Plonkers on the List; None of Them be Missed

Just been listening to some Gilbert & Sullivan for something different, and like the Lord High Executioner, 'I've got a little list'.  It's a list of plonkers. And in another Mikado reference, if they weren't around, would 'none of them be missed.'

1. First Plonker: Blair Cottrell.  He's got a social media following for being the leader of a far-right movement. Recently, he approached a street performer in Melbourne, whereupon he bullied and harassed the man for having the audacity to be wearing a pink 'G-string'. You can find the footage of the incident if you google it, Reader. He did not approach the man alone.  Oh, no. He was accompanied by his fawning sycophantic followers, one of whom was wearing an Australian flag as a cape. He abused the man for performing in front of children, kind of like a steroid-infused Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons. He asked the man was he a paedophile.  No, I didn't type that wrong.  And yes, asking someone who chooses to wear pink if he is a paedophile is really, really, truly, ridiculously stupid. Another thing: the man was wearing a LEOTARD, not a G-string. Look, this is a pink G-string:

 This is also a type of G-string:

And THIS is a representation of what the performer was wearing, and you will see it is a garment favoured by wrestlers, and gymnasts. The man in the picture is the late wrestler Andre the Giant:

If you're so worried about a slightly built man in a pink leotard that you need a gang of pumped-up boofheads to approach him, then you really are a testicular-challenged poltroon.

1(a) Plonker by Association: the person who made a snide reply to my comment on some You Tube footage of the abovementioned fracas. It went something like, 'Trust you to defend that fag in pink'.  Yeah, and what's your point, mate?

2. Second Plonker: Senator David Leyonjhelm, who shouted across the room to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young the other day, 'You need to stop shagging men, Sarah!' Um, in what universe is a comment like this acceptable in the workplace? Hey, I'm not a huge fan of Hanson-Young; I'm kind of ambivalent about her. However, I cannot believe Leyonjhelm had the audacity, nastiness, and injudiciousness to shout something so utterly fulsome. Why wasn't he removed from Parliament? If I was overseeing Question Time, I would have had the lousy bag of dirt ejected, thus enabling him to make his way back to his cave, twin furrows being formed in the ground by his knuckles as he makes his journey.

3. Third Plonker: whoever complained about the Peter Alexander boys' pyjamas with the slogan: Boys Will Be Boys. Apparently, this offensive. To be honest, I've always found the saying irritating because I associate it with the excusing of some really obnoxious behaviour displayed by the male gender. Anyway, the jimmy-jams have been removed from sale.  Fuck me sideways.  This is children's pyjamas, people! Who's going to be offended by this clothing? The teddy bear?  If you don't like something, don't buy it! Simple.

Oh well, back to perusing the edited manuscript for upcoming Howling on A Concrete Moon now.  Then shopping for food.  The fun just never starts.