Or put it another way …
The pond is now only really staying open for the comments, which have grown livelier and more interesting by the day in these end times, and truth to tell, are much more fun than the prescribed distance learning reptile reading …
But sadly, to keep the comments ticking over, by necessity, this involves paying attention to a few reptiles to create a bit of filler before readers get to the comments section … and as usual the reptile commentary section is full of filler…
Surely the most sublime attempt at being anywhere but here came with this outing ...
Hmm, what would B.A. Santamaria, the onion muncher, prattling Polonius, the bromancer and others say to that?
Never mind, he's the grandson of Hanlon, so he's got some skin in the game …
Sadly, unless he manages to provoke a response, unlikely in these troubled times, the pond must move on to the present, and this being Wednesday, to Dame Slap …
The point of any Dame Slap reading is to plough on to see where, even when she might think she's attempting to mean well, she dishes out slaps in these troubled times …
Ah, the heroic bank syndrome at work … could this be like the helpful government?
And now back to helpful Dame Slap ...
There, she couldn't help it, could she, what with that talk of ill-fitting hair shirts and gabfests and social virtue and governance gurus and diversity and gender piffle …
Yes, the last thing we really need in these troubled times is talk of community and caring and sharing ...
She really is a chip off the old block …
(More here).
Yes, that's how to take care of business, and now back to a final IPA gobbet of Dame Slap taking care of business, and disdaining those wretched corporate virtue signallers … because who needs virtue when it comes to scribbling reckless words?
A few Hail Marys?
No thanks, and the pond might even refuse to accept a MAGA cap personally autobiographer by Dame Slap as the one she wore in New York, but will always find room for an immortal Rowe, with more Rowe here …
And of course when Rowe makes a reference, the pond likes to track it down, here ...
But that's enough of pleasure, because who knows when mutton Dutton's team might be releasing the next ship load straight into the veins of the community?
Isn't it enough that the chairman is still injecting us with "Neddisms"?
Dear sweet long absent lord, he's still channelling 'Nam, as if the reptiles were destroying history in order to save it … and as for the opening illustration?
Why is it that "Ned" never seems to get a Lobbecke? How is it that the cult master always seems to line up with the likes of Dame Slap, as high above? Are we talking some kind of elective affinity, of the Goethe kind?
Never mind, "Ned" always presses on, and so must the pond … though it should be noted at the outset that tedium, boredom and a tendency to nod off is not necessarily a protection against the virus ...
Indeed, indeed, but surely the rich can call off a birthday party and bunker down? And isn't that the main thing that matters here?
The health advice wasn't sufficiently forward leaning? So that's the excuse for this at the top of the reptile page this day?
Yes, keeping us strong and safe …
Phew, does that make the pond feel better and under control. But now back to "Ned" ...
Say what? Weren't they calling off birthday parties for the elderly back on March 8th? Oh well, better late than never ...
And so on to a small final "Ned" gobbet, which the pond hastens to add, is always better than a large one ...
Meanwhile, the infallible Pope has been firing on all cylinders.
If "Ned" wanted some messaging and some dramatics, perhaps he should have just dropped in on the Pope …
Instead of settling for a few Hail Marys, he might have scored a few decent cartoons … as people discover that the entire point of Centrelink under the coalition government in recent years has been to deny, thwart, slow, frustrate or evade payments and entitlements … as anyone who has ever had first hand experience of the system would have realised from the first futile attempt to log on to a system that was deliberately and wilfully broken … (and yes, the pond speaks from personal, bitter experience, and not just in these end times) … and that's why the simple idea of simply helping people is simply completely outside the system …
And don't get the pond started on the technical deficiencies of the myGov site, which saw IBM pocket squillions for its astonishing ability to fuck things up. That would see the pond run longer than "Ned" on the matter of Malware and digital brilliance …just see the good news from 2016 here … when finally all that's needed is the infallible Pope ...
We're doomed - according to Lobbecke the virus also eats metal! And there's those boxing gloves again...
ReplyDeleteGotta have them gloves when every day is 12 heavyweight rounds against the world,.....although regards eating metal, it does stay highly infectious on many surfaces, metals included. Heaps of technical data at JAMA et al.
DeleteEek! Cheers.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320192755.htm
Yes DP - on our behalf, you bear the problem of having to face so much filler - .
ReplyDeleteWith no reflection on your own decisions, in these difficult and uncertain times (to borrow from random choice of political talking heads) my source has delivered to me the contribution from the Contributing Economics Editor subheaded ‘This isn’t a wonk experiment - lives are at stake.’
The source particularly wanted me to have on record, this sentence from the CEE - ‘I should first plead for humility on the part of my profession’ before she probes the proposition that costs of restrictions may be greater than the costs of the virus. Which we recognise as a theme taken up by other prominent opinion writers for Limited News, and talkback radio hosts, all unburdened by any sense of humility.
This allows a segue into studies on the ‘cost of lives’, for which the CEE can throw in phrases like ‘quality-adjusted years of life’ and examples like justifying additional taxpayer resources to keep ‘a 90-year-old going for another year’.
But that is not appealing territory now, so, before stepping away from those ideas and citing a convenient US economist to fill up the rest of the column, the CEE says that, where there are new risks to human life ‘Most citizens, although not all, expect our politicians to err greatly on the side of caution’.
Which is a fine sentiment, but I keep thinking of its application to so much of the more regular filler in the Limited News, particularly when opinion writers support military interventions to show assorted nations in what ‘The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism’ called the ‘rough quadrilateral’ how they should reshape their form of government to better reflect the English-speaking model. Which may, just may, involve some reduction in ‘quality-adjusted years of life’.
Other Anonymous
Aww c'mon OA, life is cheap, especially when it's the life of the despicably undeserving. Every reptile believes that.
DeleteNoted, but you should really have honoured Dame Groan by naming her, and by celebrating her selfless desire to go out and get infected and die, no doubt closely followed by the Chairman, inspired by her can do attitude, and followed by a herd of lemmings otherwise known as Donald supporters over the age of sixty.
DeleteOh what a cleansing that would be for the pond, as we look forward to quality-adjusted years of content …
But wait, did she also consider the excellent notion of Solyent Green as a food supplement for the dogs and cats of the rich? Talk about economic and emotional benefits ...
Now that you mention it, DP - Dame Groan could have chosen the age for her example more carefully. Surely she was aware that the Chairman was closing in on his 90th year ('to heaven' - as Dylan Thomas had it). Perhaps she was testing the prospects for crowd-funding to keep him going for each extra year. With hints that even Fox might be having financial problems before this viral diversion, and movie audiences down - keeping up the large estates might be a bit of a challenge, without another tax windfall from a compliant government.
DeleteAnd - GB - yes, it is just a matter of classification, isn't it?
Other Anonymous
On the NBN, I wonder if Malcolm Turnbull is thinking, 'this is all my fault. I should apologise'. Maybe people would change their FIZZA posters if he did.
ReplyDeleteI reckon Malcolm might be just a little bit like Donald: "I accept no responsibility !"
DeleteAnd they're both mostly able to get away with that.
Yair, Joe Ben Chifley and 'Ned' Hanlon and how they broke the Great 1949 Coal Strike.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.solidarity.net.au/highlights/sending-in-the-army-how-labor-broke-the-1949-coal-strike/
Now my long gone bricklayer father used to have a simple default voting pattern:
Union elections - vote Communist because "they fight for you".
State elections - vote Labor because "that's our party".
Federal elections - vote Liberal because "well, you couldn't introduce Arthur Caldwell to the Queen could you".
But lots of people, and especially Labor people, hated "the bloody Commos" as serious political rivals that were getting too successful and took them down whenever they could. With or without any input from Bob Saint Mary. Such were the times.
Truly Dame Slap is a gem. Does she really think that her bullshvt about how "there is only one thing worse than a profitable bank - and that's an unprofitable one." will hypnotise us into forgetting just how many banks - the four 'golden biggies' at the very least - made, and are still making, much of those "profits" ?
What it has made me wonder is just how much of the IPA "profit" is supplied by those "profitable" banks. But that organisation which is prepared to fight to the end for "free speech" will never tell us, will it. And it will never mention how the evil Rudd and the Gang of Four, saved the banks in the GFC crisis by very quickly guaranteeing about $700million of bank deposits and also the bank's borrowings so that overseas banks (those that still had some money anyway) would continue to lend the Aussie banks money.
As you say, DP: "There, she couldn't help it, could she, what with that talk of ill-fitting hair shirts and gabfests and social virtue and governance gurus and diversity and gender piffle …"
But really, DP, it's just Dame Slap's pitifully inept attempt at gaslighting: she wants to screw our heads into believing that it's just that banks are "profitable" that we all object to, and not the grifting, dishonest thievery from people - indeed including many of their own sacred shareholders - that they employed, and are still employing not to be ethically profitable but to be excessively profitable for the benefit, not of their shareholders, but of their management and boards. By gifting them profitable shares, but of course.
Well, it is her trademark and identity badge, isn't it, and she lacks the wit, the sense and the empathy to change. Though I did truly love her paean of praise for homophile Alan Joyce.
So on to Nullius Neddy: "The reality however is that these are different groups: it is the young and middle aged who are losing their jobs, while those most likely to get sick are the retired elderly."
And there is absolutely no connection whatsoever between them - the young and middle aged and the "retired" elderly. The young and middle aged have no parents, and the "retired" elderly have no children. He'd have done better going for Texas Lieutenant governor Dan Patrick's line that "he would rather die than see public health measures damage the US economy and he believed "lots of grandparents" across the country would agree with him."
Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy – Texas official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/older-people-would-rather-die-than-let-covid-19-lockdown-harm-us-economy-texas-official-dan-patrick
The reptiles really are completely inept at the gaslighting trick, aren't they. And then: "The total fiscal and monetary response from the authorities is greater than 10 per cent of GDP and will continue to grow."
Gee, what a pity that Rudd and the Gang of Four completely blew away Australia's 'for a rainy day' surplus or we'd have been able to do something now.
When I read this: "The pond is now only really staying open for the comments" I was inspired, DP. So I typed and I typed and ... and I couldn't post my comment because it exceeded 4096 characters ! So I had to excise a few paragraphs. But don't think you've escaped, because here - in connection with Ned the Nullius - they are:
DeleteBut what is this: "The conclusion is that governments have not been sufficiently ruthless because the health advice was not sufficiently forward leaning".
Wau, is Neddles criticising Brendan Murphy's health advice ? Has he told the Doggy Bov about this gross failure ? Ah, but then we get a genuine bit of sensible oldy wisdom: "Forget the nonsense about putting a non-politician in charge to speak the truth. There is no such person and no such truth."
What a confession: the reptile "non-politicians" do not speak the truth because there is no truth!...well, that's the last bit of reptile rubbish any of us needs to know.
It's true GB, the pond has never been more alive in the comments section. For a while the pond was jaded, but now it turns to the comments section each day first thing, yourself a pacemaker, for links, thoughts, insights, and such like, and the general jollity makes enduring the reptiles possible ...
DeleteI think it's quite obvious that many, clearly including myself, greatly enjoy and appreciate what you do, DP. If I do make any contribution to that, then I am well pleased.
DeleteSo the IPA recommends Hail Mary’s......brilliant! .....preceded naturally with much jibber jabber on matters of future downsizing of Govt.
ReplyDeleteAnd ever faithful Neddy, that Lone light in the village, fretting about the next election.
I suspect the reptile corpses are keeping a keen eye on their group inbox......for that email explaining that in these end times everyone will need to take a 20% pay cut...... ever shrinking advertising revenue, the sports streaming industry fucked, their Fox business booth down on Wall St. sitting idle and most of their devotees wondering why white has abruptly turned to black over at Fox News.........and let’s not even mention those franking credits.
We are so blessed having Pope and Rowe.....the bee’ knees.
“ as people discover that the entire point of Centrelink under the coalition government in recent years has been to deny, thwart, slow, frustrate or evade payments and entitlements … as anyone who has ever had first hand experience of the system would have realised from the first futile attempt to log on to a system that was deliberately and wilfully broken … (and yes, the pond speaks from personal, bitter experience, and not just in these end times) … and that's why the simple idea of simply helping people is simply completely outside the system …”
Truth DP!
This one’s for that Pentecostal wanker Stuart Robert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uH1okbICrw
And here's one just for Boris:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA
Great clip GB. Have not seen that one with werewolf extra....thanks.
ReplyDeleteHuge Warren fan here. A a solo artist, he is absolutely at the top of my list. I still remember the first time I ever heard this when the album came out. Visited a friend in Eltham and he says you have to hear this new Zevon album I just bought.
Roland the headless Thompson gunner had me hooked for life.
Technically worked till he passed away, cutting The Wind. A beautiful and brilliant album with a lineup the gives testament to his song writing genius. Cheers.
Clearly you are a better Zevon fan than I, Anony. But with now more time on my hands, I might just follow up on some of your hints re Roland and the Wind.
DeleteThanks.