The reptiles have been hard at it over the weekend, but the pond still refuses to go there …
Take the intemperate, unwise "nattering" Ned's approach …
… which is to defame all the jurors in the trial, and propose that they were incompetent and part of a larger conspiracy …to what avail, except to demean himself as the senile old loon he is?
And of course Polonius has been front and centre for a couple of days, having a go at Hadders and defaming the system …
In some cases, Polonius has been known to make mistakes. But since neither he nor the pond sat through all the evidence, and in view of there being an appeal, what's the point of all this scribbling, except to taint the justice system and put a thumb on the scale?
The reptiles did drag in an alternative view, with a hint that this was relevant …
But this was to do with another matter that didn't proceed.
Luckily for the pond, the reptiles didn't forget another crusade …
Anti-coal zealots?
Why surely Alan Kohler must be one then, proposing that SloMo now has an effective energy renewable target that's the same as Labor's, and surely SloMo and the coalition, and so their government newspaper, Pravda down under, must also have turned overnight into anti-coal zealots …
How far has their zealotry gone? Well it seems we must abandon coal altogether, and nuke the fridge, if the dog botherer is any guide …
Relax, he's not really talking of a silver bullet, he's not really blathering about an energy panacea, he hasn't really abandoned coal, he's just needling the zealots in a way only a minor war criminal knows how to do …
Yes, look there in the header below… where virtue signalling makes its zillionth reptile appearance … leading the pond to wonder whether morons who constantly talk of "virtue-signalling" need to weigh whether "virtue-signalling" now carries the weight it once might have done … (apologies to morons, there's an interesting piece by Tim Flannery in the NYRB in which the word is featured, and it's currently outside the paywall, Our Twisted DNA. You know there are more interesting ways to spend a life than read a fuckwit of the dog bothering kind).
They're still banging on about Brian Fisher? As well as virtue-signalling?
Here's the thing. Anyone reading the lizard Oz might not have noticed this little story that flashed across the reptile sky for a nanosecond …
Poor old Emily, did she draw the short straw or what …you see, it was a very modest story, seemly and short, oh so very short …
But it brought out the lizard readership in a climate denialist frenzy, and some of them even knew the right sort of lingo …
And so back to our very own dog bothering virtue signilir … though the pond wonders why a virtue signiling climate denialist, who thinks it all a fraud and a hoax and fake news and theological science, would turn into an anti-coal zealot and embrace the nukes …
Please, clear a path for the virtue signilir signiling the virtues of nukes ...
Think about that.
It turns out that the blather about nukes is just a charade, so the virtue signilir can blather on, in the usual way, about the rest of the world, and how Australia needs to do nothing, and is suffering immensely, and how wonderful it is that we we can ship coal out to the rest of the world, and while it merrily burns away, it will have nil impact on climate or planet …
It turns out that the blather about nukes is just a charade, so the virtue signilir can blather on, in the usual way, about the rest of the world, and how Australia needs to do nothing, and is suffering immensely, and how wonderful it is that we we can ship coal out to the rest of the world, and while it merrily burns away, it will have nil impact on climate or planet …
Oh would that we had more such righteous virtue signiling …
You see, the piece had three fifths of fuck all to do with the nuclear option. It was just an excuse for a typical trolling by the dog botherer, and what a relief, that despite all the steam being generated, the dog botherer began to run down, with a hiss and a gasp ...
That's it? There's a silver bullet, but no balanced consideration of its dangers and rewards and its economic merits? Just more blather skewed by climate science denialism, based on the kind of fake news science that litters the lizard Oz?
Well the readership knew what the real message was, and they went into a frenzy at the dog botherer catnip …
And that would usually be enough for the pond. After a good dousing with dog botherer climate denialist diarrhea, there'd need to be a cleaning ritual.
The pond would usually settle for a cartoon … say a Rowe, one for the Pellists, as it's impossible to get enough Rowe, even if it's easy to row over to Rowe here …
The pond would usually settle for a cartoon … say a Rowe, one for the Pellists, as it's impossible to get enough Rowe, even if it's easy to row over to Rowe here …
And the pond might even try on a recommendation, because this movie turned up in the logarithms, and it's easy watching for political junkies.
The pond has always thought of Stephen Frears as a talent, and this is a clever little study he made for Channel 4 back in 2003 … a kind of precursor to The Queen …
Get it while the link lasts, and watch it on a bigger screen, it's quite good quality ...
The pond has always thought of Stephen Frears as a talent, and this is a clever little study he made for Channel 4 back in 2003 … a kind of precursor to The Queen …
Get it while the link lasts, and watch it on a bigger screen, it's quite good quality ...
And then, proper pond proprieties done, the pond thought it was time to go kinky weird.
Some doubt the pond when it says that the reptiles have cultivated a barking mad hotbed of climate science denialists, full of conspiracy theories and delusions …
Want incontrovertible proof? Here, cop a load of the comments inspired by poor old Emily and her short piece … it's not all of them, but it's enough to give a flavour of the reptile readership howling at the moon… though anybody who prefers to watch the movie will be making a wise choice ...
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No, not really. Anyone who made it to here is as barking mad as the pond, or a reptile caught on a hot rock where the thermostat went a little weird …
There's your dog botherer audience in a nutshell, and there's why the planet is fucked, and there's why it's past time for a little zealotry, and there's why the reptiles pretending SloMo and the conservatives and the climate denialists are just as much in love with renewable energy as everybody else is so much sublime horseshit … and it'll be a long hot summer again before the pond drops into the cesspit and the snake pit of the lizard Oz feedback loop ...
The people who comment about ice ages or the Cretaceous always give me a giggle. While I accept that a few of those commentators survived the Chicxulub impact that took out the dinosaurs, and are drawing on personal recollection, 97% of them know about ice age or Cretaceous temperatures how, exactly?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, by relying on the same scientists who are telling us that we are currently seeing unprecedented changes, of our own making.
"It's my cake, and I can have it and eat it too, if I want to."
Well if I recall correctly, FD, the sauropsids - of which dinosaurs were the main example - superseded the synapsids - of which we are the leading example now of the therapsid sub-branch - took over as the 'dominant' life form back at the time of the Great Permian-Triassic Dying (approx 252 million years ago) and it wasn't until the dinosaur extinction about 65 million years ago that we mammals took over (again).
DeleteAnd in all that time, the "best" that we can claim is to have evolved homo sapiens sapiens - of which the "sapiens sapiens" part is a fine example of extreme humorousness by gross exaggeration of the unstated opposite.
In any case, our reptile sycophants - who, you are quite correct, do not have any understanding of their life, their world or our science - simply do not grasp the concept that the temperature of a thermometer is just not the same thing as the ambient temperature. So, despite the fact that it is commonly and clearly stated that the temperature the BoM works with is "shade temperature" our wraggle taggle army of reptile followers can't begin to grasp the thought that 'exposed' (sun) temperature at a very specific point is simply not the same as overall 'ambient' temperature.
But then there's so very little that they are equipped to grasp, I guess.
It's funny how few words it takes for those posters to demonstrate that they are not familiar with the data, the method or even have a rudimentary understanding of the scientific method.
DeleteAnthony R should probably be preserved as an example of an old fogey (younger than me unfortunately). He covers most of the classics - moaning about young folk, cost of living, no one listens to him despite his vast experience etc. He knows how to provide proof by capitalising the word FACT! However he did forget to mention lack of flavour in the meat and the benefits of the side-valve motor.
On a another reptile related subject, Angus Taylor slithered onto Insiders today. Ketan Joshi provided a bingo card yesterday for Angus' appearance.
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1101962123259736065
How did he go?
I especially liked Antony R's "I live in Perth ..." as though Perth is just this small place that everywhere has the same uniform weather, temperature and humidity.
DeleteNow I live in Melbourne, and I can assure Anthony R that the ambient temperature within the bounds of 'Melbourne' varies quite a bit over the whole region - by around 5degC or more quite commonly.
So, was 'Anthony' living in the same part of Perth back when he experienced sweaty nights as where he now lives with cooler nights ? And when exactly did those 'sweaty nights' happen and how old was he ... ?
In short, absolutely no understanding of the concept of non-subjective evidence.