The pond is always on about projection, because the reptiles always manage to sound like ancient carbon arc lamps in ancient movie projectors. Here's the lightweight Major serving up lightweight coverage of core tax issues, while berating others for the same crime, and all the pond can think is ... projection.
Always the projection ...
The Major has always been a bore, but of late he seems to have reached peak bore, with that quote from nattering "Ned" showing just how tedious it all is.
The pond can accept a useless, failed journalist lecturing others on their failures, but "Ned"? It's a hunt for a missing Order of Lenin medal bridge too far.
And because the Major files early, and is fond of quoting others to provide sludgy filler, he misses the good stories, which urgently needed an intervention from the likes of the bromancer or at a pinch the Major himself ...
As part of the narcissist's attention-seeking campaign, this latest splash caused quite a Putin-loving fuss ...
Politico plunged right in, evoking Ronnie Raygun ...
The reptiles' hero flipped, the reptiles lost ...
The only astonishing thing in all this stuff is that the Major didn't quote Dame Groan as he wandered back into the past ...
Meanwhile, WaPo's lead this day took the narcissist attention-seeking bait ...
That's why the Major was sent off to a late arvo slot and then only so that the pond had the excuse and the chance to complete its own series of Mugger memories ...
Forget the politics of envy? How? The reptiles feed their angertainment with the politics of envy on a daily basis, reassuring their aged demographic that there are all kinds of bludgers out there making it hard for the rich ...
What's the point of all the bleating now? The Goulburn boofhead and the flipper are off devising a new tax plan, and the pond anticipates that won't arrive until the new year, which is a long time even by reptile life cycles ...
Must we keep on wandering down memory lane with the Major as a substitute? The simple things are a bit too complicated for the Major, and when he looks us in the eye all we see are the crocodile tears he cries ... and some might think about substituting their coke for gin ... at least they'll get their washing done ...
... and The Graudian was all in ...
... while the Major was still moaning about the suffering of the rich, and how the French clock man had been good to the rich and companies, and so on and so forth ...
The pond thinks it prefers the days when the Major takes to climate science denialism like other great reptile minds ...
The Major's outing was made even worse by the Major's feeble attempts at billy goat buttisms, this time in the form of "none of this excuses" and "nor can it be denied".
Who does the Major think he's fooling? This kind of fig leaf wouldn't satisfy the Vatican and it wouldn't satisfy any reader remotely connected to reality, as the Major then proceeds to launch a bog standard reptile attack on services designed to help the poor and the needy ...
Enough already, time for the rest of the Muggster's memories. As previously noted, they were available in much handier form at Trove here, but for those too lazy to click on the link, all you have to do is click to enlarge and enjoy fond memories of the 1960s, refracted through the eyes of a jaundiced bigot who still hasn't reported back on his splendid life in heaven ... (or hell, who knows?) ...
As promised, there's some great artwork of a kind the reptiles should seriously think about - bell bottoms have been sighted out and about in Newtown - and there's a chance to fall between two Stuhls ...
According to the Major, there was “a decade of stagflation falling the 1973 oil price shock”. Hang on - I thought it was accepted Reptile history that all our economic woes of that period were the fault of the Whitlam Government? Of course this all ancient history, and it’s unlikely that anyone other than Pond devotees are reading the Major’s sour reminiscences, but it’s a notable change from what was a Reptile article of faith for decades.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder of what a tedious, pompous old fart Malcolm Muggeridge was, DP. Not exactly a barrel of laughs, either ; it’s difficult to believe that he edited what was supposedly a major “humour” magazine for a decade. “Punch” must have acted as a handy substitute for anaesthetic in doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries all across the UK. Of course he’s now as forgotten as the majority of persons and events that he cites, and no great loss. Mind you, he was right about the Maharishi - I wonder what he’s of thought of the current Rishi?
ReplyDeleteAlso gone and largely forgotten, other than by historians, is “The Bulletin”. By this time it had at least given up on the racist cartoons and “Australia for the White Man” masthead, but ended up as a rather pale, dull local equivalent of “Time” and “Newsweek”. In retrospect its surprising that it limped on for another few decades; I suppose the Packers thought it gave them some sort of respectability, and most of its sales came from all those surgery and business waiting rooms.
They're rarefied memories Anon, and yes the pond did catch glimpses of it in waiting rooms, and it was typical of its later times that it should have run with that pompous old fart ... sounding very much like Mary Whitehouse, but somehow given a veneer of respectability because of his preening sense of self-importance and a drawl very much in the current Moggie's style ...
DeleteOh c'mon DP and Anony, Muggles, and The Bulletin, are perfect examples of that which they are exemplars for. But Muggles, like Churchill, had a command of English few others - except maybe Shakespeare - have ever possessed.
DeleteLightweight Major Cicero, who projects Cicero's rules unconsciously via a newscorpse.
ReplyDelete"What! You would convict me from my own words, and bring against me what I had said or written elsewhere. You may act in that manner with those who dispute by established rules. We live from hand to mouth, and say anything that strikes our mind with probability, so that we are the only people who are really at liberty."
"This law cannot be contradicted by any other law, and is not liable either to derogation or abrogation. Neither the senate nor the people can give us any dispensation for not obeying this universal law of justice. It needs no other expositor and interpreter than our own conscience."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero