my god, the "new troll"
as for the topic at hand, "jingoism" and "sports" I come from both a military and sports background, though both long ago now
and for me at least, something like the Olympics represent a proper channeling of aggression rather than a glorifying of a
warlike nationalism
more specifically, its pretty obvious, at least to me, that Morrissey only says most of this shit because he has been left out
had he been invited to take part, he would be playing a completely different tune
Yeah, 'new troll on the block', with an Uzi and big, swinging dick. Bubba's gonna bring order to this penitentiary. Deal with it.
Had to edit your smilies in quote to fit in mine.
You're so 'on-topic':
'The Olympics is rapidly becoming a proxy war of sorts... hardly a surprising development given the countries involved. "Olympic sport is part of the culture war," Chinese sports executive Wei Jizhong told the Denver Post, "In the culture war between China and the U.S., in the culture part, China is very weak. USA always is leading. In culture, you have theater, music; China cannot win. The only way China can compete with the USA is sports." '
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/369069/20120801/london-2012-olympics-shiwen-ye-drugs-cheating.htm
Sport. Culture. Economic Trade. s'all the same. 'Economics is War by other Methods' Sun Tzu.Von Clausewitz: I'm sure Morrissey read widely on this topic....'rollseyes'
Morrissey has always had issues with 'authentic masculinity', hence his boxing gangster 'bad boyz' Rollins groupie stuff. It's hard for a boy to become a man if his relationship with his Dad is troubled. I ain't hatin' on Moz here, I think that he was incredibly brave to 'come out' as troubled about this stuff in an era when to do so was to risk complete ridicule and ostracisation. And he did it initially in such a subtle way. But it's not 1983 anymore.....His concerts have always been a 'catharsis' for troubled males working through this stuff as much as they've been anything else. Kind of like a 'sweat shop' or 'firewalk' 'Iron John' workshop for emo dweebs and ex-jock gym steroid tattoo casualties. I think the fixation on Moz's 'sexuality' is misplaced and no-one's business anyway. He's 'homosocial'. Obsessed with other men because he had a scary time walking that bridge from a boy to a man. In that, he's not alone and that's why so many teenage boys flock to him on their 'journey'. He was so cool when he was a young'un.
Moz can't accept there's a place for Zeus Energy, "male authority accepted for the sake of the community." Imagine him at 'boot camp' ?ROFLOL! Great programme here in Blighty on Generation Trash being put through 50s military induction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lads'_Army
The Queen should take over, round up all these wacko 'pop stars' and give them a few weeks on Dartmoor with a 50s drill sergeant. Moz drones on about his nostalgia for when Britain was a 'simpler' place but he wouldn't have liked National Service or hazing rituals. Or maybe he would get a boner out of it...
Sergeant BrummieBoy introduces Mozzer to 'intellectual boot camp'
Moz is pretty 'confused' about the whole 'jinogism/nationalism' thing. The miraculous Olympic opening ceremony brilliantly showed how our brave ancestors sacrificed their lives in wars so we could all have the freedom to waste our lives partyin and txtin to Dizzee Rascal and the Arctic Mondays! #NBCFail! meant our American friends missed most of it due to censorship.
I'm proud of this country. I'm proud of our armed forces even if I disagree with some deployments. Our Royal Family are a basket case motley crue of 'mental patients' who need to pay their way. They won the sperm wars and they need to provide the taxpayer with a business plan and profitability model. But in times of war and peril, our nation has looked to them for continuity and a belief in our historical ability to morph and change no matter what. When the Olympics is over, the debt-deficit shit storm will return with a vengeance. Our health service will change/collapse but we won't go back to Dickensian squalor to pander to the neoliberal elite. We're Two Tribes and it goes way back before Tories and Labour. We're Norman and Saxon. Celt and Viking. And now we're Brick Lane Bengali, Southall Singh and Shadwell Somali.
'Somali in platforms'? A Somali in trainers winning 10,000metres has irrevocably answered the dubious questions Moz raised. He hasn't addressed that, has he? "Look mate, this is my country".
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/how-mo-farah-rejected-plastic-brit-charge
A red-hair SWM, a mixed-race woman and a immigrant black man: 3 golds. Super-Saturday. The 'opening ceremony' set out the script, the Brits have stepped up to the plate in an extraordinary outburst of cultural pride and optimism. The 'bad people on the Right' are simply stunned and crushed. It's like Les Bleus World Cup 'soccer' triumps set back Le Pen for a decade. We'll see the same effect here.
And what does Morrissey do? He trolls one of the most surprising and unexpected events in modern British cultural history. He's becoming an annoying prat / laughing stock. For me, he's a 'research topic' on the delusions of 'fame' and it's collapse under Web 2.0. But I carry a lot of residual emotional memories in my heart for a time when he balanced trolling the Royals and the Establishment with actual cutting edge Art. He could fess up and say 'geez, guys! did i fc-uk up on this one'. But he won't because he can't. Saying 'sorry' requires emotional strength and healthy psychological feeback. I'm surrounded by people who give me that and don't take any shit when I goof it. Moz is like bad Royalty, he cuckoos the first part of their motto whilst not having the Brit stiff upper lip chops for the latter part: 'Never complain. Never explain'
Think of Tom Cruise, surrounded by goldiggers and enablers, no one can ROFLOL! or 'corpse' him when he talks crazy shit. I wonder how far Morrissey is in that kind of scenario..........
You keep fighting, dude. It's just the battlefield that changes. Help your comrades stricken with PTSD/TBI if you can. It's an honour to serve your country if your country is honourably ruled. Sometimes both our countries get that wrong, acting alone or in concert. Mozs' lazy trolling of The Royals, The Falklands and The Olympics is profoundly ignorant and disrespectful and exhibits nothing but a failure to use the time his wealth has bought him to plug the gaps in his education. He wouldn't talk shit like that if he was in any pub I was in. Seriously.
Hey, you got pics of you at Fort Hood, buff and in your prime?
grunt/pougue? Lol!
Now dont holla back at me with no uppity shit, boy or I'll be on your ass before you can say 'Sweet Jeebus!'An you rilly don't want end of in the same cell as me'n' !VivaHate!....where is that dude anyway? If he wants to live, he's on a Greyhound now gettin the fc-uk out of Dodge...[straightface]
regards
BubbaBoy