Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:00 pm
Hold on, that's a sweeping generalisation.
I'm a republican, but I'm not showing contempt for anyone. Neither are any of the others of republican leanings here, or that I've seen. Incomprehension, perhaps, but not contempt.
I am a soft republican, basically because I don't care unless it winds up those soap-dodgers of the criminal enterprise in the east end of Glasgow or their spoon-burning chums in Leith.
I don't hold these queuers in contempt but I do pity them; show me one of these pathetic souls who didn't have a Donny Osmond (other heartthrobs are available) poster on their bedroom wall.
Their intellectual and emotional lifeboat for justifying the absurdity of how they choose to spend the weekend is pitch-perfect parroting in Witchellese. Every soundbite is about service, dignity, and a hellava selfless shift.
Asking them what that actually means would be cruel. You'd get the same answer as to why they think Joris Bohnson is a man of the people.
It is the self-same utter bollocks which sells the Chinese-printed tea-towels and Franklin Mint porcelain tat, and ushers thieving toffs in to Government.
(I think I hid my contempt pretty well there...)