http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=woolabrawonga The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:17:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111898 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:49:45 +0000 arthurminnit 111898@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>so, who's this julie sheila? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111859 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:11:37 +0000 beau-jolly 111859@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Struth! Fair dinkum to the ostrich, DB's flounce makes me think that the baastard is a bloody poofter.</p> <p>Also: Taking the piss out of the Aussie stereotype is still pretty mainstream and didn't die out with Barry McKenzie or Crocodile Dundee. It still works for Dame Edna and Fosters. I'd take Rolf much more seriously if he drunk and swore a lot.</p> <p>Ironically, I'm sat here on five bar gate in Dorset wearing a white smocked top and chewing on a piece of straw. Perhaps I should call myself Sydneyboy. Ooh Aar. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111857 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:03:13 +0000 Username 111857@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Enjoyed the story, loved the liberal application of Australian English.</p> <p>Detected no insult the first time round, just a delight in the cabinet of curiosities that every dialect contains.</p> <p>Stronger still, and stranger still, I totally misread DorsetBoy's response as ironic. Sorry, DB.</p> <p>As a former linguist who keeps a watch on post-colonial dialectology/lexicography projects, it's not hard to demonstrate that the vocabulary is identifiably and uniquely Australasian.</p> <p>And, for what it's worth, I had an uncle in NZ who spoke pretty much like this. He would've read the story, and asked 'So, what's so bloody funny about a frontbum getting back into gummint then?' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111853 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:48:20 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 111853@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>" in over 20 years out here...”<br /> Jesus! Dorset, what were you charged with? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111845 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:09:48 +0000 waylandsmithy 111845@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Blimey. I didn't realise Autralians were so sensitive. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111844 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:28:53 +0000 DorsetBoy 111844@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hi Paper Ostrich. Thanks for your reasoned response, credit to you. My words were harsh, and I'll apologise for that. Getting an FP post is a great achievement, I've had the same joy so my snarky response probably detracted from that.</p> <p>But my point remains, in over 20 years out here I've never met or heard anyone who speaks as you depict in your post, not even my father-in-law and he's a real ocker. Newsbiscuit usually deplores posts that rely on 1970s stereotypes of gays, Irish, non-white people etc. Quite frankly my dear Ossie, I found your post in the same vein.</p> <p>So let's leave it there, depart in peace and leave the trolls to get on with it.</p> <p>Cheers.</p> <p>DB </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111780 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:20:15 +0000 Iscariot 111780@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Presumably, as DorsetBoy is without the sin of ever posting to this forum before, he felt qualified to cast the first stone. I'll look forward to his first stab at humour and/or wit.</p> <p>Carry on Paper Emu! er.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111699 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:52:51 +0000 Ostsee 111699@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Keep going, Ostrich. Lovely piece of satire. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111650 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:11:52 +0000 The Paper Ostrich 111650@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks most.</p> <p>I don't like to get too serious on here as it seems to lead to all sorts of flouncing, but I am bound to defend this sub a little. It's not my greatest ever work. It does describe Julia Gillard as a "squawking harridan". But it's not full of 'insulting' stereotypes - it uses Australian slang and I maintain that's different. The idea came to me after I saw <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/leadership-stoush-between-kevin-rudd-and-julia-gillard-is-a-positive-for-pm-evans/story-e6freuyi-1226283372660">this </a>. And it emerged from a conversation with a couple of work colleagues who are Australian. They liked it.</p> <p>As I say I don't want to get too worthy. But I bridled a little at the suggestions you made DorsetBoy because a) I don't go in for negative, insulting comedy as I hope my subs show; and b) I often don't like stuff that makes it on here, but I prefer to keep my counsel rather than insult the work publicly. Example: despite being rarely offended, I was a bit upset to see "cure for depression hailed as man pulls self together and gets on with it" the other day. I thought that was insulting and patronising, but you know what? It's not the end of the world, and the more we douse the less likely we are to push the boundaries. </p> <p>Anyway, whinge over. I'll bear the impression it gave in mind. Didn't want to cause a stoush. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111580 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:20:06 +0000 Nick McCarr 111580@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Struth blue! Pull up a jumbuck and take the weight off ya billabongs!<br /> (channelling Graeme Garden as Kerry Thwacker) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111579 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:50:31 +0000 DorsetBoy 111579@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Pretty disappointed to see this sad contribution making it to the front page. I'm pretty sure humour and wit used to be a requirement around here.</p> <p>Or are cliched, inaccurate, unfunny, insulting stereotypes all the rage now in your little backwater ?</p> <p>*Basks in Sydney sunshine while enjoying fruits of affluent economy* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111330 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:28:50 +0000 Ostsee 111330@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dear Julia lacks a certain something. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111328 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:36:36 +0000 Username 111328@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Um, I only speak English. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111320 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:17:01 +0000 FlashArry 111320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ripper !</p> <p>Why can't I get the image of Sir Les Patterson out of my head ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39208#post-111278 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:13:22 +0000 The Paper Ostrich 111278@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has won a leadership stoush among Labor MPs in Canberra, cementing her position as a squawking harridan in charge of the distant colony.</p> <p>Ms Gillard clobbered the Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, who had the flamin gall to launch a leadership bid after walking right out of the bloody Cabinet, would you believe. ‘Jeez, I’m mad as a cut snake with that bastard,’ Gillard squawked after she stonkered the poor bloke by 71 votes to 31 at a meeting of the Labor parliamentary caucus. ‘Still, I got me a bleedin’ ripsnorter of a result, and now I’m gettin on with the biznis of gavernment.’ </p> <p>Gillard denied that her public persona had damaged her chances of winning the next election against Opposition leader Tony Abbott, widely seen as a ripper larrikin. ‘It’s London to a brick that we’ll woip the floor with those bastards at the nixt eliction,’ insisted Gillard. She became the first sheila to serve as prime minister when she ousted Rudd in 2010, after low poll ratings indicated that the public considered him about as useful as tits on a bull.</p> <p>Rudd was gracious in defeat. ‘Fair dinkum, she put in the yakka and she whackered me good and proper, the tin-arsed jillaroo,’ he said in a dignified concession speech. ‘Oi’m going out tonight to hit the turps, and then when Oi’ve sobered up Oi’ll rack off to the backbenches and let her give it a burl.’</p> <p>Latest polls suggest that Labor is losing ground to the Opposition, and Ms Gillard’s main challenge is to rebuild her popularity among the middle classes, as well as her core vote of sheilas and cobbers who haven’t got a brass razoo. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10483 Mon, 03 May 2010 08:57:59 +0000 ronseal 10483@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rick,</p> <p>I can make it if it's in London or Surrey-ish.</p> <p>YOu're in Eastbourne? have you ever been to Seaford? It's jolly nice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10220 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:13:10 +0000 fernandomando 10220@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And so we return to the start- every time I have been out for drinks with those from newsbiscuit, pregnancy or childbirth has swiftly followed </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10217 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:03:44 +0000 rickwestwell 10217@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sexual activities are your business, eh?<br /> I had no idea you were a professional! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10204 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:50:13 +0000 allmyownstunts 10204@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And to think, at the Chandos I believed you when you said you were a lawyer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10186 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:08 +0000 fernandomando 10186@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Frodo. A name forever linked with 'Lord of the Rings'. Since the films, the evil Lord Sauron is a flaming vagina watching everything from above, and ultimately destroyed by 'the one ring to rule them all'.</p> <p>I'll have you know that my sexual activities are my business. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10157 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:03:48 +0000 Mary Evans 10157@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Frodo! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Stanny, you're a gem. Sorry Ferdy, that's gonna stick.</p> <p>Looking forward to it gang. I'll be the one that looks like Mr Greedy. </p> <p>And thanks Gengo, you're a gent.<br /> ('Poof') </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10153 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:54:24 +0000 Stan Laurel 10153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Monday 21st June is good for me.<br /> Await news of venue. Liked the look of the Southwark boozer that Frodo mentioned ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10152 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:32:22 +0000 andhrimnir 10152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>who's June? Sounds like a bit of a goer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10140 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:49:06 +0000 Genghis Cohen 10140@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me too.</p> <p>Nice FP today, Mary. ('God, that was a disaster. Whose idea was that? She's just a talentless woman.') Really, top stuff. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10132 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:36:31 +0000 Mary Evans 10132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Monday works for me, Ricky boy. And my waters. xx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10131 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:30:14 +0000 Scroat 10131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Try telling that to King Canute, or Cnut as Rikkor would have it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10056 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:00:48 +0000 edward hack 10056@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You can't control the waters </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10054 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:48:39 +0000 Scroat 10054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was thinking of several leisurely ones. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10036 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:10:10 +0000 edward hack 10036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh great...bang goes my Spanish Honduras party theme barbeque<br /> Why don't we just take some cans round to A&amp;E ...save them having to come out<br /> If Mary's water breaks at least no one will notice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10009 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:27:53 +0000 rickwestwell 10009@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>OK gang - how about Monday 21st June? Seems like more people could make it then, and at least the pubs should be quietish. And we'll only be missing Spain vs Honduras :-)</p> <p>Any violent objections? If not, we'll work out a good pub. I'm not fussy, anywhere we can squeeze Mary in will do. </p>