James Delingpole on the omnipresent spectre of thespian pronouncements:
Drilling for oil in the Arctic? ‘A monumental act of selfishness and greed,’ says Emma Thompson — and she should know: she once played Harriet Pringle in the BBC TV adaption of Olivia Manning’s Fortunes of War. Opposite Kenneth Branagh no less.
Fracking? Only the worst thing ever. Just ask the experts, like Dame Vivienne Westwood, who thought up the genius idea of putting safety pins and lots of extra zips, accessorised with dog collars, on outfits worn by people like Sid Vicious in the late 1970s..
The whole thing here.
There’s a delightful takeoff of “Strangers in the Night” posted by a commenter at the link, very appropriate.
And asking Donald scofftax Sutherland about voting rights
When will we stop listening to cake decorators’ and shoe clerks’ opinions about how a modern industrial society best operates?
I love actors.
They’re so cute!
And they say the darnedest things, don’t they?
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
If you’re opposed to allowing in as many antisemitic, Nazi invaders as we can possibly entice into coming here, you’re a NAZI!
Because logic.
The sad part is that they don’t even realize they’ll be among the first to be dragged into the street and beheaded (or burned at the stake, or crucified).
There’s a reason we don’t throw open the gates for the barbarians. Sadly, Europe is about to get a very painful reminder.
It’s really hard to take entertainers seriously, especially actors, since their job — what they are paid to do — is to make believe.
In other words, they’re paid to pretend to be someone (or something) else.
You mean like our new prime minister?
A so called Act of Gred yeah Sure Woo Hoo tell me about it Yeah and always ecpect the Green Freaks and Granola Munchers the idiots from GREENPEACE to show their usial polarbear pictures and urge you to send them a cool $500 and those dumb little yellow postcards urging you to oppose the oil drilling using this Fragile Earth poppycock Greenpeace can buy fuel for their big ships ARCTIC SUNRISE and RAINBOW WARRIOR II as well as fuel for those blasted zodiacs thheir always luanching GREENPEACE GO AWAY
I used to like it back in the Oughties when some of the blogs would say, “Scientists and Charlie Sheen say…X.”
Being an Expert these days just means that the person being quoted used to be Pert, but no longer are.
Proof positive that Germans DO have a sense of humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wm-Ge8LL7o
Speaking of Greenpeace, India has just effectively banned it from their shores.
Dellingpole has a post on it at Breitbart London (sorry, no URL).
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.