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A Ricochet Challenge
I’m torn. On the one hand, I think we should all pause from our busy schedules to consider the most salacious and astonishing tabloid scandal in British history since the Profumo affair. We could surely use the comic relief.
On the other hand, the entire story violates our Code of Conduct.
I thus solicit your suggestions for appropriate, dignified, and family-friendly ways to discuss the matter of Lord Sewel. (Warning: The link is not safe for work. And do not open it in front of your children.)
The contest is open.
Published in Culture, Entertainment, Humor
Senik just looks past me as if I haven’t said anything everytime I bring this up.
I don’t know what these Puritanical Europeans are so worked up about. This sort of thing happens in the White House all the time.
Simon Templar was booted stage right for pointing it out, though. Or more accurately, that it is alleged that somebody in the White House, previously in his/her life, exchanged, um, services, for something that is also found in this scandal.
Clearly, Sewel is just another innocent victim of the vast, right-wing conspiracy.
Am I gonna get redacted? I am so excited! This would be my first!
Don’t you think it was the way he said it rather than what he said? I really do miss ST.
On the bright side. Given that its a story about an English Lord, shouldn’t we just be pleased that the prostitutes were women?
Well, the gag was directed more toward Clinton defenders circa Nineteen-Naughty-Eight.
How about this?
Peer of the realm, convivially exploring every square inch of a subject of the realm, consuming “free market” pharmaceuticals favored among the upper classes of the realm, while eschewing any clothing products manufactured by the people of the realm.
Or, POTRCEESIOASOTRWCFMPFATUCOTRWEACPMBTPOTR!
A shilling to the first person to come with a limerick using our fave new acronym.
I don’t have one yet but I’m pretty sure I’ll have to work it around Nantucket.
Gag?
You really had to go there?
I… I… ugh, I’ve been backed into a code of conduct corner!
I submit!
I’m wondering why this is even a scandal.
Maybe it’s that the hookers were only 200 pounds (price, not body weight). That’s awfully low-budget for a lord of the realm. Say, maybe that is their body weight.
Or is it that he was snorting cocaine with their help. Now that it a problem, as I suppose cocaine possession is a felony in England.
To my mind the real scandal is that he would waste so much valuable money spent for time with these ladies to make political complaints that he could make in any pub for the price of a pint of Guinness for the guy sitting next to him.
This is not a man who knows the value of a pound sterling, and therefore cannot be trusted with the public treasury.
Tu quoque, iWe. :)
And if in vino veritas, what is the Latin phrase for “hookers and blow,” and what does that get you?
The most amazing thing to me is that a person at this level can be so stupid as to think he can have sex with prostitutes without one of them trying to record the session for purposes of blackmail, fame, or money paid by a tabloid. Doesn’t this kind of disclosure seem absolutely inevitable?
Leaving his obvious personality flaws and the morals of the encounter aside, I’d fire this clown just for being incredibly stupid. And if he has any kind of security clearance, it should be immediately revoked. The ‘honey pot’ is a classic method for blackmailing and turning enemies into spies.
I wonder how many similar videos are in the hands of intelligence agencies around the world, with the ‘stars’ of said videos now working as moles within their own governments.
Finally, given that no such video has ever appeared involving Bill Clinton, I suggest he should be made director of the CIA. Because given the frequency with which he engages in this kind of behaviour, he must have Bond-level counter-espionage skills.
Blow for blow.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but suspect you are failing the challenge.
It is a reference to an alternative epic descent.
That should have been tu quoque, iWe. I’m being abused by Spellcheck.
Labour MP Neil Coyle: “It appears his own standards fell below what Parliament expects.”
One girl short, I guess.
Don’t confuse lack of quantity for lack of quality.
“How do we discuss this?” Is not the right question to me. Why would we discuss this? is the real question. So we have one more politician engaging in practices he knows are illegal, behaving as if the rules don’t apply to him, while speaking thoughts and feelings which strike me as a bit cliched and totally predictable . That a left of center Brit MP thinks Bush was controlled by Cheney and Iraq was all about oil is hardly news. What is there really to discuss?
The pound sterling hasn’t been a pound sterling in my lifetime, and from this… gentleman’s… comments about open borders and welfare, he understands that better than 99% of his… peers.
To me, the most shocking thing about the report is that he’s Labour.
I am surprised there no pics of Wild Bill Clinton or for that matter Ms Rodham and her girlfriends.
It is curious that Lord Sewell’s opinion of Jeremy Coyne while hitting the Bolivian Army marching powder is the same as mine while stone cold sober.
I don’t really even know what I’m talking about.
It is kind of depressing, really, that he is so lacking in creative verbosity. Most of us could have been far more damning (and clever at it).
Unimpressive.
Sometimes actions speak louder than words.
Though I cannot wait for Steyn’s next column. Nobody does a blow-joke like Mark Steyn. I cannot get the Jesse Helms knee replacement gag out of my mind, all these years later.
Oh! That’s okay then.
Simon would be proud of me.