Not the "controversial St Kilda triangle".In news that will mean little to those outside Melbourne, the “controversial St Kilda triangle*” will now not go ahead.
My attitude has always been “build the fucking thing, don’t build the fucking thing, I don’t care, can we just get to the latest cricket score” but for some reason the Age and the local ABC convinced themselves that all of Melbourne were desperately concerned about a patch of waste land** in St Kilda.
Ask them why and you usually got some guff about “St Kilda being Melbourne’s lounge room***”.
This might be a north-of-the-river thing but my response to the whole “Melbourne’s lounge room thing” is – is it fucking bollocks.
St Kilda, in my opinion, is an over rated shit-hole**** and I don’t give a fat rats arse about the “controversial St Kilda triangle”.
And a warning.
The film Bolt is not a documentary about conservative writer Andrew Bolt but is instead a kid’s film about an animated dog and his wise-cracking feline companion.
The cat has all the best lines.
* That’s the way they always wrote it, the “controversial St Kilda triangle”. Sheesh.
** Possibly the waste land that inspired TS Eliot. Or not.
*** You may indeed have a lounge room filled with several hundred overrated restaurants and several thousand shrieking yuppies. In which case, your lounge room is considerably larger than mine.
**** Sorry Melba.
My attitude has always been “build the fucking thing, don’t build the fucking thing, I don’t care, can we just get to the latest cricket score” but for some reason the Age and the local ABC convinced themselves that all of Melbourne were desperately concerned about a patch of waste land** in St Kilda.
Ask them why and you usually got some guff about “St Kilda being Melbourne’s lounge room***”.
This might be a north-of-the-river thing but my response to the whole “Melbourne’s lounge room thing” is – is it fucking bollocks.
St Kilda, in my opinion, is an over rated shit-hole**** and I don’t give a fat rats arse about the “controversial St Kilda triangle”.
And a warning.
The film Bolt is not a documentary about conservative writer Andrew Bolt but is instead a kid’s film about an animated dog and his wise-cracking feline companion.
The cat has all the best lines.
* That’s the way they always wrote it, the “controversial St Kilda triangle”. Sheesh.
** Possibly the waste land that inspired TS Eliot. Or not.
*** You may indeed have a lounge room filled with several hundred overrated restaurants and several thousand shrieking yuppies. In which case, your lounge room is considerably larger than mine.
**** Sorry Melba.
The controversial St. Kilda triangle.
ReplyDeleteThe rebel trader Frank Penhaluric.
The breakaway republic of Chechenya.
Controversial senator Barnaby Joyce.
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The Espy is still good. Aside from that, St.Kilda is an awful place.
Outspoken MP Wilson Tuckey.
ReplyDelete"Outspoken" in this case code for "barking mad".
Australia's second best spinner, Stuart Macgill.
ReplyDeleteThe breakaway republic of Barnaby Joyce.
ReplyDeleteThe hamster had the best lines.
ReplyDeleteNo not that one, the one in the conduit up Andrews bum.
Really?
ReplyDeleteI must have missed that extra.
I haven't been silent because I've been sulking.
ReplyDeleteWithout buying into the whole fucking north-south, Sydney-Melbourne who's got more soul, better coffee, cooler residents argument, I AM glad the triangle thing is not going ahead.
It was going to be a shopping centre by the sea, a Chadstone monstrosity and would have been so fucking grotesque.
I am glad. I don't care what else you say about St Kilda, which I agree with for the most part, but I am glad about the triangle.
And once the yups/bogans stop visiting St Kilda, it might transform back into something ok.
I'm never selling, I will be a crazy old lady with purple hair down here, possibly with cats, and a strange cart stacked with flattened cardboard boxes, and hopefully become as renowned as the newspaper man on the Richmond bridge over the freeway.
For this is my goal.
My goal was to open the batting for Australia.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for the phone call from Punter.
Are you saying I'm NOT going to achieve my goal?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I've never seen you bat, Ramon, I think I have a much better chance of being that old witch-lady than you do with your dream.
But don't give up. Anything can happen.
PS Limoncello Day 34/80.
Anything can happen
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
In the event the entire Australian team dies in a tragic buss accident, every other Australia cricketer comes down with swine flu and every Australian male aged between 18 to 35 pulls a hamstring - I'm in with a real chance.
Limoncello Day 34/80
Come again?
I'm up to day 34 of infusion. The whole process will take 80 days.
ReplyDeleteJesus. For me, if anything takes longer than 80 seconds I give up.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for Mrs Bob then, Bob.
ReplyDeleteYou must be part cat, Bob.
ReplyDeleteI don't kmow about that, Ramon. My cat seems pretty determined to climb into my Christmas tree at the moment. He spent at least 2 hours on it last night. I dread to think what I will return home to tonight.
ReplyDeleteHa, Melba. I just knew you were going to say that.
ReplyDeletePuss, I'm trying to get my cat to use the new cat flap in the back door.
ReplyDeleteMe: "Come on, push the cat flap."
Cat: "No. Too hard".
Me: "Push the cat flap. It's just in front of you."
Cat: "No. You open it for me."
Me: "Push the Goddam cunting cat flap, you useless furry prick."
Cat: "No. Won't."
Me: "Here, like this".
I open cat flap, cat jumps through with a look of insufferable smugness on her face.
Dude, I freaking love your cat! Such personality!
ReplyDeleteWe're getting our new kitten on Sunday.
I think we propped the cat flap open for a while until they got addicted to the convenience of it and then they had to put up with the swinging flap after that.
ReplyDeleteThere was also the taunting with food, which was quite fun.
Puss, my I say how deeply disappointed I am that you didn't call your new kitten "Trotsky".
ReplyDeleteDeeply.
Disappointed.
I'm deeply disappointed I couldn't call him Fyodor.
ReplyDeleteI'm just deeply disappointed.
ReplyDeleteI'm now wishing I made myself two ham sandwiches for lunch, instead of just one.
ReplyDeleteI just had two cold sausages and vita weets with tasty cheese on them.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best kinds of lunch.
Do I make another pot of coffee?
It's after 12 now, Melba.
ReplyDeleteI'd be having a beer.
I try not to drink so early Ramon. I have to be responsibubble, plus am collecting Important International Guests from the Airport later.
ReplyDeleteMustn't have Alcohol Breath.
My cat managed to open the cat flap even when it was locked from the inside.
ReplyDeleteHe'd hit it with his paw hard enough to make it bounce back, quickly get a paw underneath it, then pull it back far enough to get through it.
I'd be upstairs trying to sleep through the "bang bang bang bang" noises.
The cat has all the best lines?
ReplyDeleteOf course it does.
As if you'd give the best lines to a dog. Dogs don't talk.