#blagger

[ancient-sentrypede]

[bobbie-robron]

Think of it as… anger management.

18-Sep-2019

[wineaunt420]

I feel sorry for all the people who had to wipe their ass with tissue paper during the pandemic because of the mass hoarding of toilet roll

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

[d3adringer]

taking care and having patience in this process is so far proving to be a fucking win and i am absolutely buzzed right now. fuck youuuuu hahahahhaha

[princelythirsts]

What kind of outfit do you wear to rile up your f/o? Like what outfit do you wear and they can't take their eyes off of you?

answering this bc I figured out an outfit for my new s/i!

his main job is to be a distraction / entertainment so that’s pretty much the only kind of outfit he can wear. except maybe he’ll cover up a little if it gets cold or it’s a bad time to rile up rictus sexually.

my current idea involves a crochet bralette thing (with an under boob window), a brown leather collar (matching rictus’s harness), a wrap skirt thing tied over his tummy so you can see every curve through the fabric, a dangly necklace, and wrapped cloth on his wrists with bells or other noise makers tied to them

I like the idea of him getting more leather stuff so they match… plus he’d probably get at least one tiny baby doll head to further drive home the point…

but mostly the idea is just to make blagger look more bright and colorful (and sexually desirable) than anyone else in the vault

[spilladabalia]

Blaggers ITA

live circa 1990-91, 2 songs

[blitheringbongus]

Girlfriends

Well, you must be a girl with shoes like that

She said, you know me well

I seen you and little Steven and Joanna

Round the back of my hotel

Oh yeah

Someone said you was asking after me

But I know you best as a blagger

I said, tell me your name is it sweet?

She said, my boy it's dagger, oh yeah

I was good she was hot

Stealin' everything she got

I was bold she was over the worst of it

Gave me gear, thank you dear, bring yer sister over here

Let her dance with me just for the hell of it

[postpunkindustrial]

Stewart Home - The Assault On Culture

Stewart home - Cranked Up Really high

Stewart Home is a writer, artist, cultural critic, something something, something.

Because I am lazy here is a brief description from his Wikipedia page:

Kevin Llewellyn Callan (born 24 March 1962),[1] better known as Stewart Home, is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. His novels include the non-narrative 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (2002), and the re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005). Earlier parodistic pulp fictions work includes Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose which pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.

What I have here is a couple of his books for your perusal.

The first is The Assault on Culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to Class War

A history of the What followed the Surrealist movements and how it affected culture.

From Stewart Home's Website where you can also read this for free:

This book was written in 1987, things have moved on since then (both for the author and in the world), so please bear that in mind....

Anyway If you want to read it you can get it from my Google Drive HERE

The Second Book is CRANKED UP REALLY HIGH: GENRE THEORY & PUNK ROCK 

The title is pretty self evident but here is the blurb from Goodreads:

A lot of ink has been split on the subject of punk rock in recent years, most of it by arty-farty trendies who want to make the music intellectually respectable. Cranked Up Really High is different. It isn't published by a university press and it gives short shrift to the idea that the roots of punk rock can be traced back to 'avant garde' art movements. As well as discussing sixties garage rock and the British, American and Finnish punk scenes, Home devotes whole chapters to deconstructing Riot Grrl, Oil and the sorry saga of Nazi bonehead band Skrewdriver. This book champions the super-dumb sleazebag thud of The Ramones, The Stooges, The Vibrators, The Art Attacks, The Snivelling Shits, The Lurkers, The Queers, The Germs, The Child Molesters, The Ants and The Blaggers.

Also you can read this on his website or you can get it from my Google Drive HERE

He has his own spin on things but if you find these things worthy of reading about he is worth reading.

[wellthatwasaletdown]

I would love Harry to be chosen for the Superbowl. He’d be so out of his league. He would have an indifferent crowd (like at Cochella) his performance would be mid, his team would blame technical problems and the world would see what a career blagger he has always been.

I would love for it to happen. Harries wouldn't be able to snag tickets like they did for Coachella, so if you thought that crowd was indifferent, it would pale in comparison to the Super Bowl crowd. And football crowds are not afraid to boo you. Also, it's broadcast live to millions of people, so they wouldn't have time to edit it and enhance the crowd noise like they do for his other non-concert performances.

[ingek73]

The Observer view on Prince Harry’s court victory over Mirror Group Newspapers

Observer editorial

In his continuing campaign to bring the press to account for phone hacking, the Duke of Sussex may succeed where Leveson’s inquiry failed

Sun 17 Dec 2023 06.30 GMT

A smiling Prince Harry outside the Royal Courts of Justice, with photographers in the background.

In its defence of the civil court action brought by Prince Harry, Mirror Group Newspapers argued to the death that there was not a shred of evidence to support the Duke of Sussex’s claims of a lifetime of illegal information gathering and phone hacking. “Zilch, zero, nil, de nada, niente, nothing,” Andrew Green KC, the newspapers’ barrister, insisted in summing up. Piers Morgan, Mirror editor for much of the period in question, reiterated that denial – and took the opportunity to double down on his vindictive and blatantly self-serving assault on Harry’s reputation – in a prepared statement for the press on his doorstep on Friday. The damning 386-page judgment of Mr Justice Fancourt, published earlier that morning, tells a very different story, however.

In supporting Harry’s claims, and awarding him £140,600 in damages, it provides an exhaustive catalogue of evidence that “extensive and habitual” unlawful practices went on over a longer period at the Mirror than previously established; that the use of off-the-books private investigators and blaggers and hackers to capture personal details of Harry and his circle – and scores of other high-profile targets – was endemic at the Mirror’s three national titles from 1998 to 2011.

One dangerous consequence of these latest revelations has been renewed calls for legislative oversight of press freedom

The judgment also makes plain that the Mirror Group’s deletion of phone records and email evidence from the period, and the decision not to call senior editorial staff, including Morgan, to give evidence, must be understood as part of an ongoing culture of cover-up. What went on, the judge told the court, “was concealed from the board, from parliament in 2007 and 2011, from the Leveson inquiry, from shareholders and from the public for years”. Public trust in news, already serially undermined by political and commercial attacks, is again the victim of that denialism. One dangerous consequence of these latest revelations has been renewed calls for legislative oversight of press freedom, which a democracy must always resist.

Despite its denials, Mirror Group has paid out £100m to other litigants in out-of-court settlements. A further raft of cases will now no doubt follow. A previous test case brought by the Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati established that, even in the absence of a full paper trail, it was clear the illegal practices were “generic�� in the papers’ newsrooms from 2001 to 2006. In Mr Justice Fancourt’s assessment, the “generic” period could now extend between 1998 and 2011 – beyond both the arrest and conviction of the News of the World journalist Clive Goodman for similar practices in 2006, and – shockingly – Lord Leveson’s subsequent inquiry into the press.

When Harry first announced, five years ago, that he would make it his “life’s work” to seek justice for his family’s treatment by the tabloids, it was characterised – invariably in those same papers – as a fool’s errand. What his mission might now prove to be, however, is a half-workable replacement for the planned second phase of the Leveson inquiry, which was shamefully abandoned by Matt Hancock as culture secretary in 2018. That phase was due to examine the full extent of unlawful practice across the British press, the ways in which journalistic privileges designed, in all our interests, to hold the powerful and criminal to account in extremis, had been cynically “hijacked” to trade, at an industrial scale, in royal gossip and celebrity private lives.

Harry and others will bring further cases against Associated Newspapers’ Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch’s Sun. It is to be hoped that the disclosure and defence of those actions may serve finally to establish the exact extent and limits of a culture that has been profoundly damaging to journalistic integrity and to British public life. In their notably scant reports of the judgment – a rare royal story in which they apparently have very little curiosity – neither paper referenced those forthcoming actions. No doubt, however, until the full truth is told, lawyers for both groups will continue to be exercised by little else.

[balu8]

Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton

Clifton: The Laughing Thief

by Turk and De Groot

Cinebook

"London is wracked by devilishly clever crimes executed with infallible precision by a crack crew of blaggers, but the profits of each caper seem far below what such expert criminals should be bothering with. Moreover, each perfectly executed heist is preceded by a telephone warning from a braying braggart with the most annoying and distinctive laugh imaginable"

(Source Nowreadthis)

Clifton volume 2 The Laughing Thief – Now Read This! (comicsreview.co.uk)

[georgefairbrother]

Looking back at the careers of two talented actors actors and writers, both born this month (August) : Peter Denyer (left), born August 20th, and Ed Devereaux (right) born August 27th.

Peter Denyer (1947-2009) gained lifelong fame as Dennis Dunstable in the LWT sitcoms Please Sir and Fenn Street Gang.

He built a solid career in British television, including an ongoing role in the sitcom Dear John, written by John Sullivan (Only Fools and Horses), appeared in The Bill and On the Up, and is credited with co-writing one episode of the LWT sitcom, Romany Jones.

He also acted, wrote and directed for the stage, including collaborations with his Please Sir/ Fenn Street co-stars, and had a brief but fascinating recording career, which included Beggar Boy and Skid Row Romeo, a foray into disco (Just Another Minute) and a cracking love song called Sadie.

In later years, he became a prolific writer of pantomime - his scripts used in over 200 productions each year.

Ed Devereaux (1925-2003), whose career spanned almost 50 years, had over 100 credits in British and Australian film and television. One of the finest and most consistently successful of his generation of Australian actors, he had a major role in the 1966 Australian immigrant comedy They’re a Weird Mob (directed by Michael Powell and co-written by Emeric Pressberger), and achieved international stardom as Head Ranger Matt Hammond in Skippy (1968-70), some episodes of which he also wrote.

His versatility enabled him to move seamlessly from comedy, featuring in several of the earlier Carry On movies, to period drama like The Onedin Line and Fall of Eagles. He starred as Lord Beaverbrook in two productions, the award-winning Thames drama Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978) and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George in 1981.

In 1975 he gave one of his standout performances, a dark and intense portrayal of an armed blagger, Biggleswade, in an episode of The Sweeney (Jackpot).

Peter Denyer passed away in 2009, aged 62. According to David Barry's memoir, Please Sir: The Official History, he collapsed while walking to Cheltenham railway station, not far from his home.

Ed Devereaux passed away at home in Hampstead (UK), in 2003, aged 78.

[missoneminute]

Could you please post the lyrics of the new song

Hello! Here is what me and @suchasinistergame have. Suggestions welcome. X

It’s a life long project

Of a life on the lash

I’ve forgotten how to care

But I’ll remember for cash

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to

Light the fuse

Sing the blues

I can die if I want to

Tonight we’re gonna bring tomorrow’s happiness

Gonna live like it’s the end

I love you to death

But I must suggest

(Chorus)

You better run run run, boy

Faster than the past

Through the looking glass

If you want the night to last

Peter in the background (something) get your pants off

He’s a long time blagger

(Can’t catch this one - something in advance)

Knows the streets of Camden like the back of his hand

He’s an old time lover and a marathon man

With the strength of a thousand men

He’s a nightmare hangover

He’s a one night stand

He can eat more chicken than any man in the land

Well I’ve given up caring for happiness

When his heart gives out is when I’ll rest

(Chorus)

Because tonight we’re gonna spend all tomorrow’s happiness

If we don’t break before we bend

And tonight your soul is (something)

It’ll turn out nice again

It’s only money in the end

(Chorus)

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

[the-fratellis-lover]

Chelsea Dagger

Music Video Here

Well, you must be a girl with shoes like that She said, you know me well I seen you and little Steven and Joanna Round the back of my hotel Oh yeah

Someone said you was asking after me But I know you best as a blagger I said, tell me your name is it sweet? She said, my boy it's dagger, oh yeah

I was good she was hot Stealin' everything she got I was bold she was over the worst of it Gave me gear, thank you dear, bring yer sister over here Let her dance with me just for the hell of it

Well you must be a boy with bones like that She said you got me wrong I would've sold them to you If I could've just have kept the last of my clothes on Oh yeah

Call me up take me down with you when you go I could be your regular belle And I'll dance for little Steven and Joanna 'Round the back of my hotel, oh yeah

I was good, she was hot Stealin' everything she got I was bold she was over the worst of it Gave me gear thank you dear bring yer sister over here Let her dance with me just for the hell of it

Chelsea Chelsea I believe that when you're dancing Slowly sucking your sleeve The boys get lonely after you leave It's one for the Dagger and another for the one you believe

Chelsea I believe that when you're dancing Slowly sucking your sleeve The boys get lonely after you leave It's one for the Dagger, another for the one you believe

The Fratellis Album: Costello Music Writer: John Lawler (Jon Fratelli)