Ménage à trois.
A steamy, unseemly and entirely unexpected naughtiness broke out, overnight or during cocktail hour (depending on current location), between besieged Australian voyeur website Swellnet and your very own BeachGrit. Days ago, the pert latter revealed that the aged and lightly gross former had become in trouble for illegally erecting cameras in order to gaze at virginal waves. A revolt against the perversion broke out amongst Swellnet regulars which was brutally quashed.
Censorship etc. not un-similar to a Jeffery Epstein NDA.
BeachGrit, however, part of no ugly trafficking cabals, exposed the scandal and the righteous indignation that flowed, forthwith, through Australia’s morally upright.
Major media picked up the story, with Australian officials decrying Swellnet’s “lack of consent” and “surveillance of public space.”
Dirty business.
Exposed, once again, Swellnet’s chief editor, Stu Nettle, took to the most popular surf forum in order to post revenge porn. Nettle wrote on BeachGrit:
Appreciate all the free advertising, Chas. As big as Surfline? We wish, but we’ll get there.
For the record: The Fishos camera has consent. A contract was signed in 2020. Almost every social media post about it has been incorrect, most particularly the administrator of the Respect Bells Beach FB page who’s been citing clauses in legislation that simply don’t exist.
We’re currently going through correct channels to clarify our position. Normal transmission will resume shortly.
Embarrassment? Nah, but not realising your Australian biz partner wanted BeachGrit to partner up with Swellnet might cut it.
For the record, we said no.
The aforementioned ménage à trois between Nettle, BeachGrit principal Derek Rielly and Chas Smith a clear act of revenge porn even though Swellnet apparently denied consent. I would have been happy in the tub, to be honest, as I am sure Reilly would have been especially since he solicited.
I’ve always admired his taste.
Hurtful.
Deeply hurtful.
Also “Normal transmission will resume shortly?”
Cosby-esque.
The question now, will Swellnet attempt to cross swords once again or go back to knocking on doors and announcing itself to neighbors as a registered sex offender?
Currently more questions than answers.
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The Dreamers. Not one of Bertolucci’s best. Great tits, though.
One of your best Chas
JJF at my former home break…
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….
I grew up surfing 18th st in Herm. LOL. We had another place in Oceanside that I preferred next to the Buccaneer, but during school weeks I had to surf Herm.
revelation…
biltmore & bucanneers were both in HB…some real heroes in those neck of the woods…
Something stinks. Smellnet. Google swellnet goofyfoot.
‘You Stus wife or son?’
Neither, goofyfoot looks suspiciously like nettle’s unleashed gimp. A quick google shows his list of idiotic questions, followed by a series of attacks on nettle, matson and brokenshaw, bagging their lame, inaccurate surf reports. Before then licking and massaging their arses. Includes rants about taking up arms to protect SW Victoria from exposure, while gimping at nettle’s sell out surfing feet. Crawl back in your box gimpyfoot.
Meanwhile, smellnet execs are busy whinging and complaining to irate subscribers. About being expected to do anything resembling work, including providing any service subscribers payed for. Other than posting up free, already been up for ages, YouTube videos, fleecing and shearering idiots like gimpyfoot for watching them. Or polishing their boots, and dishing out, quote, ‘they need more tough love’ to Indigenous Australians. ‘Because that’s new, and hasn’t been tried before.’ WTF? ‘Hey look the colonials brutalised and decimated Indigenous People’s the world over’. Smellnet reckons, ‘Whatever, we know already, so sounds like they need another dose of that good old colonial, Smellnet tough love.’ Who dreams that shit up?
Smellnet, smell the slimy stench from here. Gimpyfoot. Tongue coated in shit.
Yeah. That thread discussing indigenous issues has some particularly egregious takes.
Life hack | What to do when Swellnet and Surfline cams are down. Mate, what’s the surf like?
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
dude defines or defends the wall of positive noise? too funny…
Can we get back to the real issue here please? Where the fuck is Koa’s bike?
in Eddie’s front yard…m ho put it there and called the cops…stirring up trouble. didn’t he admit, as a neighbor, to shootin out some windows during construction. does coco have a mean streak also?
Be careful what you wish for…..
I have seen myself being dropped in by a clubbie on a ski.
You could start your own video channel and make good money doing those same things. Humans….
Ban all surf cams
In other important news Fanning is opening his house too stalkers-
https://www.realestate.com….|slot_2
I’m looking forward to staying and defacing the walkin wardrobe
Can you walk around with the bottle-opener zoris scratching the wooden floors?
grooves with holes and a great play with marbles.
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Italo stayed there and smashed every poster and photo of Mick he could find. Then went out into the garage and jumped on all of his boards. Just Italo being Italo…
I jumped ship to write for Swellnet for primarily one reason, namely they paid me. While Derek and Chas are great guys, after 3 articles they sent me a t-shirt and a tail pad, which for a guy who mostly rides a Boog wasn’t that useful.
It’s greedy pricks like you that have caused the cost of living crisis
I’m upvoting both of you.
Nice work CB, continuing the true spirit of ménage à trois
Sounds like you made an infoamed decision
Sounds like Dezz n Chas were faaaar too generous with your pay.
As a booger you should have had a flaming shit bag delivered to your front door…
P.S.
What’s your name and address ?
Maybe you should’ve tried harder at writing. They’ve always paid me. And I haven’t jumped ship, despite offers, because (most of the time) I appreciate what BG is.
(I very nearly jumped overboard in the brief but miserable Ben Marcus era).
I have thought a mutiny, reckon I could hack the back end and we could just take the ship over or at the very least sink it for a week or three.
Old Benny sent me an email the other day, first I think for awhile… The only time ever had Charlie and riled up and asking me to ban someone was over Ben. (I didn’t though. Hi Ben!}
Who, how and what has been offered to you?
Yeah I’ve had a couple lately.
He’s still persona non grata though, right?
Can’t see me reversing that ban.
As for who’s offered what…come on, I’m not Stu Nettle!
If you saw him, you would have mercy upon his gilded soul.
Umm, thought I’d cruise over to Swellnit and post my 2 cents on an article and got this reply..
“New users require approval before posting comments. We will assess your comment for approval as soon as possible.”
Umm, is Neg. moonlighting over there.
Don’t worry, SW, they’re assessing existing account holders comments for approval as well, the cunce. Xi couldn’t do much better.
Oh, man, please let him in! It’s his true home. He’s just trying to get home.
Once upon a time in a distant land, a young hippy’s room mate began reporting for a fledgling Surflie.
I protested our stop at a random phone booth in San Clam after sitting on the off ramp looking at Lowers. Lowers was not busy at that time and I couldn’t connect the dots with my room mate that he was fucking our near futures over for 35. a week.
Guys in town were not happy. Guys in my hometown region were not happy. We finally had a hatred to share.
Thing is with Australia, there are so many “secret” spots exposed that I stopped visiting in ’90. The place is cooked, no shell unturned. You never want to acquiesce to your enemy, but man that shark has been jumped so many times it doesn’t bother looking up anymore.
Death to surflie. If they put a cam in my zone, I will break the law and sit in jail with mexi gang bangers who actually did something wrong.
This is all longtom’s fault
It’s really quite revealing that despite all his shit talk he jumped for a job where Freedom of speech goes to die and capitalism thrives?
Read the comments over yonder…. they read his articles and the narrative doesn’t wander. True sports fans and he is a pure sports writer.
Sure, he’ll mix it up in the mud with the pugilists, but none of us ever understood his googled nihilistic quotes from ancient Germans we never heard of.
The mates over there at least pretend. Word to the wise JP when googling poetic quotes.
JP Currie, sounds like something you would get at a dodgy Indian restaurant that gives you the shits.
lolololol, and you leave with the “runs”
Nice one. You’d think that was the kind of joke I’d heard all my life, but actually even Scottish primary school kids had a higher bar for humour than that.
awww, go suck a Haggis.
A decently made haggis makes a fine meal.
nice volley
I don’t need to Google no poems, mate. They’re my daily currency.
Joy Harjo? Mary Oliver? John Trudell? Wendell Berry?
Bills don’t pay themselves. But the fact that COL is so high, sure do speak to greed somewhere along the foodchain.
Stu is a good bloke Chas who can talk shit with the best of ‘em. I reckon you might of met your match here.
Does he wear a yellow beanie?
Is that an attempt at humor?
Is that^ an attempt at replying?
Two replies to the one question! You desperate little fuk
Predictably, you’re saying nothing, yet stating it poorly. 0/10.
With such an astute humor critic such as yourself on hand? I wouldn’t dare!
You live in victoria but spell humor like a yank???
Fuck you’re not one of those guys are ya? Correcting grammar on a surf website… you lame cunt
Fuck off back to armstrong creek you yank cunt.
Where’s that, cunt?
Good blokes don’t operate surf cams.
Greedy blokes that could care less about anybody else do
Like the surf cam that Beach grit pinched the footage of the shark attack at snapper off, then posted it for all to see?
inconvenient truth
Hardly the same thing, chief.
I’m in Victoria 5 minutes away from the beach so I’ve never used one to check the surf in my home state. Only time I’ve ever look at them is when the goldy is pumping to watch Kirra/snapper and see what I’m missing.
I couldn’t give a shit if every cam in existence was removed.
But my point still stands that bg is against cams but happy to pull footage off swellnets to gain publicity and attention?
Chief
You Stus wife or son?
Depends what day it is
The way she’s menstruating on this thread, the question should be wife or daughter.
You’re clutching at straws. BG is “for” the story. That is all.
“For” the story…
That’s cute mate
xx
All writers are fucked.
haha, that’s why I got banned because I have a contrary view to SN’s owners and soon as I mentioned the Winki cam….gone…..as with quite a few others…at least BG don’t censor you for your opinions!
Who’s this Ben Matson? Sounds like a proper cunt
Ben’s alright
sometimes the Florida shark story wheel chair stealing garbage makes me hesitant to bother clicking your articles, but fuck you just made up for it all hahaha
This is too funny
“Major media picked up the story, with Australian officials decrying Swellnet’s “lack of consent” and “surveillance of public space.””
I sent the Nettle retort to one of my Aussie buddies(yes, Negatron, I have Aussies friends as well as black friends) to interpret the broken Ozenglish and he has linguistics experts working on it now.
Real Aussie’s wouldn’t have American friends.
I’ll tell him that when he arrives for dinner Sat night as we discuss the Aussie politicians (not real Aussies I suppose) dependencies on US support…go figure.
A good amount of usa people don’t have friends. Just business associates or possible business associates. I think that’s why there’s so much violence.
How many vodkas deep, Chas?