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Zut Alors's avatar

'Richard Marles, defence minister and the man who looks like the KC that just lost your VCAT case...'

You are unnaturally kind to Marles, Rundle. Possibly your acidity is in short supply after the pieces on Tim Wilson...which were extremely entertaining.

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M Smith's avatar

I feel like we are playing kingpin or handball or whatever you called it in Victoria. I want to peg the ball at you really hard. You are taking the piss. What is this? What game are we even playing now? You have dropped the ball.

You are playing yourself saying "They won because of this and should've done shiv harder." Who cares? I've almost come full circle. Maybe it's not about the winning. Maybe it's not about the politics. Maybe .... remember why you got into this game. You still write a few long form essays on arena, so I know you do. You are almost there. But I know what you mean about ozempic. I had never heard of another person craving curry powder in everything and I want to drink more wine, yet I don't get drunk! Anyway an old gp in Long Jetty rolled his eyes and put me on Topiramate. It's 5.99 and feels exactly the same as ozempic.

I take it at night, wake up needing to do a gastro poo - worse than ozempic, no appetite all day except, well same as if you start eating on ozempic you are full quickly, you smell and have the craving but as soon as you get into the car, it's forgotten. I'll start to make something, and the smell is overwhelming, changed my mind, couldn't be bothered - somehow I have just been sated by the smell.

And this is the weirdest thing. Sex. It's not like I do or don't want to have sex, but on balance, he was on the couch for snoring, so ... yeah. I am not horny at all, which I hate, but as soon as he starts doing the thing, my body does it's thing but it feels mechanical and I can't really feel it, even though my body is responding as though I am feeling it. So I have an orgasm that I can't really feel.

It's hard isn't it. I can't tell my man enough that he's 56 and I don't care if he's 100kgs. Over that, it's getting too heavy and the snoring, but asthetically, we dont see each other that way any more so I know I shouldn't be so obsessed with worrying about looking good. I was taking Wegovy for a few months after being convinced by this:

https://recursiveadaptation.com/

I was drinking too much. Didn't help though.

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Philip's avatar

Here I was hoping Zoe and Peter George might win and form a in-House (of Reps) hate media bench from which to haunt Dutton.

Not enough out reach to then mentally ill then. I support Wilkie's approach.

As a Griffith voter I can report that 300 community BBQs & 1000 school breakfasts weren't enough outreach to save Max. Perhaps he too should have door knocked the few remaining boarding houses or NDIS group homes.

Looking forward to your follow up piece explicating the failures in Max's theory of politics. I thought the housing strategy was correct - call out the fraudulent ALP poligcy shams. But tactically an abject failure by becoming associated with blocking more housing.

Also not sure why Max didn't take note of the fact that if no-one in the ALP will defend the CFMEUs shenanigans then you're best off giving them a wide berth too.

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CyberneticOstrich's avatar

I dunno how comfortable I'd be writing "the AEC is like a teenager who just discovered Rimbaud" and then following it with "like a sort of Minimax version of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?" and "like a sort of gladioli Gladio operation". You can't make hay of calling someone else excitable while demonstrating such prosaic excitability in public gaze, old chap.

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