The pond is continuing to wage war with its connectivity with Malware's marvel - it seems the calls are coming from inside the house - and don't be surprised if the pond suddenly disappears for a while under the weight of technical difficulties.
Meanwhile, this day the pond managed to stagger on, if only so that the pleasure of presenting a belated groaning could provide a splendidly productive start to the day, what with productivity all the go among pond correspondents...
It's true that if you'd ordered a groaning for Tuesday, then delivery on a Wednesday might seem like a serve of cold cuts, but that's what happens in the gig economy when the battery on the bike suddenly goes flat ...
Why did the pond elevate this sort of humdrum groaning to top of the page? Well there was a truly mean girl projecting, and blathering about a mean girl ...
We may never know the depth of Dame Slap's obsession, but just the headline was enough for the pond - why do the reptiles always project so nakedly and obviously? - and it was time to get back to paying less than minimum for a jolly good groaning ...
That sort of misguided regulation urgently needs reform, and who knows, instead of the adult children who work at the lizard Oz, in the future we might get columns from age-appropriate children ...
Speaking of children, the bromancer was also out and about this day ...
As for the bromancer, preening condescension might best summarise the tone, with a bonus mix of distraction, confusion and conflation ...
The story didn't actually mention body cameras - not once, nada, zilch, zip - and had an entirely different theme ... waiter, just a sample, to expose the misleading, disingenuous nature of the bromancer's blather ...
What else? Well as surely as Dame Slap would be a mean girl competing to excel in mean girl competitions, "Ned" will be doing his thing to do down the voice.
Usually the pond wouldn't bother, but this is such a predictable outing, it might be handy for anyone wanting to start a digital fire on what is a chully day in Sudney (as fluent NZ speakers might say) ...
Sorry, impossible to feel when it comes to "Ned" in full imperious flight ... except perhaps a certain numbness at the tedious thought of copping a serve of "Ned" in full natter mode, with much monotonous repetition of what has already been droned out many times before ... and then the snaps to break up the text started to flow ...
By golly, do those PJs come in a "Ned" size?
And so on and so forth ... and at this point there was another illustration ...
Reheated WSJ by a certified loon, and little Sir Echo the bouffant one giving Burney a hard time, as if "Ned" wasn't enough? Why do they hunt in packs, and no, it's not enough to say it's because they've watched spotted hyenas at work ...
And that's why the pond ended up with "Ned", but at least it's the last gobbet ...
And if it's a "No" vote, what then?
Well it only took from 2008 to May 2022 to get to Dutton apologises for boycotting Rudd’s apology to stolen generations.
Too little and way too late ...
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has expressed his regret directly to members of the stolen generations for not attending the Rudd government’s 2008 apology, saying he failed to grasp “the symbolic significance” of the moment at the time.
And so to that immortal Rowe, which was on another matter, but did feature those splendid PJs, of the kind Claudette Colbert would have killed for in It Happened One Night ...
Turns out the immortal Rowe was offering a fresh angle on an old sitcom idea ...
Ned talking about “”feelings”?
ReplyDeleteI think that by now the only feeling he’s capable of is smug #self-importance.
"We may never know the depth of Dame Slap's obsession..." And obviously Dame Slap is demented by personal demons which allow no rest for the wicked. According to Wikipedia: "Belief in demons probably goes back to the Paleolithic age, stemming from humanity's fear of the unknown, the strange and the horrific." Not that I'm claiming that Slappy has been around since the Paleolithic - though she's certainly very stony - but her ancestry goes back to those times. And she would certainly see Katy Gallagher as some kind of demon hunter sent to destroy her.
ReplyDeleteBut then, reptiles are all just a little bit like that, aren't they.
Given the Reptiles’ devotion to Christian Values (tm), perhaps the Dame is a modern day equivalent of the Gadarene Swine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_the_Gerasene_demoniac
DeleteI like the bit about that which says (after the swine have stampeded into the lake and drowned): "The story was interpreted by Saints Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas to mean that Christians have no duties to animals."
DeleteWell of course Christians have no duties to animals - other that saving some of them from Trinity Part 1's murderous worldwide floods perhaps. "He" ("They"?) made all those animals for us to slaughter for dinner, didn't he? But why did he make mosquitos ? We don't usually slaughter them for dinner, do we ?
Call it a sick fascination, but now I’d like to see and hear the recordings from a Bromancer-worn body cam.
ReplyDeleteYou reckon you could stay awake for more than just a few minutes of replay, Anony ?
DeleteIt wouldn’t be easy, GB, but I like a challenge.
DeleteI well recall how I became aware of Dame Groan's more recent attitudes to labour economics when you, Dorothy, put up her groan about being in Melbourne for a weekend, wishing on a whim for a coffee in one of those quaint little coffee places in a 'little' street - and the place of her choice was closed. Accosted another potential supplier, who claimed that the problem was that potential staff would no longer work weekends for a handful of change from the till. But, but, but - our Dame wished for coffee. Zut alors - ze suffering!
ReplyDeleteI suspect she is aware of recent findings that fewer and fewer citizens of this great land carry cash, preferring to do even their most minor transactions with a card. Otherwise she could well have a word to say in favour of begging in the streets, except that the almost international cry of 'Do you have some change to spare, Sir/Madam' (must have that respectful note - the potential donor has to feel really, but really good about dispensing alms, and confirmation that the recipient knows their place conduces to that mild euphoria) - would find pockets of passers-by empty of round metal tokens. At least beggars do not distort those all-important indices of productivity in the way that much of the 'gig economy' does.
C'mon, Chad, we can't hold back progress just because some folk can't afford to go modern and get the right kind of "smart phone" that other people's phones can send money too. Maybe we'll just have to license begging and beggars and issue them with the appropriate "smart" devices which they can go into inflation adjusted debt to pay for.
DeletePeople will have to be re-equipped with the appropriate devices from about the age of three onwards if we want them to still be able to go into their local vendor (milk bars having gone the way of all old things) to buy a Fantale or three. If they still can.
But I did have a fascinating experience this am: my good partner went into a Whitehorse City Council agency to fill in a form to get us our one free residential parking permit (if we want a second one for any reason, that $62 on the spot or $180 for three). The dear (youngish) person on the counter told my partner that she couldn't register the application there, she'd have to fill it in "online". Despite the fact that there, in English, right on the printed form, was the bit that said "May be filled in online or at Council 'agency'- ie the place my partner was at. Now, are we already in the state where people think that absolutely everybody - including quite young kids - has an 'online connection' ? Maybe Groany should have tried her smartphone online connection to call up a coffee.
Just a short economics tutorial about the evils of price control in the current holy war against "inflation":
DeleteLines Go Straight Up
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/06/lines-go-straight-up.html
The Voice will add another section to the Constitution because it is not aimed at altering how the parliament and executive government works. All it does is allow Australia’s First Peoples to provide their views on matters directly relating to them. This is fundamentally democratic, especially given the subjugation of Aboriginal peoples and their voices on all matters affecting them to date.
ReplyDeleteWhile Paul Kelly, Sheridan, Sloan and others, who give advice to executive government every other day via their interminable commentary are not being given a special section in the Constitution (Chapter X, Section 300,The Powers of the House of Murdoch), this seems to be what rattles Kelly most, so one can understand his fear. Will Aboriginal Peoples have more influence in government decisions about their lives and matters relevant to all the general populace (of which Aboriginal Peoples are a part, unbeknown to Kelly) than News Corp does? That is his fear.
Oh come now Anony, there's precisely zero point in being sensible, rational and realistic in the presence of reptiles and wingnuts and their running dog lackeys.
DeleteBut the reptiles do have their section(s) in the Constitution: any parts of it which try to guarantee freedom of speech and behaviour. But we can't expect reptiles to grasp that, can we.
Hmmm - the Bro claims that in the military, nobody above the rank of Corporal ever carries the can for anything.
ReplyDeleteThat’s followed by a photo featuring Ben Roberts Smith - a Corporal.
Sheer coincidence? Is this perhaps a subtle implication by somebody at News Corp - the Bro, the remnants of the Graphics Department, someone in editorial - that BRS has been scapegoated? Or am I just reading too much into the juxtaposition?
Dame Groan: "In other words, the ACTU document is an unwarranted manipulation of survey results to 'prove' a predetermined conclusion." Reptiles sure are persistent 'projectors' aren't they, and how they do resent and reject others imitating their 'successes'.
ReplyDeleteAs to old Slappy herself "As a humble gigger with the lizard Oz, she's infatuated with the gig economy...". Indeed so, DP, but I suspect that maybe what really gets her in is the ability of giggers to "subcontract out work if they wanted". Though I'm not altogether sure who might want to 'subcontract' for her, there is also the bit about "the authority on how to do their work". Now if you were the Groany, you would want to keep that "authority" and not have to comply with any imposed work quality directives, wouldn't you ?
More like a jigger than a gigger - attached to the body politic
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunga_penetrans
That Trinity lot sure made some really funny stuff that all had to be preserved in Noah's Ark, didn't they.
DeleteBefuddled - wonderful finding there. And it seems that these little jiggers are not susceptible to Ivermectin. The Intelligent Design office must have put in a lot of time setting them up to be nigh untreatable except by 'surgical extraction'.
DeleteSo, Bro: "It [body cameras on troops] would certainly guarantee the SAS didn't break any laws. It would also guarantee that they would be militarily useless. Other forces wouldn't want to work with them." So, no more to go shooting and shelling people at the behest of others ? Oh, bring it on, bring it on !
ReplyDeleteThe SMH used to have a note at the top of every online article stating how many other people were reading it. The number was often very small, like 3 or 5. Amazing in a big country like Australia.
ReplyDeleteIf the Australian did the same one would think that Kelly and Sloan's numbers would be jammed on 0, maybe to peak at 1 whenever DP trudged through the sludge.
The Australian would know this anyway, so why are they there? All I can think is they need some truly boring columnists to balance the frivolity of Kenny and Sheridan et al. and look like a serious paper.
Given the Reptiles’ antediluvian outlook, NH, I suspect they sincerely believe that the rag’s retention of the broadsheet format is proof that it’s a serious, quality paper. Never mind the rubbish contents - just look at the layout!
DeleteYes, IIRC, that is exactly the reason the News Corp folks stuck with the broadsheet format when both the SMH and the Melbourne Age finally collapsed into the smaller tabloid format: the one, last-remaining "serious newspaper" in Australia. Quite a joke considering the current state of the Australian.
DeleteOf course, the writing was on the wall for the Melbourne Age once we got a lot of 'online' advertising: the Saturday, and to a slightly lesser extent Wednesday, Age used to carry a inch or so thickness of advertisements in a supplement to the broadsheet format and that all fell in a heap. There's still a bit of the Wednesday and Saturday ads in the Age, but really quite pitifully few compared with the 'good old days'.
Would you believe that quite a few people (a score or two or even more - including my father who was a 'gig' bricklayer - when jobs were scarce) used to collect outside the Age print factory in the city at 1:00am to be the first to get the Wednesday and Saturday advertisements as they came off the presses.
Which all unbidden and only distantly connected brought back memories of a food van that used to park at night until quite late almost on the corner of Swanston and Flinders Streets outside the railway station. Pies, sausage rolls and later hamburgers and coffee for the late Melburnians waiting to catch the last - usually around 1:00am I think - suburban trains home.
DeleteAnd if the last train had already left, there was a longish line of taxicabs waiting in the cab rank in Swanston St. All long gone now, of course.