Crikey Mate, this is a photo of one of natures greatest creatures its an old Salty that can live to be 100 years old.
Posted on 09/06/2006 4:01:58 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
STEVE Irwin had embarrassed millions of Australians, Germaine Greer said last night.
And those who had mourned him with their tributes at the Irwin family's Australia Zoo in what the British had labelled "a Princess Diana moment" were idiots, she said.
British-based Greer wrote in The Guardian newspaper after Irwin's death that the animal world had taken revenge on "self-deluded animal tormentor Steve Irwin".
Last night, she went even further.
She told Channel 9's A Current Affair she did not understand Australians' feelings of loss for Irwin.
She said he had exploited animals by telling the world how dangerous they were and then treating them disrespectfully.
"I find the whole Steve Irwin phenomenon (embarrassing) -- and I'm not the only person who did," Greer said.
But when pushed, she was unable to name anyone who had publicly agreed with her.
She rejected claims her sentiments were "un-Australian".
"I don't care what I'm being called," Greer said.
"I just hope I'm out of touch with what idiots are thinking."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Get lost "TimesDomain" Troll!
Geeze! After looking at that, ol' Helen Whatzername from the White House press corps don't look so bad!
Note to all: this should NOT be considered an invitation to post the standard Helen Whatzername's photo. For the love of humanity, don't do it.
Why not? It's fun here, and we'd fix you some local dishes, and our Father Hawker is an Irishman :-).
Aaaah, more from the tolerant, compassionate left. /sarcasm.
What a horrible, hateful thing for her to say, and, in fact, the opposite of what he did during his life. What a wicked witch she is! She'd be right at home on The View, spewing her shrill, feminazi rants around their bubbling cauldron (well, most of them, Elizabeth is ok).
This dried-out, prune-like, silly old b*tch is a disgrace. She seeks self-glorification on the back of the death of a truly great Australian.
Amen to that.
Crikey Mate, this is a photo of one of natures greatest creatures its an old Salty that can live to be 100 years old.
Isn't Germaine Greer the lady who bragged that her vagina was so huge that men (any who were fool enough to get that close :D) would be in real danger of falling all the way in?
Or am I confusing her with some other vulgar feminist bigmouthed has-been?
Well, I know she's loose with the truth. As to the looseness of anything else, I won't give it consideration for fear of becoming violently ill!
she/it should just be ignored
That's crap and you know it.
So go on and stand on his casket and crow your "I told you so".
Feel free to ridicule those of us who are mourning, whose hearts are broken over his death and continue to break for his family and friends left behind.
You mock a decent family man who died tragically - all to make yourself feel smarter, bigger and badder.
But I know who the better man is already. And unfortunately, he's gone from this world. And much is our loss.
And what exactly has Ms Greer contributed to society that would make her opinion in this matter important?
Apparently, she's been an idiot for a very long time...
Thanks for the link!
I invite Greer to reside permanently under what Camille Paglia has described as my male "arc of trascendence".
Calling a perfectly good man a liar and an idiot before he has even been buried is pretty empty-hearted.
Germaine Greer? Didn't she die a long time ago? Back when dikes burned their bras?
She most certainly would have died if she'd been around when they burned witches!
Dead from the neck up (and waist down) for a looooong time now.
Who is Germaine Greer and why would I care anyway?
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