Um, Indian or Sri Lankan or Chinese or Japanese tea?
Well there was bad news in the ongoing crisis in Western Civilisation this morning …
Will this stop the reptiles developing more worry-warts as they keep on crusading? Probably not … but at least there's a new war to distract them …
Ah, a class war, and how lucky it came along today, just as the reptiles realised they'd caught the bus, and didn't quite know what to do with it …
That was yesterday. Today it's all quiet on the ABC front … yet the pond can't begin to count the number of times the reptiles have abused the ABC, and called for its demolition.
Why, prattling Polonius would have very little to say if he couldn't abuse the ABC, ditto Major Mitchell, and almost everyone else offered a column in reptile la la land.
It's the reptile sport …and every so often someone like a little Timmy Bleagh will be so bold as to summarise what the reptiles want done in a headline ...
But today, the reptiles have gone quiet on privatising the whole damn thing.
Once the dog has caught the bus and doesn't know what to do with it, better to focus on class war or some other new thing …but good old Erica and the Liberal party helped produce a marvellous spectacle …the dog botherer in full flight …
Ah yes, they caught the bus, and suddenly the talk of virtue-signalling serves as an epic form of dog botherer distraction.
But what of all those outbursts in the lizard Oz urging that the reptiles race out on to the street and catch the privatisation bus?
Like this effort way back when by a certain Rudi, who wants to do more than rein in the dear old ABC ...
Hmm, that looks grim. What sayeth the dog botherer?
Oh dear, shouldn't that have read "while the reptiles gingerly avoid the ABC privatisation issue being ventilated, we can expect the reptiles to be even more puerile and aggressive in its dealings with Comrade Bill's class war?"
Please, reptiles, remember the good old days when chasing the bus was so much fun ...
Of course there's a bit of a contradiction there, with good old Rudi mocking the early ABC for being highly censorious, and then good old Rudi suddenly feeling like being highly censorious about anybody on the ABC saying anything that might upset or agitate good old Rudi …
Never mind, those were the glory days, and how sad it is to see the usually censorious dog botherer reduced to blathering about the need to reform the ABC ...
The funny thing here is that the reptiles keep urging the ABC to become a mirror image of the lizard Oz, without pausing for a nanosecond to consider what this might do to the reptiles' business plan.
If you could get all the ratbag rightwing Murdochian ranting and raving for free on the ABC, what need of the reptiles? Already there's a generous diet of reptiles served up on the ABC on shows like The Drum, and the pond frequently pushes back its half-eaten plate and tells the waiter that the serving was too big and it's full and it simply can't eat any more ...
Well as it so happens, the last word must fall to Rudi …and a measure of his enormous stupidity can be found in his talk about making oodles of profit and taxing a commercially vibrant privatised ABC …such blithe certainty on parade ...
Hmm, thanks for that reminder, Rudi, that the pond has really no need of your services as a financial public relations consultant, unless it happens to want a large slice of pie in the sky …
That said, the pond is bitterly disappointed that the reptiles have decided to revert to class war today, giving up on the war on the ABC and seemingly declaring a truce in the matter of the ongoing crisis in Western Civilisation …
Stay true, reptiles, stay true to your inner natures, please carry on the war to privatise the ABC … it's sure to be a big winner …
And so to a Wilcox, who started off proceedings, and who now ends it, and who can be found at wicked Fairfax here ...
Rudi Michelson: "The ABC was highly censorious. It scrutinised scripts of plays to exercise words such as damn, it banned certain kinds of dance music, and refused outright to play jazz."
ReplyDeleteOh, very awful of those damn, jazz hating Green Lefties and their political biases. Even back in 1932 they were having their evil way with the people's ABC by banning cerain kinds of dance music. And they haven't gotten any better over the years since, have they.
"... the reptiles keep urging the ABC to become a mirror image of the lizard Oz, without pausing for a nanosecond to consider what this might do to the reptiles' business plan."
Hmm. I think there's a real clue about the inner (and outer) nature of reptiles, there, DP. Ah yes, "without pausing for a nanosecond to consider". That says all there is to say, doesn't it.
Besides, what's wrong with watching Midsomer Murders a few times over ? There's many more episodes of Midsomer than there is of Shakespeare's plays (37 of 'em, and 154 sonnets) but people don't suggest that it's only worthwhile to watch his plays once each and no more, or to read each sonnet once only. I would fully expect Midsomer (and Morse and Lewis, but not Endeavour) to be prime exhibits in the Ramsay canon of "Western civilisation", wouldn't you ?
Rudi again "Over the past two decads, governments have become adept at privatisations especially at getting improveents in service quality."
What on Earth can be said in response to that other than to recognise that here we're dealing with a blind, deaf nincompoop who can't quite understand why media proprieters might not be wildly enthusiatic about the government providing them with additional competition.