tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post2266065847794436614..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Twenty-six more weird left-liberal beliefsScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-61785881734630043642012-01-28T11:13:08.535+00:002012-01-28T11:13:08.535+00:00Thanks, Alexksandr - glad you enjoyed it. By the w...Thanks, Alexksandr - glad you enjoyed it. By the way, I did another list of strange left-liberal beliefs in December:<br />http://scottgronmark.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-30-inexplicable-left-liberal.htmlScott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-77103368065531278442012-01-28T03:58:00.736+00:002012-01-28T03:58:00.736+00:00I agreed with a few of these, they were spot-on.
A...I agreed with a few of these, they were spot-on.<br />Although there a few I couldn't help but find in bad taste.<br />Still though, fantastic post and position.Aleksandrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415692247487542291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-82780839866382940642011-11-20T18:49:29.569+00:002011-11-20T18:49:29.569+00:00Now, now, ex-KCS, don't get huffy just because...Now, now, ex-KCS, don't get huffy just because your government is too incompetent to "stoke the Euro Federast gravy train". When we see how your George Osborne keeps agreeing to pay out money to keep the Euro alive when you aren't even members of the Eurozone we open another bottle of Krug champagne (paid for by Brussells, of course) and laugh and laugh and laugh...<br /><br />If you should ever travel again through the small but beautiful paradise that is Luxemburg, our police will instantly arrest you. If it isn't her day off. <br /><br />But enough of this - I must go out and spend some more of your money. Hahahahaha!Enraged Luxembourgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-31741811505181433482011-11-20T18:42:17.053+00:002011-11-20T18:42:17.053+00:00I read your comment in the recovery position, as y...I read your comment in the recovery position, as you suggested, Mr Moss. Good advice. If we could only find a way of hunting down these ridiculous pipsqueak Nazi officials and subject them to ridicule before stripping them of their job titles, income, public sector pensions and trousers, what a much nicer country this would be. <br /><br />I suspect that the mean-minded inadequate responsible for this decision - and for issuing a series of vile threats to a venerable and much-valued British institution - was enraged by the evidence of High Culture being celebrated, and that if Sunwook Kim had been the lead singer in a band called The Snot Biscuits (or similar) and had been studying InternatIonal Terror Creation Studies at UCL, the concert would have been allowed to go ahead, probably with a Lib-Dem cabinet minister attending (especially if Sunwook was a "looker").Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-23832833156904683552011-11-19T12:30:54.330+00:002011-11-19T12:30:54.330+00:00Alfred, when you play Schubert's Impromptus, t...Alfred, when you play Schubert's Impromptus, that is the whole world, there is nothing else.<br /><br />I will not argue with you about the UK Border Agency.<br /><br />Your friend <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/11/outrage-uk-immigration-bans-korean-pianist-from-london-festival.html" rel="nofollow">Norman</a> might, though. He has discovered that Mr Kim offered to play for free and UKBA still said <i>non</i>.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-39154296990953953792011-11-19T11:21:55.699+00:002011-11-19T11:21:55.699+00:00I've never met an enraged Luxembourger, For t...I've never met an enraged Luxembourger, For the most part, they're a dull and placid bunch which no doubt stems from their happy experience of neutrality during the war and the subsequent history of coming up with ingenious new ways of stoking the Euro Federast gravy train, such as the luxuriously appointed European Court of Justice which lends such distinction to the world of Eurpean jurisprudence. So well done for getting excited, EL.<br /><br />Some cruel commentators might point out that a significant proportion of your GDP stems from a financial sector which is so under- regulated as to attract the sort of investor who would be subject to obligatory suspicious financial transaction reporting in other EU capitals. Still, as well as being the money-laundering capital of Europe you can claim the honour of hosting the Schengen Convention, which has removed all border controls within Europe, allowing us all to get to know so many interesting foreigners who,sadly for you, tend to rush through your country to get somewhere interesting.ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-58468222983751800992011-11-18T19:55:39.217+00:002011-11-18T19:55:39.217+00:00We have the highest per capita GDP in the world, E...We have the highest per capita GDP in the world, English Pig! You, with your debt mountain and your riots and your evil British so-called Empire and your under-performing Rugby team - who are you to sneer at us? We may be small, but we're rich, and "handy" - we probably have a bigger army than you do these days. Be warned, rosbif Englischer (we are trilingual, by the way - unlike your bloated, overpopulated hell-hole of a country, where most people can't even speak English properly) - any more of your snooty high-handedness and we will attack you with all the ferocity of a pit-bull with a banger up its bottom!<br /><br />Forget the EU - we demand a place on the UN Security Council!Enraged Luxembourgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-80231869371261253952011-11-18T15:46:13.878+00:002011-11-18T15:46:13.878+00:00David Moss. The Sunwook Kim debacle. I have to go ...David Moss. The Sunwook Kim debacle. I have to go with the Border Agency on this one. There are currently 1m+ unemployed in the 16-24 age group in the UK. Why should a S. Korean pianist be allowed to deprive a young British musician of a job? Did your Academy check with the Job Centre in Wimbledon wether they had any pianists up to concert pitch who could handle the Late Sonatas? Anyway, Beethoven was not a very nice person - he said horrible things about my hero Napoleon.Brendelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-34057952902666569772011-11-18T08:53:49.901+00:002011-11-18T08:53:49.901+00:00Probably best to start reading this comment in the...Probably best to start reading this comment in the recovery position. It'll save time.<br /><br /><b>In the matter of Article no.41:-</b><br /><br />I went to a concert last night, one of a series in the Wimbledon Music Festival. Our host started by apologising for a change to next Wednesday's programme, when the South Korean pianist Sunwook Kim was due to play Beethoven's last three piano sonatas.<br /><br />Mr had been booked 18 months ago. In the event, he will be replaced by John Lill.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Mr Kim is studying conducting at the Royal Academy of Music. He is in the country on a student's visa.<br /><br />Enter the UK Border Agency.<br /><br />Mr Kim can study. He can even appear in concerts where there is a conductor – that amounts to studying conducting. But he can't appear in solo recitals with no conductor.<br /><br />Rules is rules. Sometimes. And the sanction?<br /><br />Our host had rung the Academy and been told that, at the outside, if Mr Kim appeared, they, the Academy, could be closed down.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-17315289728777584702011-11-17T18:07:23.725+00:002011-11-17T18:07:23.725+00:00OK, I will. British peoples' rights and freedo...OK, I will. British peoples' rights and freedoms are much safer in the hands of a European Court populated by recently qualified Polytechnic law lecturers from Latvia than the High Court and Parliament.<br /><br />We must regard Luxembourg, with its population the size of Croydon and its long history of...errr its long history, as an equal partner in our EU monetary and economic policyex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com