Tears in my eyes...
- 6 November 2010 00:2378732.............from laughing, and that's just reading a review of a collection of Auberon Waugh's writing which I've now ordered off Amazon. Here's him on the subject of dieting. Stunning!!!
'Dieting destroys brain cells and permanently impairs mental performance. It distorts moral perceptions and tends towards unsafe driving, removing all libido whilst making the dieter more prone to HIV and its concomitant scourge Aids. It makes those who fall victim stupid, mad, ugly and boring. Death is seldom long delayed.'
and on politics:-
'There is no point or purpose in any form of political idealism. Not only does socialism do nothing to improve the lot of the poor, making it indeed considerably worse, but capitalism also, by scattering plenty o'er a smiling land, creates as much vileness and havoc as socialism creates poverty and oppression'.
Wonderful!
- 6 November 2010 02:3378733My recent online article on fast food diets based on meat found its way on an online health magazine.
It explains among other things what a diet is according to NHS. Everything one eats in the course of a week is a diet. Dieting means eating, so it depends what one eats.
However, you might not laugh when you find out what can be the ingredients of fast food meat in terms of fat and meat cuttings!
Right now I'm writing an article, just took a break.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - Brian Dixon
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6 November 2010 08:3478743bob,its understandable that you had tears in your eyes with statements like that.
- 6 November 2010 10:3778751auberon waugh used to write a column in "private eye" years ago, side splitting stuff.
once when referring to the poverty on merseyside, he suggested that the unemployed there ate some of their children. - 6 November 2010 10:4378754Howard, which was an homage to Jonathan Swift who wrote in 1729 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public'.
Described in Wiki as :- a satire in which the narrator, with intentionally grotesque logic, recommends that Ireland's poor escape their poverty by selling their children as food to the rich: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food..."