The reptiles were talking up a big game at the big end of town, both in the digital and the tree killer edition.
Carbon cuts, they shrieked, but who's that on the top of the tree killer edition, bringing the real reptile news?
Ah yes, the religious zealots on the Glasgow bandwagon ...
How lucky the pond has permanently banned petulant Peta, but in any case why worry, because there's always the bromancer ...
Oh look, a snap of the onion muncher, how right, how appropriate.
Why the onion muncher at this moment?
Come to think of it, why does the pond call the bromancer the bromancer?
For those who came in late to the story, pick up your skull and settle down on the beach, and listen to a joyous tale, a pledge to defeat the religious zealots purporting to be climate scientists, no matter how many generations of bromancers and bromancees it might take ...
Yes, the bromancer and a bromance for the ages, way back in 2013, and it might be outside the paywall for you at The Monthly ...
And so the bromancer and his bromance has haunted the lizard Oz pages ever since ...
As to the how and the why of it, it's a Cardinal Newman sort of thing, don't ask the pond to explain what manly men think and feel and do ... just saturate yourself in the bromancer's bromance, keeping alive the onion muncher's legacy ...
"Absolute rubbish"? What happened to the bromancer's most subtle form of reasoning? "This is nuts" surely covers the matter better ...
Yes, yes, yes, more growth, more dinkum clean Oz coal, fuck the planet, it's the only noble and correct way forward, and so the bromancer and the bromancee remain true to each other ...
At this point, the reptiles weirdly felt the need to stick in an aside, with the bromancer taking to a click bait video to gloat about Covid triumphs in an unseemly way...
This might seem a little unwise, what with the news from the UK ...
But the bromancer has always been inclined to triumphalism and loves his freedumb.
Luckily the pond had an infallible Pope to hand to help celebrate the freedumb...
Sorry, sorry, where was the pond? Ah, that's right, off fucking the planet with the bromancer, and deeply, wildly infatuated with an ongoing bromance, a love that will never die, up there with Cardinal Newman ... just don't ask the pond to explain ...
Of course, of course, a Bjorn-again solution, why didn't the pond think of it ... but to be fair, "maximalist" is a new wrinkle, a new way of dressing up denialism, and a lot more subtle and clever than the usual reptile references to religious zealots.
So how did the denialism go down with the troops, the faithful reptile readership that stumps up actual cash in the paw to Chairman Rupert to get their denialist fill each day?
The pond can only do a short sample, but it seemed to be yet another bromancer triumph ...
Yikes, to use a richly analytical and rational expression, how they love him, how they love their denialism, how the bromancer and petulant Peta cut through all that nonsense about carbon cuts used as reptile window dressing ...
So what else was there in the lizard Oz? Perhaps something below the fold?
Uh huh. The bouffant one spotting the cunning SloMo plan, and simplistic Simon suggesting a sucker punch agenda, and just to make sure, there was Albo, doing his best to support the Chairman's paywall ... good on ya Albo, the chairman appreciates your efforts ...
And somehow that perversely reminded the pond of a recent lizard Oz editorial ...
The pond had wanted to celebrate that outing ever since it returned from the purgatory of the intertubes wilderness ...
Why it's as big and as bold a splash as anything dished out to nattering "Ned" in his prime ... and yet it was just a short and humble read ...
Indeed, indeed, has it ever been better for the planet and for good old dinkum clean innocent virginal Oz coal?
And whaddya know, the reptiles then included a sign that nattering "Ned" was still reading his tomes in a sepulchrous voice, his tremulous tones perhaps evoking fond memories of Vincent Price ...
Good old Barners. What a triumph for the country and the planet, and with the lizard Oz editorialist able to celebrate the victory in the last par ...
Yep, it's all just a matter of domestic politics ... because you know, do three fifths of fuck all until 2030, and we'll all be dead by 2050, and so it'll be vulgar youff that's stiffed, so who cares? Sorry little children, hearken unto the lizard Oz reptiles, and they'll see you done, and if it happens to be a right royal roasting, with a little flooding and sturm und drang, just enjoy your inheritance ...
And speaking of domestic politics, astute readers will have noted that our Gladys was also front and centre on the tree killer edition, and clogging up the top of the reptiles' digital page ...
Such handsome couples, and it gives the pond the chance to close with a Rowe, with more 'always be closing with Rowe' here ...
Just a quick thought: the Bromancer claims that "our economy is 40 per cent larger than it was in 2005 and out emissions are 20 per cent lower."
ReplyDeleteYes, we actually added 5.3 million (not 6) in population in that time which is a 26.37 per cent increase over our 2005 population of 20.17 million. So, given that the Bromancer doesn't state whether his 40 per cent increase in "our economy" is an inflation adjusted figure - and it probably isn't, knowing the Bro - then how much of our economy's increase is due to more that just population increase, Adani et al notwithstanding.
It also makes one very doubtful indeed of a 20 per cent reduction in emissions in that time. Though maybe with wonderful LNP policies like killing our manufacturing (so long GMH, Ford, Toyota) maybe "our emissions" might just not have grown by as much as our population. But only by "offshoring" a lot, not by actually reducing the world total.
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/scott-morrison-said-australia%E2%80%99s-emissions-have-dropped-by-20-pe/13495118
DeleteIn case you are interested in what the Euro gas crisis is about
Deletehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-19/russia-signals-europe-won-t-get-extra-gas-without-nord-stream-2?sref=DLVyDcXJ
Now if only we could plant a billion trees, Bef.
Delete"In September 2018, the federal government unveiled a plan to radically expand Australia's timber plantations by one billion trees over a decade."
Plan to plant a billion trees yet to take root three years after target set
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-08-31/slow-progress-on-plan-to-plant-billion-trees/100421414
Oops, we were really truly going to, except that in 2019, ScottyfromMarkeing became PM and a lot of things just became "non-core promises".
But there's no doubt that those Russians know how to stage a revolution: “We cannot ride to the rescue just to compensate for mistakes that we didn’t commit...” they say. Funny, but that's just what the reptiles say: "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning".
"Sorry little children, hearken unto the lizard Oz reptiles, and they'll see you done, and if it happens to be a right royal roasting, with a little flooding and sturm und drang, just enjoy your inheritance ..."
ReplyDeleteAnd that is exactly the point, isn't it. The reptiles and other denialists seem to act as though once the emissions are finally reduced, the 'global warming' will just go away. Well it won't - the CO2 that has been put into the atmosphere will hang around for millennia and whatever state the global warming is in by 2050 is the state it will be in for a very long time - enough for many generations of inheritance.
Unless, contrary to all the current indications, the human race can invent and manufacture and propagate a technology that can rapidly extract hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 from the air and secrete it somewhere that it can't escape from. And that's a very big maybe.
GB - I intended to pick up on your video clip - ‘Toujours Gai’ of yesterday. As I always associate that with the legendary mehitabel, I took down my ‘archy’s life of mehitabel’ - and got lost in cockroach wisdom. So easy to do.
DeleteLooking across the items Dorothy has selected for us (as ever, thank you Dorothy, particularly for paying no heed to the Credlin. Her place in history was settled in the infallible Pope images of Rupert as Geppetto, the Muncher as Pinocchio, and The Talking Cricket. Warning - in Collodi’s book, there is a very dark interplay between Pinocchio and the Cricket)
I settled on archy’s -
one thing the human
bean never seems to
get into it is the
fact that humans
appear just as unnecessary to
cockroaches as cockroaches
do to humans.
and, through the book, archy reminds the boss that so many of the once-great cities of human beans are now occupied mainly by - insects.
Which all seemed appropriate to the emerging theme of reptile-think displayed this day.
Indeed Eartha Kitt's rendition does come from a somewhat unsuccessful musical based on archy and mehitabel which I entirely knew not of before yesterday. And I just don't know what happened to my copy or I might have joined you. Spiritually, that is.
DeleteBut DP is a long standing archy and mehitabel fan so I hope she already knows of the musical.
the pond confesses it missed out on the musical, but will now look it up, while swearing eternal devotion to the tourjours gai mehitabel ...
DeleteTry this one, DP:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/MQ7E6fy9wR8?list=PLGTeZZQZI3K1cYLePA78NtlzgUnuXEAra
Pru Goward cries Freedumb!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.afr.com/policy/economy/don-t-underestimate-the-underclass-20211018-p5910c
Now Prue there is a fine historical example of a right-wingnut who was once a leading ABC morning radio star. And I used to listen to her doing RN's morning news and current affairs program - after the morning comedy half hour had ended BOC which is where I got to know that English radio comedy wasn't limited to Muir and Norden and the Goons. I never did go much for Hancock's Half Hour, though.
DeleteShe's got decidedly worse with age, however, or maybe I've just got a little better.
A pity it's not in the lizard Oz and so outside the pond's remit, but a fine spotting all the same, and GB, wash out your mouth, or you'll be assigned a month's remedial listening in east Cheam ...
DeleteJust a short comment in today's Melbourne Age by one Merv Robbins:
ReplyDelete"Don't worry, Barnaby and co. Whatever ScoMo agrees to in Glasgow can always be ignored as a 'non-core promise'."
And that says it all, doesn't it.