The reptiles, and so the pond, are in disarray this day, as a result of all the Leakian moments.
The Caterists have already gushed into print on the subject and so didn't appear this day.
The Caterists have already gushed into print on the subject and so didn't appear this day.
But these are minor setbacks, especially when a grandee of the order of a little Johnny turns up as a replacement ...
It was the use of the redundant "true champion" that immediately caught the pond's eye, and made it wonder what it would be like to be an "untrue" champion ...
It's probably a bit like a "real champion", as opposed to being an unreal or a surreal champion. Or it could be a true winner, a real winner, as opposed to an untrue unreal loser ...
The good news is that there are many true champions to be found ...
But enough of these true champions, who might be googled at the drop of a hat, and on with little Johnny, a true champion of true champions of western civilisation ...
Indeed, indeed. The disquisition on two world wars, imperialism, colonialism and all the rest, not to mention supreme achievements like the Holocaust, thanks to Beethoven and Wagner devotees, will make up an admirable part of the curriculum ...
No doubt there might even be room for talk of minor inconsequential fucking over of parts of the middle east, as in the war in Iraq which has achieved wonders of western civilisation for millions...
No doubt there might even be room for talk of minor inconsequential fucking over of parts of the middle east, as in the war in Iraq which has achieved wonders of western civilisation for millions...
But that talk of the y'artz is wholly admirable, especially as the pond knows from personal reference that little Johnny's actual interest in the arts lasts usually for about the attention-span of a gnat ...
Oh indeed, indeed, fatuousness on top of fatuity. Now to be fair, little Johnny has at least been the source of inspiration for some great artists as in the creation of Australia's greatest meme ...
But try to find out about Howard's actual taste in arts and artists and you'll probably end up with a couple of overstuffed Chesterfields. Or perhaps a painting by Winston Churchill ...
Thank heavens that up against Winnie, the Ruskies don't have a clue. They have absolutely nothing to boast about in terms of literature, music or other art forms. Who was that Eistenstein chappie? Why talk of Dostoevsky? What point nattering on about Shostakovich and all the rest of the musical ditherers.
But try to find out about Howard's actual taste in arts and artists and you'll probably end up with a couple of overstuffed Chesterfields. Or perhaps a painting by Winston Churchill ...
Thank heavens that up against Winnie, the Ruskies don't have a clue. They have absolutely nothing to boast about in terms of literature, music or other art forms. Who was that Eistenstein chappie? Why talk of Dostoevsky? What point nattering on about Shostakovich and all the rest of the musical ditherers.
The pond just knew that Tchaikovsky was suspect. Too gay, and far too melodious for his own good ...
Natrually, the whole point of the exercise can then be unfolded ... bloody furriners coming in here, and not understanding the genius of the place ...oh and don't forget the Xians ...
Well that's a grand array of suitable nonsense, as befits the man who gave chaplains unto state schools at some vast expense ... and then blithely chats about the separation of church and state (a right not in fact enshrined in the Australian constitution in any direct and explicit way, as opposed to the barring of religious tests).
It was a bloody Ruski of course who belled little Johnny's understanding of Matthew (for the footnotes and much more, do a Greg Hunt here):
Damn you uncivilised, barbaric Ruskies ...
And so at the end. we move on to the latest in a long grand line of Bachelors of Useless Farts ... an area in which the pond can claim some expertise and credentials ...
Yes, any other day of the week the reptiles would be outraged at the notion of more BArts barfing around, but now there's a fawning and a dancing in the streets about the way that 'western civilisation', whatever it might be, can be studied, redeemed and celebrated ...
There's an irony there somewhere if the pond could only see it.
Perhaps a Confucius or a Zen Buddhist might spot it, but it eludes the pond ... and was alarmed to see that the Prof also gained some education in the middle east (as here):
Thank the long absent lord Hong Kong was taught the splendid joys of western civilisation and the pleasures of ingesting opium by the British ...
Perhaps a Confucius or a Zen Buddhist might spot it, but it eludes the pond ... and was alarmed to see that the Prof also gained some education in the middle east (as here):
It remains one of the more sublime mysteries, up there with transubstantiation, that western civilisation apparently comes from the middle east ...
Thank the long absent lord Hong Kong was taught the splendid joys of western civilisation and the pleasures of ingesting opium by the British ...
Indeed, indeed.
Well it's good that the old dodderer has found a useful way to fill in his days. It means that New Zealand is safe from invasion and being taught the rarefied benefits of Australian civilisation ... that leaves Iraq and Afghanistan as having enjoyed this unique pleasure in recent times ... though it also did wonders for Vietnam ...
Well it's good that the old dodderer has found a useful way to fill in his days. It means that New Zealand is safe from invasion and being taught the rarefied benefits of Australian civilisation ... that leaves Iraq and Afghanistan as having enjoyed this unique pleasure in recent times ... though it also did wonders for Vietnam ...
There's more mystical oriental nonsense here, sorry there's no room in the curriculum for this sort of jibber-jabber, but there are other grand signs of western civilisation at work, of a sci fi kind, as noted by Pope - more Pope here - and Rowe - more Rowe here ...
By golly, Stanley keeps on giving ... this conversation can serve no purpose any more ...
"Christianity has left a deep imprint on Western Civilisation.
ReplyDeleteFor example, a key tenet of modern liberal democracy is the separation of church and state. We take it for granted."
Right, so the deep imprint of Christianity is that it should be kept as far away from Western Civilisation as possible.
Just don't tell any of those "rule by divine right" kings that litter English history - they might revoke the grant.
I think The Pond really needs to have a look at this:
ReplyDeletehttps://spectator.com.au/2017/03/my-bill/
I'd love to read what you can make of it.
"page not found" in response to that, Anony. Just give us the article's title so we can find it on the Spec site.
DeleteGoogle the link GB, and you'll see an article "My Bill" used to exist, but no longer. There's an older article, "Goodbye Uncle Bill" by Kerryn Pholi, that is viewable, but the one Anony has found appears to have been zapped.
DeleteHeh, Google Archive to the rescue once again, Anony: I googled 'Spectator "My bill"' and up it came.
DeleteAnd it wasn't even remotely worth the effort, just another pile of the festering bullshit that RWNJs believe in from cradle to grave retailed by some little floozie who refers to herself as her boss's "Girl Friday" because of course that pisses off the Left Feminists no end.
DeleteWhat was that old wisdom: "by his friends shall you know him" and yes, that's an example of Leak's "friends".
The pond has deliberately steered away from the maudlin, the sentimental and the pathetic in relation to Leakian matters. It is true that this is a monumental pile of shite, and it is pleasing that the link worked for the pond, but what is genuinely astonishing is that Daisy Cousens actually exists, and apparently no one at the Spectator invented her. So many fuckwits, so little time, and some of them so young ...
Deletehttps://twitter.com/DaisyCousens
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteAs The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation is a charitable organisation, I'm sure Howard as Chairman and Abbott as a director will not expect any recompense for such a noble cause.
Likewise I'm also similarly certain that The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation will not turn out to be a conduit for channeling huge sums of money (tax free) into Liberal coffers.
DiddyWrote
Hard to know how it'll turn out, DW, apart from being a way of separating fools from their money and handing it to the undeserving rich and other political grifters, as you suspect.
DeleteBut an organisation to study and promote "Western Civiisation" ? The biggest joke of little (dis)Honest Johnny's spiel was this:
Those who are zealous in their attempts to drive religious influences from the public square loudly proclaim the importance of that separation. Yet how many acknowledge that its origin is to be found in Matthew''s gospel when Jesus exhorted his followers to "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's"
That from the man who appointed Peter Hollingworth, ex Archbishop, as Australia's Governor General in June 2001 who then had to resign in May 2003 when his "mishandling" of sex abuse allegations in the Anglican Church came to the public's attention. Oh yes, he knew how to give Caesar the things that are Caesar's.