Since last posting, I have been as busy - to rehash my oft-used saying - as a one-armed fan dancer. I have been working on a uni assessment which was duly uploaded on the weekend, working in my day job, tutoring English, and undergoing physiotherapy on my knee (the poor old joint appears to be suffering a meniscal tear). Along with this plethora of activity, I have been compiling a shit list, and Christ Chewing On Saladas Topped With Swiss Cheese, the list is growing. Here it is thus far:
1. Jeremy Cordeaux. He's described as 'radio legend'. I think a more apt description is 'sexist and disgusting old dinosaur who should crawl back under rock where he was hiding when the meteor hit and wiped out his fellow dinosaurs, thus sparing him so he could spout revolting comments about Brittany Higgins'. He called her a 'silly little girl who got drunk'. I don't deny Brittany was intoxicated, but what in the blue fuck does that have to do with the alleged sexual assault, or any sexual assault? If someone gets pissed, they can expect a hangover, not to be assaulted. Then he said, 'She should have her bottom smacked.' I am a wordsmith and pride myself on my vocabulary, but I am finding it difficult to formulate with words how hearing an entitled man of seventy-five talk about smacking the bottom of a woman in her twenties makes me feel. Let's just say I wanted a barf bag and my skin feels like there is an army of itchy grubs wriggling beneath it. Anyway, he's been sacked for these detestable comments and he's getting no sympathy from me. He loses further points for his Lego hair. It's probably one of those synthetic toupees.
2. Peter Dutton. He's, well, he's Peter Dutton and that's bad enough. However, he has issued threats to sue those who make mean comments about him for defamation. I doubt he has the ability to detect the nuances of sarcasm and satire. As he mentioned, people are using anonymous accounts on Twitter to insult him. Oh, diddums. How does he expect to issue due process on people who can't be verified? Why does he want to clog up the courts because people don't like him? I've got this image in my head of him shaking his fist at the computer screen and going, 'Grrrrrrrrr! Raaaaaaar!' like Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at a cloud.
3. Barnaby Joyce. When asked about the culture in Parliament the other day he garbled some shit about 'carbon neutral, politically correct wowserness'. Um, what? I could eat a can of alphabet soup and shit a more coherent sentence than that garbled nonsense. And being respectful does not equate with being a wowser or politically correct.
4. Andrew Laming. Oh, spew. Just spew. He's been referred for empathy training. What a waste of money if he's reached the status of being aged fifty-something, educated, and with opportunity, but still doesn't realise it's illegal to take inappropriate photographs of people in the manner in which he did. It's going to take more than empathy training to help this pile vicious slime learn how to behave in civilised society.
Is it just me, or would some of these blokes in Parliament be more at home sitting in a tree throwing their excrement? No wonder I've called this a shit list.
Anyway, I'm going to go now. I've been typing for ages and want to watch a bit of television.
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