The pond regrets having spent too much time on the bouffant one's fundamentalist Catholic partner, to the pond's detriment and its understanding of the world ...
The old stager remains a top codger, a key reptile contender, and today he soared to the top of the digital opinion list with a beauty ...
All the pond can do is admire the work ...
What a ripper, and right from the get go, what with the talk of fashionable bars in inner Sydney.
But how do the reptiles know what goes on in these bars, being respectable suburban types who think "gay" is another word for jolly ...
Well perforce the reptiles must rub shoulders with these denizens of the deep ...
Look, only a stone's from the joyous tailoring of coffee and beer in any number of outfits ...
And who could go past the mention of the Kakfaesque suffering of cake makers?
The pond sensed that Shanners, and so the pond, was on to an epic free speech winner ...
Now Shanners isn't beyond a porkies - Coopers has long associated with the Bible Society by way of donations - but that's the joy of the reptile spirit ...
Even before he'd finished his diatribe, the pond felt the need to award Shanners its ultimate pub prize, the Triple Barf ... this is even more prestigious than the Golden Chunderama prize routinely taken out by Bazza ...
Indeed, indeed, an expressive word, and a tremendous prize, the triple Barf conjuring up as it does the pond's enormous regard for Shanners' bouffant scribbling ...
And so to a final gobbet, a chunk of meatiness ripe for another barfing ...
Oh indeed, indeed, the Leakian humanising spirit ... it's everywhere ...
But speaking of the mutton Dutton, the reptiles were out of the gate on that one too ...
Now the important thing to note here isn't the content. Been there before countless times, done it to death, yadda yadda, pillowbiters etc etc, it's the phrasing and the impeccable timing ...
"Peter Dutton will launch ..."
The reptiles were given a heads up, and the faithful Pravda types faithfully set down the thoughts of their fearless mutton Dutton leader ...
Some might argue about the Pravda parallel ... there are many others ...
... but the pond thinks it's fair.
Just imagine a photo of the mutton Dutton playing a gay violin, and insert here ...
After all that, it's probably time to read the thoughts of the mutton Dutton, though it's easy to sleepwalk through them, so familiar and predictable are they ...
The pond would just like to shout out to Rachel Baxendale, splendid copytaker, who managed to get everything about the "will launch" down from her master, apparently well before the launch even took place ...
There have been many brave transcribers over the years, some working in bunkers in the centre of town ...
Oh dear, the pond seems to have switched political genres, and given the Godwin's Law swear jar a hearty kick ...
Well it's back to the thoughts of head-kicking, CEO-hating leader of the mutton ...
Well at least you won't find a Murdochian signature in that reprehensible lot ... thank the long absent lord for the chairman ...
And now, having spoken of barfing, David Rowe captured another splendid barf, and more Rowe barfing can be found here ...
Of course that same freedom of speech is entirely absent in their campaign to shut down Gillian Triggs a la Bob Brown's fundraiser.
ReplyDeleteWhat was that old Cold War wisdom: There's no pravda in isvestia, and no isvestia in pravda. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteBut sayeth the Shanner: "The protest against Coopers and the brewery's reaction both went beyond the pale."
Does anybody reckon Shannners has the faintest idea what a "pale" is ?
It was a pun, GB. Beyond the pale ale - get it?
DeleteThat's about as deep as it gets with Shaggers.
" Beyond the pale ale - get it? "
DeleteNope. I can only see as far as Cooper's Sparkling - and not much past that either, especially when it gets just a little bit shaken up from being swilled.
So there's some bottled gunk called 'pale' you reckon - and this actually sells in Australia ?
Surely a boycott is only done well if you tell all your friends about it? How is that 'unconscionable', Rachel Baxendale? And you call yourself a journalist: what's 'a phenomena'?
ReplyDeleteGoing to be a very busy weekend for reptiles tying themselves themselves into knots while defending the free speech inherent in "The Freedom of a Coward". You may hear a head or two explode in the vicinity of the Holt St coffee machine this weekend:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2017/03/18/the-freedom-coward/14897556004364
A handy link, VC. We should do a teaser ...
DeleteBill Leak was a racist. To pretend otherwise is a nonsense.
His death doesn’t change that. The culture warring obituaries don’t change that. The misguided plea of a former prime minister still squaring up against the national broadcaster doesn’t change that.
It was racism that drew a cartoon of two Aboriginal men drinking – they were always drinking – as they read about John Howard’s Northern Territory intervention. “Rape’s out, bashing’s out,” the speech bubble read. “This could set our culture back by 2000 years!..”
It was racism that drew a cartoon of two Aboriginal men drinking – they were always drinking – as a woman slumped battered behind them. Her exaggerated fat lips were made fatter by violence. Blood ran from her head and nose. A comedy of stars circled above her. The speech bubble: “Sheilas! You give ’em an enriching cultural experience and what thanks do you get??!!..”
They were the same men in both cartoons. For Leak, they were always the same men – grotesqueries of a culture his pictures deemed subhuman....
There's a lot more. Worth using up their free read for the month for those who don't subscribe ...
" those who don't subscribe ..."
DeleteNope, I'll get my jollies from the Library - they service all aberrations equally. Besides, there's raspberry and white chocolate muffins in the local lieu de café.
Well teased Dorothy.
ReplyDeleteThe poor dimwits have been triangulated in A Minor haven't they?
A nice does of free speech to star the weekend - exactly what the reptiles spend 300,000 words a week on. Look forward to their defence of The Saturday Paper's editorial rights next week :)