Reasons you will hate me

A little apartment in Moonee Ponds was going through the same rollercoaster ride. Everytime he didn't fuck it up, lo, we rejoiced.

yes, he did well, didn't he? looking forward to next weekend. it is a scary-exciting time...

Hello.

He can't lose, can he? I mean, for him t lose would just be...

It would just be stupid.

Stupider things have happened, Mr. Ben. Remember when Marty Monster was kicked in the nads by that kangaroo on The Early Bird Show?

I threw myself at the great unwashed over the weekend by engaging in a stint of door knocking in a marginal seat. I'm pleased to report that Liberal voters were few and far between and there's a definite move for change. The oddest person was a woman who had always voted Labour, but was giving her vote to the Libs this time....why now? I asked...because every thing is so peachy for everyone, and she doesn't believe that silly union scare campaign.

Kev's performance on Rove capped off a great weekend for yours truly. Bring this baby on! 5 sleeps!

So what happens if he does lose? What will we all write about then?

I still think he might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...looks like he's no stranger to the musty stench of failure

Rove is the 21st century's Daryl Somers.

Circa 2050, expect to see that greasy little fucker's handprints oiling the arses of much younger women on Jetpacking With The Stars.

Sometimes I weaken on a Sunday night and watch him for five minutes, even though I know the effect it will have on me. I think people stick metal objects in powerpoints for the same reason.

If (when, for the love of God, when) Labour wins on Saturday it will be a bigger night than Ryrie St. a few Saturdays ago. If the Libs win, I'm gettin' mean drunk and punching on.

I'm going to be drunk and in floods of tears either way, I think. Although if K07 makes it across the line I'm almost definitely up for a nudie run through the streets of Castlemaine.

Perhaps you might consider killing yourself anyway, Marieke.

If K07 wins on Sat, does that mean we wake up in another country on Sun? Please.

Constructive advice indeed, Anon. I'll be certain to take your helpful comments on board.


Do drop by again for further highbrow conversings.

Just one quibble with this assessment, really.

Rove is not youth tv, no matter how hard aged Insiders and Rove himself try to convince us otherwise. Rove is foul GenX foulness dressed up as lamb or something.

to the rocket scientist suggesting suicide...
why (and i am genuine in my query) do you come here if you are so filled with dislike for the host?

did it make you feel better?

Nice creative Marmalade

I would be interested in viewing this said nudie run. I may even participate, I star on film running naked, 9 and half stars
I will be attending an election party on Saturday with my mate Cooley

I think this week will be like slowly watching the wicked witch and her monkeys melt

Fits I have been threatening suicide if such a horrible thing happens on Saturday... I was an empty threat for a while, but as the day draws closer it's becoming more real... I don't think I could stand Johnny again. Oh please please let it be time for change.

We have warned our neighbours about Saturday night, there is a mass party planned, I will be drunk either way but if there is a loss there will be nice gin and boys with guitars to console me. With a win will be jelly shots and cocktails, I'm all class.

Finally is there video of the Rova appearance anywhere? I was out listening to the sweet sweet sounds of Abbe May last night...

It's spelt labor.

Pet peeve.

No worries Andy,

We'll shall endeavor to keep hour grammar floorless from hear on inn.

That's spelling, Rustique.

And here was I, labouring under the assumption we use English spelling of words here, not bastardised U.S. txt [/sarkiness].

Nyah nyah nyah Andy Pants.

Above post = me.

Grammar wars make me twitchy.

We watched through latticed fingers, and he acquitted himself nicely.

Though gorgeous Bob Brown, who made a surprise appearance later on - we were rewarded for continuing to watch the show against our better judgement - completely upstaged him with his "I'd turn straight for Mother Nature and Missy Higgins" turn. I was on the floor. How ace is that man!??

I am scared, petrified and nervous.

I am supposed to go to an election party and a birthday party but honestly, I may just stay home watching Antony and drinking a lot of Banrock. My constitution is not strong enough for this.

SEND HALP!
kthxbye.

ps DON'T FUCK IT UP!

Will Kevin07 t-shirts be goin' out the door at crazy prices on Sunday? I've been meaning to buy one with the intention of putting it away for around 7 years. I think they might be a fashion item that matures with age.

Hell, if I could a box I'm sure it'd be a good investment. If he wins or loses those puppies are going to be hot property in years to come.

I didn't know Bob was gay even. Why am I always the last person to know these things?

Plans for Saturday night:

1. Good company with MsKP and others.
2. Trying not to hyperventilate.
3. ABC TV coverage.
4. Shrieking, one way or another.
5. Greens election night shindig in North Melbourne.
6. Huge fuck-off-Howard (hopefully) piss-up at Trades Hall bar til the wee small hours.
7. Hopefully get a celebratory root, or at least a snog.
8. Streaking optional.

susanna - same here! he seems awesome

kev was pretty cool though, and you know he couldnt have said an actual guy or it would have been all over the papers today 'kev loves (insert name here), im sure thats all he was thinking. as he said numerous times, he's about getting out there, saying what he can and cant do, and leaving it to us.

i had a telemarketer guy call me this morning 'hi im from some research company, and, IM NOT SELLING ANYTHING...' and one of his questions was who am i going to vote for. when i answered labor, i swear i heard a bit of a squee

I've just got a very nice invitation for the night from an ALP friend who is running in the big race. My friend and I can't decide whether to go or not.

What happens if JWH wins again? Mass suicide?

What happens if the ALP wins? Are these party people really party enough to have a fitting celebration?

Sportingbet decider has gone even further over to the left.

ALP win pays $1.22

Coalition pays $4.15

Rudd the Dudd!!!

Are you kidding me? Are you all seriously going to vote in a guy who wants to make Brisbane the financial hub of Australia? The city who can't even manage there own water supply managing big money?
Wow!!
Or maybe he only said that to try and get votes, forgetting that he has now alienated Sydney and Melbourne voters, as well as the rest of Queensland who hate Brisbane for stealing their water.........

I know he's going to win, but i'm not going to make it easy for him. He is the only politician i truly detest...he and his ugly Christian veiw of the future of our nation. You think Howard and the backwards Roman Catholics are bad.... wait till you see what's in store if Dudd gets in.

I would turn gay for Bob Brown. It's funny. People supposedly hate politicians, but when they encounter someone real like Bob, they freak out and can't take it. Tv makes normal look really bizarre.

I am a locked and loaded Catholic right winger who thinks Howard has been the best PM since Menzies- maybe better given the circumstances we as a country were in. However I have to say that I am not fretting at the prospect of Rudd, he seems too damn ambitious to do anything that will risk the ire of the public- he should just do what the Labour Premiers have done in the States- nothing, and he should be fine. If he starts messing around with left wing ideologies he’ll be out faster than you can say Gough Whitlam.
Regarding Rove- he did, ok- came across as pretentious and a bit arrogant but that was wiped away by the fact that he was there having a go- 6.5/10.

K07 4 eva, Wry. Well, 4 this election, at least. I'm not the biggest fan of the man, but I think he'll be more than adequate, and there is no frigging way in hell I can vote for a stubborn, greedy, out-and-out liar who has absolutely no regard for the intelligence of the Australian electorate. I know it's not exactly realistic to expect honesty from politicians, but the number of times Howard has been exposed for the moral vacuum that he is, is entirely unforgivable. Please, Jebus, help us win this election.

All those contemplating suicide following a JH win should put a big bet on the coalition at SportingBet.

With odds like those the night of the 24th will be win-win!

Nice to have you back Fits; as I said once before I really don't know what I'll do if JWH slimes back. My view of a few weeks ago has mellowed and I can now almost convince myself that KR might just do it.
I look forward to hearing about your Castlemaine streak (great town).

You heard Awwww, I heard the audience groaning. Kevin is SO sickeningly PC. I thought his response was boring. Just like the man.

But that's labor's winning strategy - to fight boring with boring. And it's working.

To those afraid of Gollum chalking up another win I offer the advice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Don't Panic! All of the evidence suggests it isn't going to happen and if, horror of horrors, it does then life will go on & it will just mean that much more jubilation when the Spiv Party are finally defeated. Growing up in Joh's Qld helps one learn the value of patience in politics - malevolence never lasts forever.

Attention all.

Put the liberals as your last preference.

That is all.

Orphan I do agree. I think the best government we could have in Australia is Liberal, with an even 50/50 ALP/Coalition in the senate. I cannot forgive the ALP's past dalliances in government. Too many bad memories. How easily we forget the bad times. This is tall poppy syndrome at its worst, because it really does affect us all. Well i'm just glad that wages will go up when the unions take charge, and then i'll laugh my arse off when a stack of good old labour voters get the sack so the companies can afford to pay the wage increases, which of course will mean that everyone who didn't get the sack will have increased work loads to cover their laid off mates........times like this, i'm glad i work for a foreign company.

See, this is what I mean by stupid.

Well, we're all living beyond our means anyway. My priority is getting the Liberals out, then we can focus on getting Brown and Greens in. No jobs on a dead planet, etcetera.

My god, I spent the entire thing swiveling from pc to tv to pc, nervously avoiding tv-to-eye contact. The whole thing was cringeworthy. I was relieved when it was over...

It's like watching your son performing in his kinder Christmas play. You know he's going to stuff up a few times, but it's the thought that counts.

Btw, I'm 20 and I have no son. Analogy props, anyone?

Perhaps I enjoyed Kevin's robust sense of humour because I am 31 and have none, Benj.



p.s. Mad analogy props duly forwarded in your general direction.

Can I address a question to any liberal suppourters out there.

What has your party actually done? Apart from simply privatise all it's assets?

Wry said, "I cannot forgive the ALP's past dalliances in government"... Well I can't forgive this Liberal government's dalliance in governing over the past 11 (shudder) years and will be voting the foul bastards out this weekend. Have a good hard look at yourself and do the same, man.

I was 25 when Gough got in after Menzies had blighted my childhood and adolescence. Great party - still remember ALP sound truck driving through Carlton announcing that the Government had been beaten. Subsequent problems of Gough's government and dirty work by Fraser and Kerr cannot take away sense of victory from Dec 2 1975

Was actually working in Fraser's electorate when Hawke won in 1983. I had no illusions about the Silver Budgie - I knew he would disappoint his supporters, but the celebrations amongst Warrnambool progressives who had Fraser as their local member for 38 years were terrific, possibly the best party I attended in decades.

I have no real expectations of a Rudd government but Howard's End is well worth celebrating. See you at the Trades Hall Bar, richard.

Not to worry, Fits. I recently secretly infiltrated a nest of Liberals and I can tell you they, not Rudd, are shitting themselves. Lots of 'emergency meetings' being held in Queensland.

ps call me a hippy but I was secretly pleased by Bob's appearance too.

I think he let his answer for the last question stretch out for waaaay too long, but other than that he was reasonably affable. He was holding it together well considering how exhausted he must be right now.

As for all the Rove bashing, I know it's in vogue and so forth to hate Rove but I actually think he's pretty nice. A few weeks ago, he opened the show with a very thinly veiled discussion of why it would be stupid to reelect the coalition. Also, Hamish Blake = must watch.

I completely forgot about Rove, even though I work for Large Media Related Employer of Students, Playwrights and Unemployed Thespians and I certainly had advance warning that he was going on the show. Out of anything we have Foxtel at home, and I just don't get excited about TV shows unless it's of the 'When [something] Attacks!' or 'World's Most Revolting Workplaces' variety.

Still, it's nice to know that YouTube is working, and the interview has been clipped here - http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6OYF0BGF5w.

You're right, Ms Fits, he's four kinds of adorable in this interview. My plans for Saturday include dragging a foreign man out with me to wait on the kerb while I exercise my democratic rights, hitting up many a primary school cake stall, then enjoying KP's shindig. Man. I'm actually a bit nervous now.

I want Bob Brown to turn straight for me . . .

I love love LOVE that man!!

*swoons*

Well, I suppose it is a good thing the Liberals go this weekend. Interest rate rises are now unstoppable, so the ALP will have to deal with all of the shit of having 17% interest rates again.........did I mention jobs losses before?.......oh dear!!


tehehehehe

wry, are you one of those who have fogotten that interest rates rose to 22% under Howard's steering of our economy?

that's more than 17%.

My parents are (sadly) Lib voters and they are voting green because they reckon Howard has lost the plot.

Yes Kevin is bland and yes, stands perhaps just a miniscule step to the left of Howard but in that tiny little gap between them, if I look real close like, I can see Hicks, Tampa, Haneef, Afghanistan and Iraq...

and that's enough for me to give Labor my vote.

elaine, that was 22% on Bank Bills and that was for one day and i'm sure the investors who bought them on that day loved there 22% return, who wouldn't?
Sorry if the anti-coalition force has misled you on interest rates in the 80's.

Wry, oh Wry... Please stop! Can't you look past the interest rate figures and see John Winston Howard leering back at you? And doesn't that make you feel just a little dirty inside? This man has lied for SOOOOO long about SOOOOO many things I can't believe you continue to parrot percentages as if the economy alone is the sole factor upon which we should base our electoral decisions.

Okay? Good. Off for a lie down now.

Wait a minute! Didn't Karl Rove retire?

Benj, I didn't think it was an analogy...I thought you were saying you go around watching other people's sons in their school plays.

You're creepy.

Does anyone remember Mabo, th' yarts and French clocks? Keating was genius and very "Euro progressive". What would Australia's approach to the environment be today had Keating been at the helm..? At 38 I remember the hard times, sure. But from an ecomomic perspective the Conservatives (ins. oblig. slimey, golem, turd Howard ref.) have indolently dined off Keating's reforms and the resources boom (The sheep's back in sheep's clothing? Oh, wait...) and have not done anything stellar. And yes, they have presided over one way privitisation of public asset.

Keating warned Australians about Howard and the mouth breathing public have repeatedly endorsed him. Why would that change now under such "peachy" conditions?

Apart from Rudd being only ever so slightly left of Howard and equally nauseating with his Christian values and associated clap trap, yes, he is better than Howard (and for that reason he should be elected). But don't pretend that the risk of Rudd fucking us all over with ill considered IR is not very real. Don't get me started on the unions. But my, hasn't the bar has been lowered real low. Any Rudd enthusiam kinda nauseates me, so coming here is a little self flagellating. What passes for a Labour leader these days...

P.S. Don't overestimate said mouth breathers, polls and any ethereal mood for change. I will be putting enough money on The Coalition at $4+ to fund moving OS for at least 4 years.

P.P.S. Bob Brown Rulz OMG!

"Rove is foul GenX foulness ."

As much as I dislike Rove's anachronistic glad-handing style (actually not typical of Gen X at all) it's probably silly to describe his failings via a kind of Age-esque (sorry, fits) generationalism. But then seeing you have, I will too ... what's the proposed alternative? Gen Y's example? Perhaps not perfect examples of the brilliant lives that go on to be led by Those Who Peak Too Soon (q.v. Coleman, G; Bonaduce, D and Cousins, B).

also, wry - the irrelevance of unions is something of a cultural by-product of our own nation's 'leadership' being anything but for about 11 years. they've worked so hard at not listening to what the people want and muting the traditional voices of protest *precisely* because they WORK.

I'm like you. I'm so scared he's going to "fuck it up" I can barely watch him on TV.

Disregard my previous comment. I now have complete confidence in him.

Oh yes we are all sitting here enjoying the calm before the yawn!
I do enjoy reading people who equate politics to a football team, making an incredibly complex thing like running a country and managing an economy as a simple dichotomous "Rudd Good, Howard Bad" or vise versa....I lean more left than right but the watered down left wing Govt that will be elected on Saturday night has much more in common with Malcolm Fraser than Ben Chifley. The Howard Govt wasn't all bad, ...Kevin 07 will not turn water into wine, abolish hex and cure global warming in either his first, second or even 3rd term....And honestly don't get me started on the whole Christian thing. If I wanted a leader, Liberal or Labor who believed in fairy stories I'd have voted for Dr Suess. Politics in the 21st century..The bland leading the blind!!!
Goodness I think its time to start on the Red now!!!!!

Can you please go away and die? The only reason you are able to post your dim diatribe on the internet is because people wanted to make moneny out of a relatively new invention and advanced the technology to the point where mediochre little beeatches like your good self can be a communist ho and not be arrested for insighting violence. It is painfull to watch a cute dipshit like you attempt 'theatrics' and 'chaos' under the banner of anything that was in the Age that morning. The problem with being a critic of everyone else is that you assume everyone else will work hard and get things done so filthy socialist pigs like yourself can afford to indulge in nothingness. Trust me sweetheart, you have nothing on the great artists and authors you admire. And you never will, because you do not see the folly of your thoughts. Please grow up - I hate seeing my tax dollar wasted on troglodytes like your self. Try washing your partner's clothes. It is a fine role for ambitious but misguided women...