Margaret Thatcher is dead

[Pappa]

The BBC has has previously decided not to broadcast songs on grounds of taste, including God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols and the Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Yup ... the first was in 1977, and the second in 1984. Different times ... very different times.

They also didn't play The Lord's Prayer, because it's shit.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 68785.html

...The disrespect was inevitable, as millions were opposed to her not because they disagreed with her, but because she’d helped to ruin their lives. If someone robs your house, you don’t say: “I disagreed with the burglar’s policy, of tying me to a chair with gaffer tape and stripping the place bare, even taking the pickled onions, which I consider to be divisive. But I did admire his convictions.”...

...She didn’t just create unemployment, she gloried in it. Her supporters in the City revelled in their unearned wealth all the more because they could jeer at those with nothing.

But this week Thatcher fans have been unrestrained in their abuse for anyone not displaying “compassion”. Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt and accept they’ve just discovered it. They’re all going to the doctors saying: “I’ve been getting this strange sort of caring feeling towards someone who isn’t me. Do I need antibiotics?”...

[klr]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 68785.html

...The disrespect was inevitable, as millions were opposed to her not because they disagreed with her, but because she’d helped to ruin their lives. If someone robs your house, you don’t say: “I disagreed with the burglar’s policy, of tying me to a chair with gaffer tape and stripping the place bare, even taking the pickled onions, which I consider to be divisive. But I did admire his convictions.”...

...She didn’t just create unemployment, she gloried in it. Her supporters in the City revelled in their unearned wealth all the more because they could jeer at those with nothing.

But this week Thatcher fans have been unrestrained in their abuse for anyone not displaying “compassion”. Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt and accept they’ve just discovered it. They’re all going to the doctors saying: “I’ve been getting this strange sort of caring feeling towards someone who isn’t me. Do I need antibiotics?”...

I don't always see completely eye-to-eye with Mark Steel, but in this case he's spot on.

[pErvinalia]

Easy words. The come cheap.

Don't they just?

FIFY.

[Mysturji]

An interesting piece about Thatcher never really understood sport, and how any influence she exerted was usually negative:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22085707

Yet another thing to like about Thatcher, if she understood that spectator sports are basically pointless.

... and so is TV, and movies, and music, and radio, and fiction, and monopoly, and anything else people do for entertainment, right?

What a complete load of fucking shit.
I hate spectator sports, and actively avoid them and any discussion of them whenever possible, but different strokes and all that.

The point (which you obviously missed) of spectator sports (and every other form of entertainment) is well established.
Bread and circuses.

As for her (alleged) bloody pig-headed ignorance about that fact being "Yet another thing to like about her", just fuck off.

[Mysturji]

There's a campaign to get the Judy Garland version of "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" to number 1 in the music charts here. Yesterday it was at no 10 in the midweek chart, and today it's at no 5.

You can buy it for 69p on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0023NDFFO/

or 79p on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ding- ... =276479862

When's the deadline?

[Clinton Huxley]

There's a campaign to get the Judy Garland version of "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" to number 1 in the music charts here. Yesterday it was at no 10 in the midweek chart, and today it's at no 5.

You can buy it for 69p on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0023NDFFO/

or 79p on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ding- ... =276479862

When's the deadline?

I've bought it. Puerile? Yes. Childish? Yes. Funny? Yes.

[PsychoSerenity]

When's the deadline?

Midnight on Saturday.

[Mysturji]

When's the deadline?

Midnight on Saturday.

Phew! That was close!

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

R1 Chart show will not play full Margaret Thatcher song

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 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."


Ben Cooper said there had been "emotional arguments on both sides of the fence"
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."

(continued, she'll be not turning in her grave then?)

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Banning it is the best thing they could have done to boost sales of the song! Fucking idiots! Or are they...

[klr]

Banning it is the best thing they could have done to boost sales of the song! Fucking idiots! Or are they...

No such thing as bad publicity

[cronus]

Ding Dong at No 1 on Amazon, TTDD at No 5

[Thinking Aloud]

Anyone else think this is the biggest waste of energy since the mass-hysteria that passed for grieving over Diana?

[Audley Strange]

Nah the anti war protests.