Permanently Bewildered and Self-appointed Sages and Shit Sherlocks21 Aug 2009 02:31 pm
By Alex

How can we tackle drug-driving?

Perhaps it might be an idea to clamp down on drug dealing.

harry portsmouth

I wanted to take the piss out of this one, but just couldn’t. The more I thought about it, the more sense it made. I mean, why treat the symptoms when you can treat the cause? Cut off the supply and all the problems derived from it will be solved instantly, and it might even have other beneficial social effects like reducing the burden on the NHS from overdoses and cutting drug-related crime. I’m surprised nobody tried this one before.

59 Responses to “Pure Simplicity”

  1. on 21 Aug 2009 at 2:41 pm Ugly Newt

    I thought it might be an idea to clamp down on stupidity, using a system of education. Most HYSers rejected this as an attempt at PC brainwashing, and the rest told me to keep away from their children.

  2. on 21 Aug 2009 at 2:42 pm Andrew

    “portsmouth” – what an unusual surname.

  3. on 21 Aug 2009 at 2:57 pm -273

    Where are Crockett and Tubbs when we need them most?

    Labour has probably got them protecting peado immigrants at the tax payers expense, you couldn’t make it up!

  4. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:01 pm -273

    It is from the old english where ‘ports’ means ‘full of seamen’.

    Basically, his actual surname is ‘cumgargler’

  5. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:17 pm dirigible

    How do pills drive a car anyway?

  6. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:25 pm Christ

    We could also solve the problem of drink driving by closing all the pubs. Or taking everyone’s car keys away.

  7. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:25 pm funny peculiar

    Cumgargler is a fine old English name, isn’t it? It was Edward Cumgargler, The Earl of Warwick who, at Crecy, was exposed on both flanks, but he held hard against the pushing French line and though the air was raining thick with French shot, he took down the Dauphin with one mighty blow.

    Boom Ching.

  8. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:26 pm funny peculiar

    93 for 4!!!!

    Have it you bastards!!!!

  9. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:32 pm cpir

    John from Deptford (Telling It Like It Is Party, 2 Votes) thinks we should go further…

    Added: Monday, 17 August, 2009, 08:35 GMT 09:35 UK
    Very stiff sentences is the answer to drug dealers and stiff sentences to drug drivers also
    JOHN REALIST, DEPTFORD
    Recommended by 2 people

    REALIST is an unusual surname as well.

  10. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:36 pm Rotwatcher

    Surely the best way to tackle drug driving would be to make it an A level subject. Then HYSers could toss on about how standards are dropping and how it means less year-on-year going forward.

  11. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:45 pm Voice of Reason

    Apparently drug drivers are quite stare-y and unstable so quite easy to tackle

  12. on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:59 pm handwringing liberal

    If only Harry Portsmouth had checked the stats:
    If one in five people are under the influence when an accident occurs, that is 20%. That means that 80% of all accidents are caused by sober people NOT on drugs or alcohol, so it’s them we need to turn our attention to!!!
    Master Buck
    If Master Buck had his way cars would come with pill dispensers and pint glass holders as standard.

  13. on 21 Aug 2009 at 4:09 pm cpir

    Added: Monday, 17 August, 2009, 09:39 GMT 10:39 UK
    I dont know why i subscribed to this? WE! give a good answer to part of the programe; And they will not show comment made on here! make’s alot of sence?
    alan molyneux, essex, United Kingdom

    Maybe it was such a good idea, so succintly and persusively expressed that Gordon Brown nicked it for himself?

    Or maybe it was just a resonant bovine gut-grunt of such grotesque stench that it was abandoned steaming where it fell?

  14. on 21 Aug 2009 at 4:15 pm Clovis Sangrail

    I do like that “WE! give a good answer…”
    I like to think he gave a convulsive twitch and sreamed WE! in a high strangled voice as he typed it

  15. on 21 Aug 2009 at 4:28 pm Mr.P

    The man is a genius, tackle drug dealers! Of course! Why isn’t this man Home Secertary?

  16. on 21 Aug 2009 at 4:39 pm Andrew

    “make’s alot of sence?”

    Three illiteracies in one short sentence (four if you count the dubious question mark). Brilliant!

  17. on 21 Aug 2009 at 4:46 pm BuggerMeButtocks

    I like to drive when on drugs. It means I get there quicker and cos my eyes are open so wide i can see more than a straight driver so have more time to react. This is poppycock. Meh

  18. on 21 Aug 2009 at 5:17 pm wringhim

    Preposterous. Drug driving is only a problem because some people have to drive long distances to obtain drugs. If drugs were delivered to your door every day by a man in a white hat driving an electric cart, you would reduce drug-driving dramatically, and the associated carbon emissions and global warming. Think of the planet! And the children! And the cancellation of ten million crappy “worlds’ worst car chase” TV shows.

  19. on 21 Aug 2009 at 5:31 pm A Pedant

    I am in shock. Dear old Harry Portsmouth has established himself with a first for HYS, a sensible suggestion. Not the one I would go for, but a lot more sense than the usual “lock up all the junkies, except the forin ones” approach of the average HYSer or Cabinet member.

  20. on 21 Aug 2009 at 5:32 pm A Pedant

    The forin ones of course are lined up for castration, deportation and execution.

  21. on 21 Aug 2009 at 6:11 pm My Foot Hurts.

    It means I get there quicker and cos my eyes are open so wide i can see more than a straight driver so have more time to react.

    And in extreme cases, it’s possible actually to see round corners, which is handy at times.

    Honestly, the number of foxtrotting peonies I would’ve collided with if I’d been restricted to straight line vision…

  22. on 21 Aug 2009 at 8:14 pm Mim

    Thank you, harry portsmouth. I’m going to sit and eat crisps until Utopia happens.

  23. on 21 Aug 2009 at 8:45 pm gilbert wham

    If drugs were delivered to your door every day by a man in a white hat driving an electric cart, you would reduce drug-driving dramatically

    Believe me, they can be. I suggest you google ‘mephedrone’.

  24. on 21 Aug 2009 at 9:07 pm Ed aka Nearly Craig

    From “Fundies say the darnedest things“, this wonderful offering:

    Smiling with you all and waiting for our ride. Some of the cute remarks in this thread reminded me of what I tell my Wed night preschool class if anyone wants to know what Heaven will be like. I just smile, get in really close and say, ” Heaven is prettier than glitter!” Oh the looks on their faces cannot be described. Big wide eyed wows and smiles from ear to ear.
    I believe our white robes will be prettier than glitter, as well.
    Personally don’t care where I am when He comes for us either. Just come, Lord Jesus.

    PurpleRobe, RaptureReady 52 Comments [8/19/2009 2:43:31 PM]
    Fundie Index: 21

  25. on 21 Aug 2009 at 9:58 pm BuggerMeButtocks

    Oh god!!! The sheeple will follow if you ask them! (Read Brainwash)

  26. on 21 Aug 2009 at 10:33 pm alt-f4

    I have the misfortune of being from Portsmouth. Spent almost 35 years there. I went back there last year for the first time in nearly a decade, via Wembley, partly for nostalgia, partly to collect a debt owed me from such places as Tranmere and Rochdale Away on Tuesday nights for Fourth Division games, and out of a sheer sense of duty of showing my wife the appalling place I came from.

    I wont bore you with any tales about what goes on in Portsmouth, or the kind of people that choose to stay there, suffice to say Harry is a cunt. If people like him are anti-drugs, it will only encourage more people to take them.

    Which is a good thing.

  27. on 21 Aug 2009 at 11:01 pm alt-f4

    having police on the streets will help…Recommended by 126 people

    I would prefer to see police officers on patrol…Recommended by 118 people

    we need more traffic police…Recommended by 113 people

    our legal system is far too lenient…Recommended by 95 people

    The police do a very good job…Recommended by 81 people

    lock them up…Recommended by 64 people

    lock them up…Recommended by 52 people

    the presence of real, actual police officers…Recommended by 45 people

    harsh prison sentences

    ACAB

  28. on 21 Aug 2009 at 11:21 pm Dr Feelgood

    The war on drugs has worked really well the last 40 years…

    As we can see from its efficacy, the western world’s policy on narcotics is actually driven by the HYS world view. Perhaps it’s a case study in what would happen if the rest of their ‘thinking’ was used to shape official policy.

    PS. If anyone wants their usual prescriptions…

  29. on 21 Aug 2009 at 11:46 pm Theodore

    There’s nothing wrong with drug driving. I have been doing it for years and the only accident I have had was when I crashed into a luminous vole who was playing the trombone in a skiffle band on the inside of a deep blue Tuesday. It was all cleared up by Frank the pocket fluff demon, plying the squid with severed elbows.

  30. on 22 Aug 2009 at 12:54 am BuggerMeButtocks

    I to, have seen a luminous vole but because i smoke so much green i cant bleedin remember where?…It was one dark night in the cuntry or somthing like that and this fookun glowin vole jumped out! Shiiiit it pooped me out…So i kicked it…yup straight in the saggy bag…it hit the deck like a sack a shit. Then i whited out and saw all kinda mental shit….even when i closed my eyes!!!!
    I closed my eyes and wierd shit still happened like my eyelids were cinema curtains!!…
    Drugs make you mess yourself…Just say…Whoops…i have a visitor..

  31. on 22 Aug 2009 at 12:57 am Batty

    My bum is sore..

  32. on 22 Aug 2009 at 2:07 am Stuart

    Heaven is prettier than glitter!

    She’s got the wrong end of the stick here, gary’s attracted to children, not attractive.

  33. on 22 Aug 2009 at 7:01 am Chris

    Ban driving, legalise drugs.

    Sorted.

    Next problem please.

    Oh, world hunger?

    Give everyone enough food.

    I’m on a fucking roll.

  34. on 22 Aug 2009 at 9:30 am Ed aka Nearly Craig

    Give everyone enough food.

    I’m on a fucking roll.

    All we are saying is, give cannibalism a chance?

  35. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:05 am Bit Special AKA La Spesh

    ” Heaven is prettier than glitter!”

    See, such vile lies provide yet another reason to confirm I’m right to be an Atheist – NOTHING is prettier than glitter! And I should know; I’m female.
    Not kittens, not ribbons, and not even those amazing shoes I bought 3 years ago that I keep in a special box and will never wear.

    Perhaps it might be an idea to clamp down on drug dealing

    Perhaps it might be an idea to clamp down on fucktards. I have no interest in drugs or booze… until I look at HYS and then I’m prowling the flat in despair, hysterically wondering where I can get crystal meth around here, just to make the brain-pain stop.

    Tough on twatbaskets, tough on the causes of twatbasketry, that’s my motto.

  36. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:20 am nicktionary

    c’mon, seriously.

    It’s a good idea.

  37. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:22 am Settle down class Professor Craig's here

    Road deaths have been falling for 70 years as the numbers of cars have obviously risen. Of these, while many are drink related, few are drugs related. We should worry more about MRSA deaths in hospital or hypothermia deaths because we insist on having incredibly expensive electricity. Of course both of these are the government’s responsibility, rather thann being an excuse for government to run our lives so they get less coverage.

  38. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:39 am Chris

    Ed aka Nearly Craig

    All we are saying is, give cannibalism a chance?

    Or, we could give them the roll that I’m on with solving all the world’s problems. See, it’s a delicious crusty bread roll.

  39. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:54 am The Doctor Is Out (Of It)

    Yes clamp down on drug dealers.

    These pharmacies and pubs doling out their mindbending goodies are on every streetcorner where innocent children can walk past.

    They even have lollies to entice kids in. Sick bastards.

    ZaNuLiebore want us all to be poisoned addicts so we can’t see what they’re up to.

    Forget stiff sentences. Chop bits off the bastards. Hands, feet, heads. that’ll learn ‘em.

  40. on 22 Aug 2009 at 6:12 pm Clovis Sangrail

    “I just smile, get in really close and say, ” Heaven is prettier than glitter!” ” oooooh, how fkn scary! yes lord Jesus, come get her NOW, please.

  41. on 22 Aug 2009 at 6:23 pm Bit Special AKA La Spesh

    Ooooh, she needs to sign up for this:

    http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=27676

    I almost wish it was real (trawl down to the bottom comments; some people take it entirely seriously)…

  42. on 22 Aug 2009 at 8:31 pm Mal

    @La Spesh

    As Slappy Squirrel would say, now that’scomedy.

  43. on 22 Aug 2009 at 8:32 pm Mal

    OK, so the tears of laughter dropping on the keyboard made my space bar not work, or something.

  44. on 22 Aug 2009 at 8:47 pm Ed aka Nearly Craig

    For people whose thang is satire, they seem a bit dense about recognising it from new people.

  45. on 22 Aug 2009 at 11:06 pm Dr Feelgood

    Completely off-topic, but saw this in Private Eye this week – maybe Joy from Rolle, Switzerland’s HYS friends are putting their plans into action?

    Pirate hunting cruise (Austrian Times)
    Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed to the teeth private yachts off the Somali coast, it emerged today (Weds).

    Wealthy punters pay 3,500 GBP per day each to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders so they can let fly with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.

    Extras include an AK-47 machine gun for 5 GBP a day and 100 rounds of ammo for just 7 GBP while passengers are protected by a squad of ex special forces troops.
    http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2009-06-24/14241/Pirate_hunting_cruise

  46. on 23 Aug 2009 at 12:23 am Simon

    Oh Bit Spesh.

    What a glorious website. The whole thing is nicely done. Too obvious in places, but still…
    For those that don’t know, compare Bit Spesh’s gem of a find with the genuine article at Rapture Ready.

  47. on 23 Aug 2009 at 12:25 am Simon

    Sorry, ballsed up the link …
    http://www.rr-bb.com

  48. on 23 Aug 2009 at 10:34 am Admiral Grovworth, III

    Pirate hunting.

    I see no possible way for that to go badly.

  49. on 23 Aug 2009 at 3:55 pm Magician Assisted Suicide

    From the Lockerbie thread:

    Added: Sunday, 23 August, 2009, 14:07 GMT 15:07 UK
    270 innocents died over Scotland. Few were Scottish, most were American. Many were college students going home for the holidays. Who speaks for them? At first, it was Scotland Yard and they performed their tasks heroically and got their man. Next came the judge who sentenced the mass murderer. Unfortunately the Scottish Government did not speak for the innocents. Instead it spoke for the murderer and sent him home to a hero’s welcome.

    Yes, go on, nearly there.

    Bourbon has replaced Scotch as my drink.

    Stephen Pearson, Melrose

    NOOOOOOO!

  50. on 23 Aug 2009 at 5:45 pm john Adair's Gerbil

    Err, actually it was Dumfries and Galloway Police. Scotland Yard is, despite the name, actually in England.

    And it’s New. Though it’s not really.

    It was the CIA that “got their man”[1] and the judges (three of them) were Scottish. In what was, legally, Scotland, even though it was in the Netherlands.

    [1] Aye, that’ll be shining bright, all critical evidence “found” by CIA people, only witness putting Megrahi in the frame given several million dollars by the USA after being shown a current picture of Megrahi.

    I mean, can you remember who served you in Tesco’s 6 years ago today? Could you pick them out of a line-up?

  51. on 23 Aug 2009 at 8:06 pm Magician Assisted Suicide

    But the bit about giving up Scotch was still the stupidest.

  52. on 24 Aug 2009 at 9:43 am Tomsk

    Great uncle Bulgaria says that Libya has 3% of the world’s proven oil reserves and huge amounts of natural gas.

    With the three biggest British oil companies doing deals in the country, it helps to suck a bit of cock wherever we can.

  53. on 24 Aug 2009 at 12:31 pm Very Tenables

    So, are we basically saying that drug pedaling leads to drug driving?

  54. on 24 Aug 2009 at 1:51 pm Bit Special AKA La Spesh

    @Tomsk – can he still remember the days when he wasn’t behind the times?

  55. on 24 Aug 2009 at 10:28 pm Tom

    Clamp down on drug dealers, it’s so simple. As in Simon.

  56. on 25 Aug 2009 at 12:36 am Simon

    Clamp down on drug dealers, it’s so simple. As in Simon.

    I may be just throwing scraps to the troll, but I’ve obviously missed something here. Tom, are you referring to me? I provided the Rapture-Ready link. Have I offended you in a different thread, or perhaps just bored you shitless? Are you Tomsk and Tom?

  57. on 25 Aug 2009 at 12:48 am Simon

    Tom, are you a pieman?

  58. on 26 Aug 2009 at 11:28 am Chris

    A paranoid pieman?

    Not everyone’s out to get you. Some people are far too busy trying to get NATO, the British government, Nazis, organ thieves, um…

    …people with shaved balls. Moles. The bloke who invented cat’s eyes.

    I’m talking about Neil Craig.

    I wasn’t sure if that was clear when I started on about shaved balls.

  59. on 28 Aug 2009 at 8:37 am Tom

    No not referreing to you Simon, just to the rhyme.