Fresh from the virginity quips – which, as one of you lot pointed out in comments, makes us wonder when we’re going to get a “Better Party to Manage” poll on that issue – comes a new episode of Tony running with scissors on the female vote. The audio (all 20 seconds of it) can be heard over here thanks to Malcolm Farnsworth on twitter
It’s groany, it’s cringy and it’s probably not helping him at all – but it’s pretty funny none the less.. “What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing..”. Oh dear.
In other silly news, did you folks see the latest leftist conspiracy from the ABC? Deliberately manipulating the studio lighting to make Abbott look a little Hitler-esq on Insiders on Sunday – shame! 
Interesting mo Tone! Expect it to be popping up in the unified theory of leftist ABC conspiracies from your favourite wingnut blogger at any moment.
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First they steal poor Bolta’s chair, and now this? for shame.
I had a sense that our Tone was tying to cut down on the stutter in this interview,
I prefer to think of his stutter as verbal evidence of his efforts to slow down what he is saying.
Umm and ahh a few times and you have more time to construct the next sentence
Just watching our leader of this society, Kevin Rudd on Q&A,and doing a mighty job also. Why would Rudd appear on the same show as that Andrew Bolt—sob-sob-sob they stole my chair—what a complete tosser! Regards Richard Ryan.
Don’t take the bait. All Abbott wants is a chance to rail against political correctness.
So, Monkey wants (creation-in-6-or-was-it-7-days) bible lessons in every classroom and women to stay virgins (and be useless after they trade their gift away). Oh sorry, they can do ironing, but these women need to know the great big tax it is costing their hardworking husbands. But hey, plant a few trees, put some paint over your leopard spots, and you have a leader that 31% of adult australians want as their leader. Go Australia Go! Oy-oy-oy
Political correctness be damned. I was more amazed by the fact that at his age he does not know how to iron. The dry cleaner asked him if he did and his answer was essentially ‘no but I will give it a go’ – and proceeded to do so badly. What sort of hole has this guy been living in? It is a basic life skill. I know he is married to one of those “housewives” who will discover how bad the ETS is but surely at some point… It might explain why he vacillates between sexist comments and proclamations that he really is a modern guy – he simply has no clue.
In light of that hypothesis can I offer People Skills some advice passed on from one of my male colleagues who does the family ironing but is not a house husband? – you get more sex that way (he claims that on his first trip away with the future wife he offered to iron her dress, did it well and was “in like Flynn”).
Apparently QUANDA next week has Barnaby and Tanner on the same panel. I think that pretty much lays to rest any accusations that the ABC has become biased against the ALP, at least on the telly! Its interesting because with Barnaby in the Senate, and Tanner in the House there really hasn’t (as far as i know) been any chance for these two to go head to head as yet.
It’ll be fodder for the wingnuts for sure, but Barnaby IS shadow finance minister and anyone who holds that position SHOULD be up to it.
I got an email about possibly being in the audience for this Q&A. I want to ask Barnaby for tips on tying shoelaces. Should be something he can handle.
The real thing to fear from the CPRS is having to walk around with wrinkly shirts. This is the true dystopian future that the vegan/communist overlords want us to be living.
“and was “in like Flynn” I like that, men will do “anything” for sex!.
Barnaby and Abbot are appealing to their own, those rightwingnuts who were parked in others and the rest. I can’t believe that they are tresspassing on ALP or Green territory?
1934pc wrote: “and was “in like Flynn” I like that, men will do “anything” for sex!.
I have to confess it did lead to a later conversation amongst the women about using sex to get men to do the housework. I guess People Skills is just so magnetic that he has never needed the tactic.
Alas I think Barnyard is likely to have a few homespun one liners on Q & A and that will be the only thing that gets reported out of his appearance with Tanner.
Itep
hemp doesn’t need ironing.
Would some one please ask his wife.
So she never got any help especially where the ironing was concerned
when the children where young.
And in the monastry did he not have to iron his clothes.????
a disgraceful example tony sets to the younger men of australia cannot iron
well does he vacumn does he wash the car does even cook.
Cannot even iron his shirt. WHAT DID HE DO WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO CANBERRA
when i met my wonderful husband of 40 years he explained that he had been in the school cadets and it was his job to do the ironing for his mum who worked full time.
Before he did his home work I MARRIED A GEM
O and his parents where refugees.!!!!!! Tony
I was just listening to the country hour when a lady from I thinkl japan was saying that all products sent over seas will soon have to be carbon marked for consumers
Perhaps some one should tell tone, No markets overseas no carbon mark on them
Perhaps
You should do a story on this one crickyey just on the abc local country hour.
WRT comments about Tony not being able to iron….
I’ve got some friends working ‘very closely’ with a couple of different ministers. I get the impression that they’re whole life is so stage managed and PC that often times they would prefer to be told what to do. This includes dressing themselves. Stories of ministers hopping around the office, saying “does anyone have my shoes”, while a taxi waits outside are not uncommon. They’ve mostly done a strange thing, (being a politician) for a long time and missed out on some other life skills.
I saw this on the news this morning, I just cant believe it. The comment is typical Tony Abbott, but seriously, what sort of grown man in today’s society cant iron a shirt? I know in Abbott land, women give their virginity as gifts, and ironing’s a woman’s job, but wouldn’t it just be practicle, seeing he wears a business shirt each day, to learn this basic skill? Neanderthal.
You people must be kidding??? I am a gay man and get called the “housewife” cause I am the one who does the iorning around here. Big bloody deal! I am more concerned on how so many idiots think Rudd has done a great job. I could have thrown money around like he has done, so no biggy there. All the falied policies and waste of money should be the focus for the press, not this bull about Abbott!! If I was 20 years younger I would say goodbye to my friends and family just to get away from such a backward society that is in Australia.
GBS1, well that would be one way to improve a ‘backward society’.
Possum:
Has Abbott actually come out and revealed who his “favourite wingnut blogger” is yet, or did I miss it? I’m guessing it’s Gerard Henderson, but am happy to be corrected on the matter.
1934@10:
You didn’t know that?
Under an Abbott Government by 2012, no Australian Man need wear a “Wash and Wear Shirt”.
Howard’s “white picket fence” has been replaced by “the housewife chained to the ironing board”.
Every house will be brimfull of virgins, treasuring their gift. God save the Queen.
Hmmm, I’m in my late 30s and while I could probably iron a shirt slowly and somewhat incompetently if my life depended on it, I don’t own an iron, I don’t own an ironing board, and I haven’t ironed anything for decades apart from a few hundred internet trolls. But the difference between me and the back-to-the-fifties Abbott fan club types is I don’t expect anyone else to do the ironing for me – I just don’t bother with it at all. In those extremely rare instances where I really critically need a shirt to look artificially straight I buy a new one; any job or person expecting me to look like that all the time can go directly to somewhere very unpleasant.
My sentiments exactly, Kevin.
I wash my clothes, but I don’t see the point in having perfectly ironed shirts or trousers that are going to get wrinkled just by the wearing of them almost immediately.
I’m surprised that the Abbott/Howard style conservatives aren’t agitating for the revival of men to wear hats at all times.
It’s bad enough that compulsory wearing of ties has returned to plague us.
We really seem to be in a bind at the moment. A clownish Opposition leader with Jesuit robes for Sundays and a Government that seems terminally incapable of doing anything.
yes – not much of a choice, is it?
To top it off – Batnyard just shoots his mouth off again and highlights the opposition’s incompetence.
Had the campaign been running now, The Libs wouild be lucky to get the poll figures as people had second thoughts about putting that mob of cretins back in charge.
Sorry Poss, this is a test. Carry on.
I wonder why the Green vote keeps going up.?
because compared to the Libs, they are looking like the sane ones.
Where does this BS come from?
Another thoughtful and insightful analysis from Gary Bruce,. I see that you haven’t insulted anyone here Gary.
However, you and GG are sounding like tragic inner city union thugs. The polls are telling us lots of things, I thought these sites were about polls and swings and roundabouts etc. If you just want to abuse people then your credibility is going slowly down the gurgler.
The ALP primary vote has not moved, its the increase in the Green vote and the movement back through the predetermined preferences that have seen an increase in the tpp for the ALP. If these are soft alp, or libs who will maybe go back to the libs then the tpp is not so good.
The reality is that the polls show that after the longest honeymoon in history that Kevin Rudd is sliding and that the ALP is slowly returning to earth. I don’t like the fact that the Libs are gaining, its bizarre that any sane voter would consider voting for the COALition, however, as you ALP rusteds go on about all the time, Thats the reality.
“You didn’t know that?”
It ended with an exclamation mark, NOT a question mark.
Jesus Tony
just how hard is it to iron a hair shirt anyway
Crickey you have a clitch in your system we click on to the iranian bit and we end up here
Alas My Say, that link problem is out of my control
Yes PeeBee , your the type that brings the old fashion biggiot bashing atitude into our society and the best thing of all is Karma will pay you a visit. Wish I was aound to see that.
GBS1,
Couldn’t help myself as you left yourself open to it. When you bad mouth the whole country in which you live, you have to expect a little push back. But like all loud mouths, you can dish it out, but can’t take it.
PeeBee.
Have no problems with being dished out on at all, and we all have our opioins don’t we? Trust me see a lot of narrow mined hate in our society that is breeding so fast, and of course its not the whole country, but wow there is heaps of the like out there, and can see it growing with poor teachings on basic human rights in our society. So all I am trying to put in prospectic is the focus on “housewife” is a media beatup and we need focus on more pressing things, but society love that rubbish. Lets focus of the failures of this Government, and what the other side has done putting someone like Joyce on the front bench. Was pointing out that Australians focus on the wrong facts.
“what the other side has done putting someone like Joyce on the front bench”
.. provided much needed comic relief.
GBS1 – after 11 years of the most failure-ridden and riddled government since I started voting in 1978, Rudd still has a long way to fall.
GBS1, No doubt you would have experienced bigotry in your life, and that is totally unfair and uncalled for.
However, you are not immune from a little bigotry yourself, by calling everyone in Australia as coming from ‘backward society’. And that is what I objected to.
It is also the theme of this thread. Abbott’s bigotry shines through when he makes ‘housewives doing the ironing’ satement…… it is so ingrained with him, that he doesn’t even recognise it when he says it.
So despite your protestations to the contrary, these are big issues and they should be discussed.
exactly PeeBee – like John Howard and costello’s similar “barefoot and pregnant” ideology, and Howard’s racism that was so ingrained he denied it at every turn.
There’s nothing funny or even mildly amusing about him. Sinister, extremist, unscrupulous, dangerous: yes … comedic: not a bit of it.