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garyjohn commented on the post, Who the hell is Katie Hopkins? 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I don’t think you’re speaking for the Australians who issued her a visa in the first place JW. Apparently awarded, according to the Home Affairs Minister, on the basis of “potential benefit to the commu […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Not a shark but a whale and not quite Jonah but close 1 year ago
Further proof that the most dangerous animal in Australia is the human.
Australia lockdown: Nude sunbathers fined for breaching Sydney Covid rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57634166 -
garyjohn commented on the post, Canada's Shame 1 year ago
I agree with some of that but if we take one particular aspect of Australian society – the criminal justice system – in which Indigenous Australians are massively over represented, only a governmental policy shift […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Canada's Shame 1 year ago
The Rudd apology was actually 13 years ago which only increases the inequity.
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garyjohn commented on the post, This time with Alan Partridge – anyone watching? 1 year, 1 month ago
I thought episode 4 was genius. Hatred, disposability, desperation and failure are now the Partridge tropes. I can see why it’s not everyone’s thing but at the risk of sounding pretentious I thought it a […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, More Pointless Confusion 1 year, 2 months ago
Interestingly, one of the original contributors on this very forum is an ex police officer who did the 30 years thing, retired and is now fully focussed on music.
He’d be far too modest to say so but the b […] -
garyjohn commented on the post, Mouse plague of biblical proportions 1 year, 3 months ago
Spiders, sharks, mice and crocs are comedy risks compared to floods and bush fires. Oh and politicians.
Australia floods: Thousands evacuated as downpours worsen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56476998 -
garyjohn commented on the post, How's the COVID crisis shaping up in your corner of the world? 1 year, 3 months ago
Sadly, it’s barely registered in Australian consciousness, unsurprising since crime and punishment is very much a national blind spot.
Even the state governments which are (notionally) Labor have passed bail l […] -
garyjohn commented on the post, Can You Do Card Tricks? 1 year, 3 months ago
Paul Daniels. Dead but still a prick. Now that’s magic.
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garyjohn commented on the post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
But isn’t an opinion, a comment indicating disagreement with the thrust of a thread, rather than its existence?
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garyjohn commented on the post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
I’m writing something about sexual violence in the lyrics of popular music but what interests me the most is how casually accepted some blatantly sinister lyrics have been – and I think still are – accepted. […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
Neither. I’m asking: 1 – What price revisionism? 2- Who really listens to the words? 3 – What’s the most offensive lyric you know of?
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garyjohn commented on the post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
Others of a similar ilk. My Sharona – ‘Always get it up for a touch of the younger kind’, Prince ‘When U were mine – ‘Let all my friends come over and eat’.
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garyjohn commented on the post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
Thanks for clarifying Steve. I guess I’m thinking with ISHST there’s a ‘barely legal’ vibe happening. But then, what can we say about the Stones, Stray Cat Blues’- ‘I can see you’re 15 years old, no I don’t want […]
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garyjohn wrote a new post, Words. Don’t come easy. 1 year, 4 months ago
‘Gonna lock her up in a trunk, so no big hunk, can steal her way from me’. FFS Cliff, behave, call yourself a christian? ‘She was just 17, you know what I mean’? Yeah I think I do know what you mean and I’m not […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Venomous snake bites girl while in bed. 1 year, 4 months ago
Australians love to trot out these stories to perpetrate the legend, but in actual fact, the most deadly animals in Oz are … horses and cows.
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garyjohn commented on the post, Tennis: Australian Open: celebrity v quarantine 1 year, 5 months ago
I can’t provide any evidence of bribery and corruption but having worked at the event for a couple of years during A Murray’s heyday, it’s a veritable schmoozefest for Melbourne politicians and officials. Somew […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Tennis: Australian Open: celebrity v quarantine 1 year, 5 months ago
It was more like sub-sub-sub contracting. The original security contract was sent out for further tender, a process which ultimately led to the recruitment of a poorly trained, inexperienced workforce with […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Tennis: Australian Open: celebrity v quarantine 1 year, 5 months ago
It’s a massive risk and a potential public relations disaster. I second your scepticism about the financial benefit the Open brings, much more significant is the status of Melbourne hanging on to an i […]
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garyjohn commented on the post, Priti says we can have a knees-up as long as there's no more than 15 of us. 1 year, 5 months ago
I’m with you on your main point, but it’s worth saying that the ‘security guard shag incident’ was an entirely made up story courtesy of The Melbourne Herald Sun. Didn’t happen, the local spread was a result of […]
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