The pond just wanted to start with a survey of the Murdochian headlines so it could land on the bizarro land known as the Daily Terror, and the headline in the lizard Oz which should have read "reptiles in Chaos" ...
Yes, it was all hands on deck in the lizard Oz …
Talk about a mess, talk about a stew, and the reptiles were clearly feeling the heat, with Cut and Paste reminding readers that the reptiles were players, and anyone who stepped outside the groupthink hive mind tent - such as David Crowe - would suddenly become unclean and soft and spineless, unlike the noble reptiles still inside the tent pissing on each other …
Oops, that really should read, 'trying to piss outside the tent and not managing the feat terribly well' …
Now it might seem perverse for the pond to start with the bromancer, but there's a piquant moment heralded in yesterday's headlines …
Marise Payne?
Was it only a few days ago that the bromancer went on an epic rant about the Payne he was experiencing?
Was it only a few days ago that the bromancer went on an epic rant about the Payne he was experiencing?
So how did the bromancer cope with the news that Payne was the new Julie Bishop?
Your guess is as good as the pond's, but a bit of reading might provide a clue ...
Your guess is as good as the pond's, but a bit of reading might provide a clue ...
And there in a nutshell is why the pond still retains a deep affection for the bromancer and for reading the reptiles in general. Where else could you read to lines of such exceptional merit as these?
Yes, if you appoint a nonentity, a loser and a dropkick inclined to a Trappist vow of silence, things will improve and real problems will be solved ... How?
Well your guess is as good as the bromancer's and the pond, but please wipe the tears of laughter from the eyes for the final gobbet …
Well your guess is as good as the bromancer's and the pond, but please wipe the tears of laughter from the eyes for the final gobbet …
You see, what you need to do is rearrange the deck chairs and all will be well ...
Ah the onion muncher. It's not clear at time of writing whether he's accepted the sop, the delicious tokenism, that was on offer, and sent the Terrorists into paroxysms of delight, a flourish worthy of a Chamberlain …
Barners is such a pitiful and desperate figure of late that he swallowed the humiliation like carp on the hunt for a morsel of bread in Chaffey dam …and if the onion muncher follows suit, it will be the final revenge, the ultimate humiliation.
A special envoy?! Why that will be down there with Tony Blair bringing peace to the middle east …
(here at the Saturday Paper)
But wait, there's more.
How could the pond walk around this splendid juxtaposition?
Why the Caterist has rushed from his usual Tuesday slot to assure everyone everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, a service made possible by the federal government …
Just quietly, how stupid can the sociology student manage to sound in a Monday slot?
Yep, in the grand hall of self-referentialism - in ancient Tamworth terms being so far up himself he's lost sight of the sun - the Caterist has no equal, though it does provide the pond with a chance to link to Guy Rundle's review of the book at Crikey here (sadly paywall affected) …a sample …
But others had fun with it too, like that member of the ruling class Frank Bongiorno, writing for Inside Story here …
But enough distractions …the sociology student is at it again explaining how reprehensible is the graduate class to which he belongs ...
So many good lines, but the pond particularly loved this one …
Um, would that be the remarkable performance by Malware's government? So where's the fearless leader who produced such a remarkable performance in difficult circumstances?
Your guess is as good as the pond's … but it's certainly going to look and sound a little cheesy when it's remembered that Malware put in $1.75 million of his own money in 2016 to get himself elected ...
And so to the last gobbet ...
And there we go again with the sociology student's peculiar form of self-judgement.
Presumably he considers that he's not a member of the intelligentsia, because that would confirm a lack of judgment. So it seems that his routine scribbling for the lizard Oz is an attempt to confirm that he's a dullard, a simpleton, a dimwit, a chucklehead, a clod pole, a dunderhead, a clot, a doofus, a nincompoop, or as the pond usually prefers to put it, a loon of the first water …
Presumably he considers that he's not a member of the intelligentsia, because that would confirm a lack of judgment. So it seems that his routine scribbling for the lizard Oz is an attempt to confirm that he's a dullard, a simpleton, a dimwit, a chucklehead, a clod pole, a dunderhead, a clot, a doofus, a nincompoop, or as the pond usually prefers to put it, a loon of the first water …
And so to the Rowe of the day …and luckily he's referring to the original movie, and not the wretched Blues Brothers 2000, though there seems to be a new member in the gang and the steering wheel has been adjusted for Australian conditions (with more Rowe here …)
I assume the Caterist’s move to a Monday was because of the focus on the new regime; if you’re goring to have stupidity, you mayas well have it fresh, rather than a day old and slightly stale…
ReplyDeleteBut as you note DP, there’s a plethora of idiocies in today’s Caterist contribution - it makes it hard to pick a favourite. There’s the use of that turgid American term “the beltway”, generally an indication that the user actually knows very little about how Federal politics actually operate. The claim that the number of Disability Benefits recipients has halved, without acknowledging that this was achieved by moving many to the dole. The use of a pseudo-indigenous analogy, which manages to be simultaneously clunky and crass.
I was particularly impressed, though, by the claim that the Liberal party needed to appeal to “those who grew up with the Easybeats” rather than to “hipsters”. Not that there’s anything wrong with the Easybeats - a bunch of young migrants who, unlike the Caterist, actually made a useful contribution toothier new country. However, most people who actually “grew up listening to the Easybeats” would now be around 65 or over. Yep, that’s the focus for the Liberal Party of the future….. seniors who are already their strongest supporters.
He's truly a gem indeed is Goosebumps Cater. An angelite gem worn in the shower, but definitely a gem.
DeleteIndubitably the best known example of applying Pauli's condemnation of pseudoscience "not even wrong" to whatever it is that Cater thinks about any- and every- thing.
Yes, the pond loved the vision thingie, what with Friday on My Mind charting in 1966 …and what a business model for the lizard Oz! People who can't stand mobile phones and remember newspapers ...
DeleteThe Grundle critique of Caters book was amusing reading. The potted history of Australia really struck a cord, especially "The Oz ruling class, until the 1970s, resided in a self-contained Melbourne networks, who all began each conversation by asking which of 15 schools you went to. There were a series of interlaced families: the Clarks, the Wentworths, the Packers, the Murdochs … you may have heard of some of them."
ReplyDeleteThe Cater version is a rehashing of an American myth intended to keep the masses quiet. A hope, however slim of making good. Religion usually aids or abets by offering something in the next life when this one doesn't turn out.