The pond didn't in any way mean to demean or demote the important work being done by the talented Oreo when it placed her second in the day's order behind the marvellous Order of Lenin hunter ...
They're of like minds and if there was any justice in the world, the pond would have run them as long long one screech, one mind-numbing rant ...
They're of like minds and if there was any justice in the world, the pond would have run them as long long one screech, one mind-numbing rant ...
The siren song was strong ...
... and it was simply a matter that somebody had to go first.
After all, when sharing, the pond was taught that politeness and restraint were important, and standing patiently in line was a sign of British civilisation at its finest ...
After all, when sharing, the pond was taught that politeness and restraint were important, and standing patiently in line was a sign of British civilisation at its finest ...
Never mind, the pond always found the humour in Punch to be truly eccentric and weird, but let the pond hasten to add, never so richly weird as an Oreo offering ...
And so to the main course, and for any correspondent wondering how the subject matter might be changed, the text amended, the course deviated, they need look no further ...
And so to the main course, and for any correspondent wondering how the subject matter might be changed, the text amended, the course deviated, they need look no further ...
Now the pond doesn't have anything to say about all this.
It's truly too rich and pleasurable to do the usual things. How could a sampling of "fawning dullards" conjure up the ripe, rich, fruity, frothy and foaming sense of outrage? Indignation doesn't cover it, and yet for all the outrage, why does the Oreo feel impeded?
She's feared the mob, she's berated the ABC, Twitter, blacks and Islamics and asserted proudly the right to offend anyone within earshot. Where's the impeding?
Truth to tell, she's free to rant, and outside a few reptile devotees and eccentric sites like the pond, nobody gives a toss for the tosser ...
The rest of us have got more important things to do than indulge in the culture wars, like make a living, instead of spending their time reading reptile rants ...
It's a bit like listening to pop musicians sing about freedom as they routinely do. If you've got the freedom to spend all the time yearning for freedom, maybe you've got too much freedom. Maybe you're - gasp - little better than a dole bludger.
And then there's the Twitter business.
What is it with the reptiles and Twitter? Why do they feel so threatened?
It's truly too rich and pleasurable to do the usual things. How could a sampling of "fawning dullards" conjure up the ripe, rich, fruity, frothy and foaming sense of outrage? Indignation doesn't cover it, and yet for all the outrage, why does the Oreo feel impeded?
She's feared the mob, she's berated the ABC, Twitter, blacks and Islamics and asserted proudly the right to offend anyone within earshot. Where's the impeding?
Truth to tell, she's free to rant, and outside a few reptile devotees and eccentric sites like the pond, nobody gives a toss for the tosser ...
The rest of us have got more important things to do than indulge in the culture wars, like make a living, instead of spending their time reading reptile rants ...
It's a bit like listening to pop musicians sing about freedom as they routinely do. If you've got the freedom to spend all the time yearning for freedom, maybe you've got too much freedom. Maybe you're - gasp - little better than a dole bludger.
And then there's the Twitter business.
What is it with the reptiles and Twitter? Why do they feel so threatened?
There being no Freudian in the house, all the pond can say is that when the Oreo scribbled "there should be no get-off-oreo-free card because you are born Oreo", and so anyone and everyone can be insulted, the pond suddenly felt much better about mocking Oriel for the way her name conjured up the famous biscuit, especially as in the United States such play might be perceived to have a racist connotation.
But can she keep up the pace, or will she falter in the second lap?
And there you have it in a nutshell.
The Oreo is a biscuit frequently confused. In fact, the Oreo is such a simpleton biscuit that it can't understand how race, culture and religion might be mingled, to conjure up a rich form of offensive abuse ...
The Oreo is a biscuit frequently confused. In fact, the Oreo is such a simpleton biscuit that it can't understand how race, culture and religion might be mingled, to conjure up a rich form of offensive abuse ...
Clearly she doesn't follow Bill Leak's cartoons ...
But there's also something deeply troubling about the logic in the Oreo biscuit.
There she is complaining at the way both the Leaker and the Bolter have been unfairly harassed ... and then she wants 18c improved so that they can be even more racist and confrontational, presumably on the basis that what the country needs is some kind of apocalyptic end times battle, followed by a rapture which will match the sacrifice of the ancients fighting for free speech ... because the two world wars were fought about free speech, and not much else ...
As for 18c, it reminded the pond yet again of that headline in Crikey ...
There she is complaining at the way both the Leaker and the Bolter have been unfairly harassed ... and then she wants 18c improved so that they can be even more racist and confrontational, presumably on the basis that what the country needs is some kind of apocalyptic end times battle, followed by a rapture which will match the sacrifice of the ancients fighting for free speech ... because the two world wars were fought about free speech, and not much else ...
As for 18c, it reminded the pond yet again of that headline in Crikey ...
Every day they're at it, screeching for freedom, when the pond would settle for an intelligent discussion of relevant issues.
It gets even funnier when the Oreo issues a clarion call for more muscular liberalism when everyone knows the real problem is liberalism itself, what with its wretched mamby pamby desire for everyone to live and let live ...
It gets even funnier when the Oreo issues a clarion call for more muscular liberalism when everyone knows the real problem is liberalism itself, what with its wretched mamby pamby desire for everyone to live and let live ...
And as for the Leaker and the Bolter being free thinkers?
Really? When it's hard to think of more rigid, ossified, ideologically narrow, blind and bigoted thinkers on hand in any reptile rag in the land ...
The Oreo's not that far behind, with her routine railing at leftists as if they're the cause of all evil in the world ...while the Hansonites frolic and cheer in delight and race into the church to torment and persecute Christians of the meek and mild, Jesus loves everyone, kind ...
Really? When it's hard to think of more rigid, ossified, ideologically narrow, blind and bigoted thinkers on hand in any reptile rag in the land ...
The Oreo's not that far behind, with her routine railing at leftists as if they're the cause of all evil in the world ...while the Hansonites frolic and cheer in delight and race into the church to torment and persecute Christians of the meek and mild, Jesus loves everyone, kind ...
Never mind, as the pond now ritually does as a way of warding off the Oriel demon, it's time for a celebration of Oreos, and if the biscuit won't crumble, why not soak it in milk ...
The Oreole truly is a precious little gem, isn't she - totally unpolished, of course.
ReplyDeleteAnd running hard with the "change the subject matter" and "alter the text" tropes, too. Oh, verily much reward awaits this one in wingnut heaven.
I'm quite bemused by all of this - I've been reading newspapers for over 60 years and it's never been like this before: the constant drumbeat of identity politics where the "all evil (ie anything we don't approve of) is due to the LEFT and the watermelon Greens" refrain is run over and over again.
Every day, new episodes, as though we might all have forgotten how evil the LEFT is and so it has to be preached again and again. How did it come to this ? Is it all Rupies' fault ?
All I can say is no wonder they're shedding readership on a steady decline. Without the freebies, would anybody read them at all ?
International Bankers Make Moves to Open the Pacific Front of WWIII
DeleteThe "Wolfowitz Doctrine" is the Guiding Force - as always
The Wolfowitz Doctrine
Forward Presence
Our forward presence helps to shape the evolving security environment. We will continue to rely on forward presence of U.S. forces to show U.S. commitment... Forward bases and access agreements must become more flexible as the security environment evolves...
East Asia/Pacific
We must maintain sufficient forward deployed forces and power projection capability to ... deter threats to our key political and economic interests, and to preclude any hostile power from attempting to dominate the region...
(Signed)
Dick Cheney
At the risk of dragging this wretched issue out even further, could I just suggest that, basically, Bill Leak is a shithouse cartoonist?
ReplyDeleteOh, sure he's talented caricaturist, and can turn out a nice realist portrait - if he'd been born 40 or 50 years earlier, he could have been another William Dargie, or at least a decent advertising or paperback cover artist.
But a decent cartoonist -particularly an editorial cartoonist - needs more than that. Like a sharp wit, the ability to sum up and comment on a particular issue in a single image and a few words, and clarity in conveying their intent. Oh, and having a reasonable sense of humour and providing some amusement - no matter how dark and grim that humour may be - doesn't hurt either.
Leak fails on all these counts. His attempts at humour fall flat, and he's certainly failing at his craft if he needs to constantly explain the intention of his cartoons.
Australia has produced some fine political cartoonists - and many bloody awful ones. I used to think that Molnar and Emeric, who both worked for the "Sydney Morning Herald" for many years, were the dullest of my lifetime, but Leak's work, shorn of all its "controversy", is right down there with them.