tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post8424630629677629264..comments2023-09-28T13:28:52.243+01:00Comments on Raedwald: The right to insultRaedwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-51048361815908477372018-01-04T17:48:03.368+00:002018-01-04T17:48:03.368+00:00Seems nobody has remembered the Referendum lock on...Seems nobody has remembered the Referendum lock on new powers - were we to reverse Brexit, would would have to have another referendum on, as Radders notes, a greatly changed EU<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Act_2011Elbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-42112430901456209032018-01-03T23:55:19.752+00:002018-01-03T23:55:19.752+00:00Of course there is, and must be, a right to insult...Of course there is, and must be, a right to insult. That does not mean that every insult is laudable, nor every insulter a hero. Some insults are just repetitive, or boring, or childish. Some are gems of wit, or provide the insulter with the only means of turning the table on powerful figures.<br /><br />Some insults seem much more sinister. The depths of the insults heaped on Margaret Thatcher went beyond the normal that a powerful politician would expect. Its virulence certainly succeeded in intimidating ordinary people. It was less insult, more an attempt at pc social control.<br /><br />Freedom of speech is critical to our society, to its balance, and its political and religious health, and to our freedom. Mohammed must be a target as much as Christ, or Dawkins, or Thatcher, or Thornberry. There is too much fashion and political correctness, not to say fear, in the insults that we are prepared to "allow".Budgienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-39451230563196178322018-01-03T00:32:21.146+00:002018-01-03T00:32:21.146+00:00Normandy farmers have little respect for politicia...<i><br />Normandy farmers have little respect for politicians and have been known to name their donkeys after eminent ministers.</i><br /><br />Thankfully Norfolk farmers don't.Then the Norfolk word for donkey is 'dickey'. "Hey little girl would yew like a dickey back ride on Davis ?jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-47884744425886092512018-01-02T23:59:42.885+00:002018-01-02T23:59:42.885+00:00Normandy farmers have little respect for politicia...Normandy farmers have little respect for politicians and have been known to name their donkeys after eminent ministers.<br /><br />M. Meunier, a pig breeder from Cambremer, Calvados entered a young Bayeux sow for the 2009 Salon d'Agriculture, the year after the Sarkozy incident. The organisers objected to her name, which was Casse Toi, Pov'Con. She was re-entered under the name Camomile and won first place.Dreadnoughtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-13349136038112187972018-01-02T18:49:12.796+00:002018-01-02T18:49:12.796+00:00It's not some sort of, it is just that: Common...It's not some sort of, it is just that: Common Purpose. This shadowy organisation exists to undermine democracy and any wrong-thinking (i.e., free-thinking) by escapees from the hive mind.Ed Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-74825684501065967762018-01-02T17:55:51.015+00:002018-01-02T17:55:51.015+00:00Steve, very good comment.
"You'll have n...Steve, very good comment.<br /><br />"You'll have notice the sameness of politicians these days, for example Cooper could easily be Rudd or Morgan. They seem to be driven by some sort of common purpose".....why stop there? Theresa the appeaser is one of the gang, she very much favours limits on free speech, and I suspect that most of the execrable "conservative" party agrees. Cascadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-11211646027436229392018-01-02T15:05:06.285+00:002018-01-02T15:05:06.285+00:00Raedwald said:
'Now one can begin to understa...Raedwald said:<br /><br />'Now one can begin to understand the sort of legal changes that Yvette Cooper and others of her parliamentary cohort are seeking, and why they are so keen to adopt the EU standards on the criminalisation of insult.'<br /><br /><i>One of Orwell’s most important messages in 1984 is that language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing. If control of language was centralized in a political agency, Orwell proposes, such an agency could possibly alter the very structure of language to make it impossible to even conceive of disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words with which to think them. This idea manifests itself in the language of Newspeak, which the Party has introduced to replace English. The Party is constantly refining and perfecting Newspeak, with the ultimate goal that no one will be capable of conceptualizing anything that might question the Party’s absolute power.</i><br /><br />“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. […] Power is not a means, it is an end.” [1984 p.211]<br /><br />You'll have notice the sameness of politicians these days, for example Cooper could easily be Rudd or Morgan. They seem to be driven by some sort of common purpose and not by a particular political philosophy. A post-democratic era is fast approaching.<br /><br />”’If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’” [1984 p.215]<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-50487606631748447282018-01-02T14:59:00.500+00:002018-01-02T14:59:00.500+00:00@HG: So good to hear from you! Was thinking of you...@HG: So good to hear from you! Was thinking of you just the other day. Care to get in contact again? Best wishes, Sackerson.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-22593452024606416062018-01-02T14:37:54.445+00:002018-01-02T14:37:54.445+00:00Sciascia sums it up, S, with the immortal:
l’uman...Sciascia sums it up, S, with the immortal:<br /><br />l’umanità, e ci riempiamo la bocca a dire umanità, bella parola piena di vento, la divido in cinque categorie: <br />gli uomini, i mezz’uomini, gli ominicchi, i (con rispetto parlando) pigliainculo e i quaquaraquà…'<br /><br />His own comments on his five categories are devastating:<br /> <br />Pochissimi gli uomini; i mezz’uomini pochi, ché mi contenterei l’umanità si fermasse ai mezz’uomini… E invece no, scende ancora più giù, agli ominicchi: che sono come i bambini che si credono grandi, scimmie che fanno le stesse mosse dei grandi… E ancora più in giù: i piglianculo, che vanno diventando un esercito… E infine i quaquaraquà: che dovrebbero vivere come le anatre nelle pozzanghere, ché la loro vita non ha più senso e più espressione di quella delle anatre ...'<br />IL GIORNO DELLA CIVETTA<br /><br />[A tiny number, the men; few the almost men, for me humanity ends after the mezz'uomini. But no, down further, to the ominicchi: who are like children that believe themselves adult; monkeys who imitate adults... And again, further down: i piglianculo [pigliare is 'to take', culo is arse] who have become an army. And last the quaquaraqua' [the quackers] whose lives have no more sense than ducks' lives.....] <br /><br />Makes insult into an art form.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-78336121328437088682018-01-02T12:13:15.712+00:002018-01-02T12:13:15.712+00:00Raedwald, you probably remember Germany's own ...Raedwald, you probably remember Germany's own such recent case ....<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPx2c4sS-c<br /><br />jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-40052853497636902812018-01-02T10:55:17.285+00:002018-01-02T10:55:17.285+00:00iirc
In the UK an appropriate T-shirt will attra...iirc <br /><br />In the UK an appropriate T-shirt will attract over zealous plods... Gordon the Fence Post Tortoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04426735271858751220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-2743108810222806302018-01-02T10:45:57.423+00:002018-01-02T10:45:57.423+00:00Call a Fish Faced Cow a Fish Faced Cow.
In some w...<br /><br />Call a Fish Faced Cow a Fish Faced Cow.<br /><br />In some ways it helps the scum. If you are going to jail for "insulting" the polipig scum who daily move their bowels on the rest of us and skip away laughing, you might as well go after them physically. <br /><br /> Calling them for the scum they are helps take the pressure off. Mr Ecksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-75610645263001663902018-01-02T10:28:32.387+00:002018-01-02T10:28:32.387+00:00Only an effing idiot would not allow me my right t...Only an effing idiot would not allow me my right to insult.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-24282193056965122692018-01-02T10:20:53.015+00:002018-01-02T10:20:53.015+00:00"D*ckhead"... the term used means "..."D*ckhead"... the term used means "poor c**t" and the bit one might like to nail Monsieur Pottymouth with would be the sneer at the man's relative poverty.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com