The pond is getting straight into it today, with nattering "Ned" nedsplaining how being a liar is a good, necessary and supremely professional way to do business.
Of course "Ned" in his nedsplaining avoids the ugly necessity of using the word "liar", because "misled" is so much more genteel ...
It's still lying of course, to lead someone in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief by deliberate deceit, but it softens the blow, at least in "Ned's" nedsplaining world ...
The reptiles naturally took this as a chance to slip in any number of pointless illustrations and click bait videos, and while the pond has included them for the record, it has had to mark them down or render them inert ...
Now back to the nedsplaining, as to why the lying, or if you will, the misleading, was a good and necessary thing ...
Ah, how silly of the pond, it wasn't just lying for a good, just and professional cause. It was lying because of "misjudgement", a decent, dinkum and honest mistake, and let who hasn't made a dinkum mistake be the first to throw a stone ...
Oh, and did you like that snap, three happy warriors laughing at the demise of the planet? Sorry, on with the nedsplaining ...
Meanwhile, on another reptile planet, the bromancer has spent endless columns railing at the wretched new submarine deal.
Apparently all this was lost on "Ned" ... and the pond apologises for that click bait video, but clearly the reptiles felt the need to pad out "Ned", and there's more padding to come ...
Now back to the lying, or if you will, and are a sensitive reptile type, the "misleading" ...
You see?Another click bait video rammed home, and the need for lying nedsplained ... because lying is a good and necessary thing, and the reptiles are adept and practised in the art, and so fully support a liar of the SloMo kind ...
Yes, you can trust a natural born liar ... why you can trust anything a liar says. You can also trust "Ned" and his nedsplaining ... though the pond draws attention to the pond's fine print, which says if you trust the pond trusting the reptiles, you're badly in need of a harbour bridge... send cash or a nuclear submarine by 2040 and if you're lucky, you'll give China a jolly good thrashing in world war III ...
Well the bromancer's name was mentioned by the pond, so it's only fair to turn to the bromancer, who seems not to have caught up on the nedsplaining truth of the matter ...
He's no liar?
But "Ned" just spent all that time nedsplaining how being a leaking, misleading liar was a good thing!
Sheesh, can't the reptiles get their story straight? After all, as "Ned" has nedsplained, there's nothing like being a crooked lair to get ahead ...
There was a crooked PM, and he went a crooked mile to Glasgow,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile
He cooked a crooked frog, and roped in a crooked yank
And they all lived together in a little crooked nuke sub …
Or some such thing, the pond can never get There was a Crooked Man quite right ...the pond seems to recollect there was a crooked, misleading rhyme ...
Now on with the bromancer being misled ...
Indeed, indeed, it's all the fault of the perfidious French in aid of a splendid submarine deal about which the bromancer has waxed enthusiastic ...
And so on and on, but that was then and this is now, and it's all reptile hands to the deck to carry on misleading ...
Indeed, indeed, and let us pass on from the grotesque sight of two reptiles trying to describe the shape of a camel, because, speaking of climate change fanatics, as the reptiles are wont to do, the pond has great news to announce ... the return of Lloydie of the Amazon ...
Here have an immortal Rowe to help with the celebrations ...
Hmm, so many Landseers in that one, from Queen Vic on horsie and the monarch of the glen, do ye ken ...
Well that was a good break, but oh how the pond has yearned and hungered for the good oil, the Amazon drum so to speak, from Lloydie, and here it is ...
Yes, yes, the planet's fucked, and the reptiles know who to blame, and it's nothing to do with dinkum lovers of clean, pure, decent, virginal Oz coal ...
It's them ...the pond read it in the lizard Oz ...
But back to Lloydie ... and a group hug ...
Hmm, this doesn't seem to have quite the substance the pond was expecting from Lloydie of the Amazon. A group hug, and suddenly we're into the final gobbet?
Business is going to have to show the way? What like News Corp? Then the planet is truly baked, roasted, boiled and fucked ...
Let's see how the reptiles led the way today in their pointless tree killer edition ...
Yep, News Corp is still taking cash in the reptile claw from Clive ... now that'll help fix the planet.
And so to a little bonus, because when we're talking greedy, we're always talking Nats ... and Barners ... and the whole darn thing ...
Remember, the reptiles are here to help ...
Indeed, indeed, fancy signing on for a climate agenda, when we all know it's a lie, told by a bunch of notorious misleaders ... and worse for such a cheap price ...
It reminds the pond of that old anecdote which has a vaguely sexist air entirely suited to Barners and his motley crew ...
It seems that tale of having established what they are, and we're now just haggling over the price first came out in relation to Lord Beaverbrook ... but the pond is always pleased to hear stories of hookers haggling over the price ...
And so to the overall picture ...
Sorry, sorry, this overall ...
Yes, what joy, nothing coming out of Glasgow and the Nats could have shaken down the Libs and stayed loyal to sweet, innocent, virginal clean coal, and the planet could have gone on roasting, and none of that would have been cynical opportunism and misjudgement, not in the world of the CIS ... and so to end with an infallible Pope celebrating where we've landed ...
21 - Both sides committed to deepen defence industry cooperation and enhance their capability edge in the region. Ministers underlined the importance of the Future Submarine program. They agreed to strengthen military scientific research cooperation through a strategic partnership between the Defence Science and Technology Group and the Directorate General for Armaments. This agreement was at a meeting on the 30/08/2021/
ReplyDeleteMorrison is a very dangerous man.
But is he dangerous because he doesn't know what he's doing, or because he does ?
DeleteHis work history suggests the former. Heads off on a hunch, doesn't consult because he intends to take all the credit and blames anyone and everyone when things go tits up.
DeleteI've worked with a couple of Morrisonescque individuals and their biggest failing can become their greatest strength in some circumstances - lack of self awareness. They don't recognise their own failings and are not discouraged by constant failure (it's not failure to them if they can keep their job or move on to another one).
The trouble with self-aware individuals is that they think there must be some substance behind the bumbling buffoon they see on the screen, otherwise he would just give up - right? There is no evidence of this.
Yes, point taken, Bef: lack of self-awareness is a very ambivalent thing, which shows up very strongly in the Dunning-Kruger effect scenarios. Nobody is ever quite as smart or competent as we would like to be, but some of us do recognise reality. Much to our cost since we never end up as Prime Minister.
DeleteWell Scott (is there something about that name) Prasser caught my attention today. Right there in the very first sentence: "Scott (there it is again) Morrison's climate change polices...". Something I never knew: SloMo has "climate change polices". I wonder what their uniforms look like.
ReplyDeleteThen a little further along: "These [farming sector concessions] might not be as tokenistic as they appear, but even if substantive ...". Hmmm. Now consider: "Explanation: For sticklers, substantive refers to things that have substance — real things, rather than imaginary things — and substantial should be reserved to refer to things that are large or major. A substantial change is a big change; a substantive change is a change in the substance of something."
https://whatis.techtarget.com/feature/Substantial-vs-substantive
So what did Scotty Prasser mean by "might not be as tokenistic as they appear" ? Did he mean they were real (substantive) or did he mean they were 'significant' (substantial) or both ?
Oh, one does foolishly wish that reptiles could actually write so as to convey what they mean to say.
I really was having just a little trouble connecting with the Groan a couple of days ago, Chad. But then finally a little something triggered in my head when I took on board this: "Surveys consistently show voters regard climate change as an important issue that needs to be tackled." So far, almost so good - it's actually much more important than nearly everybody recognises:
ReplyDeleteEarth Hasn’t Warmed This Fast in Tens of Millions of Years
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/
But then comes the little Groany/reptile "killer": "These same voters declare that they are only prepared to pay a small price personally to ensure this happens." Right, and various reptiles have thrown that one at us many times - except that this is the first time, at least as best I recall, that the qualifier "personally" has been included.
Which means what ? That these "voters" aren't prepared to pay a lot directly out of their own finances. But all of us voters pay a lot of money for a lot of things via government expenditure. And, despite some grumbling, we usually put up with it - even with Gold-standard Gladys's pork barreling and boondoggling.
So that's it: the reptiles want us to believe that we can't fix global warming because "voters" won't personally pay for it. Well, that sorts all that out then.
And it really does reinforce some kind of reptile belief that people don't/won't/can't change their minds and adjust their priorities to tackle real issues. But then I guess reptiles don't/won't/can't change their minds as they show clearly by repeating themselves day after day.
The Huckster (Apologies to Paul Simon)
ReplyDeleteI am just a shop boy
In the pay of gas and coal
Who have shunted me to Glasgow
With a briefcase full of fables and false promises
To do my best
To promote their fossil fantasies
And disregard the cost
In an act of spreadsheet bastardry
I have conjured up a ploy
To downgrade our high emissions
So that we can run our power stations unimpaired
Burning coal
Using bogus carbon credits
We’ve accrued since Kyoto
Based upon the only strategy I know…
To lie and lie
To lie and lie
And lie and lie
And lie and lie
Neat, Kez. I could even sing that one :-)
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