tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6871177357901810353..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THERE AIN'T NO CURE FOR THE SUMMERTIME BLUEScall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-76119805838243679432017-06-27T01:17:41.682+01:002017-06-27T01:17:41.682+01:00It's not the money, mr walter, it's the in...It's not the money, mr walter, it's the interaction. Last time I spoke to these people I visualised Inkies, Uglies, all gender-indeterminate with scrap metal stapled to their faces. Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft but the New People are not for me; not as bad as the freaks at Screwfix but bad enough. It's like placing an order at MacDonalds, shopping at Screwfix.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41986009988054493612017-06-27T00:24:58.170+01:002017-06-27T00:24:58.170+01:00I watched a worse one than that, recently, mr verg...I watched a worse one than that, recently, mr verge. Set in Wales, it was the story of a boy-turning-girl, with the loving support of his best pal, his parents, his school's teaching staff and pupils and the BBC production team, one felt it was all a bit suss, queerly vicarious, made one fear for the national ethic.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37539675065051875602017-06-27T00:17:03.210+01:002017-06-27T00:17:03.210+01:00Yes, mr richard, and Bravo, many worse things, to...Yes, mr richard, and Bravo, many worse things, too, than not hanging-out the washing on a Sunday.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39792589616774289702017-06-27T00:13:01.442+01:002017-06-27T00:13:01.442+01:00Is that Irish Queer Army, mr mongoose?Is that Irish Queer Army, mr mongoose?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81276335008953157792017-06-26T22:35:34.093+01:002017-06-26T22:35:34.093+01:00See me, I'm an Ulster Scot, ex-army, and I wou...See me, I'm an Ulster Scot, ex-army, and I would have voted for a united Ireland in a heartbeat if Ireland was free - but there is no Ireland. She's a EU satrap. Oh how terrible was the plantation, says Sinn Fein, but the new plantation of Islamist invaders is just fine. <br />Here's another thing, the EU said that the Republic has too many cattle which cause global warming due to their flatulence. Hence farmland is being turned over to produce the lifeless gloomy conifer plantations, paid for by the government via guaranteed recompense for converting farmland into the exact unproductive forest that had to be felled to make Ireland habitable in the first place. And that's why Brexit was a good thing, it was two fingers to the insane. Whether it comes to pass is open to doubt. If the DUP is a spanner in the Merkel works then that's fine, there are worse things than early closing on Sundays.<br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7184524157810800172017-06-26T19:33:00.324+01:002017-06-26T19:33:00.324+01:00This, so it did, was featured prominently on the B...This, so it did, was featured prominently on the BBC newspage the other day. I must confess I bailed out early when young Grant says coming out made him feel like a butterfly... <br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-40371193/the-small-town-drag-queen<br /><br />v.//Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61155792236845272472017-06-26T14:03:44.081+01:002017-06-26T14:03:44.081+01:00That's LGBTIQA+ to you, mr ishmael, and don...That's LGBTIQA+ to you, mr ishmael, and don't you forget it. Poor old Ian Paisley. Died a decade too soon, so he did.<br /><br />mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81279928973552962042017-06-26T12:14:32.220+01:002017-06-26T12:14:32.220+01:00Afternoon Mr Ish, Glad your back, My youngest son ...Afternoon Mr Ish, Glad your back, My youngest son had an iphone screen replaced for £20 in a polish shop in aberdeen so i would imagine an ipad screen wouldnt be much more, cant stand them myself prefer a desktop pc you can smash the keyboard with your fist.... lets face it everybody does, replacement cost £10... i see its cost a billion for the dup votes money well spent or what!walternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86346957868422502342017-06-26T09:45:08.638+01:002017-06-26T09:45:08.638+01:00Thak you, mr gary.Thak you, mr gary.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41318349218662532092017-06-26T09:44:34.397+01:002017-06-26T09:44:34.397+01:00Never mind Argument of Fear, how about Argument of...Never mind Argument of Fear, how about Argument of Queer? LGBTQ Ireland is a right can of worms, so it is.<br /><br />I and I expect you, too, will Bremain via Irish passports, whilst Brexiting via our UK passports - not that there will be a Brexit, of course, but just for the purposes of discussion - and I wonder what democratic defecit denies us the vote in the Ould Country - if we are Irish citizens we should have Irish votes, do something to redress the way in which transubstantiation has been replaced by transexuality. I always thought that the Provos, especially the Torture Twins, Gerry and Marty, were sadistic arsebandits, y'know, Ireland's answer to the Krays and lo, now the whole country minces and screams from morn til night, Forty Shades of Queer.<br /><br /> Last time I was in Belfast I saw knots of hostile hard men - Village People style - congregating conspiratorially on Falls Road street corners, looking as bent as nine-bob notes. Now, as you say, tne Republic's economy is a basket case while the new Taesoch skips about singing I Feel Pretty and Butch Gerry and his queer army threaten violence if we don't do as they say. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-91478057875564143022017-06-26T01:39:44.658+01:002017-06-26T01:39:44.658+01:00We mentioned back up the road a ways that Brexit m...We mentioned back up the road a ways that Brexit means that the whole island of Ireland is once again to be a province of the UK. But in two bits - though one must be unspokenly so. Now though, the DUP angle is a godsend to the Remoaning as it offers the chance to re-engage old cunthood to a new Argument of Fear. Not only will the Brexit birds fall powverty-stricken and frozen from the wing but the Provos will put down their titles and pensions and start digging up their Lee Enfields. Err? No, they wwon't, will they? Not unless MI5 are Remainers too.<br /><br />Hard border? Soft border? What fucking border? That is a far more apposite question. The South, as we call it, is so far removed from anything that might sensibly be called (economic) independence that it is almost laughable that it has raised its voice above a whisper. Sit quietly and sup thy Guinness, you daft bastards, or we won't buy any and you can all drown in it. <br /><br />re The hillforts thing. The content is wonderful. Thank-you. A terrain mashup is required.mongooosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-11171228655287102212017-06-26T00:45:26.395+01:002017-06-26T00:45:26.395+01:00Worth waiting for.Thanks mate.Worth waiting for.Thanks mate.Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10320150196856020667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8460529056533933962017-06-25T23:44:49.205+01:002017-06-25T23:44:49.205+01:00Thank you, mr dick.Thank you, mr dick.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33874017690635704092017-06-25T23:35:27.884+01:002017-06-25T23:35:27.884+01:00Hmmm, it is a conundrum, mr richard, the DUP and i...Hmmm, it is a conundrum, mr richard, the DUP and its paramilitary offshoots, no matter what they may have done at home, did not blow-up Birmingham or Manchester or Warrington, that ought to make them preferable, at least, to Sinn Fein, who did; neither did they shoot dead hundreds of working class British soldiers, something which, according to Alec Salmond, made Marty Kneecaps a great friend of Scotland. As one born into the clan, my own life experience of Orangemen was unpleasant and certainly their civil behaviours prior to the emergence of the Provisional IRA were cruelly undemocratic but for terror, sadism,extortion, corruption and hypocrisy they cannot hold a candle to Sinn Fein whose only discernible inclusive social policy is the worship of LGBTQ-ism and by extension - see Adams brother - the acceptance of and collusion in paedophilia. That our nation should be giving a flying fuck about whAT Sinn Fein makes of Mrs ASkey's wholly legal proposed arrangement with the Ulster Undertakers is an aspect of what Andrea Ledsom was talking about - the media as Fifth Column. If the IRA and by implication Dublin are threatening violence as a means of expressing political difference we should fucking well bomb them, shouldn't we, we devastated Iraq for much less?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-1494818025149900942017-06-25T22:47:46.147+01:002017-06-25T22:47:46.147+01:00That was ace. Loved the 'what does legal' ...That was ace. Loved the 'what does legal' mean? Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3165393147108445282017-06-25T18:48:52.387+01:002017-06-25T18:48:52.387+01:00Good piece and nice to see you back.
Funny how peo...Good piece and nice to see you back.<br />Funny how people hate the DUP, well mostly because not progressive, they're anti-gay and anti-abortion. <br />Yet their detractors tend to be leftist ie. high tax types. And where are a goodly chunk of taxpayers of the future? In the hospital garbage or not even conceived because of wooferoonyism. It' a clear case of the ostriches hating the hen for shitting everywhere. <br />-richard<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-82765799225746625272017-06-25T13:22:46.009+01:002017-06-25T13:22:46.009+01:00Last time I was on a Welsh Hill Fort, down in the ...Last time I was on a Welsh Hill Fort, down in the Marches, Presteigne way, mr sg, I was scattering some ashes. I will have a look when I get a minute, I am currently bathing in mind bleach, having watched a few minutes, last night, of Glastonbury, some gabshire musical imbecile called Foo Fighter or something. It was like a huge, open-air loony bin. At least I avoided that cunt, Kristoffersonson and his new sideman, Big John Depp, As pretentious and bombastic a simpleton as Roger Waters was and remains, at least Pink Floyd used to do a good show at these events.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89680229731245702172017-06-25T13:03:56.627+01:002017-06-25T13:03:56.627+01:00That's right, mrs woar, disease is a strong po...That's right, mrs woar, disease is a strong possiblity. Twenty Years ago I was in London to obtain an Irish passport from the Embassy, in Buckinghma Palace Road, I believe, and I was struck by the amazing amount of filth on the streets, piles of black bags, bursting, outside shops and eateries, puke everywhere; blues'n'twos, sounding constantly. Amsterdam, the next day, was like a place from the future - I know it's much much smaller but even so, it's just a matter of priorities, pay more tax and have better services, buildings, transport and health and safety, not to mention jobs. I was there for five days, over Christmas, and I only saw one policeman in Central Amsterdam, just the one; the streets were clean, the businesses well-run; you could enjoy street fries with mayo, pea soup or a joint if you wanted and there were free Eembrandts and Vermeeers; London, although a repository of vastly more art and culture, seemed, in comparison, like a sewer.<br /><br />Bombay is felt to be the superbug capital of the world. The WHO and those sorts of bodies are terrifed by the fact that the great Indian economy as well as producing cheap, knock-off software also produces cheap, knock-off antibiotics, on which many there live - and who wouldn't, eh? with people washing, shitting and throwing corpses into the river - with the entirely predictable result that Bombay's sewer bugs are mutating to the point where they will be unstoppable.<br /><br />I wonder how things are in London, plague-wise; if the same brains as permited Grenfell Tower are in charge then a Metropolitan Apocalypse may be just around the corner.<br /><br /> call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-73882035058504812662017-06-25T12:31:47.975+01:002017-06-25T12:31:47.975+01:00If CressidaIf Cressidacall me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-27173710556065969662017-06-25T12:23:30.717+01:002017-06-25T12:23:30.717+01:00Thanks, you majesty and I am amazed that people st...Thanks, you majesty and I am amazed that people still talk of that worthless piece shit, BoJo, as a prime minister. A decent mayor of two terms would at least have said. Well, I wish I had done more, I WAS the most powerful man in London, I wish I had set a higher bar position, but I guess I was too busy fucking and scheming.<br /><br /> I do find myself, however, straddling, mr tdg's position, also, some of these people whom I have seen interviewed, are, in a strange way, loving all this, angry flashmourning. I am also a bit uneasy about there having been so many non-indigents crammed into these dreadful places, maybe the authorities felt that they'd know fuck-all about Health and Safety, so why bother?<br /><br />Of Cressida Butch's coppers can find a small plumbing firm to nick, that'#ll do the job but she didn't get where she is by troubling guilty people.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-21029432914305552002017-06-25T08:09:58.465+01:002017-06-25T08:09:58.465+01:00I dunno - you turn your back for five minutes.
We...I dunno - you turn your back for five minutes.<br /><br />Welcome back Mr. I. And to return with such a tour de force too. When those poor souls were being burnt to death it was almost like a deleted scene from 'The Wicker Man' where the poor were being sacrificed for the betterment of the disgustingly rich. There are a few bureaucratic and corporate arseholes doing their impression of 'sixpence, half-crown, dustbin-lid" at the moment, I would suspect.Caratacushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03676339602955090535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-69278089764864826212017-06-24T22:53:31.204+01:002017-06-24T22:53:31.204+01:00Oops! I posted this in the wrong thread! Try again...Oops! I posted this in the wrong thread! Try again!<br /><br />Amidst the flames of ruin something rather wonderful:<br /><br />hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk<br /><br />Also nicely previewed here by the splendidly named Welsh author - Horatio Clare:<br /><br />www.ft.com/content/5c5377ba-50fd-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb<br /><br />With apologies if it is hidden behind the damn paywall (if you google 'Horatio Clare hillforts' you should be able to access it...).SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61116178309418976642017-06-24T12:30:05.711+01:002017-06-24T12:30:05.711+01:00Apologies - will catch up later but I'm enjoyi...Apologies - will catch up later but I'm enjoying perfect Yorkshire weather. On Sunday I was at an open garden and bumped in to a local authority admin whose tongue had been loosened by fizzy wine and sunshine. He was cacking himself and being shipped back to the office on Sunday night ready for the onslaught on Monday morning.<br /><br />The story is this: remember when old office blocks were hastily converted to residential, due to offices needing modern cabling etc? Well, planning were told to rubber-stamp it and building regs were told to keep their noses out of emergency housing, esp for the imports under Jack Straw.<br /><br />Nobody has a clue what the builders used. Could be plaster board and rockwool, could be sponge cake and meringue. Nor is anyone very clear how many there are or how high some of them are. But the landings and stairwells are full of bikes and prams and floral arrangements on wicker stands. <br /><br /><br />Greater London is full of favellas. They only look like housing. It is a wonder we haven't yet had cholera, bubonic plague and a fire. Oh, wait, we have had the fire. We were bloody lucky it didn't take out West London. <br />Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81471356491346208482017-06-24T12:25:45.308+01:002017-06-24T12:25:45.308+01:00I don't know if Scapa Flow is a special naval ...I don't know if Scapa Flow is a special naval graveyard but there is something ghostly about its brooding encirclement by Hoy and the rest of our wee parishes which always moves me, and though I can see it from here, and drive along it's coast most days, it never fails to shiover me timbers. Did I tell you that in he late 'thirties some German ministers, Lutherans or some such, came to stay in this Manse of mine for the Summer, with the resident Presbyterian clerics. They were seen daily rowing up and down Holm Sound at the bottom of my garden, withourt ever catching any fish. It was only later that people caught-on that they had been plumbing the depths of the passageway from Holm Sound into Scapa Flow, for the war which they knew was coming.<br /><br />Certainly an UnderTakers' Alliance with the Tories is significantly more perilous than it was before the Great Cowardice, or the Peace Proh-Cess as we are taught to call it and when this current UVF trial starts then Republican Irish tempers will understandably rise. If it is proved, as seems likely, that the RUC and the British Intelligence people conspired to murder many Republicans then this larcenous Orange/Blue collusion will be floodlit by resentment. It is a sign of her ailment that Tracey still so eagerly wants to drain this poison chalice, she should resign, for the sake of her health. <br /><br />Another swift election, of course, would see Gnasher thoroughy spatch-cocked, outnumbered in Holyrood and beaten. Fingers crossed.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89590637442172026742017-06-24T12:04:25.958+01:002017-06-24T12:04:25.958+01:00I concur, mr tdg, that restraint is appropriate an...I concur, mr tdg, that restraint is appropriate and I agree, also, inasmuch as every resident and neighbour whom I have seen interviewed in connection with the conglagration seems steeped, marinated in Grievance as deeply as a Glaswegian SNP voter and the fire has given voice to their all-embracing ire - perhaps the broadcasters have deliberately chosen the most whiningly inarticulate. It may be that some have thanked God for their survival and gone on their way accordingly, awaiting the comprehensve investigation which you endorse, I dunno, but I sometimes find myself thinking, unkindly, What a shame they didn't all go up.<br /><br />I do, however, think that there was something so instantaneous about that cladding igniting that its installation must be suspect - it is banned in Greater Germany, the spiritual home of incendiary-bombed burning buildings - that the absence of escepeways and fire alarms and extinguishers should and do merit immediate, angry condemnation. Bad, sad stuff does happen, I know, sometimes it's just unavoidable. but this death toll far eclipses any recent terrorist attack and yet appears to have been easily reducible or preventable, just by the application of common sense. I don't know what Twitter is, as you know, I couldn't say Good Morning in a hundred and forty characters, but if its collective voice is saying heads must roll, bodies must be jailed, then I heart it, gr8ly.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.com