Listen / Read Rev Edwards took a very interesting, compelling and complex topic and managed to say absolutely nothing of any value about it whatsoever. What a vacuous, waffling dose of pathetic piffle this was. What a waste of our time and his breath. What a perfect example of why religious people should not be [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Tuesday 3rd March 2009: Rev Giles Fraser
Listen / Read Fraser seems to have his point a little tangled up in itself. He’s taken Aristotle’s idea that if you behave like a better person you’ll eventually become one, and muddled it up with theatrical acting. And then he’s confused matters further by giving the example of people acting out gang violence (all [...]
Wednesday 4th March 2009: Rev John Bell
Listen / Read Firstly, visit Platitude of the Day to learn of Reverend Bell’s recycling of his hardly amusing anecdote. Good. Now, alcohol legislation in Scotland. They want to set a minimum price on it, to discourage the alcohol abuse made ridiculously easy by the absurd cheapness of the booze.
Thursday 5th March 2009: Dr Mona Siddiqui
Listen / Read Wanks, wankers and wanking. They seem to epitomise our current angst about everything – our fine asses, our girth and our moral decline. Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.
Friday 6th March 2009: Rt Rev Lord Richard Harries
Listen / Read What did we learn today? Well, apparently history is written by the victors. We should try to account for that by making our knowledge and understanding of history as objective and rounded as possible. And it’s a bad thing when people try to conceal history to suit a political agenda. Gee, the [...]
Saturday 7th March 2009: Canon David Winter
Listen / Read Nope. I’ve listened to that four times now and I still have no idea what he said. I don’t think he was talking English, actually. It sounded like some dialect or other of Waffle. Perhaps it was one of those languages they speak in the Principalities of Boring. It was certainly somewhat [...]
Monday 9th March 2009: Rev Joel Edwards
Listen / Read This was all pointless stupid rubbish waffle as well. Flowery meaningless dribble, dribbling out of his mouth like water from a hosepipe you can never quite turn off, however hard you twist the tap. A waste.
Tuesday 10th March 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read Lots of waffle, some more waffle, a bit more waffle and then: “It’s good that we should reflect on such issues and not leave the hard questions to the politicians.” Oh really? It’s good, is it? And here’s me thinking it was a bad thing for citizens to think for themselves about [...]
Wednesday 11th March 2009: Brian Draper
Listen / Read Of course. Why didn’t I think to make this an antethought? I even saved the Independent’s article on this in my del.icio.us bookmarks yesterday. What a wasted opportunity to use my giant sky fairy attuned brain to see into the future.
Thursday 12th March 2009: Dr Mona Siddiqui
Listen / Read It can sometimes be quite difficult to pin down what Siddiqui actually thinks about the topics she chooses to speak on. She often skirts around the central problem of an issue, gives a non-committal, academically ambiguous synopsis of the opposing arguments and draws a conclusion that leaves you none the wiser as [...]
Friday 13th March 2009: Rt Rev Lord Richard Harries
Listen / Read Charidee. It’s a good thing, isn’t it? So Comic Relief must be a good thing too, I just don’t want to sit through it all. Apparently it brings out the best in us. Apparently, if we don’t look out for the other 6 billion of us, then we’re all going to suffer [...]
Saturday 14th March 2009: Canon David Winter
Listen / Read Oh, for fuck’s sake, not this again. So Jade Goody is some kind of People’s Princess of Death? To put it as tactlessly as possible, that is. Okay.
Monday 16th March 2009: Rev Colin Morris
Listen / Read STOP TALKING AT ME LIKE I’M A FUCKING CHILD IN SUNDAY SCHOOL! IT’S RADIO 4, NOT RADIO FOR 4-YEAR-OLDS! I’m sorry (I’m not really), but the guy’s got a voice that sounds a cross between David Dickinson and Johnny Ball. Listening to his patronising guff on morality is like being sold a [...]
Tuesday 17th March 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read This was meant to be funny, right? Surely that little geology lesson – all to insist that there were never any snakes in Ireland – was meant to be ironic? Does he really think Radio 4 listeners needed that particular myth refuting so fastidiously?
Wednesday 18th March 2009: Vishvapani
Listen / Read Suffer from status anxiety? Try meditation. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Thursday 19th March 2009: Rev Giles Fraser
Listen / Read Oh dear. Another reading I sort of generally agree with and along the lines of things I regularly find myself saying. I’m so jaundiced. Perhaps I should see a doctor about it. Just not in Stafford.
Friday 20th March 2009: Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Listen / Read The Rt Sir Rev Rabbi Jonathan Chief Nobsacks explained to us today that God sends him messages via fuck-ups and how this makes him a superhuman who can crush godless weaklings between his giant dangling balls of faith.
Saturday 21st March 2009: Catherine Pepinster
Listen / Read Yes I did it again. I slept through until Adam and Joe started on 6 Music at 9am. I’m a lazy bastard. Monday. Right, it’s Monday, woohoo, what’s this one about? Baby death? Oh. Right.
Monday 23rd March 2009: Rev Dr Colin Morris
Listen / Read Last week I suggested that Morris sounded like a cross between David Dickinson and Johnny Ball. So to hear him embarking jauntily on the topic of Josef Fritzl tickled me pink.
Tuesday 24th March 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read That seemed to be (by Butler’s standards) a fairly reasonable reading with the obligatory smidgen of Jesus strapped on the very end. And it was so clearly separate from the rest of the reading that it was quite easy to ignore. So, being as myself and Butler seem to agree with Aitken [...]
Wednesday 25th March 2009: Dr Mona Siddiqui
Listen / Read Again, this is another reading that would have been quite reasonable, and indeed thought provoking, were it not for the infuriating and utterly unnecessary inclusion of a religious component.
Thursday 26th March 2009: Dom Antony Sutch
Listen / Read They really are cranking up the terror, Her Majesty’s Government. Being as there haven’t been any actual terrorist attacks for ages, the government is now doing a better job of keeping us terrified than the terrorists themselves.
Friday 27th March 2009: Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Listen / Read So the world is all globalised now and that means we all have to work together. Something about bread and lions and yeah whatever.
Saturday 28th March 2009: Catherine Pepinster
Listen / Read Are you kidding me? She’s moaning about Catholics being too close to the establishment by being legally allowed to take the throne?
Monday 30th March 2009: Rev Dr Colin Morris
Listen / Read It’s Rev Dr Dickinballs again. If you’ve only just tuned in, that’s because I think he sounds like a cross between David Dickinson and Johnny Ball. If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed that I find as tenuous a way as possible to refer to Thought for the Day readers [...]
Tuesday 31st March 2009: Rev Dr Alan Billings
Listen / Read Apparently we’ve been assessing too much risk, when we should have been doing more shits in our pants. All this clever ‘understanding’ is all very well and good, but if it’s not accompanied by a good keg cacking, it’s no use nor ornament.