The pond has always considered itself broadminded, or at least inclined to be tolerant and understanding of the kinks of others. At a stretch, the pond can go with furries, if not in practice, then at least in the love of furs and a furry feel.
And who can’t understand cosplay? Who hasn’t enjoyed a little cross dressing every now and then? Is there a rugby league player in the land who hasn't felt the urge to dress up in a frock?
And as for SM, the pond isn't all that into pain, whether giving or taking, but at least the pond can share the pleasure of the smell of leather, up there with the smell of a new bit of tech kit or money (when it was printed on paper). This will be a problem with vegans, but the pond has on occasion dismissed its omnivore attitudes for the pleasures of a salad, or the crunchy delight of a raw carrot (oh wait, is there a Freud still in the house?).
All that said the news that Tucker Carlson wanted to fuck a chocolate lolly came right out
of far right field. The pond knows that some think that such kinks come from a childhood moment … perhaps Tucker had his first erection not in association with the usuals, plastic or rubber or nappies, but when smeared with chocolate?
Who knew that Fox’s best known entertainer gazed on M and M's with lustful eyes and rated which were the most fuckable, and was agitated that the latest crop had fallen short on his fuckability rankings?
It struck the pond as downright weird, but a fitting way to begin the week, and so the pond turned to the local reptiles to see what sort of kinks were on display …and what do you know, the Major has returned and he's scribbling about porn.
The Major's theme is that he doesn't mind fucking anything, and don't you worry about that …
Of course it was a relief to know that the pond should be relieved and not worry about Tucker's choccie fetish, though it did strike the pond that Tucker was one of those deeply agitated Murdochians who get worried about almost anything ...
Talk about a worry to worry about, but now it's on with the unworried Major, though he seems strangely worried about almost anything that isn't far right ... way out there with that missing Order of Lenin medal that once caused him to worry deeply ...
Indeed, indeed, and all that talk of a coup ... wait a tick, hang on a 'mo, not just talk, but actual valiant efforts, sadly undone because the crusaders were a bunch of inept loons of the Guiliani kind ...
Not to worry, here's something to worry about ...
But back to the imperturbable Major doing his very best Alfred E. Neuman impression ...
Perhaps the pond isn't taking the return of the Major with fitting solemnity, but his tranquility is remarkable ...
Meanwhile, the pond should note that the reptiles are, in their news section, as relentlessly sanguine as the Major is absolutely, totally uniquely unworried...
Yes, we're all on rocket fuel here, ready for lift off, and we have absolutely no worries ... all except a few of us ...
Trying to get a booster shot, but can't find one? No worries! Want to get a RAT test to see if you're ratty, and someone's trying to gouge you fifty bucks? No worries! Luxuriate with the Major in a worry free life ...
Climate science? No flucking worries. No wucking flurries here ... it's all a nonsense. Got an old British Paints can handy? Good, give it a good thumping, Rolf Harris style, and say trust the Major, sure can ...
Usually Australia Day would be reserved for some other controversy, but they seem to have come early this year ... you know, something about the bloody Poms or that bloody JJJ ...
Now the pond usually doesn't bother with Australia Day controversies, or for that matter, politicians getting behind the Murdochian paywall so that a taxpayer might have to fork over some shekels to Chairman Rupert to find out what they're thinking ... but the pond has made another exception, this time purely for the bragging rights of a first dibs look at the Braggster's bragging ...
Now the pond has already had its ears boxed about 1st January, but please, pay attention to the nuanced way that the Braggster promotes his deep sensitivity ... and his book ...
Yes, you too can show your deep sensitivity towards uppity, difficult black folk and your new understanding of history, what with the astonishing discovery of the Black Line and attempts at genocide suddenly news in 2022, and at the same time, humbly promote your astonishingly sensitive book, in which you sensitively explain to difficult, uppity blacks that you're a truth teller, and they should listen to your mansplaining truths ... because you alone have devised the perfect solution.
A holiday for whities and a holiday for blacks, and soon enough, with even more sensitivity, we might have water bubblers in parks labelled for black and white usage ...
Yes, yes, a blacks only day, perhaps celebrated on blacks only parks ...
Now don't you worry about an actual day which might become "another day". We'll leave that for endless argumentation, so that in the Australian way, nothing much will be done for a century or two ... remembering that the referendum to establish that black people were human and could be counted didn't arrive until 1967 ...
And now for a final triumphant flogging of the book ...
Female? But how are they so sure? Is it the shoes? I thought so...
ReplyDeleteIn a spirit of full disclosure - 'Buraadja' is published by Connor Court - natch.
ReplyDeleteA few months back I took issue with our ‘Killer’s’ use of ‘fear porn’, because ‘porn’ is derived directly from the Greek for prostitute. Modestly, I suggested that a word properly derived for what Killer was attempting to discuss would be ‘phobography’, but conceded that there could be problems with that for the dwindling/ageing readers of what flutters from the Flagship.
ReplyDeleteNow we have the Major pretending to a degree of scholarship by citing someone who writes for the (gasp) ‘Wall Street Journal’ and using a similar term - ‘worry porn’. Whatever else Holman W Jenkins might be, he is no scholar - his construction fails for the same reasons as did the one that Killer used, so the Major gains little by citing him. The only interest here is that the Major is rather given to babbling on about standards, and ‘quality’ of journalism, but has frequent problems with the mote in his own eye.
Oh - I offer this distraction, in the hope that it drives out unwanted images of Tucker (appropriate given name, in the circumstances) Carlson and what could, correctly, be called ‘M’n’M porn’
A few months back I took issue with our ‘Killer’s’ use of ‘fear porn’, because ‘porn’ is derived directly from the Greek for prostitute. Modestly, I suggested that a word properly derived for what Killer was attempting to discuss would be ‘phobography’, but conceded that there could be problems with that for the dwindling/ageing readers of what flutters from the Flagship.
ReplyDeleteNow we have the Major pretending to a degree of scholarship by citing someone who writes for the (gasp) ‘Wall Street Journal’ and using a similar term - ‘worry porn’. Whatever else Holman W Jenkins might be, he is no scholar - his construction fails for the same reasons as did the one that Killer used, so the Major gains little by citing him. The only interest here is that the Major is rather given to babbling on about standards, and ‘quality’ of journalism, but has frequent problems with the mote in his own eye.
Oh - I offer this distraction, in the hope that it drives out unwanted images of Tucker (appropriate given name, in the circumstances) Carlson and what could, correctly, be called ‘M’n’M porn’
Now briggo Braggy would have it that: Buraadja Day "could also incorporate a concept I have long favoured, a formal declaration of recognition of Indigenous people." Recognition by whom ? Do the "indigenous people" need a special day to recognise themselves ? Well maybe if it's only the Dhurga speaking indigenes who know what it is.
ReplyDeleteBut here's a concept that I have long favoured: a day in which indigenous people make a formal declaration of recognition of Anglos and other non-indigenous people. They've never had the chance to do that, and maybe they would and maybe they wouldn't. And maybe some would and some wouldn't, but at least we'd know - there might actually be some "honesty".
Meantime, Braggy would have us believe that "This way, we'd be telling the truth about our past and moving forward with respect, confidence and honesty. Together."
Sure we would, just like we have for 234 years since we first started to make the indigenes a vanishing minority in their own land. Just think: Australia population: approx 25.96 million. Aboriginal population: approx 881,600 - not all being 'full bloods' of course. And about 30% of the population - about 7.8 million - are "immigrants".
What a great callout by the Oreo: "The true value of human life is unquantifiable. Every person has something to teach another. No life is useless. No person is without hope." Well, there ya go: just a mere 7.9 billion homo saps saps - yes, that really is 7,900,000,000 saps - and Oreo speaks for every single one of us throughout our entire life. So all those truly great folks - Min Aung Hlaing for instance - are unquantifiable, enlightening and hope-filled. Yep, every single one. As are all the murderers, rapists, child molesters etc in and out of prison and even the terminally catatonic - every single one.
ReplyDeleteThe "one of the top 10 smartest people in Australian universities" has spoken, and that's clearly a divine judgement. "In a healthy society, every life is viewed as a divine gift to be cherished and protected."
Yep, every single one, so anybody who ever mentions QALY, or even alludes to it indirectly, is acting against the will of God. I wonder when she'll get around to informing Tucker Creighton of his serious failings in that respect.