Councils should spend their money on making sure Fogo bags are readily available. (as well as 'looking after" all our other rubbish!) You used to be able to pick them up at Council Chambers and at rubbish drop off sites - now you have to order them online & hope they arrive! If they don't get to you, you are told "You can buy them in Coles!"...No b... way! I pay my rates & taxes on time and that is the least they can provide me with! .... and when I read James' article about all the other stupid things they spend our money on, I will dig my toes in even more!
I am disappointed that our kids are kept in ignorance of the neccicity of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . I , as a boy and young man had the privilege of being aquainted with old gents who had been Prisoners of War of the japs Wally, Old Jimmy, Ralf ,Ted and Mums cousin . To sit around a table ,over a beer and just listened to them was enough to bring a tear to my cynical eye . I could fill pages but one anecdote was that Ralf was working night shift in a jap coal mine and was dragged out of his bunk by his excited mates RALF YER GOTTA SEE THIS ,Ralf was bloody annoyed but went out anyway in time to see this huge mushroom of flame boiling up into the sky .His first impression ? Jeez something good has happened . They were 11 nautical miles from ground zero Nagasaki .One other notable was also when I lived in the Pilbara I was well aquainted with a station owner and used to share a beast a couple of times a year with a few friends One occasion I went to help cut the beef up and a mate of mine brought his uncle Wally with him . Both Old Jim and Wally were on the Burma railway and were known to each other from those days . Just before we all left Old Jim came out of the cool room with a rump of beef ,about 15kg of prime beef and said there you go Digger sorry it took so long . Wally started to cry and it took me a few minutes for the significance of that to sink in and now when I hear any of the wankers saying nasty Americans blah bloody blah Poor japs I get so bloody well annoyed that I could spit.
We have council elections coming up g up don’t we? But the lack of information about candidates is deafening.
We have had scooters for a little while and I hate them!!! Council put these electric scooters with helmets that no one wears. They are banned on footpaths but that doesn’t stop anyone. These harbingers of death are dangerous to riders and pedestrians alike. They are left all over the footpath. We have had riders either yell at us to get out of the way or come up silently behind - I hate them and e-bikes. Councils could be replaced with administrators. I have lived in two areas where we had that and it was wonderful.
If they are that amored with scooters what would the lord mayoral scooter look like ,robes and chains billowing in the wind as he /her / it /?went about council official business ?
European cities are covered in graffiti. It really spoils everything. When we were in Paris last year I could not quite believe how dirty, crowded and sad it was. Graffiti too.
The last time i visited Paris was in 2009. It was very crowded and not as nice as I expected. Seeing the footage of all the riots from the extreme left, makes me have no desire to visit again :(
James' wisdom & wit provides informative opinion & revelation. Local councils seem to think they have prerogative to act like malicious mobsters & dictators than legitimate public service, the power they have accrued over few decades has given them carte blanche to abuse their role as public service with impunity. They no longer resemble a public service but a malicious advocacy cabal of mafioso henchmen in service of the liberal left, & to hell with the general public. They have morphed into a malicious oppressive dictatorial proxy regime on behest of state & federal government, & we the people must now bow down, surrender our God-given human rights & freedoms of conscience as citizens, capitulate to malicious oppressive dictatorial demands of local council mobsters or else endure the brutal intolerance & wrath of the state. Yes, we must all bow down to local council mobsters, we must bow down & embrace as "moral" & "normal" the bizzarro depraved oppressive ideology of reprobate leftist council mobsters, advocates espousing, i.e., welcome to country, stolen land, stolen children, white privilege, white racism, (remember the lesson now, that all colored black people are perfect & immune from feelings of hate & racism, all white people are born hateful & racist, all colored people are born perfect without sin of hate & racism, & people with a white father & black mother or black father & white mother, well they too are special & born perfect without sin of hate & racism), pronouns, gender confusion, homosexuality, transgender, gay pride, what is a male, what is a female, all White Christians "evil", all Muslims "good", Australia Day "evil, White Colonialism "evil", all other traditions & cultures & religions "good", etc. And all who refuse to bow down & embrace the bizzarro depraved oppressive ideology of reprobate leftist council mobsters' advocates' will Not be tolerated in society, they must be cognitively rehabilitated, lobotomized, reset, banished from society, crushed like insects.
Of course Yarra City Council don't have time to get rid of the rubbish - they're too busy creating it. And the stench of their rubbish is far more revolting than any car-flattened cane toad or maggot-infested wheelie bin I have ever had the misfortune of smelling!
Thanks James for your informative and extremely funny takes on all that is going on. In regard to your raising the LGTBQ ... + brigade and their flags and incessant wanting more attention and approval, I have begun to realise why the older generations considered it good manners not to talk about sex in polite society. Perhaps they were prophets who had a knowing that if that can of worms was opened one day in the future there would be people who would not let anyone else get a word in and to dominate others.
It certainly la la land. I live in a semi rural council with atrocious roads but the council has similar woke views as the Yarra. Not insignificant money spent on gap pride festivals, flags, library programs, supporting Hamas, all the woke agendas. Their fix for the roads? Put up 60kph speed signs on rural roads, sometimes for kilometres. Many councillors aspire to Parliament, so are just airing their credentials, doing their party apprenticeship, with little concern for their local constituents. So yes they do have delusions of granduer.
La La land indeed! Recruiting from the endeavor workshop ,or even Centrelink is a good idea. It is funny, but a sad indictment of our society in this very strange 21 st century. But it could be a good idea for the Yarra council to leave bins to have rotting garbage on the footpath. Think of the maggots that could be harvested to replace that terrible carbon producing beef! Maybe there is method to their madness after all!
You overlooked Sydney City Council entering international politics and voting to be part of the anti Israel BDS world. Divesting from dealing with Israel and its products. Maybe that’s why Sydney City Council has introduced all those bike lanes? They might want to divest entirely from Israeli inventions and send its rate payers back into the 1970,s
Maybe they should ban everything that contains inventions made by Jewish people. That would be so wonderfully woke and put them back in the primitive stone age with the Aborigines 236 yeas ago.
And the Mitcham Council in SA just released a community survey where 70% of respondents wanted Australia Day celebrations on the actual Australia Day. Within 4 hours of receiving this information they voted to avoid Australia Day celebrations for the years 2025 to 2040.
Now that's being in touch with your community. Only (but not only) in Mitcham.
Well, since the Mitcham Council members have voted to avoid Australia Day celebrations, I am presuming that they will be very happy to go to work on the 26th January for the next 16 years, while everyone else is out having fun celebrating Australia day, having barbeques, swimming at the beach and in pools, playing lawn bowls and cricket in the backyard and picnicking by lakes etc.???
I mean, just because the Mitcham Council has chosen not to celebrate Australia day, doesn't mean everyone else has to follow suit. In fact, the locals should do the opposite and make their own arrangements to celebrate it more than ever. Their council can find a corner in the office and enjoy being miserable all day long on Australia day, all on their own!!
Councils should spend their money on making sure Fogo bags are readily available. (as well as 'looking after" all our other rubbish!) You used to be able to pick them up at Council Chambers and at rubbish drop off sites - now you have to order them online & hope they arrive! If they don't get to you, you are told "You can buy them in Coles!"...No b... way! I pay my rates & taxes on time and that is the least they can provide me with! .... and when I read James' article about all the other stupid things they spend our money on, I will dig my toes in even more!
I am disappointed that our kids are kept in ignorance of the neccicity of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . I , as a boy and young man had the privilege of being aquainted with old gents who had been Prisoners of War of the japs Wally, Old Jimmy, Ralf ,Ted and Mums cousin . To sit around a table ,over a beer and just listened to them was enough to bring a tear to my cynical eye . I could fill pages but one anecdote was that Ralf was working night shift in a jap coal mine and was dragged out of his bunk by his excited mates RALF YER GOTTA SEE THIS ,Ralf was bloody annoyed but went out anyway in time to see this huge mushroom of flame boiling up into the sky .His first impression ? Jeez something good has happened . They were 11 nautical miles from ground zero Nagasaki .One other notable was also when I lived in the Pilbara I was well aquainted with a station owner and used to share a beast a couple of times a year with a few friends One occasion I went to help cut the beef up and a mate of mine brought his uncle Wally with him . Both Old Jim and Wally were on the Burma railway and were known to each other from those days . Just before we all left Old Jim came out of the cool room with a rump of beef ,about 15kg of prime beef and said there you go Digger sorry it took so long . Wally started to cry and it took me a few minutes for the significance of that to sink in and now when I hear any of the wankers saying nasty Americans blah bloody blah Poor japs I get so bloody well annoyed that I could spit.
We have council elections coming up g up don’t we? But the lack of information about candidates is deafening.
We have had scooters for a little while and I hate them!!! Council put these electric scooters with helmets that no one wears. They are banned on footpaths but that doesn’t stop anyone. These harbingers of death are dangerous to riders and pedestrians alike. They are left all over the footpath. We have had riders either yell at us to get out of the way or come up silently behind - I hate them and e-bikes. Councils could be replaced with administrators. I have lived in two areas where we had that and it was wonderful.
If they are that amored with scooters what would the lord mayoral scooter look like ,robes and chains billowing in the wind as he /her / it /?went about council official business ?
People actually vote for these clowns, and continue to vote for them. Incredible!
“… on scooters, waving pride flags, tut-tutting hamburgers” 😂😂😂
Why can't they spend that money cleaning the graffiti on Hoddle St and surrounding areas.
That whole area is just dirty and no one would ever feel safe walking around there at night.
European cities are covered in graffiti. It really spoils everything. When we were in Paris last year I could not quite believe how dirty, crowded and sad it was. Graffiti too.
The last time i visited Paris was in 2009. It was very crowded and not as nice as I expected. Seeing the footage of all the riots from the extreme left, makes me have no desire to visit again :(
I will bet that the Games will turn into a clustrtf--k as well.
One can only hope.
James' wisdom & wit provides informative opinion & revelation. Local councils seem to think they have prerogative to act like malicious mobsters & dictators than legitimate public service, the power they have accrued over few decades has given them carte blanche to abuse their role as public service with impunity. They no longer resemble a public service but a malicious advocacy cabal of mafioso henchmen in service of the liberal left, & to hell with the general public. They have morphed into a malicious oppressive dictatorial proxy regime on behest of state & federal government, & we the people must now bow down, surrender our God-given human rights & freedoms of conscience as citizens, capitulate to malicious oppressive dictatorial demands of local council mobsters or else endure the brutal intolerance & wrath of the state. Yes, we must all bow down to local council mobsters, we must bow down & embrace as "moral" & "normal" the bizzarro depraved oppressive ideology of reprobate leftist council mobsters, advocates espousing, i.e., welcome to country, stolen land, stolen children, white privilege, white racism, (remember the lesson now, that all colored black people are perfect & immune from feelings of hate & racism, all white people are born hateful & racist, all colored people are born perfect without sin of hate & racism, & people with a white father & black mother or black father & white mother, well they too are special & born perfect without sin of hate & racism), pronouns, gender confusion, homosexuality, transgender, gay pride, what is a male, what is a female, all White Christians "evil", all Muslims "good", Australia Day "evil, White Colonialism "evil", all other traditions & cultures & religions "good", etc. And all who refuse to bow down & embrace the bizzarro depraved oppressive ideology of reprobate leftist council mobsters' advocates' will Not be tolerated in society, they must be cognitively rehabilitated, lobotomized, reset, banished from society, crushed like insects.
These people need to get a real job, however they're probably there because they couldn't get a real job.
Of course Yarra City Council don't have time to get rid of the rubbish - they're too busy creating it. And the stench of their rubbish is far more revolting than any car-flattened cane toad or maggot-infested wheelie bin I have ever had the misfortune of smelling!
Thanks James for your informative and extremely funny takes on all that is going on. In regard to your raising the LGTBQ ... + brigade and their flags and incessant wanting more attention and approval, I have begun to realise why the older generations considered it good manners not to talk about sex in polite society. Perhaps they were prophets who had a knowing that if that can of worms was opened one day in the future there would be people who would not let anyone else get a word in and to dominate others.
It certainly la la land. I live in a semi rural council with atrocious roads but the council has similar woke views as the Yarra. Not insignificant money spent on gap pride festivals, flags, library programs, supporting Hamas, all the woke agendas. Their fix for the roads? Put up 60kph speed signs on rural roads, sometimes for kilometres. Many councillors aspire to Parliament, so are just airing their credentials, doing their party apprenticeship, with little concern for their local constituents. So yes they do have delusions of granduer.
La La land indeed! Recruiting from the endeavor workshop ,or even Centrelink is a good idea. It is funny, but a sad indictment of our society in this very strange 21 st century. But it could be a good idea for the Yarra council to leave bins to have rotting garbage on the footpath. Think of the maggots that could be harvested to replace that terrible carbon producing beef! Maybe there is method to their madness after all!
As the maggots mature ,let them join the alp and elect them to parliament .
They couldn't be any worse
You have great ideas, Dianne.
Thank you Jillian, these people leave themselves wide open
Thanks James another thought provoking article.
You overlooked Sydney City Council entering international politics and voting to be part of the anti Israel BDS world. Divesting from dealing with Israel and its products. Maybe that’s why Sydney City Council has introduced all those bike lanes? They might want to divest entirely from Israeli inventions and send its rate payers back into the 1970,s
Maybe they should ban everything that contains inventions made by Jewish people. That would be so wonderfully woke and put them back in the primitive stone age with the Aborigines 236 yeas ago.
And the Mitcham Council in SA just released a community survey where 70% of respondents wanted Australia Day celebrations on the actual Australia Day. Within 4 hours of receiving this information they voted to avoid Australia Day celebrations for the years 2025 to 2040.
Now that's being in touch with your community. Only (but not only) in Mitcham.
Well, since the Mitcham Council members have voted to avoid Australia Day celebrations, I am presuming that they will be very happy to go to work on the 26th January for the next 16 years, while everyone else is out having fun celebrating Australia day, having barbeques, swimming at the beach and in pools, playing lawn bowls and cricket in the backyard and picnicking by lakes etc.???
I mean, just because the Mitcham Council has chosen not to celebrate Australia day, doesn't mean everyone else has to follow suit. In fact, the locals should do the opposite and make their own arrangements to celebrate it more than ever. Their council can find a corner in the office and enjoy being miserable all day long on Australia day, all on their own!!
Government not FOR, but IN SPITE of the people.
Haha hilarious James!!!
Local councils have forgotten they are just that; local & should, as you rightly say, stick to the basics of potholes, lawns & rubbish collection.
Love the Homer Simpson/Julius Caesar analogy 😂😂