Now Playing in the Nathan Rees Memorial Ballroom…. for those with strong stomachs
Lord Monkeyton
creating “An Australian Foxtel”
To celebriate the festy season, the start of the year of the Dragon and whatever takes your fancifulnessocity, I think it’s plausible to start the augural Pig’s Psalm writing competition. One gathers that in the Old Testy there are about 51 psalms – but none is set to a 12 bar beat and murder by pistol in Memphis is not readily apparent. Such an opportunity !
Here’s your chance, Patrons de Porc. Let’s have your burst and possibly also your waiste efforts in The Augural Pigs Psalms Competition. Best efforts risk winning an original knock-off of a Pigs Psalms T-shirt or T-towel if you prefer. Off you go, now !
I’ve just watched the Monckton video.
What a piece of work that man is, what unwarranted self regard.
But…..
Gina Rinehart did just buy a great big chunk of Fairfax, so perhaps she, at least, has taken him seriously. My dog what a horrible thought! 2 versions of FOX news! Two opportunities to be manipulated and condescended to by the over priveliged, obscenely rich.
And has anyone else noticed just how uniformly morbidly obese most of our mining barons and baronesses are.
http://www.bittah.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=387177
Perhaps because they have grown fat eating our children’s patrimony, gorging on the legitimate aspirations of ordinary Australians.
Another fleeting question: What is about such undeserved wealth that drives these individuals into sociopathy? A cursory check of common google results shows them all to be nasty people. I wonder why that is.
What a coincidental question, Waz! You don’t have a secret little camera in my study, do you?
I’m in the process of translating Euripides’ Herakles and I’ve just gone past this passage:
L 775ff
Chorus:
The gods!
The gods take note of evil and of the good!
Gold and good fortune drag the minds of mortals away from logic and into the realms of unjust power.
Because, while they’re committing their criminal deeds and rejoicing in their disdain for the law, they cannot think just how much Time can reverse fortunes!
And so, he smashes wealth’s dark chariot.
It may provide part of the answer to your question on their sociopathy.
Warrigal, riches don’t make you a sociopath, it’s more that they are sociopaths to start with and being ruthless and without scruples they are able to do anything that makes them rich…
As for being obese, too much of the good thing, food, drink,not being physically active..easy..
Yes, the top mining magnates like Gina, Twiggy and Palmer could all be of the same parentage.Brothers and sister. The same bull-necked looks with the same strangling hands with kransky like fingers used to grasp and cling to juicy deals.
Helvi is right, the sociopath was there right at the beginning. Baby photos taken on the breast would certainly have shown a ferocious intend towards greed and avarice. Gunter Grass in ‘Die Blechtrommel’ wrote a marvellous book on all that.(Tin Drum)
Their delights in unhinging others would have been there when just a child, the tripping over, the bullying etc. Gina is flat out distancing herself from her children. Twiggy flat tack pillaging the aboriginals, Clive Palmer cutting bonuses for his workers at his nickel refinery.
They are all little Oskars, banging away on their drums, breaking the world around them. Oh, the delights of it all.
Is there anybody wealthy that you ‘do’ like?
I like people or not, irrespective of wealth,….. but when they have billions… I get a bit suspicious. With the three I mentioned above, I do know a bit about Twiggy… and the family background…. and am not impressed.
Why do they feel the need to own millions of times over what they could possibly need?
Well, just playing devil’s advocate, at what stage do you stop them having it? I mean they are involved in huge businesses. Do you have a cut off point with people. Something that they sign when they are poor and borrowing money to get their businesses going. A document that says, ‘when you reach xxxxxxx amount we will take it away’, yet you won’t contribute if they lose money. I don’t know what your gripe is? It’s not money that you or any one else could have, since it’s made by their judgement, endeavours & decisions. Call it what you like.The only thing that you can do is tax them.
Unless you are advocating communism?
Going back to watch West Side Story on Fox. It’s still brilliant after all these years .
Apart from having bats in his belfry, he invented this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_puzzle
He doesn’t get any airplay in The Uk—so has resorted to badgering the colonies.
That’s the sum of my knowledge.
My mate Ronnie, a London spiv, would have called him a fuken nutter.
I read the Wikipedia account! Interesting!
So did I. How the hell does that dude’s brain work ? Damned if I know.