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Even among raving loonies, that level of ultraviolence (not just murder, but this kind of murder) is reserved for people you properly hate, not people whose PlayStation you’re trying to nick. It’ll be mistaken identity or nefarious double life, mark my words…

Unrelatedly, a grumpy old sod got fired from Shell in the early 1990s and proceeded to sue them. The litigation was settled out of court without anyone admitting anything much, in the way that these things usually are – however, the grumpy old sod in question decided the best use of his now-copious spare time would be to launch a site devoted to hating Shell. Which he duly did. And subsequently, the Russian government’s ropey-as-hell attempts to take over Sakhalin (oh noes! environmental regulations fail!) relied on misleading documents posted on said grumpy old sod’s website.

So I hope the grumpy old sod in question lives long enough to be one of the first to freeze to death when the Russians jack up gas prices to $100 per million BTU…

[digresionally, I fucking hate it when non-cave-dwelling non-hippies slate oilcos for ‘environmental damage’. If you drive a car or use electricity, you have no fucking right whatsoever to criticise the actions of the oil majors; the problem is you not them.]

I look forward to your tour of the nations’ predominantly white “sink estates” (ZaNuLabour term) explaining to all of these people born into a cycle of poverty and no prospects exactly how this applies to them.

This is moronic because:

a) equating a bunch of mildly-inept-but-no-worst-than-most centre-right politicians to Mugabe’s genocidal thugs is as witlessly offensive as equating Israel with the Nazis

b) the white British gentlemen (and indeed, the other-coloured British ladies and gentlemen; foreigners fleeing persecution aren’t so lucky) of this nation’s predominantly white sink estates are housed, clothed, heated and fed, and enjoy the delights of Sky TV and all the weed they can smoke. This isn’t much of a way to live, but it beats the lifestyle of at least 75% of the world’s population into a cocked hat…

(This awesome rant refers.)

Fuck you, you stupid prick. Spoken as a white British male – if you’re lucky enough to be born white, male and British, your reserves of luck relative to the average person-who-is-born are so enormously, vastly fucking enormous that uttering one fucking moronic lying retarded word of ‘oh noes, the blacks get a better deal than me’ style nonsense ought to be punished by flaying alive.

If you’re white, male and British and you think there is something wrong with your life, you may well be correct – but the thing which is wrong with your life is that you, despite being given every opportunity open to you by life, have fucked it up. Stop whining or kill yourself. If you decide to pick the second option, here are some directions.

Tags: really fucking depressing

And if an Australian TV channel points out to kids that they’re using ten times the resources of the average third world citizen, and does so by the comedically robust means of a “when ought you to die?” calculator, we salute them. This is entirely appropriate: everyone in the west should be thoroughly aware of how fucking lucky they are to be as rich as they fucking are, and equally be aware that there is no way in hell the world could support the lifestyles we currently have for its whole population; failure to appreciate these facts is a sign of rampant idiocy and self-centredness bordering on the autistic; and the belief that it’s wrong to point these facts out to kids in a way that will shock them and stick in their minds is somewhere between Victorian and moronic.

However, one thing that we don’t like is hypocrisy. And as Justin points out, the hypocrisy of right-wing swearbloggers after the Bishop of Stafford’s remarks certainly counts…

I was thinking it’s very annoying that these lorry drivers are blockading the roads etc, but at least it means they’re not murdering female teenage hitchhikers.