grodscorp@grods.comBlow-by-blow budget reply
 | Posted by The Editor on Thursday 10 May 2007, 7:33 pm Categories: Australia Decides '07 Tags: JulieBishop, KateEllis, KevinRudd, KimBeazley, TonyAbbott |
Alright, then. Kruddy’s turn.
7:27pm – 21 with early cloud in Melbourne tomorrow. Ian Henderson wearing his trademark hideous hypercolour tie.
7:29pm – Jim Middleton wearing a tie made from carpet.
7:31pm – Krudd’s tie is very blue and reflective. Kate Ellis looking over Krudd’s shoulder and looking saucy as always.
7:32pm – Krudd attacks Howard’s eyesight: “lack of long-term vision.”
7:33pm – BAM! Kruddy hits his main themes straight away: globalisation, technology and climate change.
7:35pm – The “fair go”. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi!
7:37pm – Labor reckons it has found $3 billion in savings. Howard’s eyebrow trimming? Pete’s tanning lounge? Tony’s rosaries?
7:38pm – Some goon on the government side of the house just yelled out “there’s no mining boom.”
7:40pm – Airline analogy is killing me.
7:41pm – EDUCATION REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!
7:43pm – No difference between a uni degree and a trade certificate. Did you get that, swinging voters? Not elitist.
7:44pm – Lots of trade workshops for all secondary schools. Not bad.
7:47pm – Whoah! Kruddy went pretty close to Latham’s “learning or earning” there.
7:48pm – Broadband will “turbo charge” growth. Gnarly.
7:49pm – Has anybody else noticed that Kruddy comes across as significantly more economically dry than Petey Costello?
7:51pm – Tahsands lfffff fndk slsdklkfdslfksd jjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjj ggggggggggggg hghghghgh gggggggggggggggg
7:53pm – Sorry. Just nodded off there for a moment.
7:55pm – Asia literate Australians. This is GOOD. Bloody good work, Kruddy.
7:58pm – Fixing Australia’s leaky pipes. Putting a bucket under Australia’s shower head. “Plugging the leaks.”
8:00pm – Wide shot reveals that Julie Bishop has opted for a more sensible grey suit tonight.
8:01pm – “The fair go out the back door.” Say that one more time, Kruddy, and I’ll vote for the Citizens’ Electoral Council.
8:02pm – Standing ovation because Kruddy’s not Kim Beazley.
8:03pm – Inspector Rex on SBS.
GrodsThink Ep.29 (26/8/08)
Thursday 10 May 2007, 8:20 pm #Jangari
Lemme guess, still not one mention of indigenous Australia? Language loss, lack of housing, poor education, poor health?
Not a word from either side yet?
Thursday 10 May 2007, 8:48 pm #The Editor
No votes in abodiginal policy, unfortunately. They’ll take our backyards.
Thursday 10 May 2007, 8:54 pm #Steve D
Go Inspector Rex!
Thursday 10 May 2007, 9:02 pm #Adam
Citizens Electoral Council… did you know the latest edition of their newspaper declares on the front page that Global Warming Is A Fraud, cooked up by the same secret oligarchy who were behind globalisation?
Thursday 10 May 2007, 9:04 pm #The Editor
Damn that bloody oligarchy.
Thursday 10 May 2007, 9:06 pm #Bruce
The CEC say lots of things Adam. They also talk about a financier cabal behind NAZI Germany and the IPA.
Hint: in CEC speak, financier cabal = Jews.
Loons lol…
Back on Kruddy: No talk of chaplains in schools? ;-)
Thursday 10 May 2007, 9:07 pm #The Editor
Nor easing any squeeze.
Thursday 10 May 2007, 10:31 pm #Jangari
Nor climbing the ladder (imagine me as a mime, climbing a ladder).
Friday 11 May 2007, 7:01 am #The Editor
Just leave my family alone!
Friday 11 May 2007, 8:06 am #Jangari
Plenty have said it before, but I may as well say it again. You can take my tax cut and do something useful with it - and that doesn’t mean going to war, buying over-priced out-dated American military aircraft or subsidising environmentally unsustainable industry.
Friday 11 May 2007, 8:57 am #Steve
More Inspector Rex episodes would be preferable.
Friday 11 May 2007, 8:59 am #The Editor
Yeah, but only the older ones with the original Moeser. The new guy shits me.
(How do I do an “o” with an umlaut?)
Friday 11 May 2007, 9:45 am #joe2
ö or Ö
Friday 11 May 2007, 10:03 am #invig
Hmmmmm….Kate Ellis
Friday 11 May 2007, 10:05 am #invig
Sorry - i meant ‘Mmmmmmmmm…..Kate Ellis’.
Kate’s not someone to ponder over, no, Kate demands action.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :)
Friday 11 May 2007, 10:41 am #lynn white
Best live blogged budget reply evah. I agree with you about the airline thing - that was almost enough to make me resign my ALP membership on the spot.
Friday 11 May 2007, 11:03 am #The Editor
Thanks, joe2, although I was more wondering how I type the freakin’ thing.
Friday 11 May 2007, 11:25 am #joe2
No probs Ed. Sad to say you can’t type those little mothers, unless you have a very old keyboard. Those umlauts, though very cute, are almost extinct.
Maybe there is a need for The Umlaut Preservation Society. It would look good on a CV.
Friday 11 May 2007, 2:56 pm #Jangari
Ed: Hold ‘alt’ and type 0246. the ö will pop up when you release alt. You can also run the character map (start > run > charmap) and see all characters available, with their codes.
By the way, I knew you’d do this live budget reporting, even quicker than ABC’s online news, so I knew I could miss it entirely. Thanks.
Friday 11 May 2007, 11:57 pm #Bridgit Gread
I am guilty of laziness on the few occasions I need to type diacritics like umlauts, cedillas and breves … by Googling words which I know contain them, then copying/pasting.
Saturday 12 May 2007, 1:54 pm #Jangari
Linguists often need to write phonetic transcription, which requires a different set of symbols altogether.
[lɪŋgwɪsʔts ʔɒfən nid tə ɽaɪt fənɛɾɪk tʃɽænskɽɪpʃən, wɪtʃʳkwaɪjəz ʔə dɪfɽənt̚ sɛt əv sɪmbˡz ʔɔɬtəgɛðʌ]