helping uncle rupert jack off your debts ...

That meme appealed to the Tamworth grammar Nazi in the pond, though not as much as this Rowe portrait of a Tamworth prize bull ...

By golly that's an exact likeness and you can twitter with Rowe here ...

But this being Sunday, let's get serious, and ask some serious questions.

Is the SBS viewing app the worst app in the world? Or is that being unfair? Is it merely the worst viewing app in Australasia and perhaps south-east Asia?

Did the ABC call in optometrists to help them design their iView resolution? Did the canny optometrists sense it would be a way to make a quick buck out of people complaining about their soft, blurred vision? Well now we know what happens when you get the likes of the Platform or your very own in-house team to design your very own delivery platform. You'd have been better off putting it all on YouTube where the functionality works and the definition's gone through a number of serious upgrades to suit the big screen mania of the times...

Retro hipsters addicted to 4:3 can just go off and watch Rage clips ... and can anyone explain why Rage never back announces its clips with a super? The pond complained to the head of the newfangled version of Light Ent way back when for minute after minute and still they can't do it, and so if you happen to tune in during a clip, and you don't know the artist, you'll never know. Even the commercial networks managed to do this when they ran clips - it's only the ABC that needs the cheap filler these days. Sheesh, even good old bogan western suburbs radio WSFM can manage to identify tracks played, playing and coming up on FM. Not the ABC ...

Oh okay, the pond isn't being serious. It's time to get really serious ...

First up a round up of pond news. It has to be said that the pond was devastated to see that Miranda the Devine had (a) stopped assaulting Morrison and (b) had today's missive posted to her blog ...

It seems that the Terrorists are being stubborn and defiant about the pond's plea to stop the blogs, stop the blogs ...

And over at the reptiles, prattling Polonius was also playing hard cop ...

It seems the reptiles think that prattling Polonius is so valuable and of such interest to its readership that they hold him back on a Saturday so that he might occupy the readership for the entire weekend ...

Oh dear sweet absent lord, so after all the pond is better off going blind catching up on iView ...

Well all we've got say about that one is this ...

But enough of all this, it's time for the pond to get serious ... so let's get serious about tax.

Not long after the pond stumbled across that stunning Rowe portrait of Barners, it checked up on the reptiles carrying on about their prize Tamworth bull ...

Now the pond has come to the conclusion that it what it most loves about, and prizes in, the reptile read is the cognitive dissonance that runs through the brain ...

Now if you Greg Hunt - watch out for the walri got loose in the south paddock - cognitive dissonance, you will discover it refers to mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds contradictory beliefs, ideas or values at the same time ...

But this entirely fails to understand the comedy value of the condition ...

Thus when the reptiles scribble furiously about tax by celebrating the views of a country town accountant ...

The pond is dissonantly drawn to cognite other matters ...

Yes it says don't play because it's a screen cap, but you can go here and play it if you like, but the point for the pond is contained in that simple note that News Corp was and is the big multinational player in the ATO high-risk category.

So whenever the reptiles get on to tax, debt, pain, and the whole damn thing and idly chatter about the entitled, the pond is entranced ...

The pond always claps hands with sheer delight when it reads that increasing taxation will only put a handbrake on growth and that it's unsustainable for almost half of all households to pay no net tax and that the day of reckoning looms ...

As if the bandits are simply, congenitally incapable of recognising their own situation, the behaviour of the company they work for...

What about foreign-owned multinationals, you might ask them, and still they blather about voters expecting ever more largesse ...

What need of fiscal reform, you might ask them, as opposed to actually insisting that bandits, rogues, thieves and cheats be required to conduct themselves with fiscal probity ...

Alas, the only answer to that lies in the memes, which might just as well be the runes, for all the impact it has ...

That's the difference between Uncle Rupert jacking off a horse, and uncle rupert jacking off a horse ...

Oh that didn't quite work, did it. Or perhaps it did, perhaps the jacking off bit really did ... in a most unique ABC way ...

And so to a Pope, because the pond never gets enough of the genuine papists, as you can discover here ...

So sad, so sad ...

Yep, the pond can't even lay a bottle of wine bet with intimes of the Billista ...