Posts by Joe Wylie
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It's 37 degrees in Sydney. It's been hot, though not quite that hot, for three days. Each day I long for a storm or a change to break this overwhelming heat. At night it's been 30ish and too hot to sleep. My youngest hasn't slept through a single night. Make. It. Stop.
Having lived through close to a couple of decades of Sydney Summers, my sympathies. The only method I've seen that ever brought relief, and then only on occasion, was to assemble a number of children at around 5 pm, buy them popsicles, then have them thrust said iceblocks at the sky, all the while shouting "Southerly buster!"
Though the heavens flash armageddon-purple behind the figure of Jesus atop St Vincent's hospital, syringes sluice down the gutters of Darlinghurst, and lightning blast the Cumberland plain clear to Penrith, the götterdämmerung special effects of a full-scale Sydney southerly buster are as naught compared to the blessed drop in temperature.
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Ah I see you didnt look at the link.
Oh, I did, I did. How dare the world party instead of donning sackcloth and pitching in to help those plucky telegenic crips?
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Kevin Ireland writes eloquently of the wave of suburban beatings that coincided with the return of fathers from work in his childhood.
Hey, I read that years ago, it really stayed with me. Heartfelt stuff. I can't recall anything that got so close to the roots of the huge shift that's taking place - over more than one generation - about attitudes to family violence.
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And the gushing of emotions that I see streaming from the audience borders on the toxic. But hey maybe than whats just me.
It's just politics, though of a profoundly more pleasant sort than what's infested that part of the world of late. Don't let it distract you from your creeping Jesus posturing.
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Wives - remember birthday cards/gifts/phone calls/visits, buy vacuum cleaner bags, and make Christmas cakes (if anyone does).
I lost a great friend early last week. It was sad but long expected, and would have happened a lot sooner if she hadn't been such a tough one. Before she went into hospital for the last time she went through the family address book and added detailed birthday info to the entries. One of the last lucid things she had to say to her partner, left with two kids still at school, was "You've got a learning curve ahead of you, boy."
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As long as he insists that those with whom he fornicates remove their balaclavas he'll be fine.
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tempting to go miniature steam engine
Those little brass jobs that burn metho are cute, but they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.
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If the social parasites who work for the AIDS Foundation cared about reducing the incidence of HIV they would recommend that homosexuals not to have promiscuous and often anonymous sex.
The kind of garbled English produced by one-handed typing.
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I think Leonard always had his tongue in his cheek a bit with that song.
Yes - very much in the vein of "I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible."
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The Howard Government's supine disinterest in Hicks's plight was shameful. All the more reason that his story gets heard.