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 Emotional terrorism sympathisers 

 Friday 11 April 2008, 7:28 am    The Editor
 Categories: Health, Media, Religion   Tags: , ,

Remember Ant’s post about pamphlets being distributed to letterboxes around Melbourne’s suburbs? Well, the author of a letter to the editor of The Melbourne Times has totally pwned Mr Rogenous.

What’s the real problem?

I am writing regarding a recent article about the pro-life pamphlets being distributed to residents “MLA condemns abortion pamphlets”, TMT, March 19). (sic)

The fact that disturbs me most about the pamphlet drop and subsequent media coverage is that all the outrage was focused on a letter drop. Yes, it is disgusting. Yes, it is graphic. This is happening every single day in our country.

And what is horrifying people the most is that they are exposed to these images? Where is the outrage that babies are being destroyed? What was actually disturbing about the pamphlet distribution? Pictures on a piece of paper, or the fact that this kind of dismemberment, destruction and torture is a condoned daily practice in our country?

Madeleine Tope / Bundoora

Your turn, Ant.

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  1.  Gravatar Damian (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:06 am) # 

    At last! Aurora’s identity revealed!


  2.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:59 am) # 

    Because as a general rule we DON’T MAKE CHILDREN LOOK AT PHOTOGRAPHS OF UNPLEASANT MEDICAL PROCEDURES.

    And because the rest of your letter’s a lie, Madeleine. The “dismemberment, destruction and torture” you picture is not a “daily occurrence” in this country at all. You, and the other anti-women campaigners who peddle your abuse in East Melbourne and in people’s letterboxes, are incapable of distinguishing between a late-term abortion (which is comparatively rare) and an abortion when the foetus is nothing more than a collection of cells.

    You pretend pictures of the former are representative of the latter, when they’re obviously not. But who cares, right? You’ve got your barrel to push, and you’ll use any horrible tactic you think you can get away with.

    And you don’t care how many children you traumatise in the meantime.


  3.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:12 am) # 

    Yeah, what Jeremy said.


  4.  Gravatar Evil Bill (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:23 am) # 

    I used to live in East Melbourne and see these people frequently. I used to have the same feeling of wanting to run these people down, punch them as I walked past or tip their porcelain Jesus on the ground and weatch it smash into tiny pieces. One day when I was particularly close to turning the fantasy into a reality I noticed that the vast majority of the people in the crowd were not the full quid. Around 70 per cent of their crowd is made up of people that seriously look intellectually disabled (I’m not saying that as a put down, most of them would not understand what they were doing there) another 15 per cent would be kids dragged their with their parents and it was only the other 15 per cent who are made up of elderly people that think it is their right to force their opinions on people already faced with tough decisions. While I still felt like slapping these elderly pricks, it is not something I would feel proud to brag about and my violent urgings quickly dissipated.


  5.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:48 am) # 

    It’d be tempting to stand out there with a big sign that read: “These nutters around me are thugs and bullies, and liars. Don’t let their vicious abuse affect you in the slightest. Rememe”*

    *You’d probably run out of room on the sign there.


  6.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:51 am) # 

    Or if all else fails, the good old fashioned raised middle finger in their general direction should do it.


  7.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:14 am) # 

    “At last! Aurora’s identity revealed!”

    LOL!

    Come to think of it, I remember reading that some part of Xtian doctrine has it that the soul of the aborted foetus goes straight to heaven. Why not cut out all the pain and suffering of life, not to mention the chance to sin, and send ‘em straight to paradise..?


  8.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:01 am) # 

    Gee, I wonder what The is up to?


  9.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:04 am) # 

    As I said before, try this kind of tactic with pictures of dead and dismembered Iraqi children as a protest against US foreign policy and see how far you get.


  10.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:45 am) # 

    These conservatives love to accuse lefties of ’statism’, but are then campaigning to have the state regulate womens’ reproductive functioning. Noice.


  11.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:47 am) # 

    “We will decide who fornicates in this country, and the circumstances in which they come.”


  12.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:51 am) # 

    Correction: “…circumstances in which they cum.”

    Hey, you started it.


  13.  Gravatar Wah (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:53 am) # 

    I can understand where she’s coming from, but it’s like saying terrorism is justified if its in support of people who are suffering.


  14.  Gravatar templemonkey (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:08 pm) # 

    Wah wrote I can understand where she’s coming from, but it’s like saying terrorism is justified if its in support of people who are suffering.

    Exactly the mindset Right-To-Lifers use in the USA when murdering doctors. Not that long since someone tried that here too.


  15.  Gravatar The Editor (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:13 pm) # 

    Long time no see, Templemonkey. Welcome back.


  16.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:23 pm) # 

    “We will decide who fornicates in this country, and the circumstances in which they come.”

    In that case we women demand better policy because for us the first isn’t always leading to the second.


  17.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:30 pm) # 

    Lookout!


  18.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:31 pm) # 

    And the thread dies, save perhaps an improbable claim by Surname.


  19.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:34 pm) # 

    No Jeremy, the thread is now going uphill.


  20.  Gravatar E Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:37 pm) # 

    Being offended by exposure to these images and being outraged by “the babies that are being destroyed” are not mutually exclusive. Ant’s original post was not pro-abortion, but rather anti-anti-abortion propoganda!

    Anyone who considers that women who have an abortion are callous and evil people who make the decision lightly has rocks in their head. I would think it would be one of the hardest decisions to make that would stay with you for life.


  21.  Gravatar EC (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:38 pm) # 

    Yep, what Jeremy said at No.2


  22.  Gravatar John Surname (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:39 pm) # 

    Improbable claim?


  23.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:47 pm) # 

    Well if we women weren’t having so much sex and using abortion as a secondary form of contraception, none of this would be an issue.


  24.  Gravatar The Editor (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:56 pm) # 

    Not the mention leaving the house in skimpy clothes and fuck-me boots, with come-get-me looks on your faces, practically inviting the sort of attention that leads to unplanned pregnancy.


  25.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:58 pm) # 

    Sorry, I should just point out that I don’t have anything to add about this issue that would be a) significantly different to the outrage I expressed in my original post, or b) expressed any better than what Jeremy and E have already posted here.


  26.  Gravatar EC (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:58 pm) # 

    It outrages me that the Right to Lifers sticking their horrible pictures in people’s letterboxes are often the same people who rail against support for single mothers.

    So you have an abortion, you’re evil. You have the child and struggle to get by on pittance and dare to demand adequate resources to care for your child, you’re a bludging drain on the system. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Classic misogyny.


  27.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:00 pm) # 

    And they’re often anti-gay too. Hasn’t it occured to them that if we were all woolywoofters and lezzos, the problem of abortion would be solved and they could just fuck off and play bowls with their ample spare time instead of terrorising people who don’t deserve it?

    Idiots!


  28.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:01 pm) # 

    Who is up for rumbling them next week The Outsiders style?


  29.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:09 pm) # 

    I’d quite like the Ducky Boys (from The Wanderers) to turn up.


  30.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:15 pm) # 

    “The Outsiders style”?

    I’m annoyed I didn’t read Cam’s post about the last-Saturday-of-the-month anti-protesters protest until after it had obviously been and gone. (And obviously you lot didn’t go either.)


  31.  Gravatar The Editor (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:16 pm) # 

    We’re planning on going to the next one, Jeremy. We’ll count you in.


  32.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:21 pm) # 

    Not the mention leaving the house in skimpy clothes and fuck-me boots, with come-get-me looks on your faces, practically inviting the sort of attention that leads to unplanned pregnancy.

    Not me - I never leave the house without my burqa. Somedays I’m so self-conscious I even wear two (a ‘circle-burqa’).


  33.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:23 pm) # 

    I’d fly down if I had the money. I’m seriously skint at the moment. Moving houses and buying more furniture will do that.

    If you all do another rally later this year, I’d be able to make it. I’ll come as Ponyboy.


  34.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:36 pm) # 

    I’ll be wearing skimpy clothes and come-fuck-me-boots at the rumble. Should I give the The Del Bombers a call Ant?


  35.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:37 pm) # 

    I’m in. Lamingtons, anyone?


  36.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:38 pm) # 

    How very Aussie of you Keri.


  37.  Gravatar Jeremy (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:40 pm) # 

    Saturday 26th it is then.


  38.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:42 pm) # 

    Well, it is the day after Anzac Day, Chuck.


  39.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 1:46 pm) # 

    So you did do the citizenship test then Keri?


  40.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:02 pm) # 

    They’re Welsh lamingtons, i.e. made of cheese.


  41.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:04 pm) # 

    And dusted with pubes, in a tribute to Tom Jones’s Welshfro.


  42.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:08 pm) # 

    Nah, mate. Strewth! None of that namby-pamby paper stuff for me. Fuck oath, ay?

    No, I’ve been a citizen since I needed a passport last. I’m a dual-citizen, and because they buggered up my application, I didn’t even get to go to a ceremony and get my native stalk in a pot.

    Bridgit, as long as it’s Caerphilly cheese, I don’t mind.

    And Ant, can’t we just wrap them in underwear and throw them at the protesters? I’m not sure pubes would improve the taste any.

    Plus, who would volunteer to supply them?


  43.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:15 pm) # 

    Hence the Bertrand Russell quote on your page Keri… oh I get it now. Ditch the Welsh quote and get an Aussie one. Assimilate NOW!


  44.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:17 pm) # 

    That’s right… dump the Bertrand Russell and get something from Bert Newton!


  45.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:17 pm) # 

    Chuck, I speak in an Aussie accent around Aussies. Isn’t that enough for you?


  46.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:19 pm) # 

    If you can suggest something, Bridgit, I’m more than happy to consider it.

    I’m not terribly familiar with Moonfaces work, being foreign and all.


  47.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:28 pm) # 

    “Saturday 26th it is then.”

    Me too!

    But we should advertise it more widely so we have the numbers, and we’ll need leaflets, placards (preferably with comedic value yet deeply offensive to the Xtain psyche)and some people lined up to do speeches. Oh, and megaphones if we can get them, and some witty chants. Witty chants are the dogs bollox, let me tell you.

    Jesus, (ahem) this sounds like a lot of work…but I’m still in.


  48.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:29 pm) # 

    Or Leon Bertrand.

    It’s one or the other Keri. You can’t have your finger in both pies.


  49.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:30 pm) # 

    I listened to the latest GrodsCast last night, Keri, and can I say you sound very Aussie. More Aussie than me, and I was born ‘ere (but for some reason, people always ask if I’m English - and I bet all of ‘youse’ would too if you ever have the misfortune of having to converse verbally with me).

    (And your voice doesn’t sound so bad, keri, what were you worried about?!)


  50.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:46 pm) # 

    Bron, that’s what my father calls my “Day Voice” if there are Aussies around I sound Aussie, but if I’m around a group of Taffs I sound Welsh.

    I don’t know, Bron. Does anyone like the sound of their own voice?

    And sorry, Chuck. You’ll never fully convert me. I spend too much time around my “own kind”


  51.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:52 pm) # 

    That’s true, Keri. My mother is English (naturalisation notwithstanding) and among Aussies she has a faint English accent, but amongst her kind, it becomes very pronounced.

    Does anyone like the sound of their own voice? I don’t know, but I hate mine! And on the phone or on recordings, apparently I sometimes sound like I have a bit of a lisp - even though I don’t. You can’t hear the lisp if you’re talking to me face-to-face, otherwise. It’s weird. Stupid technology.


  52.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 2:54 pm) # 

    Hey The Ed, where’s that box on the right which showed the most “commentators” in the last so many days gone? I wanna know my tally!


  53.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:09 pm) # 

    Do these clowns all come from the same church? If so, it could be more entertaining to stage a demo at the church, rather than East Melb…


  54.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:13 pm) # 

    Hehehe…yeah, we could picket the church…but then I guess you’d really need some numbers, which would involve building (publicising) the demo…


  55.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:14 pm) # 

    Maybe get Corey on board and have an SMS flash party at the church…


  56.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:15 pm) # 

    Or ask Fred Phelps for tips on how to picket and come up with catchy, colourful posters.


  57.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:17 pm) # 

    Some posters would be good. Maybe a pic of that guy who shot the security at an abortion clinic a few years ago.

    It’s be interesting, to say the least. These Christian nutters are as flighty and aggressive as any other kind of nutter, peace and goodwill be damned.


  58.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:18 pm) # 

    “GOD HATES FAG HAGS” lots of lulz Bron.


  59.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:48 pm) # 

    Bron, THR, awesome, keep it coming…


  60.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 3:59 pm) # 

    Are there any kids at these anti-abortion get-ups? If there are:

    GOD HATES WAGS.

    ‘Bout time the Divine Powers crack down on truantism.


  61.  Gravatar keri (Friday 11 April 2008, 4:15 pm) # 

    What about some religious ones for the God fans out there? -

    “Wouldn’t you better serve your God at a soup kitchen?”

    “Did you demonstrate at The Crusades?”

    “ Practice what he preached; tolerance, forgiveness and compassion”

    And one for the not-God fans -

    “Do you still believe in Santa Claus too?”


  62.  Gravatar Evil Bill (Friday 11 April 2008, 4:25 pm) # 

    I am so on board for a church protest. Can we please do this.


  63.  Gravatar brerrabbit (Friday 11 April 2008, 4:28 pm) # 

    You could distribute disgusting pictures portraying heart surgery and demand that it be totally banned because it looks awful.
    I believe that h.s is also unnatural and against God’s will - it is up to Whoever He Is to decide whether you live or die, not the surgeon.
    H.s. in many cases means the patient avoids the consequences of their sin - if they hadn’t smoked, weren’t obese, hadn’t drunk so much, then h.s may not have been necessary. It’s all about self discipline and controlling one’s baser instincts.
    That’d get them where they live.


  64.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 4:51 pm) # 

    I think there seems to be a number of people who could do this rally.

    Chuck A Spear
    Jeremy
    The Editor
    Keri
    Suburban Marxist
    THR (?? not clear ??)
    Evil Bill

    Who else? Go on, if your conscience is pissed off, then do something about it instead of sitting in front of a computer screen ranting and raving and foaming and frothing like a stray from Blairville.


  65.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 4:57 pm) # 

    Indeed Bron, but you know what that means…it means we are going to have to have a MEETING! (I think, or can we do it online..?)

    If we do meet, let’s make it in a pub, shall we? Just to, er, you know, take the edge of things…

    ;-)


  66.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 5:03 pm) # 

    I’ll be there, Bron.


  67.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 5:08 pm) # 

    I could do it. Where and what time?


  68.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 5:21 pm) # 

    Chuck A Spear
    Jeremy
    The Editor
    Keri
    Suburban Marxist
    THR
    Evil Bill
    Ant Rogenous

    —-

    Hey, I can direct this baby from afar and without going myself!

    These rallies are held on the fourth Saturday of every month. I’ll get in touch with our spy and find out the next definite date, place and time.


  69.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 5:27 pm) # 

    One of you Melbun peeps will have to organise a meet/drinks as suggested by Suburban Marxist.

    Have one for me - scotch on the rocks.


  70.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 6:11 pm) # 

    My own banner suggestion:

    “TAKE YOUR FAIR STORY AND FUCK OFF!”

    I hope it’s not too subtle.


  71.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 6:13 pm) # 

    Of course that should’ve been FAIRY; hopefully I proof-read my banners more effectively or I’ll look like this poor Diana conspiracist.


  72.  Gravatar EC (Friday 11 April 2008, 6:38 pm) # 

    Go Comrades! Have a G & T for this NSWer at your organising meeting.


  73.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 7:21 pm) # 

    Hey, I can direct this baby from afar and without going myself!

    Every general does Bron.


  74.  Gravatar Suburban Marxist (Friday 11 April 2008, 7:53 pm) # 

    Okay, well I assume the eds have my email so just email me with the details or however it works..


  75.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 7:55 pm) # 

    GIT IN DAT DIRT AN’ GIMME 200 PUSH-UPS, YO’ SONOFABITCH.


  76.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 7:56 pm) # 

    Ah, YOU TOO, SUB MARX, FOR INTERRUPTING THE FLOW OF THESE COMMENTS. NO, MAKE 500. NOW!


  77.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 7:58 pm) # 

    Ahem. Yes, when I, or someone, finds out the next definite date, I’m sure The Ed will email the details.

    Speaking of the Ed, where the fuck is he today?! Does he have a, you know, life?!


  78.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:10 pm) # 

    GIT IN DAT DIRT AN’ GIMME 200 PUSH-UPS, YO’ SONOFABITCH.

    When I joined the Armish Bron it was just after it become the touch-feely group-hug Armish. So you couldn’t make anyone do more push-ups. This directive was curtailed by not making soldiers do more push-ups but rather keeping them doing the one push-up — meaning they had to stay in the push-up rest position for 3 minutes or they would have all their belongings thrown out the window. ( The rest position)


  79.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:16 pm) # 

    “just after it became” not become. God, looks what happens when you put your contact lenses back in after a few push-ups.

    I really should be more careful.


  80.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:27 pm) # 

    FINE! 800 PUSH-UP REST POSITIONS!

    No, I’m not that cruel. Speaking of cruel, the “Armish”, as you delightfully like to call it, are they sure the push-up rest position is, well, nicer than the ordinary push-up?

    Seems ridiculous to me.


  81.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:35 pm) # 

    Seems ridiculous to me.

    Umm… like hello yes it is totally ridiculous.

    Try it.


  82.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:36 pm) # 

    I forgot to say that you should do at least 20 push-ups first or the maximum you can do.


  83.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:46 pm) # 

    I don’t have to try it to prove anything; my middle name is Xena.


  84.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:52 pm) # 

    … my middle name is Xena.

    So your full name is BrXenaon? Damn crazy ethnics.


  85.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:58 pm) # 

    I think I’ll have to change my middle name, it looks too much like “Brendon”.


  86.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 8:58 pm) # 

    Xena is a pop culture icon and a hero to many. You are truly blessed with such a middle name Bron. Xena could do the one push-up torture test backwards.

    I just tried it and it wasn’t that hard. I wish I was back in the Armish for a brief moment so I could beat their stupid curtailing tests and keep my barracks room intact.

    DYK that in the Armish everything is backwards. For example your desk is called “table personal” instead of “personal table.”


  87.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:13 pm) # 

    No, I did not know that. The question remains: WHY?! How did that come to be?


  88.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:24 pm) # 

    I’m not entirely sure of why the items personal were reversed Bron.

    For example, if you had to needed a new plate, knife and fork you would march with arms at breast pocket height into the QM store and ask (after check halting and all that…) [notice ellipse at end of sentence] for a “a pan set dress messing”. No shit.


  89.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:31 pm) # 

    I note the ellipses and you’re grounded for 2 weeks.

    As for the reversal of “personal”, that’s just stoopid.

    Then again, I guess you don’t enter the Armish to learn to speek and speel proper but. You go into the Armish to… what? Do push-ups? Why did you go into the Armish initially, Chuck? If you care to reveal publicly.


  90.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:32 pm) # 

    Are we the only two who aren’t going out tonight? Get a life, Chuck!


  91.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:35 pm) # 

    Are we the only two who aren’t going out tonight?

    Yes. Yes you are.

    Carry on.


  92.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:35 pm) # 

    I think, in order to not annoy anyone with our scintillating conversation, you should email me. You have my email address, oui?


  93.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:44 pm) # 

    I blame the Armish for my mental retardation when posting or writing comments.

    Have I not email address your. I’m out going in next the hour.

    email me at ;;;;.com or my username and add gmail. THR you are invited to the conversation too.


  94.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:48 pm) # 

    If I’m invited to the conversation, we might as well continue it here, unless Mr Ed objects.


  95.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:53 pm) # 

    Mr Ed is probably parading himself around trivia tournaments looking for loopholes that aren’t there.


  96.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:54 pm) # 

    Mr Ed’s a horse - he can’t talk. Oh hang on, yes he can. Shit.

    So, THR, how’s Leon?


  97.  Gravatar brokenleftleg (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:55 pm) # 

    95 comments from so few people. Did any of you guys actually do any work today?


  98.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:58 pm) # 

    I’m still at work BLL.

    DYK, that I was taking to a dude today who makes machines that regulate your heartbeat (not a pace maker) and if your heart beat is like Lisa Curry Kenny’s, then it shocks your heart back into the right beat — and it feels like a horse has kicked you in the chest. This could happen and anytime and you’re not aware of it until it happens.

    I work and I blog.


  99.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:58 pm) # 

    Did any of you guys actually do any work today?

    I’ll say it, because it needs to be said. Grodscorp is the Australian 2008 version of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Nobody does any work, we just engage in extended stream-of-consciousness monologues which occasionally intersect.

    That, and bait ring-wing idiots.


  100.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:59 pm) # 

    So, THR, how’s Leon?

    He still thinks the homeless chose to be homeless, by way of their laziness, and poor productivity.

    He’s still the second stupidest blogger on the Oz blogosphere.


  101.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:02 pm) # 

    That, and bait ring-wing idiots

    I wouldn’t know about that THR.

    Old (young and dumb) Leon hey. He is being mentored by ;;;;* so I think the authorities need to be called in to rescue him.

    *No this thread won’t end up talking about the ;;;;!


  102.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:03 pm) # 

    Work? What the fuck is that?

    I find it funny that Leon thinks you see everything from a Marxist perspective, THR, yet he’s the only one who keeps bring it up — which makes me think HE sees everything from a Marxist perspective — or, to use a wanky word, paradigm.

    Chuck, how much are these heart-shock thingys? I often become comatose at work (thank the Good Lord for Grods), and coffee just doesn’t do it for me.


  103.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:06 pm) # 

    I’m not sure how much they are Bron but from what I understand they are similar to miniature jumper leads connected to a Clydesdale.


  104.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:12 pm) # 

    Speaking of stupid people on the stupid internet in the stupid blogosphere, Scarlett seems pretty stupid (she keeps popping up in Jeremy’s blog and making stupid comments).

    Discuss.


  105.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:17 pm) # 

    I was about to say “Okay fukkers. I know the group email is going on behind my back. Yes I do need glasses ha ha ha. Whatever…”

    But then you started talking about Charlotte Johansson as opposed to Scarlett O’hara. I have not read the tread. Is she wack or what?


  106.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:23 pm) # 

    Scarlett is a Jeremy hater from the old days like the 2005 old days. I would pay no heed.


  107.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:25 pm) # 

    I’d email you, Chuck, but I’m not sure whether to put the A. or just A?!

    You make life so bloody difficult for some people, you know.

    And it’s clear you have not read the tread, otherwise you’d track her down by now.

    OH EXCUUUUUSE ME, that was a typo, was it?!


  108.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:26 pm) # 

    So much for THR giving us a biiiiig hint to invite him to the convo!


  109.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:32 pm) # 

    Oh my bloody god Bron. Aren’t you like a bloody admin at this two-bit blog? Can’t you find my mail of e?

    chuckaspear @ googled mailed . shalom

    Come one come all to the greatest show on earth…


  110.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:32 pm) # 

    Hey, I’m still here, sort of.


  111.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:38 pm) # 

    I’m dobbing you in to The Editor for calling this blog a two-bit blog. You’re so gonna get it now. Ha ha ha.

    Hello, THR. Nice to have you here… sort of.


  112.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:41 pm) # 

    Surname is in da house… apparently.


  113.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:45 pm) # 

    As that cunt Pauline once said (and thereby entered the Australian lexicon forevermore): Please explain.


  114.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:47 pm) # 

    Did you use a cuss word Bron? Oh my god… and I just noticed a new post, I’d better read it.


  115.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:53 pm) # 

    Did I use a cuss word? Of course not, you dopey cunt.


  116.  Gravatar John Surname (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:58 pm) # 

    “Surname is in da house… apparently.”

    You know it Baby.


  117.  Gravatar Chuck A. Spear (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:59 pm) # 

    Look, I’m going to continue my perpetuating my drunken state at a bar. I’ll get to your post tomorrow Bron. Thanks for the thread guys… Adieu (as in the Eurovision song).


  118.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:06 pm) # 

    You should provide a link to the song.


  119.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:15 pm) # 

    Drunken state? Whilst still at work? Chuck, you is a badazz.

    Speaking of drunken states, I’m all outta wine. Boohoo.


  120.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:20 pm) # 

    I haven’t consulted with the blogmeister, but consider this thread an “open thread”.

    I decree it so.


  121.  Gravatar The Editor (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:25 pm) # 

    Fucken hell. Open thread at 120 comments. Spawn of Satan.


  122.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:29 pm) # 

    Well, it was an open aaaaages ago, I just hadn’t gotten around to saying so until now. I wuz bizy. (oh shit, the wine is making me write like the dopes from icanhascheezburger.com)

    THR, your goddamn link for Adieu.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa9LLUifHU


  123.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:32 pm) # 

    I wuz bizy. (oh shit, the wine is making me write like the dopes from icanhascheezburger.com)

    Think about the protest:

    We Christans. We can haz yooterus.


  124.  Gravatar The Editor (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:33 pm) # 

    Yr choice.

    I haz it.


  125.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:36 pm) # 

    We’z in ur tubz.
    Fuck wit ur choice.


  126.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:38 pm) # 

    Pizzed? I iz it.

    Time fur bed? Noooo.


  127.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:39 pm) # 

    Incidentally, I’ve relapsed and have started baiting TMS. Should anyone want to become an enabler of this relapse, the address is:

    http://www.themidnightsun.org/

    They’re certainly the nuttier end of Christianity…


  128.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:43 pm) # 

    Incidentally, JIM CARREY IS ON THE LETTERMAN SHOW RIGHT NOW.

    I <3 Jim Carrey. So sue me.


  129.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:46 pm) # 

    I <3 Jim Carrey. So sue me.

    So I ’serve’ the paperwork where?


  130.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:51 pm) # 

    Somewhere in Ulan Bator.


  131.  Gravatar Damian (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:53 pm) # 

    DA FUCKS ME DED.

    I Haz DEM r8 now.

    What a sad little lefty I am, going out for a few hours on a Fridee. I should have been groupthinking!


  132.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:54 pm) # 

    Hey, The Ed, what’s the longest a thread ever reached? (As in number of comments, not inches)


  133.  Gravatar Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:57 pm) # 

    I am so ashamed of you, Damian. ASHAMED. I will never be able to look at you again.

    My trolling at The Mid.Sun has commenced. I’m not sure if I made sense, but considering the content on that blog, maybe I’ll fit right in.


  134.  Gravatar THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 11:57 pm) # 

    Somewhere in Ulan Bator.

    I’m actually going there, in August. If anyone hs any recommendations…


  135.  Gravatar Damian (Saturday 12 April 2008, 12:09 am) # 

    Bron, saying anything at TMS besides “fuck yeah, Aurora, you are so right and no one is saying this except you” is trolling. I might pop over for a look.


  136.  Gravatar Damian (Saturday 12 April 2008, 12:13 am) # 

    Hey THR, while you’re here, I spotted you (or at least your online vestige) at a certain Egyptian blog. Hadn’t realised your affiliations. Interesting, to say the least.


  137.  Gravatar Bron (Saturday 12 April 2008, 12:15 am) # 

    Damn, that means I’m going to be banned imme