An unprecedented emotion
Oct. 19th, 2015 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamI am feeling a rare (nay, unprecedented) feeling of sympathy for Tony Abbott, now accused of breaking the marble table at his farewell party (either in alleged drunken table top dancing or alleged dummy spitting violence).
Brandis has rather weakly claimed that the table might have been structurally unsound and had a weakness, which sounds ridiculous.
But remember the new year’s eve party at which someone’s parents’ expensive marble table literally *fell apart* as we sat around it? And remember when his mother came in and I was explaining that we were just sitting there when it just *splintered* in front of us and I picked up a piece of the marble to demonstrate how gentle we were and the shard actually *fell apart* in front of the horrified eyes of his mother? Remember that?
There was no table top dancing nor fits of anger. It just collapsed in front of us, due to structural weakness.
Of course, none of us made off with splinters of the marble as souvenirs. Nor did we try to prevent the auditing staff from entering the room to see what we had done. In fact, we were innocent victims of defective marble, which I am 99% sure Tony was not. But there is that 1% chance that it did just collapse, like his Prime Ministership.
Brandis has rather weakly claimed that the table might have been structurally unsound and had a weakness, which sounds ridiculous.
But remember the new year’s eve party at which someone’s parents’ expensive marble table literally *fell apart* as we sat around it? And remember when his mother came in and I was explaining that we were just sitting there when it just *splintered* in front of us and I picked up a piece of the marble to demonstrate how gentle we were and the shard actually *fell apart* in front of the horrified eyes of his mother? Remember that?
There was no table top dancing nor fits of anger. It just collapsed in front of us, due to structural weakness.
Of course, none of us made off with splinters of the marble as souvenirs. Nor did we try to prevent the auditing staff from entering the room to see what we had done. In fact, we were innocent victims of defective marble, which I am 99% sure Tony was not. But there is that 1% chance that it did just collapse, like his Prime Ministership.
