Also. It’s not, for very many of us, entirely about money.
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Also. It’s not, for very many of us, entirely about money.
Speaking as someone in a family with two children diagnosed with it, and an older generation convinced it is the same as being very, very ‘handicapped’ (as opposed to just a different way of approaching the world,) you will get absolutely no argument in that from li’l ol’ ADHMe. 😊
For the same reasons they won’t engage with the positive arguments for immigration. Cowardice, and a poverty of both morality and intelligence. (And let’s not forget convenience.)
*secretly proud*
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying there wouldn’t be significant stuff in there. It’s just in a post-truth world, ‘alternative facts’ are always bent out of shape to suit the powerful’s agenda. See, in the last 24 hrs alone paracetemol causes autism or Sadiq Khan has any say on immigration.
I came to it *very* late (mid noughties) and I haven’t watched it again since cos I’m scared it won’t be quite as brilliant as I remember. (Except the clubbing episode. Every time I need cheering up I just put it on YouTube.)
How to describe The Telegraph to an alien:
I do wonder if the Epstein files (which may be released now a new Dem is in office,) aren’t going to prove the most ridiculous damp squib. Of course, everyone will say it proves THEM right, but I think the obvious truth is Epstein wasn’t an actual pimp, just a dirty old man. With money. And friends.
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I do hope your rotator cuff is feeling better. Not to indulge in competitive ageing or anything, but having just woken up with a very sore neck from *sleeping*, I just managed to pull something in my right shoulder OPENING A DOOR. (Presently googling Dignitas.)
And let us not forget the IMMINENT DANGER OF FORRIN ILLEGALS GROOMING OUR BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH ROSES (despite the fact that on another day we’d be calling them something *rather* different,) whilst at the same time, inviting a convicted sex offender over for a State Visit. Truly. I f***ing despair.
(But joking apart, every SINGLE metric proves properly controlled immigration is a force for good, both economically and societally. The fact that making the case for that seems beyond the wit of any politician - except possibly @zackpolanski.bsky.social - drives me f**king insane.)
The main reason I want it is to see the look on their faces tbh.
Politics is pragmatism. That doesn’t mean it has to be without principles. Like most right-thinking people, I’m pretty disgusted with the whole shooting match these days, but we are where we are. If you’re determined to read my initial post utterly literally, be my guest. It wasn’t meant that way.
I left last week. I’m not going to vote for party that uses the phrase ‘island of strangers’ & refuses to confront Brexit. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Starmer was quietly ok with a coalition (at least for Brexit) so he could change position, ironically rather like Clegg on tuition fees.
Haha. I spoke at a rally with him last week. Didn’t get the chance to talk to him, but he does at least seem to have some discernible principles he appears to want to stick to. (Easier to do from outside.) He’s much closer to getting my vote than Starmer at the moment. I’d take a coalition in a 📸.
Hence my caveat. I’m simply saying he seems the least insane/despicable/defeated. Perhaps, as simpletons are allowed the vote, and given where Reform are in the polls right now & where we are post-Brexit, actually reaching out to simpletons in terms they understand is not *such* a terrible idea.
No, hence my use of the term ‘tedious phrase’. It’s just shorthand for saying he’s the only one who doesn’t seem mad, bad or deeply disappointing.
They’re also both demonstrably idiots, even if Farage is a sly, conniving and tactically astute one (not something you can say of Badenoch.) And a drink with Starmer would be awful. Just a long, deeply disappointed gaze into my beer, then up at him, then back to my beer. 🍺😔
Now I’m really confused. Patrick or Ed?
What? My dad’s reaction?
Yup.
Without wishing to parrot a tedious phrase, he’s surely the only party leader most of us would have a pint with now. (But then my mother says my father starts shouting at the telly every time he appears, so maybe he induces stronger reactions than I realise.)
It was very striking to hear what Wilson, Heath and even The Times said. Anyone saying that now would be dismissed as a hysterical wokeist. Which doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be said. Very loudly. Starmer’s ‘Island of Strangers’ comment is just one of the reasons I left the Labour Party last week.
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Really VERY good, isn't it? And terrifying - the way the playbook never f*cking changes, yet the same insidious bastards still get the same stupid bastards to fall for it. Depressing as hell. (But pleasing @iandunt.bsky.social ends with a little hopeful note that general attitudes have improved.)
This was a little extra on a podcast I did recently. Still reeling from my own stupidity that when asked for my favourite motorway service station, I didn't say - 'Tebay, or not Tebay. That is the question.'
(But thank you for reminding me. I was listening to it again in the car last night on the way back from a gig, and my favourite Steinbeck quote popped into my head. It used it in my first ever solo show in 2002. I THINK I NEED TO BRING IT BACK!)
I am saying this to EVERYBODY, but @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Powell & 'Rivers of Blood' shouldn't just be on the national curriculum, it should be required listening for all. Esp ANYONE commenting on Reform/Kirk/Yaxley-Lennon. Cannot believe we're wading through this much ignorance again.
Me, after a ridiculously restless night of tossing & turning: Hey! I think I might just have got the hang of this sleeping lar… *ALARM GOES OFF* 😡🥱
I…what? He’s banning paracetemol for causing AUTISM? 🤯 Let alone the fact he can’t pronounce acetaminophen. He clearly can’t even *comprehend* autism. Anyone with autism in their family is already very bored of fighting. But we’re really at war now.
Sorry. I must be ignorant. (At least I admit it, eh Donald?) You can’t get paracetamol in the US???
Oh FUCK. I thought it was paper recycling tomorrow and rapture next week. I’ll just have to listen out for the angelic host first thing.
I have done a lot of these over the years, and there’s been an angry fruitcake in every single one. Not today, funnily enough. Which can only lead me to one obvious, and somewhat uncomfortable conclusion…
Actually, scrub that. I just read it rather than listened to him garble it. If you can’t read acetaminophen, you shouldn’t be President. The End.
I’d say his endorsement of pure quackery is a much bigger deal than his inability to pronounce a word most of us would struggle with. He seems almost human, whilst doing an utterly inhumane thing. Which is, if anything, worse.
No, I agree. Your argument is sound, I’m just a secret conservative snob at heart who has always loved Auntie and would rather wallow in her previous glories than acknowledge her undoubted decline.
That’s a great idea on many levels. But unfortunately does leave the field wide open to nothing but propaganda. Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I wouldn’t mind a return to an independent editorial policy entirely interested in facts and not paid for, or under threat from the corporate world.
Again, recommend @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Enoch Powell. The biggest mistake the UK govt made was forgetting to put ‘OBVIOUSLY we only mean WHITE people FFS’ on legislation offering citizenship to those from former colonies. You couldn’t say that then, apparently. Now, on the other hand…
Exactly. As the course leader said, make the technology work for you.
Should have given him a Guinness. Then they’d have just waved you straight through. Actually, scrub that. Iron Bru. 🧡
Did a Speed Awareness Course today and like to think I have developed a far more mature attitude to road safety as a result. You simply can’t be too careful.
Bloody Steve here, with his bloody facts. Again. Trying to point out how they will make bloody Britain bloody crappier again just because they're bloody true. Honestly mate, why do you hate sovereignty so much? Don't you know it's a perfect concept which can never be sullied by bloody reality?
Well we got there in the end. Good to have you on board. 😜
Very worth listening to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social ‘s latest on Powell & ‘Rivers of Blood’. Much of the horror & outcry was genuine. Sadly, so was a lot of the public support. What’s horrific is that the language Powell used which many were outraged by THEN is becoming common currency NOW.
Yes. I remember that with horror. As does Bonnie Greer. Thing is, so should Griffin. He was awful, out of his depth & somewhat pathetic. A bit like Piers Morgan on HIGNFY. Problem is Farage isn’t awful. (I mean, he’s far worse, but he’s a far better media performer. God knows he’s had the practice.)
F*ck me. Don’t see much about the govt ‘striving’ in the polls, Kemi Badenoch ‘striving’ to be anything other than utterly useless or Reform ‘striving’ to not be mendacious rabble/rousing populist bastards who wouldn’t recognise a coherent policy if it hung itself halfway up a flagpole.
Probably best to think of it as a particularly bizarre equation that starts as 52/48, but which observers refuse to believe almost immediately starts reversing polarities. I think Heisenberg called it ‘The Certainty Principle’
Speaking from experience, much of the present malaise stems from Brexit, when they were forced to ‘both sides’ every issue, despite the fact one side was mostly trying to present boring reality & the other was largely lying through its teeth. It left the whole edifice fundamentally unbalanced.
Oh, plenty of people will say it. It’s just the failure to report it as anything other than ‘controversial’ or even worse ‘a divisive figure’ that is so insidious. The Beeb lost the plot around Brexit, with the forces of the Right cowing it into ‘balance’. Ironically meaning it is now anything but.
I think it started LONG before him. Not a fan of the later series, but there’s a great bit in The Crown when Marmaduke Hussey is just utterly befuddled at his inability to get ‘his’ journalists to stop interviewing Diana or shut up about Charles’s tampon fantasies. ‘SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!’ Etc.
Isiah?
I dunno. I mean, I don’t really see any problem *starting* with the obvious villain. Of course the problems run so much deeper. I suspect a great deal of them are around govt 🔄 media access. What should independent on either side is anything but. Bravery is required. Like leaving X for a start.
Reposted. 👏👏👏. If I could do so repeatedly on a permanent basis I would, at least until one Gibb, R is handed his P45. I do think Labour comms have been dreadful in govt. But the failure to confront the media itself is becoming existential. Leveson 2 & reforming the Beeb should have been Day 1.
I’m still in favour of the BBC as a public broadcaster and the licence fee as a payment model. I think a majority feel the same. But the management has spent so long in the thrall/scared shitless of the political right that the news department is now somewhere between useless and actively dangerous.
(Ridiculous post anyway. Gays would never wear polycotton.)
Got some *really* bad news for the gays in polycotton at the oyster bar. This reminds me, I need to find a comprehensive list of all the madness in the Bible for comedy purposes. (It’s 09:22 on a Monday morning & I wonder why I never get anything done.) There probably a hell for procrastination too.
To the extent that I’m not certain they’re losing the plot, but rather being dragged away from it at a managerial/editorial level we are unaware of. I’ve always retained faith in the BBC. Especially when you look at the ‘defund’ mob. But that is being SORELY tested right now.
I’m coming to realise more and more how much is in the public domain but just how much the public have to be dragged towards it kicking and screaming before they can consider themselves remotely ‘informed’. Goebbels is presently wanking himself silly in whichever circle of hell he presently dwells.
I couldn’t agree more. Mason’s fawning cover of Reform is another huge problem. Not sure what’s going on. I love the Beeb, sometimes work for them & believe their funding model is VITAL to retaining editorial independence. Which they just seem to have given up on recently. This doesn’t end well.
Personally I think it’s great Charlie Kirk brought all these kids closer to Jesus. Apart from the gay ones, obviously. They need to be stoned to death. Never ceases to amaze me how these lunatics claim to believe in an all powerful god, but insist they retain the right to point out his mistakes.
I have defended the BBC to the hilt up until now, but their coverage of the Kirk assassination has been both bizarre and not a little disturbing. Their willingness to go along with the ‘radical leftist’ narrative around his assassin in clear contravention of the developing evidence was appalling.
I was another of the speakers who addressed the rally in Parliament Sq last week as a SEND parent. The patently unqualified Farage claiming there is ‘massive over-diagnosing’ of SEND is only slightly less ignorant than Tice’s claim SEND parents are ‘gaming the system’. You f**king try it, Dick. 😡
I was another of the speakers who addressed the rally in Parliament Sq last week as a SEND parent. The patently unqualified Farage claiming there is ‘massive over-diagnosing’ of SEND is only slightly less ignorant than Tice’s claim SEND parents are ‘gaming the system’. You f**king try it, Dick. 😡
Absolutely this. Donate occasionally to keep it that way.
Ok. But only if each Plaza has a site for public executions and the stoning of gay people a la Leviticus, right? It’s what he would have wanted. (Also an oyster bar next to a gallows for anyone who orders any.)
Quite something when the explanation is considerably more intelligent than the picture.
*it soon, not ‘vision’ Heat pack draped over your shoulder as you feel sorry for yourself in front of the telly on the sofa for the rest of the day also good shout. And brandy.
I don’t know what you mean. It’s common knowledge that Brian May often appears twice in photos of other dead people.
Great band name tbf.
I do love the fact Brian May’s in it though. Does the ‘artist’ know something we don’t? And has he told Anita?
As others have said, ibuprofen to reduce swelling. If pain is really bad, alternate with paracetamol so you can take more. Very long hot bath, possibly ibuprofen gel and probably a physio asap. Although they will try to get you to come back every week and vision adds up… Or brandy. 🥃
I hate to say it, but Charlie’s right hand is actually making me question whether or not this is even a real photo after all.
I mean this White House.
Nature abhors a Hoover Otto. (I think?)
Yup. Managed it. Although probably won’t be asked back more for the “Herr Hitler accessorised his bespoke Hugo Boss uniform with a highly fetching red armband with black swastika motif.” Ah well. I had fun.
Weird how few of them stayed in The White House/Congress/Senate/Supreme Court etc
Unlikely I realise, but never taking a booking for an awards do in Scotland. I hosted one in Inverness last week and nearly lost a hand to RMS (repetitive manly shakes) by the end.
Right. Remove yourself from BlueSky immediately for flagrantly breaching our Dear Leader guidelines.
Imagine Terry doing ‘sinister’ and you have taken yourself to a very dark place.
Not sure about that. Apparently he dislikes bowing as he can’t do it because of his bone spurs. I say we go for the full North Korean hysterical prostration.
This guy is getting interesting. Although he is of course COMPLETELY WRONG about the economy not being like a household budget, as Margaret Thatcher conclusively proved by selling off all public utilities to the private sector for them to profiteer from EXACTLY like her dad did in his grocery shop.
He really does deserve some sort of prize. Oh, hang on. Starmer just gave him one.
I believe it’s still Tzvery Voganovitch over there.
I’ll be on Times Radio at 5:30 where I hope to get cancelled for pointing out that serving ‘watercress pannacotta, chicken ballotine and vanilla bombe to a visiting President is actually very clearly giving ‘jelly & ice cream and nuggets’ to a toddler.
I went to school with Dyson’s kids. I am sure if you realised the state of the absolute nuclear meltdown he in particular has if ANYONE calls them ‘hoovers’ you would never have *dreamed* of making such a terrible, thoughtless, wounding remark. About a hoover.
No. But ABBAbyjiminy are hot favourites for the Intervision Song Contest. Srsly…
Yup. Quite something when you think it’s absolutely FINE to hold a comedian to a higher standard of truth than the President of the United States. She’s going be LIVID when she finds out not only was there not a road, there was no chicken pedestrian either.
I think the fact this goes unchallenged (as far as I can see) reflects pretty poorly on Newsnight in general and Matt in particular.
Happy to disagree on how much we care. That’s a personal choice, but right now, I believe a fundamentally important one. However, very glad someone else has thrown the words ‘Horst Wessel’ into the mix because that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking since the moment Kirk was murdered.
I would ‘Like’ this, but in good conscience, I can’t.
The irony is this whole issue revolves around an illegal broadcasting/licensing deal in the States the network need the governments help to make legal. As always, it comes down to money. What makes the BBC unique is it is publicly funded. They are presently writing their own suicide note.
Exactly. I don’t disagree for a moment. My point is, all these other ‘talking points’ - ‘untruths’, ‘comedian’ etc are simply a distraction tactic to shift focus from the very point you are making. If you don’t think banning Kimmel is textbook authoritarianism in action, you are the one lying.
The fact that claiming a young white Mormon kid with MAGA loving parents who was incredibly handy with a rifle may have some affiliation to MAGA can be brandished as ‘an untruth’ tells us everything we need to know in general, and about the ‘opinions’ of this woman in particular.
I care. Because his horrific murder has emboldened fascists in America and by extension all across the world to use it as a power grab. If you don’t think we are very close to 1930s Germany here, you haven’t read enough history. Time to pick a side. Now.
Claiming anyone who ever said anything funny qualifies as a comedian is patently fucking ridiculous. And the fact that’s her starting point rather than addressing the somewhat more pertinent fact a man was removed from the airwaves for a comment Trump didn’t like tells you all you need to know.
But surely that is also the point. If ‘plenty is contestable’ then you can’t accuse Kimmel of lying. The other thing that really gets my goat is the other woman saying ‘Are YOU a comedian?’ to @mattchorley.bsky.social No he isn’t. He’s a journalist. That’s why he’s presenting Newsnight.
Don’t just ‘Like’ it @sturdyalex.bsky.social! It’s an honest question! What is the ‘untruth’ Kimmel spoke? I really want to know what fucking universe whoever that woman is lives in.
What is she saying he said that was an ‘untruth’?
Wow. He needs to run in ‘28. I’m not saying he’s qualified. He probably wouldn’t say he’s qualified. But given the amount of Democrats who just voted for ‘Charlie Kirk Day’ I’d say there isn’t really another option.