Thanks to Russ for this one, as well as the perfect response to it.
Are the Israeli strikes on Gaza justified?
I would like to ask the Eurovision committee to exclude Israel from participating in the next song contest.
A European, Madrid
Yeah, that’ll do it.
Annie from Oxford on “Why it’s ok to bomb Arabs”.
As an aside, and an attempt for all you anti-semites to understand what sort of world you might inhabit should you live in a non Jewish world, just do a Google search for Jewish comedians, then do one for Islamic comedians. Laugh, live life – that is the Jewish way.
annie, Oxford
Who can forget Lenny Bruce’s hilarious monologue on Israel’s right to defend itself?
What do you want to hear in the Queen’s speech?
I would like the Queen to mention British troops serving overseas, and the service personnel have lost their lives in the last twelve months.
Eleanor, UK
It’s a long shot but you never know.
Thanks to James. The Mail has uncovered a scandal at Cadburys: “Without warning, the nation’s favourite chocolatier has axed four ranges – Time Outs, Picnics, Dreams and Crunchies – from tins of Heroes and replaced them with just two – Bournvilles and toffee Eclairs.”
No doubt that Gordon Brown had some part to play in this scandal.
Graeme Carter, London, UK
It’s more likely to have been Skeletor. Remember that time he crept into Castle Grayskull and swapped all the nutty chocolates for orange creams, just before Christmas?
What should be done to stabilise oil prices? If only there was someone really, really clever around. A man who litters his conversation with words like “incur” and “governance”. Someone so knowledgeable that Stephen Fry Himself wants to have lunch with him.
The future of oil cannot be stabilised due to the influences on its value being unpredictable. The problem does not so much rest with providers because they will exploit their oil resource to their best advantage. Consumer demand incurs oil value. An alternative style of government would be the most effective solution. Whilst the economic style of governance is related to such a volatile price index, subsequent measures will influence the public purse, and thereby influence society accordingly.
Peter Troup, Corby, United Kingdom
Stupid elf cunt.
An old one I found while browsing through the half-baked musings of “[Joman_B]“.
Who should be responsible for children’s safety online?
Gordon Brown
[JoMan_B]
Fair enough during the summer months, but at this time of year he’s already very busy helping people defrost their windscreens. Not to mention preparing his sleigh for Christmas Eve!
Thanks to Ben.
I am not against people being made to work if they are genuinely capable of doing so but I have read alot this week about the need to teach ‘happiness’ in schools because of, apparently, lack of parental gudance at home. Now the proposal is to send mother’s of babies under one out to work. Where are the jobs that will pay enough for childcare and a living and still provde time for that all imprtant infant boning?
Kate Western, Rochester
Paedo.
Should government cigarette plans go further?
Why not make the packaging unattractive i.e. enforce a minimum size for the packet, heavier weight cardboard etc so it doesn’t fit in your pocket and therefore becomes bulky to carry and no longer seen as a status symbol to the under age.
Sean Cleaver, Hastings
Yeah! Then, right, when you open the packet, it could play an endless loop of “Scouting For Girls” until you have to stop smoking, throw the packet away, hunt the nauseating little pricks down, and kick them again and again and again and again and again and AGAIN AND AGAIN in their horrid little pudgy potato faces until they shut the fuck up, forever. Also, you could dip the cigarettes themselves in alsation spunk and glitter. Nobody’s going to try and impress their friends by sucking on a stinky, jizzy sparkle-stick are they?
The Iceberg on the Road to my Brain
As a child, I would always be fascinated when the next-door neighbours lured me into their house with a penguin biscuit and the promise of a kitten. You see, their house was an exact mirror image of ours – stairs on the other side of the hall, toilet on the right not the left, and what we used as a garage was their soundproofed sex dungeon. The BBC blogs can be a bit like that. For instance,as David spotted, Rory Cellan-Jones’ dot.life blog has a story about the reactionary, wrong-headed, knee jerk perceived-paedo response of the Internet Watch Foundation to a 25 year old album cover on the Wikipedia page of a German metal group.
For a start this is through the looking glass because it’s usually Cellan-Jones himself that’s 25 years out of date (his intriguing exposé of this “LOL-cats” phenomenon is scheduled for 2016) but also because the comments mostly eschew the expected knee-jerk “SAVE ARE PRESHUS KIDDIES” reaction.
But only because there’s no point in saving the kids when you could be having a dig at Brown & Co.
I can view the page [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]from CHINA !!! This is what the UK has become – more censorious than China.
Maybe the picture wouldn’t be so offensive if the album wasn’t entitled “Virgin Killer”.
malau69
Maybe your post wouldn’t be so idiotic if you had a sense of perspective.
This is how all Stalinist governments work.
First they choose to censor something that most people would find reasonable to censor, such as the image of a naked child.
Before you know it, all wikipedia pages relating to opposition politicians and opposition parties will also be unavailable.
I see IWF are ’supported’ by both the Home Office and the Dept of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, enough said !
zzkevinm
zzkevinm, one day there will be a statue to you in Hyde Park. When we’ve defeated the suppressive government regime and freed our tongues again, people will visit and lay flowers at the foot of your bronze, by the sign that says “zzkevinm saved us all by warning us about censorship on the internet then doing fuck all about the creeping horror that he supposedly identified, but he did have a wank to some Buffy fanfic later in the afternoon.”
Tip of the iceberg which leads down the innevitable road to the Thought Police. No unelected body has the right to tell me what is and is not illegal, full stop.
Custador
But if you could be a rolling stone on that road maybe you could smash the glass ceiling the iceberg’s resting on and make an omelette with the chickens you’ve counted. Those are the chickens of unfettered thought making the omelette of free speech, as if the metaphor wasn’t perfectly obvious.
I checked up on John Adair. He has a question for Gordon Brown on what he’ll do as Prime Minister when he’s no longer Prime Minister.
Gordon, when the British National Party get into power, will political campaigners for the Labour party get arrested for handing out Labout party leaflets and be thrown into prison cells after having their DNA took?
john Adair, England Not Britain, Virgin Islands (UK)
I’d say almost certainly. It’d only be fair after the way they persecuted Hitler.