tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post1115088430553859457..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THE SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT, ON MONDAYcall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-65737806808563129792009-08-13T03:23:57.289+01:002009-08-13T03:23:57.289+01:00Mr I....
very, very interesting.
YLCMr I....<br /><br />very, very interesting.<br /><br />YLCA young Lithuanian carpenternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4711747359400031482009-08-13T02:25:32.827+01:002009-08-13T02:25:32.827+01:00New York Times, November 13th 1998
On Monday,...New York Times, November 13th 1998<br /><br /> On Monday, The Sun, Britain's most popular daily newspaper, printed a front-page editorial warning that Britain was being run by a cabal of gay men and urging gay members of Parliament to come out of the closet as quickly as possible. On Tuesday, it printed a photograph of Agriculture Minister Nick Brown, who had been publicly identified as gay over the weekend, wearing an unflattering blue hair net on a tour of a dairy farm.<br /><br /> But today, in the midst of a countrywide debate over homosexuality, public office and the right to privacy, The Sun made perhaps its boldest move of all: it changed its mind.<br /><br /> It said that it had a new policy: as of now, it would no longer reveal the identity of any gay man or woman, except in cases of ''overwhelming public interest.'' What's more, it said, it had made the decision, which flies in the face of its relentlessly anti-gay reporting and editorial writing over the years, because of a sea change in public opinion.<br /><br /> ''Our readers are tolerant of private behavior and find unwarranted intrusion offensive,'' the paper said, going on to make an unusual (in its pages) plea for more tolerance. ''We hope our declaration will encourage gays to feel more at ease,'' it said. ''In a perfect world, their sexuality would then cease to be an issue.''<br /><br /> The editorial came after a series of strange events. First, the Cabinet Secretary for Wales, Ron Davies, resigned in disgrace after being beaten up and robbed at a park known for being a gay hangout. Then, a gay columnist for The Times of London declared that Peter B. Mandelson, the Trade Secretary, was gay -- something Mr. Mandelson has never publicly discussed. And then Mr. Brown, the Agriculture Minister, learning that an ex-lover had given a salacious interview to a Sunday newspaper, reluctantly told the world that he was gay, too.<br /><br /> Until today, The Sun led the rowdy press in gleefully reporting each new embarrassment. So in a country long accustomed to the newspaper's role as the most homophobic of the generally homophobic right-wing papers, the editorial today was nothing short of astonishing.<br /><br /> And, said supporters of gay issues, it was a long-overdue sign that even the most stubbornly anti-gay segments of the British news media were changing with the times.<br /><br /> ''It's the most extraordinary example I can remember of the press suddenly realizing that they've been left behind by their readers,'' said Benjamin P. Bradshaw, a Labor member of Parliament who is openly gay. ''The Sun has historically been the homophobic tabloid, the one that hated gays, and now they've completely flip-flopped. The tabloids are usually so good at judging their own readership, but they've completely lost it on this.''<br /><br /> In another unexpected move, The Sun's editor, David Yelland, announced on Wednesday that he was dismissing Matthew F. Parris, the columnist who caused the furor last week when he said that Mr. Mandelson was gay. Mr. Mandelson has never publicly discussed the issue, and Mr. Parris's remark was seen as a gaffe of such huge proportions that the BBC banned all mentions of Mr. Mandelson's sexual orientation on its television and radio stations.<br /><br /> It was unclear today what exactly prompted The Sun's U-turn. Perhaps, as the paper implied, it had been deluged by a surge of complaints from readers incensed at what they regarded as offensive and outdated coverage.<br /><br /> Jane Reed, a spokeswoman for News International, The Sun's parent company, said she could not explain why The Sun did what it didcall me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59912342967041377112009-08-13T02:21:52.315+01:002009-08-13T02:21:52.315+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40313003867823215122009-08-12T09:34:26.286+01:002009-08-12T09:34:26.286+01:00Re Mr Carpenter's comment I have been wonderin...Re Mr Carpenter's comment I have been wondering myself when Britain was taken over by poofs and communists, about the nineteen twenties by my reckoning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36548941988726631322009-08-11T22:09:57.790+01:002009-08-11T22:09:57.790+01:00Just utter genius.
All my thoughts on here - esp ...Just utter genius.<br /><br />All my thoughts on here - esp concentration camps in skies...<br /><br />All developed through modern science-based architectural research. White heat of Technology innit?<br /><br />Fucking leafy-street middle class privately educated liberals re-wiring the whole fucking country. Fucked the lot up. Swapped earth for neutral and cut live off. <br /><br />M'lord Rogers lives in Georgian townhouse, best street in Chelsea innit? Sitting room view of Wren's Hospital. Can't see a single fucking modern movement building from 'modern' double height sitting room, fuck me, but rails against Charles and his human scale theories.<br /><br />Chaz may be a bit old fashioned but fuck me, he hardly ruined the lives of millions in concrete fucking death camp.<br /><br />Let them view concrete, says Rogerstein, while I touch up me stucco in tasteful Farrow and Ball colours. No tie, see? Top button done up. Fucking modernist, me. Aside from breakfast table view of Wren's hospital, obviously.<br /><br />Thamesmead? Globally acclaimed. international awards flood in. Clockwork Orange life for you, peasants. Cumbernauld? Concrete vision of hell, brutalist butt-fuckery from the boarding school aesthetes.<br /><br />60's wreckers, passed the baton on to Miranda and Mandy, middle class school boys, sticking their heads around the headmaster's door. 'Please sir, it's just not right....it's just not fair...'<br /><br />Tear it all up and start again. <br /><br />We live and die by equality, us lot, aside from our children's schooling and private tutoring. And places at top universities. And Mandy's £2.2m Regent Park townhouse.<br /><br />Fuck me, Wilson's son is fucking train driver, innit? Not the children of the Blairs, Straws, Millar/Campbells, no fucking way.<br /><br />They had children though...odd. Even Widow Twanky broon.<br /><br />'Are we being run by a gay cabal?' asked Sun editor Yealland, weeks before being lead away by Rupe and sent to Harvard for re-programming.<br /><br />Google that headline. Nowhere to be found on World Wide Web. Gone forever. Erased by the bisexual mafia who made up New Labour.A young Lithuanian carpenter from Dagenhamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40068127142939053622009-08-10T16:53:05.858+01:002009-08-10T16:53:05.858+01:00I restored (as best I could) a Georgian house a fe...I restored (as best I could) a Georgian house a few years ago in which the previous owner(s) had cut up all the newel posts except for one from which I had a template to make new ones. They had also painted some of the elm floor boards, covered up all the old fireplaces and replaced many of the old doors with something more modern. Even with a listed building, it's hard to stop poeple from making, er,.... improvements.Caractacusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54115563719940561962009-08-10T15:12:51.812+01:002009-08-10T15:12:51.812+01:00I bought a huge house a long time ago full of pitc...I bought a huge house a long time ago full of pitch pine from Oregon make church pews out of it, scrape it with a knife and smell it wonderful stuff gets darker with age providing some fucker who watched Barry Bucknell papering a ceiling or more to the point trying to, Ah live TV, decided to saw the tops of the newel posts that had been there doing no one any harm for about a 100 years and chop the newel posts flat so they encase them in wonderful hardboard. Is it possible that Baz was a precursor for that smug fucker Clarkson? You must remember that a lot of these doors that have been stripped were never made to be shown if you like in the nude but made to be painted, most pitch pine is the exception doesn't rot you know an oily wood same as Clarkson but he's just an oily Murdoch arse kisserAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-9074872434620113902009-08-10T12:36:25.310+01:002009-08-10T12:36:25.310+01:00absolutely brilliant stan cant wait for next post....absolutely brilliant stan cant wait for next post.jacobitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43161055432152468852009-08-10T10:53:03.519+01:002009-08-10T10:53:03.519+01:00It isn't just the house, though, is it?
Dylan...It isn't just the house, though, is it?<br /><br />Dylan Moran used to do a lovely rant about how there were regiments of telly morons telling you that your house was shit, your car was shit, your garden was shit, your kids are shit,your pets are shit, your bodies are shit, your clothes are shit, your diet is shit and since he did that rant, there's now even been some mad, shameless, old boot telling you your shit is shit, too.<br /><br />Still, look on the bright side, eh, the recession's over and we are winning the war, a sure sign of which is that more and more of our troops are getting killed, this, as all military strategists will agree, is a sure sign of victory, when the enemy stoops to killing us, we know we have him beaten.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32675456366095854502009-08-10T10:43:11.988+01:002009-08-10T10:43:11.988+01:00Wonderful....as usualWonderful....as usualT' old 'unnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-57295709755661445452009-08-10T10:06:14.873+01:002009-08-10T10:06:14.873+01:00I hate all of those 'location house doctor'...I hate all of those 'location house doctor' type programmes.<br /><br />They basically say that - if your house isn't like this house you are a wanker. And look at the pretty shiny things. You want? Yes yes. You want them badly. You didn't realise you wanted them but you do now...<br /><br />Colin and Justin?? Fuck off.RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85127161435939294832009-08-10T09:34:26.972+01:002009-08-10T09:34:26.972+01:00Is it a purely an English trait to be led by fads?...Is it a purely an English trait to be led by fads? Delia recommends some cooking gismo and by the following week shops are sold out. Beckham's latest crop hair style is copied as is the latest line of garment worn by Kate Moss. The English seem to be prepossesed with the drive for modernity and fashion. My father once told me how old and beautiful the part medieval city of Hereford was. Many of its old black and white buildings have now long since gone, replaced by the 1960's (and still continuing) love affair with concrete and breeze-block.Caractacusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38907652191778086212009-08-10T08:00:24.539+01:002009-08-10T08:00:24.539+01:00Sorry, Stan, the Goons got there first.. rhubarb, ...Sorry, Stan, the Goons got there first.. rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb. <br /><br />Still in use after all these years too!rvinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25079185844771729482009-08-10T05:18:01.456+01:002009-08-10T05:18:01.456+01:00i think one of jeremy clarkson,s ancestors invente...i think one of jeremy clarkson,s ancestors invented the kilner jar,abit of usless informationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-58489696385133933842009-08-10T01:52:56.414+01:002009-08-10T01:52:56.414+01:00Fireplace looks fine to me Stanislav , just paint ...Fireplace looks fine to me Stanislav , just paint it over with mauve emulsion if your after that bedsit look.<br /><br />will you be doing sloe gin later in the year ??caesars wifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85373380593416243062009-08-10T00:49:06.078+01:002009-08-10T00:49:06.078+01:00It was Fablon that did for Barry Bucknell. Sticky-...It was Fablon that did for Barry Bucknell. Sticky-back plastic was so much easier than hammer and panel pins when social pressure eventually forced you to cover that obscenely aged oak table-top.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com