You would expect a certain climate change skepticism in Perth’s Western suburbs, particularly in Nedlands, where the residents have the reputation of being a little over conservative. But this home-owner is ready for the hole in the ozone layer to poop down whatever it dares. His gate will see no sun faded grey paint. Such a tightly tailored example of shade cloth I have never seen. And I’m not sure how those shaded points are going to deter eastern suburb ne’er do wells from vaulting the battlements. By Nick S.
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The Worst of Perth 
The fuck?
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When the paint peels on your gate, don’t go crying to Nedlands.
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There isn’t even any visible pleating on the curve! This is real craftsmanship.
I wonder if there’s a market for shadecloth fence booties? I imagine Bunnings already have their best people on it.
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Bunnings has ‘best people’??
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I would go for Indiana Jones’ two best men.
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SPF30 for gates?
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The solar maximum can literally suffer in its jocks. Literally people.
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One of the strangest worsts in recent memory.
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The New World Obsessive Compulsive Disorder begins in Nedlands. And what of all the plastic sheeting?
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What’s the bet the lounge is covered in thick clear plastic?
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not worst i’m thinking.
but certainly weird.
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The pikes on the western suburbs gates aren’t sufficient to withhold the eastern suburbs hordes from the villa, they’re now growing bogan-lethal bougainvillia
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I was born a Yukka man.
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Yuccas not much chop when the ravening hordes of baby-bonus dependant suburbotards start clamouring at the barricades screaming for another flatscreen tv.
That’s cultural capital. That’s bougainvillea.
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Weird?
No, cable ties.
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Who will volunter to venture in and ring the doorbell and ask the home owner WHY ? ? ?
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Maybe you’d be confronted by someone wearing a tin foil hat.
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Maybe there’s a good reason for it. Maybe they have a shadecloth hat?
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Crazy talk. That’ll never protect you from the chemtrails.
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“Cunnilingus and Psychiatry brought us to this.” — Tony Soprano
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Driller Graham, I could always threaten to expose my knees thereby exposing my saggy breasts at the same time, if they don’t tell us why LOL
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Saw this once before and when I returned to Worst it I couldn’t find it. It’s not just the gate, it seems the owner has to wrap everything like some knid of boomtown Christo. You can see some more wrapping work in the background.
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Micro Christo.
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Shady Christo.
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Christo has a place in Neddies ? was my first thought too, but Driller Graham is right. DFOC needs to do some investigative gerbalism.
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Like Bunnings, I have my best people on it.
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Oh God.
I only now noticed the garbage bag topiary.
It’s like a ZipLoc remake of “The Shining.”
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The Secret Diary of Mark McGowan (aged nearly 45)
Given it has been such a tumultuous week in politics, I was surprised when not one newspaper reporter phoned me to ask what I thought of the Rudd/Gillard leadership battle – particularly as I not only conducted a similar coup here in WA a few months ago, but have also read the Bob Hawke autobiography which partly deals with the similar hassles he had with Paul Keating back in the early 1990s. If anyone should be considered an expert on political coups, it’s me.
Indeed I was quite perterbed to see that one of the few mentions I got in the weekend rag was some innocuous comment I made about something to do with what Colin Barnett said about the bushfire victims at Margaret River.
For one, as a principled opposition member and self confessed socially concerned leftie, I think the people who lost their homes should be allowed to go to court to receive proper justice. However, it is a dangerous POV to have given I too might one day be the premier of a government which decides it’s totally acceptable to burn people’s houses down via incompetently implemented safety policy.
As I sat around pondering this issue, I was told of this strange place in Nedlands that had bits of shadecloth tied to the owner’s wrought iron front gate. At first I thought: “How wierd.” Then I had had a flash – this could form the basis of my revolutionary fire protection policy. I immediately phoned my new planning advisor, Al MacTiernan, and told her of my plan to cover every house in Perth with shadecloth. It would, I argued, be similar to Kevin Rudd’s successful pink bats scheme, which was put in place not only to protect people from the heat, but also save household electricity costs. I even came up with a catchy slogan for this new policy: “Shadecloth – saying no to bushfires”.
So I suggessted to Al that we start the new scheme in my own seat of Rockingham, given there are still a few scrubby tracts of land down there, where some of the residents may well be in harm’s way if there was a bushfire. Al, however, had a different idea – being the mayor of Vincent, she wanted to put more shadecloth on the Herdsman Lake gazebos before tackling the Leederville aquatic centre.
After a few minutes of arguing we came to a compromise – we would put shadecloth over the Perth to Rockingham rail link, which would not only make the corridor shadier, but ensure commuters didn’t have to look at any parts of Kwinana as they passed by.
Another win for me. That’ll show Colin “I’m going to rebuild the fucking Perth foreshore” Barnett.
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Seriously, nobody asked McGowan his opinion?
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somebody read out an article this morning with Gary Gray where he said that 80% of his constituents in Rockingham had expressed a preference for Kevin Rudd and were mightily pissed off that Gillard was still there. Gray suggested that if an election were held tomorrow he would lose the seat of Brandt.
someone immediately suggested this offered proof positive that 80% of Rockingham residents are cunts
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John Day Minister for Lego “Rockingham should totally get a Statue of Liberty and maybe it will get as many visitors as The BellTower. No wait…”
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9 million visitors a day to the Perth Waterfront according to John Day – by including train and ferry passengers.
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9 million a year, not a day
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Is that really out of the question? Perth being the largest city in the largest state in Australia and a center of economic growth I’d expect the numbers for visitors overall to be at least that high. Maybe not all of them make it to the waterfront, but then that depends on how one defines the area.
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No BSwaM he’s using the fact that most commuting traffic by train from the southern suburbs enters the city via the Esplanade Station, “therefore they will be visiting the Waterfront Project”. when all they are doing is walking away from the site and getting to their 9-5 job in the CBD, then they are being counted again as they head back home on the train.
60,000 visited the Belltower last year, Dick Court predicted 400,000.
9,000,000 is three times as many visitors to the Statue of Liberty each year.
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If only they’d throw Swan Island and Spiderman’s Undies back into the mix, I’d put the figure closer to 17,000,000.
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there were only 60 000 loosers in WA last year?
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I reckon they all read jespers blog
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80% of all his constituents, or of the people who expressed a view? Either way the assessment of their status stands.
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He’s being gamed : they’re all going to vote Rabid 1.
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I forgot to add : once you are down the bastards won’t stop kicking.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/2012-02-29/3858956
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Bill, did you listen to the panel discussion? Where’s the beef?
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Deconstructing the narrative is being framed by clowns.
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i wonder what bswam will counter with?
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Boozies.
What else?
http://www.builtstlouis.net/washington/5d.html
(Courtesy Built St. Louis’ great virtual tour of what’s left of that city’s chief commercial corridor)
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Whoa! It’s like the French had gone industrial!
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There’s actually an old department store on Fifth Ave. sporting an impressive line up of topless maidens, circa La Belle Epoch, but can’t find a picture.
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Or maybe I can.
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“renovations included night lighting of the cornice”. When they’re right, they’re right.
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I actually like the steam-breathing terra cotta lions.
Nothing says “buy a hat” like a gargoyle vomiting halitosis at me.
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They’re great, as is the lighting, although the interior’s underwhelming.
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“Are you ducts dreary? Boring? Old-fashioned? Central Services is here to say ‘sucks to be you.'”
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I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there’s trouble, a man alone.
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Where’s your form?
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Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn’t even fix the taps without filling out a 27b/6.
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David Thorne’s latest is lolworthy
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disappointing bswam.
i was hoping for a hrv fence wrapping tour de force.
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I can’t think of a local equivalent, to be honest. Plenty of GET ORF AWR LANNNND type stuff, but no picket booties.
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Well the seppoes will be riffing the original
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Its just there to give the bogan-villea a nice textured surface to root upon.
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Sounds too sensible. Good DAY sir!
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Wait, no, that’s ridiculous.
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Colleen Egan might be able to get that pool!
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/andrew-mallard-charged-over-alleged-hoon-driving-145kmh-on-kwinana-freeway/story-e6frg13u-1226285166026
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Oh god…
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Bound to be a book deal in it.
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Estelle Blackburn – “Broken on the Bumpkinobahn”
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I thought he was in England painting high school grade paintings?
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yup, cutting edge page 3 news.
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whos in England?
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