tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8777557543187387357..comments2024-03-29T09:41:49.017+11:00Comments on loon pond: Building a hell in heaven's despite, with Akker Dakker trowelling, or is that trolling?, away at the keyboard ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9383146003278338552015-12-14T08:02:23.353+11:002015-12-14T08:02:23.353+11:00That box office turkey? We vaguely remember doing ...That box office turkey? We vaguely remember doing a Scott Fitzgerald pissed as a Pat Hobby moment script doctoring the sugary sweet soggy stew of tear-stained Xmas sentimentality, but the pond would rather take credit for its uncredited work on The Cowboy and the Lady ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24754836078647396672015-12-14T05:04:34.321+11:002015-12-14T05:04:34.321+11:00DP - did you know you are credited as one of the s...DP - did you know you are credited as one of the screen writers for It's a Wonderful Life? Best Christmas film ever.<br /><br />:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-32689036636703027272015-12-13T14:11:18.686+11:002015-12-13T14:11:18.686+11:00Some light relief for those of an historical bent....Some light relief for those of an historical bent. The history of colonial naval forces prior to Federation is great fun. Did you know that NSW had a naval brigade of several hundred men, but no actual ships for 20 years? And Queensland suffered from a mutiny by one Captain Henry Townley Wright R.N. commanding officer of Gayundah. He had a falling out with the Government who ordered police to arrest him, but he gave the order to 'repel boarders' and trained the Gayundah's guns on Parliament House and threatened to defect to NSW. Her sister ship Paluma was left high and dry in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens after a flood and the locals tried to haul it back into the river.<br /><br />Yep a Python episode in the making.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_navies_of_Australia#VictoriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62826075670095232792015-12-13T14:08:48.564+11:002015-12-13T14:08:48.564+11:00Hi Mercurial,
The veneration of the Virgin Mary a...Hi Mercurial,<br /><br />The veneration of the Virgin Mary always did have a whiff of idolatry about it, which is why she had to go along with the whole pantheon of saints offering specialised services in return for cash and prayer.<br /><br />I've always assumed that that the early church subsumed one or more pagan fertility goddesses whose worship they couldn't stamp out and just rebranded her as the Mother of God. <br /><br />The puritanical Reformists weren't going to stand for that sort heathen idolatry....oh no they weren't.<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38920625984520056952015-12-13T13:26:41.509+11:002015-12-13T13:26:41.509+11:00But you're right, the motives were always poli...But you're right, the motives were always political/ideological, rather than charitableMerurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-86227256053653640572015-12-13T13:15:55.791+11:002015-12-13T13:15:55.791+11:00Diddy, at least the reformists of the Christian ch...Diddy, at least the reformists of the Christian church did away with that stupid vaginophilic obsession that the tykes had with mutha mary.Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13104139321359984372015-12-13T13:11:41.188+11:002015-12-13T13:11:41.188+11:00The good and the bad seem to change over time, GD....The good and the bad seem to change over time, GD. Sometimes Sunni is good, Shia bad, other times the reverse. Wahhabists like the Good House of Saud are lucky because they always seem to be on the good side. Something to do with 15% of the world's oil production, and a larger share of reserves, I think.<br /><br />Considering your chances of being beheaded are significantly more in Saudi Arabia than the are in IS controlled territory, that obviously has nought to do with it.Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48444495589696925942015-12-13T10:37:45.039+11:002015-12-13T10:37:45.039+11:00This comment has been removed by the author.Flyingdale Flyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271374090750981518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-2160531165836748212015-12-13T10:36:45.014+11:002015-12-13T10:36:45.014+11:00He gives nasty fat fucks a bad nameHe gives nasty fat fucks a bad nameFlyingdale Flyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271374090750981518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66037661217206466212015-12-13T10:26:49.691+11:002015-12-13T10:26:49.691+11:00Hi Dorothy,
"That might be a start but the r...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />"That might be a start but the reformation of Islam will need to go a lot further and will need more people of great courage, courage as great as those who were prepared to literally put their lives on the line to reform the Christian Church"<br /><br />Add Akerman to the list of ill informed idiots who blithely assume that those that sort to reform the Christian Church were a bunch of soft cuddly secularists. They were on the whole fanatical extremist wowsers, intent on imposing a hardline literal interpretation of the Bible on all their co-religionists. In that respect they much more resembled ISIS/ISIL/DAESH (whatever).<br /><br />Take the Puritans for example. Rabidly anti-Catholic, they gained a lot of power after the English Civil War and straight away set about imposing sanctimonious restrictions on their fellow citizens. Plain clothes, no festivities, no drinking, no theatre, no gatherings of more than 5 people outside of church, no dancing and no sports. They even tried to ban Christmas;<br /><br />http://www.historytoday.com/chris-durston/puritan-war-christmas<br /><br />DiddyWroteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40894617283287760762015-12-13T10:22:23.668+11:002015-12-13T10:22:23.668+11:00There is one thing (well only one that I want to c...There is one thing (well only one that I want to comment on in his rant) that Akker ignored in is burst of Islamophobia. That is, it's not much good raising 9/11 as an example of the horror. Most of the trail leads back to what he called "al Qaeda" which was then led and funded in Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />Now, Saudi are the US's (and therefore our) friend and ally, and major source of oil supply. We never seem to have taken issue with the Saudis in the so-called War on Terror, and this being about the most spectacular act of terror.<br /><br />So what does it all mean? Are there "good" Islamists and "bad" ones, or do we just go on quietly ignoring their acts of terror, as we do Israel's? Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-21546041174573114432015-12-13T08:38:29.663+11:002015-12-13T08:38:29.663+11:00Wonderful isn't it how the fat Owl thinks that...Wonderful isn't it how the fat Owl thinks that women in our so-called Christian society can go anywhere dressed how every they like because Christian men are so much better than those Muslim men who are able to control themselves when around women. Fuck me dead he's a fcking nasty fat fuck is he not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com