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Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:20 pm

Bron

Categories: Blogosphere, Life

Tags: EmptyNothingness

Sigh. I’m too good for some of you. One of you. That’ll be Krypto, who is lamenting the lack of activity on this blog tonight.

But it did get me wondering: what the hell are you all doing tonight? Indeed, how are you all going to spend your long weekend this weekend? Or if you come and look at this blog late on Sunday night, how did you spend your long weekend?

Myself, I’m watching the third season of Blackadder, and it’s very funny. I just love Rowan Atkinson. I’m shocked that I’ve never bothered to watch this show before.

And in about 10 minutes, I’m going to dash to the bottle shop and get another bottle of wine. I’m still sober. Too sober. IT’S A PUBLIC HOLIDAY TOMORROW! Damn. (I’ve just finished watching the episode of the French in England. Damn.)

So, go wild. Say what you like — and say something really offensive so I can delete it.

Oh and Krypto, the name Sam Newman is not allowed on this post, kthxbai.

89 Comments

Mikey (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:27 pm) #

Watched 4 eps of the first season of The IT Crowd.

Fuck me what a piss funny show.

Blowing the long weekend watching entire slabs of awesome TV series is an excellent way to spend your time.

Arrested Development next!

Hooray for TV!
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:36 pm) #

The IT Crowd? What was that? I can’t remember that being on TV. Is that the one with two dudes and a chick on ABC and wasn’t on for long? One dude is kinda the wise-cracking smartarse, the other the nerdy, and the girl a bit of chick?

(That summary could be any old show, I just realised!)

If I remember correctly it was on before or after the Chasers?
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:38 pm) #

I’m going to see a couple of movies at the German Film Festival tomorrow, hope they are a bit better than the two I saw at the recent French Film Festival that were not up to the usual standard this year.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:42 pm) #

Ohh, I forgot about the German Film Fest. I saw two movies at the French Fest and you’re right, Steve, they just weren’t up to scratch this year. Buggered if I can remember what they were called though - the names were in French.

(Like, duh!!!11!)
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:42 pm) #

In a daze from shift work.
And went to a good discussion about freedom in the Arab world at Readings bookstore in Melbourne.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:50 pm) #

What kind of crowd attended, THR?
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:05 pm) #

It was an interesting mix. There were many academics, but also some African immigrants who took exception with the speakers characterisations of the Arab world.
I might blog something more detailed in the next few days, as it was a fairly long, and for me, interesting discussion.
Readings is one of our better bookstores in Melbourne.
Have you or the other Sydneysiders been to Bob Gould’s bookstore?
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:18 pm) #

Gould’s in Newtown? I’m there on a regular basis!
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:24 pm) #

It may be a naive question, but, is it good?
magic bellybutton (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:29 pm) #

I’ve spent far too much time on the interwebs tonight. About 6 hours at least.

The parentals are visiting tomorrow and Saturday (not staying at my place, thank goodness).

Otherwise I’m just going to read, watch TV. Have season 7 of the Gilmore Girls to watch. The entire series of the British version of Queer as Folk also. Unless I decide to go with something funny, then I have the first series of The IT Crowd that someone gave me.

I suspect I’ll be spending a lot of time sitting on my arse over the next three days.
Ray Dixon (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:46 pm) #

… say something really offensive so I can delete it

Sophie Mira…[deleted].

Sorry, Ray, them’s the rules I laid down! — Bron
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:46 pm) #

It may be a naive question, but, is it good?

Good? Good?! Oh good Lord, it’s a filthy, stinking pig sty, with bookshelves stacked to the ceiling in no coherent, ordered system, sci-fi books sitting next to autobiographies, while in the next row Stephen King and Tolstoy hug each other. American militia history books sit side by side with Yehuda Berg’s special brand of Kabbalism. Books, magazines, even newspapers can be found here. Boxes and boxes and even more boxes line the floor, creating a massive opportunity for people to trip over and sue the proprietor. Upstairs is more of the same that after a while you get confused and not sure what level you’re on.

In summary, it’s a wonderful place, and I love it. I’m sure you will, too.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:51 pm) #

Have season 7 of the Gilmore Girls to watch.

So… what’s that show about, anyway?! I’ve never really understood it!!
Wah (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:53 pm) #

Everyone’s in bed so I’m doing my usual blog surfing. Have nothing to write about on clubwah so piss farted around changing the colours of the site.

I’m playing Scramble on Facebook really badly and used the new chat facility to chat with an old friend who invited me to her birthday drinks thus confirming that I have a semblence of a life left.

I’m also looking up short courses for welding as I have inherited my dear father’s arc welder and I have great plans to make sculptures and garden furniture.

Have half an eye on the TV - Lateline is finished and now David Campbell is destroying some Bobby Darin songs - fugga bastid

Magic Bellybutton I must confess to being a big Gilmour Girls fan - such wonderful dialogue and charming charcters - and Laureli … tap!!!
Ray Dixon (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:55 pm) #

Well if I can’t say it then I’ll just have to show it:

http://alpineopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sophie9.jpg

Bron’s warning: first warning, Ray Dixon. I’m watching you. Oh yes, quaver in your boots, jock!
Jeremy (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:57 pm) #

I’m just glad to see you’ve made it past the horrible first season and onto the awesome third season.

Isn’t Hugh Laurie’s Prince Regent hands-down the most hilarious comic creation on television? (”…and a robber button is?”)
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:58 pm) #

Well if I can’t say it then I’ll just have to show it

Agreed, Ray, We should ask for a mental health assessment on whoever caused that.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:02 am) #

….changing the colours of the site.

Oh good, so it wasn’t just me then.

Do you play Scrabulous on FB as well, Wah? I could kick your arse if you gave me a chance. (Not likely, but give Bron a chance! Hippy.)

Lateline? Shit, it’s MIDNIGHT!!! FARK! I though it was about 10pm or something.

Thank God there’s no work tomorrow (unlike this morning. God I hate that schmuck troll who kept me awake last night).
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:03 am) #

We should ask for a mental health assessment on whoever caused that.

She bribed him with a cushy job running some country Jazz Festival somewhere.
Wah (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:05 am) #

Gilmour Girls abridged - Teen mum disgraces blue blood family and doesn;t go to college. Years later she and her now teen daughter are like best friends (as she’s still quite a young - and very tappable - mum).
She slowly makes amends with her parents and has a love interest in Luke who runs a restaurant.
It’s very witty with snappy dialogue which reminds me of the West Wing - and I say that with the greatest respect to the best TV show EVER!
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:08 am) #

Jeremy, I actually giggled at some bits of the first season, but the third season is much funnier, I admit. The snide references from Blackadder are so good, I want to write them down and memorise them and use them on someone who deserves it.

As for Hugh Laurie, he’s very, very good, very foppish and stupid. Pity he’s wrecked that on House. Ergh, I hate that goddamned show. Don’t tell me you watch House, please?
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:12 am) #

Wah, I have nothing to say to that re the Gilmore Girls, because I fear it might make you an enemy of mine!

Heh heh.

And seriously, if I hear TAP one more time, I’ll bonk you. Over the head with the butt of my pistol, that is.*

————

*Settle down, I don’t own a pistol, ya dopey rightwing cunts.
THR (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:13 am) #

She bribed him with a cushy job running some country Jazz Festival somewhere.

Somewhere, somehow, a fat, slanderous former student politician with connections to the ALP right is musing over opportunities lost.

And eating KFC.
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:13 am) #

first warning, Ray Dixon. I’m watching you

This one should really do it then Bron:

http://alpineopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sophie3.jpg
Wah (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:16 am) #

I just added Scrabulous and had a quick game - I like it!

“Well bugger me with a fish fork” is my favourite line from Blackadder
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:18 am) #

BANNED. RAY DIXON IS HEREBY BANNED FROM GRODSCORP.

Or would be if I had the power to ban him.

Bloody dickhead.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:20 am) #

“Well bugger me with a fish fork” is my favourite line from Blackadder

Which season? I can’t remember that one.

(Listen to me talk like a Blackadder pro now, asking which season and shit.)
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:31 am) #

Well you asked for offensive material Bron and I couldn’t think of anything more offensive than our wonderful member for Indi. We are truly blessed down/up here in NE Victoria, and you lot just don’t know what you’re missing.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:32 am) #

OK, here’s a random question for my minions to answer (truthfully, of course, although I would not be at all surprised if some creative answers were proffered as well).

Now, this evening when shopping at that mecca known as Coles Supermarket, I bought a kransky, on the sole basis that my dad likes kransky and would cook it sometimes when I was living at home with the folks. However, when I got home, I realised that I don’t know how kransky is cooked. Is it fried? Boiled? What? Because when I tried to remember my dad’s kranskies, I couldn’t remember how they tasted (ie boiled, fried, baked even?), all I remember is they tasted GOOD.

I forgot to ask my dear mum this evening when I spoke to her. So now, because I just went to the fridge to pour out more wine and saw a forlorn looking kranksky there, I remembered that I have to cook it — somehow. How?

Your turn to tell me, peasants.

(See, I’m adopting Blackadder’s condescending talk already! Excellent!)
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:36 am) #

I just wanted offensive material so I could delete it. However, I couldn’t quite bring myself to delete your wonderful contributions, because I know those links will make others gag.

Aren’t I considerate?! I’d rather not delete offensive material over having GrodsReaders gag. Ho ho ho. What a clever bitch I am. Brilliant!

Anyway, as an aside, once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, Bronwyn Bishop was my local MP. Tell me, Ray, is that worse or better than Sophie fucking Mirabella?!
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:37 am) #

Bron, I’d absolutely grill the begeezus out of it until it’s nothing more than a charred piece of leather. I think that’s the only way I could stomach it.
Wah (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:38 am) #

They can definately be fried. In fact it might be an idea ti boil them a bit first then fry them, as they’re quite thick. At least then they’ll be cooked inside quicker.
THR (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:38 am) #

You can bbq it, but the easiest is to pan-fry. You can even slice it beforehand, like the Spaniards do with Chorizo.
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:38 am) #

Bronwyn Bishop was my local MP. Tell me, Ray, is that worse or better than Sophie fucking Mirabella?!

Sophie = Bronwyn + a brown shirt
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:45 am) #

Regarding the Kransky Dilemma:

Ray: useless advice. Go to the back of the classroom.

Wah: takes too long. Go to the back of the classroom.

THR: I don’t have a BBQ. Go to the back of the classroom.

——–

*Thinks to self:* Exactly what I expected from the peasants! Pah and piffle.

——–
*Rethinks:* Actually, I’m quite adept at frying things. Recalls THR to the front of the class. But he’ll never be one of the bourgeoise, the goddamned Marxist!
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:46 am) #

Sophie = Bronwyn + a brown shirt

Hmm. So, I guess that means no better and no worse.
THR (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:51 am) #

The kranskys are an Eastern Europe thing. If you want to be really authentic, you not only need to fry them, but do it in pig fat…
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:53 am) #

OK, I’m throwing the kransky in the bin now.

Dilemma over.
Wah (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:53 am) #

Go to a Bunnings warehouse and buy a cooked Kranski from the hotdog stand out front.
I tell you Bunnings has everything!
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 12:58 am) #

Yeah well, I don’t live near a Bunnings store. It’s funny that in their plans for world domination, they’ve kinda overlooked the area I live in.
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:04 am) #

they’ve kinda overlooked the area I live in.

So you’re from rural Queensland too?
Wah (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:08 am) #

Sod this it aftr 1am. I never thought I’d say this but good night Ray, goodnight Bron.

Oh this is all so chatty. The Editor is gonna wake up tomorrow and think he’s on some Yahoo forum about the Gilmour Girls, sausages and hardware stores.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:08 am) #

Hardy har har, Ray.

Oh! If only I had banning powahs!
THR (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:09 am) #

Sorry, but some serious nutjobbery here:

http://www.themidnightsun.org/?p=2351

Serious, 17-cones-a-day nutjobbery.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:10 am) #

The Editor? Who’s that, Wah? None of us seem to remember him (or her). Have a good sleep, nevertheless, peasant. Sod off.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:13 am) #

Kerrrraaazy, THR. It has to be more than 17 cones a day to write (and believe) in that shit.
Ray Dixon (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:25 am) #

The Editor is gonna wake up tomorrow ~~and think he’s on some Yahoo forum about the Gilmour Girls, sausages and hardware stores~~ in the sheltered workshop

Christ, now I’ll really be banned. Good night.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:32 am) #

The Editor? Who the fuck is that? Ohhhh, that guy… Yeah, I vaguely remember him.

And that’s all from me too, folks. Peasants. Whatever.

Goodnight. Sod off.
Iani;;;;;;;;;;;Hall (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:44 am) #

This is a woeful idea , mainly because kransky always tastes so bad. Not it is impossible to drink this stuff bad, but burnt and very processed bad.

I have been I lifelong fan of the kransky. In fact one of the anecdotes that I like to tell about my childhood concerns the time, when I was nine, that I had an appendicitis
Iain Hall (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:47 am) #

However breast enhancements are very low on my list of worthwhile procedures… My opinion on this issue was made even more certain when I acquired a load of silicone implants courtesy of a retired plastic surgeon.The implants are rather nasty pieces of kit actually, and a lot more fragile than you would expect, why any one would want to pay to have such things implanted ion (sic) their bodies is entirely beyond me, but the (sic) do make excellent ice packs after being chilled in the freezer.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:49 am) #

I love you, Iain. Marry me?
Iain Hall (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:55 am) #

Any one who reads my prose will see that I am more than just functionally literate

Take that, stoppers.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 1:59 am) #

I hate you, Iain. Divorce me?
Iain Hall (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:01 am) #

As a younger man I embraced the idea that women would see kransky in the same way that we mere males do, a physical pleasure somewhat akin to having a drink. [D]espite being a red blooded bloke who still appreciates the sight of a beautiful kransky… [i]t seem to me that more women are waking up to the fact that kransky for its own sake is not that satisfying
Iain Hall (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:06 am) #

If they (the kranskys) are seeking to come here for purely economic reasons then by any measure they are not “Refugee’s” nor are the “asylum seekers ” they re illegal; immigrants pure and simple.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:12 am) #

Erk! Can we just skip the decree nisi and go straight to the decree absolute? Puhleeese. I’m kinda desperate.
THR (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:31 am) #

It’s to be expected. He’s become a cultural phenomenon (though the term ‘cultural’ is mostly used ironically around him) and he is milking it, for all it’s worth.
Dave from Albury (Friday 25 April 2008, 3:05 am) #

I’m drunk. My fingers are bleeding from playing guitar hero and my kids will be awake soon. Friday will be a long day.
magic bellybutton (Friday 25 April 2008, 7:22 am) #

So… what’s that show about, anyway?! I’ve never really understood it!!

Well, Wah summed it up nicely.

Only criticism of the show is the episode in which Rory (the daughter) mispronounced P G Wodehouse’s name. That shit me off.
Jack Dorf (Friday 25 April 2008, 8:01 am) #

This weekend I’ll take some visitors to the Turner to Monet (3rd time for me)exhibition at the NGA.

Then golf, mastication & petting small animals.

DVD of the weekend is series 2 of Early Doors
Suburban Marxist (Friday 25 April 2008, 8:19 am) #

Shit.

I drank to much Vodka.

Bracing myself for the ANZAC Day deluge of ‘of course we don’t think war is a good thing but goodness me weren’t those chaps brave and how dare you say Gallipoli was all about an attempt to “Keep Turkey British” and anyway if they hadn’t been there we would all be speaking German/Japanese by now (insert wild assertions contrary to historical fact and/or possibility)and of course I was against the invasion of Iraq, but that’s different and now that we are there we have to help the poor buggers out (insert wild assertion contradicting the real motives of US imperialism and the even more evident historical record of the past five years)and anyway my (insert title of relative)died fighting for your right to spout your anti-war shit and so I will defend that right by punching your face in.

:-)
Suburban Marxist (Friday 25 April 2008, 8:21 am) #

p.s. Bron, can you email me regarding the upcoming action against the Xtian women-hating picketers outside the fertility clinic?
Terry Wright (Friday 25 April 2008, 9:37 am) #

I’m working today and some of the weekend … Jeepers.

In between, I am taking my dogs to the hairdresser for a cut & perm, going to a friend’s 40th birthday, watching the end of season 3 of The Wire, catching this week’s Lost, Desperate Housewives, BSG, Boston Legal, Bill Maher’s Real Time and Bones. Somewhere in there, I will be chilling out with my monthly dose of China White. Oh, and of course Arrested Development repeats for lunchtime viewing on Sat/Sun.
albi (Friday 25 April 2008, 10:46 am) #

Obviously too late now, but I used to microwave kranskys wrapped in paper towel.

I played indoor cricket last night believing that I was still 25. This morning emerging from bed, the creaks were audible. it’s obvious that I’m no longer 25.

*needs a hug*
Bruce (Friday 25 April 2008, 11:29 am) #

I’m still looking for a more permanent place to reside this weekend. I’m just thankful I still have a shelter over my head, but geez, hasn’t the rental market got aggressive!
joe2 (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:07 pm) #

Given rice rationing in the U.S. AND penis theft in Kinshasa (also, via Reuters) i am holding up quite well, this Anzac holiday weekend.

And thankyou for asking Bron.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2323679120080423
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2319603620080423
Terry Wright (Friday 25 April 2008, 2:31 pm) #

…AND penis theft in…

That’s why ;;;; is so quiet the last few days - he’s been stolen.
krypto (Friday 25 April 2008, 3:45 pm) #

what’s the deal-io with the Gilmour girls anyway?, it’s like the two main characters in that show are on speed.
How freakin’ FAST do they talk? they are like the people who do the endorsement at the end of political TV ads.
krypto (Friday 25 April 2008, 3:47 pm) #

oh and for ANZAC day, I went out…to a TURKISH restaurant!!!!
Suffer in your jocks Bruce Ruxton you weasel.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:16 pm) #

Sub.Marx: p.s. Bron, can you email me regarding the upcoming action against the Xtian women-hating picketers outside the fertility clinic?

I will be doing that tonight or tomorrow. Will also put a post up. Soon as this hangover goes away.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:21 pm) #

Albi: Obviously too late now, but I used to microwave kranskys wrapped in paper towel.

No, not too late, albi. Having it for dinner tonight. But microwaving them wrapped in paper towel? What does it end up tasting like?!

And hugs for your creaky joints.

Er…

Anyway, time to start taking fish oil tablets!
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:28 pm) #

Good luck with finding a rental place, Bruce. I agree, the rental market is aggressive, here in Sydney anyway. I recently moved house and had to move back into the suburbs away from the inner city suburbs where I was living. Such a pain. I love all that living in the inner city suburbs have to give. Siiiiigh. God only knows if I’ll ever be able to afford to buy my own property.

Anyway! Deal or No Deal is starting!! Gotta run!

(Feel free to bash me, Grodsters)
magic bellybutton (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:38 pm) #

what’s the deal-io with the Gilmour girls anyway?, it’s like the two main characters in that show are on speed.
How freakin’ FAST do they talk? they are like the people who do the endorsement at the end of political TV ads.

A lot of people seem to have a problem with the speed they talk. When you see interviews with the creators you see that THEY actually talk like that.

Good thing is you don’t catch all the references the first time around so each time you watch it, you pick up more.
krypto (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:43 pm) #

oh that’s even worse I think, no, I reckon I’ve seen the older chick in something else and she wasn’t talking like that. It seems like a nervous manerism to me, kind of a hallmark of actors who aren’t really comfortable acting.
albi (Friday 25 April 2008, 5:53 pm) #

The Kransky tastes great from the microwave. Mmmm, kransky.
magic bellybutton (Friday 25 April 2008, 8:05 pm) #

Krypto, she was once in Caroline in the City - but I never really watched that so I can’t tell you how she was in that.

Movie-wise, Lauren Graham was in Bad Santa and Because I Said So
Dave from Albury (Friday 25 April 2008, 8:57 pm) #

Gilmore Girls was developed for a bunch of advertisers called the Family Friendly Programming Forum. That’s about all I know about it, but I’ll second Wah’s Tap.
Bron (Friday 25 April 2008, 9:17 pm) #

Interesting about Family Friendly Programming Forum. However, I was a little disconcerted to see “Chuck” listed there. I thought he was one of Random Brainwave’s very naughty boys.
magic bellybutton (Friday 25 April 2008, 9:59 pm) #

Dave, interesting. Never knew that.
Ray Dixon (Saturday 26 April 2008, 12:06 am) #

“for ANZAC day, I went out…to a TURKISH restaurant”

That’s un-Australian Krypto, you’ll rot in hell. I spent the day making up fckn flat-pack furniture, a very Australian thing to do.
keri (Saturday 26 April 2008, 10:50 am) #

Let’s see, yesterday I went to a pool hall, played some shockingly bad games and some shockingly good games, drank far too many pints, got hit on by the son of someone I used to date and left shamingly early because I was rapidly apporaching a state where I was too drunk to stand.

I’m sure the diggers would be proud.
keri (Saturday 26 April 2008, 11:58 am) #

approaching, that should read.
John Surname (Saturday 26 April 2008, 1:11 pm) #

Hit on by the song of someone you used to date?

Awesome.
John Surname (Saturday 26 April 2008, 1:14 pm) #

*son
Bron (Saturday 26 April 2008, 1:27 pm) #

Haha, buggered that one up, Surname!
John Surname (Saturday 26 April 2008, 4:36 pm) #

Yes. Yes I did.
Ray Dixon (Saturday 26 April 2008, 5:00 pm) #

The NAB spent Anzac Day putting up interest rates outside the RBA system.
krypto (Sunday 27 April 2008, 5:28 pm) #

nope, Turkish restaurant for me, the baba Ganoush was particualrly good I have to say.

Later on I watched Peter Weir’s 1981 film “Gallipoli” and barracked for “Johnny Turk”. (nah not really)
krypto (Sunday 27 April 2008, 5:30 pm) #

MBB “Bad Santa” was the flik I was thinking of I reckon, she didn’t talk like Alvin the chipmunk on a caffeine and speed bender in that did she?
I don’t think so.