song from a 1980 musical shot in black and white
Mystic knights of oingo boingo, Herve Villechaize and vibrating bottoms (briefly)
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 0:14, Reply)
is quite something. I've always been fond of Oingo Boingo and this is them turned up to the max
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 8:48, Reply)
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 10:02, Reply)
Caricature 'arguments' and faux outrage can be fun though.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 23:01, Reply)
play the national anthem at all (including school and amateur) sporting events and any other time they can;
they pledge allegiance to the flag, every day at school;
routinely fly their flag outside their houses;
often require people to swear to uphold the constitution on job applications.
I always found this odd as we don't really push the patriotism thing.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 1:03, Reply)
Whenever we feel the need for some symbol of our national identity all we need to do is imagine Madge sitting on her throne. But, at the same time, we're (generally) not so stupid to advocate blind loyalty to a flesh and blood person these days.
For all that it has been twisted out of shape, the USA was founded on an idea more than anything else, but you can't visibly show support for an idea hence their odd flag worship. I think it's all connected to their belief that the USA really is the best country in the world at everything; it doesn't help that they've never really been brought low on their own soil like most other countries have been (including us).
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 3:05, Reply)
Just open a tabloid newspaper to find all the flag waving bullshit you could possibly need.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 7:11, Reply)
They are theocratic in some areas too, I couldn't stand that either.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 14:03, Reply)
This jubilee celebration will bring it all to the surface. The schools are told to go to town on that
Then we've got the funeral and the coronation to look forward to. Pretty sure we're in the build up to that at the moment - endless royal documentaries and fawning newspaper coverage already softening us up for a new, ridiculous head of state
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 15:07, Reply)
Another good reason to be reclusive too.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 19:52, Reply)
It's strange that a country with an explicit separation between church and state written into its founding documents produces more god-bothering nutcases than one where the head of state is also the titular head of the church.
Maybe there's something about the Anglican branch of christianity that makes its adherents more inclined towards a nice sit-down with tea and biscuits than spouting hateful vitriol on street corners.
(, Thu 19 May 2022, 6:06, Reply)
Education (especially sciences) does tend to make mass delusion more difficult. For proper theocracy, an ignorant/frightened/powerless population who can be persuaded that one version of god will solve their problems (in the next life) is necessary.
Once a critical mass of 'true believers' is obtained, conformity pressures and laws passed make the rest easier.
Anglicanism was very much more coercive than it is now.
(, Thu 19 May 2022, 15:39, Reply)
God save the queen isn’t patriotic enough, the BBC should play Rule Britannia every half hour over footage of the Belgrano sinking
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 23:34, Reply)
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 1:10, Reply)
you're right, it's talk tv that's tumbleweeds
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 3:40, Reply)
yet is faring the worse of the two. Farage on GB is consistently beating Morgan on Talk in terms of ratings. That's very worrying for Talk, because say what you like about that cunt Morgan, but he is a big time TV star, Farage ain't. Personally, I think Talk's problem is, as far as I can work out, is it's just a televised talk radio show 95% of the time, with endless idiots phoning in, and people don't want to watch a radio show.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 13:16, Reply)
or deserved if you prefer
but I think his biggest problem is not him being a bit of a nob, it's him not being a big enough one. He initially fawned a bit over trump and was given opportunities in the US because of that relationship, but in the end he's never going to be one of these "drunk the kool aid" ranters like hannity or carlson. So he's left in this no-mans land where all sides hate him. He recently tried to claw back a bit of credibility by asking trump some unexpected curlers, not exactly frost/nixon but at least he was trying, so the trumpistas have turned on him too. And people who watch because they like getting told the world is going to hell in a woke handbasket won't get there fix from him either. He's a decent though not spectacularly good interviewer who unsuccessfully courted the right without really being one of them and now is friendless in the middle on a shitty channel no one watches
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 14:21, Reply)
Morgan was handed the ball with a prime time news show on CNN. It was very high profile under Larry King, and although the ratings weren’t amazeballs, it was respectable. He alienated his audience with his snotty, superior, know-it-all bollocks, most famously on gun control, but also more generally. After a while it was clear the ratings slide wasn’t just the underdog struggling to fill big shoes, it was his negative charisma.
By some fucking fluke Morgan won Celebrity Apprentice with Trump. Who’d have guessed an egotistical cunt would get on so well with a self obsessed shit? This made them old mates or BFF or whatever when Trump became president. He cynically, venally and ruthlessly exploited this connection to put himself in the spotlight. In order to do so he basically completely turned a blind eye to the insanity of Trump.
Plus there’s the autobiography where he LITERALLY explains how to hack a phone. Of course he breezily says he never did it. If you go and watch the episode of HIGNFY where he basically threatens to continue to have hacks and paps stalk Ian Hislop, but henceforth with more subterfuge, after Hislop calls him out for doing it, that breezy denial is transparently implausible. He wasn’t joking, it was a threat to continue. He was having the tits hacked off of loads of people.
Then there’s Viglen and the fake photos purporting to be British soldiers torturing people.
He’s an utter piece of shit. So it unnerves me when bits of his schtick resonate. But he doesn’t mean any of it. It’s all calculated as to what can get him front and centre. Nothing else matters.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 21:13, Reply)
I just wonder which demographic he appeals to? Perhaps he was going for a larry king style, but king was personable and consistently landed a-list guests from across the spectrum, so he had that "insomniac baby-boomer looking for unchallenging entertainment with guests they actually recognise" demographic. Piers, like you said, can be smarmy and superior, and now only d-listers want to be interviewed by him. I doubt trump will come back, though you never know
(, Thu 19 May 2022, 0:16, Reply)
He got a free ride on phone hacking and the fake photos from most on the left as he was always seen as a legit cheerleader as editor of The Mirror. I really don’t see him as Left or Right. He’s a shameless chameleon and an astonishing attention seeker. There’s a lot of bluster, but no gravitas. He’s not an intellectual, he’s not a wit, but he is loud, like an empty vessel.
TBH, I’m not all that keen on the guy.
(, Thu 19 May 2022, 20:53, Reply)
That alone should be enough to get him on a register.
(, Wed 18 May 2022, 6:57, Reply)
been a while since my last post..enjoy!
(no, I didnt make this)
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 20:15, Reply)
I'm sure we can sleuth this one out.
hansard.parliament.uk/search/Members?currentFormerFilter=1
It's not Marc Francois!
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 19:20, Reply)
Elected as an MP in 2001, so he's eligible...
Hansard has him silent today, oh my....
But alas he attended cabinet and has made multiple statements today, presumably not from his jail cell.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 19:42, Reply)
This guy??

Elected 2001...
Silent today on Hansard...
Looking for evidence he's not in a jail cell.... Last tweet was yesterday... Guido Fawkes clearly thinks it's him....
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 20:00, Reply)
I think we have our man.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 21:38, Reply)
A right-wing, flag shagging, dictator supporting, forrin hating, brexit loving, career conservative shit.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 23:30, Reply)
Makes sense. Also Guido Fawkes is an utter bellend.and most are silent on Hansard because they busy filling out expenses.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 21:58, Reply)
as he talks a lot of bollocks all the time.
Guido is/are awful, yes.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 22:27, Reply)
Always knew he was a wrong 'un

(, Wed 18 May 2022, 14:44, Reply)
he watched two girls and one cup for the first time, and 10 minutes of typing later his voice modulator said ":fuck"
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 15:08, Reply)
It really does look like a video game now.
Also, is this the whole day’s fights distilled into 30 mins?
Ta for posting, I'd forgotten how this used to be on tv.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 12:19, Reply)
Poor Takayasu looks ready to quit, and that judges decision made about as much sense as the one against Hoshoryu yesterday.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 14:29, Reply)
the Stiffies
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 17:55, Reply)
Very expensive house including DJ booth on hydraulic lifted floor fails to meet asking price.
video link as it doesn't fullscreen
30m10s no 3ppb
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 12:44, Reply)
Probably knows more about skin tags than price tags
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 17:28, Reply)
Cardiologists have stethoscopes, radiologists have x-rays, dermatologists have stock portfolios.
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 23:10, Reply)
Actually they sound quite interesting, I'll pay attention next time.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 8:39, Reply)
Is it like the fizzy drink the kids love?
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 13:41, Reply)
He looks like a sex-doll.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 18:47, Reply)
...in VR using a Headset Ultrasound Phased Array - mmm
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 0:52, Reply)
"We built a variety of sensory demos, including raindrops, mud splatter, pushing through cobwebs, and crawling bugs"
Way to sell the technology...
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 13:28, Reply)
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 0:36, Reply)
Going around local garden centers asking for "Nitradau ac Amoniwm perchlorad?" ...
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 12:16, Reply)
I have seen no particular indications that he's a kent, but many of the things he has climbed are pretty cool.
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 7:22, Reply)
but he still hasn't found his car keys
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 14:53, Reply)
Enough is enough.
(, Sun 15 May 2022, 17:22, Reply)
save it for your fakebook friends and only fans love
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 0:37, Reply)
I don't wanna see a woman as old as my mom spinning her gloops around.either.
(, Tue 17 May 2022, 22:36, Reply)
There's a podcast called 'Smartless' with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and they talk to Nile Rogers. lots of stories including the infamous 'Le Freak' tale....(not sure if he talks about it in this video...)
(, Mon 16 May 2022, 0:00, Reply)
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