One of the highlights of the recent comedy stylings of Sky News Paul Whittaker was to accuse YouTube of being an unaccountable foreign owned entity ... (Graudian here).
Cue a Media Watch story on the foreign owned lizard Oz reptiles determined to be unaccountable for their transphobia ... see The Australian's transgender coverage. Oh if they can't have their gay hate, they can certainly keep up their TG hate ...
It was a return to form for Media Watch, what with Hadders forced to apologise, and the dog botherer caught napping ...
The dog botherer looking like a stunned mullet? Not being a viewer of Sky News means the pond has to rely on others for such sublime moments.
The dog botherer got caught because the loon he interviewed pandered to his Covid obsessions ... and most marvelous of all, they found the loon via a social media post. Oh cruel irony, how many times have the reptiles ranted about the evils of social media, with the dog botherer always up front leading the charge ...
It's a warning to Mr Whittaker, slaving away in the bowels of a foreign owned, defiantly unaccountable entity, that he must stay sharp if his comedy stylings are going to retain an edge over the staff ... there's only so much comedy to be milked from defending the indefensible about horse wormers and climate science denialism before the laughter begins to catch in the throat.
Still, it's handy for Lachy to have a patsy down the corridor, a straw dog to cop the grilling, play a straight bat, and pretend that News Corp has always been on board with climate science, and we're only quibbling about the cost of doing something about it ...
It was hard for the pond to stop the laughter, but one sure way to sober up is to take a dose of Killer Creighton ...
The poor thing was in top form this day, confusing and conflating in a way that was both awesome and compelling ...
Now the pond can hear the odd loser bleating away, carrying on and asking why always the Killer? What's with the pond's devotion to the Killer?
Why not give some other downtrodden try hard loser aspirational reptile dropkick a go?
Yes it's wrong of the pond to ignore Mirko. After all, at a time of a pandemic, when people are losing their lives and Xians are roaming Aboriginal communities proclaiming vaccines are the work of Satan, who wouldn't admire someone moaning about the crushing of rights and freedoms ... Mirko being the sort of guy who'd rather death by virus than be crushed by the tyranny of Comrade Dan ...
But Mirko's like a lot of ambulance chasers, he hasn't caught up with the news that the reptiles have given Comrade Dan absolution, now that he's on board with gold standard Gladys ... and besides, it had to be said, with some sadness, Mirko simply doesn't hold a candle up against the practised skills of the Killer ...
Oh indeed indeed, and remarkably Killer makes no mention of the obsession with Islamic fundamentalism that has been a feature of foreign owned entity News Corp for decades ... but we were speaking of the art of confusion and conflation and outright Killer humbug, and sure enough ...
There you go, forget the future and fate of those now living under the Taliban, the pond knew it wouldn't be lone before the Killer got on to Covid ... but the pond has to confess to a niggling doubt. Was the Killer off his game a little? Surely he needed to match Mirko by mentioning the suffocation of the freedom to breathe by the insistence on masks?
The pond first really got turned on by Killer's Freudian fear of masks, the sort of deep neurosis that hinted at a time when something went badly wrong in a game of superheroes, or perhaps a moment of SM or cosplay ...
But the pond always lives in hope, and knew that Killer could return to form with just a simple flourish of Orwellian insight. There's simply no way your average try hard, struggling to sound hysterical, Mirko could possibly top a quote from George ...
Oh huzzah, not only George, but the obligatory reference to double-masked in the penultimate sentence, and once again the Killer lives to kill ...
Sorry Mirko, nothing you could possibly do could match up to the Killer, always hard at work to sustain the killing fields, because his war is never meant to be won, his war with masks is continuous and never-ending, though the pond must add that Killer's desire to travel with nail scissors as another potentially endlessly fascinating obsession and deeply weird neurosis ...
Killer looks the sort of lad who always seizes the moment to do a little grooming, preening the nails as a way of sharpening the mind ...
As for the rest of the rabble this day, it was a motley crew ...
Fergo on the Vic Libs? Well it's comedy of a kind, but then so is Benny Hill and the Carry On movies ...
As for ancient Troy offering sobering reflection on the need to maintain a rules-based order? Oh go cry a river to the Taliban.
The pond prescribes a reading of Killer Creighton as a cure for such nonsense, and if that doesn't work, then the Killer must be read again, until sanity and nail scissors rule the world, and masks are banned from every Marvel and DC movie ...
And so there was nothing for it but a dose of Dame Groan ...
Now the Groaning about Covid simply isn't up to Killer standard, but please make note of that Goaning about the obscene reliance on expensive outside consultants, because that's what will produce the payoff ...
Sure the pond could have noted the talk of wellbeing - there's nothing like the notion of people being well to send the reptiles and the Groaner into a groaning frenzy - but please, bear with the pond as we continue with a routine Groan ...
Indeed, indeed, but now to the payoff ...
You see? There is a strong case for a royal commission into JobKeeper.
In short, there's a strong case for the government to employ a bunch of remarkably expensive outside consultants - in this case most likely under-employed lawyers - to conduct an inquiry ...
Ah, the art of Groaning ... there's always a cheap laugh for the stalls to be found somewhere in the runes ...
And so to the Rowe of the day, and amazingly this was marked by Twitter as sensitive content here ...
The pond has absolutely no idea what might be sensitive about that content.
Oh wait, these notes were just handed in ...
The pond suspects they love him not ...
Yep, they love him not, and there's your sensitive content explanation ...
Oh my, Killer does it again: shows precious ignorance: "For millions of travellers, bloated airport security is the most visible legacy of the horrific attacks on New York's World Trade Centre ..." Well yes, I can't recall having had a pair of nail scissors confiscated until then (and it was a very good pair, the like of which I was never able to get again), but there is, in fact, a long history of air travel related terrorism. Mostly bombs, I grant, but you can't be too careful, can you ?
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_attacks
Reptiles just don't have any understanding of "prophylaxis", do they. Neither of something as small as nail scissors stabbed into an eye, or of a pandemic ravaging a world.
Now for some mixed up thinking: "Brown University in the US calculates that 929,000 people have died as a result on these wars [US vs Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq etc.], which also created 38 million refugees and cost the US government more than $US8 trillion."
ReplyDeleteThe first bit is almost always ignored or trivialised, and seriously deserves to be shouted from roof tops, but "cost the US government more than $US8 trillion" ? Like that money somehow just disappears ? You know, just like when we buy a coffee: that $4 or $5 just disappears from our pocket and is gone for all time.
That it in fact mostly circulates through the US economy - and a bit for others as well - is just way beyond Killer's, and indeed most reptile's, possibility of understanding.
And if we're at all in the mood:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY
Thank you GB - restorative.
DeleteDorothy - the Bagaric is eminently ignorable, particularly when compared with the ‘Washington Correspondent’. All that Mirko (and we must resist the temptation to play with that name - no doubt his mother spent hours choosing it) could bring himself to advocate was torture, and that based on dubious hypotheticals, whereas Killer - well, death, ceasing existence, and in a way that was quite likely to be really unpleasant for the last few days of - to be inflicted at random, so that Killer could go on doing as he might wish, being otherwise unable to adapt his lifestyle to different circumstances.
ReplyDeleteDame Groan shows similar lack of self-awareness. She writes of a process where minions look at data, or entrails, and arrange them in a way that suits what a Great One wants to be told, so that the Great One can then speak with even greater ‘authority’. This, one week after she looks at a long-published work comparing some of the factors contributing to education in the USA - nation of choice for her personal Great One, and where his own offspring were educated at paralysingly expensive schools - and in distressingly socialistic Denmark; and crafted a conclusion that is unrecognisable against what the authors offered, in simple, direct language, in that study, under the heading ‘5 Conclusion’.
OK - the few grand her personal Great One will deposit in the bank account for this week’s couple of paragraphs might not be up there with the fee for a ‘consultant report’ for our Treasurer - but most of those reports are expected to run to a number of pages of the same order as the Dame reaches in word count.
My brief search of the interweb showed that Mirko had once been Dean and Head of the Law School at Deakin University (which is about 12 minutes walk for me) twice: from 2003 to 2006 and 2012 to 2015 but that he is now Dean of the Swinburne University Law School.
DeleteIs that a demotion ?
"Well it's comedy of a kind, but then so is Benny Hill and the Carry On movies ..."
ReplyDeleteOh, DP, Benny Hill did produce at least one item of comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6edDwphhk
Well, Groany attacking the Aussie PubServ. Goodness gracious. Well I have to say, having been a Commonwealth Pubserve myself a few times (Depts of Navy, Army, Health and DEIR over quite a few elapsed years) it was ever since the Public Service Board was scrapped (in 1987 by Hopeless Hawkie) but it didn't really fall apart until:
ReplyDelete"In November 1996, Peter Reith issued a discussion paper, Towards a best practice Australian Public Service. The paper, among other things, recommended key elements which might need to be incorporated into a new streamlined and principles-based Public Service Act. After several years spent developing a new Act, the Public Service Act 1999 came into effect on 5 December 1999. The new Act introduced APS Values and a Code of Conduct into the Act for the first time. Public servants who breach the code of conduct can be demoted, fined, reprimanded or fired."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Public_Service
So, Peter Reith and yes, the greatest failure of a PM in Australian history: John Winston Howard (need I remind ? Catastropic loss of 22 Reps seats, including his own). I guess we just have to wonder why Dame Groany wouldn't tell us that.
But then:
"In 2010 a comprehensive reform agenda was introduced as outlined in Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for Reform of Australian Government Administration.The reforms were aimed at strengthening strategic direction, citizen engagement and staff capability across the APS."
But then, that was basically in the time of Julia Gillard who had to spend a lot of time fighting sexist arsehole LNP politicians and their running dog lackeys (she still holds the record for number of acts of parliament passed per sitting day, though).
So thanks, Groany, for pointing out what an appalling mess LNP
Ooops: what an appalling mess the LNP has made of what was once an effective and largely capable Public Service.
DeleteThe whole day has been made infinitely better for seeing the Dog Botherer's gormless admission that the dreaded ABC had let him in on the fact he'd been pranked by a bewdy.
ReplyDeleteHe so, so wants to be taken seriously - and whether it's cheering Trump along, encouraging bizarre COVID remedies or falling for an excellent prank, he just keep being knee-capped doesn't he?
So much space to fill, and so little content of value with which to fill it. The ongoing lament of the Dog Botherer. I wonder if Prof Andrews Bolt (dip ed forthcoming) has counselled him on the value of collecting his columns into s book for the holiday market?
A book of Boverer. Wau, I'd joyfully trash that.
DeleteThank you GB for the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6edDwphhk.The pity is we don't have comedy like that anymore
ReplyDeleteJust a teensy bit yesterdayish now, ww, but he did have his moments.
DeleteAs indeed did an occasional 'Carry On' movie. As did even The Rag Trade and On the Buses (haroo Reg Varney).
I've not tried before with Killer C. But with the dog botherer its always pretty consistent your comment will be blocked if you try and bring up Covid deaths in response to their let it rip thesis. Here is what was blocked today:
ReplyDeleteIt's quite interesting to see most comments are still in support of the increased security measures post 9/11 as it appears its better to be safe than sorry.
Yet in the US, Covid 19 has killed 648K which is the equivalent to approximately 216 World Trade Centre attacks. So it would be like having 9/11 attacks about 10 times a year and telling everyone not to worry about it.
Up to 666,627 deaths from 40.87 million cases as of yesterday, Anony. Gotta keep up with the daily increases.
Deletehttps://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/