The Isolated Blurt Thread XXVI: Spring Forward

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Who thought it was a good idea to interview me for the news? Idiots, that's who.
 
Who thought it was a good idea to interview me for the news? Idiots, that's who.

The local radio station has given up on interviewing me. Although I'm always willing to comment on local matters, I never say anything controversial enough to generate outrage in their listeners.

They have chosen to ask the local village idiot (sorry, I mean 'representative of an extreme minor political party') because he will always say something that annoys their listeners.
 
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Also, in honor of Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, all the locations of Bluestone Lane are giving part of their profits on sales of flat whites (Australia's signature coffee drink) to the Bowery Mission...

When I was in Australia, probably before many Australian Lit visitors were born, I met several Anzacs who had fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. One was my father's friend and after a few beers he would swear about the British Commanders at Gallipoli. He had considerable respect for the Turkish soldiers he had fought despite losing two of his brothers at Gallipoli. He lost two more brothers on the Western Front.

He shouldn't have been there in WW2, but he was on the Kokoda Trail as a civilian when the supply column was attacked by the Japanese. He used a Bren gun to help fight them off. The Australian army didn't know whether to give him a medal or a court martial for being a non-combatant. He claimed that he was wearing his slouch hat so he was 'in uniform' and anyway those Jap buggers didn't give a fuck whether he was a civilian or not.

The Army didn't give him a medal or a court martial but the troops he was fighting with gave him a beer.

They don't make them like that any more.
 
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