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China saves COP and the world

I was waiting for this because the Chinese have been playing the wokies of the west like trout with displays of RE installations and the distant promise of peak emissions.

Update. Playing the wokies like a trout is quite wrong, the trout have the good sense to resist. The wokies are not resisting, they are following Xi willingly and enthusiastically.

XI played cool, staying away from COP but that was just to make an even bigger bang by going for a big hit at the eleventh hour before COP.

“Cimate change is a wake-up call from nature to mankind.”

Hilarious!

Fiendishly clever, as they used to say on the Goon Show. Warning, not everyone finds the Goon Show amusing. You really had to be there fifty or sixty years ago before the Monty Python Show to appreciate it.

Thanks to thefrollickingmole for his suggestion. btw that is my favourite pseudonym probably because I think of Wind in the Willows. Some nice mole-related pictures.

Rafe Champion

17 responses to “China saves COP and the world”

  1. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Xi can only get away with it because our leaders are so dim.

    It’s the stupidest time to be alive if you’re a Westerner.

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  2. cuckoo Avatar
    cuckoo

    ‘Xi’. Is that their name or their pronoun?

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  3. local oaf Avatar
    local oaf

    Xi has boxed exceeding clever methinks.

    Fiendishly clever and a worthy successor to Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty!

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  4. Kneel Avatar
    Kneel

    “Warning, not everyone finds the Goon Show amusing.”

    “How do I open the door?”
    “Turn the knob on your side”
    “I haven’t got a knob on my side!”
    “On the door…”

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  5. Kneel Avatar
    Kneel

    “Fiendishly clever…”

    A cunning plan, my Lord.

    3
  6. Annie Avatar
    Annie

    You can listen to Goon Show episodes late at night on Radio United Kingdom, then look for British Comedy Radio UK. They also have Yes Minister, Dad’s Army in radio versions and Just a Minute and plenty else that doesn’t appeal to me (The Men from the Ministry, Navy Lark, etc. and including the endlessly irritating Clitheroe Kid)). Chacun à son goût.

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  7. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    Warning, not everyone finds the Goon Show amusing.

    Bang!

    “You rotten swine, you’ve deaded me!”

    6
  8. thefrollickingmole Avatar
    thefrollickingmole

    Every political promise should be restated in a Bluebottle voice to see if it sounds more sensible.

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  9. Tintarella di Luna Avatar
    Tintarella di Luna

    “How do I open the door?”
    “Turn the knob on your side”
    “I haven’t got a knob on my side!”
    “On the door…”

    Xi is just playing with the knobs

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  10. bemused Avatar
    bemused

    The only Goon Show happening is that in Glasgow, and it’s unintentionally a joke.

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  11. johanna Avatar
    johanna

    Fiendishly clever and a worthy successor to Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty!

    Surely a descendant of Dr Fu Manchu. And Boris, alas, is no Nayland-Smith.

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  12. local oaf Avatar
    local oaf

    If you know your way around bit torrent, the entire surviving Goon shows can be acquired. Around 160 episodes in total.

    Also, Hancock, Navy Lark, Beyond our Ken, Round the Horne, My Word, My Music, etc.

    2
  13. Miss Anthropist Avatar
    Miss Anthropist

    Nyington nyngton.

    1
  14. Rex Anger Avatar
    Rex Anger

    Every political promise should be restated in a Bluebottle voice to see if it sounds more sensible.

    I used to do this when Bird or Collaborator Bob started getting narky on the OldCat. Always gave me a giggle.

    Also:

    “Climate change is a wake-up call from nature to mankind.”

    The Mankinds don’t wish to know about all that…

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  15. Rafe Champion Avatar
    Rafe Champion

    Good to see new faces, or have I not been paying attention, anyway welcome cuckoo, Local Oaf and Miss Anthropist.
    And Hi to friends of longer standing, Tinta and johanna
    Thanks for that information on the radio shows Annie

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  16. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Climate change is a wake-up call from nature to mankind.

    More likely, the environmental devastation that China/the CCP is inflicting on the Middle Kingdom is a wake-up call from Nature to the CCP (which will ignore it).

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  17. Ellen of Tasmania Avatar
    Ellen of Tasmania

    It’s the stupidest time to be alive if you’re a Westerner.

    We’ve entered the real dark ages.

    Led by little square puddings.

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