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(Pajamas Media)   The right wing blogodome's barely coherent, feces-throwing rage of the day: Monty Python is responsible for creating nanny state England because of its weekly assault on traditional values   (pajamasmedia.com) divider line
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    More: Stupid, Monty Python, traditional values, New Labour, John Cleese, England, Life of Brian, secularism  
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2141 clicks; posted to Politics » on 21 Apr 2011 at 12:17 PM (9 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 11:11:41 AM  
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All right! This has become FAR TOO SILLY!
 
Ranger Joe
2011-04-21 11:16:19 AM  
Came for feces. Left disappointed.

/cue the "your blog sucks" parrots.
 
Sybarite
2011-04-21 11:22:40 AM  

Ranger Joe: Came for feces. Left disappointed.

/cue the "your blog sucks" parrots.



EX-parrots
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2011-04-21 11:24:41 AM  
This has been a paid political advertisement of the Very Silly Party. I'm Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, then 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat (laughs) (squeaker) Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat (sings) 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mainwaring (hoot, 'whoop') Smith, and I approve this message.
 
thomps
2011-04-21 11:32:07 AM  

Sybarite: Ranger Joe: Came for feces. Left disappointed.

/cue the "your blog sucks" parrots.


EX-parrots


very well done.
 
palladiate [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 11:42:38 AM  
Wait, so you're saying that by mocking everything wrong at the time in British society- the clueless lower and upper classes, the racism, the homophobia, and the general surrealism of modern life- they succeeded but only to have it replaced with a more stupid, racist, and surreal society?

Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that Cleese is old and crotchety and no longer has a tolerance for the ever-changing but always similar plights of humanity?
 
Vanetia
2011-04-21 11:43:48 AM  
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Come see the violence inherent in the system!
 
teto85 [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 11:53:24 AM  
Maybe for the public acknowledgement of the Silly and Very Silly parties, but I see nothing detrimental in that.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:17:02 PM  

teto85: Maybe for the public acknowledgement of the Silly and Very Silly parties, but I see nothing detrimental in that.


I wonder which party in America would be the Silly Party, and which would be the Very Silly Party...

/thinks they're BOTH far too silly
 
meat0918 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-04-21 12:19:00 PM  
Based on the comments, I bet they weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
 
Brian_of_Nazareth
2011-04-21 12:20:05 PM  

Sybarite: Ranger Joe: Came for feces. Left disappointed.

/cue the "your blog sucks" parrots.


EX-parrots


He's just pineing for the fjords!

Cheers.
 
Lando Lincoln
2011-04-21 12:20:12 PM  
Can I say that this is the first time I've commented in this thread?
 
actor212
2011-04-21 12:20:37 PM  
Ohbirther....do they not get satire at all?

Wait. Pajamas Media?

Carry on.
 
Rann Xerox [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:21:02 PM  
Your blog sucks..... and YOU'RE A LOONY!
 
PonceAlyosha
2011-04-21 12:22:07 PM  

xanadian: All right! This has become FAR TOO SILLY!


It has reached the SINGULARITY of silliness.
 
WTF Indeed
2011-04-21 12:22:10 PM  
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Cause of British Teeth.
 
Phil Herup
2011-04-21 12:22:17 PM  
"That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas... "

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log_level_utility
2011-04-21 12:22:30 PM  
huh. every day I wake up wondering if I'll hear of an idea dumber than "gay marriage". And here it is.
 
actor212
2011-04-21 12:23:15 PM  
From the article quoted (new window)by the article that was articlulated in the article of this articulate thread:
He [Cleese] said: "There were disadvantages to the old culture, it was a bit stuffy and it was more sexist and more racist. But it was an educated and middle-class culture. Now it's a yob culture. The values are so strange."

He could be talking about any state south of Maryland, you know.
 
DarnoKonrad
2011-04-21 12:24:11 PM  
The modern American right borrowed a lot from the torys -- right down to imports like Fox News.
 
Captain Darling
2011-04-21 12:24:29 PM  
It is certainly true that London explicitly sold the Olympics on the fact that the city, while less pleasant than Paris in every conceivable way, was multicultural.

If only someone could conceive of a way in which London was nicer:

And while there are many positive things about cosmopolitan London - a dark-skinned Frenchman once told me that London was paradise because nowhere in France could he go about his business without fearing his skin colour might cause some problem - it is certainly not English in the way that Bath still is.

Yeah, but that only applies to brown people, and thus doesn't count. Anyway, someone who says Paris trumps London in "every conceivable way" can EABOD when it comes to talking about what's properly English.
 
Farker Soze
2011-04-21 12:24:49 PM  
When they mocked cannibalism in the Royal Navy, they went too far. No respect for tradition.
 
Tiberius Gracchus
2011-04-21 12:25:03 PM  

Lando Lincoln: Can I say that this is the first time I've commented in this thread?


No it isn't.
 
Lockeslessons
2011-04-21 12:28:18 PM  
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MrSpacemanSpiff
2011-04-21 12:32:56 PM  

Tiberius Gracchus: Lando Lincoln: Can I say that this is the first time I've commented in this thread?

No it isn't.


This isn't an argument! This is just contradiction!
 
leviosaurus [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:33:10 PM  
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
 
Rapmaster2000 [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:35:19 PM  
They caused the downfall of upper-class twits, they did.
 
Notabunny [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:37:28 PM  
So Fox News is responsible for the increase in knuckle dragging and mouth breathing?
 
yukichigai [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:38:25 PM  

MrSpacemanSpiff: Tiberius Gracchus: Lando Lincoln: Can I say that this is the first time I've commented in this thread?

No it isn't.

This isn't an argument! This is just contradiction!


No it's not.
 
Tiberius Gracchus
2011-04-21 12:38:29 PM  

MrSpacemanSpiff: This isn't an argument! This is just contradiction!


If I argue with you I must take up a contrary position.
 
Joe Six-Keg [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:39:34 PM  
Lemon curry?
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [BareFark]
2011-04-21 12:42:07 PM  
My nipples explode with delight!
 
Gangway Fathead
2011-04-21 12:43:15 PM  
Blogging. To rehash someone else's blog AND link to the blog you just rehashed. Blogging.
 
Nuclear Monk
2011-04-21 12:43:53 PM  
He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy!
 
NallTWD
2011-04-21 12:44:37 PM  
This blog reads like one of these guys wrote it just before the race:
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Needlessly Complicated
2011-04-21 12:45:03 PM  
Couple of decades late, aren't they?
 
PainInTheASP [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2011-04-21 12:46:10 PM  
The Larch:

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CitizenTed
2011-04-21 12:46:21 PM  
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What the chief editor at Pajamas Media may look like.
 
phaseolus [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:47:29 PM  
Monty Python's Flying Circus were not the first humans to discover that knocking the powerful and stuffy down a few pegs is hilarious. It's an art that's been practiced for centuries.

Authoritarians can't laugh unless someone's kicking someone who's already down, can they?? God, what a sad, pitiful personality tfa's author must have...
 
jaybeezey
2011-04-21 12:47:30 PM  

Tiberius Gracchus: MrSpacemanSpiff: This isn't an argument! This is just contradiction!

If I argue with you I must take up a contrary position.


yes, but it isn't just saying, "No you didn't".
 
ducklord666
2011-04-21 12:47:39 PM  
Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage...

/ Plans to win at Wimbledon
// Can destroy entire galaxies with his wrist
/// Head nailed to the floor
 
Tiberius Gracchus
2011-04-21 12:47:58 PM  

jaybeezey: Tiberius Gracchus: MrSpacemanSpiff: This isn't an argument! This is just contradiction!

If I argue with you I must take up a contrary position.

yes, but it isn't just saying, "No you didn't".


Yes it is.
 
dennysgod
2011-04-21 12:48:30 PM  
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You've got a nice blog here Mr. Driscoll, it would be a shame if something were to "happen" to it.
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [BareFark]
2011-04-21 12:50:24 PM  
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Now with Q&D MS Paint goodness.
 
Worst.Fark handle. ever.
2011-04-21 12:51:21 PM  
I remember a time in the 80's when even Howdy Doody (yes, THE Howdy Doody) was accused of being a liberal communist. The guy who played Buffalo Bob got wind of this and toally went mushroom cloud all over the detractors.

Hell, the goons even hated Mister Rogers simply because the very idea of liking yourself just the way you are totally flies in the face of the GOP way of life, where you are measured only by how much money you have or how brutal you are to other people, animals, and things.
 
Spindle
2011-04-21 12:52:46 PM  
Some of those skits involved men wearing dresses! Dresses people! If this doesn't undermine traditional values, I don't what does. Plus there's the blatant historical revisionism, look at how they depict the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, it was Japanese men hitting each other with handbags, not women. Sheesh, just makes me sick.
 
neversubmit
2011-04-21 12:53:32 PM  
Assault on traditional English values like killing the Irish?

/violence begets violence
//snicker
 
Joe Six-Keg [TotalFark]
2011-04-21 12:54:02 PM  

CitizenTed: What the chief editor at Pajamas Media may look like.


MY BRAIN HURTS!

/a picture of a Gumby was supposed to appear here. We apologize for the inconvenience. Those responsible have been sacked.
 
Lando Lincoln
2011-04-21 12:56:41 PM  
And now, #1, the larch.

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Kar98
2011-04-21 12:57:04 PM  

palladiate: Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that Cleese is old and crotchety and no longer has a tolerance for the ever-changing but always similar plights of humanity?


¿Que?
 
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