Posted in art, charity, climate, cliques, dickheads, enmity, entertainment, environment, establishment, humour, location, media, opinion, patriarchy, race, radio, rants, society on November 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
Yesterday, Sir Henry Woburn managed a wonderful juxtaposition on his early-morning Tory Funtime Hour. Shortly before 8am, he made a risky-for-the-BBC if banal racist joke about the Japanese—yes, he used the word “rubbery” at around 21.5 minutes—and followed that after the news with a complaint about the government introducing a new top rate of income [...]
Posted in art, articles, cliques, commerce, enmity, establishment, experience, humour, journalism, media, opinion, overheard, patriarchy, radio, rants, society on October 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
I love my Dad. For some time I couldn’t cope with him, and it looked to all intents and purposes like I didn’t love him at all. But now I can deal with him, and we have a lot more fun together. He can be a dickhead sometimes—and a racist to boot—but I love him. [...]
Posted in art, cliques, enmity, establishment, far_right, humour, lies, love, loyalty, morality, patriarchy, person, politics, society, understanding, venues on October 11th, 2008 No Comments »
In typically offensive fashion, b3ta provided its newsletter subscribers with a racist song this week. It’s kind of funny if horrid and amateurish, which is a good strapline for the b3ta site generally. I drop “funny” into there in the hope that nobody will tell me to lighten up when they read what follows.
I wondered [...]
Posted in climate, consumption, crime, dickheads, environment, establishment, hilarious_jokes, journalism, location, media, opinion, patriarchy, radio, rants, research, society, television, understanding, weather on September 11th, 2008 No Comments »
“Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.â€
So said Brian Cox, or maybe he didn’t. Johnny Walker was all over the LHC on R2, of course, so Cox may have had a point, if he did, if he had. Sir Henry Woburn and his increasingly both elderly and priapic readership [...]
Posted in anger, body, emotions, establishment, far_right, freedom, journalism, lies, media, patriarchy, person, politics, society, truth, understanding on May 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
vinaigrettegirl writes to Nadine Dorries, which optimistically presupposes that the latter can read the communcation. Since she went up against Ben Goldacre and, by proxy, Snopes, Dorries has generally been considered something of an idiot. Most recently, Unity has taken her apart over at the Ministry of Truth.
Personally I like to quote Monbiot’s statistic, that [...]
I stand corrected and astonished: K. tells me that Fran and Lynn chatted quite amicably on Friday’s show. This surprised her as much in the hearing as it did me in the hearing-said, so I wasn’t alone in my imaginings of Machiavellian goings-on off microphone at Sir Henry Woburn’s Fun House.
Apparently they both ganged up [...]
