Tuesday, December 11, 2018

In which one dons a T-shirt because one wants to show one's sense of style ...



What a foolish squirrel the pond is … it should have stored some lizard Oz nuts from yesterday because today there's very slim pickings. 

Oh sure, the reptiles are agitated about Brexit, and Labor (the apocalypse is nigh), and asylum seekers, and apparently the new security act will be put to use before Xmas, but without any of the tools to hand, so the tech heads assure the pond, but any reptile delusion in a wedge storm …

On the upside, it seems the miserable ghost has left the building for the hols, and so have the reptile heavy hitters.

Poor Malware is now reduced to a trend …


… but that's his only presence on the front digital page of the lizard Oz …

Apparently no-one at the 'leet reptile HQ in inner city Surry Hills, near the best baristas in the world, has noticed that "Turnbull leadership" is no longer a thing, and talking about it is as useful as discussing  "leadership while learning how to munch onions"…

The warning signs of the holiday season approaching were there, with Troy dragging out a hoary old standby …


Oh there was rich comedy to be found, with Matt Canavan determined to prove he was a rocket scientist and a reptile loyalist ...


And what about try-hard Tudge? Good old Tudgy, but he might have overplayed his hand by artfully mixing crime novels with Dostoevsky. 

Still, the pond is hardly one to criticise, with its usual mix of science fiction, medieval fantasy novels, Wittgenstein, and of course Infinite Jest … with the pond having studied hard on the best ways to read it, thanks to Claire Friedman at The New Yorker ...


There's more here, outside the paywall at time of writing, but the pond, spoiler alert, must just include the punchline:


Oh Claire, Claire, if only Troy had thought to interview you …

Sadly, we don't do comedy down under. Oh wait, yes we do …


Meanwhile, Dame Groan was earning her handsome client denialist stipend …


$357k a year for climate science denialism 101? 

Why the pond could do it for a tenth the price, and with just as many scientific qualifications as the Dame …

The pond decided it would just do a spoiler, and show off the Dame's final par …


Yes, all's well with climate science denialism at the lizard Oz, tipping points have come and gone, but clean dinky di dinkum Oz true blue coal loving reptiles stay the course, and why not? 

With 357k a year, it's possible that the Dame is a keen prepper, with plenty of money to equip a lavish bug out …

But the pond realised that the reptile holiday mood had struck too soon, and knew it was time to get serious …


Hmm, Prof Peter Doherty tweeting, and then there was that mention of history … and hadn't Troy concluded his study of the hols reading habits of pollies with this wise advice …

“Study history,” Winston Churchill counselled. “In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

Indeed, if you looked at the Gallipoli campaign, you'd be certain to avoid the fall of Singapore …

And so the pond's bacon was saved, two birds were killed with one stone, and the pond entered PETA's hall of shame with a Greg Melleuish flourish …


Actually the reptiles had a better splash for Greg over the fold …



A deadly T-shirt? Ideologically motivated persecution of our Greg? Shocking stuff, and titillating too ...

Good old Greg, he used to be a reptile - and so a pond - favourite, but now, it seems, he only turns up in the hols to say something silly, before heading back to academic nowheresville …


The IPA did a sterling job? The IPA does sterling jobs, as opposed to carrying out Gina's mindless agenda? Well there's some news just for starters in the first par ...

But it must have sounded a bit fruity even for an academic of Greg's standing, so he hastily suggested a few amendments, before getting on to that deadly T-shirt ...


May he give an example? May the pond join the dance?

Of course there's a better reason not to wear the T-shirt. Greg would look utterly stupid, and so his daughter would have achieved her ultimate revenge … or perhaps the pond got that wrong, and it's the daughter that didn't fall far from the original oak tree …

The pond did hope that it was a T-shirt with a fine sense of irony …



Yes, "science", as Greg Hunters would know ...


Footnotes and more for Greg Hunters here

So what has the pond learned thus far? 

Either that Greg's daughter hates her father and wants him to look silly, or she's just as silly as her father, and he's silly enough to think there are only two genders, "Science", and therefore is agitated because he can't parade his rampant bigotry, albeit disguised as worthy stupidity, up and down the halls and corridors and quads of the University of Wollongong …

Here the pond must state a preference. When wandering around campus, the pond formed an instant dislike for anyone wearing any form of T-shirt with any kind of political message, whether left or right. 

If the pond wants to look at a bill board with a message, it'll get in a car and drive out to see how many can be found fucking up the view on a country drive …

Whatever happened to a Pythonish awareness of the inanity of T-shirts as the first form of tweeting?

Sheesh, there's a reason the pond gave up the academic life ...


It is of course intolerable and shameful …fancy branding and trying to manage a large university in a way that is reasonably efficient, and thereby, our Greg is prevented from making a fool of himself by wearing a fancy T-shirt …

 

The pond's favourite is the one for dummies, where the two genders have to be named, lest the dummies forget the point …


Uh huh, spell it out muchly and bigly, what …? There are only two kinds of people: fuckwits in T-shirts with messages, and people who laugh at them, and people who wear clever T-shirts in the way that the pond does ...

Oh wait, that's at least three kinds of people. Come on down Python ...


Meanwhile, in another country with crypto-fascist tendencies …



And so back to our Greg for a final gobbet. Now the pond will concede that our Greg can, at the best of times, sound a little ponderous, and by golly, one fears this will be a last ponder of ponderous proportions  ...


Please, let's be fair. 

In a world where our Greg can scribble "One fears that this culture is dying," one is completely reassured that one is right not to panic about our Greg being denied the chance to wear a silly T-shirt because of one's fear of persecution, and the decline and fall of ossified academic culture still imagining Queen Victoria is on the throne … 

One knows the culture isn't dying, one knows it lives, it endures, in the fossilised form of our Greg …

Meanwhile, out in the real world, one is watching the mutton Dutton go about his work, designed to undermine completely useless parliaments that just get in the way of creating a secure state down there with the Chinese government …

And so to the Rowe of the day, and as somebody mentioned the guillotine, it seems to fit, and might even make a good T-shirt, and even if it doesn't, heck, it's a Rowe, so burn, baby burn … with more flammable Rowe here



One has only one complaint. One must wonder why there is no mention of Malware's naked culpability in this shameless affair? After all, he sheltered the mutton Dutton, and the spirit of the Dutton is abroad throughout the world, and soon enough Soros, the Rothschilds and the Windsors will feel the wrath of the lizard king, and not just because there's a feud about the hired help in the palace …


4 comments:

  1. It being very nearly that time of the year (Saturnalia begins next Monday), I was contemplating the Washington Post's take on Trump's continual repetition of many "lies": "The Washington Post Fact Checker is introducing a new category — the Bottomless Pinocchio. That dubious distinction will be awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation."

    Oh boy, I thought, now we can enter the spirit of the time by awarding all the reptiles their very own "Bottomless Pinocchio". And maybe put it on a t-shirt ?

    But then, DP, you came up with this: "Indeed, if you looked at the Gallipoli campaign, you'd be certain to avoid the fall of Singapore …"

    Ah yes, I thought, the inevitability of the repeated lie. And then, we have this:

    "Australian journalist Laurie Oakes later encapsulated that determination by observing: 'Mr Howard has made every conceivable mistake an Australian politician can make, but he has made each of them only once.'"
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/11/australia.barbaramcmahon

    Well I have to grant that Howard certainly made the mistake of running such a dreadful government and such a bad election campaign that he was unceremoniously booted out of his own seat only once.

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    1. Oh my my, here he goes again; little "Every mistake but only once" Johnny Howard has issued this pronouncement: "I think it’s reasonable for schools, whether they be Catholic or Jewish, to expect teachers to broadly assent to their values".
      [ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/11/john-howard-says-scott-morrison-can-still-win-election ]

      Yep, them teaches have gotta "assent to their values", but only if they're "Catholic or Jewish". Wau, so teaches in Protestant (any version), Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Amish or Scientologist schools - or any others - don't have to. Now that's mandated freedom of speech, isn't it.

      And just by the way, Johnny: "Opinion polls have suggested that the majority of Jews see being Jewish as predominantly a matter of ancestry and culture, rather than religion."

      You got that mate: its ethnicity, not religion. The religion is named Judaism.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F

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  2. Thanks for the infinite Jest story. I read & liked The Pale King and I thought that might be enough training to read Infinite Jest. I was badly wrong.

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    1. Et vita brevior, NH, certe vita brevior

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