Before any of my lady readers beat me up let me stress that my question is directed at 'wimmin', a very, very different class of females from those I would call 'ladies'. Please don't ask me to define 'wimmin', it is a category, like pornography, that defies definition but you know it when you see it. Looking at the picture in today's Daily Mail of Ms. Harriet 'Harperson' Harman walking down a 'sarf' London street dressed in a 'stab-vest' whilst surrounded by a bevy of police officers I saw stupidity writ large. When I listened to her feeble bleatings on the Today programme (scroll down to 07.22 hrs) in which she blamed the Daily Mail for using a photograph that one of her aides had taken and which she had arranged to be sent to the South London Gazette, I couldn't help thinking that this woman was as dim as one of those eco-light bulbs. Even worse, she was as dim as that other example of 'wimminhood', our 'not-fit-for-purpose' Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who admitted the other week that it was unsafe to walk the very streets of London for whose security she is responsible! Do you know, for one brief, fleeting moment I almost felt sorry for 'Hash Broon'. With ministers like that, who needs an opposition?
They are a pretty uninspiring bunch, aren't they.
But, are the men any better? Miliband, Balls, etc?
Posted by: JuliaM | Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 17:29
Well, Miliband comes under another of my vaguely defined categories - 'girly men'!
Balls is a different animal altogether, I think. When he was hidden in the Treasury sharpening 'Broon's' pencils he failed to make much of an impression on me except, of course, that anyone in 'Broon's' Treasury obviously had difficulty spelling 'economics' let alone understanding it. Now that he's out and about under the creepy, Stalinist title of Minister for Children I really do believe he is a malignant and highly dangerous influence in government. He alone might be enough to get me off my backside to vote for 'Dave'. In fact I have been meaning to post something on Mr and Mrs Balls ... perhaps tomorrow if I can summon the energy.
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 18:34
Poor, poor ...er..lady(?): to become Mrs. Balls is to ask for trouble already.
read the senntence Balls is a different animal altogether 3 times. Have been contemplating all possible meanings ever since.
Posted by: Tatyana | Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 18:46
Just don't take it literally, Tatyana!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 21:51
It's hurting my work performance!
I demand compensation.
Posted by: Tatyana | Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 22:06
Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah. It usually goes something like this:
"Before any of my black readers beat me up let me stress that my question is directed at 'niggers', a very, very different class of negro from those I would call 'blacks'. Please don't ask me to define 'niggers', it is a category, like pornography, that defies definition but you know it when you see it."
Here's">http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=1306">Here's a recent example.
Posted by: Mack Daddy | Friday, 04 April 2008 at 17:42
(I saw in my in-box that a new message had been left by some one called 'Mack Daddy', and I though that that sounds amusing, and he's new on this particular block so he might be fun. Then I read his clodhopping, peurile comment and reminded myself that people with silly pseudo-names are usually, er, silly.)
Sorry, 'Mack Daddy', I couldn't be bothered to read your example because I suspect that anything of which you approved would be about as attractive to me as last week's porridge. Er, have a nice day!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 04 April 2008 at 18:17
My comment was no more ridiculous than your own version.
And I don't endorse the stuff at the end of that link, so in all likelihood it's something that you would, on the contrary, rather enjoy.
Posted by: Mack Daddy | Saturday, 05 April 2008 at 00:48