Permanently Bewildered and Plain Weird09 Mar 2009 09:08 am
By Nelson

Thanks to Charlie. Anyone remember the miners’ strike? No? A quick reminder.

It was about one man, the then King Arthur 2nd to be. He’d conquered Heath, and Callaghan, and after Thatcher was heading for his Communist Castle, delivered by his stormtrooper knights, the miners. However, he didn’t reckon on a little woman from Grantham. Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages, corpses stacked in car parks, violence, venom, and hatred; bit like Zimbabwe really. But, come the moment, come the man. But this time it was a woman. The men weren’t up to the job.
[RadioRogerL], Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

It’s just a shame she was wiped out when one of Hitler’s asteroids crashed into the earth at the end of the Cretaceous period.

32 Responses to “King Arthur Mugabe”

  1. on 09 Mar 2009 at 9:23 am Felna

    I’m confused, is RadioRoger trying to tell us that Thatcher was like Mugabe, or that Zimbabwe’s problems would be solved if we sent a little woman form Grantham over there to sort him out?

  2. on 09 Mar 2009 at 9:24 am Felna

    Either way he’s an Antelope’s flange of the highest order.

  3. on 09 Mar 2009 at 9:42 am Monkeyhands

    I’m confused, is RadioRoger trying to tell us that Thatcher was like Mugabe, or that Zimbabwe’s problems would be solved if we sent a little woman from Grantham over there to sort him out?

    He’s saying that all the problems of the miner’s strike – unburied corpses, etc – were caused by King Arthur Scarface’s Communist ways, just as all the problems in Zimbabwe have been caused by Richard Mugabe III being too much of a socialist. So what Zimbabweland needs is Princess Grantham, queen of our hearts, to go over there and sort it out. Hope that’s clear.

  4. on 09 Mar 2009 at 9:45 am Kelvin

    candles, no heating, food shortages, corpses stacked in car parks, violence, venom, and hatred;

    AKA “government by HYS.”


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  6. on 09 Mar 2009 at 10:25 am Bitch Special

    [RadioRogerL], Ellesmere Port is way over my head, anyway.

  7. on 09 Mar 2009 at 10:33 am Jock

    RadioRogerL

    “Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages”

    If you’ve got candles you’ve got both heating and food, you shandy drinking southern softy.

  8. on 09 Mar 2009 at 11:25 am FrodoSaves

    No I think he’s saying that Zimbabwe achieved greatness through sacrificing Aslan on the stone table, while Britain is content to let Mr. Tumnus run free around his communist castle in Grantham. Only Keira Knightley and her enormous chin can give us the food shortages we need to prosper now.

  9. on 09 Mar 2009 at 12:02 pm Throbbe

    Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages, corpses stacked in car parks, violence, venom, and hatred

    Yep, that’s Ellesmere Port alright.

    I think RadioRogerL may have mistaken The Comic Strip Presents … for the actual news.

  10. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:04 pm Gert

    The moron is mixing up his industrial disputes. The candles and no heating were during the 3 Day week 74; corpses mounting up were the Winter of Discontent 79. Violence, venom and hatred were Thatch’s idea of a day off 79-90.

    Mind you it might be different in the parallel universe of Ellesmere Port

  11. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:04 pm Dr Shade

    Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages, corpses stacked in car parks

    All that stuff was a result of the “Winter of Discontent” in the 70′s – not the fucking miner’s strike in the 80′s.

    (Fair do’s, many of the striking miners might have been reduced to candles, no heating & food shortages when they couldn’t pay their bills due to not getting pay/strike pay – but “corpses in car parks”…? Where? When? That was the 70′s.)

    Stupid cunt can’t even get his facts right…

  12. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:05 pm Gert

    Spooky…!

  13. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:18 pm Dr Shade

    Gert -

    Spooky…!

    Well, I was giving Yvette Fielding a right good seeing-to last night…

  14. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:21 pm kraftymiles

    No you weren’t, as I was with her.

    And your mum.

  15. on 09 Mar 2009 at 1:37 pm Funny Peculiar

    *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*… that is an awesome, awesome post.

    “and after Thatcher was heading for his Communist Castle, delivered by his stormtrooper knights, the miners..” RadioRogerL

    Well remembered is the final battle when serried ranks of stout police stood strong amidst the phalanx’d stormtrooper knights to gain the redoubt and scale the inner-walls of Communist Castle. It was a day of blood and glorie! Arthur’s sword was shattered in a mortal clash with a champion from Ye Nottinghamshire Constabulary who swung a huge, two-handed truncheon that cleaved Arthur’s mighty sword in twain. And the banners of the NUM were rent asunder and great was the wailing. I will now sing the lay of Arthur and his Mightie Falle to The Litle Womane of Grantham… *strum* *pluck*

    When dark coale blacked ye hands of manne
    with deepening toil through hard long day,
    Did low King Artur hatche foul planne.
    To Albion maketh Zimbabwe

    Yea… (+173 verses of Medieval tawdry-ness)

  16. on 09 Mar 2009 at 2:42 pm graduatecalling

    … after Thatcher was heading for his Communist Castle, delivered by his stormtrooper knights, the miners…

    Y’know, I’ve read it a couple of times now and my first thought is ‘So, he’s making out that Thatcher was a man then?’

  17. on 09 Mar 2009 at 2:48 pm Dr Shade

    bit like Zimbabwe really

    RadioRogerL does know that the miners weren’t *really* darkies and that was just coal dust on their faces, doesn’t he?

  18. on 09 Mar 2009 at 4:48 pm David san

    I remember the miner’s strike well (despite being only 1 year old at the time). My memories of it are food shortages, candles, violence, bombs dropping all over Britain, cattle burning on huge pyres, public footpaths closed, blockades at oil refineries and queuing at petrol stations, corpses piling up in car parks, plague spreading throughout London, lots of floods, plus two planes being flown into the world trade centre and our Princess of Hearts dying.

  19. on 09 Mar 2009 at 5:02 pm Kowalski

    Jock

    RadioRogerL

    “Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages”

    If you’ve got candles you’ve got both heating and food, you shandy drinking southern softy.

    Not to mention a handy method of keeping the missus happy

  20. on 09 Mar 2009 at 5:38 pm Dr Shade

    Memories include candles, no heating, food shortages, corpses stacked in car parks, violence, venom, and hatred

    He forgot to mention the rampaging dinosaurs, the fish-men crawling out of the sea and the shop mannequins coming to life and shooting everyone in sight.

    Oh, wait.

    I might be getting confused with Dr Who…

  21. on 09 Mar 2009 at 6:08 pm YeGods

    Be fair to the poor chap, he has to live in Ellesmere Port !

    Allegedly.

    If I’m right.

  22. on 09 Mar 2009 at 6:40 pm Bit Special

    Roger is clearly talking nonsense – seeing as the miners were on strike, who was providing the coal to fuel the laser death-ray cannons on top of the Communist Castle?

  23. on 09 Mar 2009 at 6:44 pm Daley Mayle

    Wait, does this make Dennis Skinner Chewbacca? I’m confused.

  24. on 09 Mar 2009 at 7:01 pm Ken

    On the same subject, I think that this dylbo needs to go into Delusions Of Grandeur and Armchair Generals…

    “I played my part in defeating Scargill by convincing the London dockers to go back to work, so ending a vital area of support for his attempt at revolution.

    I am extremely proud of that.

    I only wish I could do something similar today to rid us of the even more dangerous Stalinist, Gordon Brown
    Click to rate Rating 72

    - Peter West, Northampton, 6/3/2009 8:14″

    Yeah, if he hadn’t blown up the Bridge On The River Kwai and stormed Omaha Beach single-handed with only his trusty fruit-knife then Scargill would have CRUSHED US ALL UNDER HIS EVIL COMMUNIST HEEL. AND NOW GORDON WILL DO THE SAME. TREMBLE WITH FEAR YOU TINY FOOLS

  25. on 09 Mar 2009 at 10:01 pm Kelvin

    Is that the Stalinist Gordon Brown who pushed every possible piece of investment into PPPs, or is that the Stalinist Gordon Brown who is pumping most of our GDP into attempting to prevent a systemic collapse of capitalism?

  26. on 09 Mar 2009 at 11:50 pm 773 (metric)

    Y’know, I’ve read it a couple of times now and my first thought is ‘So, he’s making out that Thatcher was a man then?’

    Yes, but he’s clearly referring to Mark Thatcher, who was heading to his Communist Castle in Equatorial Guinea.

    Either that or Moses Thatcher, the Mormon apostle, who was pretty keen on getting to his Communist Castle in Salt Lake City, where his 16 wives were eagerly awaiting his return from Safeway, where he’d been to pick up a crate of Caliber non-alcoholic lager.

  27. on 09 Mar 2009 at 11:51 pm fucko the clown

    your modern day tribute acts like bob crow just aren’t as hard core. Scargill probably thinks he is a right soft cunt. Although he is completely riddled with cockney which makes everything he does a struggle. Hey hey be lucky son. Strike strike

  28. on 10 Mar 2009 at 1:45 am Lady

    Around the time he mentioned candles and corpses stacked in car parks I was expecting a mention of Diana. How disappointing.

  29. on 10 Mar 2009 at 8:54 am Funny Peculiar

    Hang on… I thought it was sharks with laser beams that were stacked in the car parks.

  30. on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:43 am fennario

    Yeah, it was a bloody nuisance, what with all those corpses stacked in car parks. I couldn’t get a parking space at Sainsbury’s for ages.

  31. on 10 Mar 2009 at 11:01 am Born in the 70s

    Shopping by candle light, no sugar for your tea, corpses stacked in car parks…it was Beatlemania all over again.

  32. on 16 Mar 2009 at 4:40 pm Marzipan Fruit

    Peter West – illegitimate love-child of Peter Sutcliffe & Rose West?