Yes, yes, the pond saw it, and even visited the site, and last the pond checked, Mr Kelly was still a massive fuckhead calling for memes, but the pond doesn't know if it was actually Mr Kelly's site, never having visited it, and besides the pond isn't into pranks and hacks, it's as serious a site as attending to the bloviations of pompous, portentous reptiles of the "Ned" kind will allow ...
And what do you know, he was at it again today, with simplistic Simon right beside him, celebrating a "sensible approach", and over on the left (the metaphorical lizard Oz left that is, in the digital edition) a speaking in tongues, a laying on of hands miracle, was unfolding ... because we're betting it all on the red, the black, or the suddenly greenie ...
Now he's holding up a report? What happened to the good old days?
That's better, that's more like it, that's more relaxing. Why can't the reptiles dig up a decent snap?
Meanwhile, if the pond might wander away from the reptiles for a second, over at Crikey (paywall affected, but that's where the hot links are)...
Yes, grifters never stop grifting, and so to "Ned" ...
Oh sheesh, there we go again. Speaking in tongues to imaginary friends, lifting up the hand, but what happened to that beloved old friend of yore? Can't the reptiles dig up a decent snap while we all croon along to Barb's celebration of mammaries?
Gone, but not forgotten, and okay, the pond will finally get around to a "Ned" gobbet ...
Yes, yes, if you want anyone to understand the zeitgeist, it's "Ned". He's fully wired, he's in touch with vulgar youff, he vibrates to the vibrations of a vibrating nation, he groks us all, and such is his glowing incandescent awareness, he might even have liked the latest incarnation of Dune ...
And then doggone it, he goes and ruins it all, by talking of idle, wretched fantasies ... and we all know what that means, someone should get booted off the island ...
The Australian way? More of that anon, thanks to the infallible Pope ...
Meanwhile, say what "Ned" about the dastardly Clive?
Did the pond see the reptiles cynically pocketing cash in the claw from Clive?
Well, yes, but there's no need to go back to Tuesday to see that cynical depravity in action. It's been an ongoing feast of cash in the reptile claw depravity, and it's there on the stairs again today, and so long as the cash keeps rolling, the reptiles certainly don't want it to go away ...
A rag with an inclination to respectability would tell Clive to fuck off, but not the lizard Oz. After all, Clive's just channeling what the rag has been saying for decades ...
Uh huh. And if the pond might get with the "Ned" vibe, and grok him short ...
So the planet is fucked, and we'll go on playing a splendid role in the fucking ...
What else was there on view today?
The pond likes to at least note what it's missing, and the Swiss bank account man feeling gold standard Gladys' pain is probably rich comedy for those with a taste for Gold Coast irony ... much as Mirko's suffering might be enjoyed by some, but for the pond that lizard Oz blather about 'Heroic' Australia took the cake.
Why the inverted commas? Could it be that it's just bullshit and a con, and so inverted commas were needed to indicate that the lizard Oz editorialist was in on the joke?
Uh huh, it's all bullshit.
The pond could feel an excremental Rowe coming on, as it often finds here ...
No doubt beefy boofhead Angus and his mates will make out like technology bandits ... just as they've managed in the past, with some fine looting and rorting.
No doubt from certain perspectives that's an heroic thing, but all the pond can smell is a boondoggle ... with the stench emanating from under the kilts and wafting into the lizard Oz editorialist's rhetoric ...
Actions speak louder than words? Uh huh, but fondly remembered pictures speak louder than faux actions and heaps of Australian way bullshit ...
But then being a marketing man who expects punters to have short memories is probably part of the Australian way zeitgeist ...
And so as a bonus to poor Dame Slap ... and the pond uses the word "poor" because this day the princess is suffering ...
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend
What happened to the Dame Slap that strode out into that New York night, wearing a MAGA cap, and cheering the election of a not so crypto coup-loving fascist?
But we're not supposed to remember such things ...
Remember that reptile campaign to drive a woman out of the country, which ironically reached some kind of peak fear and loathing on 2GB in the shape of I'd be tempted to run over Yassmin Abdel-Magied, commentator says ... (Graudian)
But back in 2017, Dame Slap was also on the radio, calling for a little blood-letting or at least a decent fund-letting, as you can find here ...
But why should the pond pretend to be surprised?
Dame Slap has always been a mean person, full of hateful ideas, and always up for a good trolling of the woke and whatever else you've got ... and devotees will surely appreciate the rich irony in the homily that turns up in the next par ...
Call the pond warped if you like - the pond does admit to a certain wobble and lack of alignment and a refusal of the window to fit the frame - but the pond has followed the waspish Dame Slap for years, and she's always dished it out in a hearty, often ugly IPA way ...
Speaking of lies, the pond should note, in its ritual way, Dame Slap's decades long contribution to climate science denialism, which is why you might expect her to feel some sympathy for anti-vaxxers of the Leunig kind ...
Or are we simply dealing with a pious hypocrite of the two faced Janus kind?
It seems Dame Slap has taken to tweeting, another reason to stay off the platform ...
Now just a whiff of that link to explain Dame Slap's righteous indignation ...
And so to the matter of Leunig ... who has always been an anti-vax tosser of the first water ... and just so we know what we're dealing with here ...
Yes, it's another sub-variant of Godwin's Law, cranked up to eleven ... and completely indefensible ...
So naturally the hateful Dame Slap is on hand to defend the indefensible ...
Oh just go don your MAGA cap and head off to Canberra to storm parliament, and leave the pond in peace to enjoy an infallible Pope ... who, it has to be said, seems to understand the joy of being indolent shirkers, full of bullshit, and apt to wag school, and so can celebrate the Australian way ...
Re Fisher, Taylor, ABARE et al: "Yes, grifters never stop grifting ..." Quite so, DP, they make Gold-standard Gladys look like the love-stricken amateur that she is.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, for balance - that early ethicist, Calvera (from 1:40, if you wish)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcmzHtokiMw
"If God didn’t want them sheered, He wouldn’t have made them sheep."
DeleteSo true, Chad, so very true.
Via the Slappy: "Leunig told this newspaper 'it is not rejection that bothers me. It's the wokeism and the humourlessness, which seem without courage, good spirit or creative imagination."
ReplyDeleteDunno about the wokeism, but spot on re Leunig's total lack of any "courage, good spirit or creative imagination" and he's always been like that, even in his "better" Nation Review days - he just had better camouflage then.
So, long overdue by the Age, long overdue. Now maybe we can look forward to seeing him in The Oz ? He's already got the bit about projecting his putrid nature on to everybody else.. Just like Slappy: "But maybe if each of us did more to protect our democracy, living its values every single day, and proudly so, there might be more tolerance and less hatred online and elsewhere."
Spot on, Slappy, spot on: so when are you and the reptiles going to begin to function that way ?
The odd thing about the likes of Slappy is that they would love to be like the woke and popular but that can be difficult when you are bitter old curmudgeon. Why can't everyone see the funny side of punching down and mocking those with different views?
DeleteYes, GB, Leunig lost it long ago, which is why the pond rarely took note or bothered with his cartoons. He always relied on whimsy, but Nimbin whimsy is a wretched thing ...
DeleteIndeed it is, DP. The only Leunig cartoon I ever actually liked was 'what bottle is that':
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Hi DP. I can never get enough of those snaps of Scotty and his lump. And at the moment they are more pertinent than ever. Apologies to the Glimmer Twins.
ReplyDeleteIt’s Only Aussie Coal
If I could somehow smuggle some coal
To Glasgow and present it on stage
Wouldn’t that surprise them?
Would it terrify them?
Would they think that I’m deranged?
I’m de-ra-a-anged
Maybe I’d win them if I could sing them
A coal song so divine
Would that be too much for their greenie hearts?
Maybe they might break down and cry
Maybe they’d cry-y-y
If I sang
Hi ho! It's only Aussie coal
Don’t be frightened!
Hi ho! It's only Aussie coal
You should try it! Buy it! Yes you should!
Come on! Just try it!
In good form today, Kez. Have you ever thought of taking a boat trip to Brazil and then starting a rock'n'roll band ?
DeleteDorothy - it is time, again, to thank you for the 'contributions' that you leave on the electronic wall. Apart from being left on the wall, with our thanks, what else do the Credlin, Ms Ton-yee-nee and the Bagaric have in common? No sense of irony. The writings from the Cred always seem to be striving for a 'special merit' stamp from Sister Cisitalia at Sacred Heart, Geelong. Ms Ton-Yee-Nee disparages 'identity politics' while reminding her readers that she is of a small subset of contributors, with a combination of characteristics unlike any others, so - pay attention, and there will be a demerit if you mispronounce the name. Finally, the Bagaric seems to voice concern for human rights - including, at all times, one's right to be tortured if one is thought to be holding information necessary to the common good.
ReplyDeleteMy 'Readings' monthly tells me there is a reprint of Penguin Classics 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton. At $85 I am unlikely to order a copy for each of those 'contributors'. Ordering one copy, and asking them to pass it around is not the solution - it is a book for keeping to hand for at least a year, for regular consultation, and people with no sense of self-irony are unlikely to by a copy for themselves. Might the newly 'woke' Rupert buy copies for loyal writers of his opinions?
I freely confess, Chad, that 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton is just one of many thousands of great classic works that I've never read. Given that it's quite a long work - some 900 or so quarto pages so Wikipedia avers - reading it would be quite an undertaking ... trying to understand it probably even more so.
DeleteSo, just for us joyful philistines, what might the likes of the Credlin, Ms Ton-yee-nee and the Bagaric gain from consulting Burton's magnum opus ?
Even worse, the pond's ancient copy didn't bother to translate the many lengthy Latin quotes on the expectation that the pond's Molesworthian ability with Latin would be up to the challenge. Oh, it was a melancholy struggle, and the pond ended quite splenetic ... so the pond would happily give them its copy but not to worry, they're always splenetic enough without Bobby Burton to stimulate them...
DeleteGB - what they might gain is - a sense of self. Something that joyful philistines should have anyway, but could find new extensions in their own sense in dipping into the 'Anatomy'. For a moment, I thought of adding the Henry to the trio, in the hope that it might show him the appropriate way to select and use prior writers, but I don't think that is what the Henry seeks. He has his schtick, which gains vapid, admiring, responses from the readership - many including the word 'scholar', so his vanity is satisfied.
DeleteI noted the availability of a new 'Anatomy' in book form. Yes, there is a 'Gutenberg', but this is a work for dipping into - and writing notes through - so should be on paper.
PPS, save that eighty five bucks ...
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Maybe that's why doG gave us 3D printers, Chad, surely one could be programmed to 'print' a book ?
DeleteYes, I believe you're right about the Holely and as for the likes of me, an extension to my sense of self is wholly wasted at this late stage; if I achieved it, I might have to seriously make answer as to why so little of me will survive my final passing.
Akka Dakka just came past my window on the back of a semi and I quickly wrote down what I could decipher of the lyrics over the bagpipes...
ReplyDeleteFlying out to Glasgow
Going to do his show
“2050 My Way
How Good’s Aussie Coal!”
Getting ribbed
Getting mooned
Getting sneered at
And lampooned
Getting mad
Getting shook
He’s telling jokes
He’s starting to feel crook
It's the wrong time to be Scott
If you’re trying to flog some coal
"Doesn’t diversity of thought stretch to defending a cartoon on the basis that there is an important difference between supporting a vaccine and not supporting laws that force them on people?"
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the greatest load of horseshit you have ever heard?