tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post8847748901300705..comments2023-05-21T15:20:58.352+01:00Comments on The Untrusted: 20/10/02Montana Wildhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-43172580869391470382010-02-21T14:20:09.716+00:002010-02-21T14:20:09.716+00:00peter, today's thread is open, you should pop ...peter, today's thread is open, you should pop in. <a href="http://cifthreadrefugee.blogspot.com/2010/02/211002.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-62999992528229693242010-02-21T13:34:18.108+00:002010-02-21T13:34:18.108+00:00scherfig:
I don't mind the 'frothing hate...scherfig:<br /><br />I don't mind the 'frothing haters' of any complexion. But you're wrong not to see the leaning that CiF encourages by its peurile filtration process. <br /><br />Also, I'm not claiming any specialness by highlighting my frustration with the moderators: just pointing up the inconsistencies. <br /><br />I can live with the vitriol and the bile - much of it my own; just not with the endorsed infantile, back-slapping fraternity that passes for, er, cutting-edge solidarity.peter brackenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10104205136067674108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-13963170804534688812010-02-21T12:46:09.413+00:002010-02-21T12:46:09.413+00:00peter, we all know that the moderation is a total ...peter, we all know that the moderation is a total bollocks, but it's very amusing that you think that Cif is partisan with regard to those who hold the paper's view. Have you never actually noticed just how many frothing right-wing nutjobs, racists and NewLabour-haters constantly infest the comment pages. And, believe me, they have increased exponentially over the last year or so. I don't comment on Cif any more, and many left-wing posters have either been bannned or left voluntarily. As for Cif 'seeing fit to moderate your comments in advance of their being posted', you're fucking joking aren't you? That's being going on for a long time, and has happened to lots of the regular posters here (including me). Par for the course, mate. You don't really think you're real dangerous and special or something, do you?<br /><br />You sound like you're whining about 'being silenced' unfairly because of your views. It's not quite so complex as that, I fear. Cif are just total wankers.xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-86293058811251472132010-02-21T11:52:09.662+00:002010-02-21T11:52:09.662+00:00One of the two deluded bretheren that find cause t...One of the two deluded bretheren that find cause to support my CiF diatribes alerted me to this website - and Alasdair Cameron's bitchy comments about me. <br /><br />I'm not here to challenge Alasdair's assessment - heaven knows I give good reason for people to snipe - but merely to demonstrate the gloriously incestuous world of CiF, which has seen fit to moderate my comments in advance of their being posted.<br /><br />The cause of my PNG was this post, which offended a coterie of readers:<br /><br />"I recall Kampfner's distinctive voice at the time of the London bombings, when he handed the front cover of the New Statesman to John Pilger whose gutless bilge of an article was entitled 'Blair's Bombs'. <br /><br />That piece of rank journalism should have secured Kampfner's resignation, but no, the bloated jobsworth stayed on for three years more, like the shameless parasitical louse he is. <br /><br />His cynical, pointless leer at efforts to neutralise the Taliban is characteristic of a small man's self-loathing, which at least affords it some authenticity."<br /><br />OK, it wasn't pleasant, but sheffpixie - on a later thread and without any blowback wrote in reference to Purnell:<br /><br />"Ambitious politico does volte-face - presumably in an attempt to cling on to power. Just shows what an untrustworthy little creep Purnell is."<br /><br />And Dormsville - with even less regard for sensitivities wrote, simply:<br /><br />"Purnell's a cunt."<br /><br />I'm aware that the Guardian's moderation policy causes consternation for many besides me, but its partisanship is a disgrace and reinforces the now established view that the website primarily serves comentators who hold to the prevailing view of the paper itself. <br /><br />I instinctively loathe the cosy consensus CiF encourages - for the obvious reason it denudes the pluralism the Guardian ostenisbly cherishes.peter brackenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10104205136067674108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-7030337079545408492010-02-21T11:10:29.894+00:002010-02-21T11:10:29.894+00:00Refresh the page and see....Refresh the page and see....thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-86779899889040479312010-02-21T11:09:22.140+00:002010-02-21T11:09:22.140+00:00really? do tell...really? do tell...PhilippaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091980183380957529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-40536671874156700192010-02-21T11:03:40.658+00:002010-02-21T11:03:40.658+00:00I have a new magical power.I have a new magical power.thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-89216152126169934802010-02-21T10:39:16.968+00:002010-02-21T10:39:16.968+00:00Morning all - scherf - we're in need of a new ...Morning all - scherf - we're in need of a new thread this morning<br /><br />Annetan<br /><br />Great post about the selection of your new AM. We been stuck with Richard Caborn (Class 1 tosser and sucker up to the mighty) but thankfully he's going at the election. Still don't know who's replacing him but am not holding out much hope that we'll get a proper socialist.Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-49838005161994502692010-02-21T10:26:57.712+00:002010-02-21T10:26:57.712+00:00Morning all. Have just fixed another power out wi...Morning all. Have just fixed another power out without needing to resort to the agency, EDF, or candles. Am going to gaffer tape over that plug later...<br /><br />Edwin - Lynd Ward - some kind publishing house put out new editions a couple of years back - but if you manage to get hold of an original (I have a first and second edition of two of them) they are gorgeous things - albeit v expensive (mine were purchased some time ago). Keep thinking I'll try using a print or two and running off some versions in oil... Ward's Dad was something of a Methodist socialist firebrand, leading light in the ACLU and tabbed by the HUAC. Interesting history as well as art / politics in the books themselves.<br /><br />MsR - "A future fair sounds like we will all be soon invited to an event in the local church gardens" - nice one! A Britain of refined garden parties, with quiche and crustless sandwiches, maybe a tombola, or a raffle, to see who gets NHS treatment or a decent school...<br /><br />Greatly enjoyed watching the second half of Everton v Them yesterday, which enjoyment involved afternoon drinking and thus being out for the count rather early... Am trying to track down which channel has City v Pool later to see if any inroads can be made in the top 3's lead.<br /><br />Pen - have to admit I've been puzzled by what your position is - seems like it's that you see only the universal (connected to everything) and the individual, with nothing in between? Groupings may not always be wholly positive but they are a natural state for us, surely? <br /><br />Deano - bless you. Difficult to talk / type about depression sometimes (can make me a bit weepy) but I do think that talking about it can help with engendering greater understanding (and be cathartic / collective for those sharing their own stories).<br /><br />Anyway - now electricity working again, going to put the kettle on...PhilippaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091980183380957529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-61344710782481640242010-02-21T10:26:42.112+00:002010-02-21T10:26:42.112+00:00Mark Drakeford Leni, really nice guy and a good so...Mark Drakeford Leni, really nice guy and a good socialist.<br /><br />Montana can you give Leni my email?annetan42https://www.blogger.com/profile/01250598516297935480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-43237725379404498092010-02-21T05:59:27.816+00:002010-02-21T05:59:27.816+00:00Bitterweed--Good choices. Don't know the score...Bitterweed--Good choices. Don't know the score with Habib. Pulling for him to be victorious and musically savvy as ever. Along with his good nature.<br /><br /> Heard anything from 3p4? Been absent for 2 weeks or so.<br /><br /> Almost 10 pm here, going for the allnighter? <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?=-IdAghKe1so&feature=relatedBoudicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399010790979190445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-29940491850789506682010-02-21T05:45:14.934+00:002010-02-21T05:45:14.934+00:00Boudican
I have to go.
Two for one
A great, great...Boudican<br />I have to go.<br /><br />Two for one<br />A great, great song<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwr-smiprpI<br /><br />Followed by the best song ever.<br /><br />God Damn.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDEX_DKWaABitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-46637021751845021072010-02-21T05:33:50.547+00:002010-02-21T05:33:50.547+00:00Quick Boudican
While we still have the chance.... ...Quick Boudican<br />While we still have the chance.... <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vaYOIKWYYBitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-44248224889869306142010-02-21T05:27:22.644+00:002010-02-21T05:27:22.644+00:00Yo Boudican
Check this
http://www.youtube.com/w...Yo Boudican <br /><br />Check this<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLUMwo_VVU&feature=related<br /><br />What's the word on habib ?Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-51941069952579425132010-02-21T05:07:06.249+00:002010-02-21T05:07:06.249+00:00Hey Bitterweed--A fine pick with SRV and Lonnie Ma...Hey Bitterweed--A fine pick with SRV and Lonnie Mack. Your tastes in blues, I think, very much jibe with mine. And to think our good hostess Montana didn't care much for the blues. Yourself, Habib, Hank and others have seen to it that the lady has been introduced to the finest in the genre. Keep them coming.Boudicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399010790979190445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-83471515891038290722010-02-21T04:31:02.180+00:002010-02-21T04:31:02.180+00:00Best til last. Mahler. 5. Addagietto.
http://www...Best til last. Mahler. 5. Addagietto.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG5p3DxsXfQ&NR=1#movie_player<br /><br />Or first of the day may be.Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-92210603200348034432010-02-21T03:32:28.201+00:002010-02-21T03:32:28.201+00:00I used to play this one Montana. And loved it.
I...I used to play this one Montana. And loved it.<br /><br />It was one of my favourites. Played it on the dying free festival and country fair circuit. Including Glastonbury 1984, when I had just left school. Around Wales too that summer.<br /><br />Thatcher's world was raining down like Chernobyl, and no one I'd grown up with thought anything elses than her proposition was worth entertaining. The fucking idiots. I bet they wonder now too some of them.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorhSo2UCik<br /><br />But those festival nights... christ they'll stay with me.<br /><br />PAID to show up and play those cloudless, endless campfire nights....Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-24493349174571231202010-02-21T03:14:08.489+00:002010-02-21T03:14:08.489+00:00Monkeyfish
I was laughing like a drain driving up ...Monkeyfish<br />I was laughing like a drain driving up the M5 today when your lot stuffed UTD. By the way.Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-84704547038861468692010-02-21T03:11:59.554+00:002010-02-21T03:11:59.554+00:00Hi Montana ! No it was a very very fleeting visit...Hi Montana ! No it was a very very fleeting visit, and in filthy travelling conditions at that, but I was in his environs. Wadebridge. How's tricks ???<br /><br />Here's Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lonnie Mack ripping it up like it's gouing out of style. Too good.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjdbXwD-xnk<br /><br />Here also is Show of Hands telling it like it is. AIG. Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-n8ITk6UWM&feature=player_embeddedBitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-10080994376926272042010-02-21T02:53:01.474+00:002010-02-21T02:53:01.474+00:00Hey Bitterweed! Good to see you. You didn't ...Hey Bitterweed! Good to see you. You didn't stop by to see Andy while you were out there, did you?Montana Wildhackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-16796828697252780792010-02-21T02:31:17.984+00:002010-02-21T02:31:17.984+00:00Hank. Song from the West Country.
http://www.you...Hank. Song from the West Country.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FedQ20wGjkBitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-72836371112642732052010-02-21T01:56:22.879+00:002010-02-21T01:56:22.879+00:00Perhaps we can get her a job on CiF.Perhaps we can get her a job on CiF.Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-6260076538686932062010-02-21T01:36:16.673+00:002010-02-21T01:36:16.673+00:00By the way Hank. My best mate has asked me to be ...By the way Hank. My best mate has asked me to be best man next year when he gets married to a needy Tory control freak. A social worker who hates her clients, pretends to be a hippy but is basically a very fucked up rich kid.<br /><br />Sod the weekend on the piss. What am I supposed to say at the wedding ?<br /><br />Get the bongs out everyone ?<br /><br />I'm fucked.Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-61889735687131429702010-02-21T01:26:42.084+00:002010-02-21T01:26:42.084+00:00I'm back from the west country.
Hank. Don&#...I'm back from the west country. <br /><br />Hank. Don't go to Israel. It's a bollocks proposition; the best they've got is maccabees beer and bizarre sideburns.<br /><br />Heres a Gil Scott Heron classic by the way.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80JoQY3Oelk.Bitterweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290137850441509784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-44679617055519038402010-02-21T01:25:41.534+00:002010-02-21T01:25:41.534+00:00Hi All
Just come for a quick growl.
Education ...Hi All<br /><br />Just come for a quick growl. <br /><br />Education thread - read and weep.Lenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01755748505260253288noreply@blogger.com