Calling Cards of Morons

[The Moonster]

6 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

Your ex chairman was the 2nd worst for attitude in 3 years working there, much to the embarrassment of the rest of the board that were present during his little meltdown... but the rest of the club were absolutely sound including Ian Murray. 

The worst was some guy who's daughter was getting married and wanted all the staff to wear toga's and slave collars etc. 

Offt, was this Alan Jardine?

That bit in bold

Fucking hell.

[Derry Alli]

11 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

The worst was some guy who's daughter was getting married and wanted all the staff to wear togas and slave collars etc. 

This is absolutely fantastic. 

[101]

18 minutes ago, Jamie_Beatson said:

Occasionally got the train back to Perth from Aberdeen on a Friday evening when there would be squads of guys fresh off the rigs on the same train, each with a massive carry out. Overpaid bell ends who made it their mission to know they were a) overpaid and b) bell ends.

To be fair it's danger money because f**k going on a floating platform in the North sea drilling shit that's under pressure made by the cheapest bid by the cheapest sub contractor. They can enjoy their pay I can still get petrol for like £1 a gallon which I still think is crazy value for what it has to go through to end up in my car.

[Moomintroll]

17 minutes ago, 101 said:

To be fair it's danger money because f**k going on a floating platform in the North sea drilling shit that's under pressure made by the cheapest bid by the cheapest sub contractor. They can enjoy their pay I can still get petrol for like £1 a gallon which I still think is crazy value for what it has to go through to end up in my car.

Where the f**k is petrol a quid per gallon?

[Miguel Sanchez]

1 hour ago, Kejan said:

People talking about books they have never read e.g 1984, Brave New World.

People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life

[Kejan]

7 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life

Absolutely.

Everyone becoming an expert or whatever the latest issue is as well, when they've read/heard a phrase somewhere and repeated it.

[101]

29 minutes ago, Perkin Flump said:

Where the f**k is petrol a quid per gallon?

Litres/gallons same thing probably, whatever it says on the screen

[Moomintroll]

8 minutes ago, 101 said:

Litres/gallons same thing probably, whatever it says on the screen

Don't open a Petrol Station, in fact do open one & let me know where it is.

[coprolite]

24 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life

But Brave New World is the one people remember. 

[Aim Here]

45 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life

My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist.

(Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.)

They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction.

Edited February 15, 2021 by Aim Here

[Granny Danger]

18 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist.

(Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.)

They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction.

I think you can read other works of fiction he wrote to get a sense of where he stood.  That said Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are both excellent reads.

[coprolite]

27 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist.

(Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.)

They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction.

Not the one about drinking tea though. That behaviour would get you on a watchlist these days. Taking it black is a bit weird but leaving the leaves in is wrong 

[Aim Here]

6 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

I think you can read other works of fiction he wrote to get a sense of where he stood.  That said Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are both excellent reads.

Exactly. The trouble is that his actual views, while there, are harder to glean from his two most famous works, and since those are the two that most people read, he gets misrepresented an awful, awful, lot. That's why I reckon we should force kids to read either Catalonia or the two you mentioned first...

[resk]

A Clergyman's Daughter is a decent read too.  

[101]

Locking the covid thread just as I put a zinger in

Spoiler

Not really, is that the pandemic over now?

 

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by 101

[GordonS]

In Animal Farm he was showing that communism was the right idea and capable of making everyone happy, but it was ruined by those who seized power for themselves. It's no more criticising the concept of communism than The Life of Brian is criticising the concept of faith.

Animal Farm and 1984 are cautionary tales about authoritarianism. Left, right, makes no odds. 1984 is pretty explicit about that. Unfortunately twats with no sense of perspective use it against literally everything any government does to regulate life, from food safety to sex education. "Government is doing something I don't like, ergo it's 1984." Gie's peace Sharon.

[GordonS]

Closely related to "the Nazis were socialists, that's what it says in their name."

[DA Baracus]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was, I felt, rather anti capitalist amongst other things.

[Arabdownunder]

The use of "Room 101" to describe something you don't particularly like irks me

[Kejan]

Lip-syncing videos (or whatever they are called) when some, usually hugely smug-looking 'comedian' syncs the words to a song or a speech. Now that Trump is gone, the likes of Sarah Cooper (absolutely crazy she got a program out of it) will no doubt be hard up for material. 

Also, that in the other room guy too - who pretends to be Johnson or some idiot's speechwriter. 

Another idea like Cold War Steve that was mildy amusing once upon time, been piledrived in to the ground.

Fair dues to the folk behind it though, nice way to make some money on the back of morons who lap it up.