tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post4295704584447327764..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THE UNQUEERING OF BRITAIN.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-15986530544915503922015-01-20T00:33:33.195+00:002015-01-20T00:33:33.195+00:00There is a wealth of comment online about Murray&#...There is a wealth of comment online about Murray's candidacy, mr sg; I'm with that tsunami of bile which thinks he's just another toff, making a career out of mocking the poor, the way EastEnders and Corrie have been doung for decades. And I do think we are in a sorry state if he's the best hope we have, against Sid Faridge and his elderly bovverboys'n'girls. Oh, I know that there are very reasonable people who say that At least he's articulating the concerns of whoever it is and at least he's rattling the cages of the Establishment but they said that about Hitler. And Thatcher. And he's not even a patch on either of them.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79469162875784173452015-01-18T06:31:19.828+00:002015-01-18T06:31:19.828+00:00No Elliot with one 't' according to the PB...No Elliot with one 't' according to the PBC but I did make a mistake - that's his first name - the surname is Spencer...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-66834415509869517502015-01-18T00:58:16.280+00:002015-01-18T00:58:16.280+00:00Elliott, not Elliot. Elliot is a good old Border R...Elliott, not Elliot. Elliot is a good old Border Reiver name, as is Eliott, but as they used to say (before they were shipped to Ireland to stop them stealing and cattle-rustling aka the Ulster Plantation)<br /> "Two Ls, two Ts, we know not who they be"<br />We know now. They be fruits. All the same, abnormal though it is, consenting adults are just that. As my old ma says, hell mend 'em.<br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85688450589750719342015-01-17T23:48:49.984+00:002015-01-17T23:48:49.984+00:00Headline news on the PBC website is that Fry and E...Headline news on the PBC website is that Fry and Elliot have married, replete with white carnation buttonholes. WTF? If I didn't know who Fry was and just saw the picture I would have assumed they were father and son attending a family wedding. I am not against same sex relationships but this combination of gender and age feels deeply wrong - sick in fact. Generally I try to stick to political commentary but a boundary has been crossed here. How can it have come to this? We are, it seems, being encouraged to 'celebrate' this sort of thing. Well fuck them. I'm sorry but no this is vile...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64409378703236237402015-01-17T20:53:37.476+00:002015-01-17T20:53:37.476+00:00Listened. Many thanks.
-richardListened. Many thanks.<br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10991323469855173132015-01-17T20:26:49.927+00:002015-01-17T20:26:49.927+00:00I rather liked the Pub Landlord (past tense!...). ...I rather liked the Pub Landlord (past tense!...). However like the 'Partridge - Coogan relationship it seems he is the Dr Jekyll to the Murray Mr Hyde...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22252904225372738632015-01-17T16:48:30.929+00:002015-01-17T16:48:30.929+00:00I was trapped in mrs mongoose's car and rightl...I was trapped in mrs mongoose's car and rightly forbidden to change things - except to move the seat back to get my legs in - I had to listen to the end, and they had dug him out of his i-grave. I must admit to never having paid much attention to him before, and had previously taken it all a bit literally. But, but...<br /><br />Sorry to hear that the wintertime havoc has come along up there to try you.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63049218712152726402015-01-17T09:48:40.939+00:002015-01-17T09:48:40.939+00:00Amoebas are very small,
Oh, aah, eeh, ooh
There&#...Amoebas are very small,<br /><br />Oh, aah, eeh, ooh<br />There's absolutely no strife<br />Living the timeless life,<br /><br />If I need a friend, I just give a wriggle,<br />Split right down the middle<br />And when I look, there's two of me<br />Both as handsome as can be.<br /><br />Aahhhh, here we go<br />Slithering<br />Here we go slithering<br />And squelching on.<br /><br />Black hair, brown hair, feather and scale<br />Seed and stamen <br />And all unnamed life that lives<br />Turn your quivering nerves in my direction<br />Turn your quivering nerves in my direction<br />Feel the energy projection <br />Of my cells<br />Wishes you well......<br /><br />I first saw the Incredible String Band in a basement coffee shop, mr richard, just off Shaftesbury Square, when I was young.<br /><br />This, above amd below, is from A Very Cellular Song, 1966/67. <br /><br />May the pure light within you guide you all the way on.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-45852449653657250852015-01-17T01:05:48.623+00:002015-01-17T01:05:48.623+00:00The universe is indeed accursed. Even ants have en...The universe is indeed accursed. Even ants have endless toil, warfare, and fungus in their brains. How much worse for us, who do the same stuff but know it? Bacteria have the right idea- life forms with the unecessary bits removed, in the same way a dandelion seed beats a 747. No loadsheets, fuellers, missing baggage, birds sucked into engines. It just flies. Pah, I haven't had enough to drink.<br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53220424186690936462015-01-16T22:36:24.579+00:002015-01-16T22:36:24.579+00:00Thanks but people have had much worse to face in ...Thanks but people have had much worse to face in Hebden Bridge, Cockermouth, York and Somerset and that's without mentioning Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria, this is just inconvenience, by comparison. And what is wrecked WILL need to be replaced, stronger.<br /><br />I saw the headline in the Filth-O-Graph, today, about the Anthroposcene but the writing there has gone so downhill, the features so trashy that I didn't read it for fear of disappointment and the suspicion that it was something I already knew, anyway.<br /><br />You are right, mr sg, as King Cnut observed, the sea mocks us.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59227313495532218242015-01-16T21:22:38.983+00:002015-01-16T21:22:38.983+00:00All the best, Mr Ishmael.All the best, Mr Ishmael.yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-2593616865976001122015-01-16T19:54:15.570+00:002015-01-16T19:54:15.570+00:00Yes sorry to hear of it Mr I. I trust you will be ...Yes sorry to hear of it Mr I. I trust you will be able to pick things up.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-91195300122707490042015-01-16T18:04:36.132+00:002015-01-16T18:04:36.132+00:00Sorry to hear that you have been hit so hard Mr I ...Sorry to hear that you have been hit so hard Mr I but it sounds as though the important people and dog bits are still intact. An opportunity to build back stronger perhaps? I read something in, the Filthograph I think it was, this morning burbling on about the 'anthropocene' - how man now shapes the planet. The planet, however, has other ideas so it would seem. We are all puny in the face of nature...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-67887047207815279182015-01-16T18:04:30.929+00:002015-01-16T18:04:30.929+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26508140017158168002015-01-16T15:27:57.067+00:002015-01-16T15:27:57.067+00:00I heard a lovely line, mr mongoose, relating to a...I heard a lovely line, mr mongoose, relating to a self-bankrupted Regency duke and his gaudy possessions which relates, I feel, to the i-Folk and their comms treasures - .....the tinsel of the pauper and the baubles of the fool.<br /><br />Zuckerberged and Jobsed out of such poor, halting Reason as God and parents gave them, they are, friending and trending and following.<br /><br />There was nearly a row, here, the other day. The telephone has been off for a month and mrs ishmael had purchased for me a rudimentary portable telephone.<br /><br />But I don't want one.....<br />But what if you get ill and need to contact someone...?<br />I don't care. I'll get in the car and drive to hospital...<br />But what if you have a heart attack?<br />Then I'll take an aspirin and some spray.<br />But what if that doesn't work?<br />Well, if that doesn't work I certainly won't be able to operate a fucking ouija-phone, will I, and there's no fucking coverage here, anyway. And if I'm having a heart attack the battery'll be flat. Won't it. That's one of the Laws of the Accursed Universe. Even if I spend my life making sure that the phone's charged, just in case I have a heart attack, y'know, getting out of bed in he middle of the night just to check the charger, you can bet your life that on the day I do have a heart attack, the fucking thing will be as flat as a pancake and good for fuck all.<br />But it's got big keys. And it's dead simple. Even you can operate it.<br />It was me, you remember, who had a portable telephone long before most people and it's not that I can't operate ond it's just that I don't want to. If I wanted a portable telephone I would have one, wouldn't I?<br /><br />I'm afraid that I hurt mrs ishmael's feelings, what with the hurricane damage and the constant power cuts maybe I should just have said Thanks, dear, I'll put it on charge right away but I suppose I would actually rather die than turn into some panic-stricken SagaDuffer, frightened, ever, of Mr Death's grim sergeants coming to fetch me to him. Fuck it, I've always lived in an infinity of paranoid possibilities and dying for want of a portable telephone is a long way down that worrisome list.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-76314165922329563522015-01-16T13:14:44.473+00:002015-01-16T13:14:44.473+00:00No balls, either, mr mike, Stevie; so, a full mi...No balls, either, mr mike, Stevie; so, a full missing set then, so to speak; I blame the parents. I wonder if he and the boychild're going to start a bought family, just to complete their unqueering.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37676456213321715922015-01-16T13:10:02.000+00:002015-01-16T13:10:02.000+00:00The walls, mr sg, are fine but there has been exte...The walls, mr sg, are fine but there has been external catastrophe, distressing and wearying and costly, c'est la vie, goes to show you never can tell.<br /><br />I dislike Murray, another Oxbridge funny man gone straight, military historian and now political pundit, a bloated version of wotsername, Mel, is it, Sue?<br /><br />I saw a few minutes of Sid Faridge with some pair of cunts off the Gogglebox show, Christ alfuckingmighty, to what sort of imbecile constituency does he play?<br />call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-30976000973953482592015-01-16T13:00:39.873+00:002015-01-16T13:00:39.873+00:00In many ways, mr mongoose, professor McLuhan is my...In many ways, mr mongoose, professor McLuhan is my tutor and mentor, oafish or not, so We will discuss these matters just as soon as I have secured several roofs, dealt with an itinerant loss-denier/adjuster and with builders, power and internet providers, all of whom I would gleefully burn at the stake, the medium of fire being my unequivocal message to such knaves.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37877292487051186222015-01-14T22:18:02.609+00:002015-01-14T22:18:02.609+00:00Meanwhile I see that the 'Pub Landlord' is...Meanwhile I see that the 'Pub Landlord' is standing against the owner of 'Farage's Garages' in Thanet South. I can't help but think that, like the 'UKIP Weather Forecast', this will be more of a help than a hinderance to the eponymous Mr Farage, contrary to the belief of the foaming at the mouth types on the Maily-Filthograph-Online comment threads. FUKP - I bet Farage is kicking himself for not thinking of that rebranding opportunity... I must renew my long lapsed subscription to Viz! Hope all is well behind those solid walls of yours Mr I.SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89382528058970588332015-01-14T03:03:30.827+00:002015-01-14T03:03:30.827+00:00In that pic "Steve shopping with an ex" ...In that pic "Steve shopping with an ex" I've just noticed that Fry shows no sign of having a cock.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25223436687233146862015-01-13T13:38:21.692+00:002015-01-13T13:38:21.692+00:00There was a thing on the e-radio at the weekend ab...There was a thing on the e-radio at the weekend about that "medium is the message" oaf McLuhan, and his supposed complete vindication - as demonstrated by recent events. It was bollocks, I hope, but unnerving.<br /><br />It doesn't apparently now matter that every thinking person considers the slaughter of cartoonists abominable. Or that pretty much the same section of the world couldn't give a proverbial what gays get up to. Or that we should have libraries. Or that we shouldn't go to A&E with toothache and then moan that we waited six hours. The truth is become the twitterfeed. Toot-toot sommes Charlie, the NHS is on its knees, gay marriage is a fundamental human right denied, and there is no alternative. "Hashtag-doh!", as the children say. Or perhaps there is less to this than meets the eye.<br /><br />Anyway, the punchline of the programme was that universal (almost) literacy and data access is a relatively new phenomenon. The old devices of control and persuasion - effectively religious fire-and-brimstone terror inside the church and political three-card-trick rhetoric outside - had to be replaced. And by shinier baubles to distract the various audiences from the basic truth - which is that medium and message both have always been about command and control.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41617060388840693842015-01-10T13:45:00.487+00:002015-01-10T13:45:00.487+00:00Careful, mr richard, with that searchlight. And do...Careful, mr richard, with that searchlight. And don't forget that words mean whatever govaments says they mean - QE actually means giving rich people poor people's money but don't mention it; Peace Proh-cess means setting murderers free and long-term economic plan means, well, the samev as QE. As for homophobia, there is actuall no such word, not, in any event, as it is used. Homosexual phobia, perhaps, but homophobia is jusr gibberish, babytalk.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87287062367902794662015-01-10T11:45:18.041+00:002015-01-10T11:45:18.041+00:00Round our way the council were accused of "ho...Round our way the council were accused of "homophobia" because they wouldn't pay tens of thousands of ratepayers' pounds for rainbow lights to illuminate a bridge at night to celebrate some gay event. <br />I don't like these strident oafs who demand stuff just because they have unusual sexual preferences. They aren't just gay, they are enablers for government theft and are therefore bullies who frighten people into giving them cash because they have a stupid strong sidekick. <br />And "homophobia" has replaced the more accurate "annoyance caused by self-important mincers" - a real phobia is a debilitating fear, not a dislike of.<br />-richard<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40486458405136878262015-01-09T22:45:34.265+00:002015-01-09T22:45:34.265+00:00Careful, mr yardarm, with that searchlight.Careful, mr yardarm, with that searchlight.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-27498095842790071402015-01-09T22:42:24.910+00:002015-01-09T22:42:24.910+00:00I don't think that gay was the terminology whe...I don't think that gay was the terminology when homosexual acts beteween two consenting adults in private were made legal but there were certainly notorious predatory homosexuals in parliament then, as now, mr alphons, whatever the reasons for it the legalisation of homosexuality was the right decision, although, as with the abortion act, there have been unforeseen and undesirable consequence.<br /><br />I agree with you about the prides, gay pride and black pride, what's to be proud of, in an accident of birth? And isn't it a sin, coming before a fall?<br /><br />As for Savile, the PB has got off Scot-free. Job done. An' howsabout than, then?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.com