2019 Pre Election Roundup

The Economy

Easily summed up:

aka The Tricky Down Effect

 



Social Trends

What better place to look than social media?

Hilarious, despite the rather broad swipe at one of my boxes (by which I do not mean cunt, this is a ref to #notallboomers. Keep up!)

Lots of people dislike the idea of using a word for female body bits in a pejorative tone. How can a cunt be worse than a dick? and more in that vein.

My own position on the cunt conundrum has been, for the last 40 years, that women must reclaim the word, just as the W word and the N word have been reclaimed (quite rightly) by their respective communities.

How can we use this word correctly in a sentence?

"A cunt is a fine thing, while Scott-free Morrison is a stronzo."

This, of course, begs the question for non-Italian speakers of the meaning of the word "stronzo". You could look it up in your Funk N Wagnalls, but like many good words, it possibly loses something in the translation, and will mean different things to different people. Here's more or less how it was explained to me by a native:

*"Picture it, the foot of the Gran Sasso, during the War. The snow is so bad if you have to shit you can't go outside, you just try and push it out a window. But one night you know you really gotta shit but if you shit it's gonna be really, really runny. Now that's a useless, a really useless shit. That's a stronze."

All we can do is reclaim the cunt word. It has the K sound in it. Just replace it with something else when you are looking for a pejorative.

Just Plain Rude

Any number of things are ruder and far more obscene than a fine sounding word like cunt.

Ms Day's death was just one of far, far too many no one in politics gives a shit about. The royal commission into deaths in custody recommended abolition of the crime of public drunkenness in 1991 and it is still and offence in Victoria April 2019.

White drunks not arrested.

The crime of public drunkenness is part of the system. The system does not require all drunks to be locked up, just some. If this simple fact does not explain systemic racism, what will?

Not white - not drunk - arrested for being drunk - died in custody

And thank you Labor for extending the fucking Indue card - what Mr Forrest WA Premier descendant of a long line of white premiers makes money out of.

Adani - well, bullshit approvals for a bullshit coal mine that maybe half a dozen people in Australia want.

Parliament is full of Not-cunts: of Stronzes.

One last recommendation before I leave in search of something to laugh at.