Goodonya Stern! let that bitterness show.
Sorry bloke but I do not speak English I am Aussie.
That upper class impression you try does not quite come off, but keep trying.
So my ship is sinking? see you here on election night bloke.
Please consider this,a person who both under estimates his opponent ,and overestimates them selves is a poor judge.
Stern Col? hard work trying to communicate with some one who thinks only he has the answers.
Upper class, want to make it clear Mrs Bucket also thinks she is upper class I am reminded of her here.

Ha Ha Belly – no bitterness here

I was just listening to the previous labor leader... you know that fashion icon for albino chinese dental technician, the one before all guts, hips and gizzards....

Saying how he wanted to stop Tony Abbott destroying what he (the dental technician) had “built” and I thought – what does he mean

Does he mean
The pointless school halls
The blackened embers of burnt out houses with faulty insulation and
The funeral pyre of dead insulation installers
Or maybe
The huge debt mountain he and his cronies built in record time?

Your comments regarding it being hard to communicate....
The biggest challenge in our case is, clearly, your inability to form coherent sentences in English

Regarding “all the answer” – yes you might say that of me....
You, on the other hand, clearly have none.

Regarding “class” - I gave away all considerations to anyones “class” decades ago

I find it is the “inverted snobs” who cling to such notions, it helps them justify their failings and inadequacies...

I am sure you can relate to what I mean

Now maybe you can regale us with shocking tales that Tony Abbott is, somehow related to Genghis Khan

But by appearance, I would suggest Kevin07 gets that title

- and Gizzards... well, looks like a duck, talks like a duck....

I fully expected her to qualify as a protected water fowl.... and she is half way there already

Well, “foul” anyway!

Good Prince, Belly writes as he speaks. Come but to that realization, and the written ungrammaticality of some of his posts dissolves like a morning ground-fog but hit by the rays of the newly risen brightly shining sun. You know, orta recens quam pura nites, and all that stuff.

Let but his written words flow into your mind's ear as if that ear were a biological version of Dragon Naturally Speaking, and one will readily get his drift almost every time. Bear too in mind, good Prince, that Belly has made no pretense of having had opportunity of an extensive education, but despite that the visual comprehensibility of his posts has steadily improved over the time of his habitation of OLO.

But why am I telling you all this, good Prince? You have responded to all of the points covered in Belly's post already. I think you've developed an ear for Brutish despite yourself. That, or you are a telepath.


Speaking of the Dragon, does anybody know just how high a hook he suspended StG on? That is, how many days it may take StG to get his feet upon the Forum pavement again? Just curious. And for that matter, how high, too, he suspended Seajaye, the Lord Dymo, Thread-Labeler-in-Chief of OLO, Scourge of all the Wingnuts, for his recent indiscretions? (That's the problem with having an ariddissstockracy* of the Foruminifera: titles and honourifics just seem to grow and grow, don't they? Next we'll hear he's been awarded the Nobble Prize for argument truncation. Ah well, as runner would no doubt be aware, 'to those who already have shall more be given'.)

In conclusion, I thank runner for an engaging thread, one that has afforded me an insight into the enigmatic friendship that suddenly developed between Herod the Tetrarch and Pontius Pilate long ago.





*Now there, good Prince of the Mother Tongue, is one for the books. A triple 's'! And all quite properly deployed, too. Is there no limit to the flexibility and adaptability of the English language?

Cornflower

We have our differences, and no doubt will again, however I have gained an insight into you that I appreciate - a sense of wicked humour. I can forgive most flaws but not a lack of humour.

Which brings me to Col Stern. My dear, you are an authoritarian by nature, you apply a different set of rules to yourself and to those you regard as lesser beings, whether they be gay, black or just not what you approve of. Sexual experimentation does not cut it as being libertarian and you have bragged about yourself many times in the past on OLO so why hold back now? Unless you are not quite telling the truth about yourself. And you claim that Julia displays poor character because of her comparatively tame sex-life? I have no doubt that Tony Abbott could indulge in orgies with puppies and you would still vote for him.

Dear Stern,

The fact that you can quote Lenin comes
as no suprise because as I stated in
my earlier post you use the same old
tired arguments today as you've done
in the past. And obviously, you don't
care that we're "over" them.

The Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu thought
that life could be seen and explained in terms
of a circle. Nothing was new, but nothing
stayed the same. You always ended up in the
same place, although you could be further
ahead than when you started. Sounds familiar
doesn't it? Like the authors of astrology
guides in the daily newspapers, Lao wasn't taking
any chances. But he had a point.

Like promotional campaigns that say the same thing
over and over again. Once you've absorbed them you're
in the same position as you were before you knew about
them.

The same with you, you're bound up in the same old
strands, cemented by repetition.

But that's of no interest to you?

Fair enough!