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Pest

Posted on 31/08/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Speculating why and when he started to behave this way was a regular occurrence in many sitting rooms during evenings when mediocre television made tawdry topics of conversation a necessity. One hypothesis was a microscopic brain tumour in the pituitary … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction | Tagged 10kg of illegal product in a carrier bag, Abdul’s, Casualty, Champagne Socialists, Community Council, Diets, ER, Fiction, Flip phones in 2021, Hair transplant, Hard hat head-butt, House, Jaggery, Matriarch, Mediocre television, Paranoia, Pest, Pituitary gland, Porcine profile, Range Rover, Salmon, Scotland, Shooting squirrels on a golf course, Sleeping policemen, Suburban cuntery, Supersized emperor penguin, Tablet, Tittle-tattle, Turkey, Union city man | Leave a comment

How to play the long game in 2019, just wait

Posted on 30/01/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Last spring I wanted the SNP to agitate for another independence referendum then and there. It would’ve been as catastrophically ill-judged as Brexit’s turning out to be. Can you keep the heid while your opponent loses theirs and parse things … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Alex Salmond, Brexit, Britishness, EU, Good Friday Agreement, Hitler, Jeremy Corbyn is a useless twat, Keep the Heid, No Deal, Northern Ireland, Omnishambles is a great word, People’s Vote, Pink Elephant, Rab C Nesbitt, Scotland, SNP, The Heebie Jeebie, Waiting, Wales | 1 Comment

The 2018 World Cup – but do I give a fuck?

Posted on 13/06/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’ve never experienced such disinterest on the eve of a World Cup before – and it’s made me wonder why. I refute that it’s due to Russia hosting it. Yes, there’s good reasons why that should matter; it’s a country … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Sports | Tagged Apathy, Brexiter, Chainmail wearing twats, Champions League, Corruption, England, FIFA, Football, Harry Kane is a mouthbreather, Hope everyone enjoys regardless, International football is shite, Is it a geopolitical issue boobie?, jingoistic sneering, Judo master, Politics, Putin, Russia, Salisbury gripes, Scotland, Sports, tubthumping delusion, World Cup 2018, You reckon Putin's had a facelift? | Leave a comment

We’ve lost the plot, haven’t we?

Posted on 27/06/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It’s a thought that I’ve been slowly coming around to for a while, and then the already tiresome, nauseating EU referendum intensified with tribal, polarised ‘debates’, a batshit crazy, cynical and malicious Orwellian photo-op and an American style political assassination. Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged 'Are we crazy' - a crazy fascist foreigner once said, England, EU, Jimmy Saville is dead and Rolf's in the nonce wing, Leave, Lecter mask!, Madness were at Glasto this year?, Nigel Farage, Northern Ireland, Remain, Scotland, Wales | Leave a comment

The EU apathy

Posted on 04/03/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Why do so many people loathe politics? Let’s start with its forms of disingenuous repetition. You know that feeling you get when you see a bunch of junk mail lying at your front door every morning? David Cameron’s series of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Adam Johnson is not related to Jimmy Saville, Apathy, Boris Johnson just won't go away, Brussels, David Cameron delivering junk mail, Do you give a fuck?, England, EU, Europe, Immigration, In or Out?, Making Plans For Nigel Farage?, Melanomas, Michael Gove, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Scottish Independence, The eye socket scene from 'A Serbian Film', UK, Wales, What if David Cameron was from Cameroon? | 3 Comments