tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7693908721105836985..comments2024-03-19T15:21:14.267+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which prattling Polonius blathers about a T-shirt while Dame Slap dons a MAGA cap ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61766301232910579832018-08-05T14:01:04.638+10:002018-08-05T14:01:04.638+10:00"scab branch of the labor Party" - nope,..."<i>scab branch of the labor Party</i>" - nope, can't say I've ever previously encountered that precise description, but it surely fits.<br /><br />As to Flacco, well that's a likeness I'd not registered until now ... and not only a likeness to Flacco's facial appearance either.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72321709064580624912018-08-05T11:23:36.460+10:002018-08-05T11:23:36.460+10:00I had a quick look on YouTube and quickly blew ret...I had a quick look on YouTube and quickly blew retreat. I remember asking an adult about this strange little man talking without pause for breath on TV (probably about 1965). I was told he was associated with "the scab branch of the Labor Party". Tells you a bit about my family background as well as the divisions of the time.<br /><br />PS Santa looked uncommonly like the Paul Livingston character Flacco.Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79795224829856844542018-08-05T10:16:40.780+10:002018-08-05T10:16:40.780+10:00И вошел Иисус в храм Божий и выгнал всех продающих...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sh4kz_zhyo" rel="nofollow">И вошел Иисус в храм Божий и выгнал всех продающих и покупающих в храме, и опрокинул столы меновщиков и скамьи продающих голубей,и говорил им: написано, --дом Мой домом молитвы наречется; а вы сделали его вертепом разбойников.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-21682857305879367582018-08-05T08:34:53.592+10:002018-08-05T08:34:53.592+10:00Oh wau, Bef, "Point of View" is going ba...Oh wau, Bef, "Point of View" is going back a way (starting in the 1960s sometime) though I note there's a few video bits of it still surviving on Youtube - which, like the TV show itself at the time, I won't be wasting any of my remaining lifetime viewing.<br /><br />Santamaria himself is "credited" with having changed his position late in life and, in the words of Paul Collins: "...<i> praised for being an agrarian socialist and anti-capitalist</i>." Oh yeah.<br /><br />Of course, Hendo, Abbott and Pell (inter alia) never followed him down that strewn pathway.<br />[ See https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=22823 ]GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80830596491706620272018-08-04T21:36:21.637+10:002018-08-04T21:36:21.637+10:00"A bit of fun. A bit of tongue-in-cheek with ..."A bit of fun. A bit of tongue-in-cheek with friends"<br /><br />And there is the centre of Gerry's dart-board.<br /><br />Having sat through his twisted, pained positioning on The Insiders couch, or reading his interminable waffle of a Satdee morning, nothing could be further from my mind than 'fun" of "friends".<br /><br />Gerry is, bless his cupped palms, antithetical to both.<br /><br />If i might add a Martin Flanagan tweet into the mix regarding the equally miserable Dr Andreas Bolt:<br /><br />"When did Andrew Bolt ever write anything that showed he loved Australia? When did he write with affection & respect about a great Australian painting, book, sportsperson, historical figure, a great Australian place or personality. Imposter."<br /><br />There's never been a more exciting time to read Murdoch's lackeys.via collinshttp://www.higlossentertainment.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13050726661018249652018-08-04T17:03:15.380+10:002018-08-04T17:03:15.380+10:00Polonius refers to John Falzon as seeking pre-sele...Polonius refers to John Falzon as seeking pre-selection for "the safe Labor seat of Canberra".<br /><br />Surely a stickler for detail such as Polonius should have noted that the existing two Federal seats in the ACT are being increased to three at the next election. While one of those three electorates will still be known as "Canberra", its boundaries are being substantially redrawn. Indeed, the reason that Falzon is seeking preselection is because the current Member for Canberra is moving to the new electorate of Bean, which will occupy much of the territory that previously formed part of the Canberra electorate.<br /><br />Given these changes, it is difficult to see on what basis Polonius can claim that the new electorate of Canberra, for which Mr Falzon is seeking pre-selection, can be called "safe Labor" given that, apart from its name, it will be to all intents and purposes a completely new electorate.<br /><br />Now the above may appear to be so much dry, dull pedantry - and indeed it is. However, this is Polonius we're talking about, who delights in churning out thousands of words at a time of dry, dull pedantry in response to perceived errors of even greater insignificance when they are made by others. Surely he should be called upon to issue a statement of clarification - and grovelling apology - for so egregiously misleading his tens of readers?<br /><br />BTW, Gerry's sniffy comments about the appropriateness of a Lenin t-shirt as party-wear makes me wonder what the dress code is at Sydney Institute shindigs. Whatever it may be, I'll bet a swingin' time is had by all! I can just imagine Hendo putting a lampshade on his head after his third sweet sherry, and provocatively loosing his Windsor knot......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-46258630871425044022018-08-04T16:23:21.522+10:002018-08-04T16:23:21.522+10:00I get the sense that most of the Pond's reader...I get the sense that most of the Pond's readership are old enough to remember Point of View and probably derive some humour from Polonius' inability to move on from old fears that never materialized. His is a binary world where any deviation from his orthodoxy leads inevitably to a Stalinist purge. <br /><br />I'd love to know what my (adult) kids would make of the old duffer but I doubt they would bother to read more than a few lines of this stuff.Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-68402548796052899652018-08-04T13:01:22.524+10:002018-08-04T13:01:22.524+10:00Heh, Polonius as an ideologically blinded listicle...Heh, Polonius as an ideologically blinded listicle king. And I bet he'd "deport" them all at the drop of a hat too. And he'd excommunicate them as well, if only he could. :-)GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48614003361799371602018-08-04T12:38:47.505+10:002018-08-04T12:38:47.505+10:00Hi Dorothy,
“Lenin orders that the secret police ...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />“Lenin orders that the secret police “should submit a list of several hundred such gentlemen (intellectuals) who must be deported abroad without mercy”.<br /><br />The funny thing is that you just know that Henderson spends his evenings compulsively compiling lists (meticulously cross referenced) of individuals who he considers ideologically unsound.<br /><br />DiddyWrote Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11297900527992759972018-08-04T09:44:20.303+10:002018-08-04T09:44:20.303+10:00"Well he didn't actually call it a ghetto..."<i>Well he didn't actually call it a ghetto</i>..."<br /><br />No, of all the things North Caulfield (I lived there once upon a time) might be called, ghetto would not be one of them.<br /><br />But Polonius really does have a serious obsession with Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, doesn't he. And I can kinda sympathise just a little; Lenin isn't a great human being by any stretch of the imagination. But crediting him with "inventing" the totalitarian state is just a bit rich, I think. Though he did systematise it somewhat I suppose.<br /><br />But given the Prattler's dedication to impartial evidence (at least so he claims), I'd really like to see his evidence regarding just how carefully Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Min, Pol Pot and Castro (and "many more besides") studied the Leninist and Stalinist society of Russia in order to admiringly copy it. Or maybe they had their own ideas anyway.<br /><br />But that's not Polonius' only obsession: "<i>From the time of the Bolshevik Revolution until 1968, <b>the extreme left in Australia</b> supported the communist regime</i>...".<br /><br />Yep, he always raves about "the Left" as though it is somehow just one entity. But I suppose that's how a dedicated Catholic would think, given the bloody history of a Church that imposed total conformity on its members. And I don't think Lenin invented the Catholic Inquisition, did he.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com