The pond realises that everybody will already have visited the venerable Meade to get their herpetological studies fix, this week headed Why a cosmetic nurse became a media magnet over the Alice Springs unrest, and down the page there was an item that added to the pond's confusion, namely, what's happening at Crikey?
The keen Keane hasn't been sighted since before Christmas and the other day a coalition apparatchik, one Charlotte Mortlock was invited to explain why she was voting for the Dominator, despite the Liberals having a woman problem. (paywall)
Gven that the pond still can't remember the name of the opposition leader - Opus Dei sticks in the mind better - the pond had a read, but then at the very end the pond came across this.
Disclosure: Charlotte Mortlock is an adviser on pacific and international development for Michael McCormack, member for Riverina.
WTF? The pond realised it should have been headed Here's why I'm voting for the Dominator. If I scribbled anything else, I'd be out of a job.
You might as well be reading the lizard Oz, though last time the pond checked Crikey was supposed to be in mortal combat with the Chairman's spawn, and in urgent need of donations and funds.
And then there are the Putin-loving trolls that stalk the comments section, still hung over from their festival days, swigging down down huge bottles of RT, and you really have to search for a sensible read, though Charlie Lewis can be relied on, as in Tony Abbott’s eulogy for George Pell is a masterclass in sycophancy. (paywall)
It meant that the pond could safely ignore a correspondent's advice that the rant had been posted in its entirety at Quad-rant:
...This trait was in full flow when recently Abbott saw off one of his heroes — “In short, he’s the greatest Catholic Australia has produced and one of our country’s greatest sons … That’s the heroic virtue that makes him, to my mind, a saint for our times”. He continued, via Kipling:
If character means to trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; if it means bearing to hear the truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, George Pell was the greatest man I’ve ever known.
There was also his strange, joyless sense of humour:
And as I heard the chant [from protesters outside the church], ‘Cardinal Pell should go to hell’, I thought, ‘Aha! At least they now believe in the afterlife.’
Perhaps this is St George Pell’s first miracle.
On a day for reflection, Abbott could summon no thoughts as to why survivors of abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church might not want to send their well-wishes to the departed cardinal — who a royal commission in 2017 found was “conscious of child sexual abuse by clergy” as early as 1973 and had failed to act on complaints about priests.
Abbott’s gag at their expense called to mind his wink to ABC presenter Jon Faine when talking to a pensioner who identified herself as a sex worker, or his wish that Julia Gillard would “make an honest woman of herself”.
Most directly, it brought back the joke Abbott made about former NSW Liberal leader John Brogden, who had resigned in 2005 after being found in his office with self-inflicted wounds: Abbott quipped that if the Liberal Party made a certain policy switch, “we would be as dead as the former Liberal leader’s political prospects”.
And so, to great applause, Abbott saw off his spiritual guide with a mixture of sycophancy and strange, cruel humour, leaving one to wonder, yet again, if he’s not reading the wider mood of the country — or if he simply doesn’t care.
Well yes, and so the pond felt justified and righteous and not having to deal with a man who is vile in thought and deed ... not to mention that smug face routinely twisted into a self-satisfied smirk.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: Moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Proverbs 16:30
Enough with the distractions, the pond has been avoiding its studies and with good reason ...
Oh Jimbo, Jimbo, you've set off both the dog botherer and Killer Creighton, and frankly the pond has had it up to the back teeth.
And this is the second week in a row the reptiles have dredged the tiresome Adams from the swamp of self-regard, and flung him into the mix, and still the advertising industry mourns its loss ... while the pond reaches for its vomit bucket ...
There was nothing for it but to settle in for some climate science from the bromancer, and welcome the apocalypse ...
Warning. This is a long outing, and at the end of it, some readers might feel fatigued and with a desire to do absolutely nothing, except perhaps hope for the completion of the Death Star and the destruction of the planet ...
It's easy to see where we're heading. The coal loving Canavan caravan as the first line, and the reptiles' graphic department thinking the way to introduce a piece of climate science denialism is by way of a Star Trek style graphic, though to be fair, it's funnier than an array of ominous Satanic solar panels, or swishing killer windmills ...
So it's on with the cosmic despair, but the pond promises one hearty laugh at the very end ...
Yes, the bromancer is full of astonishing insights, and the pond was startled to learn that dragons don't exist.
What other childhood dreams might the bromancer shatter in the read - the fairies at the bottom of the pond's garden, Santa Claus? Oh no, not the Easter Bunny, the pond was looking forward to its choccies ... meanwhile, it must make do with the bromancer celebrating the coal-loving Canavan caravan, doing the work of an epic climate science denialist, because that's what reptiles do ...
It's always funny when a fundamentalist Xian introduces religion into the mix and blathers about miracles, and heaven and such like, while cheerfully consigning large portions of the planet to hell, but that's what reptiles do, and with great fervour and frock-loving conviction ...
Ah coal, of course the bromancer would have some kind words about coal, because how else could he stay on the Canavan caravan?
Meanwhile, how he's enjoying his role as dragon slayer and apocalyptic doom merchant ... and if China isn't enough, there's always India ...
Is there any sign of hope? Does the bromancer have the first clue or the slightest care as to what will happen to the planet? Nope, it's time for Uncle Elon to enter stage from the far right ...
Yes, there's absolutely no hope, the ancient bromancer mariner has stoppeth one of three, and explained how everything is completely useless and utterly pointless and so why do anything about anything, why not just lie back and enjoy it ...
But the pond promised a laugh, and it's coming, but first we must continue on the apocalyptic doom ride aboard the bromancer's Canavan caravan ...
Strange, once upon a time, the pond can remember when the climate science denialists at the lizard Oz were really big for carbon capture, and persuaded Liberal governments to piss millions against the wall to make it so ...
Here's a blast ... have a read of
Greg Hunt in pdf form back in July 2013, when he was the shadow minister for climate action, environment and heritage ...
Meanwhile the pond must get on to the penultimate gobbet of despair ...
Yes, there's the laugh, a rich and a good one, though tinged in the pond with a mix of hysteria and apocalyptic despair ...
None of this is to say do nothing about climate change, don’t reduce emissions substantially.
He's pulling the pond's leg isn't he? He's poking the pond in the ribs, isn't he?
He's jerking the pond's chain, isn't he? Or is he jerking himself off to produce a happy ending and a planet fucked? But what a punchline, and the pond couldn't stop repeating it, it was so rich and good and funny, deeply funny ...
None of this is to say do nothing about climate change, don’t reduce emissions substantially.
What's the point, you useless dickhead gherkin? You stupid, foolish fundamentalist tyke futtock of the first water ...
You've just spent an entire column explaining how pointless, impossible and futile it all is, and then just like dragons and fairies at the bottom of the garden, you can wish it all away with a "None of is is to say ..."
Then came a final thrust, in a snappy little final gobbet ...
And that's almost as good. Just the facts ma'am, says Sergeant Joe "Bromancer" Friday, just the facts, we're all doomed, and doing anything about it is completely pointless, and a waste of time, and nothing is to be done, nothing at all, because that will only amount to a hill of beans in this troubled world, though none of this is to say that you have just wasted precious time reading a fundamentalist tyke praying he'll get to heaven before the world turns to hell in a bromancer handbasket...
The bromancer is here to help? The pond has got a bridge to sell you, or perhaps a lot of onions, so you can munch along with the onion muncher while enjoying the ride on the Canavan caravan ...
And so to the bonus, and here the pond decided it best employ a surrogate for Killer and the dog botherer's rage at Jimbo, and who better than nattering "Ned", because - deep sigh - he too was in a state of rage ...
Instead of a laugh, this time the pond is promising a typographical novelty. It's probably not enough to induce those who've run screaming from the room back in to spend time with the natterer, but it's the best the pond has got ... and yes, it is interminable, perhaps not as interminable as some, but more than interminable for most ...
Sure, there was the beginning of a snicker with "Ned's" line, "nobody thinks capitalism is perfect", because if nobody thinks that, why isn't Nobody working on it?
“Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay.
"Nobody," said the Messenger.
"Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you."
"I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!"
"He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.”
Oh dear, that suggests that the pond and Nobody aren't taking the nattering seriously, but there's a lot more walking to be done ... and of course a snap of the deviant trouble maker, the cause of all the reptile fuss, looking grim and glum ...
The pond realises that some might wonder where that "Ned" link landed, but not to worry, it's just another part of the reptile empire, Tom Dusevic back on Jan 27th, scribbling under the header
I will remake capitalism, says Jim Chalmers ...
There's no way on earth that the reptiles would provide a link to
The Monthly, wherein Jimbo can be found scribbling
Capitalism after the crises ...
One of the more comical subplots of the political week has been the fury belching from the opinion pages of the Australian and the Australian Financial Review in response to Jim Chalmers suggesting in conciliatory terms that capitalism should (brace yourselves readers) be tethered by values.
You might have missed this because the tantrum was contained largely within those enclaves. If you missed the provocation that triggered the response, the treasurer penned a 6,000-word essay for the Monthly during his summer break. The Chalmers thesis was capital could be harnessed both for private profit and public good. He also posited (wait for it readers) that better informed markets make better decisions.
There are plenty of links in those opening lines, but the pond has linked to the piece, and that's enough, though it does help explain that use of the word "enclave" because the reptiles never want their readers to stray outside the tent ...
Now triggered triggering, back to the fury belching, though such is the sedentary nature of a stroll with "Ned's" natter, that it's more of an old hack's fart or burp ...
And that reminds the pond of another Murphy line ...
The mainly ridiculous reaction to the Monthly essay will have reminded the Albanese government – which has enjoyed a wellbeing fillip associated with a six-month political honeymoon – that there is no loyal cheer squad waiting to fawn and flatter. If you want to make change, there is no easy ride.
There never is with furious reptiles belching and nattering "Ned" burping ...
And there was also this ...
The government has an enormous amount of work to do over the coming 12 months, much of it difficult. The whole apparatus will be hyperextended and hurtling.
But I hope somebody has the bandwidth to be paying close attention to the royal commission into the robodebt fiasco – the royal commission investigating why and how an unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019.
Watching events closely in Canberra means I can only tune in and out of this process periodically. But what I’ve seen is truly mind-blowing.
Will "Ned" be the reptile to tune in and have his mind blown?
Of course not ... he's still back at "the mainly ridiculous reaction" stage ...
And so quickly on to the next gobbet and the typographical curiosity the pond had promised....
Did the sight of Swannie set "Ned" right off? Did the one sub-editor the reptiles employ get so excited they hit the wrong button?
Who can say, and the pond discreetly passes over "Ned" blathering about "coming to grips" because the thought of "Ned" coming to grips with anything is vaguely disturbing ...
Now on to another snap of Swannie, erupting from the reptile graveyard of horrors ...
Say what? We're still in the land of the bold?
Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Blather, boldly blather’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Jimbo's Eldorado!’
Of course the pond could have tried for cartoon relief ...
But the reptiles getting so riled that the sight of the blathered, boldly blathering, was more than enough of a distraction for the pond, and still there was more blather, by the monumental blatherer, as he went on boldly blathering in the final gobbet ...
Yes, there's always a punchline and surely it comes with "Ned's" effort, "ideas matter", when the mainly ridiculous reptile reaction to Jimbo clearly shows that ideas don't matter and certainly rational discussion isn't the point, not when an hysterical over-reaction within the enclaves is the entire point of the proceedings...
Meanwhile the infallible Pope has returned and served up a splendid reminder of something the reptiles have spent endless time and energy avoiding ... the most shameless and shocking example of a reprehensible government in action, as opposed to scribbling an essay, and what's worse, a bunch of reptiles overlooking the neoliberal wasteland, though it does provide convincing evidence that "Ned" has absolutely no interest in recent history, or the damage done, or the lives lost ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteStage 1: Deny the Problem Exists
Stage 2: Deny We're the Cause
Stage 3: Deny It's a Problem
Stage 4: Deny We can Solve It
Stage 5: It's too Late
Progress! The Bromancer has hit Stage 4.
Yes DW but there's also a goodly dose of Stage 5, because he's counting the days until he can join the frock lover in purgatory ...
DeleteHas there been any comment on the robodebt royal commission by the Murdoch papers and what the legacy of that most egregious system produced? To see the arse covering that is trying to be served up is nauseating. And the waste that produced, PWC gained millions of dollars and produced a report that was not delivered at one stage because if it had been would have exposed the unlawful process and if the secretaries of those departments remain in the public service after costing and paying out of some billion odd dollars and in some cases the possible suicide of vulnerable people. But what have had recorded is the lickspittle journalists from
ReplyDeleteMurdoch producing media releases from the ministers office at the time. Legal people within the departments knew of the expert opinions that said it was unlawful but knowingly did not challenge the AAT or the opinion of a barrister that delivered a lecture on the legality of system.
There could be so much more said about this and there will be by people who have much better grasp of writing and expressing a more in depth analysis of the outcome of this royal commission
but as na old codger I felt compelled to have my say after reading the article by Kelly.
Laura Tingle has penned a piece on today ABC about the royal commission.
DeleteThe Robodebt RC has pretty much ignored by the Murdochmedia, fellow Anony. Nice to see some coverage by the ABC, but it’s been almost as scant as the Costello papers’ few articles. The Gruadian and the Saturday Paper have been giving it the attention it deserves, have some of the other indie media such as Independent Australia. It there’s been any real coverage on tv, I’ve certainly failed to notice it.
DeleteCompare and contrast with the wall to wall media coverage given to Abbott’s Pink Batts and Gillard / union bashing RCs.
Has the Murdoch media reported on the clarification of the specific use of the Murdoch media by the LNP federal government to massage a message that enabled a brutal system that punched down on poor and confused Australians?
DeleteNot that I have seen as yet, but it's bound to be percolating somewhere. I imagine that it won't be written by Simon Benson - but who knows?
There was an announcement in today's dead tree edition of The Oz about some editorial promotions - Lloydy of the Amazon is on the way up :) - but there was no mention of the name of the senior editor said to be the 3rd departure from the herpetarium for, ahem, inappropriate behaviour towards women at end of 2022.
What a time to be alive eh?
Benson has certainly been identified by former Coalition staffer evidence at the RC to have been considered a very useful tool.
DeleteKathryn Campbell: "I have been involved with other significant failures and there have been other significant failures, but I don't think that it's useful to talk about those."
Deletehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-04/robodebt-royal-commission-evidence-public-sector-dysfunction/101928428
Once upon a time, Australia actually had capable and effective public servants: like "Nugget" Coombs and Roland Wilson as examples. We had public servants who built roads and railway lines, airports, hospitals, post and telephone services and electricity and gas services etc and also operated them on a daily basis.
But fair dinkum, you wouldn't trust 'em to do anything now. Except lie about the glories of "free markets and private enterprise" - neither of which we have much of nowadays since we've flogged off so much to others - don't own anything much that's dug out from our soil for instance.
And it's all due to (1) politicisation and (2) outsourcing over a 60 - 70 year period, so guess who was mainly responsible. Praise be.
Yes, there's plenty of coverage out there if you seek it, but the reptiles are complicit and corrupt, so they've buried it ...
DeleteAs criticism of robodebt grew in 2017, Mr Tudge was deeply involved in collating a document that responded to criticism about robodebt’s inaccuracy made mostly by people receiving welfare payments from the department he oversaw.
Mr Tudge personally reviewed a draft response that even included information about the circumstances of people receiving payments who had spoken out in the media in a bid to discredit their accounts.
Simon Benson, a News Corp journalist known recently for his close relationship with Scott Morrison, included the minister’s work in an exclusive news story in The Australian.
Mr Tudge said his intention had been to put accurate information on the public record.
“It made very clear that if somebody wanted to criticise Centrelink in public, they were taking a risk,” Commissioner Catherine Holmes said
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2023/02/01/robodebt-failings-alan-tudge/
a-freakin' men GB! That's exactly why it is. And as we see from KC's mind-melding evidence, the reward for "being involved in other significant failures" is a pay-rise, and ANOTHER senior position to......to do what in? Achieve? Or significantly fail. Again. Time for a bex and a good lie down.
DeleteThe use of alarmist economic fear has been one of the most potent memes of Doubt, Deny, Delay politicking on climate.
ReplyDeleteRenewable energy denial has become more significant than climate science denial in maintaining the fear of taking global warming seriously - it has the advantage that it used to be true that renewables didn't work cost effectively; as long as the target audience remains reluctant to update what they think they know and prefer living in the past it will still resonate for a few more years. Except where people can afford solar power, like electorates such as Wentworth.
It has worked effectively in the past, but I suspect the target audience is getting smaller and smaller all the time, mainly due to the work of the grim reaper. It has been very noticeable that even the type of reactionary conservatives who would like to believe this stuff have installed home PV because they can see neighbours saving money.
DeleteThis is a few years old but it does point out that it's not just the very wealthy installing PV (alternatively look in any greenfield subdivision).
https://www.qut.edu.au/news?news-id=113898
‘Ned’ has given us a neat precis of the failings of the economy of our land of Girtby; particularly ‘substandard’ investment and weak productivity. Yet he still tries to make a case that ‘Australia’s post-1983 reform era success has been based on the market system’ even though our recent performance is ‘sluggish’ because these reforms have not been ‘reinvigorated.’
ReplyDeleteSo ‘Ned’ has tried, yet again, for the sweeping perspective of the self-styled senior statesman. He fails because of the critical factor that he cannot admit. The absolutely necessary element of an economy that operates mainly through markets is that participants in the markets have adequate information. Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ was guided by, was a metaphor for, information. As often as not, that information was contained in an offer to purchase (and there is still a lot of established law around that delightfully ancient phrase ‘invitation to treat’) or encrypted in a price card in the window of a store.
If ‘Ned’ wants to date an important part of his analysis from 1983, he might reflect on how the kind and quality of information has changed since that time. Even more importantly, he might inform us on who has been influential in distorting that information, with every intention of subverting the theoretically pure ‘market system’. Oh, small problem for ‘Ned’ - he has been an integral part of the corporation that has lead the distortion of ‘information’ to suit the personal advantage of just one person.
Can anyone truly make a case that the brayings of Tucker, and Hannity, Ingraham and anyone, anyone else ‘presenting’ on Fox imparts any information that might guide watchers to making decisions that advance either their own best interests, or the general welfare? The same, quite rhetorical, question might be directed at the performers nightly over-acting on Sky Australia, adding momentum to the recycling of catchphrases with the print media, where the most important requirement is that the supposed ‘editorial content’ does not take the attention of the reader from the pages devoted to pumping ‘wealth creation’ through real estate renovation and investment, or the ‘Life Style’ supplement which tells you that happiness is linked almost inextricably with the names of ‘designers’ being prominent on the labels of what you wear or carry.
Yep - small problem for Ned - how to analyse the problem without admitting that you have long been part of it; and will be, until they pry the laptop from your cold, dead, hands.
Yep: lies, damned lies and Murdoch reptile lies. However, Chad, I must point out that there really is no problem whatsoever for Ned and there never has been; he knows full well 'the base' has only a short term and fallible memory function. He isn't writing for us, mate: "if I don't ever mention it again, then it never really happened". All of the reptiles have mastered that one.
DeleteSheesh, Chadders too funny, it should be Above the Line and not in the comments section.
DeleteNaah, let it be in comments pour encourager les autres.
DeleteI don’t know whether the Bro attended the late Cardinal’s funeral, but he’s certainly showing signs of inhaling the incense a bit too heavily….
ReplyDeleteGotta laugh at the Reptiles’ use of faux- “Star Trek” imagery and allusions (I wonder where they knocked off those graphics?). The ST Universe, with its altruistic Federation based on such principles as the Prime Directive, should be anathema to the New Corp ethos, which would doubtless consider such an approach to be softcock wimpishness. Murdoch Media would feel much more at home in the Star Wars universe, featuring as it does an Empire which has so much in common with its own principles and leadership. These days the Chairman even bears an uncanny resemblance to the late great Emperor Palpatine.
But it does explain why the pond never intrudes on the reptiles in their Surry Hills refuge ...
DeleteAs the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Starfleet personnel may interfere with the normal and healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes introducing superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Starfleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral obligation.
No point introducing climate science to them, it would simply bewilder the reptiles and interfere with the abnormal and unhealthy development of alien reptile life and culture ...
Yair, it's just gorgeous, isn't it: "None of this is to say do nothing about climate change, don’t reduce emissions substantially." The point of that, apart from the Bro thinking it makes him sound good, is that none of the reptiles or their running-dog lackeys have any conception whatsoever of what the world - and its climate and hence weather - is going to be like in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years. They still think that everything going on now - floods anyone ? - is all fully "precedented", it's all happened, and worse, before.
ReplyDeleteIt still hasn't registered, I reckon, that CO2 takes a long time to fade away - every tonne of it that enters the atmosphere stays there for at least a couple of thousand years. And as usual, the Bro has managed to include one small fact (eg like tanks and island continents); that "Carbon capture and storage was once the big thing." but "It is so ludicrously expensive, and energy intensive, that it's not in operation anywhere commercially."
So there we go: anything and everything we do will fail. And the joy of it is that by the time it does fail, the human population will be at least 9 billion. But don't worry, China under Xi will pick up its population growth again - the only way to "grow" an economy unless you can import your population growth like Australia does - and will be up to 2 billion in no time; with India leading the way and Africa surging.
What will a world of 10 billion (and still rapidly increasing) be like ?
Millions in US north-east brace for ‘once-in-a-generation’ Arctic blast
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/03/arctic-blast-us-north-east-cold-weather
See, it's all fully 'precedented'.
The pond trusts they'll all enjoy their fully precedented rapture, though it's a pity no one's reported back to reassure them and the pond that the precedent actually holds ...
DeleteA biggie today!
ReplyDeleteDP, I can hear your phrase "with great fervour and frock-loving conviction ..." rising with fervour said in the style of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction as "He declaims a passage from the Bible". Wikipedia.
I am convicted!
And herewith, for a basis to your claims "with great fervour and frock-loving conviction ..." is the "early nineteenth-century pastor William Henry Foote reflected upon the eighteenth-century Christians who were his forebears in North Carolina and Virginia, he paused at one point to make an observation about the clothes they wore.". Using reptile logic, I'll conflate dress with clothes. No one will notice - if Kool aid imbued.
“A Church-going People are a Dress-loving People”: Clothes, Communication, and Religious Culture in Early America"
“A church-going people are a dress-loving people”, he said; “The sanctity and decorum of the house of God are inseparably associated with a decent exterior; and the spiritual, heavenly exercises of the inner man are incompatible with a defiled and tattered, or slovenly mein. All regular Christian assemblies cultivate a taste for dress, and none more so than the hardy pioneer settlers of Upper Carolina, and the valley and mountains of Virginia” As they readied themselves for worship, Foote elaborated, the faithful “put on their best and carefully preserved dress” in preparation for “their approach to the King of Kings”.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/churchgoing-people-are-a-dressloving-people-clothes-communication-and-religious-culture-in-early-america/CF31D350E0D9026616D213706F3A32D3
And William Henry Foote - for agent read prozletizer. For Chaplian to Confderates read I don't like poorly dressed blaks. No Vinnies back then.
"During the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865, he served as a Presbyterian chaplain in the Confederate States Army.[1]
"From 1838 to 1845, Foote served as an agent for the Central Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church.[1][4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Foote
I wonder if it's time to reintroduce the world to The Lady's Dressing Room via Jonathon Swift:
Delete"Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50579/the-ladys-dressing-room
Don't we all.
DP! Your effing gherkin meter is off the charts today. Practice makes the skewer perfect I suppose. When is your GPT_LoonAI appearing. Elon would use it too though, so it may be turned on us here. Ooh!
ReplyDelete"the pond still can't remember the name of the opposition leader - Opus Dei sticks in the mind better
"still hung over from their festival days, swigging down down huge bottles of RT
"dredged the tiresome Adams from the swamp of self-regard, "lmao
"some readers might feel fatigued and with a desire to do absolutely nothing, except perhaps hope for the completion of the Death Star and the destruction of the planet ...
"it's funnier than an array of ominous Satanic solar panels, or swishing killer windmills ..."
"the ancient bromancer mariner has stoppeth one of three
"we must continue on the apocalyptic doom ride aboard the bromancer's Canavan caravan ...
"or perhaps a lot of onions, so you can munch along with the onion muncher while enjoying the ride on the Canavan caravan ..." topical lmao
"though such is the sedentary nature of a stroll with "Ned's" natter, that it's more of an old hack's fart or burp ...
"and what's worse, a bunch of reptiles overlooking the neoliberal wasteland,
Too. Good. DP!
Ta Anon, ya gotta laugh, or else the tears would wash away Surry Hills.
DeleteUpdate on a minor contributor to Sky and reptile print. In the contest for top flea on a moribund dog, Caroline di Russo has reached the dizzy heights of President of the Liberal Party in Western Australia. We assume she will identify as such in all future contributions to mass media.
ReplyDeleteWhat a news flash Chadders, what a pity it would mean attending the Terror and Sky after dark to check ...
Delete"And that's almost as good. Just the facts ma'am, says Sergeant Joe "Bromancer" Friday, just the facts, we're all doomed, and doing anything about it is completely pointless, and a waste of time, and nothing is to be done, nothing at all, because that will only amount to a hill of beans in this troubled world, though none of this is to say that you have just wasted precious time reading a fundamentalist tyke praying he'll get to heaven before the world turns to hell in a bromancer handbasket..."
ReplyDeleteNot only that, Dorothy, it's "techically impossible"!