Haven’t done a media post for a while, because, nobody really cares about these awful creatures anymore. But perhaps there are still some questions to be posed in post Riddance Radio. Firstly, Russell Woolf’s ABC 720 replacement John McGlue is just. Fucking. Terrible. Obviously nobody is going to be able to fake Rusty’s apparently genuine interest in the movement of traffic in the Northbridge tunnel, but McGlue is the most excruciatingly boring presenter helpfully coupled with a voice like Mark McGowan vacuuming a rug in the next room. He manages to drain any interest you might have in any topic no matter how ostensibly interesting. I guess the loss of Russell is the circumcision industry’s gain. Now not sure what nickname to give McGlue. He’s playing Nanna Nap to Geoff Hutchinson’s Nanna. I’m going to go with John “Slumber King” McGlue unless others have something better.
And seriously, what’s the deal with 6PRacist? Would it kill them to hire a presenter that doesn’t sound like he is being sodomised and strangled at the same time? Paul Nurry and Bob Maumill pioneered the choking granny vocal style, which now seems to have infected Gossage, Zempilas and Peter Bell. If you are an appalling journalist, having a terrible voice isn’t helping. Now Peter Bell sounds like a decent sort of guy, albeit one who appears to be trying to breath in some Lego , but I guess if you sign on to a station famous for being populated by total cunts – and this is after Riddance Sattler has been given the arse, then it does kind of compromise your image, obviously along with the rolling abortion that was the Dockers. Now Gossage seems ok too, but…wait , does anyone care? No? Then carry on not listening. Remember, McGlue should only be referred to as Slumber King from now on.
The Worst of Perth 
Sleepmaker?
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He actually looks like that? It’s the Zombie Fucking Apocalypse.
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If he was reporting it, you would soon lose the will to live.
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Was that photo taken on the way home from a clinical trial? John….. maaaate….. I tried to tell you they weren’t the placebos.
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Someone was paid to take that photo.
And, of all the photos available of him, that’s the one that was the least… meh?
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Looks like a 2nd year apprentice taxidermist’s end of year project.
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When lemur eyes are smiling …
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I listen to AM radio for the ten minutes that it takes me to drive to work, and then the ten minutes it takes to drive home. McClueless managed to bore me so much in the first five minutes I had to tune to Classic FM, where the voices are slightly less soporific. Have there been any documented incidents of traffic accidents caused by him sending drivers to sleep? The last thing Perth drivers need is something to make them more sleepy.
I can’t listen to commercial radio, because six minutes of the ten minute journey would be shouty ads.
and I can’t listen to Cameron because he has yet to play a record released after I was born. It was amusing to hear the banter about lefty political bias on the ABC when a former Federal Liberal MP is the most popular broadcaster in Perth.
and I know he’s not Perth, and was only filler during the summer break, but that Richard Fidler gives me the shits. Smug pseudointellectual cunt.
I have to say, I miss Rusty. He always had a smile in his voice, although maybe it was just a bong hit.
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Russell was actually pretty good. He really did seem like he was interested in everyone. Obviously he couldn’t have been, but he seemed to be. McGlue fairly obviously has no interest in being on radio, and shows it. am Radio seems to be divided into the “good” voices who are terrible, Cameron, Gillo, Verity James (if she is still living) etc, and the bad voices (ie newspaper voices) who are shithouse, Murray, McGlue etc. I have only heard a snippet of Bell speak. He may be in a category of bad voice that’s not shithouse, I don’t know. Gossage may also be in this category.
I tuned on McGlue while cutting up some onions. True story.
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Last time I saw Verity James she was advertising compost
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here she is. I like how she co-ordinated her hair and her sweater to the colour of the compost:
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See McGlue would not be able to sell compost.
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Pay that.
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Variety James is lovely
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That’s a MAN, baby!
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Richartd – yoyu might want to unblock me so I can at least see your comments on the Perth Media FB page – especially in light on how Sattler thinks we are all the same identity
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emma in the am on classic fm is about the only presenter i really enjoy listening to.
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I will extend it worldwide to include disliking Melvyn Bragg.
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How do you end up with a 10 minute commute in Perth? It takes me that long to get out of the driveway.
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why a ten minute commute? because I live very close to work, don’t work in the city, and travel across the traffic. I also get to work before 7. I can cycle to work on bike paths all the way. Sometimes I walk or run. I pity you wage slaves in single occupant vehicles who sit in traffic jams on the Road to Nowhere, listening to local radio. No, actually, I don’t – you get what you settle for.
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Cunt.
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Could beat Richard Fidler in a smug-off.
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Mine is ten minutes too and sometimes I complain about it because I don’t get enough me time between work and home. How’s that for smug?
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You want smug? I work at home, no travel needed. Suckers!
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Smug? Smug? Try those fuckwit moron cyclists on South Terrace travelling in blissful stupidity at 4KPH with a bus up their arse.
I just had to get that off my chest. But they really are cunts. Cunts I tell you!
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I have to say I appreciate cyclists riding 4 abreast on the road right next to an empty bike path. Well played.
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Fidler is now a regular feature on Their ABC and is also replayed between 3am and 4am after Overnights finishes
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I’m sorry. These are all regular commenters here.
Let’s come clean.
None of us actually “work”.
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*splutter* you don’t get a Vice Chancellor award for not working!
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Radio? AM radio? You try telling that to the kids today…
Wait; taxi drivers still listen to this stuff, don’t they. How many of such types do you suppose there are in Perth? The entire AM demographic, to be pandered to and fought over. Talk show hosting (hopefully) seems like roof thatching. We can only hope that in a hundred years someone will drag out the last living AM talk show host to tell in a faltering age-encrusted voice how they used to get a good bigotry whipped up in the old days (and how much better things were then – which is now, if you see what i mean). Talk Show Preservation Society, anyone?
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I skip through to find egregious examples, but even I will seldom venture to 6pr. Riddance so soiled the brand, that, like lesbian vampire murder houses, it should be demolished and started again.
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There’s no reason to venture to 7PR (Channel 7 promotions) any more. Basil just spends the whole morning plugging My Kitchen Rules and Today Tonight.
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…only until they axe TT
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Today Tonight got spared the axe in Perth and Adelaide cos it rated better than in the East.
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We still have to put up with that crap?
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Yep, unfortunately – Rob Broadfield still has an outlet to expose his Eggshaped Bonce
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How depressing that it continues to rate here. Savage. Indictment.
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/04/11-worst-today-tonight-moments
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It’s the moronic blind faith citing of pieces on TT as reasons to believe stupid shit that kills me.
It’s impossible to have an argument with cretins who are perfectly functioning human beings in many many ways but outsource their opinion forming to TT.
Grraaaah!
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Why bother listening to any of them when you can listen to RTR FM? The DJ’s/presenters actually play music they know and care about and many of the interviews are actually interesting.
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I do. But “They trawl for worsts”. Nothing really bad to talk about. Even though they did send my subscriber gift 12 moths late.
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And Genge wrote the book on ‘strangled grandmother radio voice’.
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heh. So another for the bad voice not shithouse category?
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I’d like to like RTR, but it’s just a bit too niche for me. I’m rarely in the mood for drum&bass or Japanese expiremental noise on my way home from work. The extended periods of dead air can be pleasant enough, I guess.
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I’m wondering, can those guys really tell the difference between the electronica “classics” released 5 years ago to the fresh stuff? Or is that part of the joke?
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Out To Lunch from 12.00 to 3.00pm is all new music, and can have a broad range. Drivetime from 5.00pm until 7.00pm mixes new with cult classics. Whilst Breakfast With Barr is a favourite of mine as the music he plays is very similar to my taste. OK so it’s not for everyone; that they call themselves “The Sound Alternative”, should be enough for fans of the (say) Gaga, Limp Bizkit or Redfoo to stay well away.
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Thanks for the tip – I tried RTR this morning and started my day with someone freestyling about turnips.
Can’t say I’ve had that happen before.
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You mean the same Mark Genge who is now a producer for 3AW in Melbourne – 6PR’s Sister Station ? How the mighty have fallen .
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Is that where he is. Genge is still RTR personified to me.
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The Genge at 3AW – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Falls over
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fuck.Ing.Hell. Death.
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Yep, and photographic evidence of Mr Genge’s Activities at 3AW have been emailed to the Lazy Aussie for inclusion here
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You could say that Genge is Melbourne’s answer to Rob Fletcher who does similar panel/production work for 6PR namely panelling for Bob Maumill on Sundays and doing Traffic Reports for both 6PR and 6IX
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I find your remarks about Peter hurtful and am glad to be on his show on Mondays from 1300-1330.
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He’s a legend. Will laugh at literally anything.
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Let’s not forget his involvement with Enders.
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Good DAY, sir.
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“Claggy” McGlue? He often sounds utterly despondent at the awful dullness of it all.
There is always RN which is ok until that fucking infuriating Phillip Adams comes on abd you have to drive into a tree.
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I like Adams’ topics and guests but he keeps fucking interrupting them.
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If only they were as interesting as Phatty.
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But he IS the dullness.
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No he’s a pompous, pretentious, self regarding windbag. Intolerable.
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Sir or Modom, Sir Phil “International” Adams, is a poltroon, a blaggard and a braggadoccio, furthermore a Knight of the Cross Gartered and a National “Living” Treasure,but he will lead the fight against the dark , satanic forces of Abbott and those will banished from whence they came. (“Hell”).
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Dad says thanks. Tip – McGlue will be gone in less than 3 months.
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Radio. Ex Lawyer. Shite. McGlue will outlast the apocalypse
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‘Sticky’ mcglue then?
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As a mcglue (alternate spelling) I can confirm we are all nicknamed sticky.
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Mc = ‘son of’, right? So, there was once, in Dark Ages Ireland and/or Scotland (fucking Picts) people running about with names like Intosh and Glue. Good times.
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heh.
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Speaking of sticky and running about, did they happen to be Seagulling?
Look it up.
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Does it happen near boat ramps? Sounds like it. Not looking up.
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I imagine mostly within confines of Balcatta Swingers Club.
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Well, that certainly explains why the Romans wanted nothing to do with them.
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I’m not sure what it is, but there are a lot of songs about it.
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Rusty has superpowers – the weather’s been shit since he gave up that gig too.
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Three weeks in, and Slumber King already resorting to ‘are Perth drivers bad’ call-in bait. I give him a month.
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Urgh.
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Coming up after the news, do we pay too much for coffee in Perth, and would daylight savings help stop illegal immigrants?
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Are you a north of the river or south of the river person?
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And I love the promo. Buckle up with John McGlue! Shouldn’t that be tuck yourselves in, or Fluff up your pillow?
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Worse, he’s desperately thinking these up on the way in. He will be doing “A day in the life of a traffic mergerer” Post style soon.
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I can’t wait until my next Day is published…you’ll love it!
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McSnooze won’t last two rating periods.
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Is the Slumber King taking his cues by posting on Sattler’s Blog ?
John McGlue
FEBRUARY 18, 2014 AT 3:50 PM
Kate Bridson: You don’t make sense. The leftards are the ones who DON’T want the drum lines out there in the first place. Get real please. And Howard, you’re dead wrong on this one mate. Drum lines protect lives and stop dangerous predators from coming too close. Barnett is only removing the Cottesloe drum lines this week because of the massive Rotto swim, we want to hook sharks not swimmers. Got it?
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Howard Sattler
FEBRUARY 18, 2014 AT 5:01 PM
My problem with the removal of the drum lines, John, is that the beach is left unprotected until the Rotto swim.
http://www.howardsattler.me/government-shark-policy-hypocrisy/
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I think that might have been Dad winding up Sooky. He has got a bit of time on his hands at the moment.
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FMD Just listening to McSnooze to see if it is still shit – yep it is. Then he goes you can remember times in your life by the music you listen too and McSnooze remembers it around four Crowded House albums. Even Dad isn’t that lame.
Personally I remember good times around my Dave Dobbyn album, I just don’t tell anyone.
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Meanwhile on afternoons, Gillo has been watching too much Alan Partridge. What’s the wackiest pet name you have heard of? and British or American comedy, which is better? These are not jokes. This is what she is asking listeners.
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Yep. Not good. Living in Freo can’t be helping.
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So far, 91 likes and 318 comments on teh Facetube…
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I prefer anti-social media.
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Why hasn’t TWOP secured the first Rusty post-ABC interview?? Outrage.
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You are asking me?
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I’m reporting the facts, my man. Up to 99 likes and 330 comments.
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Tod Johnston joining Afternoons after being sacked from Ch 9 has a lot to answer for the current state of the dumbing down of the ABC
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Anyone know how McSnooze did in the ratings? I wanna tell Dad.
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Sadly up. Although Gillo hands him flatline.
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Mind boggling.
Somehow when you think you have seen it all, Perth finds another way to disappoint you.
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Gillo does her best to dampen down listener numbers for the handover, but he struggles out of it by 6.
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Teh West reports that Russell Wolfe and Verity James are standing for the Senate in order to raise awareness of Abbott’s vendetta against the ABC. Strange that you would stand to protect the people that sacked you.
Next we know Howard Sattler and Simon Beaumont will be standing to protect 6PR from an attack of apathy by WA radio listeners.
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The Senate Campaign is being co-ordinated by The Friends of The ABC who Verity once publicly poo poohed them
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Not literally I hope.
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so THATS where the compost is sourced
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Troy will be standing for the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party.
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lying down for?
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Maybe glassing some cunt for.
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i really do wish there was a like button on this website.
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Oh. I didn’t think you could do it. But you can.
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May go on a “liking” binge.
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Or you could go on a licking binge. There’s an app for that:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/oral-sex-app-cunnilingus-lick-this
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Is that connected with “Clitoris finding app accurate to 1 meter”?
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Or a chicen binge.
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And since nobody appears to be reading the twitter magic, I’m moving comments back up.
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It’s none of my business, and I appreciate that it’s not necessarily an either/or situation, but it’s my contention that “like” buttons result in fewer comments, and I much prefer the latter to the former.
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you listened!
i like!
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Also Mandurah Crab Festival on this weekend. So you might want to rethink licking. Can’t end well. Not sure how many Scarborough Sluts will be down there.
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HAYTE!
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I glass cunts and I vote.
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fggn guvmint
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Has that Numberplate been taken?
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Have we finally seen the demise of Mc Snooze?
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Maybe he bored himself to death? Strange, I thought I would be the one to go first.
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Sticky is back. Rumours of his death were greatly exaggerated. His gain is our loss.
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Most probably took leave during the non rating period
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Would it really make any difference? Sticky has the charisma and star appeal of a house brick.
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and… he will be gone “shortly”
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I miss Sticky already.
His replacement Jane Marwick was just interviewing alleged Australian comedian Peter Helliar about the meaning of Australia Day. So an annual spend of $1.1bn on the ALPBC gets you a re-run of last night’s Teh Project, Channel 10’s hip yoof news program who are still wondering where the Simpsons re-runs have gone.
To his credit Helliar seemed bemused that anyone would give a shit what he thinks about Australia Day.
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What happened to the Slumber King exactly?
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For the record it was Peter Berner but whatevs.
Dunno, maybe Sticky wanted to spend more time with the family? Shame Dad is snowed in back in the US otherwise he could get his old job back and spend some more time with me. :-(
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You always complained he never rang when he was here. Why don’t you Skype him?
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I hear that the Young People have this thing called Face Time.
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Ok. Is that like the Face Palm?
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Please give me your impression of Peter bell on the abc arghhhh
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He’s no Cammo.
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