From this article here: https://www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you. Usually you dodge it, but every once in a while, he catches you with a bit. You have some bad scarring on one arm, and a few places on your face and neck. And you have to constantly be on the lookout for Bart, because if you let your guard down, it’s scalding water time!
Rick is a good friend. He thinks it is really bad that Bart throws boiling water on you. He tells you this all the time. He’s written some letters to the newspaper about how bad Bart is for throwing boiling water on you. Sometimes he’ll even go out with you to watch your back. He’s got a popular TV show, and he’s gone on the record a few times that Bart is in the wrong for always trying to hit you in the face with boiling water.
Then one day you turn on the TV at the end of the day, and you see Rick has Bart on as a guest. Rick is arguing with Bart about whether or not it is good to douse you with boiling water at every available opportunity. Rick is … parsing things a little more than you’d like.
He wants to know if the water has to be boiling, if it can’t just be very hot. Bart says, no, no, it really does have to be boiling. But does it have to be water, Rick asks. Could it be something a bit easier to dodge, like molasses or tar? Bart thinks about this, and decides he isn’t sure. He’ll have to get back to Rick on that one—but really, he prefers water.
Rick wants to know if there can’t be days Bart could promise to not throw boiling water at you. Bart doesn’t really want to set that sort of precedent.
Rick would like to know why it needs to be you every time. Bart is shocked that Rick would suggest such a thing. He insists he doesn’t have a throwing-boiling-water-on-you-specifically bone in his body. He just believes in throwing boiling water, and you happen to be the one that’s there every time. He’d like to know why, if you apparently hate being struck with boiling water, you insist on being in areas where you know he will be throwing it. He suggests that Rick is really the one singling him, Bart, out, by being so intolerant of his rich cultural heritage of throwing boiling water on people. He hints that Rick’s constant scolding makes Bart want to seek you out specifically now, to throw boiling water on you, for daring to suppose such a thing of him.
Rick appears to have conceded that Bart absolutely does have a right to walk the streets carrying as much boiling water as he wants, in the long-standing tradition of our country. Bart appreciates Rick’s stance on the matter, and compliments him on his willingness to find common ground.At the end of the segment, he and Bart agree to disagree on whether or not it is good to attempt to douse you with boiling water every day. Bart still thinks it is very good—though he insists it is not directed at you, but only at spaces that you happen to inhabit. He wonders, again, why you choose to inhabit those spaces. Rick continues to insist that throwing at the space that you inhabit is tantamount to throwing it at you, and that it is quite rude indeed. They shake hands. Then there is a commercial for Pepsi.
The next day, you confront Rick about this and he shrugs. “Man, I hate that bastard Bart,” he says, “but you have to hear both sides.”
How are we feeling about Rick?
THE PUB 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/sep/29/today-we-examine-if-andrew-hastie-can-save-the-liberal-party-and-no-wait-my-brain-is-stopping-i-cant-do-it
Azawakh
James O’Brien tonight.
That shameless piece of shit Tony Blah should be in the Hague on trial. 😦
New fangled tech vs the plod 🙂
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/waymo-illegal-u-turn-driverless-car
Basenji
Guardian Essential poll: Australians back emissions target while One Nation support doubles
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/01/australians-back-labor-albanese-emissions-target-while-one-nation-support-doubles-guardian-essential-poll
Here is the Essential federal poll referred to in the Guardian article. First, the voting figures are always on this separate page (and now show for the first time since the election).
https://essentialreport.com.au/reports/federal-political-insights
TTP+: ALP 51 L/NP 44
Primary: ALP 35 L/NP 27 GRN 11 ON 13 IND/OTH 9 UAP 2 Undecided 6
TPP and Primary figures don’t exclude undecided, so they will seem lower and can’t be face value compared to other polls like Newspoll and Morgan.
The new Report with all the issues questions is here.
https://essentialreport.com.au/reports/30-september-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/tony-blair-jared-kushner-gaza-plan-catastrophe
Jeebus, Trump,Netanyahu, Tony @#^$!!!Blair and Kushner all together. A black hole is liable to form due to the strength of the gravitational field around such an enormous mass of shit in one place.
What on earth (or on what Earth) is Well Done on?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/01/australia-news-live-nicole-kidman-divorce-keith-urban-sussan-ley-coalition-andrew-hastie-anthony-albanese-housing-ntwnfb#top-of-blog
There is an aroma of bovine excrement with a dash of snake oil in the air. In a market with a shortage of supply a jump in demand will do what Albo ? Or is the ‘minimal impact’ prediction based on the knowledge that in the great scheme of things the numbers involved will be sfa ?
Basset Fauve de Bretagne
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/01/hollywood-is-in-a-flap-ai-actors-are-trained-on-real-actors-who-will-never-be-paid-for-it
James O’Brien tonight.
Fred Basset
Now there’s an article.
Argentina screwing itself over again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk
I was very happy when that Argentine loon was elected. Bad news for the poor buggers who live in Argentina though. Mind you they were already up shit creek without a paddle before he was elected. So I can understand their ‘fuck it ! Let’s wreck the joint”.
I was overjoyed because he was nut job enough to actually implement the hard core economic bullshit of the likes of arsehole Milton Friedman that we keep being told by the ‘Ruperts’ and lots of Coalition polies is THE way to go to reach economic nirvana.
But not a word needs to be read, anyone doing happy snaps with this monster can ‘foad’.
Albo looks like he’ll gets the gig for prepping us for the traditional handing control of our resources to foreign interests. There are a lot of deposits of this stuff around the world but for good reason few countries bother much with then. It is a filthy industry that produces enormous amounts of toxic waste.
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Donald Trump ‘aggressively’ pivoting towards Australian critical minerals to shut down China monopoly
The US interest comes ahead of Anthony Albanese’s meeting with President Donald Trump later this month.
https://thewest.com.au/politics/federal-politics/donald-trump-aggressively-pivoting-towards-australian-critical-minerals-to-shut-down-china-monopoly-c-20213443
I suspect he has misunderstood what being a ‘reliable ally’ of the US actually means. This Chinese cartoon from the comrades had it right.
CARTOON
No.1 lackey
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1241035.shtml
Trump has been reading the sacred texts , you know, Mien Kampf etc etc… He must have been sooo tempted to say ‘Untermensch’ in the last quote below
Hastie?
Now, who could possibly have seen that coming! 👿 😀
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/03/dear-computer-boffins-please-stop-trying-to-fix-problems-i-dont-have
It’s looking like there’ll be a Liberal leadership spill on Tuesday when the House sits again.
There’s no way Hastie would make such a move like this if he wasn’t told that he had the numbers to overthrow Ley.
And even if he loses, he’ll just try again next year.
How very Dutton!
Corman doing the numbers?
For the next post, I’m thinking of posting an excerpt of 1984 by George Orwell, namely Part 3, Chapter 3.
It’s chilling to read, especially in how much it relates to the MAGA movement.
Bavarian Mountain Scent Hound
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/palestine-action-protest-police-arrests-london-demo
Terrorists!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/newspoll-one-nation-surges-as-sussan-leys-net-approval-rating-plunges/news-story/bd1e89d2319827a5bb01ce6eb0888453
Newspoll: One Nation surges, as Sussan Ley’s net approval rating plunges
Support for One Nation has surged to its highest level since 2017, as Sussan Ley’s approval rating plunges and Labor records its strongest primary vote in 28 months.
Geoff Chambers
October 5, 2025 – 6:00PM
Support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has surged to its highest level since 2017, as Sussan Ley’s approval rating plunges and Labor records its strongest primary vote in 28 months.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian reveals core support for the Coalition remains at near-record lows while One Nation’s primary vote rose to 11 per cent, which is almost double the minor party’s performance at the May 3 election.
The Newspoll, which was in the field between Monday and Thursday last week before Andrew Hastie quit Ms Ley’s shadow cabinet, shows the Coalition’s primary vote remains at a historically low 28 per cent.
The result is just one per cent higher than the 27 per cent in last month’s poll, which was the lowest level of support for the Liberals and Nationals since Newspoll first counted primary votes in November 1985.
As Ms Ley battles to keep the Coalition united on key issues including migration, net zero by 2050 emissions and energy, the Opposition Leader’s net approval rating slid to minus 20, with 31 per cent of voters satisfied with her performance and 51 per cent dissatisfied.
The poll of 1264 voters conducted ahead of house MPs and senators returning to parliament on Tuesday shows Labor’s core support rising to 37 per cent, which is the highest primary vote for the ALP since June 2023.
With the Greens and Others category, which includes independents and minor parties, recording primary vote falls since last month’s Newspoll, Labor’s two-party-preferred vote lead over the Coalition dropped a point to 57 per cent to 43 per cent.
Amid splits inside the Coalition over how to stop conservative votes bleeding to minor parties and independents, One Nation’s primary vote is now at its highest level since July 2017 when Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister. During Peter Dutton’s tenure as opposition leader, the highest primary vote recorded by One Nation was 8 per cent.
“Amid splits inside the Coalition over how to stop conservative votes bleeding to minor parties and independents, One Nation’s primary vote is now at its highest level since July 2017 when Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister. During Peter Dutton’s tenure as opposition leader, the highest primary vote recorded by One Nation was 8 per cent.’
With Dutton, the right-wingers had a hard choice: with Ley, their choice is easy.
They bring to mind this crew. They sure do seem to have a couple of squads of them.
The chap who coined the word ‘enshittification‘ with an article we probably all can relate to.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish
“appeared to be”?
The description is, or is not, accurate.
I’m guessing that it is not “inaccurate and misleading.” And Amazon thinks so too.
This thread is now closed. The new thread is here: https://pbxmastragics.com/2025/10/05/newspoll-57-43-to-labor-october-2025/