LAZY FRIDAY NIGHT

joe6pack Friday night

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It’s a hot Humid Night after a hot humid day.

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The summer doldrums have set in.

We have a election up here but nobody is taking much notice. People are pollied out and are sick of bad news.

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Whatever happened to pollies making us feel happy about ourselves and our lives.

The constant negativity is really becoming a bummer.

Fear and loathing is all that seems to be in the media.

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Raffles will re commence after the Australia day long weekend. I am learning the words to our National Anthem so I can as ordered stand up and sing it at midday. Want a wank

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But It is Friday Night at “The Pub” so lets have a break and relax.

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158 thoughts on “LAZY FRIDAY NIGHT”

  5. [ “Take us to Australia please or we will die here.

    “Please hear us Mr Peter Dutton. We know you are different, not cruel.” ]

    What???????????

    He’s an ex Qld copper. He’s not only as bad as the rest of the miserable LNP lot, but probably worse than most of them!

    Different?????????????

    Somebody is kidding you!

  7. By some sort of coincidence, two movies which each have as their core music that is compelling and destined to last are both being programmed on the Nine Network (at least in NSW) in the early hours of this Saturday morning.

    Deliverance, with its compelling Duelling Banjos, is broadcast at 0015 on Nine while at 0310 on Gem The Third Man with its haunting Harry Lime theme, played out on the zither, goes out on the airwaves.

  8. Scorps, the poor buggers could be forgiven for thinking anyone would be better than Morriscum. Little do they know the whole bloody bunch of are rotten to the core.

  9. Bushfire Bill,

    This one is specially for you:

  10. scorpio6to2

    He’s an ex Qld copper.

    Lordy does that bit of info make it all become clear about Dutton. Heck the old Joh joke was made for him. The scene ,Joh has taken his cabinet to a restaurant, the waiter approaches….
    .
    Waiter: Ah Mr Petersen, what would you like to order ?
    Joh: I’ll have a rump steak
    Waiter: And for the vegetables?
    Joh: They’ll have the same.

  11. Brian,

    Even if I were awake at those hours – which I certainly don’t intend being tonight – there is no way I’d watch Deliverance. I’m far too much of a wimp.

  12. 7.5 has totally lost the plot. Some tennis player and some muso both of no news consequence.

  13. Fiona,
    I agree with your sentiments as to the movie. It’s the clash of the duelling banjos that I find fascinating. I won’t be watching or recording either movie; I’ve never seen Deliverance, I’ve seen The Third Man so many times that I remember most of it from the rather naive Joseph Cotton’s arrival in Vienna, through the meeting of Cotton and Wells on the Ferris Wheel, on to the chase through the sewers; a tour de force from the very talented David Lean.

  14. What’s the third man about?

    I have rescued a large green frog from our letterbox. How he got in who knows.
    So now he is happily sitting in a shallow bowl of water staring at me with a grin on his mug.
    Ned and syd after initial curiosity have lost interest and are now scoping out the 3 chooks next door that I am looking after for the neighbours . Was worried the heat might get them but are ok.
    OH has made me put out trays of water along the back fence for assorted snakes, lizards, wildlife that are our backdoor neighbours.

  17. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/16/as-sussan-ley-tries-to-patch-the-cuts-to-medicare-the-question-is-why

    http://theconversation.com/australias-unsustainable-health-spending-is-a-myth-26393

    http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21639501-fall-price-oil-and-gas-provides-once-generation-opportunity-fix-bad

  19. Joe6Pack, The Third Man is a mystery thriller set in Vienna back in the forties I think. The film was considered a top knotch production by the Brits when I first saw it but don’t know how it rates now. However, the Harry Lime Theme is a not a piece of music one could ever forget.

  24. BK,
    Yes, the bloody zither. At the time I was taking music lessons and learning all about the instruments that made beautiful sounds. The Harry Lime Theme had me very impressed with the zither!

  25. You know..I swear that Bedford (“Beddy” to her friends) truck has some sort of life-force in it’s interior there somewhere…the bloody thing winked at me as I walked away after giving it a bit of praise and a friendly pat on the mudguard. I know that the wiring under the dashboard is a twisted nightmare with many dead-ends and open circuits there…so I suppose it may just be that one wire is close to earthing out on the all-metal body and with the slightest bump on the body, it touches for just a moment making the indicator flash once…but it was a tad un-nerving… I was thankful the long drive to Echunga had gone well and we had got back all ok…so I gave the mudguard a pat and said ; “Good on yer Beddy!” as i walked away..and blow me down if the indicator didn’t flash a “wink” at me as if to say..; “My pleasure big boy”………cheeky!

  26. yes, Fiona, my memory is not as good as it should be. That movie was Carole Reed’s. Checking, I see that Graham Greene had his finger in the screen play.

  27. I should have noted that the main indicators are large circular orange lamps fixed on the top of the mudguards.

  30. Joe6pack, Janice, BK,

    Yes, set in post-WW2 Vienna, which was a city – like Berlin – divided among the four victors. The story revolves around Harry Lime, an American gone rogue and involved with the black market in antibiotics, presumed (at the start of the film) to be dead.

    Lots of dirty work at the crossroads.

    I’d be almost certain, Joe, that Mr Bushfire has it in his library – it is right up there in the greatest ever films.

  32. Brian,

    Graham Greene was definitely involved – and I’ve had that particular volume in my hands over the past few days – it is one of the residents of my study, and is now well and truly dusted and reshelved. I must dig out The Power and the Glory to keep it company.

  35. The zither was one of the first musical instruments I came across. As a 6 yo my teacher brought one in and played it for us. How a primary school teacher in NZ would own one let alone play it I’ll never know.

  39. I have a horrible suspicion that there’s a zither lurking somewhere in this house.

    But then, the only modern Western musical instruments I can say for sure aren’t here are:

    pipe organ
    contrabassoon
    double bass
    tuba
    French horn
    timpani
    drum kit
    vibraphone
    gong

    I still don’t understand why we need four cellos.

  41. Lord of the Fridge

    Indeed. It was more a comment about “ends of the earth” NZ having someone like that so way “back in the day” . As for teachers and stereotyping , Oy Vey ! I remember , now with a huge 😀 and much respect, the shock horror that rippled through the rural township and school over my primary school teacher turning up in lime green hot pants. What a rebel and what a gal.

  43. Nothing will make me feel more Australian than to refuse to sing the national anthem on Australia Day!

    Have been preparing for The Annual Camping Vacation all week. Had to fix the fridge, get the suspension on the Forester done, get the Older Grandson a Birth Certificate (so we could get him his L-plates), get the front door fixed (The Bogan kicked it in and then attacked me with a piece of wood), make some lenses, get the roof racks working again (after a year’s rust) and generally be absent from affairs of state.

    What a week!

    Got the door fixed. Banned the Bogan (with his Mum’s wholehearted support). Got the L’s. Let me say that again…GOT THE L’s!!! Fixed the fridge (-12C in the freezer section), suspension cost $898 but now as-sweet-as…. AND learned some life lessons:

    1. When you’ve just turned 16 and want to get your L’s, you’re No-One and no-one cares that you’re No-One;

    2. Doors can be fixed better than you ever thought they could be, as long as the carpenter is earnest, young and trustworthy (tick on all three, and I found him on the net!);

    3. Being a Bogan means you never have to say you’re sorry for kicking in people’s doors i.e. if it’s a dickhead’s door you kick in, then no worries);

    4. Pedders Suspension are pricey, but they do a good job;

    5. NEVER try to catch a train from Clyde railiway station;

    6. Roof racks ain’t so difficult to get working;

    7. I am inordinately proud of my elder grandson, as he passed his L-plate theory test with a 100% score;

    8. Show me sumpin’ REALLY hard, absorption camp fridges are child’s play;

    9. Didn’t make any lenses, due to 1-8 above.

    And as for Australia Day… we leave the campground the day before (the wisdom of the years).

    So, patrolling Great White sharks permitting, I’ll see youse with a From Around The Campfire post re. current punter attitude to Abbott in late Jan.

    P.S. The Third Man is one of the greatest films ever made. I have a 1080p copy, and it is magnificent. Nothing like it has ever been made, before or since. Totally unique, and enthralling from the start to the finish.

  44. BK

    Yes I have thanks to the same teacher ,loved the sound but had forgotten about it. She must have been quite a music talent. One of life’s greatest disappointments has been that my ability to play a musical instrument has been inversely proportional to my desire to play one. Sigh.

  45. Joe6’…My “Beddy” is similar to that one, only it is a dual-cab 1967.
    Lord of’ I just hope “Beddy” never hears of THAT slur…she is so sensitive….a few weeks ago on the trip back from dressage ,OH. had won one event, so we were all chirpy and sing-alongy with a chip and a slap and a how-de-doo-doh Beddy !…when some young hoon in a “sports-ute” suddenly spun alongside and yelled ; “Why don’t you get that heap of shit off the road??”..and sped off….WHELL!!, I never…and I swear that it wasn’t a accidental thing when Beddy coughed(gulped) and misfired a couple of times….like she was sobbing…

  46. Bushfire Bill,

    I hope youse all have a grouse time camping.

    Meanwhile, here’s someone aspiring to your role:

  47. Lord of the Fridge

    Probably named it because whatever you threw at it it kept on going.
    I still remember my Pop teaching me to change its 6 sluggish gears without the clutch. i was about 9-10 propped up a heap of pillows, only a non movable bench seat and no power steering a/c etc.
    If I got through the whole up and down without crunching them got a freddo frog.
    If I crunched, a litttle clip in the melon .

    Bedford talk has got me quite nostalgic.

  48. BK,

    I come from a long line of minimalists. My only weakness is books, but I have also form when it comes to dealing with those I really truly don’t need.

    OH is the bower bird. He covets possessions, but once they have been acquired he doesn’t take good care of them. I think he almost qualifies for a particular pathology – it’s a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, and is extremely difficult for non-sufferers to live with.

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