Posts by Joe Wylie
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Taking such a myopic view of religion isn't becoming. Can I suggest a little Sr Chittister?
Specifcally what? A search of the site you've linked to yields this passing mention of same-sex marriage, but fudges the issue by talking in very general terms about the need for god's love. A rather myopic lack of detail when dealing with specifics, but certainly a safe approach from the viewpoint of a celibate nun.
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For goodness sake harden up . . .
Shouldn't that be FFS, at least?
The pioneers have hairy ears,
They piss through leather britches,
They wipe their ass with broken glass,
Those tough old sons of bitches.
When c*nt is rare, they f*ck a bear,
They knife him if he snitches,
They knock their cocks against the rocks,
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My favourite story is Tom Waits recalling how his long-time partner Kathleen Brennan used to mis-hear "There's a bad moon a-rising" as "There's a bathroom on the right".
Heh!
Not meaning to mondegreenjack this thread, but Kim Carnes's one & only megahit wasn't quite so interesting once it became clear that she wasn't singing she got thirty days inside . -
This isn't hi-res enough for the big screen, but it's quite wonderful ...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Managing to initially mishear the lyrics of Annie's Song as let me drown in your bathtub has gifted me with a lifelong resistance to John Denver.
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That would've been The Foundry them, a pretty heinous rawk club owned by Les 'Parnell' Harvey's family, and I think, run by Larry Morris (although I may be wrong about that last bit). You wouldn't want to be let in there.
Went there there once in (I think) '78. A disco with a mirror ball, Sister Sledge, Chic, and a largely Pacific Island crowd with much blowing of whistles.
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"This kind of thing has been going on since Adam and Eve," he said.
Oh basic maths skills...Heh!
"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to swim. Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?"
The first time I heard that, when I was about five years old, it went right over my head (even though I answered "Pinch Me", and got pinched). Somehow it stuck in my mind that there was a third, slightly defective person of indeterminate gender in the garden of Eden. Only years later did it dawn on me that it was a bad kiddie joke.
Maybe there was something to it after all. Is there a special Australian version of Genesis?
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Ah yes: "This boy is a brat." Aren't they all?
What can you do
With a brat like that? -
The verbal gymnastics are offensive anyway. If you want to say that all men have some god-given right to hit their children hard then have the balls to say so. If you insist vast numbers of parents are being prosecuted for slapping their kids on the legs, then show us the proof. I'd suggest you find a different poster-boy in any case, no matter how cuddly you find him.
Nicely said sacha. The guy in question - and it galls me to use his name, the sooner his 'celebrity' status fades the better - appears to believe that his kids are his property, to do with as he pleases. Like a dog barking inside a parked car his family are his mobile territory, and anyone who's offended by his behaviour is an interfering busybody. It's a bogan attitude that'll be familiar to anyone who's attempted to intervene in a public display of domestic violence and been bluntly told to butt out, often by the supposed victim as well.
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you whack any animal often. you get a fearful cowed beast - or a sullen vengeful one.
Or, as the case may be, a sullen vengeful Bird.