Shameless reptiles … still trying to scrape a little click bait from the devil in Prada …
But what did the splash actually have to offer? Well there was a celebrity snap …
But what did the splash actually have to offer? Well there was a celebrity snap …
And this "merely" …
And the rest was a bunch of fashion notes, as you might expect from a fashion editor.
Moral: never send a fashion editor to a trolling or a click baiting, and with it went the pond's hope that it could avoid Australia Day and prattling Polonius …
Moral: never send a fashion editor to a trolling or a click baiting, and with it went the pond's hope that it could avoid Australia Day and prattling Polonius …
The alienated left intelligentsia? Who might they be? Fortunately the reptiles provided a stark example of a mindless, alienated leftist …
Who knew?
The pond had merely thought of Kennett as a narcissistic, attention-seeking blowhard leftover from state politics, but it turns out he's a card-carrying member of the alienated left intelligentsia, driving forward a hideous long march Gramsci agenda, and even worse, in the lizard Oz …
The pond had merely thought of Kennett as a narcissistic, attention-seeking blowhard leftover from state politics, but it turns out he's a card-carrying member of the alienated left intelligentsia, driving forward a hideous long march Gramsci agenda, and even worse, in the lizard Oz …
Say what? Broader church? It wasn't an invasion, it was just a settlement? But he still wants a change to the date?
Well Polonius would have none of that tomfoolery in his prattle ...
Sorry, the pond started to nod off during Polonius's history lesson and thought it should revert to a little more Kennett. After all, if it's going to be a smack-down, a ring ding thriller, a cage match, there should be equal time …
So-called conservatives!?
Why those are fighting words, especially as all Polonius was doing was wandering down memory lane, as he's wont to do …
Why those are fighting words, especially as all Polonius was doing was wandering down memory lane, as he's wont to do …
How on earth did the Bolter get into this? Polonius is probably about to lead with a killer argument that we are all a little fair-skinned …so the time seems right to slip in a final gobbet of indignant leftist Kennett …
Reconsider their position? Why Polonius would rather scribble at length than reconsider, especially as Christ the redeemer and the redeeming Bolter is at hand, and brothers and sisters, hallelujah, there is redemption to be found, and so he too should have a final gobbet …
Speaking of an alienated left intelligentsia, the reptiles also ran a piece by one alienated Pearson …
Now this member of the alienated left intelligentsia tried to have a bet each way, though it was clear enough he was fed up with "identity politics", unless it involved certain identities …
The onion muncher is a liberal democrat? So that's what the Warringah motion was all about, putting an end to Captain's Picks?
Never mind, in the end Pearson's leftist intelligentsia approach to the world had to come out ...
Never mind, in the end Pearson's leftist intelligentsia approach to the world had to come out ...
Hmm, a four day holiday weekend?
Perhaps a chance to take off an entire week? Now that's an idea that sounds very appealing.
No scrub that, here's an even better idea.
Why. if we started the holiday on January 1st, the actual Australia day, we could take the entire month off …
Many already do? Well that's settled then ...
Perhaps a chance to take off an entire week? Now that's an idea that sounds very appealing.
No scrub that, here's an even better idea.
Why. if we started the holiday on January 1st, the actual Australia day, we could take the entire month off …
Many already do? Well that's settled then ...
And now to official duties, though the pond has to say that the reptiles were most unfair in the way they coupled Slo Mo's Australia Day message - eat more lamb - with trouble in the ranks …
Unworkable? Ostensibly it was for family reasons, but you had to get past the splash to discover that Keenan was still toeing the line - Slo Mo was sure to win, what an honour to serve, yadda yadda - and offering familiar family excuses for toddling off…
As for Slo Mo, he was in top form …
Indeed, indeed … perhaps a little First Dog to help things go down, with the full First Dog here?
And now back to Slo Mo for a final word …
Happy Australia Day! Why, said the right way, with a fixed reptilian smile, it almost sounds like Happy Xmas … Happy New Year … Happy Birthday … Happy Easter … Happy Happy Happy … waiter, a little more of that happy juice …
Now the pond could have tried to bring the mood down with a little more First Dog …
But it's hap-hap-happy day, and the pond dreads landing in the corn field …
S hap-hap-hap-happy it is, happiness everywhere, and News Corp are particularly happy, because Australia Day is an easy way to help sell a sponsor's message …
S hap-hap-hap-happy it is, happiness everywhere, and News Corp are particularly happy, because Australia Day is an easy way to help sell a sponsor's message …
Happiness is a Telstra app?
Happy is all the go? Scrooge now has a new "happy" to shout at as the Murdochian sheep go "baah-ing" by?
No "bahs" here, here no "bahs", it's a hap-hap-happy day ...
Polonius: "governor Arthur Phillip". So he only governs the white folks? How does that work? Oh... stupid question.
ReplyDeleteAnti-pinko Polonius: "Britain, the most technologically advanced country of the time, established the settlement on the land of Aboriginal tribes..."
ReplyDeleteThe "First Fleet" came to NSW to take possession of what Cook had declared to be 'Terra Nullius' land owned by England. And so possession, without even a by-your-leave, was taken: that's not a "settlement", that's a forcible annexation.
Does nobody understand basic English words ? And how come nobody wants to own up to the Black War in Tasmania and the genocide of the Tasmanian aboriginals ? How about we make that a central point - with costumed re-enactments - of our Australia Day pride ceremony.
And while we're at it, maybe we could ask the NZ, Canadian and American indigenes - and maybe some Kenyans, Zimbabweans, South Africans and even a few kanakas too - to come and join in, just to show the Aboriginals that some forced "settlement" is really all for the best in this now best of all possible worlds.
Polonius: "In Australia the level of intermarriage or inter-partnership between racial groups (including indigenous Australian) is relatively high ..."
And of course it was all free and consensual, wasn't it. No shooting the black chaps and taking the gins by force, for instance, or stealing Aboriginal kids and then sexually assaulting them. Ted Egan's song 'The Drover's Boy' was all just made up stuff, wasn't it.
Then we have good ol' ignorant SloMo: "For along with the cruelties of empire came the ideas of the Enlightenment, and Australia was the great project."
No they didn't, Sco, and no it wasn't: it was a painful convict prison because the Yanquis would no longer accept English criminals and Irish political prisoners. And it stayed a penal colony and prison for many years. Most of what is "good" about Australia came many years later when socio-political radicals did terrible things such as form Labour Unions and start 'Labor' political parties. And none of that had anything whatsoever to do with "the Enlightenment" or any fancied "great project". Like Topsy, Australia "just grewed".
Oh, but fancy actually being in some degree of agreement with Kennett ! It's just appalling.
Great piece GB
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