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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The TV Thread
Talking of Cougar, remember Barry "the Cougar" Dawson?



Gee the off season is long....................... ::)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Key Players 2014
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For mine it's the bottom six to eight... get across the board improvement from the Casboults, Rowes, Watsons, Lucus', Bootsmas, Bells, Cachias and Whites ... with the arrival of the Buckleys, Grahams, Menzels, Dochertys and whoever we draft. This lot will, in many respects, determine how well we do in 2014.

Sorry Baggers but you've slipped in to footy speak; we only have one of each of the players you've mentioned.

You're right about the bottom 6-8 improving though.  If we can achieve that, it will take so much pressure off the top 6-8 and make it so much harder for the opposition to keep our guns quiet.

Thomas, if fit, means that one of Murphy, Gibbs, Judd, McLean or Thomas himself will have the freedom to tear the opposition a new arsehole.

Rowe and/or Casboult stepping up gives us a genuine tall forward but the key to our success is Watson.  If he can hold down CHB, the ability to use Henderson as a key forward or swingman will give other coaches nightmares.

Yes DJC and with Everitt there Watson will have good backup so he may well be one of the big improves, I overlooked him.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Abbott must go, arise Sir Malcolm!
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I'm really not interested in any specific political party but I've just watched the first episode of Keating on Iview. Can't wait for the remaining programs now - interviews conducted by Kerry O'Brien on ABC over the next 3 Tuesdays at 8:30pm.

Doesn't matter whether you like Keating or hate him, this is a fascinating insight into the mind and thinking of the powerful and of those who seek power - highly recommended viewing.

The anecdote I really liked was when Keating in his early days, incidentally whilst standing at the urinal in the gents toilets of old Parliament House, was approached by and then reproached by Jim Cairns for not wearing his Vietnam war moratorium sticker. Keating response was to say "That's the difference between you and me Jim, you're here to protest, I'm here to run the place".

Cookie, thanks for posting the info above . I just downloaded Iview after reading your post, have scrolled through trying to find the keating interview but can't find it. What's the name of the program ?. I've looked through the 4 corners stuff and can't find. Any assistance on how to find the relevant program (name) would be greatly appreciated.

disregard above post Cookie........ Found it   :)


The show must go on..!!!

Enjoy!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Key Players 2014
I would think that newbies should provide some improvements for us and compete with 3-5 of the top 22 of last year, forcing them into the NBs (replacing now delisted players there  like Davies, AJ, etc.).

Together with improvements from established senior players, further development of people like Casboult and Rowe, and better execution of the game plan all around we should be more competitive.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Abbott must go, arise Sir Malcolm!
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People are living too long. This country cannot afford it. Seems that for my generation it's get to buggery and get on the best way you can, while the elderly are sapping our system dry of all its resources. Never met a more undeserving bunch tbh.

However, a lot of the current generation of geriatrics didn't have superannuation or own their own property... so when they retired they were straight on to the pension.

.....Which was funded by the taxes that were sapped from them having left school, often around 14/15 years old, because they couldn't afford to continue their education.
So for the next 50 years they contributed the taxes that provided the money for 'our' schools and 'our' health...and their retirement.
The elderly have more than paid their way. ;)

I wasn't having a crack at old people.

I was saying that many didn't have or opted not to have superannuation.

Now it is compulsory.

Don't try and get out of it now you young whippersnapper!



 ;D
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Abbott must go, arise Sir Malcolm!
I'm really not interested in any specific political party but I've just watched the first episode of Keating on Iview. Can't wait for the remaining programs now - interviews conducted by Kerry O'Brien on ABC over the next 3 Tuesdays at 8:30pm.

Doesn't matter whether you like Keating or hate him, this is a fascinating insight into the mind and thinking of the powerful and of those who seek power - highly recommended viewing.

The anecdote I really liked was when Keating in his early days, incidentally whilst standing at the urinal in the gents toilets of old Parliament House, was approached by and then reproached by Jim Cairns for not wearing his Vietnam war moratorium sticker. Keating response was to say "That's the difference between you and me Jim, you're here to protest, I'm here to run the place".
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Abbott must go, arise Sir Malcolm!
The major factor in Tone's Triumph IMO was that the Labor Party was, and maybe still is, an absolute self-destructive shambles that is obsessed by its own navel and Julia was seen as the evil party in the Rudd assassination.

Shorten, who in my view is an opportunistic snake in the grass, has his work cut out to re-establish even a small degree of credibility and, unless the Coalition stuffs up massively, Labor will face years in the wilderness.

Having said that I think the Coalition certainly does have, within its range of core talents, the capacity and talent to make a massive stuff-up.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Abbott must go, arise Sir Malcolm!
I equally blame the left wing loonies for the fact the republic vote failed. OK it wasn't the plebeian model they wanted but at least it was the chance for a republic - a chance lost, and lost for many years to come!  >:(

It could have been modified by further referenda down the track if we thought it wasn't working but to vote "NO" at the time was a baaaaad mistake IMO and the only winners were the royalists.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Best (And Worst) Of YOUTUBE
@BennyBoy

That is a classic!  :))

Reminds me of when I used to play rugby and one captain we had would spit the dummy along those lines when things didn't go our way. He was a classy player, but used to threaten to go and play for a rival team next  season - hilarious, beacause we all hoped he would, as he could be a real PIA!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
Bought my wife a new hamster skin coat on the weekend. She wore it when we went down to Docklands - took me an hour to get her off the Star Wheel!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
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Joke for the HACCP age

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A guy walks into a bar and sees a sign that reads:

Cheese Sandwich: $1.50
Chicken Sandwich: $2.50
Hand Job: $10.00

He checks his wallet and beckons to the sexy bartender.

"Are you the one who gives the hand jobs?" he asks.

"Yes," she purrs. "I am."

"Well, wash your frickin' hands," says the man. "I want a cheese sandwich!"
I actually laughed out loud  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Gold!

Jokes about German sausages are the wurst.