tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2284194875182100329..comments2024-03-27T18:34:28.763+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR AUSCHWITZ, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32979639145020142172015-02-06T12:01:32.936+00:002015-02-06T12:01:32.936+00:00There are places I'll remember all my life, mr...There are places I'll remember all my life, mr richard but I would never go back to them, despite them merely being sites of bad choices, good relationships gone bad, bad relationships gone worse. Beats me why anyone who was there would return to Auschwitz.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84799743141653338442015-02-05T13:21:11.325+00:002015-02-05T13:21:11.325+00:00Should have sign on it.
"Closed until furthe...Should have sign on it.<br /><br />"Closed until further notice,<br />-by Order"<br /><br /><br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-44712199434192957142015-02-04T22:36:53.334+00:002015-02-04T22:36:53.334+00:00Well, zealots are not the audience for politics. T...Well, zealots are not the audience for politics. The pilot being so demonstrably dead, the release of any of the condemned could present itself to the floating thinker as nothing but magnanimity. The woman - I see the other bloke needs no name and is just dead - could have been sent home with a million dolars in a bag and a instruction note in her hand to open an orphange and repent her sins. <br /><br />The battle of ideas has to be won. It cannot be won by executing - even convicted criminals - in haste and anger. The moment one starts sending messages through one's justice system, the other guy has already won. Either we have the rule of law or we don't. It seems that in Jordan they don't. We shouldn't be surprised but it is an opportunity missed.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-15957502742750155832015-02-04T12:50:11.132+00:002015-02-04T12:50:11.132+00:00There was no rebuke intended, mr henry, nor any ru...There was no rebuke intended, mr henry, nor any rules; just an explanation. I am sure that product placement is crucial to Hollywood, be it Coke bottles or faith symbols, all the major studios were founded, in the early days, by emigre European Jews, their iconography is to be expected; the cross, after all is everywhere in our culture.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8425249784622472752015-02-04T10:11:37.205+00:002015-02-04T10:11:37.205+00:00I,m sorry mr ishmael I will follow your rules,We e...I,m sorry mr ishmael I will follow your rules,We europeans<br /> should not betray our christian lineage by believing the tribes <br />bullshit, In hollywood movies the tribe leave little signs to reassure other members, Why in the sylvester stallone movie "copland"<br />would his patrol car start with a 5<br />pointed star on the door and in other scenes it would be a star of david?henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-2071927811398106482015-02-04T09:16:56.004+00:002015-02-04T09:16:56.004+00:00Cynically, Guantanamo exists precisely to circumve...Cynically, Guantanamo exists precisely to circumvent the Geneva Convention, mr mike and any notion of internationally accepted due process; the invasion of Iraq was the action of outlaws. ISIS are the children of Blair, Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, Hutton and, it seems, Chilcott.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-73943426485667447022015-02-04T03:57:47.105+00:002015-02-04T03:57:47.105+00:00PS: lest I sound somewhat hard-hearted, I have eve...PS: lest I sound somewhat hard-hearted, I have every sympathy, for example, for the Palestinians, and were I in their shoes I would certainly take up my AK47. These ISIS barbarians are cut from a different cloth.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-20864923651249610882015-02-04T03:52:39.588+00:002015-02-04T03:52:39.588+00:00Mr I: these Islamonutters have abandoned the Marq...Mr I: these Islamonutters have abandoned the Marquess of Queensberry and the Geneva Convention and only understand one thing. We may not have liked them, but Saddam, Gaddaffi, Assad et al understood this. The Islamonutters most certainly would not recognise the "turn-the-other-cheek" gesture.<br /><br />Anyway, I reject any equivalence in comparison with these bastards. They are a genetic mutation, a dangerous one, as far as I'm concerned. <br /><br />Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-52846710665964793722015-02-04T02:32:01.087+00:002015-02-04T02:32:01.087+00:00maybe a working replica slave-ship or two, transpo...maybe a working replica slave-ship or two, transporting selfie-taking american tourists back-and-forth between the palace of westminster and the tower of london, with a grinning crew of over-rested black-actors employed thereupon to welcome pay-as-you-groan day-trippers on-board, and 'show 'em the ropes'...<br /><br />...but hang-on...casting black actors in star-parts...now that just wouldn't be british, would it?tasteless tours - subsidiary of freedom tours incnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33481368102371576662015-02-04T02:04:17.992+00:002015-02-04T02:04:17.992+00:00That's very depressing, mr mike. You are proba...That's very depressing, mr mike. You are probably right, on the matter of perceptions in Arabia; mr mongoose, though, was imaging a quasi-Christian reaction to a turning of the cheek, guessing, rightly, that we, in the non-Moslem world, would prostrate ourselves in an uncontrollable fit of What The Fucks.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22629016372700368222015-02-04T01:57:55.835+00:002015-02-04T01:57:55.835+00:00mr henry, there are no links down the side of the ...mr henry, there are no links down the side of the page, here; this is partly due to my ineptitude and partly because I value a clean, uncluttered, legible page. Similarly, there are no hyperlinks in the text, never - but there is another reason for this; I believe that if I can't be arsed to precis something, refer to it or introduce it as part of something other then why should readers go and find it at my recommendation; additionally, the link culture is self-defeating, newspapers, for instance are littered with blue links, leading to forests of other blue links, following any one of them will take the reader from the page he came to read. It may be a developing form of communicative and sharing shorthand and I hate to appear graceless or irritable but Link is a language i simply cannot speak, it distracts and confuses me; it's writing I do, not linking and I fear that the more people link, the less they will think for themselves, in the poor, halting, abstract symbology which we call language; it is all we have and we should not fuck it up with shortcut, abbreviation and acronym.<br /><br />I was into IT before most and have been doing this for as long as it has been done, my only guiding stricture having been that the people who taught me to speak, read and write English would, herein, hear their voices.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12928100840073454192015-02-04T01:49:36.612+00:002015-02-04T01:49:36.612+00:00Mr Mongoose: releasing the suicide bint would be i...Mr Mongoose: releasing the suicide bint would be interpreted as weakness and victory, and only encourage the bastards.<br /><br />Far better to realease her with a remote controlled device. I would happily write the software for free.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61340196041748547092015-02-04T01:25:18.924+00:002015-02-04T01:25:18.924+00:00I will revisit the Hampshire, mr mongoose, as I pr...I will revisit the Hampshire, mr mongoose, as I promised mr yardarm.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84750748319211802232015-02-04T01:20:02.117+00:002015-02-04T01:20:02.117+00:00The failure of MediaMinster to absolutely crucify ...The failure of MediaMinster to absolutely crucify Fatso and Gnasher over the oil crash is outside this topic, mr anonymous but richly deserves a post of its own.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39266403245941081252015-02-04T01:15:58.960+00:002015-02-04T01:15:58.960+00:00I had a list in this post - the Coliseum, Attilla,...I had a list in this post - the Coliseum, Attilla, Genghis, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the martyrs, slavery, ethnic cleansing, the Somme, the camps, Dresden, Hiroshima, Cambodia, Srebrenica, Abu Grhaib...ad nauseum - but Blogger wouldn't format the text, so I scrubbed it, mr bungalow bill; the point being that whatever happens, however we squeal, we do go on, consigning the dead to Respect's grateful tomb and not, as you hint in your framing of proxy grief, disinterring them and marching them up and down. To show that we care.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81999291558851112622015-02-04T00:55:30.765+00:002015-02-04T00:55:30.765+00:00Just reactive, mr mongoose, to the surreal wilder...Just reactive, mr mongoose, to the surreal wilderness of malevolent mirrors. I quite agree about Jordan, as would anyone with half a brain. I also know that what happened to the pilot differs from what happens to napalmed civilians all over the region, I just don't know how.<br /><br />Floriculturally speaking, it is Spring, here.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37796008568269454442015-02-04T00:40:11.516+00:002015-02-04T00:40:11.516+00:00The thing is of course that nothing adequate can b...The thing is of course that nothing adequate can be said or done about any of these godforsaken places. Auschwitz, the killing fields of Cambodia, Hiroshima and so appallingly on and on. No gruesome visitor centre or images or preserved artefacts are ever going to be other than hopeless, trailing gestures. The places themselves are always going to be ghastly shadows, aren't they?<br /><br />As you say, the parade of atrocity tourists has to be an utterly empty one, no reaction standing on the railway tracks or in front of the chambers or at ground zero can be proportionate or fitting. <br /><br />Sometimes you wonder how we can just keep going after the last century's toll but that is what we do because we must I suppose, and those who would have us constantly memorialise the horrors and renew our proxy grief among the ruins are erasing, not maintaining.<br /><br />Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-34719599564669242412015-02-04T00:20:25.440+00:002015-02-04T00:20:25.440+00:00Having said that, the Kitchener thing looks mighty...Having said that, the Kitchener thing looks mighty odd. What was that all about? I guess that they must have been very close to shore. Not that we'll ever find out the truth now.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-20162560173377036192015-02-04T00:16:39.481+00:002015-02-04T00:16:39.481+00:00One way bus for wee eck & the moaning little t...One way bus for wee eck & the moaning little turd. Take the fucking green mad bitch as well.<br />If they want a Sun tan and the latest use of North Sea finest Brent Crude then go knocking on doors in the region which Miss Bell from Edinburgh fucked up in Baghdad in 1919.<br />She must have been a Fetes maternal grandmotherwhore.<br /><br />First time comment Mr I but I shall be back.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7562482796192004852015-02-04T00:07:00.791+00:002015-02-04T00:07:00.791+00:00You're in a cheery mood these days, Mr Ishmael...You're in a cheery mood these days, Mr Ishmael. The orcadian winters are stacking up, I reckon. You need the sun on your back.<br /><br />It is a bad show-business bsuiness, it is true. And now we have some poor lad pilot burned to death in a mad ritual slaughter. And am I alone in thinking that far from shooting their death row inmates tomorrow morning, as is rumoured, it would be far more effecive to let off that failed suicide bomber woman and put her on a flight home. The other cheek turned and the moral high ground won forever and a day. No, I know it won't happen but it would be the decent thing to do, and would have the side benefit of being devastingly effective religious politics. You can imagine the scratched heads "They did what?!"mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55733794534470802272015-02-03T22:38:11.469+00:002015-02-03T22:38:11.469+00:00http://www.tomatobubble.com/id667.html henryhttp://www.tomatobubble.com/id667.html henryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com