Who do you think you are?

....with Jeremy Paxman. For some reason, he reminds me quite strongly of
Champ.

 

Nah.

 

I was thinking that too...

 

Never seen Champ cry, though.

 

There was a similar thing happened in the Shetlands. Social workers
turned up and took all the sheep into care.

 

Heh.

I don't think his cosy existence prepared him for discovering his rellies a
hundred years back were dying of starvation and TB in the slums of Glasgow.

 

It's a middle-class thing. Just a few generations back (more recently in
many cases) most of our ancestors were fairly unremarkable, doing
perfectly ordinary jobs in the cities (shoveling shit) or the farms
(shoveling shit).

 

Aim for the groin, it works every time.

 

I watched that. Fucking *shameful*, and even more shemful the gagging
order remained in place for 16 years afterwards. Not (I strongly
suspect) to protect the children, but to protect the council cunts and
prevent "embarrassment".

And the two bitches responsible are still working with kids. Words fail
me.

 

Jeremy Paxman middle-class? You surprise me.

 

The "undeserving poor".

 

It was amazing how a 'no' answer was taken as 'yes', and once or twice
there was blatant leading the kids on to say something incriminating. I
also suspect the tossers in charge had been reading too many Stephen
King books.

 

Champ said...

How can a film about the Jamaican bobsleigh team make you cry?

 

Run Silent, Run Deep is another one without a single sniffle in it.

 

Champ said...

Recognition at last.

 

I've seen it a couple of times, and never had the slightest urge to weep.
It'll be like, you're at one end of the sofa, sobbing into your chocs and
Kleenex, and I'm at the other end with a can of beer on the go, making
derisory commments about the vacuous hippy eco-bollocks.

"Heartless bastard."
"But it's so dumb. I mean, look at..."
"You don't understand!"

 

I suspect it's entirely mutual.

Phil

 

Indeed. Think who Platy'd have to have fucked.

 

I can't watch that any more. I've become so over-sensitised I start
sniffling before the opening credits are finished.

 

Apart from the detrimental effect on the kids in the places affected, it
set back the credibility of social workers all over the place. There are
many fine, dedicated people working in that field, but the clueless
muppets and wooly-headed twats responsible for this type of mess colour
people's perception of the whole profession.