July 21, 2004

• "I just don't think they clean behind the fridge enough." Is that sarcasm, or just ignorance?
• It was well-said if you're a white male employer who demands licence to expoit everyone else in the world in any way you please. If you're not one of those, then the bloke is at least a plonker.
• So, where are the stats on how often women actually do clean behind the fridge? More seriously, personally I think the UKIP are a bunch of fossiled idiots, sort of a more muppet-like BNP, but this raises an interesting point. Is it better for a politician to tell the truth, no matter how unpalatable some people might find it, or just utter politically correct platitudes? Wouldn't hypocrisy, which is bad enough under any circumstances, in this case just be papering over the cracks? Personally, it amazes me that anybody would vote for him, let alone enough people to send him on an all-expenses paid holiday on the Brussels gravy-train. Trouble is, enough people did vote for him, so presumably they agree, at least in part, with his views.
• if you're a white male employer unless, of course, he's Irish.
• Becoz he makes pronouncements And utters declarative statements With never a hint of suggestion, It's hard to see How the man can be A bloke in question.
• Though I have to wonder - would the trophy wives in training agree with his stance? Maybe after they got plastic surgery from the army. Is it just me or did monkeyfilter get a little more surreal? *boob jobs to the left of me, deltas to my right, here I am stuck in the middle with EU.*
• dubstop- it is much better for a politician to do or say things like this. Even if only occasionally. It removes much ambiguity, which is always a good to be assiduously sought after. I was certain that there were still people who think like this, I'm amazed that one of them felt able to say it. Makes me wish I'd been there.
• The only thing I could think when I read that was: "OH NO HE DI'IN'T!!!!"
• Hell, I would rather have a politician come right out and lay his predjudices on the table, than to have him pay lip service to equal rights and then do everything in his power to undermine them.
• Nice one, polychrome!! :o) Man, if anyone in any office said that over here, well, there'd be outrage. Big time outrage!! And then! then, uh, well, nothing. They'd probably promote him. sigh. Is it better for a politician to tell the truth, no matter how unpalatable some people might find it, or just utter politically correct platitudes? They should tell the truth, but before they get elected. (I'm assuming this guy seemed a whole lot more women-friendly before he got elected to the women's rights committee.)
• There is currently a shattered vase behind my refrigerator. I'm choosing to ignore it.
• He also likes windfarms, and has much too much affection for yellow.
• Polychrome, thank god you were being ironic, for a monent I thought he might have something going for him. Guardian has some more choice quotes from him upon the occasion of his accession to the European Parliament's women's rights committee.
• minda25: What, like promotion to the Attorney General of the United States of America?
• exactly, rodgerd.
• Ahhhh, UKIP. According to the British press, they won our European election. By coming fourth. With 16% of the vote. And not winning any seats in, er, Scotland or Wales. Hmmm - so much for the "United Kingdom" part of their name. Robert Kilroy-Silk (their highest profile, Jerry Spinger-without-the-opera, ex-Labour, racist MEP) said that his stated aim in the European Parliament would be to "wreck it". Good old democracy, always kicking itself where it hurts. His other aim will be to collect £150,000 from the European taxpayer - which should be handy in maintaining his Spanish Villa (and other luxury mansions), which must have been tricky ever since he lost that £1 million contract with the BBC for calling all Arabs "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors"... Lovely bunch of people, UKIP.
• Not winning any seats in Scotland or Wales? They really are the new Conservative party.
• Uncanny, isn't it? Still, if it confuses all the blue-rinse xenophobes - they may have a use yet... *goes to bed to have nightmares about Michael Howard*
• That Kilroy show was pretty high on the obnoxometer.
• well hell. i don't clean behind the refrigerator (aside from fishing out the occasional cat toy, anyway), and i sure as hell don't expect my wife to do it either. wow. this guy... jeez. can't believe he actually went and said that.
• I'm sure my wife would be happy to clean his refrigerator, mixaphorically speaking.
• From, er, popbitch ... Robert Kilroy-Silk is known in his local tanning shop as "Orange Cock" because he goes naked on the sunbeds.
• I'm with kimdog on "at least he lays his prejudices on the table". See, here in Umurikah our elected (or appointed, whatever) officials believe the same things, but they rant about how women need to be empowered and such. They sometimes approve partial funding for groups they're actively against. Oooh ooh and then? And then? Sometimes what they'll do is get it all in their miniscule craniums to attack a country come hell or high water and they go about constructing a shabby case for war that gets supported by news networks and the next thing you know, servicepeople die and we're 300 billion in the crapper! Wheeeeee! *waves tiny flag*
• But pete's not bitter.
• Apparently he had a "ding dong" with a Mussolini. The level of political discourse on this planet is inspiring, truly. Oh and Wolof - I am trying to forget I ever read that.
• and speaking of inspiring dialogue, here's another gem to brighten our day. From Grover Norquist, talking to El Mundo (translation here, and can anyone confirm this has been done correctly? ...Each year, 2 million people who fought in the Second World War and lived through the Great Depression die. This generation has been an exeception in American history, because it has defended anti-American policies.
• and they keep coming ...people are being killed. Iraqis are being killed, as they were yesterday and the day before. At some point the Iraqis will get tired of getting killed and we’ll have enough of the Iraqi security forces that they can take over responsibility for governing that country and we’ll be able to pare down the coalition security forces in the country Man, that getting killed over and over just blows, doesn't it?
• Man, that getting killed over and over just blows, doesn't it? Man, when they come back as zombies to eat the brains of American soldiers you will regret that comment. Joking, no offence intended for the Iraqi people.
• See, here in Umurikah our elected (or appointed, whatever) officials believe the same things, but they rant about how women need to be empowered and such. They sometimes approve partial funding for groups they're actively against. Saw a yard sign the other day: "W stands for WOMEN!" Now, seriously guys. I mean, really.