Knowing How to Curse
Jul 3rd, 2007 by Donagh
There’s a new one-off special of Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It on BBC4 tonight. According to the listing “the career of spin doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi -pictured) is hanging in the balance.”
Those looking forward to the second series have to wait the outcome of Chris Langham trial, unfortunately.
The clip below suggests though that there is much florid cursing going on in the corridors of power.
In reality, I doubt that they are this inventive. This wonderfully elaborate example involves a nano iPod, its sheath, a man’s genitals, and, post insertion, the need to crush someone’s balls in order to skip through the tracks.
Tucker’s hallmark phrase when someone reaches the door of his office is: “Come the fuck in, or fuck the fuck off.” You have to admire the structure of that.
There’s no loud elaborate cursing going on where I work. Instead it’s done silently, to one’s self, especially when you read crap like this:
“Citizens have to fight each other for resources that are allocated through the political system in socialistic societies. In France, for example, there are regular and sometimes violent demonstrations. The old demonstrate to protect their pensions, imposing burdens on the young; those in jobs fight for job-protection legislation oblivious to the consequences for those who do not have jobs because of over-regulation; and farmers fight for their subsidies and tariff protection without a care for consumers who must pay more for food or for Third World farmers who pay the cost of restricted opportunities for development, often with their very lives.
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We shall leave the last words to Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum: “Socialists, therefore, by endeavouring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages.”"
The Thick Of It Special ‘Spinners and Losers’, Tonight, 9pm, BBC4.
More details on prog can be found here.
Haven’t read the full article, but I hope they pointed out that one of the best things about capitalism is that you can hire others to do the fighting for you so as to secure the necessary resources to keep you in the means to which you have become accustomed, even if this requires fucking blowing the fucking head off any fucking fucker who fucking stakes a counter fucking claim.
Popes are cunts.
The whole point of the article, it seemed to me, was to slap down one of these liberation theology priests, the type of prelate that dares to think beyond the remit of the Vatican council and who without paying the slightest heed to various papal bulls happy trots out to bless Marxist rebels in their jungle hidaway before the latter go out to be mowed down by soilders of fortune hired by libertarian capitalists drug lords.
However, this is the bones of the argument:
“The Catholic Church is very clear about limiting the extent that clergy should be involved in political matters. The church’s Catechism, republished under Pope John Paul II, states quite clearly that these matters are to be left to lay experts. Yet Father Flannery was explicitly attaching himself to a particular ideology. He was also quite clearly misinterpreting the “social” Gospel as a “socialist Gospel”.
which roughly translated means: Get the fuck back in your fucking box and leave the fucking politics to us you fucking clerical officer of the most holy church. Yours, a couple of highly conservative, Catholic, free market evangelists.
Popes are a bit like Dr. Who as well. The body changes but the entity remains the same.
More like the Master I’d have thought…
Still, caught The Thick of It tonight and it was excellent.