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Actually I'm writing much less these days because I am so active now in the fieldwork. I've just donated part of what little money I have to the Millwall lads with Downs Syndrome and severe depression who have only been able to start talking to people because of the football initiative run by the supporters community trust. I see this support to such modest people as the best antidote to all the over-confident female 16 year old Germanic poison dwarves coming over here from Sweden. The ones who want to kill off everyone who isn't healthily aryan by getting all the doctors to go on a national strike.

So much for the future shape of the Commons. The one that will be full of South London triers once I have placed them there with the army. There is of course the small matter of what to do with the Lords. So I was at Epsom today ascertaining that, yes, it is just about possible to separate out true horses from all of the Eton trash who just look like horses. My feeling is that we can make the second chamber completely equine with a push. Simultaneously, we can get everyone who is currently in there off to various racecourses around the country where they can be suitably jockeyed on a regular basis and their identities such as they are wholly realtered by Betfair.

As I don't have any other platform, I would just like to express my thanks here to Claire Fox who used to be a revolutionary Communist and has joined the Brexit Party not so much on the basis of EU arguments or otherwise as on the basis of democracy. Very brave. Ditto whatever you think of him George Galloway, 5m Labour voters wanted us to leave the EU. I't might not be enough for me. I want centre left and centre right people coming forward to do the same thing. If they don't, I will vote for something outrageous that doesn't stand for what I believe in to give the establishment as it is now a bloody nose. I don't have any qualms about that. Democracy trounces all or it should do. To shock wave may be the only answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNVjwqmCmM

(and ain't EU Freedom of Movement just a two fingers up to global warming - no one on the BBC or LBC will get anyone to address that - planes spewing out pollution as EU citizens travel here, there and everywhere willy-nilly : hypocrites all)

Write as much as you like horse.
I enjoy reading your points of view and outlook.
I don't always agree with you but you are always erudite and interesting.

Can I have that pound now?

Horse! Beware of dark and mysterious people speaking of money.

Quote: A Horseradish @ 24th April 2019, 6:58 PM

As I don't have any other platform, I would just like to express my thanks here to Claire Fox who used to be a revolutionary Communist and has joined the Brexit Party not so much on the basis of EU arguments or otherwise as on the basis of democracy. Very brave.

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And hopefully it'll keep her away from bravely defending Gary Glitter's right to download child porn.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 24th April 2019, 7:46 PM

Write as much as you like horse.
I enjoy reading your points of view and outlook.
I don't always agree with you but you are always erudite and interesting.

Can I have that pound now?

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Thank you very much SG.

Very magnanimous.

I would send you a pound but it is going on a bet that Greta Thunberg will enter the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020 and win it with a song about climate change. It is pretty obvious to me that this is what her entire thing has been about. We Were The World.

Meanwhile Extinction Rebeliion have moved into the City of London. This is presumably on the grounds that all the illegal dope smoking was permitted in Hyde Park for just a few days and it is only in the financial heart of London where people can do whatever drugs they like every day without any sort of penalty. Crack on, as they say.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 23rd April 2019, 11:25 PM

It's clearly cathartic for him and I should let him get on with it....................

Don't take any notice Horse, of the nasty man.

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Quote: chipolata @ 25th April 2019, 6:39 AM

And hopefully it'll keep her away from bravely defending Gary Glitter's right to download child porn.

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Just because this country was stupid enough to let kids fly off to Syria and join ISIS doesn't mean that it wasn't equally stupid in not insisting that some adults were sent there. Glitter is a case in point. He could have been lured into it with the prospect of finding a child bride just before being beheaded by the so-called devout. It wouldn't have been planned exactly but nothing could have been done about it. The reason why this did not happen is that the establishment is rife with Glitters and it has been for donkey's years. Ms Fox, in contrast, is hardly the new Lord Steel pretending that Cyril Smith did not exist. And as she says the issue today is one of democracy from which you have gamely tried to deflect if unsuccessfully. Thanks anyway for the contribution on whether or not Parliamentary liberal fascism is worth fighting against.

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Thanks anyway for the contribution on whether or not Parliamentary liberal fascism is worth fighting against.

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Quit being so melodramatic. What's happening at the moment is not Parliamentary liberal fascism. It's the result of a referendum in which no plan was voted on, just an abstract concept, and now we have to come up with some bodged together plan that tries to please everyone (but will ultimately please no one). It's not easy, unless you live in Black and White world. And if it was a Parliamentary liberal fascism, I would hope for a better band of Freedom Fighters than Nigel Farrage and the Narcissist Party.

Quote: chipolata @ 26th April 2019, 6:40 AM

Quit being so melodramatic. What's happening at the moment is not Parliamentary liberal fascism. It's the result of a referendum in which no plan was voted on, just an abstract concept, and now we have to come up with some bodged together plan that tries to please everyone (but will ultimately please no one). It's not easy, unless you live in Black and White world. And if it was a Parliamentary liberal fascism, I would hope for a better band of Freedom Fighters than Nigel Farrage and the Narcissist Party.

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I live in a black and grey world. Some stereotypical grey haired 64 year old was doing his utmost to engage the Middle Eastern barber in conversation. All he got was grunts. When it was time for me to be in the chair, conversation seemed unwise. But his approach to me was entirely different. Very, very friendly. This was the morning when it became clear that I too had almost completely gone grey because of all the pressures of trying to run the country. And yet my eyes and my skin, officially brown and white respectively if both have been described in their time as virtually black, are still here.

The face is not at all normal for a 56 year old and to be honest it was never normal. You are in your mid 30s, yes, like me he said. Grey can come early. Try a couple of decades more I said. He thought I was joking. No I am not joking. But that's why I can wear a Fred Perry shirt and a hoodie without looking ridiculous. As for the demeanour, it's about 17 and of questionable, probably limited, semi cockney. laddish intelligence. I worked 12 and a half years for the Tories and 12 and a half years for Labour I said. No kids, no. Never married. I don't have to cultivate an aura of mystery. It just exudes. Oh do come back, he said. I have enjoyed our talk. Isn't life so odd in that way. Try and there's nothing. Don't try and it works.

Narcissism. Well, I don't know about that. I haven't said I would be voting for the Brexit Party. They will need more people from the centre otherwise I will vote for something much further to the right which doesn't believe in neoliberal globalism. After my haircut, I went a romping in the local bluebell end woods and it was a lovely. As the autistic Chris Packham said recently, don't bother waiting for anyone to help. You will be waiting forever. Just do it yourself. Oh yes. It was so peaceful there. No litter bugs from Hoxton jumping on the roofs of trains for Jesus of the Environment or trendy Scandinavians shouting out "my mother, Hedwig, had a hit with "I'm so blonde I love Islam - you darky whites get a life, ya". I'm so pleased that I have found nature as I chucked the radio out of the window this morning as soon as Nick Ferrari started talking about terminal illness for the purposes of entertainment yet again. It ain't a wireless anymore. It is deeply sinister.

Well done Vince Cable, John Bercow and Jeremy Corbyn (plus a number of others to follow) for boycotting the banquet for orange turd face. Great to see folk with the guts to stand up to brainless bullies.
P.S. hope the corgies shite on his shoes.

Yes keep them coming Horse. Your posts remind me of columns in a paper or magazine I used to read. Maybe they were yours?

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 27th April 2019, 8:48 AM

Yes keep them coming Horse. Your posts remind me of columns in a paper or magazine I used to read. Maybe they were yours?

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Thank you. They weren't mine. I have never tried to get anything published. I started out with a chronic lack of confidence, an inferiority complex and an unwillingness to be judged and rejected. Times change. There is a very confident strand now but it runs alongside all of the other things and hasn't replaced it. Plus the reasoning changes. I wouldn't try now as it seems like buying into a money obsessed system which I can't sign up to in principle and it is all so alien. There would still be rejection as people think in a different way generally these days. Rejection today wouldn't worry me so much as I self-define as a hobbyist plus Herc is right about the cathartic aspects. Basically I defiantly don't see the point of being paid.

This forum is not without a tendency to analyse comedy and everything else. I don't especially want to overdo it. I am aware, though, that sometimes writing doesn't necessarily convey how a person is in real life. I had a face for comedy. That is without doubt. For many years I was regarded as a comedic presence at social gatherings because I countered shyness by attempting to entertain and most people found that natural in me. They didn't find the anxieties so easy to believe.

Personally I think I was slightly too stagey when at a pub table while knowing that the last place on earth where I would be was on an actual stage. But there was something else. I was often funniest when being totally serious and not at all funny when thinking I was being funny and there was also more seriousness in me that anyone knew. It all leads to confusion about what in reality I think and don't think and it isn't a deliberate ploy. Perhaps the distinctions are more obvious in person but the blurring works better in writing. Mostly I do believe what I say but like to leave others to guess or decide. The biggest change in me is that when younger I thought that most people were normal and I was a bit weird. Now I think that most people are very weird and I am mostly normal. There can be immense irritation and upset in both positions.

Congratulations to lovely Millwall for avoiding the drop today. This is now officially my third club behind Arsenal and York.

It turned out to be the year when I questioned if it was really true that people are not really able to chose their clubs as they were chosen by history for us. I noted how footballers frequently went through a dozen teams in their time and subsequently had an allegiance to all of them. If that was the case, why should supporters be required to be so limited?

So, I went to 11 matches this season - the first I have attended in a decade - building on broader personal history to get the vibe, placing myself in every instance behind the goal at the home end and I found that I liked almost everything I witnessed. So here is now my list of my clubs which has been expanded from 2 to 10 with accompanying reasons because, yes, I do think reasons are required. You can't just pick a selection with no meaning for such an exercise to make sense:

1. Arsenal (first matches I attended with my father, then later with mates)
2. York City (first regular matches I attended with mates)
3. Millwall (my mother's family - Nan and late uncles : my London really - and to challenge stereotypical assumptions)
4. Newcastle (combined this with family tree related travel - Dad was in Tynemouth in the war - I see the NE as my north)
5. Exeter (my return to football in 2018 after ten years, like York City as it was, and where my Mum was in the war)
6. Charlton (the other team of parts of my mother's family, interesting supporter base)
7. Ipswich (I had thought we were London by birth through and through but discovered some of us were from Suffolk)
8. QPR (my second team as a teenager although I had never been - finally got to go there to reconnect with my own past)
9. Aston Villa (Villa Park is the nearest thing I have found to Highbury which has sadly now been demolished)
10. Sheffield Wednesday (haven't been there since the 1980s but another traditional ground plus a further Yorkshire link)

Other reasonable mentions: Southampton, Fulham, Norwich, Sutton Utd, Nottingham Forest, possibly Wolves)

The only alarm I'd sound is that if I see a very long post, I skim read it for quickness so probably don't get all the finer points.