GrodsThink 16 (13 May ‘08)

Posted by Scott on Wednesday 14 May 2008, 8:41 am
Categories: Blogosphere, GrodsThink, Media, Politics Tags: AlanJones, JusticeMichaelKirby, LiberalParty, TheBudget2008, TimBlair

The Editor, John Surname, Ant Rogenous, Wah and Craig discuss:

* The budget — baby bonus, luxury car tax, Medicare etc.
* Victorian Liberal party shafting itself
* Tim Blair’s commercial blog move
* Justice Kirby vs. Alan Jones in the GrodsThink naked cagefight

** Because Jeremy Sear is using all of Australia’s bandwidth to play XBox online in regional Victoria use only the “Play in popup” link or the “Download” link. **

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17 comments on “GrodsThink 16 (13 May ‘08)”

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 9:58 am #Damian

Jeremy in absentia = pwned.

And I’m with Ant, Wah, and Surnami: Costello should go and fuck himself.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 10:13 am #Damian

Oh dear.

That, “oh for the love of god, TAP!”, in hushed and reverent tones, was a corker. Coffee-meets-keyboard action.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 10:30 am #John Surname

Quality, Damnian.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:03 pm #Jason Wilson

Guys - I reckon you’re spot on in the podcast about the potential difficulties there are for anyone in moving across to heavily moderated MSM sites.

I was never favoured with posting privileges at timblair.net (no right of reply on the site was part of the reason it was tough to be targeted by Blair), but I saw that a lot of his users certainly did use it as a “chat-room”, and I think that’s what so many of us enjoy about the blog communities we’re a part of. Very tough when posting is delayed by moderation.

Anyway nice ‘cast. Do you do them from the pub?

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:06 pm #John Surname

A bar in Carlton called the Carlton Yacht Club.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:09 pm #The Editor

Thanks, Jason. We find that recording in a bar provides a nice atmosphere and gives us handy access to liquid refreshment on tap.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:16 pm #Damian

And sometimes the possibility of a “tap” on tap.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 2:25 pm #Dave from Albury

#Clears throat# As I was saying somewhere else, does anyone else pick up a Johnny Young vibe when the Ed signs off with ‘Goodnight Australia’?

Frankly, it kinda freaks me out.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 2:34 pm #Jason Wilson

Yeah, good call. You’ve got more chance of finding a pub with good acoustics down there, I reckon.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:32 pm #Wah

Dave, the Editor tried fiddling with us too, insisting that we let him if we want to go far in he blog world.

Jason a good thing about doing it in the pub is, if you listen early in the podcast, the people laughing in the background sound like they are laughing at us - free audience laughter.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:55 pm #Damian

And you can hear the cash till cling as you all get another round of lubricants.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:55 pm #Damian

…see, if I had friends, and we all met at the pub and discussed politics and blogging and tapping, well, this is what it would sound like.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 4:49 pm #Jeremy

…I see.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 7:53 pm #Jason Wilson

Wah - people pay good money for sound effects tapes featuring the tinkle of glasses and convivial laughter. I applaud your thrift.

Friday 16 May 2008, 8:44 pm #Keri

God damn it. The week I’m not there, they play the entire Feist album, including Tout Doucement.

Fuckers.

Sunday 29 June 2008, 8:13 pm #THR

If I recall correctly, there was a call-out for funny material found online.

A reliable source for such material is The Midnight Sun. There is some classic material in this thread:

it’s my considered opinion (and not only mine) that those in favor of the control of weapons of self defense would rather see a woman lying face down in the mud, having been raped and strangled with her own panty hose, than to see her with a gun in her purse.

http://www.themidnightsun.org/?p=2590#comment-23280

This is good, funny, insane stuff.