I HATE the Eagles, right up there near if not at the top of that short list (add Essendon and the list drops way off to #3 and beyond).

I’m in agreement on the Eagles, not so much on the (mighty) Bombers…

On the informals…

I reckon that many of them were young people, personally.

Just an interesting aside.
As a polling booth worker, I helped with last night’s count at our booth.

Remember the “ticks are yes, and crosses are not nos” beat up this week?
I was at a booth with about 1800 votes counted,. in a lower socio-economic area:

Number of ballot papers with a tick: 0
Number of ballot papers with a cross: 0
Number of informal: about 10
Number of ballot papers with the answer “I have a large penis:” 1

I am not kidding.

I HATE the Eagles, right up there near if not at the top of that short list (add Essendon and the list drops way off to #3 and beyond).

That and only that tipped my mood slightly to the positive by the time I went to bed last night.

I feel no better atm (regards thoughts on the issue of this thread) than I felt when conservatives elected JH in 2001 post Tampa.

After the 2004 US election, I purchased a shirt that had a picture of the White House with a big red line drawn across it and the words “Is it 2009 yet?”. I feel like doing similar now, in spirit that is. Problem is that there is no term limits on this issue, Glinn . Maybe I’ll use a sig whenever I send emails or post things?

“So says she who did NOT vote No”

at least the Eagles lost

We’ll make a local out of you yet.

This weekend, I’ve had three horses come home out of three – Freo, whoever’s playing the Eagles, and No to DLS. Note how I said ‘Freo’ there, as opposed to ‘the Dockers’… I might as well conflate the by-election with the footy club, the Hawks were always gonna win. They’re not the premiers for nothing.

By the way, this is the status update of someone I know on Facebook (name initialised). Nice enough guy, except for his constant position on DLS, summed up by the following…

JB thinks 55% of WA residents need an Auschwitz Shower. Perthetic.

JB encourages 44% of WA residents to join him in leaving this self-destructive parochial s...hole to rot.

(Editing of the word that will trip the spam filter.)

It’s that kind of stuff that made me think “hmm… long line, but I guess I don’t have anything else better to do for the next half an hour…” when I turned up at my local primary school mid-afternoon and saw the absent voters line out the door – I’m contrary like that. Counter-productive, kiddies.

The Pro-DST lobby will keep forcing the DST on us, that we’ve refused consent for time and time again, in the hope we’ll eventually relent and say Yes. We might change our minds about it if we’re forced into it often enough, you see. (Very NSW rugby of them, but, that seems to be the way the lobby groups think.)

Glinn, I know …. sighs …. at least I can comfort myself with the fact that I don’t live here permanently ……. I know that those of you who are permanent here in WA and voted Yes aren’t so lucky, I feel sorry for you …..

That’d be me.

One day, one day…