Saturday 9 July 2011

You Know Who You Are

If you wanted my bank balance, then you would be more than welcome to it.

I only regret that I cannot give you the medical cause of its condition.

At least the whole world can now see what you are.
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35 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 21:51

    It had to happen eventually, each of you has finally met someone as vituperative as himself.

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  2. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 21:59

    You never did react well to criticism, but he has had this coming. Sacked and humiliated you for stating facts about the Israel lobby in the Tory party, now doesn't like being called out on how incompatible that level of slavishness is with being the Defender of the Faith.

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  3. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 22:17

    Mr Lindsay is not viuperative, he is one of the nicest people in the world despite being struck down in the prime of life. He should be a very bitter man but somehow he isn't. Faith, I suppose. I wish I had it. I don't know who this adversary is, but do they get off on beating up sick people who could have been so much more if their health had held up?

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  4. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 22:22

    What do you actually own?

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  5. David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 22:23

    As I suspect that you ask because you already know, nothing. Not a thing.

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  6. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 22:26

    Yes, I thought that was right. Too poor to come after because too ill for anyone to be allowed to come after. Must be nice.

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  7. David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 22:29

    Oh, I wouldn't put it quite like that. But one does have to wonder who would imagine that their reputation would be enhanced by pursuing, even if the authorities would let them do it, a man who, among so very much else, has to have four double doses of Tramadol every day just to dull the sheer physical pain.

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  8. Masochism Central9 July 2011 at 22:37

    Would much rather give the spot to this kind of honorable writer:

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/did_toby_young_plagiarize_pass.html

    He had obviously hoped you would go away, but every time you post any substantive comment it is better than the original article even when you are agreeing with it. That makes him look silly for pushing you out.

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  9. Masochism Central9 July 2011 at 22:39

    Full link:

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/did_toby_young_
    plagiarize_pass.html

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  10. His Serene Highness David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 22:44

    Serene because you enjoy such peace of mind. People normally associate that with wealth and health but I can see now how it also exists at the other end. It must be so sweet to be able to turn around and say "you can't take anything from me, I have nothing to take and you would only make yourself look foolish or wicked if you tried". I would love that.

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  11. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 22:53

    I am trying to get my head around this. The only thing that exists in your name is an overdraft? I cannot be the only hack who wishes that he were in that position. "I'll bankrupt you in the libel courts!" "Already there, mate. Already there." Provided that someone else will still feed and house you, obviously the case, that strikes me as the only way to live. You should be grateful that you got sick and grateful that Damian ruined your career.

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  12. David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 22:56

    The only thing that exists in my name is an overdraft. Even the roof over my head is not so much as owned by a relative, and I am not even the tenant.

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  13. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 23:00

    No wonder you are so outspoken, in a perverse sort of way you can afford to be. The truth-telling crippled beggar of the present day.

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  14. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 23:02

    Surely your supporters could organise a whip-round? The David Lindsay Fighting Fund? Make it happen.

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  15. David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 23:15

    @23:00, if you like.

    @23:02, fighting what, exactly?

    Ah, the absurd attempted comments saying "you must be wetting yourself" and what have you. No, of course I am not. I have nothing to take; the most that anyone could hope to do would be to make me even more ill than I already was. But that really and truly is the limit. As it were, the overdraft limit.

    When you have had much of your insides cut out in emergency circumstances, been told that your excised internal organ was "the worst of the worst" after years of being told that there was nothing wrong with you, and even after that looked death in the face due to a blood clot on the lung (and this is not the whole story), then you have a certain clarity of thought, a certain sense of perspective. Done, in turn, no harm at all by having nothing else.

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  16. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 23:34

    A journo issuing a libel writ? A Fleet St. grandee suing a blogger? One for Strobes, I feel.

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  17. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 23:42

    Please can somebody explain what this is about?

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  18. David Lindsay9 July 2011 at 23:53

    Nothing, @23:42. Nothing. I don't mean "nothing for you to worry about". I really do mean "nothing".

    Yes, @23:34, he can make as much of a fool of himself as he likes, and he has already begun to do so. But he will never get anything out of me. I don't have anything. Not a thing - I have the use of no object that is not covered by someone else's insurance policy. And even if I did, his action would kill me before it was complete.

    So, I say agaim, this is all about absolutely nothing whatever.

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  19. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 00:22

    Please repost the alleged libel, so that we can all judge for ourselves. After all, what have you got to lose?

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  20. David Lindsay10 July 2011 at 00:27

    He hasn't told me what it is yet.

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  21. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 00:34

    Search this, your only website and how many references to him are there? Does he think the world revolves around him? What a vain old man.

    I have long suspected that there was more going one between you and him, some sort of history. He plucks you from the comment threads, gives you a blog, suddenly the people who thought they were better than you at university pop up to scream you down.

    He usually takes down personal attacks on the blogger but never did it for you, then he announced you were too controversial to keep and dropped you. It was a set up. But why? And he is still hounding you. Why?

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  22. David Lindsay10 July 2011 at 00:36

    I have never met him. I hope that I never do.

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  23. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 00:46

    That little world really has had in for you for years. Do they normally pay this much attention to a jobbing blogger in Co. Durham? They have gone to the most outlandish lengths and invented the most preposterous stories to persecute you from one website to the next. What is it with you? What is the real story here? Interested to learn that some of your tormentors on your Telegraph blog were at uni with you, yes the whole thing is an obvious put up job in hindsight. Why, though? I don't get it.

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  24. David Lindsay10 July 2011 at 00:55

    Who knows what goes on in these people's minds? There is certainly the room for it. No one could accuse Kamm of being an intelligent person. A contemporary of mine who turned up below the line of my Telegraph blog never did have two brain cells to rub together; we all used to wonder how he had ever been let in.

    He is now one of several people who apparently have all the time in the world to chase me around the Internet. In his case, I am quite surprised that he knows how to do it. Perhaps he pays someone to do it for him?

    On reflection, perhaps that accounts for how he ever got into university, too? I can't think of any other explanation.

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  25. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 00:58

    After today, do you still even read Telegraph blogs?

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  26. David Lindsay10 July 2011 at 01:00

    No, never again. I should have given up long ago. Thompson has found his intellectual level with the people below the line over there. They all deserve each other. Like the News of the World, only worse.

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  27. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:07

    And his social level. You were always too good for them. Above the line or below it, every time you have posted anything erudite, and that is a hell of a lot of times, you have been jeered down by those know nothings. Led by Thompson, the biggest know nothing of the lot.

    A pity you won't get to expose the glaring inconsistency between his image and his lifestyle. But someone will, the day will come eventually.

    How right you are, he has set himself up as the only orthodox Catholic voice in Britain or at any rate in England, everyone else is denied an outlet. Everyone including all truly orthodox Catholics not capitalist moral liberals who support wars against Arab Catholics but who like the social side of the Latin Mass.

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  28. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:14

    I used to enjoy your Telegraph blog. A lot of people did. Now I come here every day but you still deserve something with a much higher profile. It comes as no surprise to me that the people who so resented it were at university with you but would never have been let in if there had still been grammar schools.

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  29. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:30

    I have never seen such howling abuse as you were subjected to over there, I am glad for your sake that you are never going back.

    Mabel Thompson seemed to be orchestrating a lynch mob against you. What for? Just for a laugh by the look of it. Does Mabel even believe in God or does she just need a niche and Traditionalist Catholic fits the bill? It is a very odd bill for her to pick, all things considered.

    Get the books out, we are all looking forward to them. Then find a monastery or something as far from anywhere as possible for you to keep taking your medication. No radio, no TV, no web. Goodbye, cruel world. It has been a complete and utter bastard to you, one of the cleverest and loveliest people I have ever known. You have never deserved one moment of your miserable life.

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  30. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:33

    Must be a fascinating way to live. Other than your overdraft, as soon as you incurred a debt you'd be declared bankrupt. So nobody need ever bother chasing you for money in the first place. I could settle for that.

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  31. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:50

    For all the well founded moaning about how much Catholic special interest there is on Telegraph Blogs, Thompson has purged the place of voices that were doctrinally orthodox rather than just traddie.

    Ed West rarely blogs on religion. Your comment on James MacMillan's piece about ecumenism was the post he would have filed if he had been theologically trained instead of a bit out of his depth.

    Gerald Warner has been sacked and so have you. You would have been seen as even worse than Warner because you are like most British Catholics, Old Labour. A double challenge to the simple minds over there.

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  32. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 01:53

    You should join any monastery that would take you in your state of health. The further from anywhere, the better. It's what you need. The world doesn't deserve you, you are too good for it.

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  33. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 07:47

    You gleefully predicted the imminent demise of Harry's Place when Galloway was threatening to sue them (whatever happened to that, by the way?). You seemed to think it served them right. So your many enemies (even the one who describes himself as a near-absolutist on free speech) must be rubbing their hands with delight at the prospect of your getting a taste of your own medicine.

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  34. David Lindsay10 July 2011 at 21:23

    I have no medicine in that sense, only an awful lot of it in the normal sense.

    If my enemies severally or collectively want my parlous financial condition, then they can have it. If I could also give them the parlous medical condition that is its cause, then I would gladly do so.

    As for Harry's Place and its guru, what happens now that the News of the World no longer exists to bankroll The Times?

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  35. Anonymous10 July 2011 at 23:51

    Harry's Place never paid anything, either. Maybe underneath it all they are as skint as you are underneath it all? A lot of people are these days and they do not all have your medical excuse. Galloway would have beaten them, when has he ever been beaten in a libel action? But he will have worked out that they were not worth chasing, the only gainers would have been his own lawyers. The real world, not the world of millionaire celebrity politicos and millionaire Fleet St. types.

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