Tuesday, November 03, 2015

And the most deluded are, yet again ... the ones that scribble for the Daily Terror ...

The pond wanted, in a symbolic way, to make a post just before the running of the nags, and what better way to do it than to join the Sydney Terrorists in gloating about the way Sydney does the Cup better than Melbourne?



Arguably? Well that's the 'get out of jail' word of the day, though arguably the Terrorists are living in the valley beyond stupidity ...

But it's nag day, and so the pond must do the dance ...


Indeed, indeed, fancy being forced to take a day off. The pond's libertarian gorge rises in a bilious fury at the notion. How nanny state could we get? An enforced holiday!?

And so the nanny state becomes the topic of the day, because frankly an enforced public holiday is just too nanny state for words. But before we get to a bunch of useless words, can we spare a few thoughts for the Terror and its heroic defence of the racing game ... after all, where's the harm in a few horses dying, so that millions might punt squillions ...

You have to hand it to the Terrorists, their logic is impeccable ...


Yes, if racing was banned, the rate of horses dying would likely increase.

And see how this line rolls trippingly off the tongue ...

Far better that horses find caring owners who appreciate the wellbeing of their charges ...

Yep, like greyhound owners care about their dogs and the fate of pigs and rabbits.

However you cut the figures, it seems that close on 10,000 horses a year - perhaps a few more, perhaps a few less - the ones that are too old and expensive or too useless and didn't make it, head off to the knackery to get turned into pet food ...

So much for horses finding caring owners.

And so the spirit of killing horses as an aid to gambling and selling tabloid rags is a spirit worth celebrating...

Now to a bonus, which because it might be hidden behind the Terrorist paywall, could be missed on this day of the nags ... and sure enough, the subject is the nanny state and its unholy insistence on enforced holidays.


A nanny state nightmare?

Yep, there he goes again ...


So what exactly is this nightmare?


All this constitutes a nightmare?

Memo to pond. Must let Syrians know Australians are living a nightmare ...

And then the good Senator makes a bizarre leap into the unknown:


The long suffering fans of the WSW?

Yes, there's an irony in spades.

Now the pond knows little about soccer and cares less - in much the same way as the pond pays no heed to the nags - but it is aware that for years the Daily Terror and its Terrorists have eaten out on demonising WSW fans, and they've had plenty of fodder for their demonisation machine.

The pond sees these larrikins - some might pass muster as members of ancient razor gangs - regularly gathering in the city around Central for the match of the day, carefully ushered about by the coppers, and never mind the cost of policing what should be a cost billed to the clubs inciting soccer madness ...

The coppers gather like flies because occasionally the fans riot before they get to the game, and then everyone knows what will happen at the match ... as if it's all about a little harmless flag-waving:










Oh indeed, indeed, long suffering, innocent, hapless WSW fans ...

Well sad to say, the pond won't be standing alongside the long suffering WSW fans protesting against the coppers, though it might line up for a bout when it comes to fuzz against junk ...

And good luck to the good Senator, trying to introduce libertarian anarchy around the land, though the pond suspects that much of the idle chit chat about the right to use crackers to produce blindness, or to crack your noggin falling off a bike, or to eat bad food and consume much soda and become obese and die ... while charging costs back to the public health system ... as well as talk about the the right to tear up land with a 4WD and fish stocks to the point of exhaustion ... is just so much smokescreen for the real point of the exercise, which is to keep big tobacco and the NRA in a state of excited, anticipatory bliss regarding the good senator's findings ...

There was of course a negative nattering naysayer in the comments section, the agitation helped along by a slippery keyboard ...

Oh indeed, indeed, and the first thing the pond wants is for the Daily Terror to stop running nightmare stories about WSW fans, and instead start running stories celebrating their right to riot without undue harassment from the coppers ...

And if that day comes, the pond promises to watch a horse race ...

And now for a cartoon ... because it seems the cartoonists are finally hitting on a line for Malware ...

There was Rowe in the AFR, already noted in the pond ...


And this from Kudelka ...


And this from Moir ...



It's a tasty line, somewhere between emperor Napoleon and a crowned monarch, as befits a republiquecan't or should that be republiquecant ...

Ah, and judging from noises offscreen, it seems that the race is shortly coming up and so the pond must disappear ...

10 comments:

  1. I am feeling very nanny-like and keen for a bit of banning.

    Mmm what shall I point my stick at?

    David Leyonhelm for a start. Bore. Bore.

    Brisbane. Most of Queensland. Bermuda shorts. Listening to restaurant specials read to you by the child serving. All fish things anyway. Let's ban fish. The Liberal Party. Gone mad. Money crazed. All property developers. TV chefs. Perth. English holiday makers in Spain. Australian holiday makers in Bali. Barnaby. The large George up north. All commercial TV reporters. Banter between reporters and news readers. The Most Liveable City label. Caged birds. Marigolds. Plastic Christmas trees in public places. Women who tan themselves orange. Eyebrow salons. Cheap manicure parlours where all the staff are sad looking Asian girls. Nasty, nasal voices on radio. Whimsical murder shows set in pretty English villages. Films about coal miners winning a brass band competition.

    So many things to ban. I am quite worn out.

    Miss pp

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    1. You may be worn out, Miss pp, but I am hurt. If Brisbane were to be banned, what would become of me? Can you at least give me a heads-up so I can evacuate?

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    2. I wonder what banning the western suburbs would do? (Applicable to almost any city)

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    3. Mish, I will take Brisbane off the banned list just for you. It is just a weather thing. I like gloom.

      Miss pp

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    4. You are most gracious, Miss pp.
      The weather thing I understand completely, especially as the Brisbane temperature & humidity are starting to rise .... eep. Alternatively, I could pack up my cats and come live near you in the gloom :)

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  2. "And then the good Senator makes a bizarre leap into the unknown:"

    Bizarre leaps into the unknown are a feature of libertarian 'reasoning'. They make this leap and in their own estimation their leap is an amazing intellectual achievement that others are simply too lazy and stupid to understand.

    As most of the population realise now, libertarians and their style of glib reasoning, provide amusing examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect and there are many hilarious examples that have been collected and will be used in psych textbooks in the future when libertarianism is seen as the toxic anti-humanistic 'philosophy' that it really is.

    Thing is and this has made my day despite all the crap that people I even actually like carry on about today, this type of thinking may be something that only white people who have the very best of the best civilization are able to do.

    Wiki explains;

    "Studies on the Dunning–Kruger effect tend to focus on American test subjects. A number of studies on East Asian subjects suggest that different social forces are at play in different cultures. For example East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities and see underachievement as a chance to improve themselves and to get along with others.[11]"



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    1. Thanks for the Dunning-Kruger reminder. Great stuff :)

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  3. The sheer and utter snobbery from the battlers paper, the "We are for Western Sydney" mob is absolutely breathtaking, even for hypocrites like these bought and paid for old whores by Murdoch to pretend they are journalists.
    As they and their trendy law firm, merchant banker and other twats from the big end of town have a great time with their workmates sneaking an unofficial day off dressed in all their silly goose finery, do they think that the 100,000s of shop assistants, hospiltality workers, transport workers, labourers, etc etc will be enjoying the same as them. Talk about the Murdoch Whores exposed as what they are!!!

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  4. Love Kudelka's "It's good to be king" reference.

    I have the feeling we're all being bent over by those who would be king...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJS51d1Fzg

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  5. At least Leyonhjelm shows what a real Libertarian state would look like: Loud thugs shall inherit the Earth; and the Meek can suit themselves

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