Dad, Mum and the Dogs of magnificent ordinariness

[Remi Moses]

I think he was referring to electorate being in the west, nothing with Julia there Scraggers, she's my Federal Member!

Could be worse CD you could have Wilson Tuckey. Or Labor's opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull

[LostDoggy]

Great article, and even though I don't live in the West, I can relate to the people, and the story.

[Happy Days]

All of this just went straight through to the keeper.

I'm sure its a top article to those who find it relevent though.

[strebla]

Great read and Julia is also my federal member and am happy she is a bulldog. So sick and bloody tired of the leading pollies following the Cats and the pies.

[Rocket Science]

Great read and Julia is also my federal member and am happy she is a bulldog. So sick and bloody tired of the leading pollies following the Cats and the pies.

And the filthy Dons.

Lovely poetic article that.

If not mistaken, Julia Gillard lives in Altona...my mum has a habit of running into her at the local supermarket.

[KT31]

Great read.
Not to far from the truth.
Although it was mostly scotch at the workies.

[alwaysadog]

I didn't feel like the article was very relevant for me (I'm from the Great Ocean Rd, South West Victoria, obviously nowhere near the Western Suburbs) and i'm afraid not a heavy drinker (however excuse my 'beer in eyes' story). Also the references to Melton and 'Bundy' were also far from my Bulldog supporting self, but it was a lovely article and it made me laugh. I liked it a lot.

I had some of the same thoughts. No doubt he can write and he is trying to convey something about a particular type and a particular era, both of which are stereotypes and exist more in imagination than in reality, although to be fair there are aspects which ring true.

I'm not overly critical because the people in the 1950s and 1960s with whom I watched games at the Western Oval could be oversimplified as being like that. But I knew them in all their complexity and when I went to University I discovered they were no different from the rest of seething humanity, except for the fact that they probably cared more for their neighbours and friends, but then I am getting into my own oversimplifications and getting close to stereotyping.

[boydogs]

Good article, and nice avatar RS

[Scraggers]

And the filthy Dons.

Lovely poetic article that.

If not mistaken, Julia Gillard lives in Altona...my mum has a habit of running into her at the local supermarket.

I ran into Kim Beasley in a supermarket in Mandurah ... literally ran in to him ... hit him with the trolley in the hind quarter ... wasn't watching where I was going, funny thing was, he kept apologising to me