Nov 10, 2023·edited Nov 10, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage
As a former Telegraph reader, I still get its endless sales emails with snippets of articles. Thus am I constantly reminded of the sheer vacuity of its 'conservatism' - a rag-tag mixture of things like: whinging about 'the attack on landlords' (meaning: their £100k+ earner readership looking to park their surpluses in property only now get 20% tax relief instead of 40%); a have-it-both-ways mixture of whinging about celebrities and playing at celebrity fandom; and, of course, running for cover when any politician says anything too conservative. (I exempt Allister Heath and Allison Pearson from this assessment as both still turn out decent journalism).
But on a more serious note: the real Peer-Pressure Elephant in Liberalism's Room is the vast academia 'higher education' sheep-dip through which tens of millions of our future professional, mangerial and administrative classes have passed, emerging with its Social Justice catechism literally dripping off them. End of rant.
Is there anything more ripe for satire than the status-seeking activities of those who aren't poor but aren't as rich and respected as they feel they should be? Well done, Sir!
The chuckles aside, I genuinely have a friend who does 3 Christmas trees. Not for one upmanship, she's just extraordinarily creative and festoons her entire house in all manner of festive draperies for about 6 weeks of the year. She doesn't read the Torygraph.
I totally agree with Graham and the sewer of the current education system...I shudder to think what the future holds.
My son has a science teacher who attends school dressed as a woman (he's a man and has retained his facial hair). He did not explain to the 15 year old working class boys he was teaching how he/she/it wished to be addressed. This teacher is also clearly middle class. No self respecting working class bloke would adopt such an affectation.
As a once idealistic journalist wannabe 35 years ago, I penned a short interest article on the old household marital battle over the which way the toilet paper come off the roll - over? - or under? That topic is always good eyecatcher for every new generation of ears.
Mr Gage: Unless I missed it, you did not find it worthy of a smack or two that Christmas is on the front burner when Thanksgiving is barely above the horizon? (Yeah I know that's a colonist thing but you've got nothing that's been erased?) OTOH I have a photo taken August 19 of Christmas (No! No! Holiday!) crud in full array at Costco. Perhaps it is I who has been grinched by relentlessly moving mores. All the best, as always.
Two or three Christmas trees? I have noticed as I have aged that our tree get smaller and smaller. When younger we had a very expensive artificial tree. I would set it up at my wifes insistence the day after Thanksgiving. An all day choir. When we left the city of lakes for the country side of lake I sold that "tree" for a 1/10 of what I payed for it. Then it was the, how much tree can we squeeze into the house time. Thank you God for old age. It is now a small tree that can be put up and down in just an hour.
As a former Telegraph reader, I still get its endless sales emails with snippets of articles. Thus am I constantly reminded of the sheer vacuity of its 'conservatism' - a rag-tag mixture of things like: whinging about 'the attack on landlords' (meaning: their £100k+ earner readership looking to park their surpluses in property only now get 20% tax relief instead of 40%); a have-it-both-ways mixture of whinging about celebrities and playing at celebrity fandom; and, of course, running for cover when any politician says anything too conservative. (I exempt Allister Heath and Allison Pearson from this assessment as both still turn out decent journalism).
But on a more serious note: the real Peer-Pressure Elephant in Liberalism's Room is the vast academia 'higher education' sheep-dip through which tens of millions of our future professional, mangerial and administrative classes have passed, emerging with its Social Justice catechism literally dripping off them. End of rant.
Is there anything more ripe for satire than the status-seeking activities of those who aren't poor but aren't as rich and respected as they feel they should be? Well done, Sir!
"Middle class anxiety farming" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The chuckles aside, I genuinely have a friend who does 3 Christmas trees. Not for one upmanship, she's just extraordinarily creative and festoons her entire house in all manner of festive draperies for about 6 weeks of the year. She doesn't read the Torygraph.
I totally agree with Graham and the sewer of the current education system...I shudder to think what the future holds.
My son has a science teacher who attends school dressed as a woman (he's a man and has retained his facial hair). He did not explain to the 15 year old working class boys he was teaching how he/she/it wished to be addressed. This teacher is also clearly middle class. No self respecting working class bloke would adopt such an affectation.
As a once idealistic journalist wannabe 35 years ago, I penned a short interest article on the old household marital battle over the which way the toilet paper come off the roll - over? - or under? That topic is always good eyecatcher for every new generation of ears.
Mr Gage: Unless I missed it, you did not find it worthy of a smack or two that Christmas is on the front burner when Thanksgiving is barely above the horizon? (Yeah I know that's a colonist thing but you've got nothing that's been erased?) OTOH I have a photo taken August 19 of Christmas (No! No! Holiday!) crud in full array at Costco. Perhaps it is I who has been grinched by relentlessly moving mores. All the best, as always.
Two or three Christmas trees? I have noticed as I have aged that our tree get smaller and smaller. When younger we had a very expensive artificial tree. I would set it up at my wifes insistence the day after Thanksgiving. An all day choir. When we left the city of lakes for the country side of lake I sold that "tree" for a 1/10 of what I payed for it. Then it was the, how much tree can we squeeze into the house time. Thank you God for old age. It is now a small tree that can be put up and down in just an hour.
This truly is the golden years.
Quite a lot of fun, it is.
Yet you read the telegraph and do the surveys:) so adding to their readership. Enjoyed the article and the comments after👍
Hi Oxford Sour. I’m bored
Where do I purchase MDNA? I think I need it.
Not sure if I already posted this.
I love you Christopher Gage even after I found out you were a Milleniial millennium sp? Whatever. Thanks spell check.