Sadly, the pond can't get involved with prattling Polonius this weekend, nor will it be tuning in to watch the live sentencing (memories of Lindy Chamberlain still haunt the pond).
Of course jury verdicts can be questioned, and people can question fundamentalist Catholic loons of the Polonial kind, given that he's an historian inclined to get his facts wrong, and his expertise in law is a matter of some considerable doubt, but there's an appeal in the pipeline, and there the matter should rest until it's resolved …
You can't stop the Catholic Boys' Daily from having a natter in the vestry … but not even a cartoon could make the pond go there …
You can't stop the Catholic Boys' Daily from having a natter in the vestry … but not even a cartoon could make the pond go there …
The pond had to rule out other reptile obsessions too … with the reptile fascination/revulsion with the asbestos woman hitting some kind of peak …
As usual, Dame Slap was of on her own planet, and the pond was content to leave her there, since the main argument in New South Wales at the moment is the importance of improved corporate box suites and private suites at sundry Sydney stadiums, at vast expense … and involving a little demolition …
The pond understands that there will be a trickle-down effect, with improved pies and hot dogs for average punters, though at vastly enhanced prices to offset the building costs …
And the oscillating fan was filled with centrist vacillating gloom …
Yes, these days we're in mourning for the asbestos woman and the poodle, and perhaps soon there'll be tears for the onion muncher himself … but the pond couldn't go there.
And the pond wants to place on record that for the first time ever, it simply couldn't go with nattering "Ned".
"Ned" rambled on for aeons, and the pond clipped it … but it couldn't go there …
Oh look, there's a link to Polonius, still blathering on about Pell … how lucky it's a screen cap without a hot link …
As for "Ned", the dear tiresome, garrulous wretch carried on for pages, but it could all be summarised in a nanosecond. SloMo is in trouble, the tricky opportunist is terrifying the reptiles, and won't someone produce a graph or three to make him go away …and all for what? Just so "Ned" could explain that he's terrified by the creature hiding under his bed?
Phew, a cut-down "Ned", a Pond's Digest if you will, much more the go … but did that mean that the pond had turned into a dentist's reception table?
It was desperate times for the pond, and clearly also for the reptiles, so there was only one solution.
Release the Frank Furedi …he'll put the kraken's issue with identity into some kind of perspective …
The pond was immediately drawn to the notion that men should be seen, not heard, given that Frank was being heard, and so seen, when really the most important issue was whether seeing or hearing Frank was a total waste of time …
Of course it sounded even funnier looking at a splash down below in which women were berated for not being seen or heard …
Now the pond must apologise from the get-go. It realises that running with Frank is like eating re-heated beans, and will only result in endless farting and interminable yammering on about the likes of Elizabeth Warren and identity politics…
It's meaningless blather, of course, given that the man in the White House managed to get there while boasting about how he could get away with groping pussies …and the pond realised that the only way it was going to get through Frank was with the help of a few cartoons …
Why did pond give up on rambling "Ned" yet decide to spend its meditative Sunday with rambling Frank? Well that's a mystery up there with transubstantiation ...
Poor Frank seems to have missed the point about David Elliott. He wasn't making allegations about Foley because he gave a flying fuck about the woman … he wanted instead to give Luke Foley a flying fuck …
Even Alan Jones called his behaviour grubby, and told him to give it away, and Elliott came back with this …
And that was the point. A woman was dragged into a political feud against her wishes, and Gladys, too busy fucking up the tram and tearing down stadiums to care, was disappointed, but didn't want to know about it …
You see Frank, it had nothing to do with a man speaking up for a woman perfectly capable of speaking for herself. It had to do with one grub taking down another grub …
Sheesh, and apparently that's all the fault of identity politics. Oh please, just hand over another cartoon …
Somehow that sort of fits with Frank … and so it's on with the sound of his voice …
Um, Frank, you seem to have omitted a poignant plea for the suffering of Communists during the McCarthy era … seeing as how you manage to get agitated by the conflation of the personal and the political …
And what about the identity politics currently on view?
And what about the identity politics currently on view?
Actually the child is easily identified as an invading force designed to take jobs from old white Americans shouting at clouds, apparently not realising that robots don't need to be noisy while going about their manufacturing jobs …
And now, by the grace of the reptiles, the pond has reached the end of Frank's rant, and makes an astonishing discovery …
What's this? Frank seems to have an identity? And worse, it's one of those typically offensive 'leet identities, "emeritus professor of sociology", as well as being a 'leet author, published by Bloomsbury?
Well let's not get on to Bloomsbury. There's a particular irony that Frank should have ended up in the company of Harry Potter and a company that dabbled in Doha, Qatar (go on Greg Hunters go here).
Instead why not head off to Urban Dictionary?
Or how about?
An academic discipline designed to:
1. uncover the cause of modern society's problems, aka white males (or even whiteness in general).
2. reveal Marxism as the solution to all of the problems that white males have caused by their oppressive habit of being successful.Sheesh, how wrong is that?
Frank is an emeritus determined to discover the glories of being white and being a patriarch, and is ready to go to war with anyone who thinks differently … and if that means perpetual conflict, think of the publishing royalties ...
The result? Well it seems there are records being achieved by pussy-gropers and flag-fuckers, so please allow the pond to celebrate with a final cartoon …
Now come on reptiles. Surely you can do better than this …
Frank is all you've got for a meditative Sunday? The other reptiles aren't generating engaging rants about the suffering of whites and men?
Sheesh, if you keep going this way, you'll drive the pond to drink …
"The pond was immediately drawn to the notion that men should be seen, not heard..."
ReplyDeletePardon my pedanticism, DP, but shouldn't that be "scene, not herd" ?
Yeah, yair, we can all recognise "an oldie but a goldy".
"Poor Frank seems to have missed the point about David Elliott."
Pardon me again, DP, but I kinda reckon that Franky has missed the point about everything. Especially when he makes this small rant: "Apparently, women own a patent on their stories and no one else can have a piece of the action."
When surely it is crystal clear that others (ie men) have been abundantly and deliberately mistelling women's stories throughout the entirety of human history. So of course women just want to take control of their narrative into their own hands. Who would want to deny them that ?
Poor Frank is silly indeed if he thinks women even or especially feminist women don't want men to have a piece of the action. Maybe his action that is the problem?
DeleteBut I think that this is the best story told by a woman about women and men that I have come across.
From Wiki:
"When God Was a Woman" is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites.
The Wiki review says "Possibly the most controversial/debated claim in the book is Stones' interpretation of how peaceful, benevolent matriarchal society and Goddess-reverent traditions (including Ancient Egypt) were attacked, undermined and ultimately destroyed almost completely, by the ancient tribes including Hebrews and later the early Christians."
Hmmm, well I've never understood that we had a good (written ?) historical record from which to form an opinion of how the 'matriarchal times' worked.
DeleteDoes Merlin Stone point to good historical recording or is he just 'interpreting' the past ?
"Possessiveness of an identity" - and the best example the reptiles could come up with was Jacqueline Maley? Shame they didn't talk to KAK. She would have been able to tell them how to appropriate an identity to make a political point.
ReplyDeleteRe: preselection for Curtin, I wonder when the Nightwatchman will weigh in: We want moderates to succeed, just not at the expense of others...
ReplyDeleteRe: the other Frank - it's worth remembering that Warren's identity only became an issue when her opponent in the 2012 Senate Race - Republican Scott Brown - made it an issue. Identifying someone's identity for your own gain seems to be a rather crude identity politics. But it is straight out of Karl Rove's Three Rules - Rule #2: Accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing.
And if I recall rightly, it was that other Looney Gooney, D J Trump, who promised a very large donation to charity if she took a DNA test. Which he totally and unconscionably reneged on when she did. But who, possessing any kind of mind (right, wrong or confused) would have expected otherwise.
DeleteBoth of the Fat Toad Akerman's daughters got jobs at the Australian. No youth unemployment problem in Australia, the unemployed young are all bludgers, The Fat Toad croaks, just look at my kids and how easy they got a job working for The Reptile Murdoch's dole at the money losing the Un-Australian.
ReplyDeleteOh dear GB, you are such an awesome dude but did you miss the fact that Merlin is a woman. Duh? And she's telling one of those women's narratives that you virtue signal about wanting but when it comes to the fact, you show your true patriarchal nature lol.
ReplyDeleteOk, I'll bite Anony-pony: of what importance is it whether Merlin is male, female or in between. The question is whether there is any sort of historical evidence for the "matriarchy", or is Merlin just making up stories in the same way the Sumerians invented Gilgamesh.
DeleteYou have heard of Gilgamesh, have you ? You can understand a desire for non-subjective historical evidence, can you ?
And do please learn to try to understand what you read. At no point did I say I "wanted" women's narratives. I merely said, and still maintain, that if women do want to take ownership of their own narrative, then who would want to deny them that.