Monday, June 28, 2021

In which the pond helpfully suggests the reptiles just Lockdown Off ...

 

 


 

Gently, softly, the reptiles are quietly grieving for golden Gladys. 

Oh sure, there's simplistic Simon talking up SloMo, and there's the Major bold as brass, and there's simpleton Sharri, still obsessed with chilling China, and there's a link to Josh talking up population, no doubt sending Dame Groan into a frenzy, but please note how little at the top of the page the reptiles talk of the lockdown ...

Sssush, shameless pond mouth, you've gone potty mouth and used the "l" word. 

Next you might be suggesting that the virus doesn't give a flying fuck about ideology or the thoughts of the lizard Oz about it or ways of dealing with it, and thank the long lost lord for pragmatic state politicians of whatever stripe. 

Elsewhere you might find the "l" word flung about ... and even a picture of the reptile betrayer ... is traitor too strong a word for her "L" behaviour?



Oh the wilful obscenity, and even talk of sticking with the lockdown ... sticking!? How that sticks in the reptile craw ...

There, the pond has used the "L" word again ... enough of this idle obscenity, on with the Major ...



 

Just as an aside, is there something weird about that reptile snap? The curious mix of leering and sneering and simpering, as if determined to break the camera lens, or generate an ingratiating sense of nausea?

Never mind,  the Major is hurting too ... but at least the pond, after years of experience helping hunt for that missing Order of Lenin media, can decode the Major's meaning.

By Twitter, of course, he means the ABC, and soon enough the ABC will present itself for the Major's ritual beating ... though it's also understandable why the Major might be agitated by Twitter of late ...

 



 
 
 
 
And so on and on and on,  #NikiSavva.
 
No need to buy the lizard Oz on a Thursday? No need to buy the lizard Oz, period!
 
Over the weekend the pond had a thought, possibly a vision. If the pond could cut off the likes of the Bolter, little Timmie Bleagh, Akker Dakker and the like, why then the pond could add petulant Peta to simpleton Sharri and others on its scab blacklist. 
 
In the end, the pond might become a simple list each day explaining why the pond couldn't be bothered reading this reptile scab or that...
 
Well, perhaps not scabs in the traditional sense, more the sort you find after meeting up with a tar road, and perhaps more a blackballing in exclusive gentleman's club fashion to keep out the riffraff (along with disagreeable minorities), but now back to the Major ...


 

Hmm, talk of the Caterist? That reminded the pond, where is the Caterist this day? Last he was sighted he was furiously railing at the banks on 22nd June, 2021? Is he grieving too? 

But at least he can be consoled by the Major quoting him, and the Swiss bank account man given an approving not too, and why,  the bouffant also scores a mention, and by golly, so much fluff-gathering, and navel-gazing, and anal probing, and in house incestuous mind fucking that the pond began to reel a little ... and yet the Major had only just begun in his rejoycing ...

As for the Major spending half his time in regional Australia, the pond hails from up Tamworth way and still has rellies there, and would like to suggest to the Major that "I have to report people outside the capitals love Joyce" should have been amended, to read "some people", because indeedy do, some people love Joyce and equally, and with as much intensity, some loathe him, and some bush folk in particular despise the way an allegedly socially conservative Catholic could indulge in excessive womanising, not to mention his luddite ways and backward policies, more in tune with Gina's big mining mob than with farmers interested in preserving land for future generations ... but never let bush folk get in the way of the Major herding them together like mindless sheep,  all baahing "we love Barnaby", or worse, baaing like collective baaing inner city 'leets, or so the reptiles say ...

Now off to the Major back paddock, for more rejocying ...



The one thing the pond will concede is that the Major has stayed as resolute and as firm in his climate science denialism as he has been determined to find that Order of Lenin medal, and so a snap of the "coal that batters" man would help him this day ... 

See that it is done, lizard Oz reptiles ... show the Canavan caravan triumphant ... see the wicked ABC done down ...



All the same old, same old Major talking points, but he never tires of them, in much the same way as senile old folk in the grip of dementia like to harp on certain topics, much the same as the pond never tires of the Major blathering on ...



 

Incurious about the facts? Coming from the Major that's rich, but typical of the reptiles, where the "L" word is never mentioned and the grieving for Gladys goes on ...

 


 

 

Oh sheesh, the pond has done it again. LOCKDOWN?! Why it's far worse than putting FUCKETTY-FUCK in colourful caps ...

And there this day the pond came up short. No Caterist, no recovered, reformed feminist Oreo to munch on ... just a bunch of news the pond had absolutely no interest in ...

 



 

Hmm, has MP Laming ever thought of suing himself? Well if we're talking about people who've done irrevocable damage to his reputation ... and it's great so see comrade Dan back, because where would the reptiles otherwise be, now that Gladys has abandoned them? They need someone to bash on a daily basis, and comrade Dan it will be ...

Things didn't get better beneath the fold, it not being just toads who are pointless this day ... the reptiles too are pointless ...

 


 


Say what? Simplistic Simon went from "coalition firm" at top of page to "next election couldn't be tighter" at bottom of page, and all in the blink of an eye?

There's a mystery the pond couldn't be bothered solving, just as it has no interest in rescuing Josh from the paywall. If Josh wants to talk to the public, let him put it out on his special Josh page, rather than help line the pockets of the Chairman ...

As for the swishing Switzer talking up Jacinta, is this the best the reptiles can do? An ABC hack in lieu of the Caterist and the Oreo?

And what about Bob Carr lining up to help the reptiles pick the pockets of silly subscribers?

As for the lizard Oz editorialist, the effort was short and snide and, in a way that sums up the lizard Oz this Monday, truly pathetic ... in the manner of reptiles, or more particularly, crocodiles pretending to shed a tear before embarking on a feast ...



Cartoons? Did someone mention cartoons? 

How about a cartoon from a real cartoonist, because all the pond could think of about this day's reptile offerings was why don't you all just LOCKDOWN OFF, you pathetic bunch of LOCKDOWN cretins ... but please, remember the toilet paper, as you LOCKDOWN OFF, and also note that there are more Rowes here, helping to explain why you can just LOCKDOWN OFF ...






15 comments:

  1. Wrong publication but I note Killer Creighton think-alike Gigi Foster has wandered off the reservation again

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/stop-this-human-sacrifice-the-case-against-lockdowns-20210627-p584o7.html?btis

    Hard to know if she's mad enough to believe this or there's some other reason. Attention seeking? Click bait? Who knows?

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    1. Thanks Befuddled. Gigi says she 'prepared a draft cost-benefit analysis for the Victorian Parliament' - which sounds very important. In fact, she fronted an inquiry. The transcript is readily available, and, interesting.

      https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/paec/COVID-19_Inquiry/Transcripts_Round_2/Foster_12_August_verified_transcript.pdf

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    2. It's just wondrous how simple-minded some people can be, isn't it. In Gigi's SMH contribution that you indicated, Bef, she says: "Why are we still focusing rabidly on COVID when the country hasn’t lost a person with that disease since last year and hundreds of people are suffering and dying daily of all manner of other things?"

      Well that's it then - we haven't had a COVID based death in quite a while. So it just never seems to occur to such nongs that we haven't had a COVID death in quite a while because we imposed major lockdowns early and effectively and simply stopped the pandemic spread. Just a reminder of a comparative number:
      US deaths officially attributed to COVID: approx 618,000
      US population: approx 333 million
      Death rate: 618000/333000000 = 0.00185
      Australian population: 25.8 million
      Deaths if Australia was at the same rate as the US: 25800000*0.00185 = 47882.
      Actual COVID deaths in Australia: 910
      . Rate = 910/28500000 = 0.0000319

      And just a note about NBER provided by NBER:
      "The NBER distributes more than 1,200 working papers each year. These papers have not been peer reviewed."
      https://www.nber.org/papers?page=1&perPage=50&sortBy=public_date

      In short, they are not actually scientific papers, they are just 'opinionated opinions' delivered by people who want to appear more scientific than they can be and have been.

      And they always, always, seem to assume that if we hadn't imposed lockdowns, there simply wouldn't have been the great 'pandemic sized' surge in infection cases and consequently in deaths that places like the USA, the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and India have seen - and the UK is surging again. That is simply the kind of naive basic stupidity that we really shouldn't have to put up with.

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    3. Thanks Chad. Its interesting to role the tape back to August 2020 and consider how things have worked out. Not that the good professor seems to have revised her assumptions or reviewed the data.

      A lot of the assumed issued either, haven't materialised, or aren't as serious as predicted. For instance, suicides haven't increased as forecast

      https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/covid-19

      Whilst it only anecdotal I would also suggest from my own experience that working from home and studying from home may improve wellbeing. It may be a problem for some folk but not the ones I talk to.

      The problem seems to be an exaggerated aversion to change among some people. If its not something they are familiar with they assume all sorts of risks that aren't there. Seems a bit childish really.

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    4. Sheesh, GB, what's with this maths and logic stuff, though the pond is grateful to be reminded of why it pays no heed to the Nine mob. It's never been the same since the magic water man stopped scribbling about sourdough bread and magic water.

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    5. Yair, sorry about that DP, its just a sentimental return to a life left long ago.

      But oh yes, the sourdough bread and magic water man - whose name my alzheimered brain refuses to recall* - is he still amongst the living ? COVID didn't get him ?

      * recall vs memory is something I'm only just now beginning to grasp: the information is still there locked up in the brain (memory), but the pathway to it can be long, slow and fragile (recall). Fortunately, I can still recall my own name ... most of the time.

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    6. Bef, I note she uses the acronyms QALY and WELBY (though the pdf says WELLBY) which are: Quality Adjusted Life Year and W – Wellness. E – Elegance. L – Longevity. B – Beauty. Y – Youthfulness. Just the kind of thoughtless stuff that could be expected from someone who, apparently seriously, states that "I am not an epidemiologist; I am a broad-minded economist, and I have done papers, most recently one that was estimating the economic impact of the lockdowns on the value of children’s forgone wages."

      But not the impact of lack of lockdowns on foregone lifetime of children's parents and grandparents. Economists keep their attention firmly and invariably on money.

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    7. Sheesh, Chadders and GB, the pond had to follow that link to find much sublime comedy. So many great stand up folk, so little time to appreciate them ...

      Ms RICHARDS: Thank you, Professor Foster. I am just going to start by getting a bit of an understanding of your background. Have you done any research into public health, into pandemics or into the impacts of deadly disease?
      Prof. FOSTER: I am not an epidemiologist; I am a broad-minded economist, and I have done papers, most recently one that was estimating the economic impact of the lockdowns on the value of children’s forgone wages. So I am an economist, and I look at this situation as an economist would, trying to privilege human welfare gains above anything else.
      Ms RICHARDS: And what do you think are the most important statistical analyses that should be undertaken for infection control or pandemic control? I would be interested in your insights.
      Prof. FOSTER: Again, I am not an epidemiologist, so my expertise is in economics, and what I believe should be done in the case of the setting of any government policy is a proper cost-benefit analysis of that policy, of the effects of that policy. And those effects are not just in relation to health outcomes right now from a particular disease but in relation to all human welfare outcomes today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

      ... which is to say, as GB notes, nothing to do with actually staying alive, staying alive, ah ha ha ha stayin' alive ...

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    8. It seems that Paul 'Sourdough and Magic Water' Sheehan is indeed still with us. No, the 'recall pathways' didn't suddenly clear and connect, it was that modern replacement for memory, a search engine (Bing in this case).

      So here's a delightful example of DP and the Pond back 8 years ago:
      https://loonpond.blogspot.com/2013/05/please-be-assured-magic-water-sheehan.html#.YNpg234RVuE

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  2. With your indulgence, Dorothy, might I go back a few days? My Source has told me of an interesting little item from the Bouffant Shanaham, dated June 24.

    Shanaham claimed that Barnaby’s return ‘received overwhelming support among Nationals’ voters who like his experience and “understanding” of rural issues and working people.’

    How did he know this? Because he had details of a poll of 1021 people by ‘True-North Strategy’ - the day after Mr Joyce defeated Mr McCormack.

    Shanaham goes on with tedious detail taken from the survey, but the interest of My Source and myself is not the ‘result’ - but the polling body. We assume it was done by the firm to be found at ‘truenorth-strategy.com’, which tells you it offers ‘Australia’s fastest consumer and public opinion polling’ - and promises ‘results to you within 48 hour of your brief.’

    We figure this has to be the same ‘truenorth’ that has settled in with the Menzies Research Centre, to jointly harvest its register of tame consumers, who can be sifted and sorted to, well - pretty much deliver a finding you would like to be able to quote. How else can you go from brief to results in 48 hour (sic)?

    Shanaham did not tell the readers (I assume of the electronic site) if this particular poll was paid for by Menzies Research Centre or by the Flagship direct, and, I understand, by the following day he was writing about results of polling without identifying the company doing it.

    I think we are entitled now to be even more skeptical of ‘polling results’ that appear in the Flagship. Unless they are about a new dishwashing liquid, with additives to kill 99.9% of Coronavirus in the kitchen.

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    1. Yeah, they really have found a useful aide for their agitprop, haven't they. I think we'll be seeing a lot of ‘True-North Strategy’ in the days, months and years to come.

      As we all know, repeat a lie often enough and it will be widely believed. And, for their 'fellow travellers', often enough is once, or at most twice.

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    2. Go where you will Chadders to find life in the reptiles, but I fear, as you suggest, that you have found a dead False North horse, which will be flogged, as GB suggests, ad infinitum, in lieu of a decent supply of tomato sauce to splatter over anyone hostile to the reptile death star's vision for the country and the planet ...

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    3. Ah Dorothy - that comment set off this song in my evening brain (well, a tincture of an excellent Malbec helped with the chorus)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4BrZjY_Sg

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    4. Oh my, more than 50 years old: that's a real past-y blast-y Chad.

      Now in 6 years time, we can do a 50th for 'Hotel California' too.

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    5. You should at least have warned people that there was a horse with no name lurking at the end of that link Chadders... innocent children might stumble across this site, and realise life has no meaning or purpose ...

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