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With that bit of unpleasantness out of the way, courtesy of Wilcox and google translate - who knows if the machine got it right? - the pond is pleased to note that two of its least favourite people - Vlad the impaler and the mango Mussolini - are in worlds of pain, albeit pains of a different kind...
The pond did enjoy this Kimmel burn ...
“Donald Trump is said to be in a very Trumpy feud with one of his celebrity impersonators,...You know how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis duped that plane full of Venezuelan families into flying to Martha’s Vineyard? Well, word is, Trump’s upset about that. Not because he cares about the people. He’s upset because he thinks DeSantis stole the idea from him.”
“Can you imagine being such a despicable creep you’re mad at someone for being a despicable creep sooner than you? It’s like taking credit for being the first guy to put pineapple on pizza.” (Huff Post)
Kimmel has always worked the pineapple gag, and it always sets the pond off, because it's a close run thing, the pond's hatred of tinned pineapple versus its fear and loathing of canned beetroot.
During its tender years, each summer the pond's mother went through a beetroot salad phase, with pineapple on the side, and it still induces a deep shudder, evoking all that's wrong in the world.
Putting that first world dilemma aside, yesterday the pond indulged in a bout of MSNBC viewing, and they didn't know which way to turn, such was the putrid Putun on the ritz nuke threat and the Donald's legal perils ... and the pond felt the same way contemplating the lizard Oz this day ...
Come on reptiles, come on. Three lizard Oz editorials as ballast for a sinking comments section ship? Are the coffers so bare you can't afford the usual bunch of crazies?
The pond wasn't alarmed, it knew it could always turn to the hole in the bucket man, and he'd serve up a mess of potted monarchist pineapple and canned beetroot crown thinking, and all would be well ...
What a tiresome, tedious old fart he is, and what a pathetic attempt at a history lesson, all the more so because now that all the fuss and pomp and grandeur are over, and the cake gives way to stale bread, the poor old Poms find themselves in a world of Brexit Tory-led pain ...
There was this in the Graudian ...
And this ...
Oh they'll get their homework marked in due course, and it's just part of being trussed like a hapless chook, and meanwhile, mired in some ancient history lesson, our Henry is blathering on about the glories of the crown ...
Meanwhile, the poor old Poms were tearing themselves apart, or at least
John Crace was tearing apart a moggie ... well, you may as well have fun as the Titanic heads to the bottom and the Moggie demands first place on the lifeboat ...
Waiter, some canned beetroot and pineapple for the brave Moggster ...
Librium Liz! And in a world of fracking pain, the pond did enjoy this line from the Moggster ...
The Tory MPs Mark Menzies, Greg Knight, Scott Benton, Ruth Edwards and Paul Maynard were all furious at this casual trashing of the manifesto and sought reassurance that the government was still sticking to its promise that nothing could go ahead without local consent. Rees-Mogg pointedly did not answer this. You can never trust local people to come to sensible decisions. It would be far better if the drilling companies tried to bribe a few choice residents.
Give us a break, Rees-Mogg pleaded. “We’ve only been in government for two weeks.” Er, make that 12 years.
Er, it's always good fun to read a cracking Crace, but back to a final burst of the hole in the bucket man indulging in worship of crowns and corgis ...
The Firm, King Chuck III and Prince Andrew no doubt are grateful for the hole in the bucket man's solicitude, but it ain't going to do nothing for plucky little England ...
And so to the bonus, and here the pond must pause to acknowledge the updates provided on a daily basis by the pond's correspondents...
One in particular caught the pond's eye ...
But it's not just enough to do the link, perhaps also a teaser ...
That's just a teaser, there's a lot more at the link ... but the pond found the mention of Lloydie of the Amazon and "Lord" Monckton irresistible ...
The pond doesn't want to get pedantic, but that should have been "rejected" because Plimer long ago fracked off to the great sky god ...
That noted, the pond does like the way that the Graudian is free with its hot links, while the reptiles are inclined to a walled garden, or if they do decide to break out of the garden, it's in the most risible influencer way ... which is why all this has been a preamble to a spectacular idiocy, which urgently needs the attention of the likes of a pond correspondent or a Graham Readfearn, though truth to tell, too much attention to reptile idiocy can lead to quiet madness ...
Yes, the bubble-headed booby was out and about, and given a prominent place, and used the chance to come up with a bout of undiluted canned beetroot and pineapple ...
The pond did a double take right there and then.
"The world's first nuclear-power influencer."
At last, something worse than mother serving up a slice of beetroot covered with canned pineapple ...
What a comprehensive maroon, compounded by a TED talk apparently constructed on the basis of ... reading tweets ...
Yes, the pond read it correctly ... "she became a nuclear power advocate after reading tweets."
All the pond's memories of the reptiles' raging at the Twitterati came flooding back, and sure enough, there was a tweet in the booby's next gobbet ...
Oh fucketty fuck, not a fucking riff on fucking memes ...
What else could the pond do but resort to fowl language? There are so many chooks you can take in a lifetime, but this was up there with the chookiest ...
"Climate change ... looms large as a profound existential threat."
And of course that brought the pond back to the reptiles, climate science denialism and Lloydie of the Amazon, and that notorious piece in the lizard Oz...
Take that in your influencer pipe memes and shove it ... because, as a judge recently in the news said in relation to another matter, you can't have your nuclear climate emergency cake and eat the lack of a climate emergency too ...
The pond must at this point apologise for offering up a model doing her very best to caricature the stereotype of models, and all the unseemly blather about memes and influencers and all that crap, and can only offer the consolation that this is the last serve of a mash of beetroot and pineapple on offer ...
"All she asks is that we help her spread the meme that nuclear energy is cool."
The pond can't believe that it just typed that sentence.
"Look at us. Look at what they make you give." ― The Professor's last words
On a level of pure, dumb, fuck-wittedness, it doesn't get much more fuckwitted than this ...
All the pond asks is that we kill cool memes on sight.
Oh wait, there was also this inanity ...
"A future where energy is clean."
No mention of half lives and storage and all the other risks, not least the chance that some crazed Russian sociopath might decide to bomb your facility?
Every form of energy has costs as well as benefits, and you don't get anywhere by taking your science from tweeting twittering influencers blathering that going nuclear is just a clean, cool meme ...
It was all too much for the pond but at least the infallible Pope found some hope that there might be one whale worth the beaching ....
Kimmel: "[Trump] thinks DeSantis stole the idea from him." But of course he did:
ReplyDeleteFormer official says Trump ordered staffers to find 'murderers,' 'rapists,' and 'criminals' at the border and 'dump them into Democratic cities'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-official-trump-ordered-staffers-find-criminals-send-democrat-states-2022-9
Eek! I don't think Plimer is a late parrot; at least not yet!
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Plimer
Well he has been a walking zombie for quite a few years now, Anony. Hard to tell the difference between that and a 'passed parrot' state.
DeleteApologies, the pond should have fact checked, the pond was thinking of Bob Carter ...
Deletehttps://www.desmog.com/2016/01/22/veteran-climate-science-denialist-bob-carter-dies-heart-attack/
... and transposed the names. What a relief to be reminded he was still sharing his thoughts with Malcolm Roberts back in August 2022 ...
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/the-malcolm-roberts-show-with-ian-plimer-the-reef-isnt-dead/
I reckon Carter is very much a forerunner of the latter-day tribe of "influencers" that we are all inundated by nowadays. The same total lack of any knowledge or competence in whatever it is they've decided they are experts about.
DeleteAnd Plimer isn't even that good, but it was largely because of him (and a fair amount of boredom) that I abandoned the Australian Skeptics (yes, that's the Greek version of the spelling) about 2 decades ago. Don't hear much about them these days, and hear even less by and about Plimer.
Isn't it a wonder how people can actually be capable in one field and then somehow turn that into total idiocy in a different field. It makes me ask how it was that Carter ever got anything right. But not Plimer - he never did get anything right.
The bubble-headed booby‘s offering had a strangely familiar ring to it, like we had somehow been here before. Oh, there’s this I suppose
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/anti-greta-teen-activist-cpac-conference-climate-sceptic
Wonder what she is doing now?
There’s a strange cargo cult element in conservative thinking. The ideas they come up with have some of the superficial characteristics of the things they are copying but are missing the essential parts.
I guess we can add this to ‘winning on twitter’ and bemoaning the absence of conservative commentators and comedians.
Just the usual right wingnut campaign, sn't it. On the one hand kee[ up the 'no need to panic' campaign via the likes of LLoydie (and Plimer and sundry others) but also hit the nuke solution button.
DeleteNow why are the wingnuts suddenly so vehemently pro-nuke ? Just because it isn't "renewable" perhaps ? Do anything so long as it means you "own the libs" ?
Anyway, I loved her little undocumented, unevidenced claim that "the world still gets only 8 percent of its energy from wind and solar." despite "having spending trillions on renewables". Yeah, the usual wingnuttery: 'renewables' of course includes the very expensive hydropower. And who has actually spent "trillions" ? We certainly haven't spent anything near that much despite very large investment in rooftop solar. But we are about to spend a bit more on offshore wind, so ...
In the meantime:
"Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world's electricity from about 440 power reactors."
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx
And:
"Various agencies provide slightly different estimates regarding the percentage of all energy that comes from renewable sources. If we average them out, approximately 25% of all power generation came from renewable sources in 2018."
https://marketbusinessnews.com/world-renewable-energy/213364/
Lloydy, Lloydy oi oi oi! - the poor beggar has been Fisked all week long over that jocular piece. Hopefully he is protected from the reality on whatever island he is inhabiting at present.
ReplyDeleteOn yesterday's piece by the Onion Muncher, a query has arisen about the death of the sub-editor at the Oz. Can anyone wrangle this one into English?
But doubtless the weirdest – with a Murdoch platform whenever he requires it.
No sub-editing included.
https://twitter.com/noplaceforsheep/status/1573069232765833216
I had to do a double take at the Wilcox cartoon.I was mistakingly wounering why she was burni g the bromancer!
ReplyDelete"Hostility towards nuclear energy itself, a shift Boemeke argues was as irrational as opposing electricity on the basis of the electric chair". Even a Brazilian ex-model might concede that a reactor meltdown is probably of greater concern than Ol' Sparky shorting out (though she doesn't seem to think the former is that severe; her figures indicate a little over 4,109 Cherynobyl deaths in total). It's interesting, though, that the electric chair was hailed as a more humane alternative to other forms of execution, and that it would be much more efficient, reliable and foolproof. In the end it turned out to be none of those things, but the claims seem remarkably similar to some of those made regarding nuclear power.
ReplyDeleteIf nuke wasn't (a) very expensive - definitely talking $trillions worldwide (b) very long and messy to build because the so-called "modulars" simply aren't (c) expensive to power and operate and (d) requires replacement over about the same timeframe as much cheaper, quicker wind turbines which can be redone one at a time then maybe it would be a viable alternative.
DeleteAnother query is: can nuclear installations be protected from climate change ? (hint: don't build them anywhere near the seashore).
Dare I mention the ongoing shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant? We are assured the reactors have a very strong protective structure around them, but if the safeguards do fail we only have to travel a short way to Chernobyl to see one we prepared beforehand.
DeleteSshhh don't ever mention trrists.
DeleteSpeaking of the Onion Muncher, it’s been pointed out that he was strangely absent from yesterday’s Parliament House ERII memorial. What might Our Henry have to say about that?
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy
ReplyDeleteNuclear Energy isn’t cool.
Nuclear Energy is Rad!
Trying to work out why the Henry has ‘civilised’ in quotation marks, to describe the Belgians. Presumably it is a direct quote of that first Leopold. It is of little matter, because it would be difficult to make a case that the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld line has done a lot for Belgium. It may be argued that Baudouin and perhaps Filip have done an acceptable job - that does not compensate for the Leopolds. The Congo is a lasting stain on that ‘Royal’ line, and, to some extent, on Belgium itself, although its democratic processes did, eventually, wrest the Congo out of Leopold IIs personal grasp.
ReplyDeleteNo, I won’t suggest any references to Leopold IIs plundering of the Congo - it is truly stomach-turning.
Just now, in checking the relationships of the kings of Belgium - I found that the ‘Wiki’ has a separate entry for illegitimate offspring of the Belgian kings. Of which there was a fair scattering across several generations.
Yes, Henry, tell us again what a great acquisition was an otherwise unemployable aristocrat from the pastiche that was the Saxon duchies in the 19th century.
But BG, butt, monarchs rule by divine right so therefore anything that Leo did had (and has ?) God's full approval.
DeleteAnd Russia hasn't been able to do anything right (even their famed WWII tanks were picked up by the Germans and improved to almost wipe the Russkis out) since they wiped out their holy ruling dynasty. So, just proves the case: without a monarchy, nothing ever works.
Yes, GB - the 'pur sang' resided in all those offspring of offshoots of royal lines, so virtue was embedded in those with the title. The purity of the blood does come into question when one sees the extent of, well - how much both sexes of the royal houses spread the DNA about. Which is why I was amused by the listing of illegitimates from the Belgian line. That probably had a benefit long-term, just by reducing the inbreeding index, although none of those listed showed great acumen in their own lives from their 50% of royal DNA.
DeleteIndeed, GB - at least that probably reduced the likelihood of haemophilia, the Hapsburg jaw, infertility and imbecility among the nobility of Europe. Of course, such complaints were a small price to pay for for the sensual pleasures of antiquity that, according to Our Henry, the common people so loved.
DeleteSurely it was remiss of Our Henry to fail to mention that Albania could have had a True Blue Englishman in the form of C B Fry as King, rather than some minor Eurotash? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Fry
ReplyDeleteNot to trivialise the C B Fry connection, Anonymous, but Albania did have its King Zog, father of Prince Leka - who, roll of drums, took an Australian, Susan Cullen Ward, as his would-be Queen. Ozzie royalty!
DeleteOh, this 'Royal Watching' is so much fun - no wonder there are hundreds of them coming out of the woodwork (or from under flat rocks) in the UK for their 15 minutes of, er - fame - being interviewed by our Dog Bov. and Blot and even Credlin up there on Sky, for important details of where and how Camilla came to spit her tea across the table.