(with more Wilcox in the much better laid out Fairfax galleries here).
The reptiles' paywall is now taking on a refined form of emotional torture and mental cruelty for the pond.
The pond would have been quite happy to check out the latest Oreo or inspect the increasing tendency to white nationalist racism that infests not just the Bolter, but the whole tribe of reptiles - a tendency noted on Media Watch last night, here, as they all piled on to a story of white privilege outrage, with lies, equivocations, hysteria and mindless nonsense ...
But no, the reptiles insist that the pond must attend to the ways that they're thinking seriously about climate science, by making available this story from their close-kissing cousin The Times …
The pond immediately knew the reptile game.
If you don't take climate science seriously, then you wheel in a scientist blathering about climate engineering in a way designed to evoke memories of a few Poms importing rabbits for a bit of shooting - what could go wrong? - or scientists hitting on the idea of importing cane toads to fix something they were incapable of fixing …
If you don't take climate science seriously, then you wheel in a scientist blathering about climate engineering in a way designed to evoke memories of a few Poms importing rabbits for a bit of shooting - what could go wrong? - or scientists hitting on the idea of importing cane toads to fix something they were incapable of fixing …
And if that doesn't work, you can always wheel in the heavy-handed irony of a moronic tax bludger to make sure that now is certainly not the time to discuss climate science ...
Okay the pond will bite.
Not on the obviously moronic notion of digging out a quote from Einstein, as if things haven't moved on a little since he scribbled the words, and as if citing Einstein as if he's an infallible deity and anything he says is beyond question and writ in holy law, but because it was actually a casual remark made by Einstein while discussing other weighty issues, most notably an omnipotent god …
Not on the obviously moronic notion of digging out a quote from Einstein, as if things haven't moved on a little since he scribbled the words, and as if citing Einstein as if he's an infallible deity and anything he says is beyond question and writ in holy law, but because it was actually a casual remark made by Einstein while discussing other weighty issues, most notably an omnipotent god …
… if this being is omnipotent then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work: how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts … (now read on, or google the text to get to this point) …
Well truth to tell, these days it's getting easier to read almost anything other than the thoughts of a taxpayer-bludging professional moron.
The pond uses the word "moron" advisedly, to illustrate the cunning and devious nature of the current reptile paywall … but now to allow Einstein to finish his thoughts ...
Striving after rational knowledge?
And meanwhile the pond is left reading the thoughts of a taxpayer-bludging professional moron misusing Einstein, while blathering on about moronic, mindless categories of anywheres and somewheres, all the more moronic as the Caterist himself was a somewhere who shifted somewhere else so he could blather on about anywheres …
Oh it's too much, this insupportable reptile paywall, its tortures as refined as the prospects of the Chinese taking over Liddell Hart power station…dinkum Oz coal oi oi oi in Chinese hands, and yet, might the Chinese be the reptile salvation? Oh the tortures of being a white nationalist …
Meanwhile, with the pond wishing deeply that the Caterists hadn't landed in its backyard ...
The Greens can look after themselves and so can Labor.
But who can help a moronic Somewhere who shifted Somewhere else so he could blather on about Anywheres Somewhere else?
What sort of mindless goose turns to quoting Dostoyevsky as if that's the latest quote he picked up in his fortune cookie?
What has any of this got to do with climate science?
Scatter the salt, the pond suggests, scatter the salt, or perhaps just take a look at the Pope this day, delivering a short-pitched ball at the white nationalists strutting out and about on the reptile pages … with the Pope also blessed with a better-laid out Fairfax gallery here…
The pond liked it so well - at last the Fairfaxians are taking a major selling point seriously - that it went back and sampled an old but still relevant Pope ...
We must try to be precise here, DP: a 'moron' is defined as a person with an IQ in the range 51 - 70, but that is only just below the "ceiling" of mental retardation, defined as an IQ in the range 70 - 75. IQs above 80 are wholly 'normal'.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible that we may actually have here an example of 'imbecile', defined as an IQ range of 26 - 50. Tricky to get it right, I appreciate, but we always should try.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbecile
The pond stands corrected. Of course imbecile is right and the only excuse the pond has is spending too much time trying to hunt out reptile fodder.
DeleteThe sickening thing about Cater is he is a perfect anywhere pretending to identify with somewheres. Has he just finished a big fencing contract in Mungindi?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that Byron Bay is the symbol of everything alternative and green. Actually Byron Bay now is a tourist hell where fake plastic predominates. If you want real plastic you go to the Gold Coast.
It's possible that the Cater didn't catch up with the changes when Strop and Hoges dropped him from their dinner party lists way back when ...
DeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteLittle did Einstein imagine that one day Reptiles might be possessed of intellects so powerful that they could determine that the cause of death of a dozen people, after an unprecedented supercell downpour, could instead be blamed on a quarry wall.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4334777.htm
Looking forward to anywhere/somewhere Cater showing off his profound knowledge of hydrology in court, in the very near future.
DiddyWrote
Good point from Wagners' QC "Anyone who knows anything about the case and what actually happened would actually think that Cater’s performance on 60 Minutes just showed him to be a complete fool."
DeleteI would suggest every cameo he gets on The Pond reinforces that case. As one of the comments states "The perfect Dunning-Krugerite"
Sheesh, DW, that's the laugh of the year, somebody should send it to the Speccie mob, they'll laugh their stockings off too...
DeleteGoosebumps Cater exhibits a fairly common trait, I think: the self-appointed lay expert. Goosey seems to think he can wander off to the site of the flood and based on his own all-seeing observation and using his own magnificent 'common' sense, work out exactly what happened. In his mind, there's no mystery to, nor expertise required to understand, all the hydrological aspects.
DeleteIt's exactly the same with the Moorice's of the world: all that needs to be known about climate science is just obvious to him.
But the really amusing thing is that all of the reptiles are just like that about politics and society: based on their acute observations and intuitive understanding, they have absolutely no ideas about anything. Just read the Bromancer for an example.
I look forward to seeing the proceedings against Jones - unless he pays up to avoid the public condemnation.
Having just been watching Michael Sandel on Q&A, where he talked a lot about the importance of listening in a civic/civil discussion, I think I've twigged to something (sorry if I'm a bit slow on the uptake), neatly linked by two recent reptile pieces, Greg Craven's homage to debating and this bit by the Caterist.
ReplyDeleteCraven talks up how his experience forced him to consider and even argue for points of view he disagreed with. All very enriching...if it was even remotely true. I did the hard yards as a smarmy Public School* goit, and spent more hours than I care to remember competitively arguing about things I couldn't give a shit about. And the dirty little secret Craven doesn't want people to know is that it doesn't teach you to think about opposing view points, it teaches you how to be (well, sound) right without having to think at all.
And that's where the Caterist's screed comes in. Nothing to chew on, just the sort of bog-standard debating smoke-and mirrors an Essex chav might pick up at a second-tier redbrick university - a cute quote from an irrelevant expert, a few stats of no consequence, a facile dichotomy between actually-virtuous somewheres and virtue-signalling anywheres, all to say absolutely smeg-all. Classic, but unremarkable, Second Negative technique.
Solid work, Nick, the adjudicator scored you a 6/10 - try not to be so formulaic next time.
*There's a reason the elite private schools call themselves Public Schools, but even I don't care enough...
Having done a modicum of 'debating' in my small-p public High School way back then, I have to agree, FD: polished presentation always defeats gritty reality ... if, indeed, any reality ever appears at all. There's absolutely none in the rantings of Craven or Cater. Or any of the reptiles.
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