Worst of All

Posted on June 21, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Don’t often do serious posts, but can there be a worst worst than the treatment of Mr Ward in that baking prison van? David Cohen was at the protest in the city, where the turnout was disappointing. Perhaps there is more interest in the protests in Iran? David, I didn’t see much media about this. Did anyone see coverage before or after? David says…

What happened to Mr Ward was the worst. Cooked inside a van for four hours
as it drove from Laverton to Kalgoorlie. How can this happen to a West
Australian in the twenty-first century? There was a protest in the city
yesterday about the case. About a thousand people showed up. Surely more
people care about what happened to Mr Ward, but the turnout was
disappointing. And there were the usual others: Green Left, Socialist
Alliance and some bloke with an Irish flag. Couldn’t it have just been about
Mr Ward? The speakers were good: Fred Chaney said Mr Ward was “roasted” in
the van. The two guards were sacked this week, but what will happen next?
Anything?

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Weekend Worstoff 61

Posted on June 20, 2009 by AHC McDonald

An all Melbourne Weekend Worstoff from Meccano today. I like this space van. A space van, blood on the steps of parliament station and the Melbourne ferris wheel that buckled in the heat? I pity the fool who doesn’t think these were related and connected. I had forgotten what a disaster the Melbourne Eye had been. Open for a few months before buckling. The pic shows it in process of being dismantled. That van is extra cool. Chimes needs one of those.

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Recycle

Posted on June 19, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Geoff V sent a shot from Derby, where metal recycling is shown out and proud. None of this hide it away in a yellow bin. By the way, it’s not just one house, they are common. I think they look good.

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In a Blue Funk

Posted on June 18, 2009 by AHC McDonald

I thought this mushroom man sent in by Turf looked like a young demented Tony Blair, but then Blair always looked demented anyway. He does look ready to chain you to the wall of some mushroom dungeon and chop your extremeties off. He seems to have a butcher’s apron on, which doesn’t help. And on the topic of blue funks, do these blue chicks help sell Dominos Pizzas?

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Banana Bender Bible

Posted on June 17, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Shazza sends this excellent sign from O’connor, with the pet food ad giving it a sinister aspect, as does the Queensland P.O. box. Do you feel that you might end up as pet food in Burleigh Heads if you answered? Why send for divine banana bender assistance, when there must be thousands of Jesus jockeys in Fremantle who would spot you a good book? Reminds me of a photo of US signs I saw. “Muffler Man. He is risen.

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Riots not diets

Posted on June 16, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Is this a worst? I’m not sure, you tell me. It just struck me as a little sad that graffiti talking about riots would be so restricted in both time and place. Just this week and only in the one out of the way spot behind the art department. Not even on the art department generally, just this one hidden wall. Legitimised graffiti seems to strike the wrong note to me. Doesn’t seem much point in writing “If my curvy body offends you don’t look at it” to this audience. The wall itself wasn’t bad. Liked the dinosaur, but I would have liked it better had it appeared overnight on say the giant tin can. Click to enlarge.

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Vacu-tard

Posted on June 15, 2009 by AHC McDonald

She’s been a bad girl.
She’s like a chemical.
Though you try to stop it,
she’s like a narcotic.
You wanna torture her.
You wanna talk to her.
All the things you bought for her,
putting up your temperature.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don’t really need it. Elvis Costello

Hokusan sent me one of the most extraordinary ads I’ve ever seen. I had to check it wasn’t a hoax. It’s a machine designed to reduce cellulite by encasing your body (and a treadmill) in a slight vacuum. I don’t know my physiology or physics, but I would have thought it would expand your arse. Put a balloon in below atmospheric pressure and see what happens. Apparently this doesn’t happen, and a reduction can be expected. I didn’t see any medical testimonials though. I would also have thought the reduction in pressure would increase the risk of some kind of “blowback”. Hokusan added the picture he assumed would be on the screen.

vacuvacuwdvacuopraPump it up!

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From the stats

Posted on June 14, 2009 by AHC McDonald

I haven’t done enough on the twitter feed to have a best of, although I did think that, “Brides say “I Don’t!” to composting toilets. 80 Green weddings are on hold as brides say no to long drops, in “Green” honeymoon suites…” wasn’t bad.

But here’s some from the stats, ie search terms that have led people to the Worst of perth.

“Arse“. I was quite proud that the single word arse, led someone to me via google. Looking at it though, the first 20 pages of arse searches don’t have me, so they must really have been searching. “Mandurah sluts fucked with cricket bats“. Bear in mind this is nowhere near the worst. This is the worst printable one. “Perth’s worst anal” but we know who that searcher is. The perennial “Scarborough sluts“. I got “Lazy Aussie gay“? No, but thanks for asking. There was also “Gay Perth journalists“. “Noni hazlehurst naked photos” which comes up at least once a week, “found perth long haired domestic cat” OK. “Black gyno“, “eric ripper narcissism” “Asian prostitutes Mandurah” and many more, including lots that can’t even be written here..

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Weekend Worstoff 60

Posted on June 13, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Meccano dug up an old worst from Bath in the UK. Must have been much embarassment when they remembered Hayes and prescott had also carked it. There seems room for a lot more. Maybe they were expecting hostilities to break out again.

week60bathChris swears this growing collection of bottles in Cannington is urine. I’m not sure. They must have some heavy duty bladders down that way. Chris says…  median strip corner nicholson rd and albany highway cannington. on my way to work i have watched this curious shrine grow over several months. every few weeks a new bottle appears on the median strip. is it a sign?.  And whose urine is it?

week60urineMugpunter has sent me a few good recently which are in the queue, but here’s a licence plate he snapped. Have been sent in a few good cars this week.

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And Cookster notes that Teh Wolves have reached as far as Herdsman. The TWOP favourite wine with the graphic of an oesophegus being ripped open, also seems to be a dollar cheaper than elsewhere.

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The Ould Mug

Posted on June 12, 2009 by AHC McDonald

I thought it was Auld Mug? Difficult to correct a spelling mistake in copper.  It was an ill considered subject, rendered poorly in a medium that is almost always a pointer to crappiness. At least during the boom, the copper might have been worth something, but with metal prices in the toilet… well even a Chinese smelter wouldn’t buy it.

Beaufort Street.

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