tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post3967240178088084472..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: Day 96 of MUC and day 49 of MOC, and in these uncertain times, the pond reverts to the always reliable dog botherer ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-53505132244530550042016-06-26T15:53:41.817+10:002016-06-26T15:53:41.817+10:00Oh silly me, DP. Yes. you are, as always, correct...Oh silly me, DP. Yes. you are, as always, correct (but definitely not right !), it is best to leave the despicable minions of Chthulhu to their own devices (whatever they might be).<br /><br />But by way of reparation for my thoughtlessness, you may like to peruse a few Scottish terms that might be applied to His Trumpleness:<br />http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/06/25/were-going-to-have-to-up-our-game/<br /><br />The one I liked most was "cockwomble", but this phrase ran it close: "tiny-fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing shutgibbon" (the shutgibbon being named by a NZ resident, of course).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-89044498348217555422016-06-26T07:49:07.776+10:002016-06-26T07:49:07.776+10:00Thanks GB, but the pond routinely ignores Panahi b...Thanks GB, but the pond routinely ignores Panahi because the pond likes to deal only with the average barking mad loon. The stark, raving, out of control raging and vituperatively mad loon can be difficult to handle ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28347366224971565092016-06-26T02:10:45.700+10:002016-06-26T02:10:45.700+10:00Meh, it's about time that militant AMA union w...<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2016/s4488832.htm" rel="nofollow">Meh</a>, it's about time that <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/ama-seeks-to-close-political-wounds-with-election-of-michael-gannon-as-president/news-story/48ec0bb87d182639d62eeffa4ad3a9e2" rel="nofollow">militant AMA union</a> <a href="http://www.sjog.org.au/hospitals/subiaco_hospital/about_us.aspx" rel="nofollow">was</a> <a href="http://www.sjog.org.au/hospitals/subiaco_hospital/about_us/mission_vision_values.aspx" rel="nofollow">taught</a> <a href="http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/government-intervention-privatisation" rel="nofollow">a lesson</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10689867686147568802016-06-25T18:25:44.461+10:002016-06-25T18:25:44.461+10:00And presumably racist, misogynist and homophobic t...And presumably racist, misogynist and homophobic taunts don't count as trash talk in football eitherAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13467071669624321286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-56804911499792969142016-06-25T16:05:28.892+10:002016-06-25T16:05:28.892+10:00Sorry changing the theme but I must pass on my dis...Sorry changing the theme but I must pass on my disgust at Leigh Sales and the condescending interview of Turnbull on 7.30. After the way that journalist treated Bill Shorten the night before and wanting to see whether she would put Malcolm to the sword like she did with Shorten.No she was what I would call a squib she was all palaver with him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-92089004140884374832016-06-25T11:54:49.585+10:002016-06-25T11:54:49.585+10:00Hi Dorothy,
In 1739 Britain declared war against ...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />In 1739 Britain declared war against Spain starting a conflict that would later be described as the ‘War of Jenkin’s Ear’.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear<br /><br />Sir Robert Walpole was reluctant to launch such large naval expedition but was pressed into it by patriot Whigs and Tories in parliament. On hearing the bells of London being rung in celebration of the declaration of war, Walpole was heard to say,<br /><br />“They may ring their bells now, before long they will be wringing their hands.”<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47511604912308906382016-06-25T11:40:56.920+10:002016-06-25T11:40:56.920+10:00Says the dog botherer, "Trash talking is anat...Says the dog botherer, "Trash talking is anathema to Aussie sports stars ...". Hasn't watched the cricket for a while then.Russnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29542232250938702242016-06-25T10:30:23.319+10:002016-06-25T10:30:23.319+10:00Quite right, Anony, since I don't actually car...Quite right, Anony, since I don't actually care at all about a lot of things, I don't have to "put up with" anything that I consider "wrong but still "tolerable" ".<br /><br />Besides that whole "defend to the death your right to say it" is utter nonsense. Of course, if somebody approaches me with a big, sharp knife, I really do want him to feel free to say "I'm going to hack your guts out" so that I can shoot him dead with a clear conscience.<br /><br />Otherwise, if I just shoot him first, I'll never know whether he was just offering me a free steak knife to eat my dinner with.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41830396916628439662016-06-25T10:26:51.463+10:002016-06-25T10:26:51.463+10:00Perhaps Sam Newman and Caroline Marcus should get ...Perhaps Sam Newman and Caroline Marcus should get together sometime, and chew the fat, if you know what I mean.Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-16055478611302153912016-06-25T09:33:59.321+10:002016-06-25T09:33:59.321+10:00Fair enough.<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/toleration/" rel="nofollow">Fair enough</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14428403871272080542016-06-25T09:06:47.162+10:002016-06-25T09:06:47.162+10:00"...the pond blames the dog botherer for Rupe..."...the pond blames the dog botherer for Rupert Murdoch, Greg Sheridan, Brexit, the rise of far right extremism, Sam Newman, Eddie Maguire and Caroline Marcus ..."<br /><br />Psst, DP, next time you're down this way to visit Smith St, see about adding Rita Panahi to your celebrated pantheon of villainy. She really is highly deserving of the dishonor.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13892008669894948052016-06-25T09:00:15.641+10:002016-06-25T09:00:15.641+10:00"Freedom unrestrained by responsibility becom..."Freedom unrestrained by responsibility becomes mere license, while responsibility unchecked by freedom becomes arbitrary power." Carl Becker <br /><br />'Freedom' degenerating into 'license' was a favourite theme of Victorian England. Which is why I do not tolerate such things as single-sex marriage. I do not "tolerate" them, because instead I am simply indifferent to them.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69921562001663744712016-06-25T08:40:33.725+10:002016-06-25T08:40:33.725+10:00It's a paradox, all right.<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/were-a-land-of-racists-survey-shows/story-e6frfkvr-1226010436251" rel="nofollow">It</a>'s a <a href="http://paradoxoftheday.com/the-paradox-of-tolerance/" rel="nofollow">paradox</a>, all right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com