…as ugly continues to go all the way to the bone. From Echo Kalamunda News, 11 Oct 2014.
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The Worst of Perth 
I prefer inorganic coffee, coz I refuse to go with the trend……….. I am fucking sick of hearing “organic” this and that. If it is made from carbon compounds it is organic, this means that coal, petrol and diamonds are also organic. Plastic bags are organic. Ebola is probably organic (not sure, are viruses made of carbon molecules? More than likely!) “oh, it’s so cool coz its organic”! Go stick a plastic bag on your head and fill it with diesel fumes! Totes organic.
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thank you!
it had to be said.
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No worries, I got out of bed on the inorganic side this morning.
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The inorganic side is the wall, right?
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As John Day continues to fvck over Subiaco with inappropriately scaled developments, he is the perfect guy for Kalamunda. A couple of 16 storey tilt-ups should get the place humming again.
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Apparently council opposed the tilt up Autobahn monstrosity, only to be overruled by state govt.
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And why was that? Because there was no statutory basis for the SAT to do anything other than approve it. Because at no point, in the last 40 years, has the Council thought: “Shit, people keep building ugly, hostile buildings in our town. Perhaps we should use the regulatory process to adopt some design guidelines that would be binding on developers, so they can’t keep making our town even worse.” No, they throw their hands in the air, and say “it wasn’t our fault”.
It’s no surprise when “it’s what’s on the inside that counts” is the basis of their urban design philosophy.
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Happened to be in John Days office the other day. Let me tell you the interiors are no oil painting either. The flabbergasting plunging steep staircases everywhere appear to bd some kind of anti wheelchair statement.
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So, the shitty building got approved, they say they hate it, and yet they’ve done fuck all to stop the same thing happening again. Noted. Carry on.
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“What was on the inside that counted”, no the inside is the fucking problem, the outer parts are lovely.
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Editorial : One can assume that people have an understanding , of what would be to you, a simple proposition that everybody comprehends and can agree upon, and then having agreed, build upon. This assumption is false , and I further cite Lannie McT as an example which I won’t go into here. The simple proposition here is that you need artistic and architectural design of the Kalamunda city centre. Even Hitler would have known that. John Day only counts in a negative way.
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two words – albert speer.
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I call Godwinn’s Law: fail
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Sir I think you will find that this Hitler reference is covered by a sub clause of Godwin’s Law, and as they say in the classics, they (the Kalamuntans) started it.
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or Godwin’s Law. I see Pravda called Tony Abbott ‘the most blatant example of shit-faced ignorance and pig-headed arrogance the world has seen since the likes of Hitler or Pol Pot.’
it’s such good invective that I’m reluctant to call Godwin’s Law on them.
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You know you’ve gone too far when Jacqui Lambie tells you to tone it down.
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someone suggested that Lambie should ride off into the sunset with Putin, naked together on a horse. what’s the mental image equivalent of an earworm? I can’t shake it
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karma.
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My eyes!
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What’s got 8 legs and two cunts on its back? Snigger snigger. Whoops, make that three cunts.
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A hills town planning power point pres?
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Was that the guy that did the Stirk Medical Centre refurb?
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Ms Hardy’s words sound familiar…
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Marika? Burn!
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I thought Kalamunda was earmarked to become Australia’s radio-active waste repository.
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Christmas will be upon us soon and once again & Kalamunda will be dowdy & devoid of festival spirit. Lights in the trees gone, Mason the only decent window display gone. Perhaps & hopefully things will change
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No discount for summer, its organic.
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“We do not know how we got here. We do not know how to correct it. $1.5m to hide a few power lines. Let’s look busy” -scratches head-
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I can’t believe how seemingly deluded people like Caroline Babbage are. Your initial blog was clearly about the architecture of Kalamunda’s town centre, and here she is banging on about “community spirit”. Then we have Rhonda Hardy mentioning Kalamunda’s “beautiful surrounds”. They’ve both missed the point. Both of them should go back, read the initial blog again, and actually take it in.
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i have a friend who lives in the hills (actually, i have many). she posted a link to one of the stories, saying that the worst was just being mean and she loved living there.
DO PEOPLE NOT READ THE ACTUAL WORDS????
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FFS – they couldn’t even crop the photo so that the people are standing upright. There’s lines on the wall behind to help you, for the love of God.
‘some of the buildings are less inspiring than others…not to the liking of people today…misfits and disconnects…mistakes of the past.’
they seem to be agreeing with you that it’s a shithole.
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To be fair, given this is Kalamunda, it’s quite possible it’s the building that’s crooked, not the photograph.
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The council demanded the building was straight, but what can you do?
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however John Day stands, he’s always
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Says it’s what’s inside that counts….then talks about beautiful surrounds.
PS flabbergasted is a very much underused word in our current times
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“Flummoxed” made an alien sea creature mention today
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It wouldn’t seem to take much to flabbergast our “friendly” accountants. Why so defensive ?
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I spotted a typo. shouldn’t this read:
‘families descend on the mall for quality-free entertainment..’ ?
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but its organic. Fun free too
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Not harsh enough on Kala. Start with the people. It’s the whitest, oldest place in Perth if you exclude nursing homes. Full of Poms, nothing changed since the Calabrians moved in. Multicultural Australia just hasn’t made it there. Let the Poms have it and keep them in with a fence.
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not the most Pommie:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/the-suburb-with-43pc-poms-its-our-own-little-britain/story-fn9656lz-1226429429558
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Rupert wants $36 for the privilege of reading that article. I’m sure it’s very good, but I think I might just buy myself a nice novel instead.
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Bernard Salt:
DRAWING on figures released last week from the 2011 census, I have identified this nation’s leading ethnicity hotspots.
What proportion of the population by country of birth dominates which suburbs? Where are the most intense immigrant concentrations? And are these concentrations sufficiently distinctive to qualify as ethnic enclaves?
There are two suburbs where exactly 43 per cent of the population was born in a single country other than Australia. One is located in Sydney’s west as you might expect; the other is a surprise.
That other is the new suburb of Jindalee on the northernmost edge of Perth. Positioned between Wanneroo Road and the Indian Ocean, Jindalee was home to 1200 residents at the census, of whom 43 per cent were born in a single overseas country.
And the name of the single country of birth for almost half Jindalee’s residents? Why, it’s Britain, of course. Interestingly the five most “British” suburbs in Australia are located in Perth: Jindalee, Mindarie (34 per cent), Connolly (33 per cent), Burns Beach (32 per cent) and Carramar (32 per cent).
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Those are really suburbs of Perth? Perhaps I could get out more. Then again, perhaps not. I can dislike them from here just as easily.
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So we need to guess?
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Google says Jindalee, wherever that is.
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not on my radar.
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Home of secret bong cemetery, as previously featured on TWOP. Also home of Pappy Bento (FIL), who is, unsurprisingly, British.
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Indeed. Also mentioned here and here, and erm … featured here, and here. B for bong ?
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Ok mea maxima culpa Kala’s not the most Pom, but it still looks the whitest and greyest. The odd Asian diner doesn’t count as diversity nor token African selling meatballs in the Kala markets once a moon. The place has a diversity problem much of Perth no longer has. It gets an African doctor and tongues wag we’ll all be rooned. Best thing that could happen would be to find gold, turn it into a superpit with mobs of Filipina wives and prams. John Day? Wouldn’t hold my breath for improvements to town centre. 30 years and the guy can’t even arrange for a coupla bus extensions after 5pm.
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An African doctor ? Is that even legal ? One if my unused photos for the original post was the extensive mildew patina on the Thai restaurant awnings.
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Bus extensions. One way. Out. Good comment by the way.
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Thank goodness the African doctor moved down the hill to Maida Vale, he’d be an Ebola risk wouldn’t he?
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To Teh Vale? Talk about out if the frying pan.
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” … Kalamunda has an eclectic range of architecture” and “… the 1970s architecture … was contemporary in its day and has its own charm”. Is Ms Babbage a real person or a fantasy character?
Yes, let’s spend $1.5M putting power underground in one of the few areas of the Shire where powerlines clashing with trees present no bushfire risk, because there’s so few trees – we cut down some beautiful big trees on Railway Road so that we could build a “Cultural” centre with the toilet blocks facing the unlucky residents opposite.
Ah, but the English rose gardens are in full bloom …
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Sorry, That’s Ms Hardy the Shire CEO, not Ms Babbage – that explains the inane commentary, and why $1.5M is being wasted.
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It’s what’s inside the toilet blocks that counts, apparently.
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Elderly British cottagers?
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Accountants.
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I had heard there was a swinging sixties scene up here amongst some of the English population …
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Swinging or swinging sixties? I think there’s a difference.
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Most would be in their sixties I believe. Can’t report from first hand experience (fortunately).
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Maddington Swingers Club only a short drive away.
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I grew up in Gooseberry Hill. Ma Bento confirms neighbours were totes wife-swappers.
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Check out the Crabbs notice board.
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so i could pretty much work out where you lived then.
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Really? I thought swingers were a dime a dozen up there.
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There are no secrets when TWOP IS “on the job”.
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Next door?
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