The pond is both bemused and in awe at the devotion shown by Dame Groan cultists, even though the old biddy is just carrying on as if she was still the Chair of Santos and still delivering speeches of the 2009 kind, still celebrated by gas lovers in search of the gaseous.
As for the pond, it's inclined to be more severe, and has no problem cutting a reptile dead if the tedium gets too much to bear.
The pond won't even offer a little finger as a handshake to an offending reptile - the pond always had a lot of time for Becky Sharp - and so today the pond won't even bother giving Dame Slap the finger...
Fie, still blathering on endlessly about the voice, still bashing difficult, uppity blacks? Talk about Janet one note, though when you consider her contributions to the Higgins matter, she sometimes manages two ...
Yeah, nah, and that's how the pond ended up with a lightweight tosser of the swishing Switzer kind, proposing one of those turgid listicles only a reptile could deem a form of thinking ...
When the pond steps into this kind of gutter, it looks for the use of key words to indicate the level of moronic thinking, and there were rich pickings, though if "woke" gets mentioned even once, the pond might be tempted to leave the room to indulge in a screaming fit ...
Straight into the heart of stupidity, and for anyone wanting even more, as usual there's a wiki listing a whole range of them, from the hundred flowers campaign, through the great leap forward, to the destruction of the four olds and the campaign to denounce the gang of four ...
What is it with the number four, given that the Chinese deem it unlucky, and sometimes treat it like a missing 13th floor when putting up a building?
The pond thinks it's because it's a number which stretches limited intellects when engaging in analysis.
The number can't be five, because that's way too many, and yet the number can't be three, because that suggests an insufficiency, and so the number must be four ... and so the listicle begins ...
Sure, it's nice to know that the level of analysis isn't going to get any higher than an Elon tweet or a mango Mussolini speech, and so deserves nothing much more than idle abuse, but the pond reckons that even the pictorial department were taking the piss by inserting a shot of King Chuck III as a example of all that we should value ...
You know, huzzah for talking tampons and mother fixations and all that ... even though the doddering old fart is dedicated to quackery in many forms ... not least the Gerson regime, wherein fruit juices, coffee enemas and weekly vitamin injections will cure the cancer that ails you ...
What's all this about King Chuck?
Well the pond was foreshadowing a snap of western civilisation's finest flowering, and now we're on to that snap of the talking tampon ...
It was followed by another link to the very same ratbag doing a Dame Slap about the voice, and the shock and hostility was poor old Noel Pearson, who once was a reptile favourite, until they discovered that they preferred to pay a higher Price ...
Still, it was so rare for the reptiles to invite readers to step out of the walled garden, that the pond was in some kind of shock, and almost forget to note the obligatory mention of "zealotry" and "eco-zealots", the usual form of idiotic abuse offered by useless climate denialist idiots in lieu of any constructive suggestions as to how to deal with the effects of climate change ...
You might at least have hoped for some mention of fusion as being the new fix ...
Well as a pond correspondent noted, there's no need to stay on the pond when news is afoot elsewhere ... though the game changer is likely years away from when it might matter ... and meanwhile ...
Strangely, there was no mention of catastrophist thinking by the RN hack, but that was because the swishing Switzer is inclined to be a catastrophist himself, and so to the last in this painful listicle ...
But didn't the pond just read of the doom induced by "a growing belief that it is the state's place to sort out every problem a society faces"?!
What a maroon, as Bugs might say, and if anybody wonders why the pond never bothers to listen to RN these days, there's your answer. You've got the swishing Switzer as a presenter, and the only listener seems to be prattling Polonius, so he can get agitated about all the leftists in the place ... as if a loon blathering about the woke and snowflaking for governments to fix it could pass as a leftist ...
And what of a bonus as the pond prepares to wind down for the holyday season?
Well as there's no Dame Slap - here, have a shake of the pond's little finger - there's nothing for it than a dose of nattering "Ned", though the pond does warn the gainfully employed of nodding off mid-week when there are targets to reach and the quarter is drawing to a close ...
It's true that the reptile faithful will be appropriately alarmed by that snap of the great Satanist at the head of the piece, but where were the windmills, or at least a snap of a row of solar panels?
Surely in the great tradition of a reptile column about energy, there should be demonic windmills or perhaps a gratuitous, meaningless shot of a power station, or something to do with energy ...
Oh wait, the pond interrupted too soon, showed too little faith in the abundant skill of a pictorial department charged with making "Ned's" natter sound interesting ...
And so on with the natter ...
Sheesh, the pond is finding it extremely hard to stay awake, and it's not the weekend ...
Perhaps a coffee enema?
No, something much better ... there's an infallible Pope to hand and it's on topic...
And as the infallible Pope was offering apologies to Matisse, presumably he was referencing this well-known study of the Dance ...
Now that's exactly the sort of break the pond needed, before turning to yet another snap of the demonic Satanist getting the reptile faithful agitated...
Cause baby, now we got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
'Cause baby, now we got bad blood (hey!)
Now we got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby, now we got bad blood (hey!)
Of course the pond could have referenced Creedence, but didn't want to give away its age ...
I see the bad moon a-risin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today
Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowin'
I know the end is comin' soon
I fear rivers over flowin'
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise, alright
Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
That's more than enough of that, and the pond can only think that the bad blood and big trouble coming arises from the bizarre notion that Australian citizens own Australian resources and should use them, in a thoughtful way, to improve their lot ... and that looting and pillaging the country is a privilege with a price, not a droit de seigneur to fuck the country on a whim in the quest for a massive profit ...
But when you scribble impotent nonsense for a foreign owned company you might well have difficulty with such a simple concept ...
Speaking of the old system being ready, is it too soon to forget the old system at its finest? Yes, even as the pond types, the old system has some explaining to do ... not that you'd ever know any of it was happening if you stuck with the reptiles ...
The Braidwood Times turns up before the lizard Oz on a google search?
Never mind, being ACM, they've also got a paywall, so the pond will close with a cartoon celebrating the old system at work ...
Swishy Switz: "the old joke about money grows on trees..." And if it doesn't grow on trees, where does he think it grows ? It doesn't grow in oligarch wallets, does it. Oh yeah, in every generation there's more people, right ? And that's why the world population has grown from the approximately 2 billion of 1927 to the approximately 8 billion of now.
ReplyDeleteSo, if the amount of money hadn't "grown on trees" in that time, there'd still be only the same amount of money in the world that there was in 1927, right ? And we'd still only be earning less than $10 per week, right ?
What was that we were saying about the universality of lazy stupidity ?
But oh, "Along with attempts to reduce emissions, there will be reductions in employment, real incomes and wealth." Ok, so money may not grow on trees, but it sure can be eaten up by them.
And what a pity it is that there isn't a real "fusion breakthrough":
https://jabberwocking.com/warning-the-nif-fusion-facility-didnt-really-produce-a-net-energy-gain/
So Noddlenut Ned would like to say that "any mandated intervention would come with unintended policy dangers." Would Neddy then care to give us some examples of intended policy dangers ? Oh, I see: "price restraint inevitably means supply attrition." In short Ned is telling us that supply increase - necessary to serve that growing population we all know about - requires price increase. Is that why human economies experience never-ending inflation then ?
ReplyDelete[Thanks for the Credence Clearwater - the one-man pop band - reminder, DP. Ain't thought of him in decades.]
As usual, Paul Kelly sees lots of risks in Labour doing anything, but in respect of gas and energy pricing, I wonder what the Coalition strategy would be. Let me guess - provide billions of dollars in subsidy to the gas industry in return for their agreement to keep prices about the same for a little while (reminds me of direct action - give money to those who intend to do nothing for the promise of doing nothing for a little while); that way, the industry keeps its profitability, guaranteed by the government, with only another incremental increase in debt. As adherents of the 'do nothing' style of government, once again the hyper-activity of a Labor Government is very distressing for the Lizards.
DeleteA more in sorrow than in anger type chap, our Ned. Just so sad that others can't see what he does and act accordingly.
DeleteAt first Tommy Switzler’s contribution read as just another cut and paste list of Get Off My Lawn-isms, the sort of thing that could be - and is - regularly regurgitated by any number of Reptiles. The mention of architecture in his litany of complaints, however, was something new. Does he share King Tampon’s oft-expressed view that any style later than that of Georgian England is an abomination that results in “monstrous carbuncles” on the landscape? Or is he simply suspicious that dangerous “woke” concepts such as energy-efficient design will inevitably lead to us all living in grass huts as part of non-Christianity based family units?
ReplyDeleteSwitzer asks how will the NDIS etc be paid for. Carlos Maza exposes this as a scam: https://youtu.be/MCKeXhta3H0
ReplyDeleteThose wingnuts and reptiles are very good at "framing" (in all its various meanings), aren't they.
DeleteOne of the things they just can't admit is that once the interest rate has been driven down, you can borrow from yourself at virtually no cost and pay it "back" in a timeframe entirely of your own choosing.
[Pssst: nobody tell the reptiles, and particularly the Groaner, about that.]
Very good Joe, but it would exceed the attention span of those who need to watch it, which seems to be the nub of the problem.
DeleteOne of the in-laws buys into the household budget analogy and tends to get a bit testy if questioned about the starting assumptions and logic of that argument. This person is undoubtedly smarter than I am, and also quite well qualified, but weirdly unobservant and incurious about anything that isn't presented in some sort of formal training format.
The other funny thing is that, despite a well paid job, their personal finances are a complete mess. I cannot help but think all these things are connected.
Anything more than about a millisecond elapsed 'exceeds the attention span' of much of the human race, Bef. But I see you have a problem with 'suspension of belief' whereas Chad (below) has a problem with 'suspension of disbelief'.
DeleteWonderful how some can come to a state of belief or disbelief and simply just turn off the reasoning faculty thereafter. But then, as I am wont to mention, human beings have been rabid believers in "religions" for millennia. And look what it has achieved for them.
Ok, JM, now that the grevilleas are fading and the jacarandas are flowering, then I thought I'd cover the gymea lillies (aka triffids aka doryanthes excelsa) in case you haven't already been introduced.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp12/doryanthes-excelsa.html
Thanks for that link, GB.
DeleteI had previously discovered the Waratah and had looked into seeing if they
could grow here but no go.
I suspect these gymea lillies are in the same family, as they both grow in
NSW and look so similar.
They've sorta migrated south into Victoria over the last decade or two and are quite common now. Apparently there's a variety (doryanthes palmeri) which is native to Queensland as well.
DeleteDorothy - Perhaps we Groaner Cultists should admit that we are not a lot different from watchers of over-promoted 'blockbuster' TV series. The last 'blockbusters' I watched were 'Brideshead' - the version with Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, and the superb Nickolas Grace as Anthony Blanche, and, 2 years later, 'Reilly Ace of Spies', which understated what I read in the Bruce Lockhart book. But, in the case of the Groanings, we watch for the catch-phrases, the revived myths, the wanderings off the pathway of the discussion (which, in a well-constructed TV series would be red herrings to set the viewer to constructing a different version of plot. With our Dame, it is simply filling in words to make up column space - like those decals you used to be able to get to layout possible pamphlets or publications, that had random arrangements of letters. Oh, there were versions that used Latin text - perhaps our Holey Henry has a stock of them still. But I digress!)
ReplyDeleteAnd we do tend to offer our 'reviews' of the Dame's performances, although if we had real pretensions in that way, we would use words like 'repetitive' and 'derivative' and 'unconvincing' or 'unable to suspend disbelief'. In my own case, having been in the orbit of professional economists in South Australia when the Dame was supposed to be doing her research, I am never likely to be able to suspend disbelief at what she writes, but rather marvel at what she is prepared to put down because the opinions she now offers are dictated, not by her research background, but by the implied policies of the publisher. As with cult blockbusters - stick to the script.
I guess the question still in my mind is whether Groany can actually apply any sense or reason when she communicates with fellow 'professionals' - if she still, or ever has, done so.
DeleteGB - She is virtually a stranger to the Economic Society of Australia, and was during her time in South Australia. That was probably just as well, because even then she - well, her newspaper column - was frequently the object of mocking comment at the seminars and colloquia that EcoSoc ran then, and the SA branch was favoured by some outstanding members of the profession - such as Bob Gregory, Geoff Harcourt and Bernie Fraser
DeleteOh well, consistency is a virtue, I guess. So is constantly failing upwards.
DeleteMorrison is before the commission and is producing something like verbal diarrhoea and we had this man as our Prime Minister.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2022/dec/14/robodebt-scott-morrison-pulled-up-repeatedly-for-not-answering-questions-video
DeleteAnswer the fv#cking question!