tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6329448296477681482..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael 13/11/2022call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70821963395097879742022-11-17T10:04:59.359+00:002022-11-17T10:04:59.359+00:00mr mike, your idea of consolation leaves a great d...mr mike, your idea of consolation leaves a great deal to be desired. I suppose a nuclear missile delivered at hypersonic speed will at least save me doing the washing up. You know what Christ said: "the washing-up - it is always with you".<br />Today's the day when Jeremy Cunt will explain, in his Autumn Statement, how he is going to fill in that black hole, ensure growth for all, allow the Conservatives to continue to conserve their wealth, put food on the table, money in our pockets and turn on the nation's radiators. Or not.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54909844727483506022022-11-16T23:29:03.587+00:002022-11-16T23:29:03.587+00:00I now read that because of interest rate rises etc...I now read that because of interest rate rises etc, the size of the black hole in Britain's finances is this year not 50 billion but 70 billion. It will only get bigger. Oil and gas prices are rising after a short lull. I wish I could offer some good news, but I can't.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-75132390347666695042022-11-16T23:23:02.976+00:002022-11-16T23:23:02.976+00:00Have no fear, Mrs I. I don't for one moment t...Have no fear, Mrs I. I don't for one moment think that Russia will attack the UK, unless the UK does something incredibly stupid - OK that's a possibility, and blowing up NS1/2 and the Kerch Bridge was not a good sign. But if it is any consolation, at hypersonic speed you won't hear it coming.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59931010897585441462022-11-16T23:00:36.508+00:002022-11-16T23:00:36.508+00:00wish I hadn't asked. Your concluding sentence,...wish I hadn't asked. Your concluding sentence, mr mike, depresses the life out of me. Just glad that everyone is staying with the Accident theory and that there are some voices now calling on Zelensky to sue for peace.<br />We have been told about the Russian missile barrage, by the way.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89521597227420122462022-11-16T17:58:37.372+00:002022-11-16T17:58:37.372+00:00PS the interesting fact about this missile incide...PS the interesting fact about this missile incident is that the NATO (ie US) air defences in Poland failed to detect let alone destroy the old Soviet era missile. NATO is now spinning that they did detect it but saw no hostile intent - which of course is bollocks.<br /><br />In a roundabout sort of way this may have cooled down the crazies who want to have a go at Russia, since its is clear that Europe and the US has no credible missile defences. <br /><br />BTW the latest 90+ Russian missile barrage was of stealthy long range (4500km+) pin-point cruise missiles - range enough to hit anything in Europe and the UK.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48731994614823264262022-11-16T16:27:19.678+00:002022-11-16T16:27:19.678+00:00Mrs I, its been proven conclusively it was a Ukrai...Mrs I, its been proven conclusively it was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile. Went astray after trying to shoot down a Russian missile. The pictures of the missile fragments, particularly the engine and its markings, show its an S300 missile of Ukrainian origin.<br /><br />BTW the daily extensive missile strikes from Russia on Ukraine are hardly mentioned in Western MSM.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33630506629996691312022-11-16T09:10:14.063+00:002022-11-16T09:10:14.063+00:00So the G20 leaders have had a bit of a chat and de...So the G20 leaders have had a bit of a chat and decided that it was An Accident. The Accidental missile, although Russian in make, was not fired by, with or from, Russia. Nor was it fired by Ukraine on their Polish allies in an attempt to draw NATO openly into the war in order to bolster their war effort to drive they Rooskies from territory claimed by Ukraine from time immemorial, or to at least get their hands on air-fired missile systems. For which they have been asking for quite a while. The Accident churned up a farm and killed two farmers, which seems quite specific targeting to create minimal damage and maximum publicity impact. Just saying.<br />Come on, mr mike, what's your take on this?mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-1547629852177778402022-11-16T09:00:31.678+00:002022-11-16T09:00:31.678+00:00Steady on, mr ultrapox - if I am, I couldn't p...Steady on, mr ultrapox - if I am, I couldn't possibly tell you.Secret, innit?<br />The illuminati, founded in Bavaria in 1776, its goals being to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, specifically excluded from membership Jews, pagans, women, monks and members of other secret societies. So that's me ruled out on two grounds.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12993737938791404632022-11-16T01:01:14.029+00:002022-11-16T01:01:14.029+00:00are you by-any-chance an agent of the illuminati, ...are you by-any-chance an agent of the <i>illuminati</i>, mrs ishmael?ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54434447517918274472022-11-15T23:22:38.581+00:002022-11-15T23:22:38.581+00:00The relief of no longer being in charge seems to h...The relief of no longer being in charge seems to have gone straight to their waist-lines, mr ultrapox, particularly that of Boris, who seems to have packed back on all the weight he lost after his Covid brush with death. Maybe that is why he is wearing two different suits?<br />Thanks for the suggestion for a new Caption Competition. I'll have a bit of a think about it. At the moment, though, I'm more than a bit worried by the Poland development. mr mike warned us that NATO would be drawn in - and we see that it has happened. The G20 leaders will no doubt have a chat about it.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-66503349040375097462022-11-15T22:30:55.151+00:002022-11-15T22:30:55.151+00:00in the class-photo, the downing street discards ap...in the class-photo, the downing street discards appear a bit on the chubby side, mrs ishmael: do you think they're all wearing their teflon-undies, perhaps?<br /><br />i have also chanced upon a rather <a href="https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/ea095547b4360a4b5b6582ee4ff9868cY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3OTg1MzM3/2.22591577.jpg?w=640" rel="nofollow">compelling snap</a> of the former <i>pow</i> being brusquely button-holed by the late banking-luminary, sir evelyn de rothschild, and just wondered whether this noble image might, at the risk of undue anti-semitic commentary bubbling to the surface, form suitable future material for one of your famous <i>call me ishmael</i> caption-comps? of course, in light of these two aristo-families' recent bereavements, you might, at the current sombre time, consider it somewhat 'too soon' for such photographic publication in the pursuit of parody...ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84456624000899188292022-11-15T08:22:36.275+00:002022-11-15T08:22:36.275+00:00Well done, mr ultrapox, what a photo! They have ar...Well done, mr ultrapox, what a photo! They have arranged themselves in chronological order! Gordon is giving John the hard stare for putting his foot over the line, Dave is doing the same to Gordon and Boris appears to be wearing the jacket of one suit with the trousers of another, wholly different one.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-515798057712972792022-11-15T03:45:11.878+00:002022-11-15T03:45:11.878+00:00quite, mr mike, like many true-blue tories here in...quite, mr mike, like many true-blue tories here in tunbridge, i have torn up my <i>tv</i>-licence in disgust.ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12628902266142657772022-11-15T03:44:21.039+00:002022-11-15T03:44:21.039+00:00thank you, mr and mrs ishmael, for painting that d...thank you, mr and mrs ishmael, for painting that dreadfully accurate picture of our nasty neo-imperialist establishment in all its decadence; in fact, for the sake of the historical record, i have tracked down the <a href="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/62fd7773335ef158caa861b6765d39e1c8ca6813/0_0_5284_2908/master/5284.jpg?width=720&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=625b4905015559a5d367ad62b422f975" rel="nofollow"><i>full un-edited photo</i></a> of our great nation's seven extant ex-leaders as they stand in attendance at this year's service-of-remembrance - awkward, shuffling in unease, and not knowing where to look - and have duly entitled it: <i>"shit prime ministers we have known"</i>.<br /><br />have we not yet instituted some socially expedient sin-bin for ex british prime ministers, into which they can be dropped at the end of their term, and onto which we can then just pop the lid - in order to forget the evil war-mongering bastards, forever?<br /><br />do we really have to watch these noncing neo-colonial war-criminals as they line up, each fucking year, blood-soaked begging-bouquets in hand, for their generous genocide-linked public pensions?ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48140372631147494372022-11-14T16:27:31.407+00:002022-11-14T16:27:31.407+00:00The British MSM is total propaganda and lies Mrs I...The British MSM is total propaganda and lies Mrs I. It has really shocedk me - so much so I now question what I took for granted over most of my life.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83127998892342352702022-11-14T16:02:41.952+00:002022-11-14T16:02:41.952+00:00You paint a very different picture from the offici...You paint a very different picture from the official BBC version, mr mike. We are told that Russia is in retreat, has withdrawn from Kherson in disarray across the Dnipro and that Russian soldiers stranded on the West Bank have been told to dress in civilian clothes, bury their uniforms and blend in. Ukrainians draped in flags are jubilant in the streets of Kherson, where Zelensky has staged a walk-through, distributing medals and selfies.<br />The destruction of the Western economies is plain to see.<br />Will it be the war that ends all wars? Only if it succeeds in wiping out the human race, so addicted to warfare is the species. Every year we celebrate it on Remembrance Day.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85700977544307669492022-11-13T22:25:17.825+00:002022-11-13T22:25:17.825+00:00This current war will be the war that ends all war...This current war will be the war that ends all wars.<br /><br />At this point, Russia has eliminated the Ukie army (estimated 120,000 killed and 250,00 wounded beyond further use); all the original Ukie (NATO supplied) kit is destroyed - in fact, Russia has destroyed more tanks and planes than the Ukies started out with. Now Russia is fighting and destroying NATO - it just happens to be on the fields of Ukraine. This was always the plan - to draw in NATO and the West. Of all western countries, Britain is the most invested and will suffer the most.<br /><br />At the same time Russia is destroying the Western economies - the crunch will come in 2023.<br /><br />And furthermore, despite all the propaganda and bollocks, the majority of the world sides with Russia (and China). India and Turkey move towards Eurasia; Saudi Arabia has applied to join BRICS - this is the death knell for the dollar.Mikenoreply@blogger.com