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sack them all

2009-03-03T13:41:27Z

f*****king post office.

Got a set of job apps back today. They didn't reach the school I sent them to (2 different posts) because it was 6p short on postage. Now, instead of saying, "he wanted this first class, but since he is 6p short, we'll send it 2nd class" , they said "fuck him, lets keep the things in a cupboard for 3 months, let him think the schools are ignoring him because he is worthless and will never get a job again, then charge him £1 for the privalge"

Fucking hell, I know your pensions are screwed up, but my £1 ain't gonna help you. (however my tax / nat insurance from working will). Petty minded little fucking hitlers.

wow, snow!!

2009-02-04T11:56:30Z

Snow falls on Manchester,

harry_t_skull @ 2009-02-02T14:20:00

2009-02-02T14:20:14Z

Well, its a credit crisis. So what do we need to do, yep, build a 1000+mph car.

No, actually, we do.

Reason

1) We need some kind of awe inspiring engineering project to get people back interested in science and engineering

2) Look at the guy who is in charge of the rockets. Just look. He's 24 and has that tache. Wow!!! The car is using both a rocket and a jet from the new Eurofighter, but it is using a boffin taken straight from a Spitfire fighter cockpit.

harry_t_skull @ 2009-01-21T13:07:00

2009-01-21T13:16:58Z

harry_t_skull @ 2009-01-17T12:20:00

2009-01-17T12:26:39Z

“...The sons of Pullman Porters and the sons of engineers ...
...Good Morning America, how are you?”

Wow, an almost serious post from me.

So, in a few days, we will have a new ‘Leader of the Free World’. No, Mick Jagger isn’t being replaced in the ‘Stones. Barak Hussain Wolfrick Stalin Obama will become the first black, communist, gay, Muslim terrorist, Half Kenyan, Half British, Half Hawaiian, top heavy fractional President of the United States.

The whole Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bible (Quran) , and swearing in thing also brings with it songs and stuff in true pomp and ceremony.

There are two songs I think should be played.

The first is that one I quoted, City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman. The song is about a train from Illinois heading south to the Big Easy. Let’s bypass the whole Obama coming from Illinois thing, and go onto the sons of Pullman Porters.

When slavery was abolished, the freed black Americans had to get ‘jobs’. Lots ended up working the land, as Sharecroppers. Basically, the white former slave owners rented out land to their former slaves & families. The rent was taken out of the money they got from their crop (normally cotton). Also taken out were the costs of the goods such as seeds, tools and clothing bought from the plantation store. Obviously interest was charged, books and logs were kept secret, and it amounted to little more than slavery.

Many went into labouring. May have been better paid, working on the steam boats and such, still hard work, still rough and ready, drinking shooting and whatevering.

Then there was George Pullman, who was introducing luxury carriages onto trains. They were amazingly luxurious and cost a lot more to ride in than normal trains. What he needed was people to man these carriages, to serve the rich white folk who travelled. Who better than the legions of black house slaves, trained to wait on rich white folk. For these men, they got to travel the world, it was long hours, but they had their own uniform and it was respectable. To many white folk, these were the first blacks they had seen, ready to serve any need without fuss. However, Pullman knew what he was doing with pay. He didn’t pay a living wage, this made sure that the porters had to provide excellent service to get tips. And these tips added onto the wage made it a well paying profession.

It was one of the first black professions to become organised, and out of this eventually grew the people behind the civil rights movement, the people who raised Martin Luther King to become a figure head.

One would hope that even if these Pullman Porters hadn’t existed, that, 8 years into the 21st century, America would have been able to elect a black President. But even in the 1960s, the latter half of the 20th century, after the defeat of fascism in Europe, in a country which was founded on the concept that all men were created equal, kids were being attacked for not being the right colour to attend the right school. Federal Troops were escorting black kids past State Milita and into high schools. (given that in the last 10 years, we’ve seen abuse being hurled at Northern Irish primary school kids by ‘adults’ for attending school, we can’t be smug on the civilised side of the pond)

And of course, I suspect that if President Obama had to deal with the aftermath of Katrina, The City of New Orleans would not have been forgotten and rebuilding efforts would be far more complete and timely than they are.

The other song. The song that inspired Obama’s message. America is Broken, Can we fix it? Yes We Can! I want Bob The Builder at the White House!

Meanwhile, I got a message via the No, Boris cannot be Mayor of London sitonmyFacebook group. Suggesting that we support the candidate that the English Democrats (hmm I see racist people) are putting fowards. Gary Bushall. NO FUCKING WAY. All this does is prove that Boris is not the worst possible mayoral candidate for the Great Cess Pool. While we’re at it, let’s get Richard Littlejohn to head up the Immigration Department.

harry_t_skull @ 2008-12-24T17:58:00

2008-12-24T17:58:54Z

harry_t_skull @ 2008-08-30T16:03:00

2008-08-30T15:06:40Z

tomorrow (sunday), playing gig at M19 bar in Levenshulme. As it is a Dylan festival, I will play 2 dyaln tracks, but the rest is mine / old blues songs

Doors at 1ish, I'm on at 5ish

okay, this wins

2008-06-19T15:45:11Z

http://www.nodignity.com/freaks/nqm/nqm1.html

naked quiddish match lolz

hillary news

2008-06-06T23:19:36Z

Has she gone yet?

Cite City R.I.P

2008-06-03T12:01:06Z

for those south Manc residents ... end of an era ....

harry_t_skull @ 2008-05-03T15:24:00

2008-05-03T14:29:12Z

To all voters in London

You can never now make fun of Americans electing GW Bush

"Thank you"

harry_t_skull @ 2008-03-28T23:24:00

2008-03-28T23:31:43Z

so here is my gig review of Frank is Dead

Dammit, jabez Clegg, if Heathrow terminal 5 haden't opened, you'd be shit venue of the week.

1) main bar with 'today only' reduced beers was shut

2nd room wa shut

bands in 3rd room, £5 entry, 1 light for the whole joint and only serving £3+ cans of Red ~~Shite~~ stripe

as usuall, running late, nd I'm assuming photos will be shite since there was no actuall light so had to rely on the flash.

and they were turning the room into hardcore techno form 10, so there were a load of pissed off pissed chavs from 10 ish since the bands were overrunning

Oh, and FiD, one of the best gigs they've done ever.

harry_t_skull @ 2008-01-29T23:03:00

2008-01-29T23:03:39Z

okay, so my copy of BBC iplayer, which can't work due to it trying to upgrade my copy of Media player and hence falling foul of MS's software validation dictat, killing off Media player on my machine, has somehow created a whole new partition on one of my drives.

No idea how or on which one. This is confusing me somewhat.

calling on darwin

2008-01-10T13:06:26Z

harry_t_skull @ 2008-01-02T17:39:00

2008-01-02T17:42:00Z

I think this is what is known as a cry for help

The Internet ... not just for porn and bitching about movies, now letting teenages of the world make a fool out of themselves

harry_t_skull @ 2007-12-07T02:11:00

2007-12-07T02:11:57Z

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harry_t_skull @ 2007-11-11T16:18:00

2007-11-11T16:18:30Z

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori

harry_t_skull @ 2007-11-08T22:37:00

2007-11-08T22:37:30Z

and pure power balllllllad

harry_t_skull @ 2007-11-08T22:14:00

2007-11-08T22:14:26Z

thisshouldn't amuse me but it does

and pure power metal

harry_t_skull @ 2007-10-28T16:26:00

2007-10-28T16:29:56Z

I realised that I am still not coming to terms with the modern world, when piccys of the wedding of a girl I knew from primary school are to be found on her teen-age step-daughter's face~~whore~~book.

harry_t_skull @ 2007-10-14T16:18:00

2007-10-14T15:18:26Z

harry_t_skull @ 2007-06-06T17:18:00

2007-06-06T16:18:51Z

View Poll: What was Blair's greatest success?

Jules of the netherlands

2007-05-25T23:52:33Z

Watched Later with Jullain Holland.

Few points

1) Joan Armortrading rocks as a blues goddess

2) Wilco are annoyingly likable

3) I can't spell after 1 + 1/2 bottles of wine

4) The widows Orbison & Harrison were on with details of the Traveling Wilbury's DVD. If you can name a list of 8 people I wouldn't kill to get that DVD, then post it !!

harry_t_skull @ 2007-04-01T03:40:00

2007-04-01T02:44:58Z

That was a fun party.

some BBQ ness

lots of Asda export vodka ness

managed to stay awake long enough to win totally at vegan poker (no chips, so we used nuts and filter tips). However I was ending up with good hands, so wasn't too hard. Would have been hard to play my bluff game due to Re's 'aggressive style'

Nice to see Mr Kitchen again

Yet again, had conversation on bus on the way up with guy who apparently knew me but I have no fuckign idea who he was

Massive ta to Elise for dropping me back

Lyric Quiz of DEATH

2007-02-19T06:05:48Z

Okay, possibly the most evill lyrics quiz to ever be posted on LJ. There are 50 lyrics from songs. All of them have a connection to a US state. It may be that the song is about a state or a place in the state or the artist is well known from having come from the state, etc etc. There are 50 questions & 50 states, so 1 lyric per state. So, I'm looking for the name of the staet, although the song title and artist are welcome.

1 … Well, Ive wandered around the town and the city, Tried to figure the how and the why
2 … I find it very, very easy to be true, I find myself alone when each day is through
3 … I swear Im gonna live forever, Tell my maker he can wait, Im riding somewhere south of heaven
4 … Please see for me if her hair hangs long, If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
5 … But if you could heal a broken heart, Wouldn't time be out to charm you
6 … And I swear, That I dont have a gun, No I dont have a gun - Come as you are - Nivarna - Washington
7 … In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
8 … From my front porch you can see the sea, I got some oceanfront property
9 … But while there's music and moonlight, And love and romance
10 … You know what they say, No one south of Heaven's, Gonna treat you finer cause Tallulah got her training in North Carolina - Tallulah from Bugsy Malone
11 … Come here mama....and dig this crazy scene, He's not too fancy....but his line is pretty clean
12 … Now, I been lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find, Down here it's just winners and losers and don't, get caught on the wrong side of that line
13 … Well, my first friend went down when I was seventeen years old, Well, there's one thing I could say about that boy, "You gotta go"
14 … Tis summer, the darkies are gay
15 … And I caressed her, kissed her, Told her I'd die before I would let her out of my arms
16 … I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you, I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
17 … Hooker on the corner, Waitin' for a train, Drunk lyin' on the sidewalk Sleepin' in the rain
18 … You better not tell what you see, And if you're good,I'll give you candy and a quarter
19 … Hoverin' by my suitcase, tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night
20 … so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie, and you say that you already ate, and your friend says man there's plenty of food, so you pile some more on your plate
21 … A part of me might travel with you, In a freebie bucket seat for one
22 … God, in His great love and wisdom, Made the rugged Granite State;
23 … Well the magnolia blossems fill the air, You aint been to heaven till you been down there
24 … and it keeps me going through the wind and rain
25 … woman with her diamond ring, Pulls that man around by her, If it wasn't for her and her, That man I love would have gone nowhere, nowhere
26 … Well, show me the way, To the next little girl, Oh, don't ask why, Oh, don't ask why
27 … As I chase that evening sun towards my home
28 … Mum and dad, live upstairs, and the musics loud, just that we don't care
29 … Backwater done rose at Sumner, drove poor Charley down the line, Lord, I'll tell the world the water, done crept through this town, Lord, the whole round country
30 … And when I get that lonesome feelin', And I'm miles away from home, I hear the voice of the mystic mountains, Callin' me back home
31 … Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before - Hotel California - The Eagles
32 … Walking around pants by my knees, gonna make it with who I please
33 … Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up, Waxen it down
34 … Underground like a wild potato. Don't go on the patio.
35 … And if it snows that stretch down south, won't ever stand the strain
36 … ****** I don't care, what your daddy do, Cuz you know ******, girl, I'm in love with you
37 … Next day we knew last night got drunk, But we loved enough for the both of us
38 … But if we are wise, We know that there's always tomorrow
39 … Cause everyone that goes, Comes back with nothing but raves
40 … You are so graceful, have you wings? You have a face full of nice things; You have no speaking voice, dear
41 … We are vain and we are blind, I hate people when they're not polite
42 … I smoke old stogies I have found, Short, but not too big around
43 … guys out hunting and girls doing likewise, honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes
44 … I spent the best part of my losing streak, In an Army Jeep
45 … it started on 12th & Clairmount that morning
46 … So if we ever part then I'll leave you
47 … Never stop and they never die, They just keep on pumpin' on their motorbikes
48 … Bicycle rider, see see what you, To the church of the american indian
49 … Help me, information, more than that I cannot add, Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
50 … Pennies in a stream, Falling leaves a sycamore