The Mirror’s story on Robin Williams’s return to the bottle is crucially mistaken:
FUNNYMAN Robin Williams is seeking treatment for alcoholism, it was revealed last night.
Helpfully, they’ve capitalised the erroneous word.
The Mirror’s story on Robin Williams’s return to the bottle is crucially mistaken:
FUNNYMAN Robin Williams is seeking treatment for alcoholism, it was revealed last night.
Helpfully, they’ve capitalised the erroneous word.
…and indeed, irrelevant. Top quality puerile amusement, however.
From the Guardian’s Police focus on liquid threat
“Sources told the BBC that the plot may have centred around smuggling explosives on board in fizzy drinks.”
Luckily, material posted on the Internet alerted the authorities.
Well done to the security services for busting a ring of apparent flight-bomb-terrorists.
However, sod the government for introducing a whole bunch of arbitrary ‘security’ restrictions just to ensure that everybody knows about the plot, remains scared and understands that Our Way Of Life Is Under Threat and only our Dear Leader can protect us.
They’ve busted the fucking bombers. If anything, it’s time to reduce fucking security restrictions. And the no-hand-luggage rule is just bizarre – if you’re a competent enough terrorist to smuggle a bomb onto a plane, then you’re a competent enough terrorist to build pressure- and timer-based detonators for it and stick it in the hold (this also reduces your chances of wimping out, which is a plus for your ringleaders, and of being disarmed by angry passengers like Richard Reid).
Oh, and if this puts anyone off flying for reasons of safety rather than annoyance, you’re a pathetic twat and I hope you die.
Joe Lieberman, a Bush-loving “hey, let’s blow the shit out of the Muslims, and if you disagree with me you’re unpatriotic. Also, abortion is evil and nobody should ever do anything fun” tool who serves as an excellent example of how odd the American electoral system can be (being a Democrat) has been defeated in his Senate primary. Which is good.
Mr Lieberman has also announced his intention to stand as an independent in the actual election. Given my support of Ken Livingstone in various Mayoral elections, it would be inappropriate of me to do other than respect this decision.
However, I’d point out that when Ken stood as an independent mayoral candidate against Frank “I am a useless cunt” Dobson, there was no serious party to represent him, whereas all Joe needs to do is join the Republicans and he’ll be welcome. Indeed, if I were the Republicans in Connecticut, I wouldn’t run a candidate against Mr Lieberman. He’s guaranteed to vote with them on pretty much any issue, after all.
NB it’s worth bearing in mind that none of this battle has nothing to do with how Mr Lieberman’s Jewishness relates to the current Israeli crisis. Both American political parties show a near-fanatical support of Israel, and the vast majority even of those Americans who think the Iraq war is a Bloody Silly Idea still favour handing Israel gazillions of dollars to fight off the Evil Muslim Threat. Israel and Cuba are blind spots that liberal Americans struggle to deal sensibly with, for reasons that remain obscure.
I’m not convinced of the economic merits of ethnic quotas in public sector recruitment.
I don’t have any particular problem with them, though: on a personal level, although I am white and male, I’m also confident in my own employabilty and skills. On a wider societal level, it’s people like this cunt who they’ll serve to annoy (and, in the entirely unlikely event that he’s right, throw out of work so he starves to death in the street). Top quote:
Since when does a ‘Bangladeshi-born‘ get to dictate my families future chances of employment.
Yes, why should a successful Bangla businessman be involved in government plans to address racial discrimination in the workplace? I’m sure a thick racist white boy who blames the blacks for all his problems (rather than, say, his own inability to spell or formulate a coherent argument) would be a far better choice. My favourite loony-tune quote:
Does he mean by ‘population shifts’ the unwelcome and uninvited immigration from the third-world with the only struggling I can imagine happening in the future being that of the old and young fending of the soon to come muggings and gang rapes.
I’m glad that I’m not sufficiently mad to believe that every darkie off the boat is going to steal my job and rape my women. For fuck’s sake, what’s wrong with the white working class? (apart from stupidity, bigotry and indolence, I mean.)
Good news: they’re arming both sides. Now, if only they’d give Hizbollah $5 billion a year in aid as well, there’d be some kind of level killing field.
It’s nice that the We Believe The Muslims Are Trying To Kill Us All lot have heard of satire. It’s also nice that they’ve started to take an interest in copying its forms. Maybe one day they’ll write something that challenges, provokes and reveals deeper truth through exaggeration, rather than making one crap racist joke over and over again.
If you’re the kind of mad bastard who thinks it matters at-all-even-slightly-ever that Reuters bought a photo of the destruction in Lebanon that featured Photoshop-enhanced smoke, I hope you lose your eyes and teeth in a bizarre sailing accident.
I mean, what gives? Israel is merrily genociding the Lebanese population, and what you’re worrying about is some daft stringer making his photo more dramatic so the picture agencies will buy it? Yeah, that’s the fucking moral scandal. Obviously.
“The Finsbury Park Mosque, in St. Thomas Road, Islington, London” anagramises to “Monstrous hook-limbed ninny sponsors Al Qaida fight. Nutter!“. Hurrah! Via.