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 GrodsThink 16 (13 May ‘08) 

 Wednesday 14 May 2008, 8:41 am    The Editor
 Categories: Blogosphere, GrodsThink, Media, Politics   Tags: , , , ,

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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  1.  Gravatar Damian (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 9:58 am) # 

    Jeremy in absentia = pwned.

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


  2.  Gravatar Damian (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 10:13 am) # 

    Oh dear.

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


  3.  Gravatar John Surname (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 10:30 am) # 

    Quality, Damnian.


  4.  Gravatar Jason Wilson (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:03 pm) # 

    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?


  5.  Gravatar John Surname (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:06 pm) # 

    A bar in Carlton called the Carlton Yacht Club.


  6.  Gravatar The Editor (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:09 pm) # 

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


  7.  Gravatar Damian (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1:16 pm) # 

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


  8.  Gravatar Dave from Albury (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 2:25 pm) # 

    #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.


  9.  Gravatar Jason Wilson (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 2:34 pm) # 

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


  10.  Gravatar Wah (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:32 pm) # 

    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.


  11.  Gravatar Damian (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:55 pm) # 

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


  12.  Gravatar Damian (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3:55 pm) # 

    …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.


  13.  Gravatar Jeremy (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 4:49 pm) # 

    …I see.


  14.  Gravatar Jason Wilson (Wednesday 14 May 2008, 7:53 pm) # 

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


  15.  Gravatar Keri (Friday 16 May 2008, 8:44 pm) # 

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

    Fuckers.


  16.  Gravatar THR (Sunday 29 June 2008, 8:13 pm) # 

    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.


  17.  Gravatar Ant Rogenous (Monday 30 June 2008, 1:46 pm) # 

    Lucky that’s a considered opinion — otherwise the Colonel might have come across sounding like a complete fucking idiot.


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