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About Grumpy Geezer
Having been released from the constraints of the red in tooth and claw capitalist running dogs by retirement the grumpy one now expresses opinions that would have previously limited his career options. (The pseudonym is used simply to avoid familial arguments with Tory-voting kin.) A loathing of Tory politicians is supplemented by an equal disdain for bad language – the corporatese and the flim-flam of sales spruikers, marketers, spin doctors, bureaucrats and politicians. Red-penning the tosh from such types was an upside to having to work with them.
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I’m with Stupid

April 9, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 5

Spotlight on Spud If you’re the mop and bucket wallah at a back street rub and tug or, worse still, a News Corpse hack you may well think your job sucks. But imagine being one […]

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He’s not a smart man but he’s the best the veggie patch has got

March 21, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 10

The phony campaign is underway. How nasty will Spud go? Tasting notes: a terroir of earthy fear and loathing with less than subtle notes of racism, bottled in Abbottesque carping negativism and belligerence, exhibiting a […]

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Caught between a crock and a hard place

February 8, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 4

As the L/NP turns orange what will Albo do? The Angry Potato, chief Ginacologist¹ in the L/NP coaliphate, is openly t̶u̶g̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶ f̶o̶r̶e̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ bending his knee in the direction of the orange-stuccoed Dementadon. Where […]

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Great Expectations

January 30, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 2

“A morality play of a young boy’s coming of age; and his sudden and unexpected rise from the lower to that of the leisure class.” (Charles Dickens: Great Expectations). Kevin Rudd was a prissy little […]

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Spud stands on his record

January 21, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 19

Peter Spud Dutton, the joyless eeew tuber and social media phobe, has taken to TikTok. Somehow someone in the Tory machine decided that wider exposure of a bloke who picked up his inter-personal skills at […]

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What would Donny do?

January 13, 2025 Grumpy Geezer 4

P. Duddy turns orange Is the LN/P adopting GOP dirty deeds and agitprop and looking to the MAGAt for inspiration? Malignant tuber P. Duddy is far more inclined to pluck Gina Rinehart’s chin hairs than […]

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