Day 102 of MUC and day 55 of MOC, and the bromancer strikes again, as only a sleek pink panther can ...

It is traditional, at this time in proceedings, for people to pay money to the Fairfaxians, and worse, the Murdochians, so that they can be told what to think, and how to vote.

There'll be none of that nonsense at the pond. People will think and vote how they like, and all the pond will confess to is a desire to make someone pay for eight weeks of utter tedium and ennui, and a reliable desire to put all bigoted, homophobic, religion-affiliated parties last ...

Fortunately this day the reptiles have decided that the Grand Mufti provides an excellent distraction, and a chance to smite Malware for refusing to be anti-Islamic enough ...

 

Now this is shocking and outrageous stuff, a bloody Islamic with the cheek to go lecturing Jews and Christians, and naturally the pond reverted to its favourite source, the sceptic's bible, to put the heathen in his place ...

Oops, that didn't go well, did it, and there are a lot more examples of the homophobic, bigoted nature of goat and camel herders, and working links, here ...

On and on the infidel heretic went, and mightily indignant did the reptiles sound ...

Now the pond having failed in its allotted task, of defeating religious fundamentalism, it fell to the bromancer to step up to the plate ...and explain how Jesuitical, disingenuous apologetics really worked ...

Oh mighty warrior, oh worthy crusader, tell it like it is ...

Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck, so this is what it's come to ...

Yes, it's the good old Catholic catechism, available here, and all the pond can do is urge that the objectively disordered bromancer embrace a life of chastity. 

Who knows, the virtue of self-mastery might teach him an inner freedom, and prevent him from publicly wanking in commentaries for the reptiles ...

Perhaps he could do this with disinterested friendship and gradually and resolutely approach Xian perfection, or perhaps he could just fuck off ...

Yep, you guessed it, he had even more nonsense to spout ...

Never mind, a pox on all their houses, but it reminds the pond of the stench, the vile stench of hypocrisy, that surrounds the lizard Oz, and the strenuous efforts these past few months for them to demonise the Safe Schools program in a way that fundamentalist Christians and Islamics and Cory Bernardi might approve ...

It put them in some really classy company ...

That story is here, and it reminded the pond of the reality behind the mealy mouthed apologetics of the wretched bromancer ...

Month after month, the reptiles raged about Safe Schools, doing the work of Fred Nile and fundamentalist Islamics ...

There was only one upside to the nausea.

It reminded the pond of its arduous duty this weekend ... to have fun with the new Senate voting method, seemingly designed for the thinking voter to make mayhem, and in the process to ensure yet again that fundamentalist Christians and their fundamentalist parties are put last ... let them jostle with fundamentalist Islamics at the back of the queue ...

And so to a few flashbacks featuring Fred ...this clipping, the clippee said, was in the Daily Terror on the 18th November 1993

And this was Fred doing a grand mufti in 1999 at the Mardi Gras ...

Well might god forgive the objectively disordered Greg Sheridan, because the pond will find it a little harder ...