The reptiles are taking it easy over the Easter break - bizarre as the notion of a break is in these uncertain times - and so is the pond.
For starters, the pond simply can't go The Mocker.
By any reading, the Mocker is deeply racist, and while the pond realises it's just a sewer, a garbage dump, a gutter for reptile thinking, even the pond has to draw the line somewhere … and that comes with refusing to reprint and thereby recirculate outside the reptile paywall the relentless bashing of a Chinese woman …
Why, the pond might just as well have revived the glorious words of Arthur in his prime ...
By any reading, the Mocker is deeply racist, and while the pond realises it's just a sewer, a garbage dump, a gutter for reptile thinking, even the pond has to draw the line somewhere … and that comes with refusing to reprint and thereby recirculate outside the reptile paywall the relentless bashing of a Chinese woman …
Why, the pond might just as well have revived the glorious words of Arthur in his prime ...
I am proud of my white skin, just as a Chinese is proud of his yellow skin, a Japanese of his brown skin, and the Indians of their various hues from black to coffee-coloured. Anybody who is not proud of his race is not a man at all. And any man who tries to stigmatise the Australian community as racist because they want to preserve this country for the white race is doing our nation great harm... I reject, in conscience, the idea that Australia should or ever can become a multi-racial society and survive. (wiki it here).
It's just that the racists are a little more cunning these days, and the Mocker devises endless ways of avoiding what Arthur said back in the day, while actually meaning pretty much the same as Calwell in his prime …
The white nationalist project that is the lizard Oz never ends …
Nor could the pond go with Jack the Insider …
The pond is always up for a bashing of Tykes and cops, but Jack gets agitated about priests going with hookers, and priests having mutually consensual (gasp, homosexual) sex, and well, really …the pond might just as well get agitated at the handsome priest who cut a swathe through the female congregation in Tamworth, and then when a few offended men got uppity, had to hastily leave town …
Someone at the lizard Oz is only just now discovering that the Catholic church is deeply fucked and deeply perverse and really kinky when it comes to priestly sex lives? And that crooked Catholic cops have conspired to get corrupt Catholic priests off the hook for yonks?
Spare the pond …it might have come down in the last shower, but at least it's a little wet around the ears ...
If not all this, then what?
It's a slim pickings day, with no one at the lizard Oz much interested in the usual kinds of crucifixions.
The pond could move outside its usual game and look at the likes of the Bolter, suffering his many martyrdoms. Poor Saint Bolter …
But surely the Bolter feuding with Ray Hadley is just theatrics designed to amuse children?
Someone at the lizard Oz is only just now discovering that the Catholic church is deeply fucked and deeply perverse and really kinky when it comes to priestly sex lives? And that crooked Catholic cops have conspired to get corrupt Catholic priests off the hook for yonks?
Spare the pond …it might have come down in the last shower, but at least it's a little wet around the ears ...
If not all this, then what?
It's a slim pickings day, with no one at the lizard Oz much interested in the usual kinds of crucifixions.
The pond could move outside its usual game and look at the likes of the Bolter, suffering his many martyrdoms. Poor Saint Bolter …
But surely the Bolter feuding with Ray Hadley is just theatrics designed to amuse children?
What a petulant, privileged bullshit artist he is …why should anyone give the Bolter the right of reply? What's wrong with telling him to fuck off? He routinely tells others to fuck off, and he's not always keen to offer a right of reply, unless it might help with the theatrics and the ratings …
And of course he's been soft on the Catholic church and its pedophile problem for years …and been in a state of denial about his lickspittle fellow travelling for years.
And of course he's been soft on the Catholic church and its pedophile problem for years …and been in a state of denial about his lickspittle fellow travelling for years.
Oh just fuck off … and why not tell him to fuck off when the Bolter gets on to his latest bandwagon, and scribbles this sort of nonsense …
O course the pond just wants to tell him to fuck off … who wouldn't?
If all the bigwigs are so keen for people to die, let them get on the front line and start personning the supermarkets …
The pond bets the Bolter is nicely isolated in his pandemic bunker, and doesn't give a toss about the poor suckers who actually have to deal with the current crisis, and keep the wheels turning …
But look, the pond has filled up space already doing what it promised not to do … done a diary of a nobody … done a Seinfeld and filled up space with absolutely nothing …
It's a strategy as worthy of, and as useless as, any outing by the reptiles …
It's a strategy as worthy of, and as useless as, any outing by the reptiles …
But the pond has a couple of immortal Rowes handy and needs some padding, a little spacer, for them, so what to do?
Well, it seems odd, but the pond decided to go with our Adam …
Oh dear, did anyone clear this with the IPA and the tobacco lobby?
The pond is, of course, quite content with a smoking ban. Coming from a lumpenproletariat background, it's amazing how many of the men in the extended family have died from smoking-related illnesses over the years, including lung cancer (grandfather, love of pipe and plum-flavoured tobacco) and emphysema (father, love of Craven-A), and many more …
But our Adam seems to think that it's such a preposterous notion that he can use it to show that really the current pandemic is no biggie, and like the Bolter, thinks we should be all out and about and back on the road, because, fie, who gives a fig about dying …and meanwhile, won't someone think of all the freebies being handed out ...
You see? The virus is no big deal, and a bit like that Y2K bug, we can go around saying that everyone over-reacted ….
Well the pond promised a Rowe for some leavening … with more leavening Rowe always here …and he brings an Easter message of the new messiah …
But here's where it gets weird with our Adam …
You see? It's not really about banning smoking, it's about showing a graph of virus control scenarios and our Adam wringing his paws about the cost to the country …
The hapless academics are just pawns in this cunning ploy by the maestro economics master … and naturally he follows it up with a graphic illustrating the grisly cash splash … because his piece is just soooh about smoking …not!
It's deeply weird shit, and verging on reptile heresy, even if the main message - the splash cash, the drain on the economy - sneaks through, and our Adam can relax knowing no one's going to ban smoking any time soon.
Think of all the Orwellian 1984 big government authoritarian state police repressive fascist columns the reptiles could get out of that idea!
But wouldn't it have been a lot simpler to follow the IPA/Bolter/Gina's mob line that we all need to get out and about and back to work right now, or maybe in two weeks time, no matter what all those bloody 'leets with their talk about public health say?
You know, because when confronted by climate science or a pandemic, why not turn to the Bolter for advice …
Well there's an answer for that.
If you visit John Hopkins, here's how to handle a pandemic with a Murdochian-approved leader at the helm …
USA first by a mile, and still not tired by all the winning …
Oh okay, in another era, this would have been remembered as a lazy Easter Friday, and really the pond was only searching for an excuse for another Rowe, showing the snake oil salesman at his finest ...
Oh DP, Arthur "two wongs don't make a white" Caldwell ? The man who Australian mums thought just couldn't possibly be introduced to the queen (much too 'working man' ocker with too high-pitched a voice for a refined lady).
ReplyDeleteBut I must say, I can't recall ever having seen an east Asian whose skin was actually yellow. Nor many Japanese that were noticeably brown, either, other than a touch of suntan. D'you reckon Arthur may never have actually seen a Chinese or a Japanese person ?
But as to our Credulous Craig, well, as somebody said just yesterday, it's always been impossible to argue with rampant idiocy and ignorance. Not to mention high-decoupling: that syndrome where reptiles (and many others) are decoupled from both context and consequence and can only maniacally pursue the one simple thought that is all their malfunctioning minds can accommodate at any one time.
So it's no use pointing out to Craig that just walking down the street and coming near to an exhaling smoker is neither going to addict you to nicotine nor give you lung cancer, but walking past somebody infected by COVID-19 who coughs or sneezes in your near vicinity could kill you within a fortnight. And smoking is something you can stop by yourself, you don't actually need a vaccine to do that.
The Bolter also suffers from high-decoupling and maniacal simplicity of course, but he is also a solipsist: he is the only 'real' person on the planet, and all the rest of us are here to service his every whim. So of course he can demand that 'others' apologise to him for whatever slight he's imagined; but him apologise ? No way, never.
But in any case, what exactly would a Ray Hadley 'apology' actually be worth ? Who would even care if they got one or not ? Only the Bolter.
As you like to point out, the reptiles have no history. The intertubes do, however, and here is our Adam from 11 March "Strokes kills 6 million a year; dementia, diarrhea and tuberculosis 2m each. Even snakes kill 138k a year globally. Covid-19 has killed 4,300 so far, mainly over 80. Time for a collective chill pill before we crash the economy?"
DeleteThe message has been polished a bit. Maybe it's the 65,000 extra deaths (snakes had better watch out if this trend persists).
The argument is weird at every level, not least because Australian governments have done a lot to reduce smoking rates. If smoking was spread by virus it's R0 would be considerably less than 1.
https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/tobacco-control-toc~smoking-rates
It's almost too obvious to point out that the nature of all these problems and the mitigation measures are all so different as to render the argument nonsensical. Just like most of what we read in the Oz.
It's also conceivable that we could address more than one problem at a time - just speculating there.
Anyway, back to the usual questions. Is Adam just performing an assigned task as a true servant of Lord Molloch (aided by the abovementioned decoupling)? Is he just doubling down on an earlier mistake, Chris Uhlmann style? Is Adam simply too stupid to understand this issue?
Oops, not Craig but Creighton. Oh well, it's not like reptile names mean anything.
DeleteBut do keep in mind, Bef re "more than one problem at a time" that reptiles are strictly uni-ideational: only one thing in their mind at a time. And not necessarily for a very long time (the well attested "sluggish mind with the butterfly grip").
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ReplyDeleteOn April 10, GrueBleen said
"(whatever happened to your American fan, Jersey Mike, I liked his stuff too)"
I'm still here, as well as Dorothy's "Our Man in Ottawa", a federally elected official to whom I forward Loon Pond to. Not unlike a chain letter(but more welcome) the Pond has found it's way to his in-laws as well.
He enjoys both DP and the Comments section, plus a number of the issues raised apply to Canada as well.
Canada and Australia have much in common, vast countries with relatively small populations,the lineage with Britain, providing cannon fodder for the Empire, etc.
However the Australians never burned down the White House, unlike those Canuck firebugs.
For reasons he won't articulate to me my amigo from the Great White North won't post on the Pond, not even dip his toe in with a mere line or two.
But he remains a fan, though a few months back he described some of DP's musings on Canada as
"it's akin to some madman giving a chainsaw to a cat".
GB, I have been lying doggo as the conversation of late has been above my pay grade. I have come a long way in understanding your country since I first found the Pond, an oasis in the political desert.
I still need to learn more before I would dare comment on many of the issues raised here, though profound ignorance on a given subject doesn't appear to have deterred Greg Sheridan.
If it weren't for DP I would have never even heard of Sheridan. Thanks a lot, DP.
It's been a Dark 30(month) and who knows what's coming next. So sit tight, live right and keep the lamp in the window.
And check out the great comedy The Bank Dick:
"I know positively that our good friend Dr. Stall has treated this boy...for Malta fever, Beriberi and that most dreaded of all diseases, Mo Go on the Ga Go Go."
Egbert Souse(W.C. Fields) The Bank Dick 1940
Well glad to see you're still with us JM and your Canadian mate and his in-laws. And thanks for the W C Fields. For the rest of us:
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Yeah, the thing about Oz and Canada is that both places have a very mixed history: some good, some bad and some very bad. And we don't seem to be getting much better. Politically we both seem to now be in the era of LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) and the UK and US are even worse.
Anyway, throw in a word or three now and the, maybe.
Hi GB,
ReplyDeleteThank you, buddy. I am glad to see you too appreciate the Great Fields. And yes, Oz and Canada do have a mixed history, hence the need for a D.P.
After reading my above post the official in question was rather irked(okay, "pissed off") at my out of context rendering of his remark about DP being 'akin to a cat with a chainsaw'.
As it was meant as a backhanded compliment compliment to her.
He didn't embrace some of DP's insights about Canada but embraces fully D.P. in the H.L. Mencken sense. Mencken being his hero, no quarter given to fools and knaves,so you let such folk do their work even if it's your bull getting gored this time. Like DP's take on the Great White North.
I was threatened with the severing of my Molson's supply if I didn't do pull a mea culpa caper.
So there, O Sage of Ottawa. On the other hand you could just post here yourself, don't be afraid of the Aussies, they might roll you for your Vegimite but they are a nice bunch. Dorothy, I apologize if you took offense at the cat/chainsaw remark.
Ah yes, my favourite HLM: "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
ReplyDeleteAnd the US was largely "settled" by puritans, but those folks did actually believe in it, way back then.
Anyway, now that the mea culpas are done, on with the festivities ...