Comments on: "Bring it on"

By: Orbless Pits

Orbless Pits — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:42:27 +0000

Im Spartacus at 24, that link should come with a warning label, I almost choked to death on my coffee! If Tony is Bronny and Johnny’s love child, then what will Tone and Janet’s spawn be like? Christopher Pyne comes to mind.

By: KeIthY

KeIthY — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:42:47 +0000

We are seeing death-throes and mere rallying calls to the metrosexual faithful! But the broadband concept has split the young and they will suffer the ultimate poiltical fate for years of doing nothing much! *** I think the Libs, ask any supporter, are all very scared!!! ***

By: wilful

wilful — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:55:44 +0000

terry, I think it was Latham himself that used the epithet “manboob”.

By: rainbowdog

rainbowdog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:31:51 +0000

Happily I missed that one Terry. I was out of the country at the time of Latham’s fall from grace so my memories of him are perhaps a bit too rosy. I liked his book but.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:11:44 +0000

Rainbowdog, you are forgetting Professor Man-boobs’ jogging exploits. They were not a sight one wanted to see.

By: rainbowdog

rainbowdog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:32:09 +0000

Ahem. Will people pleeese stop comparing Abbott the Austere with Mark Latham. Sure, Mark got some bad press and he could be a tad over the top, but he had a heart and it was in the right place. Also, he was enough of a gentleman to refrain from displaying his naked body, hairy or not, all over the public spaces.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:58:47 +0000

Mark @ 41,
Maybe sinidonis expects a total Liberal wiupe-out at the next Federal election, with those Sybarite Greens becoming the official Opposition?

By: Durutticolumn

Durutticolumn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:38:58 +0000

I have been away in the wilds of Borneo for a month and am still coming to terms with the Abbott leadership.I can’t stop thinking it is some huge joke being played on me by my friends. It isn’t helped by reading St Janet on why women should like Tony and the Spartacus column which was hilarious He did lose in the end crucified on the road to Rome. Is this how Tony sees himself? The ideological purist who will be martyred for his faith? And that Kirk Douglas movie has a whiff of the homo erotic about it; all those gleaming hairless well oiled male bodies Can’t see why people taking Abbott seriously. The Liberals look like Labor in the 50s–hopelessly split on an issue on which they have no common ground. Talk, and I know it is only talk, of a break away party forming out of the current Lib Nat mess is not as unlikely as some think.There seems to be no solution to the Libs woes unless something like that happens. In the meantime it is all I can do to stop falling about laughing every time I see Tony flexing his well oiled persona all over the media it is just too too funny. As is the Australians breathless reporting on his every move Now I know how Libs felt when they saw Mark Latham

By: Mercurius

Mercurius — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:39 +0000

…it’s a GREAT analogy, Mark!

But surely we leftist elitists can do even better, let’s see:

*rummages through 1980s toy chest*

Abbott is Optimus Prime and Rudd is Megatron?
Abbott is He-Man and Rudd is Skeletor?
Abbott is Metallica and Rudd is Poison?
Abbott is Lego and Rudd is Playmobil?
Abbott is the Nintendo Entertainment System and Rudd is Commodore 64?
Abbott is Whitney Houston (before The Bodyguard) and Rudd is Belinda Carlisle (after Heaven is a Place on Earth)?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:17:21 +0000

Let me make just one point about the analogy with Roman history.

Crassus crucified Spartacus and 6000 slaves on the road to Rome for all to see.

They all died.

Horribly.

It’s actually not the best analogy…