The pond was thinking of passing on petulant Peta this day - there's only so many reptile carry-ons about Oz day the pond can take, especially when someone like Peta bounces back from the hols, and thinks this is where things are at ...
But that poignant juxtaposition of petulant Peta and a mouse in the burger was irresistible ... and besides, petulant Peta couldn't lather up full-blown righteous indignation, and so kept her piece relatively short ... though her obsession with leftist obsessions showed an alarming degree of obsessiveness ...
Oh fuck, the love it or leave it carry on. Is that stale and beyond its dead mouse use-by date or what?
If anyone doesn't like a little diversity and difference of opinion, why don't they fuck off as well?
Never mind, that and the layout was about all petulant Peta had in the locker for her return ... but the pond did love the nightmare she conjured up ... worthy of the onion muncher himself, somewhat short of a knighthood or three this holiday season ...
Oh hand petulant Peta a gong ... she too has mentioned "virtue-signalling" and she kept it in reserve, so the pond might be kept in suspense, until she smashed the glass and unleashed the kraken ...
The full cartoon at the Graudian here ...
And speaking of dead mice in the burger, Akker Dakker was also in the Terror this day, whipping up a nice hand of fairy floss ...
Now before the pond gets going on its Sunday treat, the pond should remind any stray reader that Akker Dakker is the real deal, and knows everything there is to know about portly, though strangely the Terrorists decided not to run this shot of the sage one for the story...
By golly, he knows whereof he scribbles ...
Ah wait, there it is in the second par, "virtue-signalling".
Good old Akker Dakker wasn't going to keep the pond in suspense, or do some sort of wicked mind-fuck, of course he was going to get virtue-signalling out of the way quickly, so we get on to what really matters ... expert research done for the Caterists, your dollar at work ...
But first another pond award ...
Now the pond had always thought that SSBs stood for Sons of Silly Bastards, but how little the pond knew, because the tough Caterists came down with all guns blazing, destroying all before them, to the great delight of the portly one ...
In the past, the pond has mocked Akker Dakker and made invidious comparisons to Billy Bunter ...
But let's face it, The Magnet mob had their hearts in the right place, and had an affinity with the Akker Dakker crew ...
Oh those screamingly funny suffragettes ... but the pond suddenly realised it might have failed in its task.
Did everyone catch that beguiling image buried in the Akker Dakker story? Did anyone feel the need to rush to the fridge and pour themselves a glass of sugar?
The pond is aware of all those hateful, hurtful images that litter the full to overflowing intertubes ...
Be reassured. Just as the odd cigarette never hurt anyone - just check all the scientific work done by tobacco companies - a little sugar never hurt anyone, and besides diabetes is one of the more fun illnesses ...
So feast your eyes again on that sweetly poured drink, and the scent of ice-chilled sugar waiting to give you a first class sugar hit ...
Why that's better than a coke ad ...
And around this point, those wretched women - possibly direct descendants of those screamingly funny Bunter women - really got Akker Dakker's goat ...
Remember, he is one of the world's greatest climate scientists, and mocking of the Minerals Council and climate denialism is one of the greatest crimes of the virtue-signallers, when everyone with half a brain knows it's either a UN or a Chinese conspiracy, or perhaps on a good day, both ...
Ah good old Brand-Miller. Strange, the pond remembers having been there before ...
Now if you were a Caterist, who would you pick to do impeccable research for you?
More at the wretched ABC here, but that's more than enough virtue-signalling for a Sunday ...
Sheesh, soon enough the Christians will be blathering on in their Sunday rituals, sending signals about virtue ...while the pond would rather snack on cartoons, with more at The New Yorker here ...
Right on DP, with the Cretlin it’s the usual jingoistic admonition of ‘Awestralia – get over it or get under it’. Like all her nasty, pontificating mates she just won’t accept that the present plight of indigenous people stems from an institutionalised refusal to acknowledge our brutal colonial past.
ReplyDelete"While there was injustice based on ethnicity in Australia's past..."
ReplyDeleteWell actually, Pet Pet, there was murder and massacre and robbery and dispossession and rape and imprisonment and a whole bunch of things based on ethnicity in Australia's past. That you want to excuse or justify these atrocities - note, Pet atrocities not mere "injustices" by a blatant act of verbal trivialisation says everything anybody ever needs to know about you and the people you fvck around with.
Now I may not be the world's most accomplished statistician (I just barely scraped a pass in 2nd year Stats in my RMIT Maths Diploma), but even I can see how it would be possible for the consumption of sugarey soft drinks to decline but the incidence of obesity to increase.
ReplyDeleteIt's round about 40% of Australians who drink sugary soft drinks (down a few percent in recent years) but only about 28% of Australians are obese (ie BMI 30 or more). And the older you are, the more likely you are to be obese (until you get to be 85+ anyway, when hardly anybody left still alive is obese).
So let us consider some possible distributions of these two factors: what if the great majority (and increasingly so) of the obese are also members of the 'drink lots of sugary drinks' group. In short, in the absence of any evidence produced by any of the 'debaters', have they simply assumed that obesity is evenly spread throughout every age group and drinking pattern of the population ?
But what if, to repeat myself, obesity is more prevalent amongst the 40% 'sugary drinks' group ?
Then, you see, it would be possible for the total consumption of sugary drinks to decrease - because the healthier younger folks are not drinking so much - but for the incidence of obesity overall to increase because those who drink lots of sugary drinks are the group where obesity is increasing.
Hmmm ?
And then we could consider the reasonable sounding criticisms made by Rory Robbertson.
And then we could ask why Goosebumps Cater employed a surfing reporter - Fred Pawle - to do the "investigation" of those nutrition papers that the oh-so-very-professional Menzies Research Centre disparaged.
But GB, reptiles such as Akker Dakker won’t fall for any of that logical interpretation of statistics don’tcha know. They’ve got their own scientifical analytical parasitical Caterist - the “tough” executive director of the “respected” Menzies centre who is (allegedly) able to destroy the sneering hipster taxpayer-funded virtue signalling monolithic ABC’s cod-scientist’s anti-sugar claims with his “expert scrutiny”.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the smarmy Fat Owl could do with less sugar in his diet and perhaps a hefty dose of wheatgrass juice himself. And speaking of analyticals I think it should be administered as a colonic - because that’s where he’s talking from.
PS – my spellchecker always comes up with “Careerist” for “Cater” – how perceptive of it!
Ah yes indeed, Kez, but I do still remember John Yudkin and 'Pure White and Deadly' (1972). That's how long this has been going on.
Delete"the smarmy Fat Owl could do with less sugar in his diet".
DeleteI suggest the luminaries at the much lauded Cadence Economics could too:
http://www.cadenceeconomics.com.au/team.html
Making Piers feel a rather svelte Owl of the Remove since 2014...