REFRESHING RAFFLES FRIDAY

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WELCOME PATRONS TO ANOTHER EDITION OF FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLES.

AFTER WHAT HAS BEEN A PRETTY TUMULTUOUS WEEK IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IT’S TIME TO KICK BACK,HAVE A FEW DRINKS AND RELAX.

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APPARENTLY “THE MANAGER” HAS DECIDED THAT HE DOESN’T CARE IF I DON,T MAKE ANY CASH AND THE POOR DOGS WILL HAVE NO TREATS(sorry boys) , SO HE HAS PUT ON FREE DRINKS TONIGHT. ENJOY.

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BIG NIGHT IN THE SPORTS BAR WITH THE FOOTBALL AND THE MIGHTY BLACK CAVIAR RACING AT MOONEY VALLEY.

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THE  DISCO IS BYO MUSIC SO CRANK UP YOUR FAVORITE TUNES.

BUSHFIRE BILL LIVED UP TO HIS AWESOME REPUTATION LAST WEEK AND WON NOTHING ON LOTTO SO THE KITTY REMAINS THE SAME AT $60.75.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND REMEMBER EVEN WITH ALL THE GOINGS ON IN POLITICS AT THE MOMENT WE ARE STILL LUCKY TO LIVE IN THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY.

799 thoughts on “REFRESHING RAFFLES FRIDAY”

  1. Yup, Julia Gilard has been taken for a ride by too many men in her life. She is too kind.
    She has her Praetorian Guard around her now and they are all good men as far as I know: Shorten, Bourke, Dr Emerson, Stephen Conroy, Wayne Swan, Mark Dreyfus, Graham Perrett.

  2. TLBD,
    I was such a mad Hollies fan that I searched all over Sydney to find a movie theatre showing the film that the lead singer was in. 🙂

  4. Just dropped in to catch up and what do I see? A daft poll with yet more
    ‘Who do you like best, Rudd or Gillard’ questions. Have the events of Thursday gone right over the heads of the fools who write the questions? Why ask such stupid questions when there’s no chance Chickenman is going to be leader. I had hopes these pollsters would now stop it with the Rudd/Giilard garbage, but it seems they can’;t think of anything else to ask. What about an Abbott/Turnbull preferred Liberal leader question? That would make a nice change. Fat chance of it ever happening though.

  10. leonetwo,
    If they keep asking that question, you can only draw the conclusion that they are being deliberately mischievous, or as pollsters they don’t have a clue about what polling should be used for. Probably both.
    That is, deliberately and mischievously misusing polling. 🙂

  12. Well congratulations Pubsketeers!

    You can add another KPI to your kit. I used to LOVE reading through the days posts at PB and would read each and every one because each and every one had real value.

    I had given up being able to do that again.

    But I just read todays PUB posts and they were just as great as PB was in the good old days!

    Thank you!

  14. One thing is for certain. It will be forbidden in my family to name any child, dog, cat, bird or hamster ‘Kevin’, for the next 3 generations. For no other reason than I must have read it 45,000 times on PB already.

    Sorry to all the Kevins out there, but them’s the breaks.

  16. I read a few posts over at Feud Central. Even when Rudd says it is over his fan’s can’t accept it. I think the ALP MP’s who supported Rudd have accepted it though, and it appears the bulk of the MSM have accepted it… so I’m not sure how long the fan delusion can last.

  18. I’m starting to think that ‘we need to return to the reform of the Hawke and Keating governments’ is aged male Labor politician code for ‘we need a bloke in charge’. How can anyone say that Julia Gillard’s government has not been one of reform?

    Old blokes longing for a return to the imaginary glory days of their younger years would do well to take themselves to the local bowlo where they will find lots of other old bloikes already reminiscing about the good old days.

  19. Space Kidette @ 10:27pm,

    It has been so good to be at The PUB for the past three days – even if from further away than usual, and with a little laptop that doesn’t always behave as I would like.

    The main themes I have taken from the conversation have been good sense and realistic optimism. (For me, dying on my feet rather than living on my knees definitely counts as being both realistic and optimistic.)

    The company, the music, the humour, the tolerance – and the free drinkies – what a place!

  20. Best I not miss BB’s next Abduls nosh. Despite my avatar, am very much a Sydneysider. In fact, I once lived a couple of hundred metros from said fine eating establishment.

  22. It’s worth the occasional glance over the road just to witness the mental acrobatics of the Ruddsters. Hilariously, bemused has cited Mark Baker, who dutifully points out how all the events were a fatal blow to Gillard.

    They haven’t got to Andrew Bolt yet but they must be getting closer.

  25. Great idea re GG hosting a luncheon or similar for mothers and fathers who were there on Thursday . And C@tmomma , that theatre in Campsie was my local . Small world !

  28. If we’re talking about code in some of the recent statements about what JG ‘must do’, I’d note that there’s a recurring theme about commentators wishing her and Swan stayed away from ‘class warfare’, as if sticking up for the interests of the working class/poor is a *bad* thing.

  32. leonetwo
    March 23, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    I’m starting to think that ‘we need to return to the reform of the Hawke and Keating governments’ is aged male Labor politician code for ‘we need a bloke in charge’. How can anyone say that Julia Gillard’s government has not been one of reform?

    Spot on, leone. I am sure it is code or dog whistling for the good old macho male days.

    They don’t even realize the irony. Gillard has the consensus approach of Hawke anyway, plus many of the reforms passed have been every bit as challenging and difficult as the Hawke-Keating economic reforms.

    History will judge this as one of the great-achieving governments.

  34. A return to the glory years of Hawke and Keating as mooted by those resignation speeches; especially Marn saying that the factions should pick the ministry again. Yet no one pulled him up saying that it was his man Chicken Kev who stopped that.

    No looking back, the way is forward.

  38. msadventure2…..what was the theatre called ? I think it started with O . A guy used to play the organ before the movie started .

  39. It won’t be The Hawke Way or The Keating Way: it’ll be The Ranga Way.

    Seriously, JGPM has more grasp of detail and what’s required for Australia (rather than to stay in government) than those two did. Given a bit of tailwind she’ll be uncatchable.

  40. Being one of Bruce Springsteen’s 15,000 back up singers for three hours is one of life’s great concert experiences. I saw 2 of his concerts this week in Sydney and the man is just incredible. What a show.
    The Friday night crowd was pumped and ready even before he came on whereas the Wednesday night crowd was more reserved and needed prodding to get up. Friday night was a concert In the true meaning of the word with the audience helping to drive him on.

    If you live in Victoria you must go and see him this weekend. Indoors is best and standing area in the front is best of all.

    This is from Friday nights encore………

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=6wT2zWbHOkI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6wT2zWbHOkI

  44. I remember back them we had intermission. Cartoon/serial/ newreel first, intermission and then the main feature.

  47. Philvee

    I saw his first concert up here in Brisvegas. What a show. He did a cover of The Saints – Just Like Fire Would – especially for us Brisbanites he said. Highlight for me was Bruce and Tom Morello doing ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’. Three and a quarter hours of brilliance.

  48. Thank you msadventure ! And yes tlbd , that was the one ! Funnily enough , I have an electric piano that is the same brand . It is on loan at the moment to an amazing 17 year old jazz pianist . His name is Kade Brown .

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