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Latte Lefties beware!

This story should probably serve as a warning to all of those inner city lefties who spend so much time trying to save the world from the oh so fashionable cafes that their beverage of choice can come back and bite them…

Doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine and after monitoring her condition allowed her home a few hours later.

She made a full recovery and wants to warn others about the dangers of excessive coffee drinking.

“My nerves were all over the place,” Jasmine said.

“I was crying in front of the customers and had tears streaming down my face.”

After going home she experienced frightening physical symptoms. She added: “I was drenched. I was burning up and hyperventilating.

“I was having palpitations, my heart was beating so fast and I think I was going into shock.”

After being allowed home from hospital she suffered side effects for days and now cannot face the sight of coffee.

She said: “I felt exhausted for days afterwards. I did not realise this could happen to you and I only hope other people learn from my mistake.”

Daily Mail

This story was brought to you  in a spirit of compassion and the hope that some of the lefties can be saved from sharing Jasmine’s fate. The solution is simple, drink tea instead.
Cheers
;)

An example of the Latte Left.

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IT is quite common, by those of a more conservative bent, to dismiss those on the urban left as "Latte Lefties” for while they espouse and advocate for the many socialist causes in their hearts the despise the common people.

It  Those who are not cognizant with the latest trend in dining at the cafes that they frequent. Look at this anecdote From Scott Bridges

Three generations of bogans walk into the cafe: bogan mum, bogan daughter and bogan grandma. They peruse the food options on display in the cabinet such as chicken focaccias and lamb rolls. These options include such “gourmet” ingredients as pesto and semi-dried tomatoes. I answer their questions about ingredients and note the bogan look of bemusement on their faces.
“What’s that?” Asks bogan mum, pointing.
“Falafel,” I answer.
“What’s falafel?” Whines bogan mum. Bogan grandma actually looks frightened. Bogan daughter looks vacant.
“It’s a chickpea and spice mix that’s been deep fried.”
“Errr,” bogan mum purrs. “We just like plain food. Do ya do sandwidges?”
“Of course,” I attempt to remain polite.
“Whaddaya want?” She nudges bogan daughter back to life who shifts her vacant stare from the wall to the display. Turning to bogan grandma “Mum?”
Bogan grandma shakes her head vigorously. I think she has wet her pants. Bogan daughter manages to drawl an order.
“Can I have chicken and lettuce?”
“Sure,” I reply. “We have a salad mix of lettuce, is that okay?”
“Do ya have normal lettuce?”
I think for a moment. What is normal? She’s either asking a deep philosophical question or looking for iceberg lettuce.
“No I’m sorry,” guessing that it’s the latter. “Do you want anything else?”
“Nah.”
“Do you want white or rye bread?”
Bogan mum cuts in.
“What’s rye bread?”

The contempt that Scott shows to the common people is almost palpable in this little tale from his time working in a cafe, but as you read through the archive of his blog you will see this theme repeated time and again for some one with a leftist tinge to his politics he has no understanding, or sympathy for the people of the suburbs. No empathy for those who do the menial jobs that are so necessary to make our society function the people who work in cinemas are just “plebs” and ordinary people without his intellectual pretensions are commonly referred to as “bogans“. As I suggested in my earlier piece “Silvertails, can they ever understand “doing it tough“many of the Latte Left talk the talk on equality and fraternity but they are mere dilettantes when it comes to advocating for the poor and down trodden . What do these dilettantes care about any group of people who are not fashionable to advocate for?
Oh we will hear all sorts of noises from them about the dispossession of the indigenous people, or the “mistreatment” of our Muslim immigrants, but what are they really doing to fix the “evils” that they cite so often and with such fervour? Well beyond mouthing off not much. Sadly too many of these dilettantes, after failing to do any thing of substance with their lives go into teaching. This seems to be the direction our friend Scott is taking. I am really concerned for the children of this country when we have people of Scott’s calibre entering the teaching profession.

Like many of his ilk pedantry is his stock in trade. He has made frequent comments here and elsewhere snidely pointing out that my spelling is sometimes far from perfect. this is something of a” cause ” for our Scott he has written about this sort of thing before at his own blog. He has certainly been a tireless advocate here for the use of proper “English” English metaphorically taking up the cudgels to do battle against any example of Americanized spelling. But in a globalised world can such a position be sustained? The English language is a wonderful dynamic creature that has be come the lingua franca of the world .and where ever it is spoken it has absorbed words and idioms that have added to its richness. So in this global age we have to accept that some words will have different spellings depending on where the writer draws their lexicon . Ultimately though the Latte Left have a deep seated hatred for all things American. However they are more than happy to use the fruits of that countries dynamic culture of innovation. I bet that even Scott’s computer has an Intel processor and uses Microsoft software. Likewise When Scott went on a trip to London he would have ridden in a Jumbo from Boeing.

Some how I tend to think that the reason that he has such a dislike for me and made my blogging such a whipping boy at his own blog it that he sees me an example of a “bogan” who has risen above his station and who refuses to mouth the usual leftist platitudes and slogans; How dare I not believe in abortion on demand? How dare I suggest that Homosexuals should not be able to marry? How dare I express scepticism about the green agenda or global warming? In his eyes I should meekly fall into line and accept the leftist orthodoxy on all of these issues. And that is the problem with so much of the inner urban left they have no real idea about the poor and down trodden, and while they may gleefully try to use Orwell’s visions of dystopia to attack the world’s conservatives the book that comes to mind here is not 1984 or Animal Farm but “Down and out in Paris and London “ and the contrast with the Scott Bridges of the world is startling Here is the account of some one who was the product of, England’s most esteemed public school who walked the walk; living and working with the most put upon at the very bottom of the social hierarchy and what comes across is not the contempt and disdain that permeates ”Grods corp.” but a real feeling of shared humanity and affection for the people he met.

Scott may have spent time doing Menial work washing dishes but he has never developed the understanding or affection for the ordinary people as a result of that practice, he has only used the experience to reinforce his elitist prejudices. Maybe one day he will realise that there is nothing wrong with being unsophisticated or preferring simple foods served with out pretensions.

Australia is, after all, the land of the meat pie, beer and the Holden cars

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March in March, oh dear! or watching the lefty freakshow

In my younger days I  participated in various protests. It was political street theater then and its  the same thing now. The difference is that then it had a point then and now well its for such a grab bag of pointless posturing that all achieves is a jump in sales for inner city Latte purveyors.  One thing is clear though and that it proves what a disconnected bunch of posturing wankers our friends from the left have become. Courtesy of my twitter feed here  are a couple of the more amusing images :

as someone who is, well, challenged by orthographic perfection I find this very funny

As someone who is, well, challenged by orthographic perfection I find this very funny

Orthographic  revision needed here  too

Orthographic revision needed here too

Don't these volunteers realize that thereis nothing unusual about our recent bush fires?  that said young hottie in the foreground could start few fires all on her own

Don’t these volunteers realize that there is nothing unusual about our recent bush fires?
That said young hottie in the foreground could start few fires all on her own

I just love examples of lefty projection when its so telling.

I just love examples of lefty projection when its so telling.

Just look at all of that expensive clobber and note the Take away latte being carried by the woman on the left.

Just look at all of that expensive clobber and note the Take away latte being carried by the woman on the left.

Its all of the usual suspects, making the usual complaints in the very tedious old fashioned manner None of it will be remembered beyond Tuesday (that attractive volunteer may be remembered till Thursday! ;) ) and nothing will change in the polity as a result of this piece of nonsense.

Rollin on Comrades

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Latte laughs

I have long been of the habit of referring to the inner city lefty trendies as “latte sippers”  its a somewhat sneering description that suggests that such individuals are dilettantes, posers and, well silvertail socialists, who actually despise the ordinary people their likes and aspirations and who have the arrogance of thinking that if only the poor would, see the truth of the world the way that they do then the poor would magically have all disadvantage lifted from their backs and the world would be a far better place. Such a belief is really the stuff of nonsense that reveals the shallowness of the thinking from that class of lefty thinkers but it is a rich source of well deserved mockery. Thus when I read of a scheme to help the poor enjoy the benefits of  “good coffee” and “cafe′ society” I could not help but think that it must be an idea from the mind of a satirist but no its a dinkum scheme from the Darebin Council:

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Like most people I enjoy a good coffee and its becoming ever more easy to get one at a decent price, heck even the Fine Scottish restaurant does reasonable coffee these days and its  sold at a rather modest price as well. Sorry but I cant see this as anything other than a very stupid and indulgent waste of ratepayer’s money that is worthy of the most strident disdain. Is it any wonder that our politicians are held in such contempt by the public when they invent silly schemes like this one?

Anyway with that thought its time for my second morning coffee…

Cheers Comrades

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Lefty foodie Porn alert!

Personally my choice of cuisine is to aim for elegant simplicity that allows one to appreciate the individual ingredients for themselves rather than having everything tizzied up so much that you have absolutely no real connection with what you are really eating. However I have noticed that our Latte sipping friends are very often right into all sorts of complicated and over worked frippery. To some extent this explains the popularity of programs like Master Chef but I can’t get over just how much of that and programs like it are rather like a type of Foodie Porn. So imagine my surprise when I found that the Paramour of our learned friend has a new Blog which  is essentially foodie porn!

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But there’s More! its also a blog about losing weight!!!

I’m starting this blog for quite a few different, possibly competing, reasons.

The first is that I am really digging cooking more and more. And the more I cook, the more I do myself from scratch, the better I eat, the more invested I feel in the quality of food I eat, and the more my health and weight are improving. I figure documenting what I am eating, what’s in it and how I am making it is only going to make that enjoyment more long-lasting.

The second was a comment by a new specialist I am seeing at the moment. She commented on the fact that I’ve lost 24 kilos over the past two years. Her first question “What diet are you on?”

She seemed genuinely taken aback that I was not on a diet,and had maintained and was continuing my weight loss, without any professional intervention of any sort. I’m just going to the gym three times a week (when I can), trying to eat healthier without limiting my food intake or being too spartan or without too many rules. Oh, and finding out the root cause of my steady weight gain in the first place. More on that later.

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And of course about Lefty wedding plans which are quite ironically amusing because it would seem that this couple are going for the whole box and dice for the complete wedding industry experience:

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Now regular reader’s of our learned friend’s internet musings may remember when he announced to all that he was going to become a vegetarian well it seems that he has been unable to resist the lure of flesh eating because this post from Keri informs us that he has a taste for steak and most of the dinner meals cited at the blog have meat in them,

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Its  a source of endless amusement to me to read blogs such as this one full of foodie porn, wedding preparation porn, and gasp, weight loss porn as well I’m not so sure though that baring one’s personal life to public scrutiny is so wise though but then again who is surprised at the naivety of our latte sipping friends?

Cheers Comrades

The Bolt Report must be doing fine if minions of the extreme left are so desperate to vilify it…

Its no secret that I am rather chuffed about the clear success of the the Bolt report because it certainly has exceeded the expectations of its makers, blown away the latte-sipper’s predictions of utter failure. In fact despite a little stiffness in his presentation on the initial show it has become much smoother and more at ease with each subsequent episode.

Bolt’s most strident critics over at “Pure Playschool” keep insisting that they are not going to watch it yet I bet that they do, Doctor Jason Wilson owes me a latte because he was one of those  who predicted its failure and I quite like Joel Silver’s take on the show which is very even handed in the way that it considers the program and why it is succeeding in the ratings;

The Bolt Report has rapidly gained itself a loyal following. I do not believe, however, that this is simply a flow-on from his column. Indeed, the program is a different kettle of fish from Insiders and its academic roundtable of journalists (perhaps explaining why Insiders and Meet the Press have only a stable, not growing, audience). The show is what might be called “editorial television”, programs that discuss, assess and often indicate a view on the issues. That does not make the program a trailblazer; Lateline has long editorialised, and that is fine. But Lateline is evening viewing, which the unengaged will only come upon if the sandman is left shivering on the side of the road after phoning into the RACV. By that point, they’ve watched the evening news, maybe caught up on the morning paper, and are too tired to hear more. Unfortunately for them, when the television is back on at 6.30, Virginia Trioli stands in the place of Tony Jones. And News Breakfast is certainly no Lateline, having been influenced by the “news-lite” approach taken by Today and Sunrise.

Bolt is a morning commentator. Problem is, I haven’t got patience to read his opinions at 6.30, or anyone else’s for that matter. But read it out to me, and you’ll have my attention. Better still, put him on television and radio, and the person who would have read it out can go about fixing my breakfast. That gives the program appeal: the type and quality of commentary on Lateline, morning radio and in newspapers, but which is rarely found on morning television. That Bolt fronts The Bolt Report is only part of the attraction, although few journalists could effectively engage with an audience that has just gotten out of bed. Had the ABC commissioned the show, it might well be called Lateline Mornings, Tony Jones having turned it down the role in favour of his morning siesta. And while The Bolt Report is an exclusively Sunday affair, if its strong performance continues, we could be seeing the beginning of a more engaging and editorialised breed of morning television news program.

And after reading the article  I naturally scanned the comments and who did I find sprouting hate but our old pal Richard Ryan:

Richard Ryan said in reply to Shinsko…

Well he is known as Melbourne’s “village idiot”,but methinks that is an insult to a village idiot.

Richard Ryan said in reply to Pia Robinson…

Andrew Bolt the promoter of the Lord Monckton tour of Australia—-and all his beloved bloggers ready to dish out their 25 bucks to see this British fake.

Richard Ryan said in reply to Leo Lane…

AND I expose Bolt as a stolen generation denier,who is a legend in his own mind, a nobody.

Richard Ryan said in reply to Rod…

Bolt will ask the hard questions to suit his political requirements——I class him as a media clown, with no principles—–but then it’s not his fault, he is of Dutch origin.

Richard Ryan said in reply to gordo…

gordo—the lover of all things Bolt!

Richard Ryan said in reply to Michael Sutcliffe…

AH YES! Andrew Bolt the Herald Sun’s resident nutter.

Richard Ryan said in reply to

Bill O’ Reilly is an Irishman with his brains knocked out—makes Bolt look like an altar boy. Go and listen to a real journalist like Julian Assange.

Richard Ryan said…

Andrew Bolt is a self-promoter, 800 bucks every time he appeared on ABC Insiders I hear,—-Bolt’s principles are in his wallet, but good on old smirkey

Richard Ryan said in reply to Elizabeth…

IF you want to hear vile comments, click over to Bolt’s blog, there you can pick from Muslim bashing, racist comments, boat people scorn, Aborigine bashing. Go away Elizabeth you are a Bolt blogger lackey. Bolt is a specialist in the art of Trolls, but David Marr cut him down to size—-when he had to say sorry to him, unlike his book, “Still Not Sorry” Shalom.

The thing that the anti-Bolt collective fail to realise is that their “arguments” for all of their piss and vinegar, just fail to  convince the vast majority of people who don’t have any  frothy residue on their top lips. Then again in my experience people like Richard( or our learned friend) have a view of politics that is far too black and white. There is no room for nuance in their world view, no appreciation that someone can hold a different view of politics and not be evil as a result , ah but that is the reason that People like Richard Ryan probably vote Green and dream of the undesirable and  unobtainable socialist utopia. Well they can rant insult and demean and all the while sensible souls will get it and enjoy the Bolt report…

Cheers Comrades

Well that explains it #Latte

Readers of the Sandpit will be well aware of just how often I take the piss out of those strident inner city Lefties  by making note of their beverage of choice, the Latte. So today I give you a very cute story form the Daily Mail by way of a light hearted start to the day:

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Who would have thought that eh?

Too much Latte makes you prone to Hallucinations ?

Cheers Comrades

(hmm must be time for more Coffee ;)  )

In the mean time it will be sensible lefties like Nick Dyrenfurth and Nick Cohen who are lighting the path for those of a progressive inclination

I get a fair bit of stick for repeatedly knocking the idiocy from those that I call Latte-Sippers ™. You know the well intentioned but naive lefties who seem to spend a great deal of their time berating any conservative who is concerned about totalitarian Islamists or idiot Warministas. The irony is that I have a very strong sense of true social justice and I am quite far from being any sort of fan of rampant winner takes all  capitalism, in fact when I did one of those “where do you sit in the political spectrum” quizzes I came out with a score that put me just to the left of centre  So when I criticise the left it probably has more to do with a feeling that they have betrayed their own principles to support either totalitarians or the most foolish millenarian  scam of our age. Why else do you think that I have such respect for the likes of Nick Cohen?  Well now it seems that there are a few more sane lefties coming out of the woodwork who are willing to say just how nutty the far left have become and just why they are trashing the “progressive” centre left with their idiotic support for any mob who happens to oppose the capitalistic western democracies:

Today, however, noisy elements on the far Left – think Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and our local scribblers – seem to believe that Western-style democracy is in fact the real enemy.

With monotonous regularity they excuse bin Laden and his fellow Jihadis’ death-cult or rationalise Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vile anti-Semitism, instead preferring to blame the US and Israel for all the woes of the world, including partial responsibility for the September 11 atrocities.

There are of course brave souls on the Left who have challenged the ostensible status quo. One thinks here of Geras and his fellow Euston Manifesto signatories. Recently a local player emerged to put a similar case.

In his maiden speech to NSW parliament last year Labor MLC Luke Foley, from the party’s Left, argued that social democrats must confront the newest “totalitarian movement of the far Right” just as they successfully opposed fascism. “This global Islamist movement is misogynist, racist and homophobic [and] based on an utter perversion of the Islamic faith.

“Too many progressives are silent about this,” Foley insisted, “or worse, deny this.”

It is hard to disagree with the crux of Foley’s argument. And yet if I must quibble with his analysis and that of Geras et al, it is their designation of the apologists for radical Islam, as “Left”, an association that is arguably harming the electoral viability of centre-left parties across the globe. For they are no such thing.

It is high time these values-free misfits received a new appellation.

Practically speaking, they oppose mainstream Left thinking on virtually every subject. Amazingly they can see no tangible difference between a theocracy and a democracy nor denounce Islamic fundamentalism in unequivocal terms. To my mind, they should be known for what they are: nihilists.

So let them rail against liberal democracy and chant: “We are all Hezbollah” from the rooftops but do not besmirch the good name of others by deeming themselves Left. No, let them stand with like-minded nihilists, Jew-haters and other enemies of social democracy, including a recently deceased jihadist unlikely to be enjoying a judenrein paradise of virgins. On behalf of the sane Left, good riddance to the lot of them.

Perhaps the problem with the far left is that they just can’t admit that for all of its many faults that our society is actually pretty good, certainly still a work in progress but a bit closer to being a better picture than just about any other social template on the planet. If our Latte sipping friends could only see beyond the milky froth on their own lips and look at the bigger picture then they might just realise that by giving succour to theocratic misogynist despots they are undermining the “progressive” future they claim to care so much about. In the mean time it will be sensible lefties like Nick Dyrenfurth and Nick Cohen who are lighting the path for those of a progressive inclination and earning the respect of social conservatives like yours truly.
Cheers Comrades

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