Dear individual,

Well mate he has been in trouble for being a little too cocky in England some time ago.

Or was that what you were alluding to, if so you can show yourself the door.

" made up sexual fantasies like "abc to depict Abbott having sex with a dog"."

It wasn't Abbott - it was Chris Kenny. But runner's point remains valid.

As to the Pacific Islanders whinging and Ardern's enabling of it, someone ought to point out some of the facts to all and sundry. Namely that their self-seeking assertions that their homelands are being lost to rising sea levels is utter rubbish.... as in untrue. Study after study shows the majority of these pacific islands are either completely stable or actually growing in size. They aren't sinking, seal levels aren't wiping them out. In the few islands where there are problems, its almost always caused by the islander's themselves.

A politician with cojones would tell then some home truths. But to do so would call forth the hoards of alarmist know-nothings, and we don't have anyone around who will stand up to that type of hysterics. There's never a Trump around when you need one.

Alan can not be held to account, after all he is the one pillorying others
Then weeping as he rightly becomes the target
Runners defense of the man is very funny
And dare I say some here do not even know much about him, have seen them rant about some who share much with our mouth from the south
AJ will not be behind that mike for much longer but will rant on at Sky/Fox the home of ugly twisted truth

SR,

Because you are ignorant of venacular, does not justify your position. There is such a thing as google.

"What's the origin of the phrase 'Put a sock in it'?
This is a colloquial British phrase that originated in the early 20th century. It is generally used when someone is being so noisy as to annoy others. The imagery behind the phrases is that putting a sock in whatever was causing the noise would quieten it down. What that thing was isn't known. There are suggestions that this may have been the horn of an early gramophone or, more straightforwardly, the raucous person's mouth."

Considering your earlier support of actual criminal assault, your reasoning is dismal.

This is yet another left whinge effort to hyperbolize an offensive comment into something that no rational person would believe was ever intended.

Given that Jones is by far the most popular radio host, advertising slots vacated by virtue signalling companies will be quickly filled by others. Firing Jones will simply mean that the revenue he generates will simply move to whoever next employs him.

Dear Shadow Minister,

“Criminally assaulted” by a youngster gently cracking an egg on his scone? Give me a break.

This is what Arnold Schwarzenegger said when he had one thrown at him with force;

http://youtu.be/zw97LIBGbR4?t=89

Stop being so bloody soft.

At to “put a sock in it” try googling a little further mate. It seems the origins were probably WW1 possibly referring to practicing buglers.

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The story about the gramophone has been so widely reproduced that it’s unsurprising people accept it. It’s a plausible tale that instantly produces a delightfully comic image of some grumpy parent stuffing hosiery into the horn to muffle the kids’ noisy records. Pre-electric gramophones lacked volume controls and I’m told they could be loud enough that finding some way to minimise the sound was desirable. But the evidence suggests the story came into being as a well-meaning but misconceived attempt to explain the origin of an existing saying.

The first examples of it appear in 1919, virtually simultaneously in the UK and Australia, rather late for it to be connected to gramophones, which had by then been around for some time:

"The expression “Put a sock in it”, meaning “Leave off talking, singing or shouting”."
The Athenaeum (London), 8 Aug. 1919.

The need to define the expression suggests it was then new in the UK. Two further early appearances point to its true source. The first is from an Australian newspaper article that humorously conflates many items of wartime services slang.

"There was only time for a dixie of gunfire and a hurried dig-in-the-grave, no chance of pozzy and rooty at the Cain-and-Able to-day. It had begun to rain, and some chaps called out: “Send it down David!” But others shouted: “Put a sock in it!” And, after a lot of grousing, we started off."
The Port Macquarie News, 14 Jun. 1919.

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The second is from a novel set in the trenches of the Western Front in France in 1916. Frederic Manning — an Australian — was there during his service with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. The text as he wrote it could not be published in his lifetime because of the authentic bad language it contained:

  “I’m not miserable, corporal,” said little Martlow: “We’re not dead yet. On’y I’m not fightin’ for any fuckin’ Beljums, see. One o’ them buggers wanted to charge me five frong for a loaf o’ bread.”
  “Well, put a sock in it. We’ve ’ad enough bloody talk now.”
The Middle Parts of Fortune, by Frederic Manning, 1929.

These two citations strongly suggest an origin among servicemen in the First World War, and explain how the expression got into Civvy Street simultaneously in Britain and Australia in 1919 — it was carried to both by homecoming soldiers.

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http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-put3.htm