The pond knew deep in its bones that the perfidious behaviour of the treacherous Malware and his ilk would send Polonius off the deep end ... just look at what he's been up to, the ratfink swine ...
A teal NBN?!
Not in Polonius's interior decoration colour scheme ... but remarkably it wasn't Malware that copped the first flogging, it was poor old Fred Chaney, whom the pond must admit hasn't been on the pond's radar for aeons ...
Of course the bloody ABC and that (soft) Patricia Karvelas, a refugee from the reptile ranks ...and here please allow the pond to make a quick detour.
The pond has always celebrated the
Weekly Beast and the venerable Meade as a superior herpetology professor, far more skilled and advanced than the pond ... and yet...
Now the pond could have run that yesterday, adjacent to the dog botherer, but there was something in it that rubbed the pond up the wrong way.
"Given he is the ABC's biggest critic"?!
How could the venerable Meade make such a basic error? The pond would have failed that line in its basic "reptology for dummies" course.
When did the dog botherer displace Polonius as the ABC's biggest critic?
Could anybody ever achieve such a Herculean feat, even someone as odious as the dog botherer? Polonius, cold iron ABC bashing Polonius, shall be master of you all ...
The rest of the venerable Meade had the usual splendid insights, but really she owes Polonius an abject apology ...
But now back to the business of trashing that marshmallow Fred ...
There, take that Fred ... and so to other dissidents, traitors, wretched double-dealing, double-crossing, back-stabbing renegade turncoat apostate deserters, quislings and fifth columnists .. and please note, venerable Meade, these Lord Haw-Haws find a ready and willing home on the ABC ... as Malware sits down to chat with that Karvelas creature, who traded reptile paradise for a moth-eaten cardigan ...
Grim days indeed ... to think that our pious Polonius would borrow from Mark Latham to talk of a conga line of treacherous suckholes in the Liberal party ...
What next? Some sort of gotcha routine, per the Beast?
And so on and on and on, and the pond is so tired of gotcha reptiles, and the pond only wanted to drop that in because that dreadful Karvelas creature is mentioned, and dealing with the reptiles always reminds the pond that its business is shovelling gotcha shit ...
As for Polonius's fixation on listening to the ABC? Well, it's better than having to listen to Polonius, on that we can surely agree ...
And so to a serve of our Gracie, and once again the pond has to do a flip-flop, what with the Bjorn-again one reassuring us yesterday that climate change would only involve a small cost, some 0.0000008 of GBB, which is to say Gross Bjorn Bullshit, or so the pond's mobile phone calculator suggested, and yet here we are ...
Oh come on, Gracie, come on ...
You see? The costs are only going to be a squillionth of a trillionth and the pond knows it must be true because it was in the lizard Oz.
Let us have no hysteria about insurance rates or people not getting insurance or having their lives ruined ...
Now Gracie is a wise reptile and knows the company line and made some inquiries and most unfortunately stumbled on to this
hysterical outburst ... though the reptiles never provide links, because they don't want their readers to leave the bats in the belfry reptile attic, so perhaps just a few sample pages, to explain how she was led astray ...
Really? Our Gracie would take a bunch of insurers seriously when the reptiles have given us Bjorn-again wisdom?
Yep ... she staggered off, only to be staggered again ...
Um, how can the pond tell our Gracie? Anger will be unleashed against those who have ignored the issue or opposed taking action to deal with it?
Come on down nattering "Ned" this very weekend, talking it down ...
Come on down climate science denying dog botherer, this very weekend talking it down ...
Quick Gracie, the calls are coming from inside the reptile house and the house can't be insured. Get out while you can ... here, have a consoling cartoon from Kudelka as you make your headless chook move...
And so to the bonus, and here the pond must report that Dame Slap is once again feeling unusually tortured ...
Ah those bloody Republican male social engineering judges...
At this point the reptiles slipped in a snap of two men arguing, as befits a column allegedly about women's rights ...
But the pond thought it should celebrate social engineering judges ...
And that done, it was back to Dame Slap ...
Nothing like a bout of tranny bashing to make Dame Slap feel better, but the pond was still brooding about those social engineering judges ...
It's worth remembering that Dame Slap donned a MAGA cap and slipped out into the New York night to celebrate the arrival of the Mango Mussolini, so it's no wonder why she's fucked in the head, and pretty much everything she scribbles is fucked in the keyboard ... and perhaps recognising that tranny bashing is a vile, ugly and useless business, she decides to deliver a but billy goat moment ...
And there you go. Show compassion? Treat trans people with respect? It's not in Dame Slap's nature ... give her a frog, and she'll do her scorpion routine.
It's in her nature ... here, have an activist GOP cartoon ...
Dame Slap is going on a bit for this bonus offering, but the good news is that there are just two gobbets to go, and the last one is a short one, though it's full of ambivalence, as is this one ...
Yep, there's a bonehead calling a bonehead a bonehead, and yet are Deves and Dame Slap so far apart? How many gobbets ago was it that the pond read ...
Why it sounds like the best of Deves, almost distilled essence of Deves.
Here, have another activist judges cartoon ...
Yes, there were three of them, but that's because we've reached the final gobbet, and it's a short one ...
Poor Dame Slap, she really is sounding confused and tortured, still drawn to the Mango Mussolini and the dark, and yet not wanting to go full bigot, and so settling for a pox on everybody's uninsured, flood-affected house ... and we know what happens then ...
Strange that Polonius doesn't mention the other PM who deserted the Liberal Party, one R G Menzies, who after he left office voted for the DLP https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-menzies-swung-against-his-party-20060417-gdndki.html
ReplyDeleteYair, but only once it seems, Joe - back in the same year that Arthur Calwell didn't vote for the Labs. Arthur and Bob were good mates apparently. Thinking of $loMo now reminds me of a comment on Calwell back then that a false Calwell went around to ALP and press meets spouting about Labor policies only to be later refudiated [tm Sarah Palin] by the real Arthur Calwell.
DeleteOh, such were the days.
Oh my, here's Dame Slap: "I have lost count of the new political orphans I speak to who once voted Labor." Not only, but also: "Many of these women might, like me, be political orphans for the first time." Is she really trying to tell us that she once voted Labor, or just that like the "political orphans", she is a woman too. What does Michael have to say about this ?
ReplyDeleteI find it hard to believe that many people confide in Dame Slap. As another regular reader observed "a hard faced harridan you would cross the road to avoid" (sorry if I missed the exact wording). It's just much easier for her to invent similarly minded folk than seek out the type of dullard who could hold such views.
DeleteAs a bonus, here's a comment about the similarly obnoxious Priti Patel, "she's the sort of person who would unplug your life support machine to charge her mobile phone".
To all of you down on the plains, if you are thinking you can avoid climate disaster by moving to lovely Leura, there is good news and bad news. The good news is it's not until 2100 that 99% of properties are doomed: the bad news is that by 2030, 94% are doomed.
ReplyDeleteOne has to praise Polonius' loyalty to a cause: no matter what, day in day out, year in year out, the ABC is to blame for everything. But I read this with some amusement: "Chaney's only previous involvement in party politics took place last year when she was briefly a member of the Labor Party." I was once "briefly a member of the Labor Party" too - when I lived in Canberra and Gough got sacked. I was so incensed, I went straight off and joined the Labs ... then I made the mistake of actually attending a Labor Party members meeting. Just one was quite enough.
ReplyDeleteSo, I vote for 'em via preferences, but I just don't want to know 'em. And I have great sympathy for those former "leaders" (Fred Chaney was a "leader" ?) who "line up to betray party that made them.". After all, quite clearly, Fred never, ever made any contribution whatsoever to the Libs, did he.
How kind of Polonius to give a free pass to Labor rats, who have turned and bitten the hand that made them. Mark Latham, Polonius's son in law Warren Mundine and long time grifter and sleaze about town, "Richo" who undermines Labor from Murdoch'sSkyNews Citadel.
ReplyDeleteOur Gracie made a good point today: "It [climate change] can elicit strong opinions from the uninformed, bringing a risk of exposure to a heated debate between opinionated ignoramuses." Oh yeah, except that "heated debate between opinionated ignoramuses" is just about all one can get anywhere nowadays, and in the reptile media there isn't even any debate, just endless self-congratulation.
ReplyDeleteOh my, Gracie, we're rapidly becoming the "Uninsurable Nation". But she should just have read Bjornagin and she'd know it's a storm in a teacup, or basically just a small event on a minor, out of the way planet in an unmemorable galaxy somewhere in this small bubble of the cosmos. If all life (well, all multi-cellular eukaryote life anyway) were to expire tomorrow, nobody and nothing would notice.
So "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", yes ? And in case you were wondering:
"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" is a conflation of two biblical sayings, Ecclesiastes 8:15, ‘Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry’, and Isaiah 22:13, ‘Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.'"
https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question110042.html
But I think in truth it was ever thus.
Strangely enough, amongst the public I don't see much argument about climate change anymore, it has moved on to argument about whether to do something and who should do it - presumably someone else.
DeleteA bit like the Covid "pandemic": "It's all over now. Isn't it ?"
DeleteWhich reminds me:
Explainer: why are Covid infection rates in Australia so high compared with other countries?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/explainer-why-are-covid-infection-rates-in-australia-so-high-compared-to-other-countries
It's very noticeable that issues that aren't on high rotation at the news services don't get seen as risks.
DeleteWe have had two years without so much as a sniffle but since "freedom day" just about the whole family have been sick. If it's Covid-19 it doesn't show on the RAT tests, it might be mild influenza, but in any case it shows how effective masks and social distancing were as a general measure.
The bigger the human population the more microbe mutation we get and the more readily the microbes get passed around amongst us. I have thought for a while that we should stick with masks and distancing - it really doesn't inconvenience us particularly and the virtual disappearance of flu over the past couple of years gives us some idea of how effective, as you say, it would be.
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