Interesting things too

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factotum started the topic in Thursday, 21 Nov 2019 at 2:21pm

For when one interesting things thread isn't enough.

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wally Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 8:15pm

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factotum Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:38pm

"I realised that talking shit with utter clowns* on the internet was literally the low point of my life . The most instructive moment was when Stu said that most of my comments were a grievance of some sort . I got real angry cause I felt I’d been betrayed** - myself and Stu went on a mission to remote Indo , he’d come a cropper on a reef and the trip was cut short , but I enjoyed his company- then I realised that Stu was right. I’d morphed into the ultimate internet weirdo and it is time to get out."

- Blowie.

*black pots & kettles matter.

**cue violins. Perhaps some cello.

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factotum Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 9:31pm

NEK MINNIT...

"What are you doing , fuckwit ? Walking around Busselton with a BLM placard and a scarf tied where a jaw line should be ?"

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

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factotum Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 9:40pm

"Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings."

- a blowfly AKA a blowie

Round n round n round we go...AGAIN?

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Dale -Cooper Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 9:59pm

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mattlock Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:14pm

Good to see you back Facto.
Coupla good posts there.
Is D-C mate of yours?

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factotum Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:27pm

¯\_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯

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Blowin Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:47pm

Facto practicing his psyops guerrilla operations before hitting the Busso Main Street with twenty other faux fighters looking to start a revolution by sneakily keying a few car doors in the shops car park.

Early night though .....got to be back in the cube tomorrow , quietly working for the man , comrades !

PS...I see you learnt another twee keyboard trick today , Facto ! Who says you’ve got no skills useful for after your revolution, comrade ?

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GuySmiley Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 11:06pm

Ended my day listening to this
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... don’t upset that bass player!!

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factotum Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:07pm

"...then I realised that Stu was right. I’d morphed into the ultimate internet weirdo and it is time to get out."

Is that really you, Bubbles?

I've heard of pissing in your own pocket...

I blame rugby league.

(ps imagine the field day the AFP would have with your browser history, you internet weirdo you!)

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Blowin Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020 at 11:20pm

Facto....I think I’ve figured you out , mate.

Your whole image whereby you portray yourself as impossibly affected and improbably earnest to appear even slightly clever is really a form of Zahavian signalling , intended for your potential sex partners down at the Busselton Anqueefa revolutionaries.

Exaggerating your natural stupidity is a way of displaying your suitability to mate by declaring “ Hey ! I’ve managed to survive over 50 years with my only life skills being an ability to operate a stapler , a hole punch and being able to plagiarise any clever stuff which grabs my attention .”

You’re basically the bowerbird of cloyingly edgy and obvious pop culture .

Am I right or am I right , comrade ?

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factotum Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 2:35am

Well, you're definitely Right, blow in, but also rarely right.

And sadly (perhaps), it seems you still haven't figured yourself out, even after your little self-isolation from here recently, have you?

Though everyone else has, for sure, now.

Jeez, even your solitary real buddy* - blowindo! - has passed judgement.

"Yeah Blowins form in that thread towards the end wasn't his best was a bit rough."

Yeah, you weren't missed, champ.

Actually, things were good here in your too short absence. Everyone could feel it.

And now...

Your own 2nd wave. A Blowie/Trumpy triple down.

For someone that admitted they know fuck all about Trump and US politics, you're morphing into his doppelgänger and life-size ventriloquist's dummy daily.

Less hair...less money, maybe...as ahem, eloquent...though definitely packing more heft**.

Tre-mendous effort.

*Stu doesn't count I guess these days? If he ever did...

**less intellectual; more lard-arse.

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factotum Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:10am

"I'm a little teapot...

...short & stout."

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Terminal Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:39am

Good to see everyone's having a good time...

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factotum Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 1:05am

Are those pom poms I can hear...?

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factotum Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 2:34am

Name that band.

MAGAdeath?

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 7:28am

Not sure what the Australian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Indian , Philippines ,South Korean and Japanese governments are concerned about ?

Blindboy’s resurch told him that China isn’t an aggressive military threat ! If his word is good enough for the crew on Swellnet , it should be good enough for the United defence experts of the Asian Pacific region.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/defence-plan-makes-it-clear-we-m...

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blowfly Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 9:02am

Being a hawk is the default position for politicians for the simple reason that you cannot be proven wrong. If there IS a war, you prepared for it and if there ISN'T a war, then your military build up was clearly responsible for deterring the aggressor. Similary defence experts are always in favour of greater military expenditure since, apart from the ever present groupthink, part of it will end up in their pockets either through greater opportunities in their present position or in lucrative consultancies with arms manufacturers after they retire.
The real problem for politicians is to build relationships that prevent conflict occurring. Unfortunately this runs against the domestic political advantage of being a war time leader or being seen as tough on the latest hate target. If they weren't talking about China they would be talking about Iran, the middle east being the region that just keeps giving to the various RWNJs elected to power in western nations.
In the present case, China is the most powerful totalitarian state since Nazi Germany. They will continue to oppress internal dissidents and disregard international law as it suits them. Like very other major power in history, they will seek to secure their existing borders, gain control of disputed territories and build military bases in strategic locations. What they will not do is seek to invade territory to which they have no prior claim. In the case of Taiwan they will increase political and economic pressures but, given the logistical difficulties of an invasion (think D-Day X 100), and the consequences of any form of military attack, it is extremely unlikely that they would take that course. In the case of Hong Kong, its residents are the unfortunate victims of bad policy. A 99 year lease was only ever a good idea because those signing it would be dead by the time the reality of it ending came around. However much sympathy we might feel for them there is little that can be done except the granting refugee status to any of the obvious targets of Chinese displeasure. Some nations may be able to exert a degree diplomatic influence but given our recent ham fisted "diplomacy", we are not among them.
Finally, cyberattacks occur all the time from a great variety of sources including China. The US led the field with its cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear facilities with Stuxnet in 2010. The recent increase in Australian spending in cyber "security" suggests we are unlikely to be virgins in this field.

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stunet Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 9:05am

"Stuxnet"

Best malware ever.

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 9:10am

Unfortunately Blindboy , that all just sounds like you are guilty the of modern tendency to refute the knowledge of experts based on your personal opinion.

Whilst I’m sure you imagine that your input is worthy of equal weight to that of the author* , I’ll stick with the learned perspective of those who’ve made a career out of interpreting geopolitical tensions over the opinion of a retired high school teacher if you don’t mind.

*Rory Medcalf
Professor Rory Medcalf is head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 9:17am

“What they will not do is seek to invade territory to which they have no prior claim. “

https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/insights/28476/why-is-china-pressing...

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blowfly Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 11:43am

Exactly as I said, they will seek control of disputed areas and yes, rightly or wrongly, that includes everything within the nine-dash line. And feel free to consider me skeptical of "expert" defence opinion. Remember Iraq? Not to mention the gross historical over-estimation of Soviet Union nuclear weapons which was used as a justification to create an arsenal capable of rendering humans extinct. Experts in that area have a well established habit of telling their bosses exactly what they want to hear, which I suspect is a significant part of Professor Medcalf's motivation in contributing this opinion piece.

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Dale -Cooper Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:58pm

Phew! Sweet relief!

There's a specific China thread now.

Anyway, here's a picture of Frank Zappa with a cat and shit.

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 1:19pm

More Zahavian signalling !

Comrade Queef determined to be voted most alternative thinker....despite a deep, deep history of conformity.

Photocopied anything good today , cube monkey ?

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garyg1412 Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 1:52pm

Frank Zappa watching Fox News more likely.

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 1:52pm

11:20 AM in WA .

Comrade Queef ( facto ) would be watching the clock tick towards big lunch , so he can rush to the crib room , grab his plastic tub of congealed lamb gravy and peas * then get back to sticking it to the man by posting his wacky , left field perspectives that only a really edgy guy could conceive !

Failing that , it’ll be ( another ) link to something someone else said once.

* Labelled as Hard Core Punk Food Only !!!!

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Blowin Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 1:54pm

Can you ever imagine a circumstance in which you’d unironically don that purple shirt Zappa is wearing ?

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Westofthelake Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 6:20pm

A population living in fear, is a population easily manipulated....but it's ok the Prime Marketer knows what's best for us....

scomo020720

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Fliplid Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 6:29pm

Clearly we’ve been saved from the scourge of terrorism, now onto the threat of WW111

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zenagain Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 6:49pm

The golden years of television.

Frank Zappa and Norman Gunston.

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simba Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 7:08pm

saw Norman Gunston years ago at twin towns rsl........still laughing ,such a funny weird dude.

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Dale -Cooper Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 at 9:10pm

I find this interesting...well, up to a point...

an editor arbitrarily and actively changing a thread title to what? cover his (claimed) mate's* clown arse?

When said moronic mate* can change his own thread titles at will with no censorial interference at all?

Surely it's not anyone's fault that said fuckwit mate*, although self proclaiming as a 'smart arse' (yet being far, far, far from it), needs editorial big brother help to protect his sorry clown arse* from justified and expected ridicule?

To say it looks piss weak is an understatement.

Now if the gloves were truly off, and tip-toeing around the protected one*, was truly relaxed, well, what a relief! And conversely a triumph for the 'free speech' numpties!

Otherwise, shit really doesn't make sense?

Unless fiscal, of course,

Shhhhhhhhh.

(ps copied this post for re-posting, just in case it 'disappears')

*BLOW IN

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stunet Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 8:45am

"an editor arbitrarily and actively changing a thread title to what? cover his (claimed) mate's* clown arse?"

Nah mate, we just changed the code this week so only admins can change thread titles - not just your threads but any thread.

It's getting hard to track what's what with the titles changing, so now it's sorted.

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 10:07am

Sweeeet mate.

Can you now shut this one down?

Seriously.

I'd prefer it. We'd all prefer it.

I'm sure you'd do it for your whingy fud mate, blow in.

We don't need another overly open themed vessel for any and/or all his daily dog shit.

It's uninteresting stuff.

Let him whinge away and fuck up his own shitty 'interesting shtuff' thread.

As Montaigne once said, "we're over that shit cunt, ay."

Cheers.

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zenagain Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:38am

I'm not, I like Blowys contributions.

Yours too Puppifact, when you stick to being the contrarian and other cool stuff.

Following Blowy around- not so much.

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sypkan Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:53am

me niether

...but a deplatformer's gotta's deplatform I guess...

constantly...

....the tedium

ACAB

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Rabbits68 Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:57am

Love your work Dale. One of the funnier contributors on here. Carry on calling it how it is too. I know this seems to be a problem for some. Funny that....

You’ve gotta have a laugh people.

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Blowin Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:10pm

Comrade Queef getting teary eyed because people aren’t discussing what he wants to talk about on “ his “ thread .

Yep. That’s what’s going down. All too reminiscent of “ Mum ....he’s looking out my window ! “ on car trips when you were 5 years old .

“ His “ thread....OMFG.

Facto....are you a subscriber ? It’s fuck all ....why not put your little hands in those pockets and stump up ? Then you can start another thread with your name on it.

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:38pm

"Are those pom poms I can hear...?"

Hahahahahaha. Bingo!

Better late than never, I s'pose.

Well, there was the easy way, Stu, and now...

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:38pm

AGAIN...

"I realised that talking shit with utter clowns* on the internet was literally the low point of my life . The most instructive moment was when Stu said that most of my comments were a grievance of some sort . I got real angry cause I felt I’d been betrayed** - myself and Stu went on a mission to remote Indo , he’d come a cropper on a reef and the trip was cut short , but I enjoyed his company- then I realised that Stu was right. I’d morphed into the ultimate internet weirdo and it is time to get out."

- Blowie.

*black pots & kettles matter.

**cue violins. Perhaps some cello.

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:43pm

"Well, you're definitely Right, blow in, but also rarely right.

And sadly (perhaps), it seems you still haven't figured yourself out, even after your little self-isolation from here recently, have you?

Though everyone else has, for sure, now.

Jeez, even your solitary real buddy* - blowindo! - has passed judgement.

"Yeah Blowins form in that thread towards the end wasn't his best was a bit rough."

Yeah, you weren't missed, champ.

Actually, things were good here in your too short absence. Everyone could feel it.

And now...

Your own 2nd wave. A Blowie/Trumpy triple down.

For someone that admitted they know fuck all about Trump and US politics, you're morphing into his doppelgänger and life-size ventriloquist's dummy daily.

Less hair...less money, maybe...as ahem, eloquent...though definitely packing more heft**.

Tre-mendous effort.

*Stu doesn't count I guess these days? If he ever did...

**less intellectual; more lard-arse."

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:42pm

"Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings. Bullshit, tedious bullshit, tedious racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist bullshit, tedious toxic racist aggressive bullshit. Distortions of the truth, fake news, outright lies, non sequiturs, strawmen, appeals to ignorance, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, circular arguments, wild generalisations, red herrings, tu quoque, appeals to authority, appeals to pity, equivocation, correlation equals causation. Ad hominen attacks, insults, sexual insults, racist insults, sexist insults, gross racist sexist sexual insults, always kicking down. Crawling, grovelling, arse licking, always up. Sad pathetic weirdo ramblings, intoxicated ravings."

- a blowfly AKA a blowie

Round n round n round we go...AGAIN?

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Blowin Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 12:57pm

Didn’t read those posts.

Too much cube monkey fragility for my taste.

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 1:14pm

You wrote the first one, numbnuts.

And you'd be hard pressed to find a more insipid piece of narcissistic fragility.

Well, since the previous time/s.

Anyway, Cosmo knows:

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Blowin Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 1:11pm

Like I said....didn’t read them.

How punk is it to cry because a mean person wrote something on your thread ?

Anyway. I’m over it again.

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 1:30pm

Oi Stu, seeing as you recently changed this thread title, and you're the only one that can change it now, even though I started it and named it then changed the name as I saw fit, perhaps you can change it one more time to something I could concur with (being the creator and all)?

In homage to this WA icon...

https://www.spudshed.com.au/about-us/

...what about 'The Fud Shed'?

With the byline:

We grow it. We sell it. You suffer.

Works for me!

Whadyareckon?

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Blowin Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 2:43pm

Why don’t you put on your big boy pants , stop trying to call an employee of the site in to change your nappy and just shut the fuck up ?

Talk about something else for Christ’s sake.

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sypkan Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 6:36pm

its all he does

police the state

ACAB

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factotum Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 3:58pm

Hahahahaha.

Did I say 'Fud Shed'?

Bingo!

What a coupla fuds.

Blowie of the "Stu said that most of my comments were a grievance of some sort . I got real angry cause I felt I’d been betrayed*" school of editor pestering!

And Sepp! ACAB!

As Cooked As Blowie!

Hahahahaha.

Fud up, fudwits.

*cue violins. Perhaps some cello. AGAIN.