I think Betrand Russell might just fit into every category we have except ‘miscellaneous prats’ and ‘normal people’. I found him grumbling about pregnant women. Turns out he also feels rather strongly about global warming:
Some say the world is warming, some say the world is cooling. Does it really matter?
Betrand Russell
It does to me. I need to know whether to ask for flip-flops for Christmas or save up to buy a duffel coat this summer.
I am interesed in global warming and science fiction, which are linked, so I have given myself a series of names as a tribute to my heroes. Does this make me, what the kids nowadays call ‘a geek?’
Betrand Russell
I must confess, I’m not down with the lingo. Is ‘geek’ like ‘credulous self-aggrandising gobshite who skim-read one book, agreed with a bit of it and decided he wanted to ride around the thickest regions of internet on the coat-tails of the great philosophers’? If it is, you’re pulling off that “geek-chic” thing fabulously.
Hasn’t history told us again and again that religious intolerance never works?!
Cindy Chaplin, Coggeshall
I agree. I’m off to build a Catholic cathedral in Karachi. I am sure they will be very tolerant there.
Betrand Russell
Good point. Off you go. But I warn you, the local Archbishop don’t like no competition, so don’t come crying to me when the St Patrick’s mob kneecap you and take your grey lego bricks.
Do you know how many refugees the UK accepted last year?
It was 697.
Is all this HYS anger and paranoia really justified?
Col, uk
Why is it that they all appear to be living in my street? Why do people believe the figures of this government?
Betrand Russell
It’s an optical illusion Bettie. The same Somali passes you on the street and says ‘good morning’ several times a week, but it looks like lots because it happens at different times in different places and he’s wearing different clothes.
Anyway, on the basis of this last comment, I think I’ve managed to diagnose Betrand Russell. You see, he’s naturally sceptical of any kind of authority. Facts, statistics, massive buildings right there in front of you, however incontrovertible they may seem, if the pro-government, BBC-run forces of Scientific Consensus want you to believe it, it follows ergo QED that the opposite must be true. Like, for example, the Hollywood Establishment will tell you it was “just an actor”, that they used “special effects” and that he might recently have “died” of “cancer”, but do they really think you’re too stupid to see through that?
Patrick Swayze will live forever as his character in ‘Ghost.’
Betrand Russell
Unless they shoot him for his views on Anthropogenic Global Warming, that is.