One of the richest aspects of regularly reading the lizard Oz is the way they give space to any fucked in the head passing policy waif who happens to raise a matter of deep and abiding concern for the reptiles.
The ugliness of wind farms, the average person and 18C, welcome here ...
This day they liked it so much they even put it front and centre in the tree killer edition ...
This day they liked it so much they even put it front and centre in the tree killer edition ...
The average person? The reasonable Australian?
Why surely that's the pond?
Well that's the way the reptiles dress up Fierravanti-Wells contribution this day, but the google splash is more revealing ...
Why surely that's the pond?
Well that's the way the reptiles dress up Fierravanti-Wells contribution this day, but the google splash is more revealing ...
A Bondi tram? A fucking Bondi tram?
Even the six o'clock swill lasted longer than the fucking Bondi tram in some backward provincial towns ...
Oh dear, the good old days with Don, but of late the pub business has been in decline, consolidation and transformation mode ...
Is there a politician so fucked in the head and so lacking in imagination that they would resort to "man" and "Bondi tram" to pander to the reptiles and their 18C obsession?
Why do you ask?
Right from the get go, the pond thought that an appeal to the man on the Bondi tram exemplified why the Malware government, and not least Fierravant-Wells, were fucked in the head.
Back to the future, back to 1960, and not even a clever indication that the past might need a little updating - it could have easily enough been done, as in "the famous test ... of the man (or in more modern days, the man, the woman, the child, the dog, the cat and the family budgie) on the Bondi tram which the NSW government might bring back sometime around 2060 in celebration of that ancient NSW Labor government which got rid of all the trams."
If only the pond was writing F-W's copy ...
Of course we've been down this stupid, infinitely fuckwitted path before, in the matter of censorship, where once upon a time everybody from the dog to the High Court paid mystical attention to the thoughts of the ordinary man, who was so thick and modest, he would be routinely offended about almost anything, but especially the sight of an erect dick or breast-feeding ...
If it please mu'lud there is more at AustLii in pdf form with copious footnotes here ...
The reasonable person of a modest kind test led to a history of censorship stupidities ... though it also provided much work for lawyers and judges and cops and politicians ...
Apparently the fuckwitted F. W. (who knew her initials would summarise her condition?) wants another generation of the same ...
Now any reasonable Australian would surely agree that F-W stands for fuckwit and that would be an end of the matter, but in the usual way these days, once the reptiles have got a proposal caught in their teeth, they can't let go of it, and so they had not just to publish the column, but to dress it up with a news report ...
Well at least they got rid of the fatuous tram talk and resorted to a pub test, even though pubs have changed bigly these past few decades ...
Did it not occur to the reptiles if the pond was dubbed a reasonable person, that the entire lizard Oz might be deemed unpublishable?
Did it not occur to the reptiles if the pond was dubbed a reasonable person, that the entire lizard Oz might be deemed unpublishable?
If ever there was anything more tedious and stupid than talk of reasonable persons and pub tests, it's the constant recycling of the notion that somehow F-W deserves a pass because she had Italian parents who migrated to Australia ...a wit cazzo is just the same in any language ...
This sort of nonsense almost makes it possible for the pond to feel some sympathy with Malware, bedevilled as he is by fools and simpletons ...and with some of them serving as Ministers ...
Well here's to the Bondi tram, may it and F-Ws like F-W shoot through on one, if they can find it.
Hint, don't go looking in Bondi, or amongst community attitudes for a reasonable person ...
Hint, don't go looking in Bondi, or amongst community attitudes for a reasonable person ...
Here, have a six o'clock swill instead ...
No, we should definitely insert the views of the man on the Bondi tram into the 18C legislation. Why? Because the tram runs to Botany.
ReplyDeleteNever mind 'the ordinary man'! As A.P.Herbert demonstrated many years ago, the concept 'reasonable woman' has no legal standing.
ReplyDeleteAlthough his Misleading Cases were almost all written before WW2, they remain instructive and enormously entertaining. (Full guide here, and still in print)
:)³ Great links, fun read ...
DeleteGood morning DP. Have not read your post yet as listening to Greg Sheridan on 774,defending Trump.Hilarious.Seems he must read your blog,me thinks. He just described himself as a "bear of very little brain" Was about the only thing I could have agreed with him on.:)Cheers.
ReplyDelete“The test would be what ordinary Australians think those should be.”
ReplyDeletePauline Hanson is the picture of an “ordinary” Australian imparting us with so many pearls of wisdom lately. Let her decide.
Absolutely agree, Anony, and it circumvents the insulting (oops) absence of "the woman on the Bondi tram" too.
DeleteI wouldn't be too hard on C F-W; after all, she probably didn't write the piece herself. Apart from anything else, a Queenslander would be unlikely to use a Sydneyism like "the man on the Bondi Tram". I suspect it was cooked up between the PM's Office and the Reptiles. It's easy to imagine the discussion: "Right, what Government non-entity can we get to put their name to this screed?" "What about Connie? She's a Minister of some sort - _and_ she's both a reffo and a chick." "Perfect!".
ReplyDeleteOnly problem with that is C F-W is a NSW senator, Anon. Born in Wollongong.
DeleteI know, I know, she looks and sounds like a Queenslander. Easy mistake to make.
Oops, my mistake - apologies. Thanks for the correction, Mercurial. I should have checked first, rather than adopting a Reptilian approach. I must have been thinking of some Queensland LNP boofhead......
DeleteThat vacant smile-that's-not-a-smile, couldn't they have chosen a photo that doesn't make her look like a halfwit? "Bondi tram" - that's so The Oz demographic, old people who have never been on a public transport, and actually know the expression but haven't realised the trams are gone. The only young person who reads that Oz is probably James Ashby.
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