Insults and good on Brian May

Bring back some old insults

“In your face” has disappeared, outside of the commentary box, where players are regularly and routinely described as being willing to get into their opponents’ faces. I liked the now, sadly, almost out of use ‘life’ slapdowns:

To anyone with things going wrong, for whatever reason (and preferably, not one of their own making) there was “sort your life out”.

To the whingeing, whining, little to moan about moaners, there was the shrug of the shoulders, and, heavy with the flavour of I’m tired of you, and this, “get a life”. As selfish attitudes lead to ever more transmission of petty problems others deal with in the blink of an eye, and simply because it was a favourite of mine, I think “get a life” is due for a comeback. It’s probably outlawed due to some sort of anti-Internet bullying scheme, protecting the jobsworths and nature’s traffic wardens from being abused by anyone who…well…is too busy having a life for their meaningless trivia seen as overriding priorities.

A couple of things about the badger cull…

…neither of them pleasant or comfortable:

Brian May has made things clear, and I think he’s absolutely right:

“The current campaign against the RSPCA is scandalous, completely manufactured by those who condone bloodsports and cannot abide the RSPCA and all other animal charities bringing fox-hunters to justice…This is all about money and power, vested interests, undercover deals and votes.”

The RSPCA prosecuted Cam-moron’s local hunt, one he rides out with (way to support grassroots sport, vanity-Olympics man).

Our rulers generally class themselves as believers. Whatever the wording, all the (let’s face facts, all the pretty much questionable and discredited) mainstream religions say something about man having dominion over all the other species, or something similar, something that gives the nasty and cruel a get out of jail free card.

Clarissa Dixon-Wright has urged people to stop donating to the RSPCA. The Telegraph, predictably in her corner, billed her as a cook and countryside campaigner. She’s an ex-telly cook, not a chef who has successfully run catering enterprises, she has no expertise in veterinary medicine, epidemiology or zoology, or anything that would qualify her to speak up on the matter. Other than a big, fat, racist, tory mouth. She’s been in court for pitching up at illegal hare coursing events. Those are her colours nailed to the mast right there, and damn unattractive ones they are too.

The facts are these:

The experts disagree on whether a cull is necessary and on whether one would be effective. There’s no lack of people with axes to grind (there’s a Brian May joke there, somewhere) but few of them have any expertise in anything other than grinding their political axes to wield in the pursuit of wealth and power.

The biological facts are that we’re just another species, far from anything special, with genes not far removed from those of many others, and therefore no particular rights or privileges obtain. On that basis, if the jury was out on culling people to stop the spread of disease, my guess is that the decision would be to await further information (it was difficult there to avoid ‘hold fire’ and ‘pulling the trigger’) and anyone promoting going ahead would be marginalised. This is no different.

Foxhunting tory fat racist bigot centrefold, August 2013 issue. Next month: Anne Widdecombe.