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Reply to Kangaroo Kulling in Kanberra in Politics JoeUser Forums

The original post of this was a letter I wrote to the Canberra Times. The Canberra Times have their own forum, where my comments have provoked a fair bit of discussion too. I will now provide for you some of the interesting responses: (Note: the first post by Argus Tuft I originally put up here under his name but forgot to delete his refernces to my real name, which I have now replaced with XXXX). Dear XXXX - "We look down with shame upon o

Reply to Gay WHAT??? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If homosexuality is a choice, these people must be very masochistic. "Hey I think I might just go and get myself discriminated against and beaten up just for the fun of it. That's my choice. Being gay in our society looks like so much fun".

Reply to Shock Bloggers in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hmm, interesting point. I say interesting because I recently posted saying one of the ideas behind my blog was to prove that it's possible to be a left wing shock jock (there are none of these in Australia). Yet I find it hard to be inflammatory for the sake of it. I try to back up what I say with facts and good argumentation and then I deliberately go over the top in my interpretation and my insults. This isn't so much to get lots of traffic, but real

Boycott Radio Thugs in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

At a recent concert, Aussie band Frenzal Rhomb played a set. At the end, Jackie O (of Popstars and Kyle & Jackie O’s Hot 30 infamy) was to introduce Shannon Noll as the next act. When she came onstage, Frenzal continued playing guitars and yelling obscenities about Australian Idol and Shannon. No matter how rude you may think this was, it doesn’t justify threats of vi

Reply to Satire Suggestions for Right-Wingers in Politics JoeUser Forums

Thanks Trina. No youre not showing your blondeness, I was probly showing my unclarity of expression. It was a joke on the fact that Kerry keeps getting people who aren't very relevant people to support him. I don't have a problem with celebrities expressing a political view, they are citizens after all, but the ones who've got onboard the Kerry bandwagon don't seem to actually make any argumentation for their political views, they just say "I'm X and i

Satire Suggestions for Right-Wingers in Politics JoeUser Forums

There was a radio piece this morning about the satire industry in the US. According to the piece, up until recently the creative industries have all been dominated by left-leaning artists. Now there is a backlash and there are Republican satirists. As in satirists who are Republican-backers. That’s great I reckon because there should be wide political debate and I thi

Reply to Gay WHAT??? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Carebear, there are currently no provisions for students to launch into spontaneous prayer whenever theyre scared that the principal is going to kill them for not doing their homework. Thank God because otherwise kids would just pray as an excuse to avoid getting an earfull from the teacher. "Simpkins!!! What is the..." "Hang on Mr Blow, I have to pray before you scold me". If you wanna pray, do it on your own time. Ive just read this whole discus

Reply to Top 20 Protest Songs of All time in Music JoeUser Forums

I think you've given me Type 2 diabetes from the mere mention of the saccharine Peter Paul and Mary. I dont really hate Guthrie, but I dont love him. U may also notice there was a huge Aussie bias in my list and that's because Im more passionate about the issues in my country. As I said, these are really just the songs that have affected me, that incite passion in me. One of the main criteria was actually have these songs made me cry or yell. I can see

Reply to Lesbians in Children's TV in Politics JoeUser Forums

Can you tell me then because I thought it was my best. Too sarcastic? Not in line enough with the mainstream? I never said they were a mum and a step mum. What I said was there was no way of telling whether they were lesbians or mum and stepmum or adoptive and bio mum from the story. Rhys Muldoon read the script and did not realise it was about lesbians. Children would hardly be likely to recognise it, and if they did, then they obviously alre

Latham and the Dirt Machine in Politics JoeUser Forums

This letter was my most published letter. The Aus, Age and SMH all went for it. A few weeks ago Channel Nine's Sunday programme did a "profile on Opposition Leader Mark Latham. It was much hyped beforehand. Supposedly we were going to hear all sorts of things about Latham's past. I watched it and wrote this immediately afterwards.. I tuned in with anticipatio

Reply to Kangaroo Kulling in Kanberra in Politics JoeUser Forums

Toblerone, that's just the sort of arrogance I;d expect from a canberran. You tell me my argument is spurious, but can't be bothered writing enough to mount a proper argument to convince me. You sit up there in your embassies and your Government buildings telling us that the roos should practically be thanking you for having the kindness to kill them. Just the sort of ridiculous reasoning I'd expect of someone who never sees the real world. I suggest y

Reply to Kangaroo Kulling in Kanberra in Politics JoeUser Forums

Lauren says: “will be forced further and further into suburban areas, closer and closer to main roads, family pets, children and even swimming pools! (Being woken up with a roo splashing around in your pool isn't that great).” Oh my dear Lauren, my heart goes out to you. Not the swimming pool! Is that the one with the spa and the sauna next to it? Still, at least you wouldn’t have to shop for dinner. “Your saying we should find a

Reply to livin' next door to russell ... in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

I find the tall poppy syndrome that has started on Russell Crowe interesting. I know you said he'a good bloke and everything, but there does seem to be backlash against the man these days, as we Aussies are so good at doing. I realise RC is blokey, and that's fairly everyday here, but how many blokes do you know who are as blokey as he AND an intelligent and funny actor. My Mum has always been one to say that Diver dan (David Wenham) is overrated as fa

Lesbians in Children's TV in Politics JoeUser Forums

The ABC's long-running children's TV programme, Playschool a few weeks ago repeated an episode in which a young child (as opposed to an old child) talked about her "two mums". Playschool regularly features sections in which children talk about important events in their life. This was about a child going to a merry go round and playing. She happened to mention t

Reply to What is it about in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Treens, I'm sure you probably already know this from your education, but psychologists reckon that babies very much want to hear high pitched voices. They love to hear their mums speaking baby speak, and music and rhtythm are very important things to instill in a baby while it is young (as opposed to babies who are old). My mum used to play clapping games with me while I was on the change table, where I would clap rhythms back to her or we would clap e

Reply to No, I don't have a man... in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Sorry to intrude on the estrogen fest, but I loved this article. People in our society are ridiculously hung up on romance as the be all and end all of existence. The same goes for guys. I am frequently asked: So do you have a woman yet? And yes after a time people decide I must be gay. Acually my last gf spread a rumour to that effect about me and told me to my face that she had worked out the reason I hadn't wanted to have sex with her was not that I

Reply to Blast from the Past in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Very interesting post. And yes, when you came over to my site, you got my name right, but as I've just said in my last post, please don't mention my name again.

Reply to Kangaroo Kulling in Kanberra in Politics JoeUser Forums

Okay well thanks to everyone who posted about the roos, I’m glad to have the debate about an important issue. You have however not yet deterred me. Toblerone, I’m not surprised we disagree on this but while many of the protesters may be misguided, I think you are wrong to assume it just because they have a different reasoning system to yours. I’m not saying starvation is a fun way to go. But would you suggest we also kill off Indian and Chines

Reply to Top 20 Protest Songs of All time in Music JoeUser Forums

Trina, Ihaven't seen Garage Days yet, but I have wanted to, if for no other reason than I think Rose Byrne is in it. As you say, it's not very obvious that Day You Come is about Pauline, andthat's why it didn't make my list. No one realises it's a protest! I’m glad this has provoked this sort of discussion now. I haven’t heard most of the songs that you guys have suggested for inclusion, so now I have some extra stuff to look out for, which is g

Save the Human Foundation in Wildlife JoeUser Forums

It has become the concern of the government That the kangaroo population is too large Kangaroos are endangering the planet And must be culled. While humans are peacefully detonating nuclear bombs, While they safely pollute the air with fossil fuels, And carefully log or mine the last remaining rainforests, Kangaroos continue to hop vic

Free the Big Brother Housemates in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I’m tackling the big issues in this one. If you don’t like harsh sarcastic comments about reality TV, probably best you don’t read this one. I was kinda tired and irritable when I wrote this. This issue’s a few weeks old, but it was brought up again on telly on Rove Live. (To fill in any Americans, Gretel Killeen is the host of Big Brother, Rove McManus is our Dave Le

Kangaroo Kulling in Kanberra in Politics JoeUser Forums

In Canberra, the capital of Australia, there has been much controversy over the culling of their kangaroo population. I'll be posting a fair bit about this over the next few days as animal culling has been a passion I have pursued for some years now. Supposedly the animals are causing soil erosion and thus are dirtying the human water supply. I sent this letter to the

Top 20 Protest Songs of All time in Music JoeUser Forums

Don’t you hate lists compiled by music mags claiming to have the 50 Greatest Rock n Roll Artists of all time and the like? As though there is some objective test one can apply to music. As though these people are somehow more expert than us on the topic of rock n roll, the music of the ordinary people. Don’t you just hate shit like that? I hope so, cos here is my lis

Reply to Michael Moore comments on Howard in International JoeUser Forums

OK, last night I saw the comment by Latham on Bush, made in Parliament. And by the way I'll mention that I saw it on the ABC. MediaWatch what is more, and even I would acknowledge that MW is left leaning. It was an inappropriate comment. But that doesn't mean that Bush should have sunk to Latham's level. That's called hypocrisy. And yes Latham is a hypocrite too, but that doesn't take away the fact that Bush is a hypocrite here.

Reply to Michael Moore comments on Howard in International JoeUser Forums

I'm not sure what comment it was that Latham made about Bush, but one other major difference here is that the US media was hardly likely to report it to the US public and thus it was hardly likely to influence their election. That's not a great excuse, but it IS a difference. As to calling the Libs a conga line of suckholes, good on him. There is no need to exercise diplomacy when criticising the other side of politics in Australia. In fact there is a