tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post5954946029726924337..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael 8/5/2022call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83215137920517746882022-05-13T11:07:01.349+01:002022-05-13T11:07:01.349+01:00You are quite right, mr mike, the 9th May Victory ...You are quite right, mr mike, the 9th May Victory Day parade should make any objective observer pause and do some serious thinking about the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. From the outset, we have advocated here for Zelenskyy to come to terms with Russia and for the NATO nations to stop egging him on - what we say makes no difference whatsoever to the outcome, of course, but we can share our concerns here without being vilified. Honestly, I'm scared to speak for fear of being accused of having no compassion for those hurt or dispossessed by the conflict. Of course I have compassion for the people caught up in this, or any other conflict - which is exactly why I believe Zelenskyy needs to sue for peace. He'll be looking for reparations from Russia and a personal amnesty, but there's no recompense for those who have died on both sides. That's it - their one and only life, their precious life, gone, over, ended untimely by leaders to whom the lives of the soldiery mean less than nothing. Told you I watched "Oh, What a Lovely War" at an impressionable age.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-28168379135014788952022-05-13T10:43:51.919+01:002022-05-13T10:43:51.919+01:00Thank you for your film recommendation, mr inmate ...Thank you for your film recommendation, mr inmate - I looked up "God Bless America" on Wiki, and it needs adding to my "to watch" list. "A darkly comic polemic on modern culture, God Bless America is uneven and somewhat thin, but the ideas behind this revenge fulfillment journey have primal appeal."mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-58663169240873355312022-05-13T10:40:45.846+01:002022-05-13T10:40:45.846+01:00Apologies for absence, ishmaelites - its been a to...Apologies for absence, ishmaelites - its been a tough week at work - oops, we're not supposed to say tough, or overworked - the preferred term is "busy". So, it has been a tough week at work, and I'm suffering from a touch of long covid, so I've been a neglectful blog host.<br />I loved your idea, mr mongoose, of the Orange folk transporting themselves to Glasgow - they will boost the Unionist opposition to the SNP. I have to confess that my opposition to Scottish independence is motivated by self-interest - I live far, far away from the nationalist motivators of poverty, drug abuse and sectarianism of the Central Belt - 327 miles, further than Birmingham to Glasgow, and I can see only personal disadvantage should Mrs Fish break up the Union.<br />I'm really chuffed, though, mongoose my dear, that you thought my summary of the Irish agenda passes muster.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55076865874051144642022-05-12T19:21:52.030+01:002022-05-12T19:21:52.030+01:00The NY Times seems to have seen sense and has prod...The NY Times seems to have seen sense and has produced an at least partially even-handed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/world/europe/ukraine-russia-donbas.html" rel="nofollow">appraisal</a> of what's happened in Ukraine. The problem begins to come around to - how many men does Ukraine have left to offer to MBV's mincer?mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46604933821112862022-05-10T15:55:47.752+01:002022-05-10T15:55:47.752+01:00God bless America, a film, everything mr Ishmael t...God bless America, a film, everything mr Ishmael told us about cruelty TV. Mr Ishmael’s words put on the Silver screen.<br /><br />Divorced, fired and possibly terminally ill, Frank has nothing left to live for. But instead of taking his own life, he buys a gun…<br />I don’t think he would have agreed with Frank’s solution, but certainly Frank’s motive.inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50018617610044996302022-05-10T04:12:49.567+01:002022-05-10T04:12:49.567+01:00Big turnout in Belarus also:
https://www.youtube....Big turnout in Belarus also:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uivmI5f1bM0<br /><br />I'm not 100% sure but I believe this is at the site of the Brest garrison, where a major heroic battle was fought against the Germans at the beginning of the invasion. Belarus has a formidable army, which trains with the Russian forces, and would be all in, in any war with NATO and Russia. They would take N Poland.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-77651458796617093162022-05-10T02:31:47.687+01:002022-05-10T02:31:47.687+01:00Correction to my estimate: officially over 1 mill...Correction to my estimate: officially over 1 million.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8955522994218410242022-05-09T23:49:44.999+01:002022-05-09T23:49:44.999+01:00I am not sure, mrs i, that I can add usefully to y...I am not sure, mrs i, that I can add usefully to your summary of what the growlers of NI are up to. I am one of that ancient tribe of western Ireland who lapped up the Holy Roman schtick with our mother's milk and chomped down the Republican/nationalist religion with our Friday fish. I am, as they say, deplorable and irredeemable but I do know a villain when I see one and every bastard I have ever encountered with a Sinn Fein badge has been a growling bastard for sure. SF are just gangsters really. pretend nationalists, pretend solialists, just filth for the most part. I v much doubt that the new lady is any improvment whatsoever.<br /><br />The mechanics of a united Ireland are even less well understood that the mechanics of an independent Scotland. Both adventures would hugely impoverish both nations. I rather suspect a lot of Orange folk would flee the North and feck off back to Glasgow where they so richly deserve to reap the triple whirlwinds of misery, poverty and an early death.<br /><br />I told you about Starmer, didn't i? Don't say I never warned you!mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-42200474406901188632022-05-09T23:45:30.620+01:002022-05-09T23:45:30.620+01:00For anyone with any lingering thoughts about defea...For anyone with any lingering thoughts about defeating Russia:<br /><br />https://youtu.be/dvUW9DTG2_o<br /><br />At least half a million in the Immortal Regiment yesterday, remembering 27-32 million killed.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86053924172044925352022-05-08T23:57:35.408+01:002022-05-08T23:57:35.408+01:00I read Boris has just pledged 1.5B from the UK'...I read Boris has just pledged 1.5B from the UK's emergency reserve fund to Ukraine to protect European security.<br /><br />There are so many non-sequiturs and illogicalities in the brief statement I can't get me poor 'ead around it.<br /><br />God only knows where that money will end up - but it won't be Ukraine.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86034378480773358142022-05-08T22:40:37.144+01:002022-05-08T22:40:37.144+01:00Thank you, mrs ish, I stand corrected.
In other...Thank you, mrs ish, I stand corrected. <br /><br />In other news, the new Doctor Who will be played by a Scot from Rwanda whose name anagrams to "I wag at cunt". I wouldn't know where to begin. Woof.<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89070691242533728332022-05-08T20:53:31.949+01:002022-05-08T20:53:31.949+01:00Calm yourself, editor mr verge. Davina is Sporty. ...Calm yourself, editor mr verge. Davina is Sporty. Aero-Dynamic swimwear and all that.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59261818838873271112022-05-08T19:12:24.090+01:002022-05-08T19:12:24.090+01:00Coming so soon after the Ginger Growler post, I mo...Coming so soon after the Ginger Growler post, I most fervently pray that these box dyes of which you speak are not what some of us might fear. Would the sainted Davina stoop so low?<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com