-wa-perth-5630159
It is another example of leaving the facade of the old when a new building is built, which can be seen all ver Perth. I actually like a lot of the hirise in Perth (it’s the mid size that really stinks) but the memory of what has been lost takes the edge off the new building. 200 St George’s is inserted behind the facade of the cloisters.
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whilst i agree that facadism is rife in perth, i think that this is actually the entire building, built as a school (i think) by bishop hale. it is certainly more than a facade.
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FYI- This is Mt Newman House, designed in 1972 By Howlett and Bailey, same people responsible for Council House and the Concert Hall. Great stuff.
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I can’t work out what building I’m looking at. Where is it, and what is it now? Looks fantastic in that pic.
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Brick hirise behind cloisters facade. Looks great in brick. would be mediocte in concrete.
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I think Bento is referring to the earlier pic of the building near the Town Hall.
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Realy? Well what kind of xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx wouldn’t know that one next to town hall?
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A xxx xxxxxxx I guess.
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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it is currently being restored and will be part of a six star oman group hotel as part of the redevelopment of the site.
that pic of the heritage cock i sent you was taken from inside. it’s brilliant.
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I’d like to believe you, but it has been claimed as an impending hotel for what, 20 years? 25?
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perth is tiny. in the first white settlement, the main street had civic, military, religious, commercial and residential properties. often a lot would contain the home and business premise/s of the owner, not necessarily in the same building. the early elite actually lived on st georges terrace, now the main drag in the city
as the inner city area become more citified (if i may use that word), people moved to adjacent areas, not particularly far out. remember, perth is tiny.
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Dalkeith probably best fits your definition.
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Agreed that Dalkieth is our old money suburb. Then Claremont. And then Cottesloe. And so on.
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What are youse on ? Apart from very early on, as vegan points out, when it all centred on the Terrace, it’s always been Peppy Grove. Rob Pascoe’s Peppermint Grove, Western Australia’s capital suburb provides an excellent history. Granted Dalkeith has Gallop House, which was restored after decades of neglect in 1963, but Peppy Grove has been home to the Forrest, Lefroy, Keane, Lee-Steere, Gairdner, Bunnings, Holmes à Court, and Packer families, to name a few. Dalkeith is more your Bond and Connell territory.
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I’ve always had Peppy Grove in my mind as the wealthiest suburb generally rather than the ‘old money’. But youv’e done your research Snuff.
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The closest thing in New York to Peppermint Grove that I can think of is Nightmare Park. Which, as the name might suggest, is no longer popular with your better class of vegan ammonia international jet-set deadbeats.
Pictures to come.
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Also, what are “historic districts” (US term) called in Australia?
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development sites.
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Firetraps.
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Yes.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/09/16/2365797.htm
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Ignore the city dwelling philistines Bartender. We call them heritage precincts. Google Fremantle.
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Or Midland Train Station…
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“Otarian, which is headed by Australian environmentalist Radhika Oswal, now only operates one restaurant in New York City.”
WHAT.
Source: http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Vegetarian-restaurant-chain-Otarian-leaves-UK-shores
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Sorry, I don’t mean to spam, but Radhika Oswal or one of her minions actually sent me a tweet!
http://twitter.com/?lang=en&logged_out=1#!/otarian/status/99453287383826432
I’m gonna be famous now!
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You could get a great “buuuuuuurrup” burp from that type of food.
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those insults sound like Patti. She’s very proud of her cock.
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Here’s the low-down on Radhika’s twitter meltdown, and the lack of vowels on the Oswals’ keyboards: http://theblackboard.net/blogs/how-to-ruin-your-twitter-presence-or-the-story-of-a-hashtag-gone-sour/
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Ouch. That’s some train wreck.
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She’s still at it: http://twitter.com/#!/otarian
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She’s got more balls than La Chong.
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Wonderful business model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CNncbq_-pE
I should start charging “Guarantee Fees” too.
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Can anyone recommend a good lawyer?
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/oswal-twit-storm-leads-to-legal-threats/story-e6frg2qu-1226111881747
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Whoops.
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This is serious business! I’m being taken to INTERNET COURT.
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the court of no appeal.
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Ahh, the internet. credits
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I know where Radhika will be headed for , the defenders of Western suburbs freedoms,
http://www.lavanlegal.com.au/
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The Tax Office is going to be straight onto Radish’s arse the moment she brain farts her way back to Australia.
Boasting on twitter that she made $us250m is a pretty fucken bat shit dumb thing to write in a public domain. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx she is.
She has the “sadiM touch”.
Everything she comes close to turns to shit
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You are not Mr Bales?
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I really do hope he isn’t, coz if he is then it doesn’t look good mate
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What makes you say that?
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just that if they have proof of who you are, whether you are innocent of a crime or not, they will probably do their best to make your life hell.
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I’m glad I said their house was not as bad as I expected then.
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Unfortunately your merch seems to indicate otherwise…
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I’m completely pro ruins. If Scooby and Shaggy are here for CHOGM, then there’s definitely a haunted wing to be debunked.
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What what? You already scared off Manmoham Singh with your…anti-vibrancy.
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Darn you meddling kids.
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my bet is that when they unmask the villain it was xxx xxx all along
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American lawyers – good call Oswals. Launch your legal action in the country with the strongest freedom of speech protections.
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I will be disappointed if there are more comments on this than on Rising Water review.
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You need to draw out more furious thespians, then.
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Inside Cover finally woke up to the Burrup Sentinel -Otarian Twitter stoush this morning
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Think the main event was more Chris “POOPle” Pople Vs. Radhika “Goes to The Wall” Oswal (Link: http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/another-oswal-company-goes-to-the-wall/story-e6frg2qu-1226113377290)
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Off topic, but my current favorite Pople:
Rodney Pople
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Oswals on p26 of the Slimes today regarding the closure of the London restaurants leaving many creditors angry
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Ole Burrup’s been quiet.
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Could you link to the article please?
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sorry BS, I missed your request. that old article is here:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/another-oswal-company-goes-to-the-wall/story-e6frg2qu-1226113377290
and while looking for that one I came across this one:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/radhika-oswal-joins-us500m-apache-suit/story-e6frg2qu-1226124852800
the Oswals seem to have a never-ending line of excuses, and I’m waiting for them to claim that ‘a big boy did it and ran away.’
still, it’s entertaining to watch them turn on each other. I foresee soon that they will get strategically divorced, and all their assets will be transferred to whichever partner has fewer law suits against them. I’m getting Bondy deja-vue.
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Latest, most bizarre to date, twist in the Oswal Saga:
Fraud, blackmail in latest Oswal claims: http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/business-old/fraud-blackmail-in-latest-oswal-claims/story-e6frg2qu-1226131700884
Oswal’s wife drops husband in it: http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/finance/oswals-wife-drops-husband-in-it/2285289.aspx
Alleged forgery emerges as Oswal’s wife sues ANZ over ‘unconscionable’ publicity threat: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/alleged-forgery-emerges-as-oswals-wife-sues-anz-over-unconscionable-publicity-threat/story-fn91v9q3-1226131726272
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Oh, I thought you must be in jail or in court or something.
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TWOP is the public gallery
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I’m in Internet Court pleading my case.
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and defending yourself?
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someone (not me) has been in and taken some photos
http://lockiecoops.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/the-taj-on-swan-oswalds.html
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it has now been voted on through council with the decision made it is going to be demolished. The owner has 21 days to submit a protest on it.
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