tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post7194507505443196346..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: STREET OF SHAMEcall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85795326415568250562013-05-30T22:30:06.582+01:002013-05-30T22:30:06.582+01:00Yes, and now we are told he watched porn so porn m...Yes, and now we are told he watched porn so porn must have caused his behaviour. The Queen is rich so everyone who is rich is the Queen. Schoolboy logic.tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26365272276555925572013-05-30T18:06:15.335+01:002013-05-30T18:06:15.335+01:00Speaking for us all today, then, was mr justice s...Speaking for us all today, then, was mr justice slag. Outlining all the ways that the latest beast is unhinged and then sentencing him as though he wasn't. We must secretly love the existence, if not the persons of our beasties, eh, mr tdg, or we would set wiser heads to dealing with them, it Is as though a longer sentence will spare the next child's abduction, rape and disposal. Even though it will do no such thing and never has.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18672345567987610912013-05-29T14:49:00.717+01:002013-05-29T14:49:00.717+01:00I imagine the judge in the Sutcliffe case felt ins...I imagine the judge in the Sutcliffe case felt insanity should be diagnosed not by those with expertise in defining its boundaries -- psychiatrists -- but by reasonable common opinion, which is what a judge is supposed to embody. It is surprising how far this convention can reach: a trial judge once ordered a jury *not* to reason in the Bayesian way they needed to in order properly to understand a set of technical data brought in evidence by the defence. It is a strength of English law that it is suspicious of anomalies, no matter how well justified, but it comes at a cost.tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18585200496657897292013-05-26T15:50:24.839+01:002013-05-26T15:50:24.839+01:00I've already been in thse clubs, mr m, abd the...I've already been in thse clubs, mr m, abd the churches, too, bloated and bent Paddy businessmen buying favours from randy priests, as though purchasing mediaeval blessings or exemptions, John Kirkpatrick was one of them, I hope he's dead, fucking pig. I know those highways like I know the back of my hand. But they are not comparable, they are irrelevant, actually, to what we call the Arab street and the righteous jihadi headchopper. And anyway, you know me well enough to know how much I would smart at anyone deing so despatched. That isn't the issue, the lonesome death of Lee Rigby, it's the Hows and mainly the Whys and can we prevent more such, or are we simply to bathe in this rank sea of maudlin melancholy and furious vengeance lust. See today's post.<br /><br />I worked, incidentally, in the North at Clandeboye House, the seat of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, wed, at that time, in a lavender fasshion, to Lady Lindy Guinness. I was a servant but - genuinely - did not know my place, unlike legions of footmen, butlers, lady's maids, upstairs maids, cooks and bottlewashers, gaamekkeepers and groundsmen all fawning and bowing and scraping their Orange arses off. The Irish aristos are just like any old aristos. She still owes me a fiver she borowed. Despite having homes and thousands of acres in Scotland and Texas and homes in London and Paris her Ladyship never carried actual money, just demanded it from those around her; a side of Irish society generally kept well-hidden.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-31579979905613270962013-05-26T15:13:29.647+01:002013-05-26T15:13:29.647+01:00Pity the poor immigrant? Well, fuck that, I am one...Pity the poor immigrant? Well, fuck that, I am one and no bastard pities me. Of course, being a Guinness wog, it is more difficult to spot. It is not about multiculturalism that we should worry for I could take you to Coventry this minute and into a paddy social club for a Sunday knees-up - Irish dancing and the fucking Fields of Athenry. May I be spared evermore. But fully assimilated? Are they, my fat green backside! But are they tearing up the countryside? No.<br /><br />It is in fact the rule-bound English who are the fools around here. Too polite, too nice, too soft to tell Ahmed or Manuel that if junior wants to get on at school it would be appropriate to equip the little bugger with the English language. My father went to school speaking Gaelic in Galway and his language died with him. So be it. He did not mourn and feck about demanding that the I be taught in some mad dying language so that my culture be respected and my heritage preserved.<br /><br />So it is not the Celts who are the softees, mr jgm2. Jeez, the deluded end of my lot have been trying to turn back the last thousand years of history armed only with a armful of Armalites and a few rebel songs. But it wasn't the ordinary Irish of the land; it was McGuiness and his useful idiots. <br /><br />Now we have a pair of dickheads - clearly having enjoyed the culture and heritage of Sarf London for quite sometime - talking about some mad-hatter's pretend culture out of a sky-fairy book and saying that Allah made him sneak up behind an off-duty soldier, run him down with a car and then chop his head off. Fuck that. Arseholes! Yes, very much the Sutcliffe end of the Sutcliffe-Bin Laden data range but social difficulty and hard times are not excuse enough for idiotic butchery of this sort.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-28335462092906796992013-05-26T14:24:21.381+01:002013-05-26T14:24:21.381+01:00Yes, every one of those words rang true and glowed...Yes, every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coals; the difference between then and now is that non-integration has been the - largely - NewLabour position and for the most cynical of psephological advantages, NewLab MPs, like Jack Torture and Roy hatterjee would cultivate and bribe so-called community leaders ensuring themselves a virtual block Asian vote come election time, Straw is a really refined and sophisticated sort of racist; kill the wogs abroad, bamboozle them at home.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-49103520248429491522013-05-26T12:10:41.412+01:002013-05-26T12:10:41.412+01:00'The other tactic of the Allah Akhbar brigade,...'The other tactic of the Allah Akhbar brigade, of course, would be the targetting of the blessed chidren of the fithyrich'<br /><br />Or a co-ordinated visit to their local MP's surgeries. Having first looked up his voting record on 'Theyworkforyou'.<br /><br />That would be terrible indeed were such a calamity to occur.<br /><br />One thing that no polite person dare suggest for fear of being arrested as the worst type of criminal there is ie 'a racist' is to stop any more of these fuckers enriching our culture by simply turning them back at the point of entry. Although, as these two Micks show, the damage is done, they'll be as British as you or I and with the paperwork to prove it.<br /><br />I was reading a potted history of Britain. It seems the Celts and Picts were hostile to the Romans initially but after being kicked up and down the park came to appreciate civilisation to the point where they became jolly good little citizens with an ordered community and flushing bogs and one thing and another. So effete did they become over the centuries that, in the end, they got to importing Saxons to do all the unpleasant stuff like guarding the borders. The Saxons, seeing the lush, fertile lands of Britain compared with the shitholes of home and the soft-handed locals decided that this was very much an opportunity for them.<br /><br />It seems that history is repeating itself.<br /><br />Britain has become too soft and is once again in the process of being over-run.<br /><br />I'm not certain that more curry houses was a price worth paying.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40540916238893347442013-05-26T11:20:27.983+01:002013-05-26T11:20:27.983+01:00Thanks, mr tdg, I will think on. I am ever confuse...Thanks, mr tdg, I will think on. I am ever confused about the elastic interface between sanity and criminal responsibility and I was amazed by the insistence of the Court that Peter Sutcliffe was perfectly sane and fit to stand trial, despite having hammered to death a dozen or so women - there could have been no differrence, sane or not, in the disposal of his case, he would have gone away for natural ife, thus ensuring an eventual, if much delayed, diagnosis of mental illness, it was as though the Court was saying You're not fooling us, just because you lived a dual life, happily married to one woman whilst habitually bashing the brains out of others, No, no way you're insane, sunshine.....................<br /><br />call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46635952197243719602013-05-26T09:47:16.542+01:002013-05-26T09:47:16.542+01:00I do not wish to suggest that an act such as this ...I do not wish to suggest that an act such as this *must* be a manifestation of mental illness but rather that the violence that sometimes accompanies mental illness may incidentally latch on to political ideas, making it seem as if the ideas are driving it whereas they are really post hoc rationalisations of a causeless impulse. Where the perpetrators are isolated and the violence unnatural this seems to me more likely. But of course it does not have to be so.tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4798248018530817762013-05-25T18:33:28.140+01:002013-05-25T18:33:28.140+01:00An absentee landlord, eh, mr m, each of us, I gue...An absentee landlord, eh, mr m, each of us, I guess, has his own special gift.<br /><br />Who was it said, hereabouts, and I paraphrase, I don't mind paying taxes, it resu|lts in what we call civilisation? An eye-for-an-eye sits ill with that sentiment but then which of us is consistent, aside, perhaps, from Mr jgm2 in his unflinching Albaphobia.<br /><br />This was something different, previous suicidal terrorist attacks have been accidentally so, as in the case of the clueless Coventry IRA man, or of the assisted suicide variety, as in the case of the shot to death Tube and 'bus bombers - a bit like the Great Escape "How many of them were wounded?" "None, they were all killed." <br /><br />These Mike guys ran towards what they must have thought was certain death and no amount of howling at the moon will equip us to prevent that sort of thing. It is as ms agatha says, we are, since the dawn of Bush-Blairism, in a constant state of war, largely against brown, largely muslem people and it would seem to me the work of an hour's planning to paralyse and terrify a country such as ours. Merely dress a half-dozen such couples as the Two Mikes in white coats and stethoscopes and send them into hospitals, with their meat cleavers and mayhap more modern weapons; imagine people,decent white people, being hacked to death in their hospital beds. I think we might then mildly disagree with the buffoon albino fuckbunny, Johnson, about our foreign policy being nothing to do with this shit.<br /><br />The other tactic of the Allah Akhbar brigade, of course, would be the targetting of the blessed chidren of the fithyrich, in Eton and Harrow and Oxbridge. We must pray it never comes to that.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64153622455626829782013-05-25T08:35:55.144+01:002013-05-25T08:35:55.144+01:00There is a certain historical echo to the recent m...There is a certain historical echo to the recent murder of a British soldier.<br /><br />Yet again it seems that a couple of Micks were responsible.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-865215255541743332013-05-24T21:00:55.910+01:002013-05-24T21:00:55.910+01:00Have a care, mr jgm2, some us have families still ...Have a care, mr jgm2, some us have families still condemned to own chunks of Connaught. It's good for fuck all, of course, except for the burying of the disappeared.<br /><br />These meat-cleaver dozies - there's a certain eye-for-an-eye attraction to packing them off to Colchester glasshouse to serve their sentences. I am sure that they would not tarry there long.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4809406768649249322013-05-24T17:36:46.049+01:002013-05-24T17:36:46.049+01:00Mr I,
' It is just a matter of time - you mig...Mr I,<br /><br />' It is just a matter of time - you might yet regret abandoning Scotland's stoney fastness to the tribesmen. '<br /><br />Better to die in England than live in Fucking Scotland. 'To Hell or to Connaught' is famously attributed to Mr Cromwell.<br /><br />He might just as well have been talking about Fucking Scotland.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-72028192696310046762013-05-24T16:13:21.278+01:002013-05-24T16:13:21.278+01:00Don't know about Big Al, after the election,h...Don't know about Big Al, after the election,he snuffled up loads of bungs from "speaking engagements" at GlobaBank and there's his diaries and his blethering and cock-waving in various TeeVee Toilets - he does the Sky Midnight News Review Pissup, he does the Andrew Neil Show-Off Show and there's always Any Questions for a quick grand, so he could pay for his own security but I betcha he doesn't. Tony and Imelda, of course, cost us a half a mill or so per annum, on account of their criminality and their need to be in a protection programme. It's not going to happen, mr jgm2, I am very sorry to say. Mediaevalism, however, is always a possibility - germ bombs and dirty wee nukes, that shit is all over the former USSR, held in lock-up garages and stables. And then there's Pakistan's proper nukes. It is just a matter of time - you might yet regret abandoning Scotland's stoney fastness to the tribesmen. <br /><br /><br />Sshhhh, ms agatha, you mustn't say that. About the heroes.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89548726088307332642013-05-24T13:10:35.171+01:002013-05-24T13:10:35.171+01:00Britain wages wars of aggression: it is in a const...Britain wages wars of aggression: it is in a constant state of warfare: is, was, will be. One soldier is killed on the streets of London and people are surprised, shocked, devastated. Surely this is what happens in war? Soldiers dying? Or is it only the enemy,on the enemy's territory, who is supposed to die? Did someone say surreal? There is an astonishing lack of ability to think through action to consequence. Sex leads to pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases. Uncontrolled personal spending leads to lots of stuff and large debt. Joining the army isn't about completing your education or getting a better job, it is about learning to kill peple and, in turn, becoming a target for the enemy. Voting Conservative leads to loss of income and resources for the working class. Wear sunscreen and don't wear your Army uniform on the streets unless you are prepared to engage in combat.A|gathanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-56579327967277588902013-05-24T11:52:11.335+01:002013-05-24T11:52:11.335+01:00The New IRA or Continuity IRA or Real IRA or some ...The New IRA or Continuity IRA or Real IRA or some other bunch of cunts murdered a lad (couple of lads?) outside their barracks a couple of years ago while they were taking delivery of a pizza.<br /><br />This came as something of a surprise to the BBC after 15 years or so of relative calm so they dispatched a TV crew to interview the locals for a bit of vox pop. They voxed some cadaverous young proto-murderer who was almost totally incoherent on account of his accent but you could just pick up that he thought it was all right, so it was, and sure weren't the British to blame anyway, so they were, and sure what were they doing there anyway.<br /><br />Any sensible government would have sent somebody straight around to his house and 'disappeared' the nasty wee cunt. But what is so thoroughly dispiriting is that this kid was only 18 or 19. He'd known no 'trouble' to speak of. It had all been relatively calm since John Major was PM yet they're still poisoned on their father's knee like the nasty fuckers screaming in Farage's face up in Fucking Scotland. The pudding faced Salmond just being the fat-controller front-man focussing the simmering resentment and hatred so many seem to have of their English neighbours.<br /><br />This bloodthirsty muslim jackass will likewise have been poisoned, if not by his father, then some bushy-bearded cunt from Shitistan. Made all the easier to do, of course, by Blair's utterly incomprehensible war in Iraq<br /><br />It's a clusterfuck and I suspect it will never be settled until one side or the other goes totally medieval. But I don't think it would do any harm at all to round up Blair and Campbell and anybody else who had a hand in manufacturing the 'case' for the Iraq war and toss them over the fence to these fuckers as a kind of peace offering.<br /><br />This cleaver-wielding nutter was apparently urging muslims to go down to Syria. I'm guessing he wasn't urging them to support Assad so in the space of a week we have the situation where our own government is siding with people who want to overthrow Assad who, in their turn, are nothing more than cannibals and fifth columnists.<br /><br />It's fucking surreal around here innit.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55621219484254106062013-05-24T09:16:10.737+01:002013-05-24T09:16:10.737+01:00It was just a question, mr mike, of mr tdg, just a...It was just a question, mr mike, of mr tdg, just a thought and perhaps a nod to, was it Auden? ......as all the children learn, those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. Just trying to make some sense of stuff. Coincidentally, I saw - or could bear - only a couple of minutes of last night's Question Time, from Belfast; seeing Sinn Fein and the hideous, hereditary orange attack dog, Ian Paisley Junior moralising about this, now, there was relativism for you.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-16368188744166227262013-05-24T03:50:30.083+01:002013-05-24T03:50:30.083+01:00Mr I: I find it hard to do relativism at a time l...Mr I: I find it hard to do relativism at a time like this. Rather I prefer the notion of absolute evil, and these black bastards are absolutely evil in my book. Thats not to say there are not other evils, but they do not justify this act.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36397858617015231822013-05-24T02:02:13.161+01:002013-05-24T02:02:13.161+01:00Does this, then, mr tdg, confer on, for instance,...Does this, then, mr tdg, confer on, for instance, the Shankill Butchers and the Provos a sanity of Purpose, rather than a collective paranoid pyschosis - is orchestrated, concerted and sustained "purposeful" terrorist activity "saner" than acts such as yesterday's? <br /><br />Might not these two - bearing in mind their headlong rush at armed police - be considered martyrs, or would-be martyrs, rather than patients, and might we not, also, within an albeit horrifiyng continuum of violence, acknowledge, at least, the restaint and discernment they exercised, killing but one military target? The deputy prime minister of Northern Ireland was happy, in his struggle, to kill and maim all and sundry, the more, to his mind, the merrier.<br /><br />There is probably an applicable medical or socio-medical explanation for all aberrant behaviours but I am not sure that they cancel-out the perceived sins of empire - droning, rendition, assassination, concentration camps and all the brutal sins to which psyched-up, ill-educated squaddies and GIs are heir - gangraping, torture and mutilation, the fun and perks of the professional soldier.<br /><br />Is a violent response to events such as these necessarily a manifestation of a severe mental illness? You're a clssicist, mr tdg, surely there are many real historical and mythologised events wherein guerilla acts like these are seen as blind, futile yet noble heroism.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-51523525692675822042013-05-24T00:48:24.991+01:002013-05-24T00:48:24.991+01:00The fact of paranoid psychosis remains the same, b...The fact of paranoid psychosis remains the same, but its common subjects change with the times. The same incidence of psychotic murders can thus suddenly seem like a rise in terrorist atrocity. It may be there is no explanation here but a medical one.tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79946704911763343972013-05-23T20:26:40.746+01:002013-05-23T20:26:40.746+01:00Yes, I still buy the Eye, most fortnights, I just ...Yes, I still buy the Eye, most fortnights, I just don't have a subscription.<br /><br />Sometimes I get too cryptic for my own good. The street of Shame was meant to apply both to MediaMinster and to the tweeting, phone snapping horde which you berate in Woolwich, mr jgm2.Callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3984482758814553412013-05-23T20:14:56.634+01:002013-05-23T20:14:56.634+01:00Correction - not a squaddie but a Drummer apparent...Correction - not a squaddie but a Drummer apparently. Drummers, along with other musicians, normally being trained as medics and stretcher-bearers. Almighty PR fuck-up for the religion of peace.<br /><br />Again.<br /><br />Same with newspapers for me Mr I. Still buy Private Eye though. He may be pissing in the wind but all the dirt is in there. We can't say we weren't told about Maxwell or PFI or WMD or NHS fuck-ups galore. And we only know of the rest of Fleet Street's finest' off-piste activities thanks to PE too.<br /><br />That Craig Brown is as funny as arse cancer though.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85034111981725059462013-05-23T20:00:15.627+01:002013-05-23T20:00:15.627+01:00All the eyewitnesses I saw spoke like backward six...All the eyewitnesses I saw spoke like backward six year olds, is it some kind of open plan loony bin, Woolwich?<br /><br />I, too, stopped , after decades, my <br />PE subs and switched to Viz magazine ,far more satirical and delightfully vulgar. I haven't bought a newspaper this millennium, why would anyone? Callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-31211354679161887582013-05-23T19:20:26.023+01:002013-05-23T19:20:26.023+01:00I have obviously become my dad. I first noticed i...I have obviously become my dad. I first noticed it at Lady Di's funeral. There was this solemn occasion and people started clapping and cheering. Was it just me who wondered at what point it suddenly became appropriate to have a round of applause at a funeral. I've been to a couple since but I don't recall anybody breaking out into spontaneous applause as they lowered mum into the ground. Maybe we're behing the times.<br /><br />And now this fucking nonsense. I'm beyond being shocked by the utter fucking barbarity of the religion of peace and, if their point is to bring home the reality of the UK's intervention in such shitholes as Afghanistan and Iraq, then I really would prefer it if they paid a bit more attention to Tony Blair's or Alistair Campbell's schedule than some poor squaddie's. But what does my fucking head in is that the people of Woolwich, when confronted with a beheading in the street and knife-weilding lunatics at large, think that the appropriate behaviour is not to run away or drive over the fuckers with a car but to get their mobile phones out and upload the results to Youtube.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37408985145938616032013-05-23T15:21:30.894+01:002013-05-23T15:21:30.894+01:00A few things about this are a bit disturbing. Thei...A few things about this are a bit disturbing. Their accents were straight out of Eastenders so probably never been anywhere but the Costa del Shite. Why was there such shite planning? They could have proper gone on the rampage and taken out loads more and it was a pretty bloody labourious way to execute someone.<br /><br /> But what absolutely astounded me was that some of the eye witnesses thought it was just a normal day in Woolwich. Some one was live twittering and said "it's one of the worst 3 things i've ever seen" - wtf? I have heard stories about London and there's copy for Croydon that could fill the Daily Mail angry columns constantly but someone getting decapitated with a meat cleaver only constitutes number 3 on the 'oooh, that was bad list' is a bit mental, to say the least.DtPnoreply@blogger.com