http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 10:19:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-164001 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:24:27 +0000 Oxbridge 164001@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Daily Mail taking comments out of context and twisting them round to support its own agenda? How can you even think that??</p> <p>I should read 'Things Can Only Get Better'. I did last September and I won WotM shortly after, without even having written anything that month. Coincidence? I think not. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163847 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:07:50 +0000 godly1966 163847@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ronseal are you loitering within tent? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163846 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:05:12 +0000 godly1966 163846@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Id vote for this man standing in the by-election RAY HALL - Beer, Baccy and Crumpet Party. As a non smoker I only support 66.66% of his policies but at least he ha 3 policies. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163837 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:35:37 +0000 Sinnick 163837@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think the clue is "party" tents. The thread title contains the word "party". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163830 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:11:01 +0000 Al OPecia 163830@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nope something about apps. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163827 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:02:58 +0000 ronseal 163827@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is anyone else getting adverts for Marquee tents coming up with this thread?</p> <p>Or is it just me? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516&page=2#post-163774 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:21:38 +0000 riesler 163774@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Any idea where our beloved leader published his retraction or apology? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163748 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:32:36 +0000 Sinnick 163748@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps I'm being a little naive, but I'd rather hope a newspaper would report something that's, well, news. I don't expect them to predict the future, that would be a little beyond most of them.</p> <p>Maybe, if the DM is so interested in Eastleigh, they could present the current opinions of the various candidates rather than just trying to undermine the reputation of an individual. I doubt I would agree with some of JoF's political opinions, but I'm sure he'll make a damn fine MP if he wins.</p> <p>And I have to apologise unreservedly for my imprecise use of the word "review" - I momentarily forgot the impeccable standards of publishing on the internet. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163739 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:21:36 +0000 ronseal 163739@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I might dig out Things Can Only Get Better and read it again.</p> <p>If only to be shocked at the sheer tastelessness of this left wing extremist's remarks. I can't help it, I'm hooked on taking offence.</p> <p>I wonder if reading something that makes you angry is addictive. </p> <p>Maybe that's what we do for fun now that everything's banned. It's the nearest we get to an adrenaline rush. I think it's all I've got left these days. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163720 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:29:29 +0000 Mr Target 163720@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56571">Had a go. </a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163717 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:17:51 +0000 nickb 163717@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Strange that the press like to trawl through the garbage of the past" says Sinnick. Reporting the future is a bit of a challenge. I will try and review what happens next but there's a clue in the word about what it means. Re view, you see. Or view again. You can't really view again something that hasn't happened. As for immature hatred, it sounds better than mature hatred, which presumably is the hatred someone's been brewing for a while. Wait a minute lots of people have been maturing hatred for Thatch for quite a while, so she surely will on death be the subject of mature hatred. Very mature. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163595 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:54:56 +0000 Sinnick 163595@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Interesting that Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair are the only 2 PM's people talk about nowadays. They both made a big difference to this country, though it evidently isn't fashionable to like that.</p> <p>Strange that the press like to trawl through the garbage of the past, rather than review what may happen next. I suppose it's simpler for their little minds to read a book published last century rather than analyse what's happening today. Bless them.</p> <p>When Mrs Thatcher finally shuffles off, there certainly will be a lot of immature hatred flying around. Although I'd strongly disagree with it, people certainly have the right to express their thoughts.</p> <p>So, who's going to have a go at the DM ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163563 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:40:36 +0000 nickb 163563@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It is perfectly OK to express hope for the death of one's leaders. Come friendly Meteor descend on Notting Hill etc. Mr O didn't think it through though because had she been killed the repercussions would have been horrible. A Tory govt charged with political righteous indignation, the figure of the late Thatch elevated to Joan of Arc status. Things could only have got worse. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163560 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:18:34 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 163560@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hasn't Ed Balls (and several other prominent Labour supporters/members) publicly said that he's got champagne on ice for the day Thatcher dies?</p> <p>Was he called an incontinently-voiced reprobate? Because he doesn't even have the excuse of being a comedy writer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163557 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:09:26 +0000 The All New Jeni B 163557@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love Tebbit's description of the Ed. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21492430">Ooh! Get her!!</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163453 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:51:09 +0000 riesler 163453@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>BTW Still not sure who is nastier, despite the Tebbit todger revelations. But I think I am learning.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163452 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:49:40 +0000 riesler 163452@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Remind me, how much does St Tony of Blair give to the poor? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163433 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:47:50 +0000 Squudge 163433@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Soz but I'm with IDS on this (never thought I'd hear myself say that).</p> <p>We've all stacked shelves (haven't we?). I never felt demeaned, and I seem to recall the wage was pretty much the same as being on dole. The point was 1. Get a reference and 2. (bonus) in the warm/bunch of other side benefits like talking to other people with jobs about other jobs.</p> <p>In Singapore, all pensioners are given jobs that one might consider demeaning, but it is intended to gently keep them active/ensure care in the community. Everyone accepts it. Be afraid, they might do that here. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163429 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:39:48 +0000 Al OPecia 163429@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>She wasn't objecting to the work - it was the lack of a wage that was the problem. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163405 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:06:20 +0000 Truebiscuit 163405@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Iain Duncan Smith only wants to give unemployed geologists free money that he's taken from the rich, if they're prepared to do a bit of work for it. High street geologists aren't in great demand, whereas shops that sell cheap things are really popular.</p> <p>If she doesn't want to work in a shop, fine. No-one should make her. But then she shouldn't expect to be given money that other people have worked hard to earn.</p> <p>She should probably be paid properly for working there, but she shouldn't refuse to work on principle and still expect to be bailed out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163397 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:50:13 +0000 Gerontius 163397@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>nickb....that is horific. The stuff of nightmares.<br /> Can just imagine Norman Tebbit being blown to pieces and all they could find was his penis.<br /> Picture two paramedics carrying it out on a stretcher.</p> <p>Hold on...the first and last day you piloted a glider?<br /> Sounds eerily familiar.<br /> OK...so it wasn't a Boeing 747 full of terrified passengers but it was still an aircraft of sorts.<br /> Typical of this country....a fucking glider. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163390 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:32:38 +0000 Al OPecia 163390@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wow - Iain Duncan-Smith has just outed the Tories as the anti-science party. Apparently stacking sheleves should be the level of ambition of our expensively (at their own cost) trained graduates, not a career in science:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21490542" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21490542</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163383 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:26:25 +0000 AReader 163383@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've read his memoir "Things can only get better" and I think its massively entertaining that they take that particular quotation out of its context. The person humiliated was John's 19 year old lefty self looked back on by the mature writer.</p> <p>There's also a hilarious passage where John is trying to explain why it would be a good idea if Britain lost the Falklands just so Thatcher could be removed from power. As he said on the back cover, he really really didn't like Margaret Thatcher.</p> <p>He can't be the only person who wondered why Thatcher didn't survive the Brighton bomb, but a more mature person would have realised that had Thatcher died, her memory would have been canonized, and the history of the last 30 years would have been very different and probably not to JoF's liking. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163379 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:42:04 +0000 nickb 163379@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>dvo: I have often thought of writing a short story about the day I saw the Tebbit equipment. It was also the first and last day I piloted a glider. And I saw the RSC production of...er Timon of Athens, I think. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163373 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:03:14 +0000 dvo4fun 163373@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Truebiscuit: </p> <p>"Poor people don't have any money, Gerontius. That's why they're poor.</p> <p>The Tories just don't give as much of the rich people's money to the poor. "</p> <p>Sounds reasonable to me Tb; a sound analysis for a sound economy. </p> <p>Do you know exactly which planet &amp; in which solar system the rich people travel to - in order to collect all their money in the first place btw? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163371 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:58:00 +0000 dvo4fun 163371@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What you need Nick is a counsellor to help you come to terms with it </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163367 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:39:31 +0000 nickb 163367@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not sure this is relevant and should go in the "dead pool" or "Unimpressive celeb encounter" thread. But the day of the Bombing I was watching TV in a guest house in Stratford upon Avon and watched footage of Norman Tebbit being stretchered out, in his pyjamas. Brace yourself for the next bit. You know how pyjamas are a kind of mixed blessing: ease of access the upside - accidental display the downside. I am pretty sure I saw Mr Tebbit's stricken penis, just for a nanosecond. It's a sight that has haunted me ever since, and reason enough to hate the terrorists that were responsible for this horrible experience.</p> <p>Suppose Thatcher had been killed, and, in order to even up the numbers, one of the dead Tory MP's had survived. Who would we have had instead? Keith Joseph? Kenneth Baker? Norman Tebbit? The prospect of a fellow right-winger wringing the last bit of martyrdom-benefit from the death of Margaret is too horrible to contemplate. Worse even than the glimpse of that Tory todger I suffered all that time ago. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163366 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:39:04 +0000 Truebiscuit 163366@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Poor people don't have any money, Gerontius. That's why they're poor.</p> <p>The Tories just don't give as much of the rich people's money to the poor. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163362 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:10:13 +0000 Gerontius 163362@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well I've read all Jono Feral's books and they are excellent.<br /> I've seen him live on stage at a book launch and a literary festival and he was excellent.<br /> I think he will make an excellent candidate.</p> <p>Jono Feral and the Beastly By-election.<br /> Would make an excellent kids book on politics.</p> <p>Not sure how much mileage there is in 'outing' someone for despising Thatcher.<br /> She was a brilliant politician and did everything it said on the Tory tin.<br /> She robbed poor people and gave it to the rich - it's what they do.<br /> Can't fault her for being true to her beliefs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56516#post-163357 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:35:34 +0000 Tripod 163357@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I do find the recurring calls for the death of Maggie Thatcher more than a little distasteful and only cheapens the arguments of those opposed to her. </blockquote></p> <p>You're probably right. I loathed her policies, but she had some standing in the world. Also she was voted in by a majority of voters in a democracy. Blame them... </p>