#16

[therealpm]

Coalition still in power.

Chicken blood feathers everywhere.

Damn it all.

EDIT: Biohazard crew arrived. Going to Campbell's.

Comments

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

..you're perfectly happy for me to develop a machine, the stated purpose of which is to 'suck dry the brains of politicians' so that I may be 'the most powerful politician in the world', but a little bit of voodoo is beyond the pale? Are you truly impartial and apolitical, or merely very confused?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Even if I wanted to, there is absolutely no way I could possibly stop you using The Machine so why fight a losing battle?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

'why fight a losing battle?'

Dear me, you're feeling very pessimistic this evening. You've never let such sentiments hold you back whilst maintaining order in the commons, why let it seep into your worldview now?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I'm not pessimistic! I'm realistic, thank you!

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Why the sudden loss of obnoxious optimism?

With regard to never helping me again; are you sure? We could target Paul Dacre...

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

My optimism is not 'obnoxious'!

...Very tempting, but... that is to say... I mean... Damn it, Peter!

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

We can prank Tina Weaver as well for political balance if you like.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... well, who could refuse an offer like that?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Someone with no sense of humour and a depressingly earnest personality; a Lib Dem, perhaps.

It's Friday, you weren't featured on This Week and my living room is no longer covered with poultry innards. Any particular requests or shall I just fetch a bottle of whatever comes to hand?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I am more than willing to accept whatever it is you have to offer in this case.

Besides, if I request something you'll simply tell me I have no taste and retrieve whatever it is you were going to get in the first place.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

That's... annoyingly insightful not entirely true, but no matter.

*wanders downstairs*

Did you want anything to eat or is drunken debauchery in order for the evening?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Already eaten, thank you, but if you're hungry then don't let me stop you.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Alastair tried to make lunch, bless him, but toasters are tricky at the best of times.

There must be something in the fridge.

Hmm.

Apple, then.

*wanders back in with a bottle and two glasses*

Do the honours, would you?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Of course.

*Opens bottles and pours drinks*

So you two sorted everything out then, excellent.

Hmm, what's on television?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Hmm, nothing to sort out.

*flicks through channels*

Graham Norton... Newsnight... ...something called 'Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents'...

...

...and Jools Holland.

*Throws changer over*

Go on, I just can't decide.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, what happened to television?!

There's... there's absolutely nothing worth watching!

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Stop it, you're encouraging me to write a letter of complaint, and then I really will be old.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I shudder at the thought of what would be included in a letter of complaint from you.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

If you're very good, I'll write you one of your very own.

'Dear Sir,
I was most disappointed by the appalling neckwear on display at last week's Parliamentary Questions. Such flamboyant attire only serves to-'

ow!

Do you sharpen those elbows, or are they naturally acicular?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

It's by way of recompense for my lack of height. The two things actually work surprisingly well together.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I've spent most of the day with Alastair, you are not allowed to claim shortness privilages for at least another thirty minutes.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Spoil sport.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*snatches back the changer*

*switches to BBC News*

Those protests make the Millbank affair look rather pathetic in comparison.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I hate to bring up technicalities, but there is a slight difference between those protests and what happened at Millbank.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

You always were one to quibble over details.