During the week, Dame Slap struck again, and the pond knew exactly the sort of speech Mr BHP should have given.
It should have begun "climate science is being used by the United Nations as an international conspiracy to establish world government by Christmas, and I believe this because Lord Bloodnok of East Cheam and Dame Slap have told me so …"
Meanwhile, on another planet somewhere else …
Meanwhile, the reptiles did their level best to keep other superstitions alive …
Catholics turn on religious cousins?
But, billy goat, butt, one or other of the two tribes are going to go straight to hell, which the pond is reliably informed is somewhere near Santa's den in the north pole, soon to be revealed by the melting ice.
Meanwhile, the Terrorists and Hunsters weren't content to let loose the Bolter to terrorise a young climate activist. They too were entranced by the Folau matter ...
But this is the weekend, and the pond must remain true to its champion of tedium, even duller than a game of cricket …
Yes, stay calm and sail on, because our man has suddenly discovered dismal 60 Minutes …
Well, after all, they are now affiliated with the Nine newspapers, and let's face it, the enemy affiliated with an enemy is certainly no friend …so let's have at them, and do our very best to help out high roller gambling in this country, which is essential for the economy …
Now here's a nifty trick in the making, confusing and conflating a matter in the United Kingdom and the Crown affair down under … but stay, it would be wrong of the pond to proceed without celebrating Polonius's own contribution to the weekly follies, even though it's a little like long-hung, well-aged meat …
Bad dog!
Swamp dweller. Murky man of tendril connections.Explain yourself!
It's all the fault of everyone else?
Yes, once again the Weekly Beast at the Graudian here had some hearty fun with Polonius, who really does keep on giving …
Who better then to scribble furiously about truth and fact-checking and perceptions of reality and other weighty philosophical matters?
Indeed, indeed, and since Polonius has established the trick, please allow the pond another distraction, seeing as how we are talking of journalists believing what they want to believe.
Come on down, reptile kool aid drinkers and true believers …
And yet, on the very same planet …
Well there must be something in that for a Sunday meditation, what with the Donald making history by honouring his promise to spread fear around the world …
But meanwhile, our Polonius is still explaining to Sixty Minutes how a liar discovered in Great Britain completely undermines anything they've got to say about that wonderful mob at Crown …
Cardinal Pell? Now there's a name from the past …
Now by this point, punters might be wondering if Polonius will get around to discussing the actual matters set forth in response to assorted Crown claims, as detailed at tedious length in L'Age and the Sydney rag, and available here …
But no, Sydneysiders are inured to scandals, to buildings falling down, and meaningless roads heading nowhere at vast expense (yes the pond went on the M4 extension as a way of experiencing existential ennui), though to be fair, they do provide excellent parking lots in peak hour …
And so on and so forth, and let's not do a litany in the reptile manner, because, in his final gobbet, Polonius is about to perform a nifty side step of a kind few can imitate …
Did Polonius just scribble that?
The evidence suggests that most allegations of child sexual abuse in relation to the Catholic church are accurate - especially where there are multiple complainants about the Catholic church and a degree of grooming by priests is involved …
We keed, we keed, the pond misread it, Crown is saved and redeemed by conflated and confusing comparisons to entirely irrelevant matters in the UK, journalists can believe what they like about the likes of the Donald and Boris, and above all, our advisor to Danish princes can say what he likes about Angus, because after all, he only talks about his connections when some other silly wretch raises the topic …
Of course the tragedy is that somehow now Polonius has been caught up in the crosshairs, and Google has decided that the logarithms must put him next to distilled essence of beef …
And even worse, the Graudian has an Angus Taylor tag, which outlines endless beefs about the klutz …
But the pond maintains the faith. The discovery of a liar in Great Britain surely absolves the Minister of any liability for anything …
Oh it's always fun to spend another day in Polonial la la land, and hasn't the lad still got it …
Doesn't he set the pace on so many matters?
And now to settle up with a day old Pope, though a little reheated infallibility is better than no infallibility at all, especially when it comes to politicians saying they can do what they like, and it's nobody's business but their own …
But that's another story, and anyway, will it root out grass? Or grass rooters?
"Oh it's always fun to spend another day in Polonial la la land, and hasn't the lad still got it …
ReplyDeleteDoesn't he set the pace on so many matters?"
Oh indeed so, DP, indeed so. If it wasn't for the fine example of well positioned urban sophisticates such as Polonius, we hoi polloi just would never understand how tedious life really is. But there he goes, a fine exemplar of urban righteousness, leaping in to defend poor, pitiful Angus who, as a fine example of honest hard-toiling farming lads, needs all the support Polonius can give him.
And Polonius gives such wonderful support, especially to hard-done-by clerics: "It's not surprising that some journalists believe what they want to believe -- but police are expected to work to a higher standard."
And what about "think tank" leaders, like Polonius and Dame Slap; are they expected to "work to a higher standard" too ?
Would it not be easier for Taylor just to list the few companies he does not have interests in.
ReplyDeletePoor old Earnest Ergus, his man to lift the Tories suffered a major setback during the week, when they lost a seat to the Liberal Democrats, reducing the lifter to a majority of one in the House of Commons.
Polonius, what can you say about the man that has not been said, there is so little to say really and none of it positive. If anybody else erred on the side of non declaration of interest as Polonius did, we would be reading his rantings about it for the next 10 years. What a dickhead.