Punch on: Open thread 1/11/11

OchreBunyip says:

07:31am | 01/11/11

Somehow, it must be a man’s fault these women hate men and boys. :-p

gobsmack says:

08:34am | 01/11/11

Is that where you got the ridiculous idea that a dildo is a good substitute for a man’s penis?

Zeta says:

08:47am | 01/11/11

I like the one who hates men with the heat of a thousand suns! And she knows it because she learned it in her sociology class!

LJ Dots says:

09:16am | 01/11/11

Now that is truly scary stuff. I was hoping you may have photoshopped that one Erich, just for laughs. A quick search shows me how wrong I was.

iansand says:

09:18am | 01/11/11

Imagine if we bred a couple of them with Erick?

Erick says:

09:54am | 01/11/11

@gobsmack - That’s your ridiculous idea, not mine. Don’t tell fibs, now.

@LJ Dots - There’s plenty more where that came from, unfortunately.

And it’s not all from one side. Here’s what a real misogynist looks like.

fairsfair says:

09:57am | 01/11/11

It is sad that these women have little girls. Ruined little girls.

gobsmack says:

10:11am | 01/11/11

In a similar vein I stumbled across this:

“What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails
That’s what little boys are made of !
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice and all things nice
That’s what little girls are made of!”

Obviously penned by some crazed feminist.

Elphaba says:

10:57am | 01/11/11

Good lord… that’s insane. :(

ausspud says:

12:19pm | 01/11/11

Carefull Erick,otherwise they will go all karate on your arse.

andye says:

12:39pm | 01/11/11

@erick - What has any of that got to do with most actual feminism? I could certainly find people who agree with you on a number of issues, only in an obviously hateful way like the samples you provided. I could go to freep or somewhere like that and find raging frothing hate-filled diatribes. Does that mean all conservatives are on that extreme edge?

No, of course it doesn’t.

You are more interested in painting your “enemy” as being as extreme as possible. LOOK AT THESE CRAZY MAN HATING FEMINISTS!

Most reasonable people would think both you and those “feminists” are wackos who should be ignored.

fairsfair says:

01:19pm | 01/11/11

andye - have you studied feminism at uni?

When I went through it in 2006 - all that we spoke about was radical feminism with a bit of Anne Summers thrown in for good measure. I watched females, who I would have thought I had heaps in common with at the beginning of our degrees morph into radical, irrational, babbling fools. Why - because radical notions of gender and sexuality were forced down out throats. We were supposed to critique the writings, but I soon found out if you overly critical you didn’t get higher than a Pass mark.

The ones who stopped shaving their armpits and remained single forming all girl study groups got the HDs. I sat at the back of the class wtih the frightened men. We generally attended only the tutorials, mouths agape as similar stuff to the sample discussion were brought up by the “ladies” in the front.

I apprecaite that I had a radical experience - a different lecturer, it would have had a completely different feel about it. But you should know that these types of attitudes are more common than you think. The scariest part is that the most worrying attitudes, in my experience have been the ones heavily promoted. This lecturer might I add, was a man.

Modern feminism - I hate it more than the heat of a thousand suns.

nihonin says:

01:45pm | 01/11/11

ff, andye seems to come across as the next perfect human, just hope they don’t crucify him too soon though, for always being right.

Erick says:

04:54pm | 01/11/11

@Tory - The website in my first two links is a private forum that’s only accessible to registered members - that’s why you couldn’t find those conversations with Google. Here is a link to the story of how a wicked MAN pretended to be a girl, and joined to find these gems. No, it wasn’t me.

Hmm, just going to that address now, it shows no registered users and no posts. Perhaps they didn’t like being discovered.

A related comment thread on another website started it off.

The latter seems to be an open forum, so presumably you could contact its members. The whole story is contained in the first link in my second comment, at 10:54am.

Erick says:

08:09am | 01/11/11

@acotrel - I don’t have any “problem with the chicks” at all. You have a problem with reading comprehension and logic.

Adam Diver says:

08:19am | 01/11/11

@ Erick,

I will add “replying to the correct post” in there as well

TimB says:

09:15am | 01/11/11

I had a few saved. I stopped after a while though. Which is a shame because I’m sure there have been many great candidates since.

Actually I think I’ll add one now. A few weeks ago, someone wondered at the wisdom of Tony Abbott’s policy to sideline a free trade agreement with China, in favour of instead focusing on an agreement with Japan.

Someone else (identity is in the link) decided to take a stab at what they thought Abbott’s reasoning must have been. See if you can spot the flaw in the logic before you click:

“It is not meant to make sense.  It is meant to appeal to the viscera of “battlers” - the yellow peril RSL types who are opposed to dialogue with Vietnam”

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-19-10-20111/#comment-659226

Adam Diver says:

10:12am | 01/11/11

That is a good one, I like how Iansand’s lack of logic, was then projected as Tony Abbott’s lack of logic. To be fair its a cunning ploy

I have saved it for the end of year punch rasberry awards.

Adam Diver says:

10:18am | 01/11/11

How do you get the url direct to the comment?

fml says:

10:57am | 01/11/11

Adam,

If the planet can only realistically sustain 1 billion people, how do you explain the successful growth and maintenance of an extra 6 Billion? and still growing mind you.

LJ Dots says:

11:17am | 01/11/11

@Adam Diver, about the links - Only way I could find was to grab the URL and add “/comment-XXXXXX”. To get the comment number, highlight a section of the post and right click, select something like inspect element (Chrome) or view selection source (Firefox). There is probably a way to do it in Explorer as well, but I don’t really care. 

Hopefully TimB has a quicker method.

TimB says:

11:35am | 01/11/11

@ FML, that’s the point. Tubesteak made the comment. Adam has reposted to highlight the silliness as explained by you.

@ LJD,  ‘fraid not. I do something similar in IE. View-> Source, find the comment & it’s ID number, then manually amend the URL

TimB says:

11:35am | 01/11/11

@ FML, that’s the point. Tubesteak made the comment. Adam has reposted to highlight the silliness as explained by you.

@ LJD,  ‘fraid not. I do something similar in IE. View-> Source, find the comment & it’s ID number, then manually amend the URL

fml says:

11:49am | 01/11/11

Tim,

My point is, how can 1 Billion people be a realistically sustainable number, how can/did the world sustain and infact grow to 7 Billion?

I didnt see the quote by tubesteak, so maybe they can explain to me how that number was reached, when the world can/has sustained a greater number.

Adam Diver says:

01:32pm | 01/11/11

Glad it wasn’t just me FML.

Here is the link thanks to tims help

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-sorry-but-society-doesnt-owe-you-a-child/#comment-674080

gobsmack says:

03:21pm | 01/11/11

@Adam Diver
Yeah great idea.  Award all the posts that you happen to disagree with.  That will turn into a good old bitch session.
While I don’t fully agree with Tubesteak’s figures, the words “at current consumption patterns” seems to be the important qualifier.  There are a number of non-renewable resources and you’re optimism that mankind will find alternatives before they run out seems based more on hope than anything else.

Coop says:

03:58pm | 01/11/11

My personal favourite posts have come from Zeta. In particular I liked his Vaginal Brain Topography discussion and the Arsehole Observation Paradox.
Dont know where they are though
That Zeta laddy can write

Coop says:

04:00pm | 01/11/11

Missed the “grate” being sarcastic bit.

Actually just thought Zeta’s VBT theory was just plain “great”

gobsmack says:

04:48pm | 01/11/11

I might add that setting up a “hall of shame” is not going to do much to promote free and open discussion on this forum.

ausspud says:

12:23pm | 01/11/11

Weird isnt it.
The Melbourne cup is actually a shit race,but its an excellent race to bet on.

SimonFromLakemba says:

10:31am | 01/11/11

I wasted 4hrs watching the TV special. He was always too good for her trashy family, her mum is the biggest fame whore.

Anna C says:

10:51am | 01/11/11

Shock horror. I would never have guessed.

fairsfair says:

11:21am | 01/11/11

Oh isn’t she!

I was watching something the other day (can’t remember) and the mother was reminissing about Nicole Brown Simpson leaving a voicemail for her on the day before her murder saying that she felt something was amiss with OJ and needed to speak with her. The mother was apparently too busy to catch up and didn’t do so. “She has never got over it….”

It got me thinking - if they were so sure OJ did it and they were such good friends with Nicole - why did Robert Kardashian represent OJ and get him off with that Chewbacca defence?

Money. Clearly that is all Kim got married for. What a sad bunch of Keople.

Erick says:

11:35am | 01/11/11

@fairsfair - “72 days it lasted, how devastating. According to reports her marriage has been on the rocks for “months””

Let’s see - 30 days in a month, plural “months” means at least two, so that’s 60 days. So poor Kim’s marriage has been “in the rocks” since 12 days after it started!

ausspud says:

12:28pm | 01/11/11

What he thought was a sea cow at the beach was actually Kim bending over.Bloody attention seeking whore.

marley says:

03:04pm | 01/11/11

Who is Kim Kardashian, and why should I care?

Erick says:

05:13pm | 01/11/11

@marley - “Who is Kim Kardashian”

I’m not an expert, but I’ll try to answer. From what little I can gather, Kardashians are a human subspecies of clone-sisters with black hair. There are around 2,400 of them. They all look the same and all are called “Kim”.

For some unknown reason, large numbers of people will pay money to learn about the most trivial details of their private lives, rather than paying attention to important things like the different variations of the Panzerkampfwagen III. Go figure.

“why should I care?”

You probably shouldn’t.

Anna C says:

10:55am | 01/11/11

More to the point, Why does Althony Albanese have just horrible teeth? You’d think someone on his salary could afford to go to the dentist occasionally.  His teeth would have pride of place in the Simpson’s “English Book of Smiles.”

ausspud says:

12:32pm | 01/11/11

Ahhh Tony Sheldon,The next president of the ALP.
The Labor party might have to put a “U” at the end of their name soon.

SimonFromLakemba says:

10:35am | 01/11/11

Only thing I have heard recetnyl was about the payouts the Government was going to pay, but apart from that not to sure how rebuilding or the cleanup is coming along.

Adam Diver says:

01:36pm | 01/11/11

So not quite the apocalypse? Although apparently Global warming is the next apocalypse and the only practical action is Nuclear power.

What to do, what to do….

John Smythe says:

02:38pm | 01/11/11

Adam, there’s lots going on actually. If only we had real “journalists”.

There’s a volunteer group going around Japan doing readings.
http://www.safecast.org

You can see how it looks. There’s been some high readings in Yokohama, written off as some bottles containing radioactive materials below the floor boards of a house. There’s been radiation in some neighbourhoods where water has pooled (no doubt from rain.)

6 months on some little independent supermarket owner checks his beef…....and its found out farmers were still feeding cattle radioactive straw. Government, comes out (after the fact) and bans shipments from certain prefectures.

Rentals in Singapore have skyrocketed, international schools no longer accepting children because they are full. Honkers is now starting to suffer the same influx of people, no doubt a large portion are companies reforming their APAC strategies and GTFO of Japan

Volunteer efforts continue, and I have had a hiatus of a few months now working on other personal projects.

Dash says:

10:33am | 01/11/11

Wow a bit dark Fairs.

LJ Dots says:

10:57am | 01/11/11

fml, some good work there, first post/piece I’ve read 4 times over. Thanks

Dash says:

10:57am | 01/11/11

OMG I must have Fairs on my mind?? Sorry I meant fml! oops

TimB says:

11:00am | 01/11/11

Uh Dash…That’s not Fairs

Chris L says:

11:04am | 01/11/11

I like it. I know Saturn was the god of agriculture, but was he also guide of the dead? Am I just getting him confused with Osiris?

fairsfair says:

11:09am | 01/11/11

Totally understandable Dash

Wow fml. I’m going to have a read that a few times as I have got something different twice already… well done.

LJ Dots says:

11:24am | 01/11/11

@Dash - lol, I think you may have taken the Janus allegory far too literally there.

jay-ded says:

12:59pm | 01/11/11

fml - bloody brilliant!

fml says:

01:26pm | 01/11/11

I wrote this before, but it didnt seem to get through, so i apologise if it posts twice.

Janus is the roman god of beginnings and transitions, he has two faces because he can see into the future and the past. Saturns gate is the entry to heaven which Janus guards, The Cypress tree in persian mythology is a lover who is careless, passionate, faithful but accepts fate.

Janus tells the tree to becareful of his past wrongs, because if he were made into a coffin, he would be buried empty, suggesting that people who bury empty coffins never find peace, hence he will be sent to the afterlife with no friend but heart ache.

The beggar, who has nothing wants to be buried with a rose, Talking to the beggar helps the tree realise that he must find love within himself, he then proposes to himself that with wine, a love which is akin to an intoxication with himself and the rose, living in accordance with the beauty of nature, he has no fear of death because he has found peace within himself.

Dash says:

11:33am | 01/11/11

Wet season sounds like much more fun though!

Awesome poem Fairs. I now announce my poetry retirement.

fml says:

11:46am | 01/11/11

I like it fairs, great work

fairsfair says:

11:52am | 01/11/11

Reminds me, I have to refill my closet camels. Maybe through in a couple extra…

Its a bit dodge Dash, I can only manage the rhyming crap. Retirement - take that back. It better be a John Farnham claim!

TimB says:

01:04pm | 01/11/11

I got Cranach in the office sweep. Along with Dunaden & Shamrocker.

Fingers crossed eh?

TimB says:

02:25pm | 01/11/11

Oh yes. 1st and 3rd place finishers. $80 winnings. Sweet.

Nobody tell Wilkie.

nihonin says:

02:26pm | 01/11/11

We’re all waiting at the shops for MW3 to be released.

TimB says:

02:28pm | 01/11/11

We’re all playing BF3 .

This may or may not be a lie.

fairsfair says:

03:02pm | 01/11/11

I’ve cut back. I was starting to annoy myself with the constrant stream of sh*t I was babbling.

TimB says:

04:44pm | 01/11/11

Don’t be like that Fairs. I think I speak for everyone when I say we’d much rather hear your babble than say…Acotrel’s.

TimB says:

02:36pm | 01/11/11

Excellent news.

What a great day.

fairsfair says:

03:32pm | 01/11/11

Will wait and see if the CBA pass it on in full though….

Mofos better or I am driving my car through my Branch.

TimB says:

05:18pm | 01/11/11

I think they did Fairs.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/interest-rates-cut-by-quarter-of-percent/story-e6freuy9-1226182637854

Doubly excellent. I’m with CBA too.

TimB says:

04:54pm | 01/11/11

I saw that. I don’t get it either.

This government is being run by petulant children.