Listening to Godot

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30 Responses to “Listening to Godot”


  1. 1 Steve DNo Gravatar

    Sorry Brendon…can’t hear you.

    It’s because I’m not listening.

  2. 2 AdrienNo Gravatar

    So after 11 years of Mr I-know-what-right-for-’Straya we’ve got PM Jabberfest and the Honorable Leader of the I-Don’t-Have-A-Clue. Bring back Keating. At least he was entertaining:
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    Scumbags.

  3. 3 MarkNo Gravatar

    It sounds almost like he really is hoping Pam from Launceston or Mel from Lowood will tell him what the Liberal party is supposed to stand for (apart from statutory individual workplace agreements, which is the only statement of policy he’s made on his “listening tour”)…

  4. 4 wpdNo Gravatar

    G’day? Sorry, it’s goodbye. But not just yet, or indeed any time soon, unless you want to end your own embarrassment.

    I suspect that there are many more ‘Leaders’ to flow under the electoral bridge before the contest once again gets serious.

    I wonder how the staff feel? Hendy in particular? Or does he have other ‘workchoices’?

  5. 5 MarkNo Gravatar

    Heh!

    I’m wondering what would happen if Brendan bumped into the Borg on one of his “conversation” tours…

  6. 6 2353No Gravatar

    It’s not even in sync!

    (Maybe it’s this pedal powered PC - but the lips and the voice don’t match.)

  7. 7 wbbNo Gravatar
  8. 8 wbbNo Gravatar

    Sorry. This one. (Complete with classic three blokes walk into a bar gag at the end.)

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2008/04/09/2212462.htm

  9. 9 wpdNo Gravatar

    wbb

    Given the applause, it is quite clear that Rudd is a Communist and has no place being the Prime Minister of Australia.

    FGS, he doesn’nt even speak English when it matters.

    A missed opportunity to educate the … whoever.

  10. 10 B.S. FairmanNo Gravatar

    He really is flotsam. Just floating about, not doing much. He might choke a sea bird at some stage but it is more likely he’ll be washed up soon enough.

  11. 11 adrianNo Gravatar

    Unfuckinbelievable Brendon youfuckinmoron.

  12. 12 THRNo Gravatar

    Best Nelson-themed post title ever!

  13. 13 Mrs Madrigal's StashNo Gravatar

    Is somebody being paid to advise this man??

  14. 14 AlastairNo Gravatar

    LOL! That’s very funny! Brendan seems so genuine… and caring!

    Wonder what Malcolm, Julie, Tony and Nick are doing right now?

  15. 15 SandyNo Gravatar

    WTB

    Given the applause, it is quite clear that Rudd is a Communist and has no place being the Prime Minister of Australia.

    FGS, he doesn’nt even speak English when it matters.

    A missed opportunity to educate the … whoever.

    Rather a communist than a grey man with no soul who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

    And I for one think it is refreshing to have a PM who doesn’t take the white supremist patriachal parochial english speaking red neck line of the US every single minute of the day… mandarin rocks… actually trying to establish good relationships with countries other than the US rocks…

  16. 16 kymbosNo Gravatar

    That is so painful. When he smiles he looks so apologetic.

  17. 17 MarkNo Gravatar

    Sandy, I think the comment you’re referring to was ironic.

  18. 18 JobbyNo Gravatar

    Wonder what Malcolm, Julie, Tony and Nick are doing right now?
    They’re huddled around a bloodstained pentagram, wearing black robes and chanting demonic mantras in a desperate attempt to conjure up a new leader.

  19. 19 Sam CliffordNo Gravatar

    Jobby, don’t those sort of things exist for conjuring up the dead? I don’t think Howard’s going to come back again.

  20. 20 joe2No Gravatar

    “I don’t think Howard’s going to come back again.”

    Just wish you were right, Sam.
    Old fart, will likely do the Jeff Kennett style excuse for a reappearance… “I just want to give back to the community what it has given me”. He did threaten selfless work in the charity area near retirement, whlie P.M.

    The disadvantaged and infirm have still reason to be concerned.

  21. 21 CarolineNo Gravatar

    He’s a real Nowhere Man,
    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.

    I’ve been everywhere, man
    I’ve been everywhere, man
    Crossed the deserts bare, man
    I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
    Of travel I’ve had my share, man
    I’ve been everywhere

    Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
    Take your time, don’t hurry,
    Leave it all till somebody else
    lends you a hand.

    Doesn’t have a point of view,
    Knows not where he’s going to,
    Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
    Nowhere Man, please listen,
    You don’t know what you’re missing,
    Nowhere Man, the woooooooorld is [cough] at your command

  22. 22 via collinsNo Gravatar

    Good god in heaven, I have never seen a senior politician so humiliated.

    He must really feel like the unluckiest man in Canberra. Don’t worry Brendan, we both felt equally as uncomfortable about that little exhibition.

    See you down at the milk bar.

  23. 23 djNo Gravatar

    Mr. Monotone rambles on for 3:29 for the loss. His facial expressions seem frequently unconnected to what he is saying, as if he is an E student at newsreader school. He makes ‘the eternal qualifier’ Howard look like an oratory genius!

    He needs a sleep real soon - his appearance makes the conceptual jump from opposition leader to bag man out in Kings Cross at 3AM!!! so much easier to make.

  24. 24 KimNo Gravatar

    He does appear to be suffering from all those late 3am nights!

  25. 25 AndrewNo Gravatar

    LFMAO….. he sounds like a lefty wet - ‘listening tour’… OMG… harden up Brendan and act like the right wing death beast you’re supposed to be.

    Amazing that he gets criticised on LP for acting like… well… A LPer.

  26. 26 Raisin dagNo Gravatar

    I have some commonality with Brendan: I own a motorbike, have a few guitars and I’m not a minister of the crown.

    I’m impossibly happy that Howard and his cronies have been give the shaft, but am adopting a ‘we will see’ attitude over the Rudd incumbency (early days and all that). Likewise it’s early days for the Opposition; why produce any policies when there’s the best part of 3 years until the next election?

    A viable opposition is important vis a vis the whole (capital D)emocracy thing (maaaan). I think we should give (insert current opposition leader’s name here) a break.

    Just relax and enjoy the show…

  27. 27 joe2No Gravatar

    Raisin dag, all power to your mutual grooviness, with Dr Bren.

    I would give him “a break” when he stopped being such an obnoxious prat. His comments, generally, are so far off the mark as to be laughable. The bloke seems to imagine that he is still in power and thus reflects the general attitude of opposition. When he is personally prepared to wake up to that reality, and take a big dose of “humilty”, people might start listening.

  28. 28 AmbigulousNo Gravatar

    Caroline at [21]

    Nowhere Man??

    don’t be so unkind, his spiritual home is a Gutter in King’s Cross at 3am. He has said so, often enough. That’s not “nowhere”!! Now we must attempt to interpret this Delphic utterance. Why the Cross? Does he have a mighty Cross to bear, before the people recognise him as their King?

    Why 3am? (This has been tossed around before on LP). I have another suggestion. He may be one of those NERDS who thinks that when they say that Daylight Savings [Qld readers stop right here: these are Matters and Delights which it is not your Destiny to Enjoy] is to finish at 3am (old time) and we should put our clocks back 1 hour, he actually thinks he needs to SET HIS ALARM for 2.55am, so he can get up and change ALL the clocks back, precisely at 3am (old time) including the video clock and the oven clock. Then he sits there puzzling for a while? What cdid they print in the TV Guide? What’s on TV now? Something that started at 3am (old time) but now it’s 2.07am (new time), so are they showing the program that started at 2am (old time)? No, that would have begun at 1am (new time), except it wasn’t new time yet, when that show started. So if…..

    The conundrums and paradoxes of time travel beset and bewilder him. He stumbles out into the dark to find a gutter and a few homeless alcoholics, who have a simpler worldview.

  29. 29 RussellNo Gravatar

    Caroline got it right. Here’s Brendan today: “I can assure you I’m going nowhere” (unfortunate choice of words)

  30. 30 FDBNo Gravatar

    Aw man!

    The vids been pulled…

    Anyone got another linky-poos?

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