You beauty!!

For our American readers, that’s a Yee-Haw, I think.
Last week I heard about Mark Latham, lunatic politician that Australian Labor/leftists put forward for the job of Prime Minister, lamenting the “decline in Australian male culture”.

He wrote in the Age –
One of the saddest things I have seen in my lifetime has been the decline in Australian male culture, the loss of our larrikin language and values. This has been squeezed out of society by a number of powerful influences: the crisis in male identity brought about by changes in the workplace and family unit; the rise of left-feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, with its sanitising impact on public culture; and, more recently, the prominence of neo-conservatism and its timid approach to social behaviour and language.
Assuming that Lathm still possesses this 'culture', I’ll tell you who aren’t saddened by the decline, taxi drivers, cameramen, disabled politicians and Conservative columnists.
Australian mates and good blokes have been replaced by nervous wrecks, metrosexual knobs and toss-bags. I saw so many of them in politics, from all states, parties and factions. It's the revenge of the nerds, John Howard-style.

This trend has had a debilitating impact on the Australian language. Instead of calling a spade a spade, our national conversation is now dominated by weasel words and the pretence of politeness. Few people have anything meaningful to say, for fear of offending the conservative status quo.
I would have thought it was the leftist status quo, since it is the left that’s always squealing about political correctness, soft on criminals and accommodating all, except white Christian men, either way I’m glad Australians are not living up to Latham’s warped standards, and I doubt they ever did.

Personally I prefer the standards and values set by residents in the Victorian town of Meringur, not only did they call ‘the spade’, ‘a spade’, they sent ‘the spade’ a clear message, Godfather style.
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Pic: John Schilling / The Daily Telegraph

THERE are some crimes, such as a possible vigilante attack on the house of a pedophile, that even the police do not seem keen to solve. Armed with Eskies, the residents of the Victorian town of Meringur danced and drank beer as they watched flames engulf the home of Terrence Allan Ellis last Sunday night.

For the town's tiny population of 16, this was the type of justice the legal system couldn't deliver, and they wanted to celebrate. Ellis, a 52-year-old alcoholic and former vagrant, was convicted two weeks ago of raping a young girl.

Police have quizzed residents over the arson attack and confirmed the fire was suspicious. While nobody in Meringur is owning up to the crime, as many as 40 people from the area celebrated at the time.

Even the victim, whom Ellis had threatened to kill if she told anyone about the assault, and who still lives nearby, came out to watch the timber cottage burn. "You couldn't wipe the smile off her face," her father said yesterday.

Her father said yesterday he was not responsible for the blaze, but added that the house was a constant reminder of the crime and he was not losing any sleep over its loss. "It's coming up to a year since (my daughter) was assaulted, so the fire gives us a bit of a full stop on it," the father said. "I didn't do it, but I can't say it hadn't crossed my mind.
From News.com.au
"I thought, 'You bloody beauty' when I saw the flames," the father said. "I was very happy to see it gone."

"I don't reckon the police will be working too hard to solve it." A fire investigator said the heat was too intense to identify an ignition point. "That's a shame," said the father, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Yes what a terrible shame.
Ellis, who had lived in the town for the past eight years, drove the girl to the outskirts of the town and raped her in the rear of a ute.

Ellis was sentenced to a minimum 3 1/2 years jail last month in the Victorian County Court and could be out in less than 2 1/2 years with time already served.
This "freak accident" could have been avoided, if Ellis had been given a life sentence, including the odd assignment like carving a 1 dollar coin from a granite boulder with only a tooth pick, and all his possessions sold off and the proceeds donated to his victim/s.

Over in country Victoria folks, they might not mind the odd toss-bag or metrosexual, but rock spiders are sure to receive a fiery welcome.

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