Reasons you will hate me

Well, if he'd left out the "pansy", "pompous little prig" isn't too unfair on Kressley, is it?

I do love that Laws immediately resorted to the "Some of my best friends are gay" and "I even employ some gay people" defences.

Have you met Greg Burns? Do you feel just a touch uneasy that Laws is defending an opinion in a court? Do you really intend to spend the rest of your life not offending any minority? Jeez there are thousands I haven't even had a crack at yet. As Fits might say (about something else I spose) For Fucks!

Actually, I do intend to spend the rest of my life not offending any minority. Well picked.



Oh, except those vile folk from Sierra Leone. Who do they think they are, waltzing over here and competing in our Games without their bicycles? I ought to write to my local MP, etc.

Is it just me or is it particularly quiet in here today?

Stupid poofs.

How do you debate an idea without risking offending someone? Or write a book or host a radio show or stand up on open mic night?

Any idea is only worth defending if you can stand by it at its logical extremes. You can only stand by freedom of speech if you stand by everybody's right to say anything.

Burns gets a day in court to try to punish dumb and ugly comments by Lawsy? What a waste of fucking energy. What a pair of turkeys.

Yeah, how about:

attention any human being capable of free thought,

please refrain from expressing your democratic right of free speech, in partic. enjoying any demonstrable sense of humour. Thank you.

Personally I think Greg Burns sounds like a total rent seeker.

You're right. John Laws should continue using his position as a public mouthpiece to spout forth ignorant and poisonous views on gay people to the masses without anyone pulling him up on it whatsoever. Should it have gone as far as court? Debatable.



p.s. please highlight moments in any John Laws diatribe ever that display aforementioned 'sense of humour' please would appreciate thanking you in advance please.

anonymous said:

please refrain from expressing your democratic right of free speech...

To quote a brilliant argument by Stanley Fish, "There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too".

Any idea is only worth defending if you can stand by it at its logical extremes.

If that's the case, then I can't think of a single idea that's worth defending. An idea that is completely unquestionable, always absolutely right in advance, is dogmatic and the very antithesis to "freedom".

I didn't say Laws was either smart or funny. (Though his poetry is very funny.) Nor did I say no one should pull him up on his nonsense. I just said (1) if always try not to offend you will always be boring and (2) if you don't like his ideas ignore them or debate them, don't legislate against them.

I don't believe I did legislate against them. I merely made fun of them, using my occasionally razor-sharp wit as a clearly devastating weapon.

Do you think I have time to catch gay before the opening ceremony tonight?

I'd love to see Lawsy flip his (ever so obvious) wig.

Now what is funny about the term "pillow biter" beyond the guffaws it generates from spotty schoolboys at the suggestion of anal penetration.

Honestly, what a pompous old fart.

Oh, wait, he was just being "unnecessarily overt" in his irrelevance.

You're perfectly right, you never called for the lawmakers. Was referring to the SMH story you pointed to on the case. The whole thing gets on my goat.

And Capt Oats, surely it's either too late in the day or early in the evening to start on cultural relativism?

i hugged a gay man the other day.

then i let him feel my boobs and grab my arse.

you know, as "they" like to do sometimes.

would that upset lawsy too?

>>Actually, I do intend to spend the rest of my life not offending any minority.<<

Does that include the Victorian Liberal Party?

My gay boss attended an opening ceremony rehersal with tickets he received from his gay partner.

I womder if I should call the terrorism hotline about this, or talkback radio?

Probably both, just to be sure.

You have a gay boss sussane?
How Could you? Boom tish. See how funny that shit is.
John Laws

I wonder what Lawsy employs those 5 homosexuals for? Cleaning his Chimney? Reaming his plumbing?

No, Fits said she intended never to offend any minority, not me.
To her credit, she can't be serious, cos she does offend them all the time - nasty little cults like the Victorian Libs.
To keep in theme the Vic and NSW ALP right now infuriate me as much as do people who like Dancing with Stars and vote.
A little less than the mini-minds who program BBC shit on the ABC on Sunday nights, and a little more than that prick on The Glass House.
I reserve the right to offend or flatter anyone, but not silence them. (Apart from public-transport-mobile phone-loud-talkers, for whom there should be other laws.)

Who bites pillows these days? Lawsie should try being a top for a change - by which I mean sitting atop his wife when she wears the strap-on, rather than assuming that he has to take some sort of submissive doggie position for a bit of anal action. Really, his concepts of fun sexual activity are so last century...

Thanks Mr Watts,

That was just a bit too real. Maybe if you made it slapstick and replaced the strap-on with a cactus (or Alan Jones - both equally barbed), I'd be okay with it.

Utter filth sir!

Bruce

Does Richard Watts know a lot about aviation?

OMG! Inner-city free newspaper blog fame! Somehow I knew it was you before I even read the first sentence.

anonymous said:

And Capt Oats, surely it's either too late in the day or early in the evening to start on cultural relativism?

I don't recall saying anything about cultural relativism -- though it would be interesting to hear what you mean by the phrase.

Certainly, my responses to your earlier comment (if indeed all these anonymouses are the same person) have nothing to do with cultural relativism in the senses that the phrase is regularly understood or intended. Which of the two comments I made, by the way, seems particularly relativist to you?

Maybe from anon's cultural perspective what you said is the very epitome of cultural relativism. You wouldn't understand, because of the long road of understanding-building required to bring your cultures together.

Quiiiiick MARCH!

Perhaps you're right, fancy.

But what could be anon.'s cultural background such that he/she perceives a postulate of Enlightenment critique as "cultural relativism"?

Aah, I know: neo-liberalism.

wanker

Who, me? John Laws? Carson Kressley? Captain Oats?


PLEASE BE MORE SPECIFIC WITH YOUR ABUSE, ANON.

It's not just Anon's non-specific abuse that worries me, it's the question about aviation as well! *grins*

"I reserve the right to offend or flatter anyone, but not silence them. (Apart from public-transport-mobile phone-loud-talkers, for whom there should be other laws.)"

Oh for crying out loud.

That's all I have to say. You ruined my tea and afternoon blog reading, Anon.

Ms Fits, a paper was stuffed through my fence with an article about blogging in it. Were they talking about you? I think they were.

I'd weigh in to this argument, except for one thing:

John Laws is a bigoted old cunt, and subsequently, he needs to be punished.

I don't care who is the divine agent who instigates the punishment, just so long as it gets done.

Means to an end, kids, means to an end.

Anonymous doesn't seem to get it.
-Shantoozy, http://www.livejournal.com/users/shantoo/