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How to Discuss Pig-Gate with Your Children
There is no way whatsoever.
In fact, I’m not sure we can even discuss it within the confines of our Code of Conduct.
But clearly, as conservatives, we must decide where we stand on this. So I hereby open the discussion, although we’re not allowed to mention the key detail.
At all.
Not even once.
And don’t even try.
Don’t even hint at it.
And don’t test me.
But apart from that, go for it. The floor is open.
Wait, what? There’s a pig-gate?
It can only be done with a pop-up book.
Ryan … have you been cut off from the Internet for the past twelve hours? You have, I suspect.
I’d like to hear the reaction on the “Arab street”.
I do find it amusing that Delingpole is pictured in that article, and likely somewhat underrepresented. I highly doubt that James intended to pile-on with the Cameron-hate on the basis that he smoked weed in college. If anything, this fact is one of the few things James actually likes about David Cameron. I’d be more curious to know whether James has anything to say about the bizarre sexual rituals, but I’m pretty sure nobody cares whether a college student may have smoked weed, or whether the sky is blue, or whether ice is cold or the sun may have been said to rise in the east.
Why is it always Claire who tries to push the limits of the CoC?
I have been arguing about the pope, which is, I suppose, just as bad!
Tuesday is the day before this day.
In a Pig’s Eye becomes I, Pig.
What am I supposed to do, iWe? It’s not like we can ignore this story, can we?
This is pretty tame stuff actually, compared to some of the stories I heard from fellas I know who went to British boarding school.
Was he spade or neutered?
The only reason I’d even heard a reference to this was because the British science journal New Scientist (your source for cutting edge research and fringe lunacy) tweeted something snide but unrelated about Cameron, and follow-up comments mentioned pigs a lot. I didn’t get it.
I still don’t get it, because of the [CoC] CoC.*
*No, no, I admire the CoC, but I wanted to work some parallelism into a joke.
Claire,
I don’t see why we should be surprised by the obvious trend.
The Cultural Descent of Mankind
Heterosexual Monogamy
Heterosexual Open Marriage
Homosexual Marriage?
Transgender Whatever?
Interspecies Relationships.
Also, Claire I don’t think it is appropriate to use the p-word anymore. They have a very rich ancestry.
They now prefer to be called swine. Please Claire do be more sensitive.
Regards,
Jim
Will the Pork industry ever recover from now being both a verb and a noun?
Loo-Oooooooooooow.
Humane Society sting operation.
Canadian Back Bacon considers name change.
Is that all he did? I mean really. He’s a rich Brit and he was at a boarding school.
Ron Burgundy called – he wants his movie back.
This is such a non-story. After all, who hasn’t smoked pot or engaged in a sexual indiscretion with a pig during their college years?
Look, I went to Oxford (and the value of my degree just dropped even further). There were, it is true, rumors that things like this happened at Christ Church, but truly, I never believed them. I mean … we got drunk enough once to try to steal a deer from the Magdalen deer park on a dare. (Don’t ask me why that seemed like a good idea at the time. I don’t remember. And the deer was having none of it.) But that’s the worst thing anyone I ever knew there ever did involving liquor and an animal.
Here’s where I stand on it: I did a lot of things when I was young, living in Germany. I smoked a little pot. I drank to excess. I had relations with women that were unbecoming of a young Christian man. I got in fights. I broke in to places I shouldn’t have.
But I never put my…
Far be it from me to judge, but that qualifies one as a weirdo.
And no, I won’t be discussing it with my kids.
This gives new meaning to the colloquially a Pig in a poke.
Hold on, you mean that’s inappropriate? When did that become a rule?
Did you put sunglasses and a fedora on it along with Ray Ban sunglasses and a Boom Box and then make it lip sync to a Miami Vice soundtrack in front of federal and state authorities while videotaping it?
Not that I’ve ever seen or participated in such a spectacle. Much.
OED now includes a new definition for Kerfuffle.
It was just a pig. It’s not like he went whole hog.
Porky Pig.