Tuesday, December 06, 2005
This evening, after dinner, Lorraine asked me if I wanted to watch an episode of "Alias". Hmm. OK, then. She obviously has some devious and cunning plan in the works, considering the fact that just yesterday we had an argument because I wanted to get on with watching the rest of the "Alias" box set and she didn't.
Or perhaps she was just being nice? Let me think about that for a minute.
(Thinks.)
Nah. She is up to something. I can feel it. I will probably get back from Nottingham and find out that she has sold the house or moved out and taken up with an unemployed actor or something.
I read this morning that Carol Thatcher (daughter of vile, loathsome, despicable, witch ex Prime Minister Margaret) won the latest series of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here". I have never seen the show. I couldn't give a damn about it.
I have never liked Carol Thatcher. She seems to be too much her Mother's daughter for my liking. Rent-a-quote, loud, gobby, ill informed, a fuckwit for want of a better word. A long time ago, during Gulf War I on the day after Iraqi army were expelled from Kuwait by the United Nations coalition forces, Carol Thatcher and a retired crusty old British army General (it might have been General Sir John Hackett, author of the very interesting "What If?" novel "The Third World War", but don't quote me on that) found themselves sharing a comfy sofa on the GMTV Breakfast Show. The United Nations coalition forces camped at the Iraqi border, but did not enter Iraqi territory. Carol Thatcher was asked what she thought the United Nations coalition forces should do next.
"We should invade!", was her considered response. "We should bomb them into submission! We should liberate the brave people of Iraq! We should roll the tanks into Hussein's palace and remove the Dictator!" and so on and so forth.
The General was asked his opinion. He looked at Carol Thatcher, raised an eyebrow and said, "Miss Thatcher. With respect, it is very easy for you to say that, but YOU wouldn't have to do any of this would you?" and he then proceeded to completely destroy every single argument that she put forward. He talked about the potential casualties and post liberation dangers. He was kind of brilliant (and prophetic!) and showed her up for the ignoramus she was/is.
No. I have never liked Carol Thatcher. Not one little bit. With respect, fuck her and her whole family.
Or perhaps she was just being nice? Let me think about that for a minute.
(Thinks.)
Nah. She is up to something. I can feel it. I will probably get back from Nottingham and find out that she has sold the house or moved out and taken up with an unemployed actor or something.
I read this morning that Carol Thatcher (daughter of vile, loathsome, despicable, witch ex Prime Minister Margaret) won the latest series of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here". I have never seen the show. I couldn't give a damn about it.
I have never liked Carol Thatcher. She seems to be too much her Mother's daughter for my liking. Rent-a-quote, loud, gobby, ill informed, a fuckwit for want of a better word. A long time ago, during Gulf War I on the day after Iraqi army were expelled from Kuwait by the United Nations coalition forces, Carol Thatcher and a retired crusty old British army General (it might have been General Sir John Hackett, author of the very interesting "What If?" novel "The Third World War", but don't quote me on that) found themselves sharing a comfy sofa on the GMTV Breakfast Show. The United Nations coalition forces camped at the Iraqi border, but did not enter Iraqi territory. Carol Thatcher was asked what she thought the United Nations coalition forces should do next.
"We should invade!", was her considered response. "We should bomb them into submission! We should liberate the brave people of Iraq! We should roll the tanks into Hussein's palace and remove the Dictator!" and so on and so forth.
The General was asked his opinion. He looked at Carol Thatcher, raised an eyebrow and said, "Miss Thatcher. With respect, it is very easy for you to say that, but YOU wouldn't have to do any of this would you?" and he then proceeded to completely destroy every single argument that she put forward. He talked about the potential casualties and post liberation dangers. He was kind of brilliant (and prophetic!) and showed her up for the ignoramus she was/is.
No. I have never liked Carol Thatcher. Not one little bit. With respect, fuck her and her whole family.
# posted by Pynchon @ 9:35 pm 
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Tory in gobshite shocker! ;-)
Loved the quote from the armchair general... Mind you, the problem is we told the kurds and serveral other groups that that is exactly what we'd do so they rose up against Saddam. We left 'em high and dry and that was when the worst of Saddam's excesses occurred. I can't help but feel we were partly responsible for that.
Inciting civil unrest/uprising in another country is usually frowned upon.
Loved the quote from the armchair general... Mind you, the problem is we told the kurds and serveral other groups that that is exactly what we'd do so they rose up against Saddam. We left 'em high and dry and that was when the worst of Saddam's excesses occurred. I can't help but feel we were partly responsible for that.
Inciting civil unrest/uprising in another country is usually frowned upon.
Hmm. Yes, a good point and well made in the film "Three Kings", if I remember correctly.
The point I was trying to make was that back in 1981 calmer heads realised that a full scale invasion of Iraq would have been a disaster, and that those calmer heads had the political upper hand. A woman like Carol Thatcher, who is a nothing let's not forget, could be free to vent their right-wing fantasies without having to worry about having to put any of them into practice. Always good to be a bigmouth with crazy ideas when you don't have to worry about having to make them work.
I hate the cow.
The point I was trying to make was that back in 1981 calmer heads realised that a full scale invasion of Iraq would have been a disaster, and that those calmer heads had the political upper hand. A woman like Carol Thatcher, who is a nothing let's not forget, could be free to vent their right-wing fantasies without having to worry about having to put any of them into practice. Always good to be a bigmouth with crazy ideas when you don't have to worry about having to make them work.
I hate the cow.
Absolutely right Pynchon. Thatcher (take your pick) is a knee-jerk right-wing reactionary cow.
It was no doubt the same people who told the kurds we were going to invade who decided that this time we would. They made a total balls up of it both times and in totally different ways. Brilliant!
Never saw Three Kings, thought it looked a bit mindless. Did it cover that whole issue?
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It was no doubt the same people who told the kurds we were going to invade who decided that this time we would. They made a total balls up of it both times and in totally different ways. Brilliant!
Never saw Three Kings, thought it looked a bit mindless. Did it cover that whole issue?
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