Saturday, March 08, 2008

The New Normal

Once upon a time, round about 1940-41, when Britain was at war with a genuinely scary and capable regime that had occupied most of Western Europe and was bombing British cities on a nightly basis; virtually unopposed with an eventual death toll of something like 60,000 civilians, government posters like this were all the rage...




As discussed in this blog and elsewhere, things are a little different these days and our government and other interest groups with a stake in the War on Terror now fall over themselves to out-compete with the shadowy terrorists in trying to scare the crap out of people

This is the 'New Normal' that the likes of the 'Dame Pauline Neville-Jones Fan Club' of ex (sic.) spooks, cops and Lobbyists claim we now have to live with

Fuck 'em...
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and on the subject of exponents of the 'New Normal', someone calling himself Peter Power has waded in to the ongoing shenanigans associated with Peter Power's Wikipedia entry....

Cmain (talk) 11:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC) : You may say that you are not answerable to J7, but so long as you serve, by your news media appearances, as a propagandist for an increasingly secretive and repressive state we consider you a legitimate subject for our scrutiny.

Peterpowervisor (talk) 21:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC): So I am a "propagandist for an increasingly secretive and repressive state". Gosh.--

Admirers of quality British Romantic-Comedies will instantly recognize that 'Peter' has attempted to employ the Hugh Grant Debating Manoeuvre which simply involves repeating what the other bloke says and sticking 'Gosh' on the end. Unfortunately, this does not really qualify as a counter-argument and is probably best not relied upon as a defence when actually accused of anything serious or, come to think about it, anything not so serious either...


Gosh.--



edit: Hugh Grant in Richard CurtisLand (his finest work imho)...




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4 comments:

paul said...

As no one else is commenting, I just want to say how good hugh grant was in that brilliant transmission from planet curtis.
He made me understand how difficult it is to be a prime minister, war criminal and sexual predator at the same time.
Especially for upper middle class cunts

Stef said...

For me,
The Lair of the White Worm/ Trouser Snake wins as Grant's finest work, every time

Sophia said...

Stef,

Is it a genuine poster 'Keep Calm and Carry On' that you have here ?

I am glad you brought up the comparison. It is self explanatory. I also wanted to tell you that French actress Marion Cotillard, as you probably already know, made headlines with Conspiracy talk (published a posteriori after her Oscar). She joined our alliance...

Stef said...

Is it a genuine poster 'Keep Calm and Carry On' that you have here ?

Yup, it was based on a direct quote from King George VI

Until recently, Her Majesty's Stationery Office reprints were available via Amazon

but, now sadly, and predictably...

Availability: Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

and well done to Ms Cotillard, though the Conspiraloon in me does wonder why there has been such a fuss made over a comment she made over a year ago...