judy garland's ding dong the witch is dead, no 2 in charts

[Carstairs]

Are you genuinely implying that me wishing 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' reaches number 1 makes me absent of any humanity?

Rejoicing in the death of anyone, and demonstrating your glee in such a childish manner, is pretty unsavoury, wouldn't you agree?

 

[dazdon]

Mourn for her you bunch of ill feeling bastards.

Be fake and allow yourself the right to be a hypocrite and weep like the grief professionals do.

Watching this bunch of crawling whining hand wringers on TV is making me gag.

Put her funeral processions route through the North and give the population tomatoes to sling at her box.

 

[blue81]

Spot on, you don't hear blacks being told to respect the KKK, no one expects Jews to rate Hitler as a person so why the fuck are northern working class lads being expected to cry over this vile woman?

I know the mods won't like this post, well two of them anyway but fuck them, the class war on BM these days is beyond a joke and the artificially middle class mods are the worst of the fucking lot.

Hitler and the Jews as a comparison, you are a massive fucktard

Both fucked up a society of people. I notice the black/KKK thing didn't offend you?

Wind your neck in.

Northern, working class people have every right to despise the women and the ills she inflicted on our people.

So whats your stance when Mandela (proven terrorist) dies...... bet that'll blow your mind!

 

[BlueBilly]

Are you genuinely implying that me wishing 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' reaches number 1 makes me absent of any humanity?

Rejoicing in the death of anyone, and demonstrating your glee in such a childish manner, is pretty unsavoury, wouldn't you agree?

Feel free to ignore the rest of my post so as to appear correct and superior.<br /><br />-- Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:27 pm --<br /><br />

Hitler and the Jews as a comparison, you are a massive fucktard

Both fucked up a society of people. I notice the black/KKK thing didn't offend you?

Wind your neck in.

Northern, working class people have every right to despise the women and the ills she inflicted on our people.

So whats your stance when Mandela (proven terrorist) dies...... bet that'll blow your mind!

...

 

[Carstairs]

I'm not trying to appear correct or superior Billy, I just find the scenes of people rejoicing over an elderly lady passing away to be absolutely abhorrent.

And if I must comment, I think your rationalization of the "campaign" to get the song to No. 1 in the charts is "a very effective protest against Thatcher's estimated £10m funeral procession", well then that seems like a rather uninspiring excuse for something which, deep down, I suspect you know is deeply distasteful.

 

[Main Stand Hotdog]

As someone born in the middle of her reign and can remember very little I feel very numb to all this.

I'm not in the slightest bit offended by the fact this song has emerged in the charts or the partying and celebrating. It does however all feel very forced almost as if the News Channels went to a few SUs around the country and handed out a few fuck maggie t shirts, cheap champers and a few photocopies of her face to dance on, then shouted "action".

I also think being offended by any of this seems completely ridiculous, the woman has been ridiculed and openly despised for years by large sections of society. To suddenly be all "Well I never!" over seeing people 'revel' in her death as if you never saw it coming seems a bit naive.

She had a good innings not a sudden, untimely or tragic death. Throughout her long life she caused riots, civil unrest, mass unemployment and poverty. A cheeky song making it's way back up a chart list (That very few people over the age of 18 actually pay attention to) is hardly desecrating her memory. Christ, compare this song to the footage of Gadaffi's corpse being dragged out of that sewer pipe.

I don't think this song in the charts is a sign of the desensitising of a nation, I think it's more of an indication that most people in my generation (perhaps more likely to download music) are far more familiar with the Spitting Image puppet and charachatures that were constantly presented to us as we grew up, rather than with MT the person and have consequently given her a panto villian style send off.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

People can celebrate her death if they want to, they have that right if it makes them feel better.

Not for me, though. I'd rather show my disapproval by giving her death no significance, if I reach a point where I'm celebrating somebodies passing then I can't help but take that as a sign that in some way they've won. They must hold some kind of psychological sway in my life.

The biggest insult you can give somebody like Thatcher is completely disinterest. But that was never realistically going to happen.

 

[Carstairs]

...but pantomime villains aren't real people, with real relatives.

 

[dazdon]

...but pantomime villains aren't real people, with real relatives.

She didn't treat people with humanity and so the fact other people don't treat her with humanity should be ok with her.

If you want to let her passing flow over you with complete ease then good for you.

However she was an utter thundercunt and deserves what she gets.

I will not be having a street party but on wednesday when they inter the monster i'll have a slight smile on my face.

 

[Plaything of the gods]

As someone born in the middle of her reign and can remember very little I feel very numb to all this.

I'm not in the slightest bit offended by the fact this song has emerged in the charts or the partying and celebrating. It does however all feel very forced almost as if the News Channels went to a few SUs around the country and handed out a few fuck maggie t shirts, cheap champers and a few photocopies of her face to dance on, then shouted "action".

I also think being offended by any of this seems completely ridiculous, the woman has been ridiculed and openly despised for years by large sections of society. To suddenly be all "Well I never!" over seeing people 'revel' in her death as if you never saw it coming seems a bit naive.

She had a good innings not a sudden, untimely or tragic death. Throughout her long life she caused riots, civil unrest, mass unemployment and poverty. A cheeky song making it's way back up a chart list (That very few people over the age of 18 actually pay attention to) is hardly desecrating her memory. Christ, compare this song to the footage of Gadaffi's corpse being dragged out of that sewer pipe.

I don't think this song in the charts is a sign of the desensitising of a nation, I think it's more of an indication that most people in my generation (perhaps more likely to download music) are far more familiar with the Spitting Image puppet and charachatures that were constantly presented to us as we grew up, rather than with MT the person and have consequently given her a panto villian style send off.

Good post. A fresh perspective. And apt use of "reign".

So, how many people were actually out slurping cheap bubbly and dancing in the street? More or less in total than attended Chester's last home game? What proportion of the country would that be? This has been massively blown up by the media. We are getting wall-to-wall Thatcher and anything to fill the news time. Expect the journos to blow themselves out before the funeral and then get a second wind on the day.

And how many BMers have been out actually celebrating, beyond mouthing off on here? I had no love at all for Thatcher and my reaction is essentially the slight "thank heavens it has happened, the old cow" side of "it had to happen some time". She didn't affect me personally during her premiership 'reign' as I mostly did that myself by giving up a job I hated at the start of what turned out to be a nasty recession. I think she fucked up this country with what she did and, especially, what she didn't do for the country to mitigate the problems she caused for so many people and prepare the country for the future. Pissing away the North Sea oil bonanza and what she got for selling off the family silver on the cheap to her rich buddies was not preparing the country for the future. Her energy 'policy' was to scrap indigenous fuel production and buy energy on the world market. The country has never had an energy policy since and look at the mess we're in - or rather, wait until we start having regular blackouts to realise quite what a mess we're in.

Back on topic-ish again, I posted this earlier today in the RIP Market Thatcher thread. A pretty good prediction of the twatter reaction as it happens, or so I hear.

Courtesy of Martin Belam, 12:44 PM - 28 Dec 12: