Friday Frivolity at the PUB

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The Pub

In our esteemed Publican’s absence on his mission of mercy – braving the wild weather and the rotten roads – I declare Friday Night Frivolities open.

Enjoy yourselves in the PUB’s unequalled ambience, remember that our bar and cellar have never yet been found wanting, exchange badinage with the saucy staff, and lap up the music, the stories, the videos …

The traditional FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLE will begin around 7.00pm AEDT (goodness how this will work in Joe6Pack’s absence – but we will do our best), and will be drawn approx 8.00pm AEDT.

As always, name your three favourite numbers (1 – 100 both inclusive) and remember, first in best dressed.

And oh, beHAVE …

 

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Good evening loyal patrons and magnificent co-workers.

What a week!

PMJG blindsided everybody again by announcing Nova Peris will enter parliament as Australia’s First elected Indigenous senator, to much cries of derision by sooks,losers,whinges,wankers,wankettes  and other assorted members of what passes for our elite Msm journalists.

Mad man the lying truckstunter Tony Abbott has announced he will go on a mini election campaign next week  to howls of approval by many psychopaths,idiots suckers,suckeruppers ,fawning brain-dead  janissaries and other assorted members of what passes for our elite msm journalists.

Rain is pouring down in QLD. while other parts of our great land are burning.

Tommorow is Australia day where Proud Aussies will fly their Chinese made flags on their Korean built cars and then get drunk and abuse Chinese and Koreans.

To all of this is I say a great big PPFFFFTTTT  because its ‘RAFFLE NIGHT’.

Now for the benefit of  new patrons and for other people who for the life I me I cannot understand what is so hard about the rules .

At 6.00pm QLD TIME  The raffle will open (I will announce when it is 6.00pm in Qld to help some of you who have started early on the friday night drinks,lucky buggers)

Request your 3 numbers between 1 and 100. First in first served . If your number is taken you can request another but a maximum of 3 numbers per person.

The draw will be held at 7.00pm again Qld time (in case some of you thought you only has 1 second to ask for your numbers)

Again I will determine when it is 7.00pm in QLd. I hopefully would have had a few drinks by then.

The Prize will be announced at the time of the draw or soon after.

Enjoy yourself, welcome to new patrons, join in the fun let drinks be had,stories told,music discussed and lets hope everyone who is stuck in the floods gets home safe shortly.

Happy Australia Day Tommorow.

780 thoughts on “Friday Frivolity at the PUB”

  1. Good Morning Grumplings! 🙂
    Now, it appears to me that Abbott is going into Reid ( http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/guide/reid.htm )
    because they think it is winnable based upon 3 facts:

    1. They did well in that part of the world in the recent Local Council Elections.
    2. The area, now classed as ‘Inner City’, is becoming gentrified as the old properties get bought up by trendy young Professionals for Renovation.
    3. A popular Local Member, John Murphy, is retiring at this election, so the Liberal Party see an opportunity to capitalise on the new Labor candidate not having the personal vote Murphy had.

    However, there seems to be one major problem with the over-confidence of the Liberal Party in this area, according to Antony Green:

    Redistribution

    The name Reid has been retained, but the electorate is roughly two-thirds of the abolished electorate of Lowe and one-third from Reid. At the 2007 election, Lowe had a Labor margin of 7.4% and Reid 16.8%, the new Reid having a margin in-between at 10.8%.

    Assessment

    Safe Labor retain.

    🙂

  2. BB – I’ll give the Positive Tony stunt about a week or so. It will suffer some damage at his NPC presser, and it won’t survive the first week of Parliament.

    Positive Tony is just a smoother-over for the attack lines. It’s meant to buy him some capital so that people won’t be so put off when he goes the political knuckle. There’s nothing behind it, so it can’t be fleshed out. If he sticks to it for the entire NPC speech, he’ll come across as a gormless nong. “Tell us about your positive plans, Tony.” “Well, they’re positive.” Try that for an hour and see where you get.

    Howard flew under the radar in the lead-up to the 1996 election. Abbott’s head is too far above the parapet for that. He did the whole ‘New Positive Direction’ schtick last year. And it failed. This year he’s trying it on with the polls much much closer. He can’t afford for it to fail again, so it won’t last long at all.

  3. Unless the Press Club turns out like this…

    … which it did last year.

    PROOF: when he said “Anything I haven’t spoken about today, please refer to ‘John Howard Glory Years'”… no-one laughed out loud..

    He promised last time he was going to outline policies. Today Michelle Grattan is making the same excuses for his not doing so as she made last year: “Oppositions don’t DO policy.”

  5. Just read through last nights comments. It was basically a selfish, one person rant from someone who has a history of vicious, hateful posts at Poll Bludger. It made for painful reading and regardless of the issue it was incredibly self indulgent. I’m not a moderator and will never be but my vote would be that this place would be a lot better of without this sort of nonsense. I’m sure there are plenty of male hating blogs out there that this person could spend hours on preaching to the converted. But that would mean not ruining a blog where such hatred was not the central theme, wouldn’t it?

    On another matter, I think it was Confessions that mentioned she was getting ready to cancel Foxtel. I spoke to them last week about the costs and the absolute pathetic state of their current programming. Didn’t do me any good at all and all I found out was that their people do not listen. I told her I was only in it for the sport channels so what did she offer me? In her sweet voice, she informed me that I could cancel sport and get entertainment channles such as SoHo (whatever that is) for about ten bucks a month less. Or that she could process my cancellation.

    That last bit was where she stumbled. The script she was reading from said that I didn’t really want to cancel and that when push came to shove, most stay. That’s when I informed her that the NBN is coming down my street in a couple of months and that the whole conversation would be moot when that happens. That put her off a little and she said she would “check to see what she could offer”. She obviously compared my address with the NBN address check and realised that it was true. She was now able to “offer me a slight discount” and refer my issues to management.

    My take? The NBN is getting into their heads and I ws very happy to underline what I will be able to do come June/July. They’re screwed…

  6. jaycee,

    { foreverjanice….I had a shag on a rock once….a cute little thing… }

    I had a shag on a rock with a cute little thing once too.

    Ended with gravel rash on my elbows and knees, but it must have been hell for the cute little thing’s back! 😉

  7. Brisbane is in a bit of a lull right now but it is going to increase again very shortly, from looking at the radar

    I’m with J6P a bit. Most of it is no worse than other ‘wets’ in the past. When HI was a little girl they lost part of their roof one year, and the whole lot the next year.

    The breathless, over-hyped bullshit streaming from child- announcers doesn’t help a lot.

  9. jaycee, Paddy dog weighs in at 50 kgs so a bit more than a ‘cute little thing’ 😀 He is not one to mess with even though he is generally a big sook – he is not an ‘attack’ dog but will defend his own with every ounce of his being.

  10. RO:

    Yes, it was me. I’m planning to ring Foxtel first thing Tuesday and cancel. Seeing the appalling display on Sky Agenda this morning has only strengthened my resolve. Why pay for biased SKy News when I can get biased ABC for free?

  11. muttleemcgee…”I’m with jp6 here a bit…” Sorry, Muttly AND jp6…haven’t got time right now..gotta attend to the horses, but will disprove your false sense of security when I get back!

  12. Good morning everyone, drizzle here this morning, and light long armed shirt required. 🙂
    Aguirre, thank you for your summing up of that writer. 🙂
    BB, your on the ball this morning, and good umpiring last night. 🙂

    Disappointed for Li Na, my Mum was using the ‘b’ word and the ‘s’ word, I nearly fell off my chair. She has been living alone too long, me thinks, she always went by the saying, if you can’t say anything good don’t say anything at all. I was giggling like a school girl every time she ‘swore’. 🙂

  13. http://www.smh.com.au/business/rolling-out-the-red-carpet-as-chinese-tourism-takes-off-20130125-2dc8i.html

    Recently I suggested we needed more Chinese tourists but I am seriously behind the times. There is now some info available on the numbers of incoming tourists by nationality. Total numbers are up with a sharp increase in Chinese visitors more than offsetting declines from other regions.

    For Australia, 635,700 Chinese tourists have visited in the past year.
    * Britain (over 400K)
    * New Zealand (over 1million).

    Chinese tourists already spend more than anyone else, contributing $3.8 billion to Australia’s economy last year.

    Chinese go to capital cities but contrary to the popular caricature of the Chinese tourist, (jumping on and off tour buses with a giant zoom lens) only about half of first-time visitors arrive as part of a group tour.
    Return visitors are much more likely to take an independent approach to travel, with less than one-third arriving as part of a travel package.

    Spending time to visit family members studying in Australia, and tagging a holiday to the trip, helps explain a phenomenon that results in Chinese tourists spending 42 per cent more – about $7000 each – on each trip than other international visitors.

    I reckon this is good news and we still need more of them.

  14. I’m planning to ring Foxtel first thing Tuesday and cancel. Seeing the appalling display on Sky Agenda this morning has only strengthened my resolve. Why pay for biased SKy News when I can get biased ABC for free?

    I made that call 6 months ago and have never looked back. You won’t either.

    My objection isn’t so much to the politics, it’s having to PAY to watch ads, like a dozen per 1/2 hour, and to subsidizing Murdoch.

    Good riddance.

  15. Be afraid, be very afraid. You want to know why Abbott can afford all the glossy BS Booklets and Ads from now till close of counting on Election Night?

    Remember how the Coalition have been funded by foreigners, with financial interests in Australia, such as the Vesteys, before?

    Well, I have just been reliably informed by #1 Son that it’s happening again. This time the funding is coming from America. Yep, you guessed it, the Koch-roach Brothers want to have an influence over our little election this year.

    Of course they want a Christian Fundamentalist to run this country. One who believes in all the Dinosaurs roamed with man, Creationist palaver.
    Plus who will do whatever the Resource-exploiting, Tax-minimising creeps, and their great mates Rupert, Gina & Twiggy, want him to do.

    It’s where Cory Bernardi has been since he was released from duties as Parliamentary Secretary to Abbott. Getting his riding instructions from The Heartland Institute and A.L.E.C.:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council

    Motto “Limited Government, Free Markets, Federalism”

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a 501(c)(3) American organization composed of legislators, businesses and foundations which produces model legislation for state legislatures and says it promotes free-market and conservative ideas.[2][3][4] According to the organization’s website, members share a common belief that “government closest to the people” is “fundamentally more effective, more just, and a better guarantor of freedom than the distant, bloated federal government In a Dec. 2011 opinion piece critical of ALEC which appeared in The Nation magazine, John Nichols described ALEC as a “collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators.”[6]

    It’s where the ‘Local Boards’ to control everything comes from. Local petty dictatorships of a hive mind that set about slicing and dicing everything the Social Democratic Safety Net has established in our society. Then Privatising it and getting rid of any Unions from it, followed by Industrial Relations Law ‘improvements’.

    Oh yes, Tony Abbott has plenty of policies ‘ready to go’. Despicable ones. Which he is going to try and obfuscate about until the next election and only talk about in general pablum terms. And cloak in his ‘Good Guy Tony’ Koch-roach carapace.

  16. http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/premier-colin-barnett-sets-election-rules-for-liberal-mps/story-e6frg12c-1226562618008

    Premier Colin Barnett sets election rules for Liberal MPs
    by: Joe Spagnolo, Political Editor
    From: The Sunday Times
    January 26, 2013 7:41PM

    PREMIER Colin Barnett will kick off election today with his first major policy announcement of the campaign, but has warned Liberal MPs they are “one serious mistake” away from losing government.

    Despite being streets ahead of Labor in opinion polling, Mr Barnett has outlined strict campaign rules to his troops, including “ideally not speaking to the media at all if we can avoid it during the election campaign”, according to sources inside the meeting.

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-reports-you-are-not-allowed-to-see-20130126-2ddss.html

    The reports you are not allowed to see
    January 27, 2013
    Farrah Tomazin

    THE Labor Party has accused Premier Ted Baillieu of hiding sensitive reports used to make some of the government’s most controversial decisions – from sacking public servants and cutting TAFE funding, to keeping the troubled myki ticketing system.
    Despite promising greater transparency, the government has refused to release a series of taxpayer-funded reports, which Labor argues were the basis of significant policy changes, or have been used ”selectively” by ministers for political attacks.

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/state-school-selloff-to-build-more-private-schools-20130126-2ddsj.html

    State school sell-off to build more private schools
    January 27, 2013
    Farrah Tomazin

    HUNDREDS of old public schools are lying vacant around the state – and many could soon be sold off by the Baillieu government to build more private schools.

    In a move critics fear could exacerbate the drift to the private system, the government wants to offload some of the land to Catholic and independent schools, arguing it will improve schooling choices for students and parents.

    The proposal is buried in an economic strategy released by Premier Ted Baillieu and Treasurer Kim Wells days before Christmas. It reveals that the Education Department ”currently holds in excess of 200” vacant sites, some of which have been idle for years following mergers or closures.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/health/religious-groups-and-employers-battle-contraception-mandate.html?hp

    A Flood of Suits Fights Coverage of Birth Control
    By ETHAN BRONNER
    Published: January 26, 2013

    In a flood of lawsuits, Roman Catholics, evangelicals and Mennonites are challenging a provision in the new health care law that requires employers to cover birth control in employee health plans — a high-stakes clash between religious freedom and health care access that appears headed to the Supreme Court.

  17. Just a weather report. I would have to say the wind is very strong but no worse than we get every few years though not too much rain only about 30ml. Inside my garage is still dry where in other times such as the last 2 years we have had water through it.

  20. BB,

    Re C@tmomma’s “‘Good Guy Tony’ Koch-roach carapace” – any chance of an appropriate “photograph”?

    Please oh please …

  21. Confessions,
    I also had a whinge about political bias and, to her credit, the Foxtel girl agreed. I really do like my sport and I will miss it if I give Foxtel away before NBN comes my way. I also pointed out to her that I can watch ANY game by going to that sport’s portal rather than takewhat Foxtel give me. I think they are getting the message but that their number one strategy is going to come via the political party that they own.

  22. msadventure2,

    [ We are not in the catchment area luckily Scorpio. BTW stay safe up there.]

    Thanks for caring. We are fine up here. The storm system passed here about 30 hours ago and we are just getting occasional gusts & showers now.

    It certainly left a trail of destruction though and kept all our emergency services busy for a few days.

  23. fiona,
    Re: BB,

    Re C@tmomma’s “‘Good Guy Tony’ Koch-roach carapace” – any chance of an appropriate “photograph”?

    Please oh please …

    +1 😀

  24. We’re getting nice, straight up-and-down misty mountain rain up here on the Broken Bay ridge. Should last for a couple of days they say. 🙂

  26. R O, well played. NBN is ahead of schedule in my area, starting late in the year, originally next year. Trying my best to dissuade anyone from using foxtel

  27. C@tmomma,

    { We’re getting nice, straight up-and-down misty mountain rain up here on the Broken Bay ridge. )

    Is that anything like Smokey Mountain Rain up on Breakback Mountain? 😉

  31. Now, Muttly and Jp6….”Condition, normal…nothing to see…” Agreed that one weather event does not mean push the panic button on climate change. However considering the number of ‘records’ on weather events that have been broken, deems a little attention…but we will put that aside for the moment and consider the longer picture.
    I live in the mallee districts..a marginal farming district near the Goyder Line.
    This district, back in the fifties and sixties was renown for its’ production of Duram Wheat…a hard wheat favoured for pasta grown under favourable conditions.
    I have relatives who have lived and farmed this district since the late nineteenth century…from the time of horse teams of five or more pulling the equiptment to now with most of the modern cons’.
    In the days of the horse teams, it took around three weeks to a month to get the crop into the ground….this meant that there had to be reliable seasonal rain that could be judged by the human instinct as to when to start sowing and when to commence harvesting etc.
    If one consults his trusty ; “The Statesman’s Pocket Year Book” (of South Australia) one can read there was double the acreage cropped in 1949 than there was in 1959 . In 1949, many farms out here were still using horse teams…by 1959 all were using tractors of one kind or another.
    WHY?
    Without going into the detail of changed varieties, manpower, profit margins etc…I will propose that the same problem started to rear its’ ugly head then that is so serious now ….the weather has become so erratic, so unreliable that the farmer has to get his crop into the ground as quickly as possible after that first rain and that can’t be done without the most modern machinery….and at the other end, he has to get that same crop off the paddock as quick as possible when it is ready before a sudden storm wipes it out altogether or downgrades it to stockfeed.
    I will leave it there as it is getting into long-winded explanations, but to conclude..because of the perciptible and actual changed long-term weather conditions, and necessity being the mother of invention, farming practices have had to change with the changing climate conditions. And they will have to change even more in the future.

  34. C@tmomma,

    [ scorpio,
    So they filmed that video looking out my back door! ]

    If you step outside, this is what is likely to happen to you!

  36. Aaaaargh! Instead of downloading their latest “plan”, I viewed Tony’s “book” by mistake.

    What a shocker!

    It DOES include Ton’y 2012 plan for Australia (Chapter 1). You guessed it:

    * Take pressure off cost of living.

    * Boats

    * Debt.

    * Sack workers.

    * No to the Carbon Tax.

    * Boats again.

    * NO POLICIES.

    (Chuck bucket reqd.)

    Click to access StrongAustralia.pdf

    Is this man aware just how much of a figure of fun he has become?

    You can’t play Lycra Man, dress-up in Firey drag, comport yourself in budgie smugglers, foretell the destruction of whole cities, and then walk away from interviews (which Grattan gives the Big Tick of Approval to, apparently) and then flick to switch to Mr. Positive.

    Have a look at some fo the photos.

    THEY’RE ATROCIOUS!

  37. jaycee

    No argument from me on climate change – just that this weather is not unusual for Qld. Most summers see some sort of storm damage, although there is no doubt that the frequency of these ‘weather events’ keeps increasing.

    Had a really big tree here when we bought the place. I am so glad we took it down

  38. BB
    I really really appreciate your kind offer but I don’t think I’ll bother having a look.:-)

  40. ALERT TO ALL PATRONS!!!

    My computer was attacked by three Trojans this morning. Fortunately my security thing caught and quarantined all of them, but I have updated my virus definitions (even though they were updated about 5am) and am now running a FULL scan.

  41. gravel3,

    [ BB
    I really really appreciate your kind offer but I don’t think I’ll bother having a look. ]

    Thought the same thing myself. Why ruin a perfectly good day putting yourself through “that”! 😉

  42. Joe6pack

    Just dropped in and realise that my lotto numbers came up. Thank you Joe.

    Joe if I may could I ask you to find a good cause/charity that will benefit from your kindness, of course if you wish to retain the raffle prize money for next friday out of it that would be perfectly acceptable. I am sure you can find a worthy cause that could do with a small donation.

    Again thank you. cheers

  43. Now I have to leave to take some garden rubbish to the recycle centre.

    Have a great afternoon everyone.

  44. C@tmomma @ 8.50

    The data on Reid are out of date. That was the situation leading up to 2010 election. There was an 8.2% swing against ALP there, resulting in the seat being a marginal on 2.7%.

    Some of the booths had very substantial 10%+ swings – I might dare to suggest in some of the areas around Auburn, Flemington, Lidcombe, perhaps representative of rather patriarchal middle eastern cultural background

  45. I watched all those photos, BB. Thanks.

    I noticed how each MP is uneasy being close to TA and vice-versa. There is definitely no unity there. Nobody seems to be able to play the part. It’s all contrivance. TA wishes to look prime ministerial but he fails.

  47. jaycee

    I wasn’t arguing against climate change was just saying that the rain that we are having now is normal for summer in qld.
    Cando is panicking people by throwing open the floodgates ignoring the experts advice.
    When Brissie doesn’t flood and it was never going too he will scream look at me I saved Brisbane from flooding when labor couldn’t
    It’s more windy than rainy here atm but the rain will get stronger soon then will be gone in a few days.
    When Bris. flooded in 2011 we had weeks of constant heavy rain.This time it hasn’t rained for about 2 months.

  50. laocooniii,
    I thought the information on Antony Green’s blog was out of date but I just couldn’t countenance the thought that Antony would be that way. 🙂

    The points I have made about Reid still apply though.

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