It was inevitable that the pond would begin its lengthy Sunday reptile meditation with prattling Polonius … but don't let that Polonial talk of listening to the medics fool you.
It seems all the reptiles are one-trick ponies, and the one trick that Polonius has is ABC bashing …though perhaps tedious lessons in history featuring Ming the Merciless might be counted as another trick ...
Uh huh, that's Ming the Merciless trotted out, suffering at the hands of those Labor leaders, and never mind the pig iron, but what about the ABC bashing? Stand by, here it comes, in the form of the new reptile pet figure for hate, fear and loathing, Dr Norman Swan, complicated by the fact that he's an actual doctor, and might know a little more than Polonius, who sniffily dismisses him as a paediatric type … (as opposed to a Sydney Institute money-grubbing type) ...
Might not Polonius have raged at Boris for creating panic and confusion?
Come to think of it, might not Polonius have raged at a few other select choices, as noted in the Weekly Beast here …
Nope, your average one-trick pony likes to keep to the same old reliable one trick ...
Ah, we're doing fine, which reminds the pond of a recent cartoon …
And so to the bromancer in this long trudge through the reptiles on a Sunday, and quite frankly, the pond thinks that the bromancer has now lost whatever little mind he once possessed, with hysteria and panic bringing him completely undone ...
Sure, it's apocalyptic, a mix of Red Dawn and a George Romero zombie movie and an overdose of preppers and bug outs on Netflix, but it would be remiss of the pond not to remind the bromancer that he himself is part of a globalisation effort, and a wannabe global empire …
See, that talk of global is in the very first sentence.
Never mind, it's on with the panic, the alarmism and the hysteria, as we all stay safely shut behind borders, viruses being a great respecter of borders and walls ...
Did he just mention the onion muncher?
The pond hates to bring it up, but once upon a time the onion muncher was urging Britain to become a global leader …
More, with hot links, here, as we can dream of the days when some dreamed of their destiny as global leaders …but now we must scuttle back behind the bromancer brick wall ...
Consistency? We could be here all day if we started to talk about the bromancer's consistency … or the consistency to be seen at News Corp …
Okay, okay, the pond reached for a cartoon too early.
But the pond is in a panic, in almost a state of hysteria. There's still three gobbets of the bromancer isolationism to go, and he still shows no understanding he's working for a globalist outfit that wants to transcend borders … and besides the next gobbet begins with the Donald, and the bromancer's none too secret love of the Donald, and so the pond rests its cartoon case ...
Still with the onion muncher?
Pity the poor Poms, who Brexited, with copious advice from the onion muncher, that the way to get ahead was to go out on the international stage and do the very best deals, and become a world leader in trade …
But then that's the sort of advice that News Corp regularly and reliable doles out …
Does the bromancer have a vision?
It seems that his vision involves the destruction of Europe, the rise and rise of the Donald, walls everywhere, and isolationism rampant ...
Is there an upside? Well, it's likely that international corporations of the News Corp kind might never again have the same appeal, and globalisation itself will be fundamentally transformed …
Fox Sport chief Peter Campbell said the decision had nothing to do with the coronavirus’ impact on sport.
“It simply reflects viewers are consuming sports news in different ways and at different times, together with the same challenging conditions in the advertising market that are impacting the entire entertainment industry,” Campbell said. “It is too soon to determine what the long-term effects of the pandemic may be on the industry as a whole and our business.”…
…News Corp also unleashed another round of redundancies on its metro newspapers, including four at the Herald Sun. Not all of the redundancies were voluntary, with some staff tapped on the shoulder.
The advertising downturn has been blamed for the job losses at both Fox Sports and News Corp newspapers. (from the globalist Graudian's Weekly Beast here).
And so to the bromancer's final gobbet, and it can't come too soon for the pond ...
And with the bromancer done and dusted, the pond breathed a huge sigh of relief, and looked forward to the day when Jews fleeing Nazi Germany might arrive in Australia and enrich its culture and society at large … as many other groups have done over the years, not least those who built the Snowy scheme, but also those who ran delis and restaurants, and did assorted hard yards, surviving paranoia, bigotry and persecution to make for a better place …
But these sentiments aside, a huge challenge for pond readers remained … the mighty colossus known as nattering "Ned" ...
Now those familiar with the pond's style knows that this is a signal that even the most hardcore reptile devotees can stop what they're doing and head back to bed for a nap.
There is absolutely no need to read on … and the pond warns that it will fling in a cartoon every so often simply to reward anyone who made it through the gobbet ...
Already you want a cartoon, perhaps one with a narcissist streak?
And now, for those who are determined to carry on, "Ned" delivers a sharp rebuke to the hysteria just offered up by the bromancer about globalisation - at least "Ned" seems to realise he's a cog in a global enterprise ...
Indeed, indeed. The reptiles have spent years denigrating government, and celebrating the likes of the Donald, and yet suddenly government is seen to play a vital role …
The pond's excuse for that one?
"Ned" goes on to talk about the Donald, and blaming the Chinese, something already done by the bromancer and the dog botherer and many other reptiles, though few could match that epic effort by simpleton Shari …
Yes, the paranoid far right News Corp agenda is already being written, but please, do go on "Ned", and natter away ...
Yes, whatever it takes …
It's just a pity that the pond likely won't see a cent of the free money, but will be exposed to more nattering by "Ned" … and sure enough, climate science turns up with an each-way bet attached ...
An election emergency? Of course that's the main worry, but surely there's a way forward …
And now, before you know it, gentle reader, you've triumphed, you've used mind to move body to unimaginable heights ….you've reached the penultimate "Ned" gobbet ...
Surely the question is when SloMo will be allowed out to go to the footy and watch the Sharks get thrashed …
And so to the final gobbet, and what do you know, the pond was astonished to discover that "Ned" might be having some sort of weird spiritual conversion ...
An imaginary friend created morality?
Strange then that the Romans had a morality, albeit not in line with modern thinking, thanks to the many gods handed down to them by the Greeks, who had their own assorted kinds of morality, from the Spartan to the Athenian kind.
Come to think of it, the Chinese too had notions of morality long before missionaries and others trudged across to steal noodles and paper and gunpowder, and in the process to tell them about the Abrahamic God, apparently singular, if also three in one to some, but given assorted brandings by Jews, Xians and Islamics …the singular God apparently not understanding that there were heathens all over the world, usually with their own morality, and yet She seemed to think only the Middle East needed redemption ...
Why are the reptiles so one-eyed? Why do things like Confucianism escape them?
Why do they ignore Buddhism, or its better arm, Zen? Didn't Buddha himself say …
Buddha said: "I consider the positions of kings and rulers and chairman Rupert as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians, and the scribblings of nattering “Ned” to be the delusions of a Murdochian hack. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes, while the bromancer appears as a paranoid bromancer-loving gnat. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime, and the dog botherer and Dame Slap as the monsters you find under the bed, or behind the door in the outdoor toilet the pond always had to check before taking a piss. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons…and good luck with that News Corps globalist business model in these troubled times.” (With profound apologies, the original koan here, along with a 100 others)
Well, it goes without saying that the pond takes its religion and morality from leprechauns, and blames the Irish genes for it …
You expose this rabble for what they are how could you trust any of them to be truthful and reliable when their opinions have to reach the approval of their master.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't the Prattler be welcoming Norman Swan as part of the great 'diversity of opinion' that the West is so famous for, and the Oz a committed fan of? Let the multitude of views bloom across the land, and let individuals and families decide which ones to follow, equality be damned. Isn't that how expert opinion works for the reptiles?
ReplyDeleteJesus Dorothy, don’t you know some of us have shopping to do. That was epic...but well worth it just for the illuminating koan. Totally laughing my head off as I watch Abbott and Costello 2.0 rally the nation, aka, the team, and demand that everyone hand over their kitchen sinks for a national chuckathon.
ReplyDeleteDr.Poloniustells reminds us that the immaculate cabinet is doing a sterling job. Like disembarking 2700 people onto the streets of Sydney without so much as a how’s your father.
And Sheridan is still spruiking the infrastructure and development programs that must be on the slowest boat from China in all of history......a bit like all those $500 cheques for power price increases. He really is off the dial of late, but then again his being tuned to Howard and Abbott explains it all really.
One has to wonder at the cheek of these Murdock muppets who have fawned at the feet of Thatcher....”there is no such thing as society” and all the rest of the toads that followed. Strange times abound, and it is our kids and grandkids that are the ones that are going to get it in the neck. Grrrr!
Never the less, I’m very reassured that Ned is on the watchtower, along with the rest of dad’s army. I felt so enlightened I immediately uploaded a memo from one of the gods. Cheers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube%20all%20along%20the%20watchtower&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m
Ah yes, Anony, one of Dylan's all-time besties and deliciously rendered by Hendrix.
DeleteHell hath no fury like a Prattling Polonius sacked from the ABC Insiders.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone harbours a secret masochistic side, check out his Media Watch Dog column on Fridays.
The ABC is the only media outlet that exists in the wizened little turd's world.
lol. Wizened little turd! Perhaps something really awful happened at prep school.......some weird fixating trauma, and he just never got past ABC. Like not being put in blue group? Cheers.
DeleteThe Need For Distraction
ReplyDeleteIt’s just a cold
Why the commotion?
Viral panic
Pandemonium
We’re told that it will kill
One or two million
I don't believe it’s real
But I’ll get round to somethin’
Maybe when all the rivers have
Bodies floatin'
So I’ll
Tweet lies
Over and over
And over again
No end
Because I believe
The best policy
Is distraction
Erm, Barry McGuire Kez ?
DeleteSpot on GB! One of the faves from my well misspent youth, along with Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower.
DeleteThe reptiles are playing this in their usual tribal fashion, acting as boosters for a clueless and hopeless government.
ReplyDeleteI've spoken to a couple of people recently, one in a small regional hospital (ICU) and one in general practice and neither think the government have grasped what they are up against. For instance, in relation to school closures both thought these would be inevitable and we were only making it more disastrous by delaying the decision. It also seems that staff were voting with their feet and pulling their kids out of school anyway.
Usually, with the reptiles, you can just follow the money, but in this case it just seems to be simply doubling down on a stupid decision.
Should have looked the headlines first
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Totally agree Befuddled, these numpties never had a clue. When they looked at the data after 5 million people left Wuhan and the consequent internal spread, the penny should have dropped immediately. Watching these guys manage this event has been like watching an Alzheimer’s chess tournament.
DeleteMust send another round of congratulations the Minister “my work is done” Hunt. Cheers.
Meant to link this Befuddled. Cheers.
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Polonius: "[In WWII] An Advisory War Council was formed, but it was only an advisory body and had no power."
ReplyDeleteNo formal legislative power, that is, which of course is the only form of "power" that benighted reptiles can grasp. And just as well, anyway, who would have wanted the Menzies Muckers to have any part in running the war effort.
But otherwise, just another lacklustre potpourri of formulaic Polonialism. I don't know what effect(s) the Great International Dying might have on globalism or on globalisation, but it's obviously had no effect whatsoever on reptile mummery.
But now to the Bromancer's faint cries. You say, DP: " the day when Jews fleeing Nazi Germany might arrive in Australia and enrich its culture and society at large … as many other groups have done over the years, not least those who built the Snowy scheme..."
Delis and restaurants indeed, but let us all remember and revere Borsari's Bomboniere corner of Lygon and Grattan Streets. Oh, those wondrous years. I still occasionally try to work out just when taking a half (or full) dozen bottles to a party was replaced by taking a flagon of wine instead. And then that wondrous Australian invention, the cardboard 'wine cask'.
But otherwise, the Bromancer is now a really pale shadow of the pale shadow he always was. Abbott and Howard, what a sad pointless pair, but all that the Bromancer's mind can strive towards.
As for Ned the Nullius, well he is droning on more and more tediously by the day. I reckon that he somehow fancies that, Polonius notwithstanding, he is the only reptile that actually knows all of humanity's trivia.
But as for your questions, DP: "Why are the reptiles so one-eyed? Why do things like Confucianism escape them?" I am tempted to say that, in the terms described by Daniel Kahneman, they are always and only capable of "fast thinking" which is basically described as:
"intuitive, associative, metaphorical, automatic, impressionistic, and it can't be switched off. Its operations involve no sense of intentional control, but it's the "secret author of many of the choices and judgments you make"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/13/thinking-fast-slow-daniel-kahneman
Besides, as you know, the reptiles and wingnuts are always adjusting the starting points of history. That's why the likes of the Doggy Bov can basically write as though history began just a few months ago, so he could never have expressed any climate denial back in a time that never existed, could he.
Just backing up to Doggy's revisionism the other day, this article is unlocked
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"Remember that this government made those choices, not because they believed sincerely in an alternative economic model, but because they refused to do the things they knew would help all Australians because of an odious ideology.
It's one thing to believe in an alternative cure for the poison. It's quite another to deliberately withhold what you know to be the antidote."
I've always had difficulty understanding this right hand - left hand thing: that neither one knows what the other is doing.
DeleteI have read about an idea of human mentality whereby experiences (or other evidences) cause us to formulate beliefs but that over time, the belief and it's underlying origin become separated and we can often go on holding the belief but no longer having any idea where it came from (there is a psychological term for this, but my sad old brain no longer remembers it and Google can't seem to find it for me). And of course, having no idea where it comes from, why then, it just must be part of the underlying fabric of the universe that we all believe and accept, mustn't it ?
But then, because of the 'partitioning' of our mind, we can readily hold contradictory beliefs unless or until some state of the world brings them into genuine conflict. And because of the power of 'compartmentalisation' it takes quite a lot of conflict for contradictory beliefs to finally be recognised. Some people can never recognise them (guess who ?).
But our reptiles are just past masters of the 'split in history' trick which allows them, if/when they ever "change their mind" to claim that there never was a time when they believed that other dumb stuff. The Doggy Boverer and his denial of ever being a 'climate denialist' (despite the fact that he obviously still is) is based on the 'fracture in time' so that in their minds, history began only when they came to their current set of beliefs and they never ever believed anything else.
Sound at all familiar ?
Enjoyed the Street article though; he is a passionate lad, isn't he. Probably would have wanted to crucify the wrong-way believers back in the good ol' days :-)
DeletePassionate indeed GB, but understandable to a degree. This has been a very mean and tricky Govt. driven by an ideology that has catered for the select cohort of mates and donors.
DeleteLike yourself, I’ve seen a few Govt’s come and go, but this mob are something else. No morals, no empathy and most importantly, no intellectual cohesion of purpose for the national interest. A true rabble of self interest. :-(
Thanks for Graudian link. Thought provoking links. Cheers.
Gotta mostly agree with you there, Anony. The current PM is quite vacant in so many ways (mostly in terms of any honest or decent emotions), and he has a bunch of folks that don't know or care.
DeleteBingo, Bef, slow but still working. The thing about beliefs and their underlying origins becoming separated is an aspect of 'Theory perserverance' - ie the "theory" that we form and believe perserveres despite the absence of underlying evidence, and even in the face of opposing evidence.
Delete"Belief perseverance is the tendency for people to hold their beliefs as true, even when there is ample evidence to discredit the belief. When faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, people may choose to discredit, dismiss, misinterpret, or place little significance on the contradictory information."
https://study.com/academy/lesson/belief-perseverance-definition-examples.html
Thanks to Anony for that Hendrix link - pure inspiration for this morality tale of sorts.
ReplyDeleteAll Alone in Trumptower
There must be some way outta this
Said the Donald to the Chief
I am having misgivings
Can’t you give me release?
Businesses are in decline
Downturn’s biggest on earth
Think I’m gonna lose my mind
Now that my stocks have no worth
No mercy will be provided
The Chief he wryly spoke
Your list of sins is humungous
Your foolish life is but a joke
But you and I we signed contracts
And that has sealed your fate
So let us not talk loosely now
I’ll see you at the gate
All alone in Trumptower
Donald’s come unglued
While Melania up and went
And all the servants too
Outside near his gold foyer
An ambulance did prowl
The virus had encroached him
And his skin began to crawl…
Fab, mate. Now I wonder who we can get to sing it, Jimmy having joined that Great Watchtower In The Sky lo, these many annums ago.
DeleteBrilliant! Love it Kez.
DeleteAs who to sing it GB...... that is a pretty tough one. The only person I’ve ever heard do Jimmie’s work, and even make it possibly better, discounting the guitar (personal opinion) was Willie De Ville’s (also recently passed) Hey Joe. Evil mariachi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lUJLXMSYkg
The older I get, the more I realise how little I know - never heard of Willy deVille before. so thanks Anony. Just a tiny hint of Dylan in that one, I thought.
DeleteI expected that Henderson would blame the ABC (is he going to apologize to Norman Swan now that NSW is closing the schools), and I knew that Sheridan would come up with some insane theory that he will forget about next week, but I'm surprised that nobody seems to have proved it was all the fault of the Greens. It didn't take long to show they started the bushfires.
ReplyDeleteAnthony Watts at WUWT has a particularly disgusting open letter to Greta Thunberg asking is she satisfied with all the chaos and misery, but he doesn't actually say she started it.
I'm guessing it will be Sheridan who achieves this difficult feat, because he is the champion of wild conjectures, while Cater and Kenny are better at sneering. (I'm sneering too, but only on a blog).
But, butt it's always the fault of the Greenies, NH; if not directly (oh, that Greta Thunberg is so very evil) then via 'Green tape' - like 'red tape' only green.
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