tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6648468068524904649..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael: 30/01/2022call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19730953977057232792022-02-14T07:26:10.041+00:002022-02-14T07:26:10.041+00:00in the interests of clarity, the comment which i e...in the interests of clarity, the comment which i entered on 4th february 2022 at 03:09hrs needs to be tweaked thus:<br /><br /><br />"<i>(continued from part one above)</i><br /><br />placed in the complexly woven context of eastern european history, putin reasonably regards the present ukrainian <i>régime</i> as comprising no more than an irritating flash-in-the-pan, and indeed, one truly senses that, if boris gobbytoff and bung-ho biden remain in the kiev-kitchen much longer, they are surely going to get their fingers very badly burned...<br /><br />so is the russian president correct in his scathing assessment of the ukrainian government and the political movement which it inspires?<br /><br />are western democracies in fact supporting - as putin claims - a bunch of corrupt 'neo-nazi' thugs...?<br /><br />and if so why?<br /><br />i think we should be told...<br /><br />well, as far as boris jabscum's political prospects are concerned, mrs ishmael, it's now simply a case of whether he is exiled in ignominy to exmoor <i>before</i> this may's local elections or <i>after</i> them; you see, the writing's on the wall for this perfidiously prattling prime minister, i'm afraid, and - according to witnesses who have used the parliamentary bogs - it says <i>"fuck off, you big fat hairy bastard, and don't come back"</i>."ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36844144586789000272022-02-12T01:51:33.335+00:002022-02-12T01:51:33.335+00:00sorry: take three
with regard to the comment whic...sorry: take three<br /><br />with regard to the comment which i entered on 4th february 2022 at 03:07hrs, the penultimate paragraph should better read:<br /><br /><br /><i>"basically, bungling biden's jumped out of the afghan frying pan into the ukranian fire, and in an inestimably ignorant manner which dodgy deal-broker trump would never have <b>countenanced</b> in a million impeachment-permutated presidencies..."</i>ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3301884689136822442022-02-12T01:38:16.579+00:002022-02-12T01:38:16.579+00:00with regard to the comment which i entered on 4th ...with regard to the comment which i entered on 4th february 2022 at 03:07hrs, the penultimate paragraph should better read:<br /><br /><br /><i>"basically, bungling biden's jumped out of the afghan frying pan into the ukranian fire, and in an inestimably ignorant manner which dodgy deal-broker trump would never have contemplated in a million impeachment-permutated presidencies..."</i>ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79317310231836556242022-02-05T01:23:40.244+00:002022-02-05T01:23:40.244+00:00oh yes, liz: what a picture - what an exhibitionoh yes, liz: what a picture - what an exhibitionthe great plate of kievnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63909481359672409662022-02-05T00:47:30.942+00:002022-02-05T00:47:30.942+00:00It is becoming apparent that Bojo doesn't have...It is becoming apparent that Bojo doesn't have a complete set of political skills. He has a brain, Eton chutzpah, and a charming personal bonhomie - especially with the ladies. He doesn't do detail - which is alright if you have people about who do - and he doesn't do ruthless. So he is toast - as said above by everybody - sometime around the end of the Spring but anytime sooner that he gets bored with the shouting. He's a narcissist though. So he'll want to hang on. What else can his life now amount to? More shagging and babies, and ten thousand pound chicken dinner speeches in Utah.<br /><br />It isn't though an external event. The Tories have an 80 majority and 30 more to come from boundary changes. Starmer hasn't the guns to put a hole in that castle. The next Tory leader is in clover.<br /><br />If I was to find myself in Boris's Oxford brogues and I was still up for the fight, I would put in my Article 16 chit at 9am Sunday morning and go to Northern Ireland to shake hands with every Unionist politician I could find. "We stand with Her maj and the Union against the cheese-eating euro surrender monkeys and the filthy hunnish horde." And I would ring the local party chairmen of every shouty rebel and invite them to take the obvious inference. <br /><br />Thanks, me mike for the remedy. I'm fine. Better and brighter every day.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-35235450929977445292022-02-04T23:22:29.050+00:002022-02-04T23:22:29.050+00:00apologies, mr mike, i should have addressed the ab...apologies, mr mike, i should have addressed the above comment to yourself - thank you for alerting us to mr putin's absorbing essay.<br /><br />apparently, dizbrain liz did not cancel her trip to ukraine due to contraction of the corona-lurgy, but rather because she mistakenly landed in uganda...ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46470374234669267502022-02-04T03:13:01.223+00:002022-02-04T03:13:01.223+00:00Yes Mr ultrapox: what an embarrassment poor Liz i...Yes Mr ultrapox: what an embarrassment poor Liz is. The Baltic nations on the coast of The Black Sea!! FFS. Madame Zacharova had a field day, not just on her geography failings but also history. Time I put my British passport through the shredder.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55070088276830997752022-02-04T03:09:19.427+00:002022-02-04T03:09:19.427+00:00(continued from part one above)
all things consid...<i>(continued from part one above)</i><br /><br />all things considered, in the complexly woven context of eastern european history, putin reasonably regards the present ukrainian <i>régime</i> as comprising no more than an irritating flash-in-the-pan, and indeed, one truly senses that, if boris gobbytoff and bung-ho biden remain in the kiev-kitchen much longer, they are surely going to get their fingers very badly burned...<br /><br />so are our governments supporting a bunch of corrupt neo-nazi-thugs...?<br /><br />and if so why?<br /><br />i think we should be told...<br /><br />well, as far as boris jabscum's political prospects are concerned, mrs ishmael, it's now simply a case of whether he is exiled in ignominy to exmoor <i>before</i> this may's local elections or <i>after</i> them; you see, the writing's on the wall for this perfidiously prattling prime minister, i'm afraid, and - according to an assorted array of anonymous parliamentary bog-cleaners - it says <i>"fuck off, you big fat hairy bastard, and don't bother coming back"</i>.ultrapox - part twonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83955385069962088182022-02-04T03:07:29.944+00:002022-02-04T03:07:29.944+00:00i've now found time to read the russian presid...i've now found time to read the russian president's local history lecture properly...<br /><br />and i'm even <i>more</i> confident that neither brainfog boris nor dizzie miss lizzie commands anywhere near the degree of intellect sufficient to refute vlad's assertions...<br /><br />fuck me, lightweight liz doesn't even know where the <i>black</i> sea is located, for chrissakes.<br /><br />it's next to the <i>red</i> sea, init?<br /><br />yes, doubtless a tank-load of russian nationalist spin has been imparted upon the thrust of mr putin's historical dissection, but nevertheless the message being sent is loud-and-bloody-clear: <i>it's none of the west's business, if - for strategic, cultural and religious reasons - russia chooses to rudely repatriate another slice of ukraine</i>.<br /><br />oh dear, is he just teasing, and perhaps just preparing to have a nibble - rather than take a great big dnieper-sized bite...?<br /><br />of course, vlad's view of russo-ukrainian relations rings a bit rosy, yet as a disinterested foreigner, who am i to judge him?<br /><br />the <i>holodomor</i>, for example, is glossed-over with the polished nonchalance of a professional politician - dismissed with a peremptory <i>"nowt to do with us, mate"</i> - and whilst i agree that this <i>"common tragedy"</i> was the product of a past - <i>soviet</i> - era, at a time when britain too ruled an empire and our beloved whipstrong churchill presided over the creation of famine in bengal - can mr putin actually claim that russia <i>never</i> fed off or exploited ukraine...?<br /><br />i remember crossing through the <i>iron curtain</i> to visit east germany in the summer of 1988, and, in my nurtured western naïvety, being rather astonished at the huge number of russian soldiers then stationed in that occupied <i>soviet</i>-<i>bloc</i> country - therefore i <i>do</i> really wonder why today we are incessantly whingeing about the existentially dangerous threat posed by russia, when it is evidently our own neo-imperialist western leaders who are filling the <i>rôle</i> of foolish greedy aggressors - and in fact playing well off-side.<br /><br />you may notice that this cracking <i>kremlin</i>-production contains many a sardonic allusion to <i>brexit</i>, wherein the presidential <i>provocateur</i> delights in drawing the inherently <i>piquant</i> analogy between the <i>uk</i>'s sham-divorce from europe - pretentiously paraded as real by british neo-liberal politicians - and the ukraine's politically motivated, yet culturally impossible, separation from russia - however, by the same token, he also perceives the pithy parallel between the common anglo-saxon's oil-and-water relationship with the holy european empire and the common eastern european's potassium-and-water fling with the neo-imperialist west.<br /><br />basically, bungling biden's jumped out of the afghan frying pan into the ukranian fire, and in an inestimably ignorant manner which dodgy deal-broker trump would never have dreamed of doing in a million impeachment-permutated presidencies...<br /><br />but that's the meddling american democrats for ya.<br /><br /><i>(continued in part two below)</i>ultrapox - part onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7306969032969866192022-02-04T00:56:05.952+00:002022-02-04T00:56:05.952+00:00The Ides of March. I stand by my prediction. He w...The Ides of March. I stand by my prediction. He will tough it out till then.<br /><br />PS Mr mongoose: boil up some lemons, rind included. Old women's cure. Add a tot of rum or tequila to taste.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59547926662226536502022-02-03T06:58:51.255+00:002022-02-03T06:58:51.255+00:00PS Be brave Mr Mongoose, lucozade and some war com...PS Be brave Mr Mongoose, lucozade and some war comics will see it right. A bit of brain wooziness has its attractions anyway.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-66762597115972499072022-02-03T06:56:21.276+00:002022-02-03T06:56:21.276+00:00Yes, a bit pious is Stewart but he has a proper mi...Yes, a bit pious is Stewart but he has a proper mind. Keep the barbarians out, Mrs I, they are nearly everywhere else.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-88972045455650082472022-02-02T18:00:47.315+00:002022-02-02T18:00:47.315+00:00thank you for the kind welcome back, mrs ishmael, ...thank you for the kind welcome back, mrs ishmael, and may i wish a very happy new year to both you and all your contributors; as regards my absence, i should explain tha, following an exhausting and stressful 2021, i was unfortunately forced to lie down for a month in order to recuperate my energies.<br /><br />may i also wish a speedy recovery to all those hereabouts who have been hit by the dreaded delta-bug?<br /><br />yes, mr mike, i really do wonder whether big brave boris and liz "wank-in-a-tank" truss possess the requisite reading age to comprehend the nuanced historical analysis which president putin so skilfully presents in his essay?<br /><br />my odds for the conservative-leadership-succession were actually lifted from the <a href="https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/rishi-sunak-esther-mcvey-priti-22750043" rel="nofollow"><i>cheshirelive</i></a> website, however, in answer to your question, mrs ishmael, it is my strict understanding that jolly johnson's leadership-retention-prospects are currently hovering around absolute zero, unless of course he can succeed in starting an apocalyptic war-of-aggression against the russians - along with their sino-persian-syrian allies - whereupon the deadly joker of downing street will be afforded the career-salvaging opportunity of striking a pathetic churchillian pose on the eastern battle-front, whilst game young conscripts from our own, and just about every other nation in the global village, are senselessly slaughtered, gallipoli-style, on the high altar of both his, and bombardier biden's, neo-imperial vanity.<br /><br />one might recall that it was the war-mongering white house sisters obama, clinton, and biden who originally stirred up this kremlin-antagonizing shit in ukraine - and indeed it was the same three drone-borne witches who, having surged democracy all over afghanistan, then armed <i>al qaeda</i> in libya as a progressive prelude to intelligently creating <i>isis</i> in syria and iraq.<br /><br />now, if memory serves me right, did the three degenerates not also collude with the chinese communist party and iran's islamic revolutionary guard in releasing a morale-busting bio-weapon upon their own peace-oriented american population - thus ensuring the expedient economic destruction of the entire western empire and, more importantly, a serendipitously snatched victory for their devious deep-state-democrat comrades in the 2020 <i>us</i> presidential election?<br /><br />well, you know, to my mind, biden's brazenly ignorant belligerence rather makes the pragmatic administration of dodgy donald trump resemble a placid anti-war oasis of political common sense, dunnit?ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83014089629593226222022-02-01T19:12:26.718+00:002022-02-01T19:12:26.718+00:00Just because it wasn't intended, doesn't m...Just because it wasn't intended, doesn't mean it isn't there. That's some maestro shit right enough, mr mongoose. Chapeaux, in stacks.<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-74809603802402443032022-02-01T18:53:36.279+00:002022-02-01T18:53:36.279+00:00Aww, heck, mr v, I just dropped by the report the ...Aww, heck, mr v, I just dropped by the report the command of "Hear the deadbeat Eton fool!"mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6258580886640216952022-02-01T18:35:33.768+00:002022-02-01T18:35:33.768+00:00To clarify, mr mongoose, & with apologies for ...To clarify, mr mongoose, & with apologies for any confusion, the anagram does not include "ode to a". So Heartfelt Bonehead only. (You're already on the right lines, inevitably.)<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23270354912030903052022-02-01T17:19:25.240+00:002022-02-01T17:19:25.240+00:00Thak-you for those good wishes, all. In truth, it ...Thak-you for those good wishes, all. In truth, it was a pretty bad severe non-sneezy cold but I've had worse. It seemed to linger on for a good while though.<br /><br />I shall attend to the anagram asap, mrs i. "ODE TO A HEARTFELT BONEHEAD"?<br /><br />Errr, Eton, fool, deadbeat. Err, leave it with me.<br /><br />Blackford, mr v, and regardless of the heroic consumption of pies which must go on, is a disgrace even to Scotland.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36130266441934331742022-02-01T13:30:49.090+00:002022-02-01T13:30:49.090+00:00Glad to hear you're on the mend, mr mongoose. ...Glad to hear you're on the mend, mr mongoose. Hadrian, eh? So "what have the Romans ever done ferrus?" would yield "the SNP." Sounds about right.<br /><br />v./<br /><br />ps "Ian Blackford" anagrams to "boar-dick flan", which sounds like something the gNats would add proudly to the Hogmanay menu after the Borders had been properly rewilded.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83758470903367156352022-02-01T13:07:43.641+00:002022-02-01T13:07:43.641+00:00Glad you're back, mr ultrapox - you were misse...Glad you're back, mr ultrapox - you were missed. Are you also offering odds on Boris retaining his position?mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8693821474886041092022-02-01T13:06:02.316+00:002022-02-01T13:06:02.316+00:00Sorry you've been ill, mr mongoose, and very g...Sorry you've been ill, mr mongoose, and very glad you are feeling better. Are you well enough to have tackled mr verge's anagram in the title of his Boris poem?<br />Putin must be much relieved that Tank-girl Truss is also unwell and cannot accompany the PM on his intimidatory visit to Russia. The cheek of them. The persistent failure to stop meddling in matters that do not concern them, which they do not understand and which are not actually part of our Sphere of Interest seems to have been the defining feature of Britain's Foreign Policy. It is quite embarassing. <br />Thanks for the links, mr mike.<br />Had Europe not repelled Putin's overtures to become European and part of the NATO alliance, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the world would be looking a lot safer today.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-69539699035590535332022-02-01T12:07:51.651+00:002022-02-01T12:07:51.651+00:00That's an interesting essay, mr mike. We tend ...That's an interesting essay, mr mike. We tend to forget that history creaks on but builds on foundations we can no longer see. I have long thought, for instance, that our Scottish Braveheart Troubles were not really caused by Maggie's Poll Tax trial run, or even the Acts of Union, but were the result of the Emperor Hadrian deciding that Caledonia wasn't worth the effort of subduing it.<br /><br />I see that the medical vaccine mandate has been scrapped - sorry, the scrapping of the mandate is now the matter of consultation with stakeholders. I have just listened to a radio discussion with various lofty medicos and care home scoundrels. The level of ignorance, straight out deceit, and braying bullying - after two full years yet - is staggering. Are y'all still locked up down there?mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18577543702432801242022-02-01T01:17:30.025+00:002022-02-01T01:17:30.025+00:00It might not be the Rona, Mr mongoose. Daily, as ...It might not be the Rona, Mr mongoose. Daily, as I read the news I think I must be going mad. The Memsahib says I have to stop reading - she may have a point.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-65984930323570417602022-02-01T00:31:45.850+00:002022-02-01T00:31:45.850+00:00Thanks for the links, mr mike, and I will look. I ...Thanks for the links, mr mike, and I will look. I do get and know about Kursk and the eastern slaughter of WWII btw.<br /><br />The Rona has gone but I am left a bit stupid. I am told that this lasts a few months. We shall see.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41507245831215279032022-02-01T00:21:14.236+00:002022-02-01T00:21:14.236+00:00Mr Mongoose: here is the definitive history - an ...Mr Mongoose: here is the definitive history - an essay by Putin on Russia-Ukriane. A lot of this was new to me. It well deserves a careful reading.<br /><br />Somewhat paradoxically, it seems Putin was holding out an olive branch to Ukraine.<br /><br />http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181<br /><br />We have to recall that the land currently called Ukraine was soaked in the blood of millions of Soviets/Russians in WW2. Here is a video on the largest battle in the history of the world, at Kursk. Just one of many during WW2. I highly recommend watching the whole series (15 hours or more titled Soviet Storm) the definitive history of the war in the East - indeed the history of ww2 in large part.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bjuREfUbU<br /><br />I trust your recovery is speedy.<br />Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41212834952595193142022-01-31T23:56:45.511+00:002022-01-31T23:56:45.511+00:00Good evening Comrades,
Apologies for my absence -...Good evening Comrades,<br /><br />Apologies for my absence - I have had the freakin' Rona since New Year. All those jabs, eh, and still hit with a viral two-by-four. Mrs m is now going down with it too and she has had even more jabs than me. Fucking nonsense it is, Neil and St Joni, ye dickheads ye.<br /><br />I have just read the damning report of Sue. It contains nothing. We are listening to the last screeches of the Remainermob. If Boris isn't killed before the Autumn, all hope of rejoining or fudging Brexit will be FFS.<br /><br />As for the Rooskies, Putin continues to run rings around them. Not a single UK boot should touch Ukranian soil. (Although I have discovered, mr mike, that the Ukraine has an older claim to be the real Russia than Russia does.)mongoosenoreply@blogger.com