Thank the long absent lord that John Oliver is back.
Bill Maher? Meh, and for that matter the pond isn't that interested in health care not being offered in the American prison system, one of many blights that American capitalism has given to the world.
But it was fun to have a Billy Joel summary of all that Oliver has missed over the past months, not least Senator John Kennedy drawling away with a porn reading and Rep Lauren Boebert doing porn in a public place (and Billy Joel trashing the melody of that Billy Joel song, and a lot more that couldn't fit in the song).
It's a relief to be reminded that there's a world of comedy outside the lizard Oz ... but once the laughter dies away, the lizard Oz is still there to haunt the pond ...
The pond had to red card the bromancer ...but there was really no need to explain or comment, because the reptiles offered this fragrant, poignant juxtaposition ...
Sorry, ancient Troy, the pond is never staggered by the bromancer's staggering lack of vision - perhaps something to do with being a bigoted Catholic fundamentalist always intent on keeping pesky, difficult blacks down on the mission where they can do some Xian larnin' and some ironing for the wommin folk?
The immortal Pope returned to offer some insight into the bunker mentality ...
It's always in the details and the pond did love that terrified potato in hiding ...
The infallible Pope aside, red carding the bromancer led to a now usual reptile shortage, with not much happening in the comments section ...
Not Dame Groan rabbiting on about furriners for the zillionth time ...
With the deepest apologies - surely even Dame Groan cultists are tired of this by now - here's the old biddie, or is that old duck, groaning away ...
The reptiles decided to break in with a snap of Jimbo ...
Couldn't they have interrupted with something more interesting? Isn't there anything else happening in the world?
Well yes, there is, compare and contrast the top of the Graudian's digital edition this day ...
Look, there's the Donald, and he's doing it live ... and you could find reports all over the place ...
Just as well that's a screen cap or the thought police might have taken a view of that word ...
The mango Mussolini is routinely banished from the lizard Oz, as is any unseemly talk of bushfires or flash floods or such like ... though you can find the stories elsewhere ...
Say what? Even the Daily Snail is running stories about fears of warmer and drier times and insurance woes? And in the Graudian's UK version, you could read an engaging yarn by its environment editor, Report claiming net zero will cost UK trillions retracted due to ‘factual errors’.
Meanwhile, alleged environment editor of the lizard Oz, Lloydie of the Amazon, has gone AWOL again and refuses to deal with any of the matters to hand.
Lloydie was last sighted back on 21st September announcing that offshore wind could become a beached whale, but it seems Lloydie has himself been beached, and all that's left for the pond is the groaning ... (or perhaps a visit to the Indian doctor up the road) ...
It's an exceptionally familiar groan, and the pond will leave it to the cultists to find if there's any meat amid the abundant gristle and the bone ...
Back with John Oliver, and he was sounding very bolshie and union, and that reminded the pond of this Golding ...
Sorry, but it's a real chore to get through the groaning, even when of course, of course, a groan is a horse of course ...
Would vulgar youff even get that reference to Mr Ed?
So much lost to the world ... but enough of the distractions, and the meta referential groaning about the groaning, a final gobbet and the groaning is done ...
Did Dame Groan just refer to groaning infrastructure?
Is that a meta joke indicating that she reads the pond, and enjoys the celebrations of her groaning?
Who knows, but the pond did appreciate her insight that anyone forced to read her groaning needs a breather, and the move would be welcomed by most of the population, perhaps even Dame Groan cultists ...
And so for a bonus to the lizard Oz editorialist ...
This didn't come out of the blue ... the reptiles were wildly excited in the tree killer edition this day ...
Is there anything remarkable to note about the lizard Oz editorialist's groaning? Not really, it seems these days we need to gas the country and the planet ... and spare a thought for sweet, pure, innocent, virginal Oz coal ...
If the pond read the lizard Oz editorialist's groaning with sufficient diligence and care, not once did the reptile scribbler manage to work in a mention of the reptiles' much loved miracle cure ... so it was left to the pond to remember that SMR nostrum ...
If immigration has external costs of congestion, environmental degradation, loss of social cohesion ‘and the like’ - then so does increase of population from whatever source.
ReplyDeleteIt will become tedious for we cultists to respond to the Dame, each time she groans about immigration, by asking her to outline that elusive requirement for Homo sapiens to survive in some comfort - the economic framework within which H. sapiens can voluntarily reduce its numbers across the entire planet. Otherwise our descendants - and not many generations from now - will reach the stage where plague jellyfish will have become gourmet seafood, while evolution enables some or other microorganism to exploit as substrate the billions of humans who are stressed by the climate, with reduced innate resistance from a diet of ‘foods’ coming from the equivalent of Grimbledon Down.
That might effect the necessary decimation of humans - even as the successor to social media tries to persuade them that the organism was synthesised by some ‘radical’ group, so they should respond by seeking herd resistance.
Or we could just tabulate the costs of supposedly skilled migrants, such as Nicholas Cater, and Richard Henry Abbott.
"If immigration has external costs..." Now be fair, Chad, you know we can overpopulate the country much faster by high-volume immigration that we can by local births. After all, we all know that our 26 (record) years without a 'recession' was largely financed by immigration. And we did, nonetheless have several GDP per capita recessions anyway.
DeleteNot that I'd expect Groany to mention any of that. But as to "costs of supposedly skilled migrants" I'd have to say that my grandfather was at least a skilled gardener, and my father became a skilled bricklayer. But surely you remember that fine old English saying: the first son inherits the property and money, the second son enters the army to become at least a regimental colonel, the third son enters the church and becomes a bishop and the fourth son, if there is one, migrates to Australia.
Even you are sounding tired and worn down Chadders, and the pond was astonished to see you questioning the inestimable value of the Caterist and the onion muncher to the IQ of the country. Why with skilled migrants of that quality, soon enough we might resemble plucky England, on its march to unfathomable levelled up wealth...
DeleteIt was a rare event that the Dame actually kicked off with an attempted joke today, even if it was that tired old one about economists knowing the value of nothing (next week she may try the one about the economist and the blind golfers). I wondered though whether the Dame even meets the joke’s first half, as she doesn’t really display much evidence of knowing the price of everything.
ReplyDeleteThe economist about the golfers: "Why can't they play at night ?" That one, Anony ?
DeleteDame Groan is playing the usual game of Oz commentators, there are the good (economist, scientist...) whom I agree with (in this case the Productivity Commission) and the bad (economist, scientist...) whom I disagree with (Treasury). As one wit put it, "The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist. The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong." https://www.equities.com/news/a-look-at-some-of-the-best-jokes-about-economists/
DeleteAnonymous and Joe - Dorothy has noted that I am sounding tired and worn. I think the marked price of the Flagship is now $4. That is its price - its value diminishes steadily when its contributors (I see no title for the Dame for this day) repeat comments that they have made several times before. When it is the Dame's groan about immigration - there was no real substance to the comment the first time she ran it, so - price $4, value, zilch.
DeleteYep, that’s the one, GB. “It would be much more cost effective”. According to a friend who’s a former professional economist, it’s considered a classic in the field.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/03/peter-dutton-both-prophet-and-protagonist-has-made-his-division-manifest
ReplyDelete'Gormless'
Indeed Katherine Murphy, a good word for Dutton, but also apt for your own pathetic trivialisation of one of the most important questions put to the citizenry since we were let off the leash (well, attached by a lead to the clothesline). If the world of the Lizard Oz is a flaming cesspit of concentrated IPA sewerage, then the world beyond is the Guardian's bubblegum mikshake of celebrity self promotion and political horse race commentary. Bog help us all Dot.