If you grow weary of the inescapable wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding, just imagine what the bride and groom are going through.
I can’t be absolutely sure of this but faced with the enormity of their undertaking, Harry and Meghan might secretly be pining for a quick escape to Vegas where they would be privately married by an unconvincing Elvis impersonator.
The media frenzy means republicans can’t ignore what to us is a grim, long and drawn out piece of bad theatre but we might have some fun tomorrow by musing darkly on such regal conundrums like, what happens if Harry and Meghan have twins? Will the second born be whisked away to a distant castle with an iron mask placed on its bonce?
Full column here.
I’d like to see Ged and all the other Labor pollies who think the same more vocal about this over the next 12 months!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/ged-kearney-highlights-shameful-manus-nauru-asylum-policy-in-maiden-speech/news-story/fbf6fa53e21267f4a4a1ddaf739049a9
I’d ask them why Labor opened these centres in the first place. Nauru and Manus were Gillard-Rudd vote buying constructs, in the shadows of an election they were always going to lose. The refugees were an expendable to try and save votes. Ged Kearney is a barefaced hypocrite. Mandatory offshore detention without any hope of re-settlement is policy of both major Parties, and is unlikely to change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_Regional_Processing_Centre
I would like just ONE hack to ask Dutts where HE would have sent them…we know dnt we! MANUS and NAURU. I love it when at EVERY interview he sobs “We didn;t send them there” as if he were going to send them somewhere else.. Well they did before for years and they are keeping genuine processed refugees there now for pure political capital and votes. Dutts is kicking the terror canister for all it is worth trying to wedge Labor on airports and anything he can lay his dabs on….why? The Looters have lost 32 polls in a row and are a policy vacuum. bAll the Looters have is The Big Scare.
Rudds agreement with PNG was for 12months NOT 5 BLOODY YEARS!!
The reason for the Mass shootings in the US is Drugs and Abortions according to the NRA clowns. Their answer is more guns and fortification. Nothing to do with being able to pick up the garden variety assault rifle at K-Mart. The US is a failed state and we again see due to trumponomics the rich continue to get richer, share buy backs at record highs wages have actually decreased and Debt bond issuance is at Record highs. Deficits skyrocketing straight up. Yet we still have people here advocating for the same sort of treacle down gun toting for all rubbish. Get an FN grip people.
Wow dear Dismayed have a look at Dana Loesch’s new Gun she had made up. She is a spokeswoman for the NRA and good to see Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is now their new President. Gun control will never happen in the USA, they love guns, it’s the sad misfits who use them on occasion that blacken legitimate use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHckR8E0VTo
Quite so Henry, and there cant be many sad misfits left on the loose in the US now?
Did you see the way Dana stroked her new Gun in that clip Mr Baptiste, almost gave me a “woody”. They thoughtfully put a “D” on the magazine too! Cheers
A “woody”? God Henry your immaturity continues to bring the tone of this blog down….sheesh
Chris Mitchell nails the lies!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/opinion/coalition-needs-a-big-sales-job-to-highlight-labors-wrongs/news-story/af96188a8a0ae1ef0342ed50d32ddfc3
Are you FN serious? Partisan drivel. This bloke rewrites facts weekly to suit his and apparently your agenda. Get it through your head. Your coalition budget was a joke and every real economist has rightly laughed it off as the bad joke it is. As for the howard’s battelrs Rudd’s whatever FN rubbish. Man you need to open your eye.
Simple question? Going forward the same people still pay the most tax. The difference is, when they work a bit of overtime they don’t get the arse taxed off them. It’s called aspiration. Your point? There is no argument in stopping bracket creep.
Its official Mr Insider, and of course I refer to the death of Adolf Hitler. Lingering conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler’s death may have been put to rest, with French scientists saying they have conclusively proved he died in 1945 See linked article for the details of an analysis of his teeth.
https://tinyurl.com/ycfgzl6b
So he’s not in Argentina doing his shopping at 120 odd years old? Quelle suprise.
Bollocks Henry! Those lying French scientists! The Russians captured Hitler and cloned his brain, with slight modifications they have begun implanting various versions in their agents.
Never,ever go to Russia Henry, you could find yourself again, deployed as a deranged dictator or lunatic President.
Any occasion or institution is improved by beautiful hair and gorgeous teeth, that’s an obvious given.
But, Jack, I have to ask – what’s this “biracial” tag, is that a thing? If it is a goer, how far will it get over here?
I despise allusion to “race”, as it inevitably regresses to ugliness, but do wonder if your average Australian would accept being labelled “mongrel” in order to get up the noses of royalists, purists and PHON cranks.
I agree, HU. I’m technically bi racial myself. Having a NZ mum and an Australian father. Sorry for slow posts. Let me explain the current and ongoing situation. I am required to toilet myself every two hours, every three at night. This means getting up in the wee hours, changing my nappy (gah), emptying the contents of my neo bladder, measuring the amount and then draining the IPC (a tube that runs to the neo bladder) and measuring that. Sleep disjointed and in a zombie like state most of the time. It will get better. Slowly.
Horrible thing sleep deprivation let alone without the rest of it.
Wee hours?
Lots of wee. Everywhere.
Nothing worse than disturbed sleep in a silent household. I’ve transcribed a couple of talking books to mp3 format and loaded them onto a spare phone at the bedside. It’s a fiddle to get them renamed so the tracks will go onto a playlist in proper order, but worth it. Ch 30 of ‘Fear & Loathing’ is a favorite.
there are stories every couple of months about adult diapers outselling baby nappies in Japan, and even here at my local ParknShop the big boys pull-ups get plenty of valuable shelf space.
Perhaps we are all destined to join you in the nightly ritual.
Little comfort in that, mate.
Oh dear, Jack. Not the best, but hey, you’re here, and that’s great!
Visited Hiroshima today. A very profound experience.
I bet it was Razor….
Humbling Penny. Except the Indian family laughing in front of the eternal flame getting selfies while the two boys kicked a ball. I’m talking down in the actual granite sanctuary. I bristled as I was already feeling not so happy. I went to walk over and chip them but Mrs Razor grabbed me by the shirt and said ‘You can’t. It’s not your country.’ It was horrible but, after my visit to India in November, just confirmed my belief. Second to the males in the house of Saud and counting!
No different to the Japanese tourists and the Arizona memorial unfortunately or tourists taking selfies in Auschwitz.
Awful lot of people don’t have a clue these days.
Yes Razor I agree, but I also agree with Mrs Razor, you can’t say anything when it’s not your country. But I also know that whilst the Japanese are unfailingly polite, their opinion of both western tourists and “other” Asian tourists is not high.
I can imagine your visit to Hiroshima was as sad and confronting as my visit to Auschwitz in the early 80’s. There is no way ordinary people, in a time of peace, can even vaguely comprehend the deliberate extinction of millions of unarmed and defenseless people. This was death on an industrial scale. It reveals the full compass of human brutality. After visiting the crematorium at Auschwitz, I couldn’t face any more and retreated.
I know it’s morbid but I need to go there Wiss. Don’t know why.
I felt the same before I went, and discovered it wasn’t morbidity that drew me there. It was disbelief. For all the documentaries I’ve seen of skeletal corpses being wagoned to vast pits and sliding down improvised slippery dips to oblivion, film taken inside the Crematoria, the barely living bags of rags and bone who were liberated, I had to confront that horror, or its ghosts, to actually believe it happened. I never doubted it did, but the scale of the brutality is incomprehensible until you actually see, and smell, the place. It still stinks but not with an identifiable smell. I was overwhelmed by it. It took a while to sort through and come to terms with the experience. It changed my views on politics forever. I’ve never met anyone else who has been there, so I had no reference point for comparison. I’d like to have a chat with someone else who’s been there and get another view. But don’t be put off – for all the horror, there are powerful lessons there, historical and personal.
You didn’t mention it, Jack, but how about the lass from Tas flushing out the genes of the Danish mob too!
Lambie?
Sending Lambie to Denmark would probably seen as an act of war.
Haha. True Wiss!
The lass from Tasmania! Now, could see some very interesting versions of Royalty!
Mary is all class, JB. As are most Tasmanians. For decades Tasmanians were the subjects of the “two -headed” patronising jokes. But we just smiled inwardly at the ignorance of them and let them go over the tpp of our single head.
Now we are flavour of the month. The mainlanders have decided that it’s quite a nice place to be and are coming down. Only problem being that they would like to transform the island to their holiday-living style. And it’s causing a fair amount of angst. Tasmania is gorgeous as it is. FFS we don’ t want huge trendy, multi golf-coursed resorts lining the east coast – or garden paths through the wild. That’s my rant.
Meanwhile here in France life in the village ambles along.
I agree Tasmanians think they are all class, which is a worry.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-04/tasmanians-are-dregs-bogans-morons-says-leo-schofield/6370896
Do you wear matching hats?
I’m trying hard not to visualise a version of Royalty with a Lambie-approved attached ‘package’. Nope. Didn’t work. Needs more rum than I can afford. There might not be enough rum in the world.
Well, I did watch, while reading business plans. Lovely couple. I think my bride looked more lovely on our day, but my judgement might be biased.
Well done to the two of them. Long happy marriage, many children and a good life.
Indeed Dwight best wishes to them both and as you say a long happy marriage, many children. Cheers
Why many children Henry? Kate and William have done their bit, by producing heirs to the throne. Leave Meghan and Henry to enjoy their married life for a couple of years….oh and now that the wedding is over can we now move in and leave the Royals to the British and of course the women’s magazines.
Is it safe to come out now?
Was just saying to the husband, rather ironic that they would have walked over Henry VIII and Jane Seymour’s vault (Charles I is sharing space) after being married, bit of a bum date for a Henry to get married.
It’s the 482nd anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution, only a garbage brain such as me would know this, someone has a basket of red roses placed on her grave marker in St Peter ad Vincula on the anniversary of her death every year, old Henry just gets trodden under the tourist foot.
Jesus H Christ, Mr Insider, a Barry Crocker by US Bishop Michael Curry at the Royal Wedding as he goes off script, and for about twice as long as the planned speech, ad-libbing much of his sermon. Where was Bernard King and his Gong when you need it most!
Au contraire my esteemed Blofeld, you only get one chance in life to inject a bit of life and exuberant holy rollering into the po faced British aristocracy and the marvellous Curry didn’t flub it. And didn’t their elegances look impressed. Hohoho.
Whop it up ’em up ’em young Harry! Make ’em take it!
Regarding our previous tete a tete , and your unfortunate suggestion that I was becoming a royalist. I was actually commending young, ahem, Prince Henry . Different thing altogether old chap.
Henry, flabbergastingly wonderful news. Her Majesty is in the process of reversing climate change with her Commonwealth Canopy initiative. Oh so victorious happy and glorious long may she entertain us.