Famous for 15 megapixels: Everything's f*cked up

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Everything's f*cked up

The BBC's financial guru Robert Peston could learn a thing or two from this very articulate and thoughtful young man...

the last 30 seconds are worth waiting for imho

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44 comments:

paul said...: Top; 25 January 2009 at 21:21
Stef said...: that's that fire baby, that's that fire; 25 January 2009 at 22:20
Stef said...: I've only just noticed his ziotube username is 'walstreetpro'; 25 January 2009 at 22:23
Anonymous said...: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget17-2009jan17,0,4472460.story

Herr Guv'nor http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb258/BRADY969/arnoldproof.jpg is proving him right.
Methinks a lot of people still have enough spunk in them to work things out, and I agree, the collapse probably happened faster than 'they' thought. This could be a potentially positive thing i the long run, we'll see.; 25 January 2009 at 23:28
Anonymous said...: The fawhr, goddammit!

It took me a while to adjust to what he meant by a commode with legs as in my book a commode is a chest of drawers.
I had the mental image of decadent rich people taking dumps into luxurious chests of drawers on legs following them around.; 25 January 2009 at 23:31
Anonymous said...: 'I had the mental image of decadent rich people taking dumps into luxurious chests of drawers on legs following them around.'

I remember - many many years ago - being drunk as a skunk and pissing into an open drawer next to my bed under the impression that I was pissing in a urinal.

In that case, 'shit never happened'.; 25 January 2009 at 23:58
Stef said...: Story One

I came back lagered to the Colwyn Bay youth hostel one night, went to bed in the large open plan dorm, got up half an hour later to go the bathroom and couldn't find my way out of the room in the dark. Made an executive decision to pee in the corner of the room and clear it up in the morning. Woke up at first light went to the corner of the room and discovered a Dutch cycle tourist's open rucksack and no tell-tale puddle. I went back to bed...

Story Two

Study Centre in Abergavenny - More beer - Same scenario as Colwyn bay. Found my way of dorm but not the light switch. Groped my way into what I though was the toilet (one of those floor-based squat jobs) and let rip. Light comes on and I discover that I'm urinating on one of the centre wardens in bed

I have two or three similar stories. All of them, for some reason, set in Wales; 26 January 2009 at 00:12
Stef said...: I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank walstreetpro for reminding me why I used to travel to America so often; the further South the more entertaining; 26 January 2009 at 00:26
Stef said...: Britain was just three hours away from going bust last year after a secret run on the banks, one of Gordon Brown's Ministers has revealed.

City Minister Paul Myners disclosed that on Friday, October 10, the country was 'very close' to a complete banking collapse after 'major depositors' attempted to withdraw their money en masse.

The Mail on Sunday has been told that the Treasury was preparing for the banks to shut their doors to all customers, terminate electronic transfers and even block hole-in-the-wall cash withdrawals.

Only frantic behind-the-scenes efforts averted financial meltdown...; 26 January 2009 at 00:46
Edo said...: F**king brilliant!; 26 January 2009 at 09:23
Anonymous said...: very excellent.great rant,kinda inspiring in its way!; 26 January 2009 at 10:29
Anonymous said...: The last few comments on the Mail article are encouraging, Stef. Not all is lost...; 26 January 2009 at 12:03
Stef said...: no, far from it; 26 January 2009 at 12:56
Anonymous said...: Ladies and gentlemen, load your hunting rifles! We are going on a witch-hunt!

Besides, I am missing people like Greg Lippman...; 26 January 2009 at 14:08
The Antagonist said...: Nice link, parabellum.

Seems The Guardian has gone all "conspiracy theorist" blaming just 25 people for the global financial meltdown, none of them poor.

Ho ho ho. Who'd have thunk it?

Next they'll be writing about how cabals of ruling class members holding secretive meetings while linking arms in the midst of a skydive.

And, seeing as I'm hinting at Michael Parenti's "Conspiracy AND Class Power" quote, here's the latest from the pugnacious, working class Italian American.; 26 January 2009 at 15:37
paul said...: Maybe the guardian should hire this guy?; 26 January 2009 at 15:40
Stef said...: Those Parenti audio files are, of course, amongst the most sacred MP3s of conspiraloonery; 26 January 2009 at 17:11
Stef said...: In the same vein as Parenti joking that 'yes, the bad guys do meet in rooms, not skydiving' I often have similar thoughts when people criticize bloggers for being sad acts typing away in spare bedrooms on their own in their underpants whilst munching away on family size bags of cheesy wotsits

well, yeah

where and how else are we supposed to do it?

during a day trip to the zoo maybe? amongst a crowd of spectators at a football match? in front of a live throng of thousands of adulating worshipers? during sex? during sex with someone else?

would people take bloggers more seriously if they took to posting whilst dressed in safari jackets and nibbling on canapes?

well, it's worth a try I suppose; 26 January 2009 at 17:30
The Antagonist said...: people criticize bloggers for being sad acts typing away in spare bedrooms on their own in their underpants

One might be tempted to ask from whence precisely the bloggers who criticise others bloggers in this manner are blogging, and whether or not they should be taken more seriously if they are a) not wearing underpants, or, b) wearing someone else's underpants.

Furthermore, everyone knows it's easier and more cost effective to change your underpants occasionally than it is to change the chair on which you have been sitting without any underpants on.; 26 January 2009 at 17:38
Stef said...: chair?

you have a chair?; 26 January 2009 at 17:53
paul said...: A chilling discovery for all healthy underpant users; 26 January 2009 at 18:02
Stef said...: I don't understand the significance of the photo used to illustrate that story; 26 January 2009 at 18:05
The Antagonist said...: He certainly looks rather pleased with himself for someone with prostate cancer.

Maybe the picture caught him engaged in some of the prostate cancer inducing activity about which the story warns.

The wanker.; 26 January 2009 at 18:13
paul said...: I think it's very hard to illustrate the intense joy of chucking your muck with mark thompson's guidelines.; 26 January 2009 at 18:15
paul said...: The subtext is:
He's laughing now, but he has just placed a loaded gun to his head.; 26 January 2009 at 18:19
Stef said...: and there's been me following the BBCs advice on the matter for the last five years

this popular science thing is awfully confusing sometimes; 26 January 2009 at 18:19
Anonymous said...: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

And the BBC is responsible for the content of internal internet sites?

Stef, thanks for the link, I laughed out loud. :-); 26 January 2009 at 18:28
Anonymous said...: Hahaha. Its the fact they're taking that concept seriously that makes it so funny.; 26 January 2009 at 18:32
rob said...: It´s definitely time for

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbZKyB8L68

I`m a Wanker

a true classic.; 27 January 2009 at 11:10
Stef said...: you really don't want get me started on the subject of songs about w@nking

I grew up listening to songs about w@nking; 27 January 2009 at 13:52
Stef said...: Orgasm Addict

Turning Japanese

Teenage Kicks; 27 January 2009 at 13:53
Stef said...: Pump It Up

Brass in Pocket

Pictures of Lily</a; 27 January 2009 at 14:01
Stef said...: and, of course...

Whip It; 27 January 2009 at 14:04
Stef said...: Mind you, there are those who maintain that every record ever produced by Devo is about wanking; 27 January 2009 at 14:10
paul said...: Mark Mothersbaugh maintains whip it is a motivational song reflecting his father's (who played general boy in 'the truth about de-evolution')can do philosophical attitude.; 27 January 2009 at 14:16
Stef said...: and the huge bowl of cream signifies?; 27 January 2009 at 14:21
Stef said...: At least one track about tossing yourself off was virtually mandatory on any album released between about 1977 and 1983

Those were the kind of times we were living in; 27 January 2009 at 14:33
paul said...: and the huge bowl of cream signifies?

That refers to the phrase "When the cream's been left out too long"
which refers to the perils of procrastination, rather than signing your own death warrant in spunk.; 27 January 2009 at 14:39
Stef said...: ah, but isn't that the wonderful thing about art - it's open to everyone's individual interpretation and if everyone I knew thought that song was about signing their own death warrant in spunk then, for them, it was; 27 January 2009 at 14:42
paul said...: I beleive that is the authorial problem known as retention of intent.

Not helped by what debby harry described in videodrome:

We live in overstimulated times. We crave stimulation.
We gorge ourselves on it. We always want more,
whether it's tactile, emotional or sexual.
And I think that's bad.; 27 January 2009 at 14:53
Stef said...: well, you definitely know where you stand with the lyrically unambiguous Buzzcocks; 27 January 2009 at 14:59
Anonymous said...: And now, something that made me really happy.

Tinker? Come on Tinker!; 27 January 2009 at 22:30
Stef said...: simple things...; 27 January 2009 at 23:05
DE said...: Very appropriate music. System of a Down.; 31 January 2009 at 09:36