THE BRITISH THREAD II

I was reading specialist journal Bum magazine the other day, when a very good friend of mine, retired gynecologist offered a swap with **** monthly.

Steve must have watched this video.

Funny, Walter!

I couldn't see it...

Please tell me what I missed.

Mac wrote-



I haven't used it so often as to justify your sarcasm and it would be reasonable if I used it more. Solipsism is institutionalised. It's a national disease. Marrow bone stuff. The Narcissus story is about death from solipsism. Which won't have been studied. Obviously if we stopped being solipsistic we wouldn't buy most of the crap media advertises.

For example.

Recent floods in China have killed 150 and that's just the bodies they've found. And more heavy rain is forecast. Also four servicemen have been killed in Iraq. In the Blurr swansong tribute was paid to other dead servicemen and within five minutes the whole House was chortling at some weak jest.

And now that some areas where the Paperwork Party has it's weekend cottages have a few inches of water and a few pleasure boats have got loose what a to-do there is on the News channels. Non-stop coverage. They love it.

That's solipsism. And racist.

I remember once a philosopher posing the question to a class, which, praise the Lord, included young ladies, as to what one might do if one had a button by one's armchair which, when pressed, caused a Chinaman to snuff it and dispensed a $10 note. Or, if you like, just to show you how philosophers think, a share certificate for 51% of ICI. There are many other digressions to the main theme one might undertake but they would take too long to describe and probably bore you. Of course the button only took out coolies.

As we all know Roy Castle played the trumpet very well.

He said, in his last months-



And trumpet playing causes strain on lung tissue of the type no usually associated with intimate conversations in the pub.


I just saw on the Solipsism News that a crowd of people had treated a supermarket in middle England like Mr Attenborough once showed us how maggots treat a rabbit corpse despite emotional appeals for them not to. I hope they didn't make the same sound that Mr Attenborough had conjured out of the Sound Effects department to accompany his footage. It was two days speeded up to about 3 minutes. Like in Koyaanisqatsi. Only faster.

They left the boot polish though.

A student of human nature would be interested to see the order in which the shelves were stripped. An advertising executive say or a lecturer in Media Studies. The maggots started on the juicy bits.

The written record will be in the cashtill computer so anybody sensible enough to come on A2K now knows where this psychological document is located and could easy get an article out of it. A job for Michael Frayn.

Non, merde, il joue nicht.

Well, it's probably British censorship..

Sécurité intérieure franco-allemande ... :wink:

Natasha Kaplinsky looked like she was in mourning tonight!



£800 MILLION to be allocated for flood defences for 2010!

Sounds like some body is going to get very rich !

They'll ruin the place!


They don't have all this trouble in Southport, its a good walk along the beach to find the sea. House prices are going through the roof, building land is at a premium, the wealthy from down south will all be moving up here soon. We need a new northern Capital, wine bars and a big Harrods for Mr Al Fayed to move into.

Yorkshire didn't get all this media coverage when it was swimming, did it!

The Duke of Westminster is going to be rubbing his hands too, he's been a bit naughty of late by all accounts, but seeing as he owns a great deal of The City of Preston, he could be seeing a new capital in these parts.

Gee. Mathos is catching the drift.

All bubbles eventually burst if you keep up the assertion puffing.

The facts don't wait on assertions.

The South could end up a province of France. A sort of hot potato. A parcel passed and the music stopped and you got a public kiss rather than a good old fashioned northern banging.

The Gurkhas were building sandbag walls in Gloucester last night.

You know things are really serious when they send Kate Adie or the Gurkhas to a trouble spot.

Ayo Gurkha!

I love the British spirit shown by all the interviewees in the flooded areas. They joke, smile ruefully, and just get on with it.

Yes, that looks indeed diffrent to e.g. our Oder-floodings some time ago, when everyone was complaining about what they lost and the damages.

Clary probably saw some actors and actresses faking it Walt.

There will be plenty of complaining and insurance fiddling and whatnot.

Wonderful thing is television.

CYNIC

They of course found some people whose cars had been stolen, baby deprived of milk etc. But the prevailing spirit was buoyant.

I'm only a cynic because the media bunch have left us with no other sensible attitude to their activities. It isn't me- it's them. I used to be innocent and trusting and I wish I still was. They have been caught red handed taking premium phone money off poor people when there were no prizes to win, They have discredited charitable work. They make me sick. They are the cynics. I'm just a realist. Why have they not been arrested. Conspiracy to defraud is a serious offence. Especially when they are already on £ 50 grand plus. Their greed knows no limits.

I've seen them in action. Their arrogance is incredible.

Any video with cuts in it is suspect. I've seen people act having their car stolen, having been raped, anything you want. I've seen pictures of thousands of babies with no food and no clean drinking water and covered in sores and flies. I'm not going to get emotional about a middle-class baby in Cheltenham. I know that kid is safe.

There was a camera crew in Kosovo going around the villages looking for women who could speak English and had been raped. And all going back to a hotel when their shift was over and probably fiddling their expenses.

I know it is a bit extreme to say this but I think TV will have to be scrapped. It is just too powerful. I only watch the live sport these days for pleasure. And not much of that.

I think of them in the same way I think of those attractions in seaside resorts. They are almost governing the country.

And yet you love it dont you spendy?

You love the media, the telly the expenses, the travel, the glamour.

You're just not part of it, thats what bugs you.