The good news for the pond is that Thursday will be a lazy day for the foreseeable future, thanks to its permanent ban on petulant Peta ...
That's good, because the pond suffered a severe loss of belief in the days when petulant Peta was busy telling the onion muncher what to do, including on the matter of climate science ... an intellectual challenge that petulant Peta was singularly incapable of meeting, especially when her minion mouthed off that it was all crap ...
How lucky not to feel the need to enter into an aggressive contest with a completely eclipsed loon ...
Meanwhile, yesterday came news in the reptile rag, and elsewhere, of another unfortunate challenge ...
So naturally the natural born liar and the reptiles, now in full Pravda election mode, came out with yet another slogan ...
Yes, it was can-do capitalism from the can't can't man ... a very unique * (*ABC24 certified) form of cant ...
Of course it was made for cartoonists ...
And so the pond could relax and take a stroll with simplistic Simon, can doing as best he could ... a real treat, because the pond rarely bothers with the full Pravda end of the operation ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, why does simplistic Simon keep talking of pivots?
It was a great joke in a long ago sitcom, but since then one of the sitcom's stars has turned into a Marvel action figure, and the pain is simply too much for the pond to bare, or even bear ... oh the pivotal memories ...
When you've done with the pivoting, it's a most curious argument ... it suggests the natural born liar thinks government is completely incompetent and incapable, and therefore someone else should hold the hose, and yes, we've been there before with the hose-holding...
Sorry, it's so easy to get distracted when pivoting ... back to the pivot ...
Um, so his pitch is that he won't do anything? Not even hold the hose? And that's a pivot? He runs a don't do entirely useless government?
No wonder the reptiles are shoving in lots of click-bait videos in much the same way the pond has turned to cartoonists for a little relief ...
Not another signalling of the pivot! And a promise not to do anything, about the only thing the pond might trust from the mouth of a natural born liar ...
Fuck a duck, he's not even going to take action on the rats?
So the pond pivoted to the next reptile yarn about the state of play ... which was lucky because the pond had begun to brood on its usual Zen question ... can anyone see a gif working in the internet forest if it hasn't been clicked on?
Now about those rats in the ranks ...
Ah, the Canavan caravan rolls into town, but why should it matter? After all, the natural born liar is just proving that a can't do government can't do, and can't even wrangle the rats in the ranks ...
Time to update that infallible Pope talk of holding the hose?
Sorry that's a foreshadowing of the bromancer treat to come ... back to not holding the hose, and a can't do government very busy can't doing, and the wrangling of the rats ...
Uh huh, pretty plain sailing, if you're a can't go government ... but then gosh darn it, the reptiles had to go ahead and trigger the pond with another pivot ...
Please reptiles, when the natural born liar goes into benediction mode and stretches arms out like a forgiving Pope or a speaker in tongues heralding the arrival of the raptue, can we always remember the original benediction ...
Yes, that's more like it, and may the body of coal bless the can't do congregation, and here, have a wafer of carbon ...
Sheesh, just time for another can't do pivotal meme?
And now to pivot to a serious debate, because the pond prides itself on its devotion to the bromancer and the war on China, and devotees will have noted that a significant clanker clunked yesterday... and so the bromancer, with a sense that the war on China might have slipped down a notch, was out and about this day ... because if you can't bung on a war with China, at least you can bung on a war with Paul Keating ...
The bromancer was furious with the old trouble-maker, and gave his ears a sound boxing ...
Yes, bromancer followers will be waiting for that moment when he pauses to trot out his supreme analytical assessment ... "this is nuts" ...
There it was, "basically nuts", which admittedly isn't "uniquely nuts" or "supremely nuts", but must surely satisfy bromancer devotees ... as will the bromancer's unswerving devotion to Hindu fundamentalism with a tasty fascist, Hitler-loving streak ...
Now on with the war, armed with classy subs by 2040, or whenever, long after the bromancer and the pond have gone away ... unless the bromancer is promising to have the staying power of nattering "Ned" and come on down from the attic and bore the socks off everyone as a garrulous c. eighty three year old (well, his wiki said he was born in 1956, please, someone do the math) ...
Of course it was going to be awkward when Keating picked up on some of the themes the bromancer has been braying about for weeks, but the pond thinks the bromancer has steered the subs onto the right platform, and we could still be on track to be at war with China by Xmas ... knowing that we're in a good alliance, and how important will it be to bung on a can-do war with a can-do government showing the way, as a way of distracting attention from a can't go government incapable of doing anything on climate science, except, perhaps to mount a war on the planet, because that they can do, having done it endlessly in the past ...
Oh dear, those pesky subs... and here the pond can feel a bromancer time warp coming on ...
Is this the very same bromancer that cursed those wretched lovers of the French subs and called on them to hang their heads in shame?
It seems to be, and here's just a short serve for those who love a sprinkling of irony on their serve of cornflakes ...
There's been a lot more in the saga of the bromancer and the subs, but surely that's enough pure, distilled essence of nuttery for the day, and shame on anyone who thinks otherwise, and so the pond feels it can safely pivot to an infallible Rowe for its closer, as it often does, with more always be closing Rowe here ...
No need to apologise Mr Rowe... what we need is a war on Sesame Street, with Cancun Ted showing the way ...
Now if only petulant Peta had gone there, the pond might have recovered its long-lost belief ...
Wilcox's electoral cycle: "But they just lie and pork-barrell and say whatever it takes to get re-elected, and enough mugs fall for it and here we are ..." And ain't that just the pitiful and pitiable truth, now and for all time ...
ReplyDeleteThe Bro: "He [Keating] seems to regard it as necessary to repeatedly insult Japan. His long time ugliness towards Japan has no rational explanation." Ok, so maybe the Bro has never heard about WWII and the Burma Railway and the Nanjing massacre and so on and so forth. And maybe that's not Keating's reason anyway, but who can tell.
ReplyDeleteThen: "He now seems to have added India to the list of nations he will routinely slag off." Ok, so the Bro hasn't heard of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party either. He just really doesn't keep up with anything, does he
The Bro is just waving away atrocities in China, Korea, Vietnam, Burma, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea...... (where else did they visit). All made worse by the highly qualified nature of any apologies issued. The Bro may have forgotten but Japan's Asian neighbours will remember for an awfully long time.
DeleteI wonder if it will ever enter his tiny mind what the history of the British in India is. Not that it justifies Keating or Modi et al, but it may help to explain some of them.
DeleteSome more Broken Bro: "I love and respect the Brits [well who doesn't ? Maybe all those countries the Brits raped and colonised ?]. "They are friends and allies [just like they were when they deserted us to join the EU]. "But at the end of the day they don't live and die in Asia." Not like they once did in Singapore and Hong King and Myanmar and so forth, you mean Bro ? And has it really escaped your attention as to why Curtin and Chifley signed us over to America in the first place ? The Bro really has no idea at all of history, does he.
ReplyDeleteNow a little bit more of Bothersome Bro bothering: "But let's be absolutely clear, Australia has no defence force capable of defending ourselves ... because we have deliberately chosen not to acquire such a defence force." What absolute tosh: we have actually tried to acquire such a force but all we seem to be able to manage to do is waste huge amounts of money on F35s, AWDs, Taipans, Abrams SEPv3 tanks ... just can't get anything military right.
ReplyDeleteAnd guess what: "The Australian’s Greg Sheridan has led the criticism of the [Abrams SEPv3] purchase based on the argument that the army simply doesn’t use tanks. Australia’s last deployment of tanks was in the Vietnam War and tanks won’t be useful in a major conflict in the Asia–Pacific, which will likely be fought mainly by air and naval assets." And indeed mostly by drones, missiles and hypersonic torpedoes.
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-new-tanks-are-overkill-and-overweight/
The Bro really is in mental break-down mode isn't he - even worse than Uncle Joe at remembering things.
Umm, 2021 - 1956 = 84, DP.
ReplyDeleteNow for that bit of Bromancer "irony": "As much as any nation in the world, Australia needs submarines. Because of our geography they have to be long range."
Ok, length of Australian mainland coastline: 35,877 km - total (including Tassie and islands): 37,116 km. Distance (by air, the most direct) from Sydney to Shanghai is 7880km. So, just 4.55 times further to sail around Australia's mainland coast than to fly from Sydney to Shanghai. I don't think it matters one teensy little bit how "long range" the subs are, it would take hundreds of them to even begin to be able to defend our coastline. Toothpicks and mountains, anybody ?
They'd be just great for invading Shanghai though, with a force the Chinese would wipe out in an hour or so.
But what a wonderful day of Brotherly Love, DP.
Thanks GB, and the pond has decided to give up flossing and has ordered a box of toothpicks instead. Should come in handy during the great bromancer war ...
DeleteNo, no, piksters are the go, DP. Been using them for more than a decade or so and my dental hygienist tells me my teeth are terrific: basically no plaque and hardly any tartar either.
DeleteBut they are a kind of toothpick, I guess.
Just a bit of an aside in these days of Glasgow's COP26: - and besides, DP has said the comments are educational:
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Australia use geothermal energy for power generation:
"Australia has considerable geothermal energy potential, however the electricity produced is not financially viable in Australia due to three challenges:
1 finding it: identifying suitable geothermal resources
2 flowing it: producing hot fluid from the geothermal reservoirs at a high rate
3 financing it: overcoming the significant up-front capital costs associated with enhanced geothermal system technologies and the cost of transmitting electricity from remote locations."
https://arena.gov.au/renewable-energy/geothermal/
Oh well, but how about this:
Geothermal is great. Why don’t we use it more?
"In a geothermal system—not the kind in Iceland, which confusingly has the same name—pipes are buried underground where they stay at a constant temperature. Refrigerant circulates in the pipes, warming air and water in the winter and cooling it in the summer."
https://jabberwocking.com/geothermal-is-great-why-dont-we-use-it-more/
We could do with just a bit of that cooling in the coming 2.4C average temperature hike.
Has anyone got any idea what 'faux Olympian moral anemia' is?
ReplyDeleteUp the back there? - no - anyone? Sheridan? Come on Sheridan - do we have to leave it for Ergas to explain it to us?
Other than it means that the Bro is a pretentious twit ? No. But a guess:
Deletefaux Olympian - judging from an assumed, but fallacious, height fostering disconnection or indifference;
moral anemia - a notable deficiency of moral principles.
The Bro: "Israel can provide for its security." Yes, because, one, it is supported all the way by the USA ( US State Passes Law Defining Any Criticism of Israel as ‘Anti-Semitic’ ) and two, Israel has nuclear weapons. And nukes for Australia is what the Bro really wants.
ReplyDeleteAmericans do take up on any 'political identity' that might yield them even one more vote, don't they. But of course declaring 'criticism' as some kind of 'anti' has long been, an still is, the American way: consider the House Un-American Activities Committee and its long-standing definition of 'anti-white'.
DeleteThinking of responses to the invasion of Tibet. No, not the British one under the interestingly weird Younghusband in 1903-04, the one within the memory of some of us - 1959. Being of the age when one could easily see a case to preserve the romantic Tibet of books, I engaged in conversation with a friend of my father who had spent some time in that part of the world. Yes, he conceded - various countries probably could put sufficient boots on the ground to send the Chinese on their way; then what?
ReplyDeleteEssentially, that number of boots would be on the ground of Tibet - for ever. There would be regular losses of the persons occupying those boots, at ages of twenty-something. For all the romantic books on the country - it would not be an attractive posting for the average lad from Manchester, let alone Wagga Wagga.
I requested more time to think about that - and, somehow, never returned to that conversation.
Sounds like a forerunner of Iraq, Chad. So obviously somebody though about it, or didn't.
DeleteBesides the good ol' USA has had its episode of sending the Chinese on their way, and we were there right alongside them: it's called Korea.
And what about the Tibetan invasion of China ?
Delete"The reign of Khri-srong-lde-brtsan (755–797) marked the peak of Tibetan military success, including the exaction of tribute from China and the brief capture of its capital, Chang’an, in 763."
https://www.britannica.com/place/Tibet/History
I think that's when the Chinese thought that, well, if China is a part of Tibet, then Tibet must be part of China.