tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post6048747010757548568..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: I’m not surprised Tory Chief Whip Andrew "Thrasher" Mitchell threw a foul-mouthed wobbler Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-62814472607994769282012-09-23T16:52:52.018+01:002012-09-23T16:52:52.018+01:00I'd never thought of Saab drivers that way - I...I'd never thought of Saab drivers that way - I shall keep an eye out for them. Experience tells me that Audi drivers are the worst offenders: inconsiderate, bullying, dangerous, yobbish - if you ever see an Audi 4x4 on the road, you can be pretty sure there's a CAUC at the wheel. Weirdly, Porsche drivers - whom one would expect to be the most offensive - seem quite reasonable on the whole. Maybe it's because they know that they won't be given the benefit of the doubt if pulled over.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-9825185150048826782012-09-22T14:29:15.968+01:002012-09-22T14:29:15.968+01:00Forget the wicker basket and the bike . I bet he ...Forget the wicker basket and the bike . I bet he drives a Saab. Saab drivers always seem to be like him . Nice cars but not nice drivers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-65520243257211297172012-09-21T22:32:56.706+01:002012-09-21T22:32:56.706+01:00In the first episode of "Parade's End&quo...In the first episode of "Parade's End" the Reverend Duchemin [Rufus Sewell] turns to a male guest at the breakfast table and says "You look tired, sir. You have the look of a chronic self-abuser".Richard Beaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-76216294053435569782012-09-21T20:51:42.695+01:002012-09-21T20:51:42.695+01:00A patient who still favours his hair in a fringe a...A patient who still favours his hair in a fringe at the age of 56, while not disguising that it has turned grey, may be suffering a form of arrested development that cannot differentiate between what is appropriate to the child and to the man.<br /><br />I would like to study this case further. It might be, for example, that at the age of 9, an ear-tweaking for scrumping apples on the family estate administered by his father's man of business might have led to retaliation with a well-aimed catapulted plum. The paternal thrashing that could well have followed might well have set in train a pattern of respect/antagonism vis a vis authority figures which could conceivably continue to this day. In this context, any precipitate action by an authority figure might reinforce the impact of the childhood trauma that lies beneath, with potentially unseemly consequences.<br /><br />I imagine that these are the sort of factors that influenced our Prime Minister in his advice to make a begrudging and carefully nuanced semi- apology, pretend to be contrite to the lower orders and try not to be such a CAUC next time.A Behavioural Psychologist Writesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-25254192670288966582012-09-21T19:24:15.719+01:002012-09-21T19:24:15.719+01:00It's a very charitable interpretation which so...It's a very charitable interpretation which some might see as a variation on the ingenious and highly successful Moss-Scruton defence. <br /><br />"M'lud, this existential crisis was triggered by something as trivial as PC Snodgrove's insistence on a bicycle route redeployment that my client interpreted as a challenge to his status and authority. The fact that it followed the tragic realisation that no one in his professional life took him seriously either must surely be a mitigating circumstance to invoke the mercy of the court. The use of the words "Out of my important way you unspeakably oikish pleb who can't recognise a toff when you see one" of which the defence does not admit, must be seen in that context".<br /><br />That should do the trick.A Lawyer Writesnoreply@blogger.com