20 November 2009
Weekending: Donkey Dick
You must have heard the expression "hung like a donkey and twice as hairy". The words usually refer to Mancunians, but here is the real thing. Labels: Weekending-02 |
19 November 2009
Should bloggers out their fellow bloggers?
Should anonymous bloggers be outed by other bloggers? The Exile's policy is that if a blogger wishes to be anonymous, then that will be respected. It is for this reason that David T. of Harry's Place fame is always referred to by his nickname, even though his real name is well known, since he has never indicated that he wishes his name to be used. As the friendly old Exile's even friendlier old dad once remarked, if you want to be treated as a white man then you have to bloody well behave like one. By adhering to this policy the Exile shows that he really is the whitest blogger around. . . A policy of respect for other bloggers' anonymity helps to protect them from losing their jobs or even worse. Few in the blogging community will ever forget Riverbend, the Iraqi who helped us understand what it is like to live in a country under occupation. In her very first post back in August 2003 she wrote: A little bit about myself: I'm female, Iraqi and 24. I survived the war. That's all you need to know. It's all that matters these days anyway. Yes, that is all that matters, and who can doubt that had the attempts by various warmongers to find out the girl's true identity succeeded, she would have been quickly silenced by her country's occupiers or their collaborators? Someone should mention these points to that short-arsed little cockroach who answers to the name of Gimlet Kamm because the fucker is one of those bloggers who just doesn't get it, which is why the rancid shit has been gloating at the outing of the policeman behind the NightJack blog. The author was outed by the Times, probably as an act of revenge because NightJack won the prestigious Orwell Prize, an award that the Times wanted for Gimlet, and which Gimlet was aching to take. According to Gimlet, it was legitimate to out NightJack's identity, "when he left clues to it". Presumably had he not left those clues then it would not have been legitimate. On the other hand perhaps not: it is hard to follow Gimlet's thought processes since they seem to be based on little more than petty vindictiveness as Neil Clark found out some years ago. Gimlet aside, we band of bloggers really should agree not to grass one another up. Whatever political differences we have we are united in our determination to get our messages out. For many of us such as Riverbend and NightJack, that message has to be under the cloak of anonymity and we have a duty to respect that. It is the way that white men behave. Labels: Blogging-01, Gimlet-02 |
18 November 2009
Yet more plans to censor the blogs
Do you remember when we reported that Nu-Labour had plans to censor the blogs? Nothing came of that, but the idea is still milling around and will probably be taken up by an incoming Tory government. We be pretty sure of that largely because Baroness Bunscombe, the new chairwoman of the Press Complaints Commission, wants to extend her organisation's remit to include your friendly old Exile and his mates. Baroness Dunscombe, in case you don't know sits on the Tory benches in the House of Lords. Somebody really should tell this brainless bimbo that it's called the World Wide Web for a reason. It allows a bloke in Mexico to comment on British matters, using a server that sits in the USA. Good luck regulating that! Labels: Blogging-01, Censorship-01 |
17 November 2009
Nu-Labour tries to con voters with old bollocks
The New Statesman reports that Nu-Labour will run this video as an election broadcast next year. Thus the party appears to have implicitly conceded the general election, and will fight to retain some of its core working class vote. Let's just consider three things from this short film. First it uses the old Kinnockite red rose party symbol at the end, instead of whatever corporate logo the party uses at the moment. However, this ignores the fact that the red rose was chosen as a replacement for the original Labour symbol of a crossed shovel and pen, which denoted the unity of white and blue collar workers. Now most viewers probably won't remember that, but may remember that under Neil Kinnock the party at least pretended to represent the working man, so some good may come out of it for the party. Secondly, the only non-white faces on show belong to either Africans or Barak Obama. Nu-Labour obviously want us to forget the fact that the doors were opened to any Johnny Foreigner who bounded along and that most new jobs created under their watch went to those outsiders. The Exile is dubious about whether people will fall for this line, but it is good to see Nu-Labour now realises that immigration is a problem and not a boon. Finally, the party obviously wants us to believe that there is a continuum between the party of Keir Hardy and that of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The problem is that there isn't - and Nu-Labour has only just started to even pretend that there is. Until the working class stopped voting altogether, the party was quite happy to present itself as the voice of the aspirational scrote in his shell suit, driving his Ford Mondeo. The question is will the average punter living in a council house in Rochdale feel all warm inside when he sees the video - so warm that he forgets the reality of Nu-Labour's 12 rancid years? The party is obviously betting that he will, but this writer is dubious. Nothing in this video suggests that Nu-Labour is prepared to bite the bullet and start thinking up policies that will please the drink beer, shag women, hate the boss working man. As with everything to do with Nu-Labour, this is all fur coat and no knickers. For that reason the party still faces extinction at the next election. Labels: Agitprop-02, British-Politics-03, Working-Class-03 |
16 November 2009
Meet Dr. Brooke Magnanti, the real Belle de Jour
 One of the century's best kept literary secrets was solved over the weekend when 34 year old research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnanti revealed that she is the authoress of the Belle de Jour blog which detailed her life as a £300 a poke prostitute. She decided to out herself because a former boyfriend was about to spill the beans. Brooke went on the knock to support herself while she was researching her Sheffield University PhD thesis and she shot to prominence in 2003 when the Guardian awarded her blog an award. The blog led to a book, which led to a television series, which led to pots of even easier money for Brooke than she had earned polishing an average of three knobs a week. Now that the secret is out, your friendly old Exile has to admit to a small twinge of disappointment that Belle is not quite the glamour puss that his febrile mind had imagined. Still and for all that, let's give three cheers to the good Dr. Brooke Magnanti: for never in the field of pervy lechery have so many throbbing blue veiners been provided to so many one-handed readers by just one woman! Labels: Blogging-01, Sleaze-04 |
14 November 2009
Weekending: milk, glorious milk
Is this the best milk advert ever made? Trust me, it's worth watching, especially if you have plenty of years under your belt. Labels: Weekending-02 |
13 November 2009
Craig Murray: blogger under threat
Craig Murray, the blogger and former diplomat, has come under threat of legal action by an outfit called the Quilliam Foundation. According to Craig: The Quilliam Foundation is the branch of New Labour tasked with securing the Muslim vote and reducing British Muslim dissatisfaction with New Labour over the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. If they wanted to do that with New Labour money, that would be their own business. But I object fundamentally to their doing it with my and your money. Well, they are using public funds to try and silence a strong critic of British foreign policy, especially the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. More when we have it. In the meantime you might want to pop over to Craig's site and leave a message of sympathy and support. Labels: Blogging-01 |
Goodbye to SA Sucks
The blogger known as Uhuru Guru has decided to close down his blog, SA Sucks, with immediate effect. The man behind the monicker is a far-right white South African who has managed to wind up his country's rulers to such an extent that they have started arresting him on trumped up charges and threatening his wife and daughters. It is the threat to them, more than anything else, that has led him to conclude that his blog has to close. It is sad when any blogger is forced to shut up shop under state pressure, and it is to be hoped that all other political bloggers, be they from the left or the right, will join The Exile in sending their best wishes to Uhuru Guru. Sadly the chances of that happening are about as likely as the discovery of rocking horse shit. As we pointed out a few days ago, Uhuru Guru is just the wrong type of dissident blogger in the eyes of those precious, liberal, white middle class types who infest the world of blogs. Labels: Blogging-01 |
