Painting, attic, botox, selling yr soul to the devil... sprinkle into jokes as you see fit.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
Nick is the sensitive type, writing tear stained letters back to Mummy about how horrid the other boys in his dorm are to him, Dave's a "roarer, a rogerer, a gorger and a puker"
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
Westminster School vs. Eton
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
Westminster boys tend to be better adjusted but Eton boys are weirder in bed?
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wait I didn't say that.
This hasn't come up yet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/shortcuts/2011/dec/12/david-cameron-full-bladder-technique?intcmp=239
Cameron, it is said, used his tried-and-tested "full-bladder technique" to achieve maximum focus and clarity of thought throughout the gruelling nine-hour session in Brussels. During the formal dinner and subsequent horse-trading into the early hours, the prime minister remained intentionally "desperate for a pee".
― sean doily, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like an overheard conversation at a Tory Party conference (xp)
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
He'd left his pissboy, young Nick, at home
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'd've thought the full bladder technique wd be offset by his full of shit technique
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Full bladder technique, yup. Like I said, Eton boys are ~weird~ in bed.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Is that really going to help your negotiating position? If I'd been holding it for as much as a couple of hours I'd basically be willing to give Sarkozy anything he asked for just to get out of the room.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
Nine hours, he's asking for trouble on the prostate front there.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, sounds like he gave him nothing, just so he could get out of the room.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
does seem to indicate that if you're ever engaged in tense negotiations with Cameron then a swift blow to the abdomen cd have hilarious consequences
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
If only Laws and Clegg hadn't held Vince Cable back and he'd connected that time during the coalition talks...
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
wait what, re: full bladder technique
why are our politicians such massive weirdos
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
though actually it's one of those stories that just makes you feel a lot better about yourself
The fact that we have a PM who thinks that Enoch Powell is someone to *emmulate*... but at least we know the sources of those metphors, then. Rivers of Blood? Rivers of piss coursing through his mind, more like.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
We can just hope.
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps this CD would be of use for background listening during future negotiations:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HR60NNAHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― brony island baby (case spudette), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
Expect more Euro bashing and Enoch Powell evoking if this is anything to go by.
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/n9x15djpsk/YG-Archives-Pol-Sun-results-141211.pdf
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
nice to see no evidence of a North/South divide there
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
xp Having said that - interesting disconnect between voting intention and "disapproval of Government"?
Is it "I don't like it so it must be good for me"?
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
or a percentage of the disapprovers are disapproving cos the gov isn't right wing enough
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
Not enjoying the voting intention percentages, but I am enjoying that 50% of people who voted for Clegg in 2010 believe he has no redeeming qualities
― brony island baby (case spudette), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Striking that Labour have a healthy lead with every age group apart from the over-60s. Shame they're the only people who vote.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
Twisted old bastards
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
wow i hadn't picked that up, man a nice long cold winter cd completely decimate the Tories' support
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
REPEAL THE WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE
"They don't like it up 'em, the EU"
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
On those numbers could the LDs get wiped out in scotland?
― Ed, Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Fingers crossed. Lots of their 'star' MPs are from Scotland.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Most of their Scottish voters are on the right, so I imagine the SNP and (possibly) the Tories would benefit.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
:D
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
HOPE!
Sixty years of free health care, free bus travel and discounts at the National Trust tea shop and this is how they repay you...
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Disappointing night for Bus-Pass Elvis supporters
Amusing (intentionally?) quote from Simon 'Scumbag' Hughes:
"What happened here was what normally happens in a by-election. People protest against the government, so government parties take a hit and the opposition normally moves forward."
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lib Dems - 1,364 (5.87%)
Much lower than the 9-11% they've been polling nationally for the past year.
― mortified of ILX (onimo), Friday, 16 December 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
They've changed that article - originally the Tory quote came from the defeated candidate (I think) and was along the lines of 'well, it's a good result because people said we were going to get hammered and that hasn't happened'. Except there was a swing of 8.6% from the Tories to Labour (which would give Labour an 88-seat majority if repeated nationally), the Labour lead over the Tories was over 26% and they got almost double the Tory vote in a seat which the Tories held in the 90s, and less than 8% of the electorate could be bothered to vote for the Tories. I know it's only a by-election and the result means nothing in the long-term, but it's still a shit result for them.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Friday, 16 December 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
(which would give Labour an 88-seat majority if repeated nationally)
is so meaningless it doesn't even deserve saying with the "i know this means nothing" caveat
― caek, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
28% turnout. Turnout in Homs was probably higher.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16224394
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm saying something obnoxious that will piss you off, but I'm trying hard to say it in a way that won't piss you off. However that just pisses you off even more."
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Describing himself as a "committed" but only "vaguely practising" Christian
So which is it then, hypocrite or fucking liar?
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
The bible contains plenty of both. Cameron would have fit right in.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
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― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Sunday, 18 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
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― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Thursday, 22 December 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Sir Peter Lytton "Baz" Bazalgette (born on 22 May 1953) is a British media expert who helped create the independent TV production sector in the UK and went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol.
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
It is the second year running that the former Prime Minister spent Christmas Day separated from her children in her elegant London home. Although increasingly forgetful, it will surely have been obvious to her that she was spending the festive period without her children, right, once again.
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Who would want to spend Christmas with Mark and Carol Thatcher?
― In other news: worldwide MJpopcorn.gif shortage (snoball), Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link