tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post3250038582652998074..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The Best Comeback Line EverIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62472806383644951832007-05-09T01:28:00.000+01:002007-05-09T01:28:00.000+01:00I was sent this so called 'best comeback line' via...I was sent this so called 'best comeback line' via email as a joke. I can't believe people actually think this is witty..it's really pathetic and so obviously fiction! (made up by a 14 year old I reckon) <BR/><BR/>I mean 'female interviewer' where's her name? Her last line of "but you're equipping them to be violent killers?" Just so unbelievable! Such a brazen set up..<BR/><BR/>As for 'the best comeback ever' It's just plain moronic, not even based on truth (which to me is essential for any joke) Women aren't 'equipped' to be prostitutes, they are equipped for giving birth and having sex - as are men. While guns sole purpose is to kill violently.<BR/><BR/>I don't think for a second any woman, let alone 'a lefty', would let that line go without the last word either - and there would just be so much you could say back to that. I found myself here because I googled it to prove to a coworker it was hogwash...thanks for the Snopes headsup!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12245948639066999912007-05-01T22:07:00.000+01:002007-05-01T22:07:00.000+01:00elmer - verity ain't no shrew, try the opposite en...elmer - verity ain't no shrew, try the opposite end of the size scale..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90686398456564900562007-05-01T22:04:00.000+01:002007-05-01T22:04:00.000+01:00newmania - judge a man..newmania - judge a man..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30907910717912437472007-05-01T02:19:00.000+01:002007-05-01T02:19:00.000+01:00verity said…..Your little head is full of silly as...<B>verity said…..</B><BR/><BR/>Your <I>little</I> head is full of silly assumptions....<BR/>April 30, 2007 12:55 AM<BR/><BR/>Poor <I>little</I> Anonymous....<BR/>So eager were you to be a <I>little</I> smarty pants....<BR/>April 30, 2007 1:26 AM<BR/><BR/>I remember all their stupid <I>little</I> faces....<BR/>April 30, 2007 3:41 AM<BR/><BR/>I don't in the least mind being put down with wit and intelligence...<BR/>April 30, 2007 4:22 PM<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Putting Verity "down" requires neither wit nor intelligence.<BR/><BR/>While I do not doubt that she can walk and chew gum simultaneously, her internal CPU is clearly insufficient to generate both good English and good grace in equal measures.<BR/><BR/>Indeed, in constantly "belittling" others as she does, she exhibits an ugly attitude.<BR/><BR/>Were I not an English gentleman, I might conclude that Verity was a caustic, supercilious, purse-lipped shrew with a spellchecker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32292787098216593882007-05-01T00:06:00.000+01:002007-05-01T00:06:00.000+01:00My guess is that anon@11.47pm is right. I'm not a...My guess is that anon@11.47pm is right. I'm not an expert on American flag officers, but I doubt there is a "General Cosgrove" sufficiently well known that they don't have their first name used much.<BR/><BR/>There is however a "General Cosgrove" like that here in Australia. Peter Cosgrove was the head of the Australian forces in East Timor in 1999. And of course we have our ABC (essentially a BBC relay station).<BR/><BR/>The joke reads like "insert your country's preferred broadcaster and military figure here". Moreover I live near Gen Cosgrove and have met his son socially. That's the last thing he would say on air. It's nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62379889844586509812007-04-30T20:06:00.000+01:002007-04-30T20:06:00.000+01:00When I look at the last few postings I see Verity ...When I look at the last few postings I see Verity as an arse several times bigger than Cherie blair's!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40270371066545107892007-04-30T19:28:00.000+01:002007-04-30T19:28:00.000+01:00Good thinking, Gary. Of course, they should crush ...Good thinking, Gary. Of course, they should crush <B>you</B>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37252101808472832552007-04-30T17:38:00.000+01:002007-04-30T17:38:00.000+01:00If guns don't kill, but people do and cars don't k...If guns don't kill, but people do and cars don't kill, but drivers do, then why will the authorities crush my car if I fail to display road tax?<BR/><BR/>garyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75608329417605531302007-04-30T16:22:00.000+01:002007-04-30T16:22:00.000+01:00Thanks, Permex. I don't in the least mind being p...Thanks, Permex. I don't in the least mind being put down with wit and intelligence, but it is the angry little boy jibes that occasion the rising gorge.<BR/><BR/>Nice to see you back!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-44196208501556187562007-04-30T15:37:00.000+01:002007-04-30T15:37:00.000+01:00Newmania writes: "I drtead to think what would ha...Newmania writes: "I drtead to think what would happen in the estates of London if there was ever any Liberalisation of gun laws."<BR/><BR/>I contemplate such with great pleasure.<BR/><BR/>Please, British people, stop quoting statistics on American gun deaths unless they are specific. Yes, there are X number of gun deaths annually in the US, and guess what, boys and girls! Many of those deaths are those of perps in commission of a crime. In most states in the US, you can legally shoot someone who enters your house/premises without permission. So they walk in and leave on a stretcher. So sad. But anyway, they constitute a large part of the stats. So unless you are going to do a detailed analysis - and you don't have the background to do so - give the stats a rest.<BR/><BR/>People who wouldn't dream of commenting on Venezuela or Indonesia because they are aware of their ignorance about those countries, feel perfectly comfortable commenting on the United States, about which they are equally ignorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71486123024352885232007-04-30T15:12:00.000+01:002007-04-30T15:12:00.000+01:00Those who see it & say it 'how it is' are often di...Those who see it & say it 'how it is' are often disliked & gratuitously insulted, especially if they happen to be women.<BR/>Keep raising those morons' hackles, Verity.permanentexpathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691756471273498414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14311918019384905762007-04-30T15:02:00.000+01:002007-04-30T15:02:00.000+01:00Verity, the fact that your contributions display a...Verity, the fact that your contributions display a consistent paucity of humanity, intelligence or wit is more likely to be the source of your unpopularity than any imagined fear of your gender.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74322929328426526332007-04-30T14:46:00.000+01:002007-04-30T14:46:00.000+01:00Newmania, you are very ignorant of English history...Newmania, you are very ignorant of English history. We had no real restrictions on firearms ownership until 1920, and they were only brought in because of establishment fears of a Bolshevik revolution. The Victorian drunks you speak of would have had the right to own and carry guns, the same as any other citizen.<BR/><BR/>The facts since 1920 are that successive Firearms Acts (1937, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1997) have disarmed the British people, and violent crime has risen steadily ever since the end of World War II. You may be happy to put your trust in the police when you need protection, I am rather more sceptical about their ability to protect me, and do not find it acceptable that canting politicians over the decades have forbidden me access to the means needed to protect myself. I will believe that guns have no role in personal protection when Tony Blair tells his bodyguards to turn theirs in. Until then, I'll view him as the same sort of hypocritical slime as every other two faced politico, and that includes Dave the Chameleon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36449313916828920432007-04-30T14:01:00.000+01:002007-04-30T14:01:00.000+01:00The anecdote reported by Iain may have been apophr...The anecdote reported by Iain may have been apophrycal, but the anecdote reported by me, starring General Honoré was fact. I saw him say it on TV while these self-important little reporters were clustered round him, self-righteous questions just bubbling up to be answered. And he just went - SLASH! It was a great moment.<BR/><BR/>A lot of anti-women inadequates on this thread, I note. The really frightened ones - the ones transfixed in the road by the headlights - are too mentally paralysed to think up actual responses to what I've written, so they bare their bottoms and shriek out names they imagine are hurtful. <BR/><BR/>Illiterate, ill-educated louts. Blair's Britain. You can keep it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49825652999866561012007-04-30T13:40:00.000+01:002007-04-30T13:40:00.000+01:00Why can't we be rude to Verity?Its the law.*Clip r...Why can't we be rude to Verity?<BR/><BR/>Its the law.<BR/><BR/>*Clip round the ear* " Be on ya way sonny"Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5042282633891348622007-04-30T13:39:00.000+01:002007-04-30T13:39:00.000+01:00Oh heres the best reply I ever heard.A disgusting ...Oh heres the best reply I ever heard.A disgusting frined of mine was busy porking some horror ( she would have to be ) behind a handy skip and sadly for him the law turned up and yanked him trouserless into the well lit street.<BR/>Pissed he may have been, but he still had the wit to say <BR/>" What the matter sosiffer having an offensive person on my weapon?"<BR/><BR/><BR/>True story.Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-50000992693549387632007-04-30T13:19:00.000+01:002007-04-30T13:19:00.000+01:00Why can't we be rude to Verity? Are we not allowed...Why can't we be rude to Verity? Are we not allowed to be impolite to the vile, spiteful harridan because's she's nominally female?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8198940465038025132007-04-30T13:12:00.000+01:002007-04-30T13:12:00.000+01:00INSULTSOf G Brown"He uses statistics as a drunken ...INSULTS<BR/><BR/>Of G Brown<BR/>"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."<BR/> Of Margaret Beckett<BR/>"She had delusions of adequacy."<BR/><BR/> Of Millipede<BR/>"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."<BR/><BR/>Of John Smith<BR/>"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."<BR/>GUNS<BR/>On guns, its easy to go off on a Libertarian shtick but its all rubbish really no sensible person wants US availability here. Their history is entirely different and as Conservatives we should respect that things are often as they are for good reason and moving one element may misunderstand the whole structure.<BR/>Engand Wales had 766 recorded murders in 2005 including the 52 victims of of July 7. Scotland was vastly more violent as usual with 93 deaths bringing the total to 859 (.Tells you al, you need to know about the odious Pictish horde.) Anyway the average is about two or three day and the risk could be called 15 per million per year.<BR/>In America 17000 deaths violent deaths in 2005 suggesting 46 deaths per day and this equates to 50 in every million per year. The old answer is that guns do not kill ,,people do. Maybe but it’s a bloody sight easier as a person if you have a gun and I drtead to think what would happen in the estates of London if there was ever any Liberalisation of gun laws. It is a culturally specific thing as we know from Switzerland but our culture would be struck down the way gin struck the Victorian Working classes.<BR/><BR/>So lets have no silly men pretending they think guns are harmless and desperately important civil liberties are at stake.<BR/>Put the toys down and back slowly away . Guns are a stupid affectation and THE WOMAN WAS RIGHT<BR/><BR/><BR/>PS GE Stokes ..love the last one especiallyNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38790397561649084402007-04-30T13:10:00.000+01:002007-04-30T13:10:00.000+01:00Churchill's view of a number of issues is legendar...Churchill's view of a number of issues is legendary.<BR/><BR/>He describes Lord Brrrisford as being an 'orator, who before they get up, do not know what they are going to say, when they are speaking, do not know what they are saying, and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said.'<BR/><BR/>On chamberlain's attempt at peace with the Nazi's: 'You had a choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.'<BR/><BR/>On a former Tory, defecting and standing as a Liberal: 'The only instance of a rat swimming towards a sinking ship!'<BR/><BR/>On politics in general: 'A politician is asked to stand and he wants to sit and is expected to lie.'<BR/><BR/>Charles De Gaulle on Churchill: 'whwn I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong.So we were very often angry at each other.' <BR/><BR/>When someone called argaret Thatcher's office, the receptionist said, 'I'm afraid she is unavailable at the moment, who shall I say was going to listen?'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14262942242392094482007-04-30T12:51:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:51:00.000+01:00"It may be a funny putdown, but the woman was stil..."It may be a funny putdown, but the woman was still right."<BR/><BR/>Who let the self-righteous hippy in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-66682420791177174042007-04-30T12:49:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:49:00.000+01:00Bloody Brilliant!!!Bloody Brilliant!!!Sir-C4'https://www.blogger.com/profile/03917709983378003032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-39072547794230869222007-04-30T12:47:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:47:00.000+01:00The old ones are the best (jokes).But surely guns ...The old ones are the best (jokes).<BR/><BR/>But surely guns are designed to kill?<BR/><BR/>Women are not specifically designed to whore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40232955673696707972007-04-30T12:44:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:44:00.000+01:00That's the thing though N, we have the time to com...That's the thing though N, we have the time to complain about rubbish because our parents and grandparents fought for our freedom.<BR/><BR/>It's a shame that having won the war we are now losing the politics (ie being dragged into a Euronation semi-willingly)Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-54961390603671127452007-04-30T12:38:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:38:00.000+01:00Funny that when we think of the Churchillian we th...Funny that when we think of the Churchillian we think of these few snappy rejoinders in fact he was far more typically a man who required laborious preparation to achieve his effects. The hours and days spent preparing the marvellous set piece war time speeches show his to be far more a serious writer than he is sometimes given credit for . Some of the emotive passages are without equal but the lyrical passages gain tremendous force from being embedded within the detailed and relatively prosaic sections . It is a clear level headed writing but at this distance we may be forgiven for enjoying the flourishes....like the following<BR/><BR/>'What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of pervert science. let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, '<BR/>"This was their Finest Hour'<BR/><BR/><BR/>I suppose its wrong but don't you sometimes wish we had something nobler to do than bitch about the rubbish collections ?Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1771962840166814462007-04-30T12:23:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:23:00.000+01:00Exit pursued by moron. Honestly Verirty its " Exit...Exit pursued by moron. <BR/><BR/>Honestly Verirty its " Exit pursued by a bear" tsk tskNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.com