tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post5161424463701704637..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The Perils of Speaking Your MindIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35363484973311014082008-06-27T15:59:00.000+01:002008-06-27T15:59:00.000+01:00We're British, we are miserable by nature (when we...We're British, we are miserable by nature (when we're not drunk that is, people who think binge drinking is a modern phenomonon should read what Julius Caesar had to say on the topic)<BR/><BR/>I remember my grandad singing an old Music Hall ballad. It wen't something like this:<BR/><BR/>...isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead,<BR/>Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody good cry,<BR/>And always remember the longer you live,<BR/>The sooner you'll bloody well die.<BR/><BR/>Says it all really :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-57725499101270597342008-06-26T21:34:00.000+01:002008-06-26T21:34:00.000+01:00"We feel it's not working out...", is graffitied o..."We feel it's not working out...", is graffitied on my street. It touches me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-33127499489871984492008-06-26T13:39:00.000+01:002008-06-26T13:39:00.000+01:00Geoff 25/6 2.00Spotted on a wall in Pompeii by the...Geoff 25/6 2.00<BR/><BR/>Spotted on a wall in Pompeii by the classicist, Peter Jones:<BR/><BR/>"I came here, I had a shag then I went home," - wrote one of the last great romantics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80142340685629206132008-06-26T12:40:00.000+01:002008-06-26T12:40:00.000+01:001. Jesus saves, Moses saves, Francis scores from t...1. Jesus saves, Moses saves, Francis scores from the rebound.... South London Church circa 1975<BR/><BR/>2. In the gents of well-known Hampstead wine-bar some years ago. " One would think with all this wit that Shakespeare himself came here to ****<BR/><BR/>and finally, this on a poster at Liverpool Street Station many years ago:<BR/><BR/>"Harwich for the Continent" and scribbled underneath<BR/><BR/>"and Folkestone for the rest of us"Jeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1133954979851136772008-06-26T06:58:00.000+01:002008-06-26T06:58:00.000+01:00Surely the solution is for more MPs to blog and do...Surely the solution is for more MPs to blog and do so off message. After a while, even The Sun couldn't get outraged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28528133044290535372008-06-26T06:38:00.000+01:002008-06-26T06:38:00.000+01:00strapworld"DORIS ARCHER IS A PRUDE!"was still ther...<A>strapworld</A><BR/>"DORIS ARCHER IS A PRUDE!"<BR/>was still there in the 1980's.<BR/><BR/>My favorite was when coming off the M4 onto the north circular sliproad; on three successive concrete supports for the now overhead motoway read the words ( visible only one at a time )<BR/><BR/>Good<BR/><BR/>Morning <BR/><BR/>Lemmings<BR/><BR/>btw, how do I boycott a paper that I have never bought ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-83263128451386406272008-06-26T06:25:00.000+01:002008-06-26T06:25:00.000+01:00Been there myself, had the 'rat pack' hounding me ...Been there myself, had the 'rat pack' hounding me (over eighty calls from the media during just a few days), so I know what happens once something like this happens in the media.<BR/><BR/>I'm with Iain on this, and am just pleased to be out of the game. I went grey-haired during those eight years and developed what seems to be a permanent illness, almost certainly related to the stresses incurred.<BR/><BR/>Hardly worth it for an £8,000 or so allowance (taxed!) for typically 60 hours or more a week of work...John M Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06251285057595626917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90246790252642841482008-06-25T17:17:00.000+01:002008-06-25T17:17:00.000+01:00Talking of graffiti, there used to be a great one ...Talking of graffiti, there used to be a great one on a bridge near Kidderminster which read:<BR/><BR/>"Beutiful, I love you, but only a lot"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59162467908351465152008-06-25T16:45:00.000+01:002008-06-25T16:45:00.000+01:00And what about that golden oldie:JESUS SAVES!........And what about that golden oldie:<BR/><BR/>JESUS SAVES!<BR/><BR/>............and Moses invests!<BR/><BR/>Boom, boom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18349691331179645092008-06-25T16:31:00.000+01:002008-06-25T16:31:00.000+01:00There's a stencil on the pavement in Kennington th...<I>There's a stencil on the pavement <BR/>in Kennington that reads:<BR/><BR/>"Why look at the ground?"<BR/><BR/>"Look at the city"<BR/><BR/>It automatically makes you look up, <BR/>and you see a beautiful view ...'</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>For a few months after the M3 was <BR/>cut through Twyford Down, a graffito <BR/>on the bridge linking the now-divided <BR/>parts of the Down read something like <BR/>this: <BR/><BR/>'Shut your eyes, breathe deeply, and <BR/>think of the countryside.' <BR/><BR/>I trust no drivers followed this <BR/>advice ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-79460683151135018302008-06-25T16:27:00.000+01:002008-06-25T16:27:00.000+01:00In the 1980's slung below the direction sign Bices...In the 1980's slung below the direction sign Bicester Sewage Works was a carefully made addtion 'No It Doesn't'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20044336961088158832008-06-25T15:43:00.000+01:002008-06-25T15:43:00.000+01:00Although it's not graffiti in the real sense, I di...Although it's not graffiti in the real sense, I did have a laugh when things started to go missing from the communal fridge in the office.<BR/><BR/>A certain attractive young lady wrote on her jar of mayonnaise <I>"This belongs to Charlotte and I've spat in it"</I><BR/><BR/>It was only 24 hours before some wag wrote underneath <I>"So Have I"</I><BR/><BR/>Would you eat it afterwards without a slight nagging doubt?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-46274998747519774742008-06-25T15:16:00.000+01:002008-06-25T15:16:00.000+01:00Whenever I walk through Prague, one of the most be...Whenever I walk through Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and see some scrawl that an a*hole has left on an attractive building I think to myself that "the scum who perpetrated that should have his hands cut off".Rush-is-Righthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12860467341217977185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-66268960104326178852008-06-25T15:14:00.000+01:002008-06-25T15:14:00.000+01:00Why go as far as boycotting the Sun?Why go as far as boycotting the Sun?never in that carriagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16953212579512961471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24111761755154406842008-06-25T15:11:00.000+01:002008-06-25T15:11:00.000+01:00That graffitti has been painted over quite a while...That graffitti has been painted over quite a while ago. At least it was when I drove past last April.Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01925945572569826052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6206495992043264592008-06-25T14:57:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:57:00.000+01:00strapworld - thanks for the advice, the complimen...strapworld - thanks for the advice, the compliment and the crushing put-down. I'm now all in favour of creative graffiti, but not the trash. <BR/><BR/>Who will be the judge as to which is which?<BR/><BR/>Better to be dull I'm afraid, and seek out more profitable thoughts and topics for serious politicians. <BR/><BR/>Dale's being unrealistic imagining a blog permits a change of message. It's like Gerald Ratner who had great comic thoughts but chose the wrong audience to receive them.<BR/><BR/>I stand by my earlier sad, so sad opinion.Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9559294281075086032008-06-25T14:55:00.001+01:002008-06-25T14:55:00.001+01:00I had been of the view that new media (with people...I had been of the view that new media (with people speaking their minds on blogs and people living their lives more openly) will force people to be more grown up in how they judge politicians. In other words, they will have to stop being hypocritical and so judgemental about them. Having read this, I am not so sure, the old media seems determined to continue to spin and distort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-72573935163088535452008-06-25T14:55:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:55:00.000+01:00Seen on a rockface in Wales:Jesus Saves..............Seen on a rockface in Wales:<BR/><BR/>Jesus Saves.<BR/><BR/>...........after which was appended: <BR/><BR/>Not on my wages He doesn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62055833263184329792008-06-25T14:53:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:53:00.000+01:00This is the kind of press that stops real debate o...This is the kind of press that stops real debate on so many issues<BR/>and keeps MPs so guarded<BR/><BR/>we want MPs left and right who believe and say what they mean<BR/><BR/>having been on the other end of the looney left stuff (90% made up blag bags, bar bar black sheep etc etc)<BR/><BR/>I have to say ....I told you soAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62777642676043935262008-06-25T14:14:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:14:00.000+01:00Tapestry. I have mostly respected your blog and vi...Tapestry. I have mostly respected your blog and views. Today's was, I am sad to say, sad!<BR/><BR/>Get a life!strapworldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18228784526399929300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28248758043153962662008-06-25T14:04:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:04:00.000+01:00I thoroughly, thoroughly agree.A Sun boycott by th...I thoroughly, thoroughly agree.<BR/><BR/>A Sun boycott by the intelligista is surely long overdue.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485196287282298695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52453070159157798572008-06-25T14:00:00.000+01:002008-06-25T14:00:00.000+01:00Graffiti dates back well beyond Roman times, but a...Graffiti dates back well beyond Roman times, but an appropriate Latin scribbling for all politicians was found in Pompeii: <I>Mendacem oportet esse memorem</I><BR/><BR/>"A liar must be good at remembering" for those whose classical education has faded with the years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14737240544525815392008-06-25T13:47:00.000+01:002008-06-25T13:47:00.000+01:00My favourite graffito was another one quoted by Ni...My favourite graffito was another one quoted by Nigel Rees in his book. <BR/><BR/>Written above the toilet paper dispenser in some university library somewhere, it simply said "Sociology degrees - please take one".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10611970512439991382008-06-25T13:45:00.000+01:002008-06-25T13:45:00.000+01:00Cheered me up a bit as we patrolled some Loyalist ...Cheered me up a bit as we patrolled some Loyalist hole in Belfast all those years ago:<BR/><BR/>"We'll never forget you, Jimmy Sands"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-77165227472957079702008-06-25T13:44:00.000+01:002008-06-25T13:44:00.000+01:00It's the same reason why MPs don't give straight a...It's the same reason why MPs don't give straight answers to questions. We truly get the politicians we deserve.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962419205752829347noreply@blogger.com