So the Prime Minister is going to spend taxpayers’ money on staying at Rooty Hill (compared with staying at Kirribilli House which the taxpayer has already funded). Sure, it’s a 47 km drive from Kirribilli House to Rooty Hill, but wouldn’t the experience show the wonder of Sydney’s road transport network?
There are about 28 weeks before the election of 14 September (other things equal). That means the Prime Minister can stay for a week in quite a few suburbs. The lowest income suburbs include:
- No Fixed Address, anywhere in Australia
- Park Bench, Centenial Park Sydney
- Callaghan, Cunninyeuk, Dilpurra, Kyalite, Mellool, Moolpa, Stony Crossing, Tooranie, Wetuppa, Bland, and Quandialla all in NSW
- Glenaire, Hordern Vale, Johanna, Lavers Hill, Tresco, Nyah West, Barmah, Lower Moira, Picola, Picola West,Lake Tyers, Nowa Nowa, and Waiwera all in Victoria
- Glen Aplin in Queensland
- Karlgarin in Western Australia.
Prime Minister Gillard. Coming to a suburb near you.
This seems appropriate
The PM is entitled to campaign in Western Sydney if she sees fit, after all she is the PM and she has the luxury of incumbency to campaign as much as she wants.
In my honest opinion this is a “fair dinkum” campaign and not part of what should be the PM’s primary responsibility of “Governing The Country”.
This week long sleepover at Rooty Hill is a “fair dinkum” campaign to appease Western Sydney voters who have been neglected and dumped into the scrap heap by their ALP representatives.
Let it not be seen differently.
Gandalf
27 Feb 13 at 7:07 am
Don’t send her to the Bland, we don’t want her!
wreckage
27 Feb 13 at 7:34 am
Tony should book a conference room at the Novotel and set up campaigning material in the foyer.
One stunt deserves another.
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 7:40 am
G’day.
Perhaps she can visit Mawson base Antarctica. permanently.
Ralph Buttigieg
27 Feb 13 at 7:44 am
28 weeks later the anti Labor contagion reaches it’s ultimate conclusion.
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 7:52 am
I found my thrill on Rooty Hill
On Rooty Hill, when I found you
The polls stood still on Rooty Hill
And lingered until my fears came true
The wind in the willow played
Love’s sweet melody
But all of those vows I made
Were never to be
Though we’re apart, you’re part of me still
For you were my thrill on Rooty Hill
Viva
27 Feb 13 at 8:10 am
The little shit Bradbury is not only a misanthropic arsehole, he’s also barking mad:
It is truly beautiful in its ugliness: Every Labor MP who faces extinction because of Gillard has to put on a cardboard smile and welcome her Rooty Hill tour to destroy any last hope they had.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 8:13 am
Given that she’s already rooted the entire country, Rooty Hill after 7 days of Julia’s throughput might feel a bit like one of Craig’s hookers after a big night – allegedly
Ant
27 Feb 13 at 8:14 am
Kargalin isn’t a suburb, it’s a small town in the wheatbelt near Hyden in WA.
Louis Hissink
27 Feb 13 at 8:25 am
Q. What is the difference between a Magician and Labor?
A. One is able to showcase cunning stunts and the other is full of stunning…..
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 8:29 am
Perhaps McT chose Rooty Hill…. not understanding the local vernacular can create a tag that haunts.
Alfonso
27 Feb 13 at 8:34 am
Yes. Yes it is.
Andore Jr
27 Feb 13 at 8:37 am
Since McTernan came on the scene, there’s been an assumption that, whether or not you approve, he’s effective. However, if you look at his record and his present “service”, it’s clear that he’s just got people mesmerised. He’s somebody who is called in by politicians who are failing, and he proceeds to exude aggression while promising results which never come. He does damage and inflicts cost – but without ever succeeding. McTernan is that strange but not unknown phenomenon, a highly successful serial failure.
The good news is that there could only be two people in all Australia who don’t see this Shaggers Reach expedition for the pathetically lame stunt that it is. The bad news is that those two people are the leader of this nation and her chief adviser.
Robert
27 Feb 13 at 8:40 am
All the best in Rooty Hill Prime Minister, your constituency awaits !
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 8:43 am
She’s got everyone talking about Rooty Hill and she’s not even there yet. Perhaps the residents feel good about the attention, so the stunt is already paying off.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 8:50 am
Hope you find your thrill PM!
jules
27 Feb 13 at 8:50 am
Pickering thinks it might go horribly wrong.
Just like everything else Gillard does. A political ear made of tin.
Keith
27 Feb 13 at 8:52 am
How many extra Labor voters has it produced? You can answer in thousands or percentage, whichever you feel more comfortable with.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 8:53 am
What evidence do we have for that statement?
Token
27 Feb 13 at 8:59 am
Can we use minus signs Tom?
Keith
27 Feb 13 at 9:00 am
“What evidence do we have for that statement?”
none, but people like attention and cameras on them.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 9:01 am
Apparently not, it seems.
Rabz
27 Feb 13 at 9:01 am
Yes, most likely distracting us from something underhanded happening somewhere else.
Keith
27 Feb 13 at 9:02 am
Yes, yes they do, I doubt this equates to votes for labor though…
H/T Bolt
Adam Diver
27 Feb 13 at 9:06 am
It’s campaigning not governing too, so she’s fibbed again.
tony Abbott’s staff should arrange something appropriate, something involving his family would be nice.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 9:06 am
You publicity slut, you
JamesK
27 Feb 13 at 9:14 am
The (B) witch might get shot by one of “laybores” Lebo Militia Gunmen?if that happens we can thank the Drunk hawkie and the Weasel keeto who brougt the fascist mongrels here ,(i thinkthat Leftie fraser might be involved in the Labo stuff up too ).
Borisgodunov
27 Feb 13 at 9:33 am
The slapper at Rooty Hill.
You couldn’t make that up. Our politics are the best in the world!
cohenite
27 Feb 13 at 9:39 am
Send her to halls creek or Wiluna.
She deserves them.
thrfrollickingmole
27 Feb 13 at 9:40 am
Via Michael Smith :
Keith
27 Feb 13 at 9:58 am
As long as you all keep the cow down there, I don’t give a shit where she goes.
Winston SMITH
27 Feb 13 at 10:05 am
That’s good, the dog act; she really is a bitch then.
cohenite
27 Feb 13 at 10:07 am
In the Rooty Hill story today, I noticed:
When his portfolio is officially:
Haven’t we been told for the past six months that the air tax is a non-issue?:
In the most vital electoral battleground in the country, the globall warmening minister says it’s nothing to do with him – he’s the “Industry Minister”.
The carbon tax — helping wreck people’s lives in western Sydney, brought to you by the delinquent activists who fell for the junk being peddled by science’s most discredited sinecure.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 10:08 am
She would make a good figurehead for the Sea Shepherd.
Dave of Cossack
27 Feb 13 at 10:15 am
This root has trolls…..oops sorry,This route has tolls.
Kirribilli House
Kirribilli NSW 2061
1. Head west on Kirribilli Ave towards Carabella St
600 m
2. Turn right onto Broughton St
180 m
3. Take the 1st left on to Fitzroy St
110 m
4. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Alfred St South
450 m
5. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Pacific Hwy
700 m
6. Turn right onto Miller St
230 m
7. Turn right onto Berry St
250 m
8. Slight left onto the ramp to Crows Nest/Epping/Chatswood
350 m
9. Merge onto Metroad 1
3.7 km
10. Continue onto Metroad 2 (signs for LANE COVE TUNNEL/Epping/Windsor)
Toll road
24.5 km
11. Continue onto Westlink M7/M7
Toll road
13.8 km
12. Take the POWER St exit towards Doonside/Rooty Hill/Mount Druitt
Partial toll road
400 m
13. Turn right onto Power St
500 m
14. Turn left onto Rooty Hill Rd North
1.9 km
15. Turn right onto Sherbrooke St
600 m
16. Turn right onto Railway St
Destination will be on the left
6 m
Novotel Sydney
33 Railway St
Rooty Hill NSW 2766
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 10:17 am
Oh come on, there’s a slush fund tucked away somewhere that will be used to pay all expenses.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 10:24 am
So long as she’s holed up campaigning in Western Sydney she can’t do much else to fuck up the country. I just wish she’d take her entire Cabinet there.
Lloyd
27 Feb 13 at 10:25 am
Rumour has it that the Novotel is cancelling next Wedneday’s movie night where they were going to show this.
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 10:26 am
Hey Splat. That blonde one could’ve been me. Maybe.
What in the Witches’ Coven does Gillard think she is doing? It’s not the 1930′s. No-one has bought that Labor class warfare stuff out West since then. That’s for rich inner-city trendies who despise people trying to make a go of it. When I became a leftie my rellies thought I was a fruitcake. They were right.
The West has always been very aspirational. In its own way. Anti-shoebox whinging too. Everyone’s got a story, just get on with it, they say, and while most understand and even tolerate bludging they don’t like it much. As for politicians, they are there to keep the jobs up and the bills down.
Well done, Julia.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 10:31 am
Callaghan in NSW is actually the Newcastle Uni campus.
HeathG
27 Feb 13 at 10:35 am
She’ll be there next for sure then. Any uni campus is a guaranteed safe haven for Labor. She’ll need one after Rooty Hill is finished with her.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 10:51 am
Lizzie, I can’t pass an opinion on that, but it’s certainly not the lovely Aimi McDonald
Grant B
27 Feb 13 at 10:58 am
HmphHh. I remember in 2010 when Queensland was th battleground, which is why the carbon tax pledge was made in Brisbane.
I guess that battle got lost, and the Brisbane line for lost labor seats is now the rooty hill line. Hopefully it gets to the point where the act becomes the border at which they are Truong to save seats and let the rest go.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 11:00 am
Wreckage she should be sent to the Bland if only to meet the Nowland family.
Pickles
27 Feb 13 at 11:02 am
Bullshit!!!!! That’s far too close to where I live.
I used to live in her electorate, got the fuck out of there to get away from the constant droning.
Maws
27 Feb 13 at 11:05 am
Is she taking the bus, or a ComCar?
Econocrat
27 Feb 13 at 11:18 am
What exactly is it about Rooty Hill, apart from the guffaw-inducing name?
It seems that this place is the epicentre of Australian politics, First Abbott launching major policies, then endless dicussion on Q&A, finally duckbum decamping there.
Where is it exactly anyway – some shithold in far western Sydney?
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 11:30 am
When I lived out that way the stop between Doonside and Mount Druitt was always called Shaggers Ridge.I guess it’s gone a bit up market since then.
Lew
27 Feb 13 at 11:46 am
Where’s the Rooty Hill equivalent in Melbourne? I was going to say Dandenong but that’s more like Lakemba with a dollop of Africa.
Ringwood perhaps?
Harold
27 Feb 13 at 11:49 am
Wonderful that the ALP is rediscovering Western Sydney .
Presumably Gillard is also going to promise voters in Lalor that she will remain in parliament as their representative when she is reduced as an Opposition backbencher.
Dr Faustus
27 Feb 13 at 11:53 am
Didn’t they hold a leaders debate before the last election at Rooty Hill RSL?
Haha TLS: “I stand for bringing the budget back to surplus”.
Voter: “Where is all the money coming from”
TSL: “The Government doesn’t have any money, it has tax payers money.
It would be great to hear from the 200 invited Rooty Hillarians at this debate how they have gotten on in the last three years?
Splatacrobat
27 Feb 13 at 12:04 pm
It’s kind of miles out, low socio-economic status, and not necessarily a particular ethnic concentration, right?
Let’s see… Broadmeadows? Werribee? Frankston maybe?
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 12:15 pm
This is going to be like that wear-out-the-shoe-leather stunt – embarrassing and awful to watch. A bunch of locals will own her. What’s the bet she doesn’t even last the week.
The Hunted mind
27 Feb 13 at 12:20 pm
Ha! That explains it – I cannot imagine the poor bloody staff having to pay for the junket out of their own hard earned. Its a topic that may yet be of interest.
Jannie
27 Feb 13 at 12:26 pm
Keysborough, Doveton, Dandenong?
Carpe Jugulum
27 Feb 13 at 12:30 pm
In the wonderful patch of claybelt suburbia beloved by the inner city lefties between Frankston & Dandenong.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 12:35 pm
Keysborough, Noble Park
Token
27 Feb 13 at 12:35 pm
I am basking in the knowledge that here in the Golden West we’re safe from her until the March 9 election is over. ALP leader Mark McGowan has practically got guards patrolling the airports to keep her out.
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 12:40 pm
But the difference is, said inner city lefties will drive through these places en route to Portsea, Sorrento or Phillip Island (NSW equivalent is probably Terrigal), whereas your average Balmain Greens voter would never get within 30 km of Rooty Hill – North Ryde would be a daring trip for them.
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 12:40 pm
” I cannot imagine the poor bloody staff having to pay for the junket out of their own hard earned. Its a topic that may yet be of interest.”
I was wondering that too and what happens if a staff member has accident in workers’ compensation way, they’re not really officially staying there, and who pays their meals.
Perhaps Ms Gillard is paying since her staff are helping her get re-elected by doing this, but it all seems a little fishy.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 12:41 pm
What if they are going to a B&B at Mudgee Papa?
Token
27 Feb 13 at 1:00 pm
It’d be pretty funny if all the venues out west got antsy about protesters and cancelled on her. Gert Wilders-style.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 1:01 pm
Tokes, the expressways serve the useful purpose of allowing speedy, insulated travel through Boganville on the way to various country retreats.
Rabz
27 Feb 13 at 1:07 pm
I agree, Rabz, the Melbourne hipsters take similar expressways to remove the chance they have to stop over in places like Noble Park or Keysborough.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 1:12 pm
I looked up the naming of Rooty Hill.
Apparently nothing could be built on that particular hill (on Norfolk Island) because there were too many roots beneath the surface.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 1:15 pm
I’m stunned this guy didn’t state that The Oz could not use his name:
The move for Rudd must be gathering steam.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 1:22 pm
CL In the late 1970s/80s I remember cab drivers from the western suburbs used to refer to Kings Cross as Rooty Hill.
Jannie
27 Feb 13 at 1:33 pm
The only case Labor has is a coffin.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 1:43 pm
That’s the late Marty Feldman on the right of your screen – the Monty Python team have much to thank him for, and probably The Goodies as well.
Here’s his Bookshop sketch.
blogstrop
27 Feb 13 at 1:46 pm
For the next week or so every western suburb name should have the prefix Rooty.
blogstrop
27 Feb 13 at 1:48 pm
Possibly Langwarrin/Cranbourne then.
Frankston is sea side so it’s kind of up market.
And Dandenong is just a refugee dump nowadays.
Harold
27 Feb 13 at 1:49 pm
The local camping ground down the road (North Narrabeen) is going to get busy again that week as people from Western Sydney flee to the coast.
Can guarantee that you will never ever run into Gillard here especially considering that ‘real families’ apparently don’t live here.
Richard D
27 Feb 13 at 1:51 pm
Harold, frankston is not up market. It is the bogan capital of Australia.
Andrew
27 Feb 13 at 2:00 pm
Franga?
H B Bear
27 Feb 13 at 2:02 pm
.
Roxborough Park too.
Carpe Jugulum
27 Feb 13 at 2:10 pm
But the truth is that your Balmain types are all jumped up bogans who know the outer West better than they think. If they were true elites they would be Liberal voters and live in the East or the North Shore.
Rococo Liberal
27 Feb 13 at 2:20 pm
They know the Outer West better than they let you think.
Rococo Liberal
27 Feb 13 at 2:21 pm
Frankston used to be a sea side resort town. Folks from Melbourne would get the train down to Frankston for a day outing, I suppose kind of like Mornington and Portsea now.
Still have some expensive houses up around the hill and bordering Mt Eliza.
Harold
27 Feb 13 at 2:34 pm
Frankston would be a good place to gentrify.
Harold
27 Feb 13 at 2:35 pm
LOL, I know what you mean.
I remember a memorable night in Melb when an inner city puritan (proudly declares he never goes east of Glenferrie Road, etc) told us about 4WD driving holidays when he was growing up in Werribee (before Melbourne grew out to join it to the metropolis).
Token
27 Feb 13 at 2:36 pm
Last time I was anywhere near Terrigal (early January) nine out of every ten people were Muslim. They all seemed comfortably middle class and were out on family picnics or fishing.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 3:14 pm
Such a shame the Qur’an tells them not to integrate with infidels.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 3:18 pm
Something they have in common with the AOG fundies who get warned against socialising with non believers.
Chris
27 Feb 13 at 3:22 pm
Well, no place is what it used to be.
A couple of times I took my mother back to St. Mary’s and Rooty Hill/Mt. Druitt.
Oh, she said. It has come on, hasn’t it? You’d be really proud to live here now.
Yes, I think a lot of people are, mum, I replied and put my arm around her and turned my head away for a minute to have a bit of a blink.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 3:25 pm
Can we have a link showing that Assemblies of God Christians are told not to mix with others, Chris?
And thanks for again expressing love and respect for the left’s beloved Islam.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 3:28 pm
Oh? And do they also aim for a caliphate? Do they also go ahead with genital mutilation of their females? Do they also cover up their women face, head to toe because they see women as nothing more than evil temptresses – just for being born a female – and cause men to perform acts of sexual deviance? Do they also consider women in western dress uncovered meat that deserve to be raped? Do they regard donkeys as higher value than women?
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 3:29 pm
Having had first hand experience of Frankston as a visitor I think the downtown area looks quite drab but is ripe for a bit of tidying up. There are a lot of nice places in the area but there seems to be an element hanging around. Probably a good place to buy in the expectation that in 20 years time the welfare kids will have found it too expensive to live ,and hipsters will have discovered the seaside location and edgy graffiti and declared it the new in location.
Really I find the idea of a waterfront place being down market quite surprising, even though it is just port philip bay. The waterfront suburbs on Moreton bay have all gone a bit upmarket, and half of them look out over tidal mudflats half the day.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 3:34 pm
Based upon his history, I’m sure Chris found it on a Labor press release.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 3:36 pm
Boy. Gab, if I paid for it and could arrange it, would you and nilk go on a dinner date with Waleed Aly for the benefit of some readjustment of your “oh my God, they are all going to kill us or force us into hijabs!!” views of Muslims in Australia?
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 3:38 pm
So fundamentalist Muslims are cut from the same cloth as AOG Christians?
Only in lefty land folks…
Rousie
27 Feb 13 at 3:42 pm
Steve agrees with Tim Flannery that the world is endangered by the weather and that Gaia will soon return to being as a corporeal entity to rule the globe.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 3:45 pm
AOG Christians are actually formally encouraged to embrace outsiders and unbelievers – it’s their whole, well-known mission, ffs.
LOL. Chris really is a moron.
http://reaching.ag.org/evangelism.cfm
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 3:47 pm
Lol the breadth of steve’s knlowdegde of Muslims: Waleed Aly.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 3:47 pm
According to Wikipedia:
One suspects one knows which religion the perpetrators belonged to.
A pretty damn dangerous one, by the sounds, hey?
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 3:48 pm
The issue is not that Australians are going to be forced into hijabs and girls from attending school. It’s that this happens elsewhere in the world and nobody brings it up, but are only too happy to cast other churches and religious organisations as evil for whatever happens anywhere else.
The outspoken leaders here do not condemn these acts of violence against women and children, and that’s what makes people angry and suspicious. And occasionally, they outright go and endorse these policies, especially when it comes to commenting about women.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 3:48 pm
The AOG’s are “fundies”.
What an absolute nutjob.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 3:50 pm
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
That’s four days at the office for the Religion of Peace.
Fisky
27 Feb 13 at 3:52 pm
That’s the equivocation.
The AOG’s the most pathetic group of secular, pop-culture embracing middle australian families are just like muslims.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 3:53 pm
Oh, God, does Chris really think that Christian evangelists seek out converts by walling themselves off from non-believers?
Another Leftist beclowned at the Cat.
Fisky
27 Feb 13 at 3:54 pm
LOL.
LOL.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 3:56 pm
That’s right, hey CL? When Christians kill and destroy property (and feel justification to do so from their beliefs), it’s just a matter of “LOL”.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 3:58 pm
…and the Creepy Uncle from Brisbane is now attempting to smear them as murderers. The desperate overreach of this repugnant ball of concentrated shame knows no bounds as he attempts to reconcile his prejudices with Google searches. News flash Steve: you suck
Rousie
27 Feb 13 at 3:58 pm
Steve from Brisbane had no objection to the Canberra Race Riot, and is thereby formally banned from condemning property damage or violence.
Fisky
27 Feb 13 at 3:59 pm
HEYHEYHEY – shouldn’t this be on the Debate Religion Here thread? Don’t make me come in there …
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 3:59 pm
I was in on the goldy staying in a resort on the weekend. Saturday was humid as fuck and after the pool we were waiting for the lift.
Past us walked some strange sight, a girl aged about 13-15 dressed in a tight fitting hood and some sort of baggy full length tracksuit, dripping wet.
Oh.
Just one of the daughters of those “moderate”, “aussie”, “just like us” muslims walking about on the goldcoast in 30 degree heat after she’d been for a nice freshing swim fully clothed in a tracksuit and hood.
But yeah, Muslims are exactly like people who go to AOG’s, just ask Waleed Aly, Sfb and Chris.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 4:00 pm
Returning to the sheer glamour of high politics at Rooty Hill – I was horrified to find out that one of the bastards has gotten through Mark McGowan’s electrified razor wire fence at Perth airport.
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 4:00 pm
Here’s the link to the Wikipedia list of incidents, including a killing and firebombing in Australia which I had forgotten about.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 4:00 pm
Nobody cares fuckwit.
Stop derailing threads you obsessed loon, go away to the religion thread and bang on with your prejudices there.
Huckleberry Chunkwot
27 Feb 13 at 4:02 pm
Since steve (once again) showed his moral weakness and came today for another cat binge he’s commented on:
Boobs
Abortion
Equivocated the millions who suffer under Islam wherver it flourishes with…stinkbombs and trespassing.
Fine form Steve the Addict. Fine form.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 4:03 pm
Exactly right, Philippa. Off to the religion thread those who want to continue this conversation.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 4:04 pm
You’re a troll, Dogshit. You’re only purpose in being here is to pick fights. FUCK OFF!!!
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 4:06 pm
Hey fellas: if you read up thread I think you’ll find it was Gab who turned it into an anti-muzzie thread.
Please direct your anti derailing complaints to her.
You won’t? How surprising…
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 4:06 pm
Maybe while she’s busy entertaining the unwashed of Rooty Hill, Gillard could show her true devotion to the socialist cause by opening up Kirribilli House to the homeless.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 4:09 pm
One more favourite subject of Steves that he’s commented on today:
Gab.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 4:11 pm
Instead of piling the men into uni dorms with 19 and 20 year-old females.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:13 pm
I’ve never got why Frankston is such as shit hole. Trust me it is – you wouldn’t want to walk the streets at night, and doing early morning rides down there you’ve got to watch for syringes on the road and in the public toilets.
Yet it has a fairly decent beach (apart from the syringes, used condoms and Jim beam cans littering it), and it borders on one ot the poshest Melbounre postcodes in Mt Eliza.
It just doesn’t make sense – other than perhaps the real estate prices there are kept low by the loser demgraphic that live there.
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 4:13 pm
Or she may consider walking the aisles of poker machines to see how #cashforyou went down.
Rousie
27 Feb 13 at 4:15 pm
In the Balmain DSS office in the mid-80s you used to have to watch out for the syringes in the staff toilets.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 4:18 pm
Correction: Redfern, not Balmain. I don’t know what made me type Balmain. Must have inner city lefties on the brain.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 4:19 pm
I know what Frankston is, used to live in Seaford a long time back. The Pines is the worst, back of Frankston so doesn’t even have the beach.
And Frankston is a favourite Sam Newman Street-Talk destination, that pretty much says it all.
Harold
27 Feb 13 at 4:20 pm
Even the Labor trolls believe Joolia’s Rooty Hill plan is a massive dud. They’re already desperately trying to change the subject to anything but….
MDMConnell
27 Feb 13 at 4:22 pm
Lefties never take responsibility for their own actions – it’s always somebody else’s fault they behaved in a certain way.
I made a statement of fact, Chris jumped in with a false moral equivalence, as lefties always do when one mentions the truth about Islam, lefties take that as license to trash Christianity.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:26 pm
Terrigal is pretty lower middle clss territory, as is most o the Central Coast.
Rococo Liberal
27 Feb 13 at 4:31 pm
What is troubling me is that, even on the face of it, this is an insane idea. Now, I know that is not unusual from our PM’s “team”, but this is particularly mad.
Could it be McTurd is trying to generate some sort of incident or other, a la the Canberra Australia day exercise?
mct
27 Feb 13 at 4:34 pm
Quite a bitchy one in response to someone innocently saying he saw a bunch of middle class looking Muslims enjoying themselves in an Australian way (picnicing and fishing at the beach).
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 4:36 pm
It’s reverse diarrhoea. Labor’s “little ones” returning to the arsehole from which they issued.
Swifty
27 Feb 13 at 4:40 pm
AOG aren’t fundies, they are evangelical/charismatics.
Some of them are basically ex Catholics who are happy clappers.
Some of them might be creationists – but they are not fundamentalists.
Like Gillard, Steve needs someone to explain to him the meaning of “chew gum and walk at the same time”.
The AOG in the US also worked in spite of Jim Crow laws.
.
27 Feb 13 at 4:41 pm
A statement of fact is not emotive, SFB. My tone was flat, disguising the sadness felt that their religion is so hateful towards infidels.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:42 pm
But back on point: the Rooty Hill exercise will be a matter of some interest.
May I remind you – Gillard famously presents better in face to face meetings than on TV. Her stepping into the firestorm of what is likely to be some ugly and ill informed commentary by the residents of Western Sydney may work well as showing (again) her resilience.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 4:42 pm
The Lying Rooty Hill Rodent is committed now.
If she pulls out of Rooty, she’ll look even worse.
Easily the stupidest person ever to be prime minister (albeit never elected).
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 4:42 pm
Wait, what? is gillard considering pulling out of her western safari now?
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:43 pm
I don’t believe you.
Seriously, you need to meet some moderate Muslims.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 4:44 pm
As someone who has quite a few AOG attending rellies I can tell you this is bullshit. They love nothing better than hanging out with me. They sometimes tell me I’m in their prayers, so that’s cool.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 4:44 pm
LOL I don’t give a shit whether you do or you don’t.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:45 pm
LOL.
Steve the ‘Catholic’ now rivals LP’s Anna Winter as a wacko abortion fanatic but he’s now pretending to care about killing people.
Earth to Steve: THAT’S WHAT ABORTION CLINICS DO – KILL PEOPLE.
But thanks again for your New York Times/Wiki list – especially the important stink bomb stats.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 4:48 pm
Yeah, some are really cool, they even let their daughters talk to male cousins alone, and they don’t want people who criticise Islam to be beheaded – they’re happy with just smearing-with-honey-and-putting-in-an-anthill
James in Melbourne
27 Feb 13 at 4:48 pm
Gillard famously presents better face to face………….. get back on your meds you incompetent fuckwit.
If she’s so good face to face, why has WA Labor told her, in writing, to fuck off?
Shitfer, you really are a delusional clown, who needs serious help for your mental illness.
Where’s Tom to tell you eloquaintly to fuck off.
harrys on the boat
27 Feb 13 at 4:49 pm
Like herpes.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 4:52 pm
I’m telling you now, buy! Sooner or later the loser demographic won’t be able to afford it, the hipsters will discover it and open strange eateries with uncomfortable seating, tattoed waiting staff and grafitti for decorations; and before you know it, a two bed flat with needles outside the front door will be $800k – you actually will be told to pay more for the ‘edginess’.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 4:53 pm
So the PM is staying in Rooty Hill because Sydney’s infrastructure is crap and it would be too difficult to commute from the city? I’ll bet the commuters living in Sydney’s west that she wants the votes of are just shaking their heads at that one.
rebel with cause
27 Feb 13 at 4:53 pm
That Gillard face to face meeting in Brisbane went over a real treat.
‘I’m not stupid’
And an entire political strategy was dashed on the rocks, the shoe leather not even scratched, let alone worn out or even left behind to a baying mob while evacuated by armed guard.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 4:55 pm
This morning, my wife was having a scan, we were first up at hospital. There was only 4 in the wait room, me, my wife, our beautiful daughter and an old girl.
Gillard came on the TV, to which the old girl shrieked, “turn the TV over I can stand to hear this woman”. She apologised, but was comforted by us and the reception staff proclaiming we hate her too.
harrys on the boat
27 Feb 13 at 4:56 pm
can’t…………
harrys on the boat
27 Feb 13 at 4:58 pm
I love how her supporters fall back on saying Gillard is “tough.”
What they really mean is, “for a girl, she sure is tough.”
Because nobody describes a male politician under the pump as “tough.”
If they did, Brendan Nelson was far tougher than this idiot.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 4:58 pm
Ahahahahahahahaha.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 4:59 pm
It’s those little heart-warming stories about gillard that make life bearable, Harry. Thanks.
Hope you wife is okay, Harry.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 4:59 pm
So with a few tasty treats thrown his way, sob remembers what it is to be fed, and decides to stay.
Keith
27 Feb 13 at 5:00 pm
Speaking of Frankston/Seaford I ride down Beach road from time to time with all the other lycra wankers – even did the whole 100km to Portsea as part of Around the bay a few times.
The socio economic status of the coastal suburbs you pass through makes some sense (the further out go you the less wealthy) but there’s some odd blips. In order of distance from Melbourne
St Kilda – Inner city hipsters & druggies
Elwood – Inner city hipsters, cleaner
Brighton – Wealthy but bland (great spot but too far out for inner city hipsters)
Sandringham – as above but a bit less wealthy
Black Rock / Beaumauris – Going back up again, as posh as Brighton, a few more wealthy creative types there though
Mentone/Parkdale/Mordialloc – You suddently hit bogan land. Not the worst spots but a but run down and working class.
Carrum/Edithvale/Chelsea/ Seaford – As above but getting slowly more bogan the further away you get
Frankston – Epicentre of loser bogans
Mt Eliza – Ultra posh, multi-million dollar seaside properties. Oliver’s Hill forms a natural fortification against Frankston
Mornington/Mt Martha – Still upmarket holiday spots but less than Mt Eliza
Safety Beach/Dromana/Rye – More downmarket holiday spots
Blairgowrie – Getting a little posher
Sorrento – Rather posh
Portsea – We’re talking five story beach huts polo and personal helipads posh.
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 5:04 pm
Harry, Dogshit has the IQ of a retarded child so he’s trying to insinuate himself back into the Cat, thread by thread, in the hope that no-one will notice he’s suddenly everywhere again. He’s also a sexual pervert so Gab is the first of his targets; tomorrow it will be all the females. He is quite unable to control himself: he has an addictive personality disorder on top of his sexual perversion — god knows what goes on in the family home. If there is a family home; there’s no way of knowing as he is also a compulsive liar.
Back to the religion thread, Dogshit. You are not welcome here. Doomlord has kindly and compassionately created a space at this website where you can be tolerated without turning the place into a toilet again. This does not include access to the daily threads created here. Shoo.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 5:07 pm
Frankston is an area where people speak like Julia Gillard and look like Chopper Read.
Andrew
27 Feb 13 at 5:09 pm
brc, it’s too far from the CBD for the hipster brigade. Northcote (Thornbury at a stretch) is as far as they will ever venture.
Possibly Frankston will gentrify with seachangers eventually, but it’s got such a terrible reputation that I wouldn’t bank on it. Again, hipsters only do edgy when it’s close to the CBD, so they’d be cool with syringes in St Kilda but not Franga.
papachango
27 Feb 13 at 5:10 pm
True, although considering how much these hippies love the refugees, you’d think they would live in these sorts of low socioeconomic areas to comfort them.
Speaking of Refugees, I got bombarded by socialist groups at Uni today as I entered. The hippy socialists really are a pushy bunch.
Andrew
27 Feb 13 at 5:15 pm
I understand that it is locked in a safe in Canberra, along with every cabinet ministers’ brains.
Rob
27 Feb 13 at 5:16 pm
LOL, Papa. Frankston has been a crime-ridden toilet reminiscent of the suburbs of Detroit (minus the African Americans) for 40 years. I’d be buying up the worst houses in the best streets nearest the beach. It’s about to become affluent middle class again – Portsea for those with less than $600,000 to spend.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 5:18 pm
That isn’t fair, Tom; my occasional strolls there shouldn’t require me constantly looking where I step.
dover_beach
27 Feb 13 at 5:30 pm
At what point does “resilience” become bunny-boiler psychosis?
blogstrop
27 Feb 13 at 5:32 pm
What’s with the hate for working class suburbs? No, not everyone who lives in them is wonderful or a great contributor to society, but what suburbs is that totally true of? Bit sad to see these places cop such a slagging. I catch a train line that runs from the outer suburbs and we were constantly told how the line would be filled by druggies, drunks etc – I’ve caught the line most days at all times and never had a problem.
A Catholic priest that my wife and I know provides ministry in an outer suburbs area of Melbourne’s east. We went out for a service one day and saw many large happy families and a packed church with a vibrant service – Many African immigrants etc. Much more pleasant than some of the services we have been to at inner city places where half the congregation seemed asleep.
These places and the people that live in then are suffering the most under this government. As I said, they are not all angels by any sretch, but many are decent and hard working. Being poor isn’t a crime.
rebel with cause
27 Feb 13 at 5:36 pm
Only need a very small safe.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
27 Feb 13 at 5:39 pm
No, but I attended a few services (had some friends who were really into it) when I was at university and it was said more than once. Speakers talking about not socialising with non believers because of temptation. Was ok to bring new people in to church to convert them of course but warned against situations where you were a minority and risk being “corrupted”.
Creationist and disbelieving in evolution were common viewpoints (also creationism “science”). Was rather surprised at how people are able to believe in creationism and at the same time work in scientific fields, but they did and were definitely good at the latter. Personally I’d classify creationists as fundamentalists, but you may have a different viewpoint.
Anyway whilst it didn’t really interest me (I come from a Uniting Church background) I could certainly see why they were so popular with young people. Singing (modern pop/rock themes), socialisation in a safe supervised environment on weekends when the alternative was mostly pub/clubs and alcohol/drugs certainly appeals to many – and very pro success/money (quite different to some other Christian flavors) fits in well with aspirational attitude.
Chris
27 Feb 13 at 5:39 pm
Novotel at Rooty:
Some high octane adventure coming up, Jules.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 5:40 pm
NYT: Iran Enters Nuclear Talks in a Freshly Defiant Mood
Maybe Bazza should sent TLS to be chief negosheeator?
JamesK
27 Feb 13 at 5:41 pm
oops wong fwed
JamesK
27 Feb 13 at 5:42 pm
+1
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 5:42 pm
Unfortunately they are the worst type of carbon criminal.
They have to drive to get to most places of employment. (i.e. they use their cars a lot)
The suburb gets very cold in winter and very hot and humid in summer (i.e. they use heaters and aircos).
They have taken the carbon cult’s price rises in the neck, and are among those least able to afford the luxury of paying for the guilt of the inner city luvvies.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for coming.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
It is just a joke, but many of the stereotypes are true. I live in a suburb which is rather middle class but around the train station and like areas has some very dodgy druggos. I don’t mind either way.
Andrew
27 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
Wonder if she’ll drop by Eastern Creek (Speedway) to meet Col the Rooty Hill Rocket.
I had a friend used to race stock cars round that way once, till he ended up in hospital one too many times. Jules, it is considered ideal family entertainment, bring the littlies. You should not miss it.
I haven’t been for years and years but I doubt the fundamentals have changed much.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 5:55 pm
ps. get the handbag hit squad along too. They’ll fit right in.
They’ll be OK for the weigh-in anyway.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 5:58 pm
They’ll be eaten alive by the locals in the front bar.
Token
27 Feb 13 at 6:00 pm
You forgot there worst offence against Gaia – they like children and want to have a few of their own. Nothing is more offensive to Gaia than breeding.
We all know that the only people allowed to breed are the cute architect/lawyer couple that live in the house with the solar panels on the roof and drive matching Prius. However, they must only have one child and that child must be named Poppy or other suitably earth-friendly name and taught from a young age about the dangers of overpopulation.
rebel with cause
27 Feb 13 at 6:06 pm
Yes, rather poor form. Give me a plumber’s crack over a doctor’s wife any day.
After all, these ill educated, drug addicted bogan miscreants are about to deliver us from evil and thrash Gillard harder than a deviant at the Hellfire Club come September.
I on the other hand hate everybody from every suburb equally.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 6:08 pm
And my suburb is full of people who would excuse and defend the criminal behavior of said druggies as long as it happens somewhere they don’t have to see. I’m not sure that makes them better people.
rebel with cause
27 Feb 13 at 6:09 pm
I see there’s another breastfeeding frenzy going on, this time at a Sydney suburban cafe. I am resolutely avoiding any stereotyping.
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 6:31 pm
When it comes to Followers of the Prophet( peace be upon him )I prefer them Indonesian.Very mellow bar the lunatics affected by the Saudi investment in madrasas.
Australia has IIRC spent wisely in many supporting schools in Indonesia to counter this malignant effect.
I hope a visit to Lakemba and Punchbowl is included when the entourage troops around Watson.
Get to meet a few sheiks then move on to have a bet at Canterbury( meeting on Friday),a few beers and finish off with a greasy donner kebab.
John Cowperthwaite
27 Feb 13 at 6:34 pm
Even hipsters end up with children as a natural result of hipster-coupling. Eventually they will tire of tiny draft apartments in the inner city and want something more.
Frankston has a new freeway to connect it up, it’s seaside and currently has a bad reputation. A perfect storm of historically depressed property prices meets new reality of transport and demographics.
It’s the non-working welfare families and bad schools that drag a place down. If they leave it’s the work of a mere decade to rehabilitate a place. They leave when rent soaks up too much welfare and the neighbours start complaining about the commodore/camira/torana car storage on the footpath.
Druggies and winos don’t derail a suburb much, usually, unless it is accompanied by regular shootouts over turf.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 6:38 pm
Speaking of the Handbag Hitsquad, if any blokes plan on visiting the RSL next week, what ever you do, make sure you are off the dance floor by 3am when the lights come on. That’s when bad things happen.
Rousie
27 Feb 13 at 6:39 pm
If the Slapper is still out west on Sundee, she can head to Menangle for the Inter Dominion. The kiddies might even feed her a carrot.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 6:41 pm
Wifes fine Gab, the second is on the way!
harrys on the boat
27 Feb 13 at 6:43 pm
I suppose I should not sent Julia my anti tattoo policy that really would be useful for the improvement of Western Sydney.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 6:47 pm
And the fundies up in Aceh. And the schoolgirl beheaders in Sulawesi. And the jihadis in the Malukus. Other than that, yea pretty mellow.
jupes
27 Feb 13 at 6:47 pm
The sense of entitlement of some people is breathtaking.
dover_beach
27 Feb 13 at 6:48 pm
Getting your tits out is tops. I enourage it. But save it for the beach ladies or put a feeding shawl over the top.
Discretion is the better part of having a cuppa.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 6:57 pm
Wow. A trifecta for me. Had ‘em all at one time or another.
Torana only borrowed, but long enough for it to count. Camira was a pile of poo.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 6:58 pm
“What’s with the hate for working class suburbs? ”
I agree with that, being in a working class suburb in Brisbane.
Most people just want to get on and do the best for their family and themselves,
Class distinction is really old hat.
I’m never sure why Western Sydney is supposed to be more signifcant in an election than other areas, is it supposed to be an example of how Australia thinks, sounds like a big generalisation.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 7:01 pm
Congratulations to you and Mrs Harry! Job well done to both of you.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VJVw32EkIM
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 7:06 pm
Tits out. Hahahaha. In my femino-hippy academic lefty stage I once breastfed my mewling, snuffling, slurping, burping and farting (there you go, Stevie) first born all the way through an Examiner’s Meeting.
What was I thinking, and why did they let me??
From Bogan Princess to Mystic Madonna, all in a few short years.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:06 pm
So, breastfeeding in public is for lefty bogans, hey Lizzie?
Mystic Madonna?
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:12 pm
There’s a difference between working class suburbs and ones that are merely feral. Lived in plenty of them myself growing up. A lot of inner suburban working class suburbs have become very fashionable, but you can still see their roots in many cases.
tbh
27 Feb 13 at 7:13 pm
Candy, 2 million people and lots of seats.
John Cowperthwaite
27 Feb 13 at 7:15 pm
The breastfeeding counter-reaction is usually a bit over the top; but then again I am not keen on demonstrations of any kind.
However, any establishment that asks a woman not to breastfeed is also OTT, and women who take offence at other women breastfeeding are either neurotic or just ideological anti-feminist warriors.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:17 pm
No no, IT. Real women protect their beautiful creamy complexions at the beach – boobs included.
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 7:17 pm
Breastfeeding in public is fine if discreet, and best done privately if possible – better for mum and baby, a tender and private moment.
At the hippie end of the left spectrum, women were (are) encouraged to think of themselves as ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ earth mothers, Stevie. Surely, with your ear so well attuned to the wisdom of Gaia, you know that?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:18 pm
Well Samuel J, I blame you for ” Spider from Brisbane ” showing its creepy head this time.
Putting “Rooty ” in the headline !!
What were you thinking?
jumpnmcar
27 Feb 13 at 7:21 pm
yes, nothing better than having to sit through that while enjoying a latte in a cafe and trying to have a conversation. The ones that are discrete, use a shawl and don’t flop out the tit for all to see are okay though.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:21 pm
Lizzie it was a reference to The Castle, in which to get the torana out, you first have the move the camira and the commodore.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 7:22 pm
I suspect that a hungry baby 99% of the time couldn’t give a stuff if it’s done in private or not, Lizzie.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:22 pm
Bogan women bottle feed once they get away from the oversight of hospitals and clinics. You can prop the bottle on a cushion while you watch TV then.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:23 pm
My first car was a third hand Torana. I affectionately referred to it as the Death Trap after it stalled for the third time at a major intersection on Victoria Road.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:24 pm
Whether there’s a shawl or not, it seems to me that you can rarely see what’s going on anyway. You see a baby’s head, and if happen to be looking with a pair of opera glasses in the wrong direction at the wrong second, you might see a nipple. Horror!
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:26 pm
Oh, The Castle. A dreadful movie, full of middle class hopes about da little man and da kindly old judge. Crappo. That actor ended up making an ad about da black carbon balloons too, didn’t he? Laughable that people were so taken in by the movie. Kenny was much better, in that genre.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:27 pm
You’ve obviously never seen these militant boob wranglers in action.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 7:29 pm
Crackerjack is my favourite movie of that genre.
tbh
27 Feb 13 at 7:30 pm
Ah, but The Castle had one glorious line for which I lived:
‘Suffer in yer jocks’.
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 7:31 pm
You have been horrified by a real life incident of a breast flopping around for, what, 15 seconds, IT?
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:31 pm
The Newcastle Uni Central Coast campus, at Ourimbah, actually. Where Deborah O’Neill lectured/tutored in Education before becoming the Member for Robertson. Perhaps she will be back there after the election.
Septimus
27 Feb 13 at 7:32 pm
Gordon Bennett, tbh – not Crackerjack. Anything but that. Judith Lucy. Life is too short.
Philippa Martyr
27 Feb 13 at 7:32 pm
They’re often not so much hungry as bored, Stevie. Playtime.
Hey Gab, we could have done Torana wheelies together, no?
When I first met HIA I had a red Alfa and took him for a 280 degree spin on a dirt road. Then I left the handbrake off it and it rolled downhill into a brick wall, which didn’t quite have the same panache.
He is not too impressed with my driving still.
I was taught to drive by the Bogan Boys.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:36 pm
It’s brilliant, Philippa. You know it makes sense!
“Swear jar, Nance…”
Not even Judith Lucy can ruin it.
tbh
27 Feb 13 at 7:37 pm
When I worked at a bottleshop an old man used to regularly come into the shop with his penis hanging out of his shorts. He used to piss in his car prior to entering the store and often forgot to put it away.
He ordered vermouth and gin and very occasionally brandy. He was a highly objectionable arsehole.
His penis didn’t offend me but his rude manner certainly did. Same with these breast feeding Nazis. You want to get your tits and enjoy a cappuccino? Buy your own damn cafe.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 7:44 pm
Lucky you. I went to a driving school. Only learned to to do wheelies and 360s with handbrake when sent to an advanced defensive driving course a few years back. Still, learning to drive in Sydeney, and driving in traffic from Ryde to Castle Hill, from Marrickville into the city to Rockdale does render one with
aggressivepositive driving skills. These pathetic Driving Miss Daisy Melbournistans are no match.Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:44 pm
Ah memories…driving from Castle Hiil to Ryde to pick up dear Mum and then onto Blaxland for Christmas lunch with relatives and from there to Leichhardt for dinner with relos, then back to Castle Hill via Ryde. I just do not miss those days at all.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:49 pm
I lost a Ford Laser from Mt Druitt Station then a Commodore from Seven Hills Station. Ended up buying the biggest chain and padlock I could find to wrap around the pedals and seat bracket.
After selling my car to a relo I heard it got stolen again. When I asked if he used the chain he said no, but the thieves did…in an armed robbery.
Rousie
27 Feb 13 at 7:50 pm
I hate driving in Melbourne. It’s counter-intuitive and the whole population drives like Sandy Stone. Mostly, anyway. I am livening the place up.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:52 pm
You should have designed an appropriate version of one those red circle with a crossed line signs to put on the front door, IT.
Sorry, babies should be allowed to be fed in public; nearly all women do it quite discretely anyway; it’s neurotic to take offence at it.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 7:53 pm
One good thing about driving in Melbourne, Lizzie I notice the lanes are much wider than in Sydney, especially small lanes on Pacific Hwy around St Leonards/Gore Hill/Crows Nest and parts of Parramatta road around Haberfield.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 7:56 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
27 Feb 13 at 7:52 pm
You obviously haven’t experienced driving in my capital city – Adelaide!!! Even I get mad at the snails off the line when the lights turn green!!
Mike of Marion
27 Feb 13 at 8:01 pm
It usually happens without incident which makes me suspect that we have militant boob wranglers trying to make a political statement.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 8:10 pm
Now it’s getting quite comfortable again, one of the gang, just moseying on by, casually reciting the Dogshit communist it’s-not-my-fault, jacking-myself-off-in-public qu’ran.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 8:11 pm
Tom, you’re a nut; as are the others who like to scream “pervert” on any appearance made by me.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 8:17 pm
Not welcome. Fuck off.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 8:19 pm
Steve, you may or may not be a pervert, but you are deranged.
blogstrop
27 Feb 13 at 8:19 pm
It’s poor manners to breastfeed in public.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 8:25 pm
Because it is something best done discreetly. Again, the community ought to sort this out, not the law.
Driftforge
27 Feb 13 at 8:26 pm
Unfortunately, my Labor vote will in a pretty safe (last I looked) Labor electorate in the West of Brisbane, so my vote will not be that important.
I think I will have to pray to BVM for the conversion of
RussiaRooty Hill [to Labor]. Numbers will join me. I’m not sure whether its right to pray for a severe sprained groin for Tony Abbott that might keep him in bed for 9 months as a result of another workplace stunt appearance, but that would be another satisfactory outcome if it would get Malcolm in position.steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 8:29 pm
“Candy, 2 million people and lots of seats.”
I see, John, so I guess if west Sydney goes Labor the election goes Labor.
No wonder Ms Gillard is spending a week there!
candy
27 Feb 13 at 8:34 pm
That sort of rubbish is why you’re always being sledged.
blogstrop
27 Feb 13 at 8:35 pm
SoB that is.
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Tom
27 Feb 13 at 8:37 pm
You are psychotic Shitfer, no-one with an ounce of conservatism in their being could even joke about casting a vote for this, the most disgraceful far left administration in our history.
You are a deranged, perverted pathological liar.
Fuck off, you are not welcome
Huckleberry Chunkwot
27 Feb 13 at 8:40 pm
Precisely.
dover_beach
27 Feb 13 at 8:42 pm
Stevieliar QC. Done the dishes? Made your manwife a cup of tea? Scared some children? Stolen any bread lately? So little time, so much to do.
Tiny Dancer
27 Feb 13 at 8:45 pm
Kenny is a superior movie to The Castle, but The Castle spawned many one-liners that entered the lexicon.
Yes Keaton or whatever his name is was taken in by the whole global warmening brigade, but he’s an actor and therefore likely to be swayed by the in-crowd, and probably doesn’t have critical thinking high on his list of skills. The movie was funny and original whatever the politics of the cast and crew. It actually has a good undertone of property rights and anti-snobbery which I quite enjoy.
Kenny is just better because it is full of toilet humor, obviously.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 8:51 pm
Do you mean tits out, or at all even under a blanket or muslin cloth?
Because at the other end of spectrum from the women who desire to reduce our fine society to a national geographic cover shot are the nutters who are offended by a baby being fed even under a cloth or blanket and want mother and newborn baby to scurry off to some filthy stinking public toilet to do it or if not available to just not do it at all and let baby go hungry so as not to offend their bizarre sensibilities.
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 9:03 pm
Went drinking with a very attractive and well endowed TV reporter once. Her party trick was to front up at the bar, order a round of drinks and then flash her incredibly perky norks at the barman. Got very drunk for free.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm
I used to go drinking once with this great young English lass who could down a pint of beer in about 5 seconds, just by pouring it down her throat. She used to bet the barman to get free beer if she could down in it at whatever speed, or even better, challenge them to a skulling race. It all went very well and much fun was had until one day she met her match with this weedy barman in a bar in Prague who was faster than her. Like a losing gambler she kept doubling down trying to win and ended up downing about 4 or 5 pints of strong Czech lager in half an hour or so. I had to do my version of the drunken firemans carry to return said young lady to the safety of the hotel.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 9:12 pm
I think the tits out angle is a better one. That was not the night by the way that we ended up eating ice cream from her nipples.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:15 pm
boab : fine, any bar story featuring bare breasts wins
brc
27 Feb 13 at 9:20 pm
Hmm. Last comment seems to have shut every one up for a minute. Don’t see that often around here.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:29 pm
What flavour ice-cream, BOAB?
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
In the interests of “what happens on tour, stays on tour”, I cannot divulge the flavour. But it was cold and perky!
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:34 pm
Hope you’re not talking about Michelle Grattan.
Gab
27 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
20 years ago, the Rooty Hill RSL was notorious in the Navy for its mothers and daughters nights.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
Napoleon
jumpnmcar
27 Feb 13 at 9:38 pm
Ugh. Brain bleach required.
boy on a bike
27 Feb 13 at 9:38 pm
Government by bogans.
Econocrat
27 Feb 13 at 9:43 pm
Jay-sus.
It’s gold. Firstly they are not “middle” class. Secondly, they don’t really talk their dreams up much.
The point is it doesn’t matter. It is their fucking property!
.
27 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
I haven’t seen The Castle.
Let me guess: the evil property coveters are a private business rather than a government, yes?
C.L.
27 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
John McTernan could use some of John McTiernan talent for tricks.
stackja
27 Feb 13 at 10:01 pm
“Do you mean tits out, or at all even under a blanket or muslin cloth?”
Doesn’t matter, my opinion is it’s a very personal act best left to home (or friends, family houses etc), not in public. Babies get bigger and clutch the covering cloth off, it’s hot.
candy
27 Feb 13 at 10:14 pm
CL iirc it’s the government in combination with big business. They want to expand the airport and want his house to do so. The villains of the piece are really the opposing legal council and ” the system” against a guy and his property.
brc
27 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm
I think Tom had a bit of a breakdown earlier this evening.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 10:38 pm
What if they’re in town shopping? Baby should just go hungry?
twostix
27 Feb 13 at 10:40 pm
I haven’t gone to bed, Dogshit. Fuck off before I track you down and come after you with a shotgun.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 10:48 pm
CL, The Castle is a beauty – a very funny feelgood movie about working class people who are caricatured but not mocked. The baddies are one of the unregulated privatised airport monopolies like SACL, which is making a million bucks for JC. No sympathy. Such arsehole companies are run by dullards who don’t have to be good at anything besides legally robbing their customers. Their main mission in life is to lobby governments to block anyone setting up another competing airport that would reduce the value of their licence to print money.
Tom
27 Feb 13 at 10:49 pm
The seating plan for the Catallaxy Xmas party is going to be a bitch.
Infidel Tiger
27 Feb 13 at 10:51 pm
Mate after hearing that a good friend just passed away that is exactly what I needed to read. I’m laughing my tits off at that.
tbh
27 Feb 13 at 10:55 pm
Gee, I think that’s the second death threat-y type thing I’ve had in the space of a week. (The previous one from Crusader nilk.) Quite a dangerous place, this.
steve from brisbane
27 Feb 13 at 10:57 pm
Not really cockhead, if you just fucked off as requested, things would really be a lot easier for all concerned.
Huckleberry Chunkwot
27 Feb 13 at 11:10 pm
Dot, I didn’t say they were middle class, I said the hopes were middle class. Gab put up this piece below on OT at 10.01 which outlines a few of the things that got on my goat. No-one working class that I know rabbits on about Mabo and the Franklin Dam fight and other inner-city obsessions. In other words, the framing of the movie was middle class, as in so much film-making about ordinary people. These people were better depicted in the Lantana plot, where they were not caricitures as in The Castle. Kindly enough caricitures, but a bit patronising too. Still, it did stike a chord about home ownership and property rights which was OK.
Gab’s piece:
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Feb 13 at 8:45 am
It’s a bit like Kath and Kim always being so ‘right on’ about trendy Labor things, like disliking the show Border Patrol, or Kel never having a word to say that rings true of a small butcher businessman etc. as Kel’s made to come out with approval of all things Labor.
The implicit ‘this is the way all people think, just like us’, that is found in the media carries over so much into the drama too.
“Once Were Warriors” actually did tell it straight and true. I have sat with my Maori de facto sister-in-law watching that and we were both crying.
But I guess you’ve got to have a laugh, and that was hardly comedy. She also loved The Castle and thought Kenny was a bit OTT re the toilet stuff.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Feb 13 at 8:54 am
I didn’t even bother watching that.
.
28 Feb 13 at 9:00 am
IT
Off to Menangle for the Inter Dominion and a carrot?
Nah.
Dapto for a bone.
kae
3 Mar 13 at 4:18 pm
Kae, how’s the water looking down there? I’m assuming by your posts that you haven’t had to evacuate?
John Mc
3 Mar 13 at 4:21 pm
John Mc
I live on a hill. I’m fine. But I do get cut off when there are floods.
I was heartbroken last Tuesday when I went to work the long way and was concerned that the Warrego was going to flood so came home. Not being at work made me heartbroken… :’(
Sick of the rain though. About nine inches in a week.
kae
3 Mar 13 at 4:38 pm