tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post5332847467299265840..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: Margaret Thatcher: the view from Broken BarnetMrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-54044393915354628232013-05-12T18:45:16.199+01:002013-05-12T18:45:16.199+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-64338798922847767582013-04-17T20:02:37.202+01:002013-04-17T20:02:37.202+01:00Well that's where you are wrong, Commenter 2: ...Well that's where you are wrong, Commenter 2: these questions are carefully chosen,and checked for absence of clues online, as you should expect ... and Mrs Angry happens to be friends with one or two classics teachers from that school ... why did you say he, not she?<br /><br />Not sure what triangulation is, as Mrs A spent all her maths lessons staring out of the window and doodling in her rough book, but be warned: her methods of detection may not rely on mathematics so much as syntactical analysis, code breaking and other skills ...<br /><br />The Heroes of Telemark is one of those awful boring boys films they used to show on wet bank Sunday afternoon films, with no women, no romance, and no happy ending, so no, Mrs A has no idea what you are banging on about. Does it involve heavy water? Are you making a nuclear bomb? Ooops, will get some funny visits now.And perhaps so will you.<br /><br />Do come to North Finchley: should I send you an Oyster card? Drop me your address and I'll send one in the post ...Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-45574261422920925832013-04-17T19:36:18.026+01:002013-04-17T19:36:18.026+01:00All of those questions could be answered by lookin...All of those questions could be answered by looking at the school webpages. That wouldn't prove anything.<br /><br />I've told you something that could only be known by someone who had been there at the time. Indeed, even the classics teacher in question probably has no idea of his supposed skill in martial arts.<br /><br />There's a lot more (much libelous)besides, but I don't want to give you anything that will allow you to triangulate my whereabouts. Have you seen The Heroes of Telemark?<br /><br />One day I hope to save enough pocket money for a bus ticket to North Finchley. Apparently this eminent blogger frequents a cafe in that area. <br /><br />An impossible dream!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-67425003448536242072013-04-17T00:33:51.013+01:002013-04-17T00:33:51.013+01:00Ha: exactly so: it is very easy to feign a false i...Ha: exactly so: it is very easy to feign a false identity, as you demonstrate ... your knowledge of our schools is perhaps based on friends in the area? If you don't know the name of the headteacher: well, an odd thing to forget, no? And if you can't explain the tolley, you definitely did not go there ... Yes,I would say such behaviour is attention seeking: clearly you wish you were living in Broken Barnet, and enjoying the challenging political environment, and the stimulating company of Mrs Angry. Who could blame you? <br /><br />Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-85810017572710808542013-04-16T20:25:56.582+01:002013-04-16T20:25:56.582+01:00Perhaps it is a case of Münchausen syndrome: feign...Perhaps it is a case of Münchausen syndrome: feigning attendance at FCHS and the consequent psychological trauma to gain sympathy.[See also Binjamin Wilkomirski]<br /><br />Otherwise, I can't think of any good reason to pretend I had been there. To get a seat at a good restaurant? To get a job? I've never wanted a job, so I certainly wouldn't lie to get one. <br /><br />Don't believe me then! <br /><br />I can recall three classics teachers, but only one had a black belt in karate. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-85913944296871600232013-04-16T09:33:26.247+01:002013-04-16T09:33:26.247+01:00I think you may be right, Commenter 2, about the p...I think you may be right, Commenter 2, about the preference for convicted criminals ... when my (much much older) brother was there I think one of the pupils accidentally shot one of the masters in the car park, come to think of it. <br /><br />And no, I am not publishing your other comment, for fear of exemplary damages ... I believe that particular school still retains that title, and with some justification. Clearly St Michael's girls are far more virtuous.<br /><br />And no, I do not believe you really were a pupil: who was your headteacher? What was the tolley? Who was the classics teacher? Or, more likely, were you one of the woodwork boys, or too busy up at QE girls?Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-10753776412716199682013-04-16T00:26:34.654+01:002013-04-16T00:26:34.654+01:00Hmm. As you should know, if you were not such a fe...Hmm. As you should know, if you were not such a fecking liar, it used to be a grammar school, like St M's. But it is now actually a very good school, and unlike St M's without a ridiculously elitist entrance exam which creams off the top scoring girls & takes them from Croydon, Hackney etc to remain top of the school leagues, rather than serve the local community. Oops, another black mark for Mrs A and daughter.<br /><br />Catholic education is a marvellous thing, endows you with a lifetime of complexes and an enhanced sense of pleasure in sinful activity. I recommend it to all.<br /><br />Thickos? Wonder what school you really went to, Commenter 2? Eton? Harrow? Approved?Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-45377284821017051442013-04-16T00:17:27.056+01:002013-04-16T00:17:27.056+01:00I can think of a few convicted criminals - possibl...I can think of a few convicted criminals - possibly a higher calling than working for a Tory rag.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-88093479642559891932013-04-15T23:42:26.792+01:002013-04-15T23:42:26.792+01:00Catholic schools need to try harder to crush the s...Catholic schools need to try harder to crush the spirit of their pupils. As it is, they do a pretty good job, but there are always a handful who survive with their spirits uncrushed, and these go on to cause all sorts of trouble in society - usually armed with a home-made, extra-curricular sense of right and wrong. Very dangerous!<br /><br />Mind you, that list of yours is disproportionately Tory. Perhaps they are the ones that actually <i>enjoyed</i> [spit] their time at school.<br /><br />Aside from that, I have been wondering how it was that FCHS was largely populated by thickos, and yet these very dimwits had sisters (apparently by the same parents) at St Michael's getting 10(+) O Levels. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-27930559615622318832013-04-15T22:22:09.983+01:002013-04-15T22:22:09.983+01:00In fact, before Miss A is threatened with exclusio...In fact, before Miss A is threatened with exclusion from another school, perhaps she should mention some semi-famous old boys: a couple of editors: Martin Ivens,Tony Gallagher, writer of the Italian Job, Troy Kennedy Martin; Sir John Hegarty, Sir Hugh Rossi ... and the Barnet Eye blogger, who was expelled for being too argumentative. <br /><br />Mrs Angry was very nearly expelled, too, from St Michael's, for starting a strike in the second form.<br /><br />Can you see a pattern beginning to form? Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-30136711059851973082013-04-14T22:28:32.454+01:002013-04-14T22:28:32.454+01:00Don't worry, not so clever Commenter 2, discre...Don't worry, not so clever Commenter 2, discretion is my second name. My maiden name? I have always been Angry.I am not still a maiden, although I may be reverting to one.<br /><br />No, no one of note, only Damian McBride.<br /><br />But if you went there, Commenter 2, why are you asking me about the Old Boys? Are you so old you can't remember?<br /><br />Ha.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-29247871771327517592013-04-14T21:55:44.848+01:002013-04-14T21:55:44.848+01:00I don't remember a McBride. Is Angry your maid...I don't remember a McBride. Is Angry your maiden name?<br /><br />Of course I'm not clever - I went to FCHS! I certainly don't underestimate your skills, either as journalist or as a psychic, but I'd prefer to remain Commenter no. 2, if you don't mind.<br /><br />By the way: has that school ever produced anyone of note? Apart from the chap from Madness.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-50244741159746533252013-04-14T20:06:40.698+01:002013-04-14T20:06:40.698+01:00Hmm. If you say so, Commenter 2, if you say so.
...Hmm. If you say so, Commenter 2, if you say so. <br /><br />I imagine you will have been at school with Damian Mc Bride, then? Or perhaps you were there the same time Mrs Angry was at St Michael's? We must have mutual friends? All those horrible oiky spotty boys, brothers of my friends.<br /><br />Or, perhaps you are not quite as clever as you think you are: do not underestimate the forensic skills of the citizen journalist, or indeed the psychic powers of Mrs Angry ...<br /><br />Don't worry, your secret will be safe ... xMrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-3426654507325758032013-04-14T17:33:39.977+01:002013-04-14T17:33:39.977+01:00You're impatient.
Clues would only help if yo...You're impatient.<br /><br />Clues would only help if you knew me. You don't - I'm just an ordinary Barnet citizen. <br /><br />I was unfortunate enough to be a pupil at FCHS though (during a period of decline that resembled the Brezhnev era Soviet Union). It made me the man I am today, and that's not a good thing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-52887801542452253262013-04-14T11:37:11.126+01:002013-04-14T11:37:11.126+01:00Chicken ... Chicken ... Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-80133241226856897242013-04-14T01:05:08.214+01:002013-04-14T01:05:08.214+01:00I see: so which am I, mysterious commenter 2, or w...I see: so which am I, mysterious commenter 2, or which should I pretend to be, to evade the dreadful fate of exemplary damages? <br /><br />And, more to the point, which are you? Who are you? Come on: stop teasing, give us a clue ...Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-10526003588761773972013-04-14T00:31:09.916+01:002013-04-14T00:31:09.916+01:00I'm only trying to spare you from having to pa...I'm only trying to spare you from having to pay exemplary damages. I'm sure I read that loners, misfits and oddballs will fall outside the scope of the new charter. Is that wrong?<br /><br />So if you are sane and anyone reads your blog, you pay. On the other hand, if your blog is a hobby and you write about a subject so dull that no one could possibly be interested, then you'll be spared.<br /><br />Don't you prefer the latter?<br /><br />Anyway, you shouldn't take offence. There's enough of that around already.<br />[Commenter no. 2 - yes it was me]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-74070352094912093622013-04-14T00:12:03.131+01:002013-04-14T00:12:03.131+01:00Is that really you, Commenter 2? That's very u...Is that really you, Commenter 2? That's very unkind. I may have to send you to the Broken Barnet gulag. Shame on you.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-72641158831497585762013-04-13T23:24:34.720+01:002013-04-13T23:24:34.720+01:00Oops! Have I dropped you in it?
Of course I mean...Oops! Have I dropped you in it?<br /><br />Of course I meant to say that you are merely a hobbyist whose presence on the web is of no consequence. After all, who'd bother reading this lot of rubbish?<br /><br />Obviously not a news outlet. More a cyber care-in-the-community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-57364816362128929502013-04-13T21:13:16.590+01:002013-04-13T21:13:16.590+01:00oh, hang on, missed last comment: yes, Anon, in fa...oh, hang on, missed last comment: yes, Anon, in fact Broken Barnet is visited by all those, and a lot more besides, but ... is this really a news outlet? I have been tussling with this thorny problem for some while now, getting rather hacked off, to be frank. Am I a lone blogger, or a relevant publisher, or perhaps an irrelevant lone blogger? Clearly I am a menace to society, unlike Rupert Murdoch, and must be stopped. Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-19390176604388834682013-04-13T18:57:02.733+01:002013-04-13T18:57:02.733+01:00... on the other hand, as someone once said: try a...... on the other hand, as someone once said: try anything once, except incest and folk dancing ... sadly, Mrs Angry can't dance at all, and is not inclined to the former.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-61555534141437554112013-04-13T17:27:10.688+01:002013-04-13T17:27:10.688+01:00Listen! Charles Moore will already be updating his...Listen! Charles Moore will already be updating his book, and this is just the sort of anecdote that he'll be looking for - to liven up a dull interview on the Andrew Marr show.<br /><br />Your news outlet has been chosen to reveal this scoop to the world. So put a peg on your nose, cover your ears, close your eyes... but the clicks will be coming, from the BBC, Sky, Whitehall, the MPS, Reuters...<br /><br />You'll thank me one day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-77578492576438342422013-04-13T16:26:56.279+01:002013-04-13T16:26:56.279+01:00... or even a grandfather clock ... yes, Commenter...... or even a grandfather clock ... yes, Commenter No 2, clearly this is a subject in which you have a deep interest, and perhaps some experience. Mrs Angry is far too innocent to understand your anecdote, but she suggests you find something to take your mind off such unwholesome thoughts. Being of a suitably feminine disposition, she enjoys knitting, rather than horological based activities.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-78360432893381354012013-04-13T13:49:37.466+01:002013-04-13T13:49:37.466+01:00Ouch! I can tell, you're giving this a lot of ...Ouch! I can tell, you're giving this a lot of thought. <br /><br />There aren't many photo's of Thatcher that have a watch visible. Here's one though: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a471342/margaret-thatcher-dies-aged-87-a-divided-nation-reacts.html<br /><br />On the right wrist. Is the picture reversed? <br /><br />It's fun to think it may feature a hammer and sickle!<br /><br />All these years later I can't remember the exact words used to describe the actions. But it's a small watch (I hesitate to call it feminine, given the context), and the obvious question is: How far up?.<br /><br />[Commenter no.2]<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-16378573256618195452013-04-12T09:43:43.466+01:002013-04-12T09:43:43.466+01:00mind you: good job it wasn't an alarm clock, I...mind you: good job it wasn't an alarm clock, I suppose ...Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.com