tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post486398188738021010..comments2024-03-29T15:34:55.287+11:00Comments on loon pond: Once more with feeling, but please, don't mention climate science ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42523344705812937642015-03-07T11:27:55.601+11:002015-03-07T11:27:55.601+11:00I don't think it was ever that bad, Anon.I don't think it was ever that bad, Anon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10422361410480183842015-03-07T03:44:09.689+11:002015-03-07T03:44:09.689+11:00I know its historical fiction, but Mantel has done...I know its historical fiction, but Mantel has done her research and knows her sources and is a truly great writer (she's won the Booker twice). Under her pen Cromwell comes across almost as a proto-socialist who takes the poor and orphaned into his household, works to make the King sympathetic to 'ordinary people, but can also mix it with the best of the great and the good, manipulating European ambassadors in Henry's interests and playing the great game across the world. The Boleyns are ambitious nouveau-riche and Henry is a likeable but naive rogue. Cromwell rises above this sea of intrigue and manages to grow great.<br /><br />Read it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-68517669399422614192015-03-06T20:15:21.590+11:002015-03-06T20:15:21.590+11:00'The baby boomers', were well fleeced by 2...'The baby boomers', were well fleeced by 2008 end. I know this because my of own family elders who went without luxury all their lives and saved instead, lost the lot+ some.<br /><br />I guess no one noticed we have regular fleecing as growth industry model on regular cycle goes awry always, at less than 10 year intervals.<br /><br />Junkie economics invented by crack heads be the irony to behold most I'd recon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50515165350616172582015-03-06T18:28:32.393+11:002015-03-06T18:28:32.393+11:00Smokin' Joe (himself the son of a of a deli sh...Smokin' Joe (himself the son of a of a deli shop keeper) unlike Thomas Cromwell is again shown clearly to be an economics <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-understands-debt.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">nobody.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4262492855784109402015-03-06T18:26:50.728+11:002015-03-06T18:26:50.728+11:00I match your dick and raise you a cunt.
I match your dick and raise you a cunt.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-76300474255882595512015-03-06T17:58:04.989+11:002015-03-06T17:58:04.989+11:00It never was. Pollies wrote your conclusionfor you...It never was. Pollies wrote your conclusionfor you and your job was to find some some facts to support it (or invent them) <br /><br />Ex Commonwealth Public Servant (resigned)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75418481060007749472015-03-06T17:30:32.107+11:002015-03-06T17:30:32.107+11:00I think the Baird Coalition is headed for a downfa...I think the Baird Coalition is headed for a downfall. CSG destruction of the Hunter, massive carve-up of western Sydney, sacrificing the Powerhouse, and selling off people-owned assets, and the corruption revealed by ICAC in selling out to developers and coal miners, the fucking of aged care and hospitals to the almighty God of private profiteers.<br /><br />They are goners.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-74688151221458036072015-03-06T17:18:45.008+11:002015-03-06T17:18:45.008+11:00You want me to stick it to some kinda old testamen...You want me to stick it to some kinda old testament? As it's Medina market day, try Genesis 6:3 <a href="http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/551/" rel="nofollow"> here for starters.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73558908769287661262015-03-06T17:08:44.580+11:002015-03-06T17:08:44.580+11:00Oops - too hasty!Oops - too hasty!Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11858264624123109732015-03-06T17:07:33.292+11:002015-03-06T17:07:33.292+11:00Wasn't that Virginia Slims, GD?Wasn't that Virginia Slims, GD?Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-2377118939667853392015-03-06T16:57:54.556+11:002015-03-06T16:57:54.556+11:00GrueBleen do you mean the Murdoch Oz PS? You know...GrueBleen do you mean the Murdoch Oz PS? You know, those hacks at Holt St beavering away producing stuff that supports the LNP?<br /><br />They only lie on behalf of one master.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83042242288615311632015-03-06T15:57:04.500+11:002015-03-06T15:57:04.500+11:00VS's don't seem to around in Australia any...VS's don't seem to around in Australia anymore, GD, but I believe they're still on sale in the USA.<br /><br />I'd forgotten that they used to sponsor women's tennis! Remember how the Tories told us that Big Sport couldn't survive without the sponsorship of Big Tobacco?<br /><br />Here are some of the old Virginia Slims ads (on the wonderful Archive.org), demonstrating how liberating durries were for women: <br />https://archive.org/details/tobacco_leo23e00<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40545159811318680762015-03-06T15:08:07.246+11:002015-03-06T15:08:07.246+11:00Awright!..all you blokes seventy-plus....raise you...Awright!..all you blokes seventy-plus....raise your dicks if you want to really live to be one hundred!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88659711934252037382015-03-06T14:37:50.306+11:002015-03-06T14:37:50.306+11:00You're right, Anon, thanks.
I should never h...You're right, Anon, thanks. <br /><br />I should never have forgotten that, especially with their sponsorship of women's tennis. Dunno how I got Trent. I guess it's all of one with Big Tobacco as my dementia creeps in.<br /><br />Virginia Slims: are they still made today? Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55053712874602752112015-03-06T14:31:57.169+11:002015-03-06T14:31:57.169+11:00Just reading Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel&#...Just reading Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel's excellent sequel to Wolf Hall, about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell at the time of Henry VIII.<br /><br />Cromwell (himself the son of a blackmith tried to pass a bill in the House of Commons to provide famine relief for the poor via income tax on the rich, as there had been a series of bad harvests meaning people were dying on the streets. He wanted to put the landless poor to the task of building roads and bridges etc. in return for a basic dole to give them food But the Commons would have none of it.<br /><br />"But Parliament cannot see how it is the state's job to create work. Are not these matters in God's hands, and is not poverty and dereliction part of his eternal order? To everything there is a season: a time to starve and a time to thieve. If rain falls for six months and rots the grain in the fields, there must be providence in it; for God knows his trade. It is an outrage to the rich and enterprising, to suggest that they should pay an income tax only to put bread in the mouths of the workshy."<br /><br />The King even came to the Commons to argue in support of the law...But the Commons sit stony faced and stare him out. "The wreckage of the measure is comprehensive. It has ended up as an act for the whipping of beggars..."<br /><br />Things haven't changed much in 450 years.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-39296570554893129762015-03-06T13:09:48.418+11:002015-03-06T13:09:48.418+11:00Baby boomers were begot by fukt depressionista kid...Baby boomers were begot by fukt depressionista kids. Fukt in the head edwardianista kids begat depressionista kids in turn. In turn, in turn, the worm turns... Now your turn, where there's far greater access to vastly greater knowledge. That access and knowledge increasing at increasing exponential rate. Knowledge is power. With great power comes great responsibility... greater power = greater responsibility. Your greater responsibility. That, or cry baby off to begat some la la just deserts loony blame, doom, and dodge it head up your arse memes. Meanwhile, it's not getting any cooler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34439392375760362072015-03-06T12:04:58.572+11:002015-03-06T12:04:58.572+11:00Sorry to be a pedant, GD, but I think the gaspers ...Sorry to be a pedant, GD, but I think the gaspers in question were Virginia Slims. I'm pretty sure that you've got the jingle spot on, though, both in wording and in tone.<br /><br />Julie Bishop would have been the perfect Virginia Slims model.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22896490879228867762015-03-06T11:01:48.838+11:002015-03-06T11:01:48.838+11:00Reading that 2nd Oz editorial covering gender equa...Reading that 2nd Oz editorial covering gender equality, my mind went back to that singing commercial for Trent cigarettes aimed at women,<br />"You've come a long way, baby,<br />To get where you're going today!<br />You've got your own cigarette now, baby,<br />You've come a long, long way."<br />It had an identical patronising tone, which irritated me then when it was released 40-odd years back. Ungrateful sods, those women! Went and implemented plain packaging!Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88079848203356999972015-03-06T10:55:34.814+11:002015-03-06T10:55:34.814+11:00The baby boomers didnt give a rats arse about look...The baby boomers didnt give a rats arse about looking after my generation, so why should I give a shit about what happens in forty years time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36600678946347697512015-03-06T09:44:53.065+11:002015-03-06T09:44:53.065+11:00EEEKK!! That Pope cartoon has me worried. I'm...EEEKK!! That Pope cartoon has me worried. I'm recently retired, am heading off in a few days on a trip which will include a European river cruise, and somewhere or other we've got my grandfather's old slide projector - though yes, a tablet will be the preferred medium for boring the family on return.<br /><br />I also seem to be leaving a lot more blog comments these days, too........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35449990882222584212015-03-06T09:40:20.583+11:002015-03-06T09:40:20.583+11:00It's still there in the ranks and middle manag...It's still there in the ranks and middle management. Get up to senior management though, where these days the occupants can be hired and fired at the whim of the government of the day and "disloyalty" can even include having worked effectively for the previous administration, and "Frank and Fearless" are a couple of blokes who are very rarely seen. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14650231567287757922015-03-06T09:32:18.421+11:002015-03-06T09:32:18.421+11:00It seems to me that those with the instincts of fa...It seems to me that those with the instincts of fascists always need an enemy, a Beast of Blame.<br /><br />Step forward all those who are eyeing off walking frames in shops which sell mobility aids and associated products including chrome hand rails and the white plastic chair for the shower.<br /><br />Be careful stepping forward. Don't totter and take a tumble. You don't want to burden the taxpayer further by clogging up hospital waiting lists.<br /><br />How has it come to this?<br /><br />We have have become economic units. I heard some voice on the wireless this morning describing people who went out at night as participants in the 'night economy'.<br /><br />So the old geezers who go nowhere except their university of the 3rd Age gathering at the local library, or, heaven forbid, the doctor, are just drains on us all. They are non-participants in the economy, day or night.<br /><br />It makes me sick. It really does.<br /><br />There is something wrong with us.<br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88207519998789594222015-03-06T09:29:47.746+11:002015-03-06T09:29:47.746+11:00The Oz PS is completely impartial: it'll lie o...The Oz PS is completely impartial: it'll lie on behalf of whoever is its current master.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-27236074641502510022015-03-06T08:42:43.970+11:002015-03-06T08:42:43.970+11:00Ah, whatever happened to the impartiality of the A...Ah, whatever happened to the impartiality of the Australian Public Service?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com