Sunday, 20 January 2019

Why Bother Writing This Rubbish?


No surprise to discover that the Guardian has an "Opinion Donald Trump" page, which has no doubt kept a considerable staff of stone-faced harridans in daily employ for the last thirty months.

No surprise either that the "Opinion" is an incoherent gallimaufry of cognitive leftovers; it is the Guardian after all.

I was going to pick through the article and try to reconstitute the self-contradictory arguments, half-baked concepts, prejudices, snobberies &c from the scumble of titbits, but lost the will even as I read.

Would that the writers had as little staying power as I.

salad (n): a combination of Hindustani argula leaves; Swiss chard and lamb's lettuce; Oban creel-caught languostine; Peruvian (or Bolivian at a pinch) quinoa; and so forth, ported to the Guardianista's table within 24 hours of the harvesting, with a splash of the 1988 DOP balsamic of Reggio Emelia.

"salad" ("n"): the sort of common-or-garden trash of lettuce; tomato; red onion; grated carrot; and so forth eaten by poor people: ingredients* probably refrigerated somewhere along the way (!!!).

Reader: Indeed, why bother writing this rubbish? I'm the only one who ever looks at your blog, and I never get much past the first paragraph before turning to something instructive and entertaining.

Blogger: No, I meant the Guardian.

* well, at least they used to be picked by proper Albanian peasants. And who's going to prepare our coffees in Pret when the Europeans have gone?
                                       

4 comments:

x said...

Thought her article a bit further down was a bit better. I think Mr “Don’t Know” would be a better PM than any of the current contenders. But even better option on a ballot paper would be "Who cares? They're all crap!"

Anonymous said...

Gordon Bennet this I'm not a robot thing is a pain!!!!!!!

Chertiozhnik said...

Personally I find Mr Don't Know a bit wishy-washy, I'd go for Mr Absolutely Clueless or even that Mr Corbyn.

Chertiozhnik said...

As for the robot thingy, can't find a way to get rid of it... nothing in the Three Laws of Robotics about "not being a pain in the bum metaphorically speaking" so I suppose it's legit.