Friday, 12 October 2012

Hands off Lance Armstrong


Witch hunts

The Jimmy Saville witch hunt for all the cronies and coverups, I'm all for. The Lance Armstrong one I don't see the point of. Cycling was dope-heavy at the time. Now, it's cleaning things up. Then, Armstrong seems to just have been pushing the envelope further than anyone else. Doing the same, just more or better.

Were it my sole responsibility, I would withhold my licence fee when it next becomes due. I have only one thing against the BBC, and that's funding a broadcaster that broadcasts nothing I want to watch. It feels like paying an empty cab to drive around the block a few times or buying a replica Tottenham shirt. With no intention of burning it. So, on the basis that I always hated Saville and never bought into that national treasure bull, on the basis that plenty at the corporation knew exactly what was going on and covered it up, on the basis that even though they knew they still produced and put out a tribute programme, and on the basis that I don't really want to fund an organisation that supports people like Saville, I would refuse to pay.


Takeaway heaven, part one

Fishcake, chips, and curry sauce. Open out wrapping. Plenty of salt and vinegar on the chips. Place fishcake on chips. Smother in chipshop curry sauce.


Boris...

...according to Max Hastings, is “brilliant, funny, warm and human, and can never be PM”. Hastings then goes on to a long character assassination. Apparently those are the reasons why, no matter how warm, funny and human he is, he should never be PM.

Don't warmth, humour, and humanity, in and of themselves, bar their owners from office? In my adult life we've had a succession of ice kings and a queen devoid of humour, humanity and humility.

Thatcher. Evil, bitter, twisted. A mad hag. Her and Ronnie and Reganomics have got us where we are now. It seems you shouldn't think that.

Blair. Son of Maggie. Equally mad. Convinced that he was doing God's work.

The two C's. Cameron is some sort of alien reptile shapeshifter. Clegg would sell his grannie to be made milk monitor.

Like Kiz said, there's not much to recommend either Ken or Boris, but at least with Boris you get a laugh. Politically, I just can't support him, but as a fellow member of the No-Matter-What-I'm-Wearing-I'm-Scruffy club perhaps I should.


Shocking, really shocking

A campaign promoting proper meat (from the butchers) and proper veg (from the greengrocers) is hitting the skids because people don't have the skills to cope with those ingredients and depend on highly processed, highly packaged, highly unhealthy, and highly unpalatable supermarket rubbish.


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