tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6679967267787933813..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: EVENSONG. PLEASE TO SEE THE KING.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90475649407805482232014-09-23T23:55:15.979+01:002014-09-23T23:55:15.979+01:00No need for the Ruperts to go into Ukraine. Things...No need for the Ruperts to go into Ukraine. Things are getting badder for Bad Vlad without any need for interventions from Western militaries. Falling oil prices, and a shrinking population (apart from the muslims). He's a very clever tactician and can outwit our lot in the short term but the strategic picture looks bleak for him and Mother Russia.SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6662189131810625612014-09-23T21:27:08.866+01:002014-09-23T21:27:08.866+01:00Hopefully the Ruperts won`t think of going into th...Hopefully the Ruperts won`t think of going into the Ukraine: Bad Vlad might smack their bums and send them home. Better stick to throwing sandbags around on the Somerset Levels.<br /><br />Conferences are just an opportunity for Big Money to get in there and start buying up MPs and the Party in question. Some card carrying members will be bussed in to clap on cue while some berk burbles some load of old bullshit. Then the serious business of corporate fellatio commences. The clerk rubbish are purchased and the paymasters will be done. <br />yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-11759933478073985272014-09-23T15:57:11.085+01:002014-09-23T15:57:11.085+01:00It's the Ordinary People, that's what gets...It's the Ordinary People, that's what gets me, he is as woefully ordinary himself as one can be whilst still alive; who does he think he's talking to? Actually, I'd rather watch executions than Miliband, less degrading.<br /><br />It is, coincidentally, of weddings we speak, in a little while, just up the road, mr jgm2 but yes, none at Manchester can speak, it is an exercise in mass self-hypnosis that any applaud, even for a second.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-69747294083126186792014-09-23T15:11:12.038+01:002014-09-23T15:11:12.038+01:00I wish he would stop addressing the audience as Fr...I wish he would stop addressing the audience as Friends. It makes him sound like Hughie Green.mrs narcoleptnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-14184627447282324862014-09-23T14:45:14.792+01:002014-09-23T14:45:14.792+01:00MrI
' And there seems to be an an endless reg...MrI<br /><br />' And there seems to be an an endless regiment of tongue-tied, passionless wannabes, good for fuck all,'<br /><br />What is it with all these adults who are unable to read? I fucking hate weddings. I like a free piss-up but I fucking hate weddings because of the speeches. All these folk who can't read a Janet and John book aloud standing up there with a sheaf of A4 that they feel they have to plough through.<br /><br />If I couldn't read I'd stand up there and say 'I'd like to thank the bridesmaids (don' they look lovely - pause for applause), the bride and grooms parents who have ponied up for this gig (pause for applause)and all you friends and family who have travelled from near and far. And now a toast to the happy couple....'<br /><br />But No. we have to sit through 20 minutes of nervous, inarticulate, poorly timed 'comedy'. I make my excuses and go to the bog for the speeches. Just spend half an hour or an hour wandering the grounds.<br /><br />These c*unts are the same. How anybody can sit through these toe-curling, monotone, splutterers and mumblers without dying of embarrassment is a mystery to me.<br /><br />I cannot hear the message (although I'm sure it's utter horseshit). All I hear is the shocking delivery. It would be like finding Shakespeare written on a turd. It's unlikely to be there. But you're not even going look for it.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61468284631910861542014-09-23T12:37:11.535+01:002014-09-23T12:37:11.535+01:00Sounds right, mr mongoose, mr fruitcake as home se...Sounds right, mr mongoose, mr fruitcake as home seckatry; Dogshooters shot and Labour justly hoist by its own petard, left hanging, carrion, in the breeze. Just seen Caroline Crack on the telly; have they no idea how many people she alienates, just by opening her gob? And there seems to be an an endless regiment of tongue-tied, passionless wannabes, good for fuck all, mouthing soundbites that you'd spit out.<br /><br />Conservative and Independent Unionist Party, sounds good. it would serve us all right. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-91642680796512558312014-09-23T12:27:10.896+01:002014-09-23T12:27:10.896+01:00I think the Ruperts are enchanted by the possibili...I think the Ruperts are enchanted by the possibilities of baubles and rank in Ukraine or the Levant, mr mike but I know exactly what you mean, it has seldome been more chaotic, more dangerous. I have the Labour conference on in the background and its like Children's TeeVee, by children, for children. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-15700651958303018822014-09-23T11:34:15.782+01:002014-09-23T11:34:15.782+01:00Sorry, Mr I. IHT = Inheritance Tax. Nigel has to h...Sorry, Mr I. IHT = Inheritance Tax. Nigel has to have clear blue water between himself and the Tories or the game is up. In the same way, Milliweed is now prattling about Mansion Taxes - the better to woo the last four LibDem voters in the kingdom. Although I doubt that those last, doughty four would support that idea first or last.<br /><br />Now that the EU is not the most serious carve-up in town, UKIP is stuffed for leverage. Even if as English Nationalism Lite it is a real force of ideas it is if not one of politics yet. Millions of people have sympathy with the basic idea even if they have yet to get round to voting for them. Unfortunately UKIP cannot harden the brand without watering the milk.<br /><br />If I was Nigel I'd be testing out the sound of the Conervative and Independent Unionist Party. Home Secretary and all the perks - at least for a while. A political pact to start with, to get through the Parliament from 2015 - or whenever the election turns up - will leave the Dogshooters still dead, Labour back to internal purges and the ground free for a right-of-centre majority. Coming to a life like yours: Coalition 2 - the Dog Years.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-75290777240341876512014-09-23T11:03:31.845+01:002014-09-23T11:03:31.845+01:00It does seem to me that the whole stinking pile of...It does seem to me that the whole stinking pile of shit (aka Government) is exploding to the four corners. Never in my life - and I've been close to it and watched it - have I ever seen such a complete fuck up.<br /><br />Anything is possible now. If the Ruperts had the balls, now would be a good time for a coup.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6135462447189389602014-09-23T10:48:35.056+01:002014-09-23T10:48:35.056+01:00He certainly looks ill and sounds unhinged, mr alp...He certainly looks ill and sounds unhinged, mr alphons; perhaps a Dr David Kelly moment will overtake him; the cousins won't like the thought of UDI around their nukes in Faslane and might send him an exploding haggis. No, seriously, they've killed people for much less reason. He'd better watch out.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-16097642371751135752014-09-23T09:53:15.044+01:002014-09-23T09:53:15.044+01:00" SG said...
I don't think we've..." SG said...<br /><br /> I don't think we've heard the last of him Mr Alphons - alas! "<br /><br /><br />I was not expecting him to disappear voluntarily Mr SG !!Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63885975866991291442014-09-23T09:31:21.731+01:002014-09-23T09:31:21.731+01:00What's IHT, mr nmongoose?What's IHT, mr nmongoose?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32080670119466218172014-09-23T09:29:55.332+01:002014-09-23T09:29:55.332+01:00Perhaps the artist formerly known as Tony will arr...Perhaps the artist formerly known as Tony will arrive and make an impromtu speech, calling for war, as a means to peace.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26308375796306218772014-09-23T01:42:30.688+01:002014-09-23T01:42:30.688+01:00Surely was an ugly sight, Mr I. Ed Balls even had ...Surely was an ugly sight, Mr I. Ed Balls even had the good grace to find his words a bit chewy. It will take nerves of steel to get through Millibug's speech without a sick bucket.<br /><br />What do we think now of the denial of Devomax on the ballot paper? Everyone held its hostage now save McDave. All of them. Not a man left standing.<br /><br />Poor Old Nige is even reduced to a pretence of scrapping IHT come his Reich. Dear oh dear. At this rate, Dave will have the Taffs onside tomorrow.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36697613340822209052014-09-22T23:59:55.613+01:002014-09-22T23:59:55.613+01:00"Forstner bit" - had to look that up; wo..."Forstner bit" - had to look that up; worth the effort.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12853095523520750912014-09-22T23:46:10.630+01:002014-09-22T23:46:10.630+01:00Not just the PBC, mr sg, the 'papers are full ...Not just the PBC, mr sg, the 'papers are full of it, too; reporting the most embarrassing conference, even in Labour's history, as though it had value or meaning or even purpose; as though they were not all thieves, beasts, murderers, ponces and impostors; may Satan take a Forstner bit to Neil Kinnock's arsehole.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5243973223709736712014-09-22T22:57:26.676+01:002014-09-22T22:57:26.676+01:00Forget Private Eye, Viz, or writing your own satir...Forget Private Eye, Viz, or writing your own satire Mr I - its right fucking here - truly you couldn't fucking make it up:<br /><br />www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29310512<br /><br />A brief extract:<br /><br />"Mr Milliband is expected to outline money-saving measures to show he can build a "world class country" with no extra money.<br /><br />What the fuck are they on?<br /><br /><br /><br />SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-47287126560850416412014-09-22T19:58:23.066+01:002014-09-22T19:58:23.066+01:00P.S. 'elf & safety' warning if you can...P.S. 'elf & safety' warning if you can be arsed to follow the link. That's one of the scariest pictures I've seen of him. Really put the hook in me....SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25779530454895443582014-09-22T19:48:53.055+01:002014-09-22T19:48:53.055+01:00Sorry Mr I, but another of those "off topic&q...Sorry Mr I, but another of those "off topic" moments... I see the PBC is apologising for failing to adequately airbrush someone out of history:<br /><br />www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29308337<br /><br />Airing old episodes of "Top of the Pops" is creepy enough (do they really think it counts as entertainment these days?). Of course, if they really did the job properly we'd probably be staring at a blank screen for 30 minutes (no bad thing maybe).<br /><br />Perhaps we could now have re-runs of The World at War minus Hitler, Stalin, Himmler, Mengele et al...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-60585571724774592012014-09-22T19:44:21.508+01:002014-09-22T19:44:21.508+01:00Plus a wee bit of torture, terrorism and murder, m...Plus a wee bit of torture, terrorism and murder, mrs woar, in the Tower and sundry other dungeons, Cromwell and his Guvnor, 'Enery.<br /><br />I was in and out of the room for Eddy's speech and my sense of it was that he was a desperate loony performing for a bunch of nitwits. I had earlier seen a couple of minutes of some bombastic Welsh git, Owen somethng, and decided that this was one conference heading for cataclysm; I vaguely heard that Mekon bloke, is it ChumbaWumba, and despaired, but not really because, as I said some weeks back, Miliband and his Ordinary People schtick, that's more than one should even attempt to bear. Fuck 'em, New Labour, all of them, fancy, even Mr Snot put them to shame last week.<br /><br />It is a canny comparison, buggermarriage and UDI, but I do believe that Uncle Sam would have stern words to say about UDI and his Scottish nukes, as would the Oilsters, the Banksters and the Filthsters in MediaMinster and, like mr alphons, I do believe nationalism a busted flush, the young will peel off and fools such as I will harden against it, Salmond looks old and bitter and none of his neophytes have even his dodgy, smirking, bulbous charisma. Europe will never endorse, approve or permit McKiev. And nor would anyone. But who can see in the eyes of fate, as Scotland's everbest have it, all life alone in it's chronic pattern.......I know nothing and know that I know nothing call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-60047874383874160202014-09-22T18:58:39.043+01:002014-09-22T18:58:39.043+01:00I saw his first tour, mr mirage, supporting Pentan...I saw his first tour, mr mirage, supporting Pentangle and have always liked his early stuff, McGoohan's Blues, She's the One, Tom Tiddler's, Old Cricketer but he lost me after that, rather like John Martyn with his Echoplex, 'sonly so much can be done with an acoustic guitar. I had't heard about any beasting allegations but he certainly kept bad company, Page and his chums, shoulda been in jail years ago, instead of bragging about how many heads of celery they could insert in teenagers, fuckpigs. And that's not to mention the industrial-scale plagiarism of their entire output. I am sure that many of our national rolling and beatling treasures are as bad, infinitely worse, in fact, than Rolf Harris but to prove so would tear down the Temple of Celebrity and nobody wants that, not for Sir Mick or Sir Paul, such fools we would look.<br /><br />Good As I've Been To You and World Gone Wrong were interesting turn-of-the-millenium albums but probably only because they contained no Bob Dylan songs, of which the world has more than enough. A more modest man would have pursued his painting, not himself. Glad to see you're still alive, mr mirage.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39028884447693843602014-09-22T18:33:40.866+01:002014-09-22T18:33:40.866+01:00I don't think we've heard the last of him ...I don't think we've heard the last of him Mr Alphons - alas! Though it sounds as though he will be busy with his 'hundred days' book for a while - doubtless an advance from a publisher will have already been secured. Then there will be the chat show appearances, 'lectures' etc. Is he not the new 'Braveheart'? Maybe he could join 'Team Blair' advising third world dictators on how to deal with troublesome secessionist movements - who better than a poacher turned gamekeeper (now there's an idea Alec...)?SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-76424944934788123272014-09-22T17:00:31.461+01:002014-09-22T17:00:31.461+01:00In history one of the questions sometimes asked is...In history one of the questions sometimes asked is where Thomas Cromwell got his blueprint for moving piles of independent monastic money in to Henry VIII's hands. Answer: it was Cardinal Wolsey who developed the knack of swinging donations, wills, chantries etc in to his own pet project - not a bad one, a college - in Ipswich. All that is left is brick-built gateway.<br /><br />Just so now. It is Cameron who has taught Salmond that It Isn't Over. In 2005 traditionalists did a deal to drop their opposition to Civil Partnerships. They were promised that if they played nicely, that would be the end of it. Oh no, scoffed assorted Labour worthies, we are not trying to change the definition of marriage.<br /><br />Then, just a few hours ago, Ed Balls got up to brag about how they had got SSM through, a done-deal with Cameron, who produced this policy with no manifesto commitment and in the teeth of the opposition of millions, and no referendum to say if people wanted to change the definition of a foundational legal status. Even the ECtHR was not so arrogant and ducked out of that one - which was a disappointment because they had all been counting on the ECtHR to force it through. <br /><br />There is nothing impossible about UDI. Not because the people want it, but because Cameron has taught Salmond that you can get it, if you really want. Sorry Mr Ishmael, but I would make a back-up plan, just in case it goes all Mugabe up there. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46471945349349408432014-09-22T11:20:47.578+01:002014-09-22T11:20:47.578+01:00I am happy for you in your revisiting of a meat-fr...I am happy for you in your revisiting of a meat-free diet Mr. I. It helps unravel several karmic kinks. For me, it's karma to korma via Quorn, or Soylent Beige as it's known to us cynics.<br /><br />I enjoyed the recent to-ing and fro-ing with regards to Bob D. I gave up on him musically around the time of 'Desire' and 'Slow Train-crash Coming' (tangled up in Jew...?) though the sparks later between him and Danny Lanois were mildly interesting.<br /><br />I think Mr. Harper is soon to be tossed to the posse as yet another desperate diversion. Personally, whenever I hear 'Forbidden Fruit' I do not think for an instant that the fondler was meant to be anything but a schoolboy himself. Otherwise it is pretty damning, and will be construed as such by some. Rolf deserved to be banged up for crimes against music; I'd rather those sweaty Pecksniffian fingers (with their doctrinaire effuse) left our Roy alone! <br /><br /> A mirage made in heavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13932768307216956298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8671179068728780392014-09-22T10:00:06.818+01:002014-09-22T10:00:06.818+01:00I think Salmon will shortly disappear from the sce...I think Salmon will shortly disappear from the scene completely. Alphonsnoreply@blogger.com