Comments on: Lazy Sunday! http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:03:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Saint Furious of Ikea http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100710 Saint Furious of Ikea Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:36:24 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100710 Awww, from me too. Glad to hear it FDB. The forecast rain has disappeared, as I suspected it would. drats. But still it feels like autumn to me. Lovely cool nights. I love this time of year. oh yeah, I saw a crested shrike tit in my backyard..very cool bird, check 'em out: http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0003/86646/Falcunculus_frontatus_Crested_Shrike-tit_620.jpg sadly becoming quite rare, so it was quite an honour to host a visit. Awww, from me too. Glad to hear it FDB.

The forecast rain has disappeared, as I suspected it would. drats.

But still it feels like autumn to me. Lovely cool nights. I love this time of year.

oh yeah, I saw a crested shrike tit in my backyard..very cool bird, check ‘em out:

http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0003/86646/Falcunculus_frontatus_Crested_Shrike-tit_620.jpg

sadly becoming quite rare, so it was quite an honour to host a visit.

]]> By: David Irving (no relation) http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100709 David Irving (no relation) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:19:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100709 That's fantastic news, FDB. I seem to recall you were also having band problems. Is that sorted, or (having got back together with your missus) do you not care much? That’s fantastic news, FDB.

I seem to recall you were also having band problems. Is that sorted, or (having got back together with your missus) do you not care much?

]]> By: La Sirena http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100708 La Sirena Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:07:05 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100708 The damage in <em>Concepcion</em> has been terrible, but in the nearby village of <em>Contacepcion</em> much less, because they had more protection. The damage in Concepcion has been terrible, but in the nearby village of Contacepcion much less, because they had more protection.

]]> By: Liam http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100707 Liam Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:29:55 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100707 Murph, I've got nothing against landlords, and would welcome the economic security of being one. Landlords don't have a choice about the geographic class warfare we're engaged in any more than tenants. (Real estate agents and property managers, though, first up against the wall). It's the racket I object to; in which for forty years we've let superannuation and pensions be replaced by desperate clawing for real estate investments, so that there are a class of small landholders trying to make do in their middle age and retirement out of inadequate capital. Give people an better financial means of supporting themselves after retirement other than negative gearing the fuck out of a mouldy house that hasn't been renovated since the Whitlam years, and give tenants a more secure way of living than chasing each others' tails around a suburb on Saturday mornings every six to twelve months to find a new place to live, and everybody would win. The system we've got is enough to turn your thoughts to random acts of violence. Or some kind of Georgist mutualism. Or both. ... Yay, FDB. Murph, I’ve got nothing against landlords, and would welcome the economic security of being one. Landlords don’t have a choice about the geographic class warfare we’re engaged in any more than tenants. (Real estate agents and property managers, though, first up against the wall).
It’s the racket I object to; in which for forty years we’ve let superannuation and pensions be replaced by desperate clawing for real estate investments, so that there are a class of small landholders trying to make do in their middle age and retirement out of inadequate capital. Give people an better financial means of supporting themselves after retirement other than negative gearing the fuck out of a mouldy house that hasn’t been renovated since the Whitlam years, and give tenants a more secure way of living than chasing each others’ tails around a suburb on Saturday mornings every six to twelve months to find a new place to live, and everybody would win.
The system we’ve got is enough to turn your thoughts to random acts of violence. Or some kind of Georgist mutualism. Or both.
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Yay, FDB.

]]> By: Helen http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100706 Helen Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:37:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100706 FDB, Awwwwwww... :-) FDB, Awwwwwww… :-)

]]> By: murph the surf. http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100705 murph the surf. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:38:25 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100705 Liam at 12- I know this might seem like an insult but wait till you are a landlord. It can be very illuminating and depressing at the same time. Liam at 12- I know this might seem like an insult but wait till you are a landlord.
It can be very illuminating and depressing at the same time.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100704 Ambigulous Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100704 onya FDB onya FDB

]]> By: j_p_z http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100703 j_p_z Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:10:08 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100703 Congrats FDB on your successful sortie d'amour. I'm betting there's a marvelous 1930s screwball romantic comedy that could be made of it. May you and your lady love long enjoy good fortune and the delights of one another's company. "...after summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now..." Congrats FDB on your successful sortie d’amour. I’m betting there’s a marvelous 1930s screwball romantic comedy that could be made of it. May you and your lady love long enjoy good fortune and the delights of one another’s company.

“…after summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now…”

]]> By: Patricia WA http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100702 Patricia WA Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:45:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100702 FDB I am interested and have been since you set out on your venture, but I was reluctant to ask how things had gone. Well done! I look forward to further good news postings. Nice to know that even when one's own passions are all spent others are still getting on with it. FDB I am interested and have been since you set out on your venture, but I was reluctant to ask how things had gone. Well done! I look forward to further good news postings. Nice to know that even when one’s own passions are all spent others are still getting on with it.

]]> By: Liam http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/28/lazy-sunday-98/#comment-100701 Liam Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:31:03 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12940#comment-100701 I have spent Friday moving house, then Saturday and Sunday cleaning the house because the previous tenants seem to have been filthy grubs. If there's anything more guaranteed to produce a deep and earnest hatred for one's fellow humans, to induce instant brutality, to easily break down the habitual secular-Christian ethic of kindness and charity, and to turn mild-mannered folk into ravening, fanatical murderous thugs, it's the real estate market in Sydney. The space between benign ineffectual inner-city leftism to Taliban tongue-cutting ferocity, I've discovered, is the width of a tenancy condition inspection report. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot more SKSes, RPKs and bandoliers of ammunition under beds around the Sydney inner west than anyone suspected. And you know that things are pretty far gone when you're on your hands and knees scrubbing a floor, whistling and having hallucinations of Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice in the scene in Fantasia. Domestos is one hell of a drug. I have spent Friday moving house, then Saturday and Sunday cleaning the house because the previous tenants seem to have been filthy grubs. If there’s anything more guaranteed to produce a deep and earnest hatred for one’s fellow humans, to induce instant brutality, to easily break down the habitual secular-Christian ethic of kindness and charity, and to turn mild-mannered folk into ravening, fanatical murderous thugs, it’s the real estate market in Sydney. The space between benign ineffectual inner-city leftism to Taliban tongue-cutting ferocity, I’ve discovered, is the width of a tenancy condition inspection report. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot more SKSes, RPKs and bandoliers of ammunition under beds around the Sydney inner west than anyone suspected.
And you know that things are pretty far gone when you’re on your hands and knees scrubbing a floor, whistling and having hallucinations of Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer’s apprentice in the scene in Fantasia.
Domestos is one hell of a drug.

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