The pond doesn't usually do lolcats, but lolreptiles are always irresistible, especially as the languorous reptiles came out to lounge around after the vote ...
And there in a nutshell is the reptile dilemma.
Talk of maturity and respect, and you get the bouffant one blathering on about the rights of bigoted Xians and plain old-fashioned bigots, along with talk of fighting to the bitter end and disrespecting the result ...
Will Malware finally grow a spine? It's not as if the gormless onion muncher didn't taste acid on the tongue, as recorded at Huff here ...
Now there's a knockdown moral victory ... in the old days, you might just squeak a distinction with a 75, and if you scored a 25, you might be judged a UF, an unsatisfactory fail ...
Never mind, if anyone thinks the onion muncher will be remotely phased or repentant, they know nothing of the bigoted mind ...
Meanwhile, as if aware of the way it was likely to go, and the country, and western civilisation, and all Judeo-Christian tradition ruined by teh gaze, the reptiles spent the day contemplating other dire, alien threats ...
It was full-on reptile fever stoking the fear of the threat from the north, heading south possibly by Xmas... and in the usual way, it came as a triptych of pieces. First there were the experts ...
Naturally there was also a gloss, a crib, a cheat sheet ...
Now the pond grew up in its schooling realising that there was no need to bother with the original text when there was a Classic Comic at hand ...
So it turned to the reptile channeller, channelling the warning experts ...
Suddenly the pond was swept into the eerie world of YouTube military war games ... you know, the sort that uses out-of-date data and inept military posturing to do Red Dawn routines of the Australia v. Indonesia kind ... (that being perhaps a little more feasible than Australia v. China) ...
Hmm, could have anything to do with the United States electing a total small-handed goose to the Presidency?
Terrifying stuff, though anyone wandering around the Haymarket these days might think the war's been fought, the result's in, and life goes on ...
But just in case, the pond knew immediately where to turn, because naturally the bromancer chimed in with his full weight and authority to sort the problem ...
What do you know. It turned out that the bromancer's response to the experts didn't take up many pars and the pond immediately began to relax ...
Hurry the French along and, if they dare stray south, with our hastily delivered six extra subs - faster than a Deliveroo service - we'll teach those Chinese a lesson they won't soon forget?
Why with any luck that'll keep us safe by 2050.
But at least the bromancer has injected more realism into Australia's strategic debate ... hurry the perfidious French along and all will be well ...
Still, it was a little strange he didn't mention how we could rely on Chairman Rupert's preferred candidate for the Presidency, and still a major friend of Fox and Friends and Hannity ...
And by golly hasn't the chairman been in the wars of late ... what with How Rupert Murdoch destroyed the Republican Party ...
How the pond treasured that line ...
The pond immediately felt the need to blow a phwarrrr on the bagpipes, and luckily Rowe was on hand to show what it was like, with more Rowe here ...
Dorothy
ReplyDeleteWhen did China invade other countries as is being suggested by these so called experts?
Yair, good question, ww. We know that a bunch of sino-koreans 'invaded' Japan back around 500 BCE and put their culture above that of the earlier Ryukyuans and Ainu settlers. And some mongol-chinese tried to invade again under Kublai Khan in 1274 and 1281 but were blown back by kamikaze.
DeleteBut other than Zheng He's big fleet in the early 1400s which established a level of suzerainty over China's Pacific neighbours - but didn't actually invade IIRC - then there hasn't been much Chinese aggression. More imperialised against than imperialist I think.
China did 'seize' Tibet in recent times, but that was because after the Nepalese invasion and rule, the Chinese have considered Tibet to be a part of China. So just reclaiming a rebellious province rather than outright imperialism (if you want to look at it that way, though the Dalai Llama disagrees).
So far not much imperialism. But then the place which is called England or Britain or Great Britain didn't exactly display a lot of colonialism or imperialism until around the late 1600s and 1700s and then went on to rule a very large 'empire' for a while (including parts of China).
So it's always a bit 'up in the air' as to what the future might bring.
"Now the pond grew up in its schooling realising that there was no need to bother with the original text when there was a Classic Comic at hand ..."
ReplyDeleteRight on, DP, right on. I may never have read any 'classics' at all if it hadn't been for 'Classics Illustrated'.
It is humbling to think that even as much as 2,000 years before I was born, there was already way more written works than could be read in a human lifetime. And that now, there's more written work published every 15 minutes of every day than can be read in several human lifetimes.
So, maybe Trump isn't so crazy after all, he simply ignores all of it.