Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
Happy New Year everyone
Gorgeous afternoon here in Hobart. Spent a few hours in the sun alongside Perpetual Local, drinking Tassie cider, and chatting up crew and owners of beautiful yachts listening to great guy singing oldies and in betweeners – awesome talent – compliments of Rolex no doubt.
Good time to he in Hobart. Have a great night.
Happy New Year, Yvonne, likewise to Trabvitch and all here. I hope your 2017 brings success and happiness.
Happy New Year to all in advance, and Jack, thanks for the eclectic and entertaining columns, and to all the community here, thanks for the entertainment throughout 2016. I am looking forward to more lively, witty and sometimes downright nasty repartee in 2017.
Just got back from a relaxing week up the coast with the four generations of the Romanian mafia (my wife’s side of the family). Plenty of cricket, reading and relaxing, however not too much Christmas “cheer” – at 18 months the grandson is still too young by many years for training in Australian Kultcha! However he enjoys watching cricket, so he is off to a good start.
And Yvonne, I am not doing the delivery back this year – my wife was too worried last year when the yacht went “missing” on Shiptracker across Bass Strait. They did compete this year, however tore the main during the race so they had a change at sea to an old patched up sail, but still finished okay.
Good to hear Trabvitch. I was talking to a crewmember of Fidelis while I was sitting in the sun yesterday. They snapped their boom in the pitch-dark in 30knots with spinnaker up. Beautiful 60ft wooden boat. Aluminium mast which they splinted with stainless steel strips they found under the floor. And they finished the race! As the guy said, didn’t matter where they finished, it was a fantastic feeling to overcome adversity. Thats what the race is all about.!
Ammendment ,…Still see the Arctic melting there ., not their .
Razor 12:01pm.
Surely that completes the chapter of climategate and puts a lid on all this nonsense .New talk of an ice age on the way even JB let it slip beat the lot of us to this accidently I think.
Just reading the northern region near Alaska the Bering Sea has increasingly attracted Nasa and scientists seeing foryears the lakes are freezing to greater depths and winters in North America have increasingly getting worse with frozen conditions showing that climate always varies. I still see the Arctic melting on one side , no argument their while Nasa and other global scientists still seeing Antarctica increasing land and sea ice expandjng 1.5%per year even though seasonal glaciers mentioned are coming and going .This says Russian scientists , complex climate varies over decades from freeze to melting and who would argue with them in the business. IPCC have backed off saying their computor models were wrong , Nasa sees varying freezes and melts ,, Prof Judith Curry linked with world top gathering yearly scientists saying climate is inconclusive , Graham Lloyd today outlines higher Co2 is greater benefits to world in growth with higher crops vegetation plants animal expansion , the lot , seas in Venice show lower levels back to mud in the city shutting down sea level rise nonsense , so 2017 get out, get pissed and enjoy New Years Eve folks.
Happy New Year Pensioners from Malcolm!!
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1. 88,000 will lose their WHOLE pension.
2. 240,000 will receive cuts to pensions.
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Don’t forget, only last year people on Defined Benefits Pensions had their ceilings ‘adjusted’ with many losing thousands…including me! People cannot plan their future anymore. Big business? The miners? They’re OK govt. subsidies keep rolling in for them. Pay for it with cuts to pensions, the sick, the poor, those searching for jobsongrowth, cuts to pathology and x-rays.
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Words of wisdom from The Looters:-
REMEMBER THIS???
ABBOTT:_”No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no cuts to the ABC or SBS, no new taxes and no surprises”.
HOCKEY: “We are the best friends pensioners ever had”.19th June, 2014.
KEEP VOTING for THEM…they LOVE You. They sure know how to kick a dog when he is down!
My mum gets more in her pension Bassy old chap.
I am happy for her….330,000 will miss out though.
Mavis and I had a tin of spam with tomato sauce for new years dinner tonite BASSMAN thank god Malcolm is looking after us.
A far more insidious change has been made to the pbs. Many people will find their prescriptions costs doubling or worse. Many will be pensioners since the elderly tend to consume more medicine. This seems to have slipped under the radar.
DJIA fails to breach 20,000 points
NSA launches probe into Russian hackers
Where are B and H?? I recall them having combine heart attacks/surgery…did they die together as well?
I loved the way they camped up their prose.
Little Johhny makes me wonder occasionally but I think that BandH may have gone to the big oil drum in the sky.
Now has Donald selected all his Cabinet Mr Insider as only 20 days til he gets the keys to the White House? Poor old Mitt Romney must be on the reserve bench and no mention of a fav of mine, the Alaskan beauty herself, Sarah Palin, correct me if I am wrong but she seems to have missed a guernsey too? What will Donald’s priorities be, who knows lets hope Donald does! God bless the USA and all who sail in her.
He’s still missing his Secretaries of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.
Sarah Palin was touted for Veterans Affairs but think she and Trump have had a falling out Dwight
BASSMAN (31/12, 1.17AM)
Writes & hopes: “Well what a shame Richo, if you are reading this but you have gotta be wrong OR your people are not talking to you anymore since you have “turned”.”
No worries Bassy, I’m sure that Richo is hanging onto every word mate.
While we’re on the subject of advising retired politicians (in this case a brilliant one at that) I wanted to give you a personal ‘heads-up’ about that scrapbook of yours possibly having duplicate entries. It could lead to you unwittingly repeating yourself. Bit of a potential embarrassment Bassy, what?
Oh, … and you might remind me at some stage to let you in on the story about leading a horse to water….. .
Anyhow, for now I hope you have a great start to 2017 Bassy, time to turn over a new leaf and all that.
When my facts on debt etc become as repetitive as your lot’s jobson growth ,stop the boats, axes the tax, please let me know.
you’ll be methuselahs age
Ok, it’s 5:40 pm yesterday in Anchorage Alaska. Can we pick up another celeb or two in the next 30 hours?
Well the Queen hasn’t been seen in public for the last ten days…………just say’in.
Have a safe New Year’s Eve everyone, done the harbour “thing” and have no intention of ever doing it again, that was 99/2000 and the memory lingers on!
Happy New Year, Tracy. And all chez Jack.
Happy New Year Jack and all, let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear.
Speaking of not being seen Tracy, we didn’t have a good start to 2017. Went down to the local park with friends and our two special dogs (born on Xmas Day 6 years ago). Some “visitors” from out West let off a round of illegal fireworks and the dogs went mad. We retrieved one but the other vanished, and would have then been further spooked hearing the 9 o’clock and midnight major fireworks in the distance.
We searched for hours fearing the worst, without success, and went to bed very concerned. Got up at first light to resume the search, when out of nowhere Elly quietly slipped I to the kitchen and went for the water bowl. Crisis averted. I know it’s a first world problem, but in this household the dogs rank with everyone else in the family.
Fireworks and dogs do not mix. Happy New Year, Lou.
Glad she came home, animals rank with humans in this house too.
We pulled a christmas cracker on Christmas Day at the dining table and my fearless 63kg Rottweiler lit out from under the table into the front area of the house like someone had lit a firecracker under his bum. Half an hour later he turned up outside the back door. A quick investigation of how he came to be out there revealed he had jumped out the lounge room window, taking a large fly screen with him.
Fearless…
Well I’m going to the races with one tomorrow Tracey. Not a bad bloke but not allowed to marry the person he loves in this country………
TV behave yourself! Happy New Year