Sunday, 27 January 2013

Shrieking at the tennis and other stupidities



  1. From: g87
    Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:32 AM
    Subject: Shrieking at the tennis and other stupidities

    Shrieking at the tennis and other stupidities
    Peter Crammond is correct in his letter about what is plainly yet another strange acceptance of unsportsman - like [woman!] behaviour from mainly female tennis players. ''Caterwauling and shrieking noises''
    Letters 26 - 7 / January

    But tennis has so many stupidities:

    1. Having gained an advantage over your opponent - and injuries are only one manifestation - the disadvantaged dear gets a nice massage - or is allowed disparate interruptions to the game!
    2. Anyone remember the strange wet - bulb thermometer rule a couple of years ago? It was used to torture tennis players on hot days. All to satisfy an ethic idiotic about the tournament remaining 'open' - irrespective of the trauma to players and spectators!
    3. The 'let' rule is absurd, the 'deuce - advantage' scenario which makes tennis into derivated cricket matches have major procedural flaws.
    4. Not that the administrators care - they have sponsors all over them - and none complain!
    Geoff Seidner
    13 Alston Gr
    East St Kilda 3183
    03 9525 9299



    1. http://2012.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/articles/2012-01-24/201201231327301637618.html
    2. mnbnb
    3. Grunting (tennis) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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      Grunting in tennis refers to the loud noise, sometimes described as "shrieking" or "screaming", made by some players during their strokes. It is prominent in ...

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  4. Grunting (tennis) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Grunting in tennis refers to the loud noise, sometimes described as "shrieking" or "screaming", made by some players during their strokes. It is prominent in ...



    Shrieking at the tennis
    MODERN tennis was invented in 1872 with the first Wimbledon in 1877.
    For the next 120 years all players, including those top-ranked, were able to participate in this sport in near silence. Why then is it necessary for many players, particularly women, to accentuate their shot-making with various caterwauling and shrieking noises, apart from it being a means of disadvantaging their opponents? Has there been a study on how many TVs get switched off when these screamers are in action?
    Peter Crammond, Kadina, SA


Friday, 25 January 2013

Hello Jon Faine I am sorry that my parody of you...


From: g87
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:56 AM
Subject: APOLOGY TO JON FAINE
Please refer to link.
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Hello Jon Faine
I am sorry that my parody of yourself [see below] was such as to make it impossible for you to respond: I am not able to solve this problem. The left - of which you are a proud card - carrying member are not known for having a sense of perspective or  humour.

Indeed - taking any argument postulated by skilled conservatives - you are always found out: socialism is absurd. They do not like things measurable, accountable - preferring waffle.

Kindly prove one of your luvvies  major policies to be viable / correct - whatever basis you wish to espouse where matters measurable are indeed extant / can be held to account?
Or the obverse - which is really the same - prove any of my entries in my blogs to be in error! 

Oh dear!

THIS IS COURAGEOUS OF ME - THINK OF IT: ALL I NEED MAKE IS ONE DEFINABLE ERROR OR ILLOGICALITY!
AND YOU OF COURSE HAVE MADE HUNDREDS - FROM WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - TO ECONOMIC [IR]RATIONALISM - TO CLIMATE LUNACY - TO GAY MATTERS - why you cannot loose, Jon!


Make sure that it is clear and specific - and then I will respond.
I guess gay marriage - and all attendant rubbish -  will be too difficult for you now that I blew it away. ESPECIALLY IF YOU OPEN THE LINKS HEREIN. Bettina makes great reading; how sad for you.

I am not able to solve this problem: I could make some terrible faux pas and thus tempt you.
But that would not not be much fun - as playing hypothetical devil's advocate is not much of a defence.



BETTINA ARNDT: children with same-sex parents

Sunday 4/12/11 Remember the voting majority, Labo...

Regards
Geoff Seidner



From: g87
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:05 PM
Subject: Attention Jon Faine
Hello Jon
This morning at 10.59 am on radio 774 you had a caller saying that homosexual sexual relations are ‘’not normal.’’
It took you a few seconds for you to come up with this rejoinder:
‘’Are you saying that it is sexual assault?’’

There was no opportunity for the non – brilliant caller to respond: the news intervened. Maybe that is why you put him on air at this time?
There were lots of lovey callers -= and you - extolling the homosexual lifestyle: you should send me the text of the 30 mins before this caller: it may cause me to look differently on the next guy who winks at me!!!

I have a problem with what you did to this non – brilliant caller. It was outrageous.

Not only did your flimsy trite comment not follow on, it was absurdly unfair as it is simply NOT 'normal'!
By any criterion it is not normal” - it is not normal because the vast majority of homo sapiens ARE ‘normal’ – and gays / lesbians: whatever you call those people who are attracted to the same sex – are indeed not normal – in any context. 99 to 1!!
This term you deem to be pejorative – and maybe it is.
It is not my intention to go into a prolix discussion as to whether the caller intended it so.
Probably he did.
Irrelevant.
That is his bias to have; mine is that nice young gays and lesbians should be able to get together...
Poor humour attempted.

I understand it cannot be; they like doing what they do – I intend to not discuss it.

BUT – I verily tell you Jon – that their respective liaisons – if replicated by the 99% of the population – would result in the ignominious end of the human race!
They of course could all indulge in IVF / sperm – donation – but of course this hypothetical attempt to save humanity would be as silly as the idea that children of gay unions are happy to be so accursed!
Kids can be cruel at hypothetical sleep – overs, Jon! Sarcasm intended – if you get it Jon.

THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO INSIST IN THEIR SAD REFRAINS ABOUT HOW HAPPY THEY ARE, JON!!
WHAT ELSE DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO SAY? HOW DO YOU GET AT THEIR REAL FEELINGS, JON?
THERE MUST BE MAJOR PAPERS ON THIS SOMEWHERE – NOT DIFFICULT TO FIND IF I COULD BE BOTHERED. BUT DO NOT LOOK ON THE DRUM – ABC LEFTIST SITE OF ALL THINGS OF THE PROGRESSIVES, THERE WILL SURELY BE BRILLIANT PAPERS WHICH DEBUNKS THE LEFT’S FURPHY EXTRAORDINAIRE.
BUT IT HAS WORKED – BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT BRILLIANT JON!! But I digressed.

SO – let it be understood – THEY AIN’T NORMAL! PERIOD

Please do not argue the decimal point toss – and insist that they represent 10% – I have no time for statistical tomfoolery leading gays regularly indulge in. It is outside of the domain of this epistle.
IT STILL WOULD NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE – YOU WERE OUT OF ORDER!
Kindly confirm that you will at least try to not be so unfair to people you do not agree with. Apologies for being patronizing: I cannot help it.

Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183
03 9 525 9299








Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Is that all there is to Carr’s love?



From: g87
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: Is that all there is to Carr's love?


Is that all there is to Carr’s love?

Bob Carr and Labor are great for non - creative, disingenuous 'twaddled' cliches like ''enhanced Palestinian status in the UN'' in describing Australia's shameful status in creating said absurd status for any / all Palestinian groups.
It matters not to Carr that tiny democratic Israel is defacto being forced to give up ever - greater territory for the sop of the non - credible mellifluous – sounding so - called 'two - state solution.'
This will come about via in the magic - mushroom world in which our Foreign Minister resides.
  • Glibly he ignores what is openly stated in the Palestinian Authority and Hamas' Constitutions about destroying Israel. it is not a secret.
  • Ethereally he merely ask the nice terrorists to stop bombing Israel. His ''communique urged the Palestinians to resolve their internal differences and cease acts of violence against Israel and in particular, to abide by the terms of the Gaza ceasefire and to stop all rocket attacks.".Internal differences, huh? Nice one that! Is that all there is to love, Carr style?
  • Or pleasantly points out that: '' Also, on January 7, I said Hamas must recognise "the reality of Israel" and "the need to have a settlement in the Middle East based on recognition of Israel, security for Israel, and a Palestinian state". That is the language we want to hear emerging from Gaza.’’ Really! Diplomatic twaddle with a twange of Orwellian humbug! Or as Julia sadly, pathetically said – ‘’We are us’’ Indeed this is Carrspeak. Laborspeak. Diplomatic verbiage galore.
  • Absurdly the innate contradiction in the above with seemingly accepting Israeli settlements as above and how he '' wanted to send a message to Israel on settlements'' does not occur to Carr.
  • Indeed - BC also touts the following: '' ...but also let Palestinians know there is no substitute for direct negotiations without preconditions'' It never occurs to his Bobness that negotiations are innately impossible with enemies who openly want to kill your children et al – who will talk only through terror – as espoused in their written constitutions.
Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
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  1. Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is? – YouTube

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No evidence of annoyance

YOUR editorial argues that by abstaining on Palestinian status we "annoyed" the Obama administration ("Israel settles down for election", 21/1).
There is no evidence for this. Nor is there evidence of US annoyance with Britain, France, Germany, Holland or any of the Scandinavian countries that also either abstained or voted yes on the question of enhanced Palestinian status in the UN.
As with us, the other US allies who abstained wanted to send a message to Israel on settlements but also let Palestinians know there is no substitute for direct negotiations without preconditions.
You say there was no reference to those who want to destroy Israel in the communique after the January 18 talks between me and British Foreign Secretary William Hague. In fact that communique urged the Palestinians to "resolve their internal differences and cease acts of violence against Israel" and in particular, to "abide by the terms of the Gaza ceasefire and to stop all rocket attacks".
Also, on January 7, I said Hamas must recognise "the reality of Israel" and "the need to have a settlement in the Middle East based on recognition of Israel, security for Israel, and a Palestinian state". That is the language we want to hear emerging from Gaza.
Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canberra, ACT

Monday, 21 January 2013

THE CARTOON EX LOEBBECKE'S BLOG!

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/ericlobbecke/index.php/theaustralian/comments/gillard_can_make_a_comeback_from_her_mistakes



Eric Lobbecke Blog | 18January 2013|0 Comments
Julia Gillard can make a comeback from her mistakes says Graham Richardson on today’s opinion page.
The phoenix is this scribbler’s favourite metaphor for a Lazarus-type resurrection.

And don’t forget the LONG PICTURE, a visual depiction of the year’s events all in one drawing. Add your idea as a comment, and I will choose one to draw into the picture.

LOEBBECKE CENSORED BY THE OZ BUT NO APOLOGY!






From: g87
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:55 PM
Subject: LOEBBECKE CENSORED BY THE OZ BUT NO APOLOGY!
Chris Mitchell,
Mr Murdoch et al
Gentlemen
The cartoon that was passed on 19/1 by the editor is a disgrace – A NAZI FAXIMILIE!!!
There are multiple questions:
  1. How could the cartoonist conjour such an obscenity?
  2. How could you guys pass it?
  3. How could you withdraw it and not deem it necessary to apologize?
Kindly apologize as my letter request: link above.
Geoff Seidner



From: g87
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:42 PM
Subject: LOEBBECKE CENSORED BY THE OZ BUT NO APOLOGY!


Having returned from holidays on Friday 18/1 we were shocked to find Nazi - type adornment to Graham Richardson's otherwise at best trite article Gillard's survival technique.
Your three excellent letter writers on Saturday 19/1 resulted in your removal of the grossly offensive Lobbecke cartoon.

To date you have not formally apologized for this terrible lapse: I guess Jews should be grateful that the Star Of David strangling PM Gillard was not yellow.

Nor was any other comparison appropriate with Leunig: it was worse!

I request an formal apology at the foot of my published letter - as well as in a prominent place in your paper.

I understand you have had a formal complaint from the Jewish community.

Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183

January (39)

Thursday, 10 January 2013

BRAND NEW SYNDROME!



From: g87

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:22 AM
Subject: BRAND NEW SYNDROME!

BRAND NEW SYNDROME!
I think Peter Nicholson may have created a valid criticism via his depiction of Tony Abbott. He will surely be accused by the guys of creating a brand - new syndrome: hypertichoris - hirsutis in his New cycling confession The Australian 10/1.
At least Nicola Roxon is now moving to attack the bicycle industry for not anatomically designing seats.
Perhaps she is not a misandrist after all?
Her article - Protecting speech is a balancing act 10/1 - will be seen as fodder for skilled parodists - whose works will be declared illegal.

That is how Labored [oops] this mob is - I expect that Swanee will not take kindly as being depicted by Lobbecke as a cross between a hobo with wolf - foot and knapsack on his back!


LINK:
Swan searches for a surplus strategy


Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.


Geoff Seidner
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The Happy Wanderer


I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.
I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
"Come! Join my happy song!"
I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev'ry green wood tree.
High overhead, the skylarks wing,
They never rest at home
But just like me, they love to sing,
As o'er the world we roam.
Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
Oh, may I always laugh and sing,
Beneath God's clear blue sky!
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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Great Nicholson cartoon on Gillard's bum



Great Nicholson cartoon on Gillard's bum
  • Note Peter Nicholson's great cartoon of Gillard measuring her over - generous nether regions.
  • “You've got a big arse, Julia, just get on with it'' Greer has a germaine idea on ABC's Q & A 20/3/12
  • As Attorney General Nicola Roxon goes from blunder to mega  blunders in trying to stop criticism of her government. Nicola Roxon's discrimination laws draw flak from media.
  • Then note the headlines in The Oz about Chinese censorship and how they may ''reform'' labor [sic] camps. Hopes rise that new leader intends to reform Mao's hated labour camps. Or, Beijing ordered editorials denying censorship.
All in one day in your great journal.Jan. 9.
It is understood that mockery and parody will destroy this govermment before the Labor camps are instituted!

Or will I be hit with the new suite of misogyny laws?

Geoff Seidner

2013 (24)

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