[Milligan & Antrobus: The Bed Sitting Room]
There is still active discussion in the comments to a much earlier piece about the curious position of the welfare-dependent libertarian.
Just for the record, we have at last taken a lodger (happily a most agreeable gentleman) and, with luck and the forebearance of the notoriously godawful local ‘authority’, should [...]
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Bleedin’ landlord
Posted in bourgeois fripperies on 1 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No comprende
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged horse racing on 3 April, 2009 | 17 Comments »
I cannot understand this, from the Libertarian Alliance.
It appears to be something to do with a plump young lady who was photographed at Aintree.
It says:
Matters like this are important up here in the Tundra
It might be important in the Tundra, matey, but out here on the featureless steppes of Redneckshire it is, frankly, meaningless.
The terseness [...]
Gotta have it, man; gotta have it
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged art on 26 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cuddly synthesisers.
These are presumably for the band whose drummer uses Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Soft drum set’ (1972).
(h/t: Boing Boing)
Pig-headed
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged olympics on 19 December, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jackart, at A Very British Dude, dismisses criticism of the British Olympics as
…a meme going round the Libertarian Blogosphere that the Olympic games should be scrapped.
While he appears to accept that the Olympic circus is irretrievably corrupt and a complete waste of money, the idea of scrapping it does not appeal:
£9,000,000,000 is the kind of [...]
Those trains; those terrible trains
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged Christmas on 17 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trixy, at Is there more to life than shoes?, wonders why British amateur Christmas illuminations (which, as I remarked unkindly to Mrs. Underclass the other night, could perfectly well be replaced with standardised thirty-foot neon signs forming the words ‘We Are Chav Scum’) so often feature trains.
Can someone explain to me why trains are festive? [...]
The ghost of Nestor Makhno
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged olympics on 13 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the Daily Mail (caveat lector), remarked upon by Ambush Predator:
More than 250 miles of road are to be reserved for VIPs during the London Olympics.
Up to 80,000 officials, sponsors, politicians and athletes will have congestion-free lanes in London and at other venues.
Ordinary motorists face fines if they stray on to the reserved [...]
Nonantidisestablishmentarianism
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged Church of England on 24 October, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thanks to Sean Gabb for facilitating the unleashment of the Clerkes of Oxenfordes’ finest.
I entirely agree with Dr. Gabb that the Anglican church has reached the end of its service life and ought to be dismantled for parts as soon as possible.
This is not for quite the same reasons as he gives. The idea of [...]
Blogplod chocshock
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged ASA on 18 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Law enforcement in Ruralshire relies heavily upon supplies of chocolate, according to Inspector Gadget. But now, despite the importance of this popular, traditional, cost-effective food to Ruralshire’s finest (and doubtless those of other Forces) it seems that the Advertising Standards Authority will not allow the manufacturers of Maltesers to claim, apparently truthfully, that each of [...]
Isn’t it worth it?
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged school run on 16 October, 2008 | 4 Comments »
According to The Telegraph it is only slightly less dangerous to travel by road today than it was in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. 34% of those killed in Shakespearian road accidents seem to have died as …the result of falling from farm wagons…
If one looks up the government’s statistics about causes of [...]
How the other half lives
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged bbc on 15 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Old Holborn, The Independent on the luxuriant profligacy of the shameless BBC, caught with both front trotters in the trough by a series of embarrassing FoI requests. Standard MSM/BBC bluster about the new culture of economy, not spending any more than fifty grand a year on ‘poo, etc. etc.
The bit that caught my eye [...]
