Why Your Reading Glasses Are Now Evidence
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Khmer Rouge Agrarian Extremist believes the city is a mistake, the calendar is a mistake, and your reading glasses are very strong evidence against you. We satirise the ideology, not its victims, and the ideology has it coming. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from BBC profile of the Khmer Rouge and Britannica on the Khmer Rouge.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Khmer Rouge Agrarian Extremism On A British High Street
- Believes Year Zero is a great branding opportunity for any social media reset.
- Treats reading glasses as a confession waiting to happen.
- Has explained that cities are a hostile architectural form, including Norwich.
- Considers money sentimental nostalgia the rural population should be spared.
- Maintains that electricity is a mood, not a utility.
- Holds that the ideal university has no buildings, no teachers and no students, but a strong rice yield.
- Has a deep mistrust of anyone who can name three jazz musicians.
- Refers to currency as nostalgia for the old order.
- Considers calendars a tool of the oppressor, particularly Tuesdays.
- Believes engineers are useful only when reassigned as paddy supervisors.
- Treats professional qualifications as evidence of a life poorly lived.
- Has banned, in his head, every adjective ending in -ist except agrarianist.
- Treats a tractor not as a machine but as a moral instructor with diesel.
- Holds that the Royal Mail is decadent.
- Has reorganised his Sunday into eight segments of agricultural reflection.
- Refers to the city as the wound and the field as the cure.
- Treats any sentence containing the word latte as structurally counter-revolutionary.
- Maintains that a good harvest excuses much, and a bad harvest excuses arrests.
- Considers libraries a fire risk in more than the obvious sense.
- Holds that nostalgia for cities is the first symptom of treason.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to the Durham Miners’ Gala, a Conservative Home reader meet-up, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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