The Politics Thread

[Enoch]

I'd wager they are all quite keen on cricket.

I'd further wager they don't necessarily play by the MCC's Laws.

They all possibly turn a whiter shade of pale whenever Rotherham turns up in a conversation... But, no, that's not the connection.

I'm stumped then. I'm all out of ideas and appeal to you for a declaration.

... they are all POLITICIANS.

Ah, all practitioners of spin.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'd wager they are all quite keen on cricket.

I'd further wager they don't necessarily play by the MCC's Laws.

They all possibly turn a whiter shade of pale whenever Rotherham turns up in a conversation... But, no, that's not the connection.

I'm stumped then. I'm all out of ideas and appeal to you for a declaration.

... they are all POLITICIANS.

Ah, all practitioners of spin.

even I, who knoweth zilch about cricket, goteth that one!

[Enoch]

Speaking of protests that video of the Trump supporter being milkshaked is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen.

Speaking of protests...

I couldn't help notice the complete lack of footage to accompany all the news reports of anti-Trump protests.

Did the blimp make it's own way there!

Conversely, I note there's no shortage of images showing the size of recent Hong Kong protests.

Why could that be!

[Hoboh]

Just woke up after watching the none famous five having a mass debate, what a bloody shower.
Asked what other than Brexit was most important not one of the fcukers mentioned law and order and they are supposed to be Tories!!
If any of these become PM I will go and dig up Lord Sutch.

[Hoboh]

Gove; Anger management issues and robotic.

Hunt; smarmy, full of self importance and smug.

Sajid; out of his depth, trust me I once was working class and a BANKER!!

Raab; one line wonder, can someone pass me a script please, fast!

Stewart; Yes son you did well, now do as mummy says and run off to bed, don't forget to have a wee and wash your hands and face.

[Harry Genshaw]

Gove; Anger management issues and robotic.

Hunt; smarmy, full of self importance and smug.

Sajid; out of his depth, trust me I once was working class and a BANKER!!

Raab; one line wonder, can someone pass me a script please, fast!

Stewart; Yes son you did well, now do as mummy says and run off to bed, don't forget to have a wee and wash your hands and face.

When you look at that lot, Johnson and the laughable quality on the opposition bench do you have faith that any of them can deliver Brexit?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Gove; Anger management issues and robotic.

Hunt; smarmy, full of self importance and smug.

Sajid; out of his depth, trust me I once was working class and a BANKER!!

Raab; one line wonder, can someone pass me a script please, fast!

Stewart; Yes son you did well, now do as mummy says and run off to bed, don't forget to have a wee and wash your hands and face.

When you look at that lot, Johnson and the laughable quality on the opposition bench do you have faith that any of them can deliver Brexit?

No. None whatsoever.
I believe Boris "we'll leave on 31st October, come what may" Johnson, is talking through his massive anus. The rest of them are whispering through smaller, tighter anii, or, in the cases of Corbyn, Rory Stewart, Vince Cable, Tom Watson, et al are not even making noises, but are merely keeping back gas with their europhile sphincters, clasped closed with a rictus of rigor mortis proportions.

The political class are determined not to let democracy win. The cxnts might as well import Carrie Lam and anoint her the next PM.

[Prufrock]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

A bit like the two million toddlers in Hong Kong... Waaaaaaugh.

You sound like someone who is well chuffed that cxnts won't let democracy win.
I prefer to be a toddler than a tit. Suck on that.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocchè giammai di questo fondo
Non tornò vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

Tit.

[jmjhb]

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, oh Principessa
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle che tremano
D'amore e di speranza

Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me
Il nome mio nessun saprà
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
Il silenzio che ti fa mia

(ll nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir)

Dilegua, oh notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
Vincerà!
Vincerò!

[TANGODANCER]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

"Civility is actually the overcoming of the will to power, the natural desire to dominate others, not a mask for covering over that natural political attitude."
Words of wisdom from Ann Hartle professor of philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, oh Principessa
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle che tremano
D'amore e di speranza

Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me
Il nome mio nessun saprà
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
Il silenzio che ti fa mia

(ll nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir)

Dilegua, oh notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
Vincerà!
Vincerò!

And that's meaningful how?.
Apart from being Italian?

[jmjhb]

You mean we aren't just quoting famous pieces of work in Italian?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

"Civility is actually the overcoming of the will to power, the natural desire to dominate others, not a mask for covering over that natural political attitude."
Words of wisdom from Ann Ann Hartle professor of philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta.

Aye...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You mean we aren't just quoting famous pieces of work in Italian?

Nope.
What I quoted was the epigraph to uh.. erm.. the Love Song of J Alfred PRUFROCK.
Written by TS Eliot, the poem, not the epigraph (the epigraph is a quote from Dante). The epigraph has no translation in Eliot's work, the kind of stunt that makes people think Eliot is a snob.
If you translate it however you'll note the final line is:
"I answer without fear of being shamed".

So from toddlers to tits, I answered Prufrock in his own terms without fear of being shamed, but also, like Eliot the creator of PRUFROCK, as a snob would.

Very childish. But then I'm a toddler...

Do fxcking keep up...

[jmjhb]

Hmm. He probably chose that username because he's a big fan of Frank Turner who did a song called "I knew Prufrock before he got famous" around the time he registered here, no idea about his opinion on the Eliot poem though

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Hmm. He probably chose that username because he's a big fan of Frank Turner who did a song called "I knew Prufrock before he got famous" around the time he registered here, no idea about his opinion on the Eliot poem though

You mean he's not even intellectual, he just likes a good toon!

And Frank Turner can fxck right off with his Straight Edge shite.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

"Civility is actually the overcoming of the will to power, the natural desire to dominate others, not a mask for covering over that natural political attitude."
Words of wisdom from Ann Ann Hartle professor of philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta.

Aye...

I've re-read it. I confess I am now confused.
Am I civil?
Have I even got a mask that covers up my natural political attitude whether or not that is a desire to dominate others, and if I do, do I have the will to remove it and thus overcome the will to power, or is my refusal to remove the mask that I don't have an admittance that my natural political attitude is correct?

[Prufrock]

You sound like a toddler. "They won't let democracy win, wah".

"Civility is actually the overcoming of the will to power, the natural desire to dominate others, not a mask for covering over that natural political attitude."
Words of wisdom from Ann Hartle professor of philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta.

I wonder why you directed that at me and not Donny Tourette.