Tory peer calls for clampdown on mooning after 40 schoolkids expose their backsides at him and wife

[n2doc]

A Tory peer wants a clampdown on mooning after schoolkids exposed their backsides to him and his wife from a coach.

Lord James of Blackheath said his horrified wife - who is a youth justice officer - wanted boys who mooned at passers-by locked up for a year.

Businessman Lord James, 75, said the incident happened on the roads leading to Twickenham as they travelled to watch England play rugby union.

He said he had been involved in "endless attempts" to convince his wife that rugby was "a respectable pastime and not the equivalent of being found in bed with a supermodel on a Saturday afternoon".

He said he had persuaded his wife to accompany him to Twickenham for each of the last three Saturdays to watch England's Autumn Internationals.

"She was totally horrified by the sight of the school buses coming down the road to Twickenham filled full of children who were indulging in a pastime I believe is called mooning," he said.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-lord-james-blackheath-wants-2814187

[MineralMan]

1. LOL! Poor Lord James of Blackheath...

How shocked he and his wife must be. I say give those kids life in solitary for upsetting His Lordship and his lovely wife.

[snooper2]

13. I don't know why she would be shocked, she has to look at his head every day-

Right?

[MineralMan]

14. The very model of a modern British major butthead.

[Warpy]

2. Aw, the poor dears got offended.

I suppose his lordship is one of those people who thinks he gets to go through life unoffended.

I'm sure getting mooned by a bunch of kids is the worst thing that has happened to either of them.

Somebody needs to tell them to get over it, the sky didn't fall and neither did the Bank of England.

[MineralMan]

3. A couple of teenage boys mooned my wife and I on the freeway once.

We laughed our asses off from looking at their asses.

[Warpy]

12. That's the sensible reaction

I'm afraid his lordship is too exalted to be expected to be sensible.

[Half-Century Man]

4. One odd thing...

The statement; "a respectable pastime and not the equivalent of being found in bed with a supermodel on a Saturday afternoon"; I have an issue with.

If, at 75 years old, you could coax a supermodel (male or female) into your bed on a random Saturday afternoon; in spite of questions about the readings of your moral compass, I'd have a far amount of respect for you.

[tomg]

5. The whole thing sounds like a

Monty Python skit. Absolutely hilarious.

[hobbit709]

19. Like this one?

[tomg]

26. That's the one. Thanks. nt

[Arugula Latte]

20. John Cleese has to play this guy.

Nobody is better at doing upper-class British umbrage than him.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Good thing the All Blacks weren't in town

Stick out your can because here comes that Blackheath man!

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. locked up for ONLY a year? I say, hang em!!

[pinboy3niner]

31. Now that's cheeky

[Blue_Tires]

8. Lord James is right -- It's also a potential road safety issue:

[randome]

9. When he says 'clamp down' on school kids' asses...

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[msanthrope]

15. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that...nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Maybe they were expressing their opinion of his gullibility

The UK government will not take up the apparent offer of billions of interest-free pounds from a mysterious organisation called Foundation X, a Treasury spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Friday.

The existence of the offer was detailed on Monday in the House of Lords by Lord James of Blackheath, who said the foundation was willing to pump at least £22bn into government coffers by Christmas. According to the spokesperson, Treasury commercial secretary Lord Sassoon has "looked into Lord James of Blackheath's proposal, and has decided not to pursue the matter any further".

"At no point has Lord Sassoon, or any Treasury officials, held any meetings with Lord James of Blackheath or any organisation that he mentions on this subject," the spokesperson added.
...
Many have suggested Lord James has been taken in by an elaborate scam, perhaps involving the so-called Office of International Treasury Control, but the peer is adamant that this is not the case.

http://www.zdnet.com/-4010020975/

The House of Lords was treated to a 10-minute speech last week by Lord James of Blackheath, from whom we have not heard much since he announced in 2010 that he was in touch with Foundation X, a "genuine and sincere" secret organisation that wanted to lend the British government £75bn.

David James was a City businessman commissioned by the Tories, in opposition, to report on ways of eliminating government waste. Last week, the 74-year-old peer was exercised about a story he has picked up that $15trn – that is $15,000,000,000,000 – belonging to "the richest man in the world", Yohannes Riyadi, was deposited in 2009 in the Royal Bank of Scotland. Lord James said he remains baffled after a two-year pursuit of the story, but has all the information on a memory stick, which he is offering to hand over to the Government.

His documents include a letter from the Bank of Indonesia telling him the whole story is a "complete fabrication". He took his concerns to the Treasury minister, Lord Sassoon, who said: "This is rubbish. It is far too much money. It'd stick out like a sore thumb and you can't see it in the RBS accounts."

And an alert Financial Times blogger said that had Lord James googled "Yohannes Riyadi", the first item to come up would be a warning from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that the name is part of an internet scam designed to get money from the gullible. Two agents are trying to trace who is behind it. Perhaps Lord James should offer his memory stick.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/diary-bercow-calls-for-root-n-branch-change-on-trees-7439892.html

[Skidmore]

11. "...on the road to Twickenham"....

Perfect place for such an event to occur.

[Skittles]

22. she should be grateful it wasn't Twerkenham

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Or Butt Hole Road

[nolabear]

16. Aw, poor widdle word Blackheath. He'd better be careful or he won't be able to go anywhere

without running a gauntlet of asses.

[Arugula Latte]

17. Here you go, Lord:

[Arugula Latte]

18. Also, don't look at their bums, Bum Looker!

[Skittles]

21. I would have just laughed

seriously

[spanone]

23. lighten up, francis

[eppur_se_muova]

24. A moment which will live in posteriority. nt

[retread]

25. Ouch! A clampdown on mooning. n/t

[reflection]

27. All I want to know

is, was Romney looking out one of their backsides? He's been known to do that.

[pinboy3niner]

28. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, caaaall a Tory

They're always a bit behind and derriere in their duties.

[Solly Mack]

29. and the bums have it.

[Coyotl]

30. "I am not going to explain it to your lordships as we are in mixed company." OMG

They let women into meetings in Britain now? Isn't that more scandalous than boys mooning?

And, WTF is a "Lord" anyway. Are they into fantasy fiction over there?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. Cheeky kids! nt

[NaturalHigh]

33. This is some good stuff.

[pinboy3niner]

35. Breaking news: The shameful state of child rearing in the UK

[Oilwellian]

36. Imagine the line up...

he and his wife will be subjected to when trying to identify the criminal mooners.

[Taitertots]

37. Oh No!!!! BUTTS!!! Won't someone please think of the stodgy middle aged women

HL Mencken “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

[pinboy3niner]

38. Mencken gets to the bottom of it

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. And he followed this up with a claim that cyclists want to be run down

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-25022164

starts about 13:00 into it. Senile old fool.

[pinboy3niner]

40. Kick because this thread is falling a little behind