tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post6427522073411541870..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Liverpool: Some Sense at LastBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-82428984676685069102008-08-16T14:52:00.000+00:002008-08-16T14:52:00.000+00:00I like Liverpool, the bacon sandwiches they make t...I like Liverpool, the bacon sandwiches they make there are delightful. Sunderland has the best crack whores outside of Moscow as well as a National Glass Centre which is an excellent place to practice your air rifle skills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23798284818192486072008-08-15T21:07:00.000+00:002008-08-15T21:07:00.000+00:00By Brother would love it.Two worse tragedies in mo...By Brother would love it.Two worse tragedies in modern football history and co-incidentally they involve Liverpool football supporters.<BR/><BR/>I am naturally less accusational,after all I work with a scouser and a Liverpool supporter.<BR/>Can you actualy condemn a city?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24787068649906055192008-08-15T09:07:00.000+00:002008-08-15T09:07:00.000+00:00Apart from bone gnawing poverty, hunger marchers a...Apart from bone gnawing poverty, hunger marchers and my cousin Jimmie, Cookson is Jarrows only claim to immortality. I was born in the nieghbouring town and we thought that we were upmarket, oh boy.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24906654863800655762008-08-15T08:45:00.000+00:002008-08-15T08:45:00.000+00:00a favourite of my mother's, who otherwise is incap...a favourite of my mother's, who otherwise is incapable of reading non-diet books. Imagine my joy listening to my mother recommend i read 'She Was Only A Poor Lass' or 'She Was Born Without A Penny'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-41211264400300721702008-08-14T19:37:00.000+00:002008-08-14T19:37:00.000+00:00elberry, for an even more hideous portrait check o...elberry, for an even more hideous portrait check out any novel by my mothers old school chum, Catherine Cookson, East Jarrows template for Jeff Archer.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32848011881788479722008-08-14T18:45:00.000+00:002008-08-14T18:45:00.000+00:00he sounds like Ian Freeman, check out his autobiog...he sounds like Ian Freeman, check out his autobiography 'Cage Fighter' for a hideous portrait of the North East.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53850916787934035602008-08-14T16:49:00.000+00:002008-08-14T16:49:00.000+00:00"i've never seen Sunderland though having studied ..."i've never seen Sunderland though having studied at Durham i know the locality a bit, the kind of hopeless, thick-neck, no-forehead, psychotic tattooed Stella-artois drinking, burger-eating people who we called 'the natives"<BR/><BR/>elberry, my brother in law has taken extreme umbidge at your comments and says that "he would come down there and remove your goolies but obviously anyone who maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78282886335204448162008-08-14T11:22:00.000+00:002008-08-14T11:22:00.000+00:00Liverpool - a city built on the proceeds of slaver...Liverpool - a city built on the proceeds of slavery and prostitution. Sadly, those days are gone...<BR/><BR/>The policy exchange bloke came across as a weird hermaprodite nerd. But his arguments were not as ridiculous as all that. Merseyside has had EU Objective 1 funding for years becuase it's GDP was less than 70% of the EU average. Following it's introduction, it's GDP fell even further. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-76749744390069343402008-08-14T11:04:00.000+00:002008-08-14T11:04:00.000+00:00...or the 'Turf Accountant', Nige, a favourite of ......or the 'Turf Accountant', Nige, a favourite of scousers, after they've 'been paid' at the JobCentre, and just prior to the local Wetherspoon's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-36802277633291424112008-08-14T10:49:00.000+00:002008-08-14T10:49:00.000+00:00Why no aggrieved scousers so far? Oh of course the...Why no aggrieved scousers so far? Oh of course they're all down the dole office. Or the pub...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-44951560591651942532008-08-14T10:47:00.000+00:002008-08-14T10:47:00.000+00:00Malty - never! Carshalton shall always stand - an...Malty - never! Carshalton shall always stand - and it would cheer Mark up to pay a visit. So near to London, yet so far...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-25500945807477888222008-08-14T09:14:00.000+00:002008-08-14T09:14:00.000+00:00Great writing, Mark. It sounds like the city staye...Great writing, Mark. It sounds like the city stayed true to its infernal nature as recorded by Eliot 90-odd years ago. "London, your people are bound on the wheel"...or perhaps his borrowing from Dante: "so many, I had not thought death had undone so many".<BR/><BR/>i've never seen Sunderland though having studied at Durham i know the locality a bit, the kind of hopeless, thick-neck, no-forehead,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53224525234508013162008-08-14T07:23:00.000+00:002008-08-14T07:23:00.000+00:00I'm stuck in the middle of Manchester. A nuke abou...I'm stuck in the middle of Manchester. A nuke about now would probably cheer me up.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-17252494178879235442008-08-13T23:11:00.000+00:002008-08-13T23:11:00.000+00:00By chance I was in a part of London today for the ...By chance I was in a part of London today for the first time in a long, long while. Dirt, litter everywhere, plenty of drunks, the pavements broken, clumsy roadworks which made the going harder. In among the shoppers a few phlebitic old ladies shuffled about, their stockings round their knees. Just outside the flow of the crowd shifty-looking men waited in doorways, touts probably - minicabs, Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56208200879803094912008-08-13T21:41:00.000+00:002008-08-13T21:41:00.000+00:00Bolton-on-Thames ?Bolton-on-Thames ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32220345009310702562008-08-13T17:47:00.000+00:002008-08-13T17:47:00.000+00:00Getting back to this German sounding bod on the ra...Getting back to this German sounding bod on the radio, one of his wacky ideas was to "increase the land area of London by one mile in every direction, increasing the land value of the new territory from £10000 per hectare to £40 million per, freeing up money for infrastructure." Eh?<BR/>Look out Nige, if this one gets his way then Carshalton will be re designated as part of central London.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45674326431340840562008-08-13T16:19:00.000+00:002008-08-13T16:19:00.000+00:00Why waste money towing it out to sea, where there ...Why waste money towing it out to sea, where there would be a real risk of Dublin being damaged-why not nuke it where it stands. I remember the first time there,30 years ago, the theatre sold fresh fruit in the lobby, but there was change in the air, none of it good, and a sense that old would soon become olde, and it did. Passing through recently (why hang around?) the same vinyl smiles that havemahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78323517068938952292008-08-13T16:13:00.000+00:002008-08-13T16:13:00.000+00:00Elberry, my Lithuanian Jewish antecedents escaped ...Elberry, my Lithuanian Jewish antecedents escaped the pogroms in the mid-nineteenth century by taking a ship which was supposedly going from Vilnius to New York. In fact, it only went as far as Sunderland. (This is the sort of thing that still happens to members of family.) Anyway, they decided it wasn't so bad and stayed on, breeding like crazy and enjoying a free and relatively prosperous Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-8082604226581754272008-08-13T15:59:00.000+00:002008-08-13T15:59:00.000+00:00I heard the bod in question on the radio at luncht...I heard the bod in question on the radio at lunchtime, all together now one, two, three "he sounded German". He said that the media had misquoted him, possibly he only intended to shove Zyklon B down Liverpool's chimney, if some scouse doesn't nick it first.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66099074468964597872008-08-13T15:33:00.000+00:002008-08-13T15:33:00.000+00:00Can’t comment on Liverpool, but so far as the sini...Can’t comment on Liverpool, but so far as the sinister statues of John Lennon are concerned, he was definitely overrated. <BR/><BR/>What particularly appeals to me is the fact that he was shot without trial, deliberation, or due process of law!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-90856480083163167772008-08-13T15:00:00.000+00:002008-08-13T15:00:00.000+00:00Very Swiftian Bryan. You'll be on a train to apolo...Very Swiftian Bryan. You'll be on a train to apologise to the lovely scousers. The Tories are trying to get votes in the North. The parallel utterances about Georgia suggest politics like nature abhors a vacuum, which only mugs fill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-85924055078994544482008-08-13T14:17:00.000+00:002008-08-13T14:17:00.000+00:00i was pleased to see they included Bradford and Su...i was pleased to see they included Bradford and Sunderland in their list of irredeemably damned cities.<BR/><BR/>Maybe it's just me being grouchy but i reckon London should be turned into some kind of amusement park for psychotics. Oh wait, they did that already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com