Harry Enfield shows the dangers to women of having a controversial opinion. Actually having read watched from a sensible distance the infamous Thread of Doom, personally, I think it’s good advice for everyone.
So what’s your view on the emergence of speculative asset bubbles?
*runs away*
So what’s your view on the emergence of speculative asset bubbles?
F***, you wouldn’t f****** understand if I told you anyway you f****** fatheaded f****** fathead.
/doomthreadpatois
You’re lying, CL. Why won’t you admit you are lying???
You’re an idiot, Winter.
F***, you’re an idiot.
Liar.
NO YOU ARE LYING ANNA!!!
The best You-Tube yet.
And every bit of it true.
WHY HAVEN’T YOU F(*^ING ANSWEREd ME YET CL? IT’S BECauSE YOU ARE LYING ISN’T IT.
I HAVE answered you, you idiot.
heh.
BTW I can’t get enough of those pseudo-science cartoons. I aspire to creating one of those about my research one day.
Bejaysus! Some weirdo kids in outfits just knocked on my door, demanding ‘treats’. What do they think this is, the f’n Brady Bunch?
I told them Halloween was Un-Australian; and to tell their parents to go back to Witchitawwww.
heh…my tribe have just walked out the door, dressed a ghosts and mexicans (?). (its a Frida Khalo thing)
I’m all for Halloween, americana and all. I think the scariest (and best) part for suburbanites, is the fact ppl get out of the house and come face to face with one another at night. What a radical concept.
I’d have said Waco……..
(OT, really, and I should preface this story by pointing out that I live in the deepest, darkest heart of Port Power territory. Now read on …)
A few years back there was a knock on the door at dusk and I opened it to three blond boys as alike as a set of Russian dolls, aged roughly eleven, eight and five. I was ready for Trick or Treaters with three or four different supermarket bags of so-called ‘fun size’ C*d***y chocky bars, and offered them one of each. The littlest one looked at what I’d given him and piped up plaintively ‘I don’t like Cherry Ripes!’ The oldest brother rolled his eyes and gave the kid a smack across the head. ‘You’ll get what you’re given, Gavin,’ he said.
You know me, I just hate it when they come here and dont integrate etc.
Yes, Waco .. nice! Cheers, BB.
When did this vulgar custom emerge in this country??
I used to really hate the Halloween idea untill I was in Santa Barbara for Halloween and went to some of the college parties. I like it now, a lot. It’s a really good excuse for a party. The symbolism and all that is a little weird but it is always fun to get dressed up for a party.
Well, bring back bloody Spring festival, or whatever it was called. You know, the one where medieval villagers celebrated spring by wearing masks and going on a four-day rampage of booze, cooked meats and general all-in orgies.
Just dont turn me into Mike Brady, handing out ‘Oreos’, and ‘Hershey bars’ or whatev.
Or lets have a Corrobboree or sumpthin. Jeez.
I dont accept that it has emerged – and Im doing my bit to quash it!
Why not provide them all with their first beers? Let them enjoy Halloween the way Mick did.
Heh.
Lefty E, and C.L.
I hate to have to tell you this given your religious/cultural heritages, but the celebration of Halloween is originally a Celtic folk tradition – particularly Irish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
The link to the wikipedia article is from Kim’s Halloween post.
Of course, the resonances in Australia are from American popular culture.
But wikipedia has this interesting bit:
I didn’t know Robbie Burns wrote a poem called Halloween.
http://members.tripod.com/milwburnsclub/works/rb0/rb075.htm
Dont mind me, Im just whipping up some true blue desserts in a culturally defensive panic.
Damper with golden syrup! mmmm kidddies! Gettitindayaaa!
Just looking at my daughter now that she’s home, there’s a fine line between a ghost costume and a burqua….
That’s right kids, listen to the Eye of Sauron (aka Anna Winter or some shit). Fuck lollies, you oughta start demanding fuckin’ canned bourbon-an-cola at the door with menaces. Or that Tooheys Extra Dry. Yeah, can’t taste that or feel it slowly eating away your eyesight, but it’s sweet as sugary crack and looks clarsey. Thanks Missers Mangle.
Don’t wanna buy into an imported hyper-commodified North American custom? Enjoy the fresh turd in yer letterbox then.
I’m told young kids eat a lot of canned vegies these days. Mmmm, I love the smell of
napalmsweetcorn in the morning—smells like victory.The beer’s not a bad idea Anna.
“Here, give this to your old man. And/or woman. Now scoot.”
That’s quite interesting Mark. But it makes me feel no better about these developments!
Back to my passionfruit pavlova.
Halloween looks like an excellent holiday and I’m pretty jealous of the yanks on account of it, but there’s absolutely no point having it here on the cusp of SUMMER and all.
Three kids came to our door and though I wanted to give them the same advice Lefty E recommended I offered them a choice between a handful of currants, a handful of unhulled pumpkin seeds, or a bag of caster sugar. Ungrateful little shits turned up their noses at all of it.
Exactly Laura. Ungrateful. Same response to my Teatree Meringue.
Ive got it! In the face of this dire threat, there’s only one solution.
We reinstitute Bush Week.
Last year when i went around with my kids, one bewildered single bloke in the neighbourhood didn’t have a clue what to do, and gave the kids $ 10 instead. LOL.
…”dookin” for apples (trying to spear an apple in a bucket of water using only a fork held in one’s mouth)…
A liability nightmare of Halloween proportions.
So how about that gold standard, hey?
ITYM ‘Gold Standard’, trick or treat?
Umm sorry Sublime Cowgirl, what suburb do you live in?
Didnt your mum tell you not to give out your details on these nets?
No trick or treaters this year. Possibly because of this.
Why yes I am a bitter curmudgean despite my not very advanced age!
Also, I love kittens.
Mark: “So how about that gold standard, hey?”
Gold standard? What, you mean like, The Jam? (curiously, The Jam are usually overlooked in the numerous and entertaining music threads on this site. The Jam ROOLED! esp. live!)
And what’s with all this stomping on Halloween? Savages. btw, Mark is right, Halloween is indeed of Irish-Celtic provenance, one of the great Irish collective contributions to the modern age, along with the refinement of corrupt urban machine politics into a science and a bona fide political theory (see “honest graft”…)
Also, if you just chucked the sweets directly into the little monsters’ Trick or Treat bags, or hollow plastic pumpkins (do youse grow pumpkins in Oz? hmmm…) or whatever it is they’re using to hold their loot, then they wouldn’t get a chance to see what you’re handing out, and so they wouldn’t be able to complain about it (not that they ever should… where has trick or treat etiquette disappeared to, alas!)
Not like the ould days, grumble grumble (spits chaw), grumble.
I’m sorry, did j_p_z just ask whether pumpkins are grown in Oz??? Don’t know where he’s from, but for god’s sake someone give the poor man Flo’s pumpkin scone recipe, would you?
And there’s another treat idea for you, Lefty E. But you know over Canada way the monsters can’t accept anything that isn’t actually separately packaged coz some sicko could have poisoned it/put razor blades in it or something.
Sorry, a bit grouchy from having had to hand out masses of chocolates to 15 year olds who’d filled a couple of pillow cases already.
j_p_z, it’s the beginning of summer here. We just switched over to Daylight Savings time in Victoria and the nighttime is effectively banished for the next few months.
In a few weeks the cicadas will start up in the evenings and we’ll eat all our meals outside.
I love the idea of a creepy witchy ghostie festival at the beginning of the winter months but it’s ridiculous to contemplate having it here at the start of summer.
If we were going to do anything to mark the time of year it should probably be somethign related to Beltane.
Flo’s pumpkin scone recipe here. (with photograph.)
I have a cookbook called “Colonial Days” which features a recipe for Possum Pumpkin Pie. You hollow out the pumpkin, stick a possum in it, and put it on the coals.
15 year olds?? What did they do, demand Caramello Bears with menaces? Did you warn them about what it’ll do to their skin?
I don’t give chocolate to anyone taller than me. In fact I don’t give chocolate to anyone old enough to be out without an adult after dark. It’s amazing how much chocolate you get to keep that way.
Worse than a woman having a controversial opinion is a woman paid to have a unique opinion on current affairsbut who is clearly too lazy to develop one and to acknowledge its original source. I can understand numerous commentators relying on philosophical support from Hume, Marx, Locke or even Jesus Christ – but Elton John? It’s a mad, sad situation all right.
I didn’t hand out any chocolate this year: previous years have shown a dearth of trick-or-treaters plus my general curmudgeonry has vastly expanded since taking up blogging.
I got one kid knocking on the door, even though I didn’t have the front light on. If Aussie kids are going to take up this tradition the parents ought to take up the etiquette of reminding them which neighbours are showing willing and which aren’t.
I honestly didn’t think of it & wasn’t prepared. Had no chocolate in the house as any purchased is instantly consumed.
YOU FUCKING EFFETE LEFTIST PANTYWAISTS CAN’T EVEN KEEP A SLAG THREAD ON TRACK!!!
FUCKING LOST YOUR MISERABLE PEA SIZED BRAINS FROM EATING TOO MANY SWEETS AND TOO MUCH OF MY TAXES!!!!
YOU ARE FUCKING PATHETIC!!!!
You are so hot right now, Zoe.
Look at these two gutless liars hiding behind monikers and exhibiting homosexual tendencies. Throw them off. Off!
Pig’s arse.
A really big one. It was yummy, too, for dog meat.
Gresham’s law, the failure of the New Deal and a tribe of semi-naked Polynesian nymphets crowding around a magical lake are evidence of my amazing scheme that we can put in place TOMORROW. But, it might take seventy years.
Au contraire, beret-frere, it need only take 3.6 years (HA!) with the manufacture of diamond phallicrods in an orbital factory-sputnik producing currency impervious to debauch by any coven of blood-sucking parasite spawn of Joachim Fiore YOU care to mention!
None of this would be a problem with an armed populace. They can take my Medicare Levy contribution out of my cold, dead hands.
Wot a lode of girlyboy nimbles hiding behind false fake monickers to spurt your loathsome rubbist on me.
I bet you are all reely
Just go away. I wont be noticed
I’m sorry – I’m not “au fey” with marcoeconomics, but I’d like to go back to something Mr Debauchery said.
Do you really think getting a tribe of semi-naked Polynesian nymphets crowding around a magical lake is realistic in the time-frame you’re discussing? I ask because I’ve just spent the last half hour on my 12B doing the calc, and I can’t get there in under 93 years. Shirley this means that the deflationary impulse would be delayed under the 110% reserve coconut monetary environment you’re describing? Or am I missing the influence of the “invisible foot”, guiding the nymphets via irrational expectations theory?
As I say, I’m no expert or anything, so please tell me if I’ve got it wrong. Thanks for your interest. Oh, and for your answer. In advance. Oh, you know what I mean – please don’t be nasty to me.
NO.
Go back and read what I said again.
You eeeediot… I can’t believe you’re taking this fruity idea seriously.
Seek the truth.
THE TRUTH?!! YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Son, we live in a world that has banks, and those banks practise fractional reserve. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Haiku Hogan? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the gold standard, and you curse the central bankers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That fractional reserve banking, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me in that bank, you NEED me in that bank. We use words like deposit, loan, capital. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very economy that I provide, and then questions the MANNER in which I provide it. I would rather you just said THANK YOU, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a briefcase, and stand at a teller. Either way, I don’t give a DAMN what you think you are entitled to.
An uncomfortable transition from fractional reserve would not be difficult, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do… But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years?
You I suppose to think I funny? Youre so funny noone will laff.
Hoo cares what you think. We are all ignore you
Still ignoring you
What does it feel like to be ignored like this? Must hurt that noone cares enough to respond to you laime japes
Got no thing to say you gutless? i guess you dont like be ignored like this
Would the real JC please stand up?
No gravatars=confusing.
Yes the boot is on the other hand when I ignore you like this
You asshole. Iâve already explained what happened there idiot.
Now you already KNOW this.
Iâve already TOLD you this. But you are such a fucking liar you come back with this bullshit over and over again.
Thats the take-home-story here.
You are too fucking stupid to be on this subject.
Go away you fucking idiot.
You are just LYING.
Heâs just fucking lying again.
Can you throw this idiot off.
Lets not pretend that heâs not lying all the time.
What a fucking asshole he is.
Here is a chance finally for people to understand what’s going on here.
And fucking Cambria just comes along and starts LYING again.
Take your bipolar obsessions elsewhere you fucking asshole.
Fuck off Cambria you fucking idiot.
He comes on. And he fucks things up straight away.
Cambria you fucking shithead. Donât tell me you disagree with me!!!!!!
You are in fantasy land pal. Just believing what you want to believe.
Tell me where Iâm wrong?
You are always doing this.
And now you tell me you disagree.
But you are a fucking idiot. You are not in any position to make an informed decision to disagree or otherwise.
Find out where Iâm wrong.
Figure it out.
But donât a fucking mindless twit that you are going to tell me you disagree without saying where Iâm wrong.
Can we just have one thread on this subject where people arenât lying all the time.
Can you not do the responsible thing and put pressure on that lying prick Cambria to tell us how he âknowsâ? that shit.
Heâs such a FUCKING LIAR.
He just never stops fucking lying.
Fuck off Cambria.
You are a fucking idiot.
And you are always lying.
Why not ask them to stop fucking lying.
Surely its not unreasonable for me to get angry with these idiots if after 60 pages they are still lying about stuff like this.
If these assholes would stop fucking lying.
If you just stopped this intellectual and actual dishonesty you would have nailed down the truth of this in about 1 week flat.
But here we are hundreds of thousands of words on and all you morons still can barely understand any of this let alone put together informed opinions about it.
We keep a stiff upper lip even when the Empire is falling apart and we go where the chip fall.
Now restate your caseâ¦
But wait until you have a chance to have a bit of a rest…watch some old Bronson movies…Listen to the new Meat Loaf album and just generally get it together..
And then rework your case.
This isnât even girly-talk.
Its worse then that.
Its lefty-girly-talk.
Yes youre rite on the nail with you head again GB.
tell me again, which idea of yours for stopping the debauch is the most best one?
And jsut ignore those nancies again. They dont understand butt i do.
Would you believe the intertubes died at work? I had to come home, and I’m just so glad I did.
Carry on. Particularly you, Mr Cambria.
Fyodor, that last was just a cut-and-paste, right?
Gold!
Always believe in your so-ul
you have to the power to know
you’re indestructiblllllllle
Always believe in……gold.
“tell me again, which idea of yours for stopping the debauch is the most best one?”
That’s a brilliant question, because nothing is more important than CURRENCY DEBAUCH, and preventing it with the firepower of right-thinking MEN of genuine independent genius.
What we need is to go back to basics, go back to the mattresses, like in that movie with Marlon Brando, where Jimmy Caan gets himself peppered like Swiss cheese by those dudes with the tommy-guns. Man I love that movie – I was watching it the other night while listening to John Denver Sings while slurping on the juice, know what I mean.
But the MOST IMPORTANT THING is getting money right. People just lose their fucking minds when thinking about this critical subject. It’s like drugs – it just fries people’s brains. And the commies are the worst – they just can’t think about money without finding ways of working THEFTERY into the system.
But, to answer your question, that’s where I would start. It’s the only sensible thing we can do. Don’t take my word for it – you figure it ou.
Is this at all related to the comments policy being waved under people’s noses?
If so, we should think about publishing it more often.
I’m not taking sides Birdy. I just like to watch.
I go away from the blogosphere for a few weeks and just look at the mess you boys make.
Yes, but Kate, look what happened under the morally equivalent Bill Clinton and Paul Keating. They started it, therefore you have no argument.
So I guess all you leftie lady luvvies will do the right thing and put on burquas?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20687922-29677,00.html
Or otherwise the garden gnome liberation front is going to come and get us?
Left wing women are ugly and have fat arses, and left wing men are a bunch of puny cave chested dunces.
I know this because I am an Adonis and a
Premature ejaculator?
*swallows 16 year old with coke and delivers self-referencing OT smartarse double entendre*
Exterminate the brutes!
Time to lube up that ear, Boy!
Time for an off-topic, suggestive comment!
This is evolving into a half decent thread.
For she is a Pirate Queen!
(She is! Hurrah for the Pirate Queen!)
And it is, it is, a very hawt scene
To be a Pirate Queen!
He is a Girlyman!
For he himself has said it,
And it’s greatly to discredit,
That he is a Girlyman!
I’m very interested in discredit!
“Sorry, a bit grouchy from having had to hand out masses of chocolates to 15 year olds who’d filled a couple of pillow cases already.”
What’s with 15 year olds trick or treating. IMO any kid old enough to work at McDonalds is too old for trick and treat.
Did someone say something about Tulips?