Why should the pond start with an irrelevancy on a Friday?
Well it's an EXCLUSIVE for a start, and the poor old bouffant one, Shanners, he of no shame but always with a tie and hair in good shape, was given the job of polishing the EXCLUSIVE turd, and that was more than enough to charm the pond, notorious both for its perfidious perversity and its intense loyalty to loons ... much like the reptiles really, so roll on 'quiet' culture warriors saga ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, did the pond read that right? These days the reptiles' notion of an EXCLUSIVE is transcribing the thoughts of an irrelevant dropkick and loser, as recorded in an IPA podcast? That's an EXCLUSIVE? You can have an EXCLUSIVE on a podcast designed to be distributed to listeners?
And the onion muncher's banging on about history in the trudging Tudge manner? Something he's been doing for decades. And that's an EXCLUSIVE?
Never mind, the pond was reminded of those stern words from Frank a few days ago ... it is of course a pond EXCLUSIVE ... in that the pond has read it ...
Inter alia ...
History recognises distinctions between fact and fallacy. Tudge tells us he wants history teaching that “recognises our democracy is based on our Christian and Western origins, with a reference to the importance of the values of patriotism and freedom”. Any well-educated history student would know that in the first part he is simply wrong. The origins of democracy lie in classical and pagan Greece, not Christianity or the West, both later inventions. In the second part, he offers his opinions and, as he says, his values, but not historical understanding.
Ouch. Let's hear it for the pagans ... and the sordid multiple-gods worshipping Greeks ...
Of course much the same could be said about CRT, not actually taught in Virginian schools, but the pond wanted to press on, and the reptiles had decided that the onion muncher's thoughts were perhaps best used as coat hangers for a few click bait videos ...
Ah so now the IPA is just centre-right? So that's how you whitewash Gina's loons ...
Never mind, one more click bait video, carefully neutralised by the pond, and a few more lines and we're done ...
The pond always knew that the onion muncher was a tool, but now he's so reduced that he's a tool for Gina's mob ...
Pathetic really, but that did allow the pond a chance to do a short jig of glee, and that's always a good way to start a Friday ...
What else? Well the reptiles are agitated this day about China ... and so they had to double down ...
... and they're still taking cash in the reptile claw from Clive ...
The pond decided it would send the climate wars off to a late Friday post where nobody would see them and nobody would be disturbed, and keep on with the 'old favourites' theme ... and who better to consort with the onion muncher than his old lover, the bromancer ...
What's more the bromancer was at the top of the digital page early in the morning, right above the onion muncher ...
Indeed, indeed, it doesn't take much to discern the yearning for the days of the orange one ... and so to solidify the state of the alliance by keeping on explaining how jolly Joe is just a useless, senile old fart ... way to get on the good side with the current administration ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, the bromancer is really on a roll. What we need is a bit of war mongering from SloMo, heavily armed as we'll be with subs, sometime by - as the bromancer once noted - the twelfth of never ...
Of course it's sublimely rich that a nation wilfully refusing to do anything much about climate action should find warriors of the bromancer kind ready to lecture others about their failings ...
But that's what happens when deep down you're still infatuated with the notion of shipping coal and gas out to anyone with cash in the paw ...
And now because the pond considers itself something of a record of reptile doings, the pond should note that the reptiles flung in a final click bait video before the bromancer could sign off, featuring the very thing that most irritated the bromancer this day ... and naturally the pond gave it the cold shoulder ...
And so to the real treat of the day ... because as usual, there's a hole in the pond's bucket, and it needs our Henry for repairs ...
There you go, a winner right from the start. The pond has no idea what happened to the graphics department at the lizard Oz, but it's comprehensively fucked. That's probably the most fatuous and meaningless graphic ever to grace a reptile column, and in the last year or so, the pond has contemplated some awesome turkeys ...
There's not even a credit for an image bank. Did the reptiles just step out into Surry Hills with a few handy spare paws, and take a snap on their phone?
Whatever, it's distilled essence of amateur hour, and so the sublimely right note to strike in an intro to our Henry ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, what a boring old fart he is ... and yet the essence seemed to be simple enough.
Tough titty, vulgar youff, you're going to have to put up with our Henry rabbiting on for what might feel like an endless eternity *... (* repetition approved by ABC24 under license) ...
Ah of course our Henry would be at one with the rectorate ... best remain a member of the Nazi party until the bitter end in the hope of helping with Germany's Western historical essence ...
But it was those throwaway lines about the cult of the apocalypse - so recently adopted by the reptiles as they walked the road to Damascus - and talk of other responses to the pandemic - that struck a chord with the pond ...
Our Henry would love to be in Florida, slowly sinking into terminal baby boomer decline in company with DeathSantis, muttering on about all this nonsense called climate science and a fake pandemic ...
And speaking of intelligent responses to the pandemic, including but not limited to Aaron Rodgers, only recently came this in the Daily Beast ...
But the pond liked even more the tweet reported in CandL's version of the story ...
And with our Henry's talk of a tinge of hysteria duly celebrated, it was time to move on to the final gobbet, and happily for the trudging Tudge, our multiple-gods worshipping Greeks got a nod from the hole in the bucket man ... but not before our Henry proved his woke awareness by citing Woody ...
Sheesh, the pond is not too sure about how the trudging Tudge will respond to all that talk of multiple gods ... and sorry, vulgar youff, you're going to get a lot more in the way of lectures before our Henry shuffles off the mortal coil, and with it, a goodly dose of sanctimonious tosh ...
And so to the Rowe of the day as the wrapper ... with more wrappers always here ...
Wow ... that sure as hell thumps the shit out of a couple of paws clutching at each other ...
The O-Muncher, as quoted by the Shannanana: "The question about the national curriculum is a real live issue. Are our kids getting an education in the classroom or an indoctrination?"
ReplyDeleteWell I can tell you what I got after 13 school years in the Menzies-Holt-Gorton-McMahon interregnum: it was mindless right-wing indoctrination. Oh the glories of Church, State and Market are never ending. And it never stops entertaining me that supporters of the "Free market" always seem to believe that it is the sacred duty of the government to use "taxpayers' money" in endlessly "supporting business, especially small business".
Yep, descendants of a nation of small shopkeepers, and none smaller than the O-Muncher.
But just as an observation on our kids "getting an education in the classroom", I have always wondered how most of 'em ever graduated from school at all. And I still do.
I don't think the likes of Abbott or Donnelly actually understand the difference between education and indoctrination, which makes it doubly ironic that they use the term so often (a bit like the use of "green religion" as a pejorative).
DeleteThe good religious education they received wasn't accidentally a bit doctrinaire and biased, it was designed with the intent of planting ideas that wouldn't easily be dislodged by a few random facts or life's little lessons.
We've gotta admit, Bef, that they were very effectively "indoctrinated" to wholly and completely ignore and refudiate [tm Sarah Palin] reality in any way, shape or form and to follow the prescription that "if you truly believe it, then it isn't a lie" [tm John Howard amongst billions of others].
DeleteAn idea that ScottyfromMarketiing is now pushing for all he's worth when he claims that he's "never lied in public office". This from a man who, like all salesmen, believes every word he says for just as long as it takes him to say it. Which of course applies to all good wingnuts and reptiles.
I've always wondered why these mugwumps continue with this "democracy originated from Greece". Well maybe the word did, but precious little else: still ruled by autocrats, no parliament, only a very small number of privileged white males had any approximation to a vote. The Romans did better: they had an elected parliament (the Senate) and a form of universal enfranchisement:
ReplyDelete"However, what all Roman authors also equally emphasised as an important feature of this political organisation was that “no one was deprived of the suffrage” – no one, that is, except women, foreigners, and slaves. In theory as well as in practice, it was essential for the Romans that no adult male citizen was deprived of his right to vote – this would have been tyrannical."
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/elections-in-the-late-roman-republic-how-did-they-work/
And as for the slaves, Rome was one of the most liberal in allowing slaves to become citizens, and although women had much suffering and no suffrage, they at least had rights of inheritance and property ownership. Try that on the wonders of "Grecian democracy".
But the form of "democracy" we practise is wholly western though completely anti-Christian in the sense that it really started in the time of the Charles II Reformation and the total repudiation of that well known Christian nonsense of "the divine right of kings". And primarily in the first establishment of a "constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament". Though Charles II did exercise a little bit of 'divine right' when he butchered - with the help of a very unpleasant Englishman, George Downing - some of his father's "regicides".
So please, can we end this "Greece originated democracy" rubbish once and for all. And anyway, the Icelanders were at it long before we were:
"The Alþingi (Parliament in Icelandic - anglicised as Althingi or Althing) is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing
So were the Icelanders "western and Christian" back in the year 930 ?
"The adoption of the new faith by the whole population was the consequence of a compromise between the Christian and heathen chieftains, as well as the lawspeaker, at the national assembly or Alþingi of 999 or 1000"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity_in_Iceland
Do we reckon that one day history might actually be taught in our schools ?
"The pond always knew that the onion muncher was a tool, but now he's so reduced that he's a tool for Gina's mob ..."
ReplyDeleteBut hang on there - aren't 'Gina's mob' calling for former PMs to be silent ?
Oh, for a moment’s silence from angry former leaders like Malcolm Turnbull
Janet Albrechtsen
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/oh-for-a-moments-silence-from-angry-former-leaders-like-malcolm-turnbull/news-story/cf945cfb09b259f32c16e9837c9cc8e4
So how does Abbott get a reprieve from this ?
Our Holely Henry: "It would therefore be unsurprising if the difficulties of finding a new job in one's 50s, the need to finance many years in retirement and the challenge of coping with faltering health in old age all weighed increasingly heavily on voters' decisions, inducing a greater degree of political caution."
ReplyDeleteAll of that waffle, and he didn't mention inherent lifespan or QALY even once. He'll never make it into the Killer C claque either.
Trouble in paradise at the News Corpse Propaganda awards
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2021/nov/12/kennedy-awards-miss-the-joke-but-peta-credlin-and-john-laws-become-the-punchline
"At the NRMA Kennedy awards on Thursday night, held in the grand ballroom at Royal Randwick in Sydney, the Australian Financial Review’s Michael Roddan made a quip about the Kennedys being the “Bogan Walkleys” while he picked up a trophy for financial journalism.
It got a big laugh from the crowd but organisers took immediate offence, dimming the lights and ushering him off stage.
Minutes later, he was approached by a man who said it was time to leave and he was ejected."
Aw, I thought it was the 'woke' who couldn't take a joke.
Well I'd be a bit disturbed too at the gratuitous use of a normie neologism like "Bogan" instead of good traditional words like "ocker". Or ...
DeleteBogan had synonyms around the country
"So by the mid-1980s Melbourne had established the term bogan. It was absolutely synonymous with westie (used to describe someone from the western suburbs of Sydney), the bevan (a Queensland term), the booner (a term from Canberra, sometimes abbreviated to boon — probably a shortening of the American boondocks, meaning "rough or isolated country") and the chigga (a person from the working-class suburb of Chigwell in Hobart)."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-26/the-origins-of-the-word-bogan/10937284
No wonder he was escorted from the premises.
Well, using that "Bogan" neologism instead of good old "ocker" should be enough to get him evicted, Bef. Consider:
DeleteDid an elite Melbourne private school give Australia the word 'bogan'?
"Bogan had synonyms around the country
So by the mid-1980s Melbourne had established the term bogan. It was absolutely synonymous with westie (used to describe someone from the western suburbs of Sydney), the bevan (a Queensland term), the booner (a term from Canberra, sometimes abbreviated to boon — probably a shortening of the American boondocks, meaning "rough or isolated country") and the chigga (a person from the working-class suburb of Chigwell in Hobart)."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-26/the-origins-of-the-word-bogan/10937284
Don't abuse Aussie tradition, mate.
OK - apart from being a tad confused about where walls and ceilings fit, and where Mr Median actually stands in a line-up of living people, the Henry just has not been keeping up with the memos from our 'Killer' for a couple of years now. Where are the grand calls for us to display our commitment to liberty by, well - dying? Or to sign up with the Bromancer to follow him in the charge against whatever defenses the Chinese might be erecting along their coast? He continues to disappoint the readership, except perhaps for the Chairman, who, having just marked 4 score years and ten, will be looking to making a century at least.
ReplyDeleteAnd our Henry, despite his somewhat ravaged appearance, is a mere 69 years old. Why, in the world of the Chairman, that makes Henry almost median himself.
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