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Eat your heart out, every other blogger in Australia!

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The Mannkal Office will be hosting a $10 per head (drinks and snacks) presentation by Australia’s foremost ‘blogger’ Rafe Champion, to commemorate John Hyde on his achievements as an influential reformist…

Written by Poor Old Rafe

January 29th, 2013 at 4:17 pm

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  1. Was that quote self written?

    kelly liddle

    29 Jan 13 at 4:26 pm

  2. A blogger whom I had never heard of until I wandered over curious about why Julia Gillard and the Makris family wasn’t being talked about, has given an award to possibly the least influential dinosaur in Australia’s tiny Jurassic enclosure. However he does have a wiki page and I now know he and his wife are avid growers of roses (citation needed), so I expect he is not a bad sort.

    Is it all you can drink?

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 4:35 pm

  3. Congratulations on what appears, from thousands of miles away, to be an honor!

    Brian J. Gladish

    29 Jan 13 at 4:36 pm

  4. Is it all you can drink?

    You don’t deserve to be here, or there, Grey. You’re a waste of pixels and should be expunged.

    blogstrop

    29 Jan 13 at 4:38 pm

  5. Good on you, Rafe and also for that shameless bit of self-promotion. Well done.

    Gab

    29 Jan 13 at 4:40 pm

  6. You don’t deserve to be here, or there, Grey. You’re a waste of pixels and should be expunged.

    I perused the invitation: I see no indications that Green Puritanical Overlords are not welcome. Surely the things that unite us are greater* than the things the divide us?

    * Cheap alcohol, in my case.

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 4:43 pm

  7. possibly the least influential dinosaur in Australia’s tiny Jurassic enclosure.
    You’re a tiny man of tiny character and a tiny penis, so the only way you can feel good about yourself is to disparage your betters. Go away pest. Shoo.

    Gab

    29 Jan 13 at 4:44 pm

  8. You’re a tiny man of tiny character and a tiny penis, so the only way you can feel good about yourself is to disparage your betters. Go away pest. Shoo.

    Well, Gab, at least I am not ashamed to admit to being a man.

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 4:47 pm

  9. possibly the least influential dinosaur in Australia’s tiny Jurassic enclosure.

    That’s a bit uncalled for. This is Poor Ol’ Rafe you’re disparaging here.

    Rabz

    29 Jan 13 at 4:52 pm

  10. Funny Gab talking about small penises when he, WC and most of the other Libertarian twits on this blog spend so much time bonding with each other using their invisible hands.

    William Bragg

    29 Jan 13 at 5:10 pm

  11. Funny Gab talking about small penises when he,

    Braggs,

    You’re in deep pain over getting beaten to a pulp I notice, which makes you think of penis size. You’re seriously freaking weird.

    JC

    29 Jan 13 at 5:15 pm

  12. So Rafe has a laugh with a bit of shameless self promotion and the utter fuckwit Grey has to drag it down to his despicable level.

    And then that fucking idiot Bragg pops up.

    harrys on the boat

    29 Jan 13 at 5:17 pm

  13. …Australia’s foremost ‘blogger’ Rafe Champion…

    Fair call.

    C.L.

    29 Jan 13 at 5:25 pm

  14. the utter fuckwit Grey has to drag it down to his despicable level.

    I am sorry, it is a gift I have. My first reaction when I read this was “who and who”? I do think I may have read something of John Hyde in some of the more crustier op-eds in the Australian – but I could be confusing him with John Stone

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 5:25 pm

  15. The Australian blogosphere was invented by Tim Blair, Jason Soon, Ken Parish, Yobbo and Rafe.

    C.L.

    29 Jan 13 at 5:26 pm

  16. “Australia’s foremost ‘blogger’ Rafe Champion”

    Congrats, Rafe. How does Sinclair feel about being overlooked?

    The quote marks are a little funny, as if the Mannkal person who wrote that line is only just getting the hang of this ‘internet’ thingy. ;-)

    Jarrah

    29 Jan 13 at 5:27 pm

  17. Rafe, I expect we will be able to strategically use your talent for bringing penis-challenged pygmy trolls out of the wooodwork in a future fumigation. Thank you and otherwise congratulations for demonstrating that blogging is an endurance sport best suited to people with intellect and tends to devour political farts in a bottle, who have again shown us today why they are people of no consequence.

    Tom

    29 Jan 13 at 5:35 pm

  18. Well, Gab, at least I am not ashamed to admit to being a man.

    That’s the spirit, Grey. Keep on wishing and it will come true.

    Infidel Tiger

    29 Jan 13 at 5:42 pm

  19. “and I now know he and his wife are avid growers of roses (citation needed), so I expect he is not a bad sort.’

    I reckon so too, Rafe comes across as a very kind hearted gentleman.

    candy

    29 Jan 13 at 5:46 pm

  20. You’re in deep pain over getting beaten to a pulp I notic…

    LOL. I saw those vigorous movements of your invisible hand, WC, but the only thing it was beating seemed to yourself.

    William Bragg

    29 Jan 13 at 5:46 pm

  21. Braggs

    Shut up and stop trolling.

    JC

    29 Jan 13 at 5:49 pm

  22. You might be male, Gris but you’re no man.

    Gab

    29 Jan 13 at 5:49 pm

  23. LOL. I saw those vigorous movements of your invisible hand, WC, but the only thing it was beating seemed to yourself.

    Hmm yes all those working in the private sector like miners, mechanics, plumbers, i.e generally useful people are just having a wank, the real value is in the Dept. of Env. and Climate Change, Sex Discriminaiton Commish., etc.

    Whatever Braggs.

    .

    29 Jan 13 at 5:55 pm

  24. Bragss was advocating recently that we pass an envy tax, Gab.

    Basically, he wants to tax you if you wear a better outfit to a job interview compared to others.

    If you marry a better looking spouse than others, Braggs will tax you.

    Dot and I ripped his feathers off. He looks like a skinny featherless chook almost ready for roasting.

    JC

    29 Jan 13 at 5:59 pm

  25. Bragg? Who’s Bragg? never heard of him.

    Gab

    29 Jan 13 at 6:00 pm

  26. $10 per head (drinks and snacks)

    As your poor and old Rafe can you afford the cover charge or should we kick the tin so you can enjoy the lttle boys (cocktail frankfurts for the polically correct) and shandy?

    Splatacrobat

    29 Jan 13 at 6:01 pm

  27. Dot and I ripped his feathers off.

    LOLx2. All you did was verbal me and then, when challenged to bring forth evidence relevant to the actual point I was making, failed do so, but declared ‘mission accomplished’ anyway, and have ever since tried to maintain that you somehow beat me, by repeating the misrepresentations you made initially.

    That may help make to prop up your fragile male ego in front of your mates on Catallaxy, but as none of your numerous points touched anything I had actually argued, it seems entirely fair to suggest that the only thing your invisible hand has actually been beating all this time is yourself – something that you do so often that you obviously seem to enjoy.

    William Bragg

    29 Jan 13 at 6:11 pm

  28. Yes Bragg, all those productive people are wankers.

    Fuck off you clown.

    That may help make to prop up your fragile male ego in front of your mates on Catallaxy, but as none of your numerous points touched anything I had actually argued

    Like what? The kids with leukemia who get my blood donations are free riders?

    Fuckhead.

    .

    29 Jan 13 at 6:17 pm

  29. Mannkal always have nice bar food, actually, which is why I’ll be going … no offence, Rafe … nah, seriously it will be nice to say hello in person.

    Philippa Martyr

    29 Jan 13 at 6:18 pm

  30. As I’ve mentioned before Dotty, the system automatically puts the name of the commenter over there to the right of the post, so there’s no need to sign-off with your name at the bottom of the post too.

    William Bragg

    29 Jan 13 at 6:20 pm

  31. JC has obviously touched a very raw nerve of Bragg; stripped of its myelin, I would say.

    The featherless chicken, always a vivid picture and akin to its headless variant, will require a knitted woolly to restore some semblance of respectability as the moult time for Bragg is most likely considerable – it wastes too much energy coveting what it’s too lazy to acquire, and repeating itself.

    James of the Glens

    29 Jan 13 at 6:58 pm

  32. You might be male, Gris but you’re no man.

    a taxidermist experiment gang aft a-gley

    Tintarella di Luna

    29 Jan 13 at 7:10 pm

  33. As I’ve mentioned before Dotty, the system automatically puts the name of the commenter over there to the right of the post, so there’s no need to sign-off with your name at the bottom of the post too.

    Brilliant comeback from the man who called kids with cancer “free riders”.

    What a caring, lefty fuckwit.

    .

    29 Jan 13 at 7:23 pm

  34. Well done you! Enjoy your evening of recognition of your fame! Do you get a Red Carpet, too? Will the Press be in attendance? I hope so, nothing less would do. Revel in it.

    Helen Armstrong

    29 Jan 13 at 7:26 pm

  35. JC has obviously touched a very raw nerve of Bragg; stripped of its myelin, I would say.

    He’s another one that went down for the count. Braggs lasted about a week I think, which is a very short duration. He was fully plucked after we got through with him.

    JC

    29 Jan 13 at 7:30 pm

  36. You might be male, Gris but you’re no man.

    Don’t sweat Gab, your dark secret is safe with me.

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 7:34 pm

  37. Grey, I have to say that what you post is not humour, except maybe in your own mind. I find what you say appalling.

    Helen Armstrong

    29 Jan 13 at 7:38 pm

  38. Grey, I have to say that what you post is not humour, except maybe in your own mind. I find what you say appalling.

    Can’t please everybody, Helen. How is your nephew’s apprenticeship going? Still raking in a grand a week?

    Grey

    29 Jan 13 at 7:39 pm

  39. Hopefully the dress code (matching socks) will preclude our current crop of class warriors.

    lotocoti

    29 Jan 13 at 8:00 pm

  40. This is the laundromat, but the bottle shop isn’t open yet.

    blogstrop

    29 Jan 13 at 8:36 pm

  41. “Don’t sweat Gab, your dark secret is safe with me.”

    A weird reversal of the usual accusations of effeminacy against male commenters. I guess this is… gender equality, Cat-style?

    Jarrah

    29 Jan 13 at 9:23 pm

  42. COngratualations Rafe – very well deserved.

    RodClarke

    30 Jan 13 at 3:11 pm

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