Punch on: Open thread 18/10/2012

Flossie says:

08:25am | 18/10/12

Will Macquarie Dictionary now alter the pronunciation of hyperbole in accordance to how it was used by our PM?

Heidi says:

09:40am | 18/10/12

Gillard is a legend and inspires women around the world who haven’t been born with a silver spoon and have had fight misogyny and Abbott’s stereotypes of women.
Of course you wouldn’t understand this, because you have always had everything handed to you, haven’t had to work a day in your life and live in a sheltered world.

SydneyGirl says:

10:21am | 18/10/12

Oh dear. Per mX both the award and the PM’s “blistering attack” on Tony got good press in India.

Separately can professional women ditch the heels and wear proper shoes so that they don’t you know keep tripping all the time.  We are no longer in an era where women have to demonstrate their social status as ladies of leisure by wearing instruments of torture on their feet.

Also Gillard looked pretty good in a tunic in Afghanistan.  These little tight “professional” skirts that hobble walking - why do we still persist with them?

jaki says:

10:33am | 18/10/12

@Heidi
You wouldn’t be the first whinging idiot to be inspired by Gillard and you won’t be the last. There’s no shortage of them. Like attracts like.
Really, all this man-hating is soooo last week !

SydneyGirl says:

11:16am | 18/10/12

Ooh Jaki thanks!

I shall now sign off as whinging idiot.

Whether you like her or not I am pretty sure Gillard is an inspiration to a fair few young women. 

PS: All this “man hating” tarring is so 60s.

Heidi is downtrodden says:

11:27am | 18/10/12

Gillard is a legend -Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Just how deluded are the feminists of today? Especially Australian ones who have equal rights legislated, were some of the first in the world to gain the right to vote, have solid anti-discrimination legislation in place, are favoured by tax schemes and incentives, can do no wrong in the eyes of the family court, can level accusations against ex-partners without having to prove them (see Restraining Orders and accusations of domestic violence and/or child abuse without substantiation), have legislated equal pay, they even have an Office and Minister for Women’s Affairs (there is no Office or Minister for Mens affairs). Yet even having achieved equality (and beyond equality in manyu areas) still perceive themselves to be downtrodden and hard done by because some politician who was raised in the 1960’s still has some quaint and old fashioned ideas.

Oh woe is me - I am woman, hear me whinge.

nihonin says:

12:01pm | 18/10/12

‘PS: All this “man hating” tarring is so 60s.’

Which is how Question Time appeared last week.  It was like being transported back in time, just no free love, but plenty of war.

SydneyGirl says:

01:21pm | 18/10/12

Not quite, the Mirabella-Shorten love fest is so 21st century!

glenm says:

08:50am | 18/10/12

Be careful nihonin, I wrote a comment yesterday in Farr’s section about Roxon which dissappeared. The labor/media cloak of silence is in force . I think the fact that none of the editors picked up the written word sarcasm saved you.

nihonin says:

09:23am | 18/10/12

glenm, you mean it could be like the Cone of Silence?

glenm says:

10:44am | 18/10/12

Yes,  I can picture Julia and Nicola in the “cone of silence” discussing Slippers text messages.

jaki says:

07:45am | 18/10/12

Yawn…...Change the record, grandad.

Testfest says:

09:59am | 18/10/12

Acotrel, we’ve talked about this. Seriously, we get it.
“Vote Labor in 2013, because misogyny.”

I’m not even going to tell you to stop banging on about this, because that would be a total waste of time, but add some variety to your repertoire. Any sort of variety you like. For example, throw in some “sexist”, “chauvinist” or “paternalistic”!

ausspud says:

11:42am | 18/10/12

Looking forward to hearing it again tomorrow.

Mahhrat says:

07:26am | 18/10/12

Scratch that, I missed a reference.  Yeah.  *sigh* he bites off toes more than I do.

subotic isn't drunk. yet. says:

08:17am | 18/10/12

I missed a reference too. I thought it said BLINDERS, and so I pulled out my stubbie holder @ 8:17 in the damn morning….

Dash says:

08:01am | 18/10/12

Don’t get me started on the bloody M2! Left early to go to the gym this morning, and spent 20mins travelling from Pennant Hills Rd to Epping! Nearly an hour and a half to get to the city and I left home before 6.30am!

Ben C says:

11:53am | 18/10/12

@ ibast

I can’t say that I’ve noticed the same during my commute - do you travel outbound or City-bound? I travel outbound, so I don’t know if that’s a factor.

ibast says:

02:11pm | 18/10/12

City bound.  It’s early too.  Leaving home a 7 it’s not much different, but at 6 it’s seems like 70% of the vehicles on the roads are either trucks or utes.  And it’s stop start even then.

That’s up from say 50% at that time with the traffic mostly flowing.  Seems the increase in traffic has mostly been trades.

pa_kelvin says:

03:13pm | 18/10/12

ibast….I’m a tradie and work a fair bit in Sydney. Tradies need to leave earlier than most others for the simple reason it takes so f ing long to travel anywhere in Sydney. When I travel to Sydney (from Brisbane) for work I start early and finish late to avoid the traffic. All the motorways down there are carparks…Dont even get me started on the Parramatta Goat-track…

Davina says:

08:19am | 18/10/12

If there is a politician in Canberra that needs some kind of sympathy it would have to be the Opposition Leader. Having a PM as his opponent, female one at that using every card from racism, sexism etc up to sympathy card and then uttering to her overseas audience that she hoped he remained opposition leader forever would be a great challenge on its own. If that is not enough to deal with the Opposition Leader has the former PM who was ousted by the recent PM speaking out against him in a lot of egotistical double talk because he is keen to get his old job back.

Kurisu Sonsaku says:

07:47am | 18/10/12

Breakfast of champions

Tim says:

08:17am | 18/10/12

Irish coffee?

fml says:

08:31am | 18/10/12

Yep, Jamesons.

TheRealDave says:

09:43am | 18/10/12

Breakfast fail - not enough bacon in it.

fml says:

10:29am | 18/10/12

@theRealDave,

It was jamesons kilpatrick.

Mouse says:

10:49am | 18/10/12

Blueberry muffins…..yummmmmm! You have just made my morning delicious!  :o)

TheRealDave says:

12:28pm | 18/10/12

now your talking fml

subotic is more gangsta than your gra'ma ever was says:

09:18am | 18/10/12

Then you’d be Gangstagrass, the Country-Rap band who do the theme song for “Justified”, rite?

#skooled

fml says:

09:52am | 18/10/12

IS that sorta like Phish’s version of Gin and Juice?

Tim says:

09:56am | 18/10/12

Is that how you roll on your home turf?

Indian Grass says:

10:26am | 18/10/12

Nope, don’t know about that band, but I do know I knocked your PM on her face without doing a thing.

#Owned

Dash says:

10:25am | 18/10/12

How’s the SG going? What did you end up doing with the burn out from the polisher?

Yak says:

10:29am | 18/10/12

And that bloody primate. “The picture that never gets old”. Um, yes, it does.

SimpleSimon says:

11:30am | 18/10/12

@Dash - The SG hasn’t had much love. With the burn through I ended up saying “f*ck it” and just carrying on. If I had the time, tools, money and inclination, I would:
- buy all new electronics
- re-apply the clear coats to the neck to fix an issue on the edge of the fretboard
- give it a fret job
- give it a proper set up

I might do it later, but for now it’s just chilling out in a stand. In the meantime, I’m starting the neck for my first build from scratch - a tele.

Are you working on any new projects?

Dash says:

02:08pm | 18/10/12

@SS - fret job is easy. It wont take you long!

Where are you posting the pics of the tele build? what’s the neck being made from?

Nah I’m on hold for a while. Too may things to do around the house. But I have plans for a Les Paul with p90s. Mahogany with a Blackwood top and gold hardware. And a full Mahogany Tele. But not until the new year.

SimpleSimon says:

02:30pm | 18/10/12

@Dash - I haven’t taken any pics yet, but if/when I do I’ll let you know - it’s just in prep stage at the moment, and I’m worried I’ll start the photo process and then screw it up so badly that I give up, leaving photo evidence of my failure lol.

It’s a plain maple neck, rosewood fingerboard (pre-radiused and slotted from stewmac), with a Hot Rod truss rod. Haven’t decided on a body wood yet, but keep thinking about what you said re mahogany being a nice wood to work with and am thinking I might go that way!

Dash says:

03:08pm | 18/10/12

@SS - Where did you get the maple?

I used 19mm tassie oack for the neck with a 6mm board. You’ll be right. Maybe set another blog up for us all to follow.

Hot rods are good. Maybe look at getting the Stewmac truss rod router bit as well.

SimpleSimon says:

04:31pm | 18/10/12

@Dash - I got the plain maple neck blank from stewmac. I figured, for my first build, and considering I don’t have a table saw or thicknesser or jointer, it’s hard to go past $20 for a pre-cut neck blank and $20 for a pre radiused and slotted fretboard. I couldn’t do the work myself for that price, let alone set up the shop as well. I’ve become a real stewmac fanboy.

HappyG says:

09:24am | 18/10/12

Gold. I know it’s mean but I got a good laugh watching “bucket arse” go base over apex. You’d need a D9 CAT to replace that divot. Bloody Tony Abbott’s fault too I reckon.

Tim says:

09:55am | 18/10/12

I thought a sniper had got her.

Yak says:

10:11am | 18/10/12

Channel surfing last night, and some show had “the most embarrassing moment for a PM” question. In my mind, John Howards attempt at bowling to some Indian kid wins hands, feet and a boom-se-daisy down. If you bowl like my sister, then don’t bloody bowl. We refused to let her bowl as it would take all day for her to get through an over, and nobody got a hit. Mr. Howard should have just fielded down at deep-deep fine-leg out of harm’s way, like my sister, and not embarrass all cricket-loving Australians on international TV.

P.S. Not once, but twice. (face palm)

nihonin says:

10:28am | 18/10/12

You see the same thing in Funniest Home Video’s every week, ends up being just another post menopausal woman, face planting grass.

simonfromlakemba says:

11:04am | 18/10/12

Nearly as good as Howards attempt at bowling!

Mr cricket!

Was funny seeing Julia hitting the ground though.

Rosie says:

01:42pm | 18/10/12

I find myself moderating my comments to have them posted. Here I go again.

Perhaps if we look back to when the Opposition Leader scooted out of Parliament to negate Craig Thomson’s vote - Gillard sympathizers may remember how their laughed to discredit Abbott in many unthinkable ways. How ironical the original perpetrator of defaming her opponent by calling him a sexist and misogynist - in doing so she gained international popularity for saying it only to find a couple of weeks later has again grabbed world wide attention for falling flat on her face.

gobsmack says:

09:37am | 18/10/12

I can only nod my head in agreement.

fml says:

10:30am | 18/10/12

It is the reptilian overlords agreeing with what the drone in front of them are saying. Well, saying what the overlords want them to correctly.

marley says:

11:00am | 18/10/12

The Nodding Head Moron has to be right behind, to work the strings.

fml says:

11:25am | 18/10/12

Now that you mention it…

I haven’t noticed anyone with a moniker named “Nikki”. I would welcome her with open arms though.

ausspud says:

11:41am | 18/10/12

Ken Oath Dash,Gotta love the skimpy outfit.
More importantly is anyone on the Punch Nikki.

subotic says:

11:54am | 18/10/12

What’s a “Facebook”?

nihonin says:

12:10pm | 18/10/12

Good on you for ‘pointing’ it out Dash.

Ben C says:

12:45pm | 18/10/12

Have you checked her out on Facebook, Dash?

Dash says:

02:11pm | 18/10/12

@BenC - yeah I have. Something to do with sex workers. I wonder if she comments here?

Dash says:

02:14pm | 18/10/12

Posts her interests as sex workers rights and the adult industry!!!! Gotta love the Punch!

fml says:

11:24am | 18/10/12

Could it be construed to be a conspiracy to silence lance armstrong?

Could he be the more handsome, physically fit, one nut version of Alan Jones?

Aggreived for an insult to womanhood says:

12:54pm | 18/10/12

Of course they are sexist - women don’t need men to help then get up after face planting the turf - that is sooooo ‘60’s, mysoginistic, sexist and chauvinist. How dare they show her some courtesy the bloody neanderthals.

marley says:

01:31pm | 18/10/12

@subotic:  well, it’s quite true many of us are insane (too many hockey pucks to the head, I believe).

“Persons day,” however, isn’t quite as silly as it sounds.  It isn’t some sort of politically correct mangling of the the English language:  it actually refers to a Supreme Court case back in the decidedly unPC 1920s, which ruled that the constitutional definition of “persons” qualified to hold office included - gasp - women (even though the relevant section of the Act kept referring to “he.”)

So, from that date, women have been, believe it or not, legally “persons” in Canada.  Now you might argue that it’s been all down hill since then, but still, it’s a date worth remembering…even for those who haven’t been hit in the head with too many pucks..

TheRealDave says:

01:56pm | 18/10/12

I downloaded that (Ponty Pool) a while back but haven’t watched it yet…I may put it into the list for this weekend….

subotic ain't a women says:

02:17pm | 18/10/12

SEE. SEE. I knew it. I bloodywell knew it.

Sweet baby Elvis in the manger.
Women. Persons. The same thing. Ha!

As if anyone, even Canucks, would believe that….

marley says:

03:09pm | 18/10/12

@subotic - what can I say?  All those long, cold, dark winters do things to the mind…

subotic bites your hand says:

12:45pm | 18/10/12

in what sense is this site moderated?

In the sense that if subotic makes a few “off” jokes, they get canned with extreme prejudice, but if gof “takes a shot” (sorry) at the marginalised few then it’s ok.

Think that’s how it works.

If there is a rhyme or reason to moderation here, it’s probably in relation to alcohol….

HappyG says:

12:47pm | 18/10/12

Please dude take a chill pill. Your idol went arse over head. Deal with it. A lot of non political people thought it was pretty funny. Howard attempting to bowl a cricket ball was a side splitter as well. Me, I just thought it was a pretty good metaphor for her government.

Rosie says:

01:17pm | 18/10/12

I am an as you say an Abbotteer and would be hesitant to have a Gillard sympathizer attend to me if I laid there helplessly. Having witnessed the amount of hatred Gillard and her Labor party have bestowed upon this human being I would be very concerned and rely on luck for another passerby for help.

marley says:

01:17pm | 18/10/12

I was just thinking about the YOLO article and wondering whether I should buy myself a bottle of vodka….

TheRealDave says:

01:58pm | 18/10/12

subliminal…..

fml says:

02:22pm | 18/10/12

Pull me a glass marley,

I did find the quote quite amusing.

“One kid said to me about six months ago that ‘We are the YOLO generation’. The whole notion behind it is ‘Why worry about the harms, we only get one life so we might as well live it to the max’.”

I thought that was the Pepsi generation I was a part of? Pepsi Max, anyone? of course before that there was the James Dean rebel without a cause and before that even you had Monsieur Bonaparte sticking his hand inside his Napoleonic waistcoat and conquering half of Europe. I realise I have missed a few generations, but they obviously didn’t discover or did not articulate the “You only live once” life affirmations to any real extent, well, not to the extent where pre-pubescent looking young adults feel like getting a similar phrase tattoo’d to the underside of their palm.

I am pretty sure I do not have a point, but I do not think that should stop us from having a drink.

Another please.

nihonin says:

04:09pm | 18/10/12

I hope there is some Lesbian porn in there, just for balance. 

Tim says:

03:48pm | 18/10/12

Why don’t you tell us what your usage was?

The bill most definitely does not include a 45% increase due to taxes. Do you come from the Babylon school of making stuff up?

marley says:

06:13pm | 18/10/12

I’d have thought that piracy would be a “serious criminal offence” that any sensible court would rule sufficient to deny them refugee status under the Convention.  But of course, we’re talking sensible courts….