Dear SOG,

This thread is not about our current government or
the Prime Minster - and while we appreciate your attempt
at being amusing - perhaps you should start your
own thread on the topic of your choice instead of
trying to derail this thread. Which doesn't do you
any credit it merely demonstrates your incapacity
for original thought.

SOG I do not want to address you.
Break a commitment to myself in doing so.
But you deserve an answer.
Australian verbal humor is often lost in print.
I , very often, in real life too, am judged on something I write, that has been seen as something else.
No formal education in letter writing and construction can take part of the blame.
You are, THE ONLY single poster who has ever admitted what I see as flaming.
I congratulate you on that.
But it is a weakness.
IF my views are so wrong you can roll me up and put me in the bin with cool headed words.
A basic for me is this, if we all piddle in our pool soon too soon that will be all we swim in.
Respect , not of our opponents but the forum and our selves of our fellow posters is a commendable target.

Lexi, about trolling, most of my stuff is not opinion but statement of events and outcomes with a commentary, unlike Shadow Minister I am not barracking for the other side. Failed governments do not like facts as they are too descriptive, no place to explain and polish up the outcomes with spin. That is why for the 60 BILLION ABN spend we received an explanation that is 30 odd pages long, that is roughly two billion dollars worth of explanation per page and we still do not know WHO we are paying WHAT to.

Trolling does not have to be ad homs and ridicule, it can be the tiresome repeated denial of what is evident. The example above of conspiracy is endlessly denied by Labor supporters, is that not troll behavior, like chanting the earth is flat as you slowly rotate around it. Troll behavior can also be exampled by the defense of having paid $900,000 for two demountable tin sheds and a shade cloth during the BER and claiming it as value. An obvious lie, but individuals defend it because it is in their best interest to do so, is that not trolling.

This passive aggressive trolling when confronted with the contempt it deserves falls back on accusing the disgruntled of trolling, being aggressive, or attempting to derail the thread. See Lexi only facts from me.

Belly:>> IF my views are so wrong you can roll me up and put me in the bin with cool headed words.<<

You say that Belly but the overwhelming failures of this administration do not seem to daunt you, and you say wait and see things will turn out for the best. That is a myopic view, not one major policy success, not one. My brothers up North are still waiting for the housing that Rudd said would be immediate, aboriginal kids in the north still have the mortality rate of third world kids, these things are important. I don’t give a bugger about batts and BER and NBN future failures compared to the promises by Rudd to take care of our brothers and sisters up north, the health clinics, the hospital system, all the crap that traditionally only Labor has had the compassion and foresight to implement. They do not care anymore.

Dear SOG,

Go back and re-read your post about the "red-headed troll."
To my knowledge the PM has not posted on this forum and
this thread is about trolls who do.

You turned what I cited from the web on internet trolls
in general -
into an attack on the government and the PM in particular.
Neither of which are the subject of this thread.

If you can't understand the point I'm making - there's
nothing more to be said.

OK Lexi I see your point, I was just making onversation...sorry.