The devil's gone down to Whitley Bay.

[hirez]

(It's a Janitors B-side)

Shameful admission (for a British chap, anyway): for the last several years, I've generally avoided the right-wing hate weblogs (Little green footballs, et al) because reading the poisonous filth that they peddled made me angry and depressed. Lord help any country with people like that thinking their side's in charge, basically.

For the last couple of days, I've actually been going out of my way to look for right-wing lunacy so I can laugh at the silly sods. Which is clearly a dreadful character failing on my part.

It seems that our lot are blaming a cynical media and shouty webloggers for the current public distrust of the political machine. Now, I might be an apolitical lackwit (not true, I just dislike arguing with the clearly wrong) but perhaps it's because they're a hopeless shower of shite who have comprehensively destroyed any remaining socialist ideas they may once have stood for. I mean, I'm just thinking out loud here.

Startlement: Ma & Pa went off to Whitley Bay for some random bun-fight the other weekend. When we stopped off on the way back from that there goth-bothering for tea and cake, it transpired that Ma had been kept awake by the couple in the next hotel room shagging enthusiastically.

It's a pretty rum state of affairs when a chap's mater can describe the noises that occur during athletic gay sex. (Ron Pickering commentary optional)

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The bloggers aren't always the problem (Guido has been known to be vaguely entertaining), but the Speak Your Branes commenters are utterly frightening.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. It seems to be in the nature of the way we've learned to react to news sources, and also they way that no-one save LJ and Making Light bother with comment-pruning to keep the SYB types in line.

[the_axel]

I'd suggest that it's the combination of the two:

1) Crappy politicians feed chatter about how crap politicians are.
a) Constant chatter about how crap politicians are does two things:
z) Discourages righteous chaps from getting in the game 'cos they don't want to be abused all the time.
x) Encourages righteous chaps who are in the game to think along the lines of 'If I'm going to get pilloried for being a fucking cunt regardless of what I do, I might as well get my dick wet'.

There will always be some people who get into politics because they want the power and there will always be some people who want to think the worst of others. It's the ratio's that count.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Your Mum was so cute!

She didn't blush or bat an eye when describing the event--way to go Mrs. H-R! :)

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

One of the bits of wisdom I garnered during my market trader days was, try to read the newspaper(s) with political view most opposed to your own every once in a while - an occasional laugh and an occasional wake up call.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Frankly, when you've been to Whitley Bay, nothing shocks you anymore.