Aficionados of The Bug will know that since we first hit the streets in hardcopy form in 1989, we have steadfastly eschewed cheap, undergraduate, scatological humour!

It totally jars with the entire concept of sophisticated, deep-thinking, gold-standard, top-shelf, satire we’ve endeavoured to bring to our readers these past 34 years.

For that reason, we’re a tad disappointed that our tweet-of-the-week judges (over which we surprisingly have no control whatsoever!) have selected as the past week’s winner the effort shown above and below from DrHallstrong-Port Hughes, etc, etc..

We mean… really! Yukky poo! Such a cheap shot. And is this the sort of image The Bug likes to share with our intelligent readership? What if they’re eating breakfast at the time?

Still, Pell was indeed a piece of shit, so well done, you!

Running DRHallstrong etc, etc, etc, a close second was TOM RED whose compassion for the welfare of the Mad Monk was more than matched by his second pithy thought that we suspect the vast majority of Australians agree with.

David Griffiths and Richard looked at the media frenzy after Pell began his journey to Hell with some general observations shared by countless others on social mediocre.

Both got to the hub of the matter: Pell out of his own mouth, and rightly condemned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, was a rock-spider protector who wasn’t particularly interested in their activities and did fuck-all to stop their dreadful ways. The Bug remains just about 99.999999999 per cent sure Pell’s own rigidly conservative Catholic. climate-change denying cock had choir-and-altar boy shit on it but enough of that for now!

One of The Bug‘s favourite pisstake sites, Sky News Australia Parody, worked Pell’s passing and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s current woes nicely together…

Over at Newscorpse, Murdoch’s dreadful rags showed it’s not only politics that they are determined to destroy themselves over. That defending Pell as forcefully as the most devoted hardcore Catholics grasping their rosary beads out there – and what a dying breed they are as well! – was taken up with almost spiritual fervor.

Peter Lalor took a poke at the woke-haters at the Daily Telegraph while Hugh Rimington and Liz exchanged tweets on The Australian‘s total commitment to the belief that Pell was probably one of the greatest human beings that God in his infinite wisdom ever blew breath into.

And talking of the media, is it really possible that over at Aunty, Ita Buttrose or one of her senior managers ordered that on-camera folk dress in black as a tribute to the rock-spider protector?

Geof and Mike Kennedy suspected it to be so.

If such a directive was ordered, what the FUCK was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation thinking? Black in ‘honour’ of a rock-spider protector who spent his wretched, shitty, sorded, lying life protecting the Catholic church’s finances and denying sexual abuse victims of paedophile priests (is that a tautology?) fair and decent compensation to the dreadful physical and mental damage done to them!

Really? Were The Bug in the ABC chair, gaudy tropical shirts, party balloons and streamers would have been the order of the day to celebrate the passing of a truly dreadful piece of shit…. right, DrHallstrong-Port Hughes etc etc?

Oh, fuck it …. once more for old time’s sake!

Tomorrow: The rest of the best of the past week’s tweets, including reaction to Dominic Perrottet’s Nazi business!