Comments on: All hail the Happiness Tsar http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/ Frequently pretentious since 1971. Clearly ambiguous since 2000. Completely and utterly incomprehensible since 2006. Warning: may contain synonyms. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: An Unreliable Witness http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 An Unreliable Witness Wed, 09 May 2007 15:47:03 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1188 the lamb - Top hole. It's absolutely spiffing, quite frankly. Mike - I really must change that strapline. In no way am I comparing myself with Kafka, except maybe with his limerick-writing brother, Bert. Peach - I love a bit of pedantry, me. More please. the lamb — Top hole. It’s absolutely spiffing, quite frankly.

Mike — I really must change that strapline. In no way am I comparing myself with Kafka, except maybe with his limerick-writing brother, Bert.

Peach — I love a bit of pedantry, me. More please.

]]> By: Peach http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 Peach Wed, 09 May 2007 15:10:11 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1187 as I know he and I dig pedantry: mike - do you mean abstruse? as I know he and I dig pedantry: mike — do you mean abstruse?

]]> By: mike http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1186 mike Wed, 09 May 2007 14:19:31 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1186 Norman Tebbit, yes. I was about to leave a comment saying that Reid was New Labour's Tebbit figure, but you beat me to it in the penultimate para. Franz Kafka, yes, was wondering the same thing. I used to stare and blink uncomprehendingly at his words in my youth, when I still nurtured Literary Aspirations. Have to say that I prefer UW to FK though... FK was <i>too</i> obtuse for my tiny trivial brane. Norman Tebbit, yes. I was about to leave a comment saying that Reid was New Labour’s Tebbit figure, but you beat me to it in the penultimate para.

Franz Kafka, yes, was wondering the same thing. I used to stare and blink uncomprehendingly at his words in my youth, when I still nurtured Literary Aspirations. Have to say that I prefer UW to FK though… FK was too obtuse for my tiny trivial brane.

]]> By: the lamb http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1185 the lamb Wed, 09 May 2007 13:27:20 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1185 Jolly good show, old bean. Howzat? Jolly good show, old bean.

Howzat?

]]> By: annie http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1184 annie Wed, 09 May 2007 10:01:46 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1184 i agree xx i agree

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]]> By: Angelalala http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 Angelalala Wed, 09 May 2007 09:51:18 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1183 That's a really bad Tommy Cooper impression he's doing in the second picture. No wonder Bliar hasn't offered him the happy post. That’s a really bad Tommy Cooper impression he’s doing in the second picture. No wonder Bliar hasn’t offered him the happy post.

]]> By: An Unreliable Witness http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1182 An Unreliable Witness Wed, 09 May 2007 09:48:08 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1182 Oh, I absolutely agree with the comments about Cameron, yes. This isn't really a serious political post - I gave up doing those many moons ago when the whole political landscape became too laughable even to write about any longer, to my shame. It's merely something about Reid's manner, how he looks, the fact that I sometimes wake up screaming ... Oh, I absolutely agree with the comments about Cameron, yes. This isn’t really a serious political post — I gave up doing those many moons ago when the whole political landscape became too laughable even to write about any longer, to my shame. It’s merely something about Reid’s manner, how he looks, the fact that I sometimes wake up screaming …

]]> By: Peach http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 Peach Wed, 09 May 2007 09:44:33 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1181 I have to agree with Edvard, things could be so much worse than now... I have to agree with Edvard, things could be so much worse than now…

]]> By: Ariel http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Ariel Tue, 08 May 2007 22:16:52 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1180 There's something of the brute about Reid, granted. I bet he was the kind of child who pulled the wings off flies... There’s something of the brute about Reid, granted. I bet he was the kind of child who pulled the wings off flies…

]]> By: edvard moonke http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 edvard moonke Tue, 08 May 2007 20:46:13 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1179 I don't disagree with you there, mr unreliable, but I have to say that the prospect of David Cameron becoming prime minister, as he inevitably will, keeps me awake far more than john reid coming round with his boys. I don’t disagree with you there, mr unreliable, but I have to say that the prospect of David Cameron becoming prime minister, as he inevitably will, keeps me awake far more than john reid coming round with his boys.

]]> By: Katy Murr http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Katy Murr Tue, 08 May 2007 20:20:44 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/05/08/all-hail-the-happiness-tsar/#comment-1178 'Then there is the concerned voice of my social conscience, fretting about the future of the human race and whether the planet is doomed to disappear forever in a coughing cloud of our own carbon monoxide poisoning.' -- If possible, we could kill off all the stupid people (not with axes of words though, for they would generally find such impossible to comprehend...) I feel rather more optimistic with that thought now. I did seriously have a lack of sleep last night though, so perhaps that impacts on today's thoughts. I doubt I would really care for the awfully stupid, and incapable-of-contributing-much anyway (other than pity), but I can say so, because I did not get much sleep! Btw, do you read/ have read much Kafka? ‘Then there is the concerned voice of my social conscience, fretting about the future of the human race and whether the planet is doomed to disappear forever in a coughing cloud of our own carbon monoxide poisoning.’ — If possible, we could kill off all the stupid people (not with axes of words though, for they would generally find such impossible to comprehend…)

I feel rather more optimistic with that thought now. I did seriously have a lack of sleep last night though, so perhaps that impacts on today’s thoughts. I doubt I would really care for the awfully stupid, and incapable-of-contributing-much anyway (other than pity), but I can say so, because I did not get much sleep!

Btw, do you read/ have read much Kafka?

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