In which the pond dons the rubber and splashes into the reptiles' 'intolerable rubbish' laggard stew ...

It's social issue day at the pond thanks to the reptiles ...

Oh sure, the reptile second eleven was out on the field doing their best to demonise and mock the human headline, bemoan the tattered Malware triumph, and dismiss the recent tax fuss as a rounding error ...

A rounding error? A hundred million bucks bribe to get Malware off the hook? Feel free to drop that sort of rounding error into the pond's bank account any time you like ...

But as always the pond was alert for news of the thought police ... what with the way that the reptiles routinely fling the words around with gay abandon ...

Oh look, it's a "thought police" with bonus "positively Orwellian"...

... and so nicely primed, the pond wandered off to a disappointingly short Oz editorial, which it will be remembered, from the splash above, was indignant about the right of parents to go on producing little bigots in an untrammelled way ...

After all, where would we be without children quietly exercising their right to remain bigoted?

Now at this point the pond might brood about the use of "thought police", since it's obvious that the best thought police in the business are the patrolling reptiles, always ready to pounce on the slightest deviation and dismiss it as intolerable rubbish, no doubt as a generous indication of their willingness to tolerate the intolerable ...

But instead the pond realised it was time yet again to celebrate the ongoing epic work of Rebecca Urban, herself one of the best thought police on the block, relentlessly patrolling in search of the slightest deviation from the norm, always ready to pounce on intolerable rubbish ...

Indeed, indeed. Of course it wasn't so long ago that good old-fashioned homophobia, the kind of jam grandma used to make, was still out and about and cocking a snoot ...

The rest of that story is here, but it's time to get back to good old thought policewoman 'Becca doing the story that got the Oz editorialist so indignant ...

Now it's easy to see why the Oz editorialist was consternated. 

There's far too much subtlety at work in this kind of deviance ... when it's much simpler to take a Leakian view of the universe ...

Oh what a clever, clever wag he is ... 

And so back to thought policewoman 'Becca ...

It reminded the pond of a Bolter story the other day, yet another one about apartheid in Australia, and uppity blacks getting an advantage over long suffering whites.

It was as good a sign as any that the Bolter was unhealthily obsessed with race and black-bashing and that he returned to these preoccupations so often that it hinted at an unhinged mental instability, above and beyond his standard form of racism.

The same applies to the harumphing reptiles of Oz in relation to homosexuality ... 

Their relentless insistence on a simpleton binary view of sexuality, despite all the evidence to the contrary in the natural world, indicates an unhinged preoccupation which suggests all sorts of alarming things about the source of their obsession...

Of course it must hurt to be called laggard thought police, but if you live the life and kill the trees in pursuit of your obsession, you should wear the label ...

And now, a little deviation for the pond, provoked by this Terror front page...

The pond immediately suspected it was the gay thought police at work ... who else would be clever and fiendish enough to make a top church lose its religion and wipe Jesus?

Sadly, by the time the pond got to the digital click bait version, the story had dropped down the page, and it involved a minor church and a single letter, and the reptiles were to blame ...

Well as the pond is fond of quoting Macbeth that to go o'er were as tedious as to return, and so it was time to go o'er ...

      

Now it was around this point that the pond realised it was in the middle of an alarming storm in a rather small teacup ... 

But still the mystery of who had demonised the hapless Xians remained to be sorted ...

            

It was all the fault of the Terror, which caught the Xians coming and then nailed them going?

That's it? That's the sum total of this click-bait which also took over the front page of the tree killer edition?

At the time the pond was writing, the story had produced just three comments, two from atheists, and this classic ...

The pond felt the immediate need to burst into song ...

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

Loosing my religion ...

Throw in PC, which infests reptile pages as much as "thought police" and "Orwellian" and the pond began to think that the reptiles might soon succeed in bringing a Donald to power down under ...

As for the rest, nothing was sorted, nothing was solved in this sojourn with the reptiles, and of course the homophobic intransigence remains ... along with the leather and the rubber jokes and all the rest of the overt hatred ...

So there was nothing more for the pond to do than take a trip back in time to remember how long the homophobic bigotry has been going down in relation to another matter ... (and there's more recent Popery here) ...