It’s Flinty!
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He, he, he, he.
Best joke since Malcolm Turnbull’s dogs took up blogging.
There is a comment on one of the threads that is pure gold and I quote:
“You’re not that pompous fuckwit David Flint of the ABA are you…”
I nearly choked reading that.
I really hope that the Republic becomes a reality while Flint is still alive.
What were the words again? Stay brave and true?
He is in like flint!
Well, from a purely utilitarian POV, it’s a very very ugly website.
Any odds on Flinty outlasting McConvill’s few weeks of madness? I notice Just James is back at Catallaxy showing off his fixations…
It’s too much. Flinty himself, BP’s favourite elitist, defending elites against the indefensible in the blogosphere, and all the meanwhile struggling manfully to master his keyboard’s spacebar. It just can’t be …
Well may we say God save the Queen …
Just James wants to be Australia’s Alfred Kinsey, the Divine Professor of Sexology
What amazes me about Prof. Flint is that his signature phrase is “the twilight of the elites” while he himself, by any definition, was one of them. Presumably he had some strange idea about “the left” having won the cultural battles in the 60s/70s/80s and that the conservatives had now beaten the left.
Well let’s see – if by elites we mean the people with power, the ones making decisions, then Flint et al (eg conservatives, the fed. govt, right wing commentators) are the elites – how many more “lefties” are there for them to take the good fight to?
Flint’s ideas seemed very odd.
Twilight of the Elites is the name of a book he published. Yes he identifies the elites with the left.
I thought the same Naomi, but who would bother? It’s just a bit too boring to be a knockoff. And a lot of people in positions of power and responsibility are surprisingly dependent on the services of editorial underlings. Just ask [name deleted for legal reasons]
Classic McConville:
I hereby challenge James to come back to blogging to contest the title fight for most bizarre blogger with Flinty!
The prize: red wine, bananas and a walk on the beach.
And no cake or latte!
I have to agree with Kate, the website is truly ugly. I actually couldn’t bring myself to read any of the content, because I found it too boring to look at and difficult to navigate…
Laura, can we have an acrostic?
Shorter James McConville: I don’t want to be stuck shagging one woman for the rest of my life, so I think I should be allowed to have threesomes. Hopefully with nubile young undergrads.
Another possibility is that a higher level of happiness depends on diversity …
Damn, what happened to me link? For diversity see http://dox.media2.org/barista/archives/002552.html.
Ah, Flinty, my old nemesis. We meet again, but now the advantage is mine! Now lowly bloggers both, head to head, lefty elitist to pompous RWDB elitist. Its on .
As ive said an previous Flinty threads: I honestly thought his “Twilight of the Elites” book must have been an autobiographical lament declining membership standards at the Melbourne Club.
Hmm, the articles do read like Flinty’s terminally po faced letters to the ed. But I’m inclined to think it’s a piss take. If you click on profile his only friend is listed as Alan Jones. *snort*
oh yes, and if you look at the comment Alan Jones left on Flinty’s top post….you’ll be wanting to wash your eyeballs afterwards (actually that comment looks suspiciously like Alan’s been a-reading LP)
Is Flinty real? Great question.
Meanwhile, Gummo, comrade, wtf?
Meanwhile, in McConville land, this interesting suggestion:
cs,
That was a bit obscure I guess. Just figured that if McConville (assuming that the comment is genuine & not an elaborate piss-take) thinks variety in the bedroom is the key to happiness, there’s no good reason to limit yourself to the human race …
Er, that’s the comment at Catallaxy of course.