Mailwatch(ed) Forum

satnav wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 4:01 pm Next week he will be asking whatever happened to white dog poo.

I have noted a growing habit of government offices replying to my tiresome, nitpicky and overly frequent to the point of becoming a nuisance phone messages with emails, and the bad thing about emails is that, when I want to make out someone said something to me that I can frame in a certain way to indicate my dissatisfaction and/or their moral or intellectual inferiority, they can produce their copy of the message showing they said nothing of the sort and I’m just a joyless old sod of limited talent yet boundless ego who gets very upset when people who I believe are beneath me don’t call me ‘sir’.

I shall not be watching Adolescence, the Netflix drama about a killer schoolchild which is currently being showered with praise.

This is because those who have seen it tell me it makes no mention of drugs. A drama about teen violence at school which ignores drugs is like a series about the Queen which leaves out Her Majesty.

Children aged 11 are taking dangerous drugs in our dreadful schools. In some cases, these drugs are making them crazy.

Children aged 11 are taking dangerous drugs in our dreadful schools.

I shall not be watching .....

Rosvanian wrote:I finally gave up on Hitchens a few weeks back. When I say "gave up", I mean that I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt that he is not a crank despite his decades of professional contrarianism, ludicrous 'logic' and history of left then right extremism. His proclaimation that dyslexia is not a real condition was the straw that broke the camel's back. Still, I hesitate to call the man a "cunt", as reserved for the worst we identify here. Rather, the man is merely a massive arsehole, a bellend for the ages. And to think, the BBC for years saw fit to employ him and Mad Melanie Philips (now there IS a cunt) as the voice of authority panelists on The Moral Maze.

Rosvanian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 9:12 am

Rosvanian wrote:I finally gave up on Hitchens a few weeks back. When I say "gave up", I mean that I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt that he is not a crank despite his decades of professional contrarianism, ludicrous 'logic' based on his interpretation of the 19th century Anglican version of morality and his history of left then conservative extremism. His proclamation that dyslexia is not a real condition was the straw that broke the camel's back. Still, I hesitate to call the man a "cunt", as reserved for the worst we identify here. Rather, the man is merely a massive arsehole, a bellend for the ages. And to think, the BBC for years saw fit to employ him and Mad Melanie Philips (now there IS a cunt) as the voice of authority panelists on The Moral Maze.

It is now 111 years since the British Empire committed suicide by entering the crazy, pointless First World War. Hundreds of thousands of our best men from all classes died before they could have children.

From being rich and solvent, we sank into debt within 18 months, a disgrace which ended with us defaulting on our gigantic World War One debt to the USA in 1934, of which we have not since paid a penny (anyone who thinks this isn’t true, and there’s always one such wiseacre, is invited to bet me £100 that I am wrong. Oh, please do).

Our naval supremacy and our world standing went down the drain. Most sensible people knew within months that the war was a costly disaster but they couldn’t stop it. This was because leaders on both sides, such as Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, had whipped up patriotic sentiment to such a pitch they could not compromise.

Something similar has happened in Ukraine. Facts and reason about this war are unpopular. Sentiment and propaganda rule instead. So my guess is that death and demolition will just go on, and the vast new cemeteries will continue to spread across the blasted land.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 4:42 pm There was a sizeable hard right nationalist sentiment arguing Britain should have kept out of world wars in order to have maintained its empire and global superpower status while Johnny Foreigners ripped themselves apart.
It's been kind of forgotten by the headbangers amdist a sea of Churchill and WWII fetishising. A lost cause among many that keeps Brigadier Hitchens noticed.