July 8, ’06
The stuttering game.
One of those intimate peculiarities that reveal one’s proclivities most enthusiastically
Is the contrived stutter.
We’ve all heard them on the radio
On television
‘Our guys’ the endless stream of
‘in’ people who proliferate in our media and talk -You know: the so-called,
Chattering class’. Those who are consulted and asked to state the obvious done
With style and authoritative panache.
I say Scroon these interest rates- What do say hey do you think we’re at the end of it
Oh gosh no- at least another 200 basis points lie ahead. This due to the impact of the screed upon the exchange scrabbler
The tosspot deficit
And the ballooning cost of scromps
Yes dammed peculiar stuff these scromps.
In amongst these is the regular one who uses the stutter as a strategy to control the debate/discussion/interview/interaction. They all have similar names and
As Pete put it- ‘They all sound just the same.’
The contrived stutter is a strategy
It is used to draw on a presumed
Latent implicit sympathy/guilt at no sympathy
Feelings in a listener, which makes them fearful to
Interrupt -you know how fragile people are in the company of the damaged,
And simultaneously helps to keep the airwaves full thereby preventing others, perhaps
Less sensitive, from jumping into the silence
That would ordinarily be represented by the length of time the ‘stutterer’ would have Stuttered-and
Stealing the moment..
One would imagine that in the combative turf represented by political interactivity Keeping the floor is as essential to Party
Political success as keeping the ball is to a sports team’s success. If you are unwilling For whatever reason to practice thinking
Faster than a cutthroat razor can slice the wind
Then better a strategy that maintains a slow pace
Controlled
To mask the synergies of both
simultaneously
My favourite this year was the trades union chappie who claimed
His members didn’t care for the ten commandments
Of the Christian bible because
His members weren’t
Christians.
He encountered some flak if you remember
And appeared on the worthy Mr Perlman’s programme
And was interviewed and under attack he dominated the airwaves
with his gloriously structured and wonderfully prepared stut, stut, stutter.
It was magnificent -the man went da da da da da da da teraraera d through question after question obfuscating
His responses
With elaborate Party stammer-laced construction
That stood in stark contrast to the glorious
Fiery outpouring of rhetoric we all heard from him earlier in the broadcast and the previous day when he’d first been reported.
Then there was no tongue tied twisting around through a curiously convoluting range of
his meanings and his feelings and his intentions.
Complete clarity. Absolute certainty. Then-
Perhaps the He who spoke to Perlman was not the same He
Recorded at the meeting?
I think that people who genuinely stutter and for whom
Stuttering is a terrible affliction
Must feel immensely abused by this widespread
opportunistic yet now most fashionable
Misuse of a
Developed physical handicap to lure their listeners and
Numb them with a stream of stuttering seal talk. The ultimate
Effect is one of
Disconnected information or in
Politically incorrect layman’s language -frequently-
Bullshit.
The Party stutter was the one thing missing from the performance of the supporting hero in 16 Blocks- the movie; featuring a booze laced, dronk verdriet, slouch about bum played by the inimitable Bruce ‘love s ya baby’ Willis.
The subject of the movie, which involves the removal of the
Supporting hero: a vital witness in a corruption enquiry, to a courthouse somewhere Downtown
by a certain time, is a tedious fellow: after-a-while-you-wanna-slash-his-chords
And-render-him-permanently-paraphasic.
In short a yabbling
Kid with a need
To become a modest baker of
Birthday cakes and
In amongst a completely incoherent adenoidal stream of vacuous babble
He manages to present a completely
Convinced
Belief that people can change -and that you can
Take control of your life and
Turn it to where you want it to be. The one thing he never
Does
In his satiric mind numbing stream of babble is stutter.
But then perhaps the stutter would have been
Counter
To the theme of the movie, which was,
Intrinsically,
About honesty.
.NiK[o6]