Comments on: Schembri by numbers http://www.grods.com/post/7005/ Australia's leading blog that starts with 'G' and has nine letters in its name. Join us for a latte as we discuss politics, media, society and the internet. Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:15:58 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: zoot http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40931 zoot Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:52:32 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40931 Jeez Daryl, if you want to articulate what the left stands for, go ahead. Its real easy to start your own blog (just ask Iain). In the meantime, I come here for the swearing. Jeez Daryl, if you want to articulate what the left stands for, go ahead. Its real easy to start your own blog (just ask Iain).
In the meantime, I come here for the swearing.

]]> By: invig http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40930 invig Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:39:02 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40930 <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25593657-7583,00.html" rel="nofollow">Some</a> would say that the Liberal party are just as philosophically uncertain as the left. Me, I reckon no one has much of an idea. That's why I invented my own stuff to believe in. You can too if you pay me $5. Some would say that the Liberal party are just as philosophically uncertain as the left.

Me, I reckon no one has much of an idea. That’s why I invented my own stuff to believe in.

You can too if you pay me $5.

]]> By: Darryl Mason http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40918 Darryl Mason Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:18:40 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40918 "You spend a lot of time attacking the right or attacking people who fail spelling or grammar but yet I don’t read any articles articulating what it is to be on the left or what the left or your version of the left stands for." This is a fucking Lefty site? Uggghhh, Good Christ! Goodbye to all. “You spend a lot of time attacking the right or attacking people who fail spelling or grammar but yet I don’t read any articles articulating what it is to be on the left or what the left or your version of the left stands for.”

This is a fucking Lefty site? Uggghhh, Good Christ!

Goodbye to all.

]]> By: John Surname http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40915 John Surname Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:36 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40915 You seriously misjudged this site, didn't you? You seriously misjudged this site, didn’t you?

]]> By: Daryl http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40914 Daryl Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:29:36 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40914 Its ironic that this article attacks the author because he writes an article by the numbers yet as somebody who has been lurking here for a long time I am waiting for Grods to start articulating what the left stands for in 2009. You spend a lot of time attacking the right or attacking people who fail spelling or grammar but yet I don't read any articles articulating what it is to be on the left or what the left or your version of the left stands for. I am an old lefty (born in 1962) I want more proactive articles rather than reactive, are we just here to follow the right or do we have our own agenda? I could not find an open thread to post this in but really lets get over the grammar and spelling and start developing a left wing alternative to the current policies of both the major parties. Come on Grods it is time to lead the debate. Its ironic that this article attacks the author because he writes an article by the numbers yet as somebody who has been lurking here for a long time I am waiting for Grods to start articulating what the left stands for in 2009.

You spend a lot of time attacking the right or attacking people who fail spelling or grammar but yet I don’t read any articles articulating what it is to be on the left or what the left or your version of the left stands for.

I am an old lefty (born in 1962) I want more proactive articles rather than reactive, are we just here to follow the right or do we have our own agenda?

I could not find an open thread to post this in but really lets get over the grammar and spelling and start developing a left wing alternative to the current policies of both the major parties. Come on Grods it is time to lead the debate.

]]> By: Chuck http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40906 Chuck Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:34:30 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40906 #@# 20. God. And you are so fucking smart. I wish I was in your class so I could shut your cunt up. #@# 20. God. And you are so fucking smart. I wish I was in your class so I could shut your cunt up.

]]> By: invig http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40901 invig Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:44:01 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40901 fuck damn fuck. it looked so awesome on the the shorts too! fuck damn fuck. it looked so awesome on the the shorts too!

]]> By: Suburban Marxist http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40897 Suburban Marxist Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:32:23 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40897 <i>"You know, he didn’t much rate Gran Torino? AND he gives Terminator 4 three and a half stars? Anybody seen it? I bet it’s crap."</i> I have seen it, and I've experienced anything quite like it. The first half kicks ass and then it does a 180 degree turn and turns into some of the most pure and unadulterated cinematic shit I've ever seen. “You know, he didn’t much rate Gran Torino? AND he gives Terminator 4 three and a half stars? Anybody seen it? I bet it’s crap.”

I have seen it, and I’ve experienced anything quite like it. The first half kicks ass and then it does a 180 degree turn and turns into some of the most pure and unadulterated cinematic shit I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40893 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:52:21 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40893 Poor widdle Surname's feelings are hurt because I slagged off his hewo. Poor widdle Surname’s feelings are hurt because I slagged off his hewo.

]]> By: John Surname http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40892 John Surname Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:50:06 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40892 I like his reviews, and I'm kind of bemused the way he has become a fashionable whipping boy amongst a lot of people. I like his reviews, and I’m kind of bemused the way he has become a fashionable whipping boy amongst a lot of people.

]]> By: Bertus http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40891 Bertus Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:24:19 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40891 I almost never agree with Schembri's movie reviews. In fact, I've taken to using them as a reverse indicator - if Schembri says it's good, I avoid; if Schembri says it's crap, I go. Sometimes it doesn't work though usually it does. You know, he didn't much rate Gran Torino? AND he gives Terminator 4 three and a half stars? Anybody seen it? I bet it's crap. But I have to say, I like his movie blog, which interestingly, only appears in the Age and not the SMH, because he gives a lot more feedback than most bloggers. He's also very entertaining at times. Back in December '08 there was this lil' interaction with the gorgeous Raida: (paraphrased & bits left out) Raida: ...Well, I'm in Roma for Christmas & New Year's, so the only cinema, with it's one screen, is playing Bedtime Stories and Australia..... Schembri Note: ....Feel free BTW, to go off topic with any Roma observations. We're all plenty envious. Later, Raida again: Happy New Year! Roma: well, it's been bloody hot and muggy here for nigh on a week. Now it's more hot than muggy though, so that's a relief :] Not much to add to that really, nuthin much happenin at any point in Roma! Staying at Mum&Dad's place, with their JVC stereo and Panasonic 50-inch plasma and refrigerated air-con, and most days we'll go over to my brother's place with his 50-inch Panasonic plasma, Yamaha surround-sound, blacked-out tv cabinet... ahhhh I like holidays :D mostly been playing video games and watchin DVDs [Bertus Note - it's preety obvious she's talkin about Roma, QUEENSLAND by now, innit?] Schembri replies: Ahh, Rome. City of Plasmas. "Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Give me your digital set top boxes!" Here's the link if you're interested. Moi over there (ediff) pwns Schembs and...hey, he's big enough to wear it. He's kinda like the Molly Meldrum of movies is our Schembs. http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/archives/2008/12/cinetopias_summ.html?page=fullpage#comments I almost never agree with Schembri’s movie reviews. In fact, I’ve taken to using them as a reverse indicator – if Schembri says it’s good, I avoid; if Schembri says it’s crap, I go. Sometimes it doesn’t work though usually it does.

You know, he didn’t much rate Gran Torino? AND he gives Terminator 4 three and a half stars? Anybody seen it? I bet it’s crap.

But I have to say, I like his movie blog, which interestingly, only appears in the Age and not the SMH, because he gives a lot more feedback than most bloggers. He’s also very entertaining at times. Back in December ‘08 there was this lil’ interaction with the gorgeous Raida:

(paraphrased & bits left out)

Raida: …Well, I’m in Roma for Christmas & New Year’s, so the only cinema, with it’s one screen, is playing Bedtime Stories and Australia…..

Schembri Note: ….Feel free BTW, to go off topic with any Roma observations. We’re all plenty envious.

Later, Raida again: Happy New Year!
Roma: well, it’s been bloody hot and muggy here for nigh on a week. Now it’s more hot than muggy though, so that’s a relief :] Not much to add to that really, nuthin much happenin at any point in Roma!
Staying at Mum&Dad’s place, with their JVC stereo and Panasonic 50-inch plasma and refrigerated air-con, and most days we’ll go over to my brother’s place with his 50-inch Panasonic plasma, Yamaha surround-sound, blacked-out tv cabinet… ahhhh I like holidays :D mostly been playing video games and watchin DVDs

[Bertus Note - it's preety obvious she's talkin about Roma, QUEENSLAND by now, innit?]

Schembri replies: Ahh, Rome. City of Plasmas. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Give me your digital set top boxes!”

Here’s the link if you’re interested. Moi over there (ediff) pwns Schembs and…hey, he’s big enough to wear it. He’s kinda like the Molly Meldrum of movies is our Schembs.

http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/archives/2008/12/cinetopias_summ.html?page=fullpage#comments

]]> By: Returned Man http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40880 Returned Man Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:35:05 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40880 What's that photo of Steven Hawking doing next to Bob Carr's name? What’s that photo of Steven Hawking doing next to Bob Carr’s name?

]]> By: Reuben http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40878 Reuben Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:25:20 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40878 It reminds me of the first year environments subject I'm doing at Melbourne University...they try their hardest to make the mundane and insipid as intellectually rich and fulfilling. FAIL. It reminds me of the first year environments subject I’m doing at Melbourne University…they try their hardest to make the mundane and insipid as intellectually rich and fulfilling. FAIL.

]]> By: John Surname http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40876 John Surname Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:20:18 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40876 It was on the backpage you knob. Nobody reads the backpage (except when Lawrence Money is pwning Bolt, which is often). It was on the backpage you knob. Nobody reads the backpage (except when Lawrence Money is pwning Bolt, which is often).

]]> By: Suburban Marxist http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40875 Suburban Marxist Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:17:29 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40875 It is recockulous. From the title I thought it was some expose of some new ungodly horror emanating from Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, and then I saw the author's name and thought WTF!? It is recockulous. From the title I thought it was some expose of some new ungodly horror emanating from Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, and then I saw the author’s name and thought WTF!?

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40873 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:52:58 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40873 Never met him. His writing is shithouse, though. Never met him. His writing is shithouse, though.

]]> By: Mondo Rock http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40871 Mondo Rock Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:48:02 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40871 <i>So, it’s fair to say you didn’t like Schembri’s piece?</i> Probably fairer to simply say that Scott doesn't like Jim Schembri. So, it’s fair to say you didn’t like Schembri’s piece?

Probably fairer to simply say that Scott doesn’t like Jim Schembri.

]]> By: Dr. Cam http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40870 Dr. Cam Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:31:03 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40870 I steal it from my next door neighbour. I'd suggest you do the same, but then who would I steal my paper from? I steal it from my next door neighbour. I’d suggest you do the same, but then who would I steal my paper from?

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40866 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:47:27 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40866 It's got third place on the list of opinion pieces on the website. I haven't paid for a physical copy of the paper in over a year. <img class="imgc" src="http://www.grods.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-4.png" /> It’s got third place on the list of opinion pieces on the website. I haven’t paid for a physical copy of the paper in over a year.

]]> By: Dr. Cam http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40864 Dr. Cam Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:44:47 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40864 I thought it was on the back page next to Lawrence Money. I thought it was on the back page next to Lawrence Money.

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40859 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:06:44 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40859 He can blog about whatever the fuck he wants, but on the <i>opinion page</i> of the newspaper? He can blog about whatever the fuck he wants, but on the opinion page of the newspaper?

]]> By: Wah http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40858 Wah Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:05:54 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40858 Why can't he blog about treadmills? You blog about fleshlights and kittehs? Why can’t he blog about treadmills? You blog about fleshlights and kittehs?

]]> By: Bron http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40857 Bron Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:56:14 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40857 I wonder if Schembri has any allen keys he can give me to add to my collection. I wonder if Schembri has any allen keys he can give me to add to my collection.

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40855 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:25:30 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40855 Or fibre. Or fibre.

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40854 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:25:15 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40854 You're right, Couchy. Maybe Jason needs more sleep. You’re right, Couchy. Maybe Jason needs more sleep.

]]> By: Dr. Cam http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40853 Dr. Cam Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:20:02 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40853 That is exactly effectively what I'm saying, Jason. I heard that Jim Schembri gets a mention on at least 75% of the pages in Scott's dream journal. That is exactly effectively what I’m saying, Jason. I heard that Jim Schembri gets a mention on at least 75% of the pages in Scott’s dream journal.

]]> By: couchy http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40852 couchy Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:16:15 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40852 Someone's got a case of the Mondays Someone’s got a case of the Mondays

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40849 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:38:25 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40849 Boys always chuck rocks at the girls they like. Boys always chuck rocks at the girls they like.

]]> By: Jason http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40848 Jason Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:37:40 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40848 So what you're effectively saying, Dr. Cam, is that Scott LOVES Jim Schembri. Like L-O-V-E-S him. Interesting and plausible. So what you’re effectively saying, Dr. Cam, is that Scott LOVES Jim Schembri. Like L-O-V-E-S him. Interesting and plausible.

]]> By: Dr. Cam http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40847 Dr. Cam Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:33:04 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40847 He didn't like it. He loved it. He didn’t like it. He loved it.

]]> By: Scott http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40846 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:32:22 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40846 It was an interesting juxtaposition between traditionalist mindsets and post-modern exercise paradigms. It was an interesting juxtaposition between traditionalist mindsets and post-modern exercise paradigms.

]]> By: Jason http://www.grods.com/post/7005/comment-page-1/#comment-40845 Jason Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:30:59 +0000 http://www.grods.com/?p=7005#comment-40845 So, it's fair to say you didn't like Schembri's piece? So, it’s fair to say you didn’t like Schembri’s piece?

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