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I missed the Julie Bishop death ray. Q&A last night was just so stupid that I bet Dicky Dawkins asked for his money back. Such an uninspired talentless lot of try hard twats.
That’s it for me. I gave Tony a run and he and his crapulous panellists have let me down - one too many times (i.e. twice). Not informative. Not intelligent. Not funny. Fuckin’ pointless.
Steve Fielding. I mean what were the good people of South Australia thinking ? He so reminds me of the Joh-era Senator Albert Fields - history repeats ! Bizarre.
I HAVE seen Mokey Fraggle on TV. Hasn’t she got something to do with Health or Country-wide or something ?
Regrettably Stephen Fielding is a senator for Victoria. South Australians are far too smart to elect a qualified engineer from RMIT with a MBA from Monash University who believes in Creationism (and who can’t explain it). The result of a preference swap with the Labor Right (organised by the other Stephen - Stephen Conroy).
Stop it FD!!!
I simply can’t afford another ruined keyboard.
I think Dawkins summed it up when he exclaimed, in response to the ‘do you think there’s an afterlife’ question: ‘What more do you people want?!’
And thanks to Noel Coward for the fairies? Or is that not done in this post-modern world?
I think I’ll get Julie to have a look at some skin cancers I need burnt off.
That last toad has good timing, but he needs to work on the material.
This may sound unbelievable but Fielding actually performed better on Q&A than he does in the Senate. If you really want a scare (and to lose the will to live) spend a couple hours in the Senate’s visitor gallery when Steve Fielding is contributing to a debate. Having participated alongside Fielding on that panel Richard Dawkins must now have some concept of Hell.
Ooops. Usual narrow focus - NSW and everywhere else. Apols.
@Mike - the deathray part is on youtube, I think yesterday’s CYTOTD pointed to it.
MIKE JONES: I had the appalling idea that Steve Fielding was from my own state, Victoria. I’m relieved to learn otherwise.
That’s odd, FD. I think our opinions diverge on the point about Julie Bishop. I took her ‘death scare’ as being a switched moment in time. For this was surely a case of her remembering her previous incarnation as a chook.
La divina was so wrapped in religious righteousness about the spirit-through the brain-going on to have a ball somewhere up in the ethersphere/whatever. To which Dawkins replied that the brain decayed and died along with the body.
I wish he’d gone on to ask why a person’s death was declared at the moment of brain death. ? That would have fixed the little twat.
Death stare, not scare.
First Dog, surely it has to be that old standby ‘Ants!’
See here:
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where are the noodles that nicola was enjoying?
Sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings Venise.
But the lovely Steven F is indeed a Victorian senator…….
As is the “other” Stephen. Commonly known as “Conroy the cretin”.
If Steve Fielding is and engineer from RMIT with a MBA from Monash University, he must have been let in on special circumstances.
I have NEVER seen a more inarticulate flake gracing our parliament — even Joh sounded sane on the odd occasion.
No it is a SCARE - these people are actually products of Australian society - think about it - not for too long though, your health might suffer….thanks for a Q&A toon FD, I knew u could do it!!!!! Genius.
Oh Paddy it is sad tidings indeed. We Victorians tend to think we are superior in mental output to somewhere like QLD. how deluded can we be?
The great anachronisms which are mutually exclusive: logic and sophistication, versus Oz politicians, women’s magazines and Hicksville politicians. Where, oh where did we go so wrong?
As Vicki says, it is a SCARE!
What I found most disturbing about the show, beside expanding the format to accommodate “Sloppy” Fielding - with an election looming, looking for where he left his profile - and with that same election in mind, that unseemly and disturbing “religious auction” the 3 politicians staged, with “them cameras there” -“I’m more Christian than you!”
“Poor” Richard Dawkins? More “evidence” to support his theory!
And, with these “luminaries” on the panel, no-one asked “What religion is God?”
Jenauthor - I heard that “diploma” was actually marked “REMIT”, an easy mistake, he hasn’t picked it up yet either! Couldn’t understand what a “TIMER” had to do with anything, he doesn’t even like eggs?
Doubtful Fielding believes in creationism, but he definitely believes in voters from the Assembly of God and fellow travellers who really do believe in creationism.
Long time watchers of Fred Nile will recognise the refined calibration of timing and degree of conservative extremism in Fielding.
Give him his due, he’s a successful cynic like Heffernan and Tuckey in their own patch. That accidental naivety act wore out a long time ago.
TOM: How do you mean it is ‘doubtful Fielding believes in creationism’? He came right out with the fact he believed in creationism over evolution. To which Dawkins asked the question “And you are an Australian parliamentarian?”
@ Tom
‘Give him his due, he’s a successful cynic like Heffernan and Tuckey in their own patch. That accidental naivety act wore out a long time ago.’
It makes no real difference now, he supposedly got in on Labor prefs last time — I can’t see that happening again.
He was an embarrassment. Dawkins must have been wondering if he’d found the ‘missing link’ in the theory of evolution.
Is there any rule against hiring two cartoonists? This is cute but it’d be nice to have some more cutting stuff occasionally.
Guess this has sparked some debate in the comments, at least. Not usually the case.
Yeah! Harden up Dog! You effin’ c word!
I’m sick up to the back teeth with being made to laugh!
I’ll go schadenfreude maybe, but not whimsy or (spare me please) reflection. I need my stress hormone addiction fed now!
Not that I mind, but where was Meg Ryan?