Londoners: Madonna insults you

"I can't believe how people don't like to work" this statement makes zero sense to me.

on a related note, did any else see bob monkhouse being interviewed on the benny hill bio-doc: where he said that it was no longer "politically correct to refer to people as working class", and so instead referred to the kind of girls bh favoured as "factory girls"?

this is as good as the doc i once saw on edward heath which said heath had had a hard time in the tory party when young because of his COCKNEY ACCENT?!?

Nude Spock, I don't know, maybe she did, maybe she didn't. Fact is she's not there now and it's not as if being rich was something that just *happened* to her, so obviously she has worked hard somewhere along the line.

John Major's accent must have gone very upwardly-mobile if his brother Terry is anything to go on. Meantime the accent of Fettes college boy Blair slips a few notches towards 'Estuary English' with every passing year.

(pps katie getz bettah as she gets oldah too obv)

Ahem.

that's irony, folks!

And given our proclivity to visit this board in lieu of working, shouldn't we all just hush our mouths, too?

yeah we probably should be getting back to our jobs, however like Alan i am too traumatised :)

Us Londoners aren't lazy, we simply get things done quicker.

We have 1 Jan, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Whitsun (Both in May those two), August Bank Holday, Christmas and Boxing day. = 8.

Madge is running her own record label yeah, but it's one that's leaking money left right and centre so she can't be doing it all that well.

Re: madonna. I'll quote Kenny: "Madonna's an anreoxic old whore who wore out her welcome mat years ago and now she speaks with a British accent and should go fuck herself."

Thank you.

Right - but as I explained before, this is NOT what dear old Madge does. She pays somebody to do something (ie. renovate her mansion) then clogs up the entire process by insisting on consulting her feng shui expert every five seconds about the positioning of a vase.

I think it's then a bit rich for her to complain that the process is taking too long.

She must be driving those builders absolutely crazy.

Also, there are obviously huge problems with poverty in bits of the US, but then there are here too.

(perhaps i am being unfair here: the builders who reroofed our block of flats VERY NEARLY landed us with a multi-million pound lawsuit wiv our neighbours thanks to not bothering to stick to the scaffolding agreement THEY SIGNED - if we had lost the case i would have lost my flat; that summer = closest i ever was to a nervous breakdown)

Got our 1950s Prestcold fridge fixed during the summer (on one of the hottest days) and, despite being much more of a palaver that the fellow was expecting (I'd stabbed a freon feed with a chisel while defrosting; but this aging monster required much more restoration to the compressor to get it working again), and taking him an entire appointment-filled afternoon, he didn't charge me any more than his phone quote.

Had an Ikea kitchen unit with Bristan taps plumbed in last year by a lovely laid-back fellow who chatted about jazz and reggae over milky tea. The taps were missing a part, which meant a second visit to complete the job and, again, no additional cost was incurred.

And then there's the heroics of our removal men last September, who worked like *fuck*.

I suspect Madonna's builders are taking the piss because it's Madonna.

Ha ha ha ha, and again

How would one regulate this 'aspiring musicians not having to pay taxes' idea, I wonder. If someone can knock out an e minor down the job centre they're let of the hook?

so that's who that crazy tramp on the tube was

Very Bay City.

http://www.music-videos.duncans.tv/images/madonna-train.jpg

Whole of London = "shut up, when do you ever get the Tube?"

That's why i never get the tube anymore, fed up up of seeing Madonna's leathery old face in the seat opposite

Madonna won't be voting for Ken Livingstone - surely she won't be voting for anyone, since she's still a US citizen AFAIK?

Madonna doesn't have to live here. If America's such a paradise and Britain is so crap, why doesn't she go home?

...in fact, Madonna is better placed to live anywhere in the world she likes than 99% of the popn.

Like aspiring musicians can *afford* to drive a car in London?

Actually, I don't know that you have to be a British citizen to vote. My Canadian bandmates were all able to vote - they were on the electoral register because they were paying council tax.

*UNLIKE* "No taxation without representation" America, of course.

Madonna is better placed to live anywhere in the world she likes than 99% of the popn.

Perhaps Malawi? She seems to like their children well enough.

Madonna doesn't have to live here. If America's such a paradise and Britain is so crap, why doesn't she go home?

-- Grandpont Genie, Friday, March 28, 2008 9:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol logic of racism

xpost re Canadian bandmates - Canada is still in the Commonwealth right?

I.e. you have to be EU/Commonwealth citizen to vote.

It's like the Boston Tea Party never happened

that seems dumb. surely if you pay any sort of municipal taxes you should have a say in who decides how they're spent.

i think u get sent voter cards on basis of paying council tax? it might be legally iffy but i'm sure non-citizens in practice can vote. it's not like they ask for a birth certificate or whatever when you're put on the system.

Not in my borough. They don't even use the same database for addresses.

I know this cos I had to phone up and complain cos they sent a blank form to the house rather 2 forms for the 2 flats. I said don't they know who lives there from the council tax and they said no it's a different system.

We could teach Robert Mugabe a thing or two about electoral fraud!

Non-EU peeps who pay council tax can vote in council elections and for the mayor but not for an MP. (I think.)

Not according to the London Elects website.

This is what happens when you marry a Tory Boy.

Madonna needs to STOP and THINK.

Does she really want to step onto that rally stage and link hands with Jimmy Tarbuck, Matt Willis and legendary UK squash champion Jonah Barrington?

Does Dave Q still live in this "poor little piss-hole"?

At last, a candiate we can all get behind!

http://www.nigelhaversalliance.com/

Yo Poo - my block of flats was actually visited by council foax who were signing people up to vote - this was about two months ago. They said I could vote for Hackney council elections but not for an MP.

But yes, the London Elects site makes it seem that I can't vote for the mayor.

Yeah it seems to say you can't get on the electoral register if yr not Commonwealth/EU citizen - I'd have thought you need to be on that to vote in any elections including council elections. Council employees not knowing what the fuck they're on about shocka maybe? Or they just don't really care if you're legally allowed to vote but in more important elections people more likely to check (still not very likely)?

I wonder how many council employees are Commonwealth/EU citizens.

Sounds like something Boris might say

I wonder how many council employees are Commonwealth/EU citizens.

97,841.

Is Nazi Boris actually registered to vote in London or only in his constituency of Henley-on-Rhine?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/31/nato.usa

"An ageing pop diva is not an excellent analogy for Nato. What they need is a go-get-the-bad-guys, Rambo-meets-Arnold Schwarzenegger approach," he said.

i.e. "we want sixtysomething MEN not fiftysomething WOMEN."

A better analogy for NATO is the fact that it nearly spells NAZI.