Oh The Irony

What would one expect from the country that gave us Peter Cook, That Was The Week That Was and other gems of the ironic and the satiric.

In a recent poll conducted by the BBC History magazine, it was revealed that the best British prime ministers of the last 100 years were Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher.

Hilarious.

A quick history lesson, Clement Attlee was Britains first post war prime minister. He helped to create the modern welfare state and the National Health Service. His goverment was responsible for the nationalisation of utilities such as the coal and steel industries. He created British Rail and was responsible for many other social welfare programs.

Anyone who is able to gain the following ringing endorsement out of the Queen Mum can't be doing all bad. The following was contained in a letter written by her.
"her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government" and describes the British electorate as "poor people, so many half-educated and bemused" for electing Attlee over war hero Winston Churchill.

His leadership style, of consensual government, acting as a chairman rather than a president, won him much praise from historians and politicians alike.

What an irony it is that he is joint first with President Maggie.

A woman(I use the term loosley) who basically dismantled everything that Attlee had created.

The Conservative government closed all but 15 pits, before privatisation in 1994.

Thatcher invited apartheid South Africa's president, P.W. Botha, and foreign minister, Pik Botha, to Chequers in an effort to stave off growing international pressure for the imposition of economic sanctions against South Africa, where Britain had invested heavily.

After the 1983 election, the Government became bolder and, starting with British Telecom, sold off most of the large utilities which had been in public ownership since the late 1940s.

She had this to say about homosexuality.
"Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay".

The record of the NHS under her leadership went from bad to worse.

And Of Course

"There Is No Such Thing As Society"

People Are Scared

I came across a website and was flabbergasted by the amount of hate and fear I found on it.

Someone had left the following comment.


Just read the first ten posts on this here blog.

Why are you so filled with hate?

Do you need a cuddle?
Dave | 08.28.06 - 4:19 pm |

He had not been replied to, so he asked again.

You did not answer my question.

Why are you so filled with hate?
Dave | 08.29.06 - 1:56 pm |

This time he got a reply.

I can't speak for anyone else, Dave, but I'm not filled with hate.

Anger, yes. Frustration, yes. Despair, sometimes. Like when I recently read Bruce Bawer's book, While Europe Slept.

And I'm often frightened.

I look at the big picture. I watch the news, read the blogs and other news sites. I listen to what the islamofascists are actually saying as opposed to what I think they are saying.

It's not pretty.

Our government here in Brackistan is doing 9/10ths of SFA to protect the general populace, and MrLefty just doesn't seem to see what's going on.

I'd love for some of these lefties to sit down with me and explain to me how a doctrine that declares me half a person (if I'm an adherent, less if I'm not) advocates beating me for disobedience and thinks I should be circumcised and wrapped in sacks, is peaceful, dignified and worthy of regard.

And I'd like a hug every now and then, too.
Nilknarf | Homepage | 08.29.06 - 3:27 pm

Then he really got some replies.

Do you seriously feel that frightened, angry, frustrated? I feel really sorry for you, if that is the case. Obviously you do need a hug.

Surely by you feeling frightened then the islamofascists as you call them have won.

What would you like to see done to the followers of Islam? In order for you not to feel so very frightened.
Dave | 08.29.06 - 4:56 pm |

Dave, can I ask how you've managed to overlook the massive bodycount for Allah Islamists have wrought (a huge proportion of them women and children) in the world?
Mike Jericho | Homepage | 08.29.06 - 6:09 pm | #

"What would you like to see done to the followers of Islam? In order for you not to feel so very frightened."

A large mushroom cloud over Mecca.
Keith | 08.29.06 - 6:18 pm | #

Dave, either you're a moron or having us on, I can't decide which.
Why don't you pop over to Beslan and offer the parents of the kids who were raped and blown up there a hug? I'm sure it'll make them feel so much better.
Keith | 08.29.06 - 6:20 pm | #

I'm not overlooking anything, I just refuse to be sucked into this whole culture of hate and fear. It just seems an extremely unhealthy way to be going about your business.
Dave | 08.29.06 - 6:23 pm | #

And religions and creeds of all walks of life have wrought massive bodycounts including women and children throughout the ages.
Dave | 08.29.06 - 6:24 pm | #

" I'm not overlooking anything, I just refuse to be sucked into this whole culture of hate and fear"
Well, jolly good for you Dave. For refusing. But of course, you're in a position to refuse, aren't you? And what do you suppose pays for that option?
Not glassy-eyed stoned out peace love and mung beans thoughts.
What pays for that option is the efforts of countless thousands of people who work to keep you safe from the gibbering blood-soaked animals from the 7th. century who would just as soon see you decapitated or shot.
"And religions and creeds of all walks of life have wrought massive bodycounts including women and children throughout the ages."
So what? We're not talking about throughout the ages here, although that seems to have failed to penetrate that stoned, smug self-righteous fog of yours.



While you witter on about hugs people are dying--a girl is being hanged in Tehran, a little black African boy is being taken into slavery in Darfur after his parents were murdered, a woman is being stoned to death in the Sudan.
Our civilisation is looking down the barrel of a barbarity unseen by most of us. The fact that you, personally, don't have to face it is no excuse for the obscenity of offering "hugs" as some kind of solace, some kind of cure or compensation for the anguish and anger decent people feel.
Keep your fucking hugs. If you can't pick up a gun to fight evil or if you can't bring yourself to condemn it, you are a waste of God's (or nature's) good oxygen.
Keith | 08.29.06 - 8:48 pm | #
I thought I would help our friend Dave, he seemed to be getting it with both barrels.

Keith, i'm certainly no hippie. I could not even tell you what a mung bean looks like.

Keep being frightened Keith.

The world needs hate mongers like yourself.
davethescot | 08.29.06 - 9:34 pm | #

No Dickhead Dave. The only way the islamists will win is if we let you leftist fuckheads stop us doing what we must to kill the islamists.

Look, if you leftist shitheels want to be the camel to your muslim buddies, go right ahead, but don't try and force us and our civilization to present our arses.
Tiberius | Homepage | 08.29.06 - 9:46 pm


davethescot, if you think I'm frightened you're very much mistaken.
I'm burning with the kind of anger that Western men once knew well, before their gonads were removed by years of soft living and pc bullshit.
If this fight ever becomes a civil war in Western countries between the left and the rest (and I believe it will) then people like you will discover the difference between fear and anger.
And then God help you.
Keith | 08.29.06 - 9:46 pm | #

DAve, I am a single woman living in suburbia with a four year old daughter.

Being suspicious is second nature.

Living in Bogan Central is also not like living in the trendy parts of town.

I've had my life threatened on several occasions, and it will no doubt happen again. It's a fact of life.

I work very hard at raising a confident child, and if that means that I keep a very concerned eye on the RoPers, then so be it. I won't be caught unaware.

I watched the twin towers fall, I watched the tragedy and travesty at Beslan. I almost lost a close friend in the first Bali bombing.

Don't fucking patronise me.

(Oh, and hugs rock).
Nilknarf | Homepage | 08.29.06 - 10:27 pm |

Now I'm scared.

Meme Me Up Scotty!

It appears I have been Tagged again, this time by the erudite and lovely MSKP.

So here goes.

Take the nearest book and turn to page 123 and find the fifth sentence, then publish the next four.

Are you with me so far.

The first book that came to hand was Roald Dahl's My Uncle Oswald.

Page 123

"If you ravish me, sire, I will become pregnant and our mutual friend will know something has happened between us. He will be so angry he will send warships to bombard your cities."

"You must tell him it was he who got you pregnant. Come along now I cannot wait!"

That's it folks.

As a footnote I cannot recommend this book enough, it's a laugh out loud, raunchy book. And it's by the same guy who wrote The Twits.

TAGGED!!!

I know it's been a while, but I have been busy, busy.

But seeing I have been tagged by the lovey Mr Watts, I felt compelled to complete the tagging circle.

Three Things...

1. Three things that scare me:
Suspension Bridges
Political Apathy
Jordan

2. Three People Who Make Me Laugh
Ricky Gervais
Larry David
Richard Pryor

3. Three Things I Hate The Most
Andrew Bolt
Margaret Thatcher
Hangovers

4. Three Things I Don't Understand
HTML Code
Television Programmers
Cats

5. Three Things I'm Doing Right Now
Drinking A Cup Of Tea
Listening To Insiders
Filling Out This Meme

6. Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
Go To Cuba
Jump Out Of A Plane
DJ At The Meredith Music Festival

7. Three Things I Can Do
Tap Dance
Hold A Note On The Bagpipes
Ask Questions

8. Three Ways To Describe My Personality
Piscean
Scottish
Dependable

9. Three Things I Can't Do
Sing
Vote
Suffer Fools

10. Three Things I Think You Should Listen To
The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith Album
The Sound Of Silence
Little Stevens Underground Garage Radio Show

11. Three Things You Should Never Listen To
Nagging Doubts
Lies
Rex Hunt Calling The Footy

12. Three Things I'd Like To Learn
How To Use HTML Code
Car Mechanics
How To Say NO

13. Three Favourite Foods
Kerry's Cooking
Italian
A Scottish Fry Up

14. Three Beverages I Drink Regulary
Irish Breakfast Tea
Melbourne Bitter
Guiness

15. Three Shows I Watched As A Kid
Will 'o' The Wisp
Tiswas
Cheggers Plays Pop

16. Three People I'm Tagging
Jess Ausculture
The sheriff
MSKP

Back On The Hair Of The Dog

Now that BB06 is over, and Jamie and his purple headed womb ferret are making friends with Katie's virginal beef curtains why not do yourself a favour and get on down to the Empress.

Join myself and Georgie for a night of unadulterated rock and roll trivia. For those that used to come every Sunday, come and reacquaint yourselves, we have missed you all terribly so. Slabs and six packs to be one, and if you end up on Jess Ausculture's team you will almost certainly be guaranteed something. The girl is a whizz.

So come on down, this Sunday at 8pm, the Empress Of India, 714 Nicholson Street, Nth Fitzroy.

Go here for your starter for five.
http://www.theempresshotel.com.au/trivia.htm