Assorted rants

[tadorna]

Brain has gone on extended holiday apparently. I didn't know it well, but still, I'll miss it.


My editor. Nominated for his utter stupidity and his continued championing of Prince Charles's absurd comment, "Farmers are more victimised than blacks and gays," in today's piece of illiterate rubbish editorial.
Richard Madely who today beat his own record of stupidity by equating all asylum seekers with terrorists (and that was just in his opening sentence). Well done there, Richard!
Ann Widdecombe who apparently lives in a world where, if you're being persecuted by your government, you can just pop down to the post office and fill in some forms:

'Hello, I'm being oppressed by, um... you.'
'Oh how terrible. You should really apply for asylum, you know. I hear Britain's very nice.'
'Thanks, you've been most helpful, for a dictatorship.'

Grrrrr...


My nice teapot has unfortunately started making tea that tastes of fish. Well, I'm not sure if it's the teapot or the tea I'm putting in it. Will have to experiment to find out.

I'm paying to write this crap, because we've run out of free internet hours, due to my flatmate squandering them in gay chat rooms. He should have used them wisely, like me... No, don't look at me like that.

Actually, I've forgotten what I was going to say next.

Comments

[punctilious.livejournal.com]

It might also be the water. If you use tap water, that fluctuates during the year anyway, depending on what cycle the water department is in. I would sometimes get very flat or "soapy" tasting tea -- I hear it comes from water that lacks a lot of minerals, such as distilled. I switched to using bottled water and it tasted perfect.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, that could well be it. The water is notoriously bad around here anyway, being very hard. Ah well...

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

Eery resemblance to Australian government rhetoric on asylum seekers.

*chokes down bile*

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Eery resemblance to Australian government rhetoric on asylum seekers.

Yes, I have a feeling we're going the same way. The idiot politicians are bad enough, but I'm really disturbed by the way the media is stirring everything up. This a popular TV show, shown at teatime, fronted by a nice cosy celebrity married couple, and they're basically implying that all asylum seekers are terrorists.

One of my friends works at the local college teaching kids whose first language isn't English. Today one of them turned up covered in bruises - he'd been beaten up in the street and told to go back to his own country. Depressingly, I'm not surprised.

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

That makes *me* want to go and beat people up. Which is not of the good.

Recent field days of the right wing press here have included fires and rioting in mandatory detention centres as proof that "we don't want these people here". Right, because when you lock innocent people up for years at a time, you can reasonably expect them to thank you for it. Bleah.