The pond makes absolutely no apology for digging deep into the reptile archives to continue the bromancer's coverage of the GOP platform ...
The reptiles have, of course, seized the occasion to run a number of clips, featuring a number of ads, in the hope of boosting their failing business model, but the pond has safely disarmed this feature by way of screen caps, so that it can admire the bromancer's work, unhindered by coarse, unseemly reptile propaganda ...
A recent portrait of the bromancer at work happened to come the pond's way, and the pond is happy to share it, as an explanation of why it remains a bromancer devotee ...
Is there a better boot- or arse-licker at the lizard Oz than the bromancer?
It gets particularly rich and savory, when the subject of the arse-licking is a milksop in search of Mother ...
Hmm, given the reptiles' tendency to use videos, perhaps it's time for the pond to include its own video, one that celebrates the Jerry Falwell Jr. streak in your average hypocritical Xian ...
By golly, the pond loves Lincoln Project ads - Democrats could never manage this sort of show - and what a celebration of a loon celebrating his work with a serial adulterer, not least a fuck with a porn star while his third wife was pregnant.
How the pond loves the hypocrisy of evangelicals, and that's why the pond was especially pleased to excise the reptile video offering a chance to meet Mike Pence, since who really wants to bunk down with a serial hypocrite?
Ah yes, good old Mike. Never mind that there's been no platform, never mind that there was no mention of cops killing blacks, the milksop knows how to roll out an image ...
Won't someone remember to sweep the floors ...
And to the final gobbet, because it's likely that even the bromancer can only stand so much arse-licking in a day, or a column, and duty has been done, and space created for videos which create space for ads ...
Ah yes, law and order ...
But things are bound to get better ...
And so to a real apology. For some inexplicable reason, the pond couldn't discover the reformed, recovering feminist, the Oreo, who seemed to have secured a new slot in the Friday lizard Oz.
Who knows what happened, or where she went, or if the reptiles have simply buried her, so that she can be revealed in all her recovered, reformed, sugary glory later in the day, still yearning for Trumpism and proper feminist pussy-groping ...
But meanwhile, that left the pond with a choice of the war on China or our hole in the bucket man, and with great reluctance, the pond had to go with Henry ...
The reason for the pond's reluctance? We've heard it all before, a hundred times, and all the pond can hope is that at some point the virus runs rampant through Surry Hills ...
Let us begin with an example of Henry's billy goat buttism ...
First a rabbiting on about a United Nations document, when as any reader of Dame Slap knows, the UN is a fiendish agency designed to use climate science as a way to establish world government by Xmas (though it's running a bit late, as this was supposed to happen many Xmases ago).
Then the classic out: "To say that is not to suggest that the Morrison government's decision to renew the overseas travel restrictions is necessarily incorrect."
Yes, it's just mealy-mouthed, meaningless futtockry of the classic our Henry kind, and so the pond is sorry for inflicting it on stray readers incapable of understanding the joys of munching on desiccated coconut straight from the bag ...
Yes, yes, this is not 1963, and possibly this is not your beautiful house or your beautiful wife, and no, it doesn't get any better ...
You know, any other day of the week, the reptiles would be outraged at needless endless government inquiries, and Dame Slap would be raging at lawyers' picnics, and legal eagles dining out, and so on and so forth, but our Henry loves endless expenditure. Perhaps he sees a gig in it, since times must be getting tough for the old codger, not having the Caterist expertise to set up an institute to secure cash in the paw from the government ...
The obvious invitation for the pond to make is for our Henry to go off and die, as proof that freedom is more important than death ... but he's such a stupid man, he might well decide to do it, and then the pond would be left with a case of the guilts ... though on second thoughts, clearly our Henry doesn't think much of the deaths that have rolled out in the second wave, so why should the pond give a flying fuck if the virus cleaned out News Corp? Would it be any worse than a meteor giving the dinosaurs a show?
Oh it's all too deep for the pond, and luckily, there's only one gobbet to go, though no doubt Killer Creighton is gasping in admiration at Henry's willingness to show old farts prefer freedom and death, perhaps by way of getting on public transport without a mask, a very fashionable lifestyle in Sydney ...
Um, dear hole in the bucket man, death isn't a freedom that the pond much cherishes, but feel free to embrace it ...
Now what could put the pond in a better humour, and forget all this talk of death?
Why surely it has to be the infallible Pope, celebrating the pond's eternal favourite, the onion muncher, off to bludge in the mother country ...
A promotion to chairman Rupert's cabin boy!? Long overdue, and why did the pond suddenly start thinking of The Simpsons?
And finally, since the pond had a couple left over from the bromancer, and more is never enough when in search of a good mood, here's a few more ...
Please, won't someone emancipate the pond! Why does it always feel like a fifteen year old trapped with odious parents, always telling the pond to eat its spinach and read the reptiles ...
There's a need for some of your literary sophistication, DP. What do you think of this:
ReplyDeleteAny time you open up a new translation of Beowulf — bloody, baffling Beowulf, which begins with a cannibal assassin and ends with a dragon; Beowulf, which set off the whole of English literature — your edition will begin with a tell. How does this version of the poem handle the opening Old English word hwæt?
This new translation of Beowulf brings the poem to profane, funny, hot-blooded life
https://www.vox.com/culture/21399477/beowulf-maria-dahvana-headley-review
Yo GB bro the pond likes it well eno ...
DeleteIt's now many decades (5+) since I read the Penguin Classics Beowulf (small, thinnish paperback, brown cover) and maybe just one fewer decades since I read John Gardner's 'Grendel', so maybe it's just about time to reiterate it all (one just has to read Beowulf aloud, doesn't one). Thanks for that fine recommendation, DP.
DeletePoor old Alex Stitt, despite being lumbered with Phillip Adams, made a cartoon version out of Gardner's version, which is part curiosity and part amusing, not least because it has the droll Ustinov as Grendel. The pond always had a soft spot for Keith Michell and Arthur Dignam too ...
DeleteNow that kinda stirs a quiet tinkle - especially the mention of Ustinov. I'll have to look that one up !
Delete"Is there a better boot- or arse-licker at the lizard Oz than the bromancer?"
ReplyDeleteIt really doesn't look like it DP - the Bromancer wins easily in that fart sniffing contest. So just to show himself off, he gives us:
"If only the Republican ticket were reversed and Mike Pence, instead of Donald Trump, was the presidential candidate, there would be a much more presidential temperament, with a much more presidential character, in charge at the White House".
I seriously doubt it. But what, pray tell, does this mean ? Has the Bromancer gone right off The Donald and pivoted (that's still the word of the year, isn't it ?) to The Mike ? Or is the Bromancer now promoting Pence because even he can't quite tolerate Trump's incessant offal any more ? Don't think I've seen him even mention Pence in passing before this - true fans of The Bromancer may be able to correct me. Anyway, according to the Bromancer, Pence gave us that "[The administration] appointed more than 200 conservative judges." What an achievement that is !!
So correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Bromancer casually praising the appointment of 200 "activist judges" ? Ok, so the reptiles aren't actually opposed to activist judges at all - only to ones that aren't good old GOPpers. That's clear now, then.
And anyway, Trump or Pence or whoever, there's this:
Those who like government least govern worst
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/27/21403153/bush-iraq-financial-crisis-trump-coronavirus-government-small-draper-book
Finally, the Bromancer ends with: "It's still potentially quite a big voting coalition that Trump is aiming for."
Yep, every abortion hating, ex military nun in America will be voting for Trump. Especially the gay ones who like to be pussy-grabbed.
Ok, no Oreo today, just a Hole in the Henry. "Public health is one thing - basic freedoms another". Now that, even for Hole in the Head Henry is a bit strange: how is it possible to have any kind of freedoms - basic, median or advanced - if you haven't got enough "public health" to be able to stay alive, if that is your wish.
ReplyDeleteAnd if it isn't your wish, remember that suicide was decriminalised in Victoria - the last state to do it - in 1958 (NSW in 1900 and the UK 1961 - and I attended a lecture given by Robert Thouless in 1960 advocating decriminalisation. Aaah, nostalgia). And so, as DP avers: "The obvious invitation for the pond to make is for our Henry to go off and die..." Yep, that's it in a nutshell - and some things in nutshells are quite deadly, though (bitter) almonds (replete with cynanide) are actually seeds, not nuts.
But on and on with Holely Henry: "Little wonder then that the restrictions' [lockdown et al] public legitimacy is being eroded, forcing governments to rely on coercions rather than consent to secure compliance ..."
And who exactly is it that - apart from the insane on twitter and facebook - are continually and quite speciously undermining that "public legitimacy" ? Who ?
Besides, just exactly how many "restrictions" that governments impose are coercion free - is the driving speed limit uncoerced ? Is assault (eg not wearing a mask) uncoerced ? C'mon, Henry, give us a list of all those "restrictions" that governments impose that rely entirely on "consent" and don't carry any coercion.
And then, lastly: "The virus has shattered enough lives; with no end in sight to the draconian powers governments have claimed for themselves ..."
So why then, Henry, do you want the virus to be "free" to shatter even more lives ? And as to claiming 'draconian powers', look who's braying here ... yes, that's right, ignorant stupid little reptiles who themselves claim "draconian powers" daily , that's who.
"And who exactly is it that - apart from the insane on twitter and facebook - are continually and quite speciously undermining that "public legitimacy" ? Who ?"
DeleteSee the data linked below to see how people feel about restrictions of their freedom to spread a disease. The graphs down the page show it quite clearly
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8503-views-on-stage-4-restrictions-in-victoria-august-27-2020-202008260908
Yes but it's not good enough to be a clear, and often large, majority is it Bef. In order to qualify for "public legitimacy", it has to be absolutely unanimous and the only way it can be that is if we all go along with the RWNJs because they sure as hell freezes over, are never going to go along with us.
DeleteBut I did love this little story:
"I heard a heartbreaking story this week. We cared for a 30-year-old patient at Methodist Hospital who told their nurse that they attended a 'COVID party,'" Appleby says. "This is a party held by somebody diagnosed with the COVID virus, and the thought is that people get together to see if the virus is real and if anyone gets infected."
"Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and they said, 'I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax but it's not,'" Appleby continues. "This is just one example of a potentially avoidable death of a young member of our community, and I can't imagine the loss of the family."
https://mashable.com/article/coronavirus-patient-last-words-thought-this-was-hoax-covid-party/
Now there's someone Holely Henry would like us all to emulate.
The Bromancer is clearly promoting the Pence - but to what? Just as clearly he has not read the script on the rules of succession in the Trump dynasty. Donald - four more years. Then Ivanka gets 8, then Donald Jnr (no use fighting about it kiddies - Ivanka, then Donny two - it is all laid down). Only complication there is that come the election in 2040 - Barron will be just a year shy of that necessary qualifying age of 35.
ReplyDeleteWell, necessary now - but, in that time there should be ample scope for amendments to the constitution. I mean, it's not as if they take that old bit of parchment seriously, is it? And there is much more mileage in 'amendments' than in the archaic, boring, stuff. So - amendment to the minimum age, so Barron can graciously accept the nomination in 2040. After that - from 2048 - plenty of offspring of Donny Two, Ivanka and Eric.
The Yankees have always secretly wished for a royal family, just so long as it is one of their own choosing.
With DonnieT as the American Henry VIII and Ivanka as Bloody Mary.
DeleteSadly all too likely, Chadders, though George III is already aiming for 12 years, so you might not have to worry about Barron
DeleteOf course, Dorothy - that would do it. Why didn't I think of that??!?
DeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteChairman Rupert’s Cabin Boy? It got me thinking of Captain Pugwash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3ZUCGhA_g
And I don’t care what they say. The cabin boy wasn’t called Tom, his name was Roger. Bates was the Master and Staines was the Seaman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash
DiddyWrote
Saucy devil DW, in a previous life did you write Carry On movies?
DeleteHow dare you suggest such a thing!
DeleteIt’s infamy, total infamy!
You’ve all it got in for in for me!
(Apologies to Kenneth Williams)
DW
Strewth, DW; being a tad absent minded I had to look up Kenneth Williams to refresh my memory (he became deceased in 1988 apparently) and I encountered this " He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the 31 Carry On films" 31 Carry On films ! Incroyable.
DeleteI note he also appeared in comedy series eg with Kenneth Horne. "Round the Horne" I guess - oh, nostalgia, nostalgia.
Just to show (as if any evidence were needed) that it is all endlessly recycled, the Zimmermann is in Quad Rant again today - standard theme (the trivia of our lives matter more than your entire existence) - and citing an impressive array of mighty intellects to make his case. Simon Benson, Alan Moran, Janet Albrechtsen (four times) - and, still, one Dennis Shanaham. Presumably nobody noticed that novel spelling when he used it those couple of weeks back - which suggests not many readers of his great efforts.
ReplyDeleteSo it takes just a couple of weeks before the memory of his last rant has faded and it can be repeated, Chad ? Compared with a couple of days before the Flagship reptiles figure they can repeat themselves ?
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