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CULMINATION OF ALL HUMANS v TAYLOR, D.

Margo Kingston’s Webdiary has missed Robert Bosler’s excellent contributions; he’s been mostly silent ever since Mark Latham’s panco attack. Recently Andrew Stretton (“I am an introverted thinker, intensely focused, with a deeply passionate desire to ‘open up’ the societal mind to fresh perspectivesâ€?) has stepped forward to fill the crucial Bosler role; indeed, the role of all humankind:


I am the culmination of all those who have been before. I carry within me their experience, their knowledge. I have inherited tiredness from their battle and a quiet desperation deep inside, one that taunts me with the possibility that all they achieved was a deferral, a ‘putting off’ for another day, that which we will ignorantly stumble towards.

Andrew’s post drew a reponse from Darlene Taylor, which has apparently led to a complaint by Stretton to the ... Sex Discrimination Commissioner!

Developments are awaited.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/21/2005 at 07:42 PM
  1. You have a Sex Discrimination Commissioner?? Gosh, that’s just—(boggle)

    I have no words, really. It certainly puts certain American tv dramas of the 70s featuring crime-fighting police commissioners in a whole new light.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 21 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  2. Sounds like Mr. Stretton has a clinical case of the pedistal thingy that the shrink was talking about in the rugby piece.  Good thing they banned handguns in OZ!

    Posted by yojimbo on 2005 02 21 at 09:38 PM • permalink

  3. Andrea.  Alot of colleges now have “gender equity coordinators” on staff now.  So I see your boggle and raise you a boggle.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2005 02 21 at 09:41 PM • permalink

  4. Following a diagnosis of an extremely rare bone marrow disorder in 2000, I discovered that my soul could not be denied and that my thoughts needed to be expressed.

    Say, Andrew, those rare bone marrow disorders sure have interesting side effects.

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2005 02 21 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  5. I am the culmination of all those who have been before. I carry within me their experience, their knowledge.

    *sigh*  OK

    Darwin was wrong…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 21 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  6. I’m sorry, it is me who is the culmination of all humanity, and inhumanity. My burden is bigger, as is my head, so I rule. Or is it my ass?

    Posted by J. Peden on 2005 02 21 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  7. no dude!! the culmination is mine!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 02 21 at 11:14 PM • permalink

  8. Join me, Rosceo, and together we can culminate the universe as father and son! *click*wheeze*

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 21 at 11:33 PM • permalink

  9. For crying out loud, he sounds like one of those robots in bad sf movies who adapt to their enemy’s strategies. “I am the culmination of all those who have been before. I carry within me their experience, their knowledge.”

    Posted by narugami on 2005 02 21 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  10. I’ll never culminate the universe with you!

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 21 at 11:38 PM • permalink

  11. Maybe he belongs to the collective hive-mind of the Borg, and wants to assimilate us.  Well, in the words of Commander Whorf: “Assimilate this!”

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 02 21 at 11:47 PM • permalink

  12. What starts with “W” and rhymes with “Anchor”?

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2005 02 21 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  13. In the comments to Stretton’s original post, Margo herself states:

    Afterall, Kerry Packer is personally one of the three most prolific and successful defamation litigants in Australian history. He and his lieutenants sue their critics.

    So only webdiary contributors can attempt to silence their critics through threats of litigation.

    Posted by Adam B on 2005 02 22 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  14. Putting the post on Stretton within view of the one about HST is beautiful. Just beautiful.

    Posted by Hanyu on 2005 02 22 at 12:27 AM • permalink

  15. “Alot of colleges now have “gender equity coordinatorsâ€? on staff now.”

    For colleges, this is true. So far the US has no government-backed committees like this that I know of. The various EEOC committees can’t match what our colleges have. Private colleges are the worse.

    I’ve worked, for many years, on a college campus and have seen various incarnations of these committees. They are usually called some fancy name that changes every few years.

    The campus I was on not only had a committee, but had as its head someone who reported directly to the board of directors. (They bypassed all existing political alliances on campus this way.)

    They would send out a booklet each year to faculty, staff, and students reminding all that if we felt ‘uncomfortable’ by anything anyone said, did, or by some passing glance we could report that person to the committee. If we felt too ‘uncomfortable’ reporting to the committee, we could make an appointment with the committee’s head (one who reported to the board of directors).

    Creates a very chilling atmosphere, especially when ‘feel uncomfortable’ is so loose ended. PLUS you are guilty until proven innocent. Theoretically, someone could object to the way you look at them, ‘feel uncomfortable’, and report you.

    The good news is that there is a backlash on many campuses against these sorts of committees. The committee on our campus had to resort to surveys, with very loaded questions that most ignored, because their usefulness was being questioned.

    Apparently they hadn’t had a great amount of business to justify the expense of this committee. So, they whipped together a survey to prove that although people weren’t speaking up, there were still problems that needed their attention.

    They are still there and still a threat, but the attitude on campus is changing and they are considered something of a joke.

    Posted by CJosephson on 2005 02 22 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  16. Mad Margo and her backers the Packer Mob.

    I reckon Kerry might incorporate her in a new hazard on his golf course.

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 02 22 at 12:54 AM • permalink

  17. Thats once the media laws are changed and Kerry buys the SMH

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 02 22 at 12:55 AM • permalink

  18. Sortelli — Young fool… only now, at the end, do you realize the power of the culmination…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 22 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  19. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, culminate you it will.

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 22 at 01:22 AM • permalink

  20. My name is Andrew Stretten, King of Kings,

    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 02 22 at 01:58 AM • permalink

  21. My names Andrew Stretton,
    I’m always a-frettin’,
    ‘Cos I’m not gettin’,
    No sorta debt in.

    There’s no-one smarter’n me,
    Y’all got the brains of a pea,
    ‘Cos you all watch too much teevee,
    Should be readin’ the Herald Harpy.

    Maybe I should move to Spain,
    Where they’ll love my giant brain,
    Or maybe become a citizen Dane,
    You Aussies think I’m an arsebound pain.

    As for that bloody Darlene Taylor,
    I’ll get the HREOC to nail her,
    Or if that turns out to be a failure,
    I’ll go up the ‘Cross and pick up a sailor.

    Posted by Habib on 2005 02 22 at 02:13 AM • permalink

  22. “Futility is resistant; your ass (arse) will be laminated.”

    Fair dinkum, I read some pretty awful bloody prose on a daily basis for a living, but this turgid, torpid tirade takes the (tea)cake. Obviously from the Margo School of Writting [sic].

    “When ones one’s self centered self-centred desire for the latest and greatest techno toy depends on towing toeing an ideological/ corporate (close up the space) line ...”

    Posted by BIWOZ on 2005 02 22 at 02:27 AM • permalink

  23. Andrew Stretton says I am the culmination of all those who have been before. See if you can match these famous writers (1-6) with their culminations (a-f). No cheating by clicking on links before playing.

    1) Hello everyone; I am ...Diaclosities, and I come from another dimensionality of the Earth.. [...] I am the culmination of all ...

    2) i VieW ThE wOrLd AroUnD Me…i CaPtURe wHaT i sEE aNd TrAnsFoRm iT INto ArT. I am the culmination of all ...

    3) How do you betray Me?.....By not being of one heart in Me…..by preferring your own thought to Mine. [...] I am the Culmination of all ...

    4) My name is Graham Gerken, and I’m the last in a long line of Gerken’s [...] I am the culmination of all ...

    5) My life really has begun anew. I am no longer the person you knew. While I am still the gentle idiot you all know and love I am the culmination of all ...

    6) I am the collection of all you fear. I am the culmination of all ...

    a) ... Good Things.
    b) ... of the experiences of my life.
    c) ... that is evil and dark, and I can lock you in an endless shell of despair, darkness, and confusion.
    d) ... that Hercules wanted for himself and the manifestation of that desire.
    e) ... the experience that came before.
    f) ... I have sensed, of all I have experienced and of all those I have met.

    Posted by Hanyu on 2005 02 22 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  24. Yeah I thought Ozymandios too….

    Posted by crash on 2005 02 22 at 02:54 AM • permalink

  25. More from the Queen of Blather;

    AGAIN Howard has defied public opinion in the one area where majority public support is absolutely neccessary in a democracy - asking our troops to give their lives to defend Australia.

    Most Australians did not want Australia to invade Iraq, and now a substantial minority of Australians wants our troops bought home as soon as possible.

    St Margo, our Most Holy Defender of the Substantial Minority.

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 02 22 at 03:14 AM • permalink

  26. Methinks Margo protesteth too much -she is bewitched,bothered and bewildered by Howard - now Margo fess up you know you want him so…....
    Hang in Darlene.

    Posted by crash on 2005 02 22 at 03:24 AM • permalink

  27. “...all they achieved was a deferral, a ‘putting off’ for another day, that which we will ignorantly stumble towards.”

    ahem.  English teachers arise and defend your curriculum as in olden time.  This should say—

    “... all they achieved was a deferral, a ‘putting off’ for another day of that towards which we will ignorantly stumble.”

    geez.  How can anyone be so creative, arrogant, dimwitted and incoherent all at the same time?

    Posted by texasdave on 2005 02 22 at 03:44 AM • permalink

  28. Taking on the culmination of all humans is one hell of a task, but someone has got to do it.

    “Hey, hoe, hey, hoe, we’re taking on the culmination of all humans, hey,hoe.”

    Posted by Major Anya on 2005 02 22 at 04:00 AM • permalink

  29. victorian government departments have “diversity managers” and special wimmin’s lunches where the lucky participants get to hear converts to islam telling them they should try to understand mothers who send their kids off to martyr school

    quick, get the domestos - the smell of shite is overpowering in braxtopia

    Posted by KK on 2005 02 22 at 04:40 AM • permalink

  30. If the gentleman can demonstrate discriminatory remarks surely Margo and the SMH would also be liable.
    I quote from an australian lawyer on the web referring to Thompson v Australian Capital Television.
    “The question of innocent dissemination will be a question of fact in each case and any party seeking to rely upon this defence will realistically need to establish that it had no knowledge of even the possibility of any defamatory content.” surely Margo and the SMH can’t claim innocent dissemination. Or if they could how soon did they remove the offending remarks. 
    This is fun. Other than I don’t understand what it is about.

    Posted by Ros on 2005 02 22 at 05:22 AM • permalink

  31. “In late 2004 I began to write..”

    Shame he didn’t desist in late ‘04 or earlier.

    And I’m pleased Australian youth is “disinterested”.

    Bloody great tit!!

    You bet

    Posted by you bet on 2005 02 22 at 05:50 AM • permalink

  32. Hanyu #23: An excellent quiz!

    My guesses:

    6 - c
    4 - b
    2 - e
    1 - a
    5 - f
    3 - d

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 02 22 at 06:04 AM • permalink

  33. I am the culmination of all those who have been before me here at Webdiary. I carry within me their experiencial empiricism. I have imbibed tawdriness from their bottle and a quiet desperation deep inside, one that taunts me with the possibility that all they achieved was a deferral, a ‘putting off’ for another day, that which we still ignorantly stumble towards.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 02 22 at 06:10 AM • permalink

  34. My god! I can’t believe I actually went and read St Andrew’s missive to the chronically left. If onanism is still a sin,he’s going to hell.

    Seriously though, what about the turgid, illiterate drivel dispensed by ‘Polly’ (who needs a bit more than a cracker) and ‘Jack’. Scorn them all I say.

    Posted by Nic on 2005 02 22 at 07:24 AM • permalink

  35. “This is the time, this is the face. I am the word, this is the place, I’ve solved the fears, down through the years, believe me. Believe me baby. Oh girl World, why won’t you let me love you. What does it take to make you see, make you see baby. All the precious love you’ve been wasting, you’ve been wasting, you’ve been wasting. You could have been sharing it with me, sharing it baby. You could have been sharing it all with me! You bitch. Now listen to me, baby….”

    Out, Out, damned culmination!

    Posted by J. Peden on 2005 02 22 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  36. Hear me, my Culminators: cumulating Culminators culminating Cumulators yet culminating, from where the sun now accretes cumulating, I will Culminate no more forever these Cumulators.

    Posted by J. Peden on 2005 02 22 at 07:50 AM • permalink

  37. Can somebody please contextualise this culmination?

    Posted by murph on 2005 02 22 at 06:52 PM • permalink

  38. Is the Culmination a annual event, like Groundhog Day here in the US?

    Or is it a one-time event….and I missed it?!!!

    Posted by rinardman on 2005 02 22 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  39. Look, I don’t know how you guys do it down under, but culminating is a very intimate thing that I’m just not going to share with a lot of strangers.  Not even on the internet.

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 22 at 11:56 PM • permalink

  40. Best part of this thread- Hanyu’s Quiz of Culimation (1-d, 2-f, 3-a, 4-e, 5-b, 6-c, on quick guesses)

    Worst part of this thread- That the Culmination of Salim has wandered off to Darlene’s blog to troll there since he’s been soundly banned here.  Never before has a 13 year old boy desperate for attention and pretending to be his own extended family looked so small and furiously impotent.  And that is saying a lot.

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 23 at 12:27 AM • permalink

  41. Look, I don’t know how you guys do it down under, but culminating is a very intimate thing that I’m just not going to share with a lot of strangers.  Not even on the internet.

    Sorry Sortelli, but I’ve already culminated over your comments.

    Hey, it happens to the best of us.

    Posted by Quentin George on 2005 02 23 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  42. Andrew Stretton is a compulsive culminator- he’s been convicted of culminating in his cousin’s kelvinator, causing his clotted cream to curdle. What a culmnt.

    Posted by Habib on 2005 02 23 at 02:16 AM • permalink

  43. Dang, Quentin, you didn’t even buy me a drink first. What will this do to my reputation?

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 02 23 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  44. Sortelli, you should only accept drinks from strangers. Friends expect you to buy them a drink afterwards.

    Posted by jorgen on 2005 02 23 at 09:35 AM • permalink

  45. I think you guys are making the classic error of imminentizing the culmination.

    Posted by Nightfly on 2005 02 23 at 07:36 PM • permalink

  46. All the precious love you’ve been wasting

    St. Andrew has certainly wasted a lot of precious love and made a real mess over himself.

    culminating is a very intimate thing

    My culmination dove-tailed into a convergence.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 02 23 at 09:14 PM • permalink

  47. Habib — The kelvinator?  Not the double-bottomed defecator?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 23 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  48. I culminate therefore I am.

    Posted by Hump B Bare on 2005 02 23 at 11:35 PM • permalink

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