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Lurid Archive
09:38 / 28.11.05
I've been away from London for a while, so imagine my surprise when I read this article to find it has changed beyond recognition.

Apparently the Islamic takeover of London is palpable, especially in the area commonly known as "Little Beirut" and most decent people are considering joining the BNP, in the face of "World War III".

So what precautions should I take, coming from Eurabia, for my xmas visit?
 
 
Ganesh
09:58 / 28.11.05
Ah, the simple purity of cabbie-wisdom! Weirdly enough, I seem always to have lived in parts of the UK where lamentable numbers of individuals omit this gesture of respect (which apparently every man, woman and child everywhere else is observing). Here, in Londonistan's Little Portugal, I've yet to see a poppied lapel. Same with my patients: are the psychologically vulnerable mocking the war dead?

Come to think of it, I'm not wearing one myself.
 
 
Loomis
10:04 / 28.11.05
Didn't they teach you about the war before they let you into the country from Scotarabia?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:05 / 28.11.05
it's nearly three weeks after Remembrance Day. I'd say that still wearing a poppy at this point is verging on the tacky.
 
 
Ganesh
10:19 / 28.11.05
Arab-lover!
 
 
Axolotl
10:23 / 28.11.05
Large parts of that article seem to have come from our great friend Melanie Phillips *spits*, as in a line for line copy (it may even be authored by her), which is probably why it's absolute nonsense.
 
 
Lurid Archive
10:37 / 28.11.05
While Melanie Philips links to the article approvingly from her site, it is actually written by Carol Gould, who seems to have a knack for absurd reactionary trash.
 
 
w1rebaby
10:41 / 28.11.05
Ah, Frontpage, that bastion of consistently excellent, accurate and well-thought-out journalism.
 
 
w1rebaby
10:53 / 28.11.05
Anyway, Lurid, providing you hate freedom and America, you should be fine on any visit to Londonistan. There's a reason that it only ever seems to be right-wing columnists who have these problems - they are identified at the airport and their descriptions are circulated over the internet before they even get out of Heathrow. Just carry a Koran, or any work by Chomsky, under your arm and you'll have no problem.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
11:04 / 28.11.05
It is a tradition started in Canada and the United States

I am a humble citizen of the great US of A, but I've never seen anybody wearing a poppy. My perspective might be skewed, having grown up among the teeming Muslim hordes of Maineistan.
 
 
William Sack
11:07 / 28.11.05
Salaam, Lurid. THe husband of a friend of mine who has gone to live in the states for some reason, and I don't know what I have done to deserve it, sends me links to a Frontpage article every now and then. It's generally articles about Britain or Europe ("the dark continent" apparently) that contain numerous factual inaccuracies; not mistakes that can be put down to a matter of impression, but outright lies actually.
 
 
Ganesh
11:28 / 28.11.05
Ahh, but who need concern himself with the ivory tower pedantry of "facts" when he can instead appeal directly to the simple, homespun wisdom of the man in (the cab on) the street?
 
 
Ganesh
11:42 / 28.11.05
*checks out linked Frontpage thing*

Ahhh, I didn't remember the name, but that article's familiar. It did the rounds, a while back, at least in terms of message boards. Seemed bizarrely over-the-top even then, but was picked up by several as a concrete example of the anti-American lynchings and burnings which happen daily on the mean streets of Londonistan.

Of course, if I were "lambasted, intimidated and mocked by a group of people I had known for some twenty-odd years", I like to think I'm sufficiently selfawarian to at least wonder whether my own perceptions had changed or were at fault, rather than to compare my mild social discomfort with the experience of Jews in pre-war Germany...
 
 
Lurid Archive
11:49 / 28.11.05
Those brave cabbies are being whipped into submission by the Sultan of Islondonbad as we speak. Soon, not even your cabs will be free from the dreaded ethnic minorities. But at least Frontpage and Carol Gould have warned you.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:57 / 28.11.05
No mention of how easy it is to lose a poppy on a day with a light breeze... no respect for real British institutions at all. Deport them! Deport anyone who doesn't mention the weather-poppy problem!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:52 / 28.11.05
Before shouting “Racist!” the reader must understand the nationwide atmosphere of devotion every November to the memory of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died—often agonizing circumstances and with some in their teens—so that we might live out our lives in splendor.

Okay. Noted and understood.



Now can I shout "Racist!"?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:10 / 28.11.05
I thought I was wearing a poppy, but I now realise it's actually an untreated bullet wound.
 
 
Ganesh
14:14 / 28.11.05
Are you Brazilian?
 
 
w1rebaby
14:15 / 28.11.05
No, he's got a head.

Stoatie, understand harder. Or it means you're an anti-semite.
 
 
Ganesh
14:20 / 28.11.05
I can't abide this place:



Am I an anti-yosemite?
 
 
Ex
14:29 / 28.11.05
3 million volunteers from the Indian subcontinent for WWII. Biggest ever volunteer army. 20 Victoria crosses.

Can I shout 'racist', now, too?
 
 
Ganesh
14:33 / 28.11.05
But, Ex, she heard it from a cabbie...
 
 
Lurid Archive
15:06 / 28.11.05
So this is how the liberal elite responds to Armageddon - or Yaum al-Qiyâmah as we're all supposed to say now.
 
 
Supaglue
15:40 / 28.11.05
Bloody black cabbies. Coming over here, driving our cars.
 
 
w1rebaby
15:44 / 28.11.05
أنا تلقّيت أنّ جورج [غلّووي] في الظهر من الحجر غمار مرّة.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:47 / 28.11.05
Look, I know it sounds excessive, but what you have to realise is that the head is a very special area. You can't shoot somebody in the head just four or five times and expect them to stop. It's, like... head.
 
 
Cherielabombe
17:01 / 28.11.05
I am a foreigner in these parts, myself, and I was unaware it was mandatory for all people in Britain to wear a poppy. I'm on it!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:33 / 29.11.05
Fuck. Now I know why everyone was staring at me on Remembrance Day when I wore that small Chihuahua on my shoulder all day in canine homage to the dead Dogs of War. Poppy, they said...
 
 
Ganesh
21:49 / 29.11.05
I wore Poppy Z Brite's Exquisite Corpse pinned to my lapel, and was almost lynched by book-lovers.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:51 / 29.11.05
I went down to the Cenotaph and did some smack...
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:16 / 29.11.05
It is a tradition started in Canada and the United States

It started in Canada and is based on John McCrae's poem In Flanders Field. The poem is even on our 10$ bill. Every year around Remembrance Day the shops are filled with Legion members selling them and LOTS of people wear them here.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:47 / 29.11.05
Aren't Canadians lovely? Is there a sweeter nation? Not one with so many bears anyway.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:10 / 30.11.05
Ha! Even our bears are sweet. Winnie the Pooh...Ours. He was a Canadian Regiments mascotand was named after some one of the soldier's home town, Winnepeg, Manitoba. He (the bear, not the soldier) was donated to a London zoo where A.A. Milne saw him and the rest is history.

Canada...where even our millitary is sweet (except for the Airborn and we dont talk about them anymore).
 
 
modern maenad
07:14 / 30.11.05


Did you know that Russia have their very own Winnie the Pooh - he's called 'Vinnie Pooh' and in cartoons has a v. cute high pitched voice....

 
 
Jub
07:32 / 30.11.05
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What does أنا تلقّيت أنّ جورج [غلّووي] في الظهر من الحجر غمار مرّة mean?
 
  
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