tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204165272012-01-20T21:12:32.232+10:00I came, I saw, I gnawed it to death.philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.comBlogger9791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-32317276996710809692012-01-17T20:51:00.001+10:002012-01-17T20:53:44.087+10:00

"Mind you, MarshallStack is right about the Quo."Discuss. I'm sure at least one of you will :-)

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Things that make you go wtf?Last year (approx) it was all ads for sheds on TV. Still going on. But now it's ads for ride-on mowers. Hunnerds of them. Does everybody now live on acreage?And this:Maltby said: "For me, I am looking for a leader who will look to God for direction That is important to me. I want a leader who believes God is sovereign."And these are same people who decry the Abrahamic

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-72791937011140686522011-12-29T19:15:00.003+10:002011-12-29T19:30:09.918+10:00

Even non-Queenslanders amongst my small but dedicated readership will no doubt have read about the recent travails of Queensland Health, not least amongst which was some cove spiriting off some $16 mil of their needed-elsewhere-badly-not-to-mention-taxpayer-supplied dollars.Then there was Dr Patel and a few more 'incidents' that I will not presume to go into here.Fault might ascribed to poor

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I would just like to take this opportunity to wish all of my occasional reader the best of what you think you'd like as we head into this new/next /biggest whatever.Over the past few days I have read a few things that make you go "wtf" and in some cases the nimble juxtaposition of some of these may have made the occasional reader go "hmmm....amateur" but fortunately I've forgotten them and, in

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-6709931733657901872011-11-25T21:41:00.003+10:002011-11-25T21:47:12.228+10:00

Well not the actual title of the song but right in the groove for a Friday night.It still makes me smile...as do some of the comments.Reaching even further back into the recesses of the memory, we get this. Holy moley, there are actually some memories not exterminated by the quantities of beer that used to accompany going to a barn where these blokes might be playing. Good times....

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A taste of some hilarity to come.Sorry about that pun there.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-42748677681009591322011-11-16T21:34:00.003+10:002011-11-16T21:39:09.656+10:00

so Mrs VVB is flicking through the TV channels and suddenly there's Tony Abbott and I hear him say "...like you, sir, we are one nation indivisible under God..." At that stage I started ranting and Mrs VVB was obliged to, again, (a) warn me of the dangers of going on like that and (b) change the channel. Umm...we're not, are we? Also, I suspect in this case 'sir' is capitalised.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-23753836626426098072011-11-14T20:10:00.002+10:002011-11-14T20:19:24.681+10:00

We went to see this concert here in rapidly warming Capricornia a few weeks ago.It was exactly the same here in RARA land, with the possible exception that where we were standing, we could get a little cool breeze occasionally. Under the tent where the true rockers were, was probably a little warm.The voice was awful to start with but gradually hit its straps.Ian Moss was little short of

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-16978758909417167472011-11-13T21:18:00.002+10:002011-11-13T21:21:05.655+10:00

Well there's stuff in this story that I wouldn't have dreamt of. Margaret Trudeau? Ronnie Wood? Really?Anyway out of the gazillions of words that have been written about the Stones, these are some more.Time to get some old CDs out.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-25616428638853671412011-11-12T23:53:00.002+10:002011-11-12T23:59:05.256+10:00

Du de duddle duh... du du daaaa, du du duddle duh daaaaa... da dee duddle da du du daaaaaa ...... di duh da duh da daaaaoooooomph-a-oooooompha-a-ooooooompha- na naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa etc...For translation, go here.Yep, that's what it is.Also, have lost font options. Again. Buddddyyy blogggggerrrr. No....they're back. Is back.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-39177005150390116542011-11-04T22:46:00.002+10:002011-11-04T22:57:08.131+10:00

I caught up with an old school friend last weekend - hadn't seen him for over 40 years. We exchanged e-mail addresses and cemented the reunion online...so to speak.Epically strange...still digesting some aspects. Anyway given all of that I figured it was relatively safe to give him the link to VVB: it's semi-anonymous but various folk, mainly from work, have the secret password.He wrote back to

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-31360842256834464832011-11-03T23:19:00.001+10:002011-11-03T23:20:43.353+10:00

Now with added link to article that I could not add after I'd posted without.Well it let me add it, but not post again.WTF is going on?

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A couple of things struck me as I read this article. First, evidently it's OK to refer to the The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers (APESMA) as a "union". Valuing consistency as I do, I expect the ABC to also use the "union" word when it next refers to the Australian Medical Association. I mean, they are both associations of professionals, are they not? Somehow, I

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-13506304364351198692011-10-23T19:56:00.003+10:002011-10-23T20:06:30.956+10:00

Apostrophe Enforcement Unit. I am all in favour, particularly after visiting our local Woolies yesterday for the week's necessities and seeing some specials on a far wall under the banner "special toys for girl's and boys."Evidently boys only come in plural while girls in the possessive. It makes a kind of surreal logic, I guess. Also, I canm still not publish from the post. Have to go back

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-61737123813137801902011-10-21T18:54:00.001+10:002011-10-21T18:57:39.712+10:00

With Gaddafi's passing and the details about him being in a drain, we are again reading about Saddam Hussein who was found in a spider hole. Has anybody thought to ask what kind of spider has a hole big enough that a man could fit inside?

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-43954920198645405812011-10-20T19:05:00.005+10:002011-10-21T18:57:39.719+10:00

@Tochoose McCartney over Lennon.... my god.To be fair, McCartney is considerably better at the criteria of being a living artist...Discuss.Don't worry about the singular of criteria, that word evidently doesn't exist if what I see every day is any evidence.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-18816553476696807442011-10-14T20:13:00.003+10:002011-10-14T20:24:20.319+10:00

Some readers of this little blog will probably recognise this quote:"Eric Idle tells how after Harrison was stabbed in his home by an intruder in 1999, he was being carried out by two medics who had only just started work. Harrison looked up from his stretcher and asked, "So, what do you think of the job so far?"It's a new one on me but seems entirely plausible.And in fact, after consumption of a

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-70304777454529969692011-10-12T20:49:00.003+10:002011-10-12T20:52:46.629+10:00

In lieu of writing about nothing, allow me to introduce you to a new - I hope - mindworm or eyeworm; which, in the manner of all things modern, should probably be represented as iWorm.Ha bloody ha, I kid you not. It's a laugh a week around these parts.Anyway you may get the odd giggle therefrom.

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It's not that nothing is going on. It is, but it's nothing of interest to blog readers and I've run out of things that conceivably may be of interest to blog readers. And apart from the irretrievably obsessed, everyone seems to be writing less anyway.But are they enjoying it more, we ask ourselves. Because there's no-one else in the room to ask.I also done spellchecking, although it appears I

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-29486915039641738112011-09-21T19:15:00.002+10:002011-09-21T19:22:26.743+10:00

So now, all ABC radio news bulletins lead with "the Opposition (or Opposition Leader) said..." That will then be followed by a direct rebuttal by a Government Minister or reference to the Government's position on whatever the issue was.So: is this the pro-Coalition bias that has the left-looniness of the blogosphere in perpetual meltdown? Or is it a subtle way of giving the Government the last

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You really really need to read this quite funny, in a try-hard sort of way, article but then read the comments. Why are Pommy commenters so much more cleverererer than our own variety? At least when not engaged in he said-she said point scoring on politics, in which endeavour they are indistinguishable.(*) apparently a Robbie Williams song.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-8229336528326640782011-09-18T21:52:00.001+10:002011-09-18T21:55:19.517+10:00

do what they do

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-62097422699400606342011-09-16T19:14:00.002+10:002011-09-16T19:18:26.311+10:00

Via Crikey, this from TV Tonight.If not showing a footy game - oh all right, an important footy game - on high def television is a "rude shock", I suggest we should all pack up our tents and roll over now, because we're so far up a river in a barbed wire canoe...End of the world? Hah.

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From online opinion blog KGB report:"For years, US and Australian defence officials and ministershave claimed that the Joint Strike Fighter would cost around $US65 million an aircraft. When that figure was first cited, the estimate conveniently forgot to include the engine and many other essentials."You know, that sounds about right. Only last week I got a quote on a car, it sounded like a good

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derarm deodorant or something. And then it hung completely and so I ahve gone back to the old interface and I like don;t care anmd all and they can do what they want. I don't even care about typos and like I can't be boteherd running spellcheck becaue it's just anoytjer way they try to mcircomanage you and all.So therte.Mr Denmore, I posted a comment about how "leadership" is the 'in' word for

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Bluuudddy blogggger, I just wanted to post a comment at Mr Denmore's blog but my gooooogle account doesn't have the privilege or the right code or un

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"The secret to happiness is low expectations."  It's http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.htmltrue. Also, is 600 refugees a month a http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/julia-gillard-enlists-tony-abbott-on-offshore-processing-of-asylum-seekers/story-fn9hm1gu-1226131459089"flood"?  I ask you. I have 'upgraded' to 'new' blogger.  It's like yuk

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It's now a settled component of the political process that pollies - mainly oppositions - have to embark on "listening tours". Media reports usually show them in staged situations "listening" to everyday folk who, amazingly, have the same beliefs. This subseqently enables them to confidently state that the "government has lost its way" or is "out of touch" or possbly "has turned into a

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If I am getting these annoying hyperlinks telling me about a Brisbane 'mom' (sic) on virtually every website - including Aunty as you can see - have I got a virus? Or are they indeed everywhere? Have screenshot, can't upload it.

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To respond to Gerry's question on the last post, yes I've been away and only with access to a work computer that I don't like to use to post blog pieces, even in my own time. Could have gone to an internet cafe I guess...but I didn't. Any way it was a good break to go and do some other work and cacth up with a lot of people I haven't seen for a long time.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-57945311714086694832011-06-28T22:18:00.001+10:002011-06-28T22:20:06.039+10:00

Are you blogging more and enjoying it less?Or blogging less and enjoying it more?Do you love Freeview?Kelloggs, anyone?Thought so.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-41805043335558555122011-06-24T20:04:00.002+10:002011-06-24T20:10:30.238+10:00

Although I first read about them some years ago, I have just discovered the Decemberists. Calloo callay.

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I had an idea for a TV advertisement. The purpose of the advertisement would be to inform people about the costs to the healthcare system of people who get sick - and when I say sick, I mean fixin' to die sick - from smoking. Maybe if people realised the impost on their taxes through the healthcare system, there would be more of a mass movement to reduce the incidence of smoking throughout the

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-16777235807777132942011-06-19T21:35:00.003+10:002011-06-19T21:46:13.910+10:00

Actually, I think this is quite an excellent moon rising over Villa VVB.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-37678142591502857772011-06-18T20:30:00.002+10:002011-06-18T20:44:33.390+10:00

So I'm browsing one of my favourite time-wasters, Listopia, and I run across this."WTF?" I think to myself because, as you know, most thinking is mainly internal or, as some would have it, mental.So I'm mentally thinking to myself about wtf is this so I have to google it and I get there. For reasons that are usually described as "unaccountable", which is in fact a euphemism for "wtf?", I decide

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Appropos of absolutely nothing at all, I had a random thought about quite common phrase. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and this is what I found:The form without the hyphen is also commonly seen, but can beconstrued as a "wild chase", but not an inevitably fruitless one, after apossibly domesticated and flightless goose, rather than after a wildgoose.Who'd have thought it was so complicated?

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Sometime back in late 2007, I wrote this:"they might turn out to be incompetent but at least they won't be bastards"I do believe I deserve a pat on the back for prescience.And a boot up the clacker for smartarsery.But it's a shame that it turned out to be so close.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-54981963085921601012011-05-31T21:36:00.003+10:002011-05-31T21:42:31.687+10:00

Seriously. If you downvoted this you're no better than apanda who won't screw to save it's species.This is the "this" referred to above (NB: safe link, esp. if you likez de musickz.I agree. Fuck dem pandaz, this is the duck's guts.Also, as quote lifted verbatim, the superfluous apostrophe is not mine. But I felt it needed a reincarnation in case it could find a place to hide.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-17838446905436085162011-05-30T20:08:00.004+10:002011-05-30T20:19:03.030+10:00

...to continue with gnawing things to death, which is what our slogan says we are going to do...What is it with adopting the American pronunciation of "route" as "rowt"? Now everybody does it. Everywhere. Except me, that is.I was at a meeting this morning, it's a bunch of dinkum Aussies talking about local Aussie issues and we get "rowt".I mean, it can't be because if we say it the way we have

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-11460929161639486582011-05-29T22:09:00.003+10:002011-05-29T22:14:08.524+10:00

In lieu of several thousand words (ha! as if that was in any way likely...) here are some pictures. They appeal to me for all sorts of reasons.Today was a day out.

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I think I read some time ago that to have a popular blog, one must post regularly. So on that basis either I actually don't want a popular blog, or else I simply ain't gonna get one on account of aforesaid lack of regularity, etc etc. I see my posts number in the 950s so some time soon - provided you define soon in periods of decades or more - I will hit the big 1000, at which time I will lay

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-11829001950686804792011-05-12T22:09:00.000+10:002011-05-14T06:24:04.519+10:00

Jacob Jester Pastor PosterYou wouldn't read about it.Unless, of course, you just did. I'll say it again: Jacob Jester Pastor PosterQuite tickled my fancy, that did.As you were.

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"I'm actually shocked that no fact-checking was done on thelyrics," Way wrote. "I mean Fox is a major news channel, covering factual topics in an unbiased and intelligent – oh wait – to quote the man himself – 'You don't have to live by the standards that society has set'. I couldn't agree more."Personally, I'm not into critical analysis - or unhinged ranting for that matter - about US media

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-50701345215910930242011-05-04T21:54:00.002+10:002011-05-04T21:57:35.028+10:00

See if you can guess what this article is about from the following comment:Quick, get Carlton to sign him up. This would fix the weakness in our backline.Probably the best of them all and a cut above the repetition for sure.

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While we were waiting for Escape to the Country to come on and thereby complete our evening, Mrs VVB and I were kind of obliged to watch the nuptials. I was quite taken with the two bros done up like human Christmas trees - I have never seen so much gold braid since Field Marshall Amin departed the scene - and that Harry's hair has probably never seen a comb since he was two.Anyway it was a jolly

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-63469331274723110202011-04-26T22:12:00.002+10:002011-04-26T22:15:52.395+10:00

More ways to celebrate the impending hereditary lineage extension process than you thought possible!Fortunately, some of these are singularly tasteless. More tasteless than you thought possible! Hurrah for human ingenuity! And bad taste! Hurrah for those of us who revel in the bad taste!!!

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Yesterday, after 30 sec0nds of morning TV (please don't tell me people actually watch that stuff) I decided to delve into the mountainous mountains of concert DVDs what we own. Ended up having them on most of the day, what a day it was. The highlights: Toto in 1990. Every rock star pose cliche known to man. But with fabulous musicianship such as you would only get from a bunch who began as

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In the matter of writing and reading English - surely the more accurate order, chronologically speaking - I see Ms Pants has been at it also. Ms Pants observes that, despite her meticulous attention to detail, she will certainly have overlooked some minor point that will undermine her entire argument. And indeed she has. I will direct her to hyphens and apostrophes. Note lack of paragraphical (

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No.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-14754029092560334952011-04-15T20:20:00.002+10:002011-04-15T20:28:07.866+10:00

Gerry has requested I do some more posts to test for patterns in the myriad ways that Blogger has been buggerising about with formatting etc in recent days. This is one such post. Its topic, should I ever in fact get around to reaching it, is the time-worn one of people being interviewed who don't answer the question. Usually it's pollies but today it was a senior seat-polisher being interviewed

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-65509667903967253482011-04-11T21:22:00.001+10:002011-04-11T21:23:51.963+10:00

I see that Blogger is unilaterally removing paragraphs, and probably other things as well. Just so you know, it wasn't me.

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In this extract we turn the protagonists around, thusly: "Meanwhile, in other news the conservative NZ government presses on with a PP ploy to deliver UFB - which is to say Ultra Fast Broadband - to 70% of the citizenry at speeds approaching 100 mbps. Naturally the Labor opposition fiercely opposes the waste and the extravagance, and condemns the plan as certain to fail. Which leaves the

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(gonna see your face again) The politicosphere is so shallow (I'd like to create a verb from shallow as I believe it could become, like, so institutionalised and, like, ubiquitous and stuff) so I ain't gonna be writin' about none o'that sheeeeeeet evah again. unless John Howard comes back. But other stuff, well it, like, you know. So I'm just gonna have to share it with everybody, like, you know.

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-58079271624971539922011-03-30T21:47:00.003+10:002011-03-30T21:51:28.502+10:00

The only matching lid and container components in any kitchen plastic ware drawer will be of items that are quite unsuitable for taking lunches to work. Indeed, they will be for uses that simply defy imagination. Anything suitable for taking lunches to work will be found only as either lid or container. In other news, when will it stop raining? My lunch is getting wet.

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The column is average, the photo is highly disturbing, the comments are priceless:"They look like Phil Tufnell on acid and Jimmy Hill in drag. I bet their sex life is awesome""Must get my husband a Santa suit. He's just in from the pub and said ok ""are they from the planet agadoo"....and by far the best and this week's wiiiiiineeeerrrr...."Urinal Ritchie? I prefer Eurethra Franklin."

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Appropos of nothing that I care to explain here, so apologies and all that kind of necessary stuff that is necessary when you make comments like that, I had cause to retrieve a book from the bookcase the other day. It was a book of high school poetry (*sort of - more soon) in which something I had written had appeared.This was all a long, long, long, quite long, time ago.*What I wrote was barely

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Twice within the last month one side of my glasses has sprung apart, the lens dropped out and the tiny weeny screw....In both cases we found it. Not bad for a pair of geriatrics who actually need glasses to see...quite big things, actually.I'd meant to get some Loctite after the first incident. I used to routinely pull apart each new pair of glasses and apply a drop to each screw thread to

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The headmaster at The King's School, Tim Hawkes, is absolutely correct when he justifies why governments should fund schools such as his on the basis that ''our students do more''. Independent schools are creating the leaders of tomorrow and are required to provide a far higher level of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular support. Funding these extra activities with taxpayers' money is

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Here's what a bloke I know would have called a rattling good yarn.The Aussie papers are currently full of the issue of the proportion of public funds going to private, often church-owned, schools.And the debates about teaching ethics vs religion, whether in general or a specific variant, in class in public schools.When I were but a boy, we used to get religion in class once week. One week the

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Why would anybody be surprised (surprised m'lud? why I was aghast, I tell you, simply aghast)!When capitalism insinuates itself where it really be better off not.No, not capitalism. But that other behaviour that a market economy encourages: greed.Seems to poison the bastion of clear - and, importantly - longer term thinking.You'd expect differently of a university, surely?.

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As someone who has laboured within the machine - or more accurately but superfluously, a series of machines - for some 40 years, I was mightily taken with Ms Pants' stories about some of her recent encounters with the bureaucracy. Tales of the entirely expected, as it were. So taken was I that I sent the link to a number of friends and one replied with a description of some of his own

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-67182011285323603942011-02-18T22:22:00.002+10:002011-02-18T22:29:50.863+10:00

What I can't do is cut or copy 'n paste. Still. I google the problem and get 367 gazillion hits, all of which may as well be written in Korean for the sense I can make of them.What I wanted to copy 'n paste was the comment by bro2uncle about how the video "co-insides" with the lyrics. I cannot but agree. I note I can copy 'n paste the URL. But not the words.And I am fed up to the back teeth

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Quite some years ago I read The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux after seeing a review in the newspaper, and through it became quite a fan.For some time I was mesmerised by the flow of his words. He would insert some speech which often seemed at odds with the narrative; an invitation to meander even while engrossed in the story.Principally he aroused in me a seemingly pointless ambition to insert

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Bizzare? You bet.I apologise for this link. I originally clicked on the story in the SMH but then this incredible, irresistible force made me......yes your Honour, it made me.So onlookers applauded? Presumably because she breathed, or walked, or possibly did both simultaneously.Celebrities, they are a different race.Mainly because when they get their pictures taken, their mouths are always wide

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Look, regardless of the legalities or the rights and wrongs and even of the role of wikileaks within an MSM-dominated world, Julian Assange is a dude. A fucking dude, man. He oozes cool.I'd love to have Geoffrey Robertson QC declaiming from the computer while I was at work. I would be so empowered! Bring back Hypotheticals!Also, I was privately (well actually not, now that I've written it, I

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-39797203212096331582011-02-07T22:08:00.002+10:002011-02-07T22:16:25.591+10:00

Just as well you get to read the headline first. If you looked at the picture and read its caption first, it would indeed be a "wtf?" moment.Back in tha day, which back in tha day used to be rendered as "back in my day", a wtf moment would have been described differently, perhaps as "bizarre".However, we can thank modern technology for giving us wtf, which is so much more expressive.Actually, on

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I've whinged previously about the word "around" colonising the pseudo-policy space, as in "we need to have some responses around that issue."I work with some people who seem to use it every 5th word.However today's effort by Ian Thorpe, announcing his insert verb here to competitive swimming, takes the cake. Unfortunately the clip is not verbatim, but Thorpe said he would focus "around" the 100m

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Watching the tennis, on and off. Saw the national anthem. Heard the recently introduced didgeridoo intro, for authenticy don't you know. Heard the typically strangulated fake American vowels of the "performer."Saw the crowd. Saw the bogans. Saw the bogans put their hands on their hearts. Especially saw the class boganette put her hand on her heart while continuing to clasp the flute of

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OK.wibble

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It's so long ago since I was doing the series on cars I've owned that I have quite forgotten whether I had covered all them - as represented by models in collection - or not.But as I have got lucky with two new models ordered over Christmas (including a replica red Peugeot Mi16 bought from un homme in la belle France and for which I eagerly await, I thought I would regale my reader(s) with a

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But in Detroit, it is.Utterly chilling. Post-industrial doesn't really sum it up.

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After the last debacle of the previous post wherein I was forced - forced, mind you - to deviate from a music-related post header, I can return to routine.In which world am I lost? Well, none actually because I don't subscribe to this world. And after reading the unalloyed baloney in the article, my resolve has but hardened. The phrase "he doth protest too much" springs to mind.

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Just as an aside, I tried to copy the text in the post header into the body of the post, but couldn't as the 'paste' option was not operative.Weird, man. What's the point of a copy 'n paste function - apart from the opportunity to write "'n" of course.Anyway, to the intro I would have written if I'd been able to paste the text where I actually wanted it...Some years ago I knew some folks, within

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As if stuff wasn't scary enough, try this.Merr' Christmas y'all. It's going to be a big year for your humble correspondent, so the corresponding is going to be marginal at best.

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I know, I've been away a long time. I'm most likely to going to be away a long time for even longer, maybe forever, unless this damned work doesn't stop. The old man always said it was a four letter word, he was right and he grew up - well, more accurately he grew old - when a fair day's work was approximately that, not hanging on end of a bloody Blackberry for the next set of orders or lying

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The TV news reported, in a tone desperately seeking a balance between breathless anguish and deep, soul-destroying sorrow, that the chances of Australia hosting the World Cup had "slipped through its fingers."Mrs VVB and I gave each other look, then another one plus one just to be sure, and agreed simultaneously yet independently (well, except for the looks, obviously) that Australia hadn't been

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-16310398188391781262010-11-25T22:19:00.004+10:002010-11-25T22:24:31.187+10:00

Have just tried to post a comment at another blog and got a message - that I can't cut 'n copy - that says I'm not a member of the blog at www.venividiblogi.blogspot.com and so am not authorised to post the comment.But wait: it's my own blimmin' blog, how can I not be a 'member' of it? And why can't I cut 'n copy any more?I am getting very feduppity with modern life.How can just buying a new

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-69138025603075316072010-11-22T21:58:00.002+10:002010-11-22T22:04:44.951+10:00

Now I know I have something to look forward to in my twilight years:( hereI would have pasted the comment from the person who was going to get themselves some illegal stuff. But I didn't because I can't cut 'n paste from other documents no more no more no more no more.Why would that be? Anyway, "saga louts." Like "lager louts" only diff'rent, innit? But it's like right clever to do that stuff

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That's because the comment was on another post.As anyone who works with me will testify, detail is not my strength.

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I'm pretty sure I authorised the comments but they're not in the folder and we don't have an e-mail management program any more but just the telstra bigpond deepwell of non-conformity and even though I'd ticked to stay signed in to blogger I had to sign in again and it's not there, and because bloody gooooogelll has bought blogger and every bloody thing under the sun is integrated you can't do

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If you watch too much computer generated graphics - and if you watch any blockbuster films at all, (*) you will be watching far too much - then here is why you feel uneasy. They're calling it the "uncanny valley" because it's far more popular to coin a mindless rhyme than something that makes sense. Think 'Adam and Steve' for a similar effect.But it's an interesting insight into how computers may

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why does it paste to aone program but not to asnother.this is shi9t man I don't liek ti .I hate news stsufff.I mean it's just a development of one of the thousands of earlier microsoft programs and all of a suddent it doesn't do stuff. Man this sucks.And this stupid keybaord ahs keys in different places and and I can't see whwere thyey arwe.\It'srap man.

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I know I don'tome rpound here muych any nmore. It's a combination of too much work, a dead poooter plus thius alptop whiuch weems tohave keys all n diffeernte places nsad different ways of operatiung. It's alliut much a nd I have all thedere erros messageds blinking and whatever at mne. zBut IU just wanted to share this with yoiu, I was wtahcingf Tom Petyy doing Free Fallin' at the Super Bowla

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Hello. Still alive here at VVBSea although we haven't seen to much of it lately.Anyway I was trying to get into the supermarket the other day and, as is inevitably the case, the folk in front successfully negotiated the swing gate and then, overwhelmed by the cornucopia of choice thus revealed, came to a dead stop. Thus preventing me from my usual swan dive for the basket into which I would

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I wish that I had Jesse's girl.That's all.That's not too much to wish for, is it?

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Tales of the completely expected.If there was a market for a magazine, website or news service that reminded people to breathe in and then breathe out and then keep doing it sequentially without forgetting, I reckon there'd still be 220 million takers.

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Before I forget...Jane Flemmmmming, once was Aussie atherlete and what-all, commenting on Ausssie Aussssie Ausiiiiee pole vaulter Steve Hooker:He hasn't heighted very well in recent meets.Translation: he hasn't been getting over the bar.This story would be much clearer if I had verbed it proper.

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I will take a short break from banging my head on the table to bring you news from the 2010 Ignoble Prizes. My favourites?EngineeringKarina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter. I'd have

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This is a place holder post to assure my many reader that I am still breathing in, breathing out, breathing in, etc.In the between the oppositionally directed breaths I am shouting a lot, banging my head on the table, sighing, whingeing, reading my blackberry, pacing, and generally carrying on like a pork chop.I'd explain, but.......I have to keep breathing.

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After his rehabilitation, Chang was described by Choi Jin-wook of the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul as having fewer enemies than other senior cadres "because when he purges people, they are not just sent away from Pyongyang, they are killed".Makes you glad we live in a semblance of a democracy, eh what?

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Unnecessary blood pressure raising inducement of the day was to see that the illogical and (again) unnecessary introduction of the American neologism "I could care less" to Australia. Saw this in a newspaper article.Why and how does it happen. I used to have a theory that most of these fad sayings came in via FM radio, but I'm not so sure. Why do people do it? Does it really make you look hip to

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I like words, what I like even better is people who can use words well.And what I like even betterer is people wot use words to make me larf.Like this:(links deleted for reasons that will become apparent later in the post...sorry)'course it's all a little bit like shooting fish in a barrel (do people actually do that? and if so, what calibre gun do they use?), but a punchy turn of phrase is a

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You don't often read this sort of thing in a newspaper report:"... not all agreed with some of her pronouncements on issues such as masturbation."Although later on we read:"I think O'Donnell can pull it off against the Democrats,"she said.As they say, only in America. I'd like to see a Tea Party candidate gain the Presidency.From a distance, though.

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As someone just coming off a roughly 14 hour day on top of a number of others of similar length, and having allowed myself some 'free' reading time, I was underwhelmed to read this. In fact only earlier Mrs VVB and I remarked, en passant to each, our own pooters, why has work got this insane?I'm sure you'll understand.

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So we have a minority government, you'd think it was either the end of the world or something never seen before (like what happens in Kitchen Stadium).Just think of what the energy that's going into writing about what Julie Gillard, or Tony Abbott, or Tony Windsor, or thingo Oakeshott might or might not be thinking was actually directed at doing something positive?No, it all just goes around and

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From who knows where, some extremely addictive viewing fer yer pleasure.I guarantee you'll be clicking madly for the next three days.I know I was :-)onetwoSee y'all in a little while, y'all hear now?

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Far be it from me to add to the squillions of words being writ, even as we speak I do likewise, about the election.Well no, maybe not too far. Being of a recently improved, more optimistic, mind I hope that this campaign just past marks a low point in how these things are conducted in Oz. The relentless negative attack ads and fear-mongering, single focus on the leaders thereby distracting from

philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416527.post-76552345765736010812010-08-20T23:34:00.004+10:002010-08-20T23:53:48.065+10:00

I blogYou blogHe, she or it blogs.Not so much turning Japanese as turning Latin.I love life, I love it a lot better after a few sherbets.Ah, Graeme Bonnet. What a voice. My evening is complete.No it's not, does anyone - I mean anyone - have a copy of Linda Sue Dixon by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels? Genuine blue-eyed soul? It's seared into my memory, but nonetheless my memory would be

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So I'm sitting in this meeting and someone drops a paper in front of me, titled (roughly) "Options for solutions to issues around etc etc..." so I immediately cross out "around" and substitute "of".Then the person comes back and picks up the paper, apologises for having given it to me and drops it in front of a person about 3 chairs down.So I get up and go down there and point out my vandalism to

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Having been lolling about Villa VVB by the sea for a couple (*of) weeks now, I could have written an equivalent to War and Peace (by weight, if not content), but all I've mustered is one short post saying "we're back" with a picture. Well, here's another picture.The little red car is hors de combat, it got considerably horser as soon as I starting trying to fix it. So I am denied the pleasure of

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