Golf is dead to the pond.
Oh wait, golf has always been dead to the pond in a GUR, or is that a grrr, way...
Start again.
There are some days the pond is inclined to slack off with its herpetological studies and Thursday is one of them ...
Crikey had already tipped off the pond on what was to be expected from petulant Peta, and sure enough ... thar she blowed
Apparently the pasty Hastie can feel a sense of shame but not petulant Peta, on semi-permanent ban at the pond ...
Instead of pandering to petulant Peta's love of war crimes, time for the pond to cheat and read Crikey ...
There was more, but that was more than enough for the pond. Of course the reptiles were going to celebrate mayhem and murder, and with a bit of domestic violence in the mix ...
Then there was the other reptile obsession, with Dame Slap gone feral and crazed obsessive compulsive ... a contagion which was splashed across the tree killer edition this day ...
Was it only the pond that had noticed this rabid weirdness?
Again Crikey came to the rescue of the slacker pond ... with Charlie Lewis scribbling ‘Gratuitous snide gossip’: News Corp continues Bruce Lehrmann’s defence, Seven said Lehrmann had never told his side of the story before Sunday's interview. But News Corp had been telling it for him long before then.
The pond will settle for a sample,, with this the introduction to the gobbet ...
Had he been cross-examined at the criminal trial it is likely the questions would have been more rigorous and forensic than those bowled up by [Seven’s] Spotlight star Liam Bartlett — although we might have missed the news about him being a mother’s boy and proud of it.
The pond's inclination to do a Thursday shirking continued when the pond looked at what was on offer below the fold ...
For a moment the pond thought about taking up a correspondent's offer to smirk about the bible being banned ... but that had been in the Beeb and other sites days ago, Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence', and it was why the pond had been attracted to reading the bible from cover to cover at an early age, despite risking eternal damnation for preferring the King James version ...
“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide”
Not to mention a long absent lord inclined to extinction events and having a fling with a woman that evokes memories of the sentimental tripe of Ghost ... what's not to like? It's a ripper read and everybody should be encouraged, or at least watch Cecil so you can see the wicked dancing girls, and the grapes, and so on and so forth ... talk about hot ...
Nor has the pond mentioned an associated matter featured in The Graudian ... Morrison government’s $4m grant to group accused of ‘extreme religious practices’ was likely unlawful
“Some of the prevalent and consistent themes that emerged from the complaints and allegations included emotional and psychological abuse, coercive and extreme religious practices, LGBTQA+ suppression and conversion practices, culturally harmful practices, medical complaints, family alienation, physical restraints and assaults, and sexual assault,” the report said.
Sounds just about right for SloMo government funding ...
And with Lloydie of the Amazon gone a little quiet of late, how to provide a segue to stories such as Too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find, or Arctic could be ice-free a decade earlier than thought.
And that's how the pond ended up with the globalists ...
The author, a Swinburne chappie, didn't bother to define it, and when the pond went looking, it found this ...
So the pond clicked on New World Order ...
Still not quite right ... so the pond checked out the wiki ...
Nailed it ... that wiki has just about every conspiracy theory under the sun ...and yes, jolly Joe and General Milley are among the globalists.
Is valiant Vlad the impaler, sociopath in chief, among the globalists? Of course not. He's just a long suffering victim, inclined to blowing up dams to protest his unfair treatment ...
And so it was on to the last gobbet from the splendid Swinburne chappie, though he's apparently unaware that he too might be a globalist, helping in his own humble way to swell the Murdochian globalist coffers ...
... and by the immortal Rowe ... with dragons much in favour when we're not down in the galleys with Charlton ...
Cash forgives mist ills it seems
ReplyDeleteI once worked in risk management - I never knew it qualified me to scribble a conspiracy-fueled rant on international politics for the Lizard Oz. Perhaps I missed my true calling?
ReplyDeleteIf I were still in that game, though, I don’t think I’d be engaging Doubting Thomas as a consultant.
Anonymous - I was looking around t'net for reasons to pay any attention to the ranting of Jason Thomas. Seems he writes most often for the 'Speccie' - so is not seeking a wide readership. 'Frontier Assessments' lists Jason as 50% of its staff, tells me his
Delete"Research & application interests include:
lessons from biology for risk adaptation for overcoming project risks. "
I cannot easily see what lessons we might take from 'projects' by other organisms, as I have real difficulty identifying 'projects' in the life cycles of other organisms. Touch of anthropomorphism there?
Oh, 'He also volunteers for the Rotary Club of Canterbury. '
What more would you want, as you venture into international investment?
Ah, just lovely: "President Joe Biden never gave Putin an ultimatum not to invade. Putin saw a weakness." Yeah, right: now just what "ultimatum" was Sleepy Joe going to issue to the autocratic dictator of a nation with more atomic weapons than his own ?
DeleteIt's when one encounters the likes of our 'risk assessment' Jason as a university "teacher" that one becomes depressingly aware why there is so much ignorant stupidity abroad in the world of homo sapiens sapiens. We subscribe to it and pay for it and teach it to our young and live by it. We always have, we always will. Just how long will it be before evolution provides a more worthy successor ?
One has to wonder just what Jason gets paid for inflicting his preciousness upon the reptile readership.
Joined couple of colleagues from my biological researching days for lunch this day, and tried with them the idea of other organisms engaging in 'projects'. Advantage of smart phones (I do not have one) is that we could check the accepted definitions and meanings of 'projects'. We could not think of anything that social organisms - down to slime moulds - do that in any way fits the term 'project', let alone how they might, somehow, assess 'risk' in setting up a 'project'. We chatted across the works of birds building nests, wasps and bees, beavers, but - unusual for us, could not generate an argument that any of them showed any kind of behaviour that suggested starting a 'project'. Our conclusion would be that Jason has simply not understood the origins and triggers of behaviour of organisms that work as groups, or even individually, to make structures that they need for their lives. Neither (around the last glass of a good Clare red) did we know of any other organism that builds or works to excess, to impress others of its species. Bees do not make larger cells in the comb as a show of affluence, because the hexagonal cell is at its optimum within remarkably tight dimensions; same applies to termite mounds - whatever we could think of. Even the scout bees who seek a new location for a migrating hive work within predictable parameters and apply similarly predictable behaviours to convince the swarm to follow them to the new site.
DeleteIt is unlikely to happen, but we thought we would like to see writing from Jason on his designated research interest - just what research, published or not, he draws on, to prepare those 'lessons from biology for risk adaptation for overcoming project risks.'?
Yeah, it's great that so many other people have smart phones - in particular those I occasionally have lunch with - so that I don't have to have one. I have a 6yo ZTE that I got for $9 from a Woolworths' supermarket - it makes and takes phone calls and text messages just fine ... at least until Telstra shuts off 3G and I have to get a new one.
DeleteI would have gone for termites, though:
"Termites might not be the most majestic creatures, but they build impressively tall skyscrapers — towers of dirt that can top 30 feet. (If humans built a tower the same number of times our height, it would top out around 3,600 feet; the world’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is around 3,000 feet tall.)"
https://grist.org/article/these-self-cooled-buildings-were-inspired-by-termites-and-frogs/#:~
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/07/the-australian-war-memorial-has-decided-that-perhaps-we-need-to-understand-these-war-crimes-a-bit-better
ReplyDelete“No children the real victims of this bitter conflict are the conservative media who have had their magical soldier feelings hurt. The poor dears - look that is a little jar of their tears - so very sad”
GB - the offering this day from the Immortal Rowe (thank you Dorothy) encapsulates the dilemma of productivity much better than any of my babblings. Now, if only our Dame Groan would deign to look at it.
ReplyDeleteWell at least I find your "babblings" readable, Chad. Can't say that for everybody.
DeleteHowever, yes, "smarter or harder" is indeed the fundamental dilemma, isn't it. Once we've got past Lowe's recipe of "work longer and spend less" anyway - now that will fix all our ills, won't it.
I forgot to mention that I also read Krugman for quite a while - until the NYT went subscription and put up its access wall; I wouldn't pay the NYT for anything, even Krugman.
Delete"...that had been in the Beeb and other sites days ago, Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'..." I just don't read the Beeb nowadays, so I had to wait until the story made it locally here to notice. Nonetheless, it's a good story. Even the KJ version.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, the cast of C B DeM's 'Samson and Delilah': Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury and somebody named Henry Wilcoxon (who ?). We don't get casts like that nowadays, do we.
Groucho Marx claimed he was asked if he liked the movie and replied “Well, there's just one glaring fault. No picture can hold my interest where the leading man's bust is larger than the leading lady's!”. Though I suspect his actual words may have been a little more earthy.
DeleteYeah, that does faintly tinkle an old rusty bell, Anony. He could be mercilessly funny at times, old Groucho. He did do a radio show for a while and I listened to a few episodes (way back when), but I can't actually remember anything of it - and that isn't senile loss of memory ... unless I was already senile maybe 40 years ago.
DeleteI dimly recall seeing reruns of Groucho’s tv quiz show “You Bet Your Life” in my early 1960s childhood, GB I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them were on YouTube.
DeleteDP, on topic soon, as so many loons. The John Howard staffer has been hiding at the bottom of the barrel for decades!
ReplyDeleteThey went looking and all that was left in the (right) barrel is:
"Candidates line up for Liberal preselection in Warrandyte
"Nine candidates have nominated for Liberal preselection in the Victorian seat of Warrandyte after the resignation of MP Ryan Smith last week.
"They include former candidates at the 2022 state election Nicole Werner, Jason McClintock and David Farrelly, KPMG director Sarah Overton and former Institue of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam.
"There are also former staffers including Jemma Townson, who has worked for Matthew Guy and Katie Allen, Antonietta di Cosmo, who has worked for Smith, and John Howard staffer Allison Troth.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/jun/08/australia-news-live-aukus-interest-rates-cost-of-living-mortgage-cliff-retail-recession-economy-foreign-policy-climate?page=with:block-648113df8f085d9ad6c9d95d#block-648113df8f085d9ad6c9d95d
Liberals. Caught in the rear view mirror.
What a pity former MP “Dim Tim” Smith didn’t follow through on his suggestion that he might nominate. That could have been a hoot!
DeleteOn Peta and the "cauldron of war", it shows you how evil the Taliban are, that they send into battle a one-legged man, armed only with his bare hands. (On unidexters generally see Peter Cook and Dudley Moore https://youtu.be/lbnkY1tBvMU ).
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, but it was the bit about "the comments section on her articles prove that the public supports the disgraced former soldier" that says it all. Why there must have been at least tens of thousands writing in to her "comments section" saying that no matter how "disgraced" he is we all still love him.
DeleteWho could forget that wonderful term “Unidexters”, Joe?
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