If there is anything worse than a cold-blooded murderer, it’s a cold-blooded murderer with little or no imagination.
There are many ways to kill someone to death. You can shoot them, stab them, set fire to them or slowly peel the skin from their shaking bodies whilst you listen to them scream through the sock you’ve shoved in their throat.
In fact, the options for ways to kill someone are quite literally endless. As such, there is no excuse for copying someone else’s method, it’s just plain lazy and displays an alarming lack of imagination. If you are going to push someone off this mortal coil it’s only right and proper that you give it some proper thought and add a little originality to their final moments. I am sure they would appreciate that.
In situations where no thought has been given, and the criminal is nothing but an exact copy-cat, then who is more guilty? The original or the one who copies him?
Without the original perpetrator, the copy-cat couldn’t exist. They would probably be sat at home making lists of people they would kill if only they could think of a suitably ingenious way in which to do it. They might not even have the guts to actually undertake such an awful crime without being shown the way by someone else to begin with.
For that reason alone I think the original criminal is, for the most part, as guilty as anyone and should be punished as such.
So when I look at the album charts and I see the the likes of James Morrison, Paulo Nutini, and Ray LaMontagne all with albums in the top ten, it just adds weight to my argument that James Blunt must die, and soon.
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US · August 1, 2006 at 8:31 am
And your preferred method of execution would be….
Shamash · August 1, 2006 at 9:31 am
Don’t forget Katie Melua, and all the Norah Joneses, boring, moany, pretentious whining they call inspired music. Dido and ‘my heart will go on’ has a lot to answer for.
TJ · August 1, 2006 at 9:42 am
If he dies, will it be ‘goodbye my lover’. Not that he ever was or would be because I wouldn’t touch him with yours, even though ‘you’re beautiful’!
Aah well back to the humdrum that is daily life ……….
Admin comment by Mr Angry · August 1, 2006 at 10:07 am
US – Long, drawn-out and starting with the voal chords.
Shamash – But Dido is at least nice to look at, with the sound turned down.
TJ – You are banned.
US · August 1, 2006 at 10:12 am
TJ – nice to see some Wise Men around here
Charlotte · August 1, 2006 at 10:29 am
Hi Mr Angry
I “supposedly” look like Dido, but cannot sing would you call that a good thing?
Admin comment by Mr Angry · August 1, 2006 at 10:41 am
US – I think TJ might be a lady… but each to their own…
Charlotte – so long as “cannot sing” is the same as “absolutely positively will not sing”, then this is a good thing. I like having hot readers.
Jorge · August 1, 2006 at 11:13 am
Auntie Beeb reported yesterday that James Blunt has been voted the 4th most irritating thing in the UK, beating traffic wardens, tailgaters and Chantelle and Preston from Big Brother:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5230636.stm
TJ · August 1, 2006 at 11:24 am
I am indeed female but can not confess to being a lady!
If I was on Mastermind, my topic of choice would not be James Blunt’s greatest hits (i think this is because he has only had about 3 and there are at least 10 questions)so i will have to call it a day and accept being pipped to the post by US’s Wisemen.
However, i would be prepared to answer questions on James Blunt and cockney rhyming slang!
Dr Clip · August 1, 2006 at 11:39 am
Would you rather he was in the Army still and defending our country or whining away into the mic?
Actually you could smoke out the Taliban by airlifing huge speaker systems into them their Afghan hills and piping the Blunt like lift (elevator) music through the tunnels. Watch them Tallibanners popping their heads above ground like meer cats.
Friendly fire effect could induce vomiting and suicide though.
Admin comment by Mr Angry · August 1, 2006 at 11:45 am
Jorge – my disdain for MR Blunt is well documented on here, I am pleased I am not in the minority for once!
TJ – What would question 2 be?
Dr Clip – If you were a soldier, would you have taken a potentially suicidal order from him? OR shoot him in the face?
Dr Clip · August 1, 2006 at 11:51 am
I think I would have ripped out his voice box with a blunt spoon and then strangled him with it.
And then shot him in the face.
And then cut off his fingers.
And then poked his eyes out with his own fingers.
I bet no-ones done that before.
mighty wright · August 1, 2006 at 12:44 pm
angry, i supposedly look like jimmy nail, would you call that a good thing?
Léonie · August 1, 2006 at 12:46 pm
One day he will wake up and suddenly be able to see himself through our eyes, and hear himself through our ears. And that will be punishment enough.
Failing that I’d force him to eat the ‘You’re Beautiful’ single CDs until he was dead. Because that is what listening to his nasal whinings feels like.
US · August 1, 2006 at 12:57 pm
TJ – you have shown No Bravery there – I just hope you don’t Cry.
Admin comment by Mr Angry · August 1, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Mighty wright – it depends on whether you want to work in a circus or not?
Léonie – I like the way you think.
US – You own the album don’t you?…
Banana · August 1, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I will join your James Blunt Must Die crusade.
US · August 1, 2006 at 4:16 pm
errrm, no of course I don’t, and errm even if I did then it would belong to the missus.
Admin comment by Mr Angry · August 1, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Banana – excellent news, how are your tracking skills?
US – * Sits back awaiting Mrs US’s firm denial of all accusations *
Dr J · August 1, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Hmmm. I have to tread carefully here because to ten year old girlies Mr B seems to be something of an heart-throb. At least in Jest Towers. And much to the annoyance of her 13 year old goth/punk brother.(That’s if you can call Greenday real punk, but that’s a whole other can of worms).
Still I do wonder if Mr B’s oeuvre was influential in the recent BMA debate on Physician assited suicide at all….
Of course we could just invoke the powers of the 1984 MHA and send yer man back to bedlam, as much for his own protection as for the good of society at large. And he’d be easier to track….
Marycub · August 1, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Erk, you’re scary when you talk murder.
Banana · August 1, 2006 at 9:07 pm
I will send out my doglets to track him down! They’ll probably lick him to death.
karilyn · August 1, 2006 at 10:56 pm
put him in a room listening to the tunes of his own songs and it will induce haemorraging from the ears leading to a slow and agonizing death as he bleeds to death listening to his warblings
Scott · August 2, 2006 at 2:17 am
A while back I grew my hair (its just a phase I think)
My little sister said “oooh you don’t half look like James blunt now ya know)
I gave her a much-necessary beating, and ALMOST got a skinhead for good measure.
I’m surprised nobody’s suggested a joint savaging of Blunt and Timmy Whiteboy Westwood yet, so may I?
Maybe it’s the guitarist in me but I can’t seem to get anymore creative than the idea of impaling the whinging git on his own acoustic… it’ll have to do.
Isn’t there a DJ term “waxing a hot one”? Not sure what it means, but it’d get us started for ideas to dispose of Westwood I’m sure.
Charlotte · August 2, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Definately absolutely positively will not sing!!!
the girl underway · August 2, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Amen.
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