QuoteWing Commander David Stubbs pays tribute in his inimitable fashion.
I've deliberately not read anything in Irish newspapers (well, the Examiner or IT, I refuse to read the rag anymore) or listen to it on radio - I switch over to Lyric when they start on. In Russia they're trying to make more of it than there is, when you hear the likes of Michael Graham and his likes in the UK saying how she brought down the Iron Curtain with Ronnie R. None of it makes sense. And it brings me back to Summer 1997, a week before Diana died in a crash, the Sun and other papers (including broadsheets) were scandalising her for shacking up with an arab, the photo of her diving off a speedboat with Dodi was front page. They were filleting her. A week later and she's gone from queen of tarts to queen of hearts. It wouldn't sell to fillet thatcher now, more money will be made from thrashing her "given appropriate time".
I'm with Macy, we refuse to learn from history - look at the rise in support for FF, FG being elected, Mick the D!ck noonan being allowed to represent the public (and Republic). It boils down to money and ad sales, nothing else matters.
Wing Commander David Stubbs pays tribute in his inimitable fashion.
That's wonderful.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Horrible, nasty woman. Glad she's finally gone.
'R1 Chart show will not play full Thatcher row song': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791
The Wizard of Oz song at the centre of an anti-Margaret Thatcher campaign will not be played in full on the Official Chart Show.
Instead a five second clip of the 51-second song will be aired as part of a Newsbeat report, Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper has said.
Sales of Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead have soared since the former Prime Minister's death on Monday, aged 87.
Mr Cooper called the decision "a difficult compromise".
The song is set to take the number three spot in Sunday's countdown, according to the Official Charts Company.
Speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat, Mr Cooper said: "The decision I have made is I am not going to play it in full but that I will play a clip of it in a news environment.
"When I say a news environment, that is a newsreader telling you about the fact that this record has reached a certain place in the chart and here is a clip of that track.
"It is a compromise and it is a difficult compromise to come to. You have very difficult and emotional arguments on both sides of the fence.
"Let's not forget you also have a family that is grieving for a loved one who is yet to be buried."
The announcement was followed by a statement from the corporation. "The BBC finds this campaign distasteful but does not believe the record should be banned," it read.
"On Sunday, the Radio 1 Chart Show will contain a news item explaining why the song is in the charts during which a short clip will be played as it has been in some of our news programmes."
The decision has already drawn criticism, with Radio Times film reviewer Andrew Collins accusing the corporation of "caving in" on Twitter.
Footballer turned pundit Stan Collymore was also disdainful, saying it was "amazing that our state broadcaster really does act like it's 70's Soviet equivalents at times".
The original song was performed in the 1939 Judy Garland film by characters celebrating the demise of the much-hated Wicked Witch of the East.
The campaign has been called "tasteless" by the BBC's director general Tony Hall, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and others, though few have called for the song to be banned outright.
DJ Paul Gambaccini and former director general Greg Dyke are among those who have taken the opposite position, arguing that the chart is a statistical reality that should not be editorialised.
Ding Dong!, attributed to Garland and the cast of the movie, is also expected to feature in the Capital Chart's Big Top 40.
A spokesman for Capital FM said the station was currently "reviewing the situation".
Rival campaigns are under way to get a song considered to be more favourable to Baroness Thatcher into this week's countdown as well.
One Facebook group is seeking to boost sales of (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher, a 1980 track by the punk band Notsensible.
That news came as a surprise to band member Steven Hartley, who told the BBC News website the song had been conceived as a satirical swipe at the former Conservative leader.
"We were of Thatcher's Britain - just a bunch of ordinary north-west lads from a north-western town," said guitarist Hartley, who nonetheless said it would be "great" if the song charted.
I think I remember that other ****take from the 80s:
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I once met her in a War
Playing the part of a latter-day Boadicea
By re-capturing a village at the South Pole
And giving in to the UDA
Oh yeah baby, it really moved me
What they said.Originally Posted by Sleepingpartner
And that rhyme immediately above is supposed to be funny?
£10,000,000 being bandied about as the cost of her funeral.
I'm horrified - it's not nearly enough.
Not when you consider the size of the stake and the amount of garlic needed.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
I thought she was a witch, not a vampire?
I briefly felt sorry this morning when I saw later pictures of her... and then I remembered her Finchely quote again and then I exhaled.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Taking no chances, Bonnie. Don't ever want her roaming around again.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
So now she's a hobo?
ZOMBIE HOBO VAMPIRE WITCH!
She was scary before, now she's terrifying!
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
You forgot Tory...
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Anyone here like Mogwai? Track 7 on Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will is called George Park Thatcher Death Party. I gave it a blast earlier today. Rather good actually, great bass line.
I was just reading up on wiki to see how Mak Thatcher got his title. What a ball bag and speaks volumes of his mother's values.
Read this on the way home from work tonight, felt physically sick. Now I know the woman, Tymoshenko, is a dodgy character who used her political connections to amass a fortune and rip off her country, but this? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinio...or/478729.html
Worse, Boris the baallsack Nemtsov, while attending the trial (now delayed) of another thieving, racist scumbag Navalny, posts up that he sent over a wreath to the creatures funeral and was lauding her on fb (from a couple of brief meetings). This is the same tool who was caught with a black plastic bag full of used dollar bills totalling more than 2million and who tried to explain it as donations from friends. Tramps the lot of them.
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