Up late last night, watching the snooker, there was nothing else, and it's kind of hypnotic, those old and not so old commentators trying to find new things to say about a direly predictable and repetitive game of balls and sticks and pockets. It's like a quiet, narcotised corner of Hell.
The first match was between some pasty, overweight, unshaven Scotsman
and a natty little Chinese gadfly,
and a natty little Chinese gadfly,
who, convincingly, unexpectedly and entertainingly outplayed the former champion.
Jock was rated number five in the world, the Chinaman was, until now, nowhere.
The second match was between the current DragonGod of Chinese snooker, a morose, pudgy, short man,
Jock was rated number five in the world, the Chinaman was, until now, nowhere.
The second match was between the current DragonGod of Chinese snooker, a morose, pudgy, short man,
Ding, his name is, and he's as entertaining as bowel cancer; his opponent was a rather charming and graceful Scotsman, Alan McManus
absent from the World Championship for seven years and nice to watch.
When play ended for the day, Ding was 6-2 ahead, it's not that he was that much better a player, just that the Scotsman kept making tiny, tiny mistakes and once Ding had an opening he was remorseless, robotic, dull and annoying; the Scotsman played the graceful, innovative shots, the Chinaman just won and won and won, miserable little fucked-up shit; I wouldn't walk across the courtyard to watch him playing in the barn.
The commentators were that corny old Ulsterman, Dennis Taylor,
he of the memorable spectacles, and the tight-lipped snooker mechanic, Steven Hendry,
who has won everything more times than anyone else ever can or will. If you like that sort of thing, Hendry is/was your man. I don't like that sort of thing. I'd rather watch an erratic genius
like Alex Higgins or Jimmy White than a dehumanised, money-making machine, like Hendry or wossisname, that Steve Geezer bloke. I dunno, you know the one I mean.
he of the memorable spectacles, and the tight-lipped snooker mechanic, Steven Hendry,
who has won everything more times than anyone else ever can or will. If you like that sort of thing, Hendry is/was your man. I don't like that sort of thing. I'd rather watch an erratic genius
like Alex Higgins or Jimmy White than a dehumanised, money-making machine, like Hendry or wossisname, that Steve Geezer bloke. I dunno, you know the one I mean.
It emerged, anyway, in the infinitessimaly tiny small talk between these two braindead dullards, as they tried to enliven the grim proceedings, that Hendry, now retired from competitive snooker, "spends a lot of time in China," coaching, I guess, for huge sums of money, these Chinese automata, in order that they can come here and beat British players.
He's not alone, Shitmouth Hendry, lots of them do it, many for the headchopping bandits in the Gulf, for anyone who'll pay them, really. I suppose it's what they would call, in shameless Beckhamese, Givin' Somefin Back To The Game.
He's not alone, Shitmouth Hendry, lots of them do it, many for the headchopping bandits in the Gulf, for anyone who'll pay them, really. I suppose it's what they would call, in shameless Beckhamese, Givin' Somefin Back To The Game.
And then, today, I was wondering what would happen to me if I was walking down the road, you were in my way and so I bit you. As in bit your flesh with my teeth. And then I said, Oh, sorry mate, no hard feelings, tell you what, I won't go to work for the next few days, that'll sort it.
The boy needs help.
But if I bit you, with my teeth, I'd be in the cells now and going to the Magistrates Court in the morning, charged with causing actual or grievous bodily harm to you, contrary to Section whatever it is of the Offences Against the Person Act and whatever the magistrates said to me it would not be: And for the next ten Saturdays you cannot go in your garden.
But if I bit you, with my teeth, I'd be in the cells now and going to the Magistrates Court in the morning, charged with causing actual or grievous bodily harm to you, contrary to Section whatever it is of the Offences Against the Person Act and whatever the magistrates said to me it would not be: And for the next ten Saturdays you cannot go in your garden.
Sport is dominated by Murdoch and one of his slugs, a football scribbler on the Times, was saying, today, that this biting bastard needs help. No, he fucking doesn't, he needs kicking out of professional football at any level. And most of all, he needs to have his collar felt. Maybe, after servng a few months, he can join Shitmouth Hendry and go and coach the Chinks. If he bit somebody over there the little yellow bastards'd probably shoot him, charge his family for the bullet and harvest his vital organs before he hit the deck. 'Swhat they do. When they're not eating dogs.
And the other ShitSport story of the moment is that some AliBaba horse training crook
Sorry, your Sheikness, they found us out.
I think you mean, infidel son of a camle's afterbirth, that they found you out.
- aren't they all crooks, those horsey people - working for Saudi Sheik Loadsamoney, some thieving arab, so rich that he's a friend of our own Good Queen, Thieving Brenda and her Thieving Family, has been doping the gee-gees.
Yes, Sheiky, always best to blame one's servants. It's worked for my gang for fucking centuries. Off with their heads, that's what we used to say. And I believe you do still do that shit, out there in the desert. Well, each to his own, one is not one to interfere. Fuck, no.
I know that, as horsenews goes, it's not like Tesco and Iceland and all the rest of them feeding us DobbinBurgers and Horseballs in pasta but it's bad enough. If you were naive enough to bet money on one of the other horses, the ones not on speed, then you probably lost it, were, in effect, conned out of it, defrauded. But is AliBaba going down the nick, to be charged with fraud? Not a bit of it. He's going to judged by The right worshipful Guild of HorseTrainers and Dopers, they'll probably tell him that he can't work for a while.
Sorry, your Sheikness, they found us out.
I think you mean, infidel son of a camle's afterbirth, that they found you out.
- aren't they all crooks, those horsey people - working for Saudi Sheik Loadsamoney, some thieving arab, so rich that he's a friend of our own Good Queen, Thieving Brenda and her Thieving Family, has been doping the gee-gees.
Yes, Sheiky, always best to blame one's servants. It's worked for my gang for fucking centuries. Off with their heads, that's what we used to say. And I believe you do still do that shit, out there in the desert. Well, each to his own, one is not one to interfere. Fuck, no.
I know that, as horsenews goes, it's not like Tesco and Iceland and all the rest of them feeding us DobbinBurgers and Horseballs in pasta but it's bad enough. If you were naive enough to bet money on one of the other horses, the ones not on speed, then you probably lost it, were, in effect, conned out of it, defrauded. But is AliBaba going down the nick, to be charged with fraud? Not a bit of it. He's going to judged by The right worshipful Guild of HorseTrainers and Dopers, they'll probably tell him that he can't work for a while.
I thought it was just clergymen, doctors, lawyers, the filth and MPs who sat in judgement on each other but it seems that immunity from normal prosecutorial vigilance now extends to so-called sportsmen. My school rugby coach and pretend physics teacher, Shifty Watson, would shit in his grave if he knew about all this.
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I didn't watch the old crow's junta-style funeral but I did have a moment of the day, a bit later, during a closely-controlled BBC voxpop segment. There was this ex-paratrooper, bent as a nine-bob note, he was - a forty-five pence coin, for younger readers - probably has Do-Or-Die tattooed on his foreskin and he had one of those noncey, snuffler's beards which are so fashionable; all rigid he was, in his blazer and his beret, virtually standing to attention. He said, all parade-groundy, that Mrs Thatcher was a great prime minister because she allowed him to do wot 'e wuz trained for, killing people, and he would always be grateful. Funny how, with this gang, one minute, it's OhMyGod, Terrible Post Traumatic Distress Order, and the next it's a great privilege to rip some bastard's guts out with a bayonet, or better still, your bare hands. As with the cops, we need to make soldiering a graduate profession. Asked if he thought she was as great a PeeEm as Winston Churchill, Tommy thought for a moment and said, the silly fucker, that Yes, in his opinion she was. No wonder Arnhem was a fuck-up, no wonder Bloody Sunday kicked-off. If this mad old cunt is representative of ex-servicemen then it is they, and not old-age pensioners, tax-credit recipients and disabled people who are a threat to the nation. Nearly a thousand people died in that Falklands Jamboree, and all because Lady Crow scrapped a South Atlantic Royal Naval patrol vessel; mad old bitch.
I had another moment, too, as some old Tory hag, dressed and made-up and veiled like a whore in a French farce was fronting-out the fact that only criminal Americans had turned-up for this nonsense - Kissinger and some old White House goons, Cheney, for fuck's sake, the Thief of Baghdad; Margaret wouldn't have wanted either of the Clintons and both Dubya and his old man were indisposed, Yeah, right, Dubya'll be coked off his chimp face or else in rehab, and his old man's loopy, like Maggie. No-one would have expected Obama, she simpered, he's far too busy. No mention of Jimmy Carter, this Polyfilled and lacquered old boot probably never heard of him. There wasn't even a US Ambassador, Obie couldn't be arsed to appoint one, to attend the funeral of the woman who won the Cold War. So there, a quartet of vicious, warcrimeing old degenerates, none of them in office, all of them lucky not to be in jail; wasn't that proof of Maggie's specialness in the US?
And yes, it was; most of her kin and cronies, after all, especially her son - what did they call him and his new bint? the honourable Sir Mark and Lady Thatcher? FuckMeJesus that prat's got some nerve, if he was a kleptobanker, or almost anyone else, people'd be calling for him to be stripped of his hereditary viscountcy - are or were crooks, thieves, torturers and worse.
MediaMinster put on a good show, with our money but it looked to me that attendance was thin - it wasn't like Diana, for instance, or Michael Jackson - and that a lot of it would've been a mixture of tourists and applesanpears, troubleanstrife pearly KingsanQueens type Lahndunners, 'avin a day out.
A damp squib, despite everyone's best efforts but one that may yet re-ignite. We might yet see MediaMinster eating crow, instead of burning it.