Damn you reptiles, damn you to hell.
Each time the pond thinks it can get away from being in your thrall, you exercise your magical, hypnotical charms and the pond is captivated, enchanted all over again.
How do you know that the pond has an extremely soft spot for the bromancer? It's so unfair to use such a potent form of verbal kryptonite to target the pond's weakness.
The last time the pond spent some quality time with the bromancer, he was assuring the pond that everything was for the best, and the Donald was making good decisions, ones that were working for the United States and Australia, and Malware was doing well, and …
Well everyone knows that a pendulum do what a pendulum do, reptiles on bicycles two by two, a grumpy May and a Godwin's Law Boris, so let's see the oscillation go down, way better than an oscillating fan ...
Well everyone knows that a pendulum do what a pendulum do, reptiles on bicycles two by two, a grumpy May and a Godwin's Law Boris, so let's see the oscillation go down, way better than an oscillating fan ...
A band of Putin apologists in the West?
Is it only the pond that's noticed that the leader of the band of Putin apologists in the West is the bromancer's beloved Donald?
Well no, actually, everybody and his dog and all the late night comedians - excluding the bromancer - have been feasting on the joke - so that it seems there's barely a bone left on the carcass …
Attaboy …
Oh dear, back to the bromancer imitating those American lawmakers. Will he blink?
Here's the challenge. It's easy enough to see the bromancer weirdly, bizarrely, in his usual way, dragging Simon Birmingham and Catholic education in an epic detour, but will he at any point mention the Donald in his piece?
Or will he drag in the John Birch society and Lydnon LaRouche and the John Birch society?
Or will he talk about the extraordinary nuttiness of the extreme pro-Putin apologists and distract from the Donald by dragging Tom Switzer into the story?
You know, one of that hardy band of nutters who isn't in the band of Donald nutters ...
Amazing and remarkable. In all these gyrations, the bromancer hasn't mentioned the elephant in the room … or for that matter the Donald, and the lawmakers around him …
Will the bromancer eventually get around to mentioning the Donald in his third gobbet, or can the pond stay comfortably in his alternative universe?
What a silly rhetorical question ...
Alternative universe it is …
Not a word about the craven Donald while rabbiting on about the humiliation of the west …
Amazing scenes and once again the bromancer reduces the pond to a bewildered speechlessness.
It's the most astonishing case of myopia since the Donald dragged Mr Magoo back from cartoon oblivion.
Beam the pond up Scotty, and set a course for the black hole. No point trying to escape the huge gravitational force, but can we at least detour for a moment to take in a TT, before complete oblivion overwhelms everything? (For those capable of achieving escape velocity, there's more TT here …)
So, the only Londongrad Greg has heard of, is the TV series.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Moderate nationalism, balanced by other civic virtues, is constructive. It embodies social solidarity and meaningful accountability. Nationalism has been the dominant ideological force for the past 200 years. But hyper-nationalism needs enemies.”
Enemies?
Enemies like Asylum Seekers who can’t speak English but will take you job anyway.
Enemies maybe like the African Gangs that are running amok in Melbourne.
Maybe enemies even closer to home like inner city elites and their love of the ‘watermelon’ Greens, who seek to destroy the economy and our way of life and who must be ‘destroyed at the ballot box’.
Very moderate.
Ah DW, you may recall some years ago when Sydney was entranced by a locally made movie all about happy ballroom dancing, that we in Melbourne produced Romper Stomper.
DeleteThe issue with 'gangs' in Melbourne is that they are invading homes and attacking people in the presence of their wives and children, and sometimes just attacking old live-alone pensioner ladies. And that in some number of cases the offenders are visually identified as 'African'.
In truth, they're not happening in 'huge' numbers, but what is happening frightens people. It frightens me since an aggravated burglary was conducted just across the road from my house about two weeks ago and one youngish resident (much younger than my nearly 75 years) was assaulted. I don't think the burglars were identified as 'African' in that incident though.
So, consider this:
Deputy Commissioner Wendy Steendam, said since May 2016 more than 615 arrests had been made for aggravated burglary, home invasion and carjacking.
which works out to be at a rate of about 7 arrests every 4 weeks, and not all of the burglaries result in arrests. Now remember that is aggravated burglary: 'gangs' violently breaking in on people in their own homes and attacking and assaulting them with weapons.
So, we have:
But overall, burglaries are getting more violent. About one in 12 burglaries across Melbourne involve violence.
Caulfield recorded the highest proportion of violent break-ins, with 26 per cent of the 164 burglaries there involving violent entry.
In Frankston, Berwick and Pakenham, more than 11 per cent of burglaries were aggravated.
And in Ascot Vale and Brunswick, more than 15 per cent of burglaries involved violent entry.
Note that the data is for April 2016 – March 2017.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-melbourne-suburbs-where-burglaries-are-most-violent-20170615-gwriis.html
So yes, wholly rational or not, people are getting scared and when they get scared they get angry and not altogether rationall, and eventually there's a more than trivial likelihood of vigilante action (as Melbourne hasn't really had for a very long time).
Hi GB,
DeleteAs far as I can see from the crime statistics for Victoria and NSW there is little to indicate a major increase in violent crime.
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statistics/latest-crime-data/recorded-criminal-incidents-0
http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Documents/BB/Report-An-update-of-long-term-trends-in-violent-and-property-crime-in-NSW-bb115.pdf
(Disclaimer these historical records only extend as far as 2015/2016 but these are graphs which aren’t looking like they will suddenly soar).
Looking at the data, one can only conclude that violent crime is low and is in general decreasing.
Compared to many places in the world and even wealthy western economies, Australia is a very safe place.
What is definitely increasing is NewsCorp, in lock-step with this current shambles of a government, is a campaign of fear-mongering.
It’s desperate and won’t make you any safer.
DW
I don't particularly disagree with what you've said, DW, all I can do is try to emphasize that it isn't a rational situation. May I say once again that people are getting scared and when they get scared they get angry and not altogether rational. And I can feel just enough of that to have some sympathy for them.
DeleteThat much of their fear is due to what should be seen as a criminal campaign by Murdoch media - all of it including tv - but not only Murdoch Media - is true, but once the fear is abroad - and it doesn't take too many nights of seeing on your tv 70yo ladies who have been beaten up in their own homes by thugs who have broken in to steal their possessions - to provoke fear. And so many people are already spooked and resentful.
And when I say not only Murdoch, I'm thinking of Mutton Dutton and his "Melburnians are too afraid to go out for dinner" claim. But it seems that a fair few Melburnians may actually be in that state.
If you look at the Victorian - and particularly Melbourne - statistics I think you'll find that 'aggravated burglaries' and carjackings are on the increase: Melbourne is now the Australian 'capital' for car theft in case you hadn't noticed. And it's not all that easy to steal modern cars which is why there are carjackings and burglaries - because they can beat up the owner or resident (or just threaten to while brandishing weapons) to get their car keys.
The trouble is that the fear and anger have been provoked now, and I'm not sure just how to get that kraken back into the cupboard.
Idiot Greg can’t conceive of a connection between economic sanctions and a less-than-spectacular Russian economy. I wonder how Australia would fare if it were targeted with the kind of punitive regime meted out by the US, the EU and... er, Australia. Fuckwit.
ReplyDelete"... once again the bromancer reduces the pond to a bewildered speechlessness."
ReplyDeleteYou are not the only one, DP. I was trying to come up with something to describe the Bromancer's ramblings today when, lo and behold, he actually described them himself:
Bromancer: "These are ideas so dotty that they are beyond rational refutation."
By golly, wonderful self-perception there.
And then he added this:
Bromancer: "... Russians who often harbour a romanticised conception of British traditions".
What a perspicacious analysis of the herpetarium empire. Oh, this has just been a wondrouus Bromancer day, though, as I imagine you clearly understand, no praise to him for his accidental truthful clarity.
I always like to keep an eye out for a wagon I can join the band on, so while we're all piling on the Bromancer, it's probably worth questioning whether his comment about Russian regard for Britain isn't a load of rubbish. Russian humour can be a little quirky, but it's an ever-present social lubricant and its anti-British streak is increasing in prevalence - they are mocked for archetypal eccentricity, there's a long line of "British scientists have discovered...{insert something obvious, useless or mundane (or all three)]" gags, and so it goes. The stuff I've heard is pretty much 1970's English "Irish" "jokes" with a dollop of caviar and smetana.
ReplyDeleteNot feeling the love here, Bromider.
But Smetana was Czech, Frank!
DeleteSeems like the Russkis are behaving just like they're the new empire putting down a fading one - kinda like Americans viewed England and the English back when.
DeleteBut I guess the Rus might actually be using their humour to cover the thought that they're not all that well off either. Which, apart from Vlad's billionaire oligarch mates, most of them aren't.
Incidentally, apart from some thoughts that Vladimir is actually derived from the Germanic Waldemar ('holy or blessed'), in Russian Vladimir means 'ruler of the world'. Kinda fitting, yes ? Though it could also be taken to mean 'Prince of peace' :-)
I wonder whether anyone else here remembers an appearance of the bromancer on Lateline or somesuch lefty Aunty wordfest, paired with an American so-called expert of the university professorial peer-reviewed, knowing-about-actual-stuff type. I’ll never forget the reaction of the latter, after the former had said something particularly weird and Sheridanish, pulping the facts, mangling the logic and grating the mind. “Who IS this guy??” asked the bemused yank. I continue to ask that question and remain bemused.
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