The pond is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore.
The pond now reels away at the first sign of "virtue signalling" being deployed in the lizard Oz, because a tendency to virtue signal about virtue signalling is the surest sign of moron signalling the pond has yet to discover …
The pond now reels away at the first sign of "virtue signalling" being deployed in the lizard Oz, because a tendency to virtue signal about virtue signalling is the surest sign of moron signalling the pond has yet to discover …
So that one bit the dust before the pond had even begun, but as always with the reptiles, another tempting delight swiftly sailed into view …
Kristian Jenkins? Not a name familiar to the pond, but it sounded promising.
Could it be that cunning Kev had adopted a nom de plume? It sounded like pure undiluted Kev, with Gramsci in the header and paranoia in the heart ...
Could it be that cunning Kev had adopted a nom de plume? It sounded like pure undiluted Kev, with Gramsci in the header and paranoia in the heart ...
By golly, the pond wants the stewards to take a swab - Gramcsi, the long march, Marxism, and paranoia of a high order, along with pure, undiluted comedy …it just had to be dashing Donners in disguise …
The pond's theory, since no-one asked?
Aware that his tirades were getting repetitive and predictable, Donners did a Sherlock Holmes and donned a disguise so cunning no one would spot him, and then did a little light-hearted irony just to make sure everyone got in on the gag …
Aware that his tirades were getting repetitive and predictable, Donners did a Sherlock Holmes and donned a disguise so cunning no one would spot him, and then did a little light-hearted irony just to make sure everyone got in on the gag …
A bit far-fetched? No, no, no, the pond knows for a fact that communists have put fluoride into the water supply to weaken the herd mind, and the communists installed the Donald to weaken the United States, and Vlad the impaler is a devoted communist, which is why plutocrats are rampant in Russia, billionaires being a sure sign of communism …
Of course there are other ways the communists are at work, what with their alliances with the reptiles, the aliens and the Thetans, but more conspiracy theories next week, because at this point the pond had to revert to the reptile text du jour ...
Ah hah! The pond was right. Dashing Donners is in on it … but exactly what is "it"?
Well it didn't take long to make an inquiry … you see, Jenkins' mob is into the taxpayer in the usual Caterist way …
Well it didn't take long to make an inquiry … you see, Jenkins' mob is into the taxpayer in the usual Caterist way …
That list of leeches is here but the cunning cardigan wearers have now made it much harder to find out which set of bludgers scored which grant …
But that's for another day … instead why not just imbibe a little heady brew of history?
So the cockies have got the fear about Gramsci?
The pond would've thought hundreds of thousands of dead fish might exercise rural and reptile minds a little more, but the notion of being a genuine conservative, intent on conserving the land, seems to have gone missing of late, and instead the reptiles are full of paranoid blather and Lloydie doing the usual …
Yes, yes, but everything comes at a cost, including rampant carp, and purchasing a reptile rag in search of loons ...
Actually if you don't mind Kristian, the pond will pass on the Page Research Centre's school education policy paper. The only time the pond ever thinks of Gramsci and fails to hear about dead fishies is when it tunes into the lizard Oz …and dashing Donners is on the prowl, and the commies are lurking, and the sky is about to fall in ...
And now the pond doesn't like to do it - since Kristian should be enough for anyone in search of Gramsci's long march to get Department of Finance funding - but it must be acknowledged that today is Dame Slap day …
Oh sheesh, but what was the pond to do?
After all, Dame Slap had been awarded the Lobbecke of the day, thereby guaranteeing her cult status ...
Uh oh kiddies … the pond could feel a lesson coming on …as if enduring Gramsci's long march to department of finance funding hadn't been enough ...
Yes, it was Dame Slap being macho again ...
Now here's the thing children.
Scour this CV and see if you can see any mention of an exciting physical life full of physical challenges, as opposed to sitting down at a computer keyboard and berating anybody and anything within reach …
Risk averse?
Well there's the way forward.
Sit around moaning about universities and the youff of today, while heading off to pocket a substantial sum of money from Chairman Rupert for said moaning ...
Now before kiddies and their parents decide they need to harden the fuck up, the pond must remind them of this cautionary tale from Dame Slap's previous missive …you know, making sacrifices, taking risks, stepping out into the wide world ...
Yes, kiddies, it's a tough world out there, and if you can pick up a few degrees and hunker down safely at home, sheltered from the world, good luck to you …
Do a Dame Slap, and don't just avoid caves, avoid the rough and tumble of politics, which is sure to lead to tears and the company of rats … or perhaps come up against a champion skier …
Here's how tortured and convoluted it can get …
Say what, he's a dinkum clean Oz coal lover, and so the reptiles hold him up as a dangerous villain in a bow tie?
Yes, kiddies, it's a confused, confusing world … stay at home with your mum, it's the only way ...
Dammit, shiver the pond's and Rowe's timbers, Slo Mo and his mighty team are in rough waters, with more Rowe observations of rats on the move available here ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“When hardworking Australians send their children to school they expect them to graduate as literate, numerate young adults, with a fair knowledge of science, history and geography...”
Here is a brief history of the rise of “Cultural Marxism” as a shibboleth of the right wing punditry, maybe Ms Jenkins should try educating herself;
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/23/1828527/-How-the-cultural-Marxism-hoax-began-and-why-it-s-spreading-into-the-mainstream
DiddyWrote
Your links are always worth chasing, DW, and that was up to your usual standard.
DeleteBut what I would like to know is why Dame Slap left academia. Although her end-of-rave puff piece doesn't now mention it, she was an academic teacher for a while (though I somehow doubt she ever attained tenure). So why, if the universities are under siege from "cultural marxists" did she desert her post and willfully contribute to the subversion of academia ?
It all sounds just a bit irresponsible and gutless to me.
"Could this be the year for an resurgence of common sense?" asks Slap.
ReplyDeleteNot if you listening to Stuart Robert and Scott Morrison contradicting each other on their dreams of job numbers yesterday. We're as far away from common sense as ever.
Me thinks that Kristian, and her patron John Anderson should read the books by Neil Postman beginning with Technopoly, and Amusing Ourselves To Death. And then see how these books relate to Aldous Huxley's prophetic description of the techno-future wherein most of the citizens are reduced to techno zombies eating junk food and being entertained by titty-tainment, in the form of "reality"-TV programs.
ReplyDeleteIs that Huxley or Ray Bradbury ? Huxley's mob just got soma'd into insensibility, didn't they ?
DeleteSpending part of lunch-time with Dame Slap for a second reading from the epistle. I began to take her point on board about kids being wrapped in bubble-wrap, and parents being afraid to scuff the kids knees or bump their foreheads.
ReplyDeleteThey need real world challenges. They need to get outside of the safety bubble.
And what better opportunity than the Menindee Lake fish die-offs. Ministers from both state and federal level could get away from the board-rooms and power points, and just confront the problem head on. Take responsibility. Be seen to be taking meaningful action. Not be afraid of bumps and bruises.
I mean, we've not only got specific ministers responsible, but we're lucky enough to have a Special Envoy for Droughts to swing in. Being of tough, country stock, I shouldn't be surprised that the Beetrooter is camped down there for teh duration, consulting with locals, assessing the situation on the ground.
That's why we have a National Country Party eh? Not to be using the system to get easy bobs for out girlfriend (bubble-wrap), but out there working for the consituency. Lucky country? You bet ya.
Well Dame Slap is too thick to know, but surely a doctor should understand. A very quick search of the web found the following:
Delete"In 2011-12, just over 130,000 Australian children and young people (aged 0-24 years) were hospitalised as a result of an injury, with boys outnumbering girls 2 to 1. (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, 2014)"
https://youthsafe.org/free-resources/facts-figures/
2012 is a while ago, I imagine it's even more now. The joys and rewards of "risky" adventure is strong in that statistic.
But Dame Slap wouldn't know; can you imagine her saying to her two daughters at around age 10 or 11 "Go on, ride away on your bikes but be home for tea at 6 o'clock."
Yeah, so can I. And that's probably why boys outnumbered girls by 2 to 1. I'm not sure why "Indigenous young people and those living in remote or very remote areas – 3 times as high as the national rate." Just part of all the wonderful gifts of freedom and technology we've given the indigenes in return for the "intergenerational" "horrific brutality" that we gave them for so many years, I guess.
Have you noticed that most of the so called conservative "research" outfits are all named after dead white males - both recent and long ago.
ReplyDeleteAll of whom were born and died long before the rapidly changing technological revolutions that have been the driving force of everything to do with modern life especially since the mid eighties via the internet. And even more importantly the advent of I-phones and I-pads which have changed the way in which almost everything is now done - even "news" reporting.
The age of instantaneous everything.
Even the books that they publish lionize dead white males who lived long ago or in the horse and buggy age prior to these technological revolutions.