Armchair Generals and Curtain Twitchers and Outsiders and Self-appointed Sages and Shit Sherlocks05 Mar 2010 12:49 pm
By Kelvin

How far would you go to prevent a fuzzy outline of your genitals being one of hundreds seen every day by a bored security worker?

1 The Rapiscan is not an x-ray machine it uses “T” rays
2 No one scientifically or Medically qualified has done a study as to the effect of “T” rays on living human tissue.
3 Should I be refused permission to board my flight I will immediately strip totally naked in the security queue and show the staff and everyone that I am clean and have no impediments to boarding.
4) Having been seen naked and proved my innocence beyond doubt I will sue Manchester Airport and the British government for millions for denying me my absolute right to travel under admiralty law the highest law on the planet..

john marsh

Funnily enough I know John Marsh. I was behind him in the queue at Tesco the other day. Turns out, there’s been no study by anyone scientifically or Medically qualified on the effect of typing in your pin number to the little credit card machine. I won’t go into the details of what happened next, but suffice to say John is about to become a very rich man and it will be a while before I can bring myself to eat sausages again.

Saw an email joke recently, but it made sense. rather than scanning, have each individual traveler step into a giant bomb detonation device. If they don’t blow up, they can properly board. If they do blow up, hey, happy virgin time and we are safe

Richard king

Jesus, Richard, don’t tell us you got a joke that made sense and then keep it from us. You could have used the space where you had your exploding muslim fantasy wank to tell it.

And thanks to Louis for spotting this slightly disappointed pervert:

“but they also afford clear outlines of passengers’ genitals.” What genitals? Some women have breasts, big deal; the rest is on the inside. It’s like looking out the window: there’s nothing to see.

Phil E. Drifter

Phil, take a deep breath. Now look up and look for a green sign saying “EXIT.” Once you go through that door, you will no longer be in a modern art exhibit consisting of mannequins and empty window frames, and the world will make a lot more sense.

85 Responses to “Cock Out, Innocence Proven”

  1. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:03 pm Shackleton

    Hang on. The machine at the airport is a ‘Rapiscan’? Is it modelled after our old friend Mr Rapisca?

    I dread to think what would happen should john marsh exact his absolute right under admiralty law to spark up a tab in Manchester City Airport in front of this machine.

  2. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:06 pm Ugly Newt

    Mr Marsh is demanding his right to travel under admiralty law from Manchester Airport. Is he planning on hijacking the plane in order to get it nearer to the sea? I can see why that’d subject him to more intrusions of privacy than most fliers.

  3. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:12 pm Fish

    Some women have breasts

    This just reminded me of this trufax: when my mother had her double masectomy, the NHS for space reasons bumped her into the nearby 5-star private hospital. The evening she was coming round from her operation, a nurse decided to offer her dinner, and hearing only grunts back, just got her what was on that evening’s menu anyway.
    Duck breasts. In cranberry sauce.

    What? Off topic? Oh…
    Ummmm. Marsh. Cunt.

  4. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:14 pm Admiral T Lore

    According to t’internets, “Islamic law also made major contributions to international admiralty law”. There’s fuck-all mention of a right to travel, though.

  5. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:15 pm bolli

    the ‘rest’ is on the inside? So Mr Drifter thinks breasts are part of our genitals. This disregard of basic biology explains why he talks out of his arse.

  6. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:16 pm Mr Cat

    Stephen Lane wrote:
    I hope both women were strip searched for real … otherwise how can we be sure that the real reason for their refusal to be scanned was not that they had bombs on their persons?

    This one had 555 recommendations. Probably from blokes who thought they might be able to watch.

    Do we get bonus points for spotting 1984 references or is it too easy?

    Steve Jones wrote:
    I’m not a fan of these body scanners even though I fully understand their value; I just don’t like the feeling of being in a controlled police state, like something out of 1984. Also much of our freedoms have been removed under the guise of terrorism which hasn’t been for our protection, it’s been for the benefit of the big brother state we now live under

    I’m not a big fan of not being a big fan of something that I understand the value of, although I fully understand the value of not being a big fan of something that I understand the value of. Think I should share that with everyone then go off on one about the police state we live in.

  7. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:26 pm Kelvin

    I dread to think what would happen should john marsh exact his absolute right under admiralty law to spark up a tab in Manchester City Airport in front of this machine.

    Well let’s just remember that if you do get on a plane and a terrorist blows it up, you do bear 5 to 10 percent of the responsibility for choosing to get on the plane in the first place.

  8. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:30 pm [NutterBrackets]

    That “Rapey Scan” machine sounds worse than I thought.

  9. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:31 pm [NutterBrackets]

    Sorry, that last comment came out lamer than I thought.

  10. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:40 pm brown town

    @ Kelvin, for fuck sake, don’t start that shit again…

  11. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:42 pm Schroduck

    Having been seen naked and proved my innocence beyond doubt I will sue Manchester Airport and the British government for millions

    He stole the idea from his ex after she sued him for the distress caused by seeing him naked. He tried countersuing her but

  12. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:42 pm DC

    Piracy and plunder is licensed under Admiralty Law isn’t it? In any case, until I’m made to look a fool of I’m off to buy a peg leg from a man with a Parrot.

    Yaaaarrrr!

  13. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:43 pm Schroduck

    * but Phil E. Drifter successfully defended her with the “empty window” argument.

    Damn laptop mouse thingy.

  14. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:46 pm DC

    Schroduck, isn’t that a javascript thing? [/nerd]

  15. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:52 pm Schroduck

    Sadly I don’t know these crazy languages of witchery of which you speak, DC. Hell, since they invented .NET, I can’t even understand Visual Basic any more. I’d say I feel ashamed, but I really, really don’t. Well, except for the fact that I accidentally made a computer programming joke.

  16. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:59 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    4) Having been seen naked and proved my innocence beyond doubt I will sue Manchester Airport and the British government for millions for denying me my absolute right to travel under admiralty law the highest law on the planet..

    john marsh

    Exemplary damages in the UK are only awarded in rare circumstances that meet strict criteria predetermined in common law. It’s highly unlikely that John Marsh would be granted leave to sue for such an extravagant sum, especially when the caveats for having exemplary damages considered are first that you have to be, beyond all doubt, “not of the likeness or similarity to a non-human female animal genital part” and second have to be “blessed of a sense of humour that is raised above thinking the world wants to read wanky self-righteous pseudo wit based on throwing a paddy in the middle of the airport and then indecently exposing yourself in the check in queue to prove an ethereal point that only you and David Icke could ever hope to understand.”

    I’m paraphrasing, of course, but I do believe in the case of McDonald’s Restaurants v Morris & Steel the presiding judge did actually refer to Richard Rampton, QC as “a hairy gannet’s gash” when deciding that the sums claimed for actual damages were excessive and awarding a lower amount.

  17. on 05 Mar 2010 at 1:59 pm Rod Wrongnob

    ger man wrote:
    You can put your hand up my backside and turn me inside out like a marigold glove. Anything that makes a flight as safe as possible.

    Can we blow into you and inflate you like a marigold glove as well?

    david aspey wrote:
    Form a cue ! Security Scanned passengers to the plane at gate 3 Non Scanned passengers will be flying auto pilot at gate 4 once it is full.

    Who’s the non conformist now then ?

    Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!
    Errmmmm.
    Is it GG Allin?

  18. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:03 pm Ugeine

    You might have noticed the headline reads ‘MUSLIM WOMAN REFUSES AIRPORT SCANNER’.

    Typical, not only is she refusing security checks but she’s also a bloody Muslim! Damn these people.

    Can’t they just obey the laws a little bit better then most so reactionary newspaper story writers wouldn’t feel the need to shoehorn ‘MUSLIM’ into storys where the person’s religion isn’t relevant?

    Anyhow, Phil E. Drifter laid down some home truths on her ass:

    Getting in a plane and flying at 600 mph 35,000 feet above terra firma isn’t against her religion?

    HA! You told her! Except it isn’t, obviously.

  19. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:04 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    ger man wrote:
    You can put your hand up my backside and turn me inside out like a marigold glove. Anything that makes a flight as safe as possible.

    I’ve never thought about it before, but on consideration there’s no evidence to suggest that more pre-flight deep anal fisting wouldn’t lead to safer flights.

  20. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:07 pm Kelvin

    ger man wrote:
    You can put your hand up my backside and turn me inside out like a marigold glove. Anything that makes a flight as safe as possible.

    Remember kids, always clear your paste buffer between posting on Craigslist’s casual encounters board and posting on TimesOnline.

  21. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:15 pm Ugeine

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255658/Geert-Wilders-arrives-Britain-major-gains-Dutch-polls.html#comments

    Every wondered what it sounds like when a bunch of repressed racists try and kiss the arse of Angelface from fight club?

    Go to reader’s comments and select ‘most recommended’.

  22. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:24 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    Welcome to the UK Geert Wilders – it’s a mad house here! Now that the House of Lords has seen “Fitna” we hold our breath for the outcome. Free speech and freedom of expression is something that minorities in this country would wish to take away from us but with your help and the UK’s BNP and the French NF we will stand up and be counted. God be with you and keep you safe.

    - Sue, Newton Abbot, UK

    Yes. Le Pen will save us all.

    For fuck’s sake. Sometimes I just want to have about the heads of some people with a small ball-peen hammer.

  23. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:26 pm Ugly Newt

    david aspey wrote: Form a cue !

    I know you’re eager for the anal probe, but you’re not expected to bring your own.

  24. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:43 pm Rotwatcher

    For fuck’s sake. Sometimes I just want to have about the heads of some people with a small ball-peen hammer.

    Why fuck around with a small ball-peen, when a 3 lb lump will do the job so much better? Remember, the right tool for the job.

  25. on 05 Mar 2010 at 2:53 pm Kelvin

    Free speech and freedom of expression is something that minorities in this country would wish to take away from us

    Fortunately we’ve passed legislation so they can’t say so in public, thereby preserving the principle forever.

  26. on 05 Mar 2010 at 3:12 pm Shackleton

    I’ve never thought about it before, but on consideration there’s no evidence to suggest that more pre-flight deep anal fisting wouldn’t lead to safer flights.

    Someone give Kadir-Buxton a ring will they? We need his opinions on airport security.

  27. on 05 Mar 2010 at 3:20 pm That Bloke in the Corner

    @DC Pirate Pete’s your man there.

  28. on 05 Mar 2010 at 3:46 pm Jones

    What genitals? Some women have breasts, big deal; the rest is on the inside

    I think that Phil E. Drifter is getting mixed up with his dolphin fantasies again.

  29. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:11 pm Kelvin

    Someone give Kadir-Buxton a ring will they? We need his opinions on airport security.

    Well, it might surprise you to know that he doesn’t think the terror threat has the same source as everyone else thinks:

    Both Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were CIA agents. To deter future wars we either have to wind down the CIA or adopt the US Democratic Party personality tests that they use to see if their candidates have the right personality to serve. Nobody is safe as long as the CIA keep recruiting such people, I personally know of one person who was rescued and recruited by the CIA from the British police on a charge of raping a baby. These psychopaths can and must be rooted out.

    Andrew Kadir-Buxton

    He’s not happy about the way we gather intelligence:

    Intelligence from torture is unreliable, and there are international laws making it a criminal offence. We need to prosecute the torturers and the politicians that order their use if we are to be seen as a democracy and civilisation.

    Andrew Kadir-Buxton

    The way to be seen as a democracy and civilisation is to batter mental patients around the head and forcibly fist pregnant women, of course.

    He doesn’t seem to have any opinion on the Rapiscan though, probably because he didn’t invent it. You can tell he didn’t invent it because it doesn’t involve brutalising the person being scanned.

  30. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:13 pm Roeby

    What genitals?

    Is Phil actually Smithers, with only an initmate knowledge of Malibu Stacey on which to base his comment?

  31. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:16 pm Roeby

    Either that or I’m a complete freak.. hmm, you know…’down below’.

  32. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:17 pm ad ho

    Perhaps Phil should have visited a gallery showing Mona Hatoum’s Corps étranger.

    And err Customs go in dry or.. etc.

  33. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:21 pm Fuzzball

    @Ugeine

    Go to reader’s comments and select ‘most recommended’.

    For the real taste of old-fashioned despair, try clicking on the ‘Worst rated’ button.
    Most fervently hated is someone who seems to be trying to bring some sense of proportion/reality to the debate (coincidentally pointing out the bat-shit-knee-jerk-racist-small-minded-spittle-flecked-slack-jawed-uber-twattery of Sue from Newton Abbot). 510 people want to wind alby1′s entrails round a Muslim and then set light to them.

    At first I was a little worried about there only being three dissenting voices. but then (luckily) I remembered that it was the Daily Mail, had a little weep, and am now feeling ok again, thanks for asking.

    (off to put my head in a vice & squeeze really hard).

  34. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:22 pm Fuzzball

    Cock-it, forgot to end the block-quote

  35. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:32 pm Fuzzball

    Also, from that fount of all things nasty, squirty and evil …

    What a great man to put his life on the line for truth and democracy.

    Unlike the author of the story then, as the article is simply credited to ‘Daily Mail Reporter’.

  36. on 05 Mar 2010 at 4:55 pm Shackleton

    You’ve got to admire the Daily Mail’s ability to whip up a good old-fashioned war-time frenzy though.

    What is his stance on non-Dutch immigration?

    Oliver, West Sussex 299 Negative recommendations

    QUESTIONS?! God damn it Oliver, what kind of fucking paki-lover are you? I’m going to click my mouse so hard you’re gonna feel it over there in West Sussex. Christ. Can’t you see we’re in an indignant rage over here? This is no time for questions!

  37. on 05 Mar 2010 at 5:32 pm wheeezely

    Well let’s just remember that if you do get on a plane and a terrorist blows it up, you do bear 5 to 10 percent of the responsibility for choosing to get on the plane in the first place.

    As brilliantly pointed out here some years ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bs7EqlLiSs

  38. on 05 Mar 2010 at 5:47 pm Pirate Pete

    I do love the name of the scanning machine – you’d think someone would have given it a bit more consideration.

    I wonder whether you can order an optional anal probe attachment and a breast-fondling mechanism?

    And DC if there is *any* piracy to be perpetrated around here, I’m first in the queue. You wouldn’t want to be on the end of my plank, believe me…

  39. on 05 Mar 2010 at 5:54 pm Lurker in a Burka

    All the HYSers who are against the airport scanners obviously have something to hide.

    Small penises I’ll wager.

    Coat on thanks, to the pub!

  40. on 05 Mar 2010 at 6:36 pm [NutterBrackets]

    Does anybody else get a genuinely physical feeling of hopelessness and despair in the bottom of their stomach everytime they read comments from BNP supporters? Explain that with your so-called “evolution” Mr Darwin.

  41. on 05 Mar 2010 at 6:39 pm DC

    You might be Pirate Pete, but I’m Captain FuckingAveItYouAmphibiansCloaca!

    By the power vested in me by Admiralty Law, nobody shall cease (or notice) my reign of terror.

  42. on 05 Mar 2010 at 9:44 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    Fuzzball

    Unlike the author of the story then, as the article is simply credited to ‘Daily Mail Reporter’.

    To be honest though, would you really want to put your professional standing on the line for a “Muzzie Ape Horror” story as part of Dacre’s “Muzzie Horror” fetish line of stories?

    Sorry, that’s the “MUSLIMS ARE TAKING OVER BUT DON’T VOTE BNP” fetish line of stories. Not that I’ve checked, but just from reading the shit there’s a strong correlation between the shit that Melanie Phillips and Richard Littlejohn spunk out on a weekly basis and the stuff that Nick Griffin spunks out on a weekly basis.

  43. on 05 Mar 2010 at 9:46 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    Either that or it’s AP or Reuters or someone, and the Mail have an agreement with them that all content they thieve can be attributed to “Daily Mail reporter” because no-one at AP in their right mind would want to appear in the Mail.

  44. on 05 Mar 2010 at 10:06 pm Kelvin

    Wire agreements usually allow reattribution, yeah.

  45. on 05 Mar 2010 at 10:43 pm funny peculiar

    Should I be refused permission to board my flight I will immediately strip totally naked in the security queue and show the staff and everyone that I am clean and have no impediments to boarding. – John Marsh

    Unlike Massive Propagating Bee Extinction LLP, (whose detailed legal opinion was both freshingly delicious and free of charge), I am not up-to-date with admiralty law nor the laws covering international aviation, but I prepared to wager that overtly demonstrating to airport staff that your only hand luggage is a pulsating, cheesy erection almost certainly constitutes an infingement of said laws and is therefore an impediment to boarding and may be subject to various laws regarding decency and terrorism.

    Futher statements of the pointlessly obvious may follow as warranted in accordance with SYB legal code, section 4b, 6 and 9f, charged at the standard rate.

  46. on 05 Mar 2010 at 11:18 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    Kelvin

    Wire agreements usually allow reattribution, yeah.

    And adding pictures of Geert Wilders and very angry related mobs from Getty to suggest, by means of juxtaposition, that the real world outcomes of the story described in the text is indeed chaos in the streets and that the only possible solution to the issues presented is violence and demonstrations returned in kind, making the reader think his salvation is not only in the democratic process (note Wilders voting, very nice touch) but also that the enemies of Wilders don’t agree with the democratic process. It doesn’t take much for the commenters on the Mail website to cotton on to the extremist Muslims at the bottom of the page angry with freedom, despite the framing belying the fact that the demonstrators pictured probably don’t extend outside the frame of the photograph.

    In fact, I wouldn’t be shocked, considering the dimensions of the photograph, if it turned out it had been cropped.

    I like the fact that a lot of reporting has framed Wilders’ poll victory as a win, when in fact it was a limited poll and by all accounts he managed to win one local government seat and didn’t actually have the money to compete in more than two seats. It’s part of a panic/reassurance model, where the left are supposed to panic and the right be reassured that things are going their way. Of course, panic is a bit strong – they’re supposed to rally to the cause of beating fascism or something, so the more liberal media reports it as terrible while the right wing media reports it in the same way. They’re looking for different effects, but they both end up doing the same job.

    I’d like to see how much the Mail pay for their exclusive wire reports, or rewrites, considering I know how much our group pays for attributed straight sources.

  47. on 06 Mar 2010 at 1:57 am Tim nice but dim

    I got my cock out for airport security once. Did you know they have big magnifying glasses there? News to me.

    This post’s been Kelvinated™!

  48. on 06 Mar 2010 at 12:15 pm Kelvin

    I’d like to see how much the Mail pay for their exclusive wire reports, or rewrites, considering I know how much our group pays for attributed straight sources.

    It’s a profit/loss thing. Sure, they probably have to pay the wire services more for the ability to chop up the stories and reorder them into any swivel-eyed form they prefer, but how many copies would The Daily Mail sell if it limited itself to reporting reality? Six copies, exclusively to the family members of Viscount Rothermere.

  49. on 06 Mar 2010 at 1:05 pm Marx & Sparx

    The Rothermeres probably wouldn’t read it if it reprorted reality, after all great gran pa pa was none to fond of them furrins & fuzzy wuzzies neither. Although he did have a penchant for blackshirts.

  50. on 06 Mar 2010 at 2:28 pm Kelvin

    What, you think the Rothermeres don’t need to light the barbecue?

    Well, all right, you think they don’t need the staff to light the barbecue for them?

  51. on 06 Mar 2010 at 2:46 pm tw@basket.com

    but how many copies would The Daily Mail sell if it limited itself to reporting reality?

    Such a thing would probably closely resemble Metro, which they also publish, and which people actually seem to like reading (although maybe not to the point of actually being prepared to pay for it). I guess that means that there is some minimal level of hope for newspaper reading humanity (the swivel eyed loonies on the Letters page excepted).

    What I don’t understand about the Mail is why anybody reads it at all. All it is is made up shit that supports its agenda. What use is that to anybody, even people who support that agenda? I mean, I can make up my own shit that supports my prejudices and grudges for free:

    Exclusive: Paul Dacre was reportedly admitted to an unnamed exclusive private Swiss hospital yesterday having accidentally trapped his famously tiny knob in his trouser zip. Close friends described the 71 year old dissembler as “writhing in fucking agony” but declined to comment on the circumstances in which he sustained the injury. Commentators have suggested that he may have been “surprised” in an “embarrassing situation” possibly involving a soggy, rolled up newspaper.

    Now making stuff up is all good fun but it is also perfectly futile because it doesn’t do anything to really hurt Dacre’s knob (or make him 10 years older than he really is for that matter). I certainly wouldn’t pay money to read that sort of stuff.

  52. on 06 Mar 2010 at 11:16 pm Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    tw@basket.com

    What I don’t understand about the Mail is why anybody reads it at all. All it is is made up shit that supports its agenda. What use is that to anybody, even people who support that agenda? I mean, I can make up my own shit that supports my prejudices and grudges for free:

    Largely because it tells people that their fears are perfectly valid, and that the world has already gone to a place in Indiana, in a handbasket. Most people don’t like to be told that their uninformed beliefs are wrong – take, for example, religion, ghosts and psychics as examples of particularly ludicrous beliefs that people will defend to the hilt – so if it comes to a choice between a newspaper where they report the news, directly attribute the largely neutral wire services for the stories and leave the rabid wankery for the comments, or a newspaper where an editorial decision has been made to turn every single possible story into rabid wankery, shock and sensationalism that plays to fears of immigrunts crossing the borders but which also proposes a mainstream, non radical solution, then people would go for the Screws and the Mail.

  53. on 07 Mar 2010 at 10:47 am Sheepless

    Nearly two hundred years ago, William Hazlitt wrote On the Pleasure of Hating – but it could almost have been written yesterday. Choice quote: Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bitter-sweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal. It’s always seemed to me that this is the Mail’s niche. People love to hate: it’s a kind of drug, and the Mail is their dealer. When its readers refer to Nineteen Eighty-Four, you can picture then shouting the loudest during the “two minutes hate”, then leaving with a spring in their step.

  54. on 07 Mar 2010 at 12:03 pm random punter

    Ahh – Hate.

    Trying to find something to support an observation I heard earlier on Radio Four – does it get any more exciting than that? – I happened across a Telegraph comments page from October 2006 which drew me in like a bewitched mariner following the haunting strains of the Sirens, and led to me being cast up on this island of Hate without even a hint of Kirsty Young to offer me succour.
    http://tinyurl.com/ybhjuba

    It was good to see Michael Mouse excoriating the motherland (04:27 on Oct 26) from his expatriate haven:

    There is now not one show I watch on network TV over here in the US. On occasional return visits to what’s left of Nu Labour’s England I am shocked by the vapid inanity of the programming schedules

    (what’s left of Nu Labour – see what he did there?) but the one which really caught my eye was from The Dear Leader himself. I hadn’t realised he was quite so old, and was surprised at how much his opinions have veered to the right since those heady days.

    When I first saw this topic there were 132 comments, and reading them has been an absolute joy. Similarly the best content of newspapers and magazines are the readers letters. I am 78 now and have watched my share of TV. At one time nothing in the world could compare to the quality of BBC programmes. Today if the viewing public were able to choose whether they would continue to support the BBC monopoly, I suspect that the coterie of lefties, militant femenists and pc lickspittles would be in for a massive shock.
    gordon brown
    on October 26, 2006
    at 01:58 PM
    Report this comment

    Plus ca change…..

    at one time nothing in the world could compare to the quality of BBC programmes

    and then other television companies came along. Damn.

    The thread is a fun little ten-minute read for people of a certain age.

  55. on 07 Mar 2010 at 12:13 pm Kelvin

    Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bitter-sweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

    Can’t see it myself.

  56. on 07 Mar 2010 at 12:59 pm Sheepless

    That’s because you have such a sunny disposition and always see the good side of people, Kelvin. Like her in that Mike Leigh film.

  57. on 07 Mar 2010 at 1:36 pm Tim nice but dim

    Interesting how the most stupid people – like myself – are the ones who most value their own opinions. Also the most hated newspapers (the Daily mail) are the ones I worship and believe every fantastical word of.
    The recommend button on HYS has been removed, but all the most monumental pricks complained about it, it remains off anyway. Again, only the most self-absorbed and idiotic of HYS addicts fail to understand why this improves the situation. Like me. Don’t forget, I tried to demonstrate my immense intellect by claiming to be a squirrel.
    Lets hope the most hated political party in the UK becomes the most voted for (a distinct possibility) then we might get the most hated policies (which everyone wants) put in place. See? That’s how logic “works” for me and my idiot brain. Everyone wants the most hated policies. That’s how democracy works: Everyone else hates a policy but I like it, so it happens.
    We might even get rid of the smoking ban which everyone wants that leaves 90% of the typical public house population not getting cancer because some people who think their personal freedoms preclude any sense of social responsibility are forced to go and smoke somewhere else, boo-hoo, boo-hoo-hoo, the poor defenceless smokers.
    Democracy is a strange creature. And so am I. And when you combine the two you get a weird squirrel-illogic-penis-shitpants omelette.

    - Kelvinated™ for its own good -

  58. on 07 Mar 2010 at 4:52 pm ad ho

    You how Oscar Wilde would remove a comma from one of his poems in the morning only to put it back again in the afternoon? Here fantazamaraz provides us with a valuable glimpse into the poet’s workshop:

    fantazamaraz

    7 Mar 2010, 1:25PM

    Well Iv’e been broadcasting all my life
    To me bbc is nothing but strife
    It must be said at the end of the day
    They want hire you if your straight not gay
    They waste millions we all know that
    And their bosses get paid like a fat cat
    No real talent shows are boring
    Viewers always end up snoring
    So why force the Brits to pay a fee
    When few people watch the bbc
    There’s only one way that is really fair
    Let us all vote if we want bbc there

    fantazamaraz

    7 Mar 2010, 1:28PM

    Well Iv’e been broadcasting all my life
    To me bbc is nothing but strife
    It must be said at the end of the day
    They wont hire you if your straight not gay
    They waste millions we all know that
    And their bosses get paid like a fat cat
    No real talent shows are boring
    Viewers always end up snoring
    So why force the Brits to pay a fee
    When few people watch the bbc
    There’s only one way that is really fair
    Let us all vote if we want bbc there

    spell
    correction to line four.

  59. on 07 Mar 2010 at 5:03 pm Kelvin

    Tim, for all your whinging about HYS changing, I do notice you only have two posts there, and they’re the same regurgitated nu-liebore hur hur bullshit that you could read a thousand times in a thread before reaching your peculiar grammatical arrangement of the exact same words. Is the reason you’re so upset about the change that you have a much harder time working out which secondhand opinions you should be adopting now?

    And no, before anyone asks, I’m not going to link to his profile because Tim is imaginative enough to have used his real name for it, and I still have this awful feeling that one of these days one of you nerds with too much access to Google and too weak a grasp of societal norms is going to be arrested in the bushes outside Catherine Oliver’s house.

  60. on 07 Mar 2010 at 5:24 pm Have Your Lurk

    …you do bear 5 to 10 percent of the responsibility for choosing to get on the plane in the first place.

    Just for the record, I’ve posted an apology for that, on the original thread.

    Kelvin – if you Kelvinate(TM) Tim’s posts, 1. you’re denying his right to free speech on a private blog, and 2. latecomers can’t appreciate your Kelvination(TM)(R) because we can’t see the original. Um? (And if you Kelvinate(TM)(R)(C) this, I’ll, um, go back to lurking. Now there’s a threat!!)

  61. on 07 Mar 2010 at 5:25 pm Ed aka Lurkshire Hunt

    Just wanted to post using my hilarious new nickname.

  62. on 07 Mar 2010 at 5:49 pm Kelvin

    Kelvin – if you Kelvinate(TM) Tim’s posts, 1. you’re denying his right to free speech on a private blog,

    Well that’s a very important point and I’d like to address it by laughing very hard at it. Check the actual formulation of the right of expression (hint: it’s covered by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights) and come back when you understand why he doesn’t have any rights here.

    and 2. latecomers can’t appreciate your Kelvination(TM)(R) because we can’t see the original. Um? (And if you Kelvinate(TM)(R)(C) this, I’ll, um, go back to lurking. Now there’s a threat!!)

    Here’s a tip: If you want to read what Tim actually wrote, there are two options. First, assume that he wrote all the self-contradictory, idiot-brained, Cameron-rimming bits and I just added in the bits that point out what a swivel-eyed hypocrite he is. Second, go and pick a random comment from a recent HYS thread. Tim hasn’t had an original thought since 1993, and that was “hey, I’m popular and good at sex with ladies.”

  63. on 07 Mar 2010 at 6:01 pm Have Your Lurk

    david aspey wrote:
    Form a cue!…

    Proof positive that he’s talking a load of billiards.

  64. on 07 Mar 2010 at 6:02 pm Have Your Lurk

    you’re denying his right to free speech on a private blog

    Well that’s a very important point and I’d like to address it by laughing very hard at it.

    I was being ironic. Did my irony not come through? Genuinely curious.

  65. on 07 Mar 2010 at 6:50 pm Kelvin

    It really didn’t. You should get that looked at.

  66. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:19 am Sir Alf Ramsey's Porn Dungeon

    …I still have this awful feeling that one of these days one of you nerds with too much access to Google and too weak a grasp of societal norms is going to be arrested in the bushes outside Catherine Oliver’s house.

    Oh, come on that’s not fair – I still use Yahoo for that….

  67. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:34 am Sir Alf Ramsey's Porn Dungeon

    … which probably explains why I’ve not had much success as yet, oh, well the thrill is in the chase

    Pedantic admin issue – isn’t it time you changed this:

    All the comments quoted were found on the BBC “Have Your Say” site. Yes, people really have written them. On purpose as far as I can tell.

    yet?

  68. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:35 am Sir Alf Ramsey's Porn Dungeon

    yet?

  69. on 08 Mar 2010 at 8:20 am Mirelurk

    I’m sat up feeding my infant son and have nothing better to do (at least, nothing that doesn’t involve going back to sleep. So I thought I’d have a look at HYS to see if I could find any material for SYB.

    I found the Oscars thread. Jesus fucking wept. “Who would you give an Oscar to?” asked the moderators, as if they didn’t know what was coming.

    Sure enough…

    40. Comment 39 you are not the first as the moderation team chose to remove my comment (37) which simply said “Anthony Charles Lynton Blair”

    So I guess they will remove comment 39 as well despite the fact that Tony Blair’s skills as an actor have been repeatedly discussed and commented on in bbc news programs

    Moderation should be fair, transparent and impartial and free from political bias.

    And answers should relate to the question being asked. Is he like this at home, I wonder? “What would you like for tea tonight?” “Like? I’d LIKE Tony Blair to be strung up for war crimes! Not that this will get past the moderators!” “OK dear, are we going out tomorrow?” “Out? OUT? Gordon McClown should be the one going OUT – of number 10!!!!!”

    i would do away with all awards.

    Difficult to achieve – maybe one for your second term in office as Person In Charge Of Everything, Everywhere, Even Things That Aren’t The Responsibility Of Governments.

    Best Actor:Obama/Blair/Brown.Best Actress:Merkel.Best supporting:Sarkozy.
    Best villain:IT’s gotta be Bush.Worst Actors:Netanyahu,Livni,Dalai Lama.
    Worst Ensemble:Nato,Pakistan’s ISI,Karzai’s govt.

    What’s the Dalai Lama done?

    “Inglorious Basterds” is just another in a long series of Hollywood made anti-Nazi fantasies that from time to time are gratuitously thrown into the publics face to remind everybody of who did nasty things to the Jews. The Indiana Jones series is suffused with it. It used to be more subtle but now it is totally outrageous in its premise as in “Inglorious Basterds” a comlpetely idiotic film of no worth whatsoever except as propaganda. It will probably get some kind of award because in Hollywood anything anti-Nazi and that shows Jews suffering is obligatory Oscar material and the reasons are self evident.

    Yeah, bloody anti-Nazi propaganda. Christ, you begin ONE LITTLE PROGRAMME of systematically eradicating an ethnic group from the face of the planet, and what do you get?

    I would give an Oscar to Tony Blair Gordon Brown and Alistair Campbell for their performances on the Iraq enquiry

    …and…

    and the Oscar award winning performance for the most lengthy dull and innaccurate portrayal of a support PM goes to ……… Gordon Brown.

    Yawn.

    No doubt the best actor / Actress / Film will be given to an ethnic minority just to prove once again the world is sorry for slavery.

    Can a film belong to an ethnic group?

    I’d give one to the MP’s in the ” UK Expenses Scandle” who did an excellent job of acting as if it was the fault of the rules.

    SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES SHUT UP ABOUT EXPENSES

    George Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Prescott, Hilary Clinton, Tiger Woods, Michel Platini, Thierry Henry, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Ronaldo, Kyle Lafferty, Drogba, Arsene Wenger, Peter Andre, Kate Price, Simon Cowell……………

    Just a few of the names that have impressed me with their acting skills. I could have included more…but you get the jist!

    Worth including because, when he was compiling his ‘jist list’, he couldn’t be bothered to find out Didier Drogba’s first name.

  70. on 08 Mar 2010 at 8:24 am Mirelurk

    Shit. Brackets fail, in the first line. Bollocks.

  71. on 08 Mar 2010 at 9:01 am Marx & Sparx

    Have Your Lurk, a JCB would be quicker, but sadly no less painful.

  72. on 08 Mar 2010 at 9:13 am Oaf

    What I don’t understand about the Mail is why anybody reads it at all. All it is is made up shit that supports its agenda.

    But to be fair, it does have the Garfield cartoon in it every day.

  73. on 08 Mar 2010 at 10:00 am Massive Propagating Bee Extinction

    Worth including because, when he was compiling his ‘jist list’, he couldn’t be bothered to find out Didier Drogba’s first name.

    Maybe he thinks he’s one of them single name jobbies, like Ronaldo or Ronaldo or Ronaldo.

  74. on 08 Mar 2010 at 10:58 am tw@basket.com

    What’s the Dalai Lama done?

    Foreign. Not Christian. Dresses funny. Pacifist. Consistently follows his own political and moral agenda which does not fall neatly into either the “pro western” or “anti western” camps and hence confuses and annoys simple minded twats on the internet. Declines to acknowledge incoherent abuse from twats on the internet. A harmless target for impotent abuse who is a long way away and not going to retaliate in any way.

    Its a bit like picking on Quakers with a bit of added racism thrown in.

  75. on 08 Mar 2010 at 11:07 am Rotwatcher

    We were briefly on the subject of press impartiality, but no-one mentioned Media Lens.

    So I did.

  76. on 08 Mar 2010 at 11:19 am Mirelurk

    From Wikipedia:

    A noted public speaker worldwide, the Dalai Lama is often described as charismatic. He is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West, where he seeks to spread Buddhist teachings and to promote ethics and interfaith harmony. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was given honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and was awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal during October 2007. He has received more than 100 honorary conferments and major awards.
    On 17 December 2008, after months of speculation, the Dalai Lama announced his semi-retirement. He said that the future course of the movement he had directed for nearly five decades would now be decided by the elected parliament-in-exile with the prime minister Samdhong Rinpoche. The then 73-year-old Nobel laureate, who had recently undergone surgery, told reporters in Dharamsala, “I have grown old…. It is better if I retire completely and get out of the way of the Tibetan movement.”

    Yeah, what a loser!

  77. on 08 Mar 2010 at 11:37 am Webby

    266. At 10:03am on 08 Mar 2010, lyndon newton wrote:
    Why does a war film win best picture? Avatar has been voted best picture by the people who count the public not some Americans who believed Avatar too near the truth.

    Believe.

  78. on 08 Mar 2010 at 11:51 am My Pockets Hurt

    Hang on. Is Lyndon Newton suggesting that the winner of the best picture Oscar is decided by the US Census Bureau?

  79. on 08 Mar 2010 at 11:54 am Cab Grunter

    Daily Mail in sensible article shocker!
    Comments don’t seem to be on though. I am very confused – the world’s gone mad.

  80. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:07 pm Have Your Lurk

    Kelvin: Done, and thanks. And on your advice I’ve put the cat o’ nine tails back in its velvet bag. I was sort of beginning to enjoy the flagellation, actually. Being flamed by people who can read and write and do joined-up thinking gives one a certain vrizzon.

    - Kelvnote™: HYL is talking about some cleanup I did to one of his posts that was in the wrong thread, and some advice I gave him to STOP FUCKING APOLOGISING ALL THE TIME. -

  81. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:19 pm Roeby

    If I wore a hat (of the tin foil variety or not) I would being doffing it to Webby for that find. Rather than hitting the screen, my carbonated beverage is slowly but steadily dripping from the corner of my mouth as it hangs agape.

  82. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:36 pm Kelvin

    You know who I think should have won an oscar? Eh? Eh? I know a person who’s really good at “acting” and should have won an oscar because of it. Always acting, this person is, always playing a part. Wanna know who it is?

    Carey Mulligan. She was really good in that film and in my opinion better even than Sandra Bullock. But of course the Academy is entitled to its opinion.

  83. on 08 Mar 2010 at 12:52 pm Have Your Lurk

    Sorry for apologising all the time, folks.

    ;-)

  84. on 08 Mar 2010 at 1:47 pm mr ed

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article7045765.ece

    there’s some top class efforts in this one. gays, layabouts, students and actors after a fiver – everyone gets in the lifeboat before me. But thanks to Gertrude Steinem I can assert my right to be a giant pussy and trample on children on the way.

  85. on 08 Mar 2010 at 10:43 pm random punter

    ffs – was there an upper IQ limit on those allowed to comment on that item – perhaps in the low 80s?

    Not that many comments, but a fine gathering as you suggest, mr ed.

    Chris Kavanaugh wrote:
    The research was on passenger reactions. But nowhere are The multiple negligent actions of the Lines and captains addressed. R.M.S. Titanic was under equipped with lifeboats and was steaming to beat the transatlantic record. R.M.S. Lusitania was carrying a large quantity of .303 ammunition and her captain inexplicity slowed his ship with a fresh report of a U-baot in the area. NO MAJOR LINER steaming at speed was sunk by a UBOAT in WW1 and 2.
    People still die en mass on airliners, rock concerts or are put at risk in numerous ways on modern cruise ships and again commercial aircraft. It makes little difference if you’re an american, upper class,young or female if the attitudes of commercial concerns still come down to profit.
    March 5, 2010 5:49 AM GMT
    RECOMMEND?

    Anyone going to mass at a rock concert deserves what they get, IMHO.