The pond decided to settle for our Henry's 'rivers of blood' moment as the best, most relaxing way into the weekend …
The Speccie mob weren't up to scratch, no Flinty, no Giles, just a few blow-ins and wannabes …
The pond thought about spending time with the Pellowe person, but it turns out he's a blogger with his own YouTube channel … and if the pond has learned one thing from the reptiles, bloggers are unutterably vile, while social media users are more hideous than a plague of cane toads ...
It's true that the pond maintains a covert fascination for the trainwreck known as Brexit, much loved by the Speccie mob, and thanks to YouTube logarithms, stays in touch with snippets from the BBC and 4, and even ITV, but how does a country having a meltdown remotely compare to our Henry's meltdown?
Indeed, indeed, herrenvolk, volksdeutsche, völkisch, volksgemeinschaft, lebensraum, damned be the untermenschen, and so on and so forth, though our Henry is wisely discreet about an even more troubling and disturbing issue …
Never mind, we've been there before and we'll go there again, many a time …
Sorry, the pond should get back to Henry having his anxiety attack about the Swedes ...
Here the pond feels like doing aside.
Thanks to those infernal YouTube logarithms aforementioned, the pond stumbled across a movie, Basil Dearden's 1959 Sapphire, which the pond hadn't thought about for a nanosecond since watching it long ago in Tamworth …
Thanks to those infernal YouTube logarithms aforementioned, the pond stumbled across a movie, Basil Dearden's 1959 Sapphire, which the pond hadn't thought about for a nanosecond since watching it long ago in Tamworth …
The pond had only the vaguest memories of what it was about, but it turns out that it was all about race relations in Britain in the 1950s, dressed in the guise of a murder mystery …
It's astonishingly quaint, and yet, like many old movies, extraordinarily revealing … and for those already bored with our Henry's incipient hysteria, here's the link …
It's not high def, but there's a young Michael Craig doing a racist cop, long before he turned up to grace local ABC soaps …and the pond should issue another warning. There's an attempt at jazz (of the ersatz Dankworth kind), an expressionist chase in the streets, much bad acting, and a dive into the dark underbelly of London, with much talk of being 'coloured' and a few token liberal gestures… (link up only until the rights holder notices)
And now for those determined to slog their way through the rest of our Henry, howling at the moon in fear, a final gobbet, this time with locally inflected hysteria about the Islamics … though those who wonder about our Henry's brave assertion that anti-semitism played no role in Sweden prior to the arrival of Islamics might like to do a Greg Hunt and wander off to this report of the swing to the right in the 1930s ...
Ah, the old cultural homogeneity routine, code and dog whistling for the white nationalists …
Not that our Henry is providing easy answers, like smearing people for daring to be different or urging a return to the good old days of the White Australia policy …
We've been there before, and here we are again …
We've been there before, and here we are again …
And just as a reminder of a certain weird circularity which would please the Speccie mob no end …
Who'd have thunk that our Henry would end up in that territory - stop the world, or at least Get Australia Out - but it seems it's something of a trend in Murdoch la la land, as they inspire controversy in all sorts of countries…
Somehow there's an echo of all of it, of all the populist far right, racially charged and inflected hysteria, in the infallible Pope's cartoon about recent events … with more infallible Pope here …
"After repeated rampages in Melbourne by African gangs"
ReplyDeleteGo Henry, let it all out - did you attend Dutton University?
Let me fix it for you:
"After occasional rampages by groups of African youth in Melbourne that are irregular at best"
Last weekend, 3 absolute fvcking idiots bashed a man with serious injuries after the footy - causing more damage in one coked up public schoolboy jape than all the African "rampages" put together.
Get some perspective big feller.
Oh, and Australia might see election results like Sweden? I seem to recall Pauline Hanson and some ne'r-do-wells popping champagne at Parliament on Trump's election, seeing it as a harbinger. She is now permanent president of her party, and all who supped bubbles with her have been despatched.
I'd recommend against seeing international templates repeating in Australia.
Well maybe not "gang rampages" as such, vc, but how would you rate (a) the killing of Laa Chol, and (b) the loss of somebody's leg - crushed deliberately by a car - in the Collingwood "incident" ?
DeleteBut I am amused by Dear Henry's claim that a basically once only influx of 350,000 refugees has destabilised the 'Swedish democracy' when currently Melbourne is getting approximately 80,000 immigrants every year, plus about another 15,000 or so that are children born of immigrants.
Of course, we do choose our immigrants whereas the Swedes had to take what turned up, but I would also point to the proposition that there is something close to 4 million people of 'Turkish descent' in Germany ever since the 'Guest Worker' deal in the 1960s. So just a few hundred thousand in Sweden hardly counts, does it.
And that's the thing, GB. Although the reptiles talk of rivers of blood, it's really only a drop in the ocean. But they need to magnify it out of all proportion so that their proposed 'solutions' - including the final one so beloved of Anning - can come even close to making sense.
DeleteLook at the statistics: Melbourne gets 80K migrants a year, that's about 2.3% of the population. And that 80,000 includes how many different countries of origin? Even if they all had criminal intent, and all banded together in the same huge gang, it would still only be 2% of the population.
Melbourne has experienced consistently high migration since very shortly after WWII. It was said to be the "second biggest Greek city" (after Athens-Piraeus considered as a single city) at one stage. And "little" Italy wasn't all that little, either (at one stage, whole Italian villages would pack up and migrate to Australia, often to Melbourne).
DeleteBut when 200 "kids" of "African-Pacific Islander appearance" turn up outside a pub in an inner city suburb intent on violent riot - which they then carry out without any police intervention - it kinda spooks people. As does the incidence of violent "aggravated burglary" - it would spook me if I lived closer to where it mostly happens. Even though the active participants in both cases are, as you say, a very small percentage of their own community and a minute percentage of Melboune (200 out of nearly 5 million ?).. Though it has been proposed that the 200 person Collinwood riot is connected to the killing of Laa Chol a few months before
But Melbourne hasn't responded significantly to any of this - no vigilante "gangs" so far. And no shock jock provoked 'Cronulla Riots' either - forunately Melbourne doesn't have an Alan Jones (Neil Mitchell of 3AW doesn't really count). As vc has said, the three thugs outside the MCG did more damage than the "rampages" so far - except for the "kid" who drove his car into the Collingwood mob, sending seven to hospital including one who had very severe leg injuries (but not amputated as originally misreported). I hope it kinda stays that way, though if the "rampages" escalate, who can know ?
Oh truly love that Pope ! No "racism" there, is there ?
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do feel very sympathetic towards Serena Williams. Nobody that I've seen has, even in a small way, taken any account of her very recent very difficult birth in which she reckons she almost died. Wouldn't that qualify her for some kind of post-natal depression or maybe even some level of PTSD ? Wouldn't that indicate that she might not have been quite her usual self in the US Open ?
See: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/20/serena-williams-childbirth-health-daughter-tennis
I have done a quick greghunt, but there's no indication that her emotional state on court was anything other than totally out of her normal character and conduct. There just doesn't seem to have been a lot of cases of her "losing it" ever before - can anybody find some prior instances ?
Certainly she's never been in the same league as lots of men (does the name Kyrgios ring a bell), who have frequently not been penalised, and many not penalised by Ramos in particular
See: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/09/carlos-ramos-serena-williams-tennis-umpire-us-open.
So, do think there's any chance that the anti-Williams media and commentator hysteria might die down, and Serena might actually get a little sympathy ?
No, you're right, that would be asking way too much, especially of reptile "cartoonists".