In which the pond reverts to a traditional Sunday, with Akker Dakker and the essence of dark Devine ...

Of course this isn't a trivial fight, nor does it involve small thinking. After all, the world is one gigantic reality TV show, and these things matter deeply ...

The pond wondered when the paranoid psychotic narcissist returned to form, and is surprised it took so long.

But enough of international loons, this day the Terrorists trotted out its very own patented domestic brand ...

The reptiles seem to have reverted to the old line-up to kick start their digital day ...

Peta the petulant seems to be held in reserve. 

She was still there early in the morning, banging away in her petulant manner at Mr Harbourside Mansions, but not being on the front page cost her the early lead in the barking mad comments race ...

Yes, the woman who presided over the onion muncher's epic crash and burn has the cheek to talk of splinters ... i

I's on a par with the enormous cheek of the onion muncher himself, a failure and a dud, now daring to suggest that he's a policy maker of the first water ..

Well, if the pond wants a trashing of Malware, why not snort a little pure white Akker Dakker?

It was at this point that the pond realised it might have made a dreadful, terrible mistake.

The pond has, in its whimsical way, frequently compared Akker Dakker to Billy Bunter, tuckshop thief and general yaroop garoar scrounger, and occasionally to Toad of Toad Hall, and even to the deep northern cane toad rhinella marina ... when the obvious comparison has been staring the pond in the face from year dot ...

Of course, a complacent, arrogant egg, and inclined to shout a lot ...

It meant the pond could approach Akker Dakker with new-found respect ... what with Humpty being one of the pond's favourite characters, lashing verbs into shape ...

This day Akker Dakker's mischief seeks to involve the asbestos one in a tilt for the throne ...

Strange. Recently the name of the mutton Dutton has been on the lips of the crazed fundamentalist extreme right wing ... but not Akker Dakker's lips, as they froth and foam ...

The extremely thoughtful onion muncher ...

It's gems like that which confirm Akker Dakker's mastery ... what need of Petulant Peta's talk of her old boss, and the good old days, and splinters for Malware, when Akker Dakker can toss of this sort of bon mot ...

And so, with Malware consigned to history, and comrade Bill on the march, and 18C the cause of it all, it's time to turn to Miranda the Devine ...

Sadly the dear thing is seriously constrained, her freedom to speak astonishingly limited.

The amount of bile per column has been reduced to a modest 110% ... well, we have to count the photos too ...

Damn you, 18C, damn you to hell ...

Good old Charlie. Presumably that's the Charlie who got himself suspended from the Liberal Party (here)  and has a wiki here ...

Now the pond understands that fighting for freedom is absolutely not the same as the right for filthy pinko perves (possibly with commie socialist tendencies) to go about being free, or enjoying freedom, or even becoming members of the army and doing battle with Daesh, which is inclined to throw gays off buildings ...

In fact, the pond understands that it's outrageous that women and gays and minorities and all the other wicked people seeking to do down our glorious Anglo Celtic heritage (how did the bloody Irish get in? The back door?)

Thank the lord it's not about identity politics, because the pond understands that Anglo Celts (damn it, must we all eat haggis?) have absolutely no visible or discernible identity ...

And with that understanding in mind, it's time for another burst of homophobic fundamentalist Catholic bitterness, delivered in that inimitable Devine way ...

Now the pond would like it noted that it wasn't the pond that shamelessly cropped the symbol of sacrifice on both sides and the top.

That was the work of the Terrorist sub-editors, who know no shame. Talk about a lack of respect ... cramming and squeezing the symbol into a Terrorist ghetto and giving it a close shave in the process ...

But sorry Charlie, it also has to be noted that the Rising Sun badge has routinely been turned into an agent of social change ... not least the change from empire to commonwealth to whatever ...

That collage can be found at a nice visual history here ...

The version the pond always knew around the home on left-over hats was this one ...

But let's not forget what those jutting prongs actually represented ...

Freudian really, and let's not forget that imperial use ...

Okay, okay, the pond is bored by the homophobic Devine, going on one of her standard Catholic fundamentalist rants, but duty must be done, and the final gobbet presented ... because how else is the pond going to get its daily dose of gibbering about male Anglo culture ...

... though of course everything the Devine scribbles about has absolutely nothing to do with identity politics, because as noted before, Catholic fundamentalist homophobia has absolutely no identity ... it being more in the Daesh spirit of things ...

There, gays in the army, consider your service celebrated in the Devine manner, with a bit of essence of vitriole scattered in your nostrils ...

As usual, a Sunday feast of Akker Dakker and the Devine leave no room for other matters, so the pond will have to deploy a Wilcox, with more Wilcox here ...