One of the few pleasures left for the pond in reptile la la land is the way that the savvy Savva turns up on a Thursday to berate SloMo, each time devising new ways to bash an endlessly giving piñata ...
Of course there are dangers in the pleasure. The reptiles, taking the savvy Savva literally, decided on a visual shark attack, offering up snaps of SloMo showing his astonishing ability to pose for the camera ... while wondering why he's often dubbed Scotty from marketing. Even as a joke, there's only so much of this that the pond, or a bear, might bear ...
Exactly?!
In spades!?
And then the reptiles followed up with a snap of Mr Fixit in action ...
The pond didn't have to scribble a word ... it didn't even have to mention the pond's sudden interest in boofheads, what with the sharkies languishing in 14th position (out of 16 for anyone not counting). What they need is a new coach ... an experienced team player who can do anything, including reliably turn up for a photo op ...
Sorry, sorry, the reptile influence, don't cha know ... back to the right royal slagging ...
Truth? But there's been genuine leadership, real progress ...
Never mind, back to the right royal slagging ...
Phew ... and yet the reptiles failed to run the pond's favourite all time great SloMo snap ...
How quickly they forget a man of leadership; how easily they mock him ... and yet all he ever wanted to do was please the reptiles ...
And so to another great failure ...
It will be recalled that the bromancer was recently given a sharp slap around the chops by Jim "Jimbo" Molan, in relation to defence and the matter of tanks, and a column by the bromancer dissing tanks as yesterday's weaponry ...
The pond has been impatiently slobbering at the bit ever since, waiting for the bromancer to take the first opportunity to return fire, to give Jimbo a stern whipping, a sound thrashing ...
Sadly the pond will have to wait a little longer for its southern plantation moment, and instead must endure a seemingly endless bout of bromancer anxiety ...
Yes, yes, the pond has seen this in action already. Poor "Ned" is terrified, Dame Groan is constantly groaning, Dame Slap is in alienated, and full of existential despair, while the Killer yearns for the killing fields ... but what of the tanks?
And come to think of it, what of the need for big defence spending? Isn't the bromancer big on defence spending? Doesn't he want to be profligate? Just not on tanks ...
Sadly the bromancer turns out to be a cowardly custard, and ducks the fight, and instead just cranks up the paranoia ...
Ah yes, Tony Bleagh ... and the woke zeitgeist. If only the woke folk had been able to make squillions bringing peace to the middle east, they'd forget all this woke nonsense ... but we've been there before, and yet the bromancer is only just getting cranked up on a full reptile litany of despair ...
Oh yes, anti-fossil fuel madness. No need for tanks if we can get in quick and fuck the planet first.
But why all the paranoia? Elsewhere in the rag, the bromancer was seemingly content at new developments ...
Actually she made a sustained critique of SloMo's behaviour ...
But that's what happens when you live in delusional reptile la la land, and don't even have the courage to tackle Jimbo on tanks ... because when the bromancer does eventually get around to mentioning tanks, he doesn't dare mention Jimbo by name ...
To be fair, he does call him clinically insane ... but tragically not by name. What a cowardly custard ...
That's it? That's all that the bromancer had to say in answer to Jimbo? A single par? And a nonsensical question.
Are we really serious about defence? Are we really serious about budget deficits?
We must spend squillions on defence, while savagely cutting the bottom line, perhaps by saving on tanks ...
Okay, okay, the pond finds the bromancer and his nakedly paraded obsessions inclined to the comical, and the contradictions in his scribbling of the sort found in low farce, but really, what a squib, what a failure to answer Jimbo's challenge ...
And now for some bonus comedy, it's time for a little Babones ...
Getting past that shot of Latham was hard for the pond. Having to acknowledge that the country dodged a bullet and was better off with little Johnny is a truly hard line to swallow, and yet, and yet ... but thankfully there was little of Latham in what followed ... because there's nothing like a little hard-line Hindu nationalism and religious fundamentalism to get a Babones excited ...
Indeed, indeed. And around this time the pond always likes to revert to the Times of India and a recommendation for a new history textbook in Australian schools, as featured here, In Modi's Gujarat, Hitler is a textbook hero ...
AHMEDABAD: Gandhi is not so great, but Hitler is. Welcome to high school education in Narendra Modi''s Gujarat, where authors of social studies textbooks published by the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks have found faults with the freedom movement and glorified Fascism and Nazism.
While a Class VIII student is taught ''negative aspects'' of Gandhi''s non-cooperation movement, the Class X social studies textbook has chapters on ''Hitler, the Supremo'' and ''Internal Achievements of Nazism''.
Do go on ...
You can imagine the pond's shock and horror when years later it read this story in the Graudian here ...
Withdrawn? How could that be, and with Modi alongside the inspirational Adolf on the cover!
And now back to a defence of the VHP in a style only the inimitable Babones could muster ...
Oh indeed, indeed ... there's nothing like the VHP and the Citizenship Amendment Act for a jolly good multicultural lesson in tolerance and inclusion ...
And so to wrap up proceedings with a Rowe, though unfortunately it seems he's been caught out by someone farting in our general direction, with more Rowe here ...
Hmmm, reading the Savvy Savva today leads to just one possible conclusion: Dominic Perrottet for PM ! Especially given that Gladys barely got a mention - though she was rated way above the poncing, maundering Morrison.
ReplyDeleteAnd the breezy Bromancer was having his usual 'other-handedness' wank. Though his "now the Right is the party of the people" is clearly 'the new world order' so it's scarcely original with him.
So that leaves us just the barefaced Barebones. Now what could have persuaded Barebones that anybody would consider him an expert in Indian fascism, I have no idea. But the 'World Hindu Council' (aka Vishva Hindu Parishad) has certainly joined Bob Menzies and King Edward VIII as Hitler admirers.
Then Barebones berates us that: "It is bad enough to quote the CIA; it's even worse to misquote them. The actual 2017 CIA factbook said only that the VHP was a 'militant religious organisation', presumably using the adjective 'militant' in its American sense as 'aggressively active' - that from Webster's dictionary."
So you can see that if you are ever going to engage in public lecturing, you need both a Holely Henry and a Polonius to make sure you are spot-on accurate in everything the CIA says, especially about militant Hindus. And obviously the idea that a "militant religious organisation" might actually be violently extremist is way beyond his ken. After all, at no stage has any Christian organisation - even the very most militant - ever been extremist - you just ask Polonius and he'll reassure you.
Just a thought today; we haven't seen any mention of Peter Ridd by the reptiles in quite a while. Is this because DP has been especially selective (thankfully), or have the reptiles just not been mentioning, or including, him.
ReplyDeleteThe most recent reptile mention I could quickly find (via Bing) was one in the Spectator on 11th February stating that the High Court will hear his appeal against the Federal Court judgement to uphold his sacking. Supposedly, the appeal will be heard "later in the year" (when ?) and in the meantime Ridd is scamming his admiring public once again to cover his legal fees and such.
There's also this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-11/marine-expert-peter-ridd-coral-bleaching-case-heard-high-court/13144912
Waiting is.
The Riddster has gone quiet GB, at least in terms of the lizards of Oz. His last outing was on 27th March 2010 under the header In many respects, unis will smother academic freedom. It began ...
DeleteThe University of Sydney has treated Education Minister Alan Tudge with complete contempt within hours of the Higher Education Support Amendment (Freedom of Speech) Bill 2020 passing through parliament this month. It did so in the typically duplicitous manner we expect from our universities. It pretends to support the minister’s bill that allows academics to take part in contentious arguments, but then insists on a killer proviso — so long as the speech is “respectful”.
But that's more than enough of that ...the pond will keep on trying to track the Riddster, but at the moment it's an elusive game if all you do is follow the lizards of Oz ...
Ah yes, it's just so obvious how having to be 'respectful' - ie at least minimally good mannered - would be a total "killer proviso" to a natural born reptile such as Ridd. If he can't rant and rave and gratuitously insult then he is struck totally dumb - and that's definitely 'cancel culture' censorship !
DeleteI'm just hoping, as I expect are many others, that the High Court will find against him, as he so clearly deserves. Though part of me thinks maybe UniSyd losing would be a just retribution for having employed him and kept him on for so long.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteThe by-election victory for the Tories in Hartlepool wasn’t as astonishing as the Bromancer would have you believe.
At the Brexit Referendum 70% of Hartlepool residents voted to leave the EU, one of the highest leave votes in the UK. As always the main reason cited for leaving was immigration, as they have been convinced that the high unemployment and low paid work they endure is due to johnny foreigner.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/25/hartlepool-eu-referendum-leave-voters-immigration-jobs
Not that they consider themselves racist but they have now embraced their initially derogatory nickname of “Monkey hangers” which according to folklore was due to an event that occurred during the Napoleonic War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger
Hardly the stuff of entente cordiale with the continent.
DiddyWrote
Nothing propounded by the Bromancer would I ever believe, DW.
DeleteConsider, Ronald Reagan in 1984:
"The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election
Now after a total wipeout like that, some like the Bromancer might consider that the Democratics Party would never ever win another presidential ballot - how could a party ever recover from that ?
So, now that the Hartlepoolians have had their little passive protest, what is the betting for the next few elections - by- or total. Will Labour ever win Hartlepool again ?
Thank you DW - new thing I learned today. Monkey hangers.
DeleteYeah but you'd be quite familiar with the old practice of accusing, trying and executing "dumb animals", Chad.
DeleteLike:
Animal trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
Monkey hangers DW! That deserves to be revived, even if the reptiles studiously prefer to be deplorable ...
DeleteThe Savvy mentions SloMo's understanding (?) of Toowoomba, and his inadequacy on quarantine for Australians wanting to return from India.
ReplyDeleteIf he had taken the offer of the facility at Wellcamp when it was made - it would have been operational, and fully ready, for passengers from India those few weeks back.
A big call? - the Wagner family have remarkable reputation for building things within time, and well within budget. A concept that may be difficult for SloMo to grasp.
But how comforting the return of the concept of exile. How soon before we can set up a camp on Beacon Island, and pollies might revive a version of the hunger games, Batavia style ... after all, that seems to be what holding an Australian passport means these days ...
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