Go Ukraine ... the pond fervently hopes that recent advances are just the first step in ensuring the lickspittle, imperialist, colonial, war mongering invader stays on the run ...
Well Vlad the impaler understands the rhetoric, and if it was good enough for the United States in Vietnam ...
At the same time, the pond noted that Mosfilm has set up an account on YouTube, so that all the old hits, including many Eisensteins, are there to be watched, with the advertising revenue no doubt being split by Google and autocrat Vlad.
So much for sanctions, though it did remind the pond of the time way back when that it watched Ivan the Terrible in the adult education hall in Tamworth and had its mind blown. Of course back then the pond wasn't aware of autocrats or monstrous tyrannical despots or the sort of cinema that would please a Joe Stalin, it was just too much for someone born and bred undiluted Tamworthian to see Eisenstein's cinematic tricks, the gothic staging - as far from approved social realism as could be imagined - and hear Sergei Prokofiev's music ...
It was the first head nodder - as subtitles are sometimes quaintly called - that the pond had ever seen ...
But why start with that? Well once again the Major has gone MIA, and so there's no Major Mitchell to contemplate, and the lizard Oz is full of monarchist guff ...and the pond almost gave up on the day altogether, though there is a certain piquancy to see the reptiles simpering at the prospect of King "Talking Tampon" Chuck III.
The pond however had to draw a line in the sand ...
Sorry, the pond has no idea of what vomit would look like scattered all over a blog, but decided not to to take the risk...
"Ned" celebrating a talking tampon, and seeing surprise on the upside?
Sorry, you'll have to hunt that out for yourself, but at least the pond can offer a third rate sociology student in the form of the Caterist, fawning, grovelling and bootlicking in an ingratiating, cringe-inducing way ...
As for Hurley's wretched behaviour as GG, the pond will leave that to David Hardaker in Crikey (paywall) ...
There's more, but the pond must revert to its primary pleasure, celebrating the thoughts of King Chuck III ...
And that's why, when the pond visited Melbourne, it always looked at the spawn of RMIT, all the vile modern architecture, and said it was going to do a Prince Chuck ...
Oh yes, how will he be able to resist, as Nicola Jennings suggested by hurling two coins together and sent them tumbling through the air...
And so on with the weird wonder of those infatuated with the talking tampon, and naturally the reformed, recovering feminist was revealed as a simpering, servile teen ...
At this moment, the pond's nausea had risen to dangerous levels, but the sight of the forelock-tugging lizard Oz editorialist was irresistible as a bonus ...
The pond is just here for the entertainment, and is looking forward to the moments when the promise embodied in the immortal Rowe this day comes to pass...
To be fair, Eisenstein got there, in an image the pond still remembers from its Tamworth days ...
But the immortal Rowe also does the trick ...
Does whatever remains of the Lizard Oz’s graphics department contain a closet Republican? I notice that smack in the middle of the photo of “members of the Royal family” illustrating the Caterist’s hymn to the honour, tradition and stability of the Monarchy is one second son of the late Queen, whom most of the lickspittles have been desperately trying to ignore for the last few days……
ReplyDelete(I see today though that he and the Ex are to inherit the corgis - is this some sort of community service order?)
Well spotted Anon. The pond has just finished binging on A Very British Scandal and it seems that carrying on like rats - in the matter of Andrew like a rat up an underage victim - is very much the form for the English aristocracy, remembering that David Niven then 18, had sex with Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, when she was 15, with pregnancy and abortion the natural sequels ...
DeleteWould it be pedantic to point out to the Oreo that as Elizabeth 1 was Queen of England and Ireland - and not of Scotland - it’s not really accurate to say that she “ruled over the dawning British Empire”? A minor point perhaps but I’m sure that News Corp would want to retain its record of impeccable historical accuracy. No doubt we can expect Polonius to pick up on this in his Media Watchdog?
ReplyDeleteYes, it was the gay Jimbo I that dragged the unruly Scots over the line ...and a lot else ...
DeleteUnder James, the Plantation of Ulster by English and Scots Protestants began, and the English colonisation of North America started its course with the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland, in 1610. During the next 150 years, England would fight with Spain, the Netherlands, and France for control of the continent, while religious division in Ireland between Protestants and Catholics has lasted for 400 years. By actively pursuing more than just a personal union of his realms, James helped lay the foundations for a unitary British state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I
Meanwhile, let us not talk of the precedents set by King Chucks I and II ...
You mean this:
DeleteBeheaded and exiled: the two previous King Charleses bookended the abolition of the monarchy
https://theconversation.com/beheaded-and-exiled-the-two-previous-king-charleses-bookended-the-abolition-of-the-monarchy-190410
"George Downing gave his name to the most famous street in the world. It is unfortunate that he was such an unpleasant man. Able as a diplomat and a government administrator, he was miserly and at times brutal."
Or in short somebody who initially supported the "legal" execution of Charles I who later switched allegiances and went on to hunt down the executors for Charles II to exact his revenge. And to be rewarded with a Baronetcy for it. And to have a large residence in the street named after him.
For me, the Oreo's final paragraph has the ring of 'Keeping up Appearances'. I had thought the main characters of that series had died, but I find that Patricia Routledge lives still, at almost the same age as the departed Elizabeth. Perhaps the remarkably multi-talented Oreo could tap out a suitable script, given that she seems not to have grasped that 'Keeping up' carried a touch of satire.
ReplyDeleteWhich gives me the segue to something that can apply to several of the regular reptiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtr1WARU0MY
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE to us, Chad.
DeleteBut apart from that I was also trying to remember when I saw 'Ivan the Terrible' back in the good ol' black and white days. And all I could remember was a scene where 'Ivan' says to a minion: "Now I will be what they have always called me: terrible!" (or words to that effect) which was kinda just after he grabbed the whole Tsar of All the Russias powers - much like Charly is acquiring now.
Just so Chadders, there's nothing like adopting a regal air, while being a gormless twit. Her failure to mention the necessity of putting TVs in cupboards, and putting covers on kitchen table legs must see her marked down ... but that said, the pond never thought it would ever again hear PP&M singing about Blue in this lifetime ...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuWYXcbGfkQ
DeleteBut not this one:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9GlG6ET2uk
And definitely not this one:
https://youtu.be/kIufLA7Bx2Q