tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post3792905168843170560..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: LABOUR CONCEDES STOKE BY-ELECTION, DIMBLEBY STOOD DOWN.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64043724519093991442017-01-31T23:30:09.882+00:002017-01-31T23:30:09.882+00:00You are correct, I never did see that show but I r...You are correct, I never did see that show but I resist farce of any kind, mrs woar. As I have said, I used to swear by the Guardian and sometimes the New Statesman but as with the Murdoch titles, these days, I wouldn't have them in the house. I know that given what's online these days and therefore potentially in the house that's a bit of a Victorian posture - I won't have them in the house - but we need postures, I think.<br /><br />As for the young and their forgiveability, well, generally speaking, I don't like them, much less feel charitable towards them. I have mentioned before, seeing a young New Yorker, the day after the Twin Towers bombing, saying What have we done, how badly have we behaved, that people are prepared to do this to us and I don't think I have heard or seen anything comparable since then; just, as you say, a raucous virtue-signalling and a fathomless, materialitisc grievance. The Inkies, the Thumbers, the ungrammatical, the polysexual wannabees, fuck 'em.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63864123911544874492017-01-31T14:22:09.026+00:002017-01-31T14:22:09.026+00:00Laurie Penny is a young woman I feel conflicted ab...Laurie Penny is a young woman I feel conflicted about because she cannot help being young and I expect I was just as insufferable. She is a writer for titles such as the New Statesman and the Guardian where she turns out material reliably. There are worse things you can say about someone. <br /><br />Unfortunately she typifies the social conditioning which prioritises feeling good over doing good. Furthermore, I doubt they can tell the difference so that they believe that if they are screaming about someone's rights, innit, that's enough and it proves they are a good person. Like Jo Cox buggering around in a dinghy for no good reason. <br /><br />When someone claims they are the Resistance, I always think of the character Michelle "of the Résistance" Dubois, played by the lovely Kirsten Cooke. Lloyd and Croft stole the phrase from a drama series and gave it Michelle, who always delivered it dead pan while the audience waited for the inevitable bafflement of Rene Artois, meaning she would have to say it again to have any hope whatosever of explaining the convoluted plans. Gorden Kaye, who played him, passed away last week. It is probably not your thing but I love the silliness of it and maintain that Croft and Lloyd got underlying dynamic of a town in occupation approximately right. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33745620022401977492017-01-31T09:59:18.281+00:002017-01-31T09:59:18.281+00:00I only hesitate about scoring online, mr tnp, beca...I only hesitate about scoring online, mr tnp, because I know that I would be unhappy with cakes or infusioons and would very quickly want to put one together and before I knew it I'd be smoking again, after twenty-five years clean. What a drag it is, getting old.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3822226410815057962017-01-31T09:56:19.823+00:002017-01-31T09:56:19.823+00:00Nor, mr doug, of arch torturer, Mr Marty Kneecaps,...Nor, mr doug, of arch torturer, Mr Marty Kneecaps, kissing Brenda's royal hand, eh?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55576495322634595702017-01-31T09:55:05.645+00:002017-01-31T09:55:05.645+00:00All these people that you mention, mrw woar, Ms Pe...All these people that you mention, mrw woar, Ms Penny, f'rinstance, is she a relative of Mr Weedon? Le Maquis, are they now, the hissing luvvies? Shame on them, the French Resistance was a glorious handful, only; the rest of them, the Frogs, then, as now, happy to lick Hermann arse, only coming to the streets as our grandfathers died liberating their worthless arses but I digress, this is surely a golden opportunity for the whores and junkies of Luvvieland to prove that they are not just a prety face and an accomodating asshole; they must be loving it, every day an Oscar winners' speech. There is no business like showbusiness; sluts moralising, in greasepaint and Armani.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38909554314900780372017-01-31T09:45:57.846+00:002017-01-31T09:45:57.846+00:00I am not an admirer, mr mongoose, of Fatso Liddle,...I am not an admirer, mr mongoose, of Fatso Liddle, gabshite and hack, formerly of the Today show, nor of anyone paying the school fees by dribbling in the Spectator and such organs, he is a dreadful bully, Rod, but his rant, on Newsnight, last night, about the discomfiture and panic among the liberal luvvies was as good as good gets. On the same show were some desperate Blairite, Stella Creasey, claiming ownership o0f the moral high ground vis a vis her Muslim brothers and sisters - somebody should tell her that her brothers and sisters - comrades, even - are the working Brits who pay Labour subs, and confronting the superficially docile and now sidelined Olly Letwin, a child, you would think, could discerne between Creasey's bogus hysteria and Letwin's common sense. To hear these fuckers one would never think that they had enthusiasticall, back in the good old blair days, set the Middle East afire and launched MuzzyTorture Inc. I hasten to disclaim any loyalty to or regular viewing of Newsnight and its dreadful giggling rentboy Evan Wotsit, his beards, his giggling and his tight trousers. Man's a cunt.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37930084468052464852017-01-30T15:43:10.494+00:002017-01-30T15:43:10.494+00:00"shall see the PBC referring to the American ..."shall see the PBC referring to the American luvvies as The Resistance"<br /><br />There you go, getting ahead of events again, Mr Ishmael. Laurie Penny has started to refer to herself that way. <br /><br />If only: then we could be sure that she would "zay zis only wernce", instead of which she will go on and on and on. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-42942601898638527172017-01-30T12:34:16.075+00:002017-01-30T12:34:16.075+00:00Interesting is the hysterics about Trumps’ tempora...Interesting is the hysterics about Trumps’ temporary ban on visitors from Syrai, Iraq etc - Reported as a ban on Muslims entering USA - on yet no mention of Saudi from Trump or our opinion providers in the medja<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36432654374927707352017-01-30T11:26:01.368+00:002017-01-30T11:26:01.368+00:00Something is happening and they don't know wha...Something is happening and they don't know what it is, mr ishmael. The Trumperoo is, of course, grotesque in almost every way. If it wasn't that the alternative would have been the huckster Lady Clinton I think that we would all be yelling for anything, please, anywho other than this. But our anything other was her and four years - likely eight - of ever-refined thiefdom and an almost ritual I-know-best-and-that-is-deplorable perversion of honesty. I'd vote for fucking Blair before I'd vote for Hillary.<br /><br />It is though surely that we have Trump because decadence came to the Democrats. Hillary didn't fail; they did. They chose to foist Hillary upon us (them) because they thought that they could. Just as they foisted Obama. Just as the EU thinks that even now - the mad Dutch screwball says - the UK will fail to leave or will rejoin if we do leave. But thta is loser's chutzpah and denial. "Just one last hand, please. One more. I'll win it all back." It's over now. And even if it isn't, it is over next time. A brave new political world dawns. It will chew up the Democrats, the Labour party, Theresa May, Angela's legacy, the EU, the middle east, and the energy industry.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80117042383900005012017-01-30T01:41:38.981+00:002017-01-30T01:41:38.981+00:00Chateau Musar is the only thing I've had recen...Chateau Musar is the only thing I've had recently from the Bekaa valley. I haven't seen a bit of Leb (red or blonde) for years. Got a nice bit of soap bar at çe moment.the noblest prospecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17702374226317759485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-47960815335741922362017-01-29T23:04:57.303+00:002017-01-29T23:04:57.303+00:00I expect, mr sg, that any day now we shall see the...I expect, mr sg, that any day now we shall see the PBC referring to the American luvvies as The Resistance, and then the term will embrace the anti-Brexiteers and "democracy" will become the new fascism. I will go and read that stuff, although it looks as though it has been written here, before.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-2841495579417641932017-01-29T23:00:34.706+00:002017-01-29T23:00:34.706+00:00Yes, mr mike, could do better, her tut-tuttishness...Yes, mr mike, could do better, her tut-tuttishness lets her down, correcting and amending POTUS in his own gaff but as you said, he let her go with it, Obama would've pissed all over CallHimDave, sent him to fetch a few burgers, and he would've fetched them, too. If it is a matter of repurposing the export drive I would rather she built bridges with Commonwealth countris, such as yours and tried to educate those fucking snootybastard Indians into recognising that the caste system is an abomination, what price womens rights in a country that burns them alive, blinds them with acid and rapes them, just because, Sahib, just because; fucking savages. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23381768428276464732017-01-29T19:35:21.098+00:002017-01-29T19:35:21.098+00:00You might be a distiller, mr mongoose, rather than...You might be a distiller, mr mongoose, rather than an engineer, for that is a neat and potent spirit. The triangulation idea is particularly succinct, one of the more bizarre insults to the audience being that Labour did not oppose any of the Osborne Pension Pot Cuts, yet decried their impact, whilst, here, in the best part of England, Gnasher suppresses council taxes in order to increase her popularity, whilst infrastructure and services collapse in ruin as a result. We have all said here, recently, that hers is a busted flush and her latest pronouncement: Strugeon Lashes Out At Supreme Court, in the 50p. i-newsaper/comic, will have raised another wave of weary laughter across the majority nation, where people are saying, increasingly, that yon wee woman's mad. I expect that she is pissing herself, at Brexit, at Trump, at a female PM and at the challenge of another IndyRef which she dare not call, those whom the Gods wish tae destroy.....eh, hen?<br /><br /><br />There is, as you say, a tide in the affairs of man and I hope Mrs Askey has the nerve to take it at the flood; it is an unexpected and spreading rout, that of Cameron and Osborne, the Democrats and Republicans, of Frankie Hollande and perhaps Angela Merkel; she must, as the Nobelistas say, keep her eyes wide, the chance won't come again.<br /><br />call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-77128221083447902362017-01-29T19:10:38.279+00:002017-01-29T19:10:38.279+00:00Ah, yes, mr inmate, I wrote the above, to mr mike,...Ah, yes, mr inmate, I wrote the above, to mr mike, before reading your comment, although what I have read about skunk tends to put me off, especially seeing what it did to Boy reporter Jon Sox. Used to be, just recently, that OxyCodon wiped me out satisfactorily in a matter of five or ten minutes but I think I'd rather the pain than the comatosis, and the constipation. I must see if I can find some RedLeb, if it grows still.<br /><br />yes, as I said in the post, or tried to, Mr Nuttall is great enertainment value, and lessbeclear, thassworritsallabout, innit, the 'ouseacommons?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19052913759152503512017-01-29T19:04:35.671+00:002017-01-29T19:04:35.671+00:00correction: mrs ishmael, I am told, a sometime lec...correction: mrs ishmael, I am told, a sometime lecturer in Buffy Studies, is a Weedon afficionado, and I can now place him in the correct ouevre. I had him confused with Joss Widdecombe, or Stone or some other entertainer, although I guess that one entertainer is much the same as another, when it comes to requiring a stout, hot poker up the arse.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-27239480926491625482017-01-29T19:00:08.840+00:002017-01-29T19:00:08.840+00:00Is he a singer, mrs woar, mr joss weedon, or perha...Is he a singer, mrs woar, mr joss weedon, or perhaps a nephew of the late Bert- Bert Weedon - author of the infamous Tune-A-Day guitar manual, and thus responsible for les arseholes plagiaristes, like the satanist, Jimmy Page, of Led Zeppelion and their anthemic Whole Lotta Rip-Off. He sounds like one of the NewPeople, anyway, perhaps an Inky or an analiste nouvelle, probably both. I must confess to being perplexed at the current Durex advertisement, which is along the lines of Sod the Roses, this Valentine's Day, Buy Some Lube.<br /><br />I already had an opinion on Trump, thinking that the only good thing about him was that he was neither of the Clintons; his conduct in Scotland, under the protection of Alec Fatman, was pure gangsterism and he needs a good friendly Glaswegian headbutt in the face, the big fairy narcissist. As you say, however, it is refreshing thathe is swift to inaugurate those reforms which he promised the electorate, Congress may rescind them but that is another pack of lies, for another day. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7147597590622271272017-01-29T18:42:31.116+00:002017-01-29T18:42:31.116+00:00I am beginning to think the same about hashish, mr...I am beginning to think the same about hashish, mr mike, as you do about red wine, although it is difficult to source here. I have had disc problems for years and back then a coupla joints would have the same, non-harmful effects as your plonk. The opioids just don't do it, the surgeon I saw recently said, Yeah, you still have the pain only you is laughin' at it, innit bro?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-73242467024384052082017-01-29T00:27:22.098+00:002017-01-29T00:27:22.098+00:00Well Mr I, it seems that the PBC has a problem wit...Well Mr I, it seems that the PBC has a problem with 'The Donald' doing what he said he'd do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38784199. Outrageous! Someone standing for election on particular platform and then, once elected, fucking doing what they said they'd do?.. Surely an affront to the very principles upon which modern 'liberal democracy' is founded? And it seems that Ter-ezza should have been a little less understanding and rather more condemnatory. It was bizzare, watching 'Gorgeous George' aboard 'The Sputnik' this evening (yes, I know, my life has reached a new low...) discussing Trump in rather approving terms with some Unite Union apparatchik. Some rather good explanations of how we got to this point by various prophets - nicely precised here:<br /><br /> http://www.zwilo.com/predicted-the-rise-of-the-populists-fascism-edward-luttwak/<br /><br />All four parts are worth the read...<br /><br />In the meantime, some welcome relief from 'fake news' and the recent wave of 'wimmin's' anti-democracy demonstrations (you've got to admire the chutzpah!):<br /><br />http://irishpost.co.uk/british-babestation-models-take-streets-irish-town-apologise-x-rated-calls-controversy/<br />SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5785811504021853722017-01-28T01:15:08.645+00:002017-01-28T01:15:08.645+00:00Listening to the joint press conference, I thought...Listening to the joint press conference, I thought Trump came across very gracious and magnanimous; Tracey, on the other hand slipped up - she said Trump was 100% behind NATO, and she wished for a strong and prosperous EU. And there was gratuitous nod to climate change. Trump differs and is ahead of her on all these points.<br /><br />Not a major catastrophy, but it shows she is not well briefed. If they roll out Brenda later this year, and Trump gets to ride in the gilded carriage, and there are no more fuck ups then all will be forgiven.<br /><br />An interesting slip of the tongue was earlier Trump said, en passant, (referring to the UK) "THEY want a trade deal".<br /><br />Mrs Askey gets 8 out of 10; can do better.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10889418632841416302017-01-27T12:33:12.948+00:002017-01-27T12:33:12.948+00:00Good to see that you are back passed fit to stand ...Good to see that you are back passed fit to stand at post, mon brave. There are daffodils that need counting, you know.<br /><br />Stephen Bannon (sp?) is one for the consideration pot. His latest pronouncement being that the Trump's enemy is not the Democrats but the media. To be so plain is unusual. We talk here about mediaminister, of course, and look the cake-making show has been captured by one state-owned arm of the media and lost by another. And I am supposed to consider this different why? And how exactly? Meanwhile a great chunk of money will flow from one pot to another with fees for Jack and fees for Jill, and oh, what a lovely war. But nothing actually new is taking place. This is just the mills of the establishment grinding a little more finely. Although the Channel 4 socks budget might take a hit, I guess.<br /><br />It has just dawned, I hope, on those in DC that the establishment - the ones who are to rein in and obstruct Trump, if you believe the theme - are only required to play in order to either make law or to pass new funding. Twitter Donald can though spend his first year just crossing stuff out and rerouting money. No new funds, no agreements necessary. The cake making show is not transferred or refinanced, it is just cancelled. <br /><br />Our Brexiteers should lend an ear to this and see if it informs their choices. We should do plenty of that and it might keep a few libraries open. But we must remove the triangulation option by which the other team can just whine in the media as they merrily do the actual closing. (Nicola is still getting away with this in Scotland.) One has to be bold to do this, and I am not sure that Theresa is sufficiently so, but Brexit is a once in a lifetime opportunity to slay some dragons and cut back the stupid State. We could then re-establish government as the provider of the framework of civilisation. We do not need them to police our roast potatoes and the degree of browning on our toast, for fuck's sake. <br /><br />And neither the Luvvies nor the establishment Tories are in any position to obstruct such a course. Not since Blair's first day has there been such an opportunity. Alas, he spent his chance on wars.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38939658239873676012017-01-26T14:09:31.943+00:002017-01-26T14:09:31.943+00:00Ah yes, I put up with Cervical Spondylosis mr I, t...Ah yes, I put up with Cervical Spondylosis mr I, the local Witch Doctor put me on Viox, banned throughout the western medicine world but still available here at the time, 2000's; the Viox brought on a Heart attack for which the local death service did absolutely fuck all.<br />Have tried acupuncture, physio, yoga, meditation, various other prescription drugs, all to no avail.<br />I find that the only relief, at times of severe pain, is to be found smoking pure Skunkweed, but I would not recommend it for everyone, as life becomes one long giggle and I couldn't give a fuck about anything.<br />I hope Paul Nuttalls of UKIPs can take the Stoke seat, just for the entertainment of seeing him whipping his fellow UKIPs MP, Douglas spineless, into line.inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-73047203507132523032017-01-26T11:50:08.908+00:002017-01-26T11:50:08.908+00:00Maybe stick to walking with Mr Harris and not invi...Maybe stick to walking with Mr Harris and not invite trouble with the hedges this year. I am glad to hear that you are as well as can be expected, as they say in Yorkshire. <br /><br />Over on Twitter, Joss Weedon seems to have gone bonkers leading to fans asking if he is quite alright? Following his declaration of being a feminista and going on the ladymarch, he compared Nicole Kidman to a puppet (albeit Lady Penelope) because she tactfully declined to be drawn on her opinion of Donald Trump. <br /><br />This is a good summary:<br />https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/01/joss-whedon-abandons-his-values-to-attack-nicole-kidman/<br /><br />Weedon followed that up by calling Ivanka Trump a Pekingese (sic) because he dislikes her husband and father, rather than for anything she has done. <br /><br />I have not got an opinion on Trump yet, except I cannot help but notice how quickly he is moving compared to our glacial PM. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-60612152935755755742017-01-26T09:45:45.216+00:002017-01-26T09:45:45.216+00:00Mr I: I tore a disk in my lower back years ago, p...Mr I: I tore a disk in my lower back years ago, playing squash. Absolute agony. No amount of strong painkillers has any effect. Only red wine took the peak off the pain. The quack I was seeing said several patients had reported the same, and red wine was much more beneficial than drugs with harmful side effects. Fortunately after 3 months it healed itself, but still taking the red wine just in case.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-72970453634948539622017-01-26T09:22:57.981+00:002017-01-26T09:22:57.981+00:00Good summaries, both, dunno if you know Stoke but ...Good summaries, both, dunno if you know Stoke but it's a pleasant wee place, quite nice, interesting architecture and industrial history good scenery and a solid sense of itself. I expect thst there will be many quiet, hitherto unaligned people - as in Scotland- who will come out, this time, to kick both Labour and the Anna Soubrey rabble. That is a good point, mrs woar, Tracey should slap her in the face. I grant you that Nuttall is unattractive to some, a kind of a lol out loud caricature but there will be many of whom he is representative, and many more who will hold their noses and vote for him as a NOTA option.<br /><br />I can't bear that oaf, McGregor; he won a UNICEF, didn't he, like the airhead, Jolie, a license to lecture; he must be a fully fledged shithead fir people like mr mongoose and I to prefer Piers Morgan.<br /><br />I have been down to Gnasher's crumbling Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, this last two-day, looking at MRI cross-sections of my cervical spine, the spine is actually OK, well, not too baf,,after a recent fusion, some nerves are inoperably restricted or damaged but may respond to injections, a better option than I was expecting, anyway. That Magnetic Resonance Imaging stuff, it's proper voodoo.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4728754823703616822017-01-25T10:55:12.761+00:002017-01-25T10:55:12.761+00:00Thank you. I am pondering the same here. But I wo...Thank you. I am pondering the same here. But I would like to see a flash of killer instinct from May. All she would have to do is one symbolic act: withdraw the whip from Anna Soubrey, which will be enough to quieten the others. May's real enemies are on the benches behind her since the opposition blew itself up. <br /><br />Stoke will be interesting because the mysteriously-funded Hope Not Hate have decided to mix-in to stop Nuttall. (AKA Hope not Soap). They have played one good card; he is from Liverpool. There is a persistent antagonism from the citizens of Stoke which is not fantasy: sharing a region with Merseysiders can be very irritating. His accent is like nails on a blackboard to them. <br /><br />Stoke could save what is left of Labour by administering a kick in the ballots. Maybe the party would come to what is left of its senses. To save Labour, vote UKIP. We can read the water by seeing if the Guardian suddenly starts advising Labour to listen to its previous supporters or to ignore them and strive for ideological purity. Be funny, though, seeing the great equality campaigners advocate discriminating against a bald gay bloke from Liverpool merely because he is gay, bald and Scouse. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.com