The pond woke to news that Boris was doing a bunk, and of course MSNBC was yesterday in a state of perpetual hysteria and excitement at the mango Mussolini's situation ... and the pond began to wonder if the old age of entertainment was dying ...though the pond has faith that Phoenix-like, a new age is always rising.
Given the ruckus, what became painfully clear this morning is that the lizard Oz has decided to stop being a newspaper.
The pond had at least expected a mention of falling or fallen heroes at the top of the digital page, but no ...
Dame Slap's obsession with the Lehrmann matter has been the ruination of the rag ...
Just compare and contrast the Graudian, still alive and dammit, able to do it live in best Bill Orally style ...
There's a world of reading there for political junkies, yet below the reptile fold in the lizard Oz, there was nothing of note ...
Just the usual aged bunch of reptiles, almost painfully, certainly pathetically, out of touch ...
Look at WaPo this morning and what they had as a beguiling top of the page ma ... with a proper set of rotating images, and documents scattered to the world ...
They too did it live, and yet lizard Oz, suffering a thousand cuts, has given up the ghost, and only the ABC, endlessly recycling the reptiles on the Lehrmann matter, still pays attention to it ...
The reptiles seem to be determined to look out of touch and lost ...
As for the pond, what's left is just an echo of glorious days long gone. Take the dog botherer, somebody take the dog botherer.
Having given up his quixotic campaign for the Voice, the dog botherer has returned to the old days of climate science denialism ... and of all things, he starts off by bothering more dogs ...
Sadly, the pond has endured years of climate science denialist drivel from the reptiles and is no longer up to the game ...
If you want a
climate crisis, you should head off to the likes of the Graudian ...
Well yes, it's not exactly the right time to be carrying on in dog botherer style about climate alarmists, but that's why the pond has opted for cartoons ... with the
infallible Pope as usual on hand to set the tone ...
Or rather, "and then they'll say now is the time to keep showing off my climate science denialist credentials" ...
Is the dog botherer unaware of what's happening in and to the world?
Apparently so, because he's not in correct attire for the sand pit ...
Well it beats dog botherer climate science denalist trolling ...
Meanwhile, on another planet, the jokes keep flowing ...
And with that, the pond has reached the final gobbet, with nary a mention of climate science, and without any actual science on view ...
In a widely shared comment piece for the Guardian, comedian Rowan Atkinson said he felt “duped” by the green claims about electric vehicles (EVs).
In support of his contention, however, Atkinson repeats a series of repeatedly debunked talking points, often used by those seeking to delay action on the climate crisis.
Moreover, he suggests alternatives to EVs that are not yet widely available, would be less beneficial to the climate and are guaranteed to be more costly.
Atkinson’s biggest mistake is his failure to recognise that electric vehicles already offer significant global environmental benefits, compared with combustion-engine cars.
Why did the pond decide to mention it? Well it turns out that the dog botherer gets his science from comedians, and was only just catching up, though it does show that he reads the Graudian ...
If only air quality affected the dog botherer and affected the visibility of his offerings in the lizard Oz ...
The only other thing to note this day was the return of a professional contrarian and expert humbug to the reptile ranks ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, for a moment there, the pond thought the goose was going to come up with a couple of quotes from the pond's current toilet reading,
The Atheist's Bible, fresh from a street library ...
You know ...
"You believe in a book which has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd, and primitive stories, and you say that that I am the one who is mentally ill?" - Don Barker
In a heated controversy over the wisdom of giving the Bible to slaves, (Frederick Douglass) asserted that it would be "infinitely better to send them a pocket compass and a pistol"
"The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles command, what rogues teach, and young children are made to learn by heart" - Voltaire ...
But no, we're going to get the usual tiresome rant from a professional contrarian, though in reality he's just a sheeple running and shooting with a different herd ...
The pond began to wonder what the motive might be. Why had blathering Brendan returned to the reptile fold, why had the reptiles let him in?
The next gobbet provided no clue ...
So the pond could still stick in a few quotes. Here's one for Joisy-siders ...
"The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God" - Thomas Paine
The pond could go on quoting all day, but still get no closer to Brendan's real motive ... and then the scales fell from the pond's eyes and it all become clear ...
Oh dear, it's not a witch burning, or a 'leet bashing, it's just a book flogging, and the reptiles helped with a giant snap of the cover, just to help the sales of the gadfly's latest flapping ...
Well yes, because blathering Brendan isn't usually on the side of the angels, he's more in the other camp ...
At least there was only one tiresome gobbet to go, wherein Brendan imagines he's some sort of visionary heretic ...
What a tedious bore. Shaw also said, or at least the Atheist's Bible said he said ...
Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
There are important matters at hand in the world ... and this is the best the lizard Oz can come up with?
A book promotion for a third rate contrarian Pommie hack off to the colonies to flog his tome and carry on as if in a state of martyrdom? And with a bunch of clichés to hand, most notable of all the moronic use of moronic terms of the "woke" kind ...
And what's Brendan got to say about golf? Is that part of the orthodox quality of "wokeness"? Why the minute the pond hears that word it reaches for its Glock, or perhaps a one iron ...
For a supposedly “anti-woke” publication the Lizard Oz certainly does a hell of a lot of recycling. Old ideas, old contributors, old text - with the latter often plundered from other publications. Today’s examples are particularly stale and pointless; Brendan may have a book to flog, but why do so with a column that reads as though it was ghosted by Our Henry? At least the sight of the Dog Botherer getting all hot and bothered about dogs is worth a dry chuckle, but other than that - *zzzzzz*.
ReplyDeleteThankfully you’ve spared us the Bromancer trying to support Rishi Sunak’s desperate attempt for relevancy by claiming - on the basis of no evidence whatsoever - that Brexitstan is a natural world leader in dealing with the issue of AI. Is this to be the Bro’s new cause? If so - Artificial Intelligence, meet Natural Stupidity.
Oh dear, "They always disappoint", said The Wire, and the pond fears the pond will disappoint, because guess who's the special treat for the Sunday meditation?
DeleteIt's a problem not just for the pond, but it's particularly acute for the pond. The rag is now terminal, old fogeys raging at clouds, and everything brings on stale and pointless existential hell. Sartre would have had to revise his definition of hell. It's not other people, it's the lizards of Oz ... and yet the pond is stuck in hell and so must keep the company of the most wretched of reptiles ...
The Loon Pond’s huge study and research on News Corp has long shown the toxic fumes emanating from the pages of the Australian and its ilk, but apparently Chris Kenny has such a blocked nose that he is unable to smell the stench or perhaps, given he has contributed to the odours, he doesn’t have any sense of smell at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd just by the by, Chris. I think free-range people generally went out with nomadic living. But then Chris treats all his readers like chooks!
The O’Neill article also showcases another fabulously shithouse effort from the remnants of the Reptile graphics department. How better to illustrate an article on Christian martyrs than with a pic of an anti-trans rights activist, suffering for her bigotry. Not exactly subtle.
ReplyDeleteWell noted Nony.
DeleteThe algorithm clearly liked "blond woman sauced". And saw it as a fine match to Brendan's bleatings.
AI appears to have well and truly captured the Herpetarium.
Statement of prejudice - I have no intention of reading Brendan O'Neill's book. There are still so many better ones I have yet to read, or wish to read again. I also wondered at his appearing on the decks of the Flagship leading into the southern winter. His regular time to visit us here in Girtby is during our summer - thus avoiding even the shrinking English winter.
ReplyDeleteBut it does seem that he melds the religious angle on heresy - particularly as established by the Catholic church - with a secular history. I would not claim to instruct our esteemed hostess here on Catholic teaching, but a quick check on the 'Wiki' tells me that there are still 4 major elements - the person in question must have had a valid Christian baptism
the person claims to still be a Christian
the person publicly and obstinately denies or positively doubts a truth that the Catholic Church regards as revealed by God (through the Scriptures or Sacred tradition)
the disbelief must be morally culpable, that is, there must be a refusal to accept what is known to be a doctrinal imperative.
Those elements were held to justify the unpleasant physical 'corrections' applied in the name of that church (although the correctors were to avoid shedding blood; a matter of comfort to those being guided from their errors)
It seems that much of what O'Neill writes on, falls into some or other kind of civil insurrection. OK - those in power claimed the authority of a deity to justify their being in power, but resolution was no more complicated than which side could muster more men and arms (and that is not restricted to notionally 'Christian' nations; it is difficult to find a religion that does not have a military arm)
So I suspect O'Neill's essays are no more than a series of rants about social opinions held by people who, as a group, he doesn't particularly like. This would be a way of continuing to present himself as a genuine 'lefty', of purer quality than others who claim to be of that side of political thought, while selling his writing to reactionaries, who like a good groan and grumble.
Yeah well, as DP has shown, at least Shaw described him: "Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." And since he hasn't been martyred at all, he is clearly cancelled.
DeleteBut at least he did give a good run to a very great favourite of mine, that great innovator of the English language, William Tyndale. Who was post-Chaucer (ie post the transition from Middle to Early Modern English) so many of his innovations are still with us - especially in the King James bible.
"Some astute and learned pond correspondents might care to argue with the dog botherer...". Dunno DP, arguing with the Doggy Bov about one, or many, of his asinine pretensions is about as pointless as life can get. But just a couple of things anyway:
ReplyDeleteEating insects has been out in the public domain for a long time. I recall seeing it on a picture theatre newsreel more than 50 years ago - long before the web and streaming - and it mainly recommended fried ants and grasshoppers and showed moving pictures of people eating them in a restaurant.
Dogs (and cats) do indeed contribute to greenhouse emissions because of the food we feed them (though my cat mainly eats fish with some chicken and very occasionally beef but also a significant proportion of 'Greenies' - about 8 or 9 a day - and Royal Cannin Dentals as well).
But trust the Doggy Bov to lie or just be moronic because pets do not contribute any near "more" than cars. For a discussion, see:
The truth about cats’ and dogs’ environmental impact
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs-environmental-impact#:~
And that's more than enough lifetime wasted on Mr Kenny.
O’Neill misses one crucial factor on the heretics of the past. Unlike those he paints as victims of what he terms cancel culture, the Levellers (John Lilburne) and others were all fighting against the old status quo and the power structures which entrenched that status quo. The likes of Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull are fighting for maintaining the old structures and power base, not changing it. They are not heretics in any sense of the word, since they are fighting for the old established customs and order, which is exactly what past heretics argued against.
ReplyDeleteFrom Alex Fein (via Tim Dunlop) "It feels horrific right now.
ReplyDeleteBut I genuinely believe we're watching the beast in its death throes." https://twitter.com/auspoldaily/status/1667113722148696065
ICYMI: Tucker Carlson says “a former Air Force officer who worked for years in military intelligence came forward as a whistleblower to reveal that the U.S. government has physical evidence of crashed, non-human-made aircraft, as well as the bodies of the pilots who flew those aircraft.” ... “In other words, UFOs are actually real". https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/07/tucker-carlson-ufos-twitter-fox-news/
ReplyDeleteYeah but just wait until the planetary sized 'parent' (aliens are notably non-gendered) ship gets here to take revenge for all those dead aliens and broken up ships.
DeleteThe editorial in this week’s “Saturday Paper” has some rather harsh things to say about Petulant Peta -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editorial/2023/06/10/peta-and-the-wolves
Does Dame Slap have some personal connection to Lehrmann via family or friends? Her articles on this matter seem more personal than objective. Or is it some factional skirmish within the NSW Liberal Party? It is just, from an outsiders point of view, unseemly.
ReplyDelete"seem more personal" Anony ? When has Slappy ever been anything but totally personal ?
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