Monday 4 October 2010

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. THE FILTHOGRAPH, THE ORANGE MENACE

London Underground grinds to a halt

Millions of tube passengers will have their journeys disrupted after thousands of unionists walked out on strike over 800 job cuts.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

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call me ishmael said...

Sorry, mr anonymous, I don't understand any of that stuff, I just do writing, sometimes with pictures and occasionally music. Exchanging "links" sounds like a euphemism for bodily fluids, so I would be careful, were I you, about where you make such offers; these new diseases, y'know, they can propel themselves through cyberspace and before you know it you're spending all your time down the clinic, with the sex workers and Liberal Democrats.

B Ching said...

I saw yet another picture of that Crow man yesterday and was struck first by the way his upper cranium is nipped in sideways, indicating a decreased space within, and secondly the apparent big swelling stretching across his large forehead, indicating a frequent contact with brick walls.

He is the epitome of "you get what you see" and is truly in the mould of some of his predecessors of the 70s/80s.... and it shines out of the photograph like a beacon.

call me ishmael said...

Yes, Bob Crow, he's almost as stereotypical as Bullingdon Boy layabouts CallHimDave, the current unelected prime minister; George Spunkface, the pretend chancellor and Boris Xavier St James Aloysius Johnson, the coke-snorting playboy mayor and allround cunt.

These public figures, Dr B, what are they like, eh?

B Ching said...

" Yes, Bob Crow, he's almost as stereotypical as Bullingdon Boy layabouts CallHimDave, the current unelected prime minister; George Spunkface, the pretend chancellor and Boris Xavier St James Aloysius Johnson, the coke-snorting playboy mayor and allround cunt.

These public figures, Dr B, what are they like, eh?"

Those you mention are all politicians and are bred like that in the demiworld from which they arise, and are not expected to be anything other than loathsome (although we continually wish they were).
However, the object in question is largely not a "public" figure. He seems for the most part only to be evident when he takes a rest from sucking on the tit that gives him succour and stirs up unrequired trouble to further the ends of "the great cause of universal brotherhood"

ahma goina be sickle

mrs narcolept said...

I don't want London Underground going on strike, but I also don't want no ticket office staff and no guards on platforms. When I was but thirteen or so there were even guards on tube trains, in the last carriage, so nervous night-time homegoers could feel safe.

call me ishmael said...

After all the revolting Oxbridge boys and girls who dominate MediaMinster, I actually find Mr Crow very refreshing. Mrs n's point is extremely important, it was the decision makers and leaders who removed - to save a few quid - park keepers and bus conductors and train guards; within a few years public spaces and public transport were in the hands of yobs, just the absence of a male figure in uniform allowed the rot to set-in; thanks to these cost-cutting measures we now pay a fortune defending against and prosecuting anti-social behaviour, restoring damaged property and dealing with injured people.

Mr Crow is right, to measure the impact of people merely in balance sheet terms is the sport of imbeciles, there is such a thing as the public good, or there was, before Ruin's stooges thronged the toilets of degeneracy and stalked the corridors of power, shit in their mouths, blood on their hands and Ruin on their minds.

B Ching said...

Mr Crow and "the public good" are poles apart.
Mr.Crow is looking after his own good, as are his troopers, as also are the rest of the scum who are unable to differentiate between "running" the country and "ruining" it.
The entire structure of power in this country is reminiscent of the Mafia, as it is the rest of the world.
The godfathers try to put on an act that is as transparent as a bishops ethics.

Dick the Prick said...

There was a Dispatches programme on Mr Crow and Steve 'shagger' Norris who ran Jarvis and was also the last Tory transport minister who, dirty bastard that he is did say something relevant that Crow plays his game, ratchets it up and ALWAYS gets a compromise.

But, as Mrs Narcolept asks; who wins? I dunno - but the fucker does what it states in his job description so that's 1 negotiation that doesn't need to happen I guess.

Agatha said...

B Ching says:
"Mr Crow and "the public good" are poles apart.
Mr.Crow is looking after his own good, as are his troopers, as also are the rest of the scum who are unable to differentiate between "running" the country and "ruining" it.
The entire structure of power in this country is reminiscent of the Mafia, as it is the rest of the world.
The godfathers try to put on an act that is as transparent as a bishops ethics."

So, Dr. B, we'll put you down as "undecided" shall we? Do you believe that a man's soul shines through his physiogonomy, or are you just lookist?? I thought Bob Crow made a great deal of sense. Whenever strike action is threatened, I always wonder what is not being reported, and why the employers are not negotiating. This is because I know that the legislation against strike action is very prescriptive and unions breach it at their peril and financial cost. Therefore, they are very careful to proceed correctly. Workers must have a very real sense of grievance - of being treated unfairly, before they will take strike action, which will cause them financial loss immediately and in the future, as strike days are deducted from their pension entitlement. The news media, however, always report the disruption caused by strike action as the fault of the trade unionists. Why is it their fault, and not the fault of the employers who failed to reach an acceptable solution?
I really don't think that it is valid to complain about someone looking after their own good. Don't we all? Didn't the expenses-rapacious MPs look after their own good? Don't employers who want to maximise their profit by reducing the costs of production (usually wages!)look after their own good?
Living together in a nation requires the individual to make a decision to join the tribe that will best represent his own interests - looking after his own good, in other words. Dress it up by talking about the "public good" if you want - make up whatever narrative best helps you live with yourself and sleep at night, whilst the poor, as Jesus said, are always with us.
I followed the link to Arundells that Mrs. WOAR posted in another thread. Jolly nice house, nice things, lovely garden. No tower block flat or Glasgow tenement for Mr. Heath. No doubt his personal wealth was accumulated by working hard for the public good. And you should see that place of the Camerons. The one in the country. Or the town. Take your pick. I've just got the one house and I suppose I should be grateful for it, compared with some.

Agatha said...

B Ching says:
"Mr Crow and "the public good" are poles apart.
Mr.Crow is looking after his own good, as are his troopers, as also are the rest of the scum who are unable to differentiate between "running" the country and "ruining" it.
The entire structure of power in this country is reminiscent of the Mafia, as it is the rest of the world.
The godfathers try to put on an act that is as transparent as a bishops ethics."

So, Dr. B, we'll put you down as "undecided" shall we? Do you believe that a man's soul shines through his physiogonomy, or are you just lookist?? I thought Bob Crow made a great deal of sense. Whenever strike action is threatened, I always wonder what is not being reported, and why the employers are not negotiating. This is because I know that the legislation against strike action is very prescriptive and unions breach it at their peril and financial cost. Therefore, they are very careful to proceed correctly. Workers must have a very real sense of grievance - of being treated unfairly, before they will take strike action, which will cause them financial loss immediately and in the future, as strike days are deducted from their pension entitlement. The news media, however, always report the disruption caused by strike action as the fault of the trade unionists. Why is it their fault, and not the fault of the employers who failed to reach an acceptable solution?
I really don't think that it is valid to complain about someone looking after their own good. Don't we all? Didn't the expenses-rapacious MPs look after their own good? Don't employers who want to maximise their profit by reducing the costs of production (usually wages!)look after their own good?
Living together in a nation requires the individual to make a decision to join the tribe that will best represent his own interests - looking after his own good, in other words. Dress it up by talking about the "public good" if you want - make up whatever narrative best helps you live with yourself and sleep at night, whilst the poor, as Jesus said, are always with us.
I followed the link to Arundells that Mrs. WOAR posted in another thread. Jolly nice house, nice things, lovely garden. No tower block flat or Glasgow tenement for Mr. Heath. No doubt his personal wealth was accumulated by working hard for the public good. And you should see that place of the Camerons. The one in the country. Or the town. Take your pick. I've just got the one house and I suppose I should be grateful for it, compared with some.

Agatha said...

Sorry, Mr. Ish, for messing up your nice blog - I've inadvertently posted twice - could you delete one for me, please?
Also, I've remembered that Christian song that goes:
"The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them high or lowly,
He ordered their estate."
So, that's alright then. Lets all hate the trade unionists.

Dick the Prick said...

Dear Mrs Agatha

I really do kinda hate the trade unions but they are bloody good at fighting. My Great Grandad set up the local branch of the engineering union here in Hudds and i've had it foisted on me from an early age. They are rude, tribal, bullies, arrogant, absolutely unforgiving 'you're breathing union air' type arseholes but we'd be so fucked without them.

I'm not sure but i'd be relatively inclined to think that when they started they were fantastic (and, to be fair, they still can be useful) but with the establishment of the Labour party, a couple of world wars, de-industrialization and God alone knows what else; well, I guess they've stayed constantly commie.

Bastards to a man but hard as nails.

I got thrown out of a union piss-up for saying one word at exactly the right time when the chief steward paused in his speech; one of my chums was a shop steward and we were out on the lash so he made me promise to shut the fuck up when we went inside. I only said 'Jarrow' and 4 fucking massive burly bastards surrounded me immediately. Negotiations started with my chum so I didn't get my head caved in but, in hindsight - tres amusant! Mae culpa etc.

call me ishmael said...

It is worth saying twice ms a.

It is also true that union barons are generally just blurred facsimiles of political and business careerists, arseholes, most of them, their own terms and conditions putting them comfortably above the fray which they seek to manage. Even so, Dr B, we need the conflict and the tension between the rich man at his castle and the poor man at his gate, or would you have us dismantle the Education Act of 1944, the NHS, the state pension, social services and the rest, let everything be run by the bankers, the Tories and those degenerate wankers who call themselves Liberals, should we abolish the unions and the minimum wage?

Mr Crow is no more offensive to me, probably a good deal less, than the shower of shit seen recently and currently on conference platforms and undue, facist criticsim of him smacks of our bete noire hereabouts, totalitairianisme consumeriste, p[art of which is the inane, Blair-Beckham-Celebrity dogma - it's who you look like, not who you are.

mongoose said...

Is it impossible, do you think, to climb the tree in any outfit without becoming an arsehole?

Somewhere deep down in the NUM, while Maggie starved them into submission, people were looking after each other in the most desperate of situations. At the top meanwhile Scargill was waging his mad class war from his comfy country home.

Deep down in the Tory party, in Grantham perhaps, local businessmen, grocers perhaps, will still throw and extra bag, of fruit perhaps, into a poor granny's shopping. While at the top, The Cameroon plots the forthcoming destruction of the centre left - fuck them out of office for two generations this time, the fuckers - from his two palaces.

(Proof BTW that Cameron is a fucker of the first water? "My baby sleeps in a cardboard box." Simples, as my children now learnt say (but not for long). But I digress.)

On the radio one day years back, I heard a cabinet minister say "All Tories are bastards". "What? All of them?" "Yes." It's the hatred, you see. To get up the tree, you have to hate the other guys, or say that you do. And saying something enough times will make it true. And once you hate the other fellah because of the colour of his rosette or the otherwise labelled company that he keeps. Well, then you are fucked for sure.

Personally, I hate the whole fucking lot of them because they are scoundrels, thieving, lying, professional dissemblers who haven't done a day's work between the whole sickening lot of them. "Oh, it's only a few tens of thousands of quid. It's not as if it's real stealing, is it?" A decent country would never have voted for one of those thieving fuckers. They would all of them be in jail, or worse. We'd have a Parliament of ex-miners and ex-grocers. they couldn't do any worse.

call me ishmael said...

Amen, mr mongoose. Been saying it for most of my recent life - No good men in senior public life; it's not just the politicians, it's the chiefs of this and that, directors; it's the admirals and all those smug Ruperts.

I, too, remember ordinary people collecting for the miners, whilst Arthur and Maggie retreated to their pampered bunkers to coin tomorrow's soundbite. But I remember, too, the expenses scandal of last year and how it has all been made to go away, in the excitement of the New Politics, a tiny,scapegoated handful facing the court, the biggest scoundrels now lecturing us about short commons, belt-tightening and even longer working lives. Jail, I fear, is probably too good for them.

Dick the Prick said...

I cannot agree for the time being. This is the perfect opportunity to assess senior management and to see how they react.

These guys aren't too bright and the unions are chasing them - seems funny. This Tory party is full of kids and what the chuff was Labour doing 'this generation' tosh?

Cheers bud - will work me way up thread