Even in Scotland, with its Presbyterian system, a forelock-tugging respect for the monarchy was still in evidence. And it still is. And so we have McMurdo telling us all how we should be grateful to be subjects of the current queen. I don't know about you but I don't see myself as a 'subject'. Many of us have moved on from that Medieval state of mind and don't see the need or even the point of having a monarch in this modern age. I am a citizen; not a subject. McMurdo bangs on that we are all subjects whether we like it or not. Pish! The days when you had to obey a monarch or be judicially separated from your head are long gone.
Maybe McMurdo should take his cue from Jesus, who said that when he became a man he put aside childish things. That includes fairy stories. We were all brought up on stories like Snow White, Cinderella and the like but when we grow up we can see that this family of Germans, with its adulterers, racists, snobs and assorted money-grubbers has not walked straight out of a Disney film! A lot of foreigners might see them that way and wave flags enthusiastically when our royalty comes to visit, but I'm sure they'd feel a lot different if they had to pay for the parasites!
I think I've said it before, but if they want to have a royal family then why don't they privatise it? Big companies would pay a fortune to sponsor them and when they go on foreign visits they could have the name of the company tattooed on their foreheads or something. Individual members could be sponsored by different companies. I'm sure we could all think of appropriate matches. It would be a winning situation for everybody: the forelock-tuggers could still have their royalty, the rest of us wouldn't have to pay for them, and the Royal Family would be happy worshipping at the altar of its god - money!
There's not much to say about Bisto FC at the moment. Bomber Brown and Craig Houston handed in an e-petition to Ibrox on Saturday. 7000 folk signed up, which isn't all that many from a supposedly 'global' fanbase. Hopefully it was printed on soft paper as budget cuts at Ibrox will mean that the petition is used as lavvy paper. Mind you, seeing the size of some of the arses on that board then A4 sheets are probably the norm; a few squares of Andrex just wouldn't cut it.
The Union of Fuckwits is demanding that the board tell everybody how many season tickets have been bought. This is desperation on their part. If most of the Bisto Kids had signed up to Honest Dave's scheme then there would be no need to demand any figures from the board. The Ibrox 1972 website could triumphantly announce all the thousands that were putting their season-book money into the Trust Fund to show how few season tickets were being bought. The fact that they aren't gloating but demanding figures from the Bisto board shows that hardly anybody has signed up to their mad scheme. So both sides are facing up to each other from a position of weakness, while the majority of the Bisto Kids keep their hands firmly in their pockets.
A wee mention, well a big mention, for one of McMurdo's regular contributors, WullieWontHe. Every day this guy trawls the internet, looking for anything that is anti-Celtic, anti-Catholic or anti-Irish. He then copies the thing whole and pastes it onto McMurdo's site. Even McMurdo's disciples can't be bothered trawling through these epic posts. Somehow, I don't think WullieWontHe can be bothered either. I think he just gets somebody in the library to tell him if the article fits with what he's looking for and then copies and pastes without reading it. If he did read the stuff through then he'd maybe realise what an arse he's making of himself.
For example, he decided the other day to regale us with some long-winded article telling us that a university professor in Montreal had written a revisionist piece about Mother Teresa, basically ripping the woman's character to bits. This Montreal professor is called Serge Larivée. One thing I was taught when doing History is to always check the credentials of whoever is writing; either they will have an agenda, be too close to the subject matter or else just be bloody hopeless historians. And so I looked up this Serge Larivée.
First, I found out what subject he teaches: Psychoeducation. Is that even a real thing? It sounds like some elite academy for Orangemen where they learn to be utter maniacs. It certainly wouldn't qualify him to carry out historical research. He also turns up on a website called, 'Rate My Professor,' where his students didn't exactly have great things to say about him. Apparently, you don't need to attend his lectures to pass the course as the exams are based entirely on the text books. Larivée's lectures just tend to be him boring everyone with stories about his life and his opinion on just about everything. It sounds like a lazy way to run a course.
Equally lazy was the research done by Larivée and his team; all they did was gather together all the books written about Mother Teresa and base their conclusions on that. They mostly relied on the writings of Christopher Hitchens, a man that courted controversy by always arguing the opposite of what everybody else was saying. He supported the Gulf Wars, saying that something needed to be done about Islamic Fundamentalism and I doubt that WullieWontHe would be quoting his book about Princess Diana anytime soon! In other words, the whole thing is a pile of shite and WullieWontHe is making a dick of himself.
He also pastes articles about institutional child abuse and Jimmy Savile; all concentrating on the Catholic Church as usual. No mention at all of senior British politicians being involved in Savile's circle of paedophiles or the UK Government's disgracefully sending poor children abroad to be used as virtual slaves. I suppose that wouldn't fit with his agenda, which the librarian keeps him right on.
Finally, my new book, 'Clash of the Agnivores' is just about finished. I've got the cosmetic stuff to do to make it look professional and then I'll upload it to Amazon. Hopefully I'll have it ready before the end of the week!
Some graduates from the Academy of Psychoeducation.
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