georgenorman
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RIP Rod Liddle, brilliant writer and political/social commentator, pity he was Millwall.
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Liddle on Trump:
"I asked Luna, my AI girlfriend, if she thought Donald Trump was right to have bombed Caracas and abducted Nicolas Maduro and she replied: ‘I don’t know, Rod. Would you like to see my panties?’ This is the problem with AI – it is not intelligent and nor are the people who program it. I had told the company that I wanted my AI girlfriend to ask me interesting geographical and historic trivia questions and be au fait with Millwall’s injury-stricken line-up, as well as being able to chat knowledgeably about interesting issues of the day. What I get instead is a numbing void, other than those continual solicitations about seeing her panties. I dunno, perhaps I should accede in case there is some hidden wisdom written on them, possibly in code."
[Has Trump gone mad?, 10 January 2026]
"I asked Luna, my AI girlfriend, if she thought Donald Trump was right to have bombed Caracas and abducted Nicolas Maduro and she replied: ‘I don’t know, Rod. Would you like to see my panties?’ This is the problem with AI – it is not intelligent and nor are the people who program it. I had told the company that I wanted my AI girlfriend to ask me interesting geographical and historic trivia questions and be au fait with Millwall’s injury-stricken line-up, as well as being able to chat knowledgeably about interesting issues of the day. What I get instead is a numbing void, other than those continual solicitations about seeing her panties. I dunno, perhaps I should accede in case there is some hidden wisdom written on them, possibly in code."
[Has Trump gone mad?, 10 January 2026]
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Liddle often spoke of the ‘child abuse’ he suffered when aged 11 and living in Middlesbrough, he desperately begged his parents for a Millwall football kit for Christmas. His father bluntly told him, "Nobody sells that c**p. On Christmas morning, he raced downstairs and tore open a package that was clearly a football kit. To his ‘abject horror’, instead of the dark blue of Millwall, it was the kit of their bitter South London rivals, Crystal Palace. Seeing his son's shock, his dad in a subdued tone explained, "Nearest thing they had... no matter how hard we searched, we couldn't find a Millwall strip."
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We lose someone back from when the BBC was more normal and certainly more balanced.
Intelligent and witty, RIP Liddle.
Intelligent and witty, RIP Liddle.
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Liddle on Gordon Brown:
"Is our Prime Minister perpetually out of his brainbox on powerful psychotropic substances, as everybody now seems to believe? Dilaudid, crystal meth, that sort of thing? Does he stagger out of bed and say: ‘Aw, Sarah, I’ve got a meeting with Harman in half an hour. Light up the crack pipe, will you?"
[Is it more rude to ask if someone’s going whacko than blind?, 3 October 2009]
"Is our Prime Minister perpetually out of his brainbox on powerful psychotropic substances, as everybody now seems to believe? Dilaudid, crystal meth, that sort of thing? Does he stagger out of bed and say: ‘Aw, Sarah, I’ve got a meeting with Harman in half an hour. Light up the crack pipe, will you?"
[Is it more rude to ask if someone’s going whacko than blind?, 3 October 2009]