yes, working class oiks, give em a damn good thrashing I say (please can Daily Mail readers, male ones obviously, watch, especially if the spankees are pert young girls dressed as schoolgirls/french maids etc)

All in the interests of law and order obviously

'Teachers should be given shinpads': 800 pupils excluded every day for attacks on staff

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1UBtML6fm

Unsurprisingly, given the proclivities of certain DM readers, most of the comments so far suggest that shinpads are not the answer; spanking children is:



Also, the usual attacks on "liberals":



And a definite cotd candidate:

I like how john & mary speak as one. Do you think john ran his comment past mary before he posted (I know I'm making an assumption here, but come on) or is he one of those "my wife will have the chicken salad" types?

God, that drives me round the bend - you see it a lot in the letters in the Radio Times: 'we think THIS is funny but we don't like THAT'. Does any woman under 70 allow this? I didn't trade my mind for my wedding ring.

A right wing Pink Floyd fan? Hmm... perhaps they've missed the point of most of their lyrics?

Maybe they take it in turns? Which would be hilarious if they had a couple of ones an arch-fascist and the others a hand-wringing liberal type.

"Mary, what have you done posting THAT???"

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Weren't Pink Floyd tax exiles during the 1970s? I know that Roger Waters married a woman with a title and threatened to leave the UK because of the hunting ban. Anyway, right-wingers have a strange relationship with politically engaged musicians — aren't some of the current government Bob Dylan fans? (Gove??)

The classic example of that was David Cameron naming The Eton Rifles by The Jam (it's about class warfare) as his favourite song when he was at Eton.

Paul Weller's response was along the lines of, "Doesn't say much for the educational standards at Eton does it? If he's so thick he can't work out what that song's about then he's too thick to be Prime Minister."

When I was a kid the only people I knew who were into Pink Floyd (and all the rest of the prog rock stuff) were at public schools and very Tory.

Mind you, it's important to distinguish between Pink Floyd (with Dave Gilmore) relentlessly self-indulgent, tedious and dull and The Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett) who had imagination and were genuinely innovative.

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For some reason you've got me thinking of Alex James from Blur. Write scathing songs about people living in a big house in the country only to then go and make a living writing about living the over-indulged self-absorbed life of a country squire - with a very big country pile and a range of expensive boutique cheeses.

And Eric Clapton is a notorious right winger who still carries that taint of his 'drunken' racist rant of 1976. I can't help but think that when things are attributed to drink one needs to bear in mind that the offensive person opted to drink and is still liable.

An unfortunate mentin of Eton on the radio today. The presenter said something along the lines of, "An Eton schoolboy was killed by a polar bear yesterday, blah blah". I thought it was just me but everyone in the room winced and all remarked on the unfortunate phrase.

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Another group who hate Clapton are Albion fans over his support for them during the glroy days and then deserting them when things went bad

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The most disgustingly ironic bit about that rant was that Clapton, even more than most white rock stars, owes his whole career to the black blues musicians he learnt his craft from.

However, every cloud has a silver lining and if it wasn't for that speech there would have been no Rock Against Racism which raised awareness of the issue in lots of white kids who were then motivated to take positive action to oppose racism. In a perverse way, Clapton is responsible for Love Music Hate Racism and, possibly, Hope Not Hate.

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I've been in a dilemma about whether to add Alex James to the Punchable Faces thread or Things I Don't Get. I don't find him attractive or charming, and without that he comes across as a dim Tony Parsons who was once a minor element of a band I don't like very much and now writes for the Spectator and has a child called Geronimo. Maybe the SM thread is the best place for him after all!

Did'nt Cameron affect liking The Smiths once, when visiting Manchester?

Brings to mind when Ronald Reagan apparantly said he liked "Born in the USA" until someone told him that it was an attack on his policies by Springsteen and the effect that they were having on working class communities.

Pink Floyd (and Genesis) I have always pigeon holed under the heading of pretentious, boring, self indulgent over blown stadium rock, swept away by Punk and New Wave. My favourite musical period was the late 70s/early 80s, a lot of angry music, and some great cheesy disco crap as well... I go to the two opposite extremes, musically.. a pattern perhaps