Feverish Footy Finals Friday, And Would You Like Fries A Raffle With That?

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I’m not sure where Joe6pack is, and there’s no draft Friday thread so … this is going up as a work-in-progress. Witticisms, pictures, etc., will be added as (and if) they occur to moi.

Meanwhile, start kicking back, or forward, or whichever way you want the ball to go.

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Have fun.


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Yeah, yeah, moi knows – sooooooo last week.

Alright then, for all you NRL fans, who’s gunna win?

These guys?


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Or these?

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Though you’ll end up with a flock of bird-brains either way …

Meanwhile, for non-Victorians (and, indeed, Victorians) who may have missed this:

In time to avoid the grand final frenzy he famously deplored, Australia loses one of its great journalists, writers and voices — the inestimable Keith Dunstan. Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence provides a touching tribute.

KEITH DUNSTAN, as befitting the quiet man with the bow tie who co-founded the Anti-Football League, surely timed his departure from this mortal coil to avoid non-attendance at today’s Grand Final, considered a defiant act of notorious calumny and civic treachery in this State of Victoria.


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A gentleman in every respect.

Now, Joe6pack’s story is …

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Hello Pubsters. Running a little late. Stuck in traffic. Really truly I was.

Of course we believe you, Boss – wouldn’t dare do anything else!

Joe also mentioned a long weekend – I feel very jealous of all you lucky people in the ACT, NSW, Queensland, and South Australia. However, whatever the length of your weekend, I hope everyone has a delightful one.

And may the best bunch of bird-brains win.

427 thoughts on “Feverish Footy Finals Friday, And Would You Like Fries A Raffle With That?”

  1. Gorgeousdunny,
    yeesh, these people can surely hold a grudge. Although looking at this so called true believers page I’m a bit relieved that people who are writing in the comments section are getting fed up with this person’s pathetic rants.

  3. gorgeousd

    You have to pity people that won’t admit they were/are wrong. I know everybody can have a touch of the rose coloured glasses, but at least we can admit that everything went as well as it could have. There is no way anybody can tell me that Julia didn’t do the best she could, for the whole country, and history, even though I probably won’t be around to see it, will record her excellent management and progressive policies, even it they don’t survive. I want Labor to do nothing more than fight and keep the NBN, Carbon Price, NDIS, better education funding, the all purpose clinics….. and all the good stuff that has been passed in the last three years.

  5. One thing that made me laugh about this “true believers” site is the author’s repetitive and obsessive claims that Julia destabilised the party even though there no leaks during the campaign and furthermore, she removed herself from the limelight so she wouldn’t be a distraction. I think the cyber-Rudds are trying to destroy her legacy and reputation in order to prop up the relatively flimsy one of their hero.

  8. Labor MPs will require an incredible amount of belief and determination to uphold JG’s legacy. I will only be satisfied when I see a vigorous defence over the next three years.

  9. 2gravel,
    Keeping in mind that Clive Palmer will control the Senate from 1 July 2014, I don’t think there is any concern that he will allow anything to do with health or education to be repealed. I base this on his announced policies prior to the election. There is no doubt however, that he will support the repeal of the Carbon Price and the Mining Tax.
    Where he stands on the NBN is unknown.

  10. gigilene
    We won’t see that for as long as Rudd hangs around because his minions will still grovel and boot-lick and prop up their hero. He still has a whole lot more white-anting and destruction ahead of him. Trashing Julia Gillard’s legacy will be top of his to-do list.His cardinals will be only too happy to fall in line.

    Rudd should have been expelled from the party, but instead he will be returned to the front bench because neither Shorten nor Albo will have the guts to refuse him a shadow portfolio. You don’t need a crystal ball or tarot cards to kniw what will happen after that.

    One line from that Spectator piece says it all –
    “No Labor leader is safe while he remains in caucus.”
    Someone has to summon up the intestinal fortitude to grab Rudd by the collar (or somewhere further down) and tell him it’s way past time he resigned his seat.

  11. I don’t think Palmer will stick by anything he said during the election campaign. He was trying to win votes, he said whatever he thought would do that. He tried to be all things to all voters and people, sadly, fell for his schtick. I don’t think Palmer gives a rat’s arse about public health, public education or the NBN.

  12. Thanks for The Spectator link, GL.

    I think she got it about right, which may be why that silly sod at PB hates her as well as JG.

  13. Leone, in that LNL podcast, Margo said she thought PUP picked up a lot of the ‘protest’ vote – voters fed up with the Labor destabilising but not wanting Abbott. She saw the Indi result as further evidence.

  14. Back after a quick visit to hospital – OH’s dressing was causing problems. All fixed now, and he’s a happy chappie again.

  15. Barry & Leone,
    Thank you for those two transcripts, which I have now pdf’d for eternal reference.

  16. Small children are no respecters in regard to the idea that I was up late. Bacon and scrambled eggs in train.

    Even the Sun is not up yet.

  17. I thought there was something smelly about Barnarby’s attempt to dodge responsibility for a taxpayer rort in relation to “that” wedding. Something was playing on my mind regarding the wedding date and when Bolt started his Channel 10 show.

    [ Mr Joyce today said he had written to the Finance Department to correct his error and enclosed a cheque for about $650 to cover the cost he had wrongly billed taxpayers.

    “This is ambiguous so I have repaid them,” he told News Corp Australia.

    The travel was claimed for Mr Joyce to go from Channel Ten Studios in Sydney to the hotel he was staying at on the NSW central coast in December 2011. ]
    http://www.news.com.au/national-news/barnaby-joyce-to-pay-up-for-comcar-used-for-radio-host-michael-smith8217s-wedding/story-fncynjr2-1226730056386

    This when the Bolt Report started on Channel 10.

    [The Bolt Report is an Australian Sunday morning political discussion show. Broadcast by Network Ten on Sunday mornings at 10 am and repeated at 4:30 pm, it is hosted by conservative commentator and Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. ]
    [ The programme premiered on 8 May 2011. ]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolt_Report

    This story has more holes in it than a colander. Barnaby went to the wedding on a Saturday evening yet went on the Bolt Report on a Saturday according to him but was actually on a Sunday nearly 5 months later.

    They are appalling liers, these Conservatives. They and their media mates crucified Julia Gillard for 3 years for something that wasn’t a lie and yet every single thing that comes out of their mouths is a lie.

    Question: How do you tell when a LNP pollie is lying?
    Answer: If their lips are moving, they’re lying!

  18. On the occasions when I get interested enough to engage in ” troll warfare ” I never let them get to me. Admittedly, it is hard at times, but they’re not worth the angst.

    Always, I keep a picture in my mind of a pinstripe suited, blue tie wearing, comb overed, snaggle toothed, red pock marked faced man of small, yet rotund stature spitting halitosis laden saliva at a the screen conveying my latest insult. The vision, should we call it that, expands into the room and we can see that the walls are covered in photo frames. Most of them of our troll, sycophantic smile and toadying demeanor firmly in place, and various LNP luminaries. The one with the Prime Idiot taking pride of place. For some reason the picture with J Bishop, smiling vacantly into the lens, only her eyes revealing the dark loneliness of an empty soul, has been relegated to the bottom left hand corner of the display. I do find the one photo of Christopher Pynne, gazing winsomely at a punnet of strawberries, quite odd though.

    As the debate continues, our troll becoming more and more devoid of reason, intelligence and doubling up on the shrillness, I see a hair bun enter. It appears to be as tightly bound as the overly powdered, mean faced, garishly lipsticked woman it sits atop. She is, indeed, the trolls ” little woman “. He barely acknowledges her as she sets down the fine china cup, the portrait of good queen Bess facing him–it always has to face him–bows to the wax effigy of JWH in the corner and leaves the room.

    This is as far as I have dared to go.

  19. GD
    I heard that comment and I agree with it. I’m just saddened that so many people were so easily fooled. I think a lot of voters thought PUP was a safe place to park a protest vote because it would have no success or even worse, thought voting for PUP was a bit of a joke. I doubt any of them seriously thought PUP would get anywhere near the votes it did. The moral here – don’t make stupid protest votes.

    I think Palmer is a dangerous man. He’s not going to order his minions – er senators – to vote against the government. They will go for maximum ‘will they or won’t they’ publicity and then fall in line and support the government on everything.

  20. Ian,

    … the one photo of Christopher Pynne, gazing winsomely at a punnet of strawberries …

    Delicious!

  21. I’ve been looking at footage from the fleet review and it seems PMBO was not accompanied by his wife. Instead he seems to have taken Peta Credlin.

  22. If Rudd doesn’t piss off soon he will be the only leadership story in Canberra over the next three years. It’s what the place lives on – leadership speculation. And say goodbye to any chance of a one term Tony.

  24. Ian

    [I keep a picture in my mind of a pinstripe suited, blue tie wearing, comb overed, snaggle toothed, red pock marked faced man of small, yet rotund stature spitting halitosis laden saliva at a the screen conveying my latest insult.]

    Neill James to a tee.

  28. Debt Watch
    I forgot this – from yesterday.

    Govt has announced it will borrow at least $2.1 billion next week. There is an index bond size yet to be confirmed— Stephen Koukoulas (@TheKouk) October 4, 2013

    So…..
    Total borrowings for this week – $2.1 billion.
    Total borrowings since 9 September – $9.2 billion.
    And more to come.

  29. Leone,
    Only Labor Govts are reckless if they borrow – Debt is only bad under Labor….it isn’t surprising that the media are absolutely silent about Joho borrowing 10 billion dollars as soon as they got their bums on the treasury benches.

  30. Leone and GD,

    While I agree that PUP could have been the beneficiary of a substantial amount of the “protest” vote Australia wide it is a too simple an explanation for Qld. PUP stood candidates in all 150 electorates and achieved 5.49% of primary votes in the HoR Australi wide. Here in Qld they achieved 11.02%, far outperforming the Greens. This figure is a bit too high to be claiming that “protest” votes make up a substantial part of it.

  31. I think I made a stuff-up in my comment @ 4.06pm.
    Trying to link the reason for Barnarby being in Sydney for a Sunday interview (which could possibly been pre-recorded at Ch10 Saturday morning) and then a extra quick trip by Comcar to the NSW central Coast for the wedding plus a plane trip to Moree where Barnaby doesn’t even live (there’s a suggestion that Moree was supposed to be Parliamentary business yet Barnaby said he had to get home.

    None of it stacks up to qualify for the taxpayer to pick up the tab. He must have also claimed the airfare to Sydney plus accommodation for something outside the guidelines surely.

    I hope he gets well and truly grilled on this when Parliament resumes. The MSM won’t touch it you can bet.

  34. re the abbott and Clive Palmer. I think the abbott is going to have to handle Clive with kid gloves because if he pisses him off there will be big problems. I see the abbott crawling on all fours at Clive’s feet just to keep him on side. the prime idiot will not be able to silence Clive like he did Pauline Hanson.

  36. It wasn’t all that long ago that Hockey was whining about Labor borrowing $150 million a day but it seems more than twice that amount is now perfectly OK. One rule for Labor, another entirely different one for the Coalition…..

  37. When I was sweet sixteen I had my favourite queens and princesses. It was mainly their beauty that I admired, not their titles. In the same way I adulated some actors for their charm.

  38. [ This contrasted with The Bolt Report’s 2012 ratings share which regularly exceeded that of Insiders. ]

    Blimey! I’m not sure whether this is a good reflection on Andrew Bolt or a bad one on Cassidy for letting the standard of his show deteriorate so much that even a wangker like Bolt, heading a show that nobody watches, can get higher ratings?

  40. scorps

    [“I wasn’t thinking but I wasn’t doing anything sneaky,” he said.”]

    Standard.

  41. Janice, Abbott will give Palmer and the Mad PUPs everything they want. The LDP bloke from NSW may as well be with them, he’ll vote to sell off everything not nailed down, before getting contractors to prise out the remaining nails. Family First will vote for families, as long as those families are rich Christians who think climate change is crap, the DLP bloke may do the same.
    There are hookers in Fyshwick less screwed than the Australian nation.

  42. I used to sing this regularly about 35 years ago. Hope it brings back memories for the Pub’s lady commenters.

  45. AJ,
    Well, I just think Palmer will only give the abbott everything he wants if the abbott is careful to flatter, praise and crawl to him. IMO Palmer will have them all crawling to him because Palmer knows a hell of lot about the lot of them and if they piss him off, he will not be afraid to throw the grenades.

  46. Here’s something I found a number of years ago. If you look up Wikipedia on many of these old country/folk songs, there is often quite a tale behind them.

    [ Clifton T. Clowers was born on 30 October 1891, at Center Ridge, Arkansas, son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Prince Clowers. In July 1919 he married Esther Bell. He was a veteran of World War I and a Deacon in Mountain View Baptist Church. He became immortalized in the 1960s when his nephew, Merle Kilgore Clowers, wrote “Wolverton Mountain”.[4][5] He lived most of his life on a farm located on the northern edge of the mountain.

    On his 100th birthday, Clowers was visited by the writers of the song, Claude King and Merle Kilgore.[6]

    Clowers died aged 102 on Monday, 15 August 1994 at his home in Clinton, Arkansas, and was buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery. ]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverton_Mountain

  47. It looks like I was right about Fridget and Brances displaying their charms in an attempt to catch the eye of His Royal Hotness. True to form at least one of them wriggled into the usual too-tight white gear.

    Warning – you may need that bucket again.

    Prince Harry received a warm welcome from the prime ministerial family, including daughters Bridget and Frances, as he stepped off a hired cruiser at Admiralty House wharf in Kirribilli just before 4pm on Saturday.

    “They’re both very excited to see you,” said Prime Minister Tony Abbott as he introduced his daughters as well as his wife Margie and escorted the fourth in line to the British throne up the sandstone steps to Kirribilli House for a reception.

    Prince Harry then struck up a conversation with Bridget, who was dressed in a tight white skirt with shoulders bared, while Frances and her father walked hand in hand behind them down the driveway and into the prime ministerial residence.

    Followed by some forelock tugging and grovelling from the Blood Oaf.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/today-everyone-feels-like-a-monarchist-abbott-welcomes-prince-harry-20131005-2v0qb.html

  49. Here’s another one I looked up.

    [ “Tom Dooley” is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina. It is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. This version was a multi-format hit, reaching #1 in Billboard, the Billboard R&B listing, and appearing in the Cashbox country music top 20. It fits within the wider genre of Appalachian “sweetheart murder ballads,” and “Tom Dooley” is based on a real event. ]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dooley_%28song%29

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