Buddy's Jaw Drops

[DamY]

You own a house that's in Brunswick AND Summer Hill? It must be huge!

Lol *thumbs up*

[aardvark]

Oh sorry we dont want to offend the hyper sensitive victorians, i tend to forget that respect is a one way street in Melbourne, silly me.

[jono2707]

Oh sorry we dont want to offend the hyper sensitive victorians, i tend to forget that respect is a one way street in Melbourne, silly me.

I'm sure there are other websites out there that may be a more suitable outlet for your frustrations....

Back to the OP - that article was just a wonderful piece of hard-hitting journalism wasn't it? Good thing we only have to put up with that sort of thing for 9 more years....

[spiffy-dude]

Lol *thumbs up*

Have i missed the punchline?

Edit: I get it.

I own two properties, one in Brunswick and the other in Summer Hill.

I must remind myself that i am dealing with such esteem scholars and academics on RWO.

[Untamed Snark]

You own a house that's in Brunswick AND Summer Hill? It must be huge!

Shhh! It could be the TARDIS


So they couldn't get a picture of Buddy with a drink in his hand or eating a burger so they settled on a yawn?

[spiffy-dude]

Ultimately, who cares what they think? No one is standing up for the Melbourne media here. I personally understood your single message 91 posts ago. We follow the Swans, a Sydney club. Most of us live in Sydney. Whether we are scorned or adored in Melbourne is of zero consequence to my day.

On one hand, people liked us and we never really got credit for being as good as we were. Now it seems we are enemy number one, its because they fear us.

Get over it, move on.

Enough for news limited to publish these stories on a regular basis, enough for online communities to have 3 massive threads with over 2000 comments. People do care my dear, people care a lot.

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Shhh! It could be the TARDIS

ho ho such wit.

[Matt80]

As someone who travels back and forth between Syd and Melb quite regularly, owns a house in brunswick and in summer hill, lives 9 months of the year in melb, has an office set up in east melbourne and works with the advertising industry i think i know enough to form opinions from a decade and a bit of observations.

You forgot to say that you frequent the "Gutter Bar" at the Canne International Advertsing festival!

[Matt80]

Its good to see Buddy interacting with the local Bondi Cummunity. The Bikini Pagent is one of the important Community events for people who live in Bondi.

[ScottH]

I'm a sydneysider who lives in Melbourne for 12 months a year, for the last 20+ years.
The worst I hear about sydney hatred is the road system/one way streets. Can't argue with that, it is pretty crappy.
Or Rugby (league or union) is a stupid game. Many sydney siders reckon the same thing.
Your anti Melbourne rants are just as bad as any of the above, and has raised the ire of many of the Melbourne fan base here. No one wants to read this here.

And signing Buddy, a year after Tippett has raised the ire of many melbourners, but jealousy of a better managed club is a curse

I for one stopped reading the HS years ago, as it was full of @@@@. Especially the Chief Sports editor.
I suggest you do the same. The Age isn't much better, but I'll read that.

As with any gossip mongering the papers do, they are just after headlines, or more importantly these days, clicks and links to there site.
Your are just making then happy papers.

[Jewels]

wish everyone would just give it a rest.

Me too Prims

So they couldn't get a picture of Buddy with a drink in his hand or eating a burger so they settled on a yawn?

Yep. I know he's a walking headline but gee's they really are grasping at straws here.

[stellation]

I for one stopped reading the HS years ago, as it was full of @@@@. Especially the Chief Sports editor.
I suggest you do the same. The Age isn't much better, but I'll read that.

A minor example here of the differences between the outlets, but perhaps a telling one- the two pictures below are from the Tele/HUN and the SMH/Age about the poor young lady who has had a water skiing accident.
Tele/HUN:
SMH/Age:

[ScottH]

Maybe I should start reading the HS again.

Unfortunately I've reached my limit at work of Age Articles a month ago, and it still isn't reset, so I've had to go back to the HS, except for their "Premium content".

[stellation]

Maybe I should start reading the HS again.

Unfortunately I've reached my limit at work of Age Articles a month ago, and it still isn't reset, so I've had to go back to the HS, except for their "Premium content".

Try the Guardian's Australian site- it's decent, when Fairfax confirmed they would be popping in the paywall after 30 views per month they actually accelerated the development of their site so that it coincided with the change, knowing they'd be targeting a pretty similar demographic.

If you haven't cottoned on to it for smh/age yet (this is probably old news, I'm sure), the quickest way to switch is to just change the domain name of the masthead in the URL-
the 3 stories below are all identical, only the domain name changed and all count as 1 story view against a different site.


Forty years ago Emerald Hill was saved from the wreckers

Forty years ago Emerald Hill was saved from the wreckers

Forty years ago Emerald Hill was saved from the wreckers

A moderately nifty little thing I thought of recently, too, is if you like to read state/national news you can bookmark the pages from one of the other mastheads and the content will be the same- so use Victoria News and you'll have the same stories as Victoria News except it will counts as page views under the smh.com.au domain instead of theage.com.au- likewise with bookmarking something like AFL News, Scores, Stats, Transfers | Real Footy to view the footy news page- then if you just go to theage.com.au you can browse and click through on general stories/info and will probably find you last out the month from splitting out your 2 or 3 main areas of interest into under the other domains.

[goswannie14]

Ultimately, who cares what they think? No one is standing up for the Melbourne media here. I personally understood your single message 91 posts ago. We follow the Swans, a Sydney club. Most of us live in Sydney. Whether we are scorned or adored in Melbourne is of zero consequence to my day.

On one hand, people liked us and we never really got credit for being as good as we were. Now it seems we are enemy number one, its because they fear us.

Get over it, move on.

I have said this often, who cares what the media and opposition fans think? I don't.

[aardvark]

Personally I don't care who Buddy gets drunk and breeds with so long as we get first dibs on the offspring under father/son.