Open house

Posted on July 1, 2012 by KG

Just in case some camel humper or one of their pc braindead sympathisers happens to drop by….

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36 Responses to Open house

  1. KG says:
    July 1, 2012 at 10:47

    :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Just spoke to a good friend and he’s out on the open road, running interstate in the 4.6L Mustang he just bought. Sensible fellow. :grin:

  2. KG says:
    July 1, 2012 at 10:52

    The new broom in Queensland…is John Key listening?
    ‘The Queensland government will scrap almost $27 million in contracts with Origin Energy after accusing the energy provider of unjustified price hikes.
    ENERGY Minister Mark McArdle says letters will be sent to government departments telling them to switch providers.
    “We are very serious about this,” he told ABC Radio.
    “Make no mistake, this government is very firm in its resolution to deliver cost of living decreases to the people of this state and will take the action we need to show our resolve.”
    http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/qld-government-scraps-origin-contracts/story-e6frfku9-1226413441813

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      July 1, 2012 at 18:21

      The difference being, of course, that in the Cuba of the South Pacific, the higher the electricity prices, the higher the dividend to the government. In your story, the government departments would be paying other government departments inflated prices for electricity.

      In the private sector, I believe that’s called a ponzi scheme.

  3. Katie says:
    July 1, 2012 at 11:39

    I feel very generous today. I heard that a Mosque was setting up a food bank for their members and sent them a case of this as a donation.

    Now they are after my head.

    There is no doing anyone a favor any more. :lol: :lol:

  5. dondiego says:
    July 1, 2012 at 11:48

    Good news above.
    I’d like to have a whinge about the Pacific Island pets I didn’t ask for. No internet or tv for 6-8 weeks, busy doing 80+hr weeks (taxed at 1/3rd), go to mummy’s for dinner & see they’d blocked a street in Auckland.
    To demand more of my money. (Key won’t listen, unless he figures aforementioned pets and his hostile neo-tribals will bestow love and neat photo opportunities upon him).

  6. jonno1 says:
    July 1, 2012 at 12:15

    At the cash register of the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

    The cashier responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations. You didn’t have the green thing.”

    She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

    Back then, we returned milk bottles, soft drink bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycling. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

    But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

    We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 275 kW machine every time we had to go two blocks.

    But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

    Back then, we washed the baby’s nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine at 230 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters and cousins, not always brand-new clothing.

    But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

    Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wrapped up old newspapers to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

    But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then.

    We drank water from a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect that to be trucked in or flown thousands of air miles. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad.

    But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

    Back then, city people took the tram or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

    But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

    Remember: Don’t make old people mad. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.

    • KG says:
      July 1, 2012 at 12:18

      What a beautiful comment! :grin: :grin:

    • Seneca III says:
      July 1, 2012 at 21:15

      Brilliant, jonno1, absolutely brilliant, particularly:

      “We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.”

      Now I know why I am taken with an overwhelming desire to plant my boot in the face of every sniveling, snot nosed juvenile with ‘issues’. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

  7. medusa says:
    July 1, 2012 at 13:09

    Brilliant! Well said Jonno :grin:

  8. Michael in Nelson says:
    July 1, 2012 at 15:13

    The latest ploy by Obama to get $ out of the slaves is offering a seat on his next campaign bus tour. This works like the ‘Dinner with the President’ scams where you get a chance when you donate. It was announced in an email purportedly from Michelle.

    http://www.flyanglers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19965

    See the comment by mls

  9. The Gantt Guy says:
    July 1, 2012 at 17:54

    Good to see the world’s largest carbon (dioxide) tax doing its job already. Day One, and the coldest day on record in Melbourne. :roll:

    I wonder if that means it’s worked and we can get our money back now.

  10. The Gantt Guy says:
    July 1, 2012 at 17:55

    Oh, and I love this one … Kristina Kenneally is the Kim Kardashian of Australian politics.

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/kks-anger-over-being-called-kim-kardashian/story-fn7x8me2-1226413418712

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        July 1, 2012 at 20:24

        It was the hair extensions what done it.

        That and the massive intellect.

    • jonno1 says:
      July 1, 2012 at 20:36

      I’m guessing the initials had something to do with it. And anyway, Kenneally is better looking than Kardashian (OK, I’m an old fart). Oh, maybe that’s what upset her hubby.

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        July 1, 2012 at 20:46

        :lol:

        It’s the hair extensions, mate. With short hair, she’s just a younger version of Ju-Liar, with a slightly less annoying accent. With the hair extensions, you almost want to take her away somewhere and try to *somehow* cure her of the progressive virus. :shock: :roll: :oops:

  12. Yokel says:
    July 1, 2012 at 23:19

    Can someone come to the aid of this Yokel’s failing memory? I think I saw the links here in the Wabbit Warren, but I can’t find them again.

    The first is of a bit of fiction set in the US after all the people have been trapped by DHS or FEMA in the cities after some real or imagined incident, and the powers that be invited volunteers to leave in convoys that were driven up the Interstate a convenient distance after which all the would be escapees were murdered by the DHS.

    The second is a series of fiction snippets of scary scenarios that were resolved by a bit of prior preparation, such as the possession of a GPS jammer.

    Any idea of the links or the articles themselves?

  13. Flashman says:
    July 2, 2012 at 05:58

    Money quote from a Daily Telegraph commentator related to a feature on the axing of much of Britain’s Army:

    “Cameron’s posturing to retain an independent stand alongside Europe is pure bluff as is the EU ‘s fumbling to distribute their Berlin Bingo jackpot. Each week sensational revelations or international events beg decisive action. What we receive is a whimper of platitudes from the parched deserts of Eton.Not that we should be involved but the Muddle East avalanche is on the move and its course unpredictable. Where now is the necessary independent carrier task force to give hope for the small voices of reason ?A mask of Royal events and the Olympics is heaven sent to keep the blunt end of England on an anaesthesia of semi permanent holiday and in a state of jogging torch euphoria. Next year (or soon after) you shall also have King Charles as the ultimate Royal distraction.In the meantime the bankers have the country (and the Tory Party) by the balls, not that those appendages are proven virile. Disregard sperm counts !As a sailor I look at the quality of leadership on the bridge. Anyone passing Downing street please ring the bell.”

  14. Moist von Lipwig says:
    July 2, 2012 at 16:57

    Whats open house without…..
    A cat video!.

  15. WAKE UP says:
    July 4, 2012 at 07:53

    Today’s paper quotes Mohammed Morsi, newly “elected” Egyptian President-or-whatever (I’m writing this from memory) as saying that the role of Government is to “enforce Sharia law and spread Islam.”
    ———————–
    Oh what a surprise – and doesn’t that “Arab spring” seem a long time ago…

  16. WAKE UP says:
    July 4, 2012 at 08:33

    And this, from one Ben Mills,a “youth law educator”, commenting on the rate of Maori truancy and other Maori education-related troubles :
    “…the figures reflect institutional racism. The education system in New Zealand is based on a Pakeha/British model and doesn’t really fit with Maori cultural values”.

    Well, he got that right :mrgreen:
    —————————-
    If the “system is racist, how come so many other colours/cultures are doing well in it? And where is the Maori “system” that’s going to educate the world?
    ———————————–
    I don’t think the British-originated education system has ever been “racist” in that sense – indeed, back in the heady days of missionary zeal, we even took “natives” from Tierra del Fuego back Britain to be educated. (Recommended reading: “Savage: the life and times of Jemmy Button”, by Nick Hazlewood – a fascinating history).

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      July 4, 2012 at 09:53

      Maori subjects such as Speaking a Dead Language, Flax Weaving, Shrinking the Heads of Slaughtered Slaves and Enemies and (perhaps most importantly) Daughters as Playthings and Protein don’t really lead to lucrative careers in the modern world, do they!

  17. KG says:
    July 4, 2012 at 10:07

    “Daughters as Playthings and Protein don’t really lead to lucrative careers in the modern world..”
    :mrgreen: