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WOMAN ABUSES YOUNGSTER

Marieke Hardy encounters flag-bearing youths at an outdoor concert:

Boy oh boy, the amount of idiotic sunburned children draping themselves in flags with no real reason as to why they were making such a provocative statement.

Note: they weren’t burning flags. They were merely wearing them. This, to the Left, is “provocative”.

I grew increasingly cross, even without alcohol coursing through my veins and turning me into the kind of screeching harpy best left alone in the corner of a pub dry-humping the pinball machine.

Me: Nice flag, fuckhead.

Moron child: Whatever.

Me: Why are you even wearing that? Do you have any idea what you’re doing?

Moron child: Aussie pride, man.

Me: Go and die.

Traceeee Hutchison should address this matter of flag rage in her next column.

UPDATE. Tolerant Marieke, who wishes young flag-wearers would “go and die”, regularly appears in the Age and on the ABC.

UPDATE II. Nic wonders how Marieke would react to similar abuse of someone wearing an Aboriginal flag. Consider, too, how she’d judge a clothing-related exchange beginning with the line: “Nice burka, fuckhead”.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/30/2007 at 10:04 PM
  1. What an unpleasant young woman. Well, I assume she’s young—it’s hard to tell the age of people whose souls seem to have shrivelled prematurely into hard little bitter pills.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 30 at 10:09 PM • permalink

  2. Unless I am sadly mistaken Marieke Hardy’s claim to fame is that she wrote some appalling crap for television, that prompty sank without trace.

    I am so interested in her opinion on the displaying of the national flag.

    Posted by Harry Buttle on 2007 01 30 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  3. O/T The Sydney Morning Herald report the re-appearance of men with no appearance only this time they’re named and shamed:-
    The men, last seen running along Military Road, are described as being of white/European appearance and aged between 20 and 25 years.
    SMH Link

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 30 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  4. Whoever raised the flag bearing child instilled a wonderful sense of restraint and civility in them. Kudos to child and parents.

    Personally I would have smashed the fucking bint in the mouth until her fucking arse bled.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 30 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  5. Wearing Australian flags on Australia day is a provocative statement? Does she also make sure she tears down christmas decorations on 25 December?

    Given her capacity for outrage and inclination to assault children (and swearing at someone like that can come under assault laws) over such trivial issues she seems like the sort of person her family would even avoid.

    Posted by Francis H on 2007 01 30 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  6. More flag stuff.
    The Daily Tele reports:-

    BOXER Anthony Mundine’s first music video shows the burning of a photo of Prime Minister John Howard and the Union Jack.

    The openly political video for Mundine’s hip-hop single Platinum Ryder, filmed at The Block in Redfern, shows indigenous residents tearing up Mr Howard’s photograph and tossing it into a barrel of flames.

    Pity it’s not closer to the election - Howard would romp in by his biggest margin ever because of this crap! Everybody I know reckon Mundine is a moron - if he hates Howard it’s got to be worth shit load of votes for the Libs. Go Anthony…..

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 30 at 10:19 PM • permalink

  7. Fitsy needs to be turned into a screeching harpy? I think she popped out of her mums wazza with a look on her dial like a cats arse, accompanied by a whiny screech that sounds like an air-raid siren in a wind tunnel.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 30 at 10:19 PM • permalink

  8. How the coversation actually went…

    Me: Nice face, fuckhead.

    Moron writer: Whatever.

    Posted by Quentin George on 2007 01 30 at 10:23 PM • permalink

  9. Pride isn’t a real reason for bearing the flag?

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 01 30 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  10. In the interests of “the whole truth” and without any squeamishness, note the heading on Hardy’s piece:
    2. Flaggy cuntrags!

    Posted by percypup on 2007 01 30 at 10:26 PM • permalink

  11. Read the whole page: apparently this lady of virtue uses the “seagull screech” as basic communication, even when drooling over attractive members of her own sex.

    She also aspires to be ... BOB ELLIS!!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  12. But I’m tolerant! You’re provacative and divisive!

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 01 30 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  13. Maybe she just wants free tickets to a Dixie Chicks concert.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 01 30 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  14. I second Andrea’s comment, while reading the above quotes I was picturing a shriveled up old woman with grey hair in a bun telling the damn kids to get off her lawn, err I mean, not wear the flag. If she’s below 60 then I feel sorry for her bitter innards.

    Posted by Nicholas on 2007 01 30 at 10:37 PM • permalink

  15. On the strength of this sad creature’s infantile outburst, she’s odds-on for a coronary on Anzac Day

    Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 01 30 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  16. This was Ms Hardy only a fortnight ago, relishing the notion of [i]watching a small child ram face-first into a traffic light

    All round, Marieka is the archetypal The Age columnist. Note The Age has sacked Gerard Henderson and retains Ms Hardy.


    I may claim to have class, but occasionally when far-fetched reality TV comes knocking, I will more than happily set aside my morals and get dirty with the best of them. It’s (Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty) mildly and guiltily entertaining in the same way that watching a small child ram face-first into a traffic light can be, and not to be sniffed at for its all-consuming grubbiness
    .
    child hate

    Posted by percypup on 2007 01 30 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  17. Interesting how the whole flag ban was about not provoking any incidents that would “mar the event”. And here’s this female knobhead trying to do exactly that - provoke something. She doesn’t tell us what happens after she tells them to “Go and die!”. Presumably, the flagbearer shrugged their shoulders and walked off, provocation attempt duly ignored.

    That is, assuming this conversation even happened, and wasn’t purely the product of an imagination that thinks that being BOB ELLIS(!!) is something to be desired. IOW, is Marieke making it all up as she goes along?

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  18. “Do you have any idea what you’re doing?”

    What ARE they doing?

    Oh sure - she told them to go and die.

    Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2007 01 30 at 10:47 PM • permalink

  19. I skimmed through her blog, too. She said something about giving somebody a “grandmotherly smile”; maybe she is elderly, but I’m thinking big bad wolf. Her screeds read like a Paris Hilton diary entry scrawled under the influence of crystal meth. A genuinely pedestrian intelligence unredeemed by wit or charm or imagination. My guess? She’ll be dead by her own hand or institutionalized in less than five years unless she gets help now.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 30 at 10:47 PM • permalink

  20. I sense hostility

    /team America off

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 30 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  21. I’m sure the nasty old Bolshevik crone wouldn’t see anything wrong with a Che shirt though…

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 01 30 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  22. I grew increasingly cross, even without alcohol coursing through my veins and turning me into the kind of screeching harpy best left alone in the corner of a pub dry-humping the pinball machine.

    The only action the fugly gets?

    BTW: Her bio says she’s 30 (acts like a 14 y.o. brat).

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 30 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  23. O/T, but, Whoa! Take that, Hugo Chavez!

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 30 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  24. Surely it’s a joke site:
    “Ill-informed rantings and half-baked theories from someone who should know better”
    is her byline.

    Posted by wanglese on 2007 01 30 at 11:02 PM • permalink

  25. So typical of these marxoids, except unusual in its clarity. Psychologically project one’s own provocative intolerance onto others, do it consciously and aggressively, and impose one’s extremist norms as if they were common established standards being violated. That’s the time to give not an inch and instead to take a mile.

    Posted by ForNow on 2007 01 30 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  26. #23 Chavez should look at the bright side paco: At least a fine lookin’ hooter like Cindy Sheehan will see him!

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 01 30 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  27. What is it that makes port-siders hate their countries so?

    Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 01 30 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  28. Urgh.  That pointless cat’s arse is a regular guest on Jon Faine’s ABC774 program.  Actually, it’s quite a roll call of the pointless:

    Tuesday: Marieke Hardy
    Wednesday: Kerry Armstrong
    Thursday: Terry Lane
    Friday: Tracee Hutchison

    And they say Sydney has crap radio.  Thank god my work has too much RF to pick up AM.

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 01 30 at 11:10 PM • permalink

  29. #26: Haw! I think Chavez would probably start eyeing his livestock, first. Maybe a dozen paper bags and an elephant-size prescription of viagra would do it for him.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 30 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  30. #9,
    As helpfully pointed out by #2 and #22, she most likely has no pride.
    Therefore she evidently doesn’t understand the concept, and loathes those who do.

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 30 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  31. As well as buying a flag, I am also considering a tattoo.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 30 at 11:14 PM • permalink

  32. #30 - love the handle.

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 01 30 at 11:15 PM • permalink

  33. Hmm, imagine if the unhappy lad had been carrying say, an Aboriginal flag and those words had been uttered by someone ‘less left’ I wonder what accusations about this kind of behaviour Ms Hardy and her Stalinist coven would be clucking?

    Funny how ‘hate crime’ ‘vilification’‘intollerance’ and those other lefty words du jour only apply to others.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 30 at 11:18 PM • permalink

  34. Just a note for the curious; she says on her site that she’s thirty years old. Just more evidence that stupidity doesn’t fade as you get older.

    Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2007 01 30 at 11:18 PM • permalink

  35. Let’s get Traceeeeee and Marieke to Mud-wrestle in the Halal bog at La Trobe University.

    Invite the Thick Sheik and the Shaz Butts to judge and put the match into it’s proper context.

    The winner receives a TIN FOIL hat, and the loser gets an Aussie Flag and dinner with the skaf boys.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 30 at 11:21 PM • permalink

  36. Please correct me here, isn’t she a direct descendant of (in)famous Marxist novelist Frank Hardy?

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 01 30 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  37. Ms Hardy, Traceee, Oliver James, Pilger, Greer, The Age, the Greenies who want to turn off the lights in Sydney for one hour, The Sorryists from La Trobe etc etc.

    There is one thing that unites all these dreary people - a hatred of success, and an even greater hatred of those who aspire to success.  Not just material success (money) but success in all its guises - happiness, contentment, emotional balance, military success, power.

    They call themselves (as do we) ‘of the Left’ but they are an insult to the memories of the pioneers of the genuine Left, such as Orwell and Nye Bevan - people who dedicated their lives to improving the lot of the working class.

    The real Left doesn’t align itself with fascists, with homophobes, with misogynists. The real Left is not anti-semitic nor is it intolerant of difference. It doesn’t demand perpetual misery.

    These people are not Leftists as they love to call themselves.  They are miserablists, snobs, patronising middle class bigots. They are dedicated to dragging everyone else down to their rock-bottom level. 

    They romanticise failure, without questioning the circumstances of that failure.  They are not interested in turning failure into success, only in perpetuating failure and misery.

    I despise them and everything their world stands for.

    There - that feels better.

    Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 30 at 11:26 PM • permalink

  38. Her latest post is interesting. Apparently if you recognise her and feed her, she’ll be all over you like a cheap cologne.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 11:27 PM • permalink

  39. #37, I liked that, well said.

    #35 Hopefully then an Imam could take a whip to them both, dennouncing them as strumpets. Hey, Sharia law will at least be entertaining.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 30 at 11:31 PM • permalink

  40. #36 yes indeedy she is.  comes from a line of fellow travellers & tossers.  needs a stint at the machines in a clothing factory in - lessee now, what godforsaken hole is best - zhuji, to teach her the beauty of democracy

    Posted by KK on 2007 01 30 at 11:45 PM • permalink

  41. And has anyone noticed, she wants to be BOB ELLIS(!!)??

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 11:46 PM • permalink

  42. #37 - In fact, immiserisation of the population is exactly what the Left wants, as that then creates the conditions for the Marxists to take over.

    Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 01 30 at 11:47 PM • permalink

  43. At least she’s not ugly on the outside.

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 30 at 11:49 PM • permalink

  44. #40

    Instead of the clothing factory, she’d be doing us a greater favour if she followed her rello, Mary Hardy’s lead, instead.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 30 at 11:51 PM • permalink

  45. and she’d know all about rags

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 30 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  46. #43

    At least she’s not ugly on the outside.

    And easy to impress (see link in my post #38)

    And what sort of a REAL lefty doesn’t rebel against her family? This one’s taken over the family business, apparently.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 11:53 PM • permalink

  47. This is truly abysmal.  On the one hand, morons like Hardy want the flag banned at public events on Australia day because of accusations of flag wearers dishing out drunken abuse.

    But “Nice flag, fuckhead” is perfectly acceptable when it comes from her when she is completely sober.

    She’s lucky she didn’t say that to me.

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 30 at 11:53 PM • permalink

  48. Marieke Hardy didn’t need to see someone draped in a flag to be all pissed off.  Pissed off seems to be how she greets every day.  Why are we bothering with her nasty ass?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 30 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  49. THIS SCRAG writes children’s television programs!!!!!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 30 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  50. And she wants to be BOB ELLIS!!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 30 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  51. #43, last time I saw something like that I threw it a handful of peanuts.

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 30 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  52. #43 - Be fair to say we wouldn’t marry twins.

    That malodorous twit is two missed showers away from being the cat lady.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 30 at 11:56 PM • permalink

  53. Mr Hackenbacker, by far the worst thing about Jon Faine’s program is that it regularly features comments by one Jon Faine.

    Posted by TimT on 2007 01 30 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  54. #43, last time I saw something like that I commanded my dog to turn around and face me

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 30 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  55. We’ve been caught out by Ms. Fits herself:

    *checks stats counter*


    Referrals from Tim Blair? As I live and breathe.

    She shouldn’t feel she needs to continue doing so on our account.

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 30 at 11:58 PM • permalink

  56. South end of a north bound camel with dysentery.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 30 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  57. #43, last time I saw something like that I had to chase the flies off it and bury it

    (tap tap) ....is this thing on ?

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 30 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  58. #57 It’s on. BTW when did your flatmate last chip in for the rent?

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 12:02 AM • permalink

  59. #58
    It’s been a while. Says she’s been under a lot of pressure lately.

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:04 AM • permalink

  60. #36 - yep, she is his grand daughter.  What a proud family lineage that one is - from a communist retard to an aggressive arsehole that starts shit with strangers because they are carrying the flag.

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 31 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  61. Nothing ages as badly as youthful cynicism. And I discover, courtesy of some of her statements in the specific post referenced by Albury Shifton up there at #38, that she is further support for a theory I have long held, to wit: scratch a cynic and you’ll find a disappointed romantic.

    With respect to the Age, it seems that a kind of Gresham’s Law is operating at the newspaper.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  62. #59

    Yeah, I’d heard she’d been flat out.

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 31 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  63. Actually, the post I linked to in #38 and the fact that she wants to be BOB ELLIS(!!), has conjured up a rather disturbing mental image. Picture this:

    Two RWDBs are sitting in a restaurant and notice a lonely old man muttering to himself over his seared scallops and chardonnay.

    RWDB 1: Hey, isn’t that that areshole, Bob Ellis?

    RWDB 2: Yeah, sad old fart! He doesn’t look in good fettle. What say we pay his bill - I doubt an old bloke who writes like he does has much to live on.

    RWDB 1: Yeah, I must admit, he moves me more to pity than anger. Let’s do it!

    Next day in Bob Ellis’ column: RWDB1 and RWDB2 - whoever the hell you are - I am truly humbled and warmed by the gesture. If only you’d stayed long enough for me to pick myself up off the floor and stick an inappropriate tongue in your ear. Utterly, utterly wonderful, thank you.


    For some reason, I’ve now got an extreme case of “the shudders”!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 12:07 AM • permalink

  64. #59 Rachel Corrie cant be expected to play rent she is flat out doing other things.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 01 31 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  65. #37
    That’s the left as it actually exists, not as some would like to think of it.  Whatever ideals might once have animated some on the left, today they can only be converted into reality by the action of people on the right, such as the dreaded Neo-cons.

    The chief distinctions between the Communists, Nazis, and Fascists were not much more than which excuses they used for mass murder.  I doubt that it came as much of a comfort to a shopkeeper in Lviv that the Commies killed him for being an exploiter of the proletariat (he employed three clerks) rather than, as with the Nazis, for being Jewish.

    Today the left as it actually exists exalts bloodthirsty tyrants and supports renewed genocide of the Jews through the destruction of Israel.  It’s environmentalism and anti-globalization advocacy promises untold hardships and impoverishment to billions of people.  Yet these leftists are the people who claim to have superior compassion to we nasty RWDBs, who advocate policies that oppose tyranny and genocide and encourage wealth creation and increased prosperity around the world.  You can see why we RWDBs are held in such horror by these oh so fine souls.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 01 31 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  66. #63: First rate, Albury, old top!

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 12:10 AM • permalink

  67. #38

    Hmm Almost Dowdy like.  And she doesn’t even have to travel.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 01 31 at 12:10 AM • permalink

  68. #37 Ole!

    you can sense the misery oozing out of every pore. Masquerading as cynical wordly wisdom/save-the-planet alarmism, etc.

    Just thank your lucky stars you don’t have to live inside her skin.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 01 31 at 12:11 AM • permalink

  69. #62, she’s no dozer, that’s for sure

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:12 AM • permalink

  70. #69 Corrie does make a nice pancake ....

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 01 31 at 12:15 AM • permalink

  71. #69 Been dead busy with her construction job.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 12:16 AM • permalink

  72. #44 you mean killing herself in the bath?

    Posted by KK on 2007 01 31 at 12:17 AM • permalink

  73. Flatter-y will get you nowhere

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 31 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  74. #61

    scratch a cynic and you’ll find a disappointed romantic.

    absolutely. Also someone who was not brought up in a healthy relationship to authority, and therefore cannot take hierarchy in any form.

    Thus they are unable to make for themselves any kind of meaningful adult life.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 01 31 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  75. #70,
    nah, a bit too thin for my liking.
    But as far as her cooking goes, well she puts on a good spread for breakfast

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:19 AM • permalink

  76. Dang! Now I’ve got this urge to go to I-Hop!

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 12:19 AM • permalink

  77. #75 Bit of a starfish in the bedroom I’m afraid.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 12:21 AM • permalink

  78. #28: roll call of the pointless

    Confound it, Mr. Hackenbacker! I’d have given a hundred shares of Perfectly Authentic Carbon Offsets to have coined that line!

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 12:22 AM • permalink

  79. #71 Dead busy? Flat out, I’d say. You can only spread yourself around so much.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 31 at 12:23 AM • permalink

  80. #78, think she gets rolled pretty hard at work so when she gets home she just unfolds

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:26 AM • permalink

  81. just looked at her picture. Amazing, isn’t it? Born with every advantage and she’s so bitter and twisted. And my daughter wants to be an actress! I have to stop her! Help!

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 01 31 at 12:26 AM • permalink

  82. #66 Paco

    First rate, Albury, old top!

    Thanks, man! I owe it all to every one who ever paid my bills for me. </Lefty “Artist” on Awards Night>

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  83. Argh. I meant #77, not #78
    See, it’s late and I’m starting to doze. I’d better make tracks….

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:30 AM • permalink

  84. Sparrows match moves on to the next thread.

    Well jerry this aussie v pommie match has ground down to nothing,the aussies looking relaxed out there dowing a few VBs.

    Thats right bob,coach john pilger pacing back and forth looking very pissed off at the aussies..wait a minute he is moving to the bench..yes well it looks like he is sending on marieke hardy

    well coat me with honey and throw me to the lesbians jerry this is a suprising move,she looks mad as hell as she moves down towards the aussie team….aussies have gome into a team hug….well a player is moving towards her whats going on down there jerry.

    well bob it looks like he has offered her a root..yes well shes knocked flat as her knees go to water and starts to dribble…wait the aussie is pissing himself laughing and is making his way back to his VB..

    Right you are jerry as she screams back to coack john pilger who has tossed her out a rolled up THE AGE newspaper..she moves forward but a can of VB is thrown from the Aussies,it soars,it scores…marieke not moving jerry.

    too right bob shes gone down like a two dollar hooker.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 01 31 at 12:32 AM • permalink

  85. These jokes are a bit thin…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 31 at 12:32 AM • permalink

  86. #84 well coat me with honey and throw me to the lesbians

    It’s like the falling dream. Everyone has it.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  87. Yes these jokes are falling flat

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 01 31 at 12:39 AM • permalink

  88. All of a sudden this has turned into some Asterix byplay.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 31 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  89. #83 Since Rach has been a bit remiss with the rent, you should come down on her like a ton of bricks.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  90. If Rach knew we’d be joking like this she’d be crushed.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 01 31 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  91. #91, I know, we should stop before her character is smeared forever

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  92. #90, not #91. Did it again…..aaargh

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  93. #91 we dont want it spread around that she cant handle the pressure.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 01 31 at 12:58 AM • permalink

  94. Ms Fits- hot or not? I ask you….

    Posted by Squiffy on 2007 01 31 at 01:03 AM • permalink

  95. Oh, no! Her dog’s name is BOB ELLIS!!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 01:07 AM • permalink

  96. #44

    Instead of the clothing factory, she’d be doing us a greater favour if she followed her rello, Mary Hardy’s lead, instead.

    FFS, people, let’s keep this civil! Do we have to descend to the level of the “Let’s reduce the population, starting with Anderew Bolt” Left?

    A family tragedy is hardly funny, and I never wish death on those who simply disagree with me.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  97. and I never wish death on those who simply disagree with me.

    For shame. And you call yourself an RWDB. Ban him, Andrea.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 01:13 AM • permalink

  98. I don’t wish death upon those who disagree with me, just humiliating misfortune.

    ;^)

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 31 at 01:15 AM • permalink

  99. #96.  Now here’s naive.  I’d thought #44 meant that she should become a raucous commedienne.
    Didn’t know about the suicide.

    Posted by Olrence on 2007 01 31 at 01:16 AM • permalink

  100. BTW we don’t wish death upon people, we bring the death.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 01:17 AM • permalink

  101. #43- there’s about 4olbs of Vaseline on the lens that took that shot, along with some serious photshopping; here’s a more accurate representation, and here’s what she’s destined to look like in the near future.

    Comes from as long line of mutants.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 31 at 01:18 AM • permalink

  102. #97

    For shame. And you call yourself an RWDB.

    The “Death” in RWDB is death wished upon those who wish us and ours dead - Jihadis, would be suicide bombers - that sort. Anti-social arseholes of Marieke’s bent, who fantasise about abusing flagwielders at the BDO (she’s a fiction writer, after all) are an amusing diversion, but hardly worth our hatred.

    And she wants to be BOB ELLIS!!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 01:24 AM • permalink

  103. #97 - I am aware.

    Bob Ellis is screwing with your synapses.

    Resume funny… Now.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 01:27 AM • permalink

  104. Why would anyone want to be Bob Ellis, especially Bob Ellis?

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 31 at 01:28 AM • permalink

  105. #102 the comment at #103 regarding #97 was 86’ed by me. You know what I mean.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 01:28 AM • permalink

  106. #102

    And she wants to be BOB ELLIS!!

    Personally, I’d prefer death

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2007 01 31 at 01:29 AM • permalink

  107. #96- I don’t necessarily wish death, more something long-term and embarassing, like chronic spontaneous explosive diarrhoea, maybe accompanied by the total collapse of all assets and inheritances. And perhaps a uterine prolapse for laffs.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 31 at 01:31 AM • permalink

  108. Oh, oh, I get it now.

    Whatever I say, whatever I do or whatever I believe can be dismissed with debased definitions of words like ‘provocative’, ‘devisive’, ‘hateful’, ‘intolerant’ or ‘unhelpful’.

    How long before, in the eyes of people like Hardy, I am ‘illegal’.

    And these dolts like to prattle on about reactionaries and police states.  Sheesh.

    Little dictators, every one of them.

    Posted by cosmo on 2007 01 31 at 01:31 AM • permalink

  109. Hardy also started a left-wing political fashion label…

    Now why didn’t she just start making shoes instead? Two left feet for everyone, yes sir, that’s our specialty.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 31 at 01:31 AM • permalink

  110. #107 -  Or lifetime tenure at The ABC or Fairfax. Soiled trousers eventually come clean.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 01:34 AM • permalink

  111. And maybe all commissioning executive producers and Australia Council grant boards simultaneously embarking on a twelve step program, and actually reading the content of submitted items rather than just the name on the coversheet and nipping off for an absinthe binge.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 31 at 01:34 AM • permalink

  112. Thanks Frank, you old commie. Is this your revenge from the grave. What with Marieke Hardy, Bob Ellis, et el, no wonder Australian television has such lamentable scripts for its local productions. Worse, we are subject to the works of these people via government regulation, regarding compulsory local content. A very ‘French’ inspired piece of legislation introduced by the Labor Party.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 01 31 at 01:36 AM • permalink

  113. #109

    Now why didn’t she just start making shoes instead? Two left feet for everyone, yes sir, that’s our specialty.

    That made me laugh!

    Her label is named “Polichicks”. I bet the “I never met a Dictator I didn’t want to stick my tongue in the ear of - except Pinochet!” T-shirts are a big seller.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 01:39 AM • permalink

  114. Worth recycling: [url=“http://www.signgenerator.net/?allow=276&text=Anti+-+Flag
    Hags+
    &font=ArialBlack&color=black&fontsize=30&move2=94&move=183&rot=-2&height;=&width;=&offx=5&offy=5&spacing;=&gradient;=&tag;=&bubble;=&bubH;=&bubW;=&watermark;=&background;=&border;=&picURL=http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1331/aussiemoonbatwc7.jpg&shade;=&shadecolor=black”]not-so-Hardy in 15 years time?[/url]

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 01:42 AM • permalink

  115. Tim, I suggest you add “Middle-Aged” to “Woman Abuses Youngster”.  You know it would cheer her up.

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 01 31 at 01:43 AM • permalink

  116. Just looked at the Polichicks site.

    Hot chick in suspenders…..but selling latham boxers and bob brown kissing pillows….........its a loathsome offensive site yet i can’t look away.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 01 31 at 01:52 AM • permalink

  117. #116 - sounds like the ten-car pile up of fashion statements.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 31 at 01:54 AM • permalink

  118. Why bother giving these lame fucks oxygen.

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 01 31 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  119. The little skank badly wants to be Noreen from Emerald Bile, and fails dismally. There can be only one!.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 31 at 01:56 AM • permalink

  120. #101, your link is to a dead page?

    All the online pix I can find show her to be quite rootable.

    Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 01 31 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  121. Surely she’s “taking the piss”.  No one could want to be Bob Ellis.  No children’s writer could present themselves in print the way she has and not risk their livelihood. Even a complete nutter couldn’t behave the way she portrays herself at a rock concert without a lot more of a comeback than “whatever”. As someone said above: its a joke site.

    Posted by allan on 2007 01 31 at 02:04 AM • permalink

  122. Traceeeeee was at the launch of Polichicks. I wonder if she is now the proud owner (and wearer) of a pair of “Mark Latham Pulls No Punches” boxer shorts?

    I dare anyone here to try and find out! LOL

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  123. #96

    No disrespect intended,

    but, as a mother, when a child is attacked verbally by an “adult”, and when said child casually dismisses the “grown-up”, as any happy and self-confident youngster would, the child is told to Die,
    then Civility flies out the window.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 31 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  124. #121

    Even a complete nutter couldn’t behave the way she portrays herself at a rock concert without a lot more of a comeback than “whatever”. As someone said above: its a joke site.

    So she’s a liar too? A “lying Lefty” - who’d thunk we’d ever see the day…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  125. #123

    As a parent, I’d be the same way. However, this has “work of fiction” writ large all over it. Had this bint really bullied some hapless kid for being wrongly attired in her eyes, I’d be demanding that the BDO organisers do something - call the police and generally make an example of her, etc. However, since her brave attack on said youngster was merely a fantasy, all I wish for her is that she’d “Grow the fuck up”!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 02:13 AM • permalink

  126. “Ill-informed rantings and half-baked theories from someone who should know better”

    Could this be a mild bit of plagiarism from the old Acidman blog?

    “Humorous observations, vitriolic rants and a ceaseless quest for adoration from people who don’t know me.”

    Or am I being pedantic?

    Posted by dee on 2007 01 31 at 02:15 AM • permalink

  127. #120

    Go Steve, take one for the team.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 01 31 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  128. Me: “Nice Burqua, Fuckhead”.
    Faquhed: “Thanks”.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 31 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  129. #43
    Kitty Sullivan?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 02:20 AM • permalink

  130. #75
    What’s she smokin’ ... Virginia Slims?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 02:23 AM • permalink

  131. #120- was working before, but slow to load. (A bit like Fitsy’s brain).

    I’ve seen the silly bint on Mrs Dentons self-indulgent wankfest, and take my word for it- she’s got a head like a well-chewed mintie/diseased pawpaw/dropped pie/smashed crab- take your pick of descriptors.

    I wouldn’t with yours, and there’s not strong enough beer goggles or durable enough paper bags to change that scenario..

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 31 at 02:25 AM • permalink

  132. #109
    Do TV’s have to dress to the left?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 02:25 AM • permalink

  133. Me: Nice burger,Faquhed

    Faquhed: I kill you, I fucking kill you..opps sorry, very tasty thank you.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 01 31 at 02:31 AM • permalink

  134. #19 paco,
    Marieke Hardy is a young 30 or so writer recently employed by The Age to write a TV column for its TV and tech supplement the Green Guide.
    Her grandfather Frank Hardy (of Power Without Glory fame) was a Communist and left-wing writer, journo etc. See wikipedia for lots more.
    Marieke is usually quite entertaining on the topic of TV but you have to ration yourself what with the self-congratulatory tone and all - a fitiing successor to Bob Ellis but she’ll have to develop the lugubrious sodden ego by the age of 50.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 01 31 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  135. #37…pommygranate, you may call these people against success but each one of them is making a fair bit of dosh plying their trade and talking about their trade.

    Do you mean they’re against OTHER people’s success? Please clarify…

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 01 31 at 02:51 AM • permalink

  136. #40 Frank Hardy wasn’t a fellow-traveller. He was a paid-up Party member, whose wet-dream was to perform fellatio on Stalin.

    This creature is obviously craving attention by childish bad behaviour. The best thing to do it to just ignore it - they can’t stand that.

    Posted by McAnzac on 2007 01 31 at 03:11 AM • permalink

  137. O/T I wish this was a vegetarian thread because I have to say that Achewood is even more hilarious than usual today.

    That is it is O/T unless we can turn the expression “Glock a Cow” into something relevant.

    Posted by Francis H on 2007 01 31 at 03:13 AM • permalink

  138. It’s terrible seeing such a pretty little thing labour under the burden of the family name. Imagine not being able to develop your own opinions because your grandfather’s exalted reputation is more important than your own independence.

    Posted by lotocoti on 2007 01 31 at 03:25 AM • permalink

  139. Actually Nic’s question is pertinent but simply answered. Of course she’d react with outrage. Becasue abuse of people she views as on her side (or the sides she;s on) isn’t allowed. That’s why the left can cheer for people like Castro, Che and Mao (Stalin seems to be a bit of a no-go now) but rail against Pinochet. Simply, all the others were killing the right people.

    Posted by Francis H on 2007 01 31 at 03:37 AM • permalink

  140. Hey Albury Shifton, have you noticed that young Marieke wants to be Bob Ellis!!?

    Ambition, thou are art a dog-eared sluggard in a dumpster.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 01 31 at 03:43 AM • permalink

  141. From the wikipedia entry. I say no more:

    “This Australian biography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.”

    Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marieke_Hardy”

    Posted by McAnzac on 2007 01 31 at 03:55 AM • permalink

  142. How do you solve a problem like Marieke?
    How do you catch the dog and put her down?
    How do you find a word that means Marieke?
    A treacherous cow! A communist! A clown!

    Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
    Many a thing she ought to understand
    But how do you make the bag
    Stand up ‘n’ salute the flag
    we should at least cut off her writing hand

    Oh, How do you solve a problem like Marieke?
    How do you get a moonbat like her banned?

    When I see her I’m revulsed
    want to vomit, I’m repulsed
    And I always know exactly what she’ll write
    As predictable as ever
    When she’s trying to be clever
    She’s a moron! She’s a demon! She’s a blight!

    She outstupids Bob Ellis
    Euthanasia would be best
    we could stuff the bitches mouth with our flag
    She is evil! She’s a cunt!
    She’s a matress! She’s a slut!
    She’s a headache! She’s deranged!
    She’s a hag!

    How do you solve a problem like Marieke?
    How do you catch the dog and put her down?
    How do you find a word that means Marieke?
    A treacherous cow! A communist! A clown!

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 31 at 04:34 AM • permalink

  143. LOL!

    Fess up…who did that?

    Posted by Quentin George on 2007 01 31 at 04:38 AM • permalink

  144. Well, anyone who likes Hank Williams can’t be ALL bad. I’m sure that even Stalin had a redeeming quality or two…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 01 31 at 04:51 AM • permalink

  145. she also has her own fashion label polichicks where you can buy the bob brown cushion though i wouldn’t want BB anywhere near my nether regions

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 31 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  146. We have a new Champion!!!

    Eeniemeenie,

    I bow and genuflect before your Greatness!!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 31 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  147. Just caught the Joan Kirner handbag at the Polichicks website.

    I heard that Joan discovered the secret of eternal life: she wears dresses that she shouldn’t be caught dead in.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  148. #140

    Hey Albury Shifton, have you noticed that young Marieke wants to be Bob Ellis!!?

    Shit! I didn’t notice! She does too!

    So this show she did was on Channel Seven? I would have though, she being a Hardy and all that, that it’d be more an ABC thing. If so, the interview would go something like this:

    ABC Exec.: So, you’ve got a new show you want us to air. What are your credentials?

    Marieke: I’m Frank Hardy’s granddaughter

    ABC Exec.: Frank Hardy?? Would you like to stick your tongue in my ear?

    Marieke: Buy me dinner, and it’s a deal!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 05:01 AM • permalink

  149. She’s also written for, and appeared in, Neighbours - something people actually watch.

    Amazing.

    Posted by David Morgan on 2007 01 31 at 05:25 AM • permalink

  150. Looking at that Polichicks site, they haven’t had a news update since December 2004. I was taken aback with one of their news items announcing that John Howard had called an election before realising how old it was. Not sure Polichicks is a going concern based on that.

    Posted by Francis H on 2007 01 31 at 05:29 AM • permalink

  151. #142   -  Ennie   -  Sensational!

    Posted by LaoHuLi on 2007 01 31 at 05:34 AM • permalink

  152. oooops…....Sorry Eenie

    Posted by LaoHuLi on 2007 01 31 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  153. Now that the shock’s subsided a little I just noticed that the operative word is not “wants”, but she actually YEARNS to be BOB ELLIS!! (I’m not making this shit up!)

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 05:56 AM • permalink

  154. Nice job whoever did the Wikipedia edit.

    Much to my disgust I see that she went to the same school as me, though many years later thank god. The irony here is that this lefty scion of a communist dynasty went to one of the more expensive private schools in Melbourne. Bloody hypocrites (not that that’s surprising of course).

    Posted by Burbank on 2007 01 31 at 05:57 AM • permalink

  155. Yes, indeedy, eeniemeenie, very good.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 31 at 06:02 AM • permalink

  156. AAAHHH! BOLD ATTACK!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 31 at 06:03 AM • permalink

  157. Another silver spoon bolshie..
    “Carey Baptist Grammar School alumni” from the wikpedia entry above. What was her old man doing as a good commie sending her there??

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 31 at 06:03 AM • permalink

  158. Burbank

    Bugger beat me to it!

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 31 at 06:04 AM • permalink

  159. How embarassing!  I don’t know how to fix the problem I created!

    Help!!

    Posted by LaoHuLi on 2007 01 31 at 06:07 AM • permalink

  160. stand aside…

    there.

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 31 at 06:10 AM • permalink

  161. WOT?? try again

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 31 at 06:11 AM • permalink

  162. That’s better.

    My job here is done. Must fly…

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 31 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  163. Thanks heaps kae.

    Posted by LaoHuLi on 2007 01 31 at 06:25 AM • permalink

  164. That Wikipedia article is very informative. Especially this bit:

    She appears on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR and pens a blog called Reasons You Will Hate Me, where she expresses a yearning to be Bob Ellis.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 06:25 AM • permalink

  165. BTW, how does someone actually “appear” on radio?

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  166. Read that again Albury….

    She appears on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR and pens a blog called Reasons You Will Hate Me, where she expresses a yearning to be inside Bob Ellis.

    Posted by Quentin George on 2007 01 31 at 06:37 AM • permalink

  167. Read that again Albury….

    She appears on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR and pens a blog called Reasons You Will Hate Me, where she expresses a yearning to be inside Bob Ellis.

    Oh, no! I never really could get the hang of this RWDB thing. I’m a sweetheart of a guy, really! I just worry about Bob Ellis a lot…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 06:43 AM • permalink

  168. #167

    Albury Shifton,

    sorry about this, but I thought you were female.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 31 at 06:59 AM • permalink

  169. So Marieke is a childrens’ writer. I have discovered a lost Famous Five manuscript by Enid Blyton.

    Dick: Nice dog, Fuckhead!

    George: You take that back, or I’ll kick you so hard you’ll be wearing your nutsack for a hat!

    Ann: Stop it, you two! I’ll put out for whichever one of you buys me a drink

    Julian: OMFG! Is that Bob Ellis??

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 07:01 AM • permalink

  170. #168

    sorry about this, but I thought you were female.

    I thought my beard was a dead giveaway. I must remember to spit, and scratch my groin area more…

    In fact, one RWDB once told me, that with a beard like mine, I should apply for a research grant!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 07:05 AM • permalink

  171. #142 Well done eenie!
    Add this to the “Sound of Marieke” libretto:
    Soundbites and dead sh’ites and wild indiscretions,
    Flag-burning, stomach-churning killings by Chechns,
    Terrorist tentacle porn, pollies on strings,
    These are a few of my favourite things!

    When Arafat dies, when the Oz flag flies,
    Then I’m feeling sad,
    But I simply remember that Castro is back,
    And then I don’t feel – so bad!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 01 31 at 07:08 AM • permalink

  172. Seems the Wiki-Nazis have rooned our fun, people.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  173. No’s 142 Eenie and 169, Albury, thanks guys, thats the best laugh I’ve had all day.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 31 at 07:24 AM • permalink

  174. Nother ABC regular, Red Kezza was fighting mad during 7.30 tonight. Wearing several eggs on his face he gamely attempted to conceal his chagrin at the finding against ex Atsic leader Jeff Clark -that being he was responsible for leading two pack rapes thirty years ago.
    Kezza has long elevated Clark to statesman status and mulishly defended his honour against all criticism.
    Kezza was forced to console himself by launching yet another sustained attack on the U.S via Brookings inst.
    This after being humiliatingly press ganged into hosting a newscaff show starring a bewieldered group of wrinklies calling themselves DONKEYS WITH HEART.

    Posted by crash on 2007 01 31 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  175. #38
    21 Comments:

    brokenleg said…
    I’m intrigued Ms Fits,
    What exactly would you do if I,
    1. Made tuna and artichoke sushi for you in a very public place. (points 3 and 5)
    2. Plied you with alcohol from the bar across the road.
    3. Serenaded you with a decent mix tape (made by someone else cos i aint got no musical talent).
    4. And had the whole shin-dig charged to Andrew Bolt’s credit card. (point 1).

    What would you do?
    ms fits said…
    Is this a Friday question, brokenleg?

    ms fits said…
    WELL IS IT?

    ...

    brokenleg said…
    Ms Fits,
    You can take it as a friday question or answer it now. You could even ignore it altogether.
    It’s your blog, you make the rules. I’m just a humble traveller with the day off.


    Poor lil Dear ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 31 at 07:48 AM • permalink

  176. And at the end of all that, when Ms Fits says “Yes, oh yes! Take me, I’m yours!”, Brokenleg turns out to be married! Although, from what we’ve seen of Marieke on her blog, the mere detail of marriage may not be a deal killer…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 08:04 AM • permalink

  177. Look at the bright side.  Whenever that kid and all his friends think of turning left to spite their parents in a fit of adolescent rebellion, they’ll remember Marieke’s smiling face.

    Liberal Party voters for life.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 31 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  178. Someone should have wrapped a flag around Marieke Hardy’s head.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 01 31 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  179. #31 As well as buying a flag, I am also considering a tattoo.

    Mate, do it. I got mine done straight after the Bali bombing.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 01 31 at 08:28 AM • permalink

  180. Will you please stop typing the words “Bob Ellis”.

    Everytime someone types “Bob Ellis”, a child in Africa dies.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 31 at 08:43 AM • permalink

  181. “Marieke Hardy”

    She’s hot…if you’re into well-used, nihilistic, thirty year old airheads.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 01 31 at 08:51 AM • permalink

  182. those polichix products are so earnestly twee.  if it weren’t for the fact that it would mean forking out money to fund mariachi hardly’s rancid lifestyle, modifying the gough bag would be good: it’s time - for gough to die

    Posted by KK on 2007 01 31 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  183. Paco #61:

    “scratch a cynic and you’ll find a disappointed romantic”

    i’ve been saying that, in precisely those words, to describe myself for at least 20 years.  not that i’m claiming pre-ownership…it’s one of those ideas that’s self-evident, but seldom stated.

    Posted by dub kitty on 2007 01 31 at 01:15 PM • permalink

  184. and from that photograph, i wouldn’t believe she was only 30 if she had a notarised birth certificate.

    Posted by dub kitty on 2007 01 31 at 01:21 PM • permalink

  185. While it’s plainly obvious MasterCard Marxist Marieke finds the Australian flag revolting, something tells me we could find a photo somewhere of her wearing a kaffiyeh.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 31 at 01:45 PM • permalink

  186. I’ve only skimmed the thread, but…did anyone else get the feeling that Marieke made up that entire conversation? Don’t get me wrong, I’m certain she’d love to have said it, but somehow I doubt she’d have the guts to actually say it out loud while surrounded by those oh-so-dangerous flag-wearing provocateurs.

    Posted by PW on 2007 01 31 at 02:36 PM • permalink

  187. #186: Oh, yeah. That conversation is as purely imaginary as a unicorn or a Paco product. I figured she was just bunging down a not-very-funny joke. I don’t believe for a minute she actually said that.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 03:46 PM • permalink

  188. #186
    —It’s fake but accurate!  Plastic turkey!  It speaks to a “higher truth.”

    In other words, just because reality doesn’t fit into a leftist’s worldview is no reason for that leftist to drop her worldview—change reality and not your mind.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 01 31 at 03:48 PM • permalink

  189. Paco products aren’t real??!!

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 01 31 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  190. Paco #61:

    “scratch a cynic and you’ll find a disappointed romantic”

    My mother says I was born a Cynic.  A true Cynic is merely someone who sees reality as it is, not as he might wish it to be.  It works for me because people are hardly ever as bad as I expect them to be (Ms Hardy may be an exception, as is John F’n Heinz).

    Ms Hardy is not a Cynic, she’s a pure, frustrated True Believer (TM).  Her angst, anger, even apparent hatred stem from her preferred ‘reality’ banging up against the real thing.

    And I wouldn’t do her with my worst enemy’s diseased member.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 01 31 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  191. #189.
    Paco’s just pulling your leg.  They are Publicly Available Carbon-based* Objects.

    * except for the ones that contain no carbon

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 01 31 at 04:24 PM • permalink

  192. #188, rbj1 - one does not “speak to” a higher truth, one “bespeaks” a higher truth.  Go ahead, try it.  Roll the syllables sonorously around your tongue, let the sibilants linger upon your lips.

    There, don’t you feel all supercilious and superlative?  Don’t you now find you just gosh darned care so much more than those ignorant hateful RWDBs?

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 31 at 04:25 PM • permalink

  193. #186

    Yeah, it’s been discussed earlier in this rather dauntingly large thread. It’s most likely fiction, especially given that she’s a fiction writer. And she’s a childrens’ writer.

    BTW, I found another lost Enid Blyton manuscript; Noddy this time.

    Noddy: Nice hat, Fuckhead!

    Big Ears: That’s “Big Ears”

    Noddy: Oh, sorry! I keep forgetting.

    Miss Pink Cat: Noddy, I need you to drive me to the Toytown Train Station. How much do you charge for your taxi service?

    Noddy: Sixpence. And your tongue in my ear.

    Miss Pink Cat: I never put my tongue in the ear of anyone on a first taxi ride. Well, there WAS that time with Mr Sparks, the mechanic… But he WAS playing a rather sexy CD on his car stereo at the time!

    Mr Plod: Move along Noddy. This is a “No Parking” zone

    Noddy: Nice uniform, Fascist!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 04:32 PM • permalink

  194. I agree with Jorg at #190…cynics don’t get frustrated about the lack of agreement between reality and their desired state of the world, they just stoically accept it as given and crack wise about it. Marieke Hardy merely lashes out angrily.

    BTW, somebody as devoid of wit as her writing TV comedies (well, trying to, anyway) is exactly the kind of thing that could serve to distinguish true cynicism from frustrated anger. Just try to imagine Marieke’s reaction if a writer under discussion was just as untalented as her but of a right-wing bent.

    Posted by PW on 2007 01 31 at 04:45 PM • permalink

  195. #192 Thanks Steve.  I have trouble with this higher logic in which “higher truth” > “the truth”.  But then, I am a simpleton who wants terrorists to be killed.

    And BTW, can someone turn off the bolding? It is contributing heavily to the global bolding problem.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 01 31 at 04:47 PM • permalink

  196. Bolding causes warmening.

    Be careful, people. Mother Gaia and the rest of humanity is depending on you.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 31 at 04:58 PM • permalink

  197. but i thought bold action was called for?

    Posted by dub kitty on 2007 01 31 at 05:01 PM • permalink

  198. #189 - Fear not, Dminor.
    The House of Paco produces only the finest Presidentially Approved Consumer Ornaments.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 31 at 05:13 PM • permalink

  199. #190: A true Cynic is merely someone who sees reality as it is, not as he might wish it to be. I believe that definition is more applicable to a skeptic, or simply a realist; too many people who pass themselves off as cynics really do maintain a squishy place in the heart for what is (usually) some notion drenched with the most maudlin sentimentality.  But I see your point, and agree with it. Marieke is a fake cynic.

    #189: Er, heh. Of course they’re real, Dminor. Just like unicorns. You see, what I’m sayin’ is that she really did talk that way to a kid (I know, that’s inconsistent with the rest of my comment, but you know what they say about a foolish consistency being the Margo of small minds . . .)

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 31 at 05:49 PM • permalink

  200. I knew I’d seen that mug somewhere before! Marieke is no virgin when it comes to the tender touch of the Blairites.

    A pity Darryl and his assorted brothers Darryl shat all over the thread.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  201. Good Lord, the woman’s insatiable!

    A week or so ago I took myself to dinner at Mario’s in Brunswick Street, accompanied by Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5. At a table nearby, a handsome young man sat poring over a novel of his own. He was oblivious to those around him, chewing on his fingernails, utterly immersed.

    I fell in love with him instantly. So it goes.

    Later, as her search for love intensifies:

    The night itself is slow, earthy, alive. We are in a private room at the library and there are candles lit and peanut clusters of friends whispering nervy excitements. I wait to lock eyes with a gentleman clutching a matching copy of John Kennedy Toole’s masterpiece, leading to a slow-motion balletic run across the room and an intense but discreet tongue-kissing session behind a shelf of modern feminist poetry. This, needless to say, does not instantly eventuate.

    So, she’ll put out for a total stranger who reads stuff she approves of, yet she’ll question her friendship with you, if you even have friends who vote Liberal. Is “shallow” too harsh an adjective for our friend Marieke?

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 06:33 PM • permalink

  202. She’s about as deep as an Australian capital city water storage facility; ever wonder why Australian made television is so shit? There’s your answer, in all her faux rebel, vacuous, self-absorbed, pompous, bourgeois bolshevik glory.

    She represents just about everything I hate about Australias self-appointed elite.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 01 31 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  203. I recall Frank Hardy, not long before he died, complaining that ASIO had him under surveillance back in the 1950s. Think it was in the Geraldine Doogue series on the ABC about heroes of the left in Australia.

    Hardy was more or less saying “look at me, a frail old man, what threat was I too Australia.” Of course, in the 1950s he was working towards establishing a Stalinist state in Australia. His admiration for Stalin was public and he visited the Soviet Union several times. Typically, he didn’t enlist to fight in WW2 until Hitler attacked Stalin, preferring the communist line at any friend of Stalin was a friend of them. When the truth about Stalin was revealed - and was exactly as the Americans and Menzies said - he lightly dismissed it as inconsequential.

    So Marieke has the genetic disposition to promote lost causes - including herself.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 01 31 at 07:35 PM • permalink

  204. Vote 1 for Man boobs habibAuburn it up and blow it up suburb.

    Bolding causes dangerous green house gases.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 01 31 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  205. Well, she fits 90% of this definition. Good enough for me.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 01 31 at 08:18 PM • permalink

  206. Well, what do you know! I found a rough draught of Tolkien’s.

    Galadriel: Nice ring, fuckhead.

    Sauron: Whatever.

    Galadriel: Why are you even wearing that? Do you have any idea what you’re doing?

    Sauron: Mordor pride, man.

    Galadriel: Go and die.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 11:03 PM • permalink

  207. #205, only 90%?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 31 at 11:14 PM • permalink

  208. Anyone notice Jeremy/Mr lefty/Catlover (man I am confused what do you label the guy) popped up in the comments thread?

    Posted by Anthony_ on 2007 02 01 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  209. #208

    Yeah, we noticed. The guy has almost as many pseudonyms as that chick, er Whatshername? ...Marieke…Ms Fits…Diana Elgar(suspected), etc.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 01 at 01:34 AM • permalink

  210. Meanwhile, back at her blog, Ms Fits comes clean:

    1. I certainly engaged with flag-wearers during the BDO, and the language occasionally grew ‘colourful’. But this blog is a precis of emotional points rather than a word-for-word recollection of actual events. If people can’t figure that out they are morons.

    Quelle surprise.


    2. I call people in their mid-twenties children as I am aged and worldly.

    So the suspicions of many here were correct. The whole incident was about “truthiness”, not truth, as we in the boring “Andrew Bolt” world, where people actually pay attention to words as written, and not the emotions purported to be behind them, would understand it.

    And I’m starting to write Classical Greek style sentences again…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 01 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  211. My guess is we do not have the entire story.
    Perhaps it went something like this:

    I have always privately enjoyed the young lads attending the Big Day Out in matching uniforms and watched them parade past with a kind of grandmotherly chuckle and a mild ‘aren’t they sweet’ murmur.
    It’s odd being thirty years old and suddenly feeling like a foolish teenager.

    I wanted to hang out with racy Gracie but assumed that people were staring at us and pitying our sartorial choices. Eventually she bunked off home with her feller and I was free to roam the festival looking ridiculous on my own. Good times.I ended up at the local pub.

    There I was in the corner, dry-humping the pinball machine and in walked a rather tasty young lad draped in a fetching Australian flag ensemble.

    “So what do you do?” I asked eventually, trying to surreptitiously look up his pants.
    “If you buy me a drink, I’ll stick my tongue in your ear”, I ventured.

    “Aren’t you a bit old for this stuff?”, he asked.

    I grew increasingly cross, even without alcohol coursing through my veins and turning me into the kind of screeching harpy best left alone in the corner of a pub dry-humping the pinball machine.

    Me: Nice flag, fuckhead.

    Moron child: Whatever.

    Me: Why are you even wearing that? Do you have any idea what you’re doing?

    Moron child: Aussie pride, man.

    Me: Go and die.

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 02 01 at 04:43 AM • permalink

  212. #211

    Unlike the Ms Fits version, yours sounds entirely plausible.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 01 at 04:47 AM • permalink

  213. Mastercard Marxist? I have been using the term “credit card bohemian” for nearly 10 years… is there a breach of patent here?

    This cretin is responsible for “short cuts” and “last man standing”?

    now everything is explained…
    Shortcuts was full of bitter and twisted teenage characters - who seemed to come to the defence of their useless media teacher who taught them nothing and let them do as they pleased. No flag bearing here…

    Last man standing was one of the most overhyped pieces of garbage, that if I recall correctly, the SMH and Age were madly promoting? Cancelled before most the episodes could be aired. The stub in Wikipedia blames a general down turn in viewers for local content for it’s demise.. HA!

    ugh, that was an awful trip down memory lane.

    Posted by CanberraNeoCon on 2007 02 01 at 07:29 AM • permalink

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