tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post4398986576391716936..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: NEWS FROM SCOTLAND, BEST PART OF ENGLANDcall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-88866342184858728952013-05-20T11:27:34.296+01:002013-05-20T11:27:34.296+01:00You may not care about it, mr m, but lots of peopl...You may not care about it, mr m, but lots of people do, one guy arguing last week that this wasn't about equality but uniformity - even if you set aside those dissenters who are anti-gay - and they are quite entitled to be so, Christ knows, there's enough heterophobia - you are still left with an illogical and unreasonable piece of legislation, especially so given the denial of civil partnershipism to heterosexuals.<br /><br />As for EarthCrime, well, these things are all of a piece - an undemocratic, in this case unelected political caste doing exactly as it pleases without mandate or the possibility of citizen redress.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80715496690466748922013-05-20T01:29:53.914+01:002013-05-20T01:29:53.914+01:00Whatever swarms there are in media circles, Mr I, ...Whatever swarms there are in media circles, Mr I, there are insufficient professional Tatchellesque gay votes for them to be worth chasing. So that is not the objective.<br /><br />A bit of "research" - aka wiki it - shows that once again folk used to be able to do as they pleased until the religious police happened upon the scene. It seems to be a Judeo-Christian interdict against gay marriage. Quelle surprise, as they say in Benidorm. And I do think that I don't care. Should gay folk have the same rights and privileges, and protections before the law as everyone else? Of course, they should but it does not keep me awake. Is the M-word somehow debased by gays sharing it?No, and no, I don't care about that. <br /><br />I care that the world is burning and politicians think we are so stupid as to be distracted by this tosh. Fuck that, get to bloody work, you swine!mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46003854853095087382013-05-19T18:27:01.645+01:002013-05-19T18:27:01.645+01:00In the same sense as you, O destroyer of serpents,...In the same sense as you, O destroyer of serpents, I don't give a monkey's but in another sense I do. It may be a displacement activity, both Hollande and Cameron are way, way out of their depths but might it also be some sort of quid pro quo in advance, as it were, just as crass as that, a pitch for the pink vote and the pink opinion formers, of whom there are disproportionately too many. Might the next manifesto subtext be, If you love arse, vote Tory ?<br /><br />As to who cares, I think that lots of people care that a publicly declared, witnessed, solemn, sacramental contract which they entered has been retrospectively altered, extended, downgraded, take your pick, many on the other hand, will just see it as the impertinent, unmandated over-reach of a meddling and bullying political caste.<br /><br />People do care about it mr m, not just on queer-bashing grounds. I'm married, I dunno, twentyfive, thirty years and I care about it. You know me, I'm liberal but to a degree, I want everybody to be free but if you think I'd let Carmina Trimingham-Carpet move in next door and marry my daughter you must think I'm crazy.<br /><br />I think, further, that if Cameron doesn't form another quasi party or engineer another coalition then this gay marriage stuff, never mind all the other shit, will lose him the Tory vote, maybe it already has.<br /><br />I resisted saying that If Farage is the answer we are asking the wrong question. I agree that his impact on the troughers is entertaining but find it a bit creeepy, how quickly his act has corpsed, is yesterday's news. Him and Nadine, wow.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-56625748606143571282013-05-19T17:35:25.259+01:002013-05-19T17:35:25.259+01:00Personally I don't give a monkey's but why...Personally I don't give a monkey's but why is there this - almost coordinated - international political will to enshrine gay marriage? What has happened that anybody cares? I mean - either way, who does care?<br /><br />Is it by any chance displacement activity? The world being on its financial knees, political types could not be perhaps looking for something, anything really, to take attention away from their helplessness. The gigantic real world forces that are tearing apart the so-called political consensus of the Old World it seems cannot be resisted. The 100-year experiment of pretend wealth and therefore pretend funding of ever-growing public expenditure has yielded its results. Look in the lab-book and you will see "Skint. Failed. Hypothesis falls." The question remains the same but we need a new answer. Fag-ash Farage ain't it btw but he is at least entertainment. (The Canons Gait is a great pub btw. I'd quite like to be locked in there.)mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85894836248447091812013-05-19T13:27:12.299+01:002013-05-19T13:27:12.299+01:00Is that gay-lick ploy, mr a?
There certainly seem...Is that gay-lick ploy, mr a?<br /><br />There certainly seems to be a bizarre, contradictory enthusiasm for normalising the abnormal.<br /><br />I don't know any homosexual men; I have done and some of them I've liked and some of them I haven't and I never wanted to persecute any of them, or anyone else for that matter, even when it was official policy so to do. But large numbers of them now seek to browbeat me into a position which I not hold. I have said before that the idea of homosexual marriage is so unQueer, so unOther that bold, courageous trailblazing gays of thirty years ago , people like Quentin Crisp,must wonder why they bothered.Callme ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87944211810831894242013-05-19T12:33:43.065+01:002013-05-19T12:33:43.065+01:00Could it just be a Gallic ploy to reduce the popul...Could it just be a Gallic ploy to reduce the population through death and disease? Arthurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39608987271172263572013-05-19T09:46:42.583+01:002013-05-19T09:46:42.583+01:00A wonderful start to my sunday morning, pissing my...A wonderful start to my sunday morning, pissing myself laughing, you are sir the best blogger on the netrobbonoreply@blogger.com