Kevin Rudd

[Dukey]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

HA!!!!!!!!
thats hilarious!!!!!!!!
- maybe he should collect his ear wax and sell little pots of it on ebay for 50 bucks each, when he becomes PM. Could be a nice little earner.!!!!!!!

 

[SevenFX]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

So is this a wax smearing campain by the Liberals or did somebody in the public just happen to record this years ago...

 

[moXJO]

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So is this a wax smearing campain by the Liberals or did somebody in the public just happen to record this years ago...

Would it make it less disgusting???

 

[Kimosabi]

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Maybe he's not a Reptilian like Howard but a Catilian...

WHY DO CATS LIKE EATING EARWAX ??

I did a study on earwax as part of my degree in neuroscience (Bsc.Neurosci. Nottingham 1997) , and know a fair bit about Sensory Reception in both humans and cats. . .

The principal constituent components of earwax are complex sebaceous fluids and sloughed off dead skin cells. The sebaceous fluids are composed mostly of triglyceride fatty acids, waxes and cholesterol esters.

A cat is not a spohisticated creature when it comes to its sense of taste. Where a human has close to 10,000 tastebuds, a cat has less than 500. However, they make up for this by having a higher concentration of olfactory receptors. (Estimates vary between breeds, but they have approximately 50 times the number of our 5 million or so odour sensitive cells.) Like humans though, they only respond to the four basic taste types of sour, bitter, salt and sweet - their response to sweet being the weakest. Most of our experience of flavour is actually due to smell - it is our sense of smell which determines why different food 'tastes' different. It is reasonable to assume that cats use a similar blend of smell and taste in determining the palatability of food.

Consider the following. Cats rarely reject a proffered piece of food on the basis of it's taste. They use smell as the discriminator to decide if something is likely to be good tucker or not. Using their sense of smell, the cats subconsciously realise that earwax has a nutritional value - specific olfactory receptors will be triggered by the scent of the fatty acids, the cholesterol, and also the dead skin cells (mostly protein). Cats are specifically attuned to the scent of animal proteins, hence their preference for meat - also the reason why cats hungrily devour earwax (and also love freshly picked scabs). The ratio of smell receptors to taste receptors is virtually reversed in cats and humans - as such if something smells good but tastes like **** then we won't eat it, but if a cat likes the smell of it, it has to taste ****ing awful before it won't eat it. A cat will eat small lumps of plasticine if they're covered in gravy. Try it - it's non-toxic and you can pepper your cat turds with interesting multicoloured lumps.

The upshot is that humans, with their increased sensitivity to taste, generally reject eating earwax because of its sour, bitter taste (oh come on, everyone has a dim childhood memory of what earxax tastes like, don't they?). For cats, however, the sour and bitter flavour component of the earwax is barely noticeable in comparison to its wholesome nutritious odour. QED.

http://www2.b3ta.com/files/cat-earwax-conundrum.htm

 

[chops_a_must]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

Mint Man.

Are you a spam bot?

Are you actually a member of a political party?

 

[The Mint Man]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

I wonder if it will really have any consequences on the election.

I doubt it.... After all thats what us Aussie blokes do, isnt it? Definitly some sort of weired fetish going on here.....can just see Rudd in the strip club now, saying 'pick my ear and feed it to me':eek3:

And knowing full well that the cameras are rolling.....Dough head!

I know.... can't even try to make an excuse for that.

Mint man, you don't work in Tony Abbot's office do you.

No!

Even more scary is the color of Julia Gillard's hair!

I agree that the hair is scary... but scarier than Rudds actions, I think not. haha.

So is this a wax smearing campain by the Liberals or did somebody in the public just happen to record this years ago...

You can watch question time when its on a 2pm, its well and truly in the public. There are tons of this type of political stuff on youtube, not like this though. I doubt the Liberals did it.

Are you actually a member of a political party?

No.

 

[The Mint Man]

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Well here is the spin machine has been working overtime. Here is speach from Kevin on the ear wax eating

Can I just start by saying that I’ve spoken to Therese and told her I had been a bit of a goose.
On the day in question my ear wax was quite stale and it was very hard to get out, but you know something? At the time I thought to myself I'm up against a really tough competitor here.

On the question of why I did it in full view of the camera, well can I just say, as someone who grew up in the country I didn't have the luxury of cotton buds so I used sticks to clean my ears out. However in due season I realized this would hurt my ears, that’s when I thought to myself you know what? We need real solutions to real problems …. So being the very clever politician that I am I decided that it would be much better to pick my ear with my finger and lick the wax to clean it off, why? Well the bottom line is this, it’s not as sharp as a stick and it tastes good!

People often ask me why I want to be prime minister, well the answers simple, this country needs new leadership.
You see when I travel around the country I see countless kids with a mountain of wax in their ears. These folk are hard working families, they don’t have cotton buds to clean their ears out with. It’s obvious to me that the Liberal government has lost touch with the real issues here and you know what, its time to end the blame game. Do I have a plan for ear wax? Well… no not yet but I will set up a commission to fix this problem. The buck stops with me!!!

This is just another negative scare campaign from the Liberal party.

So in conclusion, I see absolutely nothing wrong with my actions.
I was simply trying to pick some fresh ideas and let me tell you, it was like Climbing Everest.
My challenge to the prime minister is this, last to eat their ear wax last is a rotten egg.

this obviously is a joke​

 

[Prospector]

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He seemed to quite enjoy the taste, too

 

[The Mint Man]

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He seemed to quite enjoy the taste, too

I know he actually has a good ol' chew!!

 

[chops_a_must]

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I know he actually has a good ol' chew!!

Can you please answer my question about being a member of a political party.

I think this nonsense has gone far enough. There aren't individual threads for each of Howard's slip ups.

 

[The Mint Man]

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Can you please answer my question about being a member of a political party.

I think this nonsense has gone far enough. There aren't individual threads for each of Howard's slip ups.

Firstly, Answered your question already.
Secondly;
Slip up? well I think your idea of a slip up is very different to most peoples. I think your on your own here.... I dont think this is a slip up, a slip up is when you cant name one tax bracket or an interest rate (make you happy?).

He picked his ear and ate it! thats sick and strangely funny at the same time, it deserves its own thread. I tell you what, you find something as funny/embarrassing as that about howard and I'll post it myself. Ill even take the piss if it makes you happy?
Truth be told, I heared about this on a radio station.

Grow up!

 

[wayneL]

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Can you please answer my question about being a member of a political party.

I think this nonsense has gone far enough. There aren't individual threads for each of Howard's slip ups.

Agree, the occasional satirical dig or passing reference to a faux pas is par for the course, funny even, but taking it too far becomes childish IMO.

 

[Boyou]

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What a rediculous waste of forum space!

Mint Man, you have either WAY too much time on your hands OR you are just pushing your own political barrow here.

There must be another forum where useless rubbish like this belongs.If there isn't..why don't you start one? That will occupy your sense of the trivial and give you space to vent your political agenda.

Chers Ya'll

 

[gordon2007]

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I hardly think it is a waste of time nor space. If you feel so strongly that it is a waste, why did you bother to read all the way down and why did you bother to post a reply? It's humour. It would be funny if it was Howard, Bush, Rudd, the Pope, any person in the spotlight.

Rudd picked his ear and ate the wax. It's gross. If you do something gross, and someone points it out, well that's too bad. Don't do gross things and then you won't be ridiculed for doing gross things.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

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OK, I've gathered myself now... fuewww.
I think the question should be.

'Is the minister concerned that Kevin Rudd picks his ears and eats the wax'

Cheers

Good on ya Mint Man. Does Kevvie eat worms as well ???

gg

 

[Prospector]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

What is with all the angst? It is in general chat, the heading describes the content exactly, and heck, there have been plenty of 'bushisms' on this forum! And no-one has stopped anyone doing a Howard thread.

I can only surmise that Rudd is a no-go zone then?

 

[Rafa]

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i think its more of the fact mint man started the thread..
he has started more anti labor threads than anyone else on these boards


he must really love the liberals...

 

[Prospector]

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i think its more of the fact mint man started the thread..
he has started more anti labor threads than anyone else on these boards...

Goes to show how many straight political posts I read then, doesn't it!:

 

[sam76]

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I hardly think it is a waste of time nor space. If you feel so strongly that it is a waste, why did you bother to read all the way down and why did you bother to post a reply? It's humour. It would be funny if it was Howard, Bush, Rudd, the Pope, any person in the spotlight.

Rudd picked his ear and ate the wax. It's gross. If you do something gross, and someone points it out, well that's too bad. Don't do gross things and then you won't be ridiculed for doing gross things.

here here.

 

[2020hindsight]

Re: Kevin Rudd eating ear wax, MUST SEE!!!

Sure it's something he wished he didn't do on camera.
Bit like the rugby players who get an itchy crotch just as the camera swings to them.
Or the cricketers poor bugas lol - invariably picking their nose on TV.

btw - If it IS wax - it's something he finds in the periphery of his earlobe (see the way his finger hooks it out of that peripheral bit of his "shell-like"). I don't think he went into his ear for instance.

...
what a shame Johnny H didn't stay on the periphery of Iraq

btw also - even if it were earwax - I could forgive it.
But going into Iraq I find pretty unforgiveable.