Ken Clarke: I wouldn't rule out playing for England
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Probably not got the pace to play centre forward any more but he could do a job in midfield.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Fuck it Matt I was getting there
hell yes let’s replace our prime minister who none of us voted for with another one none of use voted for fuck it, let’s all take turns
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
but seriously though the position of led zeppelin drummer remains infilled, maybe it’s time for clarkey to shine
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
a tory wet as prime minister only satisfies lib dems, about a tenth of tory voters, and every member of the london-based media
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Cuddly Tories are our natural leaders
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
crushing the poors, yes, but gently
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
i wonder how bad ken clarke's opinions on jazz are. what does he think about albert ayler?
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
I feel like he's probably jazzlishly liberal and only economically a complete and utter cunt
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Apparently he's got pretty good taste.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1357525/Louis-Armstrong-Miles-Davis-Kenneth-Clarkes-10-greatest-jazz-albums.html
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Free Jazz, like abstract expressionism, was a propaganda invention of the CIA
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
also: new wave of new grave
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
He used to drink a glass of Glenfarcas while delivering the budget. Pretty decent single malt iirc? But the idea that the Labour Party would support any Tory as PM...lol. Says so much about ideas of who is “neutral”.
― gyac, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
he likes ornette or once said he did but kind of blue is on the list so he's cancelled
― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
No Wynton Marsalis on his list so he's alright in my book.
― pomenitul, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
It used to be said that the Tory eurosceptics "couldn't take yes for an answer."The remainists have gone the same way. Corbyn has offered them everything they wanted for a 4 week administration, incl. offer of a ref if they win. If they don't want to take it then...— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 16, 2019
― gyac, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I suspect Ken probably likes a load of very swinging hard-bop good stuff and I heard him stanning for Ella Fitzgerald once, but I'm still going to push the Tory piece of shit into a pit.
― calzino, Friday, 16 August 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
speyside whisky and ornette, this is the PM for me
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
if im honest the only candidate left is alexei sayle
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
That novelty act who did shit rap covers on the X Factor is probably still available
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Don’t recall gaz coombes having ever ruled out being prime minister but maybe I’m misforgetting??
― YouGov to see it (wins), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
i believe he has ruled himself out of contention on the grounds that it wouldn’t be fair to any opponents
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Gaz isn't about politics as long as squalid middle class privilege stays unruffled and he gets to go on the Mercuries once a decade
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
from the replies to that Lewis Goodall tweet
4 weeks, utter nonsense, if he got the keys to no.10, there would be colossus sized statues of magic grandad in every town and city centre within five years.— Andrew Daniel (@TeakSawdust) August 16, 2019
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
no they just terrified petty bourgeois soft tories
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
xp the Corbyn that exists in reality can’t compare to the fantasy who is both an authoritarian to beat Stalin and a weak old man who can’t get his own MPs to vote for him, depending on what the argument demands.
― gyac, Friday, 16 August 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
in short, they are bad and i do not like them
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
h/t @iammightor pic.twitter.com/MT1RylzsR6— Lafargue (@Lafargue) August 15, 2019
― gyac, Friday, 16 August 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Ken Clarke is a terrible man in many ways, but I do like this anecdote from his autobiography (also called Kind of Blue groan) -
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N2hyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&dq=ken+clarke+sun+ra+dancing&source=bl&ots=LIa0OqCuLw&sig=ACfU3U2J32G9oCnhPuwxsAX7LDcrHTrgpg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdtt-0kYjkAhWNUlAKHQnNDwkQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=ken%20clarke%20sun%20ra%20dancing&f=false
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 August 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Later in his career, Ellington produced some rather pretentious stuff but this is timeless, quality jazz.
And while I don’t think Mingus himself ever made a vast amount of money or added to the development of jazz, this is simply a wonderful record.
These are unacceptable jazz opinions for a future PM, I'd imagine JC's favourite jazz musicians are Courtney Pine and the guy who played sax in Latin Quarter which will have to do.
― michael schenker group is no laughing matter (Matt #2), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
I want him to die even more for dissing late period Ellington, but alas only a stupid arrogant fatmouthed tory cunt!
― calzino, Friday, 16 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Hugh Masekela was a titan of jazz and of the anti-apartheid struggle. His courage, words and music inspired me, were heard across the world and strengthened the resolve of those fighting for justice in South Africa.— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) January 23, 2018
Instead, he says, he will listen to Radio 3 or Classic FM. His wife of five years, Laura Alvarez, will often put on Magic and a morning turf war will begin ("We have a dispute about this").
― gyac, Friday, 16 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
good to see an inspirational story of someone who lived near, but not on a council estate thriving. Another success story for *checks notes* the private school she attended https://t.co/ymjWToAk4x— Steve Jail (@wariotifo) August 16, 2019
the Weetman laying down her gritty ghetto credentials, it's a tough bloody life growing up in a terraced house near a council estate! Too many of those wayward single parent kids like Prince Harry running amok from the estate I bet.
― calzino, Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
Need a poll on how close to an estate ilxor grew up
― PMS change (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
ILE has largely ignored/missed the work of Frances Weetman. I deeply resent the way Twitter brings the completely unsolicited opinions of these otherwise insignificant people into your timeline again and again and again.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
(xp) And if they can remember whether they lived on a street or a terrace.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
It's giving me reminiscences that excellent one-off viz cartoon with the 40's boy detective character, and he get's suspicious about the domestic cleaner and follows her home and uncovers a revolting council estate!
― calzino, Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
Outside lav ftw. (Not too likely in a high-rise, granted)
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 17 August 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
Frances Wasteman
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
Franny From (the Street or Terrace Adjoining) the Block.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Block Rockin' Weets
― calzino, Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
With someone like Weetman (and others) I think its good to observe that level of grifter in party politics, what they think and how they act. Especially if you want to be part of a solution to the problems we face.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
This is quite good by Dan Davies and could impact on if/when Boris calls a general election:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/16/2008-lehman-brothers-crash-normal-recession-finance
The news from Germany and US has been pretty bad, and the UK is a quarter away from official recession.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
yeah he's good. this was excellent a couple of weeks ago: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/30/falling-pound-britain-weak-currency-depreciation-italy
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
What is it that you think grifter means, Julio?
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
I’ve muted Weetabix purely because I function better without ever seeing her smirky avi.
― suzy, Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
weetman is absolutely an attention-grifter -- i'm not sure if she's monetised this or not as i don't follow her work
― mark s, Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link