Considered, but not measured?
A fine point, but a nice one, and it's too early for a recount, as the battle has just got underway, with the Fairfaxians trotting old that battered old bruiser, a puglist designed to make Malware seem more like a modernist than a copper lover ...
But the pond doesn't want to wander off down the road with the appalling old bruiser, preferring to admire the work of the steady stayers in this day's Oz ...
These can range from useful fools like Michael Sexton, no doubt explaining how things are just jim dandy in Putin's Russia, and Ridders raising doubts and fears about all this new-fangled electrical stuff ...
The pond has already hoped that Sexton might be gay and living in Chechnya and be called in for questioning (New Yorker here), and likewise, can only pause to admire Bagaric doing his bit for the Pellists ...
... while causing the pond to ask yet again whether the Pell trial will struggle to get fair and balanced coverage at the lizard Oz ...
Tempting though Bagaric banging on about the persecution of Pell might be, the pond was tempted by climate denialist Ridders, especially when the google showed how yet again the shameless reptiles were broaching the Times' paywall ...
And then there was something intrinsically quaint and pathetic - perhaps in a Malware copper-loving way- about Ridders talking of the electric car revolution back-firing ...
Couldn't it at least short circuit? Or maybe switch off? Or develop a leak or a little seepage so that it goes terribly flat? Did Ridders battery run down before he got to thinking about the way he sounded like an exhaust pipe that had disconnected from the muffler? (Don't get the pond started on the old Holden that used to do that at every bump in the road).
Never mind, the pond understands that it's Ridder's climate denialist duty to produce saucy doubts and fears on a regular basis for the Murdochians ...
This all seems a tad academic given Ridders coal-mine owning climate denialist credentials (Independent here, Greg hunters here, Desmog here), but the pond much enjoys the way that Ridders manages so many saucy doubts and fears ... in such a short time and in a way so evocative of past times ...
There's little doubt it's all simply impossible, terribly difficult, and we'd be much better off sticking with coal ...
But the pond wouldn't want anyone to think that a regular Pom blow-in is the only one capable of raising saucy doubts and fears.
Who could want to overlook the steady remorseless grind of the Lloydie?
By golly, it all sounds serious, dire, possibly terminal ...
A good thing?
Hmm, that sounds problematic, what we need are all the saucy doubts and fears that Lloydie can muster, whereby we get extremely anxious about the amount of CO2 involved, while at the same time not really thinking that CO2 is much of an issue, given, after all, that climate science is just a huge conspiracy so that the United Nations can introduce world government by Xmas ...
"Remains to be seen?"
That's the best Lloydie's got by way of dissembling, muddying, conflating and confusing the waters?
Well who knows how it will work out - the future remains quite futuristic - but in its own way, it's an admirable term, a terribly useful term, just the sort of term a befuddler and a befogger would use ...
It remains to be seen whether readers will follow a link to the Seattle Times here, but the pond offers this lengthy excerpt as a temptation explaining the peculiar charm of "remains to be seen" for those who have yet to see it ...
And so on. What a pity Lloydie arrived too late to be included in the examples ...
All the pond can add is that while the pond has seen many, many movies, this 1953 outing remains to be seen ...
All the pond can add is that while the pond has seen many, many movies, this 1953 outing remains to be seen ...
DP - as an aside, I can forgive GEM for showing home shopping crap when they also run such great British classics from the '50's as The Last Day of Dolwyn and The Divided Hear. Both excellent.
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