Hypocrites and Permanently Bewildered and Racists30 Apr 2009 01:22 pm
By Alex

Thanks to Alex. A different Alex. On the government imprisoning kids. It’s just darky kids though, so don’t worry your pretty little head about it.

Isenhorn

This poem is one of the most exploited and is used whether or not it is actually suitable to the topic at hand. How about an updated version:

First they came from India
And I did not speak out
Because we owed it to the Indians

Then they came from Pakistan
And I did not speak out
Because we had alredy let the Indians in

Then they came from Somalia
And I did not speak out
Even though I wanted to

Then they came from Poland
And I did not speak out
Because I was called a racist

Then they came from everywhere
And event though I tried to speak
Nobody listened

It takes a great deal of imagination to link a poem about the Nazis to something as unrelated as race relations or political asylum. Hats off, Isenhorn. In fact, I’m so impressed, I’m going to share Martin Niemoller’s secret last verse with you, which he dictated to me from his deathbed:

Finally I got fed up with them coming for this that and the other all the time
And instead of all that crap about speaking out
I dangled my clackerbag in a deep-fat fryer
THEN they listened

A trivial platitude, I know, but perhaps there’s some guidance there somewhere.

57 Responses to “When You’ve Wanked ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Dry…”

  1. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:29 pm matt

    Then I got sick and tired of listening to a racist fuckwit cunt and so I hit him in the face with a brick

  2. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:34 pm James

    “What’s that there?”
    “Oh, it’s a poem about how if you sit back idly, not caring because it’s other people getting oppressed and not you, there’ll be no-one there to protect you when they run out of everyone else to persecute and turn on you.”
    “Brilliant. Reckon we can use it to attack all them coons?”

  3. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:40 pm pigfrottage

    And instead of all that crap about speaking out
    I dangled my clackerbag in a deep-fat fryer

    I haven’t laughed so much for ages. Thanks Alex.

  4. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:40 pm funny peculiar

    Yeaaah a poetry thread…

    tin-foil rhyming hats on, folks.

    And then the islams came for Isenhorn,
    And beheaded him with a jagged knife shouting “Allah! Allah!”,
    And we all cheered and laughed til we were sick.

  5. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:42 pm Incontinentia

    Here’s my version especially for Isenhorn:

    First they came for the total fucking cunts
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was first to be loaded onto the truck.

  6. on 30 Apr 2009 at 1:56 pm Ra ra

    Someone guffed on the bus
    And I did not speak out
    Because it was me

  7. on 30 Apr 2009 at 2:21 pm Mr Cat

    I hate/love the missappropriation of that poem. hate because it gets bandied around so much that its losing a lot of its original meaning/power and love because the stupids who bandy it about are laughable.

    Someone called armagediontimes used the it on the same thread but for the opposite viewpoint. Only poor armagediontimes doesn’t have a sense of continuity so he ended up looking stupider (but at least not racist) than Isenhorn

    toughgeoff. Tough guys do not normally pick on children. Think about this:

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist
    First they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist
    First they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist
    First they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me

    (Pastor Martin Niemoller)

    That’s a lot of firsts. He could have just googled it and copied the real text.

  8. on 30 Apr 2009 at 2:28 pm steve

    Then they came for the Jews and I said ‘Ace! Can we get those racial forigens next?

    Then they came for the Muslims, and I said ‘Nice one! Can we get rid of The Polish?’

    Then they came for the Polish, and I said ‘brilliant, can we get rid of those Africans?’

    Then they came for the Africans, and there were no ethnic minorities to scape goat, so I had a cheese sandwich and a wank.

  9. on 30 Apr 2009 at 2:38 pm Dolly's evil nemesis

    Hmmmm, Isenhorn – clearly a foreign name. Into the truck he goes.

  10. on 30 Apr 2009 at 2:57 pm Bernie

    He’s inspired me to rewrite similar classics:

    Imagine there’s no immigration
    Not bloody likely under Labour
    Imagine your neighbours were English
    And not a bunch of smelly Pakis
    Imagine all the foreigners
    Living in their own countries
    (yoo-hoo)
    You may say I’m a racist
    But some of my friends are dark
    I’ve got nothing against muslims
    I just wish they’d all fuck off

  11. on 30 Apr 2009 at 2:58 pm Dr Shade

    I’d have thought the last verse of I’m a horn’s poem would have read:

    Then I found I couldn’t buy a cheap takeaway after a night on the lash
    Or get some forrun to unblock me bog when it’s full of stinking shit
    And now the Government’s expecting ME to get off my fat racist doley arse and do some crappy menial cleaning job for fuck-all money or they’ll stop me benefits!
    Where’s them bastard forruns when you need ‘em? Ey? Ey? Bastards!

  12. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:19 pm Dr Cuntflaps

    LOL – that ‘poem’ doesn’t even rhyme.

  13. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:28 pm Anonnamoose

    Has anyone else noticed that the HYS servers are down? They’ve replaced it with one of their comment forms. They must’ve been overloaded with so much bile that the servers just melted! :-)

  14. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:30 pm Dr Shade

    LOL – that ‘poem’ doesn’t even rhyme

    “stinking SHIT”

    “beneFITS”

    Anyway, don’t you go projecting your fascist rhyming regulations on me, man! I’m a creative free spirit like Isenhorn and Lily Allen and my poems don’t need to rhyme with your authoritarian NuLiarBore words because they already rhyme in the hearts of every true, pure soul who reads them, man.

    Aw. Now you’ve gone and harshed my mellow, man.

    Bummer.

  15. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:35 pm Dr Feelgood

    Afternoon pop-pickers, a few more of your HYS favourites:

    10. All we are saying is give war a chance
    9. Ivory & Ivory
    8. Peace! What is it good for?
    7. This land is our land (so move your caravans, you effing pikeys)
    6. They won’t overcome
    5. I won’t employ you, you’re part of the union
    4. Strange Fruit (that’s that Mandelson that is)
    3. The times they aren’t a-changin’
    2. Let your people go? (you’re ‘avin’ a larf)
    1. Das Horst Wessel Lied

  16. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:52 pm Bored Lyron

    My poetic contribution:

    There was a bloke called Isenhorn
    A tosser, true bred and born
    He talks like a tit
    His poetry’s shit
    And, er, he’s a twat.

  17. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:57 pm Alex

    First they came for the total fucking cunts
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was first to be loaded onto the truck.

    I actually lolled out loud for this one. Really funny. And that’s my opinion as a professional.

    Ivory & Ivory

    Quality.

  18. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:30 pm liberalleftandproud

    The thick fuckers misuse this poem on every conceivable topic. “First they came for the smokers/drivers/racist murderers” etc etc.

    “Ivory and Ivory” caused me to spit coffee all over my desk.

  19. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:33 pm Throbbe

    EddieinSpain wrote:
    I’m so glad I don’t live in the UK any longer. For years when I left I used to suffer from the same problem many expats suffer from, that of telling the locals wherever they were that things were much better back in the UK.

    I suspect many Spaniards had a similar problem at the time with FUCKING IDIOTIC BRITISH IMMIGRANTS COMING OVER THERE AND DENOUNCING THEIR COUNTRY AS NOT AS GOOD AS THE UK WITHOUT ACTUALLY FUCKING OFF BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

    In fairness, Eddie did have the self awareness to recognise that following his departure the UK was a slightly nicer place to live.

    The cunt.

  20. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:35 pm fucko the clown

    as long as they don’t come for the clowns, that would be a bad day.

  21. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:40 pm outragedofbelmarsh

    This is brilliant. I look forward to HYSers identifying themselves with Anne Frank. Well, fair enough, as I reckon a good chunk of them live locked away in attics, afraid that at any moment they may attract the attention of the authorities. I’m also sure quite a lot of them spend a large amount of time on the internet pretending to be 13 year old girls, so you would think they have plenty of room to empathise….

  22. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:45 pm fucko the clown

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJ5tCF3VVE found this, some of my early tv work, but unrelated to the post, enjoy

  23. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:50 pm 773 (metric)

    This Is Just To Say

    I have strangled
    the racists
    that were on
    the internet

    and which
    you were probably
    saving
    for cheap laughs.

    Forgive me
    they were cunts
    so deluded
    and so thick.

  24. on 30 Apr 2009 at 4:57 pm Maid Up Naime

    By the way, would it really fucking kill you lot to put these things up while they’re still topical, rather than days or even weeks afterwards?

  25. on 30 Apr 2009 at 5:01 pm batmanuel

    i’ve had enough of all this social comment, here’s my version

    first they had all the mars bars,
    that was fine, i don’t like mars bars
    when they came for the twix i said,
    ‘meh’.
    then they finished the maltezers!
    fuck that i love maltezers!
    greedy cunts

  26. on 30 Apr 2009 at 5:07 pm Mr Cat

    This is brilliant. I look forward to HYSers identifying themselves with Anne Frank.

    Done!

    From “what’s our favourite children’s book”

    Its not my favourite children’s book because its a tough read, but the diary of anne frank can teach children a lot about what an alien and horrible place western europe was just 60 years ago,

    and they will hopefully learn the lesson that complacency could get us there again

    Darkseid Jones

  27. on 30 Apr 2009 at 5:21 pm The Idle Johnson

    My favourite childrens book is Mein Kampf.

  28. on 30 Apr 2009 at 5:23 pm The Idle Johnson

    Closely followed by The Turner Diaries. We did that one in Infants, with Miss Finalsolution.

  29. on 30 Apr 2009 at 5:52 pm funny peculiar

    @Dr. Feelgood.
    This land is our land (so move your caravans, you effing pikeys)

    Awesome.

    Can you play, “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing but not in my country.” for me mam, please?

    and can someone ask Alan Bennett to record
    “If… you can keep your head when all about you,
    Are Hindoo immygrunts who’re claiming tax off you.
    If you can let yourself to feel superior,
    For knowing only Red and White and Blue.
    etc

  30. on 30 Apr 2009 at 6:03 pm Dr Shade

    Its not my favourite children’s book because its a tough read, but the diary of anne frank can teach children a lot about what an alien and horrible place western europe was just 60 years ago

    Fuck me, if you’re going to use that sort of logic then I want “The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing & It’s Analysis” by Moors Murderer Ian Brady put on the primary school curriculum on the basis that it’ll teach the little brats not to go to fucking Lancashire because the place is full of psychotic paedophile murderous bum-rapists.

    I’d also make them watch the first Hellraiser movie to teach them that good writers make fuck-awful film directors and they shouldn’t play with Rubik’s Cubes.

  31. on 30 Apr 2009 at 6:43 pm fucko the clown

    I always thought anne frank was a historian’s Euphamism for a hearty wank

  32. on 30 Apr 2009 at 6:44 pm YeGods

    First they came for the HYSers

    and I thought – seems fair enough to me!

  33. on 30 Apr 2009 at 7:06 pm Felix Castor

    In fairness why should non-fuckwits get all the good poetry?

    Come friendly bombs and fall on Mexico
    For it is not fit for holidays now

  34. on 30 Apr 2009 at 8:28 pm rotwatcher

    I’d also make them watch the first Hellraiser movie to teach them that good writers make fuck-awful film directors and they shouldn’t play with Rubik’s Cubes.

    Clive Barker a good writer, you say? Well, he’s an excellent typist, so that’s a start I suppose.

    Relax, I’m Dan Brown.

  35. on 30 Apr 2009 at 9:03 pm Hilter's Penis

    This poem is one of the most exploited and is used whether or not it is actually suitable to the topic at hand.

    Yessss … this is all going a bit wrong already, isn’t it? Words difficult make say right thing? YEs.

    How about an updated version:

    I don’t know – is that a question? Perhaps you mean this:

    How about an updated version?

    Now THAT’S a question, see. And here is the answer:

    On no, no no no no no no. No, don’t update it, you fucking idiot. You’ll make a complete twat out of yourself, because you haven’t got a clue what you’re on about or what it means or … well, anything, really. You’re just horribly, horribly fucking hopeless and clueless and inadequate. You’re shit.

    Please, I beg of you, Isenhorn the Cunt: throw the computer keyboard in the bin, smash the monitor. Give the PC to the neighbours. Shove the mouse, sideways, up your horrible deranged racist arse. But just don’t fuck around with other people’s writing like that because, you see, you are a shit-thick moron, and not allowed to.

    Alles klar? Gut!

    PS Did I mention, Isenhorn, that you are shit?

    PPS You’re shit. I just want to make that clear.

  36. on 30 Apr 2009 at 9:05 pm Gobbler The Oral Sex Alsatian

    woof woof
    slurp slurp
    Isenhorn!

  37. on 30 Apr 2009 at 9:09 pm Dr Feelgood

    @funny peculiar

    Radio Daily Mail will play that for you on the next Rush Limbaugh show.

    Enjoy!

  38. on 30 Apr 2009 at 9:46 pm Parasite

    After the HYSing of the 17th of June
    The Secretary of the Labour Party
    Had leaflets distributed by the BBC
    Stating that the people
    Had thrown away the confidence of the government
    And could win it back only
    By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
    In that case for the government
    To dissolve the people
    And elect another?

    Fuck yeah!

  39. on 30 Apr 2009 at 10:45 pm StevenEdmondson

    Fuck Duffy, I think we’ve just found the new poet laureate.

  40. on 30 Apr 2009 at 10:46 pm outragedofbelmarsh

    Ahem. How about Larkin’s ‘This be the verse’, channelled through HYS?

    They fuck you up these foreign types
    They definitely mean to and they do
    They fill your country with smelly food
    And add some terrorists, just for you
    But they certainly weren’t fucked up in their time,
    by well-meaning white folk in old-style frocks and coats,
    who half the time were just too damn lenient with the darkies.

    HYSers hand on misery to man
    It deepens like a coastal shelf
    Get off the thread as early as you can
    And pray they don’t have kids themselves.

  41. on 30 Apr 2009 at 11:59 pm Daley Mayle

    That’s possibly better than the original.

  42. on 01 May 2009 at 1:09 am Olivia

    “Then they came from Poland
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was called a racist”

    They knew he was a racist before he’d even said anything. I wonder how.

  43. on 01 May 2009 at 8:41 am millie

    Slightly off-topic but a good way to start mayday:

    Experimental evidence for synchronization to a musical beat in a nonhuman animal

    aka white bird
    dancing.

  44. on 01 May 2009 at 8:42 am Scaryduck

    “And when they came for Richard Littlejohn
    I said
    The cunt’s over there, behind the wardrobe”

    Now THAT’S poetry

  45. on 01 May 2009 at 10:18 am Bit Special

    Scaryduck, I read your blog and saw, to my delight, that at last I’ve found another person who describes sickness as ‘bowking rich brown vomit’. Your *pome* was pretty good too!

  46. on 01 May 2009 at 10:35 am Look up my YouTube

    Has anyone noticed that ‘Fucko the Clown’ shares the HYSers’ love of self-promotion and Unnecessary capitalisation?

  47. on 01 May 2009 at 1:06 pm funny peculiar

    @Look up my YouTube. You are Fucko the Clown and I claim my obscene animal balloon.

  48. on 01 May 2009 at 2:55 pm Charles Exford, Oxton

    @Bit Special – you been hanging out ar Mr Kipplin’s place again? How’s Mrs Kipplin?

  49. on 01 May 2009 at 11:54 pm Jenny

    AAAAAargh! The fucking BNP have got hold of my email address because I signed up for the Unite Against Facism newsletter. It’s their revenge for the BNP member lists being published (not by me). I am so sick of the pathetic whining emails I get, not to mention the spam. Started back in November but gets a boost every time someone else posts them. I told blogger to take down the blog posts but nothing has been done. Just wanted to get that off my chest. I don’t want to hate people but those racists really make it hard sometimes.

  50. on 02 May 2009 at 1:19 am DisgustedOfTunbridgeWells

    They came for the palmists, but I wasn’t a palmist so I did nothing.

    They came for the bungee jumpers, but I wasn’t a bungee jumper so I did nothing.

    They came for the players’ agents, but I wasn’t a players’ agent so I did nothing.

    They came for the Charles Manson fans, but I wasn’t a Charles Manson fan so I did nothing.

    They came for the reflexologists, but I wasn’t a reflexologist so I did nothing.

    They came for the camp TV chefs, but I wasn’t a camp TV chef so I did nothing.

    They came for the RoMos, I laughed.

    They came for the martial arts enthusiasts, but I wasn’t a martial arts enthusiast so I did nothing.

    They came for Eamonn Holmes and I think I’m right in saying I applauded.

    They came for the fire-eaters, but I wasn’t a fire-eater so I did nothing.

    They came for Dani Behr, I said she’s over there, behind the wardrobe.

    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.
    Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to.

  51. on 02 May 2009 at 1:46 am Bit Special

    Don’t make me do a cake joke…

  52. on 02 May 2009 at 3:51 pm GoSub

    I came for Dani Behr once, got 100 hours community service… wasn’t worth it.

  53. on 03 May 2009 at 9:57 am Sam

    I just love the irony of twisting poor Mr Niemöller’s work in this argument.

  54. on 03 May 2009 at 9:47 pm Alex

    I just love the irony of twisting poor Mr Niemöller’s work in this argument.

    And right after complaining about how often poor Mr Niemöller’s work is twisted. Genius, innit?

  55. on 04 May 2009 at 4:52 pm Toby Wan-Kenobi

    Is it wrong to discriminate against racists?

  56. on 05 May 2009 at 11:56 am Mr Niemöller’s work

    Is it wrong to discriminate against racists?

    Nope.

  57. on 05 May 2009 at 2:53 pm Albert Muffpie

    First they came for the Communists
    But I did not speak out
    Because I had throat cancer

    Then they came for the Jews
    But I did not speak out
    Because I was reading something at the time, and it’s hard to do two things at once

    Then they came for the gypsies
    But I did not speak out
    Because I was eating a Mars Bar

    Then they came for the crippled
    But I did not speak out
    Because I was too busy chuckling to myself at a man falling over

    Then they came for me
    But I did not speak out
    Because I was covered in spunk and one of them was trying really hard to shove his cock in my mouth