Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:09:40 GMT

I hate that the only time young people in this country exercise their democratic right to protest is when REALLY SUPER IMPORTANT laws like fucking drinking on the tube are put in place.

Back-door privatization of the NHS, removal of important rights? Fuck that, we want to drink White Lightening on the Northern Line!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:13:27 GMT

(29 by ryan adams)

this is the record i always seem to come back to when i'm alone. not in a melancholy way, you understand (even though the album is indisputably sad; the songs are written from painkiller and loss inflicted dreams/nightmares), but purely in a solitary way. especially tonight; outside is thunder and a stark awareness, and the reverberating piano seems all the more haunting.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:02:53 GMT

i used to be scared of rainbows and would look down at the floor if i saw one in the street.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:24:16 GMT

draft for anti boris johnson flyer to be handed out at college.

10 Reasons Not To Vote For Boris Johnson

1) You’d be voting for a racist

Boris on a Tony Blair visit to Africa: “It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies... No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down.” (Daily Telegraph 10 January 2002)

And on South African government: a “majority tyranny of black rule” (Lend Me Your Ears p464)

2) You’d be on the side of a sexist

Boris view on Paternity leave: "none of that ridiculously compulsory paid paternity leave." (Lend Me Your Ears p104)

Boris on being overtaken by a woman driver: “She was blonde. She was beautiful. She was driving some poxy little Citroen or Peugeot thing... And she had just overtaken me... And let me tell you, I wasn’t having it... the whole endocrine orchestra said: “Go. Take.” You can’t be dissed by some blonde in a 305.” (Life in the Fast Lane p26)

3) You’d be encouraging someone who said this about George Bush

Boris on Bush: "You know, whenever George Dubya Bush appears on television… I find a cheer rising irresistibly in my throat. Yo, Bush baby, I find myself saying, squashing my beer can like some crazed redneck; you tell ‘em boy. Just you tell all those pointy-headed liberals where to get off.’" (Lend Me Your Ears p317)

4) You’d be helping to appoint a supporter of the Iraq war

‘It was mesmerising, in April 2003, to stand in Baghdad and look at the contrast between the Americans and the people they had liberated. [The Americans] looked like a master race from outer space” (Lend Me Your Ears p1)

6) You’d be putting into office a politician uninterested in green policies

Boris on The Kyoto Protocol: "It would exacerbate the recession, and when Bush says no, he is doing what is right not just for America but for the world." (Lend Me Your Ears p318)

6) You’d be showing your support to a man who is anti-gay rights

Boris on gay rights legislation: “if gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue –
then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.” (Friends, Voters, Countrymen p96)

And on encouraging discussion and tolerance: “Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools.” (The Spectator 15 April 2000)

7) You’d be siding with a person against affordable housing

Boris has pledged to abolish the policy that 50% of new housing in London must be affordable housing.

8) You’d be standing behind someone who opposes minimum wage

Boris on the minimum wage: "Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions’
conviction that we all have a “right” to a minimum wage” (Lend Me Your Ears p387)

9) You’d be backing somebody strongly in favour of replacing Trident

Boris is 100% in favour of replacing Trident nuclear submarine.

10) And you’d be endorsing a candidate who supports killing animals for fun

Boris on fox and stag hunting: "If I were not a Tory, I think I would become one on this issue alone.’"(Daily Telegraph 18 January 2001)

And: “Ok, I said to myself as I sighted the bird down the end of the gun. This time, my fine feathered friend, there is no escape.” (Friends, Voters, Countrymen p59)

His “policies” in detail

International and overall politics

* Fanatical support for the Iraq war

* Supporting both the election of George W Bush in 2000 and his re-election in 2004

* Opposed the Kyoto treaty on climate change

* Is an evangelist for nuclear power – and opposes wind farms

* Is a fanatical Thatcherite

* Considers Liberal Democrats have ‘a characteristic human psychological deformity’

Economic Policies

* Opposed the introduction of the national minimum wage

* Opposition to full pension rights for part-time workers

* Believes trouble comes from ‘too zealous’ attempts to tackle inequality

* Calls for large scale sacking of public sector workers as good ‘for themselves’

* Defends privatisation of the railways

Social and Environmental Policies

* Attacks the welfare state as ‘excessive disbursements that warp honest people’

* Wants to introduce the private sector into the NHS and believes patients should pay more

* Is opposed to the Social Chapter of the EU and also against its provision on paternity leave

* Supports grammar schools and public schools

* Does not support affordable housing

* Opposition to the congestion charge

* Is in favour of not only fox but stag hunting

* Opposes the ban on smoking in restaurants and public places

Attitude to black people, women, gay rights, the Chinese

and others

* Refers to black people as ‘picaninnies’ and ‘with watermelon smiles’

* Attitudes to the black community and calls the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry ‘Orwellian’

* Believes in South Africa there is the ‘majority tyranny of black rule.’

* On Africans and ‘instant carbohydrate gratification’

* Believes Chinese culture is merely imitative

* Sexism

* Labour’s ‘appalling agenda’ of ‘the teaching of homosexuality in schools’

Political morality

* Considers Edward Kennedy faced a dilemma on whether to

‘come clean’ on Chappaquiddick

* Is prepared to discuss how seriously a journalist should be

beaten up and whether to supply his address

If you require any sources for the claims made in this flier, do not hesitate to contact us at either: 28344@woodhouse.ac.uk or Laura, put your address here

thoughts?

the mousey girl screams "violence violence!"

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:24:50 GMT

this song is my favourite song of recent times. listen. please.

(just ignore the shitty video someone made for it)

"but it's like we weren't made for this world. though i wouldn't really want to meet someone who was"
"somehow you've red-rovered the gestapo circling my heart"

anyone who says modern music is shit needs to listen to this and eat their words.

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:57:24 GMT

I think many of my generation's problems can be attributed to the fact that we were taught English by an autonomous glowing pencil which inscribed the day's lessons in fiery letters upon a huge black screen in the style of Nebuchadnezzar's wall, while a sultry female voice gently sang the virtues of the 'magic e'.

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:30:42 GMT

DEAR EL JAY.

Yesterday and today were awesome.

Not half tired, though.

THE END.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:44:50 GMT

Just now, being the little GENIUS that she is, Laura came up with the best idea in the world.

Your own personal theme tune.

(A little bit of context is needed here: We have agreed that if, by the age of 60 or WHATEVER, we have not found a happy marriage/civil partnership (delete as applicable), we shall MARRY, for convenience and cuteness' sake. And, our first child shall be called JANE GERMAINE)

So, therefore

her themetune would be:

ItsWham: JANE GERMAINE, SUCH A HAPPY BRAIN
ItsWham: GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN
ItsWham: BOOO BOP DE DOOO
runromeorun: JANE GERMAINE, SHE'S ENTERING THE FAST LANE
runromeorun: TO MOST SHE'S A PAIN, BUT TO US
runromeorun: SHE'S LIL' OL' JANE GERMAINEEEEEEE

Clearly the most amazing thing in the world, non?

I swallowed a balloon and swam in the clouds.

the mousey girl screams "violence violence!"