I’ve noticed a number of people complaining that the PM mentioned Chinese New Year and Ramadan, but said nothing about Lent…
The most interesting part of this for me is that the only people I’ve seen mentioning Lent are the ones complaining about Albanese’s failure to wish everyone a happy Lent. Or should that be a “Merry Lent”… I mean I know how precious some of these people can be about wishing people a happy holidays instead of a merry Christmas.
And I guess that’s just the general vibe of those professional agitators who complain about woke ideology, cancel culture, political correctness and accuse everyone who disagrees with them as being part of the outrage industry… which is rather ironic given it’s the commentators on Sky who are the ones who are perpetually outraged AND being paid for it: “How dare people expect me to be woke when I’d rather sleep through everything…” and “It’s ridiculous that people are claiming that record temperatures are indicative of anything to do with global warming because we had record temperatures a couple of years ago and we’ll have record temperatures next year but to suggest that this is indicative of a warming trend is just silly!”
Of course some of you may not know what Lent is because you’re the sort of people who don’t embrace Australian values. In some Christian churches it’s a time of preparation for the coming of Easter by fasting and reflection, which is distinctly un-Australian if you ask me.
Some Christian sects require you to give up something for Lent. Others don’t pay much attention to it at all. Whatever, I’m now seeing a whole new business opportunity for “Have A Good Lent” greeting cards because I can get a lot of free publicity from someone like Rowan Dean when I contact his program and say that I have thousands of unsold cards thanks to the likes of those lefty teachers who don’t even let the kids take the lunch money off younger kids who are ignoring our Christian traditions and spending it at the canteen on soft drinks and other indulgences during Lent…
Perhaps some of you can annoy those relatives who ruin Christmas by telling you how well Donald Trump’s doing and ask them what they gave up for Lent and if they can’t tell you, shake your head and mutter something about ignoring traditions. On the other hand if they reply with some vice or other, then try to turn the tables on you by asking you what you’ve given up, you could reply with something like: “I’ve given up arguing with the ignorant!” And if they suggest that you’re referring to them, just say: “Whatever you like.”
Alternatively, you could say, “I’ve given up moderation for Lent. Pour me another one.”
Either way, you’ll feel better than trying to point out the obvious to someone who thinks that Pauline Hanson will be the next PM. (If you say, “What’s the obvious?”# I’ll be very worried about you…)
Speaking of worried, I notice that Patricia Karvelas thinks that Jim Chalmers will be very worried about Tim Wilson being made Shadow Treasurer. On a scale of worries that Jim Chalmers may have I think I’d put it at the bottom end, somewhere between which colour socks should I buy and how do I tell that backbencher that I don’t really want their kid to do work experience in my office.
#Just in case you are actually wondering about what’s obvious: Hanson’s party would have to go from zero seats to quite a lot. I say “quite a lot”, not because I don’t know that 76 is needed for a majority but there’s the possibility of forming some sort of coalition in a minority government, but given the historical conventions and given that Pauline is in the Senate and it would be without precedent to have a senator as PM and given that Senator Hanson is over seventy and… Anyway, you get the picture. She’s not going to be PM.
Why not “…Happy Good Friday…”?
Surely there is a dollar in it!
Well – there’s already ‘Happy Easter’ rabbit and eggs association- which was originally from the age-old celebration of Spring and new life, – conveniently manipulated and accommodated to suit the religious significance. Quite a few dollars in it really!
I always think of Lent as a catch up time. You know all those New Year resolutions that you failed at so badly. Lent is your second chance. Lent is when in the ye olde days such as 1960s Hawthorn the question was, “And what are you planning on giving up for Lent”? So if you failed NY, now’s your big chance to maybe fail again.
Well there’s certainly a dollar in it for the supermarkets!
Hot Cross buns have been on sale since Boxing Day.
You learn something new everyday: Hot cross buns isn’t what happens when you accidently sit on a hot barbeque grilling surface. It’s a type baked bready product with mixed dried fruit.
Easter has as much meaning to me as Christmas and the Coca Cola advertisement bearded fat man (whose cholesterol levels must be astronomic from untold lires of milk and bickies)that comes down the chimney.
A very long time ago I gave up religion for Lent. It became permanent. My life has been much better ever since.
GL: Easter means discount chocolate the following week.
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I’m waiting for for the major supermarkets to start selling christmas goodies for the next year on Boxing Day (is that when you put on a pair of boxing gloves and go around biffing everyone who gave you a tie or pair of underwear as presents?) of the current year.
It is quite inaccurate to describe the SkyLie gabblers as ”commentators”. Rather, they are better described as very much overpaid thick as a brick mumblers selected for their inability to see past the end of their respective noses and slowly read a script from Advance on how to follow the BILLIONAIRES CLUB route to a 19th century future.
The most offensive thing about that Media Manipulation outlet is that these commentators are taken seriously by less than three percent (3%) of the Australian television audience. Why is the Murdoch Empire given access to valuable band-width when that corporation can only attract such a miniscule audience??
Lent for “fasting and reflection”?? As a Sydney raised teenager Lent was the first week of the Sydney Royal Show when we spent every available minute roaming around the Paddington Showground (before LABOR sold it off to News Ltd for a film production studio complex) ogling all the new model cars, eating Scott’s pies, fairy floss and those now disgusting ”new” Dagwood dogs. A good time to set life goals to make ourselves successful so we could enjoy the material benefits we saw there.
Why does anybody ever ”argue with the ignorant”?? Learning from an ill-informed, unresearched, gossip-monger serves no useful purpose. I never argue with my partner, she is always correct. Ask her and she will tell you (and me).
Jim Chalmers is about as worried by Shadow Treasurer Widdle ZIONAZI Willy as he is about a blockage in the Parliamentary Prayer Room toilet ….
But take heart, Widdle Willy has little chance of becoming Prim Monster because his ZIONAZI backers ALWAYS prefer one of their own, like Liddle Joshie Friedeggburgher who has been returned to publicity officer to keep his image before the voters, while they are hoping the national very short political memory forgets the disastrous impact his last term as Treasurer that ALBANESE LABOR GOVERNMENT Treasurer Jim Chalmers continues to rectify four years later.
Nah …. Porelein is unlikely to become the first Only Nutters Prim Monster, not just because her xenophobic, backward looking MAGA mouth will have passed into the Australian historical WPB, but rather because that role has been secretly reserved for James Ashby, he of the Peter Slipper chaos.
Now this morning 230226 NOtional$ ”(mis)leader” Proudless has announced that there will be two COALition candidates for the forth-coming Farrer bye-election so that they can swap second preferences and continue to inhibit economic and social development in that electorate.
REGIONAL INDEPENDENTS GET THINGS DONE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.
What do NOtional$ and LIARBRAL$ do??