This is what’s wrong with the BBC’s comment system.
The command and control approach is a key tenet of socialism. We have speed and CCTV cameras everywhere, the threatening DVLA and TV licensing adverts(It’s all in the database), councils spying on local residents, and that’s all quite apart from the erosion of civil liberties highlighted by Stella Rimington.
It’s interesting to note that Labour now refers to itself as a ‘Democratic Socialist’ party on its website, proof that they
have reverted to type…
fair to middl eng, Middle England, United Kingdom
How stupid do you have to be to think that Labour are socialist democrats? I guess you have to be so fucking gullible that you’ll believe what you read on the Labour website. Quite an effort in credulity. But this dullard manages it. As if this level of idiocy wasn’t enough, he/she raises the bar again by seeming to believe that democracy and socialism are something to be feared. I guess that’s fair enough if you’re after a right-wing dictatorship.
Anyway, the real problem with the BBC comments system is the range of options you’re now presented with. You’re left with a choice between clicking “Recommend this comment” or else stepping away from the computer and banging your face on the wall for a few minutes. There’s no button for “This is bollocks”, “I can’t believe there are people this gullible and stupid in the world” or “I pity the confused, angry, cat penis that wrote this”. Even the Daily Mail manages to provide both “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” buttons. The end result of all this is that browsing the BBC’s “Have Your Say” forums makes reading the Daily Mail seem like reading the Socialist Worker. Left-wing bias my fat fucking arse.
32 Responses to “Friday Rant”
cant we jsut laguh at teh stupisd?
@Mr Cat – Yes. Yes we can…
The trouble with the Daily Stürmer Comments is that anybody who makes a remark anything less than advocating the instant death/flogging/deportation of the ‘other’ is afflicted by a blizzard of thumbs down. There was a fine example yesterday with the story on whether an actor playing Al Jolson in the West End was right to not wear blackface.
After some considered debate, they have agreed to bring back the Jim Crow laws, all expenses paid trips on the Middle Passage and free manacles.
Great stuff guys!!!!
Nto to meniton the pisissed
Anyone else giggle at the name ‘Rimington’?
Just me then.
If anyone wants to bait the lovely contributors of HYS into reading this site and responding, the moderators let you happily display this site’s URL in the location section. It is probably one of the few relief’s they get.
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?messageID=5927153&edition=1&ttl=20090220104407&start=315�
YES!!! 6 recommendations. Watch out Cameron, I AM THE REAL FUCKING OPPOSITION.
All the regular twats know about this place already.
Bollocks, looks like I missed the bandwagon.
We need to take this man seriously about the Social Democrat thing – he’s clearly seen the top secret master plans to create gulags for people who don’t recycle or who let their kids drink Sunny D (I personally agree with this). And the name ‘fair to middle eng’ is a creation of sublime comedy punning and as such we should pay his/her ideas a lot of…. no, I can’t type any more with a straight face. Worra twat!
HJD – you’re not alone in your Rimington giggles. I work with someone whose surname is Fuchs. The hilarity is never-ending.
I used to work with an American surnamed ‘Wankmeister’ and an Indian lady with the first name ‘Mingita’.
Both true (you couldn’t make it up, etc.)
Now, where is my Two Ronnies sketchbook…
I worked with an Aussie who’s surname was Felsch-Jennyns. He asked to call him Felchy. We laughed. A lot.
Sorry, what was the question?
Those Al Jolson comments are amazing. I’m waiting to see if mine gets published/heavily recommended:
Many years ago I worked with a lady called “Teresa Green”.
In all my dealings with her I could never quite get past the notion that her parents were complete and utter cunts for calling her that.
I think fairtomiddleng doesn’t know that the Labour party are pathetically attempting to label themselves as a European-style social democratic party. The only problem for them was that if they called themselves the SDP, people might start getting very confused indeed.
After all, the SDP’s policies were far more left-wing than the Labour Party’s are today.
Barry Brownsword and Roger Lovering were 2 employees here.
That just made organic wheat grass smoothie come out of my nose.
If you go to BYB they’ve trapped John Adair there like a rabid caged racist tiger (Apparently it really is him). It’s pretty unpleasant though.
From the Al Jolson comments
Typical PC cretins getting a black woman to play a teenage whore. I remember when I was a lad all the prostitutes were nice white girls. Crap on the other hand is proper Victorian slang.
Also:
It isn’t him.
Yeah! And all of the characters in that BBC “Rome” series speak English not Latin, so you’ll not want to watch that either you dozy twot.
And don’t waste your money on those Lord of the Rings films either – there’s barely a word of actual Elvish in them…
Oh for the love of God why, why, do these ignorant cunts continue to refer to the British Labour party as socialist?
why!
It’s not like its even remotely left wing.
Imagine if a real socialist party came along, would the HYSers just explode?
It stretches my imagination to even picture a human being so misinformed on political theory and current political discourse.
They must neither understand what socialism is, nor what the Labour Party today practises.
It’s as if they are calling the Belgian Post Office a Jacobite orgainisation.
What diseased prick did these fuckers drip off of anyway?
Mark Thatcher’s?
My daughter has a teacher called ‘Ivana Wanky’. For reals. Even that pales into insignificance next to the fact that there is a Turkish politician called Mustafa Bumin. Scaryduck will back me up on this.
It is him. http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/profile.jspa?userID=1059466
Check out the location.
He lives in a 500 error? Compelling evidence.
“can’t believe there are people this gullible and stupid in the world”
This has been my own personal mantra now for a long time. I’m getting sick of saying it.
Surely the fact that you’ve been saying it for so long is concrete reason to start believing.
@ Dr Feelgood
“…and an Indian lady with the first name ‘Mingita’”
Do you live in Croydon? I told someone that was my name when I was drunk once, which he found really funny, because I also told him I was a lesbian.
I was lying btw.
I love how this Canadian bore has hijacked a discussion about Al Jolson to tell people about what s/he’s been watching on the telly lately. Fascinating! What time of year was it? What jumper were you wearing?