I begin by noting that I am less than full of Christmas cheer just now (Tottenham failing to manage anything better than a draw against the sodding Rent Boys did not improve my mood; SPOTY disregarded both Cookie and Straussy; and I have been suffering the inadequacies of a company almost as obtusely incompetent and smugly hapless as yours - yes: ( Read more... )

( An open source acount of why LJ is stuffed, and by whom. )

… let’s create a list of comments you’d wish to have picked up by Twitter and Facebook, so that your life seems more interesting than it is.

I’ll begin.

‘I anticipated that a car and driver would be waiting for me at Heathrow, I simply didn’t expect the Foreign Secretary to be with him.’

‘Now Sam’s saying Our Florrie is actually Nick’ ( Read more... )

Lovely.  Now it transpires that at least some of the Russian participants in the boycott are motivated at least in part by their being mouth-breathing, drooling, knuckle-dragging Jew-haters.  Old-fashioned anti-Semites.  Proud practitioners of the pogrom.

I will still be boycotting SUP / LJ tomorrow.  But I utterly reject and condemn these vicious ( Read more... )

 
There are times when one despairs, watching the Death of Reason in this world.

Celebrated and likeable young actors - having had the rudiments of a public school education supplanted by the swindle of private tutors on a film set - embarrass themselves by proving less familiar with the English language than is the current American president.

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In the early days of November 1918, the American general, Pershing, opposed the Allies’s decision to accede to the German request for an armistice.  He warned, ‘They don’t know they’re licked.  Give me another month’: in which he intended to make their defeat clear to them in such a fashion as to preclude any revisionism.

As we know, his warning ( Read more... )

Or whatever the Frog for that is.  I'm shockingly rusty.  But then, I suppose I want to concentrate on my Russian now, don't I.

 
This has been brought to my attention.  It comes from http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/2303.html.  (Faux-Russian lack of definite article in quoted material is being verbatim, comrades!)  In all seriousness, this should cool your marrow a trifle (unless of course you were having cold shape for pudding in any event).

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In light of the recent news of LJ’s being sold to one of Put(a)in’s pet oligarchs, it seems time to trot this old gag out once more:


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Well.  There goes LJ.

You will by now have seen that, whilst the innocent slept (or listened for the Shipping Forecast and obsessively monitored flood warnings and bulletins from the Environment Agency and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency), 6A announced the sale of LJ to that oh-so-unremarkable, common or garden ‘international media company’, SUP ( Read more... )