gah fucked up the img tag
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― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:04 (ten years ago) link
I voted British Food, obviously
― 龜, Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
And I missed out Anne Robinson.
I'm sick of broken Britain's shoddy pollmanship. Bring back the twisted pollstarter.
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
Why no "self, self, self, moan, moan, moan" (in a letter full of selfish moaning no less) option?
― Combat Fallacious Approval (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm v v tempted to vote for "Anglican bishops" because bishops are somehow inherently funny. (Not sure whether to blame Monty Python or my Mum's bishop.)
― Combat Fallacious Approval (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:07 (ten years ago) link
You can write that in. My incomplete polling is a symptom of all that is wrong in Harry Simpson's very small world.
xp
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:08 (ten years ago) link
Too late; I already went for bishops. Bloody disgrace, this poll, I'm off to vote Tory from Spain!
― Combat Herbaceous Intrusions (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
weird when you see it all laid out like that and you start thinking Vince Cable's face more worthy of a down vote than terrorism
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
"my rotten pension" and "having no money," eh?
Translation: I am a worthless pile of doodah who deserves everything I've got in life, I expect society to be my butler and, more than any of the things I mention, I hate myself. I hate being the only person who knows just how badly my parents/teachers/employers fucked me up. I hate all the chances in life I was given but didn't take. I hate all people who are better than me, have more talent/money/intelligence/hope/of a future than me. I hate the fact that so many other people seem to be living a better life than me. I hate the fact that I didn't make any money, or wasted the money I did make, because I was rubbish, and lazy, and incompetent, and I went about the few ideas I had so badly that they might as well not have occurred to me. Oh, and I'm also scared shitless of dying.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
"Oh, MC, you're just projecting again." Well, I hope not; I hope I've done a little bit better than that.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:24 (ten years ago) link
This not another Henry Boot?
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:31 (ten years ago) link
or Henry Root?
whatev
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:37 (ten years ago) link
Willie Donaldson is much missed. I thought about whether this might be a wind-up but there seems to be a generalised desperation coming through, more desperate if it was just the Mail team making the letter up.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:38 (ten years ago) link
letter reeks of parody to me, assumed it was from Viz at first
anyway, are we voting for the worst on this list or what?
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:04 (ten years ago) link
I voted BBC, but then I would.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link
hard not to vote for the Entire Labour Shadow Cabinet, the political equivalent of a padlocked fire exit in an overcrowded nightclub
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:22 (ten years ago) link
Specifically Rachel Reeves, the person Lance Percival could have been.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
She is an economist and worked for the Bank of England between 2000 and 2006
future of socialism safe in our hands
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:26 (ten years ago) link
in an alternate universe Harry recited his letter over a cheaply made dance backbeat instead of sending it to the Mail and it became a brief novelty smash a la Funk Dat by Sagat
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Pro-tip, if u can't decide between Vince Cable and the Entire Labour Shadow Cabinet then a vote for 'all politicians' will encompass both #settheory
voted pop music tho.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 22 February 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
It's from the Mail, a couple of years ago, but I wondered at the time if it was a sent in as a joke.
― Alba, Saturday, 22 February 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 23 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
well that could be wrong with anywhere
― j., Sunday, 23 February 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
rest in peace harry simpson
― Hongro4/4Ass (wins), Sunday, 23 February 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
6 twee votes, 5 Americans votes, 4 born in the 1950s votes, 3 Ed Balls votes
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 February 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
Joan Bakewell third?
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 February 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link