After the high, the pure buzz of a Moorice, the pond felt the need to come down a bit ... and what better way than to celebrate the reptiles discovering the multinodal joys of copper.
Oh it's what the fuckwits wanted, but now they can get it coming and going.
When it was coming, they dissed FTTH and celebrated Malware carrying out the onion muncher's orders to destroy the NBN, and now that speed is going, they can diss Malware and FTTN and HFC and the glorious multi-nodal onion-muncher inspired copper-led revolution ...
But the pond hadn't finished yet with the high speed joys offered by the reptiles this day ... in this trinity of terror, there was still dashing Donners and good old chap Colebatch to go ...
Now the pond has to confess to a certain disappointment with dashing Donners this day.
No mention in that splash of sheepish submissiveness or the Nazi regime, just a whine about things being a tad hard.
What, no leading off with talk of the decline of western civilisation or the shocking disregard for Judeo-Christian culture or the way we owe everything to Xians and nothing at all to those damned pagan Romans and sodomite Greeks ... (please no pedantic arguments about the true meaning of 'sodomite' or we might end up on the ABC).
Oh wait, hang on a mo ...
That sounds much more promising ...
Ah, that's better. How dare the reptiles be so misleading in their splash. Google caught the spirit and provided a link to another reptile story on the same them ...while the reptiles entirely missed the point with their talk of things being hard.
But then a fresh tragedy arose, of the Woody Allen kind, if it's remembered that one of the pond's favourite jokes involves the way there's such lousy food served at certain joints ... and in such little portions ...
Sure we get a typically terrible dashing Donners outing ... but it's such a small portion ...
Really! Donners was just crunching into dashing gear when he was cut short ...
Of course the pond would be happy if all Islamic nonsense was banished from schools ... provided the same could be done for twits of the Xian Donner kind, Scientologists, Catholics, cucumber-loving, complimentary women worshipping Anglicans, creationists and the rest of the barking mad howling at the moon friend of fairies at the bottom of the garden Santa, the easter bunny and other imaginary companions ...
The trouble is, once you've been taught to put up with homophobic bigots of the fundamentalist Catholic persuasion, it seems only fair dibs to have to put up with homophobic bigots of the Islamic fundamentalist kind ...
As for the rest, we've heard it all before, or at least devoted followers of the reptiles have.
The pond hopes the therapy is working for Donners, even if it sometimes wonders what the ACU thinks of having this sort of "senior research fellow" regularly scribble nonsense for the reptiles ... is this kind of public therapy some kind of positive brand reinforcement?
Are they suggesting that we go back to the good old days when religion was force fed to submissive sheep? Do they realise that Moorice would immediately start banging on about sheepish submissiveness?
Never mind, the pond was feeling short-changed, so naturally it turned to old chap Colebatch ...
Splendid stuff, and very promising, and for those who can't remember old chap Colebatch - a friend of the pond who stopped appearing some considerable time ago - the reptiles provided this quick reminder at the bottom of his piece ...
It reminded the pond of the fuss that greeted that award, which naturally came from John Howard;s hand-picked team ...
The full piece is at Fairfax here, and poor old Polonius was dragged into the fuss by reprehensible types, and luckily, thanks to time, Carlton's piece fell out of the Crikey paywall here ...
The Fairfaxians continued by quoting Carlton this way ...
But the pond much preferred Carlton's closing argument at Crikey:
What a ripping yarn, and it was around this time that the pond realised it hadn't actually run anything from the latest old chap Colebatch's piece.
Please, allow the apologetic pond to rectify the situation ...
Personally the pond wouldn't allow old chap Colebatch the chance to wipe a little mud off Curtin's boots, though his wonderful routine about Menzies herculean efforts to send pig iron to Japan, while kowtowing to Adolf, is a marvel to behold ...
And around that time the pond realised it hadn't finished off the Fairfaxians contemplating old chap Colebatch in winner mode ...
No doubt there will be scholars sent into a frenzy by old chap Colebatch's latest effort ...but the pond is just content to lay it all out in all its glory ...
Indeed, indeed, imagine if Menzies had praised Adolf ... it isn't hard if you try ...
Imagine if Ming the Merciless was proud of being pig iron Bob ... it isn't hard if you try ...
And so to a few cartoons which the pond always likes to run when reminded of the good old days ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteConsidering that the Soviet Union, under good ol’ Uncle Joe, joined the Allies in June 1941 (after being invaded by Germany and nearly six months before the US joined up), why would the supposed communist leaders of the Maritime Union want to sabotage Australia’s war effort?
Does Colebatch know that Australia and the Soviet Union were on the same side fighting against the same Axis powers and that any good communist would be working flat out to aid the war effort.
DiddyWrote
"Does Colebatch know ...". No, DW I think that we can safely say that Colebatch - like Windschuttle, like 'Gollum' Henderson, like Jones, like The Devine, like ... well, like a cast of thousands, really - knows only the big little lies that he invents himself.
DeleteOne can't even declare him 'post truth' because he was never actually 'in truth' at any stage.
Kev the Broady Boy: "Western values ...The usual list includes tolerance and inclusion, respecting another person's point of view and doing your best."
ReplyDeleteOk then Kevvy, when you, and more specifically Tones Yabbott, show that you actually do live "up" to those values, then I will. Until then ...
Kevvy again: " historical events such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment."
It's just incredible that the likes of Donnelly would lay claim to those three periods:
Renaissance: the time of a great many of "the Popes of unhappy memory" - like Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI), just for one instance.
Reformation: the time when Martin Luther finally revolted against the cupidity and corruption of the Roman Church to begin the Protestant movement - which also began a few centuries of internecine "Judaeo-Christian" war and bloodshed.
Enlightenment: when finally Europeans broke from primitive religious authority and actually began the process of developing liberty, equality and fraternity. It's called the Enlightenment, you dolt Donners, because it was a time when many European people finally recognised the inhuman dictatorship of the Christian churches and revolted against it.
But then, Kev, you have never had a mental or philosophical renaissance, nor experienced a moral reformation, nor come to any rational enlightenment, so how could you possibly understand ?
Funny to watch someone try to hammer history into a shape that suits their world view. Rejecting bits, however well supported, that don't fit, accepting others, however questionable, that support their narrative.
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