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162 thoughts on “Losing Bet”

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  • Passerby

    To balance all the sycophantic drivel that has been bombarding my auditory and visual systems, there is a need for Craig’s comment, and if the others fail to see that, then as per the general principle of the Zeitgeist; tough!

  • Flaming June

    http://www.london24.com/news/crime/protester_sues_met_over_palestine_demo_kettle_1_2296920

    I woz there Komodo. Scary stuff. Police helicopters overhead, very many police were in riot gear and handlers had German shepherd dogs straining at the leash. The protesters were being squeezed into a space that didn’t exist. It was pure provocation. Dozens and dozens of police vans packed full of personnel were waiting to come from the side streets and the traffic was closed off in Kensington High Street. We were all being filmed of course.

    Yet, in Israel, just ONE member of the IDF gets into bother for stealing from the Mavi Marmara flotilla. Richard Silverstein is slightly wrong in his piece. One of the dead was American.

    http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/07/24/israel-looted-millions-in-mavi-marmara-booty-yet-punishes-1-soldier-for-stealing-a-laptop/

  • Villager

    “Like the Buddha, he may grow up to reject it all and inspire multitudes to live useful and compassionate lives a couple of thousand wears hence.”

    Lets grant you that the Buddha did attain enlightenment but that he did “inspire multitudes to live useful and compassionate lives a couple of thousand wears hence”, is that a theory or a fact?

  • Komodo

    FACT. Now bugger off to the forest and listen for falling trees before I clap your head with one hand.

  • Flaming June

    How to build your baby bullshit bunker

    23-07-13

    THE Daily Mash presents a step-by-step guide to hiding out until the madness has passed.

    The gas mask isn’t necessary but it looks good
    You are the sanest person in your street

    The royal baby has arrived and you must act quickly to safeguard your family’s sanity as the ensuing bullshit turns millions of ordinary people into maniacs.

    Here’s how to construct a simple media-proof baby bullshit bunker:

    /..
    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/how-to-build-your-baby-bullshit-bunker-2013072376553

  • Fred

    “To balance all the sycophantic drivel that has been bombarding my auditory and visual systems, there is a need for Craig’s comment, and if the others fail to see that, then as per the general principle of the Zeitgeist; tough!”

    I feel the same about football, tennis, Olympic Games, all sorts of things that don’t interest me in the least but are bombarded at me by the media. I just ignore them. Wouldn’t want them to abolish football just for me even though I think the world would be a better place without it.

  • Komodo

    As Alan Partridge pointed out in Anglia Square, Norwich, the arrival of the nation’s little darling coincided with the anniversary of the death of Qusay and Uday, Saddam Hussein’s equally lovable (in theory) offspring….

  • Komodo

    That’s the topic. Far be it from me to digress into Israel’s plans to build a very large rail network connecting its cities/ further dividing and sterilising the West Bank bantustans. Would it surprise me if those rail lines needed a security corridor x00 metres wide? It wouldn’t.

    This is what reality on the ground requires …

    Facts on the ground. A resonance.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.537737

  • Flaming June

    Can we really afford this nonsense?

    Operation protect Prince George: Police throw up ring of steel around Middleton family home as new royal family arrive
    Police patrolling 18-acre Bucklebury Manor on foot, horseback and by air
    Experts say security significantly higher since Prince George’s birth
    Royal babies have been targets by kidnappers and attackers in the past
    Kate, William and George stayed with Carole and Michael last night

    By Martin Robinson

    25 July 2013

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377611/Operation-protect-Prince-George-Police-throw-ring-steel-Middleton-family-home-new-royal-family-arrive.html

    We are already saddled with the cost of protecting our ME envoy, Mr B.Liar. Was it £250,000 pa?

  • Richard

    Ha! He’s not a wanker yet – give him about fourteen years.

    Amazingly, I actually predicted the little bugger’s name. Now kicking myself for not nipping down to Ladbrooke’s while I had the chance.

  • jake

    well said, anon. irony indeed.
    still, I’m sure it won’t be long until it goes off topic and all the usual suspects continue with their personal hobby horses and/or ad hom attacks and bickering.

  • wikispooks

    Jermand 10:24

    I actually spotted 100-1 being offered on Muhammed. Can’t remember the precise betting service now – but think it was Ladbrokes.

    Surprisingly short odds eh? – until you factor in a degree of wishful-thinking that the circumstances surrounding the paternal grandmother’s death might at last be met with something more convincing than indignant, outright denial.

    Those ‘two boys’ have one hell of a legacy to come to terms with as they get older and their understanding of how things REALLY work progresses.

  • Passerby

    Fred says;

    I feel the same about football, tennis, Olympic Games, all sorts of things that don’t interest me in the least …. just ignore … Wouldn’t want them to abolish … for me even .. a better place without ..

    Fred old stick, appreciating your high tolerance and threshold of propaganda. But there is a slight difficulty in imagining a footballer’s ascent on any laws, before these go onto statute, probably despite their wishes too.

    However to find a chief Plutocrat/Oligarch who is ensconced amidst the population of the lesser plutocrats to be equated to some pissant footballer or a pop singer is not perhaps the best of comparisons won’t you agree?

  • Phil

    Wikispooks 25 Jul, 2013 – 1:00 pm

    Surprisingly short odds eh?

    Very surprising. I don’t really grasp your explanation for such odds. Looks like a dead cert to me.

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    @Villager. 11 24am

    Yes. I forgot about all those Buddhist Holy Wars and Conquests, then there was the infamous Buddhist Inquisition, all those book and witch-burnings and then the Dalai Lama giving America to King Philip of Spain.

    But apart from those little inconveniences I’d say I stand by my statement and my wish for little boy George is that “…Like the Buddha, he may grow up to reject it all and inspire multitudes to live useful and compassionate lives a couple of thousand wears hence.”

    They say travel (out there) broadens the mind. I think you would enjoy it too. You can take your Book with you but just try looking outwards for some of the time.

    @Mark. 11 20am

    I wonder which genius came up with the idea of patrilineal bloodlines. Generations of smug mothers will have had the last laugh on that one.

  • John Goss

    George Alexander Louis. If I were asked to think of three imperial names those would probably be the three, living as I do in the eighteenth century.

  • Jemand - Censorship Improves History

    Thanks, Trowbridge. Good luck with your trip.

    Regarding the short betting odds on the name ‘Mohammed’ for the young prince, you have to remember that the odds do potentially influence the outcome. Given that they were 100 to 1, I think the royal couple were nuts for not having slammed down £10M and naming little Prince Mo accordingly – later renaming him and cutting him in for a third. So that risk might have explained the trepidation in bumping up the odds.

  • Komodo

    I think that was Rex as in “(whistle) Here, Rex! Here, boy! Get down offa the fella’s leg, Rex!”. Prince ditto. Or Satan.

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    @Flaming and Komodo.

    Yes. Rex is a kind of Pick-and -Mix royal name.

    Ruler of his own realm deffinitely, but useful for fetching sticks and providing the masses with entertainment with unembarrassed displays of scratching, aggressive vocalisations and uninhibited public sex. Now that might be worth turning out to see!

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