it's not very humble to interrupt someone in order to announce that it's the most humble day of your life.
that, and murdoch minor making a separate statement before answering the first qn = status assertion after the committee told em they couldn't open with statements
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
<3 <3 LOOOOOOOOL Smithers/Burns
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Lawyers advised him to spend 48 minutes apologising y/n
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
james is just relying on verbal white noise
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Dan Perry, needing you now...
Rupert Murdoch looked relaxed going into the Commons hearing. His son James, however, was bricking it
http://twitter.com/#!/Kevin_Maguire/status/93314239573405696
― Samantha Mumbahton (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
the amazing (to me) revelation that R Murdoch's mother is still alive was perfect for the Mr Burns thing.
― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
mm, i wonder if i can find it; it sorta got rolled up amongst all the donut-store-robbery bullshit that dogged them for awhile, and circulated, apparently, while he was out of sight in the eighties i guess - that him & his band were playing and he killed himself.
Never heard that one. Am still awaiting independent confirmation that the snot caked against his pants turned to crystal.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
just a repeated lol at this is the humblest day of my life btw, i am going to say this like when i tread on someone's food in the lunch queue, etc. just like ... a minute after it happens.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
frogman otm, tactic is clearly to filibuster
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
JM is quite a characterv American
For an Australian Brit
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
could be in that little barney hoskyns book, kinda years since i heard it & mmm yknow it wasn't true etc. i don't know that it was a raging inferno of mistruth, more that it spoke to the weird misinformation that abounded w/them
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
pretty ashamed of my nationality right now fwiw
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol, there is no evidence th-THAT I AM AWARE OF!!!!!!!!!!
his accent is all over the shop, it sounds like he's a bad actor valiantly trying to stay in character
― Samantha Mumbahton (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
ask the lizard a question ffs
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
ha! that was so qualified - no evidence that i have seen! that there was any impropriety, by them!
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
james murdoch has no knowledge of anyone having any knowledge of anything.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Rupert is just going to say fuck all and let James wait in the street for the bus huh. Can he say "Huh" and "Um" more?
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
where is that youtube of the guy at a press conference shooting himself
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
btw please no-one post it i am joking
burns has had poker face coaching
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
wow rupert actually giving yes/no answers.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Watson's voice is so soft he sounds like he's scared of El Rupe.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 Tom Watson! (sorry, drinking)
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
james murdoch is truly a master of the art of bullshit
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
wtf was that sales pitch
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
guys i think he's die- oh no wait
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Watson's strategy is to sound submissive but question incisively. This ALWAYS works.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Rupert seems a bit confused
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
POUND the TABLE
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
THUMP
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
"I didn't hear that" good answer Rupe
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'll come to your son in a minute.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
don't think rupert has to worry about the gruelling effect of a 40 year prison sentence
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Watson good I think
brave, putting them in their place
Murdoch claims not to hear things
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
the pause for thinking is killing me
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Blackwood getting the most praise (on Twitter) a Tory MP has since idk
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
the post 'it was a civil case' murdoch shrug is a p good move
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
ehhhhhhhhhhh
he has the exact mannerisms of my bitch grandmother
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
who is dead
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
I still don't like the wife behind him nudging him comfortingly - this is wrong
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's an old australian thing xp
LOL. "I just run the company, I don't know shit about it, especially when we break the law."
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Rupe looking for a spitoon to launch his chewin' baccy into
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
i seriously had no idea that rupert murdoch had been replaced by a pickled frog thigh
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
murdoch jr begging for mercy
― joe, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah tom watson is a brave guy
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
well done Watson, great at keeping them down
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link