It's not often that the pond turns to Dame Groan in its hour of need, but just look at the tree killer edition of the lizard Oz this day.
There's silly Sharri still rabbiting on about Wuhan, there's simplistic Simon wanting to nuke the country, there's the Opus Dei man out for a stroll prior to taking over the state, and there's the reptiles trying to pretend a fundamentalist Catholic will end the state of chaos by offering a clear path to Opus Dei heaven ... even as, just above, the absent-minded reptiles celebrate the arrival of hospital chaos ...
Oh how the groaner has long hated renewables and all this climate science tosh ... and just look at how those ugly things ruin the hills outside Canberra ...
Say what, it's the sea? Stop being pedantic.
Stand back, make room, now please, Dame Groan, ignore hapless northwest England, and carry on groaning ... which, the pond should note, will be a splendid sequel to carry on complaining, after the smash hit carry on whining helped produce a series noted for carry on climate science bashing, followed perhaps by the series meisterwerk and climax, carry on denying, aka carry on the Nile ...
Good old coal, and silly old Boris (and hasn't Brexit turned into a raging success, but sadly the pond has recently celebrated Dame Groan's most excellent predictions concerning its excellent outcomes! Sorry, slaughtered piggies, sorry imported truckies, today is fuck the planet day!)
Of course it might not just be coal that saves the day. As noted above, the reptiles had a simplistic Simon EXCLUSIVE heralding the nuking of the country ...
And there was no push pulling in that polling. Just ask "would you rather fuck the planet or nuke the country?", and there's your answer ... but enough with the nuking, on with the groaning ...
Um, dare the pond ask how the planet's going? Should we perhaps be at least seeming to be doing something? Might the climate scientists be on to a matter of some mild concern? Oh hush your mouth, and enjoy the last of the groaning ...
Indeed, indeed, who gives a fuck about the planet, and so with all the pond's tension and stress relieved, stray readers might forgive the pond if it turns its attention to matters of state ... the state of the cockroaches, that is ...
Oh sure Killer Creighton was commendably out and about maintaining the war on China ...
... but it would have taken enormous skill for Killer to work into that key speech his fear of masks and his yearning for the Covid killing fields, and after a cursory check - there was a click bait video featuring masks as well as CPTPP talk - the pond moved up to the top of the digital page ...
Tick, there was Sharri; tick, there was the man of faith; tick, there was a bit of standard reptile "last straw" Comrade Dan bashing; tick, there was the clear path out of the state of chaos, and what's this, then there was Troy ...
Time for another tick? Or at least a nervous tic?
The pond almost never invokes the ancient wonders of Troy, but he seemed to be in a rage, and that was enough for the pond ...
Should have gone a year ago? But it was just a bit of good old fashioned New South Wales corruption. What's wrong with that?
Oh not the barrel of laughs man featured in a click bait video ... say what, he's gone too? Never mind, on with Troy's sacking ...
Phew, talk about Troy putting Gladys to the sword, but at this point the pond must pause to note that the reptiles inserted a click bait video ... and at long last, the pond realised that there was actually an opposition party in New South Wales, and it had a leader and the name was, and was he saying something sensible?
Of course, of course, reconsider. There's no need to resign for a mild case of corruption. Reconsider, it's the NSW state Labor way ...
And oh frabjous day, callooh callay, that was the last the pond needed to think about NSW state Labor.
Luckily the pond neutered that offering by way of screen cap and moved on to the last Troy gobbet ...
What a sacking by Troy! Almost as good as Brad taking down Eric ...
And in that spirit, time to pause for an infallible Pope ...
Speaking of defending the indefensible, the pond did another rare thing, and turned to Brad for word of things to come ...
Oh fucketty fuck, not another fundamentalist tyke who fancies himself as a hard man ... well, the pond rarely spends time with Brad, so must make the most of it ...
Indeed, indeed, sounds like a right royal bastard, as befits NSW 'roaches scuttling in the skirting boards, but what about his assorted pledges, celebrated yesterday by the pond?
See more, see more! Come on Brad, sock it to the pond ...
What joy, at last someone who can join Dame Groan and help her carry on groaning ... not to mention all the other things we ever so 'umble 'roaches can carry on groaning about ...
Now any last tidbit Brad? Or even an elephant?
Very messy? Sounds just like another dose of deeply corrupt NSW politics ... and who are we to complain when there's a Pandora's box of corruption out there? Surely we deserve our own little slice of corrupt conduct?
Time for the pond to move along, but not before ending with a Rowe for the day, with the standard reminder there's always more Rowe here ...
Troy Bramston: "In fact, not reporting suspected corrupt conduct could be a serious offence."
ReplyDeleteBut, BG, butt "reporting suspected corrupt conduct" is serious dobbing, which is utterly un-Australian and would get one into a heap of criticism - even being cancel-cultured maybe - by the Oz reptiles.
Our Dame - 'Several South American countries are importing gas from the US to offset reduced hydro-sourced electricity'.
ReplyDelete- but shows no curiosity about WHY the hydro sources might have been reduced. Perhaps she does not want to impinge on Lloydie's patch?
Oh c'mon Chad: the rain falls sometimes and it doesn't fall sometimes. It's been doing that since forever (or for maybe 4 billion years anyway), so why invoke that fictional "climate change" thing ?
DeleteThe massively stupid comment award for today goes to Dame Groan;
Delete“…batteries, for instance, which don’t produce power…”
Maybe we should get some jumper leads and hook her up to one!
I don't think she has a starter motor, Kez.
DeleteBTW, Chad, I came across something today I haven't encountered or thought about in quite a while: Hotelling's Law (not to be confused with Hotelling's rule) and the inevitable convergence at "the middle".
DeleteHmm. I wonder just how much of that might be going on in politics with the retreat from the left and the slow fusing into "the centre".
Well GB, I suppose she doesn't need a starter motor because she runs on pretextual notions.
DeleteGB - good to see Harold Hotelling remembered. I used his work on renewable resources in my own work - back when ‘renewable’ was considered a decent term, not, as now, signal for economists cosy in the establishment to use as a part-pejorative - but potentially his more useful work in economics was on what he called ‘exhaustible’ resources.
DeleteI say ‘potentially’, because he set out guidance on how a country might get the best return for its citizens from, say, mining - and it wasn’t by ripping the stuff out and selling it off as quickly as possible.
Of course, Hotelling’s suggestions included taxes to deliver a fair proportion of the resource rent to the true owners of the minerals - the citizens - but even in his 1931 paper he conceded that those seeking mining entitlements were adept at persuading governments not to consider such dreadfully socialistic - and anti-development - notions; just leave it all to General Mining - in the national interest.
But looking over the wide range of subjects to which he made original, and useful, contributions - I suspect he might have generated some observations on the political tendency you mention.
Oh - if this seems late - the site was being coy when I offered it around 18:40 on Tuesday 4th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
DeleteThank the long absent lord the battery joke was noted. The reptiles offer up so many good jokes, and the pond rarely has the time to celebrate the best of them.
"A groan is a device that is able to store electrical groaning in the form of energetic chemical groaning, and convert that energetic groaning into electricity, or a lizard Oz column, as the case may be ..."
No, it doesn't seem late to me, and there was a certain coyness when I first tried to post this ... at 3:00am. The reference to Hotelling came from Chris Dillow here:
DeleteIn search of the centre ground
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2021/10/in-search-of-the-centre-ground.html
Oh dear, what does this mean:
ReplyDeleteWill all submarines, even nuclear ones, be obsolete and ‘visible’ by 2040?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/05/will-all-submarines-even-nuclear-ones-be-obsolete-and-visible-by-2040
It might mean this:
"But even before the deal to buy 12 submarines from France’s Naval Group was made, military analysts warned that submarines of all types would be rendered obsolete by new technology including submersible drones and new weapons systems.
There are also warnings that different technologies will render the ocean “transparent”, so even the stealthiest submarines could be spotted by an enemy force."
Don't say that the Bromancer might be right after all. After he caught up with the pond, anyway.
Peter Jennings sounds more and more like that guy who used to come to your door trying to sell you a Kirby vacuum cleaner. Why did I need such an outrageously overpriced machine? The dust mites were going to cause life-threatening asthma attacks in the kids!
ReplyDeleteIn ASPI's case the threat lies to the north, used to be the Indonesia, is currently the Chinese, could be anyone in the future, but never fear, the sponsors will have an overpriced product for any circumstance.
It's not really that there is no threat, there's always a threat, but you would think that a program costing upwards of $100 billion would require very serious contingency planning. This program is an attempt to join a big-boys club by having a handful of super expensive assets. What if the future is having vast swarms of relatively cheap unmanned aerial and marine systems?
Chances are that even if that trend becomes apparent we will plod along anyway because of the sunk cost fallacy.
* Mrs Bef's theory that intensive cleaning was unnecessary because childhood exposure to common allergens would be beneficial for the immune system appears to have been correct.
Within limits, Bef, within limits. For example:
DeleteCan You Prevent a Peanut Allergy?
https://www.stlouischildrens.org/health-resources/pulse/can-you-prevent-peanut-allergy
"Peanut Protection
The research comes from a study of 600 babies between 4 and 11 months old. One group of babies was given peanut butter or a peanut snack at least three times a week. The other group was not given any peanut products. The study lasted until the children were 5 years old.
Only 3 percent of the kids who ate peanut products became allergic to peanuts. But 17 percent of those who did not eat peanuts did develop a peanut allergy."
If you are interested - directed at the Beetrooter not Dame Groan but addresses all the main points
ReplyDeletehttps://theconversation.com/no-barnaby-the-uk-energy-crisis-has-nothing-to-do-with-its-net-zero-target-and-to-suggest-otherwise-is-outrageous-168869
It should come as no surprise that BoJo's progressive thought bubbles are as badly executed as his regressive ones.
Despite all the talk there isn't as high a penetration of renewables as you would expect. Over-reliance on one power source, inadequate reserves and even Brexit plays a role.
But Bef, Barnaby is outrageous, so that article doesn't faze, or phase, him at all.
DeleteAt the present, amongst a fair percentage of reptiles, they are practising an old way: we're against renewables, the UK (or Australia or ...) is adopting renewables, the UK (or Australia or ...) is having some power problems, therefore they must be being caused by the renewables taking over, therefore, bingo! The reptiles win again.
I mean, you don't really expect Barners, who is both ignorant and illiterate, to actually understand ? They;re saying the same about Texas and California and Germany, too with exactly the same "reasoning".
They're still saying that renewables are responsible for the "high" cost of electricity in Australia, too, whereas the reverse is the case.
But dont' worry, you and I and Professor Aimee Ambrose can say anything we like, because they simply won't hear us.
Thanks for that informative link Bef. It inspired the following cautionary tale for any journalist thinking of interviewing Barnaby. Apologies to The Zombies.
DeleteHe’s not all there
Just do your best to avoid him
Because he’s mad
You’ll really find it astounding
How much his brain is fried
So don’t ask intelligent questions
He doesn’t know
He doesn’t care
Please don't bother talking to Barners
He’s not all there
Well you can tell just by the way he looks
His yokel hat and that madness in his stare
He slobbers like a bull
His eyes don’t fit him right
He’s not all there
I stumbled over this old Grundle offering from April 2021 which might amuse you DP if you haven't already seen it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.crikey.com.au/2021/04/16/conservatism-free-speech-adam-creighton-covid-19/
Aimed squarely at Killer Creighton and it doesn't miss.
"He cheered up a couple of days later when he noted that the vaccine might eventually get us out of this “COVID madness”, by which of course he meant the reality we had to face and deal with. And therein lies the crucial point, because Creighto’s classical liberal politics can’t work in the real world. For such libs a reality in which collective solutions were required was the nightmare from which they were trying to wake."
Yes, and it got even funnier this day with Killer calling for a Bill of Rights, speaking as we do of reptile nightmares ...
DeleteI just couldn’t stop myself from rewriting today’s Dame Groan gobbet 1, par 3:
ReplyDelete(She’s) left powerless and in (a) world of renewable pain
Just recently, another old coal-fired groaning aunt had to be wheeled in to ensure there was sufficient supply to meet Rupert’s desperate demands for pro-coal propagandists. The few remaining coalition “plants” on The Australian are being paid to hang around for this precise eventuality, although the Chairman’s plan (possibly to be brought forward) is that these fossils will be shut down in the next year or two – once his renewable shares start moving north.
Dame Groan Concurs
It can’t be easy being green
Having to spend each day chained to all those trees
When your life could be much nicer being white and blond and rich
Or something much more respectable like that
It can’t be easy being green
To spend your life campaigning for such inconsequential things
When you could be working for Rupert and get paid for writing lies
Like saying coal is here to stay
And the earth is not on fire…
Pinpointed nicely, Kez.
DeleteIn that style and form, you could actually turn an entire column of Groan into an endless Ginsbergian Howl ...
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