Come on down, Labor’s Steve Gibbons, who that very morning tweeted: ”Libs are led by a gutless douchebag & narcissistic bimbo who aren’t fit to be MP’s [sic] let alone PM & Dep. Bth shld b sacked.”
Well, if my seven-year-old ever calls her brother a douchebag, at least I’ll know who to blame.
That’s Paul Daley writing in the SMH.
Even if his seven-year-old actually has twitter he shouldn’t sub-contract his parenting to others. I tell my children off when they call each other douchebags (and worse). Leading by example is important but so too is leading by instruction.
Nice – Ever get the feeling there’s a diff set of rules for Labor and Lib politicians? *sigh*
Greigoz
2 Dec 12 at 11:46 am
Well Steve Gibbons might just have worked with Dbs for too long and now is seeing them in every corner?
Jazza
2 Dec 12 at 11:55 am
Imagine a world where all parenting was by way of example from the Labor Party. what a f-ed up place that would be.
I think I will bring my kids up teaching them that Labor has the antithesis of the values they should aspire to.
They should look to the example set by Rhodes Scholars, volunteer bush fire fighters, and volunteer surf life savers for their values, rather than smarmy unionists.
Alx
2 Dec 12 at 12:58 pm
Slightly off topic, but, given the heightened sense of self-interest within the Federal ALP, I was surprised that Anthony Albanese stood by and watched the Howard government’s successful Chronic Diseases Dental Scheme (CDDS) being dismantled by Tanya Plibersek without a word of protest from Albo.
I would have thought he would be potentially a major beneficiary of the CDDS.
Leigh Lowe
2 Dec 12 at 1:01 pm
One might have thought that was the Speaker addressing the PM and her inability to answer questions – but one would be wrong.
boy on a bike
2 Dec 12 at 1:14 pm
CL is a wicked person bringing this up. Evil.
I can’t stop laughing and wifey thinks I’m not replying to emails like I said I was and now thinks I’m blogging.
She got the word blogging from the kids who once told on me.
JC
2 Dec 12 at 1:20 pm
The kids at my girl’s current school have been known to call each other ‘douches’, but they have no idea what it means.
I just explained that it’s very rude and you don’t hear me using that word and not to do it.
The fun part is always watching the little tackers try to explain what it means. Like when they say something’s “gay.” To them it just means something’s dumb, or useless, or a waste of time. Not anything to do with homosexuality.
Gotta love language shifts.
nilk
2 Dec 12 at 2:24 pm
More instructive behaviour from Steve Gibbons
Splatacrobat
2 Dec 12 at 2:26 pm
Speaking of making excuses, I see Samantha Maiden (good mate of riot inciter Tony Hodges) reporting on a disastrous Galaxy Poll for Gillard in the Telegraph.
2PP 54:46, 62% believe Gillard either outright lied or was “economical with the truth” and only 20% thought she was being truthful.
However, Samantha soothingly reports that “a majority of voters won’t change their vote as a result”.
What sort of red herring is that?
The majority of which she speaks is only 56%, but let’s say the poll found that 90% of people would vote as they did in 2010, and 10% would switch from the ALP. That would be a rout for the Slapper-in-Chief, but could equally but reported as “a vast majority did not change their vote”. Included in the “majority who would not change their vote” is a massive chunk of Coalition voters who will vote …… Coalition.
But watch this space.
McTurdman will be sending the talking points to the Fewfacts Media and ABC friendlies claiming that “voters are unmoved by Abbott’s sleaze and smear”
Laughable !!
Leigh Lowe
2 Dec 12 at 2:28 pm
Julia, while trashing Abbott, said she would confront misogyny wherever she saw it.
IS SHE BLIND?
James X Leftie
2 Dec 12 at 5:24 pm
I think he’s simply saying that this politician is setting a bad example, not that he would literally blame a politician for his daughter’s bad language.
TJW
2 Dec 12 at 5:27 pm
Spoilsport TJW. I find it disturbing that the young people of today seem to have the inability to detect irony or sarcasm.
I blame american sitcoms and JJJ.
entropy
2 Dec 12 at 8:02 pm
Rub some bacon on it, TJW. There ya go. Better now?
sdog
2 Dec 12 at 8:09 pm
Alx, you said:
We don’t have to. We are seeing it already, throughout the West, as our civilization crumbles under the onslaught of the useful idiots.
John A
3 Dec 12 at 7:54 am
What would you expect from Lenore Taylor’s hubby?
Suey
3 Dec 12 at 9:33 am
I’m not sure whether this is widespread but my kids and their friends use the phrase “totally random” or else just “random” to mean what my generation would have meant when we said something was “totally cool” or else just “cool”. Or else maybe it means something more like what we meant when we said sonething was “radical” or “wicked”. Has anybody else noticed this language usage or is it a localised custom? Or is it old hat and I’m just not hip enough to have ever noticed?
TerjeP
3 Dec 12 at 9:37 am
TerjeP, ‘Random’ has been around for maybe 10 years at least. My kids used, probably still use it. It can be used as ‘cool’, but I think its more of a neutral emphatic. It can be used in a negative sense. Like: ‘My Mum keeps pushing me to do my homework, like its totally random’.
Jannie
3 Dec 12 at 10:59 am
Apart from the literal, actual meaning…
when I was a youngun random used to mean random people, as in “that random young lady must have been plowed by someone in this hall of residence”
“so many randoms in dining hall this morning…everyone must have had a good night”
Then it changed to random events etc…would lead to unpredictable and entertaining situations…
Then it sort of became an insult….see “spare c…”
Then a term of derision/frustration…”random crap I have to do in this paperwork”
Now it is used as Jannie says “that was random gay epic”
I am pretty sure my explanation will hold up, unlike the explanation of Homer Paxton, MBA, that “Skanky Ho” was not an insult Latham levelled at Janet Albrechtsen, but the name of a Taiwanese warlord’s mistress, “Skan Kee Ho”.
Any relation to Lisa?
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3 Dec 12 at 11:19 am
Ah yes, Daly sees the dastardly Abbott accusing the Slapper’s AWU goings-on as based “on the flimsiest of evidence”. I wonder how closely he has considered the “evidence” that the Opposition Leader is a “misogynist”? As usual it’s one rule for them another rule for us.
Fred C Dobbs
3 Dec 12 at 11:45 am
Thanks Jannie.
TerjeP
6 Dec 12 at 6:46 am