In which the pond endures a luncheon sandwich of nattering "Ned" ...

Of course the pond was teasing when it ran nattering "Ned's" splash, but didn't run the ruminating one's lengthy discourse ...

Of course the pond would pay heed, in due course and after a light lunch, so that the body might be strengthened and the mind made a little sturdier ... 

No matter that any stray reader passing by might run away, perhaps screaming in fright, or at least as white as a ghost at the thought of the marathon to follow ...it was time for the lunch-time treat ...

The pond isn't a big fan of the word, but sometimes something more than pompous empty windbag is needed ... (Hunt it at the dictionary here)

For once, you see, the pond couldn't say "pompous pedant" about nattering "Ned". 

Suddenly the correct use of the word "discover", as opposed to its terra nullius sense, is "ludicrous".

Sure 'privileged senile old fuddy duddy goat who never gives the uppity blacks an inch' might be usefully deployed, but that's starting to take on the windbag quality of a "Ned" line ...

We all know what he's really saying when he hails Cook. He's noting, in a terra nullius way, how absolutely useless and irrelevant the blacks were when it came to the age of Enlightenment and the European colonialists and imperialist ...

This country's British to  its enlightened boot heels and don't you forget it, uppity blacks ...

In short ...

More First Dog here ... but perhaps it's better just to get on with the next "Ned" gobbet ...

What a dreary drone he is, and how he loves to double down. 

Of course in a personal sense, Cook discovered eastern Australia ... for himself. He didn't actually discover it in a general sense. There were people here before Cook who discovered it before he discovered it for himself. And that's the general sense in which the word popped up on the statue. And in that single act, a world view is unveiled ...

But terra nullius runs deep in "Ned", and how funny for the blatherer to blather on about adversarial politics as if it's all the fault of the pesky, uppity blacks ... as if Stan Grant making an obvious point was being adversarial ... as if the innocent Murdochians knew nothing of adversarial behaviour ...

Never mind, First Dog is just a way of breaking up nattering "Ned" before the final gobbet of tedium ...

The day that the pond learns to live with nattering "Ned" is going to be the day they wheel the pond into the crematorium ...

What a condescending irritating presumptuous and insulting old fart he is ...

If that's the way he's going to be, why can't he be like James Morrow in the Terror a few days ago?

Presumably this is the same Morrow who thinks it funny to tweet as the prick with a fork ...and as well as passing himself off as a magnificently querulous gastrophile, claims to be the Terrorist opinion editor ...

You see. It's good old KISS, and Jimbo really does keep the stupid simple and short ...

Anybody who thought Donald Trump was about burying political correctness is a fuckwit of the first water, but at least Jimbo kept it short ...

Now speaking of the Donald, Rowe had another cartoon out and about, with more Rowe here ...