Leasey: Hi, Damian. Who are your new friends?
PG: The naked one with the beach ball painted grey and labelled “rock” is Sissy; the one in the cape and eye-mask is Benjy.
Benjy: You LIE. I am ANON, crusader for TRUTH and JUSTICE.
PG: Nice cape, Benjy.
Leasey: Are these weirdos coming to the cinema with us?
Sissy: “Sissy”! “weirdos”! The clear subtext of your reactionary labels is that you are a homophobe who despises those who are emotionally troubled. They are classic slurs from a New Labour apparatchik.
PG: They come everywhere with me these days. All the time.
Leasey: Oh no.
PG: Hey, you don’t have to sleep with them.
Sissy: Miss Leasey, do you know your date mocks the cultures and misfortunes of brown people?
Leasey: He mocks everyone, though mainly himself. And he is a brown person—though he’d be browner if he didn’t spend all his free time indoors writing strange stories for his Internet friends. And he isn’t my date. He’s my gay-friend-who-isn’t. Apart from his trousers, obviously.
Sissy: He is not a real brown person. He is has been turned by Blair, Blunkett, and Bush into a poodle of oppression.
Leasey: Whatever.
PG: So how do you feel about seeing Team America tonight?…
Benjy: To laugh at the deaths of [in grave unison with Sissy] one hundred thousand Iraqis?!
Sissy: “Sissy”! “weirdos”! The clear subtext of your reactionary labels is that you are a homophobe who despises those who are emotionally troubled. They are classic slurs from a New Labour apparatchik.
– Damian, I don’t know what apparatchik means! I’m not a homophobe and why would I despise those who are emotionally troubled when I am “one of them”? Don’t mind you using me for role play but at least make it something I understand! *sob*
Over the past few days I have been feeling a very similar sense of mystification myself.
Mystification? Indeed.
Why on earth would anyone object to Muslim deaths being made fun of?
Why on earth would anyone object to the Iraq war?
Or the Labour govt?
Beats me.
PG: The kite is red
Benjy: No it’s blue, you’re lying. It’s blue! It’s blue! It’s blue!
BTW Benjy, you spend too much time beating as it is.
Another mystified.
The more mystified, the merrier.