Comments on: Shrill elites denounce gangs, defend Blainey, mention Cronulla in passing

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:57:53 +0000

I tried to find the trackback URL, how I tried. My thoughts here. Almost amusing to watch the conservatives line up to put the boot into multiculturalism. Good luck for anyone who mistakenly thinks there is an alternative to it that doesn't involve rounding up all Australia's ethnics and deporting them. (e.g. not far from the whole country).

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:27:44 +0000

Prof Flint and some of the people on this page would shit themselves if they were in a western suburbs pub on a Friday or Sat night, and the same goes for the beachside burbs,like most of what Flint says about working class australians hes speaking out of his arse.

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:22:11 +0000

Yeah! I loved hearing the fragrant DF on the ABC today. He’s a man of the people, salt of the earth, I tell ya!

By: Lefty Elitist

Lefty Elitist — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:36:57 +0000

I heard the call go up for elitist shit and came running!

Flinty is a gutsy lil battler, staying and he’s dead right about the twilight of the elites. Any humble bogan can participate at the highest level of a multicultural policy development these days, through the democratic means of a race riot. Thanks flinty!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:25:39 +0000

I’m pretty sure Flinty knows what it means, whyisitso. Do you have anything relevant or substantive to add on this thread?

By: whyisitso

whyisitso — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:23:29 +0000

Example of the meaning of ‘disconnect’: “I understand all of it. What are you talking about?�?

Cor, aren’t you a clever little vegemite. You must be an elite to have learned a hard word like that so well. And after only a few years getting a humanities degree – well done!

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:09:22 +0000

More of a tosser, I suspect.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:08:09 +0000

Nothing would surprise me, Homer.

By: Bring Back Ep

Bring Back Ep — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:48:03 +0000

Kate are you saying he is a flasher?

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:39:47 +0000

It’s funny when you’re called an elitist by someone who drives a flash car and lives in a flash house in a flash suburb, when you drive a crap old car, live wage-to-wage, and rent a falling down old cottage.

It’s funny to be called an elitist by a person who has a high flying media job when your parents are working class shop owners.

David Flint’s silver spoon upbringing and and plummy, dulcet tones don’t bother me. It’s the way he pretends that an ordinary person like me is somehow ‘elitist’ because my ideas don’t match his, when in every single sense of the word, he is way more a member of any elite than I’ll ever be.

Same with Alan Jones. There’s nothing ‘ordinary’ about these people.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:23:53 +0000

“Is this elitist shit or what?”

It’s what, why.

Maybe you should read all the posts from start to finish. Especially the ones you’re answering.

Example of the meaning of ‘disconnect’: “I understand all of it. What are you talking about?”

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:23:12 +0000

“Is this elitist shit or what?”

Why yes it is, my low-browed little friend. Look, love to chat further but I’m off to the opera tonight so I must dash and start numbing my senses now with a few peach bellinis. Ciao.

By: whyisitso

whyisitso — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:05:11 +0000

“What part of disconnect don’t you understand” All of it. What the hell are you talking about. Is this elitist shit or what?

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:43:17 +0000

Dim sims are cuisine? I thought they were surfie fuel. At least I didn’t compare him to a chiko roll, the only snackfood that’s already been digested and excreted for you. Kinda took that comparison for granted.

By: Sacha Blumen

Sacha Blumen — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:41:06 +0000

I don’t understand Prof. Flint’s going on about the so-called elites! I think that he’s stuck on it and can’t think much. I don’t know why a newspaper publishes the same stuff.

BTW it’s sad when articles are advertised as “Why XXX is WRONG”, or “Why YYY was RIGHT” – yes, let’s have a black and white view of the world. Not for me thanks.

By: Christo

Christo — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:40:31 +0000

Flint, imo, is beyond criticism as much as he is beyond satire.

I love that story about him hiding in a closet before a speech so he could make a grand entrance..

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:27:29 +0000

“Gee you’re one steamed up little dim sim today, whatsit. ”

That’s racist, Nabs. Racist! How dare you mock the cuisine of my ancestors. I should have known you lefties are all the same … yadda yadda Gough Whitlam ‘f***ing Balts’ yadda yadda East Timor yadda yadda … Muslims are your preferred minorities, aren’t they?

By: Bring Back EP

Bring Back EP — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:21:52 +0000

I remember Lord Paddy of Balmain writing he went to school with him and he had the accent there.

hey it’s better than Lord Paddy’s!

By: AlanDownunder

AlanDownunder — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:19:16 +0000

Using Flint’s accent of a means of abuse? No, Mr/s. whyisitso. What part of disconnect don’t you understand?

Elitists who criticise elites are dodgy whatever their accent, but maybe if he talked like Pauline the way he walks like Pauline his accent wouldn’t strike so many as uproariously odd.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:14:29 +0000

Gee you’re one steamed up little dim sim today, whatsit.

It’s Davo’s whole toffy-nosed persona, perfectly embodied by his hoary Received Pronouncation accent, that’s the subject of mockery here – because it is so at odds with his handwringing over those pesky “elites”.

But hey, if you want to wilfully misunderstand the point so you can take your high horse for a ride, tyhe knock y’self out Stampy.