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SHE’S BACK
Break out the mood stabilisers; Margo Kingston has returned to Webdiary!
Webdiary without Margo is like vomit without peas.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 01:31 AM • permalinkNew Line didn’t bring Freddie Kruger back this often…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 15 at 01:37 AM • permalink#2 - hey now! i think you’re thinking of carrots.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 15 at 01:38 AM • permalinkWhatever #5 and #6, all I know is it just don’t seem right.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 01:40 AM • permalink#5 - Yes! that’s what I was trying to type -
Corn!Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 15 at 01:41 AM • permalink#7 - Vomit with peas wouldnt be right.
That I do know. It’d be like cats living with dogs.Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 15 at 01:44 AM • permalinkhitwise No 1 Website 2005?
I followed the link and couldn’t find Webdiary listed. Found margokingston.typepad.com under Lifestyle though.
Does anyone know if Webdiary won an award or not? And does it matter?
#2, and #5-9 above. I can authoratively advise that there are always carrots - even if no carrots have been consumed in living memory. Clearly carrots are never digested, and lurk (camp?) awaiting the opportunity to escape a la Pinoccio and the whale.
Oh, and red wine (Australian).
“New Line didn’t bring Freddie Kruger back this often… “
And Freddie was both saner looking and better looking…
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 03 15 at 02:08 AM • permalinkLots of bleating there, and a few grammar glitches, but you get that.
More comebacks than Nellie Melba, methinks.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 03 15 at 02:24 AM • permalinkI blame Tim. He posted free food and up she pops…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 15 at 02:30 AM • permalinkMEGO* applies. I wonder how the vice-regal envoy knew which skip to find her in, let alone which incoherent, unkempt, malodourous care in the community recipient’s grimy paw they should shove the invite.
Must have been a good old ruck for her to get out with the travel expenses still in hand.*My Eyes Glaze Over.
I think you are all being very cruel, there she opens up to us all, telling us about her depression and self-destructive behaviour (what booze and stuff), and you’re gloating. Where have all the caring, sensitive, new age men gone?
What a load of self absorbed, back slapping, rubbish. Get a life Margo
Everybody, stand up and SING!!!!!
(Sung to this tune)
So long sad times
Go long bad times
We are rid of you at lastHowdy gay times
Cloudy gray times
You are now a thing of the pastMargo Kingston is back again!
The skies above are clear again
So let’s sing a song of cheer again
Margo Kingston is back again!Altogether shout it now
There’s no one
Who can doubt it now
So let’s tell the world about it now
Margo Kingston is back again!Your cares and troubles are gone
There’ll be no more from now on
From now on ...Margo Kingston is back again!
The skies above are clear again
So, Let’s sing a song of cheer againHappy times
Happy nights
Margo Kingston
Is back again!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 15 at 03:05 AM • permalink“My lawyer advised that it would be dumb to sue Fairfax - like any big business they would make it their business to destroy me financially, professionally and emotionally if I did so.”
Bullshit, her lawyer would have said you would be dumb to sue Fairfax because you dont have a case. Margo missed out on the redundancy package but Fairfax agreed to pay her out if she worked on WD for 3 years. At all times Fairfax owned WD and it was Margo’s own decision to invest her funds into WD and her decision to reneg on the contract. Fairfax could sue her for breach of contract.
If she took it to court it would finish her.
To me, citizen journalism has the capacity to not only keep the bastards in the media, politics and big business honest, but to transform the way we see the news (and even more romantically, to create the conditions whereby people of principle who really care about our future and that of our children are prepared to enter public life again).
Oh puleeeeze! Now I’m going to go vomit, peas, corn, carrots and all.
#20 - The_Real_JeffS -
I am a bit concerned about the line ‘Howdy gay times’ in your song.
In Islam these ‘lyrics’ translate to ‘Hello all you shirtlifter and rugmuncher clock watchers’!!1!
As you know, references to time are Haram in Islam so PLZ refrain from saying this things.
Thank you.Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 15 at 03:48 AM • permalinkWell, Greengrocer Mohammed (peas be upon you), you know how us ignerant infidels can be about such arcane cultural matters. Oh, well! 8^D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 15 at 03:56 AM • permalinkThe site looks like it has had a re-vamp and got a sponser. the whole thing looks much fresher (other than margox photo that is)
Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2006 03 15 at 04:29 AM • permalinkI have popped over to Magrok’s vomit several times, mainly following links supplied by Tim. Had a laugh, or a shake of the head, moved on.
But the other day, I decided, after more than a few stiff whiskeys, to really have a good trawl through the site & posts on various ‘topics’.
Warning! Kiddies, don’t try this without adult supervision.
Jesus H Christ. It really was like picking through warm dog shit with your fingers, looking for an ingested childs’ button or something. Very depressing to think that so many Aussies (I guess) are so completely , well, f….d in the head!
I guess the upside is that they are all congregated there together, where society can keep a watch on them.
If Howard has that lot ranged against him, he’ll still be in charge when he’s bloody well 90!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 15 at 04:31 AM • permalinkI went there and now have peas, carrots and corn in my beard.
Logic is just something that happens to other people over there. I couldnt even find the bloody homepage (might be near the photo of margok)link.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 15 at 05:00 AM • permalinkAh! Refreshing. Reading Magronk is like being in one of those elegantly delicate Edwardian pond-punts, propelling it with a punt-pole with your crinoline-clad lady love on a sunny afternoon, only across a river of raw festering sewage.
I have managed to translate some of the slime into English, though (Accolades, I need accolades for this!)
‘And that means money.’
TR: Where the FUCK is my government grant?I made a mistake in throwing everything I had at Webdiary early, rather than having confidence in the Webdiary community to let it start its independent life slowly.
TR: This real world thing people keep talking about has bloody knobs on it! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY GOVERNMENT GRANT?? Paying people to censor comments costs, arseholes!And in retrospect, a big reason for that mistake was my extreme aversion to asking people to help out, particularly financially.
TR: GOVERNMENT GRANT - NOW!! I’m a lefty! GIMME GRANT MONEY!!!!!It was hard enough understanding that quite a few people were willing to spend hours and hours of unpaid time a week keeping Webdiary afloat without asking them to dip into their pockets.
TR: I found some dipshits to stick it to, but so what? The real world SUCKS. GIMME GOVERNMENT GRANT MONEEEEEE! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!I think this might be the sense of the whole thing, actually.
MarkL
CanberraPS. Of course, I might be being a little harsh…..
Naah.I love the comment on Margo’s piece by, yes, you guessed it - Marylyn Shepherd, who says ‘I truly think Fairfax is madly schizoid’. As we say in the Army; ‘Pot calling Kettle, over’.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2006 03 15 at 05:43 AM • permalinkHow good is this?? Margo is back, Marilyn Shepherd reappears and you get a parade of idiots like Irfan Yusuf and others telling Margo that she didn’t fail. BWU HA HA!!
I’m praying that my planets align and that Wayne Sanderson gets another $50K and Thom Lyons comes out of hiding to be a regular contributor on Webdiary. I had thought of deleting Webdiary from my favourites through lack of interest on my part. I’ll leave it there for a while longer!Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 03 15 at 07:36 AM • permalinkheinz chicken & vegetable soup is a marvellous vomit substitute. next time a restaurant gives you the gyp or overcharges, sneak back & stealthily tip a catering size can on the footpath just before the first dinner customers start arriving
now can anyone suggest the internet equivalent to welcome back the maggot?
If you all just visited Webdiary, you just pushed the site visits up by 50 to 100, or more.
According to a TB post the other week, Webdreary only get 500-700 visits a day.
That’s a fat spike in traffic. Good support for the Aussie blog community anyway.Remember to click on the ads next time and they’ll be able to buy new keyboards.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 11:25 AM • permalinkI have many excuses for failure. The timetable for independence was forced upon me, I had no expertise in technicals or marketing, my volunteers were all over the country and there was no time to get them together, I was psychologically unsuited to thinking about matters outside the journalism box…
I’m pretty sure matters outside the “journalism box stabilizers” are available. She should call Sandoz Laboratories.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 03 15 at 11:58 AM • permalinkI cracked. My back seized up in early October and by early December I found it almost impossible to stand up, let alone work at the computer, despite being on anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants and mood stabilisers. I was also distressed about finding the money to keep going while we bedded down a preliminary offer of funding. On December 6 my back screamed NO! and I pulled the plug on December 7.
This poor woman. All she ever wanted to do was “help create a media dedicated to serve the nation rather than exploit its people for profit and power” and look at her now: health all but destroyed, life savings squandered, her very existence without meaning or purpose. I blame you people.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 15 at 12:02 PM • permalink“...despite being on anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants and mood stabilisers…”
The last time me and my mates combined those three drugs together we couldn’t stand up either. We call them ‘goofballs’.
“...while we BEDDED DOWN a preliminary offer of funding. On December 6, my back screamed NO!”
My mind just screamed “NO!” If she’s talking about selling her body to fund Webdreary, I think I know now why the cash flow dried up.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 12:22 PM • permalinkI can’t stand Margo or her politics, but her general goal is pretty good. I’m also very interested in the promise of properly done amateur political discussion site - not blogs, which I don’t think are a good forum at all.
So, I actually enjoyed her little essay, especially the quotes about “chaos theory” which are actually right on the money. WebDiary made a total hash of things, it’s true, but I doubt we have seen the last of “citizen journalism”.
‘Goofball’ applies very well to Margo, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 15 at 03:09 PM • permalinkWhy is it that those poor souls who are forced to go through life preoccupied with their moods, their stress, their feelings, their unfulfilled expectations and quashed hopes, and their symptoms and upset bodily functions created by the horrid conflict of day-to-day life, always seem to vote for liberals?
More to the point, though, why do they always want to share their accounts of all of those failings with the rest of us?
(Here’s an experiment: try to picture Oliver North speaking about his work, and telling us about how the stress was cramping his back and devestating his moods.)
Would someone tell the Jews Who Control the Media to get their act together?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 05:01 PM • permalinkI have many excuses for failure. The timetable for independence was forced upon me, I had no expertise in technicals or marketing, my volunteers were all over the country and there was no time to get them together, I was psychologically unsuited to thinking about matters outside the journalism box, I was distraught at being betrayed by the company I’d put my heart and soul into for most of my career, I’ve been a stress head for too many years to rise to this latest challenge, I was scared stiff of losing everything, I was burnt out, blah blah blah.
Since December, I’ve been through depression and major league self-destructive behaviour and settled into putting all my effort into recovering my health.
Doesn’t this pretty much sum up leftwing/liberalism in a nutshell? These people simply don’t know how things work. They pursue idealistic dreams and try to make them work in the real world. And when they don’t, they tend to want to blame others.
Leftoids and liberals should be relegated to jobs where they cannot harm other people and society at large. And leave the world to be run by the rightwing. And by Karl of course.
(just for information: Karl has never, not once, cried about failure and complained about back aches. Rather, he makes people cry. Yes. And he gives people back aches. That’s Karl.)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 15 at 05:55 PM • permalink$14,000 of donations to run a blog?!?!?
Posted by SheikYerbouti on 2006 03 15 at 08:17 PM • permalinkI can’t believe their stupidity.
All they have to do is ask Halliburton for some sponsorship and it would be enough for 6 months worth of white-out, before the screens need replacing.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 09:01 PM • permalink#50, This is the only credible news blog where this tired, fantasy-land cliche keeps getting wheeled out. What’s the point? Do you actually believe this?
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 09:24 PM • permalinkYou think you got problems with Margo Kingston. Hah! You don’t know from problems: Helen Thomas wants to be cloned
Helen belies the old adage that beauty is only skin deep. Helen’s outward appearance is but a pale reflection of her inner beauty.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 15 at 09:30 PM • permalinkLLL
The JWCTM may have had their eyes off the ball with Margo, but be very careful or they will show up when you’re least expecting
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 09:55 PM • permalink#60, clicked the link, right, understand. But this site and these boards are open to the public. If you don’t know the history of the site and the commentators and what’s been discussed here before, it’d be very easy to see stuff like what #50 posted and think this was the domain of conspiracy nutters.
The comment still stands, though, the ‘Jews Control The Media’ line only seems to pop up these days when people are being ironic, or cracking jokes, which is great, but isn’t that keeping the cliche out there where it might otherwise just fade into the past? Just thoughts…
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 10:52 PM • permalinkLLL
Are you one of the JWCTM?
If you are, then your word is my command…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 15 at 11:04 PM • permalink#62, Yes, I’m one of the JWCTM. Only here to assess the potential for a total buyout of this site, after which all of you will be hired on to post arguments and reactions to keep the left and right fighting with each other while JWCTM quietly launch the final stage of world domination. Having Piers Hackerman beaten in public today for being too soft on anti-war protestors and Muslims is also part of the plan.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 12:48 AM • permalinkIf you are so smart, let’s see you diagram this Margot sentence:
Fairfax’s slow but relentless rejection of my work since 2001, when they made me leave Canberra and warehoused me, or so they thought, in the backwater on the Sydney Morning Herald online with Webdiary, culminated, I thought then, in mid 2004, when its then editor vetoed the literary editor’s recommendation to publish an extract of my book Not Happy John!
Posted by ultraloser on 2006 03 16 at 01:35 AM • permalink#65, I think I heard you smile before you wrote that.
#66, it just needs some more full-stops, a few commas moved around and a few exclamation marks :
“Fairfax’s slow, but relentless. Rejection of my work since 2001 when they made me leave, Canberra. And warehoused me, or so they thought! In the backwater on the Sydney Morning Herald. Online with Webdiary, culminated. I thought then. In mid 2004, when its then editor vetoed the literary editor’s recommendation. To publish an extract of my book?
Not Happy John!”
There, now it makes as much sense as some of my posts.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 02:09 AM • permalinkThe comment still stands, though, the ‘Jews Control The Media’ line only seems to pop up these days when people are being ironic, or cracking jokes, which is great, but isn’t that keeping the cliche out there where it might otherwise just fade into the past?
Well, the last time it was fading into the past, Margo resurrected it in stunning fashion with her “I thought [it] was a statement of fact” line, so there’s no accounting for what might be bubbling beneath the surface of all that fading. I suppose most people at this site believe the best way to combat such beliefs is to mercilessly ridicule them. YMMV, of course.
That said, the amount of missed sarcasm/irony/parody here is surprisingly low (though you never know about lurkers, of course), and it’s usually resolved in quick fashion. For hilarious incidents involving people who don’t recognize they’re reading parody, nothing beats the occasional newbie comment at the Blame Bush! blog, I’d say.
#68, you’re hired for the final stage of world domination. Contact Margo’s Maid for your ‘To Do’ List.
What’s the time span that needs to pass before you’re no longer regarded as a ‘lurker’?
The Blame Bush site is pretty sweet. The big question is, Who Does Bush Blame?
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 09:05 AM • permalink#70, Satan, of course, I should start trying to think outside the pentagram.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 12:32 PM • permalinkWait a second…that wasn’t a dig at Shotgun Dick, was it?
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 12:33 PM • permalink
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I knew it! First she makes your sandwich, then she’s back online. Tim, you are better than the Salvo’s.
I can see it now ‘The sandwich programme’ it will beat the Davinci code