War, Now Arson - what next?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:04

The BBC Scotland political editor was really quite final about Watson's career in politics, but he said that it would take an act of Paliament to get rid of the Lordship. I guess you're allowed to renounce it though.

He'd better watch all that ermine doesn't go up though - just imagine, one minute he's lighting a Lordly fag and the next - woof - Kentucky Fried Watson!

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:16

why did he not admit his guilt in the beginning? Has made him look a lot worse now. Especially as they had proof.

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:19

I just don't get how you are all getting so uptight. Guy comes home, makes an absolute w*** of himself and sets fire to some curtains but you make it into a mega political monster. I have yet to be in a Company, Club, On Line Forum, Committee etc where there are not one or two people of similar ilk - thank God all the posters here are whiter than white.

PS If there was a blender there, I would have drunk the budgie.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:23

Dadaist wrote:
Epykat wrote:One thing in their favour, though, is that they're quite hard to set alight. Unlike curtains, which tend to 'go up' quite quickly
It's curtains for the budgies, that's what I'm saying.

If anyone dares start posting pictures of budgies I'm going to get really mad. Little smug things that they are. Tweet, warble, yeah - think you're clever don't you.

And then there's those people - you know, the ones who bring the budgies at night, in your house. You know, the Budgie Men.

I just had to be the one to do it!!!

Hope there's enough there for you!!!

These little feathered ones are not in little cages, don't have mirrors, don't say " who's a pretty boy then" . They are kept in an aviary outside and serenade all the neighbours with their wonderful tweeting!!!

Aren't canaries redundant from mining these days???

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:25

Aw look, that wee blue one on the bottom right has fallen asleep

Probably been reading this thread.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:32

Budgie - Adam Faith's finest moment, surely?

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:32

One of my bestest ever pets was a budgie. He(really a female but was brought up to believe he/she was a boy) was very tame,had the freedom of the house,even used to snuggle up in bed with me and never ever said or heard "who's a pretty boy then" (and he was)

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:36

Pal of Porty wrote:I just don't get how you are all getting so uptight. Guy comes home, makes an absolute w*** of himself and sets fire to some curtains but you make it into a mega political monster. I have yet to be in a Company, Club, On Line Forum, Committee etc where there are not one or two people of similar ilk - thank God all the posters here are whiter than white.

PS If there was a blender there, I would have drunk the budgie.

No, it was in a hotel so he could have maimed lots of people.

He's not a political monster - he is a former politician and (I assume) convicted arsonist. We know who he because he is a public figure and it's in the news.

It would be different if this were a forum for recovering arsonists, but I would expect elsewhere that not only would there be a couple of people who would burn things, but a majority who wouldn't.

Being in that majority doesn't make you whiter than white - it just means you wouldn't torch people you hadn't met.

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:37

Sorry budgie lovers - they have got to be worst pets ever. I had more empathy for the goldfish I won at the fair, although I believe animal rights dictate you can only win coconuts at the fair now.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:38

Think I'll have to do the same soon!!!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:38

Have you ever owned one ?

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:42

Epykat wrote:Aw look, that wee blue one on the bottom right has fallen asleep Probably been reading this thread.

Think I'll have to do the same soon!!!

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 02 Sep 2005, 23:43

See, I'm sooo tired, I've put that message in twice!!!

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 03 Sep 2005, 00:02

No, I have never owned a budgie, although my favourite Auntie whom I visited frequently when I was young did have one. Even through the mists of time and nostalgia for a loved one gone, I still think 'what on earth was she doing with a budgie"

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 03 Sep 2005, 11:21

We had a budgie once: it had belonged to my great auntie for about 12 years, and when she died we kindly gave it a home - but guess what? It died 3 days later.

Really, really weird. Must have had a broken heart I suppose, and I'm sure it would have died even if we'd fed it.

JP.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 03 Sep 2005, 11:23

Jackson Priest wrote: Really, really weird. Must have had a broken heart I suppose, and I'm sure it would have died even if we'd fed it.
JP.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 03 Sep 2005, 11:25

Jackson Priest wrote:We had a budgie once: it had belonged to my great auntie for about 12 years, and when she died we kindly gave it a home - but guess what? It died 3 days later.

Really, really weird. Must have had a broken heart I suppose, and I'm sure it would have died even if we'd fed it.

JP.

LMAO

scossie5 · Post by **scossie5** » 03 Sep 2005, 13:15

I had a budgie called 'Algie' because she was green (and in a nod to Flowers for Algernon). Because she couldn't fly she used to stump around the house and up to our big fat cat and tweak his ear hairs until he would slink away defeated.

We lost her for 24 hours once when we had left her in the garden and then found her hidden in the privet hedge, cursing (in budgie-speak) at passers-by.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 22 Sep 2005, 16:29

Well, the verdict is in and it's 16 months in jail.

Gemini · Post by **Gemini** » 22 Sep 2005, 20:52

Marya wrote:Well, the verdict is in and it's 16 months in jail.

He has also been drummed out the Brownies (oops, Labour Party

)

Again according to some radio broadcasts (not Porty Free Radio

He will be Financially ruined - I think not!.
I wonder if he set the cutains alight, because he wasn't given the Politician of the Year award?

Anyroads, he is expected to only 'do' 8 months of his sentence.

BTW, Porty Free Radio is a great idea - Well done all.

dccairns · Post by **dccairns** » 22 Sep 2005, 21:34

I have come very late to this debate but I would like to go back to Porty's list where he derides the use of the word peaceful in the context of a protest:

A peaceful protest
A peaceful burglary
A peaceful fraud
A peaceful theft
A peaceful rape

Spot the odd one out? Yes, that's right, to protest is not actually a criminal act like the other items on the list...YET.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 22 Sep 2005, 22:57

Marya wrote:Well, the verdict is in and it's 16 months in jail.

got what he deserves...

What a come down.

At least he didn't get a slapped wrist and a dinnae do it again...