Feral Thugs

[tarzanontarmazepam]

country-standard.blogspot.com/2010/12/cameron-we-smashed-place-up.html

[alanseago]

'Youthful high spirits' as the magistrates used to say of public school boys. "Loutish thuggery", when sentencing the lower class.

[jean]

Sadly, it appears that he never actually said it:

"...I have been alerted by a journalist at the Telegraph that what I wrote above has now started to be requoted due to the current unrest in London. Perhaps I should feel flattered that what I wrote as satire back in December is still being argued over. However, I am now more than happy to kill the joke.

The “quote” written above is not true. I wrote it at the time to poke a bit of fun at the PM and Boris when they were condemning the student riots. It was not supposed to be anything more than that. Whilst I was aware that a few people might retweet what I wrote, I did not realise that it would be repeated thousands of times, be requoted on Facebook and spread to blogs."

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Aug 13, 2011 15:38:03 GMT jean said:

Sadly, it appears that he never actually said it:

"...I have been alerted by a journalist at the Telegraph that what I wrote above has now started to be requoted due to the current unrest in London. Perhaps I should feel flattered that what I wrote as satire back in December is still being argued over. However, I am now more than happy to kill the joke.

The “quote” written above is not true. I wrote it at the time to poke a bit of fun at the PM and Boris when they were condemning the student riots. It was not supposed to be anything more than that. Whilst I was aware that a few people might retweet what I wrote, I did not realise that it would be repeated thousands of times, be requoted on Facebook and spread to blogs."

Damn and blast. Thanks for that Jean. Thread ruined. Smug me.

[Weyland]

Aug 13, 2011 16:26:25 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Damn and blast. Thanks for that Jean. Thread ruined. Smug me.

To be fair, would anyone be surprised? They're hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Slightly sharper than Blair and Co, but that's about all. I'd say Boris is the best of a bad bunch.

Osborne on FiveLive today (commenting on cutting police numbers by 20%) . . .

"We're committed to wanting the police presence on the street to remain at current levels."

Not making this up. I'm committed to wanting to win a few million on the lottery. I have a much greater chance of fulfilling my want than George.

His only possible excuse is that he's as thick as a plank. But that never stopped a Tory yet. See Bill Cash, Duncan Smith, Gove, Pickles, etc, etc. And I haven't even started on the LibDem puppets yet.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Aug 13, 2011 16:51:22 GMT Weyland said:

Aug 13, 2011 16:26:25 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Damn and blast. Thanks for that Jean. Thread ruined. Smug me.

To be fair, would anyone be surprised? They're hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Slightly sharper than Blair and Co, but that's about all. I'd say Boris is the best of a bad bunch.

Osborne on FiveLive today (commenting on cutting police numbers by 20%) . . .

"We're committed to wanting the police presence on the street to remain at current levels."

Not making this up. I'm committed to wanting to win a few million on the lottery. I have a much greater chance of fulfilling my want than George.

His only possible excuse is that he's as thick as a plank. But that never stopped a Tory yet. See Bill Cash, Duncan Smith, Gove, Pickles, etc, etc. And I haven't even started on the LibDem puppets yet.

You can't help but like Boris...he's just very likeable unlike Osborne, Duncan Smith. God how I loathe those two bastards.

[Alpha Hooligan]

Boris is a genuine eccentric, we simply don't have that many of them in politics nowerdays.

Definitely a cool character to have around the place.


AH

[Alpha Hooligan]

Aug 13, 2011 15:38:03 GMT jean said:

Sadly, it appears that he never actually said it:

"...I have been alerted by a journalist at the Telegraph that what I wrote above has now started to be requoted due to the current unrest in London. Perhaps I should feel flattered that what I wrote as satire back in December is still being argued over. However, I am now more than happy to kill the joke.

The “quote” written above is not true. I wrote it at the time to poke a bit of fun at the PM and Boris when they were condemning the student riots. It was not supposed to be anything more than that. Whilst I was aware that a few people might retweet what I wrote, I did not realise that it would be repeated thousands of times, be requoted on Facebook and spread to blogs."

Many Guardian reasers will be deeply upset to hear this...I once tried to play a drinking game where I'd have a swig of vodka every time one of the CIFers would mention Cameron smashing up places....after I'd regained conciousness and had my stomach pumped, the doctors told me I was lucky to be alive and that they didn't think the human body could absorb so much alcohol...


AH

[jean]

Aug 13, 2011 19:54:50 GMT Alpha Hooligan said:

Many Guardian readers will be deeply upset to hear this...

Not at all!

We know he did that sort of thing - but we also know he isn't quite stupid enough to boast about it.

The [Bullingdon] club's notorious dinners typically involve members booking a private dining room (under an assumed name) and drinking themselves silly before destroying it elaborately. They wear royal blue tailcoats with ivory lapels, and - having made merry - pride themselves on politely paying the restaurant's owners compensation in high-denomination banknotes. One former Bullingdon member, the journalist Harry Mount, has recalled "being rolled down a hill by a Hungarian count". Boris Johnson once admitted to "dark deeds involving plastic cones and letterboxes".

Yet the "high jinks" that took place on the night the photo was taken (at Canterbury Quad, Christchurch) are up there with the best of them. At some point after the dinner, the group walked through Oxford when one (thought to be Fergusson, though exact recollections differ) threw a plant pot through the window of a restaurant.

The burglar alarm was activated and police descended with sniffer dogs. Six of the group were collared and spent the night at Cowley police station before being released without charge.

"David Cameron was one of the four people who escaped," a witness says. "If it wasn't for his foresight, he'd have spent a night in the clink..."

Cameron himself demurely comments:

"Like many people, I did things when I was young that I should not have done, and that I regret."

[everso]

Aug 13, 2011 16:51:22 GMT Weyland said:

Aug 13, 2011 16:26:25 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Damn and blast. Thanks for that Jean. Thread ruined. Smug me.

To be fair, would anyone be surprised? They're hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Slightly sharper than Blair and Co, but that's about all. I'd say Boris is the best of a bad bunch.

Osborne on FiveLive today (commenting on cutting police numbers by 20%) . . .

"We're committed to wanting the police presence on the street to remain at current levels."

Not making this up. I'm committed to wanting to win a few million on the lottery. I have a much greater chance of fulfilling my want than George.

His only possible excuse is that he's as thick as a plank. But that never stopped a Tory yet. See Bill Cash, Duncan Smith, Gove, Pickles, etc, etc. And I haven't even started on the LibDem puppets yet.

I think that's a bit of an "ist" comment (not sure what sort of "ist")

[Weyland]

Aug 14, 2011 22:39:07 GMT everso said:

Aug 13, 2011 16:51:22 GMT Weyland said:

To be fair, would anyone be surprised? They're hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Slightly sharper than Blair and Co, but that's about all. I'd say Boris is the best of a bad bunch.

Osborne on FiveLive today (commenting on cutting police numbers by 20%) . . .

"We're committed to wanting the police presence on the street to remain at current levels."

Not making this up. I'm committed to wanting to win a few million on the lottery. I have a much greater chance of fulfilling my want than George.

His only possible excuse is that he's as thick as a plank. But that never stopped a Tory yet. See Bill Cash, Duncan Smith, Gove, Pickles, etc, etc. And I haven't even started on the LibDem puppets yet.

I think that's a bit of an "ist" comment (not sure what sort of "ist")

Humanist? Realist? Optimist? Brahms'n'Liszt?

[jean]

Aug 14, 2011 22:39:07 GMT everso said:

I think that's a bit of an "ist" comment (not sure what sort of "ist")

No kind of 'ist' at all - did you miss my #8?

The very rich and the very poor do this sort of thing, because (in their different ways) they don't care.

It's only the anxious lower middle classes who refrain.

[sesley]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004821/Royal-Ascot-2011-Drunken-brawlers-fighting-blonde-twenties.html

drunken toffs disgraced themselves at Royal Ascot this year.

[Weyland]

Aug 15, 2011 19:02:50 GMT sesley said:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004821/Royal-Ascot-2011-Drunken-brawlers-fighting-blonde-twenties.html

drunken toffs disgraced themselves at Royal Ascot this year.

Good old Prince Andrew in his favourite uniform — the pride of the Royal Family — defending Willy with a little help from an aide . . .



"Hold on, Your Royal Highness!"

(Is that Sarah in the red dress?)

[aubrey]

(Is that Sarah in the red dress?)

The one saying, ""Hold my coat!"

[Weyland]

Aug 20, 2011 8:31:03 GMT aubrey said:

(Is that Sarah in the red dress?)

The one saying, ""Hold my coat!"

I hadn't noticed that. Well observed!

[Weyland]

How's your new computer, Aub? Last I heard you had a problem.

I just got one too. Can't believe how fast it is. Shame the broadband's the same old "speed".

[aubrey]

It's fine now. Still a bit slow sometimes, but I usually try to do to much on it. I can watch things on it from the bed, and that's great.