Reluctantly the pond had to mark down the Major this day, partly because of repetition - how stupid of a rampantly biased man always to rabbit on about bias - and partly because the rabbiting produces a deep sense of tedium and ennui ...
The pond will say just one thing about the ABC's recent changes.
Back in the day, there was an understanding that stories prepared for radio had a different style and approach than stories designed for television. The difference might be summarised as that between the use of sound effects and music on the Goon Show, and the literalism that images produce. Some images might convey a hundred words, or on a good day, a thousand, while sounds allowed the mind to travel in another way ...
Back in the day, there was an understanding that stories prepared for radio had a different style and approach than stories designed for television. The difference might be summarised as that between the use of sound effects and music on the Goon Show, and the literalism that images produce. Some images might convey a hundred words, or on a good day, a thousand, while sounds allowed the mind to travel in another way ...
Each involved separate skills and disciplines, each in their own way were unique artforms, and now everything is mashed together as content, and pumped down into ever smaller lumps so that the wretched muck might emerge in digestible form on a small screen as zombies wander the streets gazing into it, while bumping into each other and passing cars ...
Hipsters yearn for beards and tatts and vinyl and even - long absent lord help us - Phillips cassettes, but each passing day of Deliveroo and Uber, they deliver themselves into digital penury and job lot slavery and politicians are only too pleased to press-gang them into similar forms of servitude as a way of scamming unemployment figures ...
Hipsters yearn for beards and tatts and vinyl and even - long absent lord help us - Phillips cassettes, but each passing day of Deliveroo and Uber, they deliver themselves into digital penury and job lot slavery and politicians are only too pleased to press-gang them into similar forms of servitude as a way of scamming unemployment figures ...
Dearie me, did the Major produce that hoppy toad?
Well with that grumble out of the way, it's on with the Oreo blathering on in her inimitable way about western civilisation ...
Well with that grumble out of the way, it's on with the Oreo blathering on in her inimitable way about western civilisation ...
James Paterson is a classical liberal? The IPA is full of classical liberals?
We can talk of elitist mobs while fat cats sit in a think tank living the life of Riley thanks to anonymous donors?
We shouldn't dare mention that bigotry and homophobia fits many religions like a glove, and that not coincidentally Islam hails Christ as a prophet and missionaries helped blight the lives and thoughts of generations of indigenous people with blather about paradise in the sweet bye and bye, and that fundamentalist Xians and Islamics are at one on the matter of teh gayz?
Is it any wonder that the pond is such a huge fan of the Oreo?
And the pond shares the Oreo's deep distress ...
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,..
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
And the pond shares the Oreo's deep distress ...
Eek, the UN?! The black helicopters have landed in the Liberal party and this is all by way of a prelude to introduce world government by Xmas, and not as previously thought, by way of climate science, but by adopting UN wording ... and now it all appears doomed?
The pond would like to reassure the Oreo that western civilisation is safe, and so is Judeo-Christian and British civilisation, with the Oreo having invaded that scepter'd isle ...
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,..
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Oh the pond speaks fluent western civilisation and flung that in because the Oreo is in such a funk about the state of the world and the state of Britain and heck, just about the state of everything, that the pond thought she needed some comforting ...
Let's face it, none of its got anything to do with barking mad fundamentalists and their bigoted homophobia and other sexual quirks of the Roy Moore kind - in the end it's all due to those wretched gays ...
Damn you queer radicals, it's all your fault, why can't people be politically incorrect and bigoted and homophobic, and decently barking mad like the Oreo and like they could be in the good old days?
Is it now wrong for the barking mad to mention that the Oreo is barking mad? Is even that form of political incorrectness going to be ruled out of order? Where will it all end? Will we be stopped from shouting in caps? Will Islamics be no longer allowed to call for jihad? What about white nationalists yearning for Adolf? How on earth will we manage to crank up a third world war with civilised politeness and tolerance and accepting each other is all the go?
And so to more fine flowerings of western civilisation ...
Sound effect techos are called Foley artists. Even the Pythons paid tribute to them when making The Holy Grail they couldn't afford horses, so the Knights were shown galloping along banging coconut shells together for the sound of clopping hooves.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)
Don't anybody mention the 1988 Constitutional referendum on putting 'religious freedom' in the Constitution: "The "religious freedom" part of the proposed change was opposed by many churches and religious-affiliated schools concerned that it would be interpreted as requiring a level of church-state separation that would put public funding and government assistance for faith schools in jeopardy."
ReplyDeleteOreo: "It is the much maligned Liberal conservatives who defend freedom and democracy from the cultural left on both sides of the political divide."
ReplyDeleteOh yes, Oreo, of course it is and always has been. That's why we've had all those freedoms for thousands of years already and its only in the last few hundred years that those evil bipartisan lefties have suppressed our ages-old liberties. You know, like the liberties we had back in the days of the Inquisition.
Oreo again: "Will MPs allow young Australians to be punished for expressing religious belief."
Now I may not actually be a "young Australian" as such, but I would like to express, and act on, a religious belief: namely that organised religions - Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese and Japanese Folk Religion, Scientology, etc etc - are bastions of evil which must be supressed for the good of democratic civilisation.
There Oreo, I've made a clear statement of religious belief that I expect you to support freely and totally. You will defend my freedom, won't you.
It’s always interesting to examine the facts behind reptile fantasies.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to the Felix Ngole case, a quick Google search indicates that rather than simply “sharing biblical scripture on marriage”, he was engaged in an online debate in which he made derogatory statements regarding homosexuality, stating that it was evil because God said so.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/27/christian-felix-ngole-thrown-out-sheffield-university-anti-gay-remarks-loses-appeal
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/felix-ngole-high-court-appeal-homophobic-comments-bible-facebook-sheffield-university-christian-a8023186.html
Now it may seem a bit harsh that he was dumped from his course because of that - if, indeed, that was the only reason. Personally, though, I have my doubts that somebody with such a dogmatic, ideologically-driven and inflexible view of the world would make a very good social worker, and it’s possible that the University authorities were of the same view.
I’d never heard of this bloke before the Oreo’s screed for the day, but it seems he’s now joined the ranks of modern Christian martyrs championed by RWNJs the world over. So we’ll doubtless hear his tragic tale - or at least a distorted interpretation of it - a lot more in the future.
Can't we just organise an ABS survey with the simple question: "Are you in favour of a secular society?" and take it from there?
ReplyDeleteAmused by the much-quoted "royal throne of kings" schtick, but I suspect the Pond speaks Western Civilisation fluent enough to know that John of Gaunt was in a funk about the state of everything too. That quote goes on:
ReplyDelete"This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
"Bloody King has to raise cash like some parvenu merchant, to pay his soldiers. When I started a war to claim the throne of Castile, I just told my peasants to buckle up and come with and the dumb fucks did what they were told. Didn't pay them a groat. Good times..."
No wonder everything is so shitty these days; the whole place has been on the skids since 1399.