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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Christmas stuff has been in the shops for weeks
they were putting the Christmas lights up in Birmingham on Wednesday.

I hate capitalism.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 21:57, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Welcome to The Cause Comrade

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 21:59, Reply)
the thing is, though
that from around the 10th of December onwards, I am like a tiny tiny child. I love Christmas. I just hate the ever-growing buildup to it.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:00, Reply)
You're like a tiny child all year round - short-arse.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:02, Reply)
true
I look like a 12 year old in my bobble hat, as well.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:04, Reply)
We'll have to start calling you Pootle

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:06, Reply)
ha
Totally this^
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:07, Reply)
I can't imagine berk will remember The Flumps.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:07, Reply)
In have the tune in my head now.
Flumps was ace.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:10, Reply)
Mint!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHD2l-QVIg
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:14, Reply)
thank you!
that cheered me up after being on the phone to me mum for a while. That was pretty depressing
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:15, Reply)
Not a problem Captain!

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:18, Reply)
badum badum badum da do.
badum badum badum da do.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:14, Reply)
Here ya go Blousie.
Have a go on this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedq1VhaS90
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:16, Reply)
I remember it well but this was more my childhood memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f0oHGkVoPA&feature=related
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:18, Reply)
Half of the links you post are already purple for me...

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:18, Reply)
Then you've got no excuse for not knowing all of the references to yester-year.
Either that, or you never clear your internet history!
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
Probably the latter

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:24, Reply)
Swap the word 'bod' for 'berk'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elgrXip6Wm0&feature=related
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:26, Reply)
Before my time...

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:09, Reply)
Edumacate yourself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXMUR7eY_8
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:11, Reply)
Fuck me berk, this is hard work.
*One day, I promise to shoehorn in a reference you'll 'get'*
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:11, Reply)
There's still enough siilliness in my to like the good bits, but saddly it gets more and more burried under the loathing for the comercial bullshit.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:04, Reply)
Oi! I'm in charge of vetting new recruits, remember.
Even the female ones.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:01, Reply)
Yeah, but I'm alright, surely?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:02, Reply)
the 'vetting' process ids pretty rigourous.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:03, Reply)
sounds... interesting?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:04, Reply)
I dunno. I haven't interegated you yet.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:04, Reply)
If you want another number
I've been on the cause since I don't know when.

Actually I do. Since March 3rd 1997, when Kim Howells made his speech.

Edit - Am I taking this too seriously?
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:04, Reply)
I refer you to Comrade Blousie.
She tests all new recruits but you can have a provisional number of 4. I should make a badge or summat.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:09, Reply)
At the rate your Cause is growing
you'll probably have to buy three new copies of the Communist Manifesto, feeding some money into capitalism
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:10, Reply)
you'd think.
But we all share the one, like good comrades should.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:16, Reply)
Means we all have to get closer : )

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:22, Reply)
It also means that some of your less fortunate comrades
will have to learn how to read
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:39, Reply)
Are you implying Berk can't read?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:42, Reply)
Why berk? She's not a communist

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:43, Reply)
Or illiterate.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:46, Reply)
Too true

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:48, Reply)
Well, so far there are only 4 memebers of the B3ta Communist Party.
Me - Head, obviously
Blouski - Membership secretary and loveliness tester
Berk - Probationary
The Disappointed - Probationary

we're all going to cuddle up together on the BUS OF REVOLUTION and read the manifesto together on cold winter nights.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:47, Reply)
I thought it was Cavy with the bowl for the car keys?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:48, Reply)
that's a whole other party

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)
I think you get much the same people at both
share and share alike after all
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)
I like how TD is hedging his bets...
Being someone with several vehicles.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:51, Reply)
A sexeh party.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:51, Reply)
It sounds like a closeknit society

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:49, Reply)
You sound jealous.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)
I couldn't think of anything else to say
*sits alone in a capitalist party of one*
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:51, Reply)
An individualist should be happy to be of societal ties, no?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:53, Reply)
I'm happy to have societal ties
but I'm not cuddling up with people in sandals and kaftans
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:55, Reply)
We'll have none of that.
a loveliness requirement is one thing, but I draw the line at hippies.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:57, Reply)
I include CND badges in that

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:57, Reply)
I might own a small one.
this does not make me a hippy.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:00, Reply)
I beg to differ
you hippy communist
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:05, Reply)
You wore my anarchist hat.
by your own logic you are one of us.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:06, Reply)
I was clutching a small picture of Margaret Thatcher at the time
so I'm fine
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:09, Reply)
You never go anywhere with out your lucky Thatch Pants, do you?

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:11, Reply)
:(

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:58, Reply)
I didn't think you were interested in joining.
or a hippy.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:00, Reply)
meh
I have been described as hippy. Not sure if I'm a proper one. I do own sandals, but the kaftan is only for a larp character :)
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:02, Reply)
Hmm, well apply to Comrade Blouski
if you want to join.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 23:03, Reply)
with toys all around you

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:54, Reply)
Like a one woman teddy bear's tea party.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:56, Reply)
That sounds scarily infantile
thanks for that
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:58, Reply)
I don't mind looking after the vodka.
But I don't want to join.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:49, Reply)
Check out Groucho Marx over here!

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:53, Reply)
Ooooh.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:53, Reply)
The BGB has met me
And probably regrets it.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:11, Reply)
Pfft!

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:13, Reply)
Is that a commendation or not?
I could sit quietly at the back taking notes.

Or I could drive the BUS OF REVOLUTION.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:17, Reply)
BUS OF REVOLUTION!!
I like this idea.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
I have a PCV
I own two buses.

I can drive THE BUS OF REVOLUTION!
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:22, Reply)
I have pvc and I own two breasts.
I win.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:23, Reply)
^ WINNER!
In the words of Ron Pickering 'AWAY YOU GO!'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkHK8TQvrQ
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:27, Reply)
Like those 'light of jesus' buses
except better?
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:23, Reply)
Far better
We're off to the promised land, kids!

I'm driving, and my goodness how we'll meet that tractor quotient in the next five year plan.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:27, Reply)
They'll get their bus from the Westboro Baptist Church.
It'll save them decorating it.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:29, Reply)
I don't much care for it, but it's the only way I'm going to get food on the table.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:12, Reply)
I think only lovely people should become communitsts and then it would work really well.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:16, Reply)
This is why you get to vet them.
To assess loveliness
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
I am an expert on loveliness.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
'Zactly!

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:24, Reply)
But then who would be in charge of internal security.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
There will be no need.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:20, Reply)
Not Beria
That was a little mistake.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:20, Reply)
communismLOLs

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:24, Reply)
This could be where Stalin went wrong.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:19, Reply)
That and being a wanker.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:25, Reply)
"Wanker" might, in context, be a slight understatement

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:29, Reply)
Butcher and despot might be better.

(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:30, Reply)
Now now lass.
That's an insult to butchers.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:30, Reply)
A teeny tiny one.
He was, perhaps, a little misguided.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:30, Reply)
Well no
I think he was - like - rather in charge of what he was doing and don't talk him down, man. Right? Because, like, I mean if they were just farming for themselves, man, right, they were so fighting against the system, man.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:42, Reply)
Well, obviously.
And a lot of these so called 'atrocities' have been blown out of all proportion by the western media man.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)
You can't fight Capitalism
By waving a Communist flag.
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:56, Reply)
*places hand on heart*
*sings The Red Flag*
(, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 22:58, Reply)

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