#piggate

[Pickman's model]

No, I'm not clever enough.

I'll hazzard a guess, mind. Some posters who lack imagination and may well be as dim as I am have suggested over the years that because I don't parrot the confrontation stance, because I don't do violence, or wave flags, or do nationalism that I might be a tory.

I am not, nor ever have been a tory. I do not vote for them and I cannot think of a single decent tory politician, off the top of my head.

That said; stupid as I am; I like to get on with people and I take them as I find them. If they are tory; so be it. Of course one or two people I know vote tory. You're allowed do that kind of thing in a democracy, unpleasant electoral choice as it might be.

I also have mates who vote Sinn Fein - I wouldn't vote for that party, either.

i think margaret thatcher has improved immeasurably since her death

 

[krtek a houby]

Not got very good vermin radar, then? Or are your conversations somehow restricted to 'apolitical' topics?

Are you, what, still at school or something? How do you think people converse in their local? Do you think they walk in and ask for party identification before immediately talking about the latest stock exchange figures/austerity cuts?

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you, what, still at school or something? How do you think people converse in their local? Do you think they walk in and ask for party identification before immediately talking about the latest stock exchange figures/austerity cuts?

you can usually tell a tory from their views on stock exchange figures and / or austerity cuts.

 

[brogdale]

Are you, what, still at school or something? How do you think people converse in their local? Do you think they walk in and ask for party identification before immediately talking about the latest stock exchange figures/austerity cuts?

I don't know how you and your 'mates' converse in your local, but it must take the form of a very restricted and shallow discourse if you are unable to discern the political views of the participants.

 

[krtek a houby]

you can usually tell a tory from their views on stock exchange figures and / or austerity cuts.

I just go to my local to chat with my mates. If someone wants to sound off about Corbyn*, Farrage, Cameron - fine with me. I've done it myself.




* not JC. I have nothing but respect for the man

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't know how you and your 'mates' converse in your local, but it must take the form of a very restricted and shallow discourse if you are unable to discern the political views of the participants.

Why the inverted commas? How should I converse with mates in or outside of the pub? What business is it of yours what politics they do or don't subscribe to?

 

[brogdale]

Why the inverted commas? How should I converse with mates in or outside of the pub? What business is it of yours what politics they do or don't subscribe to?

It's 'my business' to the extent that your offered their knowledge of/reaction to 'piggagte' as some metric of the wider import of the story; remember?

Whilst discussing important topics with important people the other day, I was saddened to find out so many them didn't know about the PMs' piggery and those that did; didn't care.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's 'my business' to the extent that your offered their knowledge of/reaction to 'piggagte' as some metric of the wider import of the story; remember?

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Well then; why ask what people discuss in their local? I'd say it's pretty obvious that there's a wide variety of subjects up for discussion but not everyone is as clued up as the urban mighty. Politics may, for some, be the last thing they want to discuss on a Friday night down in the local.

 

[brogdale]

Well then; why ask what people discuss in their local? I'd say it's pretty obvious that there's a wide variety of subjects up for discussion but not everyone is as clued up as the urban mighty. Politics may, for some, be the last thing they want to discuss on a Friday night down in the local.

But you said that you were discussing 'piggate' with them? Confused.

 

[Orang Utan]

The idea of speaking to people about anything down 'the local' is strange to me.

 

[brogdale]

The idea of speaking to people about anything down 'the local' is strange to me.

O.C.S.O.?

 

[Orang Utan]

O.C.S.O.?

What?

 

[LiamO]

Why the inverted commas?

cos you ain't got no mates?

 

[LiamO]

I don't know how you and your 'mates' converse in your local, but it must take the form of a very restricted and shallow discourse if you are unable to discern the political views of the participants.

ALL crybaby's conversations are a restricted and shallow discourse. It's what he does.

 

[treelover]

...and in news just in the Meat Marketing Board has bowed to public concern and all pig products will now carry the warning 'may contain traces of Tory' (a riff on my favourite pig-gate meme)

Not really bothered by Pig gate, but thought this one was a Corker, apologies if already posted.

 

[Idris2002]

Not really bothered by Pig gate, but thought this one was a Porker, apologies if already posted.

Fixed.

 

[krtek a houby]

ALL crybaby's conversations are a restricted and shallow discourse. It's what he does.

You've been calling me that for 5 years. That's all you do. You're a bully and a charlatan.

 

[krtek a houby]

But you said that you were discussing 'piggate' with them? Confused.

Is piggate politics or farce?

 

[krtek a houby]

cos you ain't got no mates?

Whereas you have to hypnotise people to get them to talk to you, right?

 

[kabbes]

Piggate added a frisson to the turgid procession that HIGNFY has become. Hislop very defensive about it, Clarkson didn't know what to do.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Tory conference ready to go

 

[Wilf]

Piggate added a frisson to the turgid procession that HIGNFY has become. Hislop very defensive about it, Clarkson didn't know what to do.

Early 90s or whenever it started there was something delicious about about politicians getting the piss ripped out of them on hignify. The 90s weren't the 50s and a lot of that deference had already gone, but it was a pre-internet age and it was still a shock hearing our rulers being discussed with contempt on the state broadcaster. It always was bits of the establishment taking the piss out of other bits (esp. in the form of Hislop), but much of what was transgressive has gone now. The internet's already mocked up a picture of cameron fucking a pig before hignify even gets there.

 

[DotCommunist]

they moved from pig fucking lols onto corbyn mocking with relief and unseemly haste

 

[cesare]

they moved from pig fucking lols onto corbyn mocking with relief and unseemly haste

Probably because Hislop is a past member of Piers Gaveston

 

[DotCommunist]

Probably because Hislop is a past member of Piers Gaveston

well yeah thats why he was so bashful. I only watched the first bit to see that and switched off when it was into ho ho sandals territory.

 

[cesare]

well yeah thats why he was so bashful. I only watched the first bit to see that and switched off when it was into ho ho sandals territory.

They used to take the piss out of AD unmercifully (but justifiably), Hislop should have been on the receiving end for a lot longer imo

 

[kabbes]

Probably because Hislop is a past member of Piers Gaveston

Well, he said he wasn't. But not sure that really means anything.

 

[cesare]

Well, he said he wasn't. But not sure that really means anything.

Pinch of salt

 

[Idris2002]

i think margaret thatcher has improved immeasurably since her death

She should have done it years earlier, in fact.

 

[brogdale]

Is piggate politics or farce?

Are you aware of the provenance of that particular suffix?