
If you do that then bear in mind that Pickle (the dog) destroyed the wig shortly afterwards... ;-)
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When it sleeps, does it snore?
;-)
Yes to DogLions! We need moar DogLions!
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;-)
Yes to DogLions! We need moar DogLions!

Concurrently, at the same time and together. It sounds roughly like woofoooaaaar.
;-)
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;-)

But I say we give it a go at running the country.
I'm pretty sure it's already on some of the money.
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I'm pretty sure it's already on some of the money.


Shoot me now, Ive grown bored and Im on co-dydramol...life is slipping.

Bro it's definitely meant to bro like that.
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I try but it keeps screaming come at me bro and shows me pictures of the worst kind of scum of all time
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Gimme! And remember: An overdose of heroin is fatal - in the short term. But there has been no research whatsoever into long term effects
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You don't want your elbow to feel like a fortnight in a bad balloon.
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One young kiddie on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It's a fucking disgrace.
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Found this on the daily fail while lookig for hitler pics
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-463391/Did-Hitler-unleash-Holocaust-Jewish-prostitute-gave-syphilis.html

Or the much over-hyped Spitfire? Can't quite tell from this angle.
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It would be cuddling up to him.
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"Oh yes! Make some lebensraum for ME, baby!"
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"They believe he may have caught the sexually transmitted disease syphilis which, if untreated, can eventually cause madness. Also, I have a little squirrel who converts coal to diamonds in his little paws. HERE COME THE RAINBOW-SHITTERS SAMANTHA"
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I like the detail at the back with the curl of "material"
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*knows nothing of the way of such things*
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Top Milibanding
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and shiny.
WOO!
i still think you should ahve done a duck.
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:25,
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WOO!
i still think you should ahve done a duck.

Can we? Can we? Please?
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The moment you start going on about forcefully eradicating the lazy, workshy social underclass, people get all uppity.
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I know, because the Daily Fail tell me several times a day that you're not allowed to talk about immigration.
Even david Cameron in his speech on immigration, said you're not allowed to talk about immigration even when you're talking about immigration.
It's political correctness gone mad
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 13:14,
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Even david Cameron in his speech on immigration, said you're not allowed to talk about immigration even when you're talking about immigration.
It's political correctness gone mad

"If we could copyright policies, our lawyers would be 'round 10 Downing Street right now ... !"
If people would just shut up and do as I tell them this world would be much better for everyone, but am I allowed my own highly-trained army of stealth attack ninjas? Am I hell.
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If people would just shut up and do as I tell them this world would be much better for everyone, but am I allowed my own highly-trained army of stealth attack ninjas? Am I hell.

Tell neighbours "They moved away after winning the lottery *whispers* of death..."
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It's that or knocking on newly-moved-in neighbour's doors and telling them that you "speak for the community when I say we like it just the way it is around these parts."
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is really quite depressing.
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I really liked Mr Blobby when he first appeared.
Then it got silly
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Then it got silly

danny dyer's a cock, but you already know that
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Ms Cherry doesn't really float my coracle.
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Although, seeing all those "No's" I'm thinking about doing a Vicar of Dibley version - "no, no, no, no, no...yes"
I probably won't though :D
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I probably won't though :D

answers on a postcard
If it had been the bloke from the thing with Dawn French that would make sense, but he would look terrible in a dress
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If it had been the bloke from the thing with Dawn French that would make sense, but he would look terrible in a dress

a classic of the 'pop songs written by people with a poor grasp of the english language' genre
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how exactly have you met your destiny in quite a similar way?
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Agnetha Fältskog formally demanded political asylum from the British Captain Frederick Maitland on HMS Bellerophon and was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
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"It sounded exotic and far away!" Benny was heard to cry as they increased the voltage..
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Also 'Belfast' by Boney M is the the most moving description of The Troubles ever written by a German.
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"The Troubles" is still the greatest English understatement, ever.
My gran had trouble with her hips, but she never actively invaded her neighbour's garden.
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:31,
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My gran had trouble with her hips, but she never actively invaded her neighbour's garden.

- I hate her and don't know her but I hate her persona!
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Not on anything she's written, though. Maybe on a photo of Hattie Jacques or a copy of "War and Peace" or something.
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with the inevitable 'what's the difference - up the M1' gag.
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see Leona Lewis being voted most influential London woman of the last century FFS
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All they did was post names of 'some influential women' and asked the moronic readers to vote for their favourite.
Then they posted the results as 'Leona Lewis - most influential woman of century'.
Terrible 'journalism'.
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Then they posted the results as 'Leona Lewis - most influential woman of century'.
Terrible 'journalism'.

i will definitely be using the slogan "politics - it's shit because you deserve it" in future.
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Genuinely not a clue. My life is likely better for this.
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I've seen her face around, but I couldn't name her.
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is it fairtrade banana or a mass produced environmentally unsound banana? These questions need to be asked - in a very loud voice probably wearing a gorilla costume!
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pinko, liberal, watered-down poltics?
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Commission Regulation (EC) 2257/94 was repealed (snarf!) years ago.
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It's why I drink, you know.
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arf!
it's a cruel world

it's a cruel world broadcasting environment dominated by the likes of SyCo, Freemantle & Endemol peddling the same stale turd formats.
/rant over
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/rant over


Celebrity Juice need to fuck these two clowns off asap!
/SHIT-TING!
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/SHIT-TING!

It was much better with the Hoff instead of these little shiteating cuntmonkeys.
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but I have a shed load of respect for them after one popped his knee on stage and continued on to finish the gig.
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And you remember what happened last time.
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Click for bigger (321 kb)
They really didn't think this one through, did they?


"kids & adult.......
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 13:27,
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just as they didn't think it through the last 7 times it has been posted
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I shelled out nearly a grand on a new computer, which only came with Firewire 800 while my old one had firewire 400, so my hard drive and camera required new cables. Oy!
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Which I bought in an apple store, so *cough* the bloke convinced me to shell out for these two obscenely priced apple branded ones...
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![Challenge Entry: Mythical Creatures [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

Noble Phoenix keeps "The Little Match Girl" worm and safe from freezing to death. One of the numerous proofs that the appearance of Mythical Creatures can be very useful in our everyday lives.

Like "No more forrins...unless you go to Oxbridge or work in the City"
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And I'm glad it got FP with only 2 comments, otherwise I would have missed it :)
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That, and introducing some form of testing system whereby people who can genuinely be swayed by whether or not they think the candidate's got nice hair can be rounded up and shot, and you've got an ideal democracy.
Another case closed by A Vagabond - Private Dick.
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Another case closed by A Vagabond - Private Dick.


And bumper-size tins of Tetra Fin fish food, too.
Although that's a very specific, and 'moving house related' example.
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Although that's a very specific, and 'moving house related' example.

I agree.
However, since I also never got round to telling whoever I'm meant to tell that I'm living outside of Britain, I don't get a vote in this referendum and hence should probably just shut my stupid gob.
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However, since I also never got round to telling whoever I'm meant to tell that I'm living outside of Britain, I don't get a vote in this referendum and hence should probably just shut my stupid gob.

And I weep - I WEEP - for those women.
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Admittedly, they are crying with the joy of not having done so.
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I can see no reason at all for making voting compulsory - that something is a right doesn't imply that it's also a duty. Besides, isn't not turning up at all just as much of a political statement as placing a cross in a box? couldn't not turning up at all be just as much of a political statement as placing a cross in a box?
Edited to remove obvious error, 11:19.
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Edited to remove obvious error, 11:19.

disenfranchisement is a real problem with the current voting system
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Sitting at the sidelines and complaining is simply childish.
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what you are saying is that if you can't vote for what you want vote for anything else as that's better than voting for nothing - just wrong!
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For people who are too stupid to be able to turn up and spoil their ballot paper (which means it is counted).
If there's nothing to vote for, start your own party or don't express opinions on pololotics - it's pretty simple. If you're not doing something to change what you're complaining about, clearly it's not so bad.
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If there's nothing to vote for, start your own party or don't express opinions on pololotics - it's pretty simple. If you're not doing something to change what you're complaining about, clearly it's not so bad.

with tiny, delicate bells, carved from emeralds plundered from the very jewel-vaults of Xerxes himself, on.
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often it isn't and standing in elections isn't as easy as you think (yes I have been on that side of things) you have to pay £5,000 and if you don't get 5% of the vote you lose your deposit which is a major deterent for many people and parties from standing. So what do I see on my ballot sheet? Tory, Lib Dems, Labour, BNP, UKIP and if I'm lucky some near left alternative like Greens or some Socialist Alliance which are my first preferrences but if they don't stand then they can kiss my arse I'm not voting for any of the rest!
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whether voting is made compulsory (which i actually sincerely doubt will happen) or not, there should be the option of showing your antipathy towards the choices you've got. something better than not showing up or just spoiling the paper. if enough people vote for "none of the above" it might be a sign to smaller parties that this is a constituency that can be targetted properly.
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because candidates have an incentive to be as vanilla as possible, and any radical suggestion will almost certainly be watered down to make it palatable to the majority.
Voting gives the impression of political activity; I'm not sure that it counts as much more, though.
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Voting gives the impression of political activity; I'm not sure that it counts as much more, though.

They all made some pretty big changes
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Exceptional cases make for bad rules...
Hitler was hardly what we'd term a free and fair job, though. Atlee I'll grant you, although there the circumstances were exceptional. Thatcher, I think, was nowhere near as radical as her fanboys make out. All she did was paint in more stark terms the basic drift towards economic libertarianism that had marked the previous decades (and, arguably, most decades since the early 19th C).
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Hitler was hardly what we'd term a free and fair job, though. Atlee I'll grant you, although there the circumstances were exceptional. Thatcher, I think, was nowhere near as radical as her fanboys make out. All she did was paint in more stark terms the basic drift towards economic libertarianism that had marked the previous decades (and, arguably, most decades since the early 19th C).

Voting should be compulsory if only to stop people whining about how it's all so unfair, despite the fact that they didn't even bloody vote.
"Don't express opinions unless prepared to do something about them" - that sort of thing.
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"Don't express opinions unless prepared to do something about them" - that sort of thing.

maybe they have a point that there is nothing for them to vote for?
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I don't vote, because I'm not sold on the idea that we ought to follow the majority just because it's the majority. I prefer good government to popular government. That isn't the same as laziness or indifference.
What I do do is write to MPs, give evidence to Parliament, and that sort of thing.
There's more than one way to be politically engaged.
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What I do do is write to MPs, give evidence to Parliament, and that sort of thing.
There's more than one way to be politically engaged.

I see.
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it makes much more sense for me to do it by means of directly contacting the government, than by being just one small voice in a crowd.
In reality, the idea that one candidate is better suited than another is probably bunk. Most people are pretty much OK at most stuff, with a few flaws. It's a matter of indifference to me what their party is. What matters is their ability to seek, listen to, and respond appropriately to expert voices in a given field.
Like I said: I'm interested in good (or wise) government rather than popular government.
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In reality, the idea that one candidate is better suited than another is probably bunk. Most people are pretty much OK at most stuff, with a few flaws. It's a matter of indifference to me what their party is. What matters is their ability to seek, listen to, and respond appropriately to expert voices in a given field.
Like I said: I'm interested in good (or wise) government rather than popular government.

Could you cite an example of where such 'wise' government exists?
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Libel reform, the Human Fertilisation and Ebryology Act (as ammended 2008), and a few other things strike me as being wise. Ditto environmental protection legislation (though we could do with more of it).
I'm careful to distinguish between wise government and wise governments, of course. And I can point to any number of examples of unwise-yet-popular government.
Right: I'm off!
:)
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:37,
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I'm careful to distinguish between wise government and wise governments, of course. And I can point to any number of examples of unwise-yet-popular government.
Right: I'm off!
:)

Not turning up could be due to any number of things, from laziness to illness. If you want to make a political statement you can surely do something better than that. Conversely I've often felt that people claiming that not voting is a "political statement" are more or less making excuses. A better political statement would be spoiling the ballot paper -- it's totally useless, of course, but they do count the number of spoiled ballots. If everyone making a political statement by not voting actually turned up and did something that *would* be a statement by spoiling the paper, that might even get noticed.
Though if I'm right, no, it wouldn't, because most of the people making "political statements" wouldn't bother showing up regardless...
I'd like to see compulsory voting, but only if a "none of the above" or "re-open nominations" was there, and counted properly, and adhered to. So if RON got a clear majority, the election would have to be run again, ideally with none of the same candidates allowed to stand. Rinse and repeat until everyone gets fed up and goes home. (Yeah I can see how this might not work...)
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Though if I'm right, no, it wouldn't, because most of the people making "political statements" wouldn't bother showing up regardless...
I'd like to see compulsory voting, but only if a "none of the above" or "re-open nominations" was there, and counted properly, and adhered to. So if RON got a clear majority, the election would have to be run again, ideally with none of the same candidates allowed to stand. Rinse and repeat until everyone gets fed up and goes home. (Yeah I can see how this might not work...)

maybe it's not laziness but cause and effect of a system that doesn't respresent people fairly?
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if you're pretending that about 60% of people in britain don't show up to vote because they're "disenfranchaised" rather than fucking lazy then i think you know different, more galvanised people to me. most people i know don't vote not because they're disenfranchaised but because they can't be arsed. are the two things related? yeah, probably, but not everyone cares as much about politics as you (rightly or wrongly) and the laziness is high on the list a lot of people.
there's never one cause for anything. saying "people don't vote because they're lazy" is just as inaccurate as saying "people don't vote because they feel they don't have the option of voting for a candidate who closest represents their point of view", and vice-versa.
for the record i've gone to vote when i had no right to be out walking on the street from my flat to the voting booth because i'd just had an operation and could barely even shuffle along the road. at the same time, many of my friends couldn't be bothered making time in their day to vote, whether before work or after work. "i don't have time", they said. yes, yes you do, you just can't be arsed to make time. that to me is laziness.
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there's never one cause for anything. saying "people don't vote because they're lazy" is just as inaccurate as saying "people don't vote because they feel they don't have the option of voting for a candidate who closest represents their point of view", and vice-versa.
for the record i've gone to vote when i had no right to be out walking on the street from my flat to the voting booth because i'd just had an operation and could barely even shuffle along the road. at the same time, many of my friends couldn't be bothered making time in their day to vote, whether before work or after work. "i don't have time", they said. yes, yes you do, you just can't be arsed to make time. that to me is laziness.

as long as I have something I can vote for but I won't ever call someone lazy for not voting or even be so fascist as to say if you don't vote you don't have the right to hold an opinion as if the current voting system is a right to hold an opinion! Some people are lazy and have very clear views but don't vote but disenfranchisment is still a real problem whether they want to admit it or not!
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i just think that straight and simple apathy is also an enormous problem. the former could be at least partly addressed by giving us an option to reject all candidates (and if that wins, those candidates are barred from restanding in that constituency, which would be beautiful if it were ever to happen). the latter could be addressed by then making voting in parliamentary elections obligatory. that should never happen unless the "none of the above" box is there, but if it was i'd actually back it.
\note to self: political arguments online can often be a bad idea...
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\note to self: political arguments online can often be a bad idea...

but I alway have to ask why is that so many people just can't be arsed? Is it purely apathy and indifference, I think not. I think it might be an education issue, that many people are left utterly confused by who represents what I remember not so long ago when someone was called a Trotskyist 99% of people hadn't a clue what that was or who the hell Leon Trotsky was even those educated in such matters hold differing opinions about what a Trotskyist is and whether that's a good or a bad thing - history is written by the victors and therefore it's never as straight and truthful as it should be.
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Basically people are fat, warm and comfortable, and as long as you don't rock the boat too much, they don't really care what happens outside the television.
In a way this is a good thing - docile, bovine people distracted with shiny flashing electronic gadgets are easy to control.
On the other hand, of course, it's a complete fucking affront to humanity, and they should be harvested for their organs.
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Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:48,
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In a way this is a good thing - docile, bovine people distracted with shiny flashing electronic gadgets are easy to control.
On the other hand, of course, it's a complete fucking affront to humanity, and they should be harvested for their organs.

I think that it could be a statement; but it's obviously wrong to say that it is. I phrased things badly up there.
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/Starship Troopers blog
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