Don’t bother – it was the dullest thing I’ve ever read, with the possible exception of the Old Testament and Das Kapital.
You shouldn’t try The Silmarillion.
I'd read all of those back to back before picking up "Infinite Jest" ever again.
As for Rees-Mogg, his grammar and style strictures are just another affectation. Just like his stereotypical posh drawl, canvassing with his nanny and his pseudo courtesy, they're there as a distraction from his vicious and self-serving political agenda. Best disregarded IMO.
He was at our local fete recently with his children, riding on a Thomas the Tank engine that was doing rounds of the village. One of our friends suggested paying the driver to keep going indefinitely.
JP
A grammar Nazi who believes he is socially better than anyone else. Imagine having someone that boring in a group.
You rang, m'lud.
You're only half way there.
Imperial units, what century is he in? Does he not realise that most of the young staff won’t have a clue about inches, lbs and, etc. That could be scope for a royal cock up.
Seeing as the UK formally adopted the SI system in 1968 and JRM was born the following year, this is not nostalgia for a time before metrication. What it is, is anachronistic pretension.
I have no idea why this is tolerated, but seeing as his local council is now, as of the May council elections, controlled by the Lib Dem’s, when the inevitable election happens we can hope we don’t have to put up with it for much longer.
Most bad managers do this sort of micro-management - it's a way of hiding how awful they are at their jobs.
Once you've fired all the people who argue back at you for being a micro-managing tosspot, you can fill your office with all the weaselly little shits who actually tolerate your crap or find it charmingly twee and they're the sort of people who won't argue back when you're tanking the economy or fiddling your expenses.
Was pleased to see his equally awful sister taken to pieces on Twitter when she wondered why the EU had given her an iPad and suggested it was example of profligate waste. Apparently it hadn't occurred to her to do any work with it.
Was pleased to see his equally awful sister taken to pieces on Twitter when she wondered why the EU had given her an iPad and suggested it was example of profligate waste. Apparently it hadn’t occurred to her to do any work with it.
Aye, when she complained about the number of votes in the EP, the twitter pile on suggesting she might’ve used her iPad to prepare was a sight to behold.
How long before these *ock wombles decide that we are going back to pounds, shillings and pence.
Better yet, let’s get rid of science from the classrooms, and replace with alchemy!
The man is a first-class, unmitigated ****.
"Rees Mogg bans investing in schools"
I've been an advocate of a new Spitting Image series for a few years.
I'm now of the opinion that the current round of reality TV news *is* the new Spitting Image series.
A grammar Nazi who believes he socially better than anyone else too
Not a proficient GN either, refers to The Magna Carta, any fule kno (or half way decent lawyer) that the definite article is not required when referring to that charter.
any fule kno
Molesworth!
TJ I'm a man of a certain age.
Aye, when she complained about the number of votes in the EP, the twitter pile on suggesting she might’ve used her iPad to prepare was a sight to behold.
Ahh Twitter, the modern day equivalent of scribbling on a toilet wall.
Rees-Mogg is genuinely a tit, but people advising him as well as the toad himself will have realised long ago that a lot of the great unwashed lap this faux gentlemanly crap up by the bucket load. Well, you'd be daft to deviate from a winning formula, so the affectations are ramped up and he becomes more of a self parody day by day.
The really disappointing thing is that the electorate either can't see through it (most) or don't want to (some). You get the politicians you deserve.
I'm exclusively using metric units now as well as boycotting Wetherspoon's, Dyson etc.
I’m exclusively using metric units now as well as boycotting Wetherspoon’s, Dyson etc.
Glad to see you’re prepared to go the extra 1.609 kilometres
Thanks.
The whole Imperial thing just goes to show what a ridiculous **** the man is. However, my 80 year old Tory voting relatives lap up this kind of shit. "Send the buggers back where they came from" etc.
I'm boycotting them too.
a lot of the great unwashed lap this faux gentlemanly crap up by the bucket load.
you know, I don't think I know anybody who doesn't think the man's a total joke.
Unfortunately some of my family think he is great! Nothing I can tell them about him will change their mind. His anti LGBT bigotry, his hypocrisy over brexit ie his investment firm moving to Ireland and advising punters beware the risks / costs of brexit.
BTW - if Johnston is a pure fanny as he is then is Rees-Mogg a complete diddy?
Rees-Mogg is the bawjaws to Johnsons bawbag
Rees-Mogg is the bawjaws to Johnsons bawbag
Nah, two cheeks. Putin is in the middle. Much more difficult to spot, but the real centre.
Mogg looks like Mr Chips from the infamous Catchphrase 'Snake Charmer' episode.
Check it out.
Damn, was hoping this was an announcement of his sudden and tragic demise
2 years on and I still can't believe someone referred to him as "quite likeable".
