Ruby Tuesday
Fecund. What a great word that is. It’s one of those words that, to me, sound the opposite of what they actually mean. To me fecund sounds as though it’s describing a barren landscape, bereft of life and all shagged out. “Christ almighty that prick Keegan’s fecund when it comes to original thought regarding the tactics we are employing on the pitch week in week out.”
However the Cambridge dictionary tells me it means:-
“able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc”
Hmmm “Christ almighty that prick Keegan’s able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc when it comes to original thought regarding the tactics we are employing on the pitch week in week out.” Doesn’t have the same ring does it?
Anybody else got any words that sound as though they should be describing the opposite of what they do?
So, Tony’s big speech. A few hecklers and no reference to ‘New Labour’. A warm thank you to Gordon and a big verbal slap on the back for Two Jags. It really is odd when, in the middle of a war that is costing literally 1,000s of lives – British, American and Iraqi – the press and the Party are more interested in what we can discover regarding The Great Rift between Tone and Gord. The media manipulation of politics has finally ‘progressed’ to the American model circa 1976. Once again the medium is the message.
Today for example Conference voted to re-nationalise the railways. Unbelievably, given the vitriol that was heaped upon British Rail in the years before deregulation, one would have thought that the very idea would be unthinkable. Remember the promises of faster, streamlined, leaner and fitter train service providers galvanised by profit, falling over themselves to take us here, there and everywhere? Yeah. So do I.
Consequently, I reckon there is now a sizable majority out there who think that renationalisation would be a good thing. They may be right, they may be wrong. But I happen to think that the policy would be popular.
The media though have hardly reported it. When they have it’s usually been part of a ‘look how Conference’s power has been emascualted’ type of story. I suspect it’s partly due to Tone’s speech, the Pro-Hunt Protestors and a nod and a wink between editors and spin doctors. The fact is 10 or 15 years ago that would have been a massive story. But it would cost big money - so it’s quietly throttled.
We can’t afford to waste big money on stupid things like reinventing our public transport system. No, we need every spare penny to prop up Dubya’s piratical shenanigins in the Middle East.
So what do we end up with? Honest debate? Ideas freely exchanged? Do we bollocks. We end up with media coaches arranging who sits where on the top table. Where the flowers should placed to best effect, what’s said/not said and making sure everything stays sanitised till the whole kit and kaboodle rolls out of town at the end of the week.
Mind you, I reckon the Pro Hunt Protestors were praying for media manipulators on a par with the People’s Party.
Why oh why would anyone, anywhere think that dumping the carcasses of horses, calves and cows on the streets of Brighton would attract ordinary folk to their cause? Seriously I can’t even follow the logic that reasons that people who are fundamentally opposed to the idea of hunting with dogs would have their beliefs shaken by the introduction of dead (and in some cases profoundly rotted) animals in the street?
I can only conclude that the dipsticks the Police finally arrested for this crime were Burberry-capped and blinged beneath their waxed jackets and green wellies.
Country Chavs that’s what they are. I know now that the Countryside Alliance has actually come out and condemned the action. But when I was listening live on 5live at dinnertime all of those interviewed stopped short of condemnation.
I guess they hadn’t received their orders at the time.
If foxes are a menace then shoot the buggers. Or poison ‘em. Just like gamekeepers do with all sorts of other ‘vermin’ they feel needs controlling. Just stop pretending that the most humane way of doing it is via a pack of dogs and a pack of tossers on horseback. You ENJOY it: that’s why you do it. Just admit that one fact and I might, just might have more sympathy for your future.
Pricks.
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