Random Thoughts of the day - mostly political

[miss_s_b]

• Lots of very expensive-looking Vote Craig Whittaker - Conservative posters have gone up around here. Is it bad of me to want to get a tin of spray paint and scrawl DON'T across the top of them all?


• I wish I had more money to buy lots of big yellow birdie posters and put them up in suitable locations :(


• Watching the aborion debate happen on twitter (yes, apparently there still IS a debate) is a bizarre experience


• Why is it only ever teenagers who accuse other people of being immature?


• If the tories have changed so much under Cameron, why are their big priorites bringing back fox-hunting, bringing back national service, and lowering the time limit on abortion?

Oh yes, and finally? Some utter utter bastard videoed the drunken singing at Glee Club. When the camera pans across the front row it's a veritable who's who of Lib Dem bloggers, including lizw, djm4, myself, Andy "Scarier" Hinton and Joe "Extra Bold" Otten among others.

Given the philosophy I put forward in this post, I reluctantly link to the video.

Comments

[freddiefraggles]

You should get some stickers made that say: "This is my cum face!" and stick them on the posters instead.

This suggestion is brought to you by redhillian via me.

[gominokouhai]

> Is it bad of me to want to get a tin of spray paint and scrawl "DON'T" across the top of them all?

Not even remotely.

It might be bad of you to admit such a desire in a public blog post, now that you're a Legitimate Political Candidate and all. If anybody does it now it's going to be your fault.

I'm strongly tempted to head down to West Yorks with a can of spray paint....

> Why is it only ever teenagers who accuse other people of being immature?

I've had the opposite experience. It's only ever adults I've seen called childish, never children.

[sassy_scot]

Point 1, no, not bad, in fact I'd worry if you didn't. Obviously being a respectable Council candidate you can't..........

I can't really imagine a decent debate on anything taking place on Twitter - not a real proper debate. I can imagine misogyny abounds in the one you mention. Had better stay out of it as I suspect it'll make me cross.

My niece turned 13 yesterday and was heartily fed up that everyone suddenly expected her to stop washing, have greasy hair and start slamming doors. She is one of the loveliest, sweetest girls ever.

And you have actually made me cry. I haven't been at a Glee Club in 12 years and I miss the drunken bonkersness of it all.

[djm4]

Thank you so much for that. In return, I should point out that you may have escaped the room by the time we sang The Land for the twelfth time, but you do make a cameo appearance during Paddy's shaggy dog story.

[lizw]

It could have been worse - it could have been Lib-Lab Lie ;-)

(Actually, I'm quite glad it's there - I love The Land, and I actually like how I look in that video, which is unexpected for me and probably a very good sign on the body image front.)

[matgb]

Ye gods, how much had Joe had to drink? He keeps falling over.

Another reason to avoid Glee Club, there are large numbers of them.

[bagfish]

Arrgghhhhh, the big, shiny *expensive* placards that are now appearing in Westmorland and Lonsdale give me exactly the same feeling that you have. I want to punch in McKeevers nasty, shiny face, or at least spray paint it. Ughhh.

At least Kendal is currently a forest of yellow banners - currently three in our terrace of 10 houses! I've not seen a tory sticker in a window yet... just in fields where the tory bastard landowners have given permission. They still only get one vote though.