Because I'm nosey, of course

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She Ain't No Human Bean, in which I rant.

Huge congratulations to The Independent newspaper, which, instead of the fawning portrait of Your Majesty which adorns most of our Free Press this morning led with this picture of King Gyanendra of Nepal, who is currently having his "subjects" gunned down in the streets.

It's not often that I'm embarrassed to be a citizen of the United Kingdom. I'm actually proud to be a Scot, and I think Britain has a history of exporting democracy and rationalism which, while far from unblemished (the Independent also had an excellent feature on The Black and Tans today) is also something to be proud of.

I am very strongly anti-monarchist, but, under the general principle that if you're unable or unwilling to change something it's rude to complain about it, I tend not to make a big thing about it. But since Betty is 80 today, I think it's worth going on record as saying that I will not be joining in the celebrations.

I find it, as I said, acutely embarrassing that we should be ruled by someone with no more right to the job than that her father had it before her. I find it embarrassing that we should be subject to this person, unelected and responsible to no one, and that we should pander to her and her squabbling brood as if they deserved our respect instead of our contempt. I don't think we should execute them, but I'd be a lot happier if they were pensioned off tommorrow. And by pensioned off, I mean put on a state pension, instead of the civil list.

The most charitable thing I can find to say about them all is that they never asked for the job, and the most realistic that they are a family of parasites kept in place by toadying, sniveling sycophants who have traded any self-respect they might have had for some ermine and the stink of patronage.

I hate the whole anachronistic institution, I feel demeaned to live in a country which is so superstitious, servile and spineless as to allow it, and I will hopefully live to see the day when the whole pack of them are turfed out of their London digs.

Bing Hitler Lyrics

The interweb thingy is crap.

I mean, all I want to find is the lyric from a 25 year old song by a Glasgow comedian about Scotland, and it has totally failed me.

So I'll have to use my memory instead.

All this talk of monarchy reminded me of Bing Hitler's "Corries Song", and the lines:

"We have a Duke of Edinburgh, and he's a f*cking Greek,
We'd have a Duke of Glasgow if we could find a willing Sheik"

I wanted to post the whole song, but all I could find out was that Bing, or rather his alter ego Craig Fergusson, is now a talk show host in the U.S. As I remember him as a screamingly funny stand-up at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, I'm absolutely chuffed that he's found something he likes doing across the pond. Well done that guy.

But if anyone can find those lyrics, or even better a way to get his "Live at The Tron" concert, I'd be forever in your debt. I still break up at the memory of his skit on "V: The Visitors": "They were so evil, they ate Guinea Pigs! Oh no! Barricade the pet shops!"

Sorry, I suppose you had to be there...

I thought I was the sensitive type, too.

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