A week is a long time in politics, as they say.
But a year ?
Well just ask Ireland’s self-appointed literary genius Fintan O’Toole who 12 months ago relieved himself of his tumescent Trump hard-on and spaffed out this hagiographic cum-shot all over Joe Biden.
There are some real gems among the tsunami of brown-nose verbiage.
“ Biden the Irish pol is a revenant from a dead era. His skills as an operator, a fixer, a problem-solver, are finely honed – but they are redundant. He is a horse whisperer who has to deal with mad dogs. He is a nifty tango dancer with no possible partners. “
A year later the great man has deteriorated into a doddery old fool sounding more and more unhinged with each barmy utterance.
And his subject Biden ?
The most unpopular POTUS ever at this stage of his presidency apart from his old foe Trump or the “ wild, one-off deviation, a freakish fever after which the body politic can return to its natural, healthy condition of consensual bargaining “ as O’Toolbag describes him.
Even the Irish Times declined to use his Guardian article at the time, perhaps fearing for the contents of their corporate stomach.
Poor Fintan.
Meanwhile, the Brits continue to endure government by cut-and-paste, as indicated by the revelation that Gove’s ‘Levelling up’ paper contained chunks lifted from Wikipedia:
And the gas thing is that they elected a doddery old git like Biden rather than an auld spunker like trump.You could literally shave an ape, stick it in a suit and it would do a better job than Johnson. Knowing the tans they probably will.
It doesn’t bode well for the tories; starmer the stiff as next PM with shinners in power north and south. ..
Heheheh
News from Scotland now and more on SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s bizarre plan to spend £300,000 chopping off the bottom of classroom doors in the country’s 2,000 classrooms.
At a cost of £150 per door the idea is to improve ventilation to help in the fight against the disappearing Omicron virus.
It turns out that simply propping the doors open slightly hadn’t been considered in the original planning.
But more importantly Scotland’s Fire and Rescue service hadn’t been consulted and they’re none too keen on the idea.
Wee Jimmy Krankie is losing the plot almost as quickly as the chances of Scottish independence continue to recede.
She’s in a bit of a jam now.
A door jam.
Wahaay !
Oh, suit yourselves …
Mad
Don’t let it slam your arse on the way out Widow Krankie?
Rominick
Brilliant
Micko
Heh.
Oh man I loved the Krankies.
I remember being a kid and my Dad telling me that Jimmy Krankie was not, in fact yer mans son – but his wife.
;-O
Gobsmacked I was. Couldn’t believe it.
I went off the Krankies after that…
Ben Madigan
No wait, look over here…
PT
I have lived abroad for many years and have come home in last few months.
One thing has struck me very clearly. There is a very strong anti British feeling all around and in particular in the way the media that is print radio television report.
I wont mention the paper but i was reading their content online this morning. the first heading had UK in it and the second line had United States.
I have noticed this endlessly the media here love using the full text United States yet never use United Kingdom. You very rarely see the word England used either. Its UK if its anything in England.
I dont know has anyone else noticed this. Maybe because I away for so long see it clearly.
Most traditional media make use of style guides that cover that kind of thing so they shouldn’t be using the UK/England interchangeably.
I don’t see how using the UK rather than the United Kingdom shows any kind of anti-British feeling.
Our relationship with the…UK (but really England, now I’m doing it!)…is complicated for obvious reasons but speaking broadly I think it’s fair to say that most ‘hate’ for our neighbours tends to be tongue-in-cheek or at least played up. We boo the English national football team at tournaments and then get right back to cheering those same players at their English clubs for example.
The anniversary of Bloody Sunday just passed so may account for some recent anti-British (English!) sentiment.
bisted
…was perfidious Albion not in use when you left PT?
Fergalito
On a lighter note i always think of English poet Kit Wright and his poem “Everyone Hates the English” whenever this topic pounces from the bushes …
“Everyone hates the English,
Including the English. They sneer
At each other for being so English,
So what are they doing here,
The English? It’s thick with the English,
All over the country. Why?
Anyone ever born English
Should shut up, or fuck off, or die.
Anyone ever born English
Should hold their extraction in scorn
And apologise all over England
For ever at all being born,
For that’s how it is, being English;
Fodder for any old scoff
That England might be a nice country
If only the English fucked off!”
Britain, because under the tory scum party it will never be great.
To most reasonable brits, it sounds so pompous and arrogant to be used to represent all the majority of it’s perfectly ordinary, decent and likeable citizens who let’s face it, are not having that experience anyway. It represents nationalism and patriotism gone too far.. into extremism.
“United” is a non-runner for obvious reasons and “Kingdom” well that is just daft on all sorts of levels. Unless you’re a daft royalist to begin with.
Britain, Engerland, Westminister, Singapore-on-thames tory elitist-scum-party, Financial criminality often worse than To-the-Wall.st, Lobbyists and Corrupt Media as bad as ‘murica etc. etc
:-J
PT
Thank you ANO for your reply.
I dont have any problem the media using UK at all. Its only I find it odd that they use United States repeatedly. If they use UK why dont they use US.
I agree with you on the tongue in cheek comment for sure.
Thanks for taking the time to write a nice balanced response
ANO
Short answer ? No idea!
Educated guess ? Style guides aren’t updated often enough and it’s down to some anachronism.
Maybe it’s this simple –
But before getting into that, let’s get it out of the way first to note that if your usage of the country name is a noun, spell it out rather than abbreviating it.
A week is a long time in politics, as they say.
But a year ?
Well just ask Ireland’s self-appointed literary genius Fintan O’Toole who 12 months ago relieved himself of his tumescent Trump hard-on and spaffed out this hagiographic cum-shot all over Joe Biden.
There are some real gems among the tsunami of brown-nose verbiage.
“ Biden the Irish pol is a revenant from a dead era. His skills as an operator, a fixer, a problem-solver, are finely honed – but they are redundant. He is a horse whisperer who has to deal with mad dogs. He is a nifty tango dancer with no possible partners. “
A year later the great man has deteriorated into a doddery old fool sounding more and more unhinged with each barmy utterance.
And his subject Biden ?
The most unpopular POTUS ever at this stage of his presidency apart from his old foe Trump or the “ wild, one-off deviation, a freakish fever after which the body politic can return to its natural, healthy condition of consensual bargaining “ as O’Toolbag describes him.
Even the Irish Times declined to use his Guardian article at the time, perhaps fearing for the contents of their corporate stomach.
Poor Fintan.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/16/can-joe-biden-make-america-great-again
Meanwhile, the Brits continue to endure government by cut-and-paste, as indicated by the revelation that Gove’s ‘Levelling up’ paper contained chunks lifted from Wikipedia:
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/levelling-up-wikipedia-michael-gove-310605/
And the gas thing is that they elected a doddery old git like Biden rather than an auld spunker like trump.You could literally shave an ape, stick it in a suit and it would do a better job than Johnson. Knowing the tans they probably will.
It doesn’t bode well for the tories; starmer the stiff as next PM with shinners in power north and south. ..
Heheheh
Another man down. RIP Alexandros Lampis, Greek professional footballer who died two days ago at the age of 21 after suffering a cardiac arrest 5 minutes into a match.
https://extra.ie/2022/02/03/sport/soccernews/footballer-cardiac-arrest-alexandros-lampis
The Illuminati hate football.
‘…How Are Things In Guatemala’
They hate the general human population.
Who doesn’t ?
Not to mention Gabby Logan’s brother. Oh wait, you mean this sort of thing has always happened?
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0203/1277563-gabby-logan-recalls-brothers-sudden-death-at-15/
As above- the covidians are reduced to snide dismissive comments, but sure what odds as long as they feel safe eh? Oh no wait- they still don’t.
This hasn’t aged well:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKs4SGgWYAcKt7h?format=jpg&name=medium
News from Scotland now and more on SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s bizarre plan to spend £300,000 chopping off the bottom of classroom doors in the country’s 2,000 classrooms.
At a cost of £150 per door the idea is to improve ventilation to help in the fight against the disappearing Omicron virus.
It turns out that simply propping the doors open slightly hadn’t been considered in the original planning.
But more importantly Scotland’s Fire and Rescue service hadn’t been consulted and they’re none too keen on the idea.
Wee Jimmy Krankie is losing the plot almost as quickly as the chances of Scottish independence continue to recede.
She’s in a bit of a jam now.
A door jam.
Wahaay !
Oh, suit yourselves …
Don’t let it slam your arse on the way out Widow Krankie?
Brilliant
Heh.
Oh man I loved the Krankies.
I remember being a kid and my Dad telling me that Jimmy Krankie was not, in fact yer mans son – but his wife.
;-O
Gobsmacked I was. Couldn’t believe it.
I went off the Krankies after that…
No wait, look over here…
I have lived abroad for many years and have come home in last few months.
One thing has struck me very clearly. There is a very strong anti British feeling all around and in particular in the way the media that is print radio television report.
I wont mention the paper but i was reading their content online this morning. the first heading had UK in it and the second line had United States.
I have noticed this endlessly the media here love using the full text United States yet never use United Kingdom. You very rarely see the word England used either. Its UK if its anything in England.
I dont know has anyone else noticed this. Maybe because I away for so long see it clearly.
Any thoughts on why that may be so?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKsrVSDXsAIc933?format=jpg&name=medium
PT, welcome home. I’ve noticed that I do that.
Most traditional media make use of style guides that cover that kind of thing so they shouldn’t be using the UK/England interchangeably.
I don’t see how using the UK rather than the United Kingdom shows any kind of anti-British feeling.
Our relationship with the…UK (but really England, now I’m doing it!)…is complicated for obvious reasons but speaking broadly I think it’s fair to say that most ‘hate’ for our neighbours tends to be tongue-in-cheek or at least played up. We boo the English national football team at tournaments and then get right back to cheering those same players at their English clubs for example.
The anniversary of Bloody Sunday just passed so may account for some recent anti-British (English!) sentiment.
…was perfidious Albion not in use when you left PT?
On a lighter note i always think of English poet Kit Wright and his poem “Everyone Hates the English” whenever this topic pounces from the bushes …
“Everyone hates the English,
Including the English. They sneer
At each other for being so English,
So what are they doing here,
The English? It’s thick with the English,
All over the country. Why?
Anyone ever born English
Should shut up, or fuck off, or die.
Anyone ever born English
Should hold their extraction in scorn
And apologise all over England
For ever at all being born,
For that’s how it is, being English;
Fodder for any old scoff
That England might be a nice country
If only the English fucked off!”
excellent :)
oh !
Britain, because under the tory scum party it will never be great.
To most reasonable brits, it sounds so pompous and arrogant to be used to represent all the majority of it’s perfectly ordinary, decent and likeable citizens who let’s face it, are not having that experience anyway. It represents nationalism and patriotism gone too far.. into extremism.
“United” is a non-runner for obvious reasons and “Kingdom” well that is just daft on all sorts of levels. Unless you’re a daft royalist to begin with.
Britain, Engerland, Westminister, Singapore-on-thames tory elitist-scum-party, Financial criminality often worse than To-the-Wall.st, Lobbyists and Corrupt Media as bad as ‘murica etc. etc
:-J
Thank you ANO for your reply.
I dont have any problem the media using UK at all. Its only I find it odd that they use United States repeatedly. If they use UK why dont they use US.
I agree with you on the tongue in cheek comment for sure.
Thanks for taking the time to write a nice balanced response
Short answer ? No idea!
Educated guess ? Style guides aren’t updated often enough and it’s down to some anachronism.
Maybe it’s this simple –
But before getting into that, let’s get it out of the way first to note that if your usage of the country name is a noun, spell it out rather than abbreviating it.
https://www.thoughtco.com/abbreviation-for-united-states-1691023
For the weekend that’s in it.
Why not Ask Audrey ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Askaudreylike/status/1489542474678902787
C’mon the goys.
One in the eye for Poots:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/edwin-poots-order-to-halt-ni-protocol-checks-at-ports-suspended-by-high-court-judge-41313053.html
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/power-cut-warning-most-electricity-in-200m-a-year-government-plan-to-prevent-outages-will-be-gas-fired-41314575.html
Swishy sound of Dinny and friends rubbing their hands in glee.