http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1LTclxWMD

3rd top comment -

Hands up, who'd like to see Tim Westwood getting the Rodney King treatment.

I did enjoy this one

Ignored you DM and voted YES! Only because you're the most ghastly newspaper in the history of man kind and i enjoy doing the opposite to annoy you and your hideous readers! Thanks
- Zippy and Bungle, Rainbow House, 5/5/2011 14:47

And, of course, there's something insane from Roger, which may or may not be a wind-up, I find it very hard to tell these days. Gratifyingly the Mail readers don't much care for his vision of unchallenged Tory rule and have put him 88 in the red.

We need to vote No to ensure that we always have a Tory Government in the future. Democracy is all very fine in principle but, if we allow the people their say, we risk NOT having a Tory government in future (which nobody wants). Cameron is planning constituency boundary changes which will ensure that, so long as we have first past the post, it will be impossible for any other party to win. The Tories will then have a free hand to do whatever they like and their MPs will be able to relax without having to worry about poll ratings which would be perfect for us all.
- Roger, England, 5/5/2011 7:12
Click to rate Rating -88

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

The tragedy of Tim Westwood is that you absolutely cannot dispute his knowledge of and passion for hip-hop. He's the first voice you hear on It Takes a Nation of Millions.... He's been presenting radios shows for a couple of decades that bring a pretty diverse range of music to the public, on one of the nation's main radio stations. And yet because he insists on talking like he's from the projects, he's impossible to take seriously. If he'd not bothered with the accent he'd be hip-hop's John Peel (except that John Peel also liked hip-hop, but you take my point). But he keeps at it, so he's a national joke.

True story - a friend of mine works with placing excluded kids into new schools and helping them resume their education. Recently she was dealing with a kid whose family had been effectively ASBOed out of London, and relocated to the West Country.

I warn you now, the following may sound straight out of Hot Fuzz but is genuinely true.

Kid struts into his new Forest of Dean school, baggy jeans falling down round his legs, hip hop blaring from his MP3 player, all very much the cliched gangsta from the endz or hood or whatever the mot du jour is. Into new classroom, where a slow west country drawl goes "Oi reckunz we'z got a gangsturr 'ere...". Much laughter and hilarity, and this kid's outward air of indestructible confidence was instantly shattered.

Remember, they've got shotguns out in the country, and generally know how to use them. Westwood though? Meh.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

He'll find enough people to be obnoxious with round there.

Lived there (Gloucestershire and London both) long enough to confirm the accuracy of that statement, Tubby.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Are Roger and his ilk having a lie in this Sunday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ailty.html

The comments on this story are surprisingly anti Thatcher. It's only the mail I've found in the news going on about her becoming increasingly frail, is this a mail obsession or just a sign no one else could really give a shit?

I see the state funeral isn't affected by the mess that Labour left us in.

Hey England - We've got free prescriptions.
You'll pay for Thatcher's final party.

She's 85. Most people of that age could be described as 'frail'. Doesn't mean she's going to snuff it imminently.

I heard that news via Facebook before I went to bed last night. I woke up this morning and put on the radio half expecting wall to wall somber music (al la Diana), does my sense of disappointment make me a bad person?

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

That one could go in the "pointless stories" thread as "85 year old woman not as young as she used to be"

This could equally have gone in the Mail vs Facebook thread, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the top-rated comments were all supportive of the teachers:

And the worst voted ones agree with the furious parents.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.