Posts Tagged ‘comedy

Shoe protest

14, Dec 2008

So Dubya waves goodbye to Iraq at a press conference, and a journalist chucks a shoe at his head after shouting ‘dog’. Quality. The sole of the foot, and the use of the word ‘dog’, this is a pretty serious insult in the Islamic world. Worse than war-mongering-planet-wrecking-corporate-whore-sellout-monkey-brained-piggy-eyed-fuckwit.
Cue many jokes about whether the security services [...]

I find myself torn between patriotic pride at the crapness of the London 2012 performance at the Beijing Olympics handover ceremony, and shame at the crapness of the English performance at the Beijing Olympics handover ceremony. But I actually feel more pride, and it’s the Chinese I have to thank.
Looking at it, it was never [...]


top