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[deborah_c]

John Prescott? Ewwwww...

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[naranek.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to think about it. Really hard.

[stephenpthomas.livejournal.com]

Brain soap. That's what's needed. That or mental floss.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Very scary indeed.

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, yes, but in what context?

[deborah_c]

In this instance, this one, although there are so many to choose from...

(and who are you?)

[vaurien.livejournal.com]

I wonder how fast we can get John Profumo turning in his grave now that he's got one.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I take it I'm glad I can't follow links to newssites from work?

[deborah_c]

"Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confessed to having had an affair with one of his secretaries. [...] Mr Prescott and Ms Temple started meeting in secret at his Whitehall flat after a two-year relationship began at an office party in 2002, the Daily Mirror reported."

The story also quotes Tony Blair's spokesman saying that John Prescott "was a "real benefit" to the country and government", and "played an absolutely vital role". I surmise that the role in question is "distraction and scapegoat".

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I seem to have stopped being automatically logged in. It was I. And I do see what you mean.

[deborah_c]

It's OK, one of my machines has started doing that, too...

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

Seconded, but no worse than David Mellor, which had a similar *squick* factor. They do say that power is an aphrodisiac, but I wonder if these women were under the influence of drugs as well...

[deborah_c]

Oh, I disagree. David Mellor at least had the occasional veneer of decorum. And looked marginally less like a toad. Not that I'd have wanted to go to bed with him either, you understand, but this is in a different league, I feel.

PS: gentle nudge about FTH :-)

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

I always had some time for John Prescott because he thumped the bloke who threw an egg at his wife two days before the General Election. I thought it showed backbone and lack of regard for political polls in the face of disrespect to someone he loved.

Obviously I was wrong.

[delennara.livejournal.com]

Well...if it is a matter of taste, it reminds me of another piece of weird taste.
Last week it was reported that british Paprazzi took a Photo of german chancelleress Angela Merkel on the beach, during her holiday in italy, apparently without clothes. She didn't mind too much.
But I really wonder, who does want to see THAT?

[deborah_c]

I think it's a kind of reverse psychology. You sell it to papers whose readers can then be aggrieved about not wanting to see that, while staring hard at it.

I have to admit that I don't think I've seen a photograph of the lady in question, though, or at least have no memory of what she looks like.

Combining these ideas, though, I think a nude photo of John Prescott might be beyond the boundaries of taste even for paparazzi...

Angela Merkel

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It is scary that not even her official website (http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/bk/Navigation/zur-person.html) has any good photos of her...

[aunty_marion]

Definitely Ewwwwwww. Even I've never been *that* hard up!!!

*applies mental floss and brain bleach by turns*

[vaurien.livejournal.com]

I still haven't got used to the idea of John Major and Edwina Currie. At least he managed to go up in people's opinions as a result. And as for that photo session Edwina did with the motor-bike... I think she did lots for all politicians' credibility. Well, maybe not *all* of them.

[fiona-kitty.livejournal.com]

John Major was quite good-looking though.

[deborah_c]

... and I thought you were such a nice girl. Sigh.

Any minute now, blackmetalbaz is going to catch on to the fact that this conversation is about the fanciability of politicians, and we all know what's going to happen then...

[eyeless-ingaza.livejournal.com]

nooooooooooooooooooooooo. bad fiona. He did always remind me of superman. But then i also thought superman was a big geek with no lips (with due repect and deference to him being dead etc...)

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

Scary...

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I thought better of John Major when I heard: never thought such a mild-mannered chap had it in him to be such a dragon-tamer.

[therosewilde.livejournal.com]

I am scared. Very very scared.

Mind if I, ooo, hide under a fog of foggy fogginess until the thoughts go away?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

John Prescott is a useful mental exercise for those inconvenient and embarrasing moments when you find you have an inappropriate erection (or other physical signs of arousal applicable to your gender and/or species). For your refernece, I have provided detailed instructions below:

1. Breathe deeply.
2. Start by thinking of John Prescott in the 'Charles' panel of a Royal Wedding commemorative mug, then slide and congeal him around onto the 'Diana' panel.
3. Breathe Deeply.
4. Should this fail, picture a favourite scene from 'The Full Monty' (eg, the cellophane scene), substituting JP.
5. Breathe Deeply.
6. Should this fail, recall the video of 'I Want to Break Free', mentally substituting the late Freddie Mercury for a bedragg-ed John Prescott.
7. Breathe Deeply.
8. Should this fail, mentally replay the video of 'Chemistry' by Girls aloud; use your mind as a video editing suite, successively replacing each of the curvaceous gyrating bimbettes with an identically-clad John Prescott. Try to keep up with the scene shifts and costume changes.
9. Breathe Deeply.
10. Should this fail, accept that you are who you are, physical and mental abnormalities and all, and look people straight in the eye. It's polite not to notice.

Sod it, I've done it again. I'll put it on my own blog, it belongs there.

[gerald_duck]

Once upon a time, my previous employer's factory was opened by John Major (he was the local MP). My boss was a lifelong loony leftie and detested everything John Major stood for. He still found the guy charming and personable, despite himself.

Similarly, I found David Davis to be a thoroughly nice bloke.

I fear, therefore, that John Prescott might be a charmer face-to-face, even for people who utterly despise old-school trades-unionist Labour. At least, he must have been back when he was first getting elected to Parliament, and he could still have what it takes.

But no, personally I wouldn't. Not for anything!

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But then I could go on for hours about the evil of the man.

[cassielalone.livejournal.com]

... Yes indeed. *shudders*