tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post1384910695189813048..comments2024-03-29T06:12:04.668+11:00Comments on loon pond: Anyone who wants to wank like Barners and the Bolter should smile ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-85301035717999534812014-03-17T18:30:14.375+11:002014-03-17T18:30:14.375+11:00PORT KEMBLA BROUGHT LOW, was it?
http://www.satel...PORT KEMBLA BROUGHT LOW, was it?<br /><br />http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/10301/Australia/New_South_Wales/Wollongong/Australias_Tallest_Industrial_ChimneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-57787997924254241272014-03-17T14:40:00.858+11:002014-03-17T14:40:00.858+11:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Rn27V1qQchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Rn27V1qQcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-78134979895687870992014-03-17T13:27:16.294+11:002014-03-17T13:27:16.294+11:00http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=port%2...http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=port%20kembla%20copper%20stack%20demolition&sm=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9143075277044181822014-03-16T12:35:44.453+11:002014-03-16T12:35:44.453+11:00Painters and dockers. Class. Young. Oh was I so mu...Painters and dockers. Class. Young. Oh was I so much younger then! A summer of first work "as you can" between school and post school life the following year. The little tin shed in the yard behind the early opening Steelworks Hotel, Port Kembla. Early meet - before it opened. Grumbles here and there about why there were "kids" on the roster. Grumbles quickly silenced, shamed, not heard again. The kids were good, ok. Solidarity comrade. There'd been an anti-Vietnam war crime Moratorium movement a couple years prior, and so they belonged. And amongst those some who had happened to gain a valuable insight into certain ASIO operations targeting certain Moratorium involved people from typically confused and angry liberal voting not quite class traitor cop parents. A tin shed behind a pub in the early morning early summer sun, reflected on in later years, solidarity, vacation with occasional work, and a watchful eye. The working class, yes, and done with great class. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/4337Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-12152856423187353922014-03-16T10:24:17.381+11:002014-03-16T10:24:17.381+11:00:)!:)!dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-77695794224629513332014-03-16T10:23:43.333+11:002014-03-16T10:23:43.333+11:00You'll have to take that up with Greg Hunt and...You'll have to take that up with Greg Hunt and wiki people. The pond particularly enjoyed a recent entry on Cicero: What a sexy beast of an orator.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-19829488021125579732014-03-16T10:07:17.420+11:002014-03-16T10:07:17.420+11:00Gotta give the poms their due when it comes to tak...Gotta give the poms their due when it comes to taking the piss out of the class sustem (bit of Kiwi there for you).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-86800989583370357442014-03-16T10:00:37.247+11:002014-03-16T10:00:37.247+11:00And what rhymes with Orange?
GFotta give the poms...And what rhymes with Orange?<br /><br />GFotta give the poms trhere due when it comes to taking the piss out of the class sustem<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvOBxZdOYg<br /><br />And of course the immortal - <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2k1iRD2f-c<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-1945430476708835672014-03-16T09:52:38.468+11:002014-03-16T09:52:38.468+11:00"Those who rhyme Garrard's with Harrods a..."Those who rhyme Garrard's with Harrods are not fit to shop at either"<br /><br />The conclusion of Tobias Wolff's "A Boy's Life" reveals the subtleties of the markers of class in mid twentieth century America.petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69456623973354069242014-03-16T09:48:48.096+11:002014-03-16T09:48:48.096+11:00Anon 2 - I got my own back. Putting on a pommy acc...Anon 2 - I got my own back. Putting on a pommy accent I replied "Madam I grew up in London. I'm afraid I find the whole of Melbourne provincial."<br /><br />Yes I know - a cheap shot, but she deserved it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-85649568386784483432014-03-16T09:46:07.686+11:002014-03-16T09:46:07.686+11:00Spinoza said, "Provincialism is in the person...Spinoza said, "Provincialism is in the person, not the place".<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4047635193609791792014-03-16T09:29:05.555+11:002014-03-16T09:29:05.555+11:00DP - like you (I think) I have mixed with the snob...DP - like you (I think) I have mixed with the snobs of Kensington and Toorak and the north shore but have found more honest-to-goodness kindness and humanity in the settlements of Morata and 2-mile (good ole' Mosbi).<br /><br />I once lived in Albury (a great place) and on a visit to Melbourne found myself having to make polite conversation with a society madam (yes from Toorak). On hearing I lived in Albury she said "but don't you find it so provincial?"<br /><br />Which is why I've decided to live out my remaining days in a friendly old NSW country town, where even the Coles check-out 'persons' will happily have a chat for 10 minutes about anything under the sun and if you have a flat tyre people will actually stop and help change the wheel.<br /><br />Try that in Woollahra.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82930272481596045392014-03-16T09:14:29.255+11:002014-03-16T09:14:29.255+11:00"Alfred Ayer remarked in 1881..."
Is th..."Alfred Ayer remarked in 1881..."<br /><br />Is that the same Alfred Ayer who was famous British philosopher?<br /><br />Unfortunately he was born in 1910.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ayer<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com