Sunday, 10 May 2020

The Sunday Ishmael 10/05/20


Stanislav tackles question of sexual ethics:
Is nothing wrong with poof.  Well, might be. What stanislav mean is to say that being poof not against law is. Is  many right bastard poof, just the same.  Can't turn on fucking television set is without smirking fucking poof bastard  pooping up - or is popping up, probaby on second thinking, is pooping up, since is arsebandit and obsessed is with rectum of other bloke or blokes, and everybody know what  is core business in fucking rectumCorp, innit,  and cock too, is not just arse, is cock which is fascination for poof, either way is not for stanislav, meat and two veg is best not for plumber but for bloke who good with colour is, and know all about curtain and day-caw and Judy Garland, and fish off from other bank.
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What was on Telly?
As I believe you now call yourself and nothing wrong with that, perhaps you’d recite one of your very clever, if I may say so, poems.

The Michael Parkinson Show, along with the A Life In The Day feature, in the back of the Sunday Times Colour Supplement, these were the dawn of celebrity culture,  these were the somewhat shocking days when showbiz Gods stepped down from screen and stage and shared their wonderful lives with us,  American stars, coyly baring their arses for media 's energetic tongue; Cleo Laine, writing, or having ghost-written, a page of snooty, self-serving drivel about life in the Laine-Dankworth household -  I remember that the vastly over-rated  chanteuse had trouble with staff, couldn't get them, it seems.

Parky's journalistic raison d'etre fecal was that he was from Up North, and in some imaginary childhood of deprivation his woeful, jambutty and rickets,  British way of life, had been transformed by Hollywood stars, larger than life, in some flickering Odeon or Gaumont and By 'Eck, now that he had a chance to lick them arses nowt'd stop him.  How we watched from the other side of the screen as Yul Brynner, for instance,  boasted of his innumerable achievements, his mastery of languages, of dance, of athletics, of the guitar, of remorseless self-promotion;  we thought this was true grit, unaware that like dinner plates on sticks in an ailing Variety act, we were being fervently spun by the infotainment industry.  Others soon followed, chat-showing, Des O'Connor, Swinging London's Simon Dee, Terry Wogan,   eventually the format reinvented itself in the form of poor, mad,  loony witch, Caroline Ahearn,  Mrs Merton her nightmare baggage, Coronation Street on bad brown acid,  and then  that awful motormouthing lawyer, Clive Davis, what a cunt.  The essence remained the same, though, promotion of the latest book or record or film, in exchange, generally,  for a wee bit of banal chitchat.  There is also, of course, a gaggle of  presenters, skilled in the cheap black art of goading the inept, Jerry Springer was the leader of the pack, followed by the sanctimonious, simpering Trisha, dangerous if employed as Community Psychiatric Nurse, apocalyptic on National TeeVee and then  there's the  monstrous Jeremy Kyle - regular readers will know that we are opposed to capital and corporal punishment, but I could suspend my judgement to watch this man beaten to death, over, say seventy-two  hours;  hard not to think that he's an agent of skymadeupnewsandfilth, engaged  in the ruination and capitulation  to ShitCorp of the entire nation.  The States has studiosfull of chatarses, notably our own Mr Piers Moron, who manages, nevertheless, to get in deep with the stars every week or so, here, in Blighty, a true moron for our times.

Back then, though, we thought all this stinky, watery shit was truly revelatory, well, I did, anyway, as it splattered around the toiletbowl of my consciousness. And I remember watching Mohamed Ali on Parky.  A great man, I thought, bold, witty  and intelligent.  When he described the white man as his enemy, I almost cheered, that's how dumb I was.  Wasn't he a draft dodger, too? And the way he danced around in the ring, that was magic, that was, for a negro to do all that.  That was showing them.

And that, I am ashamed to say, has, remained, more or less, my opinion of the young Cassius  Clay.  At least it was, until Joe Frazier died and I became, belatedly,  refreshed by the truth of the matter.  Ali  never did a day's proper work in his life, he was groomed for the Olympics and after winning there he just moved from one huge paycheck to another; Frazier, on the other hand, was nigger trash from Carolina, who started working in the fields at the age of seven.

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The Religious and Cookery Pages

I think we should burn all of them, really; Hubbard's Scientology rubbish,  the Book of Mormon, the Koran, the Torah,  the Bible, Old and New - apart from the Sermon on the Mount and maybe Proverbs and Psalms, of course - the birth of the Blues, by the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, and we wept, when we remembered Zion .  Burn them all up, scriptures.  Google, now, is my rod and my staff, my comfort, my help cometh even from the Web.
 God said to Abraham, Kill me your son.
Abe said, Man, you must be puttin' me on
God said, No. 
Abe said, What?
God said,You can do what want, Abe
But the next time you see me comin', you better run.
Abe said, Where do you want this killin' done?
God said, Out on Highway Sixty-One.
 from Highway Sixty-One Revisited, by Bob Dylan, born-again Christian and Jew.

These Abrahamic religions,  they are the very fucking Devil, aren't they?  Anger and  vengeance and guilt and slaughter, idolatry and superstition, punishment and damnation. Warmongering Yids, screeching, hysterical Ragheads and  noncing Micks; Anglicans, Methodists, Godless heathen bastard, snot-eating Presbyterians;  Jovas, Christian fucking Scientists, Pentecostalists, Anabaptists, Salvationists, Plymouth Brethren and Rasta fucking Farians; Greek orthodoxes, Russian orthodoxes. Tony Blair and George Chimp, praying together, make you puke your guts up.  Jesus fucking wept, what a bunch.

Regulars here will know that we love the sacred music of the Abrahamic religions; we love the architecture of Cathedral and Mosque,  the art of the Nativity and the Passion and that we are comfortable, sort of, at least accustomed to, the Mosaic law which underpins our Norman jurisprudence, but, Oh, these fucking Christians and Jews and Moslems;  God spare us, Ghastly blood-drenched, noncing Popes and prelates and rabbis and ayatollahs.

I'd burn them all, all the holy books, especially the Torah, seeing how much trouble it's causing in the Middle East, fuck the IsraeliJews and their elastic arithmetic, insisting that any Jew ever born, anywhere, now or forevermore, can go and live, impossibly, within their borders, which won't be expanding constantly, into the lands of the Arab untermenschen; cunts they are, Israelis,  they'd see us all burnt up in a Holy NukeBonfire, just as long as they live  and die according to some rubbishy old book of superstitions and ethnic cleansings and hatreds, bastards, just as long as they go to Heaven and the rest of us get fucked;  that fucking gangster,  grunting Benjy Netanyahu, makes South African apartheid look respectable.

The Bible, old and new, full of piss and vinegar, full of guilt, Christ you only gotta think about the Bible to start sweating,  everything you do, eating, fucking, thinking for yourself - well, you better look out becuse here comes Guilt and  right behind him is Redemptions's tantalus, all you gotta do is beat yourself up and you'll be saved,  the Lord thy God is an angry God, but He'll forgive you your libido, if you're lucky, and if you kill things for him. They need burning,  all of them need  burning, those fucking Gideon things, reproaching you in hotel rooms,  the New English type, every piece of literature erased from the King James version and substituted with antiseptic bilge.  I have one of those big fuck-off Victorian family bibles with the footnotes and the gold edges,  sometimes I keep it open, on a stand, taking the piss.  Lamentations and  Leviticus and Judges are a steep price to pay for the Sermon on the Mount, I always thought.

I don't know what it's like down Washwood Heath these days but it used to be a Muslem enclave, where you feared to go,  the laws weren't enforced and courtesy was exiled, they were a hateful bunch of veiled, ill-mannered women and scowling, beardy Pakis and Afghanis who looked as though they'd  like nothing better than to saw your head off with a blunt knife .  This was before the Iranian revolution, before a global, politicised Muslem consciousness but even so, the unifying, hateful  force was  the veil, the revolting  halal butcher, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon his name and the Koran.

But it isn't just scripture. What else is there, on the holy books shelf? Das Kapital, Chairman Mao's Little Red Book;  the Socratic dialogues, silly old fag, mincing about, fucking teenage boys, as though it was the height of sophistication; slavery and sodomy, the pinnacle of civilisation, turd-burgling made noble, so long as it took place amid disquisition, dialectic, enquiry and paradox. Douse it in petrol.  What's that Hindu nonsense, is that the Baghavad wotsit? Throw it on the fire. John Stuart Mill On Liberty ? Prolix, showy, pseudo-elitist convolutions.  Throw it on the fire.  The Wealth Of Nations?  A Shopkeepers' Handbook, burn it.

If there's one thing in this life I can't abide it's a fussy eater. Somebody like me, now, loitering in Mr Death's anteroom, there's an excuse for me, being careful, fussy even. I recently discovered  pure Pomegranate Juice, the new, anti-oxidant superfood, and I drink about a tenner's worth a week, and since I substituted hot water for tea,  coffee and milk it sort of works out, financially. I drank twenty cups of milky coffee a day, at least,  and anyway, it wouldn't matter what it cost, if, as is reported, it clears clogged arteries.  But big healthy blokes, they  should eat what's put in front of them, clear their plates and do the washing-up, instead of gorging on food pornography, a la Jamie, Heston, Rick, Michel, Marco fucking Pierre  and  Delia, brains of a dishcloth, her, all these performing re-tards who dismiss our lives as shit,  lacking finesse and imagination, our clothes, our homes, our cars are shit; a parade of gobby morons, Fatso Spoiled Mummy's Boy Clarkson or simpering, ethical Monty Don in his woollies and braces, the cheap cunt, with his mental breakdowns,  we pay them all a fortune to make ourselves feel bad about our own decent, industrious, tax-paying, honourable mundanity,  gazing, as we do,  through Celebrity's tawdry window,  yearning for the granite-topped,  fibre optic, tasteless dwellings of playactors, sluts and footballers. No, Dad, say what you like about Jordan, least she has a really nice house. And she loveserkidstobits.

But the Jews, they take the fucking unleavened biscuit, don't they? Marching through Edgbaston of a Saturday, in their stupid hats. Large parts of our population starving to death and these fuckers are whining on about kosher food, gotta not eat this shit or that shit, because Jehova'd get his hair  off, maybe turn me into a pillar of salt, like he does, because He loves us so much,  or a burning fucking bush, Oi vay, fuck me, Hymie, anchovies for breakfast, that's the thing.




And the killing, the kosher slaughtering, gotta be done just so, my son, otherwise Jehovah, well, you know what Jehovah's like. You can't stun the animal, gotta just quickly almost saw its head off with a good sharp knife, says so in the book. Well, OK, what if many countries have banned it as barabaric, if it says in the book that its kosher, that's good enough for me. The world is always ganging-up on us Jews.
A rabbi at work.
I read some ree-surch a while back;  seems that at that time, when  those punitive old Hebrew motherfucker patriarchs were codifying all this dietary rubbish,  there were very good scientific reasons for people not eating pigs, for instance, some regional combination of  environmental adversities had made the pig then  unfit for human consumption, shellfish, too, I think, anything without scales or fins was deemed filthy.  I can't fully remember it but archaeologists and radiocarbon daters had found this blip a few thousand years  ago, in parts of the foodchain and it therefore made very good sense to dissuade people from eating pork chops and prawn cocktails and I don't know what else, lotsa stuff, but once they started on FoodSin those fuckers were not gonna give it up.  Eggs, no, you must only eat them if they have a round end and a pointy end, like so  - Gullivers Travels stuff -  they got two round ends or two pointy ends and you must sell the unclean, filthy little things to the Gentiles,  fuck them, anyway,  and you must never eat the fish and the meat at the same time, or you will die from leprosy or some other, nasty shiksa disease,  these are the rules, more shit to feel guilty about, as if they haven't got enough, nailing up our Lord and Saviour, like they did.  But these things,  these food scares,  were temporary, like John Selwyn Gummer's Mad Cow Disease, only rabbis, indeed any form of clergypersonbastard, don't do temporary,  they only do eternal, don't they, and rules and prohibitions and punishments and tut-tutting but mainly the withholding of God's red-hot angry love,  these  claimed special knowledges are what give them power;  priests, rabbis, imams, gurus, all claiming a special, knowing, interpretive intimacy, a special acquaintanceship with God and his Heavenly diets, His menus; christenings,  bar mitzvahs, marriages, funerals, confessions, penances, noncing, inquisitions and excommuni-fucking-cations,  this has always been their shit, guilt and fear, horrible, wailing, chanting  bastards.  

The old Hebe boys could have said, after a while, Okay, schmucks, maybe the pigs are cool again, maybe you can all try a bacon sandwich, now,  but just hold fast with that HP sauce, all sorts of  spicy Goyim shit in that, but no, chicken soup and flat bread,  that's the way to please Jehovah, the miserable bad-tempered fucking old git.  Says so, right here in the Book of Leviticus, as true now as it was three thousand years ago, it's right next to the bit about arsebandits like Steven Fag being an abomination in the sight of the Lord, even if he is a Jew,  and how it's cool to smite the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The blessed putrid virgin, Anne Widdecombe, formerly an Anglican and now a devout Mick, a follower of his rottenness, Pope Nazi, keeps her own anti-jewishness clean, sort of;
Dancing Queen, Roman Catholic Style
once saying  of her then boss, There's something of the Yid about Michael and indeed there was.  When he was Whiskey Maggie's Trade Seckatry, My-Kull Howard 

 Oily Bastard. Prison Works. That's the Thing. And lots of it. Gimme that old time religion, an eye for an eye! No, two eyes for an eye!
shoved through the Smash the Sabbath Act, otherwise known as the Sunday Trading Act, destroying, like Tories do, anything and everything - in this case something quite special, something born of, but beyond religion, the British Sunday  - which stands in the shopkeepers' way, (Growth, they like to call it, people spending money they don't have and doing it over a longer period) and in the way of their donations to Tory HQ. Oh, come now, Jeremy, we don't want to be bound in this day and age by old superstitions, do we? lisped the ghastly Howard, indignantly.  No,of course we don't,  only if we're Jews, you see, and special.

Howard was an elder or whatever they call them, down his local synagogue and  in the very same week as he was mocking the Keep Sunday Special folks, was shown there  in a documentary, nodding his head like a numpty, wrapped in a shawl and muttering  warnings of damnation and fire from some  pretend scrolls, celebrating his Sabbath, like a mad, miserable old prophet. Don't know if he does kosher, probably not, he's a proper Tory hypocrite, probably eat a pork and stuffing and apple sauce bap with anyone who might vote for him, bung him a few quid, for his think tank, God fucking help us and anyway, he probably lost his whole family in the Death Camps, like they all did - you know that thing they do, the Jews, as if they own Sorrow, as if the Death Camps were a private matter, which only they can own and understand, cheeky fucking bastards, as though Horror and Depravity shock only them, as if they are the Keepers of the global conscience, fuck the gippoes, fuck the queers, fuck the trade unionists,  fuck the tens of millions killed by Mao, the tens of millions killed by Stalin, it's the Jews who count, because it's all written down in the Book. A sanctified sort of hypocrisy, that of Howard and his ilk. My-Kull Howard's holy books,  they'd be first on my fire.

I was trading myself, in those Howard days, and immediately had to start opening Sundays,  the whole country, aside from orthodox Jewry, being led into the mad, unsatisfying  world of 24/7, as they stupidly  call endless shopping, endless, banal, recycled infotainment;  Howard really did help make the world a worse place. Still, he only had to open his oily gob for you to know that such was his purpose. The same smirking mendacity, first aired on the Today Programme, repeated, embellished with further lies, further Aren't-I-cleverings, at Newsnight's opposite end of the day. If he had said, Let's abolish the Jewish Sabbath, while we're at it, get these po-faced, miserable gits out working all hours, too, then you could have  respected him. A bit. But the pro-Israel Jews fund many of our politicians, as many as they can,  so they need special treatment. And don't forget the Holocaust.
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What the Papers Don't Say

These people, at skymadeupnewsandfilth, that's all they print, said the Attorney General, Dominus Vobiscum,  - the geeky one, in the glasses -  made-up news and filth, apart, of course, from when they say, quite properly, in my view, Vote Tory, for a soaraway future.  I mean, Mr M is a wonderful employer and everyone in cabinet and in the police enjoys being on his payroll and more importantly we all appreciate him not printing any unfortunate stories or photographs he may have of us, indulging, perhaps in a little harmless corporal punishment or bestiality or necrophilia;  we are all menoftheworld in these matters but the public can be a little touchy so we appreciate Mr M's discretion. Blackmail?  Gosh no, I wouldn't call it that. Well, as for why he doesn't, never has, paid any tax in this country that's, a matter for my right honourable friend, the chancellor.

Stanislav and Ishmael essays:

Is Nothing Wrong with Poof                          drafted 5/03/12
As I believe you now call yourself                drafted 13/11/11
God said to Abraham we should burn          drafted  11/04/11
These People, Dominus Vobiscum                drafted 17/05/11

Thursday, 7 May 2020

Ford Crap Car


call me ishmael said...


Well, mr jgm2, you know I’m a modest man and I don’t like to boast but my first, teenage, school-holiday job was painting the steelwork at the Tessal Spot Garage, mid-way between Northfield and Longbridge, on the right-hand side going South. I don’t know how much expertise that gives me, how much insight into BMC, or BL or the Ostin, as the locals called it.

 As for BL cars being worse than any others, you obviously never owned a 70’s Simca or Fiat, or any of the early Vivas and Victors. I don’t think the Ford Anglia was much good and I know the Mk 1 Cortina was shit from bumper to bumper, including the engine, the starter, the flywheel, the clutch and those amazing McPherson Strut shock absorbers which just rusted their way through the inner front wing/wheel arch.


Way back then, early mornings were soundtracked by the sound of Ford starter motors chattering as their Bendix Drives ground themselves to bits.


Grateful as I was that much practice had taught me to change a Ford starter motor in about four minutes, I was nevertheless exasperated at this ubiquitous defect. Ah, Mr Ishmael, said an Asian Customer Relations expert at Ford, Dagenham, it is the wrong procedure which you are doing and finding so frustrating, Cor Blimey. What it is, you see, Mr Ishmael, and I most certainly should not be telling you this and I will be eternally grateful, stone the blooming crows, Mr Ishmael, for you not mentioning this with no names and no pack drill, but you see the fucking thing is fucking fucked. It is the fucking bell-housing, you see. You know those two fucking bolts, one at the top and one at the bottom of the fucking starter motor, the ones which go through the bell-fucking housing and secure the starter motor, allowing the Bendix Drive of the starter to shoot, spinning, down the shaft and engage with the fucking flywheel and turn-over the fucking engine? Well - and like I said, this must be our secret - the threaded fucking holes which the fucking bolts go into are just a few thou. out of fucking line, isn’t it. And this means that instead of the teeth of the fucking Bendix Drive engaging with the corresponding teeth in the fucking flywheel and turning the bastard engine over like it’s fucking supposed to, they fucking well do not quite connect. And this is why every fucking morning, up and down the fucking country we can all, Cor Blimey, hear those Bendix teeth chattering away, gradually getting slower and slower as the fucking shit battery fucking runs itself fucking down. What you need to do, Mr Ishmael, and I would certainly find myself on the rock’n’roll if it came out that I had told you this…what you must do is not go and buy another fucking starter motor, much less an exchange starter motor because they are fucking worse; what you must do is equip yourself with a small wedge of hardwood, place it in the small gap between the starter motor body and the crankacase and hit the fucking bastard with a big hammer until it is jammed in there. This will distort the position of the fucking starter fucking motor just enough to compensate for the rotten fucking engineering of the bell housing and enable the teeth of the Bendix Drive to engage with the fucking flywheel and start-up the fucking heap of shit which you have so sadly bought.

And do Fords know about this? I enquired.

Of course, stone the blooming crows and fuck me gently, of course they fucking know about it, they make the fucking thing, don’t they, Mr Ishmael, and just think how much money they make selling shit fucking starter motors that are only going to work for a few months?

Well, I put the phone down, found a bit of wood and bashed it in as instructed. And of course it worked. And I never changed another Ford starter motor, although sadly I still bought Fords, up until my first Volvo three-litre 760 GLE estate, about twenty years ago, since when I have only owned flashy, foreign cars.
                                                           

Thanks to editor mr verge for discovering and unearthing this from the comments
                                                    
                                                  

The Thursday Special - Let's all Clap together...

And today is Thursday, so we are all clapping for the NHS, whose workers are all saints, angels and heroes. 'Twas not ever thus. Back in 2011, mr ishmael had some hard thoughts following the publication of  Care and compassion? Report of the Health Service Ombudsman on ten investigations into NHS care of older people https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-10/Care%20and%20Compassion.pdf

EMERGENCY, WARD TEN AND ELEVEN AND TWELVE AND THIRTEEN...

Hard to tell what an ombudsman is or does, they're like a gatekeeper, aren't they, ombudsfolk, but in a wheelchair. And blind and deaf. Good for fuck all.  There's only been one, to my knowledge, worth tuppence, Elisabeth Firkin, and she was swiftly ousted by the fuckpigs in the Commons for speaking the truth about their shenanigans. Only good ombudsman's a dead ombudsman, that sort of thing. The horrid Welsh cocksucker, Kinnock, and his gang persecuted some poor sod who'd blown the whistle on their thievery, EU Commission accounts queried by her remain unsigned-off, fifteen years on. So it'a bit of a surprise to hear that an NHS ombudsbiddy has fired a broadside at HMS National Treasure,  revealing  what most people know - that old people can be treated  very badly in the hospital deathcamps, we  have been saying it here for years, correspondence in the newspapers  has regularly raised the issue but nothing remedial seems to happen, few, if any of the culprits are ever prosecuted and the old, which we shall all become, with any luck, already often despised by greedy, resentful, impatient middle-aged children become a burdensome scandal. It is fucking diabolical that these things can happen, and entirely unsurprising.

My last stint in an English hospital,  the Leicester Royal Infirmary, resulted in my getting Surgeon Brown arrested and interviewed under caution, although, of course, the CPS felt that a jury wouldn't convict a doctor, although I, given a chance,  would have made certain that they did, no matter; he'll never do that shit again, having had his collar felt.
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY, ALL YOU NEED IS READERS.
                                                                       (2009)
You know how the dirty old men at - and who read - the Daily Telegraph delight in front-page 'photos of jailbait sixth-form girls bursting out of their blouses as they open their annually ever more superlative A-level results?



Well, the same earthy, populist editorial discernment is evident in current issues; not St Trinian's as such, more Merseybeat, as the Telegraph has an ongoing feature on the Fab Mopsters, John, Paul, George and the backward one, with the nose, and the rings. It's a heading on the Telegraph website "The Beatles," like "The Weather."

"The Beatles

All the latest news on The Beatles, the release of their remastered albums and the careers of surviving members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr."

Latest news on The Beatles ? What's this, then, the graveyard blues?
Mr Neil McCormick, the 'paper's Rockumentarist and a personal friend of the gobby dwarf, Mr O'Bono, as well as being an eternal teenager, runs a blog which sometimes has fewer comments than this one and is busy re-reviewing the whole Beatles catalogue, all eight hours of it, presumably for people who can't hear, and imagining an album which the Beatles could have made, if only, sob, they hadn't split and consisting, paradoxically, of the smashing hits they had individually, after they did. We can dream, he McCormickises, sorrowfully. Man's a fucking eejit.

Maybe Sir Paul, proving his masculinity by rubbishing his hapless amputee, has endeared himself to the Hangers and Floggers to whom Mr Simon Heffer



normally ministers so conscientiously.

The eight-hour Beatles catalogue is undoubtedly the biggest marketing success ever - apart from JayKay Rowlings, the busty Satanist - and just keeps on keepin' on, as they say in Rock'n'Roll; each new audio format bringing a re-mastering or a previously unreleased or a deluxe edition with never before seen pictures. The stars - deadbeat Z listers - reveal their favourite BeatleTunes. Like any decent bloke we, too, have Beatles favourites but they would all be from their first few pop albums, before the dimwit collective discovered hallucinogenics and narcotics, before the dwarf Zimmerman turned them on to weed, before Lennon's delusions of grandeur, his nasty Nip in the air; this.
We Can Work it Out

Mr Ishmael's Essays:
Emergency Ward Ten and Eleven andTwelve and Thirteen                    drafted 15/02/11
What the Papers Say                                   drafted 10/09/09



Sunday, 3 May 2020

The Sunday Ishmael 3/05/20 FUCK OFF WITH THOSE DIRTY WORDS

Before he OD'd in Phil Spector's toilet, crazy-saint Lenny Bruce, well, he perfected the art of How to talk dirty  and influence people.


 I only heard Lenny's records long after his death but he was a profound influence, his raps accenting  much of what appears here.

I heard somebody say shagging, in a BBC play the other day, they meant fucking; contextually, fucking was the right word but they said shagging, shagging just wasn't right. It was a bit like when people of a certain age say Oh Shh --ugar, everybody knows they mean Oh Shit, everybody hears Oh Shit in their minds; the person who said Oh Shhh-ugar wants people to think Oh Shit without them having to say the filthy word in their nice clean mouths but nobody has actually said or heard Oh Shit, even though, in code, they have. Coded swearing, that is some fucked-up shit.

Saw a dreadful Australian entertainer a while ago, Eric Bogle, for whom a new phrase has been coined in this quiet cloister, a whole repertoire, in fact, a lexicon of stuff -

bogle verb, noun, adj, expletive, bogling, bogled-up

to bogle – to preamble-ise incessantly in terms of self praise eg, I care about things, I am a dreamer, I am a wonderful human being who cares about the planet and all of creation, wouldn't it just be, like nice, if everyone was as nice as me, before launching into a tedious, faux melancholic dirge about spastic children, limbless soldiers or lonely old people devoured by rats. Bogle is what they call a singer-songwriter; what they used to call a layabout.

to bogle, musical term – to play the same chord progression for thirty years, in the same time signature, accompanied by another musician playing the same thing but in a different position - eg Can you play properly, or do you just bogle ?

Expletive - Oh, bogle me gently or Well, I’ll be fucking bogled

Abusive – You fucking bogler

He’s right bogled-up, he is – He is up his own arse.

I’m bogled right off with this shit –I am fed-up

What a fucking bogle - disappointing.

Bogle in his concert of self-congratulation kept making wry little remarks about merchant bankers and the audience loved it, my, how they hooted; he really means wankers they telepathed to one another, smugly, wankers, isn't that hilarious, and isn't he clever, rhyming it like that, y'know, with bankers. I thought he was a complete dental flosser myself but I am often uncomfortable among schoolteachers and social workers of a certain age and such comprised his audience, culturally merchant bankers. I should have made notes but I was in too much pain. I should have heckled the bastard, I was in the front row and could have, easily, but I was scared. I won't tell you what the word was but it rhymes with truck, that was another one, brought the grey-haired house down. Coded swearing. That's some fucked-up shit, that is.

Bogle is one of those stage Jocks, lived in Australia with the skin-cancered, barbecueing, Abo-bashing racist bastard white supremacist moron riff-raff for forty years singing Waltzing Matilda and cracks on just like Lady Sir Sean Connery, world famous, wife-beating gabshite and Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire and Ambassador at Large to wee fat Alec Salmond, Och, I love Scotland so much, Och Scotland's where ma heart lies, only my bank accoont is in Switzerland. Come now, Miss Moneypenny, a man's a man for a' that, even if he is a muscle-bound oaf with shit for brains, shaken not stirred. Have you seen some of those films he's been in ? Up there with the school Nativity play, some of them. Bogle's like him. Returns to his beloved homeland when he's getting paid to do so.
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Hasty concision is often the default setting of blog writing, both in posts and comments, it is the immediacy of e-communication which is it's strength yet it's weakness, too;  the ability to comment urgently, especially when deployed via an often self-taught and inexpert keyboard skill can restrict reflection and discourage editing.
 I hate that When I Was A Kid stuff but when I was a kid at primary school, the caretaker, once a week, would wheel in a robust, brown radio on a trolley and the class - and classes around the nation - would do Singing Together, with William Appleby, stirring, if rigid  renditions of (mainly) English folk songs - D'ye ken John Peel, the Jolly Miller, Brennan on the Moor and The Minstrel Boy. Every term, there would be a visit from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, it didn't then give me any love of classical music but it certainly made me aware of it's grandeur and scale and helped break down barriers natural in a working class child.  The singing together - and the country dancing which was also part of the curriculum - however, never left me and  much later led me, via ensembles such as Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band to the Copper Family and to the rural, non-industrial history which their songs reflect and embody,  the sung, social history of our lands.  In my twenties somebody was kind enough to sit me down and say listen to these, they are  Beethoven symphonies, you'll really like them and I did and do. It would have amounted to only a few hours a month, in primary school, spent on real music and  yet it has influenced my whole life, influenced everything which appears on this blog and in the commentaries of stanislav, a young Polish plumber and much else besides;   the music runs through everything, mr mongoose catches a lot of the references, a lot of them, though, are just there for me.

Once upon a time  I was married to a primary school teacher; Cat Stevens, she used to play to her charges, Morning Has Broken, and stuff from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Songbook. Almost in a heartbeat the emphasis had shifted from the traditional and the serious to the popular and sentimental; no singing of Men Of Harlech, no symphony orchestra in her school, the local steel band, instead, grinning its grinny music at grinning children, whose  own children now, Cowellites, cannot, for all their discussions and votings,  differentiate between quality and shit, and  if they could would choose the shit, everytime.
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THIS SUNDAY WHY NOT MAKE BEANS AND FISH?

stanislav shows how to combine stuff from the garden and the seas and only cost not even a fiver and make a nutritious and tasty slap up-nosh which all the family will love, only not the children, obviously, spoiled little consumerist bastards, and can have fish finger instead and tomato ketchup, like good little Infants of Ruin. Or MacDonalds Filet-o-mechanically-reclaimed fish offal, all deep-fried up in orange radioactive coating. And fries. And if they don't like that they can out on patio go and knife each other or climb over garden fence, rape old lady and set fire to. Bless. Kids, eh?

For Beans.

Is broad ones. Go down in garden and pull some off plant, pausing to admire last of summer flower and red berries coming on trees and pretend willow is not all over the fucking place and need urgent annual pruning up, ship-shape, like Bristol. En route put shredded secret documents in compost facility number one.
Have quick look around bottom garden with dog, Buster

and pick some parsley out from ground on way back in.
For parsley sauce.

Broad bean can be like eating boiled scabs. Take out from hairy pods and most people just throw in boiling water for half an hour and horrible outer shell goes white and necrotic and is probably fucking poison. Is fucking disgusting and should be against the law to eat, never mind give to fucking dinner guest, even if is utter bastard, like normal. Got this fucking Australian comes. Always bring two bottle of beer, fizzy shit like Becks or Fosters, drinks them and starts drinking my good beers. It’s his contribution, he says, bringing his own first two shit beers. Needs punch in fucking mouth. Eeyar mate, he says, walking across courtyard and already necking first bottle, have brought a contribution.

So is best to quickly boil for couple of minutes and cool down quickly, beans and not fucking Australian midget. And when cold just pop out into bowl and discard shell in compost bucket. Could just feed contents of compost bucket to Australian. Just start fire in oilcan and throw on loads of potato peeling and cabbage leaf and apple core and teabag and say Eeyar, Bruce, is barby, just like at home, in HMP Australia. Cheers, mate, goodonya, goodaya to make me feel at home. Okay if I take a dump in the rhododendrons, Walt-zin' Matilda, Walt-zin' Matilda, you'll come a-waltzin' Matilda with me. Sun A-rise, Oh-oh, Sun-arise Oh-oh, spread-in all de light all arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound.

Really is shit though, Australians

For Trout:

Go down to sea again, rolling sea and tide, like this bastard below and stand with rod and line and hope big cod fellow or halibut bite hold of hook and not pull you off rocks and in to Davey Jones fucking Lock-up. Is very dangerous and not good to try at home isn't.

And anyway can sometimes catch big fucking stupid bastard like this


Not know when is fucking beaten and have to be persuaded ashore with some help and few magazines off Mr Thompson Fish Tickling Device, below. Too fucking big, anyway, to go in pan


Or:

Have heart attack (see stanislav’s heart attack) Go on air ambulance like flying fucking Triumph Herald and is enough to start heart attack off even in healthy bloke of which is none in Scotland as well known is, sickest country on Earth, average person is twice as fat as normal and only exercise gets from beating of wife and running from Old McBill.


Get in hospital and decline kind offer from greedysurgeonbastard to slice up from John Thomas region right to throat and and chop through chest bone like was Aylesbury fucking duckling and fuck about inside, even to stop fucking heart beating and cobble together load of old veins and shit and rubber band and then jump start heart again. Maybe. And God fucking willing is. No fucking thank you, can take aspirin and exercise. Fuck all that shit. Is only angina. Ah but Mr stanislav, quintuple bypass was good enough for Spunky Bill Clinton, president of Uncle Sams, can't get no better than that and you should have, only take five minute, can do Monday, Doctor knows best. Doctor is arsehole more like. Was in school with little bastard want to be doctors. Fucking evil was.

Anyway, go, instead in Undead clinic with grey-faced heart patients all gasping and fucking wheezing on bicycle to nowhere, trotting along on treadmill of sclerotic doom, waiting to get fit enough to get chopped open and rearranged and meantime has to bullied be three times a week by sadistic physiofuckingtherapist who would rather spend life gossiping than doing any work, just like every fucker in NHS. And drinking coffee. Is it my turn, I thought I made the last one ten minutes ago, Och, alright then, is it three sugars for you? See my wee Fiona, well she’s only eight and I swear she can play the violin better that that Yehudi fucking Menuhin, so she can, Aye and wee Hamish, see him, he’s so bonny……..But bloke on next bike is fisherman, walks out in loch in wading pants and trout just jump on hook, smiling-up and saying EatMePlease, Preferably With Almonds But Parsley Butter Will Do. Want some trout, stanislav? Am supposed to eat fish and everything, before the operation but fuck me, Jesus, is three times a day round my gaff, gonna grow fucking scales, you can have some. And anyway, how come you ain't having operation ? Is long story but sure can do with some trout. So freezer filled up with Sea Trout always is. And give Undead Heart Zombie companion a bottle of whisky now and again. Is called Billy. Billy the Fish. But for people not having heart attack and going down Undead clinic to meet poacher can always go in Tesco and get couple of nice fillets of trout. And points on club card. Spend more to save more. Arithmetic of Ruin.

Means of Getting Bones out from Dead Fish is:

Chop off head and tail, is fucking rubbish, even though some blokes say Oh, fuck me, can suck brain out of trout from head and get stiffy and slip up lunch companion, is bollocks, fish got no fucking brains, otherwise would be walking about on dry fucking land and living in fucking house. Fish is stupidest bastard ever, still swimming about in freezing cold water when every other bastard left millions of fucking years ago. Or never even was in in first place if American is, but just was put straight down in Garden of Eden, six thousand years ago, by Jehovah, God of all good ole redneck, nigger-lynching sonsafuckingbitches. And then thrown out. Because God is Merciful. But not so's you'd notice. Also pull out guts but is best get Mrs to do as is fucking horrible. Or buy from Tesco.

Put fish with head off down on board and take big fuck off knife and slice firmly down full length of dead fish’s back, just alongside spine

and then slice carefully, or scrape, really, along little bones and separate fish flesh from bones.


No big deal is and anybody can do, just need sharp knife, do same on other side of spine and wind up with two nice fillet of trout.


And no bone. Can run fingertip over flesh and if any bone is left can feel and pull out.
Can leave skin on but is fucking uncivilised and best to remove. Just slice down vertically at ninety degree through flesh at tail end, until blade contact makes with skin and then turn blade to forty five degree

and pull skin through knife, moving blade back and forwards.


Is easy and soon have jobs a good un. Is probably what Jack Straw does for hobby, only with live people and not dead fish. Children most likely.

Grab some herb from garden, fresh is best and not dried up little parcel of dust, tender Rosemary leaf is good or dill or parsley or all of them, and stick on top of fillet with butter and salt and pepper and juice out of lemon, stick other fillet on top of that and cover with couple of rasher of streaky bacon, place in pan hot with herb-infused oil cook for couple of minute only and then shove fucker under hot grill until bacon is crisp up, maybe three or four minutes, how do I know, your grill might be shit, maybe five minutes, or six, but definitely not twenty, otherwise is burnt to fuck, if you get this far you probably know when fish is cook and nasty Nip bastard eats raw anyway, fuck me, is no wonder is such cruel little Banzai monster and bomb Uncle Sam navy to shit and torture poor POW, raw fish is bad shit so best make sure trout is cooked otherwise might get Atom fucking bomb on kitchen.

Ishmael essays:
All on the Cover of Newsweek  (extract)       posted 17/05/16
Fuck off with  those Dirty Words                  drafted 18/08/09
Hasty Concision                                           drafted  12/02/11
Cook with Stanislav                                      drafted 6/09/09






Friday, 1 May 2020

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From the Drafts:





stanislav said...

Here is the Stabbing Round-up


FROM THE OFFICE OF SOCRATES JOHNSON-SINGH, MAYOR OF LONDON:

Well it is a jolly rum do, all this knife crime thingy. But I jolly well dunno what they expect me to do about it. I'm not really Socrates, just enjoy a kebab now and again, after a skinful. Maybe I should appoint some more mouthy, bent, black perverts. As a token thingy. Gone now, anyway; line in the old sand, learn valuable lessons, move forward. Enquiry cancelled.

Instead of stabbing each other, can't these people just rampage through the town in evening dress, smash the place up, frighten the locals and get Daddy to pay the bill, like we used to; go to coke parties with their old university chums, y'know, do a spot of insider dealing, try-out some other cove's bitch; engage in a bout of the old flagrante delicto in the back of the Bentley, what ? It's not as though we don't set them a good example. Cocaine? Never touched it.

IN THE HOUSE the shadow leader of the Tory party, The Kid, is on his feet:

Ay ay ay funny thing happened to me on the way to the house, Madam Deputy Spunker (cheers) but then, perhaps, perhaps Madam Deputy Spanker, honourable and right members will forgive me if I keep that little apercu for my paying customers (groans of disappointment from all sides.)

As, Madam Deputy Splasher, for these truly dreadful events, whatever they are, I was only saying to Lord Sebastian in the shower this morning, all this stabbing, y'know, it'll have to stop, but he wouldn't be told, naughty boy. It's not as though we, in this place, don't set people a good example.

FOR THE GOVERNMENT, Stabbing Minister, Tony McNutter said; I will be responding to people's very real, very real, um, things, Mr Spunker, as ever, by passing new freedoms legislation which the government has already voted on and we will, therefore, not need to detain members who can just get on with their property portfolios, their shopping trips to Mr Lewis's and, as the right honourable member for Richmond has just indicated, their boyfriends.

The thrust of the legislation - The Do As You're Fucking Told, Citizen, (Temporary but Permanent powers) Act - is a return to the founding principles of both my own party and, indeed, all political parties.

As of now, Mr Spunker, any voter who doesn't do as they are told by anyone acting on my behalf will be shot, their assets forfeit to the Exchequer and their family sent for re-education. (Cheers, waving of papers.)

ON BBC's THIS WEEK PROGRAMME Andy Slaphead Jock, Murdoch multi-millionaire and pretend journalist, sits shoulders hunched-up, like a Hibernian hobgoblin, informally tieless, if not wigless, holding his postcards, smirking, as well he might:

Diane, you know some poor black people, don't you, do they smell frightfully bad ? I mean, aren't poor people dreadful ? Whats your take (1960s slang = opinion) on this?

DIANE LARD, pretend MP (from inside a billowing black tent.) Well, Andrew (waving arms around) I blame the parents; as you know, I was so conscientious a parent that I sent my precious little baby to an expensive, fee-paying, radical socialist school, in order, purely, you understand, to keep him from harm's way, out of reach of my constituents' grubby children and not to give him any advantage in later life, like when he inherits my seat.

So my conscience on this matter, as in all others, is clear. As for the trash and riff-raff in my constituency, well if they can't be bothered to get the very best for their children well, why should I care, not as though I'm paid to represent them or anything. It's not as though I don't set them a good example.

(turning, smiling acidly) Michael, you should know, does Barack Obama have a big one ?

DAME MICHAEL PUNCTILLIO, MURDOCH EMPLOYEE AND FAMOUS COWARD: Indeed, and you make my point, Diane, some of these black chaps have whoppers, as Ron Davies often remarked, when he was Badgers Secretary; it beats me why we can't find jobs for some of them, lots of them, down at the House; why, even some of the female members might find use for a well-developed young ree-surch assistant, although my instinct tells me that they'd be gobbled up, so to speak, by the gentlemen members. You might try one yourself, Andrew, if you ever tire of totty young enough to be your granddaughter. Are we going to be singing Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a Man After Midnight again this week, Andrew, I do hope so.

JOCK NEIL: No, we're not, and that's enough of poor people, let them stab each other to death if they want. Now we have some other facetious, self-aggrandising, celebrity fuckwit I met at a do the other night, I think it's that bald, angry bloke, the pretend soldier, Kemp, another chum of my friend, but not yours, Rupert. Ross will be telling us how they deal with knife crime in the SAS. Which he isn't in.

But don't blame us at This Week for all these stabbings, it's not as though we don't set a good example.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CROWN PROSECUTOR, SIR McFREEMASON:

In view of the appalling number of poor people stabbing one another to death, we rich lawyers have decided that it would be a waste of scarce resources to prosecute our worshipful brethren in the houses of parliament, the police, the civil service, the BMA and elsewhere, not that we do.

I have decided, therefore, to amend the Misrepresentation of The People Act, so that henceforth, it is in the public interest that no members, past or present, of these groups may be prosecuted for anything whatsoever, up to and including procuring, prostitution, racketeering, blackmail, money-laundering, extortion, murder and war crimes. Even though they have all done them.

This step merely formalises the existing custom and I feel that it will meet with wide approval. Among those, at any rate, who gave me my job and will give me my retirement peerage, pensions and QUANGO posts.

This fair and even-handed, fearless application of the legal process is bound to restore confidence among those who thought that laws they had made against other people might be unfairly used against themselves.

Now that politicians are free once more to carry on regardless of the law I am confident that all this knife business will just go away, not that anyone important cares about it; rather useful actually, never too young to be an Enemy Within.

It is in this exemplary and impartial execution of my duties that I demonstrate to poor people that I am doing my best to set them a good example.

More stabbing news on the hour, here on Sky with Kay Hatchet. For updates to your mobile, text STAB to news@sky.com

July 7, 2008 12:26 PM

The Do As You're Fucking Told, Citizen, (Temporary but Permanent Powers) Act, being a roaring success, it has now been enacted - mrs ishmael.