Tuesday, May 03, 2005
This Week or Thereabouts.
The Independent reports that Tony Blair has secretly decided to upgrade the British nuclear deterrent at a cost of £10 billion. Great. A big new toybox of Trident missiles will really help to improve the third world roads in Highland Scotland.......
Which have been packed nose to tail this May bank holiday weekend with tourists from England, zillions of whom drove up here to avoid the beautiful weather in the south of the UK to experience our Highland rain, which obligingly pissed upon them for two days solid. Of course they enjoy coming here for more than just rain. Great pleasure is had by driving along our twisting, pot-holed highways at 30 mph, and running off the road into ditches, or into each other, causing road closures and long delays which prevent locals going anywhere.
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The scheme announced yesterday to install artists in communities across Scotland for the "culture- poor" appears not to include the Highland region. Of course we already have an abundance of culture in Fort William and Inverness - the ubiquitous kilted "Scottish Pipers" with tortured cats under their arms and begging bowls at their feet. And the buskers hanging about in underpasses murdering Dylan songs and playing on the talents of their pathetic, half starved looking dogs to gain the sympathy of passers by.
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Because some who read these pages may not go as far as reading the comments sent by others, I felt I had to publish this from Entibuli, posted in reply to my Sunday May 01 entry about George Bush.
Thanks Entibuli, and I hope you don't mind.
anonymous said...
A president in the bush is better than George
Seeing the first lady’s oration on the news has done precious little to restore confidence that all is well. Indeed, if anything I am more concerned with the course the USA is taking. Even more worrying, is the almost certain fact, that advisors in the White house wrote the injudicious speech for her. I assume we are supposed to envisage good old G.W. Bush as an average family man, whose wife gently slanders in an affectionate {and presumably, all American} manner. Makes you feel all warm inside doesn’t it? I have a reasonable idea what my wife would have to say if I went to bed at 9 o’clock every night.
Gone lamentably, are the halcyon days of good old Bill Clinton, when the only misguided discharge of weapons was directed at Monika Lewinski. Pretty docile when you consider the evidence gathered over the last four decades on another influential American political family. Only the good Lord has any idea what this nation will produce after G.W.B and, that’s probably just as well.
Entibuli.
Which have been packed nose to tail this May bank holiday weekend with tourists from England, zillions of whom drove up here to avoid the beautiful weather in the south of the UK to experience our Highland rain, which obligingly pissed upon them for two days solid. Of course they enjoy coming here for more than just rain. Great pleasure is had by driving along our twisting, pot-holed highways at 30 mph, and running off the road into ditches, or into each other, causing road closures and long delays which prevent locals going anywhere.
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The scheme announced yesterday to install artists in communities across Scotland for the "culture- poor" appears not to include the Highland region. Of course we already have an abundance of culture in Fort William and Inverness - the ubiquitous kilted "Scottish Pipers" with tortured cats under their arms and begging bowls at their feet. And the buskers hanging about in underpasses murdering Dylan songs and playing on the talents of their pathetic, half starved looking dogs to gain the sympathy of passers by.
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Because some who read these pages may not go as far as reading the comments sent by others, I felt I had to publish this from Entibuli, posted in reply to my Sunday May 01 entry about George Bush.
Thanks Entibuli, and I hope you don't mind.
anonymous said...
A president in the bush is better than George
Seeing the first lady’s oration on the news has done precious little to restore confidence that all is well. Indeed, if anything I am more concerned with the course the USA is taking. Even more worrying, is the almost certain fact, that advisors in the White house wrote the injudicious speech for her. I assume we are supposed to envisage good old G.W. Bush as an average family man, whose wife gently slanders in an affectionate {and presumably, all American} manner. Makes you feel all warm inside doesn’t it? I have a reasonable idea what my wife would have to say if I went to bed at 9 o’clock every night.
Gone lamentably, are the halcyon days of good old Bill Clinton, when the only misguided discharge of weapons was directed at Monika Lewinski. Pretty docile when you consider the evidence gathered over the last four decades on another influential American political family. Only the good Lord has any idea what this nation will produce after G.W.B and, that’s probably just as well.
Entibuli.
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