Boris on Webcameron
The long awaited and requested first podcast featuring Boris is available on Webcameron. The above link will take you to a Webcameron page where you can either subscribe to the Podcast or just view it. You can also access the podcast options at the bottom of their homepage.
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Auntie Flo – you have a good point; children (for that’s what they are) seek to belong and whilst skin colour is an obvious choice to us, it may not be to them. I think culture or mob mentality rules. You know, gang culture (I’m not saying this very well) but they will pick on someone different if that person is fat, red haired, posh when they are not, whatever. All they have to be is different. Just the word ‘multiculturalism’ shows it’s a recipe for disaster.
A pack of boys who pick on a girl seems like a pack of animals to me. Hugging those hoodies will serve no purpose. They need an alpha male with powers of authority to sort them out on every street corner. In my day they used to call them policemen. That was before they spent their time chatting in cars and filling in forms from central government.
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Flo, the point I was making was about the possibility of the attack being enabled by the racism of the attackers; isn’t that a relevant point?
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raincoaster said:
Flo, the point I was making was about the possibility of the attack being enabled by the racism of the attackers; isn’t that a relevant point?
Yes, it is, raincoaster. I didn’t intend to come across as critical of your post, I wasn’t. I was just, very clumsily, saying that every time I use the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ etc they just don’t ake much sense to me. I’m the least politically correct person you could meet, so it’s not a pc thing.
I used to paint a few years ago, not well, so I gave it up for sketching. Painting flesh – of whatever colour – requires a whole palette of colours, greens, blues, blacks, greys, whites, oranges and so on. That’s made me hyper aware of what a motley collection of colours, textures, transparencies or opaqueness our skin is and not at all as it seems to be.
raincoaster, will the Democrats win the US mid term elections with a large majority of seats, do you think? I hope so, I want them to give Bush and the Neocons a bloody nose.
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Okay, Flo, thanks for clarifying. I’m overmedicated at the moment and that makes me alternately cranky and apathetic. My apologies.
I predict that the Democrats will win the House and Senate by landslides if Kerry can only keep his mouth shut. I bet Hillary’s people have kidnapped him and are holding him in some underground bunker till after November 8.
What bothers me is that this could well put paid to their hopes for the White House as well. It’s not good for the US to have a sweep of all three branches of government: Clinton worked so well in part because he really had to earn votes in the Senate and the House.
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raincoaster said:
I predict that the Democrats will win the House and Senate by landslides if Kerry can only keep his mouth shut.
Excellent. I’m not a Clinton fan, though it’s impossible not to admire Bill Clinton’s powerful oratory and (inadvertent?) BSL. Don’t know enough about Hilary to decide about her. I was not impressed with all the rubbish she tolerated from Bill Clinton, she came across as such a door mat. How about a lesson in US politics, raincoaster?
Medication…are you unwell?
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A lesson in US politics? I”m stoned on medicine, but I’m not crazy. Not right now. Wasn’t it Jefferson who said “The United States gets the government it deserves”. He nailed it, whoever it was.
I’m unwell, but I’ll be fine in a week or so. I just have the world’s weakest immune system.
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Anyway… Boris on Webcameron?
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Right. Downloaded it just fine. Can’t seem to find anything that will play it, and I’ve tried four players now. Looking for a different format; if all else fails, I’ll cut it into pieces and load it on YouTube and watch it there.
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Rain, have you downloaded it in MP4 format?
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Yes, the problem is my players are so old they won’t play it. I just have to find a new one; Quicktime apparently is incompatible with my virus scanner, so I’ll just have to download a new player. Nothing wrong with the format, actually, and I know there has to be a free non-commercial player out there.
I’ll be damned if I’m putting Realplayer on this computer. It damn near killed the last one.
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Raincoaster, try bsplayer. There is a freeware one available and it has support for win 95/98, you can grab it here:
http://www.bsplayer.org/en/bs.player/download/
I use it all the time, if you are getting a choppy pic or sound with it you’ll probably just need to update your codecs there is a pack available from here:
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
The standard one should be suitable.
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Thanks, Flavious. I have an older version of their player, so this should work.
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I still cannot get the video.
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Me neither, although thanks to downloading some software I now have ads popping up all over the place. I shall strip it out and download the file raw and upload it to YouTube. Simpler. I hope it’s not longer than ten minutes though.
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Realplayer is indeed evil. Hope the you tube thing works!
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Boriswatch has it in a Revver embedded player here:
http://www.boriswatch.com/archives/2006/11/boris_first_podcast.php
I did upload it to YouTube, but the Revver is better so I think I’ll kill it off.
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There is a fun video here, though. Remember the Edinburgh Rector election thingy?
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I hate computers, everything I try to play on this computer is playing upside down-dvds everything. WHY WHY WHY????
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K – that’s progress.
I tried to talk to social services today and they no longer talk to people face to face, you have to telephone the next city (well at least it isn’t a call centre in India) and they provide a big building to house the phones you can use to call. You cannot visit the office to speak to someone face to face. This is progress.
I think it’s about time Boris started making the law – he makes himself accesible and even provides a wonderful new forum! Have y’all tried it yet??
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“Y’all”???
You have some funny accent, Jaq. Who’ve you been hanging out with?
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raincoaster – I’m in a Labour safe here and as we know, they’re a right bunch of cowboys!
Boris is due to do another broadcast – what issues would you like Webcameron to address? Any ideas? I’d like to see Cameron talking to Dominic Lawson about global warming, over a gin and tonic. Is tax the only solution?
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Ahem. How about accessibility?
Wibbler’s Revver post loaded completely long before my upload (begun 20 minutes before I clicked on the Revver vid) finished. Embedded Revver players allow the producer more control than YouTube, but still allows pretty much any machine to play it. You dont need to download anything. Why don’t they just do this all the time? An embedded player on webcameron would, if nothing else, keep people on the page longer.
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I’d like to know why they don’t just “disappear” the infamous printer. Everyone knows the paperwork involved in reporting a theft is such a nightmare that the bureaucrats concerned are grateful if you skip it, so who would complain?
Alternately, from the archives it would appear that the best way to get rid of it is to leave it in Boris’ front hall when they’re all away on holiday.
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Our beloved PM. the Rt. Hon. Anthony Blair talks to the nation- explaining his policies on faith schools, Iraq and his real legacy here….
http://www.boreme [Ed: deletion - too extreme]
Is Blair the Antichrist?
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If you think Blair’s the Antichrist, what do you think of Kissinger?
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I unlocked the YouTube. As it’s YouTube, the quality is not first-rate but you can still tell Pericles from Boris (Pericles has better hair).
If you can find it in an embeddable player on Webcameron use that, or if you can embed Wibbler’s Revver, use that. This is just for people who can’t use those, like people on WordPress like me!
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Raincoaster-
Click on my name to find out who the anti-christ is.(The
link i pasted up earlier is “too extreme” apparently.)
Editor-Is that because Mrs.T is in the show?
[Ed: Insomniac - you are very amusing and this would be fine for a private forum but not at this level alas]
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It’s probably because one of them is topless.
Amusing video; you should send it to Guido. But if there is one thing Tony Blair is NOT, it’s an anarchist. The world would be a lot better off if he were, actually.
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Amen to that!
I assume by Guido you mean “the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions”
Oh well I m off to bed.
(No job to go to either Raincoaster?)
Hope I dont have nightmares of topless Lady T s!
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No job, but I’m working on that. Wish me luck.
I’m in Vancouver, so the time difference means the night is young for me.
And by Guido I mean Guido Fawkes.
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With the greatest of respect to the wonderfully entertaining Mr Johnson, I think the Podcast would have been considerably improved by adding a lot more Melissa and a little less Boris
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Well good luck with the job hunt Raincoaster. Are you an ‘expat’ , traveller or Canadian?
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Hello Insomniac
Much as we appreciate your comments and contribution on this site I must alert you that your URL link to that video nasty isn’t helpful and as Ed it has to be deleted on your every post at the moment. Any chance you could choose another…?!
Yours in hopeful expectation
Melissa
@ Boris Johnson’s Office
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Mark Gamon
l&lol
You funniest blogger around!
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I’m as Canadian as they come, although as I’m French-born I have EU status and I did think about applying for the job in Boris’ office. I should have, too; I’d have been good at it. Alas, what might have been!
I’d just like to report that those Cameroonies are all about the metrics: I get three hits a day through Technorati searches for Webcameron, so they’re definitely keeping an eye on the blogs. Wonder what they think of my comments section!
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Video nasty?!
I checked it again and Lady T is NOT topless. Would it be OK posted in the new forums?
I ll make do with this other URL for now.
Who says the Tories dont have a sense of humour?
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Well it looks like some of them aren’t quite as “sharing and caring” as they claim. Look what my YouTube posting of the webcameron video got me:
Wibbler, watch your back. It appears they’re not as interested in spreading their message as they are in retaining control over it. I guess they DO want to limit the audience to people who can afford iPods.
As I said on my blog, it seems bizarre that they would distribute this only through means that cannot be shared, but must be viewed on an individual basis. Allowing a YouTube or other embedded player to be distributed in blogs would spread the message widely, in truly democratic fashion. I guess that’s not what this is about. Ah well.
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Looks like someone has got it in for you raincoaster and grassed you up!
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They’ll be hearing about it, and from quarters they don’t expect. I’m very, very peeved.
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I thought something put up on an internet site was public domain? Besides I have seen other webcameron videos on youtube. Very strange!
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No, putting something up on the Internet doesn’t negate copyright in any way. But this video was posted specifically to encourage people to talk about webcameron, to spread ideas, to connect to the community and to, hopefully, go viral. By taking down the YouTube they’ve cut their own legs off.
You cannot be controlling AND empowering; they are mutually exclusive.
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Really, so even if it was your video which you posted on a free for all site you still have copyright over it? Well, I stand corrected.
I think it should have been allowed on youtube since that is where many younger people will be. Only those who already have an interest in conservative politics will go to the webcameron site, so blocking access so young non-conservatives seems a bit shortsighted. But maybe there is a good reason we do not know about
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I would be very interested to hear it if there were, but they never contacted me, not even so much as dropping a comment.
Yesterday, however, the number of people who came to my blog through searches for webcameron doubled, and today they have doubled again. This looks interesting.
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Have you contacted David Cameron and told him/his office about this?
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Raincoaster
The section of the podcast with Boris Johnson is still there and the other segments are there in their original videos. I do not understand why yours was taken down.
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Because she announced her crimes for all the world to see on here I would imagine.
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My posting of it was taken down because webcameron wants to be the only ones to have posted it. If you check the versions that are there, you’ll find they’re all posted by webcameron. Obviously they don’t have an aversion to YouTube so much as they have an aversion to other people. Now I have a black mark against me at YouTube for no reason.
I won’t be re-posting it. And I haven’t contacted the Tory Party, because they haven’t contacted me. But as I said, they will hear about it, just not from me.
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web cameras seem to be the in way at the moment for politicians to promote their image. We mention Boris in an article about image at our site.
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Daniel Cowdrill – Thanks for commenting, interesting article.
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