#welovegrahamlinehan
Aug 16th, 2009 by Conor McCabe
Following on from Graham Linehan’s defence of the NHS - and by extension his attack on the American right and their absolute hatred of not-for-profit health care - here’s the great man himself talking with Channel Four.
(By the way, Twitter is to me what VHS was to my father. Apparently it’s all the rage these days. Anyways, here’s the link - I think - to the twitter started by Linehan. #welovethenhs)
Enjoy.
Good to see you facing down your twitter fears Conor!
Genuinely, I haven’t got a f**king clue as to how it works, or what it does, or what it’s about or anything. And any time I’ve tried to engage with it, I’ve ended up with a headache.
You’ll like this bit from Janet Street Porter this morning then:
Not to defend it or anything, but twitter can compliments ‘intelligent reviews’ etc as it links people to them. What is more worrying is that I will now for ever associate Bonnie Prince Billy with Janet Street Porter!
Twitter is to me what VHS was to my father Ye made me laugh with that one Conor :-° I suppose, as GL points out in his bit - the problem isn’t the medium itself but the idiots using it - like so much other web social networking fads. Same point JSP is making (she’s spot-on too).
But fuck - the idiocy of Twitter users is nothing as to those Neo-Con doctrinaires let broadcast 24h a day on one of the US’s biggest channels. Can’t believe that stuff - mindbogglingly loathsome.
How surprising they don’t manage to get a right-wing French or Scandinavian guy over to badmouth their systems (they never will - but probably out of their own xenophobia). What that Tory twat is pissing all over is not ’socialised medicine’ but ‘underfunded, over-bureaucratised socialised medicine’ caused in great part by the policies implemented by his own party last time they were in power.
As to the 3rd biggest employer on earth ?? 1.4 M employees ? Where the fuck do they get twaddle like that from ?
I assume that great benefactor to humanity, the US armed forces, has a few hundred thousand employees paid on the black to keep discreetly down the league table and keep them Ay-rabs guessing.
Well, like good free market types they keep the numbers down by outsourcing.