Today in the pond's "state of the reptiles" post, the pond is pleased to reassure readers that Clive's cash in the reptile claw is still flowing into the Chairman's coffers ...
It's reassuring to note that Clive's comedies continue apace, and such is the reptile avarice that they're cheerfully in his camp ...
Ah, the Betoota Advocate ...
And so to the bromancer offering an F- bit of bromancer scribbling ...
Indeed, indeed, but what of Cucker Tarlson's war? The fighting there has been grim in the last few days ...
More of that and hot links at C and L ... the pond will return to that bitter fight in due course, but for the moment must press on with the bromancer ...
Utterly contemptible support for Putin in the past few years in sections of the populist right?
What about the utterly contemptible support in News Corp?
Can't the bromancer mention all the lickspittle fellow travellers at Faux Noise? Must the mango Mussolini take all the heat, utterly contemptible though he is?
To help the bromancer with a little distraction, the reptiles flung in a click bait video ...
But really, the pond must insist that the utterly contemptible people are inside the News Corp house ...
Hmm, seems like the lying Cucker is attempting a hasty retreat ... but back to the bromancer ...
Hmm, by not mentioning the likes of Cucker Tarlson, the bromancer can only be given an F-, but to jog his memory that the calls have been coming from inside the house ...
The hot links can be found via the C and L link above, and after all that, perhaps a pause to contemplate an immortal Rowe, with more Rowe here ...
And so to a big change of pace for the pond.
You see, the pond has decided to take its own small step, and lift the sanctions, the embargo, on petulant Peta ...
Why? Well it has to be said that early this day the reptile commentary team was very thin on the ground ...
A couple of lizard Oz editorials, an import from The Times and so on?
The pond had the pick of them with the bromancer ...
Sure it ain't much of a pick, but that's why the pond began to feel a weakening of the spirit when all it ever wants to do is deliver sublime entertainment for readers amused by reptile antics ...
And then look at the treatment of petulant Peta, given a sweet spot right next to a huge reptile coal EXCLUSIVE ...
Oh yes, it's an ill wind, and all that reptile blowing and it's coal, coal, coal to the world ... and petulant Peta was up for the fight ...
Meanwhile, across the channel, the savvy Savva was lost to the pond and blathering on about the prospect of our local idiocy taking a tumble...
Yes, yes, but what about News Corp idiocy? And so it came to pass ...
Speaking of navel-gazing, the pond wasn't expecting petulant Peta to gaze at News Corp's navel, or even Cucker Tarlson's navel ...
Ah yes, valiant stuff, but not the sort of stuff that petulant Peta would know anything about ...
Ah, the usual reptile climate science bashing ...
Really did the pond gain anything by lifting its embargo on petulant Peta, except another gigantic serve of the same old reptile shit?
At this point the reptiles tried to distract the pond with a click bait video ...
But as petulant Peta mentioned climate science, the pond feels at liberty to mention another Cucker Tarlson war ...
This one you can find at WaPo, by Philip Bump under the header Tucker Carlson's very serious complaint about the climate? Dollar stores (paywall affected) ...
Spoiler alert, it's a lengthy piece, and so the pond decided it would just sample the end ...
Indeed, indeed, and each day in reptile la la land, the pond comes away less informed about almost everything than when it went in ... especially as it seems cartoonists provide more insight than your average reptile columnist ...
Yes, as the pond types this, it's still raining in Sydney ... and so to the final dose of astonishing banality from a woman working for Chairman-controlled media ...
Hmm, all the pond has done is provide a plug for Sky News after dark, and that's sure to reduce some pond readers to tears...
The pond isn't sure it will repeat the experiment, it'll depend if the reptiles manage to sharpen up their act and provide a broad range of comprehensively loonish reptiles ... but at least it did help the pond broaden the Cucker Tarlson front, with petulant Peta's only apparent usefulness her ability to act as a coat hanger for news of the Cucker wars ...
And so on and on, and as Russia fucks Ukraine, and most of the world wishes that Putin would get right royally fucked, so the reptiles keep on with the rhetoric of planet-fucking ...
Time then to end with an infallible Pope showing the best of Dame Groan's big government in action ...
John Amato: "[Carlson] clamoring he never spouted pro-Russia propaganda. Too bad for Tucker there's hours of video of him doing it." Is there ? Well that kind of "but what about his videos" stuff never had one iota of effect on Trump. Do people, eg Amato, really think any of the Fox puppies will bother going back to look up past Carlson videos any more than they went back to look up past Trump videos ?
ReplyDeleteNot when there's a whole bunch of new ones with a whole bunch of exciting new lies every day.
Well yes GB but that's why the pond is just a bit of spit on a hot griddle. The aim is to have fun while doing the spitting ...
DeleteDoes anyone imagine that any of the reptiles go back to survey their past hypocrisies, stupidities and nonsensical lies? Not bloody likely, but remembering their follies beats having to learn a book off by heart and acting like we're doing a re-enactment of Farenheit 451 ...
Spit on a griddle, DP ? But then really everything is, isn't it.
DeleteI strongly suspect that the human 'race' isn't eternal, despite Chad not accepting that 'Davos man' is our successor, so all we can ever do is have a good laugh or two and show a modicum of grace on our pathway to oblivion.
"...the pond has decided to take its own small step, and lift the sanctions, the embargo, on petulant Peta ..." Aaargh!!! NO!!! Is this decision negotiable??
ReplyDeleteThe Woman from Wycheproof (if she can needlessly mystify us by starting her contribution with reference to ‘Davos man’ then we need no more precise identifier for her) - seemed to be offering a call to ‘start making ourselves militarily, economically and culturally stronger.’
DeleteDifficult to find any sign of how to do that in her contribution of this day. As you say, DP, it is partly - a plug for Sky News.
I confess I find entertainment in calling up a little of Sky News on ‘YouTube’, so need no further ‘plug’. I say a little, because the entertainment is in seeing how the same people say much the same things week in, week out. The funniest is Rita, and Rowan (where are the curls going?), and - whoever was wandering by - in their unresearched, unscripted attempts at ‘panel’ discussion, with the long pauses as each waits for the other to come up with the next brain snap that they can all pile in on. But, whatever the brain snap - the ‘talking points’ come out all the same.
So it is not very demanding, of people who, if they had actual talent, might even receive an offer from a commercial TV channel. But it is good for a chuckle.
Oh pish tush, Chad: we (homo saps saps) are today's Neanderthals (or maybe Denisovans) and 'Davos man' is the new species that is replacing us. In about 100,000 years, all that will remain will be about 4% or 5% of our genes in the Davos Man genome.
DeleteGB - I suspect she is unaware that the term 'Davos Man' has been taken up from the book of that name by Peter Goodman. Or - she has missed the point that Goodman was trying to make. I doubt that she intended to promote the book - it would reflect badly on Chairman Rupert, and, anyway - it was published by an arm of Harper/Collins, not Connor Court, or Wilkinson, or any of the other more local vanity places.
DeleteHmmm. "I suspect she is unaware..." Yep, I reckon that describes her accurately.
DeleteSorry, Anon, the arrival of Petulant Peta seems to have set off a wild, intoxicated frenzy ... down there with the onion muncher on a bad budgie smuggler day. The pond will have to carefully weigh public good against public entertainment in these desperate times. If even Chadders can confess to getting stuck into the Sky News OP rum, perhaps we all need a furtive tipple every now and then ...
DeleteOh what a day!
ReplyDeleteI am as staggered as Chadders that you went there DP and let the Petulant one in. Or did you?
I'd propose that the column you linked to may be a fake - fog of war and all that you know old bean.
If that was a column penned by the Petulant one, then answer me this: WHY DID THE WORD WOKE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SECOND PARAGRAPH???
I rest my case.
Fake news.
Oh c'mon vc, this is Petty Petulant Peta speaking. Expect nothing to ever go right.
DeleteThough I do admit that if it hadn't been for the last "contribution" from Killer C to compare it with then I might have been just a bit reluctant to cop the Petulant myself.
Perhaps, VC, we could hold a competition, and mark down severely any reptile who fails to get 'woke' into (a) the headline, or (b) the first sentence or (c) at the very least, the first par.
DeleteThe pond might adopt this as a new standard for reptiles who can't keep up ...
I dunno, DP, having taken advantage of the opportunity to actually read the Petty Pet, it's clear that she represents the most naive, simplistic, thought-free expression of the reptile catechism that I've encountered so far.
DeleteIf she doesn't include 'woke' until the second para, then that's how Roopie intends it to be (I suspect Roopie would like to think he's just a teensy bit woke himself).
Credlin: "moral disarmament that weakens us". We need Moral Re-Armament!
ReplyDeleteSo petulant Peta wants other people to sacrifice themselves but if thats what she thinks I will leave her to do the sacrifice as my life is only a one off.
ReplyDeleteSo, Petulant Pet: "Russia, country with more than double [Ukraine's] population and four times its gross domestic product..." Now we have:
ReplyDeleteRussia - population 145.8 million, GDP US$1,703 million
Ukraine - population 41.46 million GDP US$204milllion
According to the arithmetic I was taught at school, that makes Russia 145.8/41.46 = 3.5 times Ukraine and GDP 1703/204 = 8.34 times.
What arithmetic do we reckon Petulant Peta was taught at school ? On the other hand, I guess 3.5 actually is "more than double" and 8.34 is "more than four times".
But hey: "The most obvious rethink the security crisis should prompt is the West's response to climate change." Well of course it is; that's obvious, isn't it ? I mean Australia will just have to give up its climate change response because of its dependence on Russian gas. So will the US. And China. And ...
Perhaps, Petty Pet, what you meant to say was that Germany (in particular) will have to close off its "dependence" on Russian gas and oil and go full on "renewable". Just like South Australia has:
". A mix of renewable energy sources has helped South Australia smash its sustainable power goals, says a new report.
. In 2020, renewables delivered 60% of the state’s energy needs.
. By 2050, it wants to generate 500% of its energy needs from renewable sources."
7 renewable energy lessons from South Australia
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/renewable-energy-south-australia-climate-change/
And we couldn't expect the Petty Pet to know that, could we.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteIt must be confusing for the paying reptile reader to deal with having both Dame Slap and the Petulant Peta as their Opionistas.
Does the reptile reader lying in its box, dressed in a gimp suit with jaws aching from the ball gag, start to stress about which dominatrix will release them before starting the harangue?
Will they get Dame Slap, who whilst flourishing a studded strap will scream at them for being overly cheerful and optimistic. Little Pollyannas who need to have that shit beaten right out of them.
Or will they get Mistress Peta who is sick of their whining and fearful Chicken little routine. A good paddling is what they need! Toughen the fuck up and watch Sky News, 6pm weeknights.
It is confusing and humiliating for the reptile reader but that’s what they pay for and it takes their mind off the sound of incessant rain somewhere outside the box.
DiddyWrote
I kinda think not, DW, the "reptile reader" being a fine example of the psychological state of 'compartmentalisation': being able to believe many different and contradictory things at the same time. Combined with their total lack of self-awareness, this makes for a simple, satisfying life.
DeleteJust a small comment from the Bromancer: "...it's worth pausing for a second to note the utterly contemptible support for Putin in the past few years in sections of the populist right..."
ReplyDeleteWell yes, but on the other hand, George Monbiot is critical of support for Putin from the populist left:
We must confront Russian propaganda – even when it comes from those we respect
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/russian-propaganda-anti-imperialist-left-vladimir-putin
But then really, does anybody actually consider John Pilger as any part of "the left" these days ?
And just something more reassuring for the Bro:
Australia spent billions on jet fighters off the plan. Now, we’re having trouble even flying them
https://theconversation.com/australia-spent-billions-on-jet-fighters-off-the-plan-now-were-having-trouble-even-flying-them-177156